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For a very long time, TV writers seemed to think that one of the universal signs of mental illness was a total inability to perceive one's self as acting oddly. It's tempting to have a mentally ill person utter such classic Mad Scientist lines as, "They Called Me Mad!, but I'm not mad, they're the ones that are mad!" And certainly, the near sociopathically quirky characters you find on the average Sitcom seem to think themselves perfectly ordinary, and in Real Life, some people afflicted by mental illnesses don't realise there's anything wrong with them. Fortunately, this is not always the case. Few characters can be more fun than the Self-Aware Loon. He's crazy and he knows it. And he's making the best of it. Trying to dissuade them from following their crazy, broken logic by pointing out their insanity will never, ever work. To them, it will be the sincerest form of flattery. They may be a Talkative Loon most of the time, but they have their lucid moments, and may even consider their episodes to be a welcome respite from normalcy. Consequentially, they often get to say clever lines like, "Well, I think it's a good idea, but then, I'm crazy," "I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid," "I may be insane, but you're crazy" or "Oh yes, I'm insane. And you're stuck here with me." Mostly characters who have become unhinged by an exceptional ordeal; rarely results from an organic disorder. Often a facet of the Waif Prophet or the Rabid Cop; and frequently a major character component of the Shell-Shocked Veteran and Special Forces military types. Usually a fun character, and a little cartoonish, though it can also be played tragically (this is how it usually goes when The Mad Hatter's illness is organic in origin) as a character is overcome by the knowledge that they are losing their mind and are powerless to stop it. Can also be played for horror, if the affliction goes beyond "quirky", as such characters can know exactly what they are doing, and just not care. This trope could be considered insensitive to viewers with actual mental illnesses. On the other hand, perhaps they can take some solace in a depiction of mild mental illness as something that can be coped with. And as with issues like ethnicity and disability, when characters have a sense of humor about their condition, it may not come off as too insensitive. Archetype is named for the character from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, who, like most of Wonderland's residents, knows exactly how crazy he is, and has decided to just sit back and enjoy it. Carroll's Mad Hatter is in turn a reference to the tendency of Victorian era hatters to go mad; "as mad as a hatter" was even a common phrase at the time. The actual cause of the phenomenon was the presence of mercury within the solution used by hatters to shape and form the felt – the hatter would inhale and ingest trace amounts of mercury during his work and eventually suffer from mercury poisoning, leading to dementia and death. Contrary to popular belief, Carroll never actually refers to the character as "the Mad Hatter" in the book; he is simply called "the Hatter". See also the Reluctant Psycho, who has mental problems. Compare Obfuscating Insanity, when the character pretends to be mad. Related in variable ways to The Wonka. |
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Sherlock: Jim Moriarty gets called insane. Sherlock occasionally calls himself a "high-functioning sociopath." He's not, despite his Insufferable Genius and Byronic Hero tendencies, and it's not clear if he's acting like one so he doesn't have to confront his intimacy issues or has convinced himself he really is a sociopath. |
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Most people in Narbonic. Mad Scientist is a job description, and the mads are perfectly aware of the impossibility of their schemes — leaving the sane characters chagrined when they succeed anyway. Cue great amounts of tropeplay and Shoutouts. Including the Alice in Wonderland quote, which takes on a darker meaning... After all, Dave is mad! | |
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Rosy the Rascal, Amy's evil counterpart from an alternate universe in the Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics). A mentally unbalanced clingy jealous girl taken to the extreme (she believes the only way to get Scourge (evil Sonic)'s attention is to smash him with her hammer). She seems aware of her insanity (due to a magic ring she used on herself to get Scourge's attention, but which shattered her mind as a result) yet is unconcerned with his fact, as her only focus now is Scourge. | |
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Ragdoll in Secret Six, to the extent that when other lunatics join the team, he resents no longer being the craziest guy in the room. | |
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This is one interpretation of John Nash at the end of A Beautiful Mind, after he comes to terms with his schizophrenia. When a man he doesn't recognize greets him at his classroom, before he addresses the man he asks a passing student to confirm that she can see him. Then he turns back and says with a smile, "Okay. I am always suspicious of new people. Now that I know you're real, who are you, and what can I do for you?" | |
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Mary Stuart Masterson in Benny & Joon. | |
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Antryg Windrose, from The Windrose Chronicles by Barbara Hambly. This character — influenced somewhat by Tom Baker's Doctor — is very charismatically eccentric, has a reputation for being "dangerously insane", and in deep characterization confesses that he really is mad, from long years of having to sustain beliefs contrary to the reality of others around him. | |
