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* MistakenForInsane: Someone who's sane, but is mistaken for being insane.
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* CompanionFood: Someone becomes friends or obsessed with a piece of food.
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* DerangedParkRanger: Where else would a crazy, antisocial person work?
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* EccentricArtist: "Creative" and "loony" go hand in hand.


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* LoonyLibrarian: Too many books and Dewey decimialization can drive you crazy.
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* IdentityBreakdown: Not being certain of who or what you are can drive one insane.
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* EccentricFashionDesigner: Fashion designers and their styles tend to be weird and quirky.
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* YoureInsane

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* YoureInsaneYoureInsane: Rebuking a person for their dangerous or absurd actions or intentions by calling them a maniac to their face.
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* ApopheniaPlot: A character irrationally obsesses over random events in the belief that they're part of a conspiracy.
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* CuckooFingerTwirl: A classic hand or limb gesture to indicate someone in a complete loon.
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* CuckooFingerTwirl
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* CuckooFingerTwirl
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* DerangedDance: A character dances as a sign of failing sanity.

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* IRejectYourReality: Character is selectively naïve to certain areas of realism.


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* InTheDreamingStageOfGrief: Devastated character copes by convincing themselves it is/was just a bad dream.
* IRejectYourReality: Character is selectively naïve to certain areas of realism.

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* SociopathicSoldier: Military personnel who find the death and destruction brought by war to be entertaining.

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* SociopathicHero: It's a good thing that this crazy psycho is (nominally) on the side of good, and (mostly) focuses their aggression on the bad guys.
** HeroicComedicSociopath: And they can be pretty damn funny when they do bad things too.
* SociopathicSoldier: Military personnel who find the death and destruction brought by war to be entertaining.''entertaining''.



* TheSociopath: They don't really see anyone else around them as ''people''.
* SociopathicHero: It's a good thing this sociopath is on our side.

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* {{Sadist}}: Someone who really ''enjoys'' hurting other people.
* TheSociopath: They don't really see anyone else around them as ''people''.
* SociopathicHero: It's a good thing this sociopath is on our side.
being ''people''.



* {{Sadist}}: Someone who really enjoys hurting people.

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* {{Sadist}}: Someone who really enjoys hurting people.TheSchizophreniaConspiracy
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* WanderingWalkOfMadness
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* CastFromSanity: Magic or a superpower makes you lose sanity every time it's used.
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* MadnessSharedByTwo: Two people share the same delusion.
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* NakedNutter: Casual nudity as a sign of madness.
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* SerialKiller: Frequently driven to kill by an insanity.

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* InsanityEstablishmentScene: That point in the story where a character is revealed to be insane.



* OceanMadness:

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* OceanMadness:OceanMadness
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* WrongfullyCommitted: A sane character is wrongfully committed to a mental asylum.
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* PolarMadness: Too much time in the ice can drive people insane...
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* DerangedTaxiDriver: A crackpot cabbie.
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* UnstablePoweredWoman: A powerful woman can't handle said power and might undergo a SanitySlippage.

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[[AC:Sane Characters]]

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[[AC:Craziness by Career]]

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[[AC:Crazy-Eccentric]]

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[[AC:Causes]] - Tropes about the origins and instigations of mental disorder.

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[[folder:Causes]]
Tropes about the origins and instigations of mental disorder.disorder.
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[[AC:Conditions]] - Issues, crises, things that are running through the sufferer's head.

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[[folder:Conditions]]
Issues, crises, things that are running through the sufferer's head.head.
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[[AC:Symptoms]] - Ways to show the audience that a character is not of sound mind.

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[[folder:Symptoms]]
Ways to show the audience that a character is not of sound mind.mind.
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[[AC:Remedies & Resolutions]]

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[[folder:Remedies
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[[AC:Other]]

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* YoureInsane:

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* YoureInsane: YoureInsane
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* AGodAmI: A character believes themselves to be {{God}} and acts accordingly.
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* AGodAmI: A character believes themselves to be {{God}} and acts accordingly.
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* CreepyCave: Caves are known for their ability to drive people to insanity.

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