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    Anime and Manga 

Dr. Satomi: You're insane!
Dr. Muraki: Finally catching on.

"YOU CRAZY BASTARD!!!"
Athrun Zala to Shinn Asuka, in response to the latter trying to cut down his own girlfriend for trying to stop their fight; Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny

Seto Kaiba: Mokuba....? [to Pegasus] You monster! What have you done? What have you done to him?!
Maximillian Pegasus: It's just a little magic trick.
Kaiba: Tell me! What have you done?!
Pegasus: I've ensured your cooperation, for you see, Mokuba's soul is now imprisoned in a place where the locks can't be picked.
Kaiba: You're mad!

    Audio Plays 

Nobody No-One: Let's have some more home truths, eh, to fill up the tank? Number one, your mother suffered. She lived like an animal for years, she was brainwashed into doing very bad things, and then, she died a horrible death. Number two, the Doctor, whatever you think of him, will also be dead within the next four or five minutes. Oh, and three, if you can't run very fast, you'll regret it.
Hex: Run?
Nobody No-One: No, you're supposed to say, "Why?", and then, I say, "Because I'll have killed the Doctor before you make it back to warn him, stupid!", and then, as an afterthought, I'll add, "And because I just dropped a grenade in the duck pond." Seriously! 2, 3...
Hex: [running away] You're really proper mad!
Nobody No-One: [bellowing] Mad? I'm furious!

Erimem: You're insane!
The Jester: Define sanity, dear Erimem! If traveling randomly through time and space, nipping history here, tucking the future there, is your idea of a nine-to-five, then you've got me—I'm ma-ma-mad! Mad as a hatter, mad as a march hare!

    Comic Books 

Fu Manchu: Now I stand alone, the emperor of an invisible, world-wide empire opposed to all recognized governments — and I swear to and by the gods of Cathay that I shall destroy them this time for their mulish stupidity! Surely now, my son, you understand the wisdom and justice of my course.
Shang-Chi: Father... you speak with absolute assurance, completely convinced that your vision is the only proper way — and, like all men who speak thus... you are mad!
Special Marvel Edition #15, featuring Master of Kung Fu

    Fan Works 

Fluttershy: There's still one thing I don't understand. Why are you making the rest of us suffer if it was the princesses you wanted gone?
Jewelius: It was nothing personal, really. Most of you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. However, there was "who would possibly want to do anything that could ruin such a glorious event like the wedding of the wonderful Princess Mi Amore Cadenza". Let's just say what you all said that time didn't sit too well with me.
Rarity: You're mad!

"Are you fucking crazy, pig boy? We'd break our legs if we jumped out!"
Cooper, Mirai SMP

Marcy: [Broken Smile] But look at how much we’ve all grown! Look at how close you and Sprig have become! And think about the future that we all can be a part of! We can be leaders! We can be heroes! We can make our own luck, our own fate! Andrias even said he would give the Earth to us!
Anne: [horrified] Ar-Are you insane—?!

"What kind of man are you?" cried Buster. "You're evil... sadistic... a megalomaniac... you're totally insane!"
"Why thank you!" said Zarkendorf. "Those are indeed my best qualities." He waved his hand in a dismissive gesture. "I grow weary of this clichéd dialogue. You may dispose of them at your leisure, Lonzak."

Valerie Payne: And just when I thought we had enough crazy here...
Nataline Homato: I'm not crazy for wanting to keep the world safe.
Valerie Payne: Then let me rephrase: for attacking someone you don't know... you're insane!

Kitty Pryde: You're insane!
Jack O' Lantern: Yeah, tell me something I don't know!
Ultimate Spider-Woman: Change with the Light

Vesola: Are you seriously comparing enslavement to gardening?
Facciolo: Is there really a difference? Controlling the fate of another living being and using them to your advantage?
Vesola: You're insane!

