Madness Tropes: · Black-and-White Insanity: Believing that there is only "good" or "bad" with no tolerance for nuance. · Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: Unable ...

A character will be seen holding back their insanity and generally keeping it in check, until that final straw breaks the camel's back and they finally snap. SanitySlippage / Fan Works · Madness Mantra · Song · PlayingWith

The evidence indicates a connection between morals and one's ability to remain "sane". Normally, using the power makes you crazy the longer you use it, because ...

Not to be confused with Insanity Defense. Compare Obfuscating Stupidity, where people pretend to be dumb instead of crazy. Has overlap with Verbal Deflection.

When a character is already so crazy that none of the traditional Go Mad from the Revelation-type phenomena or Brown Note will affect them in the slightest; ...

When all of humanity is composed of Heroic Madmen, that's Humanity Is Insane. If the crazy person was right about something, that's The Cuckoolander Was Right.

A sister trope to Go Mad from the Revelation, Driven to Madness represents a deliberate attack upon a character's sanity and mental stability.

Any tropes involving madness or insanity. Except those dealing with Hollywood Psych. These can run the gamut from the weird but generally happy chaos.

In a fight, they have terrifying Confusion Fu. Many slasher-film villains are insane; most characters perceived as psychotic are also violent and unpredictable.

There are many causes for insanity. Too many, honestly. However, insanity does have its limits; specifically, if you go past 32,767 you roll over the ...