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People [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going mad from the revelation]] in fanfiction.
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* Considering which settings ''FanFic/AeonNatumEngel'' uses, it's quite common. There is also a RunningGag with the readers going mad when they are figuring the JigsawPuzzlePlot.
* This is described as having happened to the entire [[spoiler:arakkoa race]] in ''FanFic/TravelsThroughAzerothAndOutland''.
%%* ''Fanfic/PastSins'': Poor, poor Nyx...
* In [[FanFic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed Equestria: A History Revealed]], it is hinted that the science-loving King Sombra goes through this after a [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow discovery pertaining to dark magic.]]
* In the setting of the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' fanfic ''Fanfic/IngloriousBoshtets'', this is what happened to many people who viewed the porno magazine ''Fornax'''s "Forbidden Issue," which featured Tali's idiot crewman Prazza performing a sanity-blastingly obscene sex act that thankfully [[YouDoNotWantToKnow remained]] [[NoodleIncident undescribed]].
* Twilight Sparkle of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' gets in on the act in ''FanFic/TheMonsterMash''. [[spoiler:They really need to erect a warning sign on that fourth wall.]]
* ''FanFic/TheInfiniteLoops'': Most loopers tend not to react well when they find out they're in an infinite time loop, but some tend to...[[FreakOut break]] harder than usual. There are two specific ways this can go:
** Sakura Syndrome, named after Sakura Haruno from ''Naruto''. This occurs when a Looper's moral and ethical standards deteriorate thanks to the loop's ability to reset. They develop sociopathic tendencies, committing increasingly disturbing acts against non-loopers while excusing their actions because non-loopers "won't remember afterwards" and other similar excuses. Sakura was the first and by far worst-known case of this, and while she's mostly recovered thanks to channeling most of her impulses through her new occupation as a MadScientist, she has a tendency to relapse and has a [[TheDreaded well-known]] reputation throughout the looping community.
** Setsuna Syndrome, named after Setsuna Meioh from ''Sailor Moon''. A looper suffering from this believes that baseline (canon) events are sacred and the key to "ending" the loops, and [[{{Railroading}} seek to maintain the baseline timeline at all costs]]. Unfortunately, this is not only pointless as the problem causing the loops is on a plane of existence above all loopers, but also ''impossible'' as baseline loops are not the only type of loops that a looper goes through, just the most common. There are {{crossover}} loops, AlternateUniverse loops, etc. that all loopers will have one point or another, where maintaining a baseline timeline is an nonviable feat. The only way to set a looper suffering from this straight is to give them the introductory lecture (aka the "Welcome to the Multiverse" speech) multiple times and forcing them to accept that the problem is beyond their capability to solve.
* [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos In the Slender Man fic]] ''Fanfic/ByTheFiresLight'', Jared Holloway spends the most time getting [[MindRape Mind Raped]] by the Slender Man. He briefly dances on the edge of going mad but decides to [[DrivenToSuicide take his own life instead in the end.]]
* In ''FanFic/DividedRainbow'', Celestia authorizes Discord to cast what amounts to a grand {{Masquerade}}-by-way-of-brainwashing on practically the entire world, to prevent this from happening to the [[SwappedRoles Swapped Element Bearers.]] There are still several close shaves.
* The typical fate of those who hear the voice of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]] in ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos''. Not only does it drive several individual characters like numerous Marmolins or [[spoiler: Venus the Seedrian and Trinity]] to gibbering madness, it's mind-blasting enough to cause entire space fleets to go insane and destroy themselves.
* The Franchise/{{Transformers}} fic FanFic/{{Eugenesis}} implies this is caused Wheelie's unique speech-patterns, just by looking at Quintessonian religious texts. Ratchet dismissed this as pure coincidence, but given [[TheReveal what we learn at the end of the fic]], perhaps not.
