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[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]

* ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]'' has Elpeo Puru. Normally she's a [[GenkiGirl hyperactive young girl]] with a sisterly attachment to Judau, but sometimes her obsession with him can go a bit... far. [[spoiler:The worst case was when she tried to kill Leina, seeing her as a rival for Judau's brotherly affections. Judau manages to stop this and calm her down, and Puru is heartbroken over Leina's supposed death a short time later.]]

[[folder: Comic Books ]]

* Whirl from ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''. He's an AxCrazy {{Jerkass}} who is initially kept around because his skill and willingness in combat makes him useful to the crew. However this causes some problems as Rodimus learns the hard way that Whirl isn't easy to control. For instance, waiting until the crew's backs are turned than chasing down and torturing info out of a mook against orders.

[[folder:Film]]

* Archer Maggot from ''Film/TheDirtyDozen'' is a Type II. He's clearly off-balance from the start, spouting off racist comments like nobody's business, but he really becomes a problem at the climax where he nearly foils the mission by stabbing a woman to death at the party...for no reason.
* Andre from ZackSnyder's ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004''. The man wants to bring his kid into the world, ok, that is nice... and then we find out that his wife (and maybe the baby) are [[ZombieInfectee Zombie Infectees]], and he doesn't gives a damn about this...

* [[spoiler: Corporal Gallo]] from ''Film/{{Pandorum}}''. He's the reason the whole mess with the mutants is going on. [[spoiler:While it's not completely hard to understand that finding out that the people aboard the ship to Tanis ''are the last humans alive'' would trigger an episode of Pandorum, him killing the rest of the crew and [[AGodAmI literally playing God]] with the colonists was too far.]]
* ''Film/PanicRoom'' - Raoul. Things would really have been a lot better if Junior hadn't gotten him involved.

* TheIncredibleHulk in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', at least during the first two acts. He's a smash-happy beast [[spoiler:and an important part of Loki's plan is to manipulate the emotions of the Avengers and set off Banner's UnstoppableRage in a place where nobody can run away from him (the Helicarrier).]]
* Snyder from the film ''Deep Star Six''. When a monster attacks various members of the crew, he's given the order to get the site ready for evacuation -so Snyder looks into the evac protocols under "site being threatened by enemy force" and follows them to the letter... without caring that these protocols include ''setting off the nukes that are within spitting distance of Deep Star Six'' and they hadn't left the place yet. When the massive underwater nuclear explosion inevitably damages the station, he insists on trying to leave the place even when everybody else tells him that leaving without decompressing would mean suicide... [[DirtyCoward and still he does, the very second that it looks like trying to face the monster will not work]]. [[ExplosiveDecompression No prizes]] [[ChunkySalsaRule for what happens to him next]].
** Foreshadowed By the fact he was over worked and suffering from some form of cabin fever. But for whatever reason his superior wouldn't give him a break.

[[folder: Live-Action TV ]]

* [[MysteriousWaif River]] is the Psycho Party Member in ''{{Series/Firefly}}''. After her [[MindRape treatment]] at the hands of the Alliance government, she is only sometimes sane and is apt to flip out at the slightest (if any) provocation. Most of the crew realize that her behavior is not her fault, and are protective toward her, but they do remain wary. The episode ''Objects in Space'' revolves a lot around the other characters beginning to seriously consider the threat River poses to them, and their [[ParanoiaFuel concern is increased]] by ''{{Film/Serenity}}'' when they find out that River was intended to be an [[TykeBomb elite assassin]].

[[folder: Video Games ]]

* Although it's hard to say for sure under all the UnreliableNarrator issues and MindScrew, Maria in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' is definitely a little unbalanced. It's particularly clear in the first and fourth arcs; in the former, she doesn't react at all to the gory murders, and in the latter, she [[spoiler:kills (or at least appears to kill) her mother over and over and over in the meta-world.]]
* The [9]th Man of ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' splits in as soon as the Nonary Game begins. He takes Clover hostage with a knife, and demands for their co-operation in him entering a door. By doing this, though, he breaks the rules of the game and dies horribly.
** Not only him, but [[spoiler: Ace, panicking after TheReveal, and Clover, who goes AxCrazy after her SanitySlippage of losing her brother.]]

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-->'''Porkfry''': (''Disappointed'') We never do what I want to do.
-->'''Gabe''': Listen, if you wanted to go to Dairy Queen or something, fine, let's go. But no. You always want to fucking kill people. You never just want a Blizzard.

