Tropescilloscope: Sanity Slippage

A character slowly grows insane throughout the story. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Butt-Monkey An Axe to Grind Fatal Flaw Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Not So Above It All Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Smoking Is Cool Humans Are Bastards Cassandra Truth Annoying Younger Sibling Back from the Dead Heterosexual Life-Partners Honor Before Reason Scary Black Man Brick Joke Intergenerational Friendship Film Noir The Film of the Book Pet the Dog Film Noir Index Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Auto Erotica Vitriolic Best Buds Names to Run Away from Really Fast Storming the Castle Historical In-Joke The Stoner Lock and Load Montage Rasputinian Death Politically Incorrect Villain Dark Reprise Death by Adaptation Flipping the Bird The End... Or Is It? Closed Circle Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Daylight Horror Parental Abandonment Major Injury Underreaction Character Development Obviously Evil More Dakka Deconstruction Sir Swears-a-Lot Together in Death Noodle Incident Meet Cute Punch-Clock Villain Death Glare Riddle for the Ages Screw the Rules, I Have Money! "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Translation Convention Evil vs. Evil Bald of Evil Not What It Looks Like Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Drives Like Crazy Visual Pun Black Dude Dies First Adults Are Useless The X of Y Precision F-Strike Retcon Fat Bastard Cruel and Unusual Death Chekhov's Gun Dogged Nice Guy Cat Fight Morality Pet Disappeared Dad All There in the Manual Developing Doomed Characters Anguished Declaration of Love Dramedy Stuff Blowing Up The Stoic Broken Pedestal Rule of Symbolism Big Fancy House Villainous Breakdown Groin Attack Exact Words Slashed Throat Casting Gag Wham Shot Biopic Cool Shades Frame-Up Those Wacky Nazis I Did What I Had to Do Evil Cannot Comprehend Good "Awesome McCool" Name Tempting Fate Manchild Flashback Deliberate Values Dissonance Big Brother Instinct Death of a Child Evil Is Hammy Killed Mid-Sentence Actor Allusion Police Brutality Final Girl Ax-Crazy Bi the Way Sinister Minister Documentary Driven to Suicide In the Back Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Horror Films Ms. Fanservice Leaning on the Fourth Wall Punny Name The Bully Arch-Enemy Big Damn Heroes Even Evil Has Loved Ones Deal with the Devil Shell-Shocked Veteran Rule of Three Deadpan Snarker Mind Screw folderlabel Slap-Slap-Kiss Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Wicked Cultured Villain Protagonist Redshirt Army It Can Think Dirty Cop Zombie Stories Dirty Old Man Shout-Out Double Entendre Dies Wide Open Parental Substitute Antagonist Title Age Lift Apocalypse How Bait-and-Switch The Place Accidental Misnaming All Men Are Perverts Evil Brit Male Gaze Domestic Abuse Gainax Ending Almost Kiss The Stinger Credits Gag Bloodier and Gorier Imagine Spot Christmas Movies Index The Hero Maybe Ever After Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Faux Affably Evil Toplessness from the Back Vomit Indiscretion Shot Animal Motifs Early Installment Weirdness My Beloved Smother Roaring Rampage of Revenge Sexy Discretion Shot Ripped from the Headlines Drugs Are Bad Our Zombies Are Different Heroic Sacrifice Henpecked Husband Country Matters Anti-Hero Woman Scorned Novelization Kill It with Fire War Is Hell Insistent Terminology Evil-Detecting Dog Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Voiceless Tranquil Fury Bring My Brown Pants Crapsack World The '70s Actually Pretty Funny Hidden Depths The Dog Bites Back Kill 'em All Make It Look Like an Accident Disney Villain Death Hell Is That Noise Dramatic Gun Cock Playing Gertrude Sassy Black Woman Historical Villain Upgrade Hate Sink Did Not Get the Girl Bottomless Magazines The Smart Guy Off-into-the-Distance Ending Spell My Name with an "S" Abhorrent Admirer Shut Up, Hannibal! Handicapped Badass Insult Backfire Pretty in Mink Red Right Hand Determinator Mooks Redemption Equals Death Hooker with a Heart of Gold Danny Peary Cult Movies List Death by Sex Not So Stoic Arc Words Tagline Black Best Friend The Starscream Broken Aesop Ambiguous Disorder Unusual Euphemism An Aesop Amusing Injuries Advertised Extra Costume Porn Sealed Evil in a Can Motor Mouth Really Gets Around The Ghost Ambiguous Ending Rated M for Manly Card-Carrying Villain Genre Savvy Lampshade Hanging Daddy's Girl Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Defrosting Ice Queen I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Gender Flip Never Trust