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{{quote|''"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy." ''|'''[[The Joker]]''', ''[[The Killing Joke]]''}}
When a character is [[Not Himself]], but for real, and (usually) permanently. In the course of a single episode, the character goes through something traumatic enough to change their personality forever (even Freak
A well-done
May double with a [[He's Back]]. If the character's
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Sasuke in ''[[Naruto]]'' has a massive one after finding out that Itachi killed their parents among many others, as well as when he gets put under [[Mind Rape]]. Arguably experienced a very controlled version when {{spoiler|Madara revealed the cause of the Uchiha massacre, leading to Sasuke's [[Kill
** Gaara suffered this twice in his life. The first time was when {{spoiler|Yashimaru crushed all of Gaara's hopes and tried to kill him}} resulting in the homicidal maniac we all have vivid nightmares about. The second was when he saw his own blood after Sasuke injured him.
** Naruto had one when he thought Sasuke had been killed by Haku, and an even worse one when he saw {{spoiler|Pain, the man who had murdered his beloved mentor and blown up his village, stab Hinata with a giant spike just after she confessed her feelings}}. The
*** And before that, he'd gone into his four-tailed form when Orochimaru goaded him to breaking point.
* ''[[Black Cat (
* ''[[Outlaw Star]]'': Being shot in the shoulder by Gene, sends Harry over the edge, well even more so than before. Also, [[Love Makes You Crazy|anything involving Melfina]] has this affect on him as well.
* Nina in ''[[Code Geass]]'' puts the "[[Ax Crazy|psycho]]" back in [[Psycho Lesbian]] after the {{spoiler|"Euphinator"}} incident late in the first season. When she sees {{spoiler|how many people her FLEIJA warhead killed}} in R2, she makes a similar but slightly less appalling face.
** Then there's Suzaku after {{spoiler|Euphemia}}'s death and Lelouch when he {{spoiler|kills his father the first time}}.
*** Done even more epically with Suzaku after {{spoiler|he nukes Tokyo thanks to his "live" Geass}}. After spending an episode in a [[Heroic BSOD]] {{spoiler|at ground zero}}, out of the blue he goes full-on [[Laughing Mad]], drops any [[The Fettered|moral reservations]] he had about [[Honor Before Reason|using "dishonest" methods]], and adopts a new, much more [[Utopia Justifies the Means|ruthless]] [[The Unfettered|mind-frame]] that lasts for the rest of the show.
* ''[[
** Also in the [[Grand Finale]], {{spoiler|Mikami freaks out when he sees his god, Light, get arrested by Near}}, and starts makes crazy faces that outcrazy Nina's face above. In the anime, {{spoiler|he even stabs himself in the heart with his pen and [[High
** Matsuda also has one when he sees Light trying to write Near's name in a hidden death note and shoots his hand, goes into a rage and shoots him some more, and tries to deliver the killing blow but he is stopped.
* ''[[Eureka Seven]]'': While brutally mutilating an enemy LFO in Episode 20, Renton hallucinates a blob that reflects his own face. If
* Kish from ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' gets this way when Ichigo rejects him, or when someone else threatens to come between him and Ichigo.
* ''[[
* Keiichi from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
** {{spoiler|Except he really ''did'' kill Satoko's uncle.}} He only believes that {{spoiler|he's still alive because Satoko told him that he was, not realizing that Satoko is approaching a mental breakdown of her own.}} The one who has a true Freak Out is {{spoiler|Satoko herself, when she thinks Keiichi killed Rika. She ends up pushing him off a bridge.}}
** Earlier in the same arc, Satoko herself has a ''spectacular'' [[Post Traumatic Stress Disorder]]-type
** As this is a series known almost famously for its levels of [[Break the Cutie]], several of the main characters go through one of these at least once, in at least one arc. Keiichi, then {{spoiler|Shion}}, then Satoko -and- Keiichi, then {{spoiler|Rena in the Atonement Arc, mirroring Keiichi's first}}, it gets to the point where we learn that even {{spoiler|Takano Miyo, the ''cause'' of Rika's repeated deaths, actually had one or more of these as a child, preluding the ''entire series'' and showing the reason for her villainous tendencies.}}
* This trope was perfected by the anime ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'', where the entire theme of the show was about nervous breakdowns. Whenever the show had a
** Although we don't see it onscreen, Maniwa presumably has one of these after being fired, as the next time we see him he's gone from a reasonably open-minded good cop archetype to a delusional homeless person who believes he is a [[Superhero]].