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Raven decided that he was crazy in TNA, incurably crazy. So he decided to embrace it and make Abyss, who he saw as being the same way, embrace it too. | |
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Walter Bishop on Fringe takes psychotic drugs at lunch to keep his edge. Walter owns this trope. Homemade psychotic drugs. Whenever a new character asks if Walter is crazy, Peter and Olivia just say yes and move on. | |
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Most of the Looney Tunes gang know how far out-of-kilter they are. This was practically Daffy Duck's catchphrase in his early, screwball days. |
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Melanie Martinez wrote a song called "Mad Hatter". It's about her character, Cry Baby, embracing her insanity. | |
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Max from Sam & Max: Freelance Police is very comfortable with his various mental issues, which mainly include the total absence of an attention span and being a sociopath (with that exact word used), but occasionally include nihilism, paranoia, hallucinations (both the Hearing Voices kind and the visual kind, although not in combination), codependency, enjoying being hurt a suspicious amount — basically, he won the mental illness lottery. The other characters just accept this as part of who he is, especially Sam, and Max himself is generally upbeat and has tons of fun going on adventures, coming up with wild and wonderful ideas, and torturing jaywalkers. | |
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Darkwing Duck: Psycho Electro Megavolt gives us this gem. | |
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Doctor Weird from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, possibly. "It works! I am one can short of a six-pack!" | |
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In Touhou Eiyashou ~ Imperishable Night, when Cute Witch Marisa Kirisame is exposed to "pure" lunar rays, which can drive humans mad, she isn't concerned because, in her own words, "I'm insane to begin with". This is the only time she comes out and says this, however. | |
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The title character of Raines is well aware that the dead people he speaks to are just figments of his imagination. He deals with it with a reasonable degree of equanimity, considering. | |
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Moby-Dick: Ahab says, "They call me mad, but I'm demoniac: I am madness maddened." | |
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Break of PandoraHearts, although he is often using Obfuscating Stupidity. To drive the point home, his Chain is the Mad Hatter itself. | |
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Most (but possibly not all) of the mad scientists in Skin Horse, which shares a verse with Narbonic' | |
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The early Daffy Duck-Expy version of Woody Woodpecker used to sometimes deny his insanity even though he frequently sang a theme song about how insane he was. Which only made him seem more insane. | |
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Jet from Ready Jet Go! is a huge Cloudcuckoolander and enjoys every minute of it. He creates odd inventions, sings silly songs, prepares odd dishes, talks in an eccentric English, does strange dances, is perpetually optimistic and upbeat, and adores everyone. | |
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Nearly all characters in Toon, with the exception of Crawl of Catchooloo characters who have been rendered sane by the Slurping Horrors (yes, Toon's Sanity Meter works in reverse) and the Serious Police in Toonpunk 2020½, are crazy in a Daffy Duck/Warner Siblings sort of way, and proud of it. | |
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The Simpsons Movie: | |
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The vile AAA stable Los Vipers had Maniaco, Histeria, Super Crazy, and Psicosis II among its members, but the trope wasn't just limited to rudos, as they feuded with tecnico group Los Vatos Locos: Charly Manson, May Flowers, Nygma, and Picudo. | |
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Lt Pibald in Schlock Mercenary is well aware everyone considers him a paranoid lunatic, and seems to enjoy it. | |
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A dark example is given in Big Hero 6: The Series in the form of Obake. A Freak Lab Accident he experienced as a child damaged his temporoparietal junction, the part of the brain that allows us to distinguish right from wrong. Despite his condition being treatable, Obake leaves it as it is because he finds the ability to act without guilt or remorse to be liberating. | |
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In the Batman Beyond episode "Babel", after Shriek explains his demands to Barbara Gordon: | |
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Marv from Sin City, who's aware he's borderline psychotic (and considers himself less clever than he really is). "I've got a condition. I get confused." He also worries about "turn[ing] into what they always said [he] was gonna turn into — a maniac, a psycho killer." In fact, when he uncovers the truth, he takes some time to find more evidence, just to be sure his mind isn't playing tricks on him. | |
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Jackie Chan Adventures: The Monkey King, once he stops being a pest, brings out the Ax-Crazy and lowers Puppet-Jackie into a woodchipper. | |
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In Joanne Greenberg's I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, the inmates at the psychiatric hospital have rules about such things: the disturbed ward gets to refer to themselves as "crazy", "mad", etc.; the less disturbed patients may call themselves "cuckoo" or other euphemisms. (It's an autobiographical novel, by the way: the hospital was Chestnut Lodge, a private institution in Rockville, Maryland.) | |
