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Madwoman in the Attic

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Madwoman in the Attic	comment	This is when a character with mental illness, physical deformities, or a disease is locked away because they will never fit into society, usually either in the attic or in the basement. Sometimes the locked away person is a child who is a source of shame for the family (e.g. incest). Despite the title, the person who is locked away may be male or female. The more of a Big Fancy House, the better; in fact, the most complex ones will sometimes have a secret system of secret doors (or secret tunnels) so they can move around secretly as they please, and peepholes so they can covertly watch the household activities. In stories about this type of character, the protagonist is frequently an outsider, wondering what kind of bizarre secret the Small Town Tyrants are keeping. The protagonist may deduce the presence of a locked-away person from clues such as sounds or wondering where a missing person might be. The Madwoman will then either tend to be Dragon-type enemies with little personality of their own, or they're The Grotesque, sympathetic victims. When done well, this can be an effective scare because it so aptly encapsulates the frightening insularity of the Town with a Dark Secret. This trope is named for the landmark work of feminist literary criticism by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, referring to Mr. Rochester's wife in Charlotte BrontÃ«'s Jane Eyre. The analysis indicates that this trope first popularly appeared, of all places, in Victorian women's literature, where depicting some women as crazy, hysterical people was an easy way to make female villains with whom readers would be unlikely to sympathize. Obviously, this plan was not a complete success. Of course, it can be the case that there was a very good reason this person was locked away in the first place. Maybe they're Ax-Crazy, maybe they suffer from an extremely contagious form of illness, or perhaps the person is being hidden for their own safety to keep them from being kidnapped or murdered. Usually Ax-Crazy and/or The Grotesque, and sometimes Inbred and Evil. Compare Man in the Iron Mask. While people with mental illness may not be dangerous, works may use the Insane Equals Violent trope. Non-consensual sub-trope of The Shut-In, and one possible form of being Sent Into Hiding. If the madwoman is instead a monster, see Supporting the Monster Loved One. If the character has recently moved into a new house which is already occupied, or a person moves in secretly while someone else is living there obliviously, it's Secret Squatter. Also see Bunker Woman, for when ordinary women are imprisoned in attics or basements by abusive captors. Not to be confused with the company involved with the first season of Smash. Or the episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures which also borrows its name from the book (but isn't an example). And even more so, don't confuse with the Basement-Dweller, who is free to come and go as he pleases (even if he may have mental issues that make living on his own difficult), and is not (usually) a danger to himself or others.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_11c6567a	comment	She also appears in The Eyre Affair, in which she inadvertently shows the heroine how to defeat the Big Bad.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_14ccbad4	comment	Flowers (2016): Invoked but not ultimately done, as the show references it with Amy, who is mad, living in the attic, but she's not locked up, possibly the most reasonable in the family, and obviously she lives there out of choice and possibly practicality.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_17fa5f0a	comment	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows reveals that this happened to Ariana Dumbledore. She went mad after a vaguely described assault by a gang of Muggle boys, and was locked up after her father was sent to prison for attacking the Muggle boys, and refusing to say why he did it so she wouldnâ€™t be sent to an institution. Everybody outside the family (the ones who knew about her existence, anyway) figured her mother had locked her up for being a Squib (someone born into a wizard family with no abilities), which was a bad thing to be during Ariana's lifetime. Which, in the present in the novels, is still a bad thing.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_195f30bf	comment	The Oblongs do this to Granny. Sort of. Their son isn't even aware Granny is still alive.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_1b021fcb	comment	In Tokyo Ghoul :Re, Shuu Tsukiyama is revealed to have been reduced to this state in the three years between the series. Extensive grief and starvation have taken their toll on him, leaving him bed-ridden except for during violent episodes where he attacks anyone near him. This forces the servants to keep him drugged, lying to him about what happened and over-hunting to keep him from dying. After Kanae finally brings him evidence that Kaneki is still alive, he begins to recover and struggles to make amends to his family for all the trouble he caused them.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_1b9d5501	comment	Larry Blamire's Dark and Stormy Night has Thessaly, Sinas Cavendar's insane Violent Glaswegian daughter. She's actually treated pretty sympathetically, and is mostly a parody of the Old Dark House example above.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_1d3bb251	comment	In Five Days a Stranger, the deformed, mentally challenged son of Sir Roderick Defoe is kept in a secret room of the house.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_1e0d95a9	comment	Karl Childers in Sling Blade spends his childhood as one of these. The long-term hospitalization following his murder of his mother may also qualify.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_209c75c3	comment	In House of the Long Shadows, the wealthy Grisbane family made a policy of enforcing their own justice rather than involving the police, and when the patriarch's youngest son Roderick murdered a local girl, they decided to lock him up in the attic for forty years. The movie is set on the night his sentence is finally up, and he is to be freed. It turns out that he had actually escaped long ago, but sneaked back into the attic every now and then to give the impression that he was still a prisoner. And then it turns out that it was all an elaborate ruse to win a bet, and all the Grisbanes, Roderick included, were just actors.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_21317f86	comment	Nick Frost apparently plays one of these in Don't, but really, it's hard to tell. Judge for yourself.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_22cf7df9	comment	Sloth from The Goonies. A sympathetic example of Type 1.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_22fdf736	comment	Reign has one of these in the character of Clarissa, the secret daughter of Catherine, whose face is always hidden in a burlap bag with eyeholes, ever since she was disfigured as a child by a botched attempt at surgery to remove the birthmark that would identify her real father and incriminate the queen. She lurks in the secret passageways of the castle and at times intervenes directly in the political intrigue and action, while taking care to avoid being seen. She is known as "the Ghost". Her lifetime of isolation and abuse results in her becoming an actual madwoman.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_23b2b707	comment	When Bruno leaves in La polilla y la mariposa, AnnÃ¡ devolves into this, only ever leaving her tower to grab a bite to eat or if invited and her daughter unaware that she is her mother and not "the crazy aunt in the attic". Unlike most examples of the trope, her presence there really isn't a secret, nor is she is prisoner in any way other than as self-imposed exile.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_25919bff	comment	The creature in Still Life with Crows is one of these kept in a cave who found his way out. Also Subverted in that he started out as a normal child (and apparently a very intelligent one) who was twisted by being forced to live in the cave (his mother gave birth out of wedlock, and her father forced this whole thing on her).
