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In many stories, there are some experiences that are so horribly mind-shattering that the usual result is stark raving madness. We're not just talking about mundane Shell Shock here, that'd be the trope called Heroic BSoD. Instead we're talking about a full-fledged Freak Out, an Identity Breakdown (if the experience was related to a character's identity), or possibly even as bad as a Face–Heel Turn. If you Go Mad from the Revelation, you're gonna have some sort of psychotic break. This is a signature characteristic of an Eldritch Abomination and one of the central tropes of the Cosmic Horror genre, but other things can cause it as well, such as prolonged torture or learning some other Thing that Man Was Not Meant to Know. There is generally a distinction between things that happen to the mind because of experience and things that are done to the brain. This trope is the former. Thus, Chemically-Induced Insanity, Psycho Serum, a telepathic attack, or a specific, quasi-magical effect (like certain types of Brown Note) doesn't qualify.note Unless the focus is less on the stimulus's direct neurological effects and more on how it shows you something too terrible to behold: for example, if the drug opens your psyche to mind-shattering secrets, if the telepathy transmits information or sensations that your fragile psyche can't take, or if the Brown Note breaks you because what you're perceiving is already too much to comprehend and doesn't even need to magically attack your brain. Contrast those things with H. P. Lovecraft's shoggoths, who strain people's sanity in spite of never having that as a stated special ability—the thought of them is just that horrible. Confronting a Creature From Beyond The Stars or a Thing That Should Not Exist will lead either to psychological regression into denial, or insanity when the cognitive dissonance becomes too great. Lovecraft was fond of these; his stories abound with creatures from regions of space where the known laws of nature do not apply, and geometries that violate the laws of physics. This almost could have been Truth in Television, insofar as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a real mental illness, but a character who Goes Mad from the Revelation usually is portrayed in a more generic insanity. Sometimes, if you whack someone with the "insane stick" enough times, they'll get Bored with Insanity. The main inspiration for this trope is the work of H. P. Lovecraft, whose story The Call of Cthulhu is the Trope Namer. Occurs in most of his work and a good deal of Lovecraft-inspired work that use Mad Gods and Eldritch Abominations, indeed Cthulhu-inspired RPGs often make this a game mechanic. Will be mostly absent from stories where you can punch out Cthulhu successfully. The extreme form of a Freak Out. May take the form of a Heroic BSoD where the thing isn't going to start working again. If the whole nature of the Universe is opened to you because of your velocity, this is Ludicrous Speed. Compare with Brain Bleach (the character is afflicted by squicky mental images), Brain Fever (the character is made ill by mental stress and trauma), Driven to Madness (when this is deliberately inflicted by someone onto the character), Go Mad from the Apocalypse (where surviving the world ending is just too much for some), My God, What Have I Done? (the character is wracked with remorse), and My Skull Runneth Over (the character is overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information stuffed into his brain). See also A Form You Are Comfortable With for a way to avoid this. Often goes hand-in-hand with the Despair Event Horizon, to the point where a number of examples on this page can be found on the other as well. noreallife |
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In Narbonic, this is how the Science-Related Memetic Disorder finally manifests itself. In Dave, anyhow. He finally went mad... from the revelation that he would go mad. Nice. All mad scientists go mad, sooner or later, by definition. It seems to be genetic. Helen went mad in an Italian restaurant when her mother's lawyer met with her. |
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Invisible Games: In The Pentintytär Arcade, after discovering the scene of a woman's suicide, a young boy begins to play the set of unique video games she had constructed. The story that spans across the games haunts him for the rest of his life and drives him to relentlessly collect the games years after the set has been broken up and acquired by different collectors. He is last seen sitting naked among the game cabinets, crying and clutching a gun. | |
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Checkerboard Nightmare had the minor character Shrodinger the Cat, who could see every possible reality simultaneously and was, naturally, driven insane by the information overload. | |
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According to The Talmud, there were four famous rabbis who were exposed to the mysteries of Creation: Ben-'Azai, Ben-Zoma, Elisha' ben-Abuya, and 'Akiva ben-Yosef. The first died, the second went mad, the third became an apostate (due to misunderstanding what he saw), and only the fourth one remained faithful. | |
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The Mechanisms In "High Noon At Camelot", a Space Western retelling of Arthurian legend, the Siege Perilous is a chair that lets anyone sitting into it tap into the space station's systems. This would be overwhelming but manageable, if the station wasn't incomplete and in a decaying orbit around the sun. The only person who isn't driven insane by the overload is Galahad, because he's already a religious nutcase, so he's able to just reframe it as the world slowly falling into hell. In "The Bifrost Incident", any contact with the Old Gods is bad for people's minds. Odin was driven mad by them in dreams decades before the album, leading to the construction of the Bifrost to bring them into the world. Garm is changed from a hellhound to a man driven to an animalistic state when Ragnarok comes. Inverted with Loki, whose past Mind Rape by Odin ends up burned away by their presence. |
