History HeroicBSOD / LiveActionFilms

* In ''Jason's Lyric'', the main protagonist, Jason, spends almost the entire film blaming himself for [[spoiler:(accidentally) murdering his abusive father]] that he also feels responsible for indirectly causes his brother, Joshua, to grow up as a volatile and criminal-minded man [[spoiler:as he watched his father died in Jason's hand, right before his eyes]]. Jason even almost unwillingly gives up on [[LoveInterest Lyric]], out of brotherly/familial love. [[spoiler: But, after she convinces him that [[YouDidEverythingYouCould it wasn't his fault]], Jason eventually complies that he eventually leaves his past behind and moves on with her.]]

* In ''Jason's Lyric'', the main protagonist, Jason, spends almost the entire film blaming himself for [[spoiler:(accidentally) murdering his abusive father]] that he also feels responsible for indirectly causes his brother, Joshua, to grow up as a volatile and criminal-minded man [[spoiler:as he watched his father died in Jason's hand, right before his eyes]]. Jason even almost unwillingly gives up on [[LoveInterest Lyric]] out of brotherly/familial love. [[spoiler: But, after his girlfriend, Lyric, convinces him that [[YouDidEverythingYouCould it wasn't his fault]], Jason eventually complies that he eventually leaves his past behind and moves on with her.]]

* In ''Jason's Lyric'', the main protagonist spends almost the entire film blaming himself for [[spoiler:(accidentally) murdering his abusive father]] that he also feels responsible for indirectly causing his brother, Joshua to turn volatile and criminal-minded. [[spoiler: After his girlfriend, Lyric, convinces him that it wasn't his fault, Jason eventually complies that he could eventually leave his past behind and moves on with her.]]

** Hiller also has one shortly after arriving in Area51. After Withmore leaves the control room to see the alien Hiller captured, Hiller tells General Gray that he wants to be transfered back to El Toro as soon as possible, only for Gray to tell him that El Toro was destroyed. It hits Hiller hard because, not only was the base his home away from home, but [[spoiler: he told his girlfriend Jazmine to go there with Dylan, his stepson.]]

** ''Film/{{Thor}}'':
*** Thor goes into one when he discovers that [[spoiler:he can no longer lift {{Mjolnir}}.]] Also Loki visiting him and [[spoiler: lying to him that their father had died and that he was banished from Asgard forever.]]
*** Odin too could count since [[spoiler: Loki's discovery of his true ancestry and resulting outburst caused his powers to shut off.]]

*** When Starlord hears Thanos say that [[spoiler:he killed Gamora]], his BSOD causes him to start [[PistolWhipping beating him with his gun]] even knowing [[spoiler:it might wake him from his trance, which it does, foiling the Avengers' plan to take the Infinity Gauntlet from him.]]

** Between Episodes VI (''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'') and VII (''Film/TheForceAwakens''), Luke seems to be suffering a huge one after his nephew, Kylo Ren, destroyed his new Jedi Order after he turned to the Dark Side of the Force and wiped out all of his other students. Blaming himself over what happened, Luke soon went into hiding, totally severing contact with his friends and relatives, seemingly resigned to be the last Jedi once more. (Han, however, implies that there is another unknown reason why he disappeared, as he states that the people who knew him best think that he went to find the first Jedi temple, and seems to have trusted his location to R2-D2 and Lor San Tekka -- as they both hold two separate pieces of the map to his location.) Only time will tell us what happened and if he'll snap out of it during the events of Episode VIII: ''Film/TheLastJedi''.

* Sam from ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' suffers one in the second film when [[spoiler: Optimus dies]]. And again in the third film when [[spoiler: he sees the Autobots' ship destroyed by Starscream and believes the Autobots are dead.]] Also, various bystanders are shown to be standing speechless or sitting dejectedly after [[spoiler: Chicago's invasion by the Decepticons]] and even Epps and NEST soldiers [[spoiler: gave up and declared the fight over. They fortunately snap out of it when Optimus and the rest of the Autobots [[BigDamnHeroes came back]].]]

*** When Starlord hears Thanos say that [[spoiler:he killed Gamora]], his BSOD causes him to start [[PistolWhipping:beating him with his gun]] even knowing [[spoiler:it might wake him from his trance, which it does, foiling the Avengers' plan to take the Infinity Gauntlet from him.]]

* In ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'', our hero finds... oh wait... [[spoiler: anyway, he finds Lois dead, carries her body to the ground, shakes his head, and [[SkywardScream:screams to the heavens]]!!! He snaps out of it to reverse time by reversing the Earth's rotation to save her life.]]

