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* ''Blog/InvisibleGames'' has this happen at least twice. In ''Killswitch'' a man acquires what may be the last surviving copy of the titular video game and promises to upload online videos of his playthrough. The only video he ever posts [[spoiler: is of him staring at the camera and crying while the game runs on a screen in the background.]] Later, in ''The Pentintytär Arcade,'' after discovering the scene of a woman's suicide a young boy begins to play the set of unique video games she had constructed. [[spoiler: The story that spans across the games haunts him for the rest of his life and drives him to relentlessly collect the games years after the set has been broken up and acquired by different collectors. He is last seen sitting naked among the game cabinets, crying and clutching a gun.]]
* In the ''WebVideo/NatOneProductions'' universe of ''The Last Stage'', the characters have all become noticeably crazier over time. With the most obvious example of Agent PARKER, it seems most field agents are doomed to this fate. Assuming, of course, that they don't end up stomped to death by an EldritchAbomination.
* Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses:
** ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'':
*** The ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' episode of has the Critic going AxCrazy after he watches a scene where Batman pulls out a "bat-credit card", and another person had to come in and restrain him for several hours. He manages to compose himself twice, but is [[BerserkButton immediately set off again when he mentions the card]].
*** The ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' [[TheMovie movie]] review has him reiterating to the viewers the basics of a particular scene: "A cat and mouse are driving a ship trying to save the daughter of Indiana Jones while being chased by a purple people eater, a dog on a skateboard, a performing ship captain, his hand puppet Squawk, two Mexican wrestlers, and a doctor riding an ice cream cart. Ladies and gentlemen, '''WELCOME TO THE MIND FUCK.'''" Cue footage of the chase scene interspersed with clips of the Nostalgia Critic going bananas while Flagpole Sitta plays in the background and a big red "MIND FUCK!" flashes on the screen.
*** In the ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' movie reviews, he tried to stay positive on the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 first]] and [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze second]] movies, but still gives out negative responses. He tried to hope that [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII the third movie]], which even WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd declares to be awful (he considered the first and second decent), will turn out good... then "5 minutes later"... we see him cuddling around in the bathroom, bawling incoherently, followed with much more FreakOut and inventing the word ''horrifuckus'', after the revelation that the movie was really really... ''bad''.
*** In a scene similar to the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' incident, one of the last moments in the ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' review has NC explaining that the movie simply doesn't care anymore after Arnold gets a jetpack and starts doing silly CGI stunts. He then says, "You know what they say... if you can't beat 'em... join them." Then comes the insanity, the flashing '''"WE DON'T CARE!"''', and "Playmate, Come Out and Play with Me" playing in the background.
** ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'':
*** Linkara, the Critic's comic-reading counterpart, has a couple moments like these, which he once referred to as "Combine Harvester" moments, after the music that plays in the background. The first was when he read fanmail to ''Doom's IV'' that said that Creator/RobLiefeld was a genius. The second one was when he discovers that ''Amazons Attack'' was technically a tie-in to ''Countdown''.
---->'''Linkara:''' (''[[DrivenToSuicide sawing at his wrists with his]] CoolGun'') Why doesn't it work?!
*** Linkara also had this in ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'', in the ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' episode when he saw the Rangers get baked into a giant pizza. He excuses himself, walks away, and then [[TheScream screams on top of his lungs]] before resuming the video.
*** In the ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'' episode of ''[=HoPR=]'', Linkara, in the third case of him actually appearing on camera in ''[=HoPR=]'' (after [[WhamEpisode his shocked reaction to]] [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Kendrix's death]] and [[{{Headdesk}} banging his head against a wall after]] [[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive Dax lets Miratrix steal a scroll]], then reusing that last clip to express his disdain for Alpha 6 not being voiced by Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz, Creator/WendeeLee, or Caterina Lucciani) is his reaction to [[spoiler: Robo Knight's UnexplainedRecovery]], going LaughingMad, grabbing a gun, getting up from his chair, firing said gun until he empties the clip, and his laughing turns to outright screaming.
** ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'':
*** While hers are much milder than her [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]]'s, she has had a few of her own; most recently in ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'' where she, her friend Nella and co-reviewer [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]] have a "going mad montage" involving screaming, sausage and mayonnaise.
*** In the LostEpisode of ''Film/{{Dune}}'', when a navigator does its thing and she cries about just wanting to understand this ridiculously confusing movie.
** ''WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh'':
*** When Creator/AllisonPregler can't work out the deeper meaning of MC Kung Fu's lyrics in ''Film/CityDragon'', she employs [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle]] to work it out for her. After watching the film, Kyle starts spouting lines from the film out of context, gradually descending into madness.
---->'''Kyle:''' I can't speak the English language anymore! God help me!
*** Kyle himself has had a few incidents of this in his own show. In particular, there was the "if you can't beat 'em..." segment at the end of the ''[[MindScrew What is it?]]'' review, and the PsychicNosebleed and subsequent UnstoppableRage he had after keeping his cool through most of ''[[{{Gorn}} A Serbian Film]]''.
*** "Creator/SeanConnery [[Film/{{Zardoz}} is]] [[Film/TheWizardOfOz DOROTHY]]"!!!
* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged: Episode of Bardock'', though it took him a while, Bardock learned that Freeza's giant death ball attack blasted him into the past. He goes so mad from the [[ExactWords stupid, asinine, shark-jumping bullshit,]] [[spoiler:he turns Super Saiyan]].
* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'':
** The Nerd himself gets one after hearing Zelda's BondOneLiner in The Wand of Gamelon.
** In another Creator/JamesRolfe[=-=]related video series called ''Shit Pickle'', the monkey father from ''Munky Cheez 2'' (yet another video series) goes mad after his kids keep saying "monkey cheese" over and over while watching the original, and those two words are all that the monkey dad can say from then on. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RWdyjSutKQ here]].
** During part 2 of Christmas 2013 episode, he finds a good Spiderman game. Then checks who made the game. [[spoiler:It's [[BigBad LJN]]]], which makes Nerd go crazy.
** When reviewing ''VideoGame/{{Seaman}}'', the Nerd puts in another game called ''Explosive Fighter Patton'' for the Famicom that gives him a message that has "fuck" in it. The Nerd promptly loses his mind knowing that there's a game, released ''earlier'' than ''VideoGame/HongKong97'' (which had the famous "herd of fuckin' ugly reds" PrecisionFStrike), '''''on a Nintendo console''''', that uses the word "fuck".