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_25f6f1a0	comment	Kinzo Ushiromiya in Umineko: When They Cry locked himself in his little mini-apartment at the top of his mansion in Rokkenjima and refuses to come out. He's certainly crazy enough to qualify, given how he spends all of his time ranting about the Golden Witch Beatrice. In a subversion, it's not that he's crazy, but that he was actually Dead All Along, having died of natural causes about two years before the story starts. Krauss and Natsuhi burned his corpse and then told the rest of the family he was cooping himself up in there so they wouldn't find out.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_261c8d3f	comment	Parodied in The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror VII", with Bart's Evil Twin, Hugo, locked up in the attic. The Twist Ending was that Bart was the Evil Twin, so Hugo was allowed to go free (even though he was clearly insane - then again, you'd be insane too, if in his shoes) and Bart is locked up in his place.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_26c74483	comment	In Bloody Reunion, Mrs Park kept her deformed son locked up in the basement of her house.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_2a8d8e6f	comment	Gotham: Police Commissioner Loeb sent his insane daughter to live on a remote farmhouse after she murdered her mother in order to hush up the matter and keep her from being sent to Arkham. Prior to his death, Thomas Wayne had been keeping a young woman whose hand had been replaced by a claw at Indian Hill in a similarly-remote cabin. In this case, the woman wasn't his prisoner, but was hiding from Hugo Strange, who would've either recaptured her for further experimentation or killed her to keep his research a secret.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_2bd40c7f	comment	Ryuuko being the titular cellar secret in Cellar Secrets, as we find out in chapters three and five. However, she isn't mad or insane, instead she was a somewhat normal little girl (with some impairments), who had the misfortune of being something her mother wanted to keep hidden. Oh, she wasn't just locked down there either, she was also abused and neglected, along with being made to live in a cage.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_2ea6ae26	comment	Star Trek: Picard: Season 2 reveals that Jean-Luc's mother, Yvette suffered from severe mental illness, what appears to have been either bi-polar or schizophrenia. This being the 24th century, actual mental health treatments are absolutely availabl3 but Yvette consistently refused to pursue them. It got bad enough that her husband Maurice, fearing that she was a danger to herself and their children (indeed, she once left her son Jean-Luc trapped in the tunnels under the house for hours during one of her episodes) resorted to locking her in a room during her fits. The one time Jean-Luc let her out, she hung herself.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_2ecece5d	comment	Dead Still: In the second episode when the team go to photograph a dead child, it seems the boy is haunting the house. It turns out his twin brother is autistic and their parents have been keeping him locked up in the "nursery" in the top of the house.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): In the episode "Unnatural Selection", a couple considering genetic enhancement for their unborn child learn that their neighbors' supposedly dead son is actually an Ax-Crazy basement-dwelling monster as a result of genetic engineering Gone Horribly Wrong.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_32308c8a	comment	In the Hammer Horror The Brides of Dracula, Baron Meinster is introduced this way: his mother keeps his locked up in a wing of the castle. Her stated reason is that he is unwell. He tricks the heroine into freeing him on the pretense his mother was trying to cheat him out of his inheritance. It turns out that he's a vampire (the clue is in the movie title) and she was trying to keep him locked up, but didn't have the heart to kill him. Luckily, Peter Cushing shows up and sorts everything out.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_3494d171	comment	Bramwell: A nurse who works for the clinic is soon revealed to be keeping her demented mother locked up. As cited in the "Real Life" section, this is sadly understandable as she knows the conditions in asylums back in those days were deplorable. However, her increasing frustration with her means she doesn't really treat her any better and she is finally forced to admit that she can't care for her and sends her away after all.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_3561340c	comment	Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast has a Shout-Out to Jane Eyre when Beauty mentions that a count who once courted her sister Hope turned out to have a wife in the attic.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_35760d42	comment	Mr. Edward Rochester keeps his violently insane wife Bertha locked in the attic of Thornfield in Jane Eyre. Arguably, she was better off there than in what passed for a mental health facility in those days. Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea examines this example (yes, this one — same womannote though moved to a slightly different historical period) more deeply, giving a possible Back Story of (the literal) Mad Woman in the Attic. It's also a deconstruction, similar in that to "The Yellow Wallpaper", since it's quite clear in this version that her identity was stolen ("Bertha" is not even her real name) and insanity was a role that was forced upon her in an effort to control her rather than something that would have happened anyway. She also appears in The Eyre Affair, in which she inadvertently shows the heroine how to defeat the Big Bad.