History Main / EnragedByIdiocy

* The main draw of Website/CollegeHumor's "CEO" videos is to see the corporate executive played by Brennan Lee Mulligan blow his stack over [[SurroundedByIdiots his employees creating products that will only undermine his efforts to save face after recent gaffes as well as hearing the ludicrous reasons behind their poorly thought-out product names and design choices]].

* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' rarely gets angry, but the prison guards once again letting [[ArchEnemy The Dalton brothers]] escape from the CardboardPrison is one way to do it. Once, when he was telegraphed about yet another breakout, his only reply was "idiots".

* Light Yagami from ''Manga/DeathNote'' frequently gets annoyed by [[StalkerWithACrush Misa Amane]]'s frequent acts of stupidity that [[TooDumbToLive constantly puts them at risk of being exposed as Kira]]. In fact, Misa's actions lead to Light commonly saying [[{{Catchphrase}} "Misa, you idiot!"]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': Ren simply cannot stand Stimpy's stupidity. There's a very good reason why his CatchPhrase is "You eeeeeediot!"

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Bert and Ernie may be friends, but the latter's antics tend to drive the former as up the wall as a shows aimed at small children will allow them to.

-->'''Numbuh 1:''' '''''A KEYCHAIN?!?!?!'''''

** While Doctor Drakken is her boss, Shego does not hide her snarkiness or lack of respect for him. Whenever he does his more hairbrained schemes, she has very little patience.
*** Based on what we learn of her backstory, Shego [[BlackSheep became a villain]] because the annoying personalities and general stupidity of her superhero brothers got on her nerves.

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* EnragedByIdiocy/AnimeAndManga
* EnragedByIdiocy/FanWorks
* EnragedByIdiocy/{{Literature}}
* EnragedByIdiocy/LiveActionTV
* EnragedByIdiocy/WesternAnimation
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[[folder:Music]]
* "Look At All Those Idiots", a song sung by [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Mr. Burns]] from ''Music/TheSimpsonsSingTheBlues''.

[[folder:Theater]]
* ''Theatre/{{Brand}}'', when the quite {{ditz}}y bailiff does not grasp the meaning of Brand`s speech pattern for the umpteenth time, Brand reacts almost with an ''Aaaargh'' - or he would have if Creator/HenrikIbsen had read enough comics to get the reference. This instigates a big BerserkButton when his superior, the provost, acts and talks just as stupid.

* Wess from ''VideoGame/Mother3''. When his son Duster brought back the wrong artifact from Osohe Castle, Wess FLIPS OUT AND SMASHES IT ON THE GROUND, then comes with Duster to Osohe Castle to guide him so he gets the correct artifact this time. For the rest of the game, he refers to Duster as "Moron."

-->Oh my god, are you kidding me? What are you using for security down there, a [[{{UsefulNotes/TRS80}} Trash-80]]? Guys, it's called "encryption." This is too easy; I'd let you off the hook, but stupidity always brings out the asshole in me...

[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* Tamara from ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'' is the epitome of this. She has no tolerance for bullshit or slowness on the uptake, and pretty much whenever Henry walks into the room and says anything, she gets pissed off.
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* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', this trope is basically Kotal Kahn's FatalFlaw in a nutshell.

* LetsPlay/{{Pwnage}} In ''VideoGame/EarthWormJim'' video, Damian performs dances and makes odd noises with his yodeling pickle. This causes Kyle to eventually rage quit.

A SubTrope of BerserkButton. Characters who are the OnlySaneMan, SurroundedByIdiots, or an InsufferableGenius tend to have this, but it is also one of the main JerkJustifications. You can expect the {{Tsundere}} to have this characteristic, especially if she's around the IdiotHero. They may also show someone to be TheComicallySerious. This is also a central trope in a BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine, where both the ''boke''[='s=] idiocy and the ''tsukkomi''[='s=] resulting frustration are PlayedForLaughs. If used excessively, this Trope can turn the StraightMan of the cast into a straight-up {{Jerkass}}, whom although gifted with intelligence, is an emotionally hollow brick wall with an exasperating "cup half empty" attitude towards life, refusing to see the ''good'' in people favor of justifying his sarcasm and hate for the world by arrogantly accentuating ''every'' little flaw in everyone else but himself.

* Pick an MMO. Any MMO. Chances are if you participated in any team-based events or dungeons, you've either met someone like this or been that person yourself. Goes double for MOBA players.

* In general, a source of quite a bit of the humor in AbridgedSeries. What makes it funnier is that usually the people getting enraged are [[HypocriticalHumor just as stupid as the people they're angered by]].

* WebVideo/BennettTheSage did this after sitting through ''Very Private Lesson'', with the [[IdiotPlot utter stupidity]] of the OVA rendering him unable to do anything but scream the name of [[Anime/ThePlacePromisedInOurEarlyDays the subject of his next review]] when it was finally over.

* This happens a ''lot'' in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', usually when the OnlySaneMan of the hour loses their patience with TheDitz. But for specific examples:

* Let be honest, everyone had one of these moments at some point.

