History Main / MadGod

* Asura from ''SoulEater'', a demon god who went mad with fear and infects the world with his insanity merely by existing.

* The Joker. Heaven help us all! In the ''Emperor Joker'' series, he tricked Mr Mxyzptlk into giving up the lion's share of his power, and he used it to rewrite the entire universe in his image. In the end, only his obsession with Batman (and his inability to keep his imagination from conjuring his own worst fears) stopped him (with a helpful nudge from Superman.) Notably, he didn't kill everyone like you would expect him to. He just kept killing Batman [[NightmareFuel over and over and over again]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel with zombie clowns]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking chanting the theme of the Adam West Batman TV show.]]
* The Christian God of ''Hellblazer'' is this. The First of the Fallen claims to have "found the Great Redeemer squatting in a corner of Eternity. Clutching his genitals... and drooling."

* The Writer from the Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness arc of the Amory Wars.
** Justified that "The Writer" is an expy for the (at that time depressed) Claudio Sanchez

* Azathoth, the Blind Idiot God gibbering at the chaotic center of Creation (''his'' creation) in the [[HPLovecraft Lovecraft Mythos.]]

* The Gods of Chaos from ''{{Warhammer}} / {{Warhammer40000}},'' especially Tzeench. All Chaos Gods are liable to randomly turn their followers to gibbering piles of tentacles, or give their followers or daemons seemingly random tasks, but Tzeench turn it up to eleven. He's an insane {{Chessmaster}} who is constantly weaving extremely complex schemes that more often than not contradict each other, and that ultimately have no point at all (scheming is what he does and his goal in itself. It is said that if he ever got his plans to completion, he would stop existing). In fact, it is impossible for him to ever achieve his goals - so many of his plans are contradictory that, in succeeding with one, he foils countless others. And so on ad infinitum.

** His full title is actually "Sheogroath The Mad God".

*** To be presise the current known ones are as followed

* The Joker. Heaven help us all! In the ''Emperor Joker'' series, he tricked Mr Mxyzptlk into giving up the lion share of his power, and he used it to rewrite the entire universe in his image. In the end, only his obsession with Batman (and his inability to keep his imagination from conjuring his own worst fears) stopped him (with a helpful nudge from Superman.) Notably, he didn't kill everyone like you would expect him to. He just kept killing Batman [[NightmareFuel over and over and over again]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel with zombie clowns]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking chanting the theme of the Adam West Batman TV show.]]

** [[FridgeLogic But if succeeding at his plans]] would make him [[PuffOfLogic cease to exist]], and he has crafted his plans [[MindScrew so as to make success impossible]], one might [[BatDeduction assume]] that his true goal is simply to continue existing, [[LogicBomb which he has so far succeeded at]], and therefore [[GoMadFromTheRevelation all logic in the world is dead.]]

* The Gods of Chaos from ''{{Warhammer}} / {{Warhammer40000}},'' especially Tzeench. All Chaos Gods are liable to randomly turn their followers to gibbering piles of tentacles, or give their followers or daemons seemingly random tasks, but Tzeench turn it up to eleven. He's an insane {{Chessmaster}} who is contantly weaving extremely complex schemes that more often than not contradict each other, and that ultimately have no point at all (scheming is what he does and his goal in itself. It is said that if he ever got his plans to completion, he would stop existing). In fact, it is impossible for him to ever achieve his goals - so many of his plans are contradictory that, in succeeding with one, he foils countless others. And so on ad infinitum.

* All of the Madlander deities in ''{{GURPS}} Fantasy II: Adventures in the Mad Lands''. Togeth, god of the Togethians, may be one too - the magic he grants to worshippers is extremely random, though at least it's always beneficial, unlike what the Madlander gods tend to do.
* DungeonsAndDragons 4e core setting lables pretty much all the chaotic evil gods as this, mainly Tharizdun, Lolth, and to a lesser degree, Gruumsh.

** Recent Chapters have actually implied that all 8 Warriors from the days of old each represent some form of Madness, like Shinigami representing madness from Rule of Law.

* The Gods of Chaos from ''{{Warhammer}} / {{Warhammer40000}},'' especially Tzeench. All Chaos Gods are liable to randomly turn their followers to gibbering piles of tentacles, or give their followers or daemons seemingly random tasks, but Tzeench turn it up to eleven. He's an insane {{Chessmaster}} who is contantly weaving extremely complex schemes that more often than not contradict each other, and that ultimately have no point at all (scheming is what he does and his goal in itself. It is said that if he ever got his plans to completion, he would stop existing).

* [[CallARabbitASmeerp Jubileus The Creator]] of {{Bayonetta}} goes insane [[spoiler: once the Left Eye is lost, throwing the [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil Balance Between Light and Darkness]] out of alignment.]] Whether Jubileus was good or evil to begin with isn't clear, since in this CrapsackWorld DarkIsEvil, LightIsNotGood, ''both'' Angels and Demons qualify as [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] and humans are, for the most part [[HumansAreBastards worldly]] or [[TooDumbToLive gullible]] [[WhatTheHellTownspeople idiots]].

* In TheBelgariad we get two Mad Gods: Torak is essentially this plus GodOfEvil and Mara went crazy after his people were whipped out in a war, casting illusions on the entire country that drive everyone who dares to make even one step into it insane. HeGetsBetter, though.

* [[CallARabbitASmeerp Jubileus The Creator]]of {{Bayonetta}} goes insane [[spoiler: once the Left Eye is lost, throwing the [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil Balance Between Light and Darkness]] out of alignment.]] Whether Jubileus was good or evil to begin with isn't clear, since in this CrapsackWorld DarkIsEvil, LightIsNotGood, ''both'' Angels and Demons qualify as [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] and humans are, for the most part [[HumansAreBastards worldly]] or [[TooDumbToLive gullible]] [[WhatTheHellTownspeople idiots]].

* The Writer from the Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness.

* ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'': Nuggan, despite being [[GodIsDead dead]], manages to effectively behave in this way, forbidding babies, the color blue, and other absurd things.[[hottip*: He died due to people only really believing in the list of things he'd forbidden, so since GodsNeedPrayerBadly, all that was left of him was a voice forbidding random things.]]

* ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'': Nuggan, despite being [[GodIsDead dead]], manages to effectively behave in this way, forbidding babies, the color blue, and other absurd things.

* The Gods of Chaos from ''{{Warhammer}} / {{Warhammer40000}},'' especially Tzeench. All Chaos Gods are liable to randomly turn their followers to gibbering piles of tentacles, or give their followers or daemons seemingly random tasks, but Tzeench turn it up to eleven. He's an insane {{Chessmaster}} who is contantly weaving extremely complex schemes that more often than not contradict eachother, and that ultimately have no point at all (scheming is what he does and his goal in itself. It is said that if he ever got his plans to completion, he would stop existing).

* Who can forget Sheogorath from ''TheElderScrolls?''

*Glorificus from BuffyTheVampireSlayer

* [[PokemonMysteryDungeon Primal Dialga]] is this.