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7	->'''Billy:''' We're a special combat unit with the United States Marine corps, and we've been tracking some Libyan terrorists. In fact, I think we've got them trailed to a bagel shop around the corner.\
8	'''Pawn Shop Clerk:''' Gimme a break.\
9	'''Billy:''' Alright, we’re four escaped lunatics.\
10	'''Pawn Shop Clerk:''' This I believe.
11	-->-- ''Film/TheDreamTeam''
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13	Some characters are just psycho. Then, there are times when every character is. It may be because of a FreudianExcuse, it may be because they're [[BrokenBird horribly broken]], BrainwashedAndCrazy, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going mad from the revelation]], or any number of reasons, but one thing's for sure: None of this cast has all the eggs in their basket.
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15	The types of crazy can range from harmless (CloudCuckoolander) to dangerous (AxCrazy) to somewhere in between (BrokenAce, HeroicBSOD). [[MaskOfSanity Some characters are better at hiding it than others.]]
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17	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 essentially, without an OnlySaneMan in the cast, the least crazy and/or flawed character in a cast full of wackos is [[ClosestThingWeGot the most sane one by default]]. The difference between this and {{Cloudcuckooland}} is that the ''setting'' along with the characters are crazy.
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19	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]], [[DeathSeeker 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.]]
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26	* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou''. Case in point, this work [[DysfunctionJunction/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou has its own page]] for DysfunctionJunction. The cast is made up of characters exemplifying a given trope, such as the LovableSexManiac, {{Tsundere}}, or CuteMute, cranking those tropes as high as they can go, and often adding an extra twist for good measure. Miss Naddy, for example, is introduced as the most stereotypical of anime {{Eagleland}}ers, throwing out random English and dressed in a mid-riff exposing cowgirl getup while working as a teacher. However, the subject she teaches is classical Japanese and we quickly learn that "Naddy" is short for "Nadeshiko", as in YamatoNadeshiko. She's as full blooded-Japanese as everyone else in the cast by that point, but presents her own, idealized view of Americans because it represents the freedom she craved as a child. As the series goes on other odd characters such as the cool swordswoman who acts like a baby or the violence-loving {{Ojou}} are accepted without any issue and one of the most normal members of the cast is the one actively ''trying'' to be abnormal.
27	* ''Manga/Area88''. In the manga, Shin is clearly depressed over his involuntary servitude [[spoiler: and later exhibits symptoms of PTSD after his release, which he soothes with alcohol]]. Mickey has untreated PTSD, which he veils with a [[StepfordSmiler friendly exterior]]. Sela is ''not'' coping with her father's death in a healthy manner. Hoover is wracked with survivor's guilt. Nguyen is a {{sociopathic soldier}} and a sadist. Saki [[spoiler: has a death wish]]. Abdael becomes a drug addict to cope with the events of the story. Kanzaki is a sociopath who has never truly processed the trauma of his mother's suicide. Ryoko has an unhealthy obsession with Shin, which leads her to make irresponsible decisions.
28	* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''. Due to the massive amount of trauma seeing your family/friends/squadmates eaten by fifteen-foot-tall giants causes, many characters in the series have crippling cases of PTSD. Additionally, the implication [[spoiler:of there being people who can transform into Titans]] causes squadmates to distrust each other. Add some BlackAndWhiteInsanity and AxCrazy to these traits, and you get [[SociopathicHero Eren Jäger]], [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge perfectly willing to slaughter every Titan with absolutely no remorse]] [[spoiler:no matter how highly he thought of their human forms or how much of a TragicVillain they are]].
29	* In ''Manga/Brave10'', this trope really comes to the fore with the addition of [[AxCrazy Kamanosuke]] and [[LargeHam Seikai]] to TheTeam, but every Brave has their moments of crazy in service of comedy.