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The Malkavian Clan in Vampire: The Masquerade, and their spiritual descendants the Malkovian Bloodline in the Continuity Reboot Vampire: The Requiem. Although all Vampires lose their sanity over time, these guys start out full of crazy and then some. Their madness may have a mystical explanation, or it may just be the fact that since they live in a total Crapsack World where insanity is inevitable, you may as well skip merrily to bonkers and enjoy yourself. The Malkavians of Masquerade have a variety of opinions on their madness and the insight it brings. A good chunk of the clan just views them as part and parcel of one another (heck, the clan's formal nickname is "The Clan of the Moon"), whereas a few holdouts (such as Dr. Netchurch in the books, or Alistair Grout in Bloodlines) view themselves as perfectly normal individuals with keen insight into the ways of the world. This has led to a particularly contemptible sort of player character known as the fishmalk, who is crazy in a way they think is "wacky" but all the other players think is juvenile, stupid, and distracting from the rest of the game. It is named after a bizarre picture of a Malkavian kissing a fish, check it out at that link. |
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Dr. Geiger on Chicago Hope. Justifying his own God-complex to a review board, he explains that because he thinks he's God, he never gets distracted by self-doubt. | |
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"Howling Mad" Murdoch from The A-Team qualifies, assuming his condition wasn't totally an act to avoid the stockade. | |
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Carl in Llamas with Hats is a villainous example. He freely admits that he's a "dangerous psychopath with a long history of violence" and is completely OK with this. | |
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In a Batman Beyond storyline where the future Justice League faced their equivalent of the Justice Lords, this was interestingly played with by Justice Lord Flash. It was previously established that regular universe Danica Williams hears the voices of the Flashes that have entered the speed force. Evil Twin Danica is utterly contemptuous of this idea, which regular Danica initially thinks is because she can't hear the voices. Evil Danica retorts that she hears lots of voices — she assumes this is because she's crazy and her counterpart is just too weak to accept this. At the end of the story which of them was right was actually unresolved. | |
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Coyote from Gunnerkrigg Court shows some traits of this, along with being a god. | |
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Crazy Mary Dobson loses a lot in SHIMMER, but keeps showing up and doing the same thing with the expectation she'll win this time. She's admitted that it fits into a definition of insanity but doesn't care, and was quite proud of herself when it paid off against Sweet Saraya. | |
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Tracy Jordan of 30 Rock is so proud of how crazy he is that he was completely outraged when a tabloid suggested his odd behaviour was due to drug abuse. Tracy felt this constituted "libel" and "character assassination." | |
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Johnny the Homicidal Maniac often wonders if he's really crazy. By series end, he pretty much seems to revel in it. | |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland embodies (and named) this trope. Strangely enough, though, the Mad Hatter doesn't offer many lines that exemplify this as well as the Cheshire Cat does: | |
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Mad Margaret from Ruddigore: "If I were not a little mad and generally silly, I would give you my advice upon the subject, willy-nilly; I would show you in a moment how to grapple with the question, and you'd really be astonished at the force of my suggestion. On the subject I will write you a most valuable letter full of excellent suggestions when I feel a little better, but at present I'm afraid I am as mad as any hatter, so I'll keep it to myself, for my opinion doesn't matter." | |
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Slak the berserker in Defender's Quest. He gets much more aware of it in the New Game Plus, at one point scolding the party for going on a trip that was his idea in the first place. They really should know better. | |
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The Voices of Nerat from Tyranny is a Mind Hive whose initial and dominant personality was a sadistic, paranoid psychopath, and adding progressively more and more souls didn't help. He's also entirely aware that he is insane, joking about it in rare "friendly" conversations and using it as an intimidation tactic. His deranged jests unbalance his foes and leave them entirely uncertain what new madness the Voices will devise next. | |
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Malice: Jed doesn't have a God complex — he is God! | |
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1000 Ways to Die's segment "Hats-Off folks" discusses the origin of this trope via the life and death of a hatter named Barnaby, who first goes mad and then dies of mercury poisoning. | |
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Who forgot the Mads from Mystery Science Theater 3000? "What do you want from us? We're evil! EVIL!!!" | |
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Gramma Tala in Moana claims to be this, although she doesn't really do anything out of the ordinary. | |
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Keith Moon once referred to himself (accurately) as the "kept lunatic" of The Who. | |
