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5->''"Robo. I think I'm insane now."''
6-->-- '''Creator/CarlSagan''''s reaction to an EldritchAbomination, ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo''
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8->''"Not knowing everything is all that makes it okay sometimes."''
9-->-- '''Delirium''', ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989''
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11->''"[[OurAngelsAreDifferent Malak]], however, had driven much of his support team to [[EvilStoleMyFaith atheism]], [[DespairEventHorizon despair]] and [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]]. Not only was he clearly not connected to anything like God, but reportedly the [[HumanoidAbomination fucking thing]] would not stop [[BrownNote talking]]."''
12-->-- '''Reddin''', ''ComicBook/{{Supergod}}''
13
14->''There came an understanding so large, it left no room for sanity.''
15-->-- ''[[ShowWithinAShow Tales Of The Black Freighter]]'', ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''
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21->Standing up, [She] began to expand at a phenomenal rate, the same grotesque metamorphosis that had occurred before repeating itself on a scale a thousand times grander. Those that saw this happen invariably ran screaming when they did not collapse into quivering, vomiting piles of mental trauma. Those that had the misfortune for [her] ghostly flesh to pass through them were left gibbering wrecks, their sanity violently and permanently ripped from them by the horrific experience.
22-->-- ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji''
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26[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
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28->''GOOOOOOOOOOOONE! It's all gone. All of it's gone! Bye-bye, woo hoo, see ya! [...] DON'T YOU GET IT?!? YOU SEE THE HAT?!? I AM [[PunctuatedForEmphasis MRS! NESBIT!]] [[LaughingMad BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...!]]''
29-->-- '''Buzz Lightyear''' after learning he is really a toy, ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1''
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35->'''Quill:''' Don't you think that we should all have a weapon like that?\
36'''Thor:''' No mortal form could handle the strain of this weapon; your bodies would collapse on themselves as your minds would be slowly lost to madness.\
37'''Rocket:''' [[WorthIt Is it weird that I wanna try it even more now?]]\
38'''Thor:''' Mmm, a little bit, yeah.
39-->-- ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''
40
41->''"You think you've seen everything? There's a whole world you've never dreamed of. Thomas saw it, and it destroyed him."''
42-->--'''Father Kovak''', ''Film/EndOfDays''
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44->'''Engywook:''' Next is the Magic Mirror Gate. [[TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf Atreyu has to face his true self.]]\
45'''Falkor:''' So what? That won't be too hard for him.\
46'''Engywook:''' Oh, that's what everyone thinks! But kind people find out that they are cruel. Brave men discover that they are really cowards! Confronted by their true selves, most men run away screaming!
47-->-- ''Film/TheNeverEndingStory''
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51[[folder:Literature]]
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53->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.
54-->-- ''Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu''
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56->"Fernand...of my hundred names I need only tell you one to overwhelm you. But you guess it now, do you not? Or rather you remember it. For none withstanding all my sorrows and my tortures, I show you a face which the [[BestServedCold happiness of revenge makes young again.]] A face you must often have seen in your dreams since your marriage with Mercedes— my betrothed."\
57The general, with his head thrown back, hands extended, gazed fixed, looked silently at this apparition. Then seeking the wall to support him, he glided along close to it until he reached the door, through which he glided out backwards, uttering this single, mournful, lamentable, distressing cry.\
58"[[WhamLine EDM]][[LateToTheRealization OND]] [[OhCrap DANTES!]]"\
59Then with sighs that were unlike any human sound, he dragged himself to the door, reeled into the courtyard, and falling into the arms of his valet, said in a voice scarcely intelligible, "Home, home!"\
60[...] The general drew himself up, clinging to the door. He uttered the most dreadful sob which ever escaped from the bosom of a father, abandoned the same time by his wife and son. He soon heard the iron clad of the step of the hackney coach. And then the coachman's voice, and then the heavy rolling shook the windows. He darted to the bedroom to see all that he had loved in the world, but the hackney coach drove on without either the head of Mercedes or her son appearing at the window to take a last look at the house or the deserted father or husband. But at the very moment when the wheels of that coach passed the gateway, a report was heard, and [[DrivenToSuicide a thick smoke escaped from one the panes of the window, which was broken by the explosion]].''