* ''WebVideo/FilthyFrank'': A gem from the aptly named Lemon Guy: "Uh... I'm A LEMON!"
* Once of the consequences of reading a good book discussed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnbYcB9ctu8 here]]. If knowing the unknowable is crazy I don't want to be sane.
* In ''WebOriginal/{{Shell}}'', this is what happens to people when they look at the EldritchAbomination.
* [[EldritchAbomination Tren Krom]] probing one's mind may cause this in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', because the target gets to see [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow his mind as well]].
** Makuta Teridax wrote something called ThePlan. Zaktan tried to read it, but it broke his mind completely. [[MindScrew And Zaktan going insane from reading part of it might have been part of The Plan.]]
* Visions of The Presence from Music/NineInchNails' "Year Zero" [[AlternateRealityGame ARG]] can cause anything from euphoria to madness.
* Happens from time to time in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' because it is so near LovecraftCountry. When a demon manifests a small part of itself in downtown Los Angeles, Phase is the only witness (for more than a second or so) who doesn't go insane, and he requires psychic intervention and psychiatric therapy to cope with it afterwards. The demon eats or kills the other witnesses.
* When the IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight fails to work on [[spoiler: The Nostalgia Chick]] in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', [[spoiler:WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows resorts to this trope, showing her his face. WordOfGod is that his face reflects one's soul, and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick did not like what she saw. This is also why WebVideo/ObscurusLupa was just dandy after looking at it.]]
* The Wiki/SCPFoundation secures any number of artifacts that could easily qualify, ranging from memetic cognitohazards that will infest your mind just from ''knowing about them'', locations with psychic and/or dimensional instabilities that can induce madness, outright {{Eldritch Abomination}}s able to MindRape you simply from exposure, to '''[DATA EXPUNGED]'''. And those are just a handful of categories of items the Foundation has allowed to be catalogued without absolute redaction of all knowledge on the subject.
* WebVideo/JonTron:
** This gem from his review of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII "Final Hallway XIII"]]: "I ''thought'' I was playing the game Jon... [[OhCrap But I've been using the wrong controller this whole time...]] The game's playing itself Jon! The game's playing itself Jon!!! THE GAME'S JUST PLAYING ITSELF JON!!!"
** He also didn't take the reveal of Conker being a useable asset in VideoGame/ProjectSpark very well if "CONKER IS TOTALLY BACK GUYS" is anything to go by...
** And then there's his meltdown in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie: Nuts & Bolts''
--->''Cars? Cars...? '''CAAAAAAARRRRRRSSSS!!!!''''' (drops into a song) '''[[Music/WhitneyHouston AND IIIIIIIII]]'''-(HOLY SHIT!)-'''[[Music/WhitneyHouston WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU!]]''' (I can't believe you did this to me, goddammit! How could you do this to me!?!?)
* Creator/JoshScorcher, a TopTenList maker and a reviewer of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', upon witnessing Alicorn Twilight, went utterly apeshit in the same vein of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic over ''TMNT 3'' with the music [[VideoGame/RabbidsGoHome "Bãtutã Din Moldova"]] playing on the background... but then parodied it as he suddenly calms down, thinks a bit and says, "I'm OK with this."
* In one episode of ''Podcat/TheLostCat'', the narrator learns of a sickly man who had his head transplanted to a new body. He believes he has become a monster and goes on a murderous rampage
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMjeSdsHPrY this sketch]] from ''The B.S. of A. with Brian Sack'', three teenage girls watching the MTV Video Music Awards have this reaction upon seeing Music/{{NSYNC}} take the stage to perform a reunion show. When one of them looks up *NSYNC to find out who they are, she sees that the middle-aged men they were making fun of used to be cute young guys, which means that their favorite BoyBand Music/OneDirection is doomed to also grow old, which causes them to start quoting ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'' as they realize that everything eventually dies and turns to dust. Then Dad comes in, tells them that he had the same reaction when Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock grew older, and [[INeedAFreakingDrink offers them wine to cope]] now that they've become adults.
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* ''Blog/InvisibleGames'' has this happen at least twice. In ''Killswitch'' a man acquires what may be the last surviving copy of the titular video game and promises to upload online videos of his playthrough. The only video he ever posts [[spoiler: is of him staring at the camera and crying while the game runs on a screen in the background.]] Later, in ''The Pentintytär Arcade,'' after discovering the scene of a woman's suicide a young boy begins to play the set of unique video games she had constructed. [[spoiler: The story that spans across the games haunts him for the rest of his life and drives him to relentlessly collect the games years after the set has been broken up and acquired by different collectors. He is last seen sitting naked among the game cabinets, crying and clutching a gun.]]
* In the ''WebVideo/NatOneProductions'' universe of ''The Last Stage'', the characters have all become noticeably crazier over time. With the most obvious example of Agent PARKER, it seems most field agents are doomed to this fate. Assuming, of course, that they don't end up stomped to death by an EldritchAbomination.
* Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses:
** ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'':
*** The ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' episode of has the Critic going AxCrazy after he watches a scene where Batman pulls out a "bat-credit card", and another person had to come in and restrain him for several hours. He manages to compose himself twice, but is [[BerserkButton immediately set off again when he mentions the card]].
*** The ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' [[TheMovie movie]] review has him reiterating to the viewers the basics of a particular scene: "A cat and mouse are driving a ship trying to save the daughter of Indiana Jones while being chased by a purple people eater, a dog on a skateboard, a performing ship captain, his hand puppet Squawk, two Mexican wrestlers, and a doctor riding an ice cream cart. Ladies and gentlemen, '''WELCOME TO THE MIND FUCK.'''" Cue footage of the chase scene interspersed with clips of the Nostalgia Critic going bananas while Flagpole Sitta plays in the background and a big red "MIND FUCK!" flashes on the screen.
*** In the ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' movie reviews, he tried to stay positive on the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 first]] and [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze second]] movies, but still gives out negative responses. He tried to hope that [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII the third movie]], which even WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd declares to be awful (he considered the first and second decent), will turn out good... then "5 minutes later"... we see him cuddling around in the bathroom, bawling incoherently, followed with much more FreakOut and inventing the word ''horrifuckus'', after the revelation that the movie was really really... ''bad''.
