History PlayingWith / SanitySlippage

* '''Played For Drama''': Bob goes nuts, and becomes a SerialKiller and starts killing his loved ones.

* '''Inverted''': Bob starts out a madman and [[HeroicWillpower becomes]] [[BoredWithInsanity more]] [[SanityStrengthening normal]] as time goes on.

* '''Downplayed''': Bob starts hearing voices in his head after a matter of months.

** Mental illness runs [[InTheBlood in Bob's family]]. The symptoms don't start to show until adulthood.

* '''Straight''': Bob starts losing his sanity over lengthy period of time.

** Bon was a drug abuser and his lifetime of drug abuse caused brain damage.

* '''Enforced''': "Crazy Bob is just [[EnsembleDarkhorse more popular]] then sane Bob."

* '''Implied''': Bob seems normal, but the show gives off subtle hints he might not be as mentally well as everyone thinks.

** Bob got poisoned with mercury, which can cause insanity.

** Mental illness runs in Bob's family. The symptoms don't start to show until adulthood.
** Bob had a PersonalitySwap with somebody who was insane, or borderline insane.
* '''Inverted''': Bob starts out insane and becomes more normal as time goes on.

** Bob appears to have gone insane, but it was just an [[ObfuscatingInsanity act.]]
* '''Double Subverted''': ...And then he becomes insane again.

* '''Discussed''': "Bob seems a little [[NotHimself different.]]"

** Bob is put away in a mental hospital.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob's craziness is nothing more then saying stuff that doesn't make sense and doing silly things.
* '''Played For Drama''': Bob goes nuts, and becomes a SerialKiller and kills his loved ones.

'''Basic Trope''': A charecter's sanity begins to slip.
* '''Straight''': Bob starts losing his sanity over lenghty period of time.

* '''Parodied''': [[MorallyAmbiguousDucktorate Bob believes that somehow, somewhere... a duck is watching him.]]

* '''Averted''': Bob is completely sane and never becomes crazy.
** Bob is always insane at the first part.

* '''Implied''': Bob seems normal, but the show gives off subtle hints he might mot be as mentally well as everyone thinks.

* '''Implied''': Bob seems normal, but the show gives off subtle hints he might mot be as mentally well as eeruone thinks.

* '''Straight''': Bob starts losing his sanity over time.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob becomes an OmnicidalManiac.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob goes crazy, but it isn't noticeable to anyone around him.

* '''Invoked''': Someone broke a thermometer over Bob's head.

* '''Discussed''': "I swear to God, Bob is losing his sanity!" "No, you think?"

%%* '''Implied''': ???

'''Basic Trope:''' A charecter's sanity begins to slip.

* '''Straight:''' Bob starts losing his sanity over time.
* '''Exaggerated:''' Bob becomes an OmnicidalManiac.
* '''Downplayed:''' Bob goes crazy, but it isn't noticable to anyone around him.
* '''Justified:''' Bob got poisoned with mercury, which can cause insanity.

* '''Inverted:''' Bob starts out insane and becomes more normal as time goes on.
* '''Subverted:''' Bob goes insane, and then becomes sane.

* '''Double Subverted:''' ...And then he becomes insane again.
* '''Parodied:''' [[MorallyAmbiguousDucktorate Bob belives that somehow, somewhere... a duck is watching him.]]
* '''Deconstructed:''' All the people Bob once knew and loved are now scared of him and don't trust him because of his slipping sanity.

* '''Reconstructed:''' Bob's family and friends decide instead of avoiding him they should help him regain his sanity.

* '''Zig Zagged:''' Bob slips into and out of sanity.
* '''Averted:''' Bob is compeletly sane and never becomes crazy.
* '''Enforced:''' "Crazy Bob is just [[EnsembleDarkhorse more popular]] then sane Bob."
* '''Lampshaded:''' "Is it just me, or is Bob acting stranger then usual?"
* '''Invoked:''' Someone broke a thermometer over Bob's head.
* '''Exploited:''' Bob's hallucinations tell him the future, and he uses this to save lives.
* '''Defied:''' [[MadnessMantra "I'm not going crazy, I'm not going crazy,]] [[RuleOfThree I'm not going crazy!"]]
* '''Discussed:''' "I swear to God, Bob is losing his sanity!" "No, you think?"
* '''Conversed:''' "Why is it always the [[BewareTheNiceOnes nice ones]] who go nuts or are badass?"
* '''Played For Laughs:''' Bob's craziness is nothing more then saying stuff that doesn't make sense and doing silly things.
* '''Played For Drama:''' Bob goes nuts, and becomes a SerialKiller and kills his loved ones.

* '''Exaggerated:''' Bob becomes an [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal maniac]].

* '''Exploited:''' ???

* '''Played For Drama:''' Bob goes nuts, and becomes a [[SerialKiller serial killer]] and kills his loved ones.

Basic Trope: A charecter's sanity begins to slip.

* Straight: Bob starts losing his sanity over time.
* Exaggerated: Bob becomes an [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal maniac]].
* Downplayed: Bob goes crazy, but it isn't noticable to anyone around him.
* Justified: Bob got poisoned with mercury, which can cause insanity.

* Inverted: Bob starts out insane and becomes more normal as time goes on.
* Subverted: Bob goes insane, and then becomes sane.

* Double Subverted: ...And then he becomes insane again.
* Parodied: [[MorallyAmbiguousDucktorate Bob belives that somehow, somewhere... a duck is watching him.]]
* Deconstructed: All the people Bob once knew and loved are now scared of him and don't trust him because of his slipping sanity.

* Reconstructed: Bob's family and friends decide instead of avoiding him they should help him regain his sanity.

* Zig Zagged: Bob slips into and out of sanity.
* Averted: Bob is compeletly sane and never becomes crazy.
* Enforced: "Crazy Bob is just [[EnsembleDarkhorse more popular]] then sane Bob."
* Lampshaded: "Is it just me, or is Bob acting stranger then usual?"
* Invoked: Someone broke a thermometer over Bob's head.
* Exploited: ???
* Defied: [[MadnessMantra "I'm not going crazy, I'm not going crazy,]] [[RuleOfThree I'm not going crazy!"]]
* Discussed: "I swear to god Bob is losing his sanity!" "No you think?"
* Conversed: "Why is it always the [[BewareTheNiceOnes nice ones]] who go nuts or are badass?"
* Played For Laughs: Bob's craziness is nothing more then saying stuff that doesn't make sense and doing silly things.
* Played For Drama: Bob goes nuts, and becomes a [[SerialKiller serial killer]] and kills his loved ones.

** That's often the case in [[RealLife real life.]]
* Justified: Bob got hit with mercury, which can cause insanity.
** Alliteratively, Bob was already insane, but lost or ran out of his medication.

** Or he ran out of his medication again

* Enforced: "Crazy Bob is just [[EnsamblemDarkhorse more popular]] then sane Bob."