30	* ''Manga/FutureDiary''. So {{God}} is dying and [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne wants twelve people to fight to the death in order to see who will be his replacement]]. Who better to choose than possibly the twelve craziest people on planet Earth? Even [[NonActionGuy our hero Yuki]] isn't immune. [[spoiler:After both his parents are murdered, one right in front of him, he [[BreakTheCutie snaps]] and proceeds to turn from a ShrinkingViolet into a full-blown, [[MoralEventHorizon line-crossing]] VillainProtagonist]]. It can be argued that only those without Diaries are safe from the madness, but even the mental condition of [[BadassNormal Nishijima]], [[KidDetective Akise]], and [[ThoseTwoGuys Yukiteru's three "friends"]] is up for debate.
31	* With a handful of exceptions, ''Manga/GoldenKamuy'' primarily samples its characters from two groups: veterans of the UsefulNotes/RussoJapaneseWar, and convicts who escaped Japan's worst prison in a mass breakout. These are ''not'' demographics known for mental stability, and the story plays it for all it's worth, for both tragedy and comedy. (Then again, even the exceptions can prove to be complete nutcases: for instance, the taxidermist obsessed with GenuineHumanHide and convinced the stuffed corpse of his mother still treats him like a kid was technically just a civilian.)
32	* ''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''.
33	* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is probably a TropeCodifier. All the cast are [[BrokenBird broken]] in various ways, and their crazy ultimately [[spoiler:ends up causing the end of the world]]. It's also notable for showing exactly what kind of [[TraumaCongaLine horrific trauma]] the characters would have to go through to get to this stage.
34	* ''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.
35	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Starting off, about half the cast has curses that change them into different creatures. That aside, just about every character has one or more character flaws that are exaggerated to the point they ought to be committed.
36	* The Ikeda Lab in ''Manga/ScienceFellInLoveSoITriedToProveIt'' consists of two [[TheSpock Spocks]] who spend more time conducting fruitless experiments to try to find out WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove than actually doing their work, a CasanovaWannabe ButtMonkey who is obsessed with characters from dating sims and anime, a perverted gaming addict who is [[TheGadfly continually winding up the others]], and a professor who appears saintly at first glance but flip-flops between indulging his subordinates' whims and [[HairTriggerTemper being incredibly quick to anger with them]], with one [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] to call all the ridiculousness out. And even she is prone to [[NotSoAboveItAll turning into an incredibly bitter person who will rant about her nonexistent love life at the slightest provocation when drunk]]. It doesn't just apply to the current residents of the lab, either--the only alumnus seen is [[ManipulativeBitch someone who will happily instigate conflicts within her friend group]] in order to get more research material for her manga.
37	* ''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.
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41	* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Madness is a recurring theme, as all of Batman's rogues gallery is 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.
42	* 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).
43	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Spider-Man’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 Doctor Octapus.
44	* ''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.
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48	* ''{{Fanfic/Bird}}'' features this as an aspect of the setting. Due to it taking place in Alchemilla Memorial Asylum- a sanitarium for parahumans - and over a third of the characters being patients there, the trope is justified. Also zig-zagged in the sense that not all of the patients are actually insane, Alchemilla is used to contain parahumans that cannot use their powers freely, or who have no control of their powers.
49	* ''Fanfic/{{Brainbent}}'', as a logical result of being set in a mental health clinic.
50	* ''[[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.
51	* ''FanFic/FantasyOfUtterRidiculousness'': Between Marisa's kleptomania and desire to ride Megas, the chronically ill and traumatized Patchouli chucking Gensokyo's primary incident resolver at said mech, Reimu herself ''being okay with it'', and Coop and Jamie's near-total obliviousness towards the damage they're causing to Gensokyo just by being themselves, this is Reisen's opinion of the entire situation during the Extra Stage. That's without getting into the antics of those who are present during the conflict but have no bearing on its outcome.
