History HeroicBSOD / WesternAnimation

** The third time and probably Huey's biggest Heroic [=BSoD=] ever is during UsefulNotes/BarackObama's election where Obama is asked about Huey Freeman, to which he responds that Huey doesn't stand for what ''he'' stands for, and that he denounces, repudiate, and condemns him. This leads to Huey's indifference Obama, where he "retires" from his role as a "domestic terrorist". Of course, this doesn't go well with the public, who are in such awe of Obama at the time, that a simple "Eh" from Huey draws the ire of a large crowd of black people, which leads to a national protests against Huey, where protesters burn an effigy of him. Because of this, Huey feels there is no room for him in Obama's America, so he decides to leave the country. However, he plan is once again thwarted because he once again cannot get a ride. While the Obama phenomenon has died down, Huey still remains retired throughout the rest of the season, including the season finale.

** "Tick Tock": Zane believes he is a real robot.
** At the end of the episode "The Temple on Haunted Hill", Cole gets transformed into a ghost by Sensei Yang that he didn't get out of the temple in time.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' episode "The Temple on Haunted Hill", Cole gets transformed into a ghost by Sensei Yang that he didn't get out of the temple in time.

* In ''Western Animation/{{Ninjago}}'' episode "The Temple on Haunted Hill", Cole gets transformed into a ghost by Sensei Yang that he didn't get out of the temple in time.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Timmy tells the Crimson Chin that he's only a comic book character, resulting in CC going into a Heroic [=BSoD=] where he is curled up in a ball crying for most of the episode feeling unimportant. He snaps back to normal when Timmy has a brush with death at the hands of his nemesis.

* Squidward from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' goes into a catatonic stupor in "Squid's Visit", after [=Spongebob=] [[AdoptedToTheHouse urge him to stay at his house]] ''until his house gets rebuilt''.

* Two notable examples in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
** In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E19StormOverRyloth "Storm Over Ryloth"]], Ahsoka gets one when she loses most of her squadron failing to break through the blockade over Ryloth. She snaps out of it in the episode's third act.
** In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E16TheLawless "The Lawless"]], Obi-Wan gets this when [[spoiler: Darth Maul murders Duchess Satine]].

* Squidward from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' goes into a catatonic stupor in "Squid's Visit", after [=Spongebob=] urge him to stay at his house ''until his house gets rebuilt''.

* Billy from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' (voiced by Creator/LouFerrigno) retires to his legendary crack[[labelnote:*]]in a mountainside, you dingdong[[/labelnote]] after reasoning that bad things will keep happening despite his efforts. Finn and Jake help him get better.

* Scrooge [=McDuck=] routinely has these on ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', particularly when it involves him losing (or coming close to losing) all his wealth. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79c5JKjAQFg "A sea monster ate my ice cream!" anyone?]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'', after the "monster" turns out to be a mere spider, Tulip bemoans that she may never know the meaning of her mark. Atticus helps talk her out of it, leading to her EurekaMoment about the work light.

** In "Rose's Scabbard", Pearl spends most of the first half of the episode talking about being Rose's sole confidant before her death, and that she knew all of her secrets. When it turns out she doesn't, she lashes out at the others, runs off, and nearly lets Steven fall to his death as she's too caught up in her own grief to care. This does lead to a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming moment of reconciliation]] at the end.

* Happens to Leela from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', when Fry jumps in front of her to save her from being impaled on the stinger of a giant killer bee, and apparently dies on the spot. This is made worse by the fact that not only did Fry die for her, but Leela ignored all of Fry's pleas to be careful, as well as all warning signs that their current expedition was a festering death trap, simply in order to appear tough. She spirals into a deep, guilt-ridden depression and loses her mind, becoming more and more deranged and confused as she is shoved through a series of nightmares involving Fry. In the end, it thankfully turns out to be just a coma fantasy, as the stinger went right through Fry (and the worst that happened to him was he had to get a spleen transplant) and pierced her, leaving her in a deep coma.

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* Fitz from ''WesternAnimation/TwelveOunceMouse'' goes through a BSOD after [[spoiler:his best friend Skillet is killed]]. He completely gives up on everything, and wanders off to play a game of Pinball.