* Smoothly and successfully executed in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' in the case of Kaiser Ryo's transformation to "Hell Kaiser."
* Kai's first [[Face Heel Turn]] in ''[[Beyblade]]'' was the result of a
* A few [[Face Heel Turn
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. Shinji from episode 19 to the end of the series, [[The Movie]] included. Also Asuka in episode 22 and after her [[Mind Rape]], Ritsuko, Misato, and [[Dysfunction Junction|everyone else]].
** ''End of Evangelion'' does this masterfully with Third Impact. Poor Shinji completely loses his sanity.
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* Gimmy from ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' when {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice|Jougan and Balinbou sacrifice themselves to save him and Darry]]}}. In the next episode, when {{spoiler|Kittan and Yoko are about to engage the Anti-Spirals that are trying to push the Chouginga Dai-Gurren into the depths where it will be crushed by pressure}}, he's actually on the verge of following Darry's example from the previous episode and breaking down in tears.
* ''[[Elfen Lied]]'': Happens on numerous occasions to several characters. Most notable are Kouta after witnessing his sister and father being slaughtered in front of him by Lucy; happens again later on after he starts to remember bits and pieces of his traumatic past, and again when he sees Lucy slaughter people in front of him. Lucy during the event where a particularly [[Kids Are Cruel|nasty group of bullies]] [[Kick the Dog]] that she had come to care for and beat it to death, forcing her to watch. Mayu after running away from home because of her [[Abusive Parents|stepfather's sexual abuse]] and her mother's refusal to believe that her ''own daughter is being raped'' because she's jealous of her. Mayu gets another in the manga when she's about to get raped by The Unknown Man, which is directly related to the aforementioned abuse.
* Suzu after being raped in ''[[Peacemaker Kurogane]]'' and as soon as he finds his master lying motionless and in pieces on the ground, supposedly killed by his (best and only friend) Tetsunosuke. [[Break the Cutie|Ouch.]] Even though Okita was the one who killed Yoshida. Also, Tetsunosuke has massive freak outs throughout the series, most notably after Yoshida attempts to kill him a second time.
* In ''[[Bokurano]]'' and ''[[
* Akito from ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' often has violent, screaming fits on the least provocation.
* ''[[
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'': Ed has at least two of these. The first is when he saw the failed attempt at resurrecting his mother as a child, and again (in the first anime) when he realizes that he has killed Greed.
** In the manga, [[Fan Nickname|Greedling]] suffers one after he encounters {{spoiler|1=the last surviving loyal chimera henchman of the previous Greed lurking under CentCom. He kills the chimera, and then the memories of the previous Greed all come rushing back}}.
* ''[[Perfect Blue]]'': Mima, coming home at the end of a particular traumatic day, finds her beloved pet fish dead, and loses control for a moment, trashing her apartment. The trauma was because of a rape scene, which [[Mind Screw|may or may not have]] become genuine, as her screams got more and more convincing. She, as well as Rumi have numerous moments where they
* Ken in ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' had two. The first was a nervous breakdown when he realized the [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|sins]] he'd committed were
** Hikari had one, also when she returned to the black ocean, that she needed to be slapped out of it in a very [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]] moment.
* In the manga version of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', it's revealed in a flashback that Aion had one of these after finding out that {{spoiler|his mother was a human transformed into a demon, and she was pregnant with him and Chrono when it happened}}. It appears to be one of his underlying motivations for almost all of his actions in the series.
