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* In ''Film/DarkCity'', detective Eddie Walenski is driven mad by the revelation that [[spoiler:the City and everyone's identity is being mercilessly torn apart and remade by aliens, repeatedly.]] He compulsively draws spiral shapes on the walls of his room, refuses to acknowledge his wife's identity, and rounds off the evening by jumping in front of a train.
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* In ''Film/DarkCity'', ''Film/DarkCity1998'', detective Eddie Walenski is driven mad by the revelation that [[spoiler:the City and everyone's identity is being mercilessly torn apart and remade by aliens, repeatedly.]] repeatedly]]. He compulsively draws spiral shapes on the walls of his room, refuses to acknowledge his wife's identity, and rounds off the evening by jumping in front of a train.
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* In ''Film/NextOfKin1982'', Linda is clearly in an emotional state during and after TheReveal that [[spoiler:her EvilAunt Rita]] is responsible for the strange deaths at the retirement home and may have also been responsible for [[CainAndAbel the death of Linda's mother]].
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* In ''Film/NextOfKin1982'', Linda is clearly in an emotional state during and after TheReveal that [[spoiler:her EvilAunt Rita]] is responsible for the strange deaths at the retirement home and may have also been responsible for [[CainAndAbel the death of Linda's her mother]].
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** While it [[WhatCouldHaveBeen wasn't shown]] due to the ContinuityReboot, this was to be the fate of [[Characters/BatmanTheRiddler The Riddler]] as well. After joining the LegionOfDoom he manages to successfully solve the [[FormulaicMagic Anti-Life Equation]]. However, since it serves as [[BrownNote mathematical proof that life is meaningless]], he's DrivenToSuicide soon after.
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* Jack Nicholson's Joker loses his mind the instant he sees his new perma-grin in ''Film/Batman1989'', stumbling into the street giggling insanely.
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* Implied to be the case in ''Film/RoboCop2'', with the two Robocop II prototypes [[note]][[{{Pun}} Robo-''Flops'', if you will]][[/note]] which both [[NightmareFuel graphically]] [[DisastrousDemonstration killed themselves during their demonstrations]]. The given explanation by [[HotScientist Dr. Faxx]] is that Murphy's past psychological profile - Irish-Catholic work ethic, intense devotion to duty and willingness to sacrifice himself for the good of others, lets him face the nature of his existence as a cyborg without putting a bullet through his head.
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* Implied to be the case in ''Film/RoboCop2'', with the two Robocop II prototypes [[note]][[{{Pun}} Robo-''Flops'', if you will]][[/note]] which both [[NightmareFuel graphically]] [[DisastrousDemonstration killed themselves during their demonstrations]]. The given explanation by [[HotScientist Dr. Faxx]] Faxx is that Murphy's past psychological profile - Irish-Catholic work ethic, intense devotion to duty and willingness to sacrifice himself for the good of others, lets him face the nature of his existence as a cyborg without putting a bullet through his head.
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* ''Film/TheMonsterClub'': On the night of the engagement party, Angela is caught robbing the Shadmock's safe and screams that she could never love him. Heartbroken, the Shadmock whistles and destroys Angela's face. Her boyfriend is driven insane and locked away in an asylum upon seeing her.
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* Parodied in ''National Lampoon's Class Reunion'', in which the AxeCrazy Walter got that way when he was set up for a masked tryst by his classmates, only to discover that the girl they'd recruited to hook up with him was [[spoiler: his own twin sister]].
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* Parodied in ''National Lampoon's Class Reunion'', ''Film/NationalLampoonsClassReunion'', in which the AxeCrazy Walter got that way when he was set up for a masked tryst by his classmates, only to discover that the girl they'd recruited to hook up with him was [[spoiler: his own twin sister]].
