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Power Born of Madness

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Power Born of Madness	comment	The strength of a madman is proverbial, and with good reason. Madness allows people to brush aside the instinctive and conscientious inhibitions that stop the rest of us using our full potential, and perform feats of great strength. Unfortunately, this is also very likely to throw the person right into the prison or the cemetery. Obviously, the same principle will work for supernatural powers. The mad can break through all those barriers meant to keep humans safe, and access their true potential, which would be nice if they weren't stark raving bonkers. Particularly common forms of this include: The Mad Genius including but not limited to Mad Mathematician, Mad Artist, Mad Doctor, and Mad Scientist — Somehow no longer seeing the world as others has unlocked a brilliance that is far beyond what a sane mind can achieve. Until you apply it to those few select areas at least. The Spark of Genius — Mad Scientists can apply the laws of nature in ways sane scientists could never dream of. Mad Oracle — Unfooled by the illusion of linear time, these prophets see all eternity at once — and maybe can't do a thing about it. Fourth-Wall Observer — Their perception altered to see beyond the borders of their fictional world, these characters have become Genre Savvy. Reality Warper — They force reality itself to reflect their madness, often unconsciously. With mild madness, this can actually be beneficial, but if they are truly deranged reality starts to crumble, and eldritch abominations flock round. Mad God — What happens when a being with godlike power has no concept of limits and unfettered creativity? Anything. Insanity Immunity — The minds of the mad are so alien and incoherent, Mind Control and mind-breaking spells and psychic powers targeted at conventional human minds simply slide off, letting them see through the Masquerade and shrug off would-be puppeteers. Unstoppable Rage — Violent mania grants inhuman strength and endurance. When used for humour, these characters simply live a few notches lower on the realism scale than the world around them. One form of Deadly Upgrade and sometimes Charles Atlas Superpower. Compare With Great Power Comes Great Insanity (the sister trope), where the power came first, the madness later. Contrast Enlightenment Superpowers, where it's a sanity/morality uplifting epiphany that grants power, and Sanity Has Advantages, where a person's madness is their Fatal Flaw. See also Success Through Insanity.
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Power Born of Madness / int_10b03dcf	comment	It's also implied in Batman: Arkham Asylum that the Joker's insanity was the only reason why he retained his mind after injecting himself with Titan.
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Power Born of Madness / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time ambiguously plays this trope with Betty's MMS theory about wizards: She realized that, in different amounts, every wizard has levels of Madness, Magic and Sadness. She could never figure out whether all Magic would lead to Sadness and Madness (inverting the trope) or being Mad and Sad would give you powers (thus, playing this trope straight). Notably, after stealing Magic Man’s powers, she immediately goes crazy, while her victim is surprised to realize he’s a well-adjusted person now.
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Power Born of Madness / int_12300cc3	comment	Rorschach from Watchmen, Captain Ersatz to The Question, is similarly able to do things like fighting off cops with some hairspray and a match because he is crazy, crazy, badass, and crazy.
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Power Born of Madness / int_12b036c	comment	In the Bleach fanfic Uninvited Guests, after the first "arc", Hitsugaya goes insane and decides that the best way to solve his problems is to charge headfirst, alone and with no sort of plan whatsoever into Las Noches and beat the crap out of Aizen. It works.
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Power Born of Madness / int_1331990c	comment	The Incubators of Puella Magi Madoka Magica consider humanity's magical potential this, as it's fueled by emotion (which the Incubators believe is a mental disorder). The plot is driven by the Incubators' attempts to farm and use this power without revealing it to the humans.
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Power Born of Madness / int_1367cea0	comment	In Worm, power is born more from psychological trauma than from madness. In order for a potential parahuman to unlock his/her latent powers, he/she must experience a "trigger" event that causes extreme stress and pushes the person to the breaking point. This may explain why there are more villains than heroes in the Wormverse, and the heroes tend to carry around a lot of psychological baggage. What's more, the efficiency of a cape's powers are directly linked to how close their mindset is to when they first triggered. This means that a cape will be notably more powerful when being retraumatized than when healthy and well-adjusted. Some capes can have second trigger events, which can make their current powers grow stronger or change, or even give them new ones. Unfortunately, this requires far more intense trauma than a normal trigger event and there are also several obvious problems with psychologically breaking an already damaged superhuman. Most people would agree that the power boost granted by a second trigger is not worth it.
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Power Born of Madness / int_157916fb	comment	Black Crusade: Gaining more corruption gives you more Gifts of the Gods, but there's no insanity track any more. The assumption is that you start the game at the maximum of 100 points of Insanity, and it's only by being that off the wall that you even consider tapping into the kinds of power granted by the Chaos Gods.
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Power Born of Madness / int_19ed47db	comment	The Question: Vic Sage's abilities post-Steve Ditko consisted of having an odd mask and paranoia — lots and lots of paranoia. Originally, he was just a good detective, fighter and skilled at criminal psychology.
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Power Born of Madness / int_1b386512	comment	In Ranma ½, Ranma taps into this whenever he uses Nekoken/Cat Fu, which he can only use when his phobia of cats peaks and he becomes convinced that he himself is a cat.
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Power Born of Madness / int_1cf10d97	comment	The exception is Sarada from Boruto. She got her initial Sharingan from being incredibly happy at the prospect of seeing her father, and her Mangekyo from the fear of losing him rather than losing him outright.
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Power Born of Madness / int_1db412d3	comment	In the Mistborn trilogy, by Brandon Sanderson, allomancers come into their powers after Snapping (something like a breakdown after a horrific event) - the most notable being Kelsier, who came into his powers after spending an unidentified amount of time working in a really nasty mine, followed by watching his wife being beaten to death before his eyes.
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Power Born of Madness / int_1f76648	comment	Espers in A Certain Magical Index gain their powers based on their own warped inner view of the world being so powerful that it actually affects the world around them. When you look at the level fives, it becomes only too clear what this means for a person: At least three of them have committed murder, one is a paranoid mind control user, one's identity is unknown because they never appear anywhere and the last one is convinced that he's a superhero. Only Mikoto Misaka is actually well balanced and normal, making her the poster girl for the level fives by default despite her own personality flaws.
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Power Born of Madness / int_1f818da5	comment	Channel Awesome: Most of the reviewers believe this applies to Dr. Insano in Kickassia. First the Nostalgia Critic attempts to get Spoony to let him out, followed by those rebelling against him. Only Linkara sees that this is a dumb idea, but the others are convinced that you need a madman to stop another madman. Sure enough, Insano gets his ass kicked, although he comes closer to defeating the critic than any other individual rebel. Even outside of Kickassia, Dr. Insano seems to be able to invent things that shouldn't work just because he thinks they should, and justifies it with SCIENCE (such as the ability to shoot lightning out of his hands somehow).
