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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