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* A comical example in the short horror film "O.I." (i.e. Original Idea). Any who hear the idea conceived by the protagonist die after trying to process it, as it cannot be linked to any existing concept: the brain eventually overheats [[YourHeadAsplode with explosive results]]. [[spoiler: The only other character who does ''not'' die in result goes mad from the experience and commits suicide]].
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* A comical example in the short horror film "O.I." ''Film/{{OI}}'' (i.e. Original Idea). Any who hear the idea conceived by the protagonist die after trying to process it, as it cannot be linked to any existing concept: the brain eventually overheats [[YourHeadAsplode with explosive results]]. [[spoiler: The only other character who does ''not'' die in result goes mad from the experience and commits suicide]].
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* By ''Film/TheBabadook'''s own admission, "I'll soon take off my funny disguise; take heed of what you've read. And once you see what's underneath, you're going to wish you were DEAD!"
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* A comical example in the short horror film "O.I." (i.e. Original Idea). Any who hear the idea conceived by the protagonist die after trying to process it, as it cannot be linked to any existing concept: the brain eventually overheats [[YourHeadAsplode with explosive results]]. [[spoiler: The only other character who does ''not'' die in result goes mad from the experience and commits suicide]].
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* ''Film/TheStoneTape''. The scientists question a man who used to play in the castle as a boy. He breaks down and reveals how a friend was accidentally trapped in the haunted room during a game of dare.
-->"He made out it spoke to him...and then [[EldritchAbomination the Others]] came."\\
"Can I meet him?"\\
"What for? He don't remember. They took him up the County, you know. They put him right. They can do that. He don't care a button [[LaughingMad he just la-a-a-ughs all the time]]!"
-->"He made out it spoke to him...and then [[EldritchAbomination the Others]] came."\\
"Can I meet him?"\\
"What for? He don't remember. They took him up the County, you know. They put him right. They can do that. He don't care a button [[LaughingMad he just la-a-a-ughs all the time]]!"
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* In ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', Kurtz refers to it as "a diamond bullet right through [his] forehead", his epiphany that rules and morality had no place in war, and indeed, the fewer the better. Once he realized his special forces were no match for the VC killer instinct, he abandoned his principles and cobbled together his own, unique "unit" out of the worst of the worst.
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* ''Film/TheFieldGuideToEvil'': What happens to Gentry in "The Palace of Horrors". Henry, who was behind Gentry and only saw the king in shadow, goes mad for several months and remains mentally fragile for the rest of his life. Gentry never exits the king's chamber.
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People [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going mad from the revelation]] in movies.
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* The entire point of the movie ''Film/{{Pi}}'' is that this happens when you try to find the ratio that rationalizes pi, predicts the stock market, and is also the true name of God.
* Jack Nicholson's Joker loses his mind the instant he sees his new perma-grin in ''Film/Batman1989'', stumbling into the street giggling insanely.
* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', while Comicbook/LexLuthor was already psychotic, what he learns from the Kryptonian ship sends him completely off the deep end.
-->'''Lex:''' But the bell's already been rung. And [[Comicbook/NewGods they've]] heard it, out there, amongst the stars. Ding dong, [[spoiler: the God is dead]]. The bell cannot be unrung! [[Comicbook/{{Darkseid}} He's]] hungry! He's found us. [[AStormIsComing And he's coming!]] Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding. [[MadnessMantra Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding...]]
* ''Film/BirdBox'': Seeing the creatures causes humans and animals to kill themselves (or in the case of the deranged, force others who haven't looked into doing so).
* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'': Keanu Reeves' Jon Harker seems to have an episode of this when Dracula feeds his brides. He gets better.
* ''Film/{{Contact}}'' has a more benign and temporary version, when Ellie Arroway travels through the wormhole and perceives a celestial event so beautiful and magnificent that she is rendered a babbling, weeping mess.
-->"No words... No words... They should have sent a poet..."
* ''Film/{{Creepshow}}''. After watching two people get eaten by the thing in "The Crate", Dex Stanley raves and giggles when he appears at Henry's house. He gets better.
