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Welcome to the Crazy Place, my friend. It's your job to escape from it.
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A subtrope of [[Closed Circle]]. For the post-apocalyptic variant, compare [[City in a Bottle]].
Not to be confused with [[Go Among Mad People]].
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▲== Anime and Manga ==
* The CG anime ''[[Gregory Horror Show]]'' starts off with an everyman lost in the woods who happens upon a mysterious hotel in the middle of nowhere; he gets not only a room for the night, but the experience of his life as he tries to escape from Gregory House ([[House (TV series)|not that one]]) and all its crazy inhabitants. {{spoiler|In the end, he confronts his own feelings and manages to escape...only for him to realize how crushingly dull his life is and return to the House, not as its prisoner but as its willing guest.}} The second season has a woman going through much the same ordeal, {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending|but instead of solving her personal problems and escaping, she is consumed by them and becomes a permanent resident]]}}.
* The ''[[King of Bandit Jing]]'' story arc "Seventh Heaven" has the eponymous King of Bandits ''intentionally'' landing himself in the titular maximum-security prison in order to steal a treasure created by the legendary magician Campari, one of Seventh Heaven's many inmates. Of course, said treasure [[Planet Eris|has the power to bridge the real and dream worlds]], and Jing ends up dealing with man-eating mice, the [[Ax Crazy]] mirror halves of a "saw a man in half" trick gone horribly wrong, and a giant dodo who learns to fly before discovering the tragic truth about Campari and freeing him from his prison, both mental and physical.
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* ''[[Pandorum]]''.{{context}}▼
▲* ''[[Pandorum]]''.
== Literature ==▼
* In the [[Time Scout]] series, most downtimers who end up on Shangri La either want to go home or go crazy. Only [[Jack the Ripper]] would dream of going uptime to the present and ruling as a god.
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* ''[[The Prisoner]]''. [[Catch Phrase|He is not a number; he is a free man]], but the people at the glorified madhouse called The Village seem to think otherwise. "Number 6" is forced into their service as an operative, all the while trying to escape; things come to a head in the [[Grand Finale]], {{spoiler|where the minions of The Village gather together to hold a grand celebration ostensibly to honor his achievements, but when the mindless goons begin repeating his words over and over, Number 6 snaps and a glorious [[Gainax Ending]] ensues where he discovers that the mysterious Number 1 is himself in an ape mask and shoots his way out with two fellow prisoners to the tune of [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]' "All You Need Is Love"}}.▼
▲* ''[[The Prisoner]]''. [[Catch Phrase|He is not a number; he is a free man]], but the people at the glorified madhouse called The Village seem to think otherwise. "Number 6" is forced into their service as an operative, all the while trying to escape; things come to a head in the [[Grand Finale]], {{spoiler|where the minions of The Village gather together to hold a grand celebration ostensibly to honor his achievements, but when the mindless goons begin repeating his words over and over, Number 6 snaps and a glorious [[Gainax Ending]] ensues where he discovers that the mysterious Number 1 is himself in an ape mask and shoots his way out with two fellow prisoners to the tune of The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love"}}.
* ''[[Tower Prep]]'' has been described as "''[[The Prisoner]]'' Meets ''[[X-Men]]''".
== [[Video
* Ben Croshaw's ''[[Twelve Thirteen|1213]]'' stars yet another amnesiac protagonist in a hostile hospital environment full of monsters and madmen. {{spoiler|The twist? The protagonist is not entirely normal himself, and there's a secret the people in charge are keeping that turns the entire situation on its head.}}▼
* The [[Trope Namer]] is the [[Choose Your Own Adventure]] ''[http://jjguest.com/ESCAPE/INDEX.HTML Escape From The Crazy Place]'' by J. J. Guest. The protagonist starts off in a padded room with a clown named [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Donald McRonald]]; wacky hijinks and dadaesque nonsense ensue as the unlikely pair attempt to Escape From the Crazy Place and thwart the efforts of the Bowler Hat Guy to keep them trapped there forever. {{spoiler|The game is technically [[Unwinnable]], though: there are clues that apparently lead to an ending, but they either lead into each other or are simply red herrings. The author admitted that he couldn't come up with a satisfying finale, so there wasn't one...but exploring everything the Crazy Place has to offer is rewarding in and of itself. That, and as one character subtly hints, you can "escape" any time simply by closing your browser...}}▼
* [[MS Paint Adventures]]' ''[[Jail Break]]'' starts out like this, causing a [[Follow the Leader|spawn of fan adventures]] to adopt the general idea. The [[Ontological Mystery]] of the mental hospital is an extremely easy setting to pull off, though, which means most of the fanworks are, uh, [[Sturgeon's Law|uneven in quality]].▼
* ''[[Ruby Quest]]''. [[Funny Animal|Endearing,]] [[Nightmare Fuel|disturbing,]] [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|heartwarming,]] [[Tear Jerker|heartwrenching,]] [[Grotesque Cute|cute, cuddly, dark and bloody.]] A [[Girl in a Box]] wakes up to find herself in an underwater lab; a boy is imprisoned in the floor below. Employing her wits, she frees the boy, makes a friend, [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|and decapitates a zombie.]] This sets the tone for an adventure full of mystery, madness, sweetness and [[High-Pressure Blood]]. And [[Body Horror]]. Lots and lots of Body Horror. {{spoiler|Stitches (the zombie) is first encountered as a head attached to a bloody, snakelike mess of bones and organs, and his head itself splits open to reveal a gaping maw full of teeth. And Daisy, originally a sweet little puppy-girl, is mutated beyond recognition and serves as the story's first real boss fight.}}▼
== Web Comics ==▼
* [[Sluggy Freelance]] had this in '28 Geeks Later'.▼
* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' has this trope nested in itself several times.
** It begins with the Nameless One [[Waking Up At the Morgue|waking up in a]] ''[[Waking Up At the Morgue|morgue]]'' manned by some very disturbing and morbid characters who are aided by pitiful zombies.
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* [[Unreal|Unreal I]]: You spend the game trying to get of a deadly planet after a prison ship crash, then trying to get off it ''again'' in the add on pack ''Return to Na pali''.
▲* [[Sluggy Freelance]] had this in '28 Geeks Later'.
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲* Ben Croshaw's ''[[
▲* The [[Trope Namer]] is the [[Choose Your Own Adventure]] ''[http://jjguest.com/ESCAPE/INDEX.HTML Escape From The Crazy Place]'' by J. J. Guest. The protagonist starts off in a padded room with a clown named [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Donald McRonald]]; wacky hijinks and dadaesque nonsense ensue as the unlikely pair attempt to Escape From the Crazy Place and thwart the efforts of the Bowler Hat Guy to keep them trapped there forever. {{spoiler|The game is technically [[Unwinnable]], though: there are clues that apparently lead to an ending, but they either lead into each other or are simply red herrings. The author admitted that he couldn't come up with a satisfying finale, so there wasn't one...but exploring everything the Crazy Place has to offer is rewarding in and of itself. That, and as one character subtly hints, you can "escape" any time simply by closing your browser...}}
▲* [[MS Paint Adventures]]' ''[[Jail Break]]'' starts out like this, causing a [[Follow the Leader|spawn of fan adventures]] to adopt the general idea. The [[Ontological Mystery]] of the mental hospital is an extremely easy setting to pull off, though, which means most of the fanworks are, uh, [[Sturgeon's Law|uneven in quality]].
▲* ''[[Ruby Quest]]''. [[Funny Animal|Endearing
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