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The datasphere in 8-Bit Theater. Once Red Mage and Thief concluded that reading it would drive a normal man insane and an insane man normal, (or kill him,) they decided to try it on Black Mage. Once he was incapacitated, they called Fighter over... Who is fine. He even understood that the 612-dimensional sphere contained information concerning "every possible way to build any possible device to destroy every possible thing in all creation." While it did shut down his higher brain functions for some time, Black Mage snapped out of his condition pretty fast. For the record, Black Mage's face, currently hidden in the shadow of his hat, made Onion Kid go into a coma. He later said it felt like everything good was gone from the world... And lately, Red Mage got the idea of using the datasphere to learn how to destroy the monster currently inside himself, as it threatens to take over his body. Hilariously, the result was the death of the monster. And Red Mage was fine. If that makes sense, recall that Red Mage was the monster. Oh, and he might be catatonic. |
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In one episode of The Lost Cat, the narrator learns of a sickly man who had his head transplanted to a new body. He believes he has become a monster and goes on a murderous rampage | |
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Hamlet: The eponymous character is sent awry by being told that his uncle had killed his father, by the ghost of his father. Hamlet himself believes he is merely pretending to be mad but it is made clear to the audience that he is no longer playing with a full deck. Not really. It's never made clear if Hamlet really is mad or just pretending to be for his own purposes. He becomes far more lucid when he's either alone or with only Horatio. In any case, people have been debating on the subject for several hundred years, and are still doing so today. Horatio warns Hamlet that the ghost might do this to him, and the ghost himself warns that just "telling" Hamlet about purgatory could do it: We also have the case of Ophelia, who certainly could be played this way. Consider her lines after her only on-stage confrontation with Hamlet: Ophelia might possibly have gone mad from her own revelation. |
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Oculus Imperia: The Oculus' videos "On The Nature of Chaos" and "A Treatise On The Nature of the Daemonic" both start relatively normally, but as the horror of what he's describing builds, slowly causes the historitor to have a mental breakdown, until he's left muttering "The Emperor Protects" over and over again in a terrified whisper. This is despite the many "precautions" he apparently took both times, though the fact he recovers enough to keep making videos suggests they were at least effective enough to prevent permanent damage. The risk of worse happening was so great, he had to get the express permission of Roboute Guilliman himself to even try, and that conversation took up a video in and of itself. | |
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In Who Killed Markiplier? The Colonel goes completely mad upon seeing the main character get back up off the ground, after seeing them die just a few hours ago. He becomes convinced that his deceased friends really are alive and that not just their deaths, but the concept of death itself, is just a practical joke. And although he's undeniably insane, his claim that everyone is still alive is in a way correct. | |
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The SCP Foundation secures any number of artifacts that could easily qualify, ranging from memetic infohazards that will infest your mind just from knowing about them to locations with psychic and/or dimensional instabilities that can induce madness to things outright Eldritch Abominations able to Mind Rape you simply from exposure, to [DATA EXPUNGED]. And those are just a handful of categories of items the Foundation has allowed to be catalogued without absolute redaction of all knowledge on the subject. | |
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Brand: The trope may also be played out on Agnes, because she has a very clear revelation at the end of the fourth act, citing the biblical thesis that those that see God, die from it. Agnes dies shortly after this. | |
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Happens from time to time in the Whateley Universe because it is so near Lovecraft Country. When a demon manifests a small part of itself in downtown Los Angeles, Phase is the only witness (for more than a second or so) who doesn't go insane, and he requires psychic intervention and psychiatric therapy to cope with it afterwards. The demon eats or kills the other witnesses. | |
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A particularly bleak bad ending in Under the Moon shows the heroine driven into a delusional state after unleashing her magic in a moment of panic, unintentionally murdering all her friends with only her love interest left to care for her. There's also a variant version in which her lover gets caught in the blast too, leaving her all alone. | |
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Bravest Warriors has Beth's Horse, who was rendered almost completely catatonic after discovering the meaning of the universe. | |