    Film — Animated 

Gen. Mandible: Ah, you've got a fighter spirit, Bala. And that's just what we need to start our new colony. We'll rinse away all the filth from our gutters and start anew... with you by my side as my queen.
Princess Bala: You're crazy!
Gen. Mandible: [smiles and replies calmly] I believe history will see things differently.
Antz

Kirby: (to Toaster) You're insane. (backs away)
Radio: Why, if only we were all wiener dogs, our problems would be solved.
(Beat)
Toaster: What?
Radio: Or maybe it was a basset hound.
Kirby: You're all insane! (backs away further)

Professor Ratigan: Item ninety-six... e-he-he... "a heavy tax shall be leveed against all parasites and spongers, such as the elderly, the infirm, and especially... heh-heh... little children".
Infirm Mouse: That's ridiculous! You're insane!
Professor Ratigan: Perhaps I haven't made myself clear. [Ratigan snatches the Infirm Mouse's crutch] I HAVE THE POWER! [Ratigan snaps the crutch]

Red: You're crazy!
Boingo: Maybe so. But I'm TOP OF THE WOODS NOW, BABY!

Robert: Where are you going?! BACK TO YOUR POSTS! RETURN FIRE!!
Henchman: Against the King's men?! You ARE mad!

Lady Julianna: You're mad!
Ruber: I'm so glad you noticed. I've been working at it for years.

Dr. Benedict: Why do you do these things to me, Pete? Do you enjoy tormenting me? Do you hate me?
Principal Prickly: I don't hate you, Phil. I just think YOU'RE INSANE!
Dr. Benedict: [chuckles] Insane? Well, there you go again, Pete. Insulting me, hurting my feelings, just like 30 years ago. Only this time, Petey... I’m ready!

EPA Official: Sir, I'm afraid you've gone mad with power...
Russ Cargill: Of course I have! You ever tried going mad without power? It's boring! No one listens to you!

Velvet: At least we are putting your talent to good use. I mean your welcome.
John Dory: What?! You're sick!

    Film — Live-Action 

Messenger: Choose your next words carefully, Leonidas. They may be your last as king.
[Leonidas considers his next move for a moment, then draws his sword on the messenger]
Messenger: Madman... You're a madman!
Leonidas: Earth and water... Oh, you'll find plenty of both down there.
Messenger: No man... Persian or Greek, no man threatens a messenger!
Leonidas: You bring the crowns and heads of conquered kings to my city steps! You insult my queen. You threaten my people with slavery and death! Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, Persian. Perhaps you should have done the same...
Messenger: This is blasphemy! THIS IS MADNESS!
Leonidas: Madness...? THIS! IS! SPARTA! [kicks him down a pit]
300

Lois Lane: You're psychotic.
Lex Luthor: That is a three syllable word for any thought too big for little minds.

Johann Schmidt: My weapons contain enough destructive power to decimate every hostile capital on Earth. Quite simply, gentlemen, I have harnessed the power of the gods.
Schneider: Thank you, Schmidt.
Johann Schmidt: For what?
Schneider: For making it clear how obviously mad you are.

Reinhard Heydrich: Nietzsche advises the secret to enjoying life is to live dangerously.
Wilhelm Stuckart: He enjoyed it so much, he went mad.
Reinhard Heydrich: Look at the world and tell me the pleasures of sanity.

"Gabriel... you're INSANE."
John Constantine, Constantine

Liam: What? Are you insane?
Satan: I prefer "sanity-adjacent."

James Bond: Interesting setup, Alec. You break into the Bank of England via computer and then transfer the money electronically, just seconds before you set off the GoldenEye, which erases any record of the transactions. Ingenious.
Alec Trevelyan: Thank you, James.
Bond: But it still boils down to petty theft. In the end, you're just a bank robber. Nothing more than a common thief.
Trevelyan: [glowering at Bond] You always did have a small mind, James. It's not just erasing bank records, it's everything on every computer in Greater London. Tax records, stock market, credit ratings, land registries, criminal records. In 16 minutes and 43... oh, 42 seconds, the United Kingdom will re-enter the Stone Age!
Bond: A worldwide financial meltdown, and all so mad little Alec can settle a score with the world, 50 years on.

Short Round: Hang on, lady, we're going for a ride!
Willie: Oh my God... OH MY GOD! Is he nuts?!
Short Round: He no nuts. He's crazy!

Saruman: We must join with him, Gandalf. We must join with Sauron. It would be wise, my friend.
Gandalf: Tell me, friend...when did Saruman the Wise abandon reason for madness?!

Will: I know that I'm not smarter than you.
Lecter: Then how did you catch me?
Will: You had disadvantages.
Lecter: What disadvantages?
Will: [matter-of-factly] You're insane.

Agent J: You are a former agent of a top-secret organization that monitors extraterrestrials on Earth. We're the Men in Black. We have a situation, and we need your help.
[Beat]
Kevin Brown/Agent K: There's a free mental health clinic at the corner of Lilac and East Valley.