*** In a scene similar to the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' incident, one of the last moments in the ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' review has NC explaining that the movie simply doesn't care anymore after Arnold gets a jetpack and starts doing silly CGI stunts. He then says, "You know what they say... if you can't beat 'em... join them." Then comes the insanity, the flashing '''"WE DON'T CARE!"''', and "Playmate, Come Out and Play with Me" playing in the background.
** ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'':
*** Linkara, the Critic's comic-reading counterpart, has a couple moments like these, which he once referred to as "Combine Harvester" moments, after the music that plays in the background. The first was when he read fanmail to ''Doom's IV'' that said that Creator/RobLiefeld was a genius. The second one was when he discovers that ''Amazons Attack'' was technically a tie-in to ''Countdown''.
---->'''Linkara:''' (''[[DrivenToSuicide sawing at his wrists with his]] CoolGun'') Why doesn't it work?!
*** Linkara also had this in ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'', in the ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' episode when he saw the Rangers get baked into a giant pizza. He excuses himself, walks away, and then [[TheScream screams on top of his lungs]] before resuming the video.
*** In the ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'' episode of ''[=HoPR=]'', Linkara, in the third case of him actually appearing on camera in ''[=HoPR=]'' (after [[WhamEpisode his shocked reaction to]] [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Kendrix's death]] and [[{{Headdesk}} banging his head against a wall after]] [[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive Dax lets Miratrix steal a scroll]], then reusing that last clip to express his disdain for Alpha 6 not being voiced by Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz, Creator/WendeeLee, or Caterina Lucciani) is his reaction to [[spoiler: Robo Knight's UnexplainedRecovery]], going LaughingMad, grabbing a gun, getting up from his chair, firing said gun until he empties the clip, and his laughing turns to outright screaming.
** ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'':
*** While hers are much milder than her [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]]'s, she has had a few of her own; most recently in ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'' where she, her friend Nella and co-reviewer [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]] have a "going mad montage" involving screaming, sausage and mayonnaise.
*** In the LostEpisode of ''Film/{{Dune}}'', when a navigator does its thing and she cries about just wanting to understand this ridiculously confusing movie.
** ''WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh'':
*** When Creator/AllisonPregler can't work out the deeper meaning of MC Kung Fu's lyrics in ''Film/CityDragon'', she employs [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle]] to work it out for her. After watching the film, Kyle starts spouting lines from the film out of context, gradually descending into madness.
---->'''Kyle:''' I can't speak the English language anymore! God help me!
*** Kyle himself has had a few incidents of this in his own show. In particular, there was the "if you can't beat 'em..." segment at the end of the ''[[MindScrew What is it?]]'' review, and the PsychicNosebleed and subsequent UnstoppableRage he had after keeping his cool through most of ''[[{{Gorn}} A Serbian Film]]''.
*** "Creator/SeanConnery [[Film/{{Zardoz}} is]] [[Film/TheWizardOfOz DOROTHY]]"!!!
* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged: Episode of Bardock'', though it took him a while, Bardock learned that Freeza's giant death ball attack blasted him into the past. He goes so mad from the [[ExactWords stupid, asinine, shark-jumping bullshit,]] [[spoiler:he turns Super Saiyan]].
* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'':
** The Nerd himself gets one after hearing Zelda's BondOneLiner in The Wand of Gamelon.
** In another Creator/JamesRolfe[=-=]related video series called ''Shit Pickle'', the monkey father from ''Munky Cheez 2'' (yet another video series) goes mad after his kids keep saying "monkey cheese" over and over while watching the original, and those two words are all that the monkey dad can say from then on. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RWdyjSutKQ here]].
** During part 2 of Christmas 2013 episode, he finds a good Spiderman game. Then checks who made the game. [[spoiler:It's [[BigBad LJN]]]], which makes Nerd go crazy.
** When reviewing ''VideoGame/{{Seaman}}'', the Nerd puts in another game called ''Explosive Fighter Patton'' for the Famicom that gives him a message that has "fuck" in it. The Nerd promptly loses his mind knowing that there's a game, released ''earlier'' than ''VideoGame/HongKong97'' (which had the famous "herd of fuckin' ugly reds" PrecisionFStrike), '''''on a Nintendo console''''', that uses the word "fuck".
* ''WebVideo/FilthyFrank'': A gem from the aptly named Lemon Guy: "Uh... I'm A LEMON!"
* Once of the consequences of reading a good book discussed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnbYcB9ctu8 here]]. If knowing the unknowable is crazy I don't want to be sane.
* In ''WebOriginal/{{Shell}}'', this is what happens to people when they look at the EldritchAbomination.
* [[EldritchAbomination Tren Krom]] probing one's mind may cause this in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', because the target gets to see [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow his mind as well]].
** Makuta Teridax wrote something called ThePlan. Zaktan tried to read it, but it broke his mind completely. [[MindScrew And Zaktan going insane from reading part of it might have been part of The Plan.]]
* Visions of The Presence from Music/NineInchNails' "Year Zero" [[AlternateRealityGame ARG]] can cause anything from euphoria to madness.
* Happens from time to time in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' because it is so near LovecraftCountry. When a demon manifests a small part of itself in downtown Los Angeles, Phase is the only witness (for more than a second or so) who doesn't go insane, and he requires psychic intervention and psychiatric therapy to cope with it afterwards. The demon eats or kills the other witnesses.
* When the IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight fails to work on [[spoiler: The Nostalgia Chick]] in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', [[spoiler:WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows resorts to this trope, showing her his face. WordOfGod is that his face reflects one's soul, and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick did not like what she saw. This is also why WebVideo/ObscurusLupa was just dandy after looking at it.]]
* The Wiki/SCPFoundation secures any number of artifacts that could easily qualify, ranging from memetic cognitohazards that will infest your mind just from ''knowing about them'', locations with psychic and/or dimensional instabilities that can induce madness, outright {{Eldritch Abomination}}s able to MindRape you simply from exposure, to '''[DATA EXPUNGED]'''. And those are just a handful of categories of items the Foundation has allowed to be catalogued without absolute redaction of all knowledge on the subject.
* WebVideo/JonTron:
** This gem from his review of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII "Final Hallway XIII"]]: "I ''thought'' I was playing the game Jon... [[OhCrap But I've been using the wrong controller this whole time...]] The game's playing itself Jon! The game's playing itself Jon!!! THE GAME'S JUST PLAYING ITSELF JON!!!"
** He also didn't take the reveal of Conker being a useable asset in VideoGame/ProjectSpark very well if "CONKER IS TOTALLY BACK GUYS" is anything to go by...