* ''Film/DarkAngelTheAscent'': One of the two detectives investigating the vigilante killer has the bad luck of finding out Veronica's true nature in a frightful vision the demon girl projects in his mind. He's a shivering wreck for the rest of the film and promptly calls off the investigation. Later the mayor suffers this as well. He then publicly confesses his sins on television, resigns, and says he's going to live out his days in contemplation at a monastery (presumably for repentance so he doesn't endure Hell in the hereafter).
* In ''Film/DarkCity'', detective Eddie Walenski is driven mad by the revelation that [[spoiler:the City and everyone's identity is being mercilessly torn apart and remade by aliens, repeatedly.]] He compulsively draws spiral shapes on the walls of his room, refuses to acknowledge his wife's identity, and rounds off the evening by jumping in front of a train.
* This trope, mixed with HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace, is essentially the plot of ''Film/EventHorizon''. [[spoiler: The test run of the titular ship's hyperdrive sent it beyond the edge of the universe where the crew experienced something that can only be described as Hell. When the rescue crew watches the video logs on the now deserted ship after it returned from the journey they see the former crew engaging in various deranged acts of graphic self-mutilation after the madness of the place took them over.]]
* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', the Crystal Skull itself contains immense psychic power and knowledge, which turns Harold Oxley into a gibbering lunatic and almost Indiana Jones as well. [[spoiler:Though he regains his sanity once the skull is returned to Akator.]]
** [[spoiler:The Aliens at the climax also have incredible knowledge, which reduces the knowledge-hungry Soviet agent, Irina Spalko, to madness and then dust.]]
* During the ending of ''Film/InTheMouthOfMadness'', after witnessing the collapse of human civilization in a rising tide of madness and mutation, John Trent cracks when he discovers that the [[TomeOfEldritchLore nightmarish book that did the deed]] was just a novelisation of everything he did in the last few days. He finds this out by watching the film adaptation.
** Prior to this, Linda Styles discovers that ReadingAheadInTheScript ''is not a good idea'' when the "script" is a horror novel. She completely breaks and becomes one of the villain's crazed minions, because that's the role she's written to have. Then she gets {{RetGone}}d.
* In ''Film/IShotJesseJames'', Robert Ford completely loses it when he learns [[spoiler: that his LoveInterest Cynthy is leaving him for his rival John Kelley]].
* This happens to Makoto Fukami after finding out [[spoiler: his true origins]] in ''[[Series/KamenRiderGhost Kamen Rider Specter Re:birth]]''. Saying that he didn't take it well would be an understatement.
* In ''Film/TheMatrix'', Morpheus suggested that adults freed from the Matrix have an exceptionally hard time adjusting to the real world, which is why they normally don't free people after they reach a certain age. A character remarked "We're gonna kill him. You understand that?" and "He's gonna pop!" on two different occasions regarding Neo reeling from TheReveal.
* When the mummified corpse of Imhotep comes back to life in original ''Film/TheMummy1932'', the archeologist who saw it went insane.
-->"He went for a little walk! You should have seen his face! HAHAHAHA!"
* Parodied in ''National Lampoon's Class Reunion'', in which the AxeCrazy Walter got that way when he was set up for a masked tryst by his classmates, only to discover that the girl they'd recruited to hook up with him was [[spoiler: his own twin sister]].
* In ''Film/Oldboy2003'' Oh Dae-su discovers [[spoiler: the girl he had sex with was his daughter]], madness and [[spoiler: cutting out his tongue]] followed.
* Implied with Father Brennan in ''Film/TheOmen1976''. [[spoiler: It turns out he was a former follower of Satan who freaked after witnessing Damien's birth.]] When Robert Thorn and Keith Jennings go to Brennan's residence, they find the walls plastered with crucifixes, pages of the Bible and other religious artifacts.
* The Fourth Mistress in the movie ''Film/RaiseTheRedLantern'' was pushed over the edge when she saw the dead body [[spoiler:of the Third Mistress after her execution]].