* This seems to be the main reason why Tetsuo from ''[[
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' suggests that Russia became [[Cute and Psycho]] after Bloody Sunday. Fandom speculation is that the execution of the Romanov dynasty is what drove him completely over the edge.
* In a flashback of ''Muhyo and Roji'', Enchu is introduced as working hard to become an Executor to support his sick mother. He is called away when his mother's condition turns critical, and while he is away, she dies and Muhyo is chosen as Executor over him. In another flashback, this happens to a mother when her daughter dies in a car accident; she becomes obsessed with making copies of the doll that her daughter had wanted.
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', Sensui has one in the past {{spoiler|after finding out about humans torturing demons, which challenged his belief that demons were evil and that he should protect humanity from them}}.
* In ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', Roberta is a [[Dojikko|clumsy]] [[Meido|maid]] by profession, but actually a retired FARC guerrilla with extensive knowledge in weaponry, combat tactics, and [[Implacable Man|near inhuman physical abilities]]. And she admires her employer very much. So when said employer dies thanks to [[Eagle Land|certain country]] operatives, she ''[[Beware the Nice Ones|snaps]]''.... And when she snaps, [[Ax Crazy|she]] ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|really]] [[One
* Hitomi from ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'' has a few. Although they mostly occur after simple Tarot readings turn into [[Mind Rape]].
* [[Monster (
* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'': [[Papa Wolf|Anji Yukyuzan]] had these after [[Backstory|the children under his care burned alive]]. [[Beware the Nice Ones]], indeed
** Seta Sojiro also has a small one, as he transitions from being emotionless to freak out.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'' anime expanding off of a scene in the manga, Luffy suffers one of these after {{spoiler|his entire crew is vanished by Kuma.}}
** Luffy also suffers another one of these after {{spoiler|his brother Ace is killed}}.
* In ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'', {{spoiler|c!Syaoran suffers one of these when he kills c!Sakura. This also when [[Heel Face Turn|he (re)gained his own heart]].}} Don't think so? the evidence is [https://web.archive.org/web/20090205181854/http://www.onemanga.com/Tsubasa_Reservoir_Chronicles/179/12/ right] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090205115015/http://www.onemanga.com/Tsubasa_Reservoir_Chronicles/179/13/ here].
* Faust VIII from ''[[Shaman King]]'' is usually calm (being a doctor), but when Yoh Asakura calls Faust's beloved Eliza ({{spoiler|Eliza was Faust's wife who was brutally shot and killed, and now is Faust's spirit}}) a doll, he goes apeshit!
* For 21 episodes of ''[[Lucky Star
** As aside, one can't help noting that his interactions with Akira in that last episode resemble the early phases of a [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] plotline. The series ends before this can be explored very deeply. About damn time. For both the freakout, and the Sexual Tension.
* Darcia from ''[[
* Ken Hidaka, at the very end of the ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' OAVs, goes from boy next door having a ''very bad day'' to [[Ax Crazy]] [[Blood Knight]] in the time it takes him to pull a shotgun trigger. [[Slasher Smile|And it shows]].
* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', Elfman and Mirajane both went through one of these around two or three years before the start of the series due to {{spoiler|the death of their youngest sibling, Lisanna}}. The former turned from a nice guy, domestic, overprotective crybaby kind of guy to a super MANLY... nice, domestic, overprotective ''secretly'' crybaby kind of guy. The latter turned from an [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]] delinquent[[Jerk
* ''[[Space Battleship Yamato]]''. The scriptwriters love making Desslok freak. In season one, his home planet is [[Curb Stomp Battle|Curb Stomped]] and he freaks. In The New Journey, his planet is utterly destroyed, so he freaks. Then his love interest kills herself. He completely loses it and begs Wildstar to destroy his ship.
* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' {{spoiler|Mami in the third timeline}} undergoes this when she finds out the [[Awful Truth]] first hand and {{spoiler|attempts [[Mercy Kill|mercy killing]] everyone else before Madoka stops her.}}
* After the horrible, ''horrible'' events [[Total Eclipse of the Plot|during the Eclipse]] in ''[[Berserk]]'', and he awakens [[Asleep for Days|days later]], Guts goes through a monumental freak out that consists of [[Manly Tears|many tears]], [[Despair Event Horizon|utter despair]], bursts of rage, and finally [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|an epic]] [[This Means War|vow of revenge]] [[Redemption in
* ''[[Black Butler
* In ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]'' Ganta does this understandably as he's being forced to watch the Carnival of Corpses.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Bleach]]'' Rukia does this after Gin [[Kick the Dog|breaks her resolve with words]].
* ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'': Leo's reaction to {{spoiler|Elliot's death}} had a lot of sobbing and screaming. He went on with this as Pandora was interrogating him until Vincent came along.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Batman
** Ironically, his biggest success (Harley Quinn) was apparently a [[Hannibal Lecture|fairly meticulous process of chiseling away at her sanity and sense of self-worth]].
* ''[[
** Don't force a mousy botanist into a [[Pygmalion Plot]] by making her ''more fruitful'' or you'll get a man-hating Poison Ivy.
** Let lonely German [[Mad Scientist
** Don't fire your enthusiastic psychology professor just because a few students wet themselves. A frightful encounter with the Scarecrow is sure to follow.
** If you are going to kill your secretary, don't leave her in an alley full of stray cats...
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** Eddie, haven't you ever considered just ''suing'' the people that stole your inventions instead of proving you're smarter?
** Mary, have you ever considered voice acting?
** Batman himself, don't shoot a child's parents in front of him or he'll grow up to become...well...Batman.
* When ''[[Green Lantern]]'' Hal Jordan suddenly lost his marbles and became the universe-destroying maniac Parallax in the 1990's, after his home city was destroyed by a [[Super Villain]]. Years later, it was later [[
* Hank Pym, of [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|the Avengers]], had a period where he thought he was someone else, and apparently went full on mad scientist, to the point of setting killer robots on a major city just so he could destroy them to look good. He eventually recovered, and how much this gets played up depends on the writer. Some have him as having become fairly well adjusted, others have him just a medication bottle away from another psychotic episode. And then there's ''Secret Invasion''.
* [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Scarlet]]. [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Witch]]. And when ''she'' snapped, the entire [[Marvel
* Happens to Nuke from the ''[[Squadron Supreme]]'' after his parents died from radiation poisoning. Then again, he was probably not too stable to begin with, given that his attempt to solve the problem was asking a teammate to ''find a cure for cancer''...
== Fan Works ==
* Happens to Kerrun, the Raleka leader, at the end of her [[Villainous Breakdown]] in ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* [[Star Wars]]: Anakin Skywalker's turn. Yeah, there was the thing with the Tusken Raiders, and the [[Warped Aesop]] that wanting someone you love to not die is ''bad,'' but the actual turn happens when Mace Windu gets handed the [[Idiot Ball]] and tries to rather un-Jedi-ishly execute Palpatine. After Anakin chops off his arm so that Windu can get blown out the window by Palpatine's lightning (snicker) he's suddenly a different person, from good with a lot of [[Wangst]] and a dislike of people who torture his mother to death to someone who is fully devoted to Palpatine, and thinks nothing of mass slaughter, even when it comes to children. Anakin did that because he knew that once he turned on Mace Windu (which he only did because he did not want the possibility of his wife's salvation to die along with Palpatine), he had gone too
* Mousy secretary Selina Kyle from ''[[
** [[The Dark Knight Saga
* ''[[The Descent (
** Interestingly, Juno waffles back and forth on this trope. Alone, she starts down the same path as Sarah on the bloodlusty killing machine bit, but this stops once she finds two of the other girls. {{spoiler|They die - bloodlusty killing machine time. Sarah meets up with her, and for a minute Juno is normal again, but Sarah herself being a bloodlusty killing machine causes Juno to follow suit again before being murdered herself}}.
** An alternative interpretation is that {{spoiler|virtually the entire film is a hallucination after Sarah goes [[Ax Crazy]] and kills her friends, inventing the monsters as a rationale}}.
