Too bad he's a raving lunatic. For years, Marty was told that Doc Brown was dangerous, a crackpot, a lunatic. Idiot characters in literature are often confused with or subsumed within mad or lunatic characters. Following the inquest, William Benn was certified insane and removed to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. People think I'm mad, a lunatic. Mohinder quickly apologizes for coming off as "a raving lunatic" when they first met. They described Fujita as a man "susceptible to the imaginings of the lunatic fringe". This is a go-for-broke hour of lunatic madness. Suspicion arises that they are being picked off by a dangerous lunatic. Ferdinand, shown by now to be a depraved lunatic, threatens and disowns the Duchess. An English poet, who died in a lunatic asylum. The hospital was first known as the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Phrenology also provided reformist arguments for the lunatic asylums of the Victorian era. "They just thought I was a lunatic". Catherine responded by declaring she had a lunatic for a son.