- Bunny Ears Lawyer
- But I Play One on TV
- The Caligula
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Clothes Make the Maniac
- Crazy Awesome
- Crazy Cat Lady
- Crazy People Play Chess
- Crazy Survivalist
- Cute and Psycho
- Death Seeker (usually)
- Defective Detective
- Determinator
- Essential Madness
- Evilly Affable (sometimes!)
- Friend to Psychos
- General Ripper
- Genius Ditz
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath
- Inexplicably Awesome (sometimes)
- Living Doll Collector
- Madwoman in the Attic
- Mad Artist
- Mad Bomber
- Mad Dreamer
- Mad God
- The Mad Hatter
- Mad Oracle
- Many Spirits Inside of One
- The Mentally Disturbed
- Mind Virus
- Murder Makes You Crazy
- Nervous Wreck
- Nietzsche Wannabe
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
- Only Sane Man
- The Ophelia
- Psycho Electro
- Psycho Ex-Girlfriend
- Psycho for Hire
- Psycho Psychologist
- Psycho Supporter
- Psychopathic Manchild
- Pyromaniac
- Reluctant Psycho
- Royally Screwed-Up
- Shattered Sanity
- Shell-Shocked Veteran
- Sociopathic Hero
- Stalker with a Crush
- Stepford Smiler
- Talkative Loon
- They Called Me Mad
- Willing Channeler
- Windmill Crusader
- The Wonka
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
- Yandere
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Praying to yourself, my Lord? That's not a good sign. Or perhaps it is. Prince of Madness, and all that.
—Haskil, Shivering Isles
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Any tropes involving madness or insanity. Except those dealing with Hollywood Psych.
These can run the gamut from the weird but generally happy chaos that inhabits the Cloudcuckoolander's mind to the darkest corners of a person's shattered psyche.
- Being Tortured Makes You Evil (and/or crazy)
- Brainwashed and Crazy
- Break the Cutie
- Chronic Villainy
- Cuckoo Nest
- Demonic Possession
- Despair Event Horizon
- Driven to Madness
- Driven to Villainy
- Gaslighting
- Go Mad From the Isolation
- Go Mad from the Revelation
- Go Among Mad People
- Hannibal Lecture
- Infectious Insanity
- Love Makes You Crazy
- Ludicrous Speed
- Madden Into Misanthropy
- Mind Rape
- No Medication for Me
- Psycho Serum
- Rape Leads to Insanity
- Sanity Meter
- Split Personality Takeover
- There Are No Therapists
They said it was impossible to create an index covering all the insanity tropes! They said it couldn't be done! They Called Me Mad! WELL WHO'S MAD NOW?! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
M
- Make My Index Live (47 P)
T
- This Index Has Had a Hard Life (33 P)
Pages in category "Madness Tropes"
The following 198 pages are in this category, out of 198 total.
B
C
- Cabin Fever
- Caligula's Horse
- The Caligula
- Chewbacca Defense
- Chronic Villainy
- Clothes Make the Maniac
- Cloudcuckooland
- Companion Cube
- Consulting Mister Puppet
- Crazy Awesome
- Crazy Cat Lady
- Crazy Consumption
- Crazy Memory
- Crazy People Play Chess
- Crazy Prepared
- Crazy Sane
- Crazy Survivalist
- Creepy Cleanliness
- Creepy Monotone
- Critical Psychoanalysis Failure
- Cuckoo Nest
- The Cuckoolander Was Right
- Cute and Psycho
D
F
G
H
I
L
M
- Mad Artist
- Mad Bomber
- Mad Doctor
- Mad Dreamer
- Mad Eye
- Mad God
- The Mad Hatter
- Mad Love
- Mad Mathematician
- Mad Oracle
- Mad Scientist
- Madden Into Misanthropy
- Madness Makeover
- Madness Mantra
- Madness Montage
- The Madness Place
- Madwoman in the Attic
- Many Spirits Inside of One
- The Mentally Disturbed
- Mind Control Conspiracy
- Mind Rape
- Mind Virus
- Mood Swinger
- Murder Is the Best Solution
- Murder Makes You Crazy
- My Baby Doll
P
S
- Sanity Ball
- Sanity Has Advantages
- Sanity Meter
- Sanity Slippage
- Sanity Slippage Song
- Sanity Strengthening
- Science-Related Memetic Disorder
- Secret Identity Identity
- Self-Proclaimed Love Interest
- Shattered Sanity
- Shell-Shocked Veteran
- Single-Issue Psychology
- Slasher Smile
- Sociopathic Hero
- Space Madness
- Split Personality
- Split Personality Takeover
- Stalker Shrine
- Stalker with a Crush
- Stepford Smiler
- Sticky Fingers
- String Theory
- Super OCD
- Survival Mantra