** And then there's his meltdown in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie: Nuts & Bolts''
--->''Cars? Cars...? '''CAAAAAAARRRRRRSSSS!!!!''''' (drops into a song) '''[[Music/WhitneyHouston AND IIIIIIIII]]'''-(HOLY SHIT!)-'''[[Music/WhitneyHouston WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU!]]''' (I can't believe you did this to me, goddammit! How could you do this to me!?!?)
* Creator/JoshScorcher, a TopTenList maker and a reviewer of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', upon witnessing Alicorn Twilight, went utterly apeshit in the same vein of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic over ''TMNT 3'' with the music [[VideoGame/RabbidsGoHome "Bãtutã Din Moldova"]] playing on the background... but then parodied it as he suddenly calms down, thinks a bit and says, "I'm OK with this."
* In one episode of ''Podcat/TheLostCat'', the narrator learns of a sickly man who had his head transplanted to a new body. He believes he has become a monster and goes on a murderous rampage
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMjeSdsHPrY this sketch]] from ''The B.S. of A. with Brian Sack'', three teenage girls watching the MTV Video Music Awards have this reaction upon seeing Music/{{NSYNC}} take the stage to perform a reunion show. When one of them looks up *NSYNC to find out who they are, she sees that the middle-aged men they were making fun of used to be cute young guys, which means that their favorite BoyBand Music/OneDirection is doomed to also grow old, which causes them to start quoting ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'' as they realize that everything eventually dies and turns to dust. Then Dad comes in, tells them that he had the same reaction when Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock grew older, and [[INeedAFreakingDrink offers them wine to cope]] now that they've become adults.
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* ''Blog/InvisibleGames'' has this happen at least twice. In ''Killswitch'' a man acquires what may be the last surviving copy of the titular video game and promises to upload online videos of his playthrough. The only video he ever posts [[spoiler: is of him staring at the camera and crying while the game runs on a screen in the background.]] Later, in ''The Pentintytär Arcade,'' after discovering the scene of a woman's suicide a young boy begins to play the set of unique video games she had constructed. [[spoiler: The story that spans across the games haunts him for the rest of his life and drives him to relentlessly collect the games years after the set has been broken up and acquired by different collectors. He is last seen sitting naked among the game cabinets, crying and clutching a gun.]]
* In the ''WebVideo/NatOneProductions'' universe of ''The Last Stage'', the characters have all become noticeably crazier over time. With the most obvious example of Agent PARKER, it seems most field agents are doomed to this fate. Assuming, of course, that they don't end up stomped to death by an EldritchAbomination.
* Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses:
** ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'':
*** The ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' episode of has the Critic going AxCrazy after he watches a scene where Batman pulls out a "bat-credit card", and another person had to come in and restrain him for several hours. He manages to compose himself twice, but is [[BerserkButton immediately set off again when he mentions the card]].
*** The ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' [[TheMovie movie]] review has him reiterating to the viewers the basics of a particular scene: "A cat and mouse are driving a ship trying to save the daughter of Indiana Jones while being chased by a purple people eater, a dog on a skateboard, a performing ship captain, his hand puppet Squawk, two Mexican wrestlers, and a doctor riding an ice cream cart. Ladies and gentlemen, '''WELCOME TO THE MIND FUCK.'''" Cue footage of the chase scene interspersed with clips of the Nostalgia Critic going bananas while Flagpole Sitta plays in the background and a big red "MIND FUCK!" flashes on the screen.
*** In the ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' movie reviews, he tried to stay positive on the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 first]] and [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze second]] movies, but still gives out negative responses. He tried to hope that [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII the third movie]], which even WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd declares to be awful (he considered the first and second decent), will turn out good... then "5 minutes later"... we see him cuddling around in the bathroom, bawling incoherently, followed with much more FreakOut and inventing the word ''horrifuckus'', after the revelation that the movie was really really... ''bad''.
*** In a scene similar to the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' incident, one of the last moments in the ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' review has NC explaining that the movie simply doesn't care anymore after Arnold gets a jetpack and starts doing silly CGI stunts. He then says, "You know what they say... if you can't beat 'em... join them." Then comes the insanity, the flashing '''"WE DON'T CARE!"''', and "Playmate, Come Out and Play with Me" playing in the background.
** ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'':
*** Linkara, the Critic's comic-reading counterpart, has a couple moments like these, which he once referred to as "Combine Harvester" moments, after the music that plays in the background. The first was when he read fanmail to ''Doom's IV'' that said that Creator/RobLiefeld was a genius. The second one was when he discovers that ''Amazons Attack'' was technically a tie-in to ''Countdown''.
---->'''Linkara:''' (''[[DrivenToSuicide sawing at his wrists with his]] CoolGun'') Why doesn't it work?!
*** Linkara also had this in ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'', in the ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' episode when he saw the Rangers get baked into a giant pizza. He excuses himself, walks away, and then [[TheScream screams on top of his lungs]] before resuming the video.
*** In the ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'' episode of ''[=HoPR=]'', Linkara, in the third case of him actually appearing on camera in ''[=HoPR=]'' (after [[WhamEpisode his shocked reaction to]] [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Kendrix's death]] and [[{{Headdesk}} banging his head against a wall after]] [[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive Dax lets Miratrix steal a scroll]], then reusing that last clip to express his disdain for Alpha 6 not being voiced by Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz, Creator/WendeeLee, or Caterina Lucciani) is his reaction to [[spoiler: Robo Knight's UnexplainedRecovery]], going LaughingMad, grabbing a gun, getting up from his chair, firing said gun until he empties the clip, and his laughing turns to outright screaming.
** ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'':
*** While hers are much milder than her [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]]'s, she has had a few of her own; most recently in ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'' where she, her friend Nella and co-reviewer [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]] have a "going mad montage" involving screaming, sausage and mayonnaise.
*** In the LostEpisode of ''Film/{{Dune}}'', when a navigator does its thing and she cries about just wanting to understand this ridiculously confusing movie.
** ''WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh'':
*** When Creator/AllisonPregler can't work out the deeper meaning of MC Kung Fu's lyrics in ''Film/CityDragon'', she employs [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle]] to work it out for her. After watching the film, Kyle starts spouting lines from the film out of context, gradually descending into madness.
---->'''Kyle:''' I can't speak the English language anymore! God help me!