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Power Born of Madness / int_20e955d2	comment	Leviathan: The Tempest: Ahabs are essentially people who are obsessed with vengeance against some specific Leviathan, and by virtue of that obsession and the Leviathan's own self-hatred can draw on the Leviathan they hunt for supernatural powers. It's specifically noted that one of the three ways the hunt can end is for the Ahab to recover from their madness (with or without external psychological help), which causes them to instantly lose their powers.
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Power Born of Madness / int_237a86c	comment	All the protagonists in Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger have this, and it's commonly referred to as "delusion power". The more insane they get, the more capable they become in combat. Increased delusion power comes at a price...
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Power Born of Madness / int_23be51db	comment	In one issue of his own series from the 1970s, the Joker was able to simultaneously fight off both Black Canary and Green Arrow using a "strength born of madness".
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Power Born of Madness / int_24003723	comment	Achewood features this in the Great Outdoor Fight. Those with Blood of Champions are known for entering fugues which destroy their minds afterward. Ray succumbs to this at first, but gradually channels it into a productive "berserker" state, which according to Roast Beef is the difference between "a lunatic [and] a pissed man with goals[.]"
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Power Born of Madness / int_2b70efd4	comment	Old World of Darkness: The Marauders from Mage: The Ascension. A mage who goes Marauder effectively develops a form of magically-enhanced incurable insanity, their sense of reality now permanently askew. As a consequence, they are extremely resistant to the effects of Paradox, which can sometimes slide off them and affect any other mages in the area. If they get crazy enough, they're eventually shunted off into their own pocket dimension in the Umbra. The Malkavians in Vampire: The Masquerade are driven insane the second they are turned - assuming they're not already - and this very insanity powers their unique ability to cause delusions and hallucinations in others, as well as see 'patterns' in reality that their saner fellows cannot. In the computer game, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Malkavians also get different dialogue options, many of which hint at or warn about future events... albeit in such a confusing manner that you need to finish the game through a sane character first to get all the references. Malkavians are also able to ignore the existence of certain objects rendering them useless against that character, e.g. the machete that did not repeatedly hack into their necks. In games where most of the PCs are Malkavians, it's more a case of the NPCs hallucinating the object... It's worth noting that the Malkavians' signature discipline of Dementation can only be used by someone with a derangement. Curing or losing your derangement means Dementation can no longer be accessed, which doesn't affect Malkavians themselves, who are cursed to always have a derangement no matter what. It does affect members of other clans who manage to learn Dementation. The werewolves of Werewolf: The Apocalypse are angry. Angry enough for some to cannibalize their own species or molest allies to death if they don't keep a lid on it. Angry enough to fuel regeneration or shapeshifting through rage alone.
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Power Born of Madness / int_30a248e	comment	The original Friday the 13th has Pamela Voorhees, an insane but mundane-looking middle-aged woman who manages to not only hurl a dead body so it crashes through a window, but also arrow a grown man in his eyes, stomach, and dick powerful enough that he ends up being pinned to a door several feet above ground. This is in contrast to her more well-known son, Jason, who is also insane but is a hulking man mountain, therefore logical enough to do such feats.
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Power Born of Madness / int_30a5ebfd	comment	In Naruto, the inherent power of the Uchiha clan (Sharingan) may be activated only in the event of suffering ultimate stress and loss so strong that they break the Uchiha somewhere deep. It can upgrade into the Mangekyo Sharingan, but only after even greater trauma. Clan lore held that the only way to unlock the Mangekyo was to murder your closest friend, though it's shown that other equally traumatic events can also work. Every Uchiha with the Mangekyo, even ones who didn't cause the trauma themselves, has been insane, broken, or both. The exception is Sarada from Boruto. She got her initial Sharingan from being incredibly happy at the prospect of seeing her father, and her Mangekyo from the fear of losing him rather than losing him outright.
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Power Born of Madness / int_31db3e7d	comment	Sam & Max: Freelance Police: Max's mind is so screwed up he's immune to all forms of mind control and hypnosis, has various psychic powers (which mostly served as Deus ex Machina or one-time gags until The Devil's Playhouse) and awareness of the fourth wall. Granted, this awareness is shaky, but so is his awareness of his own world.
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Power Born of Madness / int_334120fc	comment	8-Bit Theater has very many characters that work like this. Let us categorize them: Mad Genius: Red Mage, a Munchkin who believes that the universe runs on Tabletop RPG rules. Considering the fact that he has survived certain death TWICE by not writing down the damage he took it is very well possible that this is true. As far as RM goes, at least... And skeletons are wholly vestigial, anyway. Everyone knows that... However, whenever RM is trying to come up with a plan, as usual completely detached from logic, realism and the fundamental physical laws of the universe, this backfires, because reality doesn't work that way! ... Except when it's funnier if it does. At least once, Red Mage tries to invoke this deliberately. Logical plans are flawed, he tells Black Mage, because of their very reliance on logic. A failure at any given step causes the whole plan to fall apart. By formulating a plan that is completely detached from logic, he has actually insulated it against such failure; since no one step actually relates to any of the others, screwing up won't have any effect on the overall plan. Mad Oracle: Sarda is an interesting case of this, since, due to the Timey-Wimey Ball, you may or may not say that he may or may not have gotten his powers before he turned into an Ax-Crazy, Sociopathic Jerkass. He also doubles over as something of a Mad God, since he is older than the entire universe itself, borderline omniscient, and is, as mentioned above, an Ax-Crazy, Sociopathic Jerkass... Earth used to have 36 hour days, but Sarda keeps them at 24 hours just to make everyone hurry. Reality Warper: Though they probably are more stupid than crazy, both Black Belt and Fighter shows signs of this category. E.g., Black Belt has, due to his No Sense of Direction, on numerous occasions altered the space-time continuum in ways that shouldn't be possible. And when their deathtrap of a submarine was filling with water, Fighter was able to return it to normal by pulling out the plug and letting the water drain out.
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Power Born of Madness / int_346db4d5	comment	The Suffering has some fun with this. The main character has suffered blackouts his whole life, and in-game develops the ability to trigger those blackouts and turn into a hideous monster. There's a reason this ability is called "Insanity," though—he doesn't actually change, he just goes into an Unstoppable Rage and tears foes apart, hallucinating that it's not really him.
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Power Born of Madness / int_3684526b	comment	Welcome to Hoxford has Ray Delgado, who succeeds in dangerous situations because he's just that disconnected from reality. Who else would come up with the idea of biting off a werewolf's tongue as it's snarling at you? He even finishes the series by challenging the Alpha to a Duel to the Death and wins, effectively becoming the packleader without actually being a werewolf.