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_3740c00a	comment	"The Yellow Wallpaper": the main character is bedridden with some illness, and locked up in a room with ugly, confusing wallpaper. She goes crazy as a result. It's primarily a critique on the medicine of the time and the then-disturbingly common practice of keeping "ill" women stuck in a small room with nothing to stimulate them (known as the "Rest Cure", which was actually done to the author and she nearly went insane as a result). It's also a very creepy little psychological horror story.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_379c9a85	comment	A storyline on All My Children revealed that mysterious millionaire Dimitri Marick (who at the time was a new character) had hidden his wife away, although she wasn't "mad", just severely physically and mentally injured due to a catastrophic riding accident. Making the Jane Eyre ripoff complete, this is all revealed during a ball being held to celebrate Dimitri's engagement to another woman when the wheelchair-bound wife is brought into the ballroom by her mother. Aside from being stunned to learn that her intended is already married, she's further creeped out upon seeing that she bears a strong resemblance to the woman. Even earlier, this is how Adam's initially evil twin Stuart was introduced, having been locked away by Adam to keep him from harming himself or anyone else.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_3a1d01a7	comment	In The Unearthly (which famously includes Tor Johnson saying "Time for go to bed") the Mad Scientist played by John Carradine has a bunch of degenerate caveman things in the basement. Crow thinks they look like Ian Anderson on the cover of Aqualung.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_3b02ede7	comment	In The Man Who Could Cheat Death, Margo goes mad after Bonnet hideously scars her with his acidic touch, and Bonnet locks her in a cell in his cellar. Placing a bust of her unscarred beautiful face in the cell with her is an unnecessary twisting of the knife.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire reveals that Bartemius Crouch Sr. did this to his son. Downplayed in that everyone already knew that Barty Jr. existed and was deranged, but they thought he'd died in prison. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows reveals that this happened to Ariana Dumbledore. She went mad after a vaguely described assault by a gang of Muggle boys, and was locked up after her father was sent to prison for attacking the Muggle boys, and refusing to say why he did it so she wouldnâ€™t be sent to an institution. Everybody outside the family (the ones who knew about her existence, anyway) figured her mother had locked her up for being a Squib (someone born into a wizard family with no abilities), which was a bad thing to be during Ariana's lifetime. Which, in the present in the novels, is still a bad thing.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_3b8c7015	comment	On Murder House, Constance kept her disfigured son, Beauregard, in the attic. CPS was going to take him away but she had Larry kill him first, claiming he died of natural causes.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_3d1ce1f8	comment	In Kings Row, everyone wonders why Dr. Tower's wife never leaves the upstairs room of their house. Later, after the wife's death, Dr. Tower starts locking up his daughter Cassie in a similar manner. It turns out that Mrs. Tower was completely mad, and Cassie starts to exhibit the same madness as she grows into adulthood.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_3ddf6764	comment	Sakurako Saiki from Sakura Gari was locked in an old warehouse for nine years. The reasons are later explained: she had always been The Un-Favourite even before Souma arrived to the family, but was allowed to live in the more modern mansion like any other family member. Even after her mother's extremely weird death, she was staying there... it was only after her Creepy Child behavior showed itself in public that she was confined to the warehouse as punishment, with the butler Katou as her personal caretaker, while the rest of the family and servants told the outsiders that she died of illness few after her mom died. Unlike other cases, Sakurako is ultimately allowed to leave the warehouse/"attic" and come back to the main home, mostly because of a fire in there that revealed the deceit; when speaking to Souma few after her release, the person offhandedly says that they now have some difficulty to walk, due to having been locked in a relatively small space for so long.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_40c8681	comment	Forest Kingdom: In the Hawk & Fisher spinoff series' book 4 (Wolf in the Fold), the noble MacNeil family's dark Family Secret is the existence of "the freak". The physical deformities, it's noted, could have been overlooked — "occasional unfortunates were inevitable when the Quality became as inbred as it had in Haven" — but when the freak proved to be an immortal energy vampire who drained the life force of any living thing near it, that was horrific enough that his father walled him up in a secret room in Tower MacNeil where he remained undying but quiescent until the Family stopped feeding him.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_411b3158	comment	Housebound combines this trope with hikikomori in the form of Eugene, a deeply mentally ill man who has been living inside the walls of the heroine's house her entire life — without her knowledge. He's ultimately a Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold, though.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_41450ca5	comment	Rhoby Harris in "The Shunned House" goes insane and is confined to the upper part of the house, although this is apparently relatively public knowledge, found in an account of the history of the house, rather than a closely guarded secret. After the presence haunting the house attacks her, her protests are dismissed as just another symptom of her insanity.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_419d1ce0	comment	In Errementari, the shut-in blacksmith Patxi seems to keep a little boy locked up in a cage in his smithy. But as we learn, it's not really a human child at all...