61-->-- '''Fernand''' getting this twice in one chapter in ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''
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63->'''Benjamin:''' That's the thing about learning [[AwfulTruth the Truth]], you see. It changes you, but there's no way of predicting how. I was one of the ones who [[DissonantSerenity made peace with themselves]]. Some people [[DespairEventHorizon just stop caring altogether]], become totally indifferent. And some people...\
64'''Jim:''' Some people what?\
65'''Benjamin:''' Some people [[AxCrazy go completely off their bonce]]. You remember Groyn? [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Short chap, beard]], [[BreadEggsMilkSquick sawed off your foot]]?\
66'''Jim:''' Yeah?\
67'''Benjamin:''' Learnt the Truth the same time I did. Went on a voyage to blotto junction, I'm afraid. I don't think he's stopped [[WouldHurtAChild biting the heads off children]] for a moment since then.
68-->-- ''Literature/{{Mogworld}}''
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70->As there is one Face above all worlds which merely to see is irrevocable joy, so at the bottom of all worlds that face is waiting whose sight alone is the misery from which none who beholds it can recover.
71-->-- ''[[Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy Perelandra]]''
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73->It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
74-->-- ''{{Literature/VALIS}}'' (whose [[Creator/PhilipKDick author]] [[SelfFulfillingProphecy did just that]])
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80->''Poor [[ThirdPersonPerson Redvers]]... he was so frightened, his hair went completely white... he went quite mad, you know...''
81-->-- '''Redvers Fenn-Cooper,''' ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E2GhostLight Ghost Light]]"
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83->'''The Doctor:''' As a novice, [the Master] was taken for initiation. He stood in front of [[NegativeSpaceWedgie the Untempered Schism]], that's a gap in the fabric of reality. Through which could be seen the whole of the Vortex. You stand there... Eight years old... Staring at the raw ''power'' of time and space -- just a child. Some would be inspired. Some would run away. And some would go mad. ''(exhales)'' I dunno.\
84'''Martha:''' What about you?\
85'''The Doctor:''' ''(matter-of-factly)'' Oh, the ones that ran away! I never ''stopped!''
86-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Sound of Drums"
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88->''Please, Nabu, don't whisper too loudly. Don't show me what can be or not be. Fate is a fickle thing.''
89-->-- '''[[ComicBook/DoctorFate Kent Nelson]]''', ''{{Series/Smallville}}''
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91->''When our people found a way to slip through the warp and prove another universe, an identical one, existed, it was too much for him. He could not live knowing that I lived. He became obsessed with the idea of destroying me. The fact that it meant his own destruction, and everything else, meant nothing to him.''
92-->-- '''Anti-Matter!Lazarus''' describing his evil Matter counterpart, ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E27TheAlternativeFactor}} The Alternative Factor]]"
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98->''He holds out his hands and he touches the chest\
99He breaks its seals, he disturbs its rest\
100Curious and slow he opens the lid\
101He stares over the edge, what he sees he can't grip\
102No diamonds but he sees his own face\
103A possessed wreck with an empty gaze\
104Thrilled by madness he's dying in pain\
105No dream, he's insane!''
106-->-- '''Music/RunningWild''', "Diamonds of the Black Chest"
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108->''All my life I've searched for the reasons for us being here,\
109The universe and all that it contains\
110I've tried to find the secrets of the brain\
111Twenty years I've labored trying to find who my creator was\
112And now at last the pieces fall in place\
113It's funny and it shows upon my face!\
114\
115And now the music goes round my head\
116And I can't hear a thing you said\
117And my laughing goes through my brain\
118It's so comical I'm insane!
119-->-- '''Music/TheEasybeats''', "Music Goes Round My Head" (covered by Music/TheSaints for the ''Film/YoungEinstein'' soundtrack)
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125->''I am confident that if anyone actually penetrates our facades, even the most perceptive would still be fundamentally unprepared for the truth of House Dimir.''
