Psychotic

Characters who suffer from extreme psychosis (not at all to be confused with psychopaths, which are, in fact, opposites of this category). Psychosis itself is not an actual condition but rather a symptom of many other illnesses, the most common conditions associated with high-levels of psychosis include dissociative disorders and schizophrenia. Psychosis can also be caused by drug or alcohol abuse, brain injury or trauma. People who suffer from psychotic conditions often become more violent, unstable or ill if they engage in drug and/or alcohol misuse.

Psychotics are outright insane, having little to no understanding of what they are exactly doing or the severity of their actions; to qualify as a psychotic a character must be shown to have the following patterns in most media they appear in:

• False beliefs (they will hold false beliefs that are nevertheless seen as fact, this means they often see the world in a very different manner to others and may hallucinate a wide array of phenomena - often this makes them appear to exist in their own world)
• Unpredictable behavior (due to lacking an understanding of reality versus fiction, many psychotics will exhibit extremely unpredictable behavior, this can be seen as one of the key differences between psychosis and psychopathy - while psychopaths can control their behaviors a Psychotic cannot, thus they are much more notably ill and would be classed as "criminally insane" in most settings).

IMPORTANT: do not use this category for any and all "Mentally Ill" - , only use it for characters who display all the signs and symptoms of someone who is suffering extreme psychosis, for any ill-defined or otherwise questionable behaviors that do not fall under extreme psychosis, use "Mentally Ill". In fact, do not add the psychopath, mentally ill or dissociative categories on the same villain as the three categories are different types of mental illnesses and adding them all on the same page would be redundant.

Also, these characters can only be a Complete Monster if they manage to hit all criteria and possess a clear moral agency, even in spite of their limited views of reality (Big Bad Wolf, Absolute Solver (N'raged), Baron Robotnik, Chara (The Indie Game Movie), Kirby (There Will Be Brawl), Sonic.exe, Turbo (TURBO WINS), Wonderland Alice, BLU Medic (The Fedora Chronicles), The Avatar (Red Flood), Jeff The Killer (Pastra), and Caine (OBEY)).

Psychotic villains can be tragic since horrible experiences from the past at any age can also drive these villains insane and push them away from reality as it is too painful to grasp (e.g.The Man in The Suit, Sarah Henderson (Needlem0use), Mr. Puzzles, Error Sans, Fluttershy, Gray, Springtrap (Tony Crynight) , Danyell Radcliff, Alice Angel (Lifeline), The Tortured One and Jeff the Killer). Since many of these types of characters can barely understand what they are doing and suffering from immense psychosis on a daily basis, this can sometimes be considered a sympathetic factor if these villains suffer with mental health more than the average mentally ill villain (if portrayed sympathetically).

A psychopath/sociopath will almost never fall under this category because they are always aware of reality, are in control of their own actions and are extremely calculating, meanwhile a psychotic is most often in very poor control of their own actions and have a twisted perception of reality (though psychotics can’t be judged by our systems much like barbarians or ferals and as the formers may also be intelligent enough to hit the Mastermind category.). The exception to a psychopath qualifying is if they're also somehow driven to psychosis, but the categories should not be intermingled.