"We psychoanalysts never use the crude term 'crazy'. You may merely suffer from Type 3 Psychomanic Derangement, which presents as craziness."
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.
— Dr. Klaus Angstrom, Broodhollow
Please sort tropes appropriately. Some tropes may fit in both the 'Characters' index and the 'Madnesses' index, but each trope should only belong in one section of each index.
Character Tropes
Sane Characters Craziness by Career- Abusive Parents
- The Caligula
- Crazy Survivalist
- Defective Detective
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father
- General Ripper
- Insane Admiral
- Insane Proprietor
- Mad Artist
- Mad Bomber
- Mad Dreamer
- Mad Doctor
- Mad God
- Mad Oracle
- Mad Mathematician
- Mad Scientist
- Monster Clown
- Psycho Ex-Girlfriend
- Psycho for Hire
- Psycho Lesbian
- Psycho Supporter
- Robotic Psychopath
- Royally Screwed Up
- Shell-Shocked Veteran
- Sociopathic Soldier
- Stalker With a Crush
- Yandere
- Barefoot Loon
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer
- Chuunibyou
- Cloud Cuckoolander
- Crazy Awesome
- Crazy-Prepared
- The Cuckoolander Was Right
- Cuckoosnarker
- Genius Ditz
- Loon With A Heart Of Gold
- Mood-Swinger
- Neat Freak
- Nightmare Fetishist
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
- Talkative Loon
- The Wonka
- Ax-Crazy
- Broken Ace
- Broken Bird
- Crazy Cat Lady
- Cute and Psycho
- Death Seeker
- Heroism Addict
- Living Doll Collector
- Loners Are Freaks
- Madwoman in the Attic
- Mask of Sanity
- The Mentally Disturbed
- Narcissist
- Nervous Wreck
- Omnicidal Maniac
- The Ophelia
- The Paranoiac
- Psycho Electro
- Psychopathic Manchild
- Pyromaniac
- Reluctant Psycho
- The Sociopath
- Sociopathic Hero
- Stepford Smiler
- Uncanny Valley Girl
- Windmill Crusader
Madness Tropes
Causes - Tropes about the origins and instigations of mental disorder.- And Then John Was a Zombie (literally becoming their crazy enemy)
- Becoming the Mask
- Being Tortured Makes You Evil (and/or crazy)
- Brainwashed and Crazy
- Break the Cutie
- Cabin Fever
- Clothes Make the Maniac
- Damaged Soul
- Dark and Troubled Past
- Despair Event Horizon
- Driven to Madness
- Gaslighting
- Go Mad from the Isolation
- Go Mad from the Revelation
- Go Among Mad People
- Heroic B.S.O.D.
- Heroic Safe Mode
- He Who Fights Monsters (morally and ideologically becoming their crazy enemy)
- Humanity Is Insane
- Hyperspace Is a Scary Place
- Infectious Insanity
- Jade-Colored Glasses
- Love Makes You Crazy
- Mad Love
- Madden Into Misanthropy
- Mind Rape
- Mind Virus
- Murder Makes You Crazy
- Neurodiversity Is Supernatural
- Ocean Madness
- Post-Historical Trauma
- Psycho Serum
- Rape Leads to Insanity
- River of Insanity
- Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!
- Space Madness
- Surrounded by Idiots
- Teach Him Anger
- Terrible Ticking
- They Called Me Mad!
- This Index Has Had a Hard Life
- Took a Level in Cynic
- Took a Level in Jerkass
- Trauma-Induced Amnesia
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
- Ambiguous Disorder
- Black and White Insanity
- Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality
- Categorism as a Phobia
- Chronic Hero Syndrome
- Chronic Villainy
- Crazy Sane
- Death Seeker
- Fighting from the Inside
- Genius Ditz
- A God Am I
- Hallucinations
- Hearing Voices
- Idiosyncrazy
- Napoleon Delusion
- Reluctant Psycho
- Sanity Slippage
- Science-Related Memetic Disorder
- Success Hallucinations
- Theory Tunnelvision
- Through the Eyes of Madness
- Treacherous Spirit Chase
- Angst Coma
- Apocalyptic Log
- Broken Smile
- Caligula's Horse
- Clawing at Own Throat
- Cloudcuckoolanguage
- Comically Cross-Eyed
- Companion Cube
- Consulting Mister Puppet
- Crazy Consumption
- Crazy Memory
- Crazy People Play Chess
- Creepy Cleanliness
- Creepy Monotone
- Delusions of Doghood
- Dissonant Laughter
- Dissonant Serenity
- Dr. Psych Patient
- Dumb Struck
- Empty Eyes
- Freak Out!
- Full-Frontal Assault
- G-Rated Mental Illness
- Hidden Eyes
- House of Broken Mirrors
- I Reject Your Reality
- Imaginary Enemy
- Imaginary Friend
- Insane Equals Violent
- Laughing Mad
- Limp and Livid
- Loony Laws
- Loves the Sound of Screaming
- Mad Eye
- Madness Makeover
- Madness Mantra
- Madness Montage
- The Madness Place
- Maniac Tongue
- Mind-Control Conspiracy
- Mood-Swinger
- Murder Is the Best Solution
- Neat Freak
- Neologizer
- Out-of-Character Moment (when it focuses on sanity)
- Power Born of Madness
- Room Full of Crazy
- Sanity Slippage Song
- Shattered Sanity
- Shifting Voice Of Madness
- Slasher Smile
- Stalker Shrine
- Sticky Fingers
- Talkative Loon
- Talking to Themself
- Tears of Fear
- Thoroughly Mistaken Identity
- Thousand-Yard Stare
- Troubled Fetal Position
- Trigger Happy
- Twitchy Eye
- Unstoppable Rage
- Villainous Breakdown
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? (Phobia supertrope)
- Battle in the Center of the Mind
- Bored with Insanity
- Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
- Heroic Willpower
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight
- Insane No More
- Kind Restraints
- Lobotomy
- Percussive Therapy
- Sanity Ball
- Sanity Has Advantages
- Sanity Strengthening
- Split-Personality Merge
- Split-Personality Takeover
- Survival Mantra
- Bedlam House
- Black Bug Room
- Cloud Cuckooland
- Escape from the Crazy Place
- Happy Place
- Mental World
- The Wonderland
- All Therapists Are Muggles - A problem the characters may encounter in settings that provide a lot of psychiatric trauma.
- Cast Full of Crazy- When everyone, or nearly everyone, is insane.
- Cuckoo Nest
- Essential Madness
- Insanity Defense - Insanity from a legal perspective, rather than a psychiatric evaluation.
- Insanity Immunity
- Lunatic Loophole
- No Medication for Me
- Pre-Insanity Reveal
- Sadist
- Secret Identity Identity
- There Are No Therapists - A problem the characters may encounter in settings that provide a lot of psychiatric trauma.
- You're Insane! - Characters proclaim that evil is a form of insanity.