52	* Pretty much everyone in ''FanFic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing'' suffers from PTSD or similar issues, since the story is set in a rape survivors' support group. Many characters have other issues on top of that, such as several having Cluster B disorders of [[InsaneEqualsViolent various]] [[MoralSociopathy types]], [[WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys Eliza's]] ability to talk to animals [[AdaptationalMundanity being replaced with childhood schizophrenia]] which makes her hallucinate animals talking, and [[WesternAnimation/BarbieAsThePrincessAndThePauper Julian]] having suffered GasLighting until he believes he actually did commit the murders he was framed for and refuses to believe Anneliese and Erika are really alive.
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56	* ''Film/TheCrazyFamily'': Well... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the family]].
57	* Nobody from ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'' could be called completely sane. Crazed terrorists hijack Air Force One, crashing it into Manhattan, which has been converted into a huge walled prison housing America's worst criminals. The Justice Department sends a convicted felon with a time-bomb motivator into Manhattan to rescue the President. There, TheHero encounters the BigBad Duke of New York, and his army of crazed sociopaths. The lunacy is contagious, as the President seizes a firearm and has a KickTheDog moment during his rescue.
58	* ''Film/HouseOf1000Corpses'', and especially it's sequels, where the focus shifts to its LaughablyEvil VillainProtagonist ensemble, are filled with the dangerous killer kind.
59	* ''Film/TheThinMan'': Although protagonists [[VitriolicBestBuds Nick and Nora]] are relatively normal, practically every possible suspect in the Wynant case is some kind of weirdo. Mimi is a [[GoldDigger gold-digging]] EvilStepmother master of ImplausibleDeniability, Gilbert is a NoSocialSkills NightmareFetishist CloudCuckooLander, Morelli is an AntiVillain crook with a HairTriggerTemper, Nunheim is a nervous [[TheStoolPigeon informant]] who [[spoiler:suffers BlackmailBackfire]], his (quickly ex) girlfriend is a [[DomesticAbuse violent]] loudmouth, and Jorgenson is a [[TheQuietOne near-silent]] LazyHusband with a checkered past who it turns out [[spoiler:[[OopsForgotIWasMarried never bothered to divorce his first wife]].]] [[TheIngenue Dorothy Wynatt]], her LoveInterest Tommy, and the family lawyer [=MacCaulay=] are the only [[OnlySaneMan truly sane ones]] of the bunch, but then Dorothy suffers SanitySlippage when she finds out [[spoiler:her father might be a murderer]] and [=MacCaulay=] [[spoiler:turns out to ''be'' the murderer!]] The film [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] all the insanity when Nora speaks to a waiter at the SummationGathering dinner party.
60	-->'''Nora:''' [[AmbiguousSyntax Waiter, will you serve the nuts?]] I mean, will you serve the guests the nuts?
61	* 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''.
62	* The main characters of ''Film/SafetyNotGuaranteed'' are socially off-kilter to some degree -- Darius is smothering her personal trauma with an [[DeadpanSnarker industrial-strength dose of snark]], Jeff is desperately seeking to relive his GloryDays one way or another, Arnau is a BollywoodNerd with NoSocialSkills, and Kenneth has enough issues to make them seem ''normal'' by comparison.
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66	* ''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.
67	* ''Literature/{{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]].
68	* ''Literature/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.
69	* By the same author as ''Baccano!'', ''Literature/{{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]].
70	* The only completely sane characters in ''Literature/TheLockedTomb'' both died in the first part of the first book. The two protagonists are Harrow, a HauntedHeroine with schizophrenia and self-loathing so severe that she attempted suicide at the age of ''nine'' before falling in love with the dead body of TheAntichrist, and a SadClown, Gideon, who grew up hated by everyone and has a complicated hate-love relationship with Harrow that only gets more complicated and traumatic as the series goes on. Then you get the Lyctors who have 10,000 years of compounding trauma, Coronabeth and Ianthe's borderline incestuous resentment and dependency on each other, God's whole deal, and for everyone else, the endless and pointless war grinding all of humanity down for millennia. Even the most well-adjusted characters like Palamedes and Camilla are codependent to an unhealthy degree. The only heroine who is somewhat happy (if somewhat prone to tantrums, and SecretlyDying) is Nona, [[spoiler:because she's the only splinter of sanity and joy left in [[MadGod Alecto]].]]
