Berserk Button/Fan Works: Difference between revisions

When a nice, normal character suddenly goes into a rage, you've hit their [[Berserk Button]].

 

** While fighting the Justice League (not as ridiculous as it sounds) Superman gets a little too over zealous with his laser vision and shoots Ranma's mother, {{spoiler|Tokimi}}, in the back. Ranma goes into a rage and destroys [[No Kill Like Overkill|"the west and north quadrants of the universe".]]

*** Luckily the Lantern Corp send the future Green Lantern back to warn them and they manage to stop superman in time.

** Being called short.

** Someone saying there's a person stronger then him (Or Calling him weak in general)

** Trying to kill Etna and Flonne.

** {{spoiler|Saying that being an overlord means killing the weak.}}

* There are some things you don't do in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]''. You do not threaten any of Kyon's friends. Last time that happened, he dangled the person responsible out a window by the ankle and proceeded to put him through a [[Humiliation Conga]] {{spoiler|for trying to shove poor Tsuruya off that same window}}. Similarly, threaten Kyon's life, and Haruhi will kill you. The only reason she didn't kill the criminals responsible for {{spoiler|Kyon's shooting}} was because Koizumi convinced her that Kyon wouldn't want her to.

* [[The Life After Death Trilogy|Otto and Robin Octavius.]] Do not threaten their adopted daughter Mouse. Just... don't. If you're lucky, Otto will rip you to shreds with the help of four sentient, pissed off metal tentacles. If you're not lucky... Robin Goodfellow gets to 'play' with you.

* ''[[Company 0051]]'' has the [[The Captain]] of the eponymous Company. Basic inspection shows him as a calm, collected leader. Question how he runs the place, though, [[It Got Worse|and he'll retaliate...]]

* Amongst ''[[Touhou]]'' fans, a lot of portrayals of [[Ninja Maid|Sakuya]] have her react [[Knife Nut|incredibly violently]] if anyone implies that she pads her bra, or even writing or ''thinking'' the word "pads". She also doesn't like people who sleep on the job, which is bad news for [[The Slacker|Meiling]].

** Patchouli likes to [[Throw the Book At Them]] on occasion in the fighting games, but as ''[[Touhou Musou Kakyou]]'' demonstrates it's ''not'' a good idea to do the same to her. When Aya does this accidentally, it sets up a ''big'' throwdown between her and Reimu.

** Calling [[Time Abyss|Yukari]] any variation of "old hag" is a good way to be sucked into one of her gaps. [[Touhou/Memes|She's 17]], after all.

** Very few things can piss [[Cute Ghost Girl|Yuyuko]] off, but two things, according to fanworks, will do it: interrupting her meal may get you put through a wall, but stealing her food will make her go Hollow on you.

* In ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' fanon, Louis likes pills a ''lot''. Stealing his pills, or even having pills when he doesn't, will drive him into a frenzy.

* [[Slayers|Lina]] in ''[[Blood That Flows]]'' is pretty calm most of the time. Doing anything to harm her daughter, or her future adopted daughter, or even her daughter's friends however, is a quick way to [[Retired Badass|bring her out of retirement]] and show you all new ways to feel pain. To date, she took on a Mazoku Lord while being injured, another one while being pregnant, nearly ripped a Gold Dragon and her sister a new one and committed genocide on a criminal organization, the last one because they attacked her husband.

* Don't tease [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Tails]] in ''[[Journey Into Darkness]]'' about Cosmo's death if you know whats good for you, Shadow learned this the hard way.

** In fact, Tails seeing Shadow in general pushes his beserk button.

** From the same fanfic series, Harry gets violent very fast when people insult Meciel.

* One warning for readers of the ''[[Tamers Forever Series]]'': Do not, under ''any'' circumstances, put someone Takato cares about in danger, or he will '''''end''''' you.

** Rika's [[Berserk Button]] is triggered when {{spoiler|1=a swarm of Kurisarimon and [DarkScubamon] torture Takato almost to death}}.

* The ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' fanfic series ''The [[Elemental Chess Trilogy]]'' has all the same [[Berserk Button|berserk buttons]] as the original canon. In addition, though, some others come up. Don't endanger Ling's friends, his people, or his little sister. Don't mistreat women in the vicinity of Alex Louis Armstrong (or, as shown in a flashback, Roy Mustang). Don't mess with the members of Team Mustang if you don't want to feel the wrath of the rest of that Nakama. And ''pray for deliverance'' if you're caught red-handed having something to do with the disappearance and possible murder of Riza Mustang, because if her husband doesn't incinerate you (and that's a really big if), their friends ''will.''

* Speaking of things you just shouldn't say, [[Better Living Through Science and Ponies|don't ever insult background character Ditzy Doo's child]] and expect to get away with it; she doesn't mind the mocking nickname 'Derpy Hooves' but dissing her foal will just lead to her helping Chell wreck you.

* ''[[Progress]]'': Don't break Luna's glasses. Just don't. Also don't threaten anypony under her protection.

* ''[[Past Sins]]'': [[Happily Adopted|Nyx loves Twilight.]] [[Mama Bear|Twilight loves Nyx.]] Both wield magical power unmatched by anypony save, perhaps, [[Physical God|Celestia and Luna.]] Do the math.

* From The Doctors and the Nurses They Adore Me So, hurting the Joker's dog is bad for ''everyone''.

* ''[[Hunting the Unicorn]]:'' If you mess with Kurt, Blaine will not hesitate to pick a fight with you. If you hurt ''Blaine,'' the Warblers will want to rip your kneecaps out. And if you {{spoiler|sleep with [[The Jailbait Wait|sixteen-year-old]] Blaine, break up with him, and then string him along for weeks--''without correcting his notion that [[Sex Equals Love]]''--}}then his brother will threaten to burn you alive.

** Kurt doesn't take {{spoiler|Blaine's kidnapping}} very well.

** Ginny has the [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]] thing going on with Harry (not that he can't fight for himself). When {{spoiler|he dies temporarily}}, she destroys most of Mordor's army (by channelling some sort of higher power), utterly destroying the physical forms of three of the Nazgul.

* Eri, Shiki's best friend, in ''[[The World Ends With You]]'' fanfic, ''[[Eri's Game]]'' has one when she will attacking anyone who tries to hurt or insult Shiki. The beating with {{spoiler|Beat, who is a Reaper}} really does it.

* Hurting or nearly killing [[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command|Buzz Lightyear's]] [[For Good|adopted sis]] is ''not'' a good idea, even if you're the [[Evil Overlord|EVIL Emperor]] [[Arch Enemy|Zurg.]] [[The Captain|Captain Lightyear]] takes his role as a [[Big Brother Mentor|big brother]] ''[[Big Brother Instinct|very]]'' [[Big Brother Instinct|seriously.]]

* Don't mess with [[Sherlock Holmes]] or [[The Watson|Dr. Watson]]. Seriously, don't. If you hurt one of them, the other one ''will'' come after you, and it won't be pretty. And, for the love of heaven, do ''not'' beg [[Deadly Doctor|Watson]] for mercy if you played a part in Holmes's long-term imprisonment. [[Deliver Us from Evil Series|You will probably end up dead.]]