- "Hit me with your best shot, baldy! But my mind's been gone for 30 odd years! YOU CAN'T BREAK WHAT'S ALREADY BROKEN!"
- ― Fiddleford Hadron "Old Man" McGucket (Gravity Falls)
The circumstance in which the user possesses or develops immunities as a result of mental or neurological disorders. Sub-power of Mental Disorder Manipulation. Variation of Disability-Based Immunity and Psychic Immunity.
Also Called[]
- Insanity/Mental Durability/Cancellation/Imperviousness/Invulnerability/Insulation/Nullification/Protection/Tolerance
- Insanity/Mental-Immunity/Proof/Proofness
- Immunity via Mental Disorder
Capabilities[]
The user possesses or can develop immunities to certain factors as the result of a mental or neurological disorder. In its most common form, this is because the user is so insane that mind-affecting powers have no effect on them.
Applications[]
- Acquired Immunity; to mental/telepathic powers.
- Clear Sight; they can perceive such things as an Incomprehensible Form to no ill effect.
- Control Immunity/Negation
- Psychic Shield/Immunity; depending on how unstable the user is.
Associations[]
Limitations[]
- May be limited to certain abilities.
- The disorders themselves often present their own challenges to the user.
- Immunity no longer applies if the user's mental conditions are corrected or cured.
- Immunity Bypassing.
- May not last forever.
Known Users[]
See also: Insanity Immunity, Bored with Insanity.
- Ice King (Adventure Time)
- Esdeath (Akame ga Kill)
- Oswald Mandus (Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs)
- Groupies (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Certain/Traumatized People/Seers (Bird Box/Bird Box: Barcelona)
- Jeff the Killer (Creepypasta)
- Special/Super-Crossed (Crossed)
- Joker (DC Comics)
- Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn (DC Comics)
- J'onn J'onzz/Martian Manhunter (DC Comics)
- Isaac Clarke (Dead Space series)
- Solf J. Kimblee (Fullmetal Alchemist)
- Philip J. Fry (Futurama)
- Fiddleford Hadron "Old Man" McGucket (Gravity Falls)
- Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Marvel Comics)
- Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe)
- Users of Mental Pollution (TYPE-MOON)
- Gilles de Rais/Bluebeard
- Jack the Ripper (Assassin)
- Mori Nagayoshi
- Phantom of the Opera
- Humans (Veil of Madness)
Gallery[]
Esdeath (Akame ga Kill) is immune to the insanity-inducing side effects of the Demon's Extract because she herself is already insane.
Glory's "Groupies" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) are delusional and disconnected to reality, making them immune to the effects of reality-altering spells such as the ritual that transformed the Key into Dawn Summers.
The Joker's (DC Comics) insanity makes him highly resistant, if not outright immune, to a variety of mind-affecting factors and abilities, such as Scarecrow's fear toxin...
...being subjected to a world of horrors by Raven only to find it funny...
...resist Dracula's mental control after being turned into a vampire...
...be in the same vicinity as Ace without being afflicted by her Insanity Inducement...
...and able to don the Mask of Loki without any of its usual side effects.
Due to his lack of a "Delta brainwave," Philip J. Fry (Futurama) is mentally handicapped, but also immune to psychic powers like Telepathy and Intelligence Reduction...
...with a brain slug starving to death upon trying to feed off his mind.
While trapped in a pocket dimension reflecting Joker's madness, Martian Manhunter (DC Comics) was able to alter his thought patterns to match Joker's insanity, allowing himself and Superman to escape without being driven mad.
Due to his sadistic, sociopathic nature, Solf J. Kimblee (Fullmetal Alchemist) is able to retain his personality and consciousness inside the teeming mass of screaming souls within Pride's body.
Repeated memory erasures have left Fiddleford Hadron "Old Man" McGucket (Gravity Falls) completely senile, however it also rendered him immune from further Memory Manipulation.
As a side effect of his healing factor and cancer, Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Marvel Comics) is mentally unstable, rendering him immune to telepathy.
Gilles de Rais/Bluebeard's (TYPE-MOON) Mental Pollution skill grants him a twisted mentality that renders him immune to mental interference spells.
Videos[]
Gray VS Esdeath (Fairy Tail VS Akame ga Kill!) - DEATH BATTLE!-2