| Nut |
| Kook |
| Loony |
| Maniac |
| Lunatic |
| Bedlamite |
| Bedlam bloke |
| Asylum occupant |
| Wild and crazy guy |
| Typical Spidey foe |
| Gogol title diarist |
| One granted asylum? |
| One ranting and raving |
| Elton John "___ Across the Water |
| Many an old-movie criminal mastermind |
| Many an old horror film scientist, e.g. |
| Gogol's Aksenty Poprishchin, per the title |