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Power Born of Madness / int_37cfcb80	comment	Maniwa in Paranoia Agent becomes utterly convinced he's in touch with another plane of existence. He hears voices, sees things that aren't there, and acts like a superhero. The plot even starts calling him "Radar Man," and that lunatic may or may not be our last best hope at figuring out what the Hell's really going on.
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Power Born of Madness / int_3d776ce3	comment	In Alpha Protocol, Steven Heck (don't call him "Steve") is one of the world's most talented secret agents. He's also insane. Although never stated outright, there are some suggestions that Steven doesn't even work for the CIA like he claims, but is just some crazy guy who decided to become the world's greatest operative on a whim, and now is.
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Power Born of Madness / int_3e4fcdd3	comment	Moby-Dick: "If such a furious trope may stand, his special lunacy stormed his general sanity, and carried it, and turned all its concentred cannon upon its own mad mark; so that far from having lost his strength, Ahab, to that one end, did now possess a thousand fold more potency than ever he had sanely brought to bear upon any one reasonable object."—Chapter 33.
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Power Born of Madness / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: Molly Carpenter by Ghost Story, who displays how completely terrifying a master of illusion can be and how fast a newbie can advance if motivated strongly enough. Insanely strongly. In the same story, when told that only truly insane or insanely determined ghosts can make themselves solid, Harry runs over his past exploits (Zombie T-Rex springs to mind) and concludes that he must be one or the other. Which one isn't clear — but it works.
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Power Born of Madness / int_43f52aa9	comment	From the Oblivion, Shivering Isles expansion, and less directly in previous releases, there is Sheogorath, Daedric Prince of Madness. In this case the power isn't born of his madness, but is in fact the primordial essence of madness. He was actually originally Jyggalag, the Prince of Order. His current state is a punishment for being a jerk to the other Daedric Princes. At the end of the expansion, the Player Character takes over as Sheogorath, and he goes on his way in his original form.
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Power Born of Madness / int_46aac2a3	comment	Elden Ring: This is the shtick of the Frenzied Flame, which can grant power and knowledge beyond other sources, but at the cost of madness and driving others to hatred. Mechanically speaking, Frenzied Flame incantations inflict the Madness status effect on both the target and the user. From a storyline perspective, those who cross the Despair Event Horizon occasionally gain the power to call upon the Frenzied Flame and use its incantations, and the Flame's main spokesman Shabriri is bugnuts and gloats about chaos taking the world, but also knows a very important fact about the endgame that few others do, and is probably going to be the first to tell you about it. He's not lying, either. Using the Giant's Flame to burn the Erdtree requires Melina to sacrifice herself, while becoming the Lord of Chaos and using the Frenzied Flame for the same purpose will spare her.
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Power Born of Madness / int_485c564	comment	Guilded Age has the Order of the Countless Limbs, an apocalyptic cult that worships Eldritch Abomination Old Gods dedicated to bringing about The End of the World as We Know It. They embrace Ax-Crazy as a virtue and delight in putting the "chaotic" in Always Chaotic Evil. Their higher level clergy can magically infect people with "the Madness", locking them into an Unstoppable Rage where they lose the ability to distinguish between friend or foe.
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Power Born of Madness / int_4c095a1f	comment	In The Transformers this is partly why Galvatron was so much more feared than Megatron. Megs might have been an evil Galactic Conqueror, but Galvatron was a complete lunatic who had none of Megatron's self-restraint.
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Power Born of Madness / int_4efd20ba	comment	A lot of the stuff Freakazoid! pulls off (on a disturbingly regular basis) suggest that his comic psychosis is actually the source of his power, not the other way around.
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Power Born of Madness / int_510fd7e5	comment	In Code:Realize, the Hidden Strength program is described as an attempt to unlock the full potential of the human body and enhance a person's physical abilities to superhuman levels. It accomplishes this by subjecting the subject to physical and emotional torture until their sanity breaks, making the power that Hidden Strength grants an example of this trope.
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Power Born of Madness / int_51bddf17	comment	In KULT, this is a way to see through the illusion that is our reality. If you proceed long enough, you may become the immortal superbeing every human really is, but you risk to be swallowed by the Achlys.
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Power Born of Madness / int_52ef161a	comment	Over at DC Nation, the crazy but lovable Shift swings between this and The Eeyore depending on whether or not his pills have worn off yet. If he's on his pills, he's more of a Cloud Cuckoo Lander hero, and if they've worn off, everything is trying to kill him (or at least that's what he says). He might just be trying to comprehend every single probability at once with a brain that cannot handle the knowledge. So the powers cause insanity, and then the insanity fuels the powers...
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Power Born of Madness / int_543bfacd	comment	In Dracula, Renfield tries to exploit this. "It is said that madmen have incredible strength. I am mad, or was, and I resolved to use all of my mad strength to attack him." Sure enough, he’s able to grapple with Dracula, who was previously said to have the strength of twenty men, and doesn’t let go until Dracula turns his Hypnotic Eyes on him.
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Power Born of Madness / int_5755b96a	comment	It isn't the main source of his power, but Xykon in The Order of the Stick definitely seems to be more powerful thanks to being completely mad. Inscribing a symbol of insanity onto a bouncy ball and throwing it into a room full of people isn't the sort of tactic a sane sorcerer would come up with.
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Power Born of Madness / int_5ce3fc86	comment	In Soul Eater, Madness is everywhere. The madness of the Demon God Asura not only warped reality around him slightly, but actually was infectious, forcing those near him to see threatening hallucinations and more importantly, if left to run rampant, the madness would blanket the world, driving everyone insane. The black blood is an even better example, since Crona and Maka gain a great deal of power from being insane under its influence. Later on in the manga, (the anime didn't get that far) madness is a full-blown phlebotinum. It is researched and used for attacks, creating "clowns" from it for additional power boost or protection, etc. The main researcher is Medusa, the creator of above-mentioned black blood. She herself is notably sane and chastised by rival factions for creating "fake clowns". Noah's fraction, notably Justin, are more about using natural White Clowns. Later on, Black*Star and Kid both utilize madness as well, having earned the favor of the Eldritch Abomination from the Book of Eibon. They were both already somewhat crazy anyway, so it's a fairly logical step to just go the whole way. Speaking of the Book of Eibon, said Eldritch Abomination, the Black Mass, actually represents Madness born of Power. All characters make use of the phlebotinum, but Kid is a slightly different instance, seeing as -if one believes the Salvage arc- he's either a Clone or a Soul Jar of a Great Old One (The Grim Reaper himself), Eldritch Abominations who in this universe are (supposedly) incarnations of madness - Madness of Law in his case, foreshadowed by his Obsessively Organized personality. Also demonstrated that these beings are susceptible to one another, as Kid reacts badly to both Asura (fear) and the Great Old One (power) inside the book. In the end, though, madness is revealed to be a Superpowered Evil Side, that incarnations of concepts like him can use to vastly increase their power and become virtually indestructible, at the small cost of destroying minds of everyone else by just existing. While Asura, drives people mad with fear, Kid after assuming his father's mantle would have turned them into his mindless puppets of his law, had he succumbed to temptation of using madness as well. Stein also makes use of the madness to gain advantage in battle, in his case the madness was always there (increasing since around half of the story), it was just being repressed; in the Battle of the Moon, he releases all his madness in the beginning and then regains control later in the battle.
