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Beware of using this trope, as there is a risk of [[TooBleakStoppedCaring alienating your audience]], especially when ''all'' characters, even TheHero, become [[AxCrazy morally iredeemable and crazy]], [[DrivenToSuicide suicidal]] and/or there's no [[SanityStrengthening sanity improvement]] over the course of the story, as [[BlackAndGrayMorality no one is truly good in this setting.]]

Beware of using this trope, as there is a risk of falling into DarknessInducedAudienceApathy, especially when ''all'' characters, even TheHero, become [[AxCrazy morally iredeemable and crazy]], [[DrivenToSuicide suicidal]] and/or there's no [[SanityStrengthening sanity improvement]] over the course of the story, as [[BlackAndGrayMorality no one is truly good in this setting.]]

* In ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'', if the heroes aren't outright crazy, then they clearly deep emotional issues that they have trouble dealing with, with the suggestion that for some of them at least, use violence as an outlet for those issues. Two of the members are so detached that they can vapourise people without blinking [[spoiler:or calmly discuss how an unprecedented scale of mass murder was committed by his hands just the half hour before to his colleagues]]. It gets somewhat amusing when two of the cast, remark that everyone seems to be crazy but them. Both happen to be well-known {{Sociopathic Hero}}es.

* Being ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'''s SpiritualSuccessor and whatnot, ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' also falls victim to this trope. Probably no one in the story is 100 percent sane. Even [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Mikado]]. [[CuteAndPsycho Especially Mikado]]. In no particular order, the three sanest characters in the series are [[BrokenBird the kid who]] [[spoiler:founded the Yellow Scarves in middle school]], the guy in the bartender suit with the HairTriggerTemper who has a [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower tendency for throwing street signs and vending machines]], and the [[HeadlessHorseman Dullahan]] ''looking for her lost head''. Unlike the predecessor, [[MaskOfSanity many characters are better about hiding their true nature]].

* ''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,]]]] [[PsychopathicManchild Vincent,]] [[spoiler: [[DeathSeeker Leo,]]]] and [[BrokenBird Echo.]] By the way, those are only a few of the main characters.
* ''Manga/{{Kakegurui}}'': Other than [[TheWatson Ryouta Suzui]], who seems to be the one sane person at school, the entire cast is filled with lunatics who bet hundreds of thousands of dollars, and even the freedom of themselves and others, on cards, roulette, and even ''children's games'' that have even lower odds of actual success under normal circumstances. Other than Suzui, the rest of the cast also break into contorted {{Nightmare Face}}s when gambling, with TheProtagonist, Yumeko Jabami, being ''the worst''.
* ''Manga/ThouShaltNotDie'': In this manga, if someone isn't horribly screwed up in the head in some way, chances are [[CharactersDroppingLikeFlies they will be dead soon]]. Among those that survive, the guy that can be at the closest called sane is [[BoisterousWeakling Mizukaki]]. The main character Kuroi is a nasty {{Yandere}} who will kill at the slightest provocation. Asagi, a forgetful misanthrope. Yanagi, a {{Sadist}} and murderer. And then there is [[TheBerserker Mashiro]]. Even though she appears to be the sanest person in the cast, there is a lot of implication that she is the worst by far.

* A French comic titled ''Film/SevenPsychopaths'' employs [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 7... well, people with various mental diseases]] sent to kill Hitler (a paranoid man to get them in, a depressive sniper, a disguise expert with no personality, a berserk mercenary, etc.). They end up killing Hitler... but the disguise guy (who went as Adolf) ends up being used by the German high command to sign papers and agree with the generals, since they keep running out of body doubles (the original Adolf was killed in a 1942 bombing).

* A common theory about ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'' is that [[WildMassGuessing each major character suffers from and represents a different mental disorder]], such as Eeyore's clinical depression or Piglet's generalized anxiety disorder.

* It seems like the eponymous Ink Machine of ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'' - or perhaps just studio conditions in general - have driven most named employees of Joey Drew Studios insane.