** It's later implied to be the reason for the Liege Maximo's StartOfDarkness as well.
* ''Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls''. Those that survived their encounter with the first Abyssal ship eventually slipped into madness. Thanks to ''New Jersey'' however, this was soon prevented from happening again.
* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'': Unsurprisingly, since this is a Franchise/CthulhuMythos/Evangelion crossover, it happens a lot. Most of people who tried to pilot an [[HumongousMecha Evangelion]] went mad, mutated or died because they had to synch with the mind of an EldritchAbomination. Most of people who saw "[[BrownNote The King Of Yellow]]" being performed went crazy and died when Hastur was summoned. And the list goes on...
* ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': When people saw [[spoiler:Reigle]] -- a ten-kilometer-tall, smiling EldritchAbomination who looked like a human corpse that had been left in a hot swamp for a month -- for first time, they went instantly and permanently insane.
-->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.
* There's a Transformers fanfic out there that has the Seacons slowing losing their minds as they investigate the ancient wreck of a crashed spaceship, finding dead Quintessons that are described accurately, but with the kind of disgust usually reserved for shoggoths, and the ultimate revelation that Unicron exists and being a mind-breaker for even the normally cold and under-control Snaptrap.
* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''/''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' crossover fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Kage}}'' has an example of this in the backstory. Long ago, a disciple of Kandrakar known forever afterwards as Althair the Mad Sage, read the scrolls containing the final [[TheProphecy prophecy]] of the first Oracle, N'ghala. Whatever he read horrified him so much that he burned those scrolls -- and half of Kandrakar's library, in order to destroy any information on [[CastingAShadow shadow magic]] -- before leading his followers on a [[ThePurge Great Purge]] across the universe, slaughtering thousands in order to try and prevent the coming of the [[TheAntichrist "Incoming Darkness"]].
** One of the present sages believes that Althair went insane because he couldn't accept that anyone could topple Kandrakar.
* The ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic ''FanFic/TheEyes'' revolves around Harry having grown up in the Miscatonic Asylum, and having long since been driven insane by what he has glimpsed of the true nature of reality. Once he's brought to Hogwarts, [[spoiler: Dumbledore is driven mad as well after getting a glimpse of Harry's experiences and ends up comitting suicide]]. It's also revealed that both Ollivander and Professor Trelawney have also experienced the same thing long before, but in Ollivander's case, he's become so jaded to the point that he can function as a normal person, and Trelawney's powers of prophecy comes from her reading the ''Necronomicon'' as a child. [[spoiler: Snape is driven unhinged by the events of the story, but Obliviates himself, allowing him to live out the remainder of his life in relative peace]]
* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'',
** Discord gets mad with a psychiatrist and exposes him directly to [[EldritchAbomination Entropy's realm]]. The results are not pretty.
** Viewing Havoc and Entropy in their true forms tends to drive mortals insane unless they're dead. Given they're the embodiment of Fear and the End of the Universe, that's understandable.
** Celestia refuses to explain the details of the Shadows Who Make, Watch, and Rule, the beings beyond the Elders, as their true nature would drive a pony insane. [[spoiler:[[HumansAreCthulhu They're the writers, viewers, and Hasbro]].]]
** [[spoiler:Discord reveals to Diamond Tiara that her mother tried to kill her when she went insane (something Diamond quite understandably repressed) and that it was ultimately her stealing her mother's tiara caused it. This revelation drives Diamond insane and turns her into a [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare.]]]]
* [[DefiedTrope Defied]] by Ash in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines''. One of the reasons he never asked Delia any questions about his DisappearedDad was because he feared the answers could amount to things he was better off ''not'' knowing.
* In ''Fanfic/RobbReturns'', finding out that the Old Gods not only exist but are powerful enough to [[spoiler:curse him with blindness]] is enough to make [[spoiler:Blackfoot]] crack.
* In ''Fanfic/TheRivalPrefectsTrilogy'', [[spoiler:Thomas is concerned this might happen to him if he ever becomes human again because he has been a statue for so long.]]