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Power Born of Madness / int_5e150650	comment	In the world of Exalted, when The Fair Folk use up all their Virtue Channels for one of their Virtues, they enter bedlam, a state of absolute madness. Some Fair Folk charms are made specifically to benefit from this state when it happens. There are also a number of Charms for the various types of Exalt that use the madness of the Great Curse to their advantage. For example, Stubborn Boar Defence allows a Solar in Limit Break to ignore unnatural mental influence. Also, not fighting Limit Break (which usually translates directly "flow with the crazy") yields in-game advantages, such as a maxed Willpower pool.
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Power Born of Madness / int_60a7a86d	comment	Peter Milligan's Shade, the Changing Man is the prime example of the Reality Warper ("forge what you need on the smithy of your soul"). He began merely poetic, and therefore only insane to his native culture, so he was able to survive being flung through the Area of Madness relatively insane. With time on Earth, he got much madder. Loma, from Shade, the Changing Girl, follows suit.
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Power Born of Madness / int_6572f71e	comment	In Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Strange takes a Psycho Serum that lets him see one of The Fair Folk so he can learn more magic from it.
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Power Born of Madness / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: In the 3rd Edition, a cleric with access to the Madness Domain (offered by Tharizdun and a couple of other evil deities) gains a Insanity Score equal to half his class level. This lets them add this score to his Wisdom Score whenever Wisdom applies to spellcasting. However, it has a disadvantage: for anything else that involves Wisdom he subtracts the Insanity Score from his Wisdom Score. It also gives the cleric the ability to "act with the clarity of true madness", meaning he gains the above benefit to any roll involving Wisdom, but only once per day (and he must decide to use this effect before making the roll; if it fails anyway, it still counts as used). The Tainted Scholar prestige class gains more spells and greater spell potency, as well as some other benefits, based on how insane they are. It is considered one of the more powerful prestige classes in the game. A homebrewed class called the Hollower is a fighter driven insane by Things Man Was Not Meant to Know and turned into a shadow-mage Magic Knight. They have a functionally limitless pool of Dark Energy available to them, but each time they use a power, they have to take a Charisma check or gain a permanent insanity, which ranges from mild depression to being so convinced they're the main character from a book that they actually get Plot Armor, to spontaneously gaining a multiclass level. They can also spread their specific brand of giggling insanity to others by striking them with their "null blades," become Gravity Masters, and summon a Tulpa formed from their insane fears and given form by the same eldritch darkness that forms their nullblades
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Power Born of Madness / int_6cb2d709	comment	In the Harry Potter fanfic Flying Without A Broom, the Death Eaters spike Harry's drink with recreational wizarding drugs, the effects of which are indistinguishable from Harry temporarily losing his mind. The Death Eaters thought it would render Harry helpless, but instead it lets him tap into vast magical powers, powers which he uses to keep himself amused.
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Power Born of Madness / int_6cd3b44f	comment	Unlike other homicidal maniacs in Black Lagoon, Roberta becomes far more powerful and dangerous when she goes off the deep end, with complicated strategies and maneuvers that lunatics like Hansel and Gretel distinctly lacked.
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Power Born of Madness / int_705bb59a	comment	The Malkavians in Vampire: The Masquerade are driven insane the second they are turned - assuming they're not already - and this very insanity powers their unique ability to cause delusions and hallucinations in others, as well as see 'patterns' in reality that their saner fellows cannot. In the computer game, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Malkavians also get different dialogue options, many of which hint at or warn about future events... albeit in such a confusing manner that you need to finish the game through a sane character first to get all the references. Malkavians are also able to ignore the existence of certain objects rendering them useless against that character, e.g. the machete that did not repeatedly hack into their necks. In games where most of the PCs are Malkavians, it's more a case of the NPCs hallucinating the object... It's worth noting that the Malkavians' signature discipline of Dementation can only be used by someone with a derangement. Curing or losing your derangement means Dementation can no longer be accessed, which doesn't affect Malkavians themselves, who are cursed to always have a derangement no matter what. It does affect members of other clans who manage to learn Dementation.
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Power Born of Madness / int_72715b	comment	In On Stranger Tides, hero Jack Shandy suffers a blow to the head just before confronting an evil sorcerer, who attempts to trap him in illusions. The illusions keep breaking down as a result of Jack's disorientation, causing the villain to exclaim: "What's wrong with your mind? It's like a stripped screw!"
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Power Born of Madness / int_75e9b784	comment	The whole basis for how the power of Die Ewigkeit works in Dies Irae is a fundamental rejection of the worlds common sense and ironclad conviction in your own beliefs far beyond any common fanaticism. This utter madness allows characters basically create new rules for the way the universe functions, forcing it to conform to their beliefs, locally at first but if they grow powerful enough they can force it on all of reality. The purer the belief, the greater the effect. Additionally it also creates a feedback loop, making the users personalities more in line with their cravings, which of course further entrenches their beliefs further empowering them, ad nauseam. Basically, it is what would be if the idea of the Tautological Templar was a super power.
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Power Born of Madness / int_77be988d	comment	Thief of Time: Excessive sanity as a form of insanity. Jeremy Clockson is completely sane and has a paper that confirms it (not a lot of people have those). At first Igor has to admit that after working for Mad Doctor Scoop, Crazed Baron Haha, Screaming Doctor Berserk, Dribbling Doctor Vibes, and Nipsie the Impaler "when it came to getting weird things done, sane beat mad hands down" but it eventually becomes clear Clockson's so sane he's gone around the bend and come out the other side. "Stark, staring sane" has to lead somewhere bad... like nearly ENDING TIME ITSELF. From that same book we get Myria Le Jean, slightly crazy by anyone's standards by the end, but I don't think even Susan can match her body-count in human-auditors.
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Power Born of Madness / int_7a8eea7e	comment	The Scholomance: Using a bit of Chemically-Induced Insanity, Yancy leads a group through a district of a Pocket Dimension that had been cut loose into the Void decades before. Magic runs on Clap Your Hands If You Believe and the Void is especially malleable, so they're able to skate by on the shared hallucination that the place still exists.