* Trevor Phillips is full blown nut case and drug dealer in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''. While Franklin and Michael are more collected and rational and kill only people they are assigned to kill, Trevor will kill ''anyone'' for ''any reason'' that makes sense only to him. He can be a screaming lunatic that strongarms his friends into his schemes one minute and be calm and rational the next minute in the blink of an eye. Trevor prefers to kill witnesses during a heist so that no one can trace him while Michael prefers to keep needless kills to a minimum. Regardless of Trevor's sketchy persona, he's an excellent gunman and a damn good pilot, which are quite valuable assets for the many jobs that the protagonists take. After Trevor finds out about Michael's secret where [[spoiler: he sold Trevor and Brad out after a failed bank heist years ago in order to save his own skin due to having a family]], Trevor keeps loudly debating on whether or not he should really kill Michael over it and that creates a big rift between the two of them with Franklin being caught in the middle of the spat and being agitated from it. [[spoiler: One of the endings has Franklin killing Trevor in order to save his own skin (just like what Michael did to Trevor) while trying to justify it by pointing out that Trevor's behavior was going to get the whole group killed

%%* EverymanHYBRID brings you [[KnifeNut Evan]].

%%* Pvt. Miguel Salazar from ''Film/DayOfTheDead''.

* Although it's hard to say for sure under all the UnreliableNarrator issues and MindScrew, Maria in ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'' is definitely a little unbalanced. It's particularly clear in the first and fourth arcs; in the former, she doesn't react at all to the gory murders, and in the latter, she [[spoiler:kills (or at least appears to kill) her mother over and over and over in the meta-world.]]

* Harlan Ogilvy from Spielberg's ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. The man wants to dig a tunnel from his middle-of-nowhere house towards the nearest city and start a campaign of guerrilla warfare against the aliens (which looks like a SuicideMission ''with a fully staffed army'', let alone Oglivy's 12-gauge) and when the aliens enter the house, he readies the gun and prepares to fight back, even when it would probably end up killing everybody ([[PapaWolf including Ray's daughter -and there is no way in hell that he will let him risk that]]).

%%** Shane as well

%%* Quentin from ''Film/{{Cube}}''.

%%* Andre from ZackSnyder's ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004''.

%%* TheIncredibleHulk in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''.
* Snyder from the film ''Deep Star Six''. When a monster attacks various members of the crew, he's given the order to get the site ready for evacuation -so Snyder looks into the evac protocols under "site being threatened by enemy force" and follows them to the letter... without caring that these protocols include ''setting off the nukes that are within spitting distance of Deep Star Six'' and they hadn't left the place yet. When the massive underwater nuclear explosion inevitably damages the station, he insists on trying to leave the place even when everybody else tells him that leaving without decompressing would mean suicide... [[DirtyCowards and still he does, the very second that it looks like trying to face the monster will not work]]. [[ExplosiveDecompression No prizes]] [[ChunkySalsaRule for what happens to him next]].

%%* Ash from ''Film/{{Alien}}''.

%%* Waingro in ''Film/{{Heat}}'', who the page quote is an indirect reference to.
%%* [[spoiler: Corporal Gallo]] from ''Film/{{Pandorum}}''.

%%* Harlan Ogilvy from Spielberg's ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds''.

%%* Snyder from the film ''Deep Star Six''.

* Happens twice in ''ThePacific''. On Peleliu an unnamed Marine begins to freak out one night, and his comrades have to resort to bashing his head in with an entrenching tool to silence him. Later on Okinawa, Pvt. Peck snaps as a result of the rain, Japanese shelling, and hazing he's been receiving from Snafu, Sledge and Leyden, and begins screaming at the Japanese position across from them, even firing a few shots in their direction. While the others attempt to calm him [[spoiler: another replacement having better luck fitting in with the others, Pvt. Hamm, is shot and killed by the Japanese responding to Peck's breakdown]]. TruthInTelevision.

%%* TheIncredibleHulk in ''Film/TheAvengers''.

%%* Xavier from ''Film/{{Saw}} II''.

** Arguably Capt. Rhodes, although he's the most practical, and the only one that makes any sense.

* '''One Bad Day''': These are seemingly normal people who for whatever reason becomes mentally and or emotionally unhinged and becomes a danger to the group. Before hand they were seemingly normal and sane.
* '''One Bad Apple''': These characters are probably loose cannons who goes over the moral line with their brutality and or hasty behavior. Usually overlaps with TokenEvilTeammate.