*** Kyle himself has had a few incidents of this in his own show. In particular, there was the "if you can't beat 'em..." segment at the end of the ''[[MindScrew What is it?]]'' review, and the PsychicNosebleed and subsequent UnstoppableRage he had after keeping his cool through most of ''[[{{Gorn}} A Serbian Film]]''.
*** "Creator/SeanConnery [[Film/{{Zardoz}} is]] [[Film/TheWizardOfOz DOROTHY]]"!!!
* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged: Episode of Bardock'', though it took him a while, Bardock learned that Freeza's giant death ball attack blasted him into the past. He goes so mad from the [[ExactWords stupid, asinine, shark-jumping bullshit,]] [[spoiler:he turns Super Saiyan]].
* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'':
** The Nerd himself gets one after hearing Zelda's BondOneLiner in The Wand of Gamelon.
** In another Creator/JamesRolfe[=-=]related video series called ''Shit Pickle'', the monkey father from ''Munky Cheez 2'' (yet another video series) goes mad after his kids keep saying "monkey cheese" over and over while watching the original, and those two words are all that the monkey dad can say from then on. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RWdyjSutKQ here]].
** During part 2 of Christmas 2013 episode, he finds a good Spiderman game. Then checks who made the game. [[spoiler:It's [[BigBad LJN]]]], which makes Nerd go crazy.
** When reviewing ''VideoGame/{{Seaman}}'', the Nerd puts in another game called ''Explosive Fighter Patton'' for the Famicom that gives him a message that has "fuck" in it. The Nerd promptly loses his mind knowing that there's a game, released ''earlier'' than ''VideoGame/HongKong97'' (which had the famous "herd of fuckin' ugly reds" PrecisionFStrike), '''''on a Nintendo console''''', that uses the word "fuck".
* ''WebVideo/FilthyFrank'': A gem from the aptly named Lemon Guy: "Uh... I'm A LEMON!"
* Once of the consequences of reading a good book discussed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnbYcB9ctu8 here]]. If knowing the unknowable is crazy I don't want to be sane.
* In ''WebOriginal/{{Shell}}'', this is what happens to people when they look at the EldritchAbomination.
* [[EldritchAbomination Tren Krom]] probing one's mind may cause this in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', because the target gets to see [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow his mind as well]].
** Makuta Teridax wrote something called ThePlan. Zaktan tried to read it, but it broke his mind completely. [[MindScrew And Zaktan going insane from reading part of it might have been part of The Plan.]]
* Visions of The Presence from Music/NineInchNails' "Year Zero" [[AlternateRealityGame ARG]] can cause anything from euphoria to madness.
* Happens from time to time in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' because it is so near LovecraftCountry. When a demon manifests a small part of itself in downtown Los Angeles, Phase is the only witness (for more than a second or so) who doesn't go insane, and he requires psychic intervention and psychiatric therapy to cope with it afterwards. The demon eats or kills the other witnesses.
* When the IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight fails to work on [[spoiler: The Nostalgia Chick]] in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', [[spoiler:WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows resorts to this trope, showing her his face. WordOfGod is that his face reflects one's soul, and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick did not like what she saw. This is also why WebVideo/ObscurusLupa was just dandy after looking at it.]]
* The Wiki/SCPFoundation secures any number of artifacts that could easily qualify, ranging from memetic cognitohazards that will infest your mind just from ''knowing about them'', locations with psychic and/or dimensional instabilities that can induce madness, outright {{Eldritch Abomination}}s able to MindRape you simply from exposure, to '''[DATA EXPUNGED]'''. And those are just a handful of categories of items the Foundation has allowed to be catalogued without absolute redaction of all knowledge on the subject.
* WebVideo/JonTron:
** This gem from his review of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII "Final Hallway XIII"]]: "I ''thought'' I was playing the game Jon... [[OhCrap But I've been using the wrong controller this whole time...]] The game's playing itself Jon! The game's playing itself Jon!!! THE GAME'S JUST PLAYING ITSELF JON!!!"
** He also didn't take the reveal of Conker being a useable asset in VideoGame/ProjectSpark very well if "CONKER IS TOTALLY BACK GUYS" is anything to go by...
** And then there's his meltdown in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie: Nuts & Bolts''
--->''Cars? Cars...? '''CAAAAAAARRRRRRSSSS!!!!''''' (drops into a song) '''[[Music/WhitneyHouston AND IIIIIIIII]]'''-(HOLY SHIT!)-'''[[Music/WhitneyHouston WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU!]]''' (I can't believe you did this to me, goddammit! How could you do this to me!?!?)
* Creator/JoshScorcher, a TopTenList maker and a reviewer of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', upon witnessing Alicorn Twilight, went utterly apeshit in the same vein of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic over ''TMNT 3'' with the music [[VideoGame/RabbidsGoHome "Bãtutã Din Moldova"]] playing on the background... but then parodied it as he suddenly calms down, thinks a bit and says, "I'm OK with this."
* In one episode of ''Podcat/TheLostCat'', the narrator learns of a sickly man who had his head transplanted to a new body. He believes he has become a monster and goes on a murderous rampage
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMjeSdsHPrY this sketch]] from ''The B.S. of A. with Brian Sack'', three teenage girls watching the MTV Video Music Awards have this reaction upon seeing Music/{{NSYNC}} take the stage to perform a reunion show. When one of them looks up *NSYNC to find out who they are, she sees that the middle-aged men they were making fun of used to be cute young guys, which means that their favorite BoyBand Music/OneDirection is doomed to also grow old, which causes them to start quoting ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'' as they realize that everything eventually dies and turns to dust. Then Dad comes in, tells them that he had the same reaction when Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock grew older, and [[INeedAFreakingDrink offers them wine to cope]] now that they've become adults.
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* ''Blog/InvisibleGames'' has this happen at least twice. In ''Killswitch'' a man acquires what may be the last surviving copy of the titular video game and promises to upload online videos of his playthrough. The only video he ever posts [[spoiler: is of him staring at the camera and crying while the game runs on a screen in the background.]] Later, in ''The Pentintytär Arcade,'' after discovering the scene of a woman's suicide a young boy begins to play the set of unique video games she had constructed. [[spoiler: The story that spans across the games haunts him for the rest of his life and drives him to relentlessly collect the games years after the set has been broken up and acquired by different collectors. He is last seen sitting naked among the game cabinets, crying and clutching a gun.]]
