Are there any EU characters considered insane?

I've been obsessed with movie psychopaths, Hannibal, Francis, Jame, Michael, Jason, freddy, etc. for a long time, and I wonder, are there any characters in the EU who, you know, might be a multiple murder or be seriously deranged?

 

Joruus C?Boath. Emperor Palpatine. Jaina Solo. Take your pick.

 

Triclops, had a weird split personality disorder, when he is asleep he is a madman, thinking up diabolical weapons, and helping the empire. While awake he is a peaceful pacifist completely against everything the empire stands for.

 

The only one you mentioned that is truly insane is Jorrus. Palpatine is simply evil and power hungry, and Jainas just a bitch.

 

Haha.

I actually think Palpatine was insane. I mean, come on, he had to be.

C'boath was very insane, and Jaina's just misunderstood.

 

Tsavong Lah was just misunderstood too. All he really needed was a hug. Instead, Jaina sabered him.

 

Isard went nuts, IMO.

 

You think that too Gandolf?! He could have been brought to the light!

 

Palpatine belived himself to be perfect,and as Data said STFC "Beliving oneself to be perfect is often the sign of a Delusional mind" palpatine also seems to have suffered from Narcistic Personality Disorder and severe Megalomaina,he also enjoys inflicting pain and suffering on others.

Exar Kun also showed signs of mental instability but not insanity,and the Anzati race clearly shows Psychotic behavior;devouring the soup or life force of others for sick perverted pleasure instead of just eating regular foods like All other aliens and baseline human and humaniods do.

 

Yeah, Isard got kinda crazy near the end. Blackhole was insanely paranoid. But I thought Anzati needed soup to survive?

 

That one lady...I can't remember which book...Ismaren.

(Possible spoiler, highlight to read)
Oh, and if she doesn't straighten up in Refugee or Reunion, Tahiri.

 

Not really true,Volfe Karkkos was an Anzati Jedi Knight for years before he ever tasted the Soup of others,of course he had to eat something to survive before that,and the Jedi Order would not tolerate him leaching off of the Life Forces of other Jedi or the Citizens of Coruscant while he was living in the Jedi Temple either.

 

Evolution has nothing to do with mental states, at least not comparing one species to another's mental states, but comparing the states of individuals within the species with others within the same species.

If a species evolved a trait do to that being the only way to survive on their planet, then it had nothing to do with how they think mentally. I'm sure that only a few anzati go after other sentient prey, most probably just feed off of lower animals of their homeplanet.

Though there is behavioral evolution in which a species are compatible because of their behavior, where they can't get along with other similar species because they are mentally different, so reproduction won't occur between those two different species. But behavior in that case is natural to the species, and has nothing to do with human sanity or insanity. What would make something insane or sane would depend on how an individual in that species compares to other members of his species. If one member was completely different mentally than the majority of his species, he would be psychotic. In other words say you had a species, say the tasmanian devil, that was agressive, and tended to attack with little provocation, if one was born that was peaceful and didn't attack at all but rather backed down, it would be psychotic compared to the traits of its species.

 

Runt has Multiple Personality Disorder (that condition is normal for his species, though). Captain Joak Drysso snapped (went crazy) in The Bacta War, calling himself "Admiral", then "Grand Admiral", and wanting to ram the Lusankya into the surface of Thyferra.

That one lady...I can't remember which book...Ismaren.

Roganda Ismaren. Her story is in the books Children of the Jedi and Rebel Stand. Subjected her own son to Frankenstein-ish experiments.

Yeah, Isard got kinda crazy near the end.

If by "near the end" you mean "in The Bacta War" I wholeheartedly agree. In Isard's Revenge, she was her strong, cool-headed self again. The original Isard, that is. The clone always seemed kinda wacky to me.

 

According to The Essential Guide to Alien Species, Zuckuss spent time in a Coruscant sanitarium and was believed to have had split personalities. But they're liars! Zuckuss is too cool to be insane.

 

There is a fine line between desperation and insanity.

"Runt has Multiple Personality Disorder (that condition is normal for his species, though)."

If it is natural for his species to have multple personalities, then it wouldn't be a disorder, and he wouldn't be insane. Now if he had only one personality in a species that is supposed to have multiple personalities, he would have a disorder.

"According to The Essential Guide to Alien Species, Zuckuss spent time in a Coruscant sanitarium and was believed to have had split personalities. But they're liars! Zuckuss is too cool to be insane."

So you believe it was all an act? That his different personalieties were acts, just to set other people off guard, so they would think he was crazy, all the while he planned and schemed?

While that's possible it still doesn't explain why he would take his stupidity act as far as he did in Bounty Hunter Wars(which by the way was the reason that EG to aliens says he has a split personality to fix the error created by BHW).

 

I know Joruus C'baoth was insane. He's mentioned as such throughout TTT.

Are mental breakdowns considered part of insanity?

~Inyri

 

Val: Yeah, I've always maintained that the "insanity" quick fix wouldn't have been necessary if K.W. Jeter had just done his research and read Of Possible Futures.

 

Well besides the ones already mentioned I would have to say that Vergere was a bit insane at points. Comeon she spent 50 years with the Vong it had to drive her crazy.

 

Lord Nyax/Irek Ismaren seemed somewhat insane after the experimentation. Of course, he couldn't exactly communicate and he didn't understand everything that was happening, but he definately seemed to be out of his mind, especially towards the very end when he didn't even recognize or care that he was being attacked by the Jedi.

 

I think that Treast Kre'Fey might get there by the end of he NJO. doing stuff like killing Vong babies.

 

Kre'fey isn't insane, he just wants to kill every last Yuuzhan Vong out there. I'm sure plenty of people out in the GFFA feel the same way as he does.

Joruus C'Baoth is noticeably insane and unstable.

Palpatine's more of a Cyric-type figure (for those of you familiar with Faerun) since he's a megalomaniac who believes himself the pinnacle of existence. Not a bad life to lead, eh?

 

Palpatine might not have been insane before Vader tossed him down that shaft, but I would argue that his post-ROTJ clones grew more and more deranged each time he died.

 

but he (Irek/Nyax) definately seemed to be out of his mind.
By the time he was Nyax, he barely had a mind left to be out of.
M.

 

"Val: Yeah, I've always maintained that the "insanity" quick fix wouldn't have been necessary if K.W. Jeter had just done his research and read Of Possible Futures."

Oddly enough K.W. Jeter was more in line with early zuckuss shown in older comics, and it was "of possible futures" altered him. But no one seems to remember those.