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== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[~~Twelve Monkeys|~~12 Monkeys]]'', [[Brad Pitt]] plays a paranoid schizophrenic, while [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]] plays a man sent back in time to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|save the Future from a viral plague]] but everyone assumes he's a paranoid schizophrenic because he claims he was sent back in time to save the Future from a viral plague.

* In ''[[12 Monkeys]]'', [[Brad Pitt]] plays a paranoid schizophrenic, while [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]] plays a man sent back in time to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|save the Future from a viral plague]] but everyone assumes he's a paranoid schizophrenic because he claims he was sent back in time to save the Future from a viral plague.

** Additionally most of the other patients at the hospital [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]]' character was at were quite paranoid or [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/12_Monkeys#Dialogue delusional].

* Used in the movie ''Conspiracy Theory''. As it turns out, [[Properly Paranoid|everything the seemingly paranoid schizophrenic says is true]].

== [[Literature]] ==

* "Chief" Bromden, [[Unreliable Narrator|the narrator]] of Ken Kesey's ''[[~~One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest|~~One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]''. One of the main themes of the novel is the patients' struggle against the "Combine", a vast force trying to control all of society through forced conformity. Not that this was Kesey's commentary on [[The Fifties]] in any way...

* "Chief" Bromden, [[Unreliable Narrator|the narrator]] of Ken Kesey's ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]''. One of the main themes of the novel is the patients' struggle against the "Combine", a vast force trying to control all of society through forced conformity. Not that this was Kesey's commentary on [[The Fifties]] in any way...

* ''Inside Out'' by Terry Trueman is narrated by a fellow who went into a schizophrenic state and, essentially, never came out. Voices often interrupt the narration to taunt him, and there's rhyming nonsense in the margins of the pages. ("Squish-wish, squish-wish, don't you wish you could squish a wish?") It should be noted that Trueman is a psychologist, so this is presumably an accurate depiction of some form of the illness.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]'' had an episode ("The Voyager Conspiracy") where Seven of Nine goes temporarily crazy from information overload and links most of the major events of the series up to that point into a massive Federation conspiracy to capture her, a Borg Drone... this is easily dismissed until you realize that, even though her conclusion about it being all about her was flawed and delusional, several of her premises were, in fact, quite grounded and made for some tantalizingly uncomfortable questions that were completely swept under the rug by the show... One can't help but wonder if there really WAS a conspiracy going on there... Specifically, why was a glorified scout ship on a reconnaissance mission armed with several banned WMD's?

* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' had an episode ("The Voyager Conspiracy") where Seven of Nine goes temporarily crazy from information overload and links most of the major events of the series up to that point into a massive Federation conspiracy to capture her, a Borg Drone... this is easily dismissed until you realize that, even though her conclusion about it being all about her was flawed and delusional, several of her premises were, in fact, quite grounded and made for some tantalizingly uncomfortable questions that were completely swept under the rug by the show... One can't help but wonder if there really WAS a conspiracy going on there... Specifically, why was a glorified scout ship on a reconnaissance mission armed with several banned WMD's?

** And where the hell did the tractor beam come from?

** An interesting side note is that some neurobiologists think that some forms of schizophrenia may actually be caused by a malfunction in the part of the brain responcible for filtering information for significance and this could potencial causes the afflicated to try and process ALL information equally, looking for paterns and correlations, similar to what Seven experienced.

* ''[[CSI New York]]'' even has a doctor get it wrong. A schizophrenic goes off his meds, and without knowing anything about his medical history, she says that after a few days he'd "start seeing the world as a very hostile place". Of course, she's [[The Coroner|a medical examiner]], not a psychiatrist, but still... well, it's [[You Fail Indexes Forever|CSI]].

* ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'' had an episode where the team realized that something duplicious is going on in the goverment of the planet of the week. Their local helper agreed to get them in contact with the resistance... only to be revealed that there is no resistance: the guy is schizophrenic and invented it himself, fully believing that they exist.

* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' had an episode where the team realized that something duplicious is going on in the goverment of the planet of the week. Their local helper agreed to get them in contact with the resistance... only to be revealed that there is no resistance: the guy is schizophrenic and invented it himself, fully believing that they exist.

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Boyd Cooper from ''[[~~Psychonauts (Video Game)|~~Psychonauts]]''? His mind was a...nice...''normal...neighborhood...'' except no, oh no. Streets were twisted, and if you stood in one place, cameras popped up from parking meters and took pictures, and the only inhabitants were either the Rainbow Squirts, {{spoiler|girl scouts who were behind the conspiracy,}} and the G-Men, men with red eyes, green skin and long, brown trench coats, who tried to figure out the conspiracy. {{spoiler|And the level didn't end with you curing his sick, sick mind, but ''unleashing'' his psycho pyromaniac alter ego so that he would unlock the gate to the mental asylum. And then burn the asylum to the ground.}}

* Boyd Cooper from ''[[Psychonauts]]''? His mind was a...nice...''normal...neighborhood...'' except no, oh no. Streets were twisted, and if you stood in one place, cameras popped up from parking meters and took pictures, and the only inhabitants were either the Rainbow Squirts, {{spoiler|girl scouts who were behind the conspiracy,}} and the G-Men, men with red eyes, green skin and long, brown trench coats, who tried to figure out the conspiracy. {{spoiler|And the level didn't end with you curing his sick, sick mind, but ''unleashing'' his psycho pyromaniac alter ego so that he would unlock the gate to the mental asylum. And then burn the asylum to the ground.}}

** He got better after tossing his last Molotov.

{{quote| '''Boyd:''' [[Creepy Monotone|I am the Milkman. My milk is delicious.]] * throws Molotov milk cocktail*}}

* The protagonist of the [[Show Within a Show|television show]] ''Address Unknown'' in ''[[Max Payne 2]]'' is diagnosed as "paranoid schizophrenic" allegedly caused by a brain tumor. Or as least, [[Unreliable Narrator|our protagonist]] says this happens.

* In ''[[~~Portal 2 (Video Game)|~~Portal 2]]: Lab Rat'', a companion comic to the game, Aperture Science researcher Douglas Rattman has this type of schizophrenia. Without medication, he experiences delusions such as that his [[Companion Cube]] is talking to him and that the AI [[Master Computer]] in charge of the laboratory is out to kill him. Of course, the latter is [[Properly Paranoid|actually true]], which allows him to be the sole survivor of GLaDOS' purge of the scientists. Hidden away, he manipulates the system to put protagonist Chell into a position to enact the events of the two games.

* In ''[[Portal 2]]: Lab Rat'', a companion comic to the game, Aperture Science researcher Douglas Rattman has this type of schizophrenia. Without medication, he experiences delusions such as that his [[Companion Cube]] is talking to him and that the AI [[Master Computer]] in charge of the laboratory is out to kill him. Of course, the latter is [[Properly Paranoid|actually true]], which allows him to be the sole survivor of GLaDOS' purge of the scientists. Hidden away, he manipulates the system to put protagonist Chell into a position to enact the events of the two games.

* Kenji from ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' is implied to be schizophrenic, but whether or not he is he is ''very'' paranoid.