Tropescilloscope: Sanity Slippage

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

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