History Main / FunnySchizophrenia

* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', almost all Nightkin have developed Schizophrenia due to constant stealthboy use. For the most point the trope is averted: the Nightkin's illness is portrayed very tragically, especially for the Courier's companions Lily and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Dog]]/[[JerkassWoobie God]]. The two times the trope's played straight is with [[BlackHumor Tabitha]], a cult leader and [[LargeHamRadio Radio DJ]], and the Brooks Tumbleweed Ranch "[[HonestJohnsDealership Wind Brahmin Salesman.]]"

* The president of the school newspaper in ''LightNovel/NakaimoMyLittleSisterIsAmongThem'' suffers from schizophrenia. Why she's in charge of a newspaper and not in a mental hospital is anyone's guess.

* Music/EmilieAutumn has a bonus track on the rerelease on ''Opheliac'' in which, among other things, she lists the mental illnesses she ''doesn't have'', obviously taking the Michael, including HollywoodTourettes, [[SuperOCD OCD (OCD, OCD, OCD)]], amnesia, and schizophrenia: she ''enjoys'' the latter, and so does she.

* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' [[AvertedTripe averts]] this, taking the condition seriously whenever it's brought up.

* One episode of ''Series/{{Becker}}'' has a very realistic schizophrenic man named Lloyd. It even includes unexciting things like flat affect and mundane examples of magical thinking. It's still played for laughs, though.

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* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' season 13, Doc, after spending months trapped in a parallel universe and realizing that no one noticed he was gone, developed a split personality that was identical to O'Malley, the evil AI that possessed him during the Blood Gulch Chronicles.

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* ''[[https://jesterraiin.dropmark.com/167650/2976489 Everyone Is John]]'' is "a competitive roleplaying game for three or more horrible people" where each player plays a voice in the titular schizophrenic's head. Each player chooses three compulsions of increasing difficulty and competes to make John do them while battling for control of John with the other voices. HilarityEnsues.

* The Pyro from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is shown to suffer from this, believing that the battlefield is a SugarBowl made out of candy and rainbows, where he spreads happiness and cheer to cherub-like representations of the enemy team, [[ObliviouslyEvil instead of murdering them with his flamethrower and axe like he is actually doing]].

* ''WebComic/KillSixBillionDemons'': The MadGod Gog-Agog is a HiveMind with split personality, which is (usually) PlayedForLaughs in a very BlackComedy way. Imagine hundreds of almost identical-looking clowns all called "Gog-Agog" who do an extremely poor job at trying to fit in and are used as slapstick fodder and you're halfway there. At one point during ''King of Swords'' [[FunnyBackgroundEvent two of her bodies can be seen strangling a third one over some perceived insult]], while a fourth body is observing the other three with a "I'm SurroundedByIdiots" look on her face.

* ''WebComic/KillSixBillionDemons'': Gog-Agog is a HiveMind with split personality, which is (usually) PlayedForLaughs in a very BlackComedy way. Imagine hundreds of almost identical-looking clowns all called "Gog-Agog" who do an extremely poor job at trying to fit in and are used as slapstick fodder and you're halfway there. At one point during ''King of Swords'' [[FunnyBackgroundEvent two of her bodies can be seen strangling a third one over some perceived insult]], while a fourth body is observing the other three with a "I'm SurroundedByIdiots" look on her face.

* ''WebComic/KillSixBillionDemon'': Gog-Agog is a HiveMind with split personality, which is (usually) PlayedForLaughs in a very BlackComedy way; imagine hundreds of almost identical-looking clowns all called "Gog-Agog" who do an extremely poor job at trying to fit in and are used as slapstick fodder and you're halfway there. At one point during ''King of Swords'' [[FunnyBackgroundEvent two of her bodies can be seen strangling a third one over some perceived insult]], while a fourth body is observing the other three with a "I'm SurroundedByIdiots" look on her face.

* This was one of the laments surrounding the [[PowerBornOfMadness Malkavians]] in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade''. In theory, you have an entire clan of vampires whose weakness is that they pick up some form of madness, from schizophrenia to megalomania to fugue, upon Embrace (that is, if they weren't already insane before), which could be scary seeing as you have an immortal being with supernatural powers, [[MadOracle unnatural insight]], and little control over their own faculties. In reality, you have a bunch of idiots playing Malkavians who either act like children or use their insanity to commit wacky pranks (hence the [[FanNickname term]] "Fishmalk" -- Malkavians who would do something like run up to someone on the street and slap them with a fish, and call it a "prank"). The game itself suggested this route in the first edition, then, when they decided that TrueArtIsAngsty, tried to turn it into the more "serious" mental problem area. Most players ignored this, and Malkavians have been a bright spot in the Old World of Darkness ever since.

In RealLife, mental illness of any kind is rarely [[DudeNotFunny a laughing matter]]. In media, however, it can be [[PlayedForLaughs played with for humor]]. When a character [[SplitPersonality swings wildly back and forth between different versions of himself]], it's almost always used this way.

* The president of the school newspaper in ''LightNovel/KonoNakaNiHitoriImoutoGaIru'' suffers from schizophrenia. Why she's in charge of a newspaper and not in a mental hospital is anyone's guess.