71	* Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's short story ''The Method of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether'' takes place in an insane asylum, with the narrator being a visitor who is either insane himself or too [[UnfazedEveryman absurdly credulous]] to realize that the inmates have taken over and are impersonating the doctors.
72	* Creator/GeorgeRRMartin's ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' has a large cast suffering from mental issues: the worst examples are Ramsay Bolton, an evil 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.]]]]
73	* 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.
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77	* ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'', in which every cast member might take a turn at being the OnlySaneMan, if only to contrast the unbalanced personalities of all the others. We get:
78	** Raymond Barone - ManChild.
79	** Robert Barone - self-pitying depressive, TheEeyore.
80	** Frank Barone - multiple complexes, TheNapoleon.
81	** Marie Barone - passive-agressive manipulator, control freak, "JewishMother".
82	** Debra Barone - usually the OnlySaneMan, though known to lash out in frustration
83	** Amy [=McDougall=] - ExtremeDoormat - [[BewareTheNiceOnes but only up to a point]].
84	** Peter [=McDougall=] - ManChild, BasementDweller, TheThingThatWouldNotLeave.
85	** Gianni - KavorkaMan.
86	** Hank [=McDougall=] - religious freak.
87	* The cast of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' is eccentric, to say the least. Even Kermit, the OnlySaneMan (er, frog), is NotSoAboveItAll; as he once points out, he's the one who ''hired'' the others.
88	* 'Experimental' soap ''Series/NightAndDay'' does away with all pretensions of sanity in its characters. Evil ‘Aunt Rachel’ Culgrin is perhaps the most outlandish, but sociopathic snarker Ryan Harper also deserves an honourable mention. Towards the end of the run, Frankie Radcliffe and Kate Ellis lose the plot with their book-burning Virgin Army – but in truth, most other characters also display considerable crazy at one time or another.
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92	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Strangely enough, every faction is this to at least one other.
93	** The orks are an entire race of war-loving maniacs who will [[LeeroyJenkins happily charge into melee firing hopelessly inaccurate guns]].
94	** Chaos has a very strong tendency to [[TheCorrupter warp the minds of those who follow it]], and sometimes deliberately sabotage their allies' plans (even if it costs them the victory) because the voices told them to (and sometimes because it would empower said allies' god at the expense of the traitor's).
95	** The Tau are viewed with suspicion by humanity, as they lack the "defend to the very end" mentality that's been drilled into them for millenia. [[PragmaticVillainy Conversely, the Tau view the humans as completely insane for fighting to the death over a worthless rock instead of retreating to save lives and resources]].
96	** Imperials are seen as willfully blind fools by Eldar and Chaos, worshipping a god who was never one in the first place and clinging to traditions that cause them more harm than enemy actions.
97	** Craftworld Eldar and their evil(er) cousins the Dark Eldar were split when the Eldar Empire succeeded in birthing a new Chaos god(dess) of excess and hedonism, with the latter now having to cause (and receive) pain to survive lest their souls be eaten by Slaanesh, and the former being a dying race unable to bear the weight of their hubris.
98	** "Only the insane have strength enough to prosper. Only those who prosper may truly judge what is sane."
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102	* ''Theatre/KingLear'' is a deconstruction. Lear himself has [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Gone Mad From The Revelation]] of his daughters' betrayal (until he grabs the SanityBall in Act V); Egdar is [[ObfuscatingInsanity in disguise as a mad peasant]], spouting WordSaladPhilosophy and paranoia-fueled ramblings; and [[TheFool the Fool]] was ambiguously sane to begin with and isn't helping matters. Kent, meanwhile, is also in disguise and usually imitating a [[WigDressAccent ridiculous accent]]. HilarityEnsues [[https://goodticklebrain.com/king-lear-act-three for much of Act III]].
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106	* 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.
107	** Sammy Lawrence eventually turned to worshiping Bendy.
