8 Mental Illnesses That Only Exist In Movies

By Baz Greenland /

5. Accident Induced Evil

This tends to happen in approximately 87.65% of all superhero movies. Someone good, or at least only somewhat dodgy endures such a terrible event they turn to a life of crime. A good helping of PTSD with a dash of psychopathy. The trouble is, while trauma can do terrible things to a person€™s psyche, can it really transform someone into an evil monster? Take Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight Rises. The €˜White Knight€™, played with noble gravitas by Aaron Eckhart, is the epitome of the good in humanity. A man who has made it his goal to rid his city of crime, fight for injustice. And then an (admittedly horrific) accident turns him into a monster, both physically and mentally speaking. I get that there€™s trauma involved here. And certainly it made for a dramatic, compelling final act, but suddenly he€™s threatening to kill a child? This would suggest that this €˜evil trait€™ was always there, only unleashed by the horror Harvey Dent has incurred. The trouble is, that€™s a bit hard to reconcile against the man we saw before.