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People [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going mad from the revelation]] in fanfiction.
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* Considering which settings ''FanFic/AeonNatumEngel'' uses, it's quite common. There is also a RunningGag with the readers going mad when they are figuring the JigsawPuzzlePlot.
* This is described as having happened to the entire [[spoiler:arakkoa race]] in ''FanFic/TravelsThroughAzerothAndOutland''.
%%* ''Fanfic/PastSins'': Poor, poor Nyx...
* In [[FanFic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed Equestria: A History Revealed]], it is hinted that the science-loving King Sombra goes through this after a [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow discovery pertaining to dark magic.]]
* In the setting of the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' fanfic ''Fanfic/IngloriousBoshtets'', this is what happened to many people who viewed the porno magazine ''Fornax'''s "Forbidden Issue," which featured Tali's idiot crewman Prazza performing a sanity-blastingly obscene sex act that thankfully [[YouDoNotWantToKnow remained]] [[NoodleIncident undescribed]].
* Twilight Sparkle of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' gets in on the act in ''FanFic/TheMonsterMash''. [[spoiler:They really need to erect a warning sign on that fourth wall.]]
* ''FanFic/TheInfiniteLoops'': Most loopers tend not to react well when they find out they're in an infinite time loop, but some tend to...[[FreakOut break]] harder than usual. There are two specific ways this can go:
** Sakura Syndrome, named after Sakura Haruno from ''Naruto''. This occurs when a Looper's moral and ethical standards deteriorate thanks to the loop's ability to reset. They develop sociopathic tendencies, committing increasingly disturbing acts against non-loopers while excusing their actions because non-loopers "won't remember afterwards" and other similar excuses. Sakura was the first and by far worst-known case of this, and while she's mostly recovered thanks to channeling most of her impulses through her new occupation as a MadScientist, she has a tendency to relapse and has a [[TheDreaded well-known]] reputation throughout the looping community.
** Setsuna Syndrome, named after Setsuna Meioh from ''Sailor Moon''. A looper suffering from this believes that baseline (canon) events are sacred and the key to "ending" the loops, and [[{{Railroading}} seek to maintain the baseline timeline at all costs]]. Unfortunately, this is not only pointless as the problem causing the loops is on a plane of existence above all loopers, but also ''impossible'' as baseline loops are not the only type of loops that a looper goes through, just the most common. There are {{crossover}} loops, AlternateUniverse loops, etc. that all loopers will have one point or another, where maintaining a baseline timeline is an nonviable feat. The only way to set a looper suffering from this straight is to give them the introductory lecture (aka the "Welcome to the Multiverse" speech) multiple times and forcing them to accept that the problem is beyond their capability to solve.
* [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos In the Slender Man fic]] ''Fanfic/ByTheFiresLight'', Jared Holloway spends the most time getting [[MindRape Mind Raped]] by the Slender Man. He briefly dances on the edge of going mad but decides to [[DrivenToSuicide take his own life instead in the end.]]
* In ''FanFic/DividedRainbow'', Celestia authorizes Discord to cast what amounts to a grand {{Masquerade}}-by-way-of-brainwashing on practically the entire world, to prevent this from happening to the [[SwappedRoles Swapped Element Bearers.]] There are still several close shaves.
* The typical fate of those who hear the voice of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]] in ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos''. Not only does it drive several individual characters like numerous Marmolins or [[spoiler: Venus the Seedrian and Trinity]] to gibbering madness, it's mind-blasting enough to cause entire space fleets to go insane and destroy themselves.
* The Franchise/{{Transformers}} fic FanFic/{{Eugenesis}} implies this is caused Wheelie's unique speech-patterns, just by looking at Quintessonian religious texts. Ratchet dismissed this as pure coincidence, but given [[TheReveal what we learn at the end of the fic]], perhaps not.