*** When Starlord hears Thanos say that [[spoiler:he killed Gamora]], his BSoD causes him to start [[PistolWhipping: beating him with his gun]] even knowing [[spoiler:it might wake him from his trance, which it does, foiling the Avengers' plan to take the Infinity Gauntlet from him.]]
*** Cap has it happen again at the end of this film, when Bucky, Sam, T'Challa, and Wanda disintegrate in front of him. To put it in his own terms: "Oh, god."
*** Tony has another one, too. When Peter disintegrates in Tony's arms, just moments after telling him how sorry he is and begging for Tony to save him, Tony can do nothing but grab futilely for his ashes. Made worse by the fact that Dr. Strange, Drax, Mantis, and Star Lord all disintegrate around him, too, leaving him alone with Nebula on Titan -- Tony is basically living his greatest fear. In the moments after everyone vanishes, Tony just sits there on his knees, practically catatonic.

** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': Cap has it happen again at the end of this film, when Bucky, Sam, T'Challa, and Wanda disintegrate in front of him. To put it in his own terms: "Oh, god."
*** Tony as another one, too. When Peter disintegrates in Tony's arms, just moments after telling him how sorry he is and begging for Tony to save him, Tony can do nothing but grab futilely for his ashes. Made worse by the fact that Dr. Strange, Drax, Mantis, and Star Lord all disintegrate around him, too, leaving him alone with Nebula on Titan -- Tony is basically living his greatest fear. In the moments after everyone vanishes, Tony just sits there on his knees, practically catatonic.

* In ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'', our hero finds... oh wait... [[spoiler: anyway, he finds Lois dead, carries her body to the ground, shakes his head, and screams to the heavens!!! He snaps out of it to reverse time by reversing the Earth's rotation to save her life.]]

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* In ''Film/BeyondTheLights'', Noni is in the midst of a MAJOR one when we first see her as an adult. The hyper-sexualized image forced upon her by her record label and her [[StageMom mother's]] micromanagement of her life and career have left her feeling, in her own words, as though she is suffocating in the middle of the street and no one can see her dying. She is so distraught that, after spending the Billboard Awards mostly expressionless and just going through the motions, she decides to [[DrivenToSuicide end it all]] by jumping off her hotel balcony. Fortunately, Officer Kaz Nicol, her bodyguard for the night, stops her- thus launching the plot of the film.

* In ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'', Cameron seems to have one of these when he sees that the valet took his father's car - his most prized possession - for a joyride. He screams at the top of his lungs for the whole city to hear, then lapses into his BSOD. Ferris and his girlfriend Sloane try desperately to revive him, which culminates with the two of them in a hot tub, and Cameron on a folding chair at the end of a diving board. He falls (or jumps) in, and Ferris "rescues" him, reviving him from his cataplexy in the process. He reveals that he wasn't really catatonic the whole time. Sloane then asks if he saw her get changed, which he replies to with a grin.

*** Tony as another one, too. When Peter disintegrates in Tony's arms, just moments after telling him how sorry he is and begging for Tony to save him, Tony can do nothing but grab futilely for his ashes. Made worse by the fact that Dr. Strange, Drax, Mantis, and Star Lord all disintegrate around him, too, leaving him alone with Nebula on Titan—Tony is basically living his greatest fear. In the moments after everyone vanishes, Tony just sits there on his knees, practically catatonic.

* In ''Film/{{Memento}}'', this has happened to Lenny-- permanently.

** He has a very brief one in after the assassination of the Klingon chancellor in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''. Having apparently fired on the chancellor's ship, the Klingon battlecruiser recovers, rights itself, and prepares to retaliate on the unshielded ''Enterprise'' with photon torpedoes. Kirk just stares slack-jawed at the viewscreen for a full ten seconds--likely he's trying to process the fact that ''Enterprise'' seems to have just fired the first shots of an interstellar war.

** Before causing (or at least helping to cause) the two above noted examples, Anakin falls into one of his own in Film/AttackOfTheClones after his mother DiesWideOpen in his arms. He is practically catatonic- for about five seconds. Then he flies into a rage and proceeds to commit genocide against the tribe who killed Shmi (including the completely innocent [[NightmareFuel WOMEN AND CHILDREN]]!).

* Sarah Connor Blue Screens in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' upon seeing a Terminator very much identical to the one that persistently tried to kill her in the previous film. Complete with slow motion, deer in the headlights look, and catatonia, which contrasts nicely with her put-on catatonia earlier in the day after she's shown photos of the Terminator walking around a shopping mall. She couldn't even fight back the orderlies who are subduing her - the same orderlies who were getting their asses kicked by her a few minutes ago. She has another later in the film when she looks into Miles Dyson's terrified face and can't bring herself to kill him. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She realizes then that]] ''[[HeWhoFightsMonsters she's]]'' [[HeWhoFightsMonsters become a Terminator.]]

