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[[File:lanceitsinsane.png|link=Pokémon Special|frame|[[Kill All Humans|What's wrong with bringing death and destruction?]]]]

 

'''Luthor:''' '''''[[Big No|NO!]]''''' Ha ha. No, not that. The other thing. C’mon, I know it’s just dangling off the tip of your tongue. Let me hear it just once, please?<br />

'''Lane:''' [[Superman]] will never-<br />

== Comics ==

* [[The Joker]] of course, is not immune to this, or averse to employing [[Insult Backfire]]:

'''Joker:''' Gloriously so. Isn't it wonderful? }}

** Another ''[[Batman]]'' example:

'''Joker:''' Has it really taken you this long to notice? }}

* The ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' live-action movie follow-up comic ''Reign of Starscream'' had this chilling exchange {{spoiler|right before Starscream murders her}}:

'''Starscream:''' No... I'm ''in charge''. }}

* In the ''[[Spider-Man]]'' novel trilogy ''Revenge of the Sinister Six'', Spider-Man calls [[Big Bad|The Gentleman]], a novel-only villain, insane. [[Card-Carrying Villain|The Gentleman retorts that he's not insane at all -- "just evil."]]

* In ''[[Sin City]]: A Dame to Kill For'' Dwight calls Ava insane after {{spoiler|she reveals her having manipulated him into murdering her husband for her}}. Ava's retort sums up very well where this trope can fall flat.

'''Ava:''' Insane? HA! That's so easy, so convenient -- and so wrong. Crazy people push shopping carts down the streets and talk nonsense. Crazy people sit in padded cells and soil their pants. A madwoman couldn't have pulled this off. No. There's a word for what I am, but nobody uses it anymore. Nobody wants to see the simple truth. If they did, they'd kill people like me as soon as we revealed ourselves. But they don't. They close their eyes and blather about psychology and say nobody is truly evil. That's why I've won. That's why I always win. }}

* Used in ''[[Nextwave]]'', but the [[Big Bad]]'s logic doesn't even try to make sense.

** Out of curiosity, does ''anyone's'' logic in ''Nextwave'' make sense?

* In an issue of "[[The Tick]]" comic, the art-themed villain The Impressionist is called crazy by his roommate. (At the time, the Impressionist was trying to eat a paint omelet.) Impressionist's restort?

 

 

== Fan Works ==

* Yami from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' uses a variant of this line completely deadpan when faced with Melvin.

'''Yami:''' ... [[Monty Python and The Holy Grail|You're a loony.]] }}

* Also lampshaded in the related music video ''Villain'', which is a spoof on the song ''Hero'':

* A version appeared in the [[Mega Crossover]] [[Fanfic|fan]][[Web Comic|comic]] ''[[Roommates 2007|Roommates]]'' when [[Les Misérables|Javert]] called out [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Dark!]][[Labyrinth|Jareth]] on why he's been [[Invoked Trope|forcing]] [[Character Rerailment]] on the others:

* Rainbow Dash's response to a badly derailed Fluttershy in ''[[Pattycakes (Fanfic)|Pattycakes]]''. She's not wrong.

 

== Films -- Animation ==

* In ''[[Antz]]'', when Princess Bala learns that the true purpose of General Mandible's Mega-Tunnel project is {{spoiler|to [[Depopulation Bomb|wipe out the worker ants, along with the current queen]], so that he can rebuild a new warrior-based colony, with Bala as the queen}}:

'''General Mandible:''' ''(smiles and replies calmly)'' I believe history will see things differently. }}

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' [[The Movie|movie]] gives us this:

'''Russ Cargill:''' Of course I have. Have you ever gone mad ''without'' power? It's boring, no one listens to you! }}

* In [[Justice League Crisis On Two Earths]], we have Batman saying it to [[Evil Twin|Owlman]]. His response?

* In ''[[The Hobbit (animation)|The Hobbit]]'' (animated), Bilbo gives a [[Kirk Summation]] to Thorin who is possessed by [[Gold Fever]].

'''Thorin:''' Your kind will never understand... [[Punctuated for Emphasis|"This is WAR! WAAAAAR!"]] }}

* In ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'', Ratigan gets this from a crutch-using old man who is not happy with the fact that one of the most notorious criminals in the country has been announced as the queen's royal consort and has announced a tax on the elderly and infirm, among other things. Ratigan responds by snatching the old man's crutch, saying "I have the power!" and breaking it in half.

***** [[Overly Long Gag|He went mad from the heat and got better from syphillis?]]

** His madness is not always considered a bad thing, as seen in this exchange between Anamaria and Gibbs after Gibbs and Elizabeth have agreed on an unconventional battle plan:

'''Gibbs:''' "Aye, daft like Jack." }}

* In the movie ''[[Sneakers]]'', Cosmo explains his plan to crash the entire world's monetary record-keeping systems to his old friend Martin. Bemused, Martin asks him, "You haven't gone crazy on me, have you?" Cosmo smiles: "Who else is gonna save the world, Marty? Greenpeace?" Disappointed and somewhat spooked, Martin concludes, "You ''are'' crazy." (This turns out to be the Wrong Thing to say.)

* ''[[Speed]]'' has a pretty good comeback to this:

'''Payne:''' No! ''Poor'' people are crazy, Jack! I'm ''eccentric''! }}

* [[John Woo]]'s ''[[Broken Arrow (1996 film)|Broken Arrow]]'' does it as well.

'''Deakins:''' Yeah. Ain't it cool? }}

* Inverted in ''[[Fight Club]]''. The Narrator says this to Tyler Durden, who corrects him: "No, YOU'RE insane." {{spoiler|It's pretty accurate, seeing as Tyler is the Narrator's split personality, and his physical presence in the movie is a hallucination.}}

* Observe this delightful exchange from ''[[The Silence of the Lambs|Red Dragon]]'' and both its film versions, when Graham is explaining how he caught such a criminal genius as Lecter:

'''Hannibal Lecter:''' [[Sanity Has Advantages|What disadvantages]]?<br />

'''Will Graham:''' You're insane. }}

* A minor villain in ''[[300|Three Hundred]]'' uses a variant of this on the protagonist.

** And before this moment: "Madman... you're a madman!"

'''Leonidas:''' Madness? '''[[Punctuated for Emphasis|THIS! IS! SPARTA!!!]]''' }}

* [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] is fond of this. Being Bond, he is witty enough to have a number of variations:

** ''[[Dr. No]]'':

** ''[[From Russia with Love]]'':

{{quote| '''Bond:''' (to Red Grant} Tell me, which lunatic asylum did they get you out of?}}