* '''One Bad Dude''': These characters are probably loose cannons who goes over the moral line with their brutality and or hasty behavior. Usually overlaps with TokenEvilTeammate.

Type I: These are seemingly normal people who for whatever reason becomes mentally and or emotionally unhinged and becomes a danger to the group. Before hand they were seemingly normal and sane.

Type II: These characters are probably loose cannons who goes over the moral line with their brutality and or hasty behavior. Usually overlaps with TokenEvilTeammate.

* Craig Toomy in Creator/StephenKing's ''TheLangoliers.'' He's already bubbling on the verge of a breakdown before the story heats up, but he's pushed over the edge by the [[GoMadFromTheRevelation maddening revelation]] that [[spoiler:the stale-time-eating Langoliers he heard stories about in his youth are real.]]

* [[MysteriousWaif River]] is the Psycho Party Member in ''{{Firefly}}''. After her [[MindRape treatment]] at the hands of the Alliance government, she is only sometimes sane and is apt to flip out at the slightest (if any) provocation. Most of the crew realize that her behavior is not her fault, and are protective toward her, but they do remain wary. The episode ''Objects in Space'' revolves a lot around the other characters beginning to seriously consider the threat River poses to them, and their [[ParanoiaFuel concern is increased]] by ''{{Film/Serenity}}'' when they find out that River was intended to be an [[TykeBomb elite assassin]].

-->-- '''Dane Cook'''

-->1683. Killing the orc horde by drowning them all at once is heroic. Killing them by drowning them one at a time is an alignment check.

* Rockhound from ''Film/{{Armageddon}}''.
** While he can be considered psychotic, he doesn't count. He is a trusted member of the team; and doesn't crack under pressure. It is the American astronaut who nobody knows, that is the problem. All the others have worked together for many years on the oil rig.
*** Except they didn't trust him to detonate the nuke.

** And of course, Carol.
** Shane as well

* Ash from ''Film/{{Alien}}''.

* Quentin from ''Film/{{Cube}}''.

* Arguably Andre from ZackSnyder's ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004''.
* Pvt. Miguel Salazar from ''Film/DayOfTheDead''.

** Logan as well.
* Ridley from ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead''.

* Ian from ''FinalDestination3'' due to the loss of his girlfriend.
* Waingro in ''Film/{{Heat}}'', who the page quote is an indirect reference to.
* [[spoiler: Corporal Gallo]] from ''Film/{{Pandorum}}''.

* Xavier from ''Film/{{Saw}} II''.

* Harlan Ogilvy from Spielberg's ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds''.

* TheIncredibleHulk in ''Film/TheAvengers''.
* Snyder from the film ''Deep Star Six''.

* Aarfy from ''Literature/CatchTwentyTwo''.

* Ronald Speirs in ''BandOfBrothers'' has this vibe going, and actually [[CrazyAwesome makes it work for him]]. His comrades speculate whether he's ''really'' as psychotic as the stories make him, or [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation if it's all just an act]]. As with the above, this is also TruthInTelevision, and to this day no one is really sure whether the stories told about Speirs during the War were true or if it was an image he allowed his subordinates to cultivate. He was certainly well-respected and [[AFatherToHisMen popular]] among the men of [[BadAssCrew Easy Company]].

* In BatBoyTheMusical, [[spoiler: Dr. Parker's already somewhat loose grip on reality is shattered when his wife takes Edgar's side over his, and he begins killing people and framing Edgar for the crimes.]]

** [[InsufferableGenius Vaarsuvius]] fits as well, some of the time.

* EverymanHYBRID brings you [[KnifeNut Evan]].

* Porkfry is/was this apparently for the PennyArcade crew, according to [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/09/05 This Comic]] where he suggests the best response to Tycho standing them up for Guys' Night Out is to kill him (Complete with brandishing a pocket knife)

* Archer Maggot from TheDirtyDozen is a Type II. He's clearly off-balance from the start, spouting off racist comments like nobody's business, but he really becomes a problem at the climax where he nearly foils the mission by stabbing a woman to death at the party...for no reason.

* ''PanicRoom'' - Raoul. Things would really have been a lot better if Junior hadn't gotten him involved.