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* ''Anime/ChildOfKamiariMonth'': Kanna's grief over losing her mother hamstrings her during a school marathon, causing her to freeze up and her school to lose. This only stresses her out even more, and she runs away. While she agrees to the quest after being promised to be reunited with her mother, she's almost tricked into giving up the offerings by an evil spirit impersonating her mother. After realizing she'd been tricked, Kanna quits the quest out of despair and breaks the bracelet slowing down time.
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* In ''Film/TheChristmasThatAlmostWasnt'', after the BigBad Prune buys Prim's Department Store and basically steals the money Santa earned to pay for toys he damaged, deliberately screwing Santa over from paying the rent he owes to Prune, Santa and Whipple stroll listlessly down the street, hoping desperately for a miracle...
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* In ''Film/TroopBeverlyHills'', Phyllis Neffler experiences two:
** The first one, after soon-to-be-ex-husband Fred informs her he intends to take joint custody of their daughter Hannah, is found by another of the Beverly Hills troop mothers, Vicki:
--->'''Phyllis''': [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness I've lost the will to shop]].\\
'''Vicki''': [[SincerityMode Phyllis]], [[DudeNotFunny that's not funny]].
** The second, less-serious one, comes in the final competition when they come across a downed bridge which had been [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat cut off by the Culver City troop]]:
--->'''Phyllis:''' What really frosts my cookies is that we have ''tried so hard'', and we have ''come so far'', and ''NOW WE HAVE TO STOP!''
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* ''Film/TheFifthElement'': Leeloo reaches this point when she finishes reading about war, during her travel back to planet Earth with Korben and his friends to save the planet. Her morale was already waning when suffering all the violence they went through while looking for the sacred stones needed to save Earth (including a scene when Zorg injuries her with his firearm to take the [[spoiler:actually-empty]] stones' box from her); and by the time she sees the picture of one of the atomic bombs being landed onto Japan near the end of World War II, she decides that saving humanity is not worth it.
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** After spending 13 years teetering on the edge, Elsa from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' fully crosses it when [[spoiler: she is informed by Hans that her sister is dead because of her own actions, her very own fear coming true]] which makes her numb so much that she falls to the ground, and makes no acknowledgement of anything else that happens around her, either because she's too lost in her grief to notice or because she no longer cares.

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** After spending 13 years teetering on the edge, Elsa from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' fully crosses it when [[spoiler: she is informed by Hans that her sister is dead because of her own actions, her very own fear coming true]] which makes her numb so much that she falls to the ground, and makes no acknowledgement of anything else that happens around her, either because she's too lost in her grief to notice or because she no longer cares.



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* [[Film/TheRoom It's not over! Everybody betrayed me! I'm fed up with this world!"]]

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* [[Film/TheRoom [[Film/TheRoom2003 It's not over! Everybody betrayed me! I'm fed up with this world!"]]
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* ''Film/BeauIsAfraid'': At the ending trial, [[spoiler:when his lawyer is killed]], Beau is left to fend for himself. He tries to appeal to his mother and her lawyer, but they refuse to accept any apology. Beau loses all hope and simply accepts his fate.
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* Bob has one in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': When his entire family is believed to have been killed by Syndrome's missiles, Bob completely breaks down in a heartbroken but also murderous rage, threatening to kill Mirage but is brushed off by Syndrome. Later on, after Mirage releases him, he nearly chokes her to death in a NeckLift and asks in an [[TranquilFury extremely chilling tone]] "Why are you here? How can you possibly bring me lower? What more can you take away from me?"

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* Bob has one in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': When his entire family is believed to have been killed by Syndrome's missiles, Bob completely breaks down in a heartbroken but also murderous rage, threatening to kill Mirage but is brushed off by Syndrome. Later on, after Mirage releases him, he nearly chokes her to death in a NeckLift and asks in an [[TranquilFury extremely chilling tone]] "Why are you here? How can you possibly bring me lower? What more can you take away from me?"



* Happens at a certain point in every ''{{Titanic}}'' movie -- in particular, Captain Smith and ship designer Mr. Andrews are usually depicted as entering a state of shock and willingly going down with the ship without trying to escape.

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* Happens at a certain point in every ''{{Titanic}}'' ''[[UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic Titanic]]'' movie -- in particular, Captain Smith and ship designer Mr. Andrews are usually depicted as entering a state of shock and willingly going down with the ship without trying to escape.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart'': Rex Dangervest in his backstory crossed it when he was marooned under the dryer, when he waited for a rescue that never came, and he realized that he couldn't count on anyone else. The experience changed him from the happy, kind Emmet into the gritty tough Rex, and after initiating Armamageddon, he fully intends to subject Emmet to the same fate to ensure that he turns into Rex. Emmet teeters on the brink before Lucy rescues him.
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* ''HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld'': [[spoiler: Hiccup crosses it when Toothless is kidnapped by [[BigBad Grimmel]], not long after Hiccup and Astrid get Toothless and the Light Fury out of the titular Hidden World.]]

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* ''HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld'': ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld'': [[spoiler: Hiccup crosses it when Toothless is kidnapped by [[BigBad Grimmel]], not long after Hiccup and Astrid get Toothless and the Light Fury out of the titular Hidden World.]]
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* ''HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld'': [[spoiler: Hiccup crosses it when Toothless is kidnapped by [[BigBad Grimmel]], not long after Hiccup and Astrid get Toothless and the Light Fury out of the titular Hidden World.]]
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* ''Animation/WaltzWithBashir'': Psychologist Prof. Zahava Solomon describes the concept of "dissociative events" by telling a story about a patient she was working with shortly after the Lebanon War. The patient, an Israeli soldier and amateur photographer, was quite excited to be in Lebanon; he shielded himself from the horrific implications of warfare by observing it as if through an imaginary camera. However, when his unit reached the Hippodrome in Beirut and he saw piles of dead and dying Arabian horses, he started asking himself what the noble animals had done to deserve the agony that humans inflict upon each other. At this point his imaginary camera "broke" and he went insane.
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* Happens at a certain point in every ''{{Titanic}}'' movie -- in particular, Captain Smith and ship designer Mr. Andrews are usually depicted as entering a state of shock and willingly going down with the ship without trying to escape.
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* ''Film/InTheNameOfTheFather'': After Gareth comes to see Giuseppe and help with his case, Gerry is upset by this. He tells her to not to give his father false hope. Later, once Giuseppe's dead he does accept her help. While he tries to record a tape about his father for Gareth though, Gerry flips out and wrecks his cell as losing Giuseppe simply overwhelms him. This is his last bout with despair though, as after this he grows dead set on exonerating them both.

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