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Power Born of Madness / int_7aaf9e41	comment	This is a common theme in the Batman mythos. The Joker is sometimes portrayed as being able to see through the Fourth Wall because of his insanity. In one issue of his own series from the 1970s, the Joker was able to simultaneously fight off both Black Canary and Green Arrow using a "strength born of madness". In more than one comic, the Joker's madness is presented as a type of superpower; in an Elseworlds comic where every meta was depowered, he was rendered sane. In a Batman/Judge Dredd crossover, Judge Death tried to possess Joker's body but ended going straight through his head and falling out through the other ear. It's also implied in Batman: Arkham Asylum that the Joker's insanity was the only reason why he retained his mind after injecting himself with Titan. Harley Quinn has a degree of it too. For example, there's a villain named Johnny Sorrow who appears to be invisible but wearing a suit and a mask. In fact, he was torn apart and put back together by a horrifying Eldritch Abomination called the King of Tears, and now You Cannot Grasp the True Form. When he's masked, you see nothing. When he's not, looking at him will outright kill you. Even very powerful characters you'd expect to be immune to such things have suffered fates like petrification, blindness, or insanity. Captain Atom, made of energy, seemed to get vaporized but was actually teleported far away, his powers kicking in in a way they don't normally work because of the need to be as far from that thing as possible, now. What happened when Johnny Sorrow unmasked before Harley? Batman himself is often shown to possess a form of Power Born of Madness — his obsession with justice is so great that mental powers meant to play on any other trait simply slide off. In the early Batman stories, whenever the culprit was an old man, you could count on the following fight to include a caption with 'the strength of a madman' in it explaining why Batman wasn't able to take him down with a finger snap.
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Power Born of Madness / int_7ac38ec4	comment	Rebuild World: Coworkers gossiping about Pamela being able to control an entire army of Remote Body androids suggest it's only because of how unhinged she is that she's capable of it.
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Power Born of Madness / int_81692f99	comment	In the Star Trek novel, Q-Squared, Trelane is more powerful than his fellow Q because of this.
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Power Born of Madness / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius does this with Mad Science: Sparks have manic phases where they're deeply intuitive, focused, driven, and scientifically brilliant, although they might forget to eat for days... or, you know, to not be evil. There's also a subtle inversion in the fact that while all Sparks go crazy at times, it's actually the ones who can stay in control while "in the madness place" who are the most dangerous people in the setting, because they can direct and channel their insanity. Baron Wulfenbach, his son Gil, and Agatha, are the best examples. When in their zone, they're also shown to pull off physical feats of determination. Even the Jaegermonsters know better than to approach a Spark when they're in their 'Madness Place'.
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Power Born of Madness / int_8ba4613a	comment	Light in the Death Note AU The Faceless (Disguise of Carnivorism), since he's still alive after everything he's been through he determines he must be immortal.
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Power Born of Madness / int_8f25225c	comment	Danganronpa: One of the hand-waves given for how a teenage girl managed to cause the apocalypse is that Junko's desire for despair is so absolute and unfettered that it almost qualifies as a superpower.
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Power Born of Madness / int_903a9871	comment	Dark Heresy: Battle Sisters gain insanity in all instances where they would otherwise gain corruption. They also have several combat talents that require certain minimum levels of insanity to purchase, and get more powerful the greater her insanity score becomes. For a Battle Sister, damage to her psyche manifests as increasingly, insanely faithful zeal.
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Power Born of Madness / int_98b697e9	comment	Insanity seems to be the primary source of physical strength for the antagonists of the Scream series. In the second installment, even a middle-aged woman with no sign of physical training is able to overpower and kill young men who should be in their prime.
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Power Born of Madness / int_98c55b59	comment	One of the possible character backgrounds in Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura is that the player character is an escaped asylum lunatic. Because he/she is deranged, most people have a lowered initial reaction to the player's appearance, but said character also possesses ten per cent total damage reduction.
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Power Born of Madness / int_997f2d2f	comment	In Middle-earth: Shadow of War, this can happen to your enemies: when Orc Nemesis are shamed, they tend to be leveled down, but in some cases shaming can actually boost their levels all the way up to 50 or 60 even if they were previously demoted to level 1. This usually results in them gaining several combat bonuses and rage triggers that makes them even harder to fight.
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Power Born of Madness / int_9da04de7	comment	Apparently this is the reason "Howling Mad" Murdock from The A-Team is recruited in the first place. The movie version of him can make various airborne vehicles perform in ways that defy all laws of physics and decency. Murdock appears to be able to fake any foreign accent required (but often just for fun) and speaks Swahili at a customs desk, despite showing no previous knowledge of foreign languages to his teammates or to the audience. He also appears to be immune to electroshock therapy, even enjoying it while the frustrated doctors keep cranking up the voltage to no avail. It takes nothing less than a bullet to the head to make him feel sane for a while.
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Power Born of Madness / int_9ecd1e02	comment	From the Nightside, there is the one known as Madman, who was driven mad by perceiving the truth underlying reality? He's a dangerously powerful Reality Warper whose hallucinations manifest around him. Most notable is that he's accompanied by his own personal soundtrack. The other one is Jessica Sorrow the Unbeliever, who thinks that everything is just her hallucination and everyone is just another voice in her head. She tears heavy doors like paper, and anyone she finds a nuisance disappear.
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Power Born of Madness / int_a28e763d	comment	In Nine Goblins, wizardry is simply a mental disorder that has symptoms including, perhaps, blowing up other people with one's mind. It seems that if one is sufficiently detached from reality, they create a reality of their own and are able to impose this on others, usually with unpleasant effects. As such, they're mostly useful in battle, but fielded with great caution, as nobody can be sure they'll only attack the enemy.
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Power Born of Madness / int_a77c0823	comment	In From Hell, Dr. William Gull aka. Jack the Ripper is shown as having hallucinations typical of serial killers (the annotations even make this explicit), and his notion that he's on some kind of a significant occult quest is loony too. But it seems to work: his hallucinations sometimes show him visions of the future he couldn't possibly imagine without getting information across time, and he is also observed manifesting in different times and places.
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Power Born of Madness / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: This is the case for decks built around the keyword abilities Hellbent, Madness (yeah) and, to a lesser extent, Dredge. Sanity is represented by the cards left in your hand and in your library; an empty hand is unstable, an empty library is when a planeswalker is going to completely lose their mind. Madness allows you to sacrifice short-term sanity to play the card you're discarding cheaply; Hellbent denotes cards that gain an advantage when your hand is empty; and Dredge allows you to affect your long-term sanity to recur things from your graveyard. The most extreme case is Laboratory Maniac. Normally, an empty library would cause you to lose the game (having lost your mind completely). If a Laboratory Maniac is on the field, an empty library makes you win the game instead. The general idea behind the Cabal's dementia magic. Some willingly give in to the madness to attain greater power; only the true masters can maintain their sanity.
