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{{quote|"''I'm proud to say I've written another insane admiral. They must put something in the water at Federation Headquarters.''"|'''Ronald D. Moore'''}}

*** Zeon Rear-Admiral Ginias Sahalin of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team]]'' is no picture of mental health. The head of the Apsalus project, his [[Mommy Issues]], combined with his obsessive need to control his sister and claim all the credit for the project cause his mind to degenrate over the course of the series. By the end he's an [[Axe Crazy]] maniac who is ready to murder everyone around him, including his sister. Some fans actually believe he has a form of schizophrenia.

** There is something in the water at the Zeon command centre. Gihren loyalist [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Colonel Killing]] from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in Thethe Pocket]]'' murders his commanding officer and usurps his position, orders a nuclear strike on a colony, and cares nothing for his own troops.

** Patrick Zala of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SeedSEED]]'' is an utterly paranoid and psychotic [[General Ripper]], with both [["What the Hell?" Dad]] and [[Final Solution|genocidal]] tendencies, who wants to exterminate every [[Puny Earthlings|Natural]] in existence in [[Revenge]] for an attack on a ZAFT colony. His right-hand man, Commander [[Cool Mask|Rau]] [[Ace Pilot|Le]] [[Nietzsche Wannabe|Creuset]] is {{spoiler|[[Misanthrope Supreme|even worse]], being an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] who's out to get everyone on ''both'' sides killed}}. On the opposing side, we have Captain William Sutherland of the Earth Forces General Staff, who masterminds the use of the [[Weapons of Mass Destruction|Cyclops]] system against his own men, authorises the use of [[Nuke'Em|nuclear weapons]] against ZAFT, serves as [[Complete Monster|Muruta Azrael]]'s [[The Dragon|Dragon]], and is a card-carrying member of [[Fantastic Racism|Blue Cosmos]], a hate group that seeks the deaths of every last [[Gattaca Babies|Coordinator]].

* Colonel Quaritch in [[Avatar (Filmfilm)|Avatar]] shoots at anyone who non-lethally leaves his faction, and he goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against the protagonist after his plans have been completely foiled.

* The General in ''[[Z (Filmfilm)|Z]]''

* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[Hot Shots]]'' with Admiral Benson, an amicable kook who tries to order the whole ''fleet'' to turn around and go back when his Admiral's hat blows off while on deck.

* Subverted in ''[[Mars Attacks (Film)!]]'': General Decker ''seems'' like a raging whacko, but he turns out to be right about the Martians from start to finish. (He's still wrong about how to beat them, though.)

* Anyone with the rank of Colonel or above in ''[[Catch Twenty Two-22]]''

* Admiral Bell in ''[[Varney the Vampire (Literature)|Varney the Vampire]]'', while protective of his family and a generally decent guy, acts like a complete lunatic in most situations.

* ''[[Star Trek]]'':

** ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]'':

*** "The Doomsday Machine" - Commodore Matt Decker is driven mad after watching the titular machine kill his entire crew, and commandeers the Enterprise in a vain attempt to destroy it. When that proves unsuccessful, he commits suicide, flying a shuttlecraft into it. To drive it home, the character's mannerisms were based on [[Captain Queeg]]'s in ''[[The Caine Mutiny]]''.

** ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'':

** ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]](2004 TV series)|The 2000s ''Battlestar (2000Galactica's)']]: Admiral Cain, of course.

* ''[[Babylon Five5]]'': Colonel Ari Ben-Zayn.

* Major General Steele from the ''[[MASHM*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' episode "The General Flipped at Dawn"

* General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay "Insanity" Melchett from ''[[Black AdderBlackadder]] Goes Forth'' whose determination to move his drinks cabinet six inches closer to Berlin inspired many a "Big Push".

* This trope tends to turn up in the ''[[Sharpe]]'' series, probably the most extreme (although far from unique) example from that series is Sir Henry Simmerson.

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]] in ''[['Allo 'Allo (TV)!|Allo Allo]]'', with any officer above the rank of Colonel really (resident cast members are Colonel Von Strom and General Von Clinkerhoven). Again, the insanity is [[Played for Laughs]].

* Major Gowen in Fawlty Towers (although a retired officer)-doesn't know what day of the week it is.

* These turn up from time to time in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]''

* Many if not nearly all the officers of the Imperial Guard in [[Warhammer 40 K,000]]. Inquisitors (especially Radicals) also fit the description.

* Kefka from [[Final Fantasy VI]] was made conspicuously insane after an experiment [[Gone Horribly Wrong]], and becomes obsessed with acquring personal power at all costs. Emperor Gestahl still trusts him as his right-hand man long enough for him to successfully usurp the power of the Warring Triad and set off [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]].

* The Valuan admiralty of ''[[Skies of Arcadia (Video Game)|Skies of Arcadia]]'' has a problem with this. Admirals Galcian, Ramirez, and [[Meaningful Name|De Loco]] are all nuts (and evil), while Alfonso is incompetent (and evil) and Vigoro is... eccentric (and not so much evil as amoral). Small wonder the only two competent, sane admirals come off as the sympathetic villains of the lot...

* General Bowe in the ''[[SCP Foundation (Wiki)|SCP Foundation]]''.

* Captain Matthew Marcus from ''[[Exo Squad]]''.

* The General and the lieutenant from ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' are humorous examples of this.

{{quote| '''The General:''' Good thing the money we paid that farmer with was made from experimental rocket-fuel! *Detonates cash*}}

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