History Main / NakedNutter

* ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest III: The Kindred'' has Brian Forbes, a guy who's only wearing his undies [[spoiler:and has a knife hidden in them]] who's causing problems at Aspen Falls due to babbling about Bathonians, being clearly in a deranged state of mind.

* ''Manga/ElfenLied'': Lucy is frequently naked, and quite evidently off the deep end before the series even starts.

** TristanAndIsolde: Upon learning that one of his friends has a crush on Isolde, Tristan tries to murder him, runs away and likewise lives crazy and naked in the forest for a while.

* ''VideoGame/PoliceQuestIIITheKindred'' has Brian Forbes, a guy who's only wearing his undies [[spoiler:and has a knife hidden in them]] who's causing problems at Aspen Falls due to babbling about Bathonians, being clearly in a deranged state of mind.

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

Compare and contrast FullFrontalAssault, which is most commonly concerned with people ''fighting'' in the nude (sane or otherwise). Can be paired with PsychosexualHorror.

* ''ComicBook/CinemaPurgatorio'' features the usherette of the [[AbominableAuditorium eponymous movie theatre]] growing increasingly eccentric as the story continues and the inhabitants of the building find themselves [[ClosedCircle unable to leave]]. By the final issues, she's given up on wearing clothes entirely and attends to her duties stark naked; for good measure, she responds to the murders depicted in ''One Hell Of A Girl'' by [[NightmareFetishist loudly masturbating]].

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6697 SCP-6697]] AKA Serenity Never is a revived series of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' continuing long past the original finale. Over the course of this anomalous series, George becomes [[NoticingTheFourthWall increasingly aware that something is wrong with reality]], suffers a breakdown over jump cut transitions, and once it becomes clear that events will continue regardless of what he does, begins killing off characters - until he's left as the sole remaining character in the entire show... which continues regardless. [[WhoWantsToLiveForever And he can't kill himself]]. But it's not until he finally notices the laugh track that [[GoMadFromTheRevelation George's sanity really vanishes]]. The next episode features George stripping naked and begging the audience to get the show taken off the air.

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* The Bjork stalker [[LoonyFan Ricardo Lopez]] spent 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:
** At first he usually just has his shirt off, during this time he was planning on killing Bjork but wasn't fully committed to it and still had a job.
** Then he gets a worried call from his mother, [[HopeSpot which temporally brings him back to reality and he decides to try and live a normal-ish life, even considering just letting his obsession with Bjork go]], during this time he is fully clothed (although admittedly still doing bizarre things while doing so).
** 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 towel, sometimes stripping completely.
** And during the [[DrivenToSuicide final tapes]] he completely sheds all his clothing and shaves his head; wearing nothing but some black and red face paint before he AteHisGun
* People high on PCP often disrobe because they feel very hot, even if it's in the dead of winter. Police officers know that if they come into contact with someone who is acting deranged and is naked, they'd better call for backup because restraining someone high on PCP takes several people working together.
* People in the later stages of hypothermia can become disoriented and will sometimes remove their clothing, believing that they're overheating instead of freezing to death.
* An infamous case of this occurred to Jason Russell, American activist best known as the organizer of the Kony 2012 campaign. During this campaign, he was forced to deal with constant backlash from the media and eventually couldn't handle it anymore, suffering a mental breakdown that featured him stripping naked in public. What's worse, the same media then reported on the incident, often blowing it out of proportion (among other things alleging he was also masturbating, which didn't happen). Luckily, it seems to have been a one-off thing, as Russell has recovered after a few weeks and seems to have remained healthy ever since.
* People suffering from schizophrenia sometimes get undressed as a result of their hallucinations. They might believe that they are the only people in the world for example, and therefore the nudity taboo doesn't apply anymore.
* In the midst of the search for his missing wife Lori, Mark Hacking was found running around a parking lot, apparently in the throes of a nervous breakdown, completely naked. . .except for a pair of sandals. The fact that he didn't invoke the BarefootLoon trope the way a truly insane person would have led the detectives to suspect that he was faking in order to be institutionalized and avoid further questioning about his wife's whereabouts. (Although it was never proven that he was faking insanity, he did indeed confess to killing Lori after several days in the hospital).
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Compare and contrast FullFrontalAssault, which is most commonly concerned with people ''fighting'' in the nude (sane or otherwise). Can be paired with PsychosexualHorror

Compare and contrast FullFrontalAssault, which is most commonly concerned with people ''fighting'' in the nude (sane or otherwise).

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': Early on in "You Made Me!", the Earl of Lemongrab (who suffers from a mental disorder) runs through the streets of the Candy Kingdom tearing his clothes off while in the throes of a nervous breakdown.

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* By the events of Morpheus's return in ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989,'' the Justice League have been forced to effectively depower John Dee AKA Dr Destiny by removing his ability to dream so he can't use the Materioptikon. As a result, he's lapsed into [[PsychopathicManchild childish madness]] and been committed to Arkham Asylum, where the staff have forbidden him from wearing clothes in case he tries to hang himself with them. As such, when Dr Dee finally breaks out, he's completely naked until he's given a coat by a terrified motorist ([[KickTheDog who he then murders]]). For good measure, after torturing a diner full of innocent people to death, he doffs the coat and [[FullFrontalAssault challenges Morpheus to a fight for supremacy]]. Oh, and for added horror, Dee is essentially a [[FanDisservice an emaciated, skeletal ghoul]] thanks to his imprisonment.

In fiction, there are many ways of indicating that a character has lost their sanity, some of them subtle, some of them not: disarrayed hair, haunted-looking eyes, filthy clothes, a habit of speaking to people who aren't there, a fixation on certain words or phrases, a tendency to sing inappropriately... or maybe the character has just given up on wearing clothes.