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_426a7572	comment	The Warners from Animaniacs are a parody example that got loose. The studio tries to lock them in the old watertower repeatedly, but they just keep escaping using Toon Physics and travelling the world causing mischief and being Karmic Tricksters.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_43041cff	comment	In the Made-for-TV Movie Bad Ronald, young Ronald's mother locks him up and hides him so the police can't arrest him for a murder he committed. When she dies, he remains in the house, and a new family moves in.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural has this as the twist in "Family Remains", when Dean and Sam discover the last owner of the house kept the twins he conceived with his daughter. The daughter committed suicide and the father was killed by the children, then a new family moved in... Which, par for the course, was played quite disturbingly.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_447d091	comment	The Gardner family in "The Colour Out of Space" have Nabby Gardner, Nahum Gardner's wife, who goes crazy as a result of exposure to the Colour, and is locked in the attic, where she becomes even more strange... Same thing also happened with Thaddeus, one of the sons.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_479e4faa	comment	The Bojeffries Saga has Grandpa, who is a reclusive Eldritch Abomination who lives in the greenhouse, and "the baby", a never-seen radioactive monster in the cellar.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_486a1ca4	comment	American Horror Story: On Murder House, Constance kept her disfigured son, Beauregard, in the attic. CPS was going to take him away but she had Larry kill him first, claiming he died of natural causes. On Freak Show, conjoined twins Dot and Bette Tattler are kept in their house and not allowed to leave; many of the neighbors think that their mother lives alone.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_4a453e0d	comment	In Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. Harold and Kumar wind up in Alabama, and are befriended by an Ugly Guy, Hot Wife, who happen to be siblings. Their cycloptic, freaky, inbred son is kept in the basement when company comes over. They were nice people though, they just happened to follow Brotherâ€“Sister Incest and have The Grotesque as a child.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_4d09e3b6	comment	The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing reveal in "Victoria's Secret" that Queen Victoria keeps her beloved Zombie Prince Albert in the palace basement, fed nightly on the brains of commoners.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_4fc8f90f	comment	Beauty and the Beast of Paradise Lost: At the beginning of the manga, Belle is locked by her deranged father for five years as punishment for her mother's disappearance, although he insisted he did that because she was "too ugly to be seen in public". She escapes in the first chapter, still sane but with PTSD and deep self-esteem issues. Her long, slow way to recover her former self (with Beast's rude encouragement)is one of the themes of the manga.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_50b9a0e2	comment	The Phantom of the Opera is an early example, and also interesting because he exiled himself due to his face. But it still counts since he lives in the catacombs of the Paris Opera House, hides himself from the world, and is insane enough to kill certain individuals who won't do as he asks, as well as stalking a certain blonde opera singer. Madame Giry and the Persian act as the confidants and liaisons between the Phantom and the outside world, although the Phantom occasionally dons a false nose and mustache to go shopping outside.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): Played with in the episode "The Howling Man". The title character is locked in a monastery cell and spends a lot of time howling mournfully. The protagonist of the story thinks he's crazy, but after the protagonist releases him he turns out to be Satan in disguise. Oops.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_544333c5	comment	"The Shadow Over Innsmouth": The narrator makes reference to a cousin (who has been slowly transforming into a fish man) locked away in an asylum. It's also noted that a few of the Innsmouth people have gotten so deformed that they don't go outside anymore. In this case, it's not that most of the locals would be freaked out by them, since most of them are in on the weird cult, but there's the occasional person around who isn't.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_5a1f4de5	comment	Touch (2004): Larissa's father has kept her secluded in the house since she was twelve to hide her uncontrolled powers from the world, partially to protect her from scorn but mainly to avoid embarrassing him and ruining his political dreams.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_5b3356f8	comment	In Turning Red, Mei is briefly confined to her room which is stripped to a mattress, quilt, pillow and her favourite stuffed animal. It is implied that, had she not convinced her parents that she had her panda transformation under control, she would have been kept like that for a month.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_5c10ce3e	comment	In Kiss the Girls, the killer's opening monologue describes a self-inflicted version of this: he moves into the attic of the house where his "first love" lives.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_5d680fe9	comment	The title creatures of The People Under the Stairs. Tweaked, however, in that the imprisoned things weren't born that way, but were kidnapped as young children and imprisoned under horrid conditions that caused their degeneration.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_5e9a5107	comment	Parasite (2019): The Park family's Big Fancy House is so big that they never notice the underground bunker, where the housekeeper has stowed away her mentally unstable husband for years.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_68237790	comment	In the Pathfinder adventure path "Strange Aeons", Countess Nemira Lowls is the mother of the Big Bad, and has been locked in the attic of the family mansion for the past twenty years. This is because when she and her secret lover used an occult ritual to infect her husband with a terminal wasting disease, the rite also caused her to slowly transform into an Eldritch Abomination. Her son locked her away and told the rest of the town that she had died of the same disease as his father so he could continue to study her condition.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: "Home" deals with several backwoods-horror tropes, including this one. The local police force with Mulder and Scully's help conclude there must be a woman kidnapped and held by a family of young men who is probably responsible for the murder of a deformed baby. It turns out there is a living woman in the house; she was just assumed to be dead by locals. "The Post-Modern Prometheus" is a deliberate deconstruction and Affectionate Parody of Frankenstein/the deformed monster. Several people have seen him, they just don't know who he is. He lives with an aging farmer whom he considers his adoptive father and who wants to protect him by hiding him.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: As Roshar is a world about on par with our Middle Ages, and has an understanding of psychology and mental illness to match, this is unfortunately the way most mentally ill people are treated: locked in cells to be taken care of by the clergy until/if they regain their sanity. There's implications that Jasnah spent some time as this trope in her youth, but the details are unclear.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_6ac3c4bd	comment	The Outsider (1926) is about a being who has been sealed away inside a now-crumbling castle for as long as he can remember. Whoever was keeping him trapped inside it seems to be long-since dead, and he finally rallies the nerve to escape.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_6bef8832	comment	Baldur's Gate III: Amanita Szarr, aka Lady Incognita, is arguably an Only Sane Woman who locks herself in the attic. She was thirteen when her uncle Cazador turned her into a vampire, but refused to drink blood. Cazador locked her in the attic as punishment until she drank from a prisoner he sent her. Now she's allowed to leave, but refuses to.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Somewhat reversed in Fallout 3: Point Lookout with Kenny, who ran away after his deformed parents hid him in their basement for lacking the right "marks." This is to say, he looks like a perfectly normal boy instead of a misshapen hillbilly from a rather hamfisted cartoon version of Deliverance.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_6c1d09b4	comment	In Fallout 4, Lorenzo Cabot has been imprisoned in the basement of the Parsons State Insane Asylum since 1898 due to obtaining an Artifact of Doom that granted him immortality and superhuman powers, but at the cost of his sanity. Or so his son insists.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_6c4ccc28	comment	The Deep Sleep Trilogy features a woman named Felicity at the very end of the second game who is described as this trope. She went insane because Her mind lost connection to her sleeping body and she can never again wake up, thus leaving her trapped for years.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_6da4c85c	comment	On Freak Show, conjoined twins Dot and Bette Tattler are kept in their house and not allowed to leave; many of the neighbors think that their mother lives alone.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender downplays this with the Beifong family's secret daughter Toph, who was born blind and thus confined to the family estate under her parents' misguided assumption that Disabled Means Helpless. The situation was a pretty cushy Gilded Cage, but she nonetheless yearned for adventure in the outside world. By the time the heroes meet her, she's been regularly sneaking out to battle other earthbenders as the "Blind Bandit" in the arena. At the end of she episode, she runs off with the heroes as a new addition to the team.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_88b580f0	comment	In Werewolf: The Apocalypse, some Silver Fangs hide their metis offspring at home in order to avoid public dishonor. Metis sheltered this way tend to be socially maladjusted.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_8c05f749	comment	Death in Paradise: A mild case occurs in "The Secret of the Flame Tree", where a famous author keeps her severely addled sister out of public contact in an isolated bungalow on her estate. The sister actually wrote the author's most famous novel, and the author wants to ensure that no one ever discovers this.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_8cb3a247	comment	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire reveals that Bartemius Crouch Sr. did this to his son. Downplayed in that everyone already knew that Barty Jr. existed and was deranged, but they thought he'd died in prison.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_92785e9c	comment	The J.B. Stamper Tales for the Midnight Hour short story "The Attic Door" is about a girl going to spend a few days with her widowed aunt, and meets her aunt's deformed son, a result of her late scientist uncle's experiment, locked up in the attic. Naturally, the aunt decides the girl's seen too much, so they'll just tell the girl's mother she never arrived...
