Mentally Ill

Heroes with Mental Disorders or Heroes with Mental Illnesses are heroes who suffers from disorders that mainly affect the personality and behavior of the Hero. Some Heroes with mental illnesses can be (but aren’t always) insane or unhinged, such as Buck from Ice Age. Some of the more common mental disorders are amnesia, PTSD and depression. Examples can be;

• Max Payne, who suffers from depression.
• Rorschach, who has a PPD.
• Cloud Strife, who suffers from PTSD.
• Angela Orosco, who suffers from CPTSD.
• Robin, who suffers from amnesia.
• Neito Monoma, who suffers from Idée fixe and OCD.
• Most of TheIkranRider's characters who live with autism.
• Rory McKenna who lives with high-functioning autism.

These characters are often Tragic, since the trait of being mentally unstable is being unable hinders their growth, causes them struggles in their daily life and sometimes are unable to tell right from wrong should their illness be worse. Examples include Ryūko Matoi, Homer Simpson, and Joe Swanson.

Some can also be Pure Good if they have no corrupting factors and if their mental illness doesn't interfere with their moral agency and knowledge of right and wrong. Gonta Gokuhara, Dory, Shoto Todoroki and Forrest Gump are examples of this.

Notes[]

• Not all heroes are mentally unstable when they first appear. While some are, others who were sane to begin with suffer experiences that causes their sanity to snap. The primary causes for this are prolonged abuse and humiliation. A severe-enough degree of fear can do it too, but less commonly.
• Please do not add dissociative heroes under this category as the category is a subtype of mentally disordered heroes and adding both categories on the same hero at once would be redundant.
• Non-humanoid entities and angels never count, regardless of how good they can be. To them, such acts are normal or a simple spiritual/cultural function.

Villains[]

Mentally Ill or Deranged villains are villains who are dangerously ill and have any type of psychological disorder and can be deemed as mentally unstable or villains suffering from mental disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or bipolar disorder, among others. These characters can be tragic, since the trait of being mentally unstable is not being fully aware of their actions or not being in full control of their emotions, thoughts, desires, fantasies and might go as far as to hurt others including themselves. Examples of which include many "Yanderes", such as Kotonoha Katsura, Bae Su-mi, and Anniyan. In addition, many people (both in fiction and real-life) suffer heavily from mental illness and can struggle on a daily basis, so villains who have difficulties with their mental health can often be seen as sympathetic, if not, redeemable. However, there are also many mentally ill villains that are merely insane, only living to cause whatever brand of chaos their mind craves. Regardless, it is often that these villains are prone to live in fear and tend to distrust others because of delusions of persecution, harm and doom.

Notes[]

• To qualify as mentally ill, a character must have some horrible behavior, some beliefs, and commit some actions which do not stem from their cultural beliefs unless it severely hinders the character's activities. In other words, the villainy is either non-cultural or self-sabotaging.
• Characters who have simple phobias (e.g. Hopper and Sylvester J. Pussycat Sr.) do not count, as nearly everybody has at least one phobia. They should go under Paranoid instead of this category.
• Not all villains are mentally unstable when they first appear. While some are, others who were sane to begin with suffer experiences that cause their sanity to snap, like Gil Yepes and Andrew Detmer. The primary causes for this are prolonged abuse and humiliation. A severe-enough degree of fear can do it too, but less commonly.
• Psychopaths/sociopaths will NEVER fall under this category as they are fully aware of reality and are not crazy, whereas mentally ill villains are not completely aware of reality and have limited views on it.
  • Please do not add psychotic villains or dissociative villains under this category as those categories are subtypes of mentally ill villains and adding all three categories on the same villain at once would be redundant.
  • The most evil ones may have psychopathic/sociopathic traits and tendencies; however, if they display the necessary requirements of a psychopath/sociopath while they simultaneously suffer from mental illnesses, then they should be added here instead.
• Non-humanoid entities like robots, animals and demons usually don't count (e.g. Valak and Skynet), regardless of how evil they can be. To them, "mental health" isn't an important concept, it just means they can do their programmed/biological/spiritual function. If they cannot do that function, they just go under other categories. The only time they can count for Mentally Ill is if they clearly display human-like intelligence (e.g Skitzo, Ultron and his MCU counterpart, Bill Cipher, Koba, Plankton, Roxanne Wolf, and Zomom).
• Villains who only feigned mental illnesses and don't actually have any do not qualify, that is trickery instead.