* Harvey Dent suffers one of these after losing half his face in every version, but it's especially pronounced in ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', where he spends two thirds of the film as the "White Knight" before losing half of his face to {{spoiler|a bomb planted by the Joker}} and it's hinted that he sustained brain damage in the accident. Also, the [[Hannibal Lecture]] afterwards couldn't have helped, especially since {{spoiler|he had lost his girlfriend Rachel in the same [[Sadistic Choice]] that led to his own scarring}}...
** In ''[[Batman Begins]]'' while in prison, Falcone tries to blackmail Crane into allowing him a part in the upcoming fear toxin project. Crane instead gasses him with the fear toxin, causing him to have a screaming fit.
* Harry Osborn, Norman Osborn, Eddie Brock, and Doc Ock have this happen in the ''[[Spider
* Lon Chaney Jr. has a truly impressive one in the film ''The Unknown'' (1927). He plays Alonzo, a criminal fugitive who's hidden out at a circus disguised as an armless knife-thrower (he has his arms, but also a distinctive and identifiable hand deformity); Nanon (Crawford), the circus owner's daughter, has a distaste for being touched by men due to some past trauma and becomes friendly with him. As his love for her grows, he takes the next step and '' {{spoiler|has both his arms amputated}}''
* The infamous 'He's gonna pop' scene in the Matrix.
* In [[Thor]] when Loki found out that he is really a Jotun, he then plans on {{spoiler|using the Bifröst to destroy Jotunheim.}}
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'': Even the normally stoic Jessica is scared of "The Dip".
== [[Literature]] ==
* Ivan's manic episode in ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'' took its time in developing. You can see him start to go insane from very early on in the book. It becomes obvious to us when he starts to [[The Devil|talk to the devil]]. But he finally has his
* Done in ''[[Ender's Game]]'' when Ender decided that if the people who run the games won't be fair, then he won't play the game.
* In book 8 of ''[[The Pendragon Adventure]]'', Bobby hears {{spoiler|Twig say that they should go back to Ibara, which confuses him because he was on the territory of Ibara. This leads to him freaking out while asking why Twig said this. The explanation that Ibara is the name of the island only made things worse. This climaxed with Bobby asking what the name of the planet was and being told that the planet's name was "Veelox". Veelox being the first Territory he had failed to save. So apparently he's been on a far future version of the planet this entire time and realized just how badly he'd been played by the [[Big Bad]]}}
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* Happens tragically to {{spoiler|Xinemus}} in ''[[Second Apocalypse]]'', as well as {{spoiler|Achamian}}. The former becomes a broken shadow of his former self, while the latter is [[Darker and Edgier|hardened]] by his ordeal.
* Happens to Bryce in the Donald E. Westlake book, ''The Hook'', where, after Wayne kills his wife Lucie, who he is going through a very long and bitter divorce with, in a deal to get Bryce to credit Wayne's (who can't get publishers to publish his work) manuscript to him and get half of the money. After the murder, Bryce begins to gradually go insane, kicked off by his love interest leaving him, and him becoming isolated in his house in Connecticut. He is unable to write anything but worthless nonsense. In an interview, all of his answers are complete nonsense. He becomes obsessed with how it was like to murder his wife, having constant dreams of violently murdering his wife, but being angered because he can never see here face, and wishes that he was the one that did it, even following a woman who wanted his autograph to her house and almost attempting to kill her. At the end, {{spoiler|it is implied that he murders Wayne's wife Susan in the last passage of the book}}.
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'''Susan''': {{spoiler|My name is Susan}}.