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_977e2fa6	comment	In Monster Party, the Dawsons keep their physically deformed, mentally deficient and homicidal son Mickey locked up in their basement.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	Bob's Burgers: In "Slumber Party", Louise scares off Harley and Abby from the party by claiming that Gene has a feral, hunchbacked twin brother who communicates by farting, lives in the basement, and hates when people blink in his direction. In "Mo Mommy, Mo Problems" Spencer, the guy running the open house, warns the kids to stay out of the third floor, and they hear a creepy old woman shouting "LEAVE!" from there. It turns out to be Spencer's mom Ethel, and she isn't really crazy (outside of her weird hobby of making taxidermy squirrels), she just doesn't want her son to sell their house and is trying to scare away prospective buyers.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_9b602c3f	comment	In Chapter 1 of Deltarune, Jevil is locked away deep within the basement of Card Castle in an ominous area with an entirely different atmosphere to the rest of the place, and an elaborate and trickily placed set of keys are spread across the land to keep a wall between him and the rest of the kingdom. Seam the shopkeeper is the only person who will speak of him (and only does so after the party find where he is) and can go on to explain that the harlequin was once their friend and the court jester, but after an encounter with a strange figure, he learned information that shattered his worldview and fell into a dark brand of nihilism, coming to treat their very world as a game and seeking to play it with violent stakes to cope until his old friend, now living in solitude within their store after being changed by the events and his words, had to seal him away. By the time the party encounter him, Jevil still speaks in playfully cryptic and foreboding terms and claims to be 'THE ONLY FREE ONE', and he will gladly play with the party if they gather the keys and enter his little world.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_9cdbcbaa	comment	''Bordertown]]: When Bud and Steve runs a migrant smuggling tunnel under Bud's house, one of the immigrants asks about the hideously deformed man chained up in the basement.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_9dcbb01b	comment	The mother in The Curse, loosely based on The Colour Out of Space, becomes one of these late in the film.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_9e003c9	comment	In Resident Evil â€“ Code: Veronica, a monster codenamed Nosferatu, who is actually the mutated Alexander Ashford, is imprisoned in the Antarctic Base, and escapes shortly after Claire and Steve arrive. In the remake of Resident Evil, the grotesquely deformed and chained Lisa Trevor wanders the basement and backwoods of the Spencer estate.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_9e7f8a9c	comment	The Boys: Compound V can also bring back people from the dead... as mindless zombies (who still eat and defecate). One of them is kept in the Seven's base, and cleaning out his cell (see: still eat and defecate) is used as punishment.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_9e84c324	comment	The Penguin in Batman Returns spends his early years as this, before his parents get rid of him by throwing him to the river.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_9f9ab3c4	comment	In the horror B-movie spoof The Haunted Through-Lounge and Recessed Dining Nook at Farndale Castle, the sinister and deformed lurking figure is revealed to have recently escaped from the cellar where she was locked away years earlier by her sister, the owner of the castle. In a twist, it turns out that she's the good twin and the rightful owner of the castle, and was locked away by her Evil Twin who stole her life.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_a52286a5	comment	In the short story, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin, a filthy, malnourished little child of indeterminate gender is locked in a windowless room and treated as an animal for the vague good of the community.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project's uberpowered little vampire, Flandre Scarlet, has lived in the basement of the Scarlet Devil Mansion for the past 495 years at her (slightly) older sister Remilia's behest. Since Flandre is emotionally unstable and has the power to almost effortlessly destroy anything ("I went 'kyu' and it went boom"), this is to some extent a safety measure. Fan portrayals of her circumstances played it for drama or horror as needed, but then the Cheating Detective Satori manga came along and revealed that Flan stays in the basement because she chooses to live down there, since she gets meals delivered daily and doesn't have to put up with sunlight. Plus, that power to destroy anything means that if she really wanted to get out, no one would be able to stop her anyways.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_aba1c7a5	comment	In The Case of the Bloody Iris, Mrs Moss is secretly keeping her deformed son David in her apartment; living in a room hidden behind a closet. David sneaks out of the apartment and spies on the nubile women living in the building.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Okuyasu's father was horribly mutated by DIO's cells into a near-mindless abomination and is now kept in the attic by his sons, who are trying to find a way to Mercy Kill him out of pity. Given that he regenerates from every injury, it doesn't go well. He's not as mindless as he first seems, which causes the brothers no small amount of grief when they realize how badly they've been abusing him. After avenging Keicho's death and stopping Kira, Okuyasu starts taking his father to Antonio's to try to cure his condition, which appears to have some effect but slow-going.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_b0eb2e80	comment	The Orphanage does this with the disfigured (but not disabled) Tomas by putting him in a mask and keeping him in a secret room. But in something of a subversion he's still allowed out, and to play with other children. The whole matter of keeping him in that room seemed to be a quirk of his overprotective mother, more than anything else.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_b0fc9724	comment	Parodied in Saturday Night Live in "The Corporal." Two relatively attractive women (Kate McKinnon and Aidy Briyant) have been forcing their drop dead gorgeous sister (Jennifer Lopez) to live in their attic, having convinced her she's utterly hideous by keeping her from ever looking at a mirror. When the two aren't conspiring to kill each other to gain the attention of the visiting Corporal, they try to make their sister seem less attractive and fail miserably.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_b2c187a7	comment	In The Magician's Nephew, Digory and Polly, being familiar with this trope, consider that Uncle Andrew might have a mad wife hidden in his attic. He's actually experimenting with the magic rings that are among the MacGuffins of the series.