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'': ''Holy shit''. Almost everyone you meet on Pandora is a psycho to some extent ,due to a combination of [[spoiler: the Destroyer sending out mental broadcasts to lure people to the vault, driving many insane in the process]], [[{{Unobtainium}} Eridium]] causing brain poisoning in the second game, and the sheer stress of living in a DeathWorld, especially after the Dahl corporation (which first colonized the planet) abandoned most of the colonists with barely enough resources just to survive. Calling Pandora a fucked up place would be an understatement.

* Where do we start with ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}''? Rocky was manic and reckless from the start, and his head injury in volume 2 has only exacerbated his mental instability. Freckle succumbs to murderous rage in dangerous situations. Mordecai is a sociopath who is devoid of warmth, empathy, or mercy. Serafine is another sociopath with a sadistic streak, and if she truly believes in Maitre Carrefour, is living in a fantasy world. Her brother Nico isn't much better. Wick is an insomniac who works too hard, drinks too much, and is haunted by [[ItMakesSenseInContext the ghost of a dead duck]]. Mitzi is so obsessed with keeping Lackadaisy going that she verges on TheUnfettered.
* Everybody in ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'' is nuts, from the crazed intern, to the hyperintelligent gerbil, to the mad scientist who hires [[OnlySaneMan Dave]] in the first place. [[spoiler: It turns out that Dave is a nascent mad scientist during the whole thing, so he's not an exception after all.]] The same goes for ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'', where the OnlySaneMan is a Canadian bio-engineered war canine, and even she's not all there.

* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': This is where the series gets its name, after all. With the OnlySaneMan Koden stuck right in the middle of all of the insanity.

* Borderline every [[TheAbridgedSeries abridging parody]] makes every character insane to some extent.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': Just about the entire top tier of ISIS personnel is borderline insane, and in [[MadScientist Kreiger's]] case, almost certainly well past it. Him aside, almost all of them are sociopathic hedonists who seem incapable of thinking of anything other than drink or sex long enough to actually accomplish their missions.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''. The OnlySaneMan is TheGrimReaper. That really says it all.

Beware of using this trope, as there is a risk of falling into DarknessInducedAudienceApathy, especially when ''all'' characters, even TheHero, become [[AxCrazy morally iredeemable and crazy]] and/or there's no [[SanityStrengthening sanity improvement]] over the course of the story, as [[BlackAndGrayMorality no one is truly good in this setting.]]

Beware of using this trope, as there is a risk of falling into DarknessInducedAudienceApathy, especially when all characters, even TheHero, become [[AxCrazy morally iredeemable and crazy]] or there's no [[SanityStrengthening sanity improvement]] over the course of the story, as [[BlackAndGrayMorality no one is truly good in this setting.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' ''Holy shit'' Almost everyone you meet on Pandora is a psycho to some extent ,due to a combination of [[spoiler: the Destroyer sending out mental broadcasts to lure people to the vault, driving many insane in the process]], [[{{Unobtainium}} Eridium]] causing brain poisoning in the second game, and the sheer stress of living in a DeathWorld, especially after the Dahl corporation (which first colonized the planet) abandoned most of the colonists with barely enough resources just to survive. Calling Pandora a fucked up place would be an understatement.

** Raymond Barone - ManChild
** Robert Barone - self-pitying depressive, TheEeyore
** Frank Barone - multiple complexes, TheNapoleon
** Marie Barone - passive-agressive manipulator, control freak, "JewishMother"
** Debra Barone - alternates between shrieking shrew, nagging wife, martyr

** Peter [=McDougall=] - ManChild, BasementDweller, TheThingThatWouldNotLeave
** Gianni - KavorkaMan
** Hank [=McDougall=] - religious freak
* The cast of ''Series/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.

* ''Film/TheCrazyFamily''...well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the family]].

* 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 dating sim protagonist, 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.]]