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The Elder Scrolls has Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness. He is completely aware of how utterly mad he is, and loves every minute of it. It's rather challenging to go through the list of Madness Tropes and find something which doesn't in some way apply to him. Following the events of Oblivion's Shivering Isles expansion, the Champion of Cyrodiil takes up the mantle of Sheogorath. | |
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Futurama: Leela in "The Sting": Professor Farnsworth in "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch": |
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Kisume in Touhou Nekokayou, who implies that her entire species must be mad for opting to spend their lives in buckets. | |
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Code Geass: Lelouch is the Mad Hatter in Nunnaly in Wonderland. The first thing he does is laughing mad. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball has Banana Joe's mom Banana Barbara, who suffered a complete mental breakdown from work-related stress that liquified part of her brain. This left her with the ability to divine or warp the future through painting and full of bliss. Joe paraphrases the quote used on this page to describe how she's living with her mental illness. | |
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Batwoman (2019). Alice, the insane leader of the Wonderland gang, and her adopted brother Mouse, leading to the obligatory quote of the Trope Namer from the Lewis Carroll-spouting villains at the end of "Mine Is a Long and Sad Tale". | |
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"Showtime" Eric Young also decided that he was crazy in TNA and decided to embrace it. MVP insists that anyone who says they're crazy ain't that crazy though. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams' Life, the Universe and Everything (the third book in the then-trilogy, but not the last, oddly enough) opens with Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect trapped on prehistoric Earth. Arthur decides to make most of their situation by going mad, but is side-tracked by Ford, who had the same idea first and now wants to tell him at length how much fun he's been having. They then chase a time-travelling sofa, leading to Arthur happily reflecting on just how fast his slip into insanity was. |
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Gogo Dodo from Tiny Toon Adventures. He's so crazy that his insanity is mentioned in the theme song! Meanwhile, when he ends up in Wackyland, he sums it up perfectly: | |
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Occasionally played very darkly in Warhammer 40,000 as a symptom of corruption by Chaos, particularly by Tzeentch. And by the good guys. Inquisitors and other Imperial officials occasionally muse that to the average man, doing things like blowing up your own planet to stop the enemy from claiming it, or abandoning millions to die because they aren't worth the cost of life required to save them, are unfathomably evil acts. Yet those who know the true nature of the threats facing the Imperium realize that such atrocities make a chilly sort of sense. "The very existence of the human race is the prize for victory. Our sanity is the sacrifice we make to win that laurel." |
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Animated has Blitzwing's "Random" personality. Generally much more humorous and silly than Tarantulas (though he's made at least one reference to cannibalism). | |
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High School D×D has Freed Sellzen, who in the dub refers to himself as a "psycho priest free agent," right before he reveals that he willingly became a chimera and ate two devils. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Pinkie Pie occasionally demonstrates awareness of her own... strangeness. In a more villainous example, Discord: self-proclaimed Spirit of Chaos (with enough power to back it up), and completely and utterly mad. Best exemplified in his first lines: |
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Doctor Who: In "The Caves of Androzani", the villain Sharaz Jek goes into a "Do you think I am mad?" rant, before quietly concluding "I am mad." Deadbeat/Kingpin in "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy". The Master would like to give this trope two thumbs up. The Doctor himself gets in on this: "...There's something you'd better understand about me, cause it's important, and one day, your life may depend on it: I am definitely a madman with a box!" That goes double for the Sixth Doctor. |
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Blake's 7. In "City at the Edge of the World", Avon points out that Bayban dare not use a spaceship's laser cannon at point-blank range, as the backblast would kill him and everyone else in the area. | |
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Person of Interest. Root is regarded as somewhat crazy by the rest of Team Machine, given her sociopathic tendencies and fervent Machine Worship. In "YHWH" she steals a police car while the cops have stepped into a donut shop. | |
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Just about everyone in Baccano! qualifies, but the reigning champion would definitely be Claire Stanfield, a.k.a. "the Rail Tracer". He's so crazy that just about everyone in the cast (including himself) has a moment where they question if he's even human. And he couldn't be happier with his mental illness. | |
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Rampage from Beast Wars. The quote speaks for itself: | |
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Ever After High has Madeline "Maddy" Hatter, the daughter of the man himself. She's basically her father, only female. | |