** The third time and probably Huey's biggest Heroic BSOD ever is during Barack Obama's election where Obama is asked about Huey Freeman, to which he responds that Huey doesn't stand for what ''he'' stands for, and that he denounces, repudiate, and condemns him. This leads to Huey's indifference Obama, where he "retires" from his role as a "domestic terrorist". Of course, this doesn't go well with the public, who are in such awe of Obama at the time, that a simple "Eh" from Huey draws the ire of a large crowd of black people, which leads to a national protests against Huey, where protesters burn an effigy of him. Because of this, Huey feels there is no room for him in Obama's America, so he decides to leave the country. However, he plan is once again thwarted because he once again cannot get a ride. While the Obama phenomenon has died down, Huey still remains retired throughout the rest of the season, including the season finale.
*** Coincidentally, Huey also has a Heroic BSOD is the same degree in the comics, when he receives enough negative responses from his 15-page Santa Conspiracy Report, leading to a series of comic strips where he "officially hates everything".

* WesternAnimation/DangerMouse has a BSOD at the end of "Close Encounters Of The Absurd Kind" when he finds out that the craft that kidnapped him and Penfold wasn't Baron Greenback's Frog's Head Flyer but a UFO.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Timmy tells the Crimson Chin that he's only a comic book character, resulting in CC going into a HeroicBSOD where he is curled up in a ball crying for most of the episode feeling unimportant. He snaps back to normal when Timmy has a brush with death at the hands of his nemesis.

* Dante Vale from ''WesternAnimation/{{Huntik}}'' has a BSOD when he [[spoiler: gives up the amulets of power on the off chance that his enemy will save Metz, his mentor. Zahlia has to protect him for most of an episode as he's literally non-responsive.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' episode "I Will Kick No More Forever", Vince underwent a ''massive'' Heroic BSOD (of the severe depression type) after his best kick was not only beaten out, but beaten out by an Ashley, who not only doesn't even regularly play Kickball, but isn't even playing it seriously (she basically kicked it all the way to Communist China[[note]]or the Dumpster next to the school, if you've seen the edited version of this episode[[/note]] nonchalantly while she was speaking on her cell phone). It literally had to take TJ and his friends some severe talks to Vince (as well as almost faking out his kick to making him feel better with a more bouncy ball than usual) to not only get him out of the HeroicBSOD, but also for him to manage in doing an unprecedented account of kicking the ball outside of the stratosphere.

** Kyle goes through an even nastier BSOD in "Cartmanland" where Cartman spends the million dollars he got from his dead grandmother on an amusement park that no one, not even his friends, can go to but him. Kyle tries to sneak into the park, but fails due to the massive pain his hemorrhoids are giving him. Kyle's condition grows worse when he sees a news report of proclaiming Cartman a genius for his business strategy. Kyle then renounces his faith in God and slowly gives up on life, allowing himself to slowly die to his infection. It isn't until Cartman actually suffers for his karma that Kyle snaps out of it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'', Hay Lin suffers a HeroicBSOD after believing that her grandmother Yan Lin has [[FaceHeelTurn started serving Nerissa]], and that her boyfriend has betrayed her as well. Hay Lin becomes depressed and nearly catatonic, culminating in a TransformationSequence where her teammates call out their own elements happily, and Hay Lin just stands there, her head bowed. She gets out of it when she learns that the Yan Lin they've been fighting is actually a clone.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': In the last scene of [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E19NoEscapePartI "No Escape, Part I"]], Kaz gets one when he finds out that he just saw his [[DoomedHometown homeworld]], and every other planet in the system, [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroyed]] by the First Order.

* '''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': In the last scene of [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E19NoEscapePartI "No Escape, Part I"]], Kaz gets one when he finds out that he just saw his [[DoomedHometown homeworld]], and every other planet in the system, [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroyed]] by the First Order.

* In ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', both Ron and Drakken have one after finding out that Snowman Hank has been cancelled.
** Kim, when she saw cockroaches at the size of dogs.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'', Hay Lin suffers a HeroicBSOD after believing that her grandmother Yan Lin has [[FaceHeelTurn started serving Nerissa]], and that her boyfriend has betrayed her as well. Hay Lin becomes depressed and nearly catatonic, culminating in a TransformationSequence where her teammates call out their own elements happily, and Hay Lin just stands there, her head bowed. She gets out of it when she learns that the Yan Lin they've been fighting is actually a clone.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Timmy tells the Crimson Chin that he's only a comic book character, resulting in CC going into a HeroicBSOD where he is curled up in a ball crying for most of the episode feeling unimportant. He snaps back to normal when Timmy has a brush with death at the hands of his nemesis.

* Dante Vale from ''WesternAnimation/{{Huntik}}'' has a BSOD when he [[spoiler: gives up the amulets of power on the offchance that his enemy will save Metz, his mentor. Zahlia has to protect him for most of an episode as he's literally non responsive.]]