a Trailer The Chessmaster Nice Hat Villain Opening Scene The Mole Scenery Gorn Time Skip Film Series Fun with Acronyms Meaningful Name Slasher Movie Ambiguously Gay Only One Name Expository Hairstyle Change Reality Is Unrealistic Eyepatch of Power Psychopathic Manchild Works Set in World War II Black Comedy Rape Ascended Extra Big Bad Calling the Old Man Out After the End Alas, Poor Villain The Lost Lenore Badass Longcoat Instant Death Bullet He Knows Too Much Bilingual Bonus Roger Ebert: Great Movies List I Have Your Wife Insane Troll Logic Bloodless Carnage Properly Paranoid The Atoner Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Would Hurt a Child The Brute Arranged Marriage Whole Plot Reference Leave the Camera Running Adaptational Attractiveness And Starring Meaningful Echo Animated Credits Opening The Casanova Badass Grandpa Big Bad Duumvirate Agony of the Feet Men Are the Expendable Gender Empathic Environment Unusually Uninteresting Sight Badass Normal Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Due to the Dead Affectionate Parody Demonic Possession Aluminum Christmas Trees The Cameo Hair-Trigger Temper Overprotective Dad Obstructive Bureaucrat Early-Bird Cameo The Chick Dual Wielding Adaptation Expansion Bad "Bad Acting" Spiteful Spit The Great Depression Immune to Bullets Serial Killer Posthumous Character Mercy Kill The '50s Crucified Hero Shot Improbable Weapon User Badass Bookworm Coming-of-Age Story Black Comedy Beard of Evil Made of Explodium Comically Missing the Point Bunny-Ears Lawyer Dressing as the Enemy Here We Go Again! Have a Gay Old Time Break the Haughty What Happened to the Mouse? Romantic False Lead Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Guile Hero Fake Shemp Rape as Drama It Will Never Catch On Manly Tears Retired Badass Off with His Head! Babies Ever After Chiaroscuro Bowdlerise For Want of a Nail Sanity Slippage Adaptation Dye-Job Silence Is Golden Continuity Nod Jitter Cam Skewed Priorities Bound and Gagged An Arm and a Leg Stock Footage MacGuffin Exactly What It Says on the Tin Evil Counterpart Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Smug Snake Fish out of Water Adaptational Badass Spared by the Adaptation Neck Lift Mr. Fanservice Mistaken for Gay Genre Shift Video Credits Adaptation Distillation Chekhov's Skill Jerkass Body Horror Eureka Moment Super Strength Bittersweet Ending Science Fiction Films Asshole Victim Jerk Jock Papa Wolf Drill Sergeant Nasty Dropped a Bridge on Him Kick the Dog Karmic Death True Companions Sports Stories Put on a Bus Paper-Thin Disguise Belligerent Sexual Tension Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" You Have Failed Me Ass Shove Self-Deprecation Badass Boast Took a Level in Jerkass Deliberately Monochrome Better to Die than Be Killed Boom, Headshot! Even Evil Has Standards Bar Brawl Running Gag 20 Minutes into the Future Blackmail Abusive Parents A God Am I Word of God Vampire Fiction Revenge Setting Update Soundtrack Dissonance Manipulative Bastard Your Cheating Heart Take a Third Option Not Using the "Z" Word Demoted to Extra Heroes Want Redheads Homage N-Word Privileges Cool Car Every Car Is a Pinto Knight Templar Stealth Pun Love Triangle Lighter and Softer Television Movie Index Heel–Face Turn Bolivian Army Ending Genre Throwback Unresolved Sexual Tension Suspiciously Similar Substitute Kubrick Stare Death by Irony What the Hell, Hero? Pragmatic Adaptation Funny Foreigner Heel Realization Eye Scream Femme Fatale It's All About Me Sequel Escalation Plucky Comic Relief Dumb Blonde Book-Ends Mr. Exposition Beta Couple Based on a True Story Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Freeze-Frame Bonus Extremely Short Timespan Catch-Phrase Dirty Coward Action Prologue Foregone Conclusion Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Shower Scene Bullying a Dragon Four-Temperament Ensemble In Medias Res Cloudcuckoolander Blood Knight Villain with Good Publicity Re-Cut Accidental Murder Chase Scene Red Herring Made of Iron Central Theme Get Out! Offscreen Teleportation Bare Your Midriff Chekhov's Gunman Reasonable Authority Figure The Hero Dies Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie All Girls Want Bad Boys Rule of Cool Light Is Not Good She Cleans Up Nicely Rousing Speech Worthy Opponent NO INDOOR VOICE Totally Radical Improvised Weapon BFG Left the Background Music On Gorn O.O.C. Is Serious Business Alpha Bitch Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Soft Glass Bond One-Liner Face–Heel Turn Sole Survivor Laughing Mad Reality Has No Subtitles Adaptational Villainy Well-Intentioned