126-->-- '''Szadek''' of the House Dimir, ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''
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128->''h.'' Unknown artificial artefact. Unlabelled. Structure is analogous to human hand. Compositional tests confirm metal alloy exterior comprises unknown materials f\
129The Metal Lives.\
130The Metal Lives. ''The Metal Lives. The Metal Lives.''\
131''THE METAL LIVES.''\
132''THE METAL LIVES.''\
133''THE METAL LIVES.''
134-->-- '''Magos Biologis Sharle Darvus''', artefact study notes, ''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Xenology]]''
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136->Thought For The Day: Be strong in your ignorance. Knowledge brings only suffering.
137-->-- ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
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139->In any event, the Weaver became excited by her new understanding, and began to weave more and more, furiously trying to overtake the Wyld so that [[ThePerfectionist its creation could be complete]]. The Wyrm was hard pressed to tear down what she had overbuilt. The Weaver became more and more upset that she could not complete [[MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality her Web]] without the Wyld changing it or the Wyrm destroying portions of it.\
140Then the Weaver looked upon her web with her new eyes of awareness... and saw nothing. The marvelous, intricate patterns were meaningless. All she had been working towards, all she was... was nothing. Her newly conscious mind could not stand the enormity of her own useless work: she went [[MadGod mad]]. On she spun, in ever-widening patterns, disconnected from the rest of the Triat, heedless of any intervention.
141-->-- ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse - Book Of The Wyrm'' (1st Ed)
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143->Some seek the Void. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor He found it]]. What he discovered, either through his arcane Arts or during a journey to the Upper Reaches - drove him utterly insane. Was he a sailor upon uncanny seas? Or a tower-bound astrologer who saw far too clearly through his telescopes? Perhaps he encountered the demon hordes through their bestial servitors... or maybe he's met them face-to-face on a [[CoolAirship Skyrigger]]'s decks. Either way, he has returned forever changed. He may act composed, but his soul is on fire for his [[EldritchAbomination demented, cthonic masters]].\
144Regardless of his trade, this wight is a rot-worm in the Daedalean foundations. He claims to serve reason, but [[TheMadHatter prefers its opposite instead]]. Like a tempter, he conceals his true allegiance behind a cloak of clever lies. Hidden in the halls of science, he drives wedges into the minds of other [[ScienceHero Daedaleans]]. At night, he leads mad ceremonies on barren hilltops, or screams himself hoarse in fits of secret ecstasy. \
145Once, he called out for true Enlightenment. The answer he received raped his soul.
146-->-- Background notes for the '''Star-Ravaged Madman''' ''[[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade - Infernalism]]''
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152->''Finally, resigned to his uncommon corporeal resilience I lured him to the dig. There, I showed him the THING and detailed the full extent of my plans. Triumphantly I watched as he [[EyeScream tore his eyes from their sockets]] and ran shrieking into the shadows, wailing maniacally that the end was upon us all.''
153-->-- '''The Ancestor,''' ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon''
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155->''Now, [[PlayerCharacter you]] will begin [[EldritchAbomination to see things]] as they truly are...''
156-->-- '''The Ancestor''', ''Videogame/DarkestDungeon''
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158-> ''"Out of my way, I'm going to see my mother."''
159-->-- '''Sephiroth''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''
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161->''"Which will make you die or go insane!"''
162-->-- One of '''H. P. Lovecraft''''s ending phrases, ''VideoGame/OhSirTheInsultSimulator''
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164->'''Mary Stuart:''' It's a very small, very high-risk field, being a great occult mind.\
165'''Catherine Stuart:''' Yes, they usually end up losing them to [[EldritchAbomination elder gods]] with [[TheUnpronouncable names like a mouthful of cornflakes]].