* Suffered by Leonardo (''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' 2003) twice. The first time occurs after he is badly beaten and almost killed by the Foot Clan, which leaves him comatose and melancholy afterwards. The second time occurs after the turtles are handily defeated and have to resort to sacrificing themselves just to stop the BigBad from winning. This necessity is fortunately prevented, but just the idea that the situation got that bad disturbs Leonardo. As the [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Brother]], he blames himself for failing his family and goes into a self-destructive spiral, training obsessively, forcing his brothers to do likewise, and being surly and moody in general. [[spoiler: It takes 13 episodes of not listening to Splinter, a literal journey, and a Star Wars-esque "yourself behind the Vader mask" moment to get Leonardo to recover his senses.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' episode "A Bad Reflection on You", Baloo does this after a. realizing the award Shere Khan gave him is meaningless and b. getting captured by Don Karnage and his Air Pirates. However, he recovers when he learns that Kit still has faith in him.
** Rebecca has a more comical variant in "I Only Have Ice For You", breaking down sobbing after she realises her guidebook to flying is useless and has gotten everyone captured by the Sky Pirates. Played more seriously later on when she admits rather humbly to Baloo that she's a much worse pilot than him and (supposedly) ruined their delivery, [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther even he seems rather touched by this]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/OperationZero'', Numbuh One rushes alone to the convention center full of villains in an attempt to retrieve the recommissioning module before Father can use it on Grandfather. It turns out to be a [[BatmanGambit Batman Gambit]] by Father, knowing that Nigel would try to retrieve the device and revealing that it's worthless without an active K.N.D agent's genetic material, gloating that their best agent [[GoodJobBreakingItHero just handed the villains the key to bringing back the greatest threat they have ever faced.]] As Grandfather gains his powers back and begins turning all the villains in the room into his zombie minions, Numbuh One slumps to his knees in defeat, despairing over [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone what he's done]], and not even his teammates can snap him out of it.
* This was the theme in many episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', where a historic figure was suffering from one until the three Warner siblings showed up and - inadvertently - gave them inspiration. Abraham Lincoln was questioning his self-worth and purpose until they showed up and helped him write the Gettysburg Address; Albert Einstein was ready to give up his research in frustration until they showed up and triggered his EurekaMoment. (Wakko playfully wrote "acme" backwards, and the R looked like a 2.) And many others.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' makes its version of Fred Jones somewhat prone to these. Probably to make up for him being much more skilled with traps and slightly wiser than his previous versions.
* The DVD movie ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooLegendOfThePhantosaur'' starts off with Shaggy having a BSOD. ''Scooby-Doo And The Goblin King'' has Velma -- of all people -- collapsing and fainting after seeing the supernatural maelstrom the Amazing Krudsky created.
* Soren in ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheGuardiansTheOwlsOfGaHoole'' has this after [[spoiler:he kills Metalbeak]].
* ''DC Showcase: WesternAnimation/SupermanShazamTheReturnOfBlackAdam'' had Billy Batson suffer one of these after Black Adam offered him a SadisticChoice between his own life and the life of a hostage. Adam then attempts to kill both Billy and the hostage, and would have succeeded if Superman hadn't interfered. The BSOD only lasted for a few moments though, and after it passed, well, one magic word later [[CurbStompBattle it got REALLY ugly for Adam]].
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''
** Blossom had one on when one of her plans backfired, something Mojo Jojo tried to exploit.
** Buttercup had one in an episode where she lost her ''SecurityBlanket''.
** In the episode "All Chalked Up", Bubbles has one of these when her drawings of monsters come to life. Blossom and Buttercup end up having to start the fight without her.
* 2D of Music/{{Gorillaz}} has a couple, most notably when he was drugged and kidnapped by Murdoc. In the "Stylo" music video he can be seen slouching helplessly in the car as they speed toward Plastic Beach, chanting, [[MadnessMantra "overload, overload, overload, comin' up to the overload..."]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' episode "I Will Kick No More Forever", Vince underwent a ''massive'' Heroic BSOD (of the severe depression type) after his best kick was not only beaten out, but beaten out by an Ashley, who not only doesn't even regularly play Kickball, but isn't even playing it seriously (she basically kicked it all the way to Communist China[[note]]or the Dumpster next to the school, if you've seen the edited version of this episode[[/note]] nonchalantly while she was speaking on her cell phone). It literally had to take TJ and his friends some severe talks to Vince (as well as almost faking out his kick to making him feel better with a more bouncy ball than usual) to not only get him out of the HeroicBSOD, but also for him to manage in doing an unprecedented account of kicking the ball outside of the stratosphere.