'''Bryce''': {{spoiler|Not anymore}}. }}
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire|A Storm of Swords]]'': {{spoiler|Catelyn Stark}} has hers at the Red Wedding. {{spoiler|With her husband executed, one of her daughters held a political hostage, the other missing, and two of her sons believed dead, Catelyn only really has Robb left as her family. Then Robb is killed by one of her turncoat bannerman. She starts laughing hysterically, claws at her face, and as her enemies move to slit her throat, all she can think is she hopes they don't cut her hair, as her husband loves her hair. The
* In the second book of the second ''[[Well World]]'' series, a fairly subdued version happens to {{spoiler|<s>Julian</s> Alowi, as she insists on being called from then on out}} when {{spoiler|she's afraid that her husband is dying and realizes that she loves him}}. [[Gender Bender|The fact that she'd been male (and very straight) until not long before the wedding]] played into that as well.
* After gradual [[Sanity Slippage]] throughout the book, Dwayne Hoover finally loses it entirely in [[Kurt Vonnegut|Kurt Vonnegut's]] ''[[Breakfast of Champions]]'' and starts physically assaulting everybody unfortunate enough to be near him.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[
* Every now and then, [[Firefly|River Tam]] will have some sort of freak out, some worse than others. The one in Objects In Space takes the cake for the series (but the movie outdoes it) with her feeling some people's emotions and reading others' minds. This freak out also gave us many peoples favorite scene, River rubbing herself (though not there, If You Know What I Mean) while watching Zoe and Wash have sex.
* On ''[[Ally McBeal]]'', Billy started out as the straight man of the cast. Later, he suddenly dyed his hair blonde, and turned into a sexist, smug jerk (with an occasional flash of remorse). This was later explained as a brain tumor, which killed him.
* In early ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Angel had a
** If you're going to come back to your arch-nemesis' place with a gun, be careful where you point that thing...
*** {{spoiler|Unless the last thing you want to hear before before being deprived of your epidermis is "Bored Now".}}
** After the accidental killing of the deputy mayor, Faith reacts by becoming simply and utterly psychotically monsterous. After something of a reformation, she does it again after the death of her father figure. The second (and possibly the first) time is because she is attempting [[Suicide
** Exemplified by {{spoiler|Dark Willow}}. When {{spoiler|Tara}} is gunned down in cold blood, {{spoiler|Willow}} utterly loses it and in the space of the next 24 hours or so manages to kill Sunnydale's most powerful magic user, smack down the combined powers of the UK's strongest wiccans, effortlessly murder the season's Big Bad up to that point, beat the stuffing out of {{spoiler|the Slayer}}, and nearly blow up the world.
* Manny on ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' started out as a [[Kawaiiko|cute, giggly girl]] who acted about half her real age. In a single episode, she finally realized that people didn't take her
* In ''[[
** Seven freaked out prior to becoming Eight, but for different reasons. He regenerated because the doctor trying to save his life was actually killing him due to her ignorance of his alien physiology.
** Lesterson from ''The Power of the Daleks'' lost his marbles when he learned that the Doctor was right about the Daleks all along.
* Ryan on the US ''[[The Office]]'' in the season 5. After years of working at the surreal Dunder Mifflin, constant sexual harassment from Michael Scott, the horror of actually having a relationship with the vapid Kelly, getting promoted during a recession, getting addicted to cocaine ([[Truth in Television]] - it turns you into an asshole), running a massive fraud, and getting busted and fired, then starting all over again as a temp at Dunder Miflin, Ryan now carries a notebook filled with the names of people who piss him off. So he can "get back on them once I'm on the top again".
* In the last season of ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', {{spoiler|Felix Gaeta}} loses it big time after {{spoiler|fellow [[Bridge Bunny]] Dee shoots herself dead, being unable to cope with the consequences of the latest [[Wham! Episode]].}} It had actually been [[Break the Cutie|building for some time]], but the change in his demeanor and attitude after this particular incident was quite drastic. Getting {{spoiler|shot in the leg by Anders and then losing said leg}} didn't help much either, nor did finding out that {{spoiler|the afforementioned Anders and the XO are Cylons}} and discovering that {{spoiler|as he half-suspected but was in denial about, he was involved in the deaths of several innocent people on New Caprica thanks to Cylon treachery}}. And {{spoiler|He was nearly airlocked as a Cylon collaborator... And half the people who were about to kill him turned out to ''be'' Cylons.}} That can't be good for the sanity.