166-->-- ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''
167
168->'''The Truth Burns'''\
169One engineer [[LaughingMad begins to laugh]], seemingly unable to stop. Another [[BrokenTears weeps.]] The tears scorch his face like kettle-water. A third frantically tries to write down [[BrownNote what you said]], but gives up when her third pen [[AwesomenessIsVolatile combusts in lavender flame]]. "This changes everything," a grease-stained engineer whispers. Later, his colleagues catch him out back, burning his collected volumes of the ''Transactions of the South Wales Institute of Engineers.''
170-->-- ''VideoGame/SunlessSea''
171
172->'''Geralt''': You're clearly not human. What are you? A demon? A djinn?\
173'''[[{{Satan}} O'Dimm]]''': Do you truly wish to know?\
174'''Geralt''': Yes.\
175'''O'Dimm''': No, Geralt, you don't. This one time I will spare you and not grant your wish. [...] All who have learned [[IKnowYourTrueName my true name]] are dead, mad, or both. [[PragmaticVillainy But I still need you.]]
176-->-- ''Videogame/TheWitcher3WildHunt, Hearts of Stone''
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178->''Sauranok, Sauranok. His own visions worked against him. Twilight's Hammer probably corrupted him from afar.''
179-->-- '''Garrosh Hellsceam''', ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''
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185->The abyss would be so hard to bear it would shatter their mortal minds. Ludwig's downright divine pressure made the half of the world focused around Europe turn to abject panic. Numerous people committed suicide or went insane. Those engulfed by the surge of darkness saw nightmares that would plague them and their children for years to come. It spawned art that was said to cause madness upon merely seeing, hearing, or reading it, while many of the fetuses still cradled within the wombs were turned into albinos - children of Noah.\
186It was a moment when everyone was shaken by the darkness of Methuselah.
187-->-- ''VisualNovel/DiesIraeInterviewWithKazikluBey''
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193->'''Wiz:''' At first glance, this town appeared calm and peaceful, not worth a second look.\
194'''Boomstick:''' Until [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Sephiroth}} a sword-wielding goth guy]] found his alien mother hidden inside. [[GallowsHumor He celebrated with fireworks.]]
195-->-- '''WebAnimation/DeathBattle''', describing the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Nibelheim Incident]]
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201->'''Murai:''' Just accept that they made a goddess, out of fear and disillusionment. [[GodOfEvil A very bad goddess]].
202->'''Digger:''' And you met her.
203->'''Murai:''' [[BreakTheCutie And I met her]].
204->'''Digger:''' And now you're crazy.
205->'''Murai:''' ''*burying head in arms*'' [[BrokenBird And now I'm crazy]].
206-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}''
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208-> ''You haven't seen it! It's not your fault, really. I don't think ANYONE else has seen it. And when I did, wow! It REALLY did a number on me. I think I had a name, once. But I didn't have any room left for it. When I touched [[EldritchAbomination her]] [[AndIMustScream mind]]... everything else just got so small.''
209-->-- '''The Collector''', ''Webcomic/Aurora2019''
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214->''Upon breaking out of his cryotube, an ecstatic Dr. Fuji tells Mewtwo that he is the end result of a scientific experiment to create an artificially enhanced cloned copy of Mew. Upon hearing this, Mewtwo takes the news rather well. (''cuts to Mewtwo laying waste to the scientists and laboratory'')''
215-->-- '''American Anime Otaku''' in his review of ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie''
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217->''That's right, I found a good ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' game! Better late than never! It's no ''masterpiece'' or anything like that, but it woulda definitely been worth a rental at the very least. Who made this game? (''looks on the box, sees the [[Creator/LJNToys LJN]] [[ArchEnemy logo]], and drops the box in shock'') Oh my God... ''Oh my God''... They did it... They pulled through! Oh my God! They made a game... that's ''not'' a steaming pile of fuckin' shit! OH MY GOD! THEY DID IIIIIT! THEY MADE A GAME! THAT'S NOT SHIT! (''starts crying'') I found the gold... at the end of the rainbow. Well, maybe it's not gold, maybe it's bronze or somethin', but... THEY MADE A GAME! THAT'S NOT SHIT! ''[[SkywardScream IT'S NOOOOT SHIIIIIT!!]]''''
