Tropescilloscope: Sanity Slippage

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

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