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Basic Trope: A crazy character is aware of and acnkowledges their insanity.
- Straight: Alice is crazy and mentions this fact.
- Exaggerated: Alice mentions her insanity in literally every sentence.
- Justified: Alice has a mental disorder that renders her able to understand that she's not quite right.
- Inverted: Alice reminds people that she is the sane one in a cast full crazy people.
- Subverted: Alice says that she's crazy, but it turns out she's not really crazy.
- Double Subverted: It turns out that she actually is crazy and continues to say that she is.
- Parodied: Lots of Alice in Wonderland jokes pop up in the work, all directed at Alice and her insanity.
- Deconstructed: Alice has severe mental psychological problems that she is aware of but can't fix, leading to a slow breakdown causing pain to her and the people around her.
- Reconstructed: Alice finds a medication that takes away the worst problems that her madness causes. She still has a few quirks, but nothing major, and she continues to (mostly jokingly) refer to herself as insane.
- Zig Zagged: We can never tell if Alice is really insane or not.
- Averted: Alice is crazy, but she doesn't recognize it.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "Let's face it. I'm just crazy."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice refuses to believe that she's crazy. Or, she knows she's crazy, but she refuses to talk or think about it.
- Discussed: "I thought crazy people weren't supposed to know they were crazy. How come Alice does?"
- Conversed: "I thought crazy people weren't supposed to know they were crazy. How come all the fictional loonies do?"
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