* In the ''WebVideo/NatOneProductions'' universe of ''The Last Stage'', the characters have all become noticeably crazier over time. With the most obvious example of Agent PARKER, it seems most field agents are doomed to this fate. Assuming, of course, that they don't end up stomped to death by an EldritchAbomination.
* Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses:
** ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'':
*** The ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' episode of has the Critic going AxCrazy after he watches a scene where Batman pulls out a "bat-credit card", and another person had to come in and restrain him for several hours. He manages to compose himself twice, but is [[BerserkButton immediately set off again when he mentions the card]].
*** The ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' [[TheMovie movie]] review has him reiterating to the viewers the basics of a particular scene: "A cat and mouse are driving a ship trying to save the daughter of Indiana Jones while being chased by a purple people eater, a dog on a skateboard, a performing ship captain, his hand puppet Squawk, two Mexican wrestlers, and a doctor riding an ice cream cart. Ladies and gentlemen, '''WELCOME TO THE MIND FUCK.'''" Cue footage of the chase scene interspersed with clips of the Nostalgia Critic going bananas while Flagpole Sitta plays in the background and a big red "MIND FUCK!" flashes on the screen.
*** In the ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' movie reviews, he tried to stay positive on the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 first]] and [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze second]] movies, but still gives out negative responses. He tried to hope that [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII the third movie]], which even WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd declares to be awful (he considered the first and second decent), will turn out good... then "5 minutes later"... we see him cuddling around in the bathroom, bawling incoherently, followed with much more FreakOut and inventing the word ''horrifuckus'', after the revelation that the movie was really really... ''bad''.
*** In a scene similar to the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' incident, one of the last moments in the ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' review has NC explaining that the movie simply doesn't care anymore after Arnold gets a jetpack and starts doing silly CGI stunts. He then says, "You know what they say... if you can't beat 'em... join them." Then comes the insanity, the flashing '''"WE DON'T CARE!"''', and "Playmate, Come Out and Play with Me" playing in the background.
** ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'':
*** Linkara, the Critic's comic-reading counterpart, has a couple moments like these, which he once referred to as "Combine Harvester" moments, after the music that plays in the background. The first was when he read fanmail to ''Doom's IV'' that said that Creator/RobLiefeld was a genius. The second one was when he discovers that ''Amazons Attack'' was technically a tie-in to ''Countdown''.
---->'''Linkara:''' (''[[DrivenToSuicide sawing at his wrists with his]] CoolGun'') Why doesn't it work?!
*** Linkara also had this in ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'', in the ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' episode when he saw the Rangers get baked into a giant pizza. He excuses himself, walks away, and then [[TheScream screams on top of his lungs]] before resuming the video.
*** In the ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'' episode of ''[=HoPR=]'', Linkara, in the third case of him actually appearing on camera in ''[=HoPR=]'' (after [[WhamEpisode his shocked reaction to]] [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Kendrix's death]] and [[{{Headdesk}} banging his head against a wall after]] [[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive Dax lets Miratrix steal a scroll]], then reusing that last clip to express his disdain for Alpha 6 not being voiced by Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz, Creator/WendeeLee, or Caterina Lucciani) is his reaction to [[spoiler: Robo Knight's UnexplainedRecovery]], going LaughingMad, grabbing a gun, getting up from his chair, firing said gun until he empties the clip, and his laughing turns to outright screaming.
** ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'':
*** While hers are much milder than her [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]]'s, she has had a few of her own; most recently in ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'' where she, her friend Nella and co-reviewer [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]] have a "going mad montage" involving screaming, sausage and mayonnaise.
*** In the LostEpisode of ''Film/{{Dune}}'', when a navigator does its thing and she cries about just wanting to understand this ridiculously confusing movie.
** ''WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh'':
*** When Creator/AllisonPregler can't work out the deeper meaning of MC Kung Fu's lyrics in ''Film/CityDragon'', she employs [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle]] to work it out for her. After watching the film, Kyle starts spouting lines from the film out of context, gradually descending into madness.
---->'''Kyle:''' I can't speak the English language anymore! God help me!
*** Kyle himself has had a few incidents of this in his own show. In particular, there was the "if you can't beat 'em..." segment at the end of the ''[[MindScrew What is it?]]'' review, and the PsychicNosebleed and subsequent UnstoppableRage he had after keeping his cool through most of ''[[{{Gorn}} A Serbian Film]]''.
*** "Creator/SeanConnery [[Film/{{Zardoz}} is]] [[Film/TheWizardOfOz DOROTHY]]"!!!
* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged: Episode of Bardock'', though it took him a while, Bardock learned that Freeza's giant death ball attack blasted him into the past. He goes so mad from the [[ExactWords stupid, asinine, shark-jumping bullshit,]] [[spoiler:he turns Super Saiyan]].
* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'':
** The Nerd himself gets one after hearing Zelda's BondOneLiner in The Wand of Gamelon.
** In another Creator/JamesRolfe[=-=]related video series called ''Shit Pickle'', the monkey father from ''Munky Cheez 2'' (yet another video series) goes mad after his kids keep saying "monkey cheese" over and over while watching the original, and those two words are all that the monkey dad can say from then on. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RWdyjSutKQ here]].
** During part 2 of Christmas 2013 episode, he finds a good Spiderman game. Then checks who made the game. [[spoiler:It's [[BigBad LJN]]]], which makes Nerd go crazy.
** When reviewing ''VideoGame/{{Seaman}}'', the Nerd puts in another game called ''Explosive Fighter Patton'' for the Famicom that gives him a message that has "fuck" in it. The Nerd promptly loses his mind knowing that there's a game, released ''earlier'' than ''VideoGame/HongKong97'' (which had the famous "herd of fuckin' ugly reds" PrecisionFStrike), '''''on a Nintendo console''''', that uses the word "fuck".
* ''WebVideo/FilthyFrank'': A gem from the aptly named Lemon Guy: "Uh... I'm A LEMON!"
* Once of the consequences of reading a good book discussed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnbYcB9ctu8 here]]. If knowing the unknowable is crazy I don't want to be sane.
* In ''WebOriginal/{{Shell}}'', this is what happens to people when they look at the EldritchAbomination.
* [[EldritchAbomination Tren Krom]] probing one's mind may cause this in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', because the target gets to see [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow his mind as well]].
** Makuta Teridax wrote something called ThePlan. Zaktan tried to read it, but it broke his mind completely. [[MindScrew And Zaktan going insane from reading part of it might have been part of The Plan.]]
