Madness Tropes
Madness? THIS … IS … SPARTA!
300 Frank Miller
Basic Information
Madness Tropes are characterization tropes associated with mental disorders.
List of Madness Tropes
Characters
- Automatically Violent
- Bunny Ears Lawyer
- The Caligula
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Clothes Make The Maniac
- Crazy Prepared
- Crazy Survivalist
- Defective Detective
- Dumb Struck
- General Ripper
- Insanity Defense
- Mad Artist
- The Mad Hatter
- Mad Oracle
- Mad Scientist
- Nietzsche Wannabe
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
- The Ophelia
- Psycho Electro
- Psycho For Hire
- Psychopathic Manchild
- Royally Screwed Up
- Only Sane Man
- Shell Shocked Senior
- Stepford Smiler
- Talkative Loons
- Yandere
Issues
- Ax Crazy
- Chewbacca Defense
- Crouching Support Hidden Batshit
- Cuckoo Nest
- Freudian Excuse
- Insanity Ploy
- In The Mouth Of Madness
- Lunacy
- Mad Love
- Napoleon Delusion
- Post Historical Trauma
- Power Born Of Madness
- Single Issue Psychology
- Split Personality
- Trauma Induced Amnesia
- Unstoppable Rage
- Why Did It Have To Be Snakes (Phobia supertrope)
Ways to show how bonkers a character is
- Broken Smile
- Full Frontal Assault
- Happy Place
- Madness Mantra
- Madness Montage
- Room Full Of Crazy
- Sanity Slippage
Ways to Break Characters and Twist the Plot
- Bedlam House
- Brainwashed And Crazy
- Break The Cutie
- Chronic Villainy
- Epiphany Therapy
- Freak Out
- Go Among Mad People
- Go Mad From The Revelation
- Heroic BSOD
- Insanity Defense
- No Medication For Me
- Psycho Serum
- Sanity Has Advantages
- Science Related Memetic Disorder
- There Are No Therapists
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
See Also
Sources
Bibliography
Game and Story Use
- While many of these tropes are completely unrealistic, they are likely to be familiar to the players, and are a great way to improve characterization of NPCs or to further the plots.
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