* Billy from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' (voiced by Creator/LouFerrigno) retires to his legendary crack[[labelnote:*]]in a mountainside, you dingdong[[/labelnote]] after reasoning that bad things will keep happening despite his efforts. Finn and Jake help him get better.
* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', the [[KillEmAll events]] [[AllJustADream of]] "[[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation Fail]][[GoneHorriblyWrong safe]]" caused various Heroic [=BSODs=] throughout the episode, from Wally's reaction to [[spoiler:Artemis's death]] to M'Gann's reaction to... well, everything. In fact, the following episode "Disordered" is all about them coming to terms with the trauma and taking steps to get past their respective [=BSODs=]. Luckily for them, [[ThereAreNoTherapists there are]] ''[[AvertedTrope totally]]'' [[WarriorTherapist therapists]].
** Beast Boy has a small one in season two when he comes across [[spoiler: a landscape that causes him to have flashbacks about his mother's murder.]]
** Later M'Gann suffers another in "Before The Dawn" after she [[spoiler: [[MindRape mind rapes]] Kaldur, realising he's still good and never killed Artemis, but leaving him comatose.]] She can barely function for the rest of the episode out of guilt.
*** For many episodes afterwards she's terrified to use her psychic powers for anything other than bare minimum. Even a fellow Martian who specfically gives her permission to probe his mind (to prove he's not lying to them) has to basically force his memories into her instead, because she's too nervous to pry very deeply.
* Dee Dee, though not necessarily a hero, has one in ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', in the episode "Down In the Dumps" when she loses Mr. Fuzzums.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "I Am The Night", Batman suffers one when his annual visit to Crime Alley (and the spot where his parents died) lead to him being late for a sting operation, leading to Commissioner Gordon being severely wounded, leading to Bruce quit being Batman. It wasn't until the criminal who shot Gordon escaped and a disgusted Robin decided to go after him that Bruce started to snap out of it and Gordon's own doubts about the sting helped him come to for good.
** Two in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', "Rebirth, Part 1", the first being [[DoesntLikeGuns Bruce]] realizing that [[BatmanGrabsAGun he used a gun to protect himself]] from a beating while having a heart attack, which prompts his retirement as Batman. The second being Terry after his father's funeral as he looked back at the fact their last moments together involved an argument.
* Scrooge [=McDuck=] routinely has these on ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', particularly when it involves him losing (or coming close to losing) all his wealth. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79c5JKjAQFg "A sea monster ate my ice cream!" anyone?]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', Huey Freeman has three of these. The first is when Huey is given a chance to direct the school's Christmas play and crafts it to adhere to his unique vision. The principal however, insists that Jesus not be portrayed as black, despite the name of Huey's play being "The Adventures of Black Jesus", leading to a stymied and demoralized Huey abandoning the project the night before the play.
** The second time is when Huey tries to save his friend, Shabazz K. Milton Berle from death row. However, his plan is thwarted at the last minute when he can't get a ride from his grandfather, who instead decides to talk some sense into Uncle Ruckus at his "revival" meeting, leading to Huey standing on a hillside and praying to God, while shedding tears for the first time.
** The third time and probably Huey's biggest Heroic BSOD ever is during Barack Obama's election where Obama is asked about Huey Freeman, to which he responds that Huey doesn't stand for what ''he'' stands for, and that he denounces, repudiate, and condemns him. This leads to Huey's indifference Obama, where he "retires" from his role as a "domestic terrorist". Of course, this doesn't go well with the public, who are in such awe of Obama at the time, that a simple "Eh" from Huey draws the ire of a large crowd of black people, which leads to a national protests against Huey, where protesters burn an effigy of him. Because of this, Huey feels there is no room for him in Obama's America, so he decides to leave the country. However, he plan is once again thwarted because he once again cannot get a ride. While the Obama phenomenon has died down, Huey still remains retired throughout the rest of the season, including the season finale.
*** Coincidentally, Huey also has a Heroic BSOD is the same degree in the comics, when he receives enough negative responses from his 15-page Santa Conspiracy Report, leading to a series of comic strips where he "officially hates everything".
*** Luckily, Michael Cesar is introduced into the comic strip, restoring Huey's faith in his revolution.
* WesternAnimation/DangerMouse has a BSOD at the end of "Close Encounters Of The Absurd Kind" when he finds out that the craft that kidnapped him and Penfold wasn't Baron Greenback's Frog's Head Flyer but a UFO.

