Basic Trope: Mental illnesses and disorders are Played for Laughs.
- Straight: Alice is clearly mentally ill in some way, and the symptoms of her disorder make her the comic relief in the story.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice has a whole bunch of mental illnesses and disorders, and all of them are played for comedy.
- Alice is depressed and borderline suicidal, which is somehow played for laughs anyway.
- Downplayed: Alice's mental illness(es) aren't necessarily played for laughs all the time, but characters do have the tendency to find things she does funny on occasion.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted:
- Mental illnesses and disorders are Played for Drama, horror, and/or Serious Business.
- Not being mentally ill is seen as funny.
- Subverted: There are plenty of jokes about Alice being mentally ill, but Cerebus Retcon kicks in and the jokes don't become so funny anymore.
- Double Subverted: Though, there is one anecdote that remains hilarious.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Mental illnesses and disorders are played fairly seriously.
- Enforced:
- Can fall under Values Dissonance, mainly if the work was made at a time when this was a more acceptable way to portray mental illnesses.
- To add Black Comedy.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice decides that it's not funny that she is treated as a joke for having a mental illness, and goes to Rage Against the Author.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
I'M CRAZY HAHA!! Um, I mean... back to Funny Schizophrenia.