108	** Susie Campbell began identifying with Alice Angel to the point she called "herself" an "angel". [[spoiler:It got to the point where she agreed to take part in Joey Drew's experiments to bring his cartoon characters to life and ended up becoming a physical version of Alice Angel and died during the process.]]
109	** Norman Polk ended up [[spoiler:sticking a projector on his head and turning into an ink monster.]]
110	** Grant Cohen was driven utterly mad by the company's money problems, up to turning his office into a RoomFullOfCrazy.
111	** Bertrum Piedmont grew so obsessed with making sure people recognized his work that he was corrupted by [[spoiler: the ink and had his head implanted into a merry-go round.]]
112	** It's uncertain what happened to Wally Franks, but in a Twitter AMA, it's been implied that his mind is "waaaay outta here". [[spoiler: Chapter 5 reveals he took off to Florida. [[MetaphoricallyTrue Which still counts,]] [[OnlyInFlorida if you think about it.]]]]
113	** Joey Drew himself seems to be the first (or among the first) to lose his mind; in an old recording, Wally Franks complains about Joey's attempts to "appease the gods" and then comments that he thinks he's lost his mind. [[spoiler:In the epilogue, it's shown that Joey has changed his ways over the past 30 years and is no longer the crazy, power-hungry, and money-grubbing BadBoss he was when running the studio, even asking Henry for help ''in person'' to destroy the Ink Demon (AKA a failed attempt at creating Bendy).]]
114	* ''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.
115	* ''VideoGame/DieAnstalt'' is an AdventureGame whose main characters are patients in the eponymous asylum, each suffering from a different trauma or disorder.
116	* 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.
117	* The party of ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' is made up of a sociopathic BloodKnight, a [[FantasticRacism human-hating]] dragon, a {{Yandere}} bard, an elven ChildEater, a PedophilePriest, and a six-year-old boy who kills his own sister in one route. Also, the {{Messianic\|Archetype}} BarrierMaiden they're trying to save [[BrotherSisterIncest has incestuous feelings for her brother]]. A LetsPlay[=er=] [[http://lparchive.org/Drakengard/Update%2037/ explains]]:
118	-->'''LetsPlay/TheDarkId:''' Welp. It looks like nobody in this game is making it to the end without some deep irredeemable aspect to their character. Before you say there's still Seere, no. The kid is fucked up too. We've just yet to see it.
119	* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'': This particular entry in the ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' series has a very [[CloudCuckooLander quirky and zany]] cast of characters. Ranging from a prince obsessed with muscles to a happy-go-lucky thief to a priest who's a party animal and so much more. And that's just the main party! Surprisingly, the protagonist is usually the [[OnlySaneMan most]] [[DeadpanSnarker normal]] of the bunch, despite their strange character design compared to everyone else.
120	* ''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 who can't leave her suit without risking serious illness. The last is probably the most normal out of any of them.
121	* ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}''. Aside from the protagonist, every character met is some form of raving lunatic. [[spoiler:At the end, the protagonist becomes part of the crazy when he gets possessed by the [[EldritchAbomination Walrider]] ]].
122	* This describes nearly everyone in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''. Ranging from mild neurosis to full-blown psychosis, everyone has issues. A good part of the game is spent trying to cure some of them.
123	* ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'': Everyone in this cast is weird in their own way. You've got dancing fish (Suketoudara), flamboyant fashionista skeletons (Dapper Bones), lovestruck fighters (Rulue), and the list goes on. Not even the main characters are exempt from weirdness. Arle may be the snarky Straight Man to everyone's Wise Guy, but she's not above being playful or a complete screwball in print media.
124	* ''VideoGame/SINoALICE'': Every single Character in Library is bloodthirsty to the extent that they'll kill each other for their own selfish desires, and more than a few of them display [[AxCrazy violent mental instability]]. Makes sense, considering that one ending reveals that [[spoiler:they were all made up by an extremely troubled young girl]].