Beckett: [watching Jack's latest Indy Ploy unfold] You're mad.
Captain Jack: Thank goodness for that, because if I wasn't, this would probably never work.

Cosmo: I might even be able to crash the whole damn system. Destroy all records of ownership. Think of it, Marty - no more rich people, no more poor people, everybody's the same. Isn't that what we said we always wanted?
Martin Bishop: Cos, you haven't gone crazy on me, have you?
Cosmo: Who else is gonna change the world, Marty? Greenpeace?
Martin: ...You are crazy.

Jack: You're crazy! You're fuckin' crazy!
Howard Payne: NO! Poor people are crazy, Jack. I'm eccentric.
Speed

Dan Unger: You're insane!
Dr. Barsinsister: I prefer the term "VISIONARY!"

Evey: Are you like...a crazy person?
V: I am quite sure they will say so.

    Literature 

Crayak: I reversed the effects of your meddling. The Mamathisk reverted to cannibalism when they experienced repeated crop failures. A plant parasite. Impossible for them to stop. But as you know, cannibalism is a losing adaptation. The Mamathisk are effectively extinct.
The Ellimist: Are you mad?!
Crayak: No, I don't think so, Ellimist. I'm just a gamer. Like you. But with a perhaps a different philosophy: I don't play the game to save the species, but to annihilate it. I play the game of genocide.

"So, my dear," said Sgorr with satisfaction, "did you enjoy the little surprise?"
"You're mad, Sgorr," whispered Eloin.
"No, my dear, I am quite sane. For only sanity and reason could have seen the dawn of this brave day."
Fire-Bringer, by David Clement-Davies

John Rainbird: I will do this. I will bring them here and you will do all your tests. On the condition that you give the girl to me for disposal.
Cap Hollister: You're mad.
Rainbird: How right you are. And so are you. Mad as a hatter. You sit here and make your plans for controlling a force beyond your comprehension, a force that belongs only to the gods themselves... and one little girl.

I forced myself to look into the moonlight and at John Paul's eyes. I was expecting, hoping that I would see madness there, that I would find a lunatic bathed in a lunar glow. But I was granted no such satisfaction. All I could see was a perfectly rational and calm pair of eyes, staring down at me. If anything, they were twinged with melancholy, not madness.
"You're insane."
I didn't believe it, but I had to say it anyway.

Harry Potter: You're mad. You're mad!
Barty Crouch, Jr.: Mad, am I? We'll see! We'll see who's mad, now that the Dark Lord has returned, with me at his side! He is back, Harry Potter, you did not conquer him - and now - I conquer you!

"You're psychotic!!"
Torstyn to Dr. Hatch, Michael Vey, "The Final Spark"

Ola: You're insane.
Talon: You know, lover, I've often wondered that myself. It's possible the experience drove me quite out of my mind. Of course, suddenly absorbing 5,372 separate and distinct lifetimes in a matter of minutes is bound to put a little fuzz around the edges of any person's mental faculties.

Crookedstar: You're crazy!
Mapleshade: But I'm also dead. Which means you can't hurt me!

Susannah said, "You are insane, if you believe that."
"YES, BUT I'M NOT CRAZY," Blaine said, and went into another hysterical laughing fit.

    Live-Action TV 

The Clairvoyant: Phil, this is me being honest.
Phil Coulson: No... this is you being a psychopath.

Vir Cotto: Londo, this is insane!
Londo Mollari: Insanity is part of the times! You must learn to embrace the madness. Let it fire you.

The Doctor: Don't you see what this is going to all mean to all the people who come to serve Klieg, the all-powerful? Why, no country, no person would dare to have a single thought that was not your own. Eric Klieg's own conception of the... of the way of life!
Klieg: Brilliant! Yes, yes, you're right. Master of the world...
The Doctor: Well, now I know you're mad. I just wanted to make sure.