** In the Season One episode, ''Storm Over Ryloth'', Ahsoka gets one when she loses most of her squadron and failing to break through the blockade over Ryloth. She snaps out of it in the episode's third act.
** In the Season Five episode, ''The Lawless'', Obi-Wan gets this when [[spoiler: Darth Maul murders Duchess Satine]].

** When trying to forge a mental connection to Darth Vader, [[spoiler:the revelation that he is Anakin Skywalker as well as the backlash of the Dark Side causes Ahsoka to pass out]].
** After the events of Malachor in season 2, Kanan completely shuts down for six months until he snaps out of it in season 3.
* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Hank goes through one when the chemicals Dale used to kill some fire ants also kills the grass on his lawn. At one point, Hank sits on a lawn chair and doesn't bother to move when the sprinklers go off, even when he starts sinking into the mud.
* Twilight Sparkle gets a huge one in the second episode of the second season of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. [[spoiler: After spending half the episode trying to stop Discord, Twilight is finally broken, corrupted, and loses her colors after the initial attempt to use the Elements against him fails and her friends' behavior proves too much for her. She snaps out of it after reading the friendship reports that she originally sent to Princess Celestia one season earlier.]]
** In ''Flight to the Finish'', Scootaloo has this after her failure to fly despite countless tries.
** In ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]'', the revelation that Twilight needed to help Spike light the Equestria Games torch sends him into a depression for a majority of the episode.
** In ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks Rainbow Rocks]]'', Twilight breaks down and assumes a TroubledFetalPosition after failing to come up with a counterspell and being LockedInARoom with the rest of the Humane Six, who have begun arguing over the mishaps that occured during the BattleOfTheBands, allowing the Dazzlings to [[EmotionEater gain power from their conflict]] like the rest of the school.
** In ''A Royal Problem'', Starlight Glimmer ends up hitting this trope after her MyGodWhatHaveIDone worries in swapping Princess Celestia and Luna's Cutie Marks keep weighing heavily on her (not helped by Twilight's own snooping), ultimately leading to her bursting into tears in her own nightmare as she's tormented by Nightmare Moon and Celestia's own SuperpoweredEvilSide, Daybreaker.
** In ''School Daze'', Twilight hits this trope big time when her Friendship School is shut down by the EEA for not following the guidelines ''exactly'', causing her students to bail because they couldn't ''stand'' such a thing.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Family Guy}}'' episode: The end of '''Life of Brian''' did this to the ''actual fans of the show'' [[spoiler: when Brian Dies]]. The [[MassOhCrap reaction]]... well, if you thought the '''Red Wedding''' episode from ''Series/GameOfThrones'' had people talking, at least [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the book it was based upon]] didn't spark much protest since the viewers knew it was coming.
** But then it was [[DeathIsCheap quickly undone.]]
** An in-universe example: Stewie goes through this when he refused to believe he was singing the wrong note.
* [[TheHero Aang]] has one when [[TeamPet Appa]] is kidnapped midway through Season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. He abandons his friends to go find him, and when that fails [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he acts much more antagonistic]] than his normal {{Keet}} mode. Eventually, he decides that pretending to not feel anything will make things better (it doesn't) and it takes the birth of a baby for him to finally snap out of it.
* Aang's successor, [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Korra]], doesn't get off easy either. In Season 3, she is poisoned by the BigBad and forced into the Avatar state (the villain hoping she'll die and end the Avatar cycle once and for all). The injuries she sustains from the poison, the battle immediately following that, and her enemies (and [[InnocentlyInsensitive allies]]) telling her the world doesn't need her anymore, drives her into a depression that she doesn't fully recover from until over half way through Season 4, ''three years later''.
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': After Rick's LovePotion goes out of control in the most horrible way possible, turning into a plague of BodyHorror, [[spoiler:and Rick just writes the reality off, takes them to another universe where their counterparts cured the plague and then died immediately afterwards, ''makes him bury his own counterpart'' and replace him]], Morty can only [[ThousandYardStare look on, almost unresponsive]], as he finds himself back to his old, day to day life, with the knowledge [[spoiler:those aren't his real parents or sister, merely identical strangers, and that everyone he knew is dead]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' episode, "Son of Stimpy", has Stimpy go through a pretty major one when Stinky leaves. Nearly everything Ren says to him is replied with a depressed "I don't care.".

