Fan Works
"I AM NOT MAD!" cried Zarkendorf, his eyes bulging madly. "For years people like you laughed at my name! They called me a nerd—they said I should get out of my mother's basement and get a life! I swore that one day I would make them all pay! The world will soon tremble at the name Heinrich Dorfmenstein Zarkendorf!"
"Yeah; probably at the thought of having to spell it," said Buster.
"Yeah; probably at the thought of having to spell it," said Buster.
Film — Live-Action
"Why do they still call me a 'warlord'? And 'mad'? All I want to do is create the perfect genetic soldier!"
— M. Bison, Street Fighter
"That's what they called me at the Masters' and Joshson's clinic. 'Mad'! Because I had visions of explorations in sexual areas undreamed of by lesser human beings! It was I who first discovered how to make a man impotent by hiding his hat. I was the first one to explain the connection between excessive masturbation and entering politics. It was I who first said that clitoral orgasm should not be only for women. They laughed at me, ridiculed me, said I was mad! Ha ha! But I show them! Ha ha! They threw me out of Master's and Johnson's. No severance pay. And I had it coming! But I showed them!"
— Dr. Bernardo, Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask
Thanos: Titan was like most planets: too many mouths, not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution.
Doctor Strange: Genocide.
Thanos: At random. Dispassionate. Fair for rich and poor alike. They called me a "madman," and what I predicted came to pass.
Doctor Strange: Genocide.
Thanos: At random. Dispassionate. Fair for rich and poor alike. They called me a "madman," and what I predicted came to pass.
"My dear Professor Strowsky, twenty years ago, I was banned from my home land, parted from my wife and son, never to see them again. Why? Because I suggested to use the atom elements, for producing super beings, beings of unthinkable strength and size. I was classed as a madman, a charlatan, outlawed in a world of science which previously honored me as a genius. Now here in this forsaken jungle hell I have proven that I am all right."
— Dr. Eric Vornoff, Bride of the Monster
"Gentlemen, I wish you were here to see the proof of my claim that the transfusion of blood between different species is possible. Perhaps you will change your mind one day soon when Petro tears at your throat."
— Dr. Lorenzo Cameron, The Mad Monster
Literature
"And so, of course, they called me mad. They laughed at me, and that I would never forgive and forget. I would, to use the old phrase, show them."
— Doctor Impossible, Soon I Will Be Invincible
Tabletop Games
From earliest childhood you were ridiculed and ostracized by your so-called "peers" — sniveling cretins who refused to recognize your genius. Your classmates, your teachers, your family, the whole damnable human species — all of them mocked you, taunted you, belittled you. Curled up in your parents basement, with The Origin of Species under one arm and Where the Wild Things Are under the other, you vowed to show them all. You grew up and received your doctorate in genetics. But were you respected? Did a Nobel Prize adorn your dingy little campus cubicle? Were the fruits of your labors lauded in the halls of science? No, oh no. "Crackpot," they called you. "Half-baked," they called your ideas. "Professor Bug-Eyes," they whispered behind your back. But you were right. There were monsters in the world, and you would find them. You would be their tyrant king!
— The Monster Maker, Vampire: The Masquerade — Clanbook: Tzimisce
Your theories will be attacked, and if they are unassailable, your character will be attacked. They will stop at nothing to halt your progress, to prevent wonder from again entering the human vocabulary. Indeed, they will call you mad. Yes, mad. But wisdom waits in the eye of the storm. Only by passing through the hail of their insults and navigating the treacherous paths they have built through Knowledge will you feel the caress of volatile energy in your bodies and minds, the spinning dynamos of invention in your Selves and the sparks of intent rising to the thunderous sky of night towards Ascension. Only then will you be truly Awake.
— Mage: The Ascension — Tradition Book: Sons of Ether note
Video Games
Dr. Nefarious: To think, they called me insane, Lawrence. Well we'll see who's insane when my pets have exterminated all life on this miserable planet!
Lawrence: That should clear things right up, sir.
Lawrence: That should clear things right up, sir.
"They said I was mad! Preposterous! There's not an angry bone in my body! Had them all removed!"
— Dr. Mobius, Fallout: New Vegas: Old World Blues
"It appears that you have showed them all. Furthermore, it seems very unlikely that they will laugh at you again."
"They told me I would never destroy the earth! They told me I was mad! And now they can all go f**k themselves!"
— The Mastermind, Mastermind: World Conqueror
Western Animation
Wily: The world called me "mad"! "Insane," Proto!
Protoman: Sounds right to me.
Protoman: Sounds right to me.
"Oh, 'mad,' am I? Yes, that's what they all say, hee hee hee! But I'll show you who's mad! Yes! For when I rule the world, then you'll see who's mad! 'Yes!"
— Caractacus P. Doom, Avenger Penguins
"They say madness runs in our family. Some even call me mad. And why? Because I dared to dream of my own race of atomic monsters, atomic supermen with octagonal shaped bodies that suck blood out of the— [unintelligible gibberish]"
— Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Futurama
"They called me 'crazy'! They called me 'insane'! They called me 'looney'! And, boy, were they right."
— Megavolt, Darkwing Duck
"Look, Smithers! A twitch. It's moving! It's alive! Oh, that fellow at Radioshack said I was mad! Well, who's mad now?!" [Evil Laugh]
— Mr. Burns, The Simpsons, "Treehouse of Horror II"
"I don't like to be laughed at. I promised those fools at the power company a revolutionary source of cheap power, and they laughed at me!"
— Professor Norton Nimnul, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
"They called me mad! Insane! WENDELL!!"
— Dr. Mystico, Freakazoid!
Real Life
"In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it."
— Adolf Hitler, speech to the Reichstag, 30 January 1939
"Have you ever seen the coyote in the desert? Watching, tuned in, completely aware. Christ on the cross, the coyote in the desert — it's the same thing, man. The coyote is beautiful. He moves through the desert delicately, aware of everything, looking around. He hears every sound, smells every smell, sees everything that moves. He's in a state of total paranoia, and total paranoia is total awareness."
You are inferior — mentally, spiritually and most probably physically. You will pay a price for that when this house-of-cards comes crashing down... and soon.
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fultonnote , they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
"I'm like a chimpanzee, in a tree, jumping up and down, warning other chimpanzees when I see a big cat coming through the woods... I'm the weirdo? Because I'm sitting in a tree going 'OOH OOH AAH AAH AAH OOH AAH AAH OOH OOH OOH AAH AAH AAH AAH AAH'?!"
— Alex Jones
White doesn't necessarily practice film criticism, although what he writes is almost always based on his real or imagined characterization of what other critics have already written. The movie itself sometimes gets lost in White's internal monologue as he rages against some chimerical critical consensus.
— Jim Emerson on film critic Armond White
The reason we don't believe Ray is correct is because our educational system is a conspiracy to make us stupid. Ray knows. He is the wisest person in the universe — at least he repeatedly asserts so on his websites and when "explaining" the hypothesis (often instead of explaining the hypothesis, in fact).
— Encyclopedia of American Loons
, "Gene Ray Is A Legend"
, "Gene Ray Is A Legend""They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me."
— Nathaniel Lee
"They all laughed when I demonstrated my notorious 11-shot shotgun..."
— Kurt Saxon, real-life Right-Wing Militia Fanatic and Crazy Survivalist, in his self-published magazine The Survivor