* Buck Compton from ''[[Band of Brothers]]'' showed signs of a [[Heroic BSOD]] after he got shot in the Netherlands, then he finally freaked out after seeing two of his friends get hit with artillery fire near Foy.
* On ''[[Deep Space Nine]],'' Sisko breaks through [[Affably Evil|Gul Dukat's]] wall of denial and makes him acknowledge that he really had been a [[Complete Monster]] to the Bajorans when he was in charge of the planet. Dukat then [[Gone Mad From the Revelation|suffers]] an ''epic''
* In ''[[
== [[Music]] ==
* "Freak Out!" (1966) is the name of [[Frank Zappa]]'s debut album. And it lives up to its name during "Help, I'm A Rock", "It Can't Happen Here", and "The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet".
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Bastion]]'', Zulf has one of these after he reads Venn's Journal. The second half of the game revolves around stopping what he does afterwards...
* Manah, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Drakengard]]'', has one of these after being finally defeated when the [[Anti
* [[Final Fantasy VII|Sephiroth]] started out as a good soldier seemingly admirable guy, [[Tomato in
* [[Final Fantasy VIII]] includes a couple of these as Squall is forced to gradually open up. The first is after losing {{spoiler|Ellone}} once more, when he realizes that even though he doesn't want to rely on anyone else that he could lose, he doesn't know how to keep going without someone else's help - he even asks himself whether anyone knows how to live for themselves before realizing that even that means he'd be asking for someone else to help him with his problems. Revelation after revelation breaks his normal, [[The Stoic|stoic demeanor]] and he slowly changes, culminating in {{spoiler|his reaction to Rinoa's collapse after Edea's defeat, where he decides he absolutely will not let anyone else be taken away from him and ends up dragging Rinoa across a bridge that spans the length of a continent just to get to somebody who '''might''' be able to help and admits that he needs help from others to get what he wants.}} There's also another, minor one when {{spoiler|Rinoa turns out to be a sorceress and is taken away by Esthar}}, where Squall nearly admits defeat before deciding he'll defend her to the very end with a little prodding from his friends, leading him to finally take command and open up to his team.
* [[Myst|"Your sons, Atrus.]] Do you know what they did?"
* [[Action Girlfriend|Hello]] [[Fate/stay
** [[The Woobie|Hello]] [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Sakura]]. [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|Don't do it]], [[Complete Monster|Shinji!]] How are you feel, [[Super
* Princess Zelda turned into a creepy, screaming bitch for one whole cutscene in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
* {{spoiler|Keisuke}} from [[
* In [[Arc Rise Fantasia]], Adele did not take being an [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] [[Love Makes You Crazy|well.]] She jumped off the slippery slope so fast she has skid marks, and she landed ''right'' in the first-class cabin of the crazy train.
* Happened to all the serial killers in ''[[Kara no Shoujo]].'' The most sympathetic of the three described involved rape, parental incest, involuntary manslaughter on their part and [[Mad Artist|a beautiful work of art about their mother.]]
* A ''lot'' of witnesses in [[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]] most likely the final villain, give EPIC breakdowns when you start [[Pull the Thread|pulling the thread]] and back them into a corner, usually backed up with [[Crowning Music of Awesome]].
* ''[[Deadly Premonition]]'': {{spoiler|Thomas}}. [[Break the Cutie|It]] [[Et Tu, Brute?|just]] [[Go Mad
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YersIyzsOpc "Okay, my mom just cancelled my brother's World of Warcraft account and he's freaking out..."]
* 4 words. [[Unstoppable Rage|Angry]]. [[Cluster F
* [[Atop the Fourth Wall
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In the webcomic ''[[Loserz]]'', one of the protagonists (Jodie) has a temporary
* The eponymous character of ''[[
** He was very lucky it wasn't a lot worse, as the reader learns later on in the aforementioned breather arc: It's possible for a powerful seer under sufficient stress to undergo [[Heroic RROD|"mindbreak"]], which tends to result in significant collateral damage. And Dominic is a ''very'' powerful seer indeed.