** In the episode "Rose's Scabbard", Pearl spends most of the first half of the episode talking about being Rose's sole confidant before her death, and that she knew all of her secrets. When it turns out she doesn't, she lashes out at the others, runs off, and nearly lets Steven fall to his death as she's too caught up in her own grief to care. This does lead to a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming moment of reconciliation]] at the end.

** A less [[TearJerker tearjerky]] and more [[NightmareFuel horrific]] case of this comes from the episode "Keeping it Together". While chasing down Peridot, [[TheStoic Garnet]] and Steven uncover exactly what she was working on. Homeworld had been trying to achieve artifical fusion, by combining two or more gem shards together. Crystal Gem shards. This does not only create [[BodyHorror horrible amalgamations]] of what were once Garnet's friends, but is also a slap in the face of her ''entire existence'', as Garnet stays fused out of love. For the first half of the battle (if you can even call it one), [[NotSoAboveItAll she can only whimper and shake her head.]] When the biggest fusion monster grabs her, she just stands there in [[NotSoStoic absolute horror.]] Eventually, she begins talking to herself, ending with "I'm sorry!" before beginning to fall apart (in a, judging by the sounds she makes, [[BodyHorror quite painful manner]]). And she nearly does, before Steven snaps her out of it.

---->'''Stevonnie: [Steven's voice]''' I tried to help you. You wouldn't listen. I-I told you to stop. I had no choice! I'm sorry, I shouldn't —
---->'''[Connie's voice]''' It's okay! It's okay to think about it!
---->'''[Steven's voice]'''I thought I could, but it's so much! I can't do it!

--->'''Steven:''' (crying hysterically) I didn't want to hurt anyone! I'm sorry! None of them would let me help them! I had no choice!
--->'''Connie:''' It's okay!
--->'''Steven:''' No, it's not!
--->'''Connie:''' But it's okay to think about it!

* In ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'', after the "monster" turns out to be a mere spider, Tulip bemoans that she may never know the meaning of her mark. Atticus helps talk her out of it, leading to her EurekaMoment about the work light.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet'' episode "Pinched Nerves", Joey is pretty badly shaken when he almost accidentally kills his dad while trying to catch a criminal, so he takes a break from superhero antics for the rest of the episode. AP is left to try catch the criminal and eventually gives Joey the confidence he needs back.
* Jimmy from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', not a hero per se, goes through this in "Tinker Ed" when he realizes that fairy tales aren't real. Edd goes through this too (for a short time) in the episode "Too Smart for His Own Ed" when he loses a spelling bee to Ed.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': Quinn spends most of the series as Daria's [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry beautiful but shallow and flighty younger sister]] with an endless string of suitors worshiping the ground she walked on. A turning point in her character development is when she actually gets ''rejected'' for the first time. In the tv movie ''Is It Fall Yet?'', dealing with the summer vacation between seasons four and five, Quinn gets a tutor, a cute nerdy senior, and grows attracted to him during their sessions. As the summer ends, she confesses her feelings to him, but he turns her down because she's not his type, as he prefers more intellectual girls. This deeply hurts Quinn and puts her in a days-long depression. She only breaks out of her funk after going back to school and deciding that she can be fashionable ''and'' academic if she so chooses.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': Quinn spends most of the series as Daria's [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry beautiful but shallow and flighty younger sister]] with an endless string of suitors worshiping the ground she walked on. A turning point in her character development is when she actually falls in love for the first time then gets ''rejected'' for the first time. In the tv movie ''Is It Fall Yet?'' chronicling the summer vacation between seasons four and five, Quinn hires a tutor, a cute nerdy senior, and grows attracted to him during their sessions. As the summer ends, she confesses her feelings to him, but he turns her down because she's not his type, as he prefers more intellectual girls. This deeply hurts Quinn and puts her in a days-long depression. She only breaks out of her funk after going back to school and deciding that she can be fashionable ''and'' academic if she so chooses.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'', Timmy tells the Crimson Chin that he's only a comic book character, resulting in CC going into a HeroicBSOD where he is curled up in a ball crying for most of the episode feeling unimportant. He snaps back to normal when Timmy has a brush with death at the hands of his nemesis.

* In ''School Daze'', Twilight hits this trope big time when her Friendship School is shut down by the EEA for not following the guidelines ''exactly'', causing her students to bail because they couldn't ''stand'' such a thing.

* Jimmy from EdEddNEddy, not a hero per se, goes through this in "Tinker Ed" when he realizes that fairy tales aren't real. Edd goes through this too (for a short time) in the episode "Too Smart for His Own Ed" when he loses a spelling bee to Ed.