* Implied to be the case in ''Film/RoboCop2'', with the two Robocop II prototypes [[note]][[{{Pun}} Robo-''Flops'', if you will]][[/note]] which both [[NightmareFuel graphically]] [[DisastrousDemonstration killed themselves during their demonstrations]]. The given explanation by [[HotScientist Dr. Faxx]] is that Murphy's past psychological profile - Irish-Catholic work ethic, intense devotion to duty and willingness to sacrifice himself for the good of others, lets him face the nature of his existence as a cyborg without putting a bullet through his head.
* In the SlasherMovie ''Film/TerrorTrain'', poor Kenny finds out his designated "date" for the evening sitting in the bed is actually a corpse set there by his med schooler "friends". It drives him insane, leading him to get institutionalized and returning after couple of years to exact revenge upon everyone involved.
* Loki from ''Film/{{Thor}}'' after discovering [[spoiler: he is a Frost Giant]]. While he was already a bit unstable to start with [[spoiler: having allowed a few Frost Giants into Asgard for "a bit of fun" (and to discredit Thor)]], this was what truly tips him over the edge.
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People [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going mad from the revelation]] in movies.
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* The entire point of the movie ''Film/{{Pi}}'' is that this happens when you try to find the ratio that rationalizes pi, predicts the stock market, and is also the true name of God.
* Jack Nicholson's Joker loses his mind the instant he sees his new perma-grin in ''Film/Batman1989'', stumbling into the street giggling insanely.
* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', while Comicbook/LexLuthor was already psychotic, what he learns from the Kryptonian ship sends him completely off the deep end.
-->'''Lex:''' But the bell's already been rung. And [[Comicbook/NewGods they've]] heard it, out there, amongst the stars. Ding dong, [[spoiler: the God is dead]]. The bell cannot be unrung! [[Comicbook/{{Darkseid}} He's]] hungry! He's found us. [[AStormIsComing And he's coming!]] Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding. [[MadnessMantra Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding...]]
* ''Film/BirdBox'': Seeing the creatures causes humans and animals to kill themselves (or in the case of the deranged, force others who haven't looked into doing so).
* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'': Keanu Reeves' Jon Harker seems to have an episode of this when Dracula feeds his brides. He gets better.
* ''Film/{{Contact}}'' has a more benign and temporary version, when Ellie Arroway travels through the wormhole and perceives a celestial event so beautiful and magnificent that she is rendered a babbling, weeping mess.
-->"No words... No words... They should have sent a poet..."
* ''Film/{{Creepshow}}''. After watching two people get eaten by the thing in "The Crate", Dex Stanley raves and giggles when he appears at Henry's house. He gets better.
* ''Film/DarkAngelTheAscent'': One of the two detectives investigating the vigilante killer has the bad luck of finding out Veronica's true nature in a frightful vision the demon girl projects in his mind. He's a shivering wreck for the rest of the film and promptly calls off the investigation. Later the mayor suffers this as well. He then publicly confesses his sins on television, resigns, and says he's going to live out his days in contemplation at a monastery (presumably for repentance so he doesn't endure Hell in the hereafter).
* In ''Film/DarkCity'', detective Eddie Walenski is driven mad by the revelation that [[spoiler:the City and everyone's identity is being mercilessly torn apart and remade by aliens, repeatedly.]] He compulsively draws spiral shapes on the walls of his room, refuses to acknowledge his wife's identity, and rounds off the evening by jumping in front of a train.
* This trope, mixed with HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace, is essentially the plot of ''Film/EventHorizon''. [[spoiler: The test run of the titular ship's hyperdrive sent it beyond the edge of the universe where the crew experienced something that can only be described as Hell. When the rescue crew watches the video logs on the now deserted ship after it returned from the journey they see the former crew engaging in various deranged acts of graphic self-mutilation after the madness of the place took them over.]]
* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', the Crystal Skull itself contains immense psychic power and knowledge, which turns Harold Oxley into a gibbering lunatic and almost Indiana Jones as well. [[spoiler:Though he regains his sanity once the skull is returned to Akator.]]
** [[spoiler:The Aliens at the climax also have incredible knowledge, which reduces the knowledge-hungry Soviet agent, Irina Spalko, to madness and then dust.]]
* During the ending of ''Film/InTheMouthOfMadness'', after witnessing the collapse of human civilization in a rising tide of madness and mutation, John Trent cracks when he discovers that the [[TomeOfEldritchLore nightmarish book that did the deed]] was just a novelisation of everything he did in the last few days. He finds this out by watching the film adaptation.
** Prior to this, Linda Styles discovers that ReadingAheadInTheScript ''is not a good idea'' when the "script" is a horror novel. She completely breaks and becomes one of the villain's crazed minions, because that's the role she's written to have. Then she gets {{RetGone}}d.
* In ''Film/IShotJesseJames'', Robert Ford completely loses it when he learns [[spoiler: that his LoveInterest Cynthy is leaving him for his rival John Kelley]].
* This happens to Makoto Fukami after finding out [[spoiler: his true origins]] in ''[[Series/KamenRiderGhost Kamen Rider Specter Re:birth]]''. Saying that he didn't take it well would be an understatement.
* In ''Film/TheMatrix'', Morpheus suggested that adults freed from the Matrix have an exceptionally hard time adjusting to the real world, which is why they normally don't free people after they reach a certain age. A character remarked "We're gonna kill him. You understand that?" and "He's gonna pop!" on two different occasions regarding Neo reeling from TheReveal.
* When the mummified corpse of Imhotep comes back to life in original ''Film/TheMummy1932'', the archeologist who saw it went insane.
-->"He went for a little walk! You should have seen his face! HAHAHAHA!"
* Parodied in ''National Lampoon's Class Reunion'', in which the AxeCrazy Walter got that way when he was set up for a masked tryst by his classmates, only to discover that the girl they'd recruited to hook up with him was [[spoiler: his own twin sister]].
* In ''Film/Oldboy2003'' Oh Dae-su discovers [[spoiler: the girl he had sex with was his daughter]], madness and [[spoiler: cutting out his tongue]] followed.
* Implied with Father Brennan in ''Film/TheOmen1976''. [[spoiler: It turns out he was a former follower of Satan who freaked after witnessing Damien's birth.]] When Robert Thorn and Keith Jennings go to Brennan's residence, they find the walls plastered with crucifixes, pages of the Bible and other religious artifacts.
* The Fourth Mistress in the movie ''Film/RaiseTheRedLantern'' was pushed over the edge when she saw the dead body [[spoiler:of the Third Mistress after her execution]].
* Implied to be the case in ''Film/RoboCop2'', with the two Robocop II prototypes [[note]][[{{Pun}} Robo-''Flops'', if you will]][[/note]] which both [[NightmareFuel graphically]] [[DisastrousDemonstration killed themselves during their demonstrations]]. The given explanation by [[HotScientist Dr. Faxx]] is that Murphy's past psychological profile - Irish-Catholic work ethic, intense devotion to duty and willingness to sacrifice himself for the good of others, lets him face the nature of his existence as a cyborg without putting a bullet through his head.
* In the SlasherMovie ''Film/TerrorTrain'', poor Kenny finds out his designated "date" for the evening sitting in the bed is actually a corpse set there by his med schooler "friends". It drives him insane, leading him to get institutionalized and returning after couple of years to exact revenge upon everyone involved.
* Loki from ''Film/{{Thor}}'' after discovering [[spoiler: he is a Frost Giant]]. While he was already a bit unstable to start with [[spoiler: having allowed a few Frost Giants into Asgard for "a bit of fun" (and to discredit Thor)]], this was what truly tips him over the edge.
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