** It's later implied to be the reason for the Liege Maximo's StartOfDarkness as well.
* ''Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls''. Those that survived their encounter with the first Abyssal ship eventually slipped into madness. Thanks to ''New Jersey'' however, this was soon prevented from happening again.
* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'': Unsurprisingly, since this is a Franchise/CthulhuMythos/Evangelion crossover, it happens a lot. Most of people who tried to pilot an [[HumongousMecha Evangelion]] went mad, mutated or died because they had to synch with the mind of an EldritchAbomination. Most of people who saw "[[BrownNote The King Of Yellow]]" being performed went crazy and died when Hastur was summoned. And the list goes on...
* ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': When people saw [[spoiler:Reigle]] -- a ten-kilometer-tall, smiling EldritchAbomination who looked like a human corpse that had been left in a hot swamp for a month -- for first time, they went instantly and permanently insane.
-->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.
* There's a Transformers fanfic out there that has the Seacons slowing losing their minds as they investigate the ancient wreck of a crashed spaceship, finding dead Quintessons that are described accurately, but with the kind of disgust usually reserved for shoggoths, and the ultimate revelation that Unicron exists and being a mind-breaker for even the normally cold and under-control Snaptrap.
* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''/''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' crossover fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Kage}}'' has an example of this in the backstory. Long ago, a disciple of Kandrakar known forever afterwards as Althair the Mad Sage, read the scrolls containing the final [[TheProphecy prophecy]] of the first Oracle, N'ghala. Whatever he read horrified him so much that he burned those scrolls -- and half of Kandrakar's library, in order to destroy any information on [[CastingAShadow shadow magic]] -- before leading his followers on a [[ThePurge Great Purge]] across the universe, slaughtering thousands in order to try and prevent the coming of the [[TheAntichrist "Incoming Darkness"]].
** One of the present sages believes that Althair went insane because he couldn't accept that anyone could topple Kandrakar.
* The ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic ''FanFic/TheEyes'' revolves around Harry having grown up in the Miscatonic Asylum, and having long since been driven insane by what he has glimpsed of the true nature of reality. Once he's brought to Hogwarts, [[spoiler: Dumbledore is driven mad as well after getting a glimpse of Harry's experiences and ends up comitting suicide]]. It's also revealed that both Ollivander and Professor Trelawney have also experienced the same thing long before, but in Ollivander's case, he's become so jaded to the point that he can function as a normal person, and Trelawney's powers of prophecy comes from her reading the ''Necronomicon'' as a child. [[spoiler: Snape is driven unhinged by the events of the story, but Obliviates himself, allowing him to live out the remainder of his life in relative peace]]
* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'',
** Discord gets mad with a psychiatrist and exposes him directly to [[EldritchAbomination Entropy's realm]]. The results are not pretty.
** Viewing Havoc and Entropy in their true forms tends to drive mortals insane unless they're dead. Given they're the embodiment of Fear and the End of the Universe, that's understandable.
** Celestia refuses to explain the details of the Shadows Who Make, Watch, and Rule, the beings beyond the Elders, as their true nature would drive a pony insane. [[spoiler:[[HumansAreCthulhu They're the writers, viewers, and Hasbro]].]]
** [[spoiler:Discord reveals to Diamond Tiara that her mother tried to kill her when she went insane (something Diamond quite understandably repressed) and that it was ultimately her stealing her mother's tiara caused it. This revelation drives Diamond insane and turns her into a [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare.]]]]
* [[DefiedTrope Defied]] by Ash in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines''. One of the reasons he never asked Delia any questions about his DisappearedDad was because he feared the answers could amount to things he was better off ''not'' knowing.
* In ''Fanfic/RobbReturns'', finding out that the Old Gods not only exist but are powerful enough to [[spoiler:curse him with blindness]] is enough to make [[spoiler:Blackfoot]] crack.
* In ''Fanfic/TheRivalPrefectsTrilogy'', [[spoiler:Thomas is concerned this might happen to him if he ever becomes human again because he has been a statue for so long.]]