Extremist No Ending Fantasy Films Protagonist Title Captain Ersatz "Well Done, Son!" Guy Overly Long Gag Action Survivor My Greatest Failure This Is Gonna Suck Only Sane Man Needs Wiki Magic Love Hero Antagonist Brutal Honesty Monumental Damage Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Spanner in the Works Sci-Fi Horror Intrepid Reporter Extreme Doormat Bury Your Gays The Dreaded Public Domain Feature Films Foreshadowing Hope Spot Naïve Newcomer Shoot the Shaggy Dog Gory Discretion Shot Vomit Discretion Shot Sacrificial Lion The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Trailers Always Spoil Artistic License – History Guns Akimbo Didn't Think This Through Star-Crossed Lovers Cain and Abel timeperiod Index of Film Westerns Yandere Show Within a Show Canon Foreigner Nice Guy Celebrity Paradox Large Ham British Films Not So Different Fiery Redhead Psycho for Hire The Quiet One Thriller Taking You with Me I'm a Humanitarian Big Applesauce Cowboy Cop Line-of-Sight Name Historical Hero Upgrade Broken Bird Suddenly SHOUTING! Too Dumb to Live Berserk Button Dark and Troubled Past Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Easily Forgiven Hypocritical Humor From Nobody to Nightmare Artistic License – Law Karma Houdini And the Adventure Continues Hollywood Darkness Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Offscreen Moment of Awesome Rewatch Bonus Loads and Loads of Characters Moment Killer No Antagonist Fourth Date Marriage As Long as It Sounds Foreign Wounded Gazelle Gambit Dissonant Serenity Freudian Excuse Reckless Gun Usage Epic Movie Aside Glance Missing Mom Hypocrite Taking the Bullet Pragmatic Villainy Artistic License – Military Villain Ball Last-Name Basis Improbable Aiming Skills Mundane Made Awesome Red Oni, Blue Oni Gone Horribly Right Contrived Coincidence She's Got Legs Beauty Is Never Tarnished Obfuscating Stupidity The Musical German Films Shirtless Scene As You Know Psychological Thriller Pretty Little Headshots "Shaggy Dog" Story The Oner Death Seeker The Load The Ace Madness Mantra Eagleland Artistic License – Physics A.I. Is a Crapshoot Throwing Your Sword Always Works Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! No-Holds-Barred Beatdown All There in the Script No Name Given No-Sell Hoist by His Own Petard Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Same Language Dub Twist Ending Anti-Villain Call-Forward Eldritch Abomination Jump Scare Unspoken Plan Guarantee Cool Old Lady And I Must Scream Fan Disservice Action Genre Interrupted Suicide Wrong Genre Savvy Adapted Out Betty and Veronica Parental Incest Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Adult Fear Anyone Can Die Fantastic Racism Kick the Son of a Bitch Stepford Smiler A Minor Kidroduction Loophole Abuse Ghost Fiction Blatant Lies Badass in a Nice Suit Half the Man He Used to Be Artistic License – Gun Safety He Who Fights Monsters I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Evil Is Petty For the Evulz Gilligan Cut World of Ham Disproportionate Retribution Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Suspiciously Specific Denial Scenery Porn Let's Get Dangerous! Tap on the Head Laser-Guided Karma A Father to His Men Attempted Rape Dull Surprise Camp Gay The Cavalry Only in It for the Money Creepy Child Good Is Not Nice Informed Ability Slasher Smile Bad Boss Irony Sequel Hook Cool Guns Famous Last Words Romantic Comedy Distracted by the Sexy Logo Joke Token Minority All for Nothing Meaningful Background Event Dark Is Not Evil Big Eater Determinator aka: The Determinator Greater-Scope Villain Music Stories Fingore Mood Whiplash One Steve Limit No OSHA Compliance Corpsing Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Alleged Car "The Reason You Suck" Speech Awesome, but Impractical Older Than They Look Say My Name Fire-Forged Friends Undying Loyalty Knife Nut Serious Business Man on Fire Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Red Shirt Action Girl Hong Kong Films Dying Moment of Awesome Took a Level in Badass Darkest Hour Camera Abuse Does Not Like Shoes Gratuitous English Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Malevolent Masked Men Male Frontal Nudity Earn Your Happy Ending Call-Back Evil Plan Eiffel Tower Effect Mad Scientist Recycled IN SPACE! The Un-Reveal Jerk with a Heart of Gold Disney Death Plot Hole Narrator A Date with Rosie Palms Outrun the Fireball Rich Bitch As the Good Book Says... Alliterative Name Cold-Blooded Torture Pay Evil unto Evil Mythology Gag Product Placement Refuge in Audacity One-Man Army Market-Based Title Cat Scare