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Homestuck John realizes what his father really is... And again when he finds out that Gushers are made by Betty Crocker. Subverted, though. THIS IS STUPID. Later Double Subverted when John turns out to be right in freaking out over Betty Crocker, as she actually is an evil alien tyrant. A more serious example occurs when after asking an omniscient cueball about whether the horrorterrors are good or evil, Rose goes grimdark. The scariest part is that we never get to see the answer ourselves. Again, it's shown to be subverted when she arrives on Skaia - she's still herself, (probably) sane and responds positively to meeting John, but she is far more aggressive and can only speak in incomprehensible Black Speech. After she dies and is revived on Derse, she returns to normal. |
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The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: Implied to be part of what turned Rex Dangervest to villainy, after fully realizing and internalizing the truth of their existence as metaphors for Finn's feelings. | |
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The Order of the Stick features "The mysterious Vaarsuvius, keeper of a thousand arcane secrets. And each one would drive you MAD! MAD!" V tends to boast. And the thousand-and-first... Refers to this. |
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In Sinfest, to a minor degree, this is why God does not show his face and uses the hand puppets. His showing an image of his face to two people caused a bit of a fight. Now imagine if He showed His face to a few more people... When Slick ate the Fruit of Knowledge and found out he was a cartoon character, he tried to kill himself by jumping off a cliff. That works out about as well as you'd think —except that the river was Lethe. |
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Nodwick has a storyline about That Which Man Was Not Meant To Know, which has fallen into the hands of She Who Must Be Obeyed in the Lands That Know No Name. As it turns out, only men are not meant to know it. To women, it's simply hysterically funny. | |
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Alfred Glass from Pretending to Be People was driven mad by an incident involving a supernaturally-powerful gun. | |
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Lo Zoo Di 105: Show host Marco Mazzoli has, in late February 2012, found out that former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi got away with yet another one of his trials. He didn't take it well. | |
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In Big Hero 6, Hiro discovers that Professor Callahan is alive and was Yokai the whole time, and that his brother Tadashi died for nothing, prompting him to reprogram Baymax into a killing machine to destroy him. | |
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Endtown: This is known as "Schism Syndrome." When a newer mutant who hasn't mentally adjusted to his new form is hit with an emotional shocknote Like finding out your girlfriend has left you for a member of an enclave that's treated you with nothing but Fantastic Racism., the mental stress can cause the mutant's mind to snap and become a danger to himself and others. | |
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In Frozen (2013), Elsa fled her kingdom Arendelle and built her own ice palace on a distant mountain, mistakenly believing that Arendelle would be safe from her dangerous power. When Anna delivers the news that Elsa in fact unleashed an eternal winter, Elsa is sent into a flurry of panic that leads her to freeze Anna's heart. | |
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Girl Genius: Effectively the main downside of becoming a Spark. They gain some sort of telepathic access to akashic knowledge, which gives them intellectual insight without training or knowledge by focusing their will on what they know or see. Unfortunately, this raw, unbridled understanding of the universe without the wisdom to control how they feel about it makes almost every Spark in existence completely megalomaniacal and eager to exert their dominance with wacky inventions and overconfident idiocy, hence the tagline "Mad Scientists Rule The World. Badly". Even reasonably "grounded" Sparks like the main character suffer frequent bouts of classic 1950s Mad Scientist. | |
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The Adventure Zone: Balance has Maureen, whose mind was destroyed when she finally looked through the cosmoscope she’d built to witness the entirety of the multiverse. | |
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A Streetcar Named Desire: Stanley rapes Blanche in an attempt to invoke Rape Portrayed as Redemption, but Blanche, who's already a little nutty, has a total breakdown instead and falls into permanent insanity. It really is as heartbreaking and disturbing as it sounds. | |
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Murai's backstory in Digger. As the youngest agent of the Veiled, she was assigned to investigate a street mythos made by refugee orphans (they wouldn't trust adults), and ended up confronting a God of Evil called the Black Mother. Alone. | |
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In Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Tobias Ragg goes insane upon finding out just what Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett have been getting up to in the evil basement (in particular what is actually in the pies he's been eating). By the time he gets out of the basement, his hair has gone completely white and he eventually slits the title character's throat with his own razor before proceeding to continue to turn the crank on the grinder. In the film version, the killing sequence is more of a calm Tranquil Fury than anything else. | |
