History Main / GoMadFromTheRevelation

* In the episode of the PowerpuffGirls which deals with Mojo Jojo's origin, he is shocked to discover that prior to gain his intelligence, he caused Professor Utoninum to hit the container of Chemical X that powered into his 'Perfect Little Girl Formula' resulting in the birth of the Powerpuff Girls. He is so shocked that he [[VillainousBreakdown continuously mumbles]] "It was me?"

* While not exactly "mad", Scientologists contend that anyone who reads the Xenu story without proper preperation (re: $200,000 in "donations") will become physically and mentally weakened. This may have something to do with a kind of "shock treatment" backfire similar to the VR in ''TwentiethCenturyBoys''.

* William Gibson's short story ''Hinterland'' has a parade of lone astronauts drifting at a particular point in space, setting off radio flares, and they are either taken by [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien some force]], or more often, ''not'' taken. Those who are taken come back with scary new science and technology, but are all batshit crazy and [[spoiler: eventually kill themselves without revealing much of what they saw]]. Those who are ''not'' taken are [[spoiler: so profoundly crushed at being rejected by [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Space God]] that they all ''attempt'' suicide]], and are then employed as counselors for those the batshit crazy returnees.

* William Gibson's short story ''Hinterland'' has a parade of lone astronauts drifting at a particular point in space, setting off radio flares, and they are either taken by [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien some force]], or more often, ''not'' taken. Those who are taken come back with scary new science and technology, but are all batshit crazy and [[spoiler: eventually kill themselves without revealing much of what they saw]]. Those who are ''not'' taken are [[spoiler: so profoundly crushed at being rejected by [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Space God]] that they all ''attempt'' suicide]], and are then employed as counselors for those the batshit crazy returnees.

** In a scene similar to the Tom and Jerry incident, one of the last moments in the Jingle All the Way review has NC explaining that the movie simply doesn't care anymore after Arnold gets a jetpack and starts doing silly CGI stunts. He then says, "You know what they say... if you can't beat 'em... join them." Then comes the insanity, the flashing '''"WE DON'T CARE!"''', and Playmate, Come out and Play With Me playing in the background.

->''The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either [[TropeNamer go mad from the revelation]] or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
-->--'''HPLovecraft''', ''The Call of Cthulhu''.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Just the perfect end to his one bad day.]]

* [[spoiler:Akito's reaction after Kureno's curse is broken]] from ''FruitsBasket''.

* Nina's spectacular FreakOut in ''CodeGeass'' occurs when [[spoiler:she learns that Princess Euphemia was killed by Zero]]. She goes so far off the deep end that she only returns (more or less) to sanity one year later, when [[spoiler: she witnesses first-hand the horrible consequences of the bomb she built]].

* ''BlackLagoon'': Hansel and Gretel's absolutely horrific childhood in which they were forced to rape and kill other children and were possibly raped and beat up themselves causes them both to go completely and irreversibly AxCrazy.

* ''SakuraGari'': [[spoiler: Happens to Sakurako, upon witnessing her mother's death.]]

** In the episode ''The Age of Steel'', the Cybermen are defeated by [[spoiler: the Doctor stopping their emotional inhibitors from working. This causes them to remember who they really are, and what they have become, and they subsequently go insane as the shock kills them.]]

* The ''{{Batman and Robin}}'' episode of [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses the Nostalgia Critic]] has him going {{Ax Crazy}} after he watches a scene where Batman pulls out a "bat-credit card", and another person had to come in and restrain him for several hours. He manages to compose himself twice, but is [[BerserkButton immediately set off again when he mentions the card]].

** Linkara, the Critic's comic-reading counterpart, has a couple moments like these. The first was when he read fanmail to ''Doom's IV'' that said that RobLiefeld was a genius. The second one was when he discovers that ''Amazons Attack'' was technically a tie-in to ''Countdown''.

* ''PerfectBlue'': In the anime's denouement, Rumi is permanently delusional and institutionalized.
* ''{{Bokurano}}'': In the novel, when Komo realizes she has been suppressing a childhood memory in which her father molested her while drunk, she goes crazy enough to destroy half the city out of rage right before she dies.

-->--'''Henry Anthony Wilcox''', [[HPLovecraft The Call of Cthulhu]].

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** An alternate interpretation is that the mechanism in the Temple of Five that showed her the images also fried her brain, hence her gibbering and the[[PsychicNosebleed nose bleeding]]. That said, she ''was'' quite overwhelmed because to her, it was tantamount to meeting God.

** An alternate interpretation is that the mechanism in the Temple of Five that showed her the images also fired her brain. That said, she ''was'' quite overwhelmed because to her, it was tantamount to meeting God.

** An alternate interpretation was that whatever the mechanism in the Temple of Five that showed her the images also fired her brain. That said, she ''was'' quite overwhelmed because to her, it was tantamount to meeting God.