Oh, Crap! Authority Equals Asskicking Villain Song Chewing the Scenery Combat Pragmatist The Remake The Power of Love The Faceless Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Shown Their Work Those Two Guys Enemy Mine Retirony Wretched Hive Not Even Bothering with the Accent Pyrrhic Victory Author Avatar Adaptational Heroism Mexican Standoff From Bad to Worse Break the Cutie Your Head A-Splode Unwitting Instigator of Doom Faking the Dead Take That! Poor Communication Kills Stealth Hi/Bye Heroic BSoD Friend to All Children Dramatic Irony Silent Movie The Smurfette Principle May–December Romance Animal Title Index Canadian Movies The Bad Guy Wins Red Eyes, Take Warning The Lancer Becoming the Mask Bland-Name Product Police are Useless Nothing Is Scarier Hollywood Law Ironic Echo Shipper on Deck Would Hit a Girl Beware the Nice Ones Truth in Television Affably Evil Deus ex Machina Catapult Nightmare Scare Chord Brother–Sister Incest Crazy Jealous Guy Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Japanese Films Fate Worse than Death Covers Always Lie Straight Gay Destination Defenestration Framing Device My God, What Have I Done? Fatal Family Photo Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane There Is No Kill Like Overkill Batman Gambit Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday One-Word Title Stylistic Suck Depraved Bisexual Fanservice Race Against the Clock Spiritual Successor Manic Pixie Dream Girl The '60s Darker and Edgier Love at First Sight The Reveal In Name Only Children Are Innocent Facial Horror Woman in White Damsel in Distress Amoral Attorney Artistic License – Biology Victoria's Secret Compartment Conspicuous CG French Films Never My Fault Rule of Funny Cool Old Guy Green-Eyed Monster Expy Ship Tease Pre-Mortem One-Liner Curb-Stomp Battle Funny Background Event Naked People Are Funny What You Are in the Dark Australian Movies B-Movie I Need a Freaking Drink Big "NO!" Department of Redundancy Department Happily Married Grievous Bottley Harm Hero of Another Story Big-Bad Ensemble Training Montage Race Lift Room Full of Crazy Stalker with a Crush Foil Breaking the Fourth Wall The Big Guy Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The '90s Small Name, Big Ego Curse Cut Short Anachronic Order Ungrateful Bastard Double-Meaning Title Non-Indicative Name The Mafia Adorkable Corrupt Corporate Executive Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Fainting Italian Films Not Quite Dead Evil Laugh Everyone Has Standards Composite Character Military and Warfare Films Defiant to the End Jerkass Has a Point Mystery and Detective Films Match Cut Historical-Domain Character Our Vampires Are Different Artistic License – Geography Decoy Protagonist Failed a Spot Check Dwindling Party Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Neck Snap Bond Villain Stupidity Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Cluster F-Bomb Drowning My Sorrows Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Gold Digger Leitmotif Air-Vent Passageway Despair Event Horizon Creator Cameo Captain Obvious Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass No Celebrities Were Harmed You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Award-Bait Song Adaptation Name Change Only a Flesh Wound Downer Ending Face Death with Dignity The Dragon Idiot Ball It's Personal All Just a Dream Chuck Cunningham Syndrome La Résistance Russian Films '80s Hair Creative Closing Credits Black and Gray Morality Fanservice Extra Mama Bear Armor-Piercing Question Getting Crap Past the Radar You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Five-Man Band As Himself Random Events Plot Bavarian Fire Drill Implacable Man Car Fu The Alcoholic Brainless Beauty Up to Eleven Martial Arts Movie Parental Neglect Once More, with Clarity! Sadistic Choice Never Found the Body Kids Are Cruel Married to the Job Bloody Hilarious Peek-a-Boo Corpse The '80s Mighty Whitey Evil Sounds Deep How We Got Here Diabolus ex Machina Dark Action Girl The Vamp Mugging the Monster Unreliable Narrator Ominous Latin Chanting Humiliation Conga Only Known by Their Nickname Important Haircut Disguised in Drag Reality Ensues Superhero Does This Remind You of Anything? Title Drop Be Careful What You Wish For You Killed My Father Epic Fail Wham Line Anachronism Stew The Sociopath Real Life Writes the Plot Establishing Character Moment Blood from the Mouth Those Two Bad Guys Pimped-Out Dress No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Crazy-Prepared The Ditz Horror Comedy Vacation Films Real Life Author Appeal Grey and Gray Morality Dutch Angle