* Odone in ''Lorenzo's Oil'' researches his son's condition, going through page after page of horrific case histories -- ''bizarre, hyperactive behavior, progressive withdrawal, mutism, unsteady gait, paresis, dementia, dysphagia, quadraplegia, seizures, spastic,'' until only a few words appear and are seared into his soul: -- ''blind, deaf, mute, coma, '''death'''''. His tragic cries echo through the stairwell, as if his heart is being ripped out of him, as if he himself is dying. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QvuPBbOZ9k Stunning performance]] by Creator/NickNolte.

* Nicole Kidman's character in ''Birth'' has a BSOD while [[AtTheOperaTonight at the opera]]. The camera locks on her face for ''a full three minutes'' while she shuts down. The result is fairly haunting.

* ''Film/{{Howl}}'':

* In the UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} movie ''Bollywood/{{Pukar}}'', the main character, Jai, goes through this after having been wrongfully accused of treason and facing court martial. Made all the worse that his girlfriend has left him and his family has been shamed. Ironic, that the only one listening is [[WomanScorned the person who put him in that predicament]] (though she never thought it would go so far) and her father. He gets better.

* ''Film/CradleOfFear'': When Inspector Neilson learns that he son has been murdered, he [[PercussivePrevention knocks out]] DaChief, takes a gun he is not supposed to have, and goes to Fenham Asylum intending to [[KillerCop murder Kemper]].

* The German film ''Film/LaColonia'', features a scene where the male protagonist searches the underground tunnels of the cult compound for a means to escape. He bursts into tears when he stumbles into the chamber that contains the metal bed-frame he was chained to and [[ElectricTorture the generator used to electrocute him.]]

** In ''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]]'', after Billy tracks down his birth mother, he runs out the foster home and goes to meet her. When he tries to hug her, [[spoiler: she pushes him back,]] and goes on to tell that happened years before was because [[spoiler: her parents kicked her out [[TeenPregnancy for getting pregnant so young]] and [[TooYoungToMarry her husband, likely a kid like her]], [[DissapearedDad ran out soon after]].]] At the fair, she got him [[OrphansPlotTrinket a compass]] because that's the only thing she could get and after she lost him [[spoiler: she saw that the two police officers that were tending to him made her realize that if she could barely take care of herself, she couldn't take care of her young son, and decided he was better off in foster care. He gives her back the comapss,]] and after he decides to go back to the foster home, he gets a call that [[spoiler: [[BigBad Dr. Zivanna]] has taken the other foster kids hostage,]] once Billy gets his composure back, he goes to go save them.

* ''Film/SleepyHollow'' used it twice, first when Ichabod first sees the "monster" ("It was a headless horseman. But it was a headless horseman. No, you must believe me. It was a horseman, a dead one. Headless.") and then at the finale: [[spoiler: the Horseman brings Lady Van Tassel with him to the underworld, her hand is stuck at the roots of the "tree portal". The hand closes. Ichabod promptly faints.]]

* Frodo has one at the near end of ''Film/LordOfTheRings: The Fellowship Of The Ring''. Frodo just stares with the ThousandYardStare on the river from the shore while holding the Ring on the open palm of his hand, obiviously traumatized by Gandalf's death, Boromir's corruption and the Uruk-Hais' sudden attack, and thinking back when he told Gandalf that he wished that nothing of the events would have ever happened. He snaps out of it when he remembers Gandalf's answer and decides to continue to Mordor.
* Theoden also experience one after watching the Uruk-Hai blast a hole into Helm's Deep with Saruman's gunpowder in ''Film/LordOfTheRings: The Two Towers''.

* In ''Film/BeyondTheLights'', Noni is in the midst of a MAJOR one when we first see her as an adult. The hyper-sexualized image forced upon her by her record label and her [[StageMom mother's]] micromanagement of her life and career have left her feeling, in her own words, as though she is suffocating in the middle of the streets and no one can see her dying. She is so distraught that, after spending the Billboard Awards mostly expressionless and just going through the motions, she decides to [[DrivenToSuicide end it all]] by jumping off her hotel balcony. Fortunately, Officer Kaz Nicol, her bodyguard for the night, stops her- thus launching the plot of the film.

* In ''Film/BeyondTheLights'', Noni is in the midst of a MAJOR one when we first see her as an adult. The hyper-sexualized image forced upon her by her record label and her [[StageMom mother's]] micromanagement of her life and career have left her feeling, in her own words, as though she is suffocating in the middle of the streets and no one can see her dying. She is so distraught that, after spending the Billboard Awards mostly expressionless and just going through the motions, she decides to [[DrivenToSuicide end it all]] by jumping off her hotel balcony. Fortunately Officer Kaz Nicol, her bodyguard for the night, stops her- thus launching the plot of the film.

** Hellboy experiences one in the [[Film/{{Hellboy}} first film]] after [[spoiler: Professor Broom]] dies.