The Master: As soon as you saw the votes swinging my way, you abandoned your parties and you jumped on the Saxon bandwagon. So, this is your reward.
[The Master puts on a gas mask]
Cabinet Member: Excuse me, prime minister, do mind my asking... what is that?
The Master: [muffled] It's a gas mask.
Cabinet Member: I beg your pardon?
The Master: [briefly lifting his mask] It's a gas mask.
Cabinet Member: Yes, but, um, why are you wearing it?
The Master: [muffled] Because of the gas.
Cabinet Member: I'm sorry?
The Master: [lifting his mask again] Because of the gas!
Cabinet Member: What gas?
The Master: This gas!
[gas floods the room]
Cabinet Member: You're insane!
[The Master grins and gives a double thumbs-up]

"I'm the Doctor, you're nuts, and I'm going to stop you."
The Doctor, Doctor Who, "The Crimson Horror"

Soldier: Are you out of your mind?!
The Doctor: No, I'm inside a Dalek!

Nardole: You are completely out of your mind!
The Doctor: How is that news to anyone?!

Ivan: Are you out of your mind?!
The Doctor: Yes, completely. But that's not a recent thing.

Simon: You're out of your mind!
Early: That's between me and my mind.

Arthur Thursby: You're insane!
Judge Harry T. Stone: They called me mad at the university!

Caroline Chisholm: I think you're displaying all the classic symptoms of someone who's going completely and utterly insane!
Governor Frontbottom: [clucks like a chicken] I can't imagine what gives you that impression.

General Thursday: You're crazy!
Martha Wayne: I'm beginning to understand that. It's very liberating, actually.
Pennyworth, "Highland Wedding"

Doyle: You must be out of your mind!
Chives: Yes, I've considered that as one line of defense.
The Professionals, "In The Public Interest"

Sherlock: You're insane.
Moriarty: You're just getting that now?

    Podcasts 

"Has that ever hurt a psycho's feelings?"
Bridget Nelson, RiffTrax, on a typical "You're Insane!" exchange in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

    Pro Wrestling 

WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!
Jeff Hardy in regards to his brother attacking him with a Roman Candle, The Final Deletion

    Video Games 

Batman: You are insane.
The Riddler: No! That would imply either mental illness or derangement. I suffer from neither.

Ilona: We saw it. We saw everything.
Jonathan Irons: You saw what?
Ilona: You knew about the attacks. All those innocent people—dead!
Irons: You saw a forged recording from a terrorist.
Ilona: You're insane! You're a monster!

Vladimir Makarov: You know who I am?
President Vorshevsky: Yes.
Makarov: Then you know what I want.
Vorshevsky: You're insane.

Ribbons: He is definitely insane.
Low: Is that your opinion as a journalist?.
Ribbons: It's my opinion as a sane person.

Bishop: You want to meld believers' minds into a computer network? Judas, are you crazy?
Judas: Flesh is no more than a cage. Only when we cast off the shackles of our bodies will we attain immortality, Bishop.
Bishop: Hmph, do not try to rope us into this because of your sickness. Be realistic. Simply discover the name of God. He himself will grant the eternal life you seek.

Green Arrow: You're insane!
Regime Superman: I'm not the one fighting Superman!
Injustice: Gods Among Us clash quote

Joker: We've more in common that you care to admit.
Grid: I am rational, you are mad.
Joker: Not mad, differently sane.

Black Adam: As sovereigns, we have much in common.
Darkseid: I am a god, not a king!
Black Adam: You're a maniac, not a god.

Protagonist: You're a madman!
Jorak Uln: Ahhh, what's a little mental instability between tutor and pupil?

Cole: You fuck young boys, Valdez?
Valdez: ARE YOU A MADMAN?!

Sigma: Our potential is limitless!
X: You think you have potential? You're insane, Sigma!

"I was wrong. You're not greedy... you're batshit insane!"
Raiden, on Senator Steven Armstrong, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Alys Brangwin: (trying to reason with the Disc-One Final Boss) Zio! Do you understand what's going on? If we don't stop the systems that are running out of control, Motavia itself is going to become uninhabitable. You must let Demi...
Zio: Total annihilation of life, what a fine thing! Death to all that lives! Destruction to all that has form! That is indeed my desire!
Chaz Ashley: That's crazy!
Zio: My god will not tolerate any life forms in Algo! Everything must be wiped out. And I, with these very hands, will do just that!
Chaz: That means you yourself will be gone too!
Hahn Mahlay: You... You're out of your mind!

"Change the world? Words of a madman, I say."
Schirach Fühler, Rosenkreuzstilette

Peppy Hare: THIS is the enemy's bio-weapon?!
Falco Lombardi: Andross is an insane fool!

NPC: You're insane!
Sith Inquisitor: Insane is such a harsh word. I prefer "differently rational".