* The page quote comes from ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''. The fact that the entire book is one of the [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]] for the {{Surrealism}} Genre and reads like the autobiographical account of an acid trip should clue you in that no one, not even the eponymous Alice, is safe from this trope. Its sequel, ''Through the Looking-Glass'', also suffers heavily from this trope, even more so than its predecessor.

* ''[[FanFic.ChristianWestonChandlerInSurvivorKujiraJima Christian Weston Chandler in Survivor: Kujira-Jima]]'s cast is mainly composed of stereotypes, subverted stereotypes, stock characters and Chris-chan, and they're all being played off of each other.''

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' ''Holy shit''.Almost everyone you meet on Pandora a psycho to some extent ,due to a combination of [[spoiler: the Destroyer sending out mental broadcasts to lure people to the vault, driving many insane in the process]], [[{{Unobtainium}} Eridium]] causing brain poisoning, and the sheer stress of living in a DeathWorld, especially after the Dahl corporation (which first colonized the planet) abandoned most of the colonists with barely enough resources just to survive. Calling Pandora a fucked up place would be an understatement.

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' ''holy shit''.Almost everyone you meet on Pandora a psycho to some extent ,due to a combination of [[spoiler: the Destroyer sending out mental broadcasts to lure people to the vault, driving many insane in the process]], [[{{Unobtainium Eridium}}]] causing brain poisoning, and the sheer stress of living in a DeathWorld, especially after the Dahl corporation (which first colonized the planet) abandoned most of the colonists with barely enough resources just to survive. Calling Pandora a fucked up place would be an understatement.

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' ''holy shit''. Not only is almost everyone you meet on Pandora a psycho to some extent (due to a combination of [[spoiler: the Destroyer sending out mental broadcasts to lure people to the vault, driving many insane in the process]], [[{{Unobtainium Eridium]] causing brain poisoning, and the sheer stress of living in a DeathWorld, especially after the Dahl corporation (which first colonized the planet) abandoned most of the colonists with barely enough resources just to survive. Calling Pandora a fucked up place would be an understatement.

* ''[[DysfunctionJunction Nobody]]'' in ''WebVideo/SatelliteCity'' could even remotely be described as normal, and this is ''before'' you take into account the fact that (except for [[TokenHuman Sullivan]]) they're all a bunch of [[TimeAbyss ageless]] [[AnimalisticAbomination bestial demon-things]] fleeing a dead universe.[[HeroicComedicSociopath Lucy]] is a bloodthirsty PsychoLesbian who likes tormenting, dismembering, and killing other creatures for fun. [[SadClown Shuck]] is an abrasive troll who's been heavily implied to have a [[RetiredMonster violent past]] stretching back to the 16th century that straddles the line between SociopathicSoldier and spree murder. [[WellIntentionedExtremist Ludwig]] is TheSocialDarwinist who believes that all humans are disgusting "[[PunyEarthlings simians.]]" [[ButtMonkey Hyzenthlay]] is Ludwig's favorite lab experiment, an exceptionally naive and innocent UpliftedAnimal whose sanity isn't helped by Lucy constantly trying to kill and eat her. [[BrokenBird Winifred]]'s mind has been [[BreakTheHaughty more-or-less shattered]] and is both mute and blind, and prone to habitually clawing herself, on top of ''literally'' being TheChewToy for Lucy. Their human host [[UnfazedEveryman Sullivan]] kills people just to [[DisproportionateRetribution obtain Halloween pumpkins]] without paying. [[NiceGuy Fleischer]] is the closest thing to a [[OnlySaneMan normal, well-adjusted person]] in the cast, and even he's constantly struggling to keep Winifred, Shuck, and Lucy from causing harm to the others (or in Winifred's case, [[SelfHarm to herself.]])