125	* Another example from Creator/BioWare; the player parties in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' can certainly fall here, especially on the Imperial side. The Agent's party (probably the weirdest of the lot) has a bomb-throwing anarchist, a diplomat who [[GoingNative went native]] with an insect species, a brilliant operative-scientist who [[ProfessorGuineaPig experimented on himself]] [[PlagueZombie with rakghoul DNA]], and can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transform into one]], a human who was raised among the Chiss (because she's a low-level Force Sensitive and would have been killed by the Sith otherwise), and a sociopath gynoid who openly dislikes organics and was built by a race of {{Precursors}}.
126	* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': The Heavy speaks to his sandwich and has a little bed for his minigun next to his own, the Medic has a love of mad science, the Demoman is a drunken workaholic, the Soldier is a delusional warmonger [[MilesGloriosus who insists he's the greatest despite having been rejected from every branch of the military]], the Sniper has a bit of cold sociopathy to him [[{{Squick}} (and fights with a jar of his own pee)]], the Spy [[NotSoAboveItAll acts like he's classy but childlishly mocks his opponents]], the Scout shows [[ItsAllAboutMe extreme narcissism and bragging from kills]], and the Pyro... [[PyroManiac dear]] [[ObliviouslyEvil god]], [[FantasticDrug the Pyro]]. The closest member of the team to sane is the Engineer, who's friendly but still shows some signs of sociopathy and paranoia beneath his kindly demeanor.
127	* 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''. ''Black'' even has a cast mostly composed of inmates from an [[BedlamHouse insane asylum]].
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131	* Practically every single potential [[FetishizedAbuser "boyfriend"]] in ''VisualNovel/BoyfriendToDeath'' has several psychological issues and [[AxCrazy zero qualms]] about inflicting [[CruelAndUnusualDeath a brutal death to their captive]].
132	* 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, however, he does admit that murder was his initial plan before Shion triggered a flashback to the above arc.]]
133	** Heck, in the PS ports, there's actually an arc where everyone who can go crazy does at the same time. In Tsukiotoshi-hen, [[spoiler:Satoko suffers from Hinamizawa Syndrome due to her uncle's abuse again, and this time, Keiichi, Rena, and Shion all try to kill him and all come down with Hinamizawa Syndrome as well, leading to paranoia ricocheting against more paranoia]]. The result was billed as the worst possible ending.
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137	* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', being about a world run by MadScience, is unsurprisingly full of [[MadScientist mad scientists]].
138	* 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.
139	* 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 any gender, 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.
140	* 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.
141	* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': Every member of Tagon's Toughs [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill really, really likes violence and big guns and/or explosions]]. When Petey tells Schlock he's trying to put a bunch of dangerous sociopaths out of commission, Schlock's response is to [[BloodKnight power up his plasma cannon and ask where they are]].
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145	* Borderline every [[TheAbridgedSeries abridging parody]] makes every character insane to some extent.
146	* ''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.
147	* ''WebVideo/FilthyFrank'': The OnlySaneMan [[NauseaFuel commits all sorts of disgusting acts]], kills baby animals and [[OccidentalOtaku weeaboos]] for fun, and once locked a man in isolation because...[[DisproportionateRetribution he asked him to check out his mixtape]]. Despite this, he's the ''good'' guy.
148	* Almost everybody in ''WebAnimation/GossipCity'' is a CloudCuckooLander to some degree and half of the series' runtime is spent on the cast's random antics.
149	* ''[[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]]), not to mention taking games of chess [[SeriousBusiness FAR]] too seriously.
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153	* ''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.
154	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In the later seasons, it becomes apparent that everyone in Quahog all clearly have some major issues going on. This is played for laughs.
155	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''. The OnlySaneMan is TheGrimReaper. That really says it all.
156	* You could probably count the number of perfectly sane ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' characters in one hand, and even those are easily prone to SanitySlippage now and again. [[MeaningfulName The title should give it away]].
157	* Every single character on ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' is unstable and unhinged, and it's stated in-universe that the four main characters are all in need of serious therapy for their issues.
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