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deranged | yandere |

As an adjective deranged

is disturbed or upset, especially mentally.

As a verb deranged

is past tense of derange.

As a noun yandere is

a fictional character who fits the archetype of being genuinely romantic, loving, kind, merciful, sparing, sweet and gentle, but is at the same time brutal, psychotic or deranged in behavior. The psychotic tendency can be both sudden and ever-present. Often used for both comedic and dramatic displays of character.

deranged

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • disturbed or upset, especially mentally
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
    • Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
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    (head)
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    yandere

    English

    (wikipedia yandere)

    Noun

    (yandere)
  • (chiefly, Japanese fiction) A fictional character who fits the archetype of being genuinely romantic, loving, kind, merciful, sparing, sweet and gentle, but is at the same time brutal, psychotic or deranged in behavior. The psychotic tendency can be both sudden and ever-present. Often used for both comedic and dramatic displays of character.
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  • * 2012 , Jazmine Brusola, " Rabble Rousers: A Fate/Zero Anime Review", Flyleaf (Ateneo Literary Association), April 2012 - February 2013, page 14:
    • Looking at anime charts, there's always the harem series with the dense hero and a bunch of girls whose personalities are pulled out of a set cast of tropes (the Childhood Friend, Tsundere'', ''Yandere , and Lolita, for instance).
  • * 2014 , Olivia D. Knight, Please, Let Me Be a Seiyuu! , BookRix (2014), ISBN 9783730998380, unnumbered page:
    • "Believe it, man. In fact, she's seriously creepy. Like creepier than that pink-haired girl from Future Diary."
    "Wait, what?" Sam got that reference quickly, but was not happy with the comparison. She wasn't a psychopathic, murderous Yandere stalker, from what he could see.
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