* Visions of The Presence from Music/NineInchNails' "Year Zero" [[AlternateRealityGame ARG]] can cause anything from euphoria to madness.
* Happens from time to time in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' because it is so near LovecraftCountry. When a demon manifests a small part of itself in downtown Los Angeles, Phase is the only witness (for more than a second or so) who doesn't go insane, and he requires psychic intervention and psychiatric therapy to cope with it afterwards. The demon eats or kills the other witnesses.
* When the IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight fails to work on [[spoiler: The Nostalgia Chick]] in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', [[spoiler:WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows resorts to this trope, showing her his face. WordOfGod is that his face reflects one's soul, and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick did not like what she saw. This is also why WebVideo/ObscurusLupa was just dandy after looking at it.]]
* The Wiki/SCPFoundation secures any number of artifacts that could easily qualify, ranging from memetic cognitohazards that will infest your mind just from ''knowing about them'', locations with psychic and/or dimensional instabilities that can induce madness, outright {{Eldritch Abomination}}s able to MindRape you simply from exposure, to '''[DATA EXPUNGED]'''. And those are just a handful of categories of items the Foundation has allowed to be catalogued without absolute redaction of all knowledge on the subject.
* WebVideo/JonTron:
** This gem from his review of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII "Final Hallway XIII"]]: "I ''thought'' I was playing the game Jon... [[OhCrap But I've been using the wrong controller this whole time...]] The game's playing itself Jon! The game's playing itself Jon!!! THE GAME'S JUST PLAYING ITSELF JON!!!"
** He also didn't take the reveal of Conker being a useable asset in VideoGame/ProjectSpark very well if "CONKER IS TOTALLY BACK GUYS" is anything to go by...
* Creator/JoshScorcher, a TopTenList maker and a reviewer of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', upon witnessing Alicorn Twilight, went utterly apeshit in the same vein of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic over ''TMNT 3'' with the music [[VideoGame/RabbidsGoHome "Bãtutã Din Moldova"]] playing on the background... but then parodied it as he suddenly calms down, thinks a bit and says, "I'm OK with this."
* In one episode of ''Podcat/TheLostCat'', the narrator learns of a sickly man who had his head transplanted to a new body. He believes he has become a monster and goes on a murderous rampage
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMjeSdsHPrY this sketch]] from ''The B.S. of A. with Brian Sack'', three teenage girls watching the MTV Video Music Awards have this reaction upon seeing Music/{{NSYNC}} take the stage to perform a reunion show. When one of them looks up *NSYNC to find out who they are, she sees that the middle-aged men they were making fun of used to be cute young guys, which means that their favorite BoyBand Music/OneDirection is doomed to also grow old, which causes them to start quoting ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'' as they realize that everything eventually dies and turns to dust. Then Dad comes in, tells them that he had the same reaction when Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock grew older, and [[INeedAFreakingDrink offers them wine to cope]] now that they've become adults.
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* ''Blog/InvisibleGames'' has this happen at least twice. In ''Killswitch'' a man acquires what may be the last surviving copy of the titular video game and promises to upload online videos of his playthrough. The only video he ever posts [[spoiler: is of him staring at the camera and crying while the game runs on a screen in the background.]] Later, in ''The Pentintytär Arcade,'' after discovering the scene of a woman's suicide a young boy begins to play the set of unique video games she had constructed. [[spoiler: The story that spans across the games haunts him for the rest of his life and drives him to relentlessly collect the games years after the set has been broken up and acquired by different collectors. He is last seen sitting naked among the game cabinets, crying and clutching a gun.]]
* In the ''WebVideo/NatOneProductions'' universe of ''The Last Stage'', the characters have all become noticeably crazier over time. With the most obvious example of Agent PARKER, it seems most field agents are doomed to this fate. Assuming, of course, that they don't end up stomped to death by an EldritchAbomination.
* Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses:
** ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'':
*** The ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' episode of has the Critic going AxCrazy after he watches a scene where Batman pulls out a "bat-credit card", and another person had to come in and restrain him for several hours. He manages to compose himself twice, but is [[BerserkButton immediately set off again when he mentions the card]].
*** The ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' [[TheMovie movie]] review has him reiterating to the viewers the basics of a particular scene: "A cat and mouse are driving a ship trying to save the daughter of Indiana Jones while being chased by a purple people eater, a dog on a skateboard, a performing ship captain, his hand puppet Squawk, two Mexican wrestlers, and a doctor riding an ice cream cart. Ladies and gentlemen, '''WELCOME TO THE MIND FUCK.'''" Cue footage of the chase scene interspersed with clips of the Nostalgia Critic going bananas while Flagpole Sitta plays in the background and a big red "MIND FUCK!" flashes on the screen.
*** In the ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' movie reviews, he tried to stay positive on the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 first]] and [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze second]] movies, but still gives out negative responses. He tried to hope that [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII the third movie]], which even WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd declares to be awful (he considered the first and second decent), will turn out good... then "5 minutes later"... we see him cuddling around in the bathroom, bawling incoherently, followed with much more FreakOut and inventing the word ''horrifuckus'', after the revelation that the movie was really really... ''bad''.
*** In a scene similar to the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' incident, one of the last moments in the ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' review has NC explaining that the movie simply doesn't care anymore after Arnold gets a jetpack and starts doing silly CGI stunts. He then says, "You know what they say... if you can't beat 'em... join them." Then comes the insanity, the flashing '''"WE DON'T CARE!"''', and "Playmate, Come Out and Play with Me" playing in the background.
** ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'':
*** Linkara, the Critic's comic-reading counterpart, has a couple moments like these, which he once referred to as "Combine Harvester" moments, after the music that plays in the background. The first was when he read fanmail to ''Doom's IV'' that said that Creator/RobLiefeld was a genius. The second one was when he discovers that ''Amazons Attack'' was technically a tie-in to ''Countdown''.
---->'''Linkara:''' (''[[DrivenToSuicide sawing at his wrists with his]] CoolGun'') Why doesn't it work?!
*** Linkara also had this in ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'', in the ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' episode when he saw the Rangers get baked into a giant pizza. He excuses himself, walks away, and then [[TheScream screams on top of his lungs]] before resuming the video.