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_b67b78b6	comment	Behind Her Eyes: A friend of Louise's invokes this trope when Louise shows concern about David forcibly medicating Adele and constantly checking up on her. The friend suggests David might be caring for his mentally ill spouse in this way, rather than controlling her.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_b8c39fe6	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: When Doric was born, her parents told the village their baby had died and kept her in a locked attic with straw to muffle the sound. They sent her goat milk and stale bread to keep her alive. She learned to talk by listening to them. She thought this was normal until her parents had a human baby who wasn't sent up to the attic with her.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_bd3f6ba4	comment	We have this played straight in two variants in the Gensokyo 20XX, series, the first instance is with Yukari, when she is locked in the cellar of an old rumored to be haunted mansion during the events of 20XXI when she went through a bit of Break the Cutie, losing her mind thereafter, staying there for about seven chapters, and the second instance is with Reimu, during the events of 20XXV. However, in the latter case, it was stressed that locking her in a room was better than a Bedlam House.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_bff01809	comment	Ogre Gorgers from Warhammer are cast out of a society of Big Eaters for the crime of being born too scrawny. Thrown into the labyrinthine, Warpstone-laced tunnels beneath an ogre settlement, if the Gorger survives the isolation and Warpstone will quickly mutate it into an insane, pallid, degenerate, and above all else ravenous monster.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "The Idiot's Lantern": A family keeps Grandma locked in her bedroom to hide the fact that her mind and face (yes, her face) have been stolen by an alien menace. Note that this episode was written by the same man who played the below-mentioned David Tattsyrup. "The Crimson Horror": Jenny Flint discovers that Ada Gillyflower is keeping someone she calls her "monster" locked in a room in the attic, hidden away from her awful mother. It's the Doctor, who survived the process Winifred is using to preserve her "pilgrims", but because he's not human, the process didn't work correctly on him, so he can't speak and was nearly thrown away as a reject. George Cranleigh in "Black Orchid" was locked up in Cranleigh Manor after an expedition to the Amazon left him disfigured and deranged by his experiences there. The family claimed he never returned. In "Ghost Light", Josiah Samuel Smith, formerly an agent of Light's survey of the planet Earth, now posing as a Victorian householder, has locked up both Control, another agent who has become detached from reality since Smith abandoned their purpose, and Redvers Fenn-Cooper, an explorer who was driven mad in Africa in an incident possibly involving Light's survey, supposedly for their own protection, but in reality for his own ends.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_c4eaa9f8	comment	Double Switch: It is revealed in the game that Eddie was locked in the apartment building basement by his own father, Lyle. Lyle did this because Eddie is Ax-Crazy, and he was just trying to protect people from Eddie.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_c5d0768d	comment	In Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter, Lori's working hypothesis explaining the creepy looking vampire the twins saw in the woods turns on this idea; she thinks the neighbouring DuCaral family had a crazy son they kept in the house rather than an asylum, and the man escaped (possibly more than once) and stood in the woods watching the boys.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_c6531c6e	comment	Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: In Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, the Cassalanters have a chain devil in their manor attic, trapped within a warding sigil so it can't attack everyone it sees. It's what's left of the son they traded to Asmodeus for worldly wealth.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_caef7cd1	comment	In Fatal Attraction itâ€™s strongly implied that Glenn Closeâ€™s Alex (a scary Yandere) is living in the Gallaghersâ€™ attic after following Dan from New York. This leads to the filmâ€™s best Jump Scare, where Dan is listening to the insulting tape Alex left him in the attic and a pair of arms of womanâ€™s arms wrap around him from behind... itâ€™s just his wife Beth checking on him but itâ€™s still enough to startle Dan and the audience.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_cb49bbb0	comment	The horror novel Others has a whole wing of a nursing home filled with Freaks in the Attic. Some of them are nice people who just have a physical deformity of varying severity. The Others, though, either because of their imprisonment, or what the director of the home has been doing to them, or just madness, are true monsters.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_cc2a7289	comment	Parodied on The League of Gentlemen with David, inbred son of corrupt hicks Edward and Tubbs Tattsyrup. They keep him in the attic.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_cdb546fb	comment	In Knife for the Ladies, Elizabeth is keeping her syphilis-ridden son Travis imprisoned in a secret room in the mansion.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_d14b56d3	comment	Referred to in the In the Heat of the Night episode "A Loss Of Innocence" as the officers search a house: Indeed, they find a buried skeleton.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_d2bb929d	comment	One of the Soul Series most iconic characters is Voldo; an Italian man who, after spending decades in his master's underground vault of all his worldly possessions, has become an insane blind man who can't speak. His mode of dress is something uncomfortably between Rummage Sale Reject and Dominatrix while his fighting style is a massive amount of Confusion Fu caused by his ability to contort his body in every which way while Dual Wielding a pair of katars. However, he is not to be underestimated as his reason for becoming such a freak of nature is that he was ordered by the owner of the vault to slaughter anyone who would so enter, including the people who helped build it, something he has done with ruthless efficiency.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_d4fe015f	comment	QI: On the Christmas episode "Groovy", the panelists joke that the Osmonds' songs were all written by their deformed older brother Graham that they kept locked in the attic. Also, since David Tennant is guest starring, they suggest that his Doctor should be killed off by Graham Osmond (played by Bill Bailey).