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In Kill Six Billion Demons, Jadis survived witnessing The True Shape of the Universe, though the experience drove her permanently mad. As The Omniscient, she knows everything, at all times, and cannot make it stop. Of the seven Demiurges left, a pantheon of Mad Gods, Jadis is the maddest of them all. | |
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Toy Story — Buzz Lightyear ends up doing this after discovering he is indeed only a toy and not a Space Ranger as he previously believed. He snaps out of it later, though. | |
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Aurora (2019): From what we know, the Collector used to be a normal person before accidentally making contact with the thought-dead mind of the Life Primordial. Afterwards, she became bent on freeing Life at any cost. | |
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Most of the characters in the visual novel Saya no Uta are absolutely nuts by the time two of the three endings are over. Ryouko Tanbou, Fuminori's doctor, particularly suffers. After witnessing the reality of Dr. Ougai's experiments more than a year before the story, she's a classic case of paranoia who through her own intelligence has kept her paranoia carefully hidden in every day interactions. During the course of the main story line Omi is described as going completely insane after seeing Saya in Fuminori's house (just before being murdered by her), and Yoh attempts to avoid seeing Saya because she knows that she will likely go mad as a result. Unfortunately for her, this doesn't help, because Saya has every intention of turning her into one of her own species. In the "bad" ending, where Saya and Fuminori are killed, Koji also loses his sanity after seeing Saya. It seems that the only people who don't have that response are Fuminori (who can't actually see what Saya looks like) and Dr. Ogai. |
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Sausage Party: Honey Mustard loses all sense of himself after witnessing the truth of "The Great Beyond", completely lashing out at the other products around him. Refusing to experience the nightmare again when another human picks him up, he immediately commits suicide by jumping off the cart. | |
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Less pronounced example, since he was not all that sane to begin with, but after Nagito Komaeda from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair learnes the truth about his and his classmates' identities as the Remnants of Despair he has a huge breakdown, complete with Laughing Mad, and decides just to kill everyone, himself included. | |
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Lemon Demon: The narrator of "No Eyed Girl" tells his otherworldly lover, the eponymous No Eyed Girl, "I might go insane / If I learn your full name". | |
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Doki Doki Literature Club!: Considering this one seems like a cutesy Romance Game at first, anything and everything that it has to do with a trope like this has to be pretty spoilery. Monika gains Medium Awareness, and realizes she's a side character in a visual novel, which causes her to turn functionally Yandere, ready to do anything to have her own route and romance the player, since the player is the only real as opposed to programmed thing she has any contact with. In the final act, it turns out anyone becoming the club president gains Medium Awareness, and Sayori also approaches this, but Monika steps in before she does any harm. If you delete "monika.chr" early from the game files, Sayori will take her place and instantly suffer the same fate, which results in a Non-Standard Game Over in which she ends up wiping all the characters from the game. There's one case in which this can be averted: In the special good ending, Sayori is so touched by the player's apparently sharing her commitment to making everybody happy that she manages to keep her sanity through the same revelation. An in-game poem that's impossible to understand without context and might even seem like an example of True Art Is Incomprehensible turns out to have very straightforward symbolism when you see how it's about this trope. |
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Captain SNES: The Game Masta: The entire series is about video game characters finding out their lives are simply video games, and their sorrows and such are for our amusement. They don't take it well. Except for Kefka, who, being a nihilist, feels he was vindicated. | |
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Bloody Urban Has this happen to Murray after a visit from the IT Guy (who may or may not be Satan). It doesn't end well for him. | |
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Extra Case: My Girlfriend's Secrets: Marty starts each loop with only vague memories what happened. In the final loop, Nya restores his memories, causing him to remember all the times he died, as well as outcomes where he lived but Sally met an unfortunate end. This causes him to lose his sanity and become willing to do anything to ensure that he and Sally can have a "happy" ending. | |
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SCP Animated - Tales from the Foundation: Dr. Collingwood from Origin Of The Tickle Monster is quite eager to become 999's new caretaker. Then she gets the job, and learns just what 999 is. When she returns, she's terrified of him. | |
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In The Goon Show episode "Lurgi Strikes Britain" Neddie Seagoon goes bonkers after realising how Grytpype and Moriarty have duped him, and starts yelling gibberish - the main symptom of the fake eponymous disease. | |
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