* ''[[DysfunctionJunction Nobody]]'' in ''WebVideo/SatelliteCity'' could even remotely be described as normal, and this is ''before'' you take into account the fact that (except for [[TokenHuman Sullivan]]) they're all a bunch of [[TimeAbyss ageless]] [[AnimalisticAbomination bestial demon-things]] fleeing a dead universe.
[[HeroicComedicSociopath Lucy]] is a bloodthirsty PsychoLesbian who likes tormenting, dismembering, and killing other creatures for fun. [[SadClown Shuck]] is an abrasive troll who's been heavily implied to have a [[RetiredMonster violent past]] stretching back to the 16th century that straddles the line between SociopathicSoldier and spree murder. [[WellIntentionedExtremist Ludwig]] is TheSocialDarwinist who believes that all humans are disgusting "[[PunyEarthlings simians.]]" [[ButtMonkey Hyzenthlay]] is Ludwig's favorite lab experiment, an exceptionally naive and innocent UpliftedAnimal whose sanity isn't helped by Lucy constantly trying to kill and eat her. [[BrokenBird Winifred]]'s mind has been [[BreakTheHaughty more-or-less shattered]] and is both mute and blind, and prone to habitually clawing herself, on top of ''literally'' being TheChewToy for Lucy. Their human host [[UnfazedEveryman Sullivan]] kills people just to [[DisproportionateRetribution obtain Halloween pumpkins]] without paying. [[NiceGuy Fleischer]] is the closest thing to a [[OnlySaneMan normal, well-adjusted person]] in the cast, and even he's constantly struggling to keep Winifred, Shuck, and Lucy from causing harm to the others (or in Winifred's case, [[SelfHarm to herself.]])

[[HeroicComedicSociopath Lucy]] is a bloodthirsty PsychoLesbian who likes tormenting, dismembering, and killing other creatures for fun. [[SadClown Shuck]] is an abrasive troll who's been heavily implied to have a [[RetiredMonster violent past]] stretching back to the 16th century that straddles the line between SociopathicSoldier and spree murder. [[WellIntentionedExtremist Ludwig]] is TheSocialDarwinist who believes that all humans are disgusting "[[PunyEarthlings simians.]]" [[ButtMonkey Hyzenthlay]] is Ludwig's favorite lab experiment, an exceptionally naive and innocent UpliftedAnimal whose sanity isn't helped by Lucy constantly trying to kill and eat her. [[BrokenBird Winifred]]'s mind has been [[BreakTheHaughty more-or-less shattered]] and is both mute and blind, and prone to habitually clawing herself, on top of ''literally'' being TheChewToy for Lucy. Their human host [[UnfazedEveryman Sullivan]] kills people just to [[DisproprotionateRetribution obtain Halloween pumpkins]] without paying. [[NiceGuy Fleischer]] is the closest thing to a [[OnlySaneMan normal, well-adjusted person]] in the cast, and even he's constantly struggling to keep Winifred, Shuck, and Lucy from causing harm to the others (or in Winifred's case, [[SelfHarm to herself.]])

[[HeroicComedicSociopath Lucy]] is a bloodthirsty PsychoLesbian who likes tormenting, dismembering, and killing other creatures for fun. [[SadClown Shuck]] is an abrasive troll who's been heavily implied to have a [[RetiredMonster violent past]] stretching back to the 16th century that straddles the line between SociopathicSoldier and spree murder. [[WellIntentionedExtremist Ludwig]] is TheSocialDarwinist who believes that all humans are disgusting "[[PunyEarthlings simians.]]" [[ButtMonkey Hyzenthlay]] is Ludwig's favorite lab experiment, an exceptionally naive and innocent UpliftedAnimal whose sanity isn't helped by Lucy constantly trying to kill and eat her. [[BrokenBird Winifred]]'s mind has been [[BreakTheHaughty more-or-less shattered]] and is both mute and blind, on top of ''literally'' being TheChewToy for Lucy. Their human host [[UnfazedEveryman Sullivan]] kills people just to [[DisproprotionateRetribution obtain Halloween pumpkins without paying.]]