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* ''WesternAnimation/TheHouse2022:'' Over the course of Chapter 2,
[[spoiler: the bug infestation of the House, the lack of prospective buyers, and the presence of a family of mysterious squatters all end up driving the Developer to the brink of a breakdown... and in the finale, the realization that the squatters are actually giant versions of the insects pushes the Developer over the edge: when he's next seen, the anthropomorphic rat has [[UnanthropomorphicTransformation regressed to animal intelligence]], now crawling on all fours and living in a burrow behind the oven - and he's also chewed off most of his hospital gown, leaving him naked except for his fur.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHouse2022:'' [[spoiler: Over the course of Chapter 2, the bug infestation of the House, the lack of prospective buyers, and the presence of a family of mysterious squatters all end up driving the Developer to the brink of a breakdown... and in the finale, the realization that the squatters are actually giant versions of the insects pushes the Developer over the edge: when he's next seen, the anthropomorphic rat has [[UnanthropomorphicTransformation regressed to animal intelligence]], now crawling on all fours and living in a burrow behind the oven - and he's also chewed off most of his hospital gown, leaving him naked except for his fur.]]

* Throughout ''Literature/{{Repeat}}'', Brad Cohen's GroundhogDayLoop-induced immortality [[WhoWantsToLiveForever slowly erodes his composure]] [[TimeLoopFatigue as time goes on]], eventually culminating in a failed attempt to reunite with Juliet and a psychological meltdown. Here, Brad goes for [[WanderingWalkOfMadness a very confused walk along Lake Michigan]] that ends with him taking all his clothes off - despite the bitter cold - and screaming at the sky.

* Throughout ''Literature/{{Repeat}}'', Brad Cohen's GoundhogDay-induced immortality [[WhoWantsToLiveForever slowly erodes his composure]] [[TimeLoopFatigue as time goes on]], eventually culminating in a failed attempt to reunite with Juliet and a psychological meltdown. Here, Brad goes for [[WanderingWalkOfMadness a very confused walk along Lake Michigan]] that ends with him taking all his clothes off - despite the bitter cold - and screaming at the sky.

* ''Literature/TheBoneMaker'': One MadOracle took to spending his days naked in a public fountain in a busy market square. The choice of locale was intended to drown out his visions with mundane noise; the lack of clothing was presumably because he's [[BarefootPoverty dead broke]] and unhinged from reality.

* {{Downplayed}} in ''[[ComicBook/MarshalLaw Marshal Law: Kingdom of the Blind]]''. The Private Eye, an evil ComicBook/{{Batman}} expy, is first shown getting up from sleeping naked and putting on his costume. This isn't odd in of itself, but the nudity foreshadows that he beats up criminals because he's a weird pervert.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' episode "The Teachings of Don Jake", Jake, Helen and Quinn all eat the poisonous berries and begin hallucinating -- during which, Jake strips down to his underwear.

** Then he gets into a workplace dispute and quits his job, this leaves him with no income whatsoever and continues his downward spiral, during this time he's usually seen only wearing underpants or a towl, sometimes stripping completely.

* Used in one of Literature/TheSaint's trademark eccentric metaphors, where he says that if you see someone tearing up the street naked, covered in blood and holding a cleaver, it may be that they've just got out of the bath, have killed a chicken, and are running off to tell their aunt all about it...but it might be better to just assume they're a homicidal maniac.

* The Bjork stalker [[LoonyFan Ricardo Lopez]] spends a lot of time either half dressed or completely naked; what's interesting is that during his several hours long ApocalypticLog his level of derangement can be measured by the amount of clothes he wears:

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* The vampires in ''Film/{{Daybreakers}}'' begin to physically and mentally degenerate the longer they go without blood, ultimately devolving into insane BatPeople known as "Subsiders." The first one encountered in the film is so frenzied with hunger that he's resorted to [[{{Autocannibalism}} feeding on himself]], and has stripped completely naked - the better to show off his winged, inhuman body.

* The plot of ''Film/DrTAndTheWomen'' truly kicks off when Kate Travis mentally regresses to childhood, strips off all her clothes, and plays naked in a nearby fountain - resulting her being committed to a mental hospital.

* ''Film/Everest2015'': It's repeatedly stated how the low-oxygen environment affects the mind, sometimes resulting in people spontaneously taking their clothes off despite the cold (known as paradoxical undressing).
* During the backstory to ''Film/ExorcistTheBeginning'', Monsieur Bession went [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Mad From The Revelation]] after spending a little too much time at [[DugTooDeep the Turkana dig]] and had to be carted off to an asylum in Nairobi. When Merrin finally goes to see him in the latter half of the film, he's stripped down to his underwear - revealing that he's also scratched a swastika in his chest. Then he slices his throat before Merrin's stunned eyes.