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People [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going mad from the revelation]] in fanfiction.
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* Considering which settings ''FanFic/AeonNatumEngel'' uses, it's quite common. There is also a RunningGag with the readers going mad when they are figuring the JigsawPuzzlePlot.
* This is described as having happened to the entire [[spoiler:arakkoa race]] in ''FanFic/TravelsThroughAzerothAndOutland''.
%%* ''Fanfic/PastSins'': Poor, poor Nyx...
* In [[FanFic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed Equestria: A History Revealed]], it is hinted that the science-loving King Sombra goes through this after a [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow discovery pertaining to dark magic.]]
* In the setting of the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' fanfic ''Fanfic/IngloriousBoshtets'', this is what happened to many people who viewed the porno magazine ''Fornax'''s "Forbidden Issue," which featured Tali's idiot crewman Prazza performing a sanity-blastingly obscene sex act that thankfully [[YouDoNotWantToKnow remained]] [[NoodleIncident undescribed]].
* Twilight Sparkle of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' gets in on the act in ''FanFic/TheMonsterMash''. [[spoiler:They really need to erect a warning sign on that fourth wall.]]
* ''FanFic/TheInfiniteLoops'': Most loopers tend not to react well when they find out they're in an infinite time loop, but some tend to...[[FreakOut break]] harder than usual. There are two specific ways this can go:
** Sakura Syndrome, named after Sakura Haruno from ''Naruto''. This occurs when a Looper's moral and ethical standards deteriorate thanks to the loop's ability to reset. They develop sociopathic tendencies, committing increasingly disturbing acts against non-loopers while excusing their actions because non-loopers "won't remember afterwards" and other similar excuses. Sakura was the first and by far worst-known case of this, and while she's mostly recovered thanks to channeling most of her impulses through her new occupation as a MadScientist, she has a tendency to relapse and has a [[TheDreaded well-known]] reputation throughout the looping community.
** Setsuna Syndrome, named after Setsuna Meioh from ''Sailor Moon''. A looper suffering from this believes that baseline (canon) events are sacred and the key to "ending" the loops, and [[{{Railroading}} seek to maintain the baseline timeline at all costs]]. Unfortunately, this is not only pointless as the problem causing the loops is on a plane of existence above all loopers, but also ''impossible'' as baseline loops are not the only type of loops that a looper goes through, just the most common. There are {{crossover}} loops, AlternateUniverse loops, etc. that all loopers will have one point or another, where maintaining a baseline timeline is an nonviable feat. The only way to set a looper suffering from this straight is to give them the introductory lecture (aka the "Welcome to the Multiverse" speech) multiple times and forcing them to accept that the problem is beyond their capability to solve.
* [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos In the Slender Man fic]] ''Fanfic/ByTheFiresLight'', Jared Holloway spends the most time getting [[MindRape Mind Raped]] by the Slender Man. He briefly dances on the edge of going mad but decides to [[DrivenToSuicide take his own life instead in the end.]]
* In ''FanFic/DividedRainbow'', Celestia authorizes Discord to cast what amounts to a grand {{Masquerade}}-by-way-of-brainwashing on practically the entire world, to prevent this from happening to the [[SwappedRoles Swapped Element Bearers.]] There are still several close shaves.
* The typical fate of those who hear the voice of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]] in ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos''. Not only does it drive several individual characters like numerous Marmolins or [[spoiler: Venus the Seedrian and Trinity]] to gibbering madness, it's mind-blasting enough to cause entire space fleets to go insane and destroy themselves.
* The Franchise/{{Transformers}} fic FanFic/{{Eugenesis}} implies this is caused Wheelie's unique speech-patterns, just by looking at Quintessonian religious texts. Ratchet dismissed this as pure coincidence, but given [[TheReveal what we learn at the end of the fic]], perhaps not.