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_d5164c46	comment	Hades: According to Patroclus, rumors in Elysium paint Zagreus as one, as the only god in the Underworld forbidden from seeing the surface. It's part of why the warriors of Elysium try to kill Zagreus; Theseus refers to him as a demon spawned from the lowest depths of hell, which Zagreus comments isn't entirely inaccurate.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_d5c23753	comment	In Hex Wives #3, Isadora discovers that Aaron is keeping the wizened Mother of Witches strapped to a chair in a secret room of their house. The Mother attempts to tell Isadora of her true nature as a witch, but Aaron knocks her out and she loses all memory of the meeting.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_d5ee9ad0	comment	Invoked in Paranoiac, where Simon thinks he's keeping his brother locked up inside the garage. What he hasn't realized is that Tony is long dead.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_d849efdf	comment	Chance the Gardener in Being There was confined to the Old Man's house all of his life due to his mental handicap, and no one but the maids who worked in the house knew he existed. And it's possible he's the Old Man's illegitimate son to boot. The story gets underway once the Old Man dies and he is turned out of the house by the lawyers who came to close the estate. He's a nice, well-spoken person, however (partially due to his being allowed to watch television, giving him some idea of proper behavior and speech), and winds up becoming a Parody Sue when he encounters people who have no idea what he really is.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_d88894ac	comment	In Delirium (2018), Tom's mother has been hidden in a secret chamber under the pool for nearly twenty years, and has been quite driven mad by the experience.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_d9c602eb	comment	In the South Park episode "Marjorine", Butters is selected to fake his death. When he returns home, his parents chain him up in the basement falsely believing he is a Damaged Soul and kill a woman so that he can feed. He is out in the next episode.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_dcdb5ca9	comment	Tsukihime: SHIKI Tohno, the actual heir of the Tohno estate, has been locked up and away in the Tohno mansion for eight years, ever since he succumbed to ancestral madness and almost murdered Akiha and Shiki (his sister and adoptive brother, respectively).
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_de6659ec	comment	On Once Upon a Time the backstory of Cruella de Vil starts with how her mother has had her locked up in their attic since she was a child and convinces a writer (Isaac) who visits her to help break free. After succeeding, itâ€™s revealed that her mother had a partly good reason for doing so; Cruellaâ€™s actually a sociopath who as a child poisoned her father and two stepfathers and confesses she used Isaac to break free because she missed the joys of killing.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_dfabfce5	comment	Red Dead Redemption 2: The Braithwaites, a wealthy Southern family whose fortunes have declined after the abolition of slavery, keep a deformed female family member locked up inside an outhouse hidden away on the family property, and she is understandably completely insane from her confinement, if she wasn't already when they locked her up. The Braithwaites are established to have, let's say, not the widest gene pool around, which may be a factor at play here. After the Van Der Linde gang wipes out the Braithwates during the climax of chapter 2, the surviving servants on the estate don't bother freeing her and she's left to starve to death, with John Marston potentially finding her remains after the Time Skip.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_dfbbbe81	comment	In the Black Christmas (2006) remake, after murdering his father, Billy's mother and her lover keep Billy locked in the attic and use him for sex. He goes steadily more insane before finally snapping one Christmas and murdering them (as well as mutilating his sister/daughter Agnes).
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_e0dadb55	comment	Both Charlie Angelfield and his father, George, in The Thirteenth Tale go mad after the death of their loved ones, and enter into a sort of self-inflicted imprisonment where they lock themselves in their rooms for extended periods of time.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_e41a38c8	comment	The alternate timeline in which Merida finds herself in the final installment of the Disney's War â€” A Crossover Story series, since Anna died young note Don't worry, fans, she turns to have merely been kidnapped, but this is irrelevant to the example., it's Elsa that Hans tried to marry, and being the Manipulative Bastard he is, he convinced her everybody'd be better off if she willingly became a Madwoman In The Attic, so she jails herself in a cell hidden in her palace while Hans rules. What she doesn't know is that Hans took advantage of the situation to claim Elsa was dead and seize the throne, and that even if she wanted to escape Hans wouldn't allow it. Merida, however, finds Elsa and tells her the truth, and Elsa promptly frees herself (she could have anytime, she just didn't know there was a need to do so).
