Tropescilloscope: Sanity Slippage

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

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