* Happens in ''[[Narbonic (Webcomic)|Narbonic]]'' when a character finally manifests the [[Science Related Memetic Disorder]]. Especially {{spoiler|the main character Dave}}.▼
* Mischievous and chummy {{spoiler|Jack}} from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' gets locked in a [[Dark World]] and becomes suspicious and frustrated about the supernatural and Antimony, the main character. It's implied that the mean streak may have been there all along.▼
▲* Happens in ''[[
▲* Mischievous and chummy {{spoiler|Jack}} from ''[[
** {{spoiler|Nope, it's a case of Possession By Demonic Mind-Spider From The Depths of Zimmy's Twisted Mind-F*ck of A Subconscious.}}
** Yep. Jack has appeared in some of the comic's more recent storylines, now Demonic Mind-Spider free. He seems to be perfectly nice guy who is nursing a crush on... Zimmy.
* Reverend Joeb Kim CPA, a priest/accountant has a [http://theoryofeverythingcomics.com/god/01/ mental breakdown at work]. But then again, it hasn't happened yet.[http://theoryofeverythingcomics.com/god/ God(tm)]
* Sal from ''[[Walkyverse|It's Walky!]]'' is always full of [[Wangst]], especially after {{spoiler|when her parents were threatened, she told the villian she didn't care if they died, and ''he recorded her saying it'', murdered her parents and taunted her with the recording}}. She a complete
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[
** {{spoiler|Gamzee has one of these shortly after Dave shows him ICP.}}
** Rose has two within a very short time-frame: first after she found out {{spoiler|Jack killed her mother}}, and the second when {{spoiler|she asked an omniscient fortune-telling device whether or not the [[Eldritch Abomination|Gods of the Furthest Ring]] were evil. The answer appears to have turned her into a [[Humanoid Abomination]].}}
** You can tell when a First Guardian goes through one of these: their text becomes huge and crackles with energy. Examples: [
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' has the cocky and condescending Vaarsuvius [[Troubled Fetal Position|reduced to a shriveling mess]] upon discovering the true consequences of carelessly using powerful magic during [[Drunk on the Dark Side|a serious power trip under the effects of soul splices.]] This experience was the main catalyst for V's [[Character Development]] into a more humble and cooperative wizard.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Teen Titans (
* Everyone in ''[[
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'': Vlad after his beloved clone of Danny is destroyed. He almost was ''this'' close to killing off two half ghosts if not for a timely intervene by Danny's friends. But he spent the rest of the series tormenting Danny. One could say that Vlad's
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''
** Aang goes into an [[Unstoppable Rage]] multiple times in the show whenever he suspects his friends to be in danger, when Appa goes missing, or when he finds Monk Gyatso, who was like a father to him, dead. Azula [[Villainous Breakdown|has a permanent one]] and goes '''insane'''. But she was shipped off to a mental health facility and, according to [[Word of God]], will possibly make a recovery in the future.
** Aang could be viewed as having undergone a
* In ''[[The Spectacular Spider
* Kenai does this in ''[[Brother Bear]]'' when he realizes he turned into a bear.
* Being a failed science experiment with more mental issues than even the most skilled therapist could count, ''[[
* Fry from ''[[Futurama]]'' suffers a
* [[The Simpsons]]: Hurricane Ned.
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* In [[
* Daffy Duck's
* ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]''
** Ren is prone to these.
** Stimpy's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX672lZzZ6U "I Like Darren!" rant] from "Mad Dog Höek". Especially towards the end, where he's screaming his lines out like a madman, his voice has an echo effect, and the music is all crazy.
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* Happens to Twilight Sparkle in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** In [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** These freak outs have been classified by fanon as "Cutie-Mark Failure Insanity Syndrome" a condition that causes ponies to lose control and over-react to situations that cause them to doubt the purpose in life they found when they received their cutie-mark.
* [[Ed Edd and Eddy|AND DAD WILL JUST SIT THERE AND WATCH TV!!!!]]
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