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Power Born of Madness / int_a8a64abf	comment	In the Geneforge series, serviles aren't able to do magic until the proper Geneforge and canisters are developed. Before then, though, a few serviles would develop the ability to cast spells anyway, by forming small cults where they could meditate and engage in self-harm until they went insane.
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Power Born of Madness / int_a9cb14fc	comment	Failing a Madness save in a Ravenloft game is usually bad news, but a couple of possible outcomes do provide fringe benefits, e.g. a bonus to Fear saves because you don't think the threat is for real. While nearly all darklords have at least some control over their domains' environment, the batshit-insane Easan the Mad cranks this influence up, such that the landscape of Vechor shifts with his mood swings and he can physically alter anyone who lives there just by thinking about them. Another insane villain, Davion, causes drastic changes to the village where he lives, every time he swaps between his four personalities.
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Power Born of Madness / int_aabf6d1d	comment	The Flagellant in Darkest Dungeon is different from the other religious classes. He doesn't worship the Light as much as he worships self-inflicted pain. While the classes who worship the Light can call upon it to heal wounds and strike enemies with it, the Flagellant's fanatical devotion to pain lets him flagellate his enemies from afar, transfer the burden of others towards himself, heal himself back from the brink, whip the wounds and diseases out of himself, and only gets stronger as he's brought closer to death and madness.
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Power Born of Madness / int_ac8b90f5	comment	The Marauders from Mage: The Ascension. A mage who goes Marauder effectively develops a form of magically-enhanced incurable insanity, their sense of reality now permanently askew. As a consequence, they are extremely resistant to the effects of Paradox, which can sometimes slide off them and affect any other mages in the area. If they get crazy enough, they're eventually shunted off into their own pocket dimension in the Umbra.
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Power Born of Madness / int_adc32389	comment	The Q Continuum: The Q-like entity 0 has gone insane after being locked out of the can for millennia, and thus has no limits on what he can do. Q specifically invokes this trope by saying, "0's insanity gives him an insane amount of power."
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Power Born of Madness / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: This is what the Hulk runs on, and heavily implied to be the reason that Banner not only survived the detonation of the gamma bomb, but why the Hulk is so much more powerful than most, if not all of the gamma mutates that have come before or since. His already fractured psyche created a monster based on the trauma he received as a child, and the personae emerged from different stages of his life that Banner denied himself the person he wanted to be (Savage the angry child, Joe Fixit the late adolescent, etc.). Adding to this, his long-suppressed rage gives the Hulk the ability to get stronger when he gets madder. His anger is shown to be so powerful that not only does it cause Unstoppable Rage but also gives him immunity to mind control and other telepathic attacks, often showing him simply shrugging it off. Also explains his more varied abilities, like being able to see ghosts, as Banner always feared his long-dead abusive father would come back to torment him again. Gamma radiation based powers seem to work like this in general. Gamma radiation brings out everything people suppress (assuming it doesn't just kill them like real radiation poisoning). Depending on what they are suppressing, the resulting transformations can be...unpleasant.
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Power Born of Madness / int_b86a71f0	comment	Shiro from the The Adventures of Samurai Cat illustrated novels, an 8kg kitten, is able to use a GAU-8 Avenger tank killer gatling gun due to "the strength of madness".
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Power Born of Madness / int_b9b796cf	comment	In Fate/stay night, Berserker class Servants have a Mad Enhancement ability that increases all of their stats by one rank at the cost of their sanity while in use.
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Power Born of Madness / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: "In the darkness, a blind man is the best guide; in an age of madness, look to the madman to lead the way." To be precise, psykers have incredible powers, but as a general rule are batshit insane, to the point that burning witch-erm, psykers, at the stake is in fact a perfectly reasonable and wise precaution. In places where laws of physics go to hell (such as a planet engulfed in a warp storm) sufficiently mad people can become spontaneous reality warpers. And each and every psyker across the galaxy is at constant threat of CREATING one of these places. Every second of the day. Along with breaking the barriers that hold of the entirely omnicidal Powers-that-Be in the package. Along with a horde of daemons. Forget reasonable, it's only because the Imperium is so stringent about shepherding psykers up into the Black Ships that the Imperium's 'only' teetering on the brink of utter annihilation from every named force in the universe. Darker and Edgier indeed. The various tabletop RPGs have several mechanics to track your progress: aside from experience, there's also "insanity" and "corruption". In most of the games these are bad things to build up... with some exceptions: Black Crusade: Gaining more corruption gives you more Gifts of the Gods, but there's no insanity track any more. The assumption is that you start the game at the maximum of 100 points of Insanity, and it's only by being that off the wall that you even consider tapping into the kinds of power granted by the Chaos Gods. Dark Heresy: Battle Sisters gain insanity in all instances where they would otherwise gain corruption. They also have several combat talents that require certain minimum levels of insanity to purchase, and get more powerful the greater her insanity score becomes. For a Battle Sister, damage to her psyche manifests as increasingly, insanely faithful zeal.
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Power Born of Madness / int_bcdcf629	comment	The Transformers: Animated villain Blitzwing seems to be able to use two elemental weapons and two vehicle modes due to his Split Personality. However, it's not completely clear if one causes the other. Word of God says that the experimentation that turned him into a triple changer made him nutty, not the power itself. Knowing the usual Decepticon "research process", it's hardly surprising. Though it's worth noting that while his "German Pilot" personality can only use the plane form and ice weapons and the "Schwarzenegger" personality can only use fire and the tank form, the "Nutty" persona can use all his abilities at will. The personalities are named Icy, Hothead, and Random. As stated above, Random has access to all of Blitzwing's forms and abilities, but it's balanced by Random's tendencies to sing nursery rhymes or go off on tangents about servo salad. Less balanced out when you take the whole iron filings and servo salad quote. Transformers use machine versions of phrases a human might say, especially when it comes to parts of the body. You should probably replace "iron filings" with "skin shavings" and "servo" with "hand and arm". To put it simply, that is pretty screwed up.
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Power Born of Madness / int_bf4abb02	comment	Harley Quinn has a degree of it too. For example, there's a villain named Johnny Sorrow who appears to be invisible but wearing a suit and a mask. In fact, he was torn apart and put back together by a horrifying Eldritch Abomination called the King of Tears, and now You Cannot Grasp the True Form. When he's masked, you see nothing. When he's not, looking at him will outright kill you. Even very powerful characters you'd expect to be immune to such things have suffered fates like petrification, blindness, or insanity. Captain Atom, made of energy, seemed to get vaporized but was actually teleported far away, his powers kicking in in a way they don't normally work because of the need to be as far from that thing as possible, now. What happened when Johnny Sorrow unmasked before Harley?
