History Main / SanitySlippage

* ''TheWall'' chronicles a man slowly alienating himself from the world, causing his mind to collapse on itself until finally what's left of his sanity stages an intervention and forces him to actually ''deal'' with his problems.

* [[MagnificentBastard Azula]] in the finale of ''[=~Avatar: The Last Airbender~=]''. Her slippage began with [[spoiler:Mai and Ty Lee's [[HeelFaceTurn betrayals]] a couple episodes]] earlier. When Ozai told her to remain in the Fire Nation as Fire Lord, she became increasingly more paranoid. She acted on the paranoia, then began hallucinating, and eventually had what some consider the MostTriumphantExample of a VillainousBreakdown.

->''"Because madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little '''push'''!" ([[LaughingMad Laughs maniacally]]''

->''"Because madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little '''push'''!"''

* ''"It doesn't hurt at all!"'' In PuellaMagiMadokaMagica, we can see Sayaka starting to break down as she fights a witch. [[spoiler:Why? Because a friend of hers had just told her that, the day after, she was going to declare herself to the boy Sayaka loved. That was just the last straw, though. Other factors certainly [[BreakTheCutie helped]].]]

* "It doesn't hurt at all!" In PuellaMagiMadokaMagica, we can see Sayaka starting to break down as she fights a witch. [[spoiler:Why? Because a friend of hers had just told her that, the day after, she was going to declare herself to the boy Sayaka loved. That was just the last straw, though. Other factors certainly [[BreakTheCutie helped]].]]

* [[PuellaMagiMadokaMagica "It doesn't hurt at all!"]]

* [[PuellaMagiMadokaMagica "It doesn't hurt at all!"

* In the {{King of the Hill}} episode "Pretty, Pretty Dresses" Bill is very lonely and depressed, and finally loses it when Hank destroys the gifts he'd been saving for his ex-wife Lenore in case she ever came back. He starts wearing her old clothes she'd left behind and talks in a falsetto voice, believing that he himself is Lenore; eventually Hank is able to break him out of it and gets him to get over Lenore.

* In the {{KingoftheHill}} episode "Pretty,Pretty Dresses" Bill is very lonely and depressed he finally loses it when Hank destroys the gifts he'd been saving for his ex-wife Lenore in case she ever came back, he starts wearing her old clothes she'd left behind and talks in a falsetto voice believing that he himself is Lenore, eventually Hank is able to break him out of it and gets him to get over Lenore.

** It's even worse in the DVD, watching the deleted scenes/uncut version. When he drives past the manequin [[spoiler:trap]] the head of the manequin actually ''moves'', and when he wakes up [[after being saved from his suicidal assault]], he first sees the people in his house as his own wife and daughter [[spoiler:who had died years earlier.]]

->"Because madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little ''push''!"

* [[MyLittlePony My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]: In one episode, Twilight Sparkle's mentor is coming to visit, but the town is infested with locust-like bugs that eat everything in sight. She is running out of time, and then she snaps for a brief moment. Leading to this:

* NeonGenesisEvangelion has a cast that display their loss of sanity in different ways... [[{{understatement}} some a little more disturbing than others]].

* Which appears to be ''nothing'' compared to Randy Quaid and his wife, who are engaging in the kind of ''folie a deux'' that leaves [=TMZ=] salivating. After bailing on a good number of bills, mortgages, and other outstanding charges, the couple was arrested for squatting in a manor they'd sold years back. And that's when things got ''really'' weird, as the Quaids started talking about how most of the recent celebrity deaths were the fault of a hit squad known as the "Star Whackers" that was targeting them and had ties everywhere.

* Azula in the finale of ''[=~Avatar: The Last Airbender~=]''. Her slippage began with [[spoiler:Mai and Ty Lee's [[HeelFaceTurn betrayals]] a couple episodes]] earlier. When Ozai told her to remain in the Fire Nation as Fire Lord, she became increasingly more paranoid. She acted on the paranoia, then began hallucinating, and eventually had what some consider the MostTriumphantExample of a VillainousBreakdown.

A character has been a bit... off for a while now. Maybe they just [[NotHimself haven't been themselves]], maybe they've gone as far as painting a RoomFullOfCrazy while reciting a MadnessMantra, or maybe they've gone through a MadnessMakeover, but it's apparent from their actions that they've gone off the deep end.