Insanity Inducement

Insanity Inducement
Glorificus "Glory" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) must periodically drain the sanity from humans to maintain her own.
Power/Ability to:	Drive others insane.

"You didn't think I would risk losing the battle for Gotham's soul in a fist fight with you. No, you need an ace in the hole. Mine's Harvey. I took Gotham's white knight and brought him down to our level. It wasn't hard. See madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push."

― The Joker, The Dark Knight

The ability to cause others to go insane. Sub-power of Madness Manipulation. Variation of Mental Inducement.

Also Called

• Delirium Inducement
• Insanity Induction
• Madness Inducement
• Mind Blasting/Blowing/Breaking

Capabilities

User can cause madness in a person or group of people that have no mental illness, depending of the users will victims may go slightly loopy or lose total grip of reality becoming delusional, lose control over themselves, paranoid, catatonic or hostile.

Applications

• Sanity Theft/Sanity Transferal
• Cause madness in a person or crowd.
• Create total anarchy when unleashing craziness to the world

Variations

• Psychosis Inducement

Associations

• Confusion Inducement
• Insanity Absorption
• Madness Manipulation
• Madness Weaponry
• Mental Inducement
• Personal Demon Physiology

Limitations

• The victim may become hostile/dangerous to the user.
• People already with mental illness cannot be affected.
• Users of Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Psychic Immunity (impervious).
• Users of Insanity Absorption can take the insanity from the victim.
• Can be reversed by Mental Healing.
• May not work on users with Indomitable Will.

Known Users

• Doctor Psycho (DC Comics)
• Joker (DC Comics); via Joker Gas
• Delirium of the Endless (DC Comics/Vertigo)
• Count Vertigo (DC Comics)
• Sith (Star Wars)
• Glorificus "Glory" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer); a Side-effect of feeding
• Reisen Udongein Inaba (Touhou Project)
• Clownpiece (Touhou Project)
• Ace (Justice League/Justice League Unlimited)
• Cruciatus Curse users (Harry Potter)
• Daniel Armand (The 4400)
• Dionysus/Bacchus (Greco-Roman Mythology)
• Loki (Norse Mythology)
• Lucy (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
• Pirsoyn (Shakugan no Shana)
• Asura (Soul Eater)
• All Kishin and some Witches (Soul Eater)
• Cthulhu (H.P. Lovecraft)
• Madcap (Marvel Comics)
• Hazama/Yuuki Terumi (BlazBlue)
• Clan Malkavian (Vampire: The Masquerade)
• Pennywise the Dancing Clown/It (Stephen King's It)
• Thesulac Demons (Angel)
• Lorophage Demons (Angel & Faith)
• Madness of Deathwing (Warcraft)
• Old Gods (Warcraft)
• Yakko, Wakko, and Dot (Animaniacs)
• Slender Man (Slender Online Game)
• Toepick (Ben 10 Omniverse)
• Dionysus "Mr. D"/Bacchus (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
• The Faceless Ones (The Skulduggery Pleasant Series)
• Zofis (Zatch Bell!)
• Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer)
• Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)
• Great Ones (Bloodborne)
• Goro Akechi (Persona 5)
• Eto Yoshimura (Tokyo Ghoul)
• Simurgh (Worm)

Known Objects

• Demons Extract (Akame ga Kill)
• Yatagarasu's Feather (Warehouse 13)
• Dogs Playing Poker (The Simpsons)
• Black Blood (Soul Eater)
• Joker Gas (DC Comics)
• The Markers (Dead Space Saga)
• Rajaijah Juice (Tintin)
• The Flare (The Maze Runner)

Gallery

Homer Simpson (The Simpsons) gazed upon the painting of Dogs Playing Poker, going mad from the illogical sight.

Reisen Undongein Inaba (Touhou Project) has the ability to manipulate insanity through her lunatic eyes.

No living being can come face to face with Pennywise's (Stephen King's It) true form of "the deadlights" without instantly going completely insane.

Thesulac Demons (Angel) drives humans insane by tormenting them with their hidden fears and insecurities.

Torture from the Cruciatus Curse (Harry Potter) can cause permanent mental damage. Death Eaters tortured Neville Longbottom’s parents to the point they couldn't remember him.

Inside Doctor Psycho's (DC Universe) insanity.

Slender Man

A Lorophage demon's feeding process typically drives surviving victims insane.

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It is said by Yuuki Tenpouin that anyone who looks into Seeker's eyes would be driven mad, due to its unbearably coldness.

Reiki, in the hands of a special power user, can cause the wielder to go insane from the overflowing powers it absorbs.

Medusa (Soul Eater) is well-known for bringing insanity through mental, physical, and magical involvement.

Ace (Justice League) accomplishes this by altering the perceptions of others.

The Joker (DC Comics) wants to show the world that they all are just one bad day away from being as insane as he is. He has driven many individuals to the depths of madness with his greatest and ongoing project being the dark knight himself.

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Clownpiece (Touhou Project) explaining how she can "mess with the minds" of those who see the light of her torch.

Those that see Lucifer's (Lucifer) demonic face are usually driven insane.

The Flare (The Maze Runner) is the name for a deadly virus that attacks the brain. As a result, those who catch it become violent, unpredictable and insane.

Zofis (Zatch Bell!) used his powers to make Koko’s hidden pain and suffering overpower her kindhearted personality. As a result, Koko became sadistic and insane.

Great Ones (Bloodborne) are a diverse race of eldritch gods that are so beyond a normal human's comprehension, seeing them or even learning of them and their ways secondhand can induce insanity.

Goro Akechi (Persona 5) can transform into Shadows berserk causing real world incidents such as mental breakdowns.

Simurgh (Worm)