*** In the ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'' episode of ''[=HoPR=]'', Linkara, in the third case of him actually appearing on camera in ''[=HoPR=]'' (after [[WhamEpisode his shocked reaction to]] [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Kendrix's death]] and [[{{Headdesk}} banging his head against a wall after]] [[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive Dax lets Miratrix steal a scroll]], then reusing that last clip to express his disdain for Alpha 6 not being voiced by Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz, Creator/WendeeLee, or Caterina Lucciani) is his reaction to [[spoiler: Robo Knight's UnexplainedRecovery]], going LaughingMad, grabbing a gun, getting up from his chair, firing said gun until he empties the clip, and his laughing turns to outright screaming.
** ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'':
*** While hers are much milder than her [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]]'s, she has had a few of her own; most recently in ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'' where she, her friend Nella and co-reviewer [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]] have a "going mad montage" involving screaming, sausage and mayonnaise.
*** In the LostEpisode of ''Film/{{Dune}}'', when a navigator does its thing and she cries about just wanting to understand this ridiculously confusing movie.
** ''WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh'':
*** When Creator/AllisonPregler can't work out the deeper meaning of MC Kung Fu's lyrics in ''Film/CityDragon'', she employs [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle]] to work it out for her. After watching the film, Kyle starts spouting lines from the film out of context, gradually descending into madness.
---->'''Kyle:''' I can't speak the English language anymore! God help me!
*** Kyle himself has had a few incidents of this in his own show. In particular, there was the "if you can't beat 'em..." segment at the end of the ''[[MindScrew What is it?]]'' review, and the PsychicNosebleed and subsequent UnstoppableRage he had after keeping his cool through most of ''[[{{Gorn}} A Serbian Film]]''.
*** "Creator/SeanConnery [[Film/{{Zardoz}} is]] [[Film/TheWizardOfOz DOROTHY]]"!!!
* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged: Episode of Bardock'', though it took him a while, Bardock learned that Freeza's giant death ball attack blasted him into the past. He goes so mad from the [[ExactWords stupid, asinine, shark-jumping bullshit,]] [[spoiler:he turns Super Saiyan]].
* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'':
** The Nerd himself gets one after hearing Zelda's BondOneLiner in The Wand of Gamelon.
** In another Creator/JamesRolfe[=-=]related video series called ''Shit Pickle'', the monkey father from ''Munky Cheez 2'' (yet another video series) goes mad after his kids keep saying "monkey cheese" over and over while watching the original, and those two words are all that the monkey dad can say from then on. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RWdyjSutKQ here]].
** During part 2 of Christmas 2013 episode, he finds a good Spiderman game. Then checks who made the game. [[spoiler:It's [[BigBad LJN]]]], which makes Nerd go crazy.
** When reviewing ''VideoGame/{{Seaman}}'', the Nerd puts in another game called ''Explosive Fighter Patton'' for the Famicom that gives him a message that has "fuck" in it. The Nerd promptly loses his mind knowing that there's a game, released ''earlier'' than ''VideoGame/HongKong97'' (which had the famous "herd of fuckin' ugly reds" PrecisionFStrike), '''''on a Nintendo console''''', that uses the word "fuck".
* ''WebVideo/FilthyFrank'': A gem from the aptly named Lemon Guy: "Uh... I'm A LEMON!"
* Once of the consequences of reading a good book discussed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnbYcB9ctu8 here]]. If knowing the unknowable is crazy I don't want to be sane.
* In ''WebOriginal/{{Shell}}'', this is what happens to people when they look at the EldritchAbomination.
* [[EldritchAbomination Tren Krom]] probing one's mind may cause this in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', because the target gets to see [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow his mind as well]].
** Makuta Teridax wrote something called ThePlan. Zaktan tried to read it, but it broke his mind completely. [[MindScrew And Zaktan going insane from reading part of it might have been part of The Plan.]]
* Visions of The Presence from Music/NineInchNails' "Year Zero" [[AlternateRealityGame ARG]] can cause anything from euphoria to madness.
* Happens from time to time in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' because it is so near LovecraftCountry. When a demon manifests a small part of itself in downtown Los Angeles, Phase is the only witness (for more than a second or so) who doesn't go insane, and he requires psychic intervention and psychiatric therapy to cope with it afterwards. The demon eats or kills the other witnesses.
* When the IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight fails to work on [[spoiler: The Nostalgia Chick]] in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', [[spoiler:WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows resorts to this trope, showing her his face. WordOfGod is that his face reflects one's soul, and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick did not like what she saw. This is also why WebVideo/ObscurusLupa was just dandy after looking at it.]]
* The Wiki/SCPFoundation secures any number of artifacts that could easily qualify, ranging from memetic cognitohazards that will infest your mind just from ''knowing about them'', locations with psychic and/or dimensional instabilities that can induce madness, outright {{Eldritch Abomination}}s able to MindRape you simply from exposure, to '''[DATA EXPUNGED]'''. And those are just a handful of categories of items the Foundation has allowed to be catalogued without absolute redaction of all knowledge on the subject.
* WebVideo/JonTron:
** This gem from his review of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII "Final Hallway XIII"]]: "I ''thought'' I was playing the game Jon... [[OhCrap But I've been using the wrong controller this whole time...]] The game's playing itself Jon! The game's playing itself Jon!!! THE GAME'S JUST PLAYING ITSELF JON!!!"
** He also didn't take the reveal of Conker being a useable asset in VideoGame/ProjectSpark very well if "CONKER IS TOTALLY BACK GUYS" is anything to go by...
* Creator/JoshScorcher, a TopTenList maker and a reviewer of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', upon witnessing Alicorn Twilight, went utterly apeshit in the same vein of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic over ''TMNT 3'' with the music [[VideoGame/RabbidsGoHome "Bãtutã Din Moldova"]] playing on the background... but then parodied it as he suddenly calms down, thinks a bit and says, "I'm OK with this."
* In one episode of ''Podcat/TheLostCat'', the narrator learns of a sickly man who had his head transplanted to a new body. He believes he has become a monster and goes on a murderous rampage
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMjeSdsHPrY this sketch]] from ''The B.S. of A. with Brian Sack'', three teenage girls watching the MTV Video Music Awards have this reaction upon seeing Music/{{NSYNC}} take the stage to perform a reunion show. When one of them looks up *NSYNC to find out who they are, she sees that the middle-aged men they were making fun of used to be cute young guys, which means that their favorite BoyBand Music/OneDirection is doomed to also grow old, which causes them to start quoting ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'' as they realize that everything eventually dies and turns to dust. Then Dad comes in, tells them that he had the same reaction when Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock grew older, and [[INeedAFreakingDrink offers them wine to cope]] now that they've become adults.
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