218-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''' on ''VideoGame/SpiderManAndVenomMaximumCarnage''
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220->''So after a filler episode where [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo they]] get baked into a giant pizza[[{{Beat}} .........]] Excuse me for a moment.'' (''walks away'') '''''[[TheScream AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!]]'''''
221-->-- '''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]''', ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers''
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223->'''Future!Website/SFDebris:''' I [- HAVE BEHELD THE BEGINNING AND THE END, THE SORROW AND THE TRIUMPH.-]\
224'''Linkara:''' [[FlatWhat What.]]\
225'''Future!Creator/ObscurusLupa:''' Uh, hey again. Yeah, it's him.\
226'''Future!Website/SFDebris:''' T[-HE LIGHT OF THE STARS NO LONGER REACHES US IN THE DEPTHS WE HAVE DESCENDED.-]\
227'''Linkara:''' What's ''wrong'' with him?\
228'''Future!Creator/ObscurusLupa:''' Oh, well, after all the other video platforms either died or [[TakeThat made it nearly impossible to upload content]], he figured the easiest way to make his content available was to [[DigitizedHacker digitize himself and live on the internet]].\
229'''Future!Website/SFDebris:''' I [-HAVE BORNE WITNESS TO UNTOLD MAJESTIES... AND DEPRAVITY THAT WOULD DIM THE BRIGHTEST SOUL. I KNOW NOW WHAT SHAMES MANKIND... AND WHAT MAKES THEIR HEARTS ROT.-]\
230'''Future!Creator/ObscurusLupa:''' (''sighs'') God, [[OhNoNotAgain he always gets like this]] after he goes through Website/DeviantArt...
231-->-- ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall: [[ComicBook/New52 Futures End]]''
232
233->See, Lovecraft's stories haven't remained popular so long just because his monsters are scary. They endure because his monsters are metaphors for existential alienation. It's not the appearance of the monsters in his stories, it's the reality of them, the fact that they exist. Their existence alone proves that humanity is doomed and that all our hopes and dreams are stupid. Running into one of Lovecraft's Elder Gods is like finding a strange pair of underwear in your bed and realizing that your spouse is cheating on you. It's not the underwear itself that's stabbing you in the heart; it's the betrayal it represents. Lovecraft's monsters are proof to the protagonist that the universe is not benevolent. Finding strange underwear might mean that your spouse never loved you; stumbling upon a Lovecraft creature means that God never loved you.
234-->-- '''C. Coville''', ''Website/{{Cracked}}'', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-types-movie-adaptations-that-must-be-stopped_p2/ "5 Types of Movie Adaptations That Must Be Stopped"]]
235
236->[[[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Paradox]]] then creates holes in the cosmos that hateful things of anti-existence crawl through. These hateful things then go rampant while the [[{{Muggles}} Sleepers]] are [[HeroicBSOD shutting down their mental processes]] because otherwise they have to deal with the idea that something just crawled through a ''hole in the cosmos.''
237-->-- An RPG.net member discussing the dangers of [[WildMagic miscast spells]]
238
239-> People, especially games, get eldritch madness wrong a lot and it's really such a shame. An ant doesn't start babbling when they see a circuit board. They might find it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness.
240-> Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does.
241-> It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this moment, and then...
242-> It's an ant again.
243-> Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It cannot make use of this knwoeledge, but it still remembers. How is it supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw, the harder it is for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world matters.
244-> This is madness.
245--> {{Website/Tumblr}} post by [[https://bramblesand.tumblr.com/post/641160359189839872/people-especially-games-get-eldritch-madness bramblesand]]
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248[[folder:Western Animation]]
249-> ''Oh no... T-This can't be... It says that I'm 102% African, with a 2% margin of error! Why lord? WHY LORD WHY?!''
250--> '''[[BoomerangBigot Uncle Ruckus]]''' seeing his DNA test results, ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks''
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