** It's later implied to be the reason for the Liege Maximo's StartOfDarkness as well.
* ''Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls''. Those that survived their encounter with the first Abyssal ship eventually slipped into madness. Thanks to ''New Jersey'' however, this was soon prevented from happening again.
* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'': Unsurprisingly, since this is a Franchise/CthulhuMythos/Evangelion crossover, it happens a lot. Most of people who tried to pilot an [[HumongousMecha Evangelion]] went mad, mutated or died because they had to synch with the mind of an EldritchAbomination. Most of people who saw "[[BrownNote The King Of Yellow]]" being performed went crazy and died when Hastur was summoned. And the list goes on...
* ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': When people saw [[spoiler:Reigle]] -- a ten-kilometer-tall, smiling EldritchAbomination who looked like a human corpse that had been left in a hot swamp for a month -- for first time, they went instantly and permanently insane.
-->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.
* There's a Transformers fanfic out there that has the Seacons slowing losing their minds as they investigate the ancient wreck of a crashed spaceship, finding dead Quintessons that are described accurately, but with the kind of disgust usually reserved for shoggoths, and the ultimate revelation that Unicron exists and being a mind-breaker for even the normally cold and under-control Snaptrap.
* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''/''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' crossover fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Kage}}'' has an example of this in the backstory. Long ago, a disciple of Kandrakar known forever afterwards as Althair the Mad Sage, read the scrolls containing the final [[TheProphecy prophecy]] of the first Oracle, N'ghala. Whatever he read horrified him so much that he burned those scrolls -- and half of Kandrakar's library, in order to destroy any information on [[CastingAShadow shadow magic]] -- before leading his followers on a [[ThePurge Great Purge]] across the universe, slaughtering thousands in order to try and prevent the coming of the [[TheAntichrist "Incoming Darkness"]].
** One of the present sages believes that Althair went insane because he couldn't accept that anyone could topple Kandrakar.
* The ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic ''FanFic/TheEyes'' revolves around Harry having grown up in the Miscatonic Asylum, and having long since been driven insane by what he has glimpsed of the true nature of reality. Once he's brought to Hogwarts, [[spoiler: Dumbledore is driven mad as well after getting a glimpse of Harry's experiences and ends up comitting suicide]]. It's also revealed that both Ollivander and Professor Trelawney have also experienced the same thing long before, but in Ollivander's case, he's become so jaded to the point that he can function as a normal person, and Trelawney's powers of prophecy comes from her reading the ''Necronomicon'' as a child. [[spoiler: Snape is driven unhinged by the events of the story, but Obliviates himself, allowing him to live out the remainder of his life in relative peace]]
* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'',
** Discord gets mad with a psychiatrist and exposes him directly to [[EldritchAbomination Entropy's realm]]. The results are not pretty.
** Viewing Havoc and Entropy in their true forms tends to drive mortals insane unless they're dead. Given they're the embodiment of Fear and the End of the Universe, that's understandable.
** Celestia refuses to explain the details of the Shadows Who Make, Watch, and Rule, the beings beyond the Elders, as their true nature would drive a pony insane. [[spoiler:[[HumansAreCthulhu They're the writers, viewers, and Hasbro]].]]
** [[spoiler:Discord reveals to Diamond Tiara that her mother tried to kill her when she went insane (something Diamond quite understandably repressed) and that it was ultimately her stealing her mother's tiara caused it. This revelation drives Diamond insane and turns her into a [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare.]]]]
* [[DefiedTrope Defied]] by Ash in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines''. One of the reasons he never asked Delia any questions about his DisappearedDad was because he feared the answers could amount to things he was better off ''not'' knowing.
* In ''Fanfic/RobbReturns'', finding out that the Old Gods not only exist but are powerful enough to [[spoiler:curse him with blindness]] is enough to make [[spoiler:Blackfoot]] crack.
* In ''Fanfic/TheRivalPrefectsTrilogy'', [[spoiler:Thomas is concerned this might happen to him if he ever becomes human again because he has been a statue for so long.]]

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