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* ''Manga/PandoraHearts'': It has an insane JigsawPuzzlePlot that follows MoralityKitchenSink and has a DysfunctionJunction as a cast. It's also based on ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''. There's [[StepfordSmiler Oz,]] [[CrazyJealousGuy Gilbert,]] [[spoiler: [[DrivenToSuicide Alice,]]]] [[spoiler: [[SerialKiller Break,]]]] [[PsychoticManChild Vincent,]] [[spoiler: [[DeathSeeker Leo,]]]] and [[spoiler:
[[BrokenBird Echo.]] By the way, those are only a few of the main characters.

* ''Manga/PandoraHearts'': It has an insane JigsawPuzzlePlot that follows MoralityKitchenSink and has a DysfunctionJunction as a cast. It's also based on ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''. There's [[StepfordSmiler Oz,]] [[CrazyJealousGuy Gilbert,]] [[DrivenToSuicide Alice,]] [[SerialKiller Break,]] [[PsychoticManChild Vincent,]] [[DeathSeeker Leo,]] [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled Elliot,]] [[BrokenBird Echo,]] [[IfICantHaveYou Noise,]] and the list goes on and on...

* ''Manga/PandoraHearts'': It has an insane JigsawPuzzlePlot that follows MoralityKitchenSink and has a DysfunctionJunction as a cast. It's also based on ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''. There's [[StepfordSmiler Oz,]] [[Yandere Gilbert,]] [[DrivenToSuicide Alice,]] [[SerialKiller Break,]] [[PsychoticManChild Vincent,]] [[DeathSeeker Leo,]] [[BetterToDieThanToBeKilled Elliot,]] and the list goes on and on...

* Another example from BioWare; the player parties in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' can certainly fall here, especially on the Imperial side. The Agent's party (probably the weirdest of the lot) has a bomb-throwing anarchist, a diplomat who [[GoingNative went native]] with an insect species, a brilliant operative-scientist who [[ProfessorGuineaPig experimented on himself]] [[PlagueZombie with rakghoul DNA]], and can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transform into one]], a human who was raised among the Chiss (because she's a low-level Force Sensitive and would have been killed by the Sith otherwise), and a sociopath gynoid who openly dislikes organics and was built by a race of {{Precursors}}.

* Madness is a recurring theme in ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}''. All of his rogue's gallery are portrayed as mentally ill in some way or other (with Arkham Asylum serving as the resident CardboardPrison) and the man himself has varying issues (mainly stemming from the murder of his parents) DependingOnTheWriter.

* Another example from BioWare; the player parties in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' can certainly fall here, especially on the Imperial side. The Agent's party (probably the weirdest of the lot) has a bomb-throwing anarchist, a diplomat who [[GoneNative went native]] with an insect species, a brilliant operative-scientist who [[ProfessorGuineaPig experimented on himself]] [[PlagueZombie with rakghoul DNA]], and can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transform into one]], a human who was raised among the Chiss (because she's a low-level Force Sensitive and would have been killed by the Sith otherwise), and a sociopath gynoid who openly dislikes organics and was built by a race of {{Precursors}}.

* ''FanFic/{Bird}'' Features this as an aspect of the setting. Due to it taking place in Alchemilla Memorial Asylum- a sanitarium for parahumans - and over a third of the characters being patients there, the trope is justified. Also zig-zagged in the sense that not all of the patients are actually insane, Alchemilla is used to contain parahumans that cannot use their powers freely, or who have no control of their powers.

* ''{Bird}'' Features this as an aspect of the setting. Due to it taking place in Alchemilla Memorial Asylum- a sanitarium for parahumans - and over a third of the characters being patients there, the trope is justified. Also zig-zagged in the sense that not all of the patients are actually insane, Alchemilla is used to contain parahumans that cannot use their powers freely, or who have no control of their powers.

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* ''Film/TheCrazyFamily''...well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the family]].
* Nobody from ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'' could be called completely sane. Crazed terrorists hijack Air Force One, crashing it into Manhattan, which has been converted into a huge walled prison housing America's worst criminals. The Justice Department sends a convicted felon with a time-bomb motivator into Manhattan to rescue the President. There, TheHero encounters the BigBad Duke of New York, and his army of crazed sociopaths. The lunacy is contagious, as the President seizes a firearm and has a KickTheDog moment during his rescue.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': Strangely enough, every faction is this to at least one other.

** Heck, in the PS ports, there's actually an arc where everyone who can go crazy does at the same time. In Tsukiotoshi-hen, [[spoiler:Satoko suffers from Hinamizawa Syndrome due to her uncle's abuse again, and this time, Keiichi, Rena, and Shion all try to kill her and all come down with Hinamizawa Syndrome as well, leading to paranoia ricocheting against more paranoia]]. The result was billed as the worst possible ending.

