Tropescilloscope: Sanity Slippage

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

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