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Power Born of Madness / int_bfd7c6e0	comment	In Drowtales, Kiel'ndia Vel'Vlozress, though not as murderously insane as some of her clan members, is decidedly whacky. She's also the comic's only Fourth-Wall Observer, often addressing the audience directly. (To the rest of the cast, it only makes her look crazier: she is, after all, talking into thin air.) In a remarkable inversion of The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You, she even learns to summon her fans as Living Shadow minions.
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Power Born of Madness / int_c0da5437	comment	The Punisher: The deadly threat that Frank Castle represents is often credited to his psychotic pain threshold and utter lack of inhibition towards hurting people.
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Power Born of Madness / int_c2297a9c	comment	In a Batman/Judge Dredd crossover, Judge Death tried to possess Joker's body but ended going straight through his head and falling out through the other ear.
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Power Born of Madness / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Nightmare Moon seemed to be this — at least Princess Luna seemed much weaker once she'd regained her sanity. However, when she returns in the second season, we find out that she is in fact so powerful as herself that she can be destructive without meaning it if she doesn't work to keep a lid on her godlike powers. She seems more powerful than her sister because she is less restrained, and of course being evil is the logical extension of this. Pinkie Pie is this to a T. She's so preoccupied with hopping around, singing random songs out of nowhere, and throwing parties, that she never seems to realize she's breaking the laws of time and space as she does it, and on numerous occasions completely freaking out her friends as she does it.
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Power Born of Madness / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The New Who version of the Master. As well, Dalek Caan, who managed emergency temporal shift into the Time War, which was supposed to be impenetrable. The process drove him mad, but in the process, he saw everything. "Vincent and the Doctor": In a rather more mild case, it's hinted that Vincent van Gogh's mental illness is linked to his ability to see the otherwise invisible Krafayis.
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Power Born of Madness / int_c51cb60a	comment	Changeling: The Lost has "Beautiful Madness" as a theme of the game. The ongoing challenge of a Changeling's life is to strike a balance between the stolid, dependable order of the mundane world and the wonderful, awful power of the Wyrd. More powerful Changelings are almost guaranteed to be at least a bit crazy - but they can also force the world to play along with their ideas of how it should work. Even the weaker ones can, for example, weave moonlight and daydreams into an invisibility cloak, because it doesn't occur to them that you shouldn't be able to thread a needle with either of those things. The Eldritch Order of the Lost Pantheon in the Lords of Summer sourcebook). Every one of them is very powerful, somewhat insane, and believes to their bones that they are the embodiment of an archetype that determines how they make sense of the world. It works: their madness makes them more perceptive and longer-lived, and they gain power from mortal worship. The True Fae. Without exception, they have no understanding of objective reality, and define their existence by narrative. While this necessarily includes an Achilles' Heel, it can also make them otherwise invulnerable as long as they stick to their story. Regular Changelings can access some of this power by raising their own Wyrd high enough, going completely insane, and metamorphosing into True Fae themselves.
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Power Born of Madness / int_c9633211	comment	In the No More Heroes series, Travis Touchdown is quite out of his mind with the occasional forth wall breaking. It's in the second game that it becomes a power, using his sexual complexes and anger to fuel him in battle and enter super forms, including turning into a tiger. Being sexually attracted to moe designed characters and having a recently killed friend does some weird things to a man.
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Power Born of Madness / int_cb6dff30	comment	In the movie version of Silent Hill, Alessa's powers are born of overwhelming hatred and despair, which ultimately adds up to madness. Plus, have you SEEN the Abandoned Hospital slash Black Bug Room she calls home!?
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Power Born of Madness / int_ccae327f	comment	Most of the reviewers believe this applies to Dr. Insano in Kickassia. First the Nostalgia Critic attempts to get Spoony to let him out, followed by those rebelling against him. Only Linkara sees that this is a dumb idea, but the others are convinced that you need a madman to stop another madman. Sure enough, Insano gets his ass kicked, although he comes closer to defeating the critic than any other individual rebel.
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Power Born of Madness / int_cf6917ab	comment	In American McGee's Alice it is strongly implied that the reason Alice is able to survive and fight is because she's crazy, despite the fact that her goal is to become sane. Basically, it kept her from being completely consumed by madness, which the horrors of Wonderland would have quickly done to a lucid person.
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Power Born of Madness / int_d4c2b99b	comment	Might and Magic: Heroes VI has the Maniacs and the Demented, demons created to act as servants to the Demon Overlord of madness. Their thoughts are so alien to other beings that they are completely immune to mind-affecting spells, and fighting one can be a disconcerting experience, since they howl as though they're in pain whenever they attack someone, and laugh maniacally in response to being attacked.
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Power Born of Madness / int_d5505073	comment	In David Brin's Uplift series there is a species of client-alien called the Episiarchs, which have been genetically engineered to be so insane that they have the ability to alter reality by refusing to accept it.
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Power Born of Madness / int_d6e2636b	comment	Dr. Will Magnus, creator of the Metal Men, does crazy things when he's not on his meds. Specifically, he has bipolar disorder. During his creative highs he's capable of building a superpowerful and destructive robot made of plutonium. During his soul-crushing depressive lows he feels horrible enough to seriously consider activating it.
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Power Born of Madness / int_dc25de3f	comment	Portal has Doug Rattman, a programmer at Aperture Science with paranoid schizophrenia who was the only employee that saw GLaDOS as a serious threat to everyone. His schizophrenia manifested in the Companion Cube talking to him and giving him sound advice as he traversed the Aperture Science testing chambers. When he actually takes his meds, he becomes less capable, even getting clipped by the turrets.
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Power Born of Madness / int_e270b7e1	comment	In Genius: The Transgression, Geniuses wouldn't exist if their mind wasn't influenced by a mental breakdown fueled by discovery. This often leaves them quite mad. Consequentially, their Wonders, while not quite as blatantly as the Mages' magic (for example, the sourcebook says that simply putting Mania into a wooden bird won't make it fly just because it's "enchanted"), can bend or break several important laws of physics. And they are quite explicitly not science as they're non-repeatable phenomena, which leads to...
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Power Born of Madness / int_e2fa7287	comment	Touhou has a few: Parsee Mizuhashi, the bridge-haunting Green-Eyed Monster of Subterranean Animism, is explicitly stated in-game to have powers fueled by her jealous rage. There's a reason it's called the "Bridge People No Longer Cross". Clownpiece takes this trope even more literal, since she's a Lampad who carries a torch that drives everyone even just near it completely insane. This insanity coupled with her own purification by her boss' friend Junko made her absurdly powerful and difficult to deal with even by Touhou's Nintendo Hard standards.