* In Creator/RomanPolanski's ''Film/Macbeth1971'', as well as the 2006 film version, Lady Macbeth performs the classic "Out Damned Spot" SanitySlippage soliloquy while in the nude.

** The eponymous villain is almost always naked and - judging by the demented laughter, frenzied chanting and animal cruelty - is barely sane. Plus, [[FanDisservice she's also extremely elderly]].
** After being accidentally stranded in the forest, [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Caleb]] finds himself face to face with the Witch herself. He later turns up back at the family farm, delirious, incoherent and stark naked. [[spoiler: It's not specified what the Witch did to Caleb, though [[RapeAsDrama the implications aren't nice]]; whatever happened, it eventually ends up killing him.]]
** At the very end of the film, [[spoiler: Thomasin plunges over the DespairEventHorizon after the rest of her family is killed, leaving her stranded alone at the farm with no means of providing for herself and no help for miles. Calling out to Black Phillip, she accepts a literal DealWithTheDevil and - at his prompting - strips nude and wanders out into the forest to join the other Witches. As she rises naked into the night with the rest of the coven, [[LaughingMad the look]] [[CryLaughing on her face]] indicates that she's finally crossed the line into madness.]]

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* ''Literature/TheMagicians:''

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* ''Series/BreakingBad'', "[[Recap/BreakingBadS2E3BitByADeadBee Bit By A Dead Bee]]": {{Exploited|Trope}} by Walt when he needs an alibi for his absence after being kidnapped by Tuco. Having managed to hitch a lift back into town, he wanders into a supermarket, stripping naked with a vacant stare, and [[PlayingSick passes it off]] as a days-long fugue state brought on by stress over his terminal illness.

* In ''Series/Watchmen2019'', the first indication that Adrian Veidt has gone a little bit loopy in the decades following his victory is a scene in which he's found stark naked and writing while a servant massages his leg muscles. [[spoiler: He's actually been banished to a PrisonDimension on Europa, and spending several years trapped with only sycophantic servants for company has left him ever-so-slightly deranged.]]

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** The hard-line [[{{Druid}} Verbena]] sect known as the Lifeweavers are so close to nature that they may reject wearing clothes for long periods of time. For this reason and more, they are often stereotyped - even by other Verbena mages - as being deranged to the point of losing human identity altogether; however, this is ultimately a subversion: despite their rejection of human civilization and (in extreme case) [[VoluntaryShapeshifting even the human form]], Lifeweavers rarely cross the line into madness.

** Having been pushed to the very fringes of society by misfortune and the excesses of more successful vampires, the [[FeralVampires Strigoi bloodline]] has gradually degenerated into insanity: some exist in a state of animalistic rage, others embrace delusions of their former courtly life even while living in graveyards or caves. As such, most of them wear next to nothing - and it's noted some are so deluded that they may actually believe their ragged loincloths to be the finest robes.
* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade:''

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-->'''Dumbledore''': ''[[CatchPhrase Naked time!]]''

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' episode "The Teachings of Don Jake", Jake, Helen and Quinn all eat the poisonous berries and begin hallucinating - during which, Jake strips down to his underwear.

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* In the finale of the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "Rixty Minutes," the alternate Jerry Smith ends up suffering a meltdown that begins with him stripping down to his underwear; by the time the Smiths catch up with the news report, he's already shaved off a huge chunk of his hair, tried to cut off his toe and eat it, been resuscitated by the medics, stolen a mobility scooter and led the police on a LowSpeedChase across town.

* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': Mac goes into a frenzy whenever he eats candy. In both episodes where his condition is triggered, he removes his clothes and runs around the city while screaming for more sugar.

* During ''ComicBook/LockeAndKey #4: Keys To The Kingdom'', Kinsey makes the mistake of revealing the [[CoolKey Head Key]] to Scott and Jamal, both of them opting to experiment with it at length. Unfortunately, this results in Scott having his sanity removed from his mind and deciding to perform Byron naked in front of the entire school, forcing his two friends to rescue him before he embarrasses himself any further.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'', when the archaeologist Dr. Sarcophagus is poisoned with "madness poison", one of the first signs of insanity is that he takes his pants off.