Line #23 PlayingWith/SanitySlippage


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character's sanity begins to slip.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob starts losing his sanity over a lengthy period of time.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Bob becomes an OmnicidalManiac within a day.
4	* '''Downplayed''':
5	** Bob starts hearing voices in his head after a matter of months.
6	** Bob becomes a bit of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, but otherwise remains mentally sound.
7	* '''Justified''':
8	** Bob got poisoned with a slow-action PsychoSerum.
9	** Alternatively, Bob was already insane, but lost or ran out of his medication.
10	** Bob is going or has gone through a pretty brutal TraumaCongaLine, and loses touch with reality as a way of coping with his misfortune.
11	** Mental illness runs [[ItRunsInTheFamily in Bob's family]]. The symptoms don't start to show until adulthood.
12	** Bob had a PersonalitySwap with somebody who was insane, or borderline insane.
13	** Bob was [[RapeLeadsToInsanity raped]] in [[RapeAsBackstory the past]].
14	** BrainwashedAndCrazy
15	** HeWhoFightsMonsters
16	** Bob is starting to [[ScatterbrainedSenior get up there in age]]
17	* '''Inverted''': Bob starts out a madman and [[SanityStrengthening becomes more sane]] as time goes on.
18	* '''Subverted''':
19	** Bob goes insane, and then becomes sane.
20	** Or, he found his medication or got a refill.
21	** Bob appears to have gone insane, but [[ObfuscatingInsanity it was just an act.]]
22	* '''Double Subverted''':
23	** ...And then he becomes insane again.
24	** BecomingTheMask
25	* '''Parodied''': Bob believes that somehow, somewhere... a duck is watching him.
26	* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob slips into and out of sanity.
27	* '''Averted''':
28	** Bob is completely sane and never becomes crazy.
29	** Bob has always been insane to begin with.
30	* '''Enforced''': "Crazy Bob is just [[EnsembleDarkhorse more popular]] than sane Bob."
31	* '''Lampshaded''': "Is it just me, or is Bob acting stranger then usual?"
32	* '''Invoked''':
33	** Bob's mental illness is genetic and he got it from one of his parents.
34	** Bob was a drug abuser and his lifetime of drug abuse caused brain damage.
35	* '''Exploited''': Bob's hallucinations tell him the future, and he uses this to save lives.
36	* '''Defied''': [[MadnessMantra "I'm not going crazy, I'm not going crazy,]] [[RuleOfThree I'm not going crazy!"]]
37	* '''Discussed''': "Bob seems a little [[NotHimself different]]..."
38	* '''Conversed''': "Why is it always the [[BewareTheNiceOnes nice ones]] who go nuts or are badass?"
39	* '''Implied''':
40	** Bob seems normal, but the show gives off subtle hints he might not be as mentally well as everyone thinks.
41	** Bob was originally [[ObfuscatingInsanity pretending to be crazy]], but "crazy act" slowly [[BecomingTheMask becomes more natural]] and his "real sane self" becomes more [[MaskOfSanity stilted and awkward]].
42	* '''Deconstructed''':
43	** All the people Bob once knew and loved are now scared of him and don't trust him because of his slipping sanity.
44	** Bob is put away in a [[BedlamHouse mental hospital]].
45	* '''Reconstructed''':
46	** Bob's family and friends decide instead of avoiding him they should help him regain his sanity.
47	** Bob is declared not a threat to himself or others.
48	* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob's craziness is nothing more than [[NonSequitur saying stuff]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolanguage}} that doesn't make sense]] and doing silly things.
49	* '''Played For Drama''':
50	** Bob goes nuts, and becomes a SerialKiller and starts killing his loved ones.
51	** Bob slowly starts to go insane and is horrified by the fact that he doesn't even know what is real anymore.
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