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Power Born of Madness / int_e7e37776	comment	The reason the Reavers from Firefly are so dangerous is more because of them being insanely furious all the freaking time more than anything else.
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Power Born of Madness / int_eb4ec2c0	comment	Unknown Armies: All mages works on this principle. Ritual magic can be done by the sane, for rather wide definitions of sane. The faster and more powerful adept magic, however, can only be powered or cast by individuals who are crazily obsessed with money, books, historic places, alcohol, or danger to the point of that obsession overwriting local reality. A typical bibliomancer, for example, would be so obsessed over books that he or she would cajole or even kill for a given text, and take an assault on the Library as a personal assault. Mechanically, becoming an adept after character creation usually requires five failed Stress checks in a single column and the resulting madness. GMs are instructed to punish adepts who don't let their character's insanity shine through with drops in power or odd spontaneous magical effects.
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Power Born of Madness / int_ebffc81f	comment	Mage: The Awakening: The Mad, mages whose souls have broken (frequently by bottoming the Karma Meter out), letting the magic within spill out into the world around them. They're resistant to Paradox, hidden from sympathetic magic, and have frightening skill at magic. Unlike the Marauders, they can become normal mages again, but unless they're cured by an archmage, their sanity will always be on fragile ground.
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Power Born of Madness / int_ef1a245d	comment	Helen Magnus in Sanctuary engineers a Batman Gambit to catch a bad guy that involves pretending to kill a friend and putting a critter in her brain that will make her seem insane to throw off the psychic powers of those meant to determine if she committed the murder since one of them was aforementioned bad guy.
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Power Born of Madness / int_f00d733b	comment	New World of Darkness: Mage: The Awakening: The Mad, mages whose souls have broken (frequently by bottoming the Karma Meter out), letting the magic within spill out into the world around them. They're resistant to Paradox, hidden from sympathetic magic, and have frightening skill at magic. Unlike the Marauders, they can become normal mages again, but unless they're cured by an archmage, their sanity will always be on fragile ground. Changeling: The Lost has "Beautiful Madness" as a theme of the game. The ongoing challenge of a Changeling's life is to strike a balance between the stolid, dependable order of the mundane world and the wonderful, awful power of the Wyrd. More powerful Changelings are almost guaranteed to be at least a bit crazy - but they can also force the world to play along with their ideas of how it should work. Even the weaker ones can, for example, weave moonlight and daydreams into an invisibility cloak, because it doesn't occur to them that you shouldn't be able to thread a needle with either of those things. The Eldritch Order of the Lost Pantheon in the Lords of Summer sourcebook). Every one of them is very powerful, somewhat insane, and believes to their bones that they are the embodiment of an archetype that determines how they make sense of the world. It works: their madness makes them more perceptive and longer-lived, and they gain power from mortal worship. The True Fae. Without exception, they have no understanding of objective reality, and define their existence by narrative. While this necessarily includes an Achilles' Heel, it can also make them otherwise invulnerable as long as they stick to their story. Regular Changelings can access some of this power by raising their own Wyrd high enough, going completely insane, and metamorphosing into True Fae themselves. In Genius: The Transgression, Geniuses wouldn't exist if their mind wasn't influenced by a mental breakdown fueled by discovery. This often leaves them quite mad. Consequentially, their Wonders, while not quite as blatantly as the Mages' magic (for example, the sourcebook says that simply putting Mania into a wooden bird won't make it fly just because it's "enchanted"), can bend or break several important laws of physics. And they are quite explicitly not science as they're non-repeatable phenomena, which leads to... Leviathan: The Tempest: Ahabs are essentially people who are obsessed with vengeance against some specific Leviathan, and by virtue of that obsession and the Leviathan's own self-hatred can draw on the Leviathan they hunt for supernatural powers. It's specifically noted that one of the three ways the hunt can end is for the Ahab to recover from their madness (with or without external psychological help), which causes them to instantly lose their powers.
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Power Born of Madness / int_f01be61d	comment	Don't Rest Your Head, a system where you become more powerful the longer you haven't slept. Indeed, your insomnia grants you "madness powers" which can be used to warp the world around you as you see fit. One of the examples in the sourcebook is the madness power of preparedness, where, if you activate it to a certain degree, you can have "conveniently" happened to have picked up the combination to a vault you are just now getting to. And then there's probability.
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Power Born of Madness / int_f35c5985	comment	In Shadow Skill, this caused the Start of Darkness of Fallen Hero Kain Phalanx.
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Power Born of Madness / int_f3ae2950	comment	In Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, after receiving two consecutive talkings to, Raiden finally embraces the inner bloodlust that he had been trying to suppress and reclaims his old moniker of Jack the Ripper. This gives him the powerup required to, literally, cut through Monsoon and his posturing.
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Power Born of Madness / int_f3c07f91	comment	The Mask: The Mask as in the film gains his powers and abilities by being genuinely insane and also the same thing with Eve, Masked Peggy Brandt, Masked Milo, Masked Chet, Masked Pretorius and Masked Dr Neuman and in one episode a government guy wears the mask in the future but doesn't become insane that causes him to have no powers or abilities at all which shows that you need to have a creative mind to become insane as it is proven by The Mask who manages to defeat the government guy just by being insane and having a creative mind as well.
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Power Born of Madness / int_fa5e90fd	comment	City of Heroes plays this straight at moments, and subverts it as well. Rularuu's Lanaru aspect broke free of and became powerful enough to frighten Rularuu himself thanks to Lanaru's remarkable insanity. On the other hand, the Clockwork King is undeniably and completely insane, a Mad Scientist, but one of his particular delusions — that he can create working robots out of random junk — prevents him from realizing his true abilities in our universe. He's actually a godlike psychic, animating every Clockwork in the city like a puppet through the power of his fractured subconscious. Detailed examination of Clockwork reveals that they're just collections of parts that couldn't possibly work, and they don't... they function because the Clockwork King believes they should. One of the alternate universes you visit in the late game is a world where the King DID understand his true power. He and his Clockwork are the only ones left alive.
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Power Born of Madness / int_fb8549c	comment	Deadpool is an interesting example of both With Great Power Comes Great Insanity and this. His lunacy is due to having been imbued with superhuman regeneration while suffering from terminal cancer (or just made him more insane depending on the stories), which means that his brain is constantly rotting away and regenerating back. However, this same insanity grants him several perks that increase his power even further.
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Power Born of Madness / int_fef54eee	comment	Tedrin, the villain of Eden Green, swings rapidly back and forth between reason and pinprick-eyed insanity. Whenever his human mind checks out and lets the needle symbiote take over, he becomes a nigh-unstoppable killing machine.
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