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Colonel Jax in the Revelation Space Series short story "Nightingale" freely admits that he has gone mad after being turned into a living artwork representing the horror of war. The sentient hospital ship responsible for his fate, though, seems blissfully unaware of her insanity. (Some readers might agree that she's the sanest personality in the story...) | |
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League of Legends: Kled appears at least somewhat aware that having badgers inside his brain tell him to kill is not a good sign; he just doesn't care. One of Jinx's lines is "I'm crazy! Got a doctor's note!" She really is not kidding. |
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The Sandman (1989): Delirium of the Endless is completely aware that she's insane. She's also aware that everyone else is insane, and that she's sane, and that she's a fish who swims in an ocean of words. With great concentration, she can force herself to align to more or less the same mental frequency that the rest of the universe runs on, but it's implied that it hurts her. Evidently, she was once Delight, until some great cosmic truth happened to her and drove her to madness. | |
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Tex Avery MGM Cartoons: Screwy Squirrel knows he's nuts, and loves it. (To the point where some find him very disturbing.) | |
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Genius: The Transgression: The good Geniuses are the ones who know they're crazy. The bad Geniuses are the ones who think they're totally sane. As many disadvantages as their madness may carry, it's kind of hard not to enjoy one's madness when one can channel it into physics-defying devices and gadgets, and power them through pure crazy. | |
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Spike for a time on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("I'm crazy. What's his excuse?"). | |
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Quest for Camelot has Ruber well aware of his insanity. This is lampshaded during his song. | |
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The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds: Stephen Leeds knows perfectly well that he's not normal and that the fifty-odd companions he sees and interacts with every day are just hallucinations that do not, technically, exist. However, he repatedly argues that since he's perfectly capable of functioning in spite of his condition, he isn't mentally ill per se. | |
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This exchange from The Goon Show: | |
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Hellsing: Jan Valentine fits the trope, sociopathically so. Despite being the loopy one compared to his brother, Luke, Jan is the superior soldier and sets off the fall of the Hellsing Organization for no real clear motivation except that he thinks it might be fun to do so. Millenium kills him for divulging information, but even so he goes out screaming, laughing, and flipping the bird. Vastly superseded by the Major himself, who delightfully revels in the fact that he and his troops are quite insane and how they wish to spread their madness to every corner of the Earth. He is also eager to tell anyone who will listen about his intense love of war and how he has turned Millenium into an army with no other purpose than to wage constant war until every one of them goes out in a blaze of glory. |
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Deadpool occasionally describes himself as an "addled moron", although it's never clear how much he's pretending to be stark staring mad and how much of it is actually being stark staring mad. Depending on the Writer, of course. Considering a couple of times has him with three different thought bubbles going, each with separate personalities? Not much is pretending during those interpretations. It's really hard to put Deadpool in any one category when it comes to this, what with being Ax-Crazy, borderline Cloudcuckoolander, aware of the fourth wall, extremely genre savvy, and just plain insane 100% of the time. The voices in his head often display awareness of events and information that Deadpool himself could not possibly be aware of, and continually act as "white noise" in his head, making it even harder for him to focus on any one thing. An actual in-universe reasoning for the changes in "how" crazy Deadpool is: since his healing factor is out of control (his body is somewhat accurately described as "walking talking cancer") even his BRAIN is rewiring itself with some regularity. Of course, then there's the fact that he's one of the few that completely ignores the fourth wall; he may have learned about the fact that he's in a comic book and, while he loves it, he may have been affected. | |
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Transformers: Really freakin' creepy example: Tarantulas in Beast Wars. It's unclear how much of his lunacy is genuine, and it's been theorized by at least one fan that this is intentional, and he's actually the most lucid among the Predacons. Either way, the attempts at draining vital fluids of other characters, the gleeful sadism, the maniacal laughter all add up to an over-the-top loon who enjoys being an over the top loon, especially when it creeps people out... In his own words: Animated has Blitzwing's "Random" personality. Generally much more humorous and silly than Tarantulas (though he's made at least one reference to cannibalism). Rampage from Beast Wars. The quote speaks for itself: |
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Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls: Also comes up in an exchange in the finale: |
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Amadeus Arkham pities the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity. | |
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