-->--''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''

* PlayedWith in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''. Not all of the main characters are crazy at the same time, but they each get to take their turn at it [[spoiler:due to the HatePlague nature of the GroundhogDayLoop the characters are stuck in]]. And when they're insane, ''[[LaughingMad they're insane]]''. Even [[TheOneGuy Keiichi]], who under different circumstances would be a DatingSimProtagonist, cannot escape the permeating madness. [[spoiler:In Tatarigoroshi-hen, his BigBrotherInstinct toward [[TheWoobie Satoko]], [[KnightTemplarBigBrother leads him down the crazy trail]], ultimately culminating with him beating Satoko's [[AbusiveParents abusive uncle]] to death with a baseball bat. While it might be argued that he was in his right mind all along and had just been pushed too far, his incessant reaffirming that [[MadnessMantra he's doing it for Satoko]], the fact that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Keiichi in the previous two arcs only ever killed in self-defense and was not shown to be the type of person that could murder in cold blood, especially someone he hardly knew]], and his choice of method for "saving" Satoko, which arguably leaves her in a worse situation than before, point him solidly to the insane corner. Keiichi himself comments that no sane individual would have tried to save her like that in Minagoroshi-hen.]]

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' is definitely one of the [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]]. ''Every single named character'' is messed up in one or more ways. Some are [[BrokenBird broken]], but most are [[AxCrazy just freakin' nuts]]. Of course, this being 1920s New York, the characters are perfectly suited for the Mafia. The award for most insane would probably go to [[CrazyAwesome Ladd Russo]]. Everyone else who decides to shoot up the Flying Pussyfoot has their own reasons for doing so, but he just does it ForTheLulz. It really speaks volumes when even the sanest character in your series [[spoiler:has killed a man]].

** Heck, in the PS ports, there's actually an arc where everyone who can go crazy does at the same time. In Tsukiotoshi-hen, [[spoiler:Satoko suffers from Hinamizawa Syndrome due to her uncle's abuse again, and this time, Keiichi, Rena, and Shion all try to kill him and all come down with Hinamizawa Syndrome as well, leading to paranoia ricocheting against more paranoia]]. The result was billed as the worst possible ending.

* ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'': Poor, poor [[OnlySaneMan Yuuji Sakamoto]]. The people he deals with on a daily basis include [[IdiotHero a giant idiot]], a violent {{Tsundere}} who has openly stated that beating up the idiot is her hobby, a girl who looks sweet and kind on the outside but hides [[{{Yandere}} her terrifying true self]], [[DudeLooksLikeALady a boy with serious gender issues]], and a pervert who has done everything short of outright sexual assault to the girls. Then there's the psycho who's continually stalking and attacking him in order to fulfill their ChildhoodMarriagePromise. With friends like these, it's a wonder how he keeps his cool all the time.

* PlayedWith in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi''. Not all of the main characters are crazy at the same time, but they each get to take their turn at it [[spoiler:due to the HatePlague nature of the GroundhogDayLoop the characters are stuck in]]. And when they're insane, ''[[LaughingMad they're insane]]''. Even [[TheOneGuy Keiichi]], who under different circumstances would be a DatingSimProtagonist, cannot escape the permeating madness. [[spoiler:In Tatarigoroshi-hen, his BigBrotherInstinct toward [[TheWoobie Satoko]], [[KnightTemplarBigBrother leads him down the crazy trail]], ultimately culminating with him beating Satoko's [[AbusiveParents abusive uncle]] to death with a baseball bat. While it might be argued that he was in his right mind all along and had just been pushed too far, his incessant reaffirming that [[MadnessMantra he's doing it for Satoko]], the fact that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Keiichi in the previous two arcs only ever killed in self-defense and was not shown to be the type of person that could murder in cold blood, especially someone he hardly knew]], and his choice of method for "saving" Satoko, which arguably leaves her in a worse situation than before, point him solidly to the insane corner. Keiichi himself comments that no sane individual would have tried to save her like that in Minagoroshi-hen.]]

* Creator/GeorgeRRMartin's ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters suffering from mental issues: the worst examples are Ramsay Bolton, a ChaoticEvil psychopath, [[TheDreaded Gregor Clegane]], a bloodthirsty rapist and [[WouldHurtAChild child-killer]] [[TheGiant giant]], and [[RoyalBrat Joffrey Baratheon]], who was introduced as an annoying {{Jerkass}} and then [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] as TheCaligula. Not to mention Aerys II, who is mainly known as "The Mad King". {{Justified|Trope}} in a few cases because of [[RoyallyScrewedUp incestous relationships, for the odds of giving birth mentally-unstable children dramatically rise with each generation]]. Milder examples are [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei Lannister]], a selfish narcissist, [[TheChessmaster Lord Baelish]], a manipulative sociopath, [[spoiler:and [[RichesToRags Theon Greyjoy]] after his [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] by the hand of [[CompleteMonster Ramsay]]. In his case, not differently from how [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Smeagol and Gollum]] coexisted together in a single body, [[SplitPersonality he is forced to split his personality between the old repressed Theon and the submissive haggard Reek.]]]]

* ''LiveActionTV/EverybodyLovesRaymond'', in which every cast member might take a turn at being the OnlySaneMan, if only to contrast the unbalanced personalities of all the others. We get:

* The cast of ''LiveActionTV/TheMuppetShow'' is eccentric, to say the least. Even Kermit, the OnlySaneMan (er, frog), is NotSoAboveItAll; after all, as he once pointed out, he's the one who ''hired'' the others.

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