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_e46d33d6	comment	In Encanto, Mirabel discovers her long-lost uncle Bruno has been hiding in the walls of the Madrigal house, and though he's actually a kind and thoughtful man he's also gone a little crazy from being cooped up all those years with no one to talk to but rats.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_e7410020	comment	Empowered: Referenced in Volume 6 Page 117, referring to the treatment of the Super-dead:
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_e8f67e69	comment	In Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, Mary's uncle keeps his son and Mary's cousin, a bedridden, sickly child named Colin, hidden away in the house for fear that he will not be able to survive in normal society, and shuns him because of the boy's resemblance to his dead mother.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_eef69f10	comment	Subverted by The Adventure of the Paradol Chamber, a Sherlock Holmes pastiche written by June Thomson. A woman who has befriended a young nobleman hires Holmes to investigate because she's afraid that his servants have imprisoned him in his own house. As it turns out, not only do the servants have a very good reason for locking him up, the nobleman actually wanted to be imprisoned in the first place, since it's revealed that he suffers from a form of hereditary madness that makes him Ax-Crazy whenever it strikes. In one of his moments of sanity, the nobleman decided to have himself locked up to keep from being a danger to anyone.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_f487ac1a	comment	The Dunwich Horror, an invisible kept in the attic by Wilbur Whately (actually his twin brother, but Wilbur looks more like their mother). The Horror eventually grows so large that Wilbur has to tear down the inside walls, nail the windows shut, and move himself into a shed.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_f489fad2	comment	Creepypasta: I Caught My Grandfather Talking to an Air Vent involves this. The narrator's grandfather had a secret twin sister who was locked away in the attic, and they learned that they could talk through the vents. When ""great"" grandfather found out, he murdered her and buried her in the back yard. Perfect has the narrator's cousin chained up in a cupboard under the stairs because she had Downs Syndrome, and his aunt wanted a "perfect" family. The greatest irony was that the strain of this ruined the family: the other two kids are severely depressed and the uncle was murdered for refusing to put up with such ill treatment of his daughter, and fed to her. The aunt ends the story as a crazy homeless woman.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_f5799bd9	comment	In an episode of The Critic, a grizzled sailor tells Geraldo that the Shermans keep a hideous child locked in their basement (read: Jay) and points to a lumpy shadow to prove it. Geraldo, not buying it, immediately recognizes the shape as a sack of potatoes.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_f599a110	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Madwoman in the Attic / int_f599a110	comment	The first Basket Case film, although Belial's titular "attic" is portable and he doesn't seem to complain about staying hidden. Furthermore he's even said to prefer to keep to himself in the sequels.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_f74b5f80	comment	The Babylon 5 episode "Grey 17 is Missing" features a bizarre cult that has taken over one of the decks of Babylon 5, hidden it on the blueprints and computer schematics, isolated it so no one else can enter... and then locked themselves up on that level with a ravenous alien monster which periodically eats one of the cult members and thus makes them one with the universe via a perfect death.
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Madwoman in the Attic / int_fe59b3db	comment	Bethany: The titular character, whom Claire thought was her imaginary friend, was actually her deformed twin sister, who had a mask stitched over her face by their mother and made to life in the walls of the house.
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The Bojeffries Saga (Comic Book) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Addams Family (Comic Strip) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Imperfect Metamorphosis / Fan Fic / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Happiest Place / Fan Fic / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
La polilla y la mariposa (Fanfic) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Touhou Ibunshu (Fanfic) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Bad Ronald / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Batman Returns / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Beau Is Afraid / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Being There / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Black Christmas (2006) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Cobweb / int_8eb58226	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Cry Wolf (1947) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Curse of the Fly / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Dear God No! / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Delirium (2018) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Glorious 39 / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Grindhouse / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
House of the Long Shadows / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Kings Row / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Knife for the Ladies / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Mirrors / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Mirrors (2008) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Mortuary / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Oculus / int_8eb58226	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Phenomena / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Brides of Dracula / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Brood / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Case of the Bloody Iris / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Curse (1987) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Curse of Frankenstein / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Man Who Could Cheat Death / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Orphanage / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The People Under the Stairs / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Touch of Satan / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Aunt Dimity / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Collected Poems (1930) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Dracula / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Fer-de-lance / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Forest Kingdom / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Island Beneath the Sea / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Jane Eyre / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Kingdom of Little Wounds / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Memories of Summer	seeAlso	Madwoman in the Attic
Number Seven Queer Street / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Piranesi / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Skeleton Crew / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Colour Out of Space / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Nameless Offspring / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Secret Garden / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Thirteenth Tale / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Turn of the Screw / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Victor / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Yellow Wallpaper / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
To Kill a Mockingbird / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Wizards, Warriors and You / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Glorious39	seeAlso	Madwoman in the Attic
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I Got My Wish and Reincarnated as the Villainess (Last Boss)! (Manga) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable (Manga) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Mermaid Saga (Manga) / int_8eb58226	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Sakura Gari (Manga) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Tokyo Ghoul (Manga) / int_8eb58226	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Sound Horizon (Music) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Stephen Lynch (Music) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing (Music) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Dollop (Podcast) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Delicious Friends (Roleplay) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Warrior Cats RPG (Roleplay)	seeAlso	Madwoman in the Attic
American Horror Story: Murder House / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Behind Her Eyes / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
CSI / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Corazon Salvaje / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Dark Shadows / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Dead Still / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Death in Paradise / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Father Brown / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Flowers (2016) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Gotham / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Isabel / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
MacGyver (1985) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Midsomer Murders / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Reign / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Star Trek: Voyager / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Terriers / int_8eb58226	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The League of Gentlemen / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Farndale Avenue (Theatre) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Jane Eyre (Theatre) / int_8eb58226	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Armed & Delirious (Video Game) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (Video Game) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Dead Estate (Video Game) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Deep Sleep Trilogy (Video Game) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Double Switch (Video Game) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Dread X Collection (Video Game) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Dying Light (Video Game) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Edna & Harvey: Harveyâ€™s New Eyes (Video Game) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Fear the Dark Unknown (Video Game) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Hello Neighbor (Video Game) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Her Story (Video Game) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Lakeview Cabin 2 (Video Game) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Remothered (Video Game) / int_8eb58226	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Scratches (Video Game) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Deed (Video Game) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Anchorhead (Video Game) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Haunting of Braidwood Manor (Visual Novel) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Fantasy Kaleidoscope (Web Animation) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Moon Raven (Web Animation) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Autobiography of Jane Eyre (Web Video) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Pocalypse (Webcomic) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
The Onion (Website) / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Bordertown / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Storks / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Turning Red / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic

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