“ | Gordon: Please! Tell me what I'm doing here! SOMEBODY! Joker: Doing? You're doing what any sane man in your appalling circumstances would do. You're going mad. Gordon: I... I remember- Joker: I wouldn't do that. Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place. Yes, memory is so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delight, childhood aromas, the flashing neon of puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss. The next, it takes you somewhere you don't want to be. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with damp, ambiguous-shaped things you'd rather forget. Memories can be vile, repulsive little brutes. Like children, no? Gordon: Barbara! Joker: But can we live without them? Memories are what our reason is based on. If we deny them, we deny reason itself. Although, what's wrong with that, really? It's not like we're contractually tied down to rationality. There is no sanity clause. So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, headed for places in your past where the screaming is unavoidable, remember this: there's always madness. You can just step outside, close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away... forever. |
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~ Joker enticing Jim Gordon to let go of his sanity. |
Villains who drive others insane either through superpowers, concentrated effort or even both. Mind-Breakers may do this for evil goals in mind, or sometimes even out of pure sadism. Many villains can cause insanity by supernatural means, some evil brainwashers or psychics are capable of driving people insane with their powers and torturers can force a person to go into madness through their own barbaric methods, usually through intense physical harm and/or psychological abuse.
Mind-Breakers are often seen as extremely evil given the utmost cruelty that comes with subjecting the victim to horrific treatment until their minds crack. The damage inflicted by such excruciating conditions is almost always irreversible to some degree; if the victim manages to recover, they are almost always left with some form of lifelong trauma, while the worst-case scenario is that the victim is left an incoherent shell of their former self for eternity until death.
These villains differ from Psychological Abusers in terms of severity, although they can very easily overlap. If a villain successfully drives someone into insanity, or at the very least; a severe broken state, then they can qualify for this category as well. Good examples include; It, Slender Man, Glitchtrap, Bellatrix Lestrange, Archibald Snatcher, Kai Chisaki and many versions of the Joker.
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- The Sorcerer (Spyro)
- The Spiral
- The Squip
- The Stalker (Penpal)
- The Stranger (When a Stranger Calls)
- The Strangers
- The Taker of Souls
- The Thaarn
- The Thing (Hello Neighbor)
- The Three
- The Tickler
- The Torturer (Berserk)
- The Toy Box Demon
- The Trickster (The Flash 1990)
- The True Knot
- The Twilight's Hammer
- The Ultimate Depravity
- The Uncle (Akuma no Riddle)
- The Undertaker (WWE)
- The Unholy
- The Usher
- The Voice (Far Cry)
- The War Chief
- The War Lord
- The Warden Unit
- The Wicked Witch
- The Wickersham Brothers
- The Will of Honkai
- The Will of Honkai (Houkai Gakuen 2)
- The Will of the Abyss
- The Wire
- The Witch (Into the Woods)
- The Witch (The Witch)
- Theodore Maxtible
- Thesulac Demon
- Think-Tanks
- Thirdspace Aliens
- Thomas Wayne (Telltale)
- Thorian
- Thresh
- Thriller
- Thunder Serpent Narwa
- Thunderbird (Uchu Sentai Kyuranger)
- Ticci-Toby
- Tieran
- Tim Spencer
- Timewyrm
- Timothy (The Long Kiss Goodnight)
- TIO
- Titan (Shadow Fight)
- Tito Taylor Thomas
- Tobias Hankel
- Todd and Stuart
- Toilet Seat Killer
- Tokito
- Tokkuriji Muchisute
- Tom Landricks
- Tom Watson
- Tomie Kawakami
- Tommy Taffy
- Tommyknockers
- Tomoo
- Tomoo and Yatsu's Father
- Tomoo's Partners
- Tony the Talking Clock
- Tooth Fairy (original)
- Tooth Fairy (updated)
- Top (Arrowverse)
- Topher Bus
- Toppin Monsters
- Torran and Lloyd
- Torturers (American Guinea Pig)
- Torturers (Guinea Pig)
- Torturers (The Butcher)
- Torturers (Vomit Gore)
- Toshio Saeki
- Tot Musica
- Toy Monkey
- Toyohisa Senguji
- Tracy's Father
- Trakis
- Travis Hankett
- Tren Krom
- Trent Maddock
- Trickster (Brainscan)
- Trigon (DC)
- Trigon (Teen Titans)
- Triple H
- Tristan Adams
- Trueman
- Truth (Fullmetal Alchemist)
- Tsukiko (Joshi Kouhei)
- Tsumugi Shirogane
- Tulzscha
- Turahk
- Twin Dolls
- Twisted Alice
- Twister
- Two-Face (Telltale)
- Tyler (Ginger Snaps)
- Typhoid Mary
- Typhon (mythology)
- Ubik
- Uighur
- Ukuleleman
- Ultima (Final Fantasy Tactics)
- Ultima (Final Fantasy XVI)
- Ultimate Despair
- Ultimate Proto-Bot 10000
- Ultras
- Ultron (Marvel)
- Ulyaoth
- Uncle Howee
- Uncle Johnny
- Uncle Tommy
- Undead Alien
- Undead Dragon (Gothic)
- Undying Ones
- Uni-Armadillo Yummy
- Unicron (Transformers)
- Unity Fields Cult
- Universal Church of Truth
- Unnamed Doctor
- Unnamed Entity
- Unown
- UnuThul
- Urgan Nagru
- Uriel (Lucifer)
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- Utrom Shredder
- Uujima Satoshi
- V (V for Vendetta)
- V.I.L.E.
- Vaas Montenegro
- Vaatu
- Vaermina
- Valak (The Conjuring)
- Valentino (Hazbin Hotel)
- Validar
- Valkyrie
- Valyrian Freehold
- Vampires (Elder Scrolls)
- Vanescula Drakan
- Vanessa Cassidy
- Vaneé
- Varamyr Sixskins
- Vardans
- Varus
- Vasily Karpov
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- Vault-Tec
- Vecna (Stranger Things)
- Vega Donna
- Velociraptor (That Guy With the Glasses)
- Venom (Marvel's Spider-Man)
- Venom (Marvel)
- Venom (Spider-Man 2017)
- Venom (The Spectacular Spider-Man)
- Vera Konstantin
- Vertigo
- Ves Alkar
- Viceroy (Star Trek)
- Vicki Vale (Telltale)
- Victor Krane
- Victor Paul Gitano
- Victor Zsasz (Arkhamverse)
- Victor Zsasz (DC)
- Victor Zsasz (Gotham)
- Vietnam Advisor
- Vijay Singh Rajput
- Viktor Adler
- Vilgefortz
- Vilius
- Villanelle
- Vince McMahon
- Viral (TMNT)
- Virus of the Purpose
- Viscount Pygman (Shin)
- Vitalis Bénévent
- Vitiate
- Vivian Thompson
- Vivien "Viv" Bates
- Vladis Grutas
- Void (Berserk)
- Void (The Amazing World of Gumball)
- Void Knight
- Void Termina
- Volcamon
- Voleth Meir
- Voltan (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion)
- Volthoom
- Von Weich
- Voord
- Vuan
- Vukmir
- Vulgyre