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** Debra Barone - alternates between shrieking shrew, nagging wife, martyr.

* Madness is a recurring theme in ''Franchise/{{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.
* Like Batman, Franchise/SpiderMan’s rogues gallery is stuffed with crazy people, most notably Norman Osborn/the Green Goblin. Other notable highlights include the Lizard, Carnage, the Hobgoblin and Spider-Man’s arch-enemy Doc Ock.

* 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.

* The sex comedy webcomic ''WebComic/MenageA3'' has a cast full of characters with various anxieties, dysfunctions and obsessions. The main three characters are an ExtremeDoormat nerd with serious self-esteem issues, a bisexual YaoiFangirl who would go for AnythingThatMoves, and a DumbBlonde with an unspecified mental disorder and the inability to get an orgasm, and they are just the tip of the iceberg. Even the sanest characters will be caught in crazy sexual hijinks from time to time.

* By the same author as ''Baccano!'', ''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 in ''Baccano!'', [[MaskOfSanity many characters are better about hiding their true nature]].

->''"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.''
->''"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."''
->''"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.''
->''"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."''
-->-- ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''

* The sex comedy webcomic ''WebComic/MenageA3'' has a cast full of characters with various anxieties, dysfunctions and obsessions. The main three characters are an ExtremeDoormat nerd with serious self-esteem issues, a bisexual YaoiFangirl who would go for AnythingThatMoves, and a DumbBlonde with an AmbiguousDisorder and the inability to get an orgasm, and they are just the tip of the iceberg. Even the sanest characters will be caught in crazy sexual hijinks from time to time.

A type of DysfunctionJunction. For obvious reasons, this trope goes hand in hand with SanitySlippage and BreakTheCutie. Compare BigScrewedUpFamily. Often the OnlySaneMan will be found in conjunction with this trope. [[BreakTheCutie He won't usually]] [[SanitySlippage stay that way]]. OnlySaneByComparison is the trope that uses the least crazy character of a cast full of wackos as the most sane by default and not using an OnlySaneMan.

A type of DysfunctionJunction. For obvious reasons, this trope goes hand in hand with SanitySlippage and BreakTheCutie. Compare BigScrewedUpFamily. Often the OnlySaneMan will be found in conjunction with this trope. [[BreakTheCutie He won't usually]] [[SanitySlippage stay that way]].

A type of DysfunctionJunction. For obvious reasons, this trope goes hand in hand with SanitySlippage and BreakTheCutie. Compare BigScrewedUpFamily. Often the OnlySaneMan will be found in conjunction with this trope. [[BreakTheCutie He won't usually stay that way]].

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'': ''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 [[AxCrazy 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 is an orphaned, Mafia-raised assassin who [[spoiler:killed a man at the age of 18 and ''felt good'' doing it]].

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'': ''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 [[AxCrazy 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 is an orphaned, Mafia-raised assassin who [[spoiler:killed a man at the age of 18 and ''felt good'' doing it]].
* 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]].
* ''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. It only gets worse in the second season as a female pervert and a PsychoLesbian join the main cast.

* The sex comedy webcomic ''WebComic/MenageA3'' has a cast full of characters with various anxieties, dysfunctions and obsessions. The main three characters are an ExtremeDoormat {{Nerd}} with serious self-esteem issues, a bisexual YaoiFangirl who would go for AnythingThatMoves, and a DumbBlonde with an AmbiguousDisorder and the inability to get an orgasm, and they are just the tip of the iceberg. Even the sanest characters will be caught in crazy sexual hijinks from time to time.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': The crew Shepard puts together comprises of everything from a genetically engineered BrokenAce to a girl who was stolen as an infant and conditioned to be an AxCrazy killer to a genetically engineered teenage Krogan who is also AxCrazy to an alien girl [[IllGirl who can't leave her suit without risking serious illness]]. The last is probably the most normal out of any of them.

* Creator/GeorgeRRMartin's ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' has a large cast 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 [[BastardBastard 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.]]]]

* 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 [[BastardBastard 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.]]]]

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* The Sam Raimi Film/SpiderManTrilogy features a wide assortment of nutjobs from Spider-Man’s rogues gallery, including the Green Goblin, Doc Ock (who in this continuity is not acting [[MoreThanMindControl entirely out of his own free will]] and [[spoiler: Harry Osborn]]. This carries over to the characters’ appearances in Film/SpiderManNoWayHome.

* In ''VideoGame/DontStarve'' many characters seem to have had mental issues from even before the events of the game [[Spoiler: (Willow I'm Looking At You)]]. Also, insanity is a game mechanic, so even those who would normally be the [[OnlySaneMan only sane men]] will end up qualifying at some point.

* In ''VideoGame/DontStarve'' many characters seem to have had mental issues from even before the events of the game (Willow I'm Looking At You). Also, insanity is a game mechanic, so even those who would normally be the [[OnlySaneMan only sane men]] will end up qualifying at some point.

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* The sex comedy webcomic ''WebComic/MenageA3'' has a cast full of characters with various anxieties, dysfunctions and obsessions. The main three characters are an ExtremeDoormat HollywoodNerd with serious self-esteem issues, a bisexual YaoiFangirl who would go for AnythingThatMoves, and a DumbBlonde with an AmbiguousDisorder and the inability to get an orgasm, and they are just the tip of the iceberg. Even the sanest characters will be caught in crazy sexual hijinks from time to time.

* The only explanation for the gleeful VehicularCombat carnage in ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'' is that all of the cars' drivers are really messed up. Special points for insanity go to the MonsterClown who drives a ''burning ice cream truck''.