Whoreson Junior: And now, my dear Dodo, I believe I'll try a different tool. 'Fraid I'm bored with this one.
Dudu: You're fuckin' barmy, Junior! Anyone tell you that?!
Junior: No. Most say I'm nice...once they get to know me.

    Visual Novels 
"This has gone beyond ridiculous, beyond dumb... This is insanity! The defendant accusing his own defense attorney of murder?"
Winston Payne, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney

Byakuya Togami: I knew you couldn't be just some ordinary person. You're some kind of... abnormality.
Kyoko Kirigiri: Turning your own despair into some kind of fetish... Abnormality doesn't even begin to describe it.
Yasuhiro Hagakure: Like, Genocide Jill is crazy for sure, but... this is a whole 'nother level of nuts!

Phoenix: In other words, the culprit's real escape route was... [a three story jump to] the area outside the Space Center!
Edgeworth: You're
Apollo: Freakin'
Judge: INSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE!

"You're insane! Humanity won't easily be so dominated! You underestimate the strength of the human spirit!"
Gillian Seed to Chin Shu Oh, Snatcher

    Webcomics 

Slick: Precisely! And for that, they called me... mad! MAD!!
Jean: Okaaaay... Now, uh, Slicky, listen... this is important... You're not mad because of your theory... 'cause it looks like your theory is right... You're mad because you're raving like a loonie!!!
Slick: Yeah, and what are you doing right now?
Jean: eep!... [Beat] I'm not that kind of "mad"! I'm just !?$%&!!!'ed off!

Ten: You're barmy! Bonkers! Totally flip-noggan twitters and shakes mad!
Valeyard: You think so? We shall see when the universe is firmly under my control.
Ten: That won't change the fact that you're a loonie.

    Web Videos 

"Friend, you are crazy."
Ratio Tile, Backstroke of the West

Freeza: Ooh, sorry, it's a little hobby of mine. I hear these heroic speeches so wearily often, so I started making a mental list of how many times I've heard certain lines.
Warrior Namekian: You — you insane bastard!
Freeza: One hundred and ninety.

Okay, you're... an insane person. Who needs to be put in a fucking mental asylum. [...] That is mental illness. Check yourself in, man.
Joko to cscoop, Highcraft

Marvin: Jeffy, you are insane!
Jeffy: AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!
SML, "Jeffy's Green Bean Allergy!"

    Western Animation 

Aang: You're insane, aren't you?
The Herbalist: That's right!

Iroh: Please, son, you're confused. You don't know what you're doing!
Jet: Bet you wish he'd help you out with a little fire blast right now.
Zuko: You're the one who needs help!

Barbara Gordon: You're out of your mind!
Shriek: Duh! (hangs up)
Batman Beyond, "Babel"

"I think I finally get it now. [Xander smiles] You're crazy! All of you! Certifiable, in need of medication!"

Tigerhawk: You're insane.
Tarantulas: So they say! Brbrbrbrlaaah!

Darkwing Duck: You are not a well person!
Megavolt: What?! And you're normal?! "I am the cold sore that stings your lip"? We are definitely talking demented!

Gideon: Gah! You're insane!
Bill Cipher: Sure, I am — what's your point?

Dib: You're insane!
Nightmare Dib: No, I'm...! Well, yes, I am.

Superman: You're insane.
Vandal Savage: ...True. But that doesn't mean I'm not good company. Say, you want to come over to my house? [Beat] Like you've got something better to do.

Baatar Jr.: You're insane!
Varrick: You knew that when you hired me!

Snowball: We may have been friends once, but why would I save the mouse that's been sent here to kill me?
Brain: Kill you? We were dropped here by some misguided animal rights activists, and...
Snowball: Ah, so you know my story. They prepared you well.
Brain: Who is "they"?
Snowball: Them! The "they" of them! They're they! They're there! Them!
Brain: You're mad, Snowball.

"Mr. Krabs, listen! I work with SpongeBob all day long, so I know what I'm talking about when I say...YOU ARE COMPLETELY OUT OF YOUR MIND!"
Squidward Tentacles, SpongeBob SquarePants, "Clams"

    Real Life 

"In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane."

    Other/Unsorted 

Bat Thumb: You're INSANE.
No Face: Yes, you've said that already.
Bat Thumb: [trying to think up a better word] You're ins—... you're ins—... [sighs] You're INSANE.
Bat Thumb


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