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Light Yagami from ''Anime/DeathNote'' frequently gets annoyed by [[StalkerWithACrush Misa Amane]]'s frequent acts of stupidity that [[TooDumbToLive constantly puts them at risk of being exposed as Kira]]. In fact, Misa's actions lead to Light commonly saying [[CatchPhrase "Misa, you idiot!"]]
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** While ''enraged'' is stretching it, [[TheHero Jotaro Kujo]] doesn't seem to have the patience for people who do silly things, with [[TheGadfly Joseph Joestar]] being a frequent offender.
** The image shown on the page comes from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'', specifically when [[TheSmartGuy Pannacotta Fugo]] got enraged after [[BookDumb Narancia Ghirga]] answered 16 x 55 = 28[[note]]The correct answer would be 880[[/note]]... after previously having correctly answered 5 x 6 = 30. His response is to ''stab Narancia in the face with a fork''.
--->'''Fugo:''' ''YOU STUPID DELINQUENT! ARE YOU MESSING WITH ME!? HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS BEFORE YOU LEARN!? YOU SHIT FOR BRAINS!''
* ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'': One of the only times Reborn loses his cool and beats up Tsuna is after he does a blatantly-obvious transformation sequence into his adult form behind a tiny rock ''and Tsuna is completely unaware they're the same person'', which everyone else in the area lampshades as super dumb.
* In ''Manga/MarchComesInLikeALion'', Rei becomes incensed when Yasui doesn't learn from his mistakes both inside professional shogi (choosing not to learn from his losses) and outside (opting to once again drink his loss away instead of spending his last Christmas with his daughter as a family and initially pretending to forget about the presents he bought). Implicitly blaming Rei for the latter is what sets it off.
* Masayuki Hori from ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'' is regularly driven to acts of [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender comedically over the top violence]] by Yuu Kashima's insistence on skipping club practice, irresponsibility, and completely askew sense of pattern recognition. Noteworthy because he absolutely worships Kashima whenever she ''isn't'' being an idiot in his presence (which in practice is only when she isn't in his presence at all.)
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** While Luffy's extreme stupidity is enough to make all of his friends lose their patience now and then, Nami is the only one to really flip out every time he says something really stupid (which is half of the time; the other half he just says something ''somewhat'' stupid). She gets equally angry at the other crew members when they act idiotic. Usopp is becoming similar to her, though he seems more enraged by the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} inability to think normally]] than stupidity ''per se''.
** Sir Crocodile's FatalFlaw is that he's so incredulously enraged by Luffy's antics that he leaves himself vulnerable by attacking him physically instead of making his usual smart use of his TouchOfDeath.
* Naofumi from ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' is regularly (and quite justifiably) pissed off when it comes to [[IRejectYourReality Motoyasu]] and the [[KnightTemplar Three]] [[FantasticRacism Heroes]] [[CorruptChurch Church]]. None of which is PlayedForLaughs, by the way.
* ''Anime/SailorMoon'':
** Luna has this in regards to Usagi, as the latter often fails to take things seriously. Artemis also has this in regards to Minako, but is usually more rational with her than Luna is towards Usagi.
** As much as he loves his sister, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Shingo]] can't help but feel annoyed by how ditzy and lazy Usagi is.
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[[folder:FanWorks]]
* ''Fanfic/Class78thWatchesTheFuture'': A pretty good way to define the class' reaction to about 90% of Hiro's Free Time Events, and other moments that highlight [[InsaneTrollLogic his thought]] [[ConspiracyTheorist process]]. Some highlights include his "explanation" of his clairvoyant abilities and sales pitch for a recording that's supposed to aid the listener in enlightenment ([[AwesomenessbyAnalysis Junko]] was left massaging her forehead going "Ow. Ow, my brain." at the sheer stupidity involved), the recounting of his "close encounter with aliens" (Which led Leon to ask him point blank whether he was on drugs), his theory that the culprit of Case 3 would be either [[KilledOffForReal Chihiro]] or Alter Ego (Mondo actually had to be physically restrained from beating Hiro to a pulp), and his revelation that he was [[TooDumbToLive conned into paying a million dollars for a glass ball]] (''Byakuya'' lost his temper at that, and Celeste mused that she was right to classify Hiro as D-Rank). Of course, there's also the way everyone reacted when they learned Hiro was willing to ask Makoto to sell his organs to pay off his debt, rather than dip into his retirement fund, but ''that's'' a different trope.
* ''Fanfic/ForHisOwnSake'': Mutsumi's staunch insistence that Keitaro and Naru ''need'' to get back together makes her a lightning rod for provoking this reaction, especially when her determination to [[ShipperOnDeck help them hook back up]] leads her into working with some ObviouslyEvil 'allies'. Even when they [[spoiler:kidnap Keitaro, tie him up and hold him hostage]], Mutsumi's inability to comprehend what's actually happening ends up enraging not only Keitaro, but her so-called friends, with [[spoiler:Chisato]] giving her an ArmorPiercingSlap and declaring there should be a limit to her stupidity.
* ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'': While neither of them tolerate idiocy well, Professor Quirrell tends to react much more strongly than the main character, whose reaction is usually more in line with [[FacePalm facepalming]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler:being able to do whatever he wants with idiots is his one remaining pleasure in life and is essentially the main reason Riddle went fully evil]].
* ''Fanfic/ImperialServant'': When Dabbler, a succubus who was called to perform a "good deed", realizes her summoner doesn't have a "banishing anchor" for her, which is a safeguard to send any summoned creature back where it belongs in an instant, she shows him ''why'' banishing anchors are important by attacking him with a flaming sword.
* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocus'': Paul London's thoughts on [[TeensAreMonsters Grace Monroe and Simon Laurent]] (the leaders of the denizen-killing cult, the Apex) are that they just ''don't get the hint'' that they are being assholes who don't give a damn about what they're doing and that the numbers on their arms are worthless except to indicate that they'll have a harder time going home. It doesn't help that Miss Grace "I'm the expert on the Train" Monroe can't accept the hint that she has to change. London makes his annoyance known by beating them within an inch of their lives while they are helpless against a near 40-year-old wrestler that has telekinesis.
* Akihiko Kayaba of ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'' has been bottling up two years' worth of rage at the prospect that the lion's share of his player base simply cannot function at a higher level of thought process than [[TooDumbToLive "group up and hit it 'til it dies"]]. [[spoiler:Part of the reason he took on his Heathcliff alias is to alleviate the massive number of player deaths that resulted from a glitch of his own sleep-deprived creation; that a massive number of players died in incredibly stupid ways despite this does not help his temper one bit.]]
* ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': The protagonist is often disappointed, frustrated, and fed up with people's poor choices. [[spoiler:A group of Green Lanterns trying to free a prisoner from a possibly lawful confinement by an epically powerful Lantern]] really takes the cake, though, in terms of getting him riled.
--> '''Paul''': Illustres to '''WHATEVER IDIOT JUST DECIDED TO PICK A FIGHT WITH LORD MALVOLIO I HOPE YOUR LIFE INSURANCE IS UP TO DATE'''.
* ''Fanfic/MyDreamIsYours'': Ohlm's ditziness manages to drive Jamie Jam absolutely insane when she tries to deliver him a clue as to where she'll strike next in a KnockKnockJoke, but he fails to comprehend what such a joke is. He ends up invoking and exploiting this trope fully by the time he's done, as she hits her RageBreakingPoint and forgets the punchline of the joke.
* In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'', Cross and Soundbite usually roll along with Luffy's stupidity. However, [[EverybodyHasStandards they]] [[RageBreakingPoint reach their limits]] when Luffy somehow mistakes Coby (the boy he met when he began his pirate career) for ''[[Manga/FairyTail Natsu Dragneel]]''.
-->'''Cross''': ARE YOU SERIOUSLY TELLING ME THAT YOUR STUPIDITY ''LITERALLY'' TRANSCENDS TIME AND SPACE?!
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Visser Three. He has little tolerance for incompetence, and more often than not, it ended with whoever was being stupid getting offed (usually by Visser 3 ''eating them whole'').
* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', Ward has been ObfuscatingStupidity for seven years. His father is enraged by Ward's stupid facial expression and overall stupidity - quite ironic, considering that Ward started to pretend to have more brain damage from his father's violent beatings than he actually had because he feared his father would ''kill'' him if he seemed too dangerous.
* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Aliens II'': The alien teacher in ''Field Trip'' gets infuriated when the students at the human school he's taken his class to spend more time cracking jokes than trying to spread knowledge, and finally decides to take his students and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leave]].
* The title character of ''Literature/FrannyKStein'' occasionally gets quite furious when she has to deal with stupidity.
** A chapter in ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'' has Franny try to talk to a friend from school named Percy over the phone about her latest invention. Percy doesn't pay attention and only babbles about how much he likes corn chips, which causes Franny to angrily hang up the phone while imagining that Percy [[VisualPun has a safety pin for a head]].
** In ''The Invisible Fran'', Franny gives her classmates Erin, Lawrence, and Phil an earful for attempting to make improvements to her two-headed robot and instead making the robot into a highly destructive idiot that's now going around vandalizing the school. She also gets really infuriated when she sees that the two-headed robot is going to destroy all the books in the school library.
* In the ''Literature/KharkanasTrilogy'', this is the biggest reason the artist Kadaspala Enes behaves like a {{Jerkass}}. He often sees through people and hates it how they shower him with praise when he's looking and call him a pretentious brat when he's not. Add such remarks while he's painting, and he's this close to stabbing people with brushes.
* In ''Literature/TheLeonardRegime'', Nick demonstrates this whenever Brandon says or does something stupid.
* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', Peregrine ("Pippin") Took accidentally makes a potentially enemy-alerting noise in the Mines of Moria (namely, dropping a stone down a deep well -- exaggerated to a bucket with chains in the movie). The usually calm and compassionate Gandalf's response is uncharacteristically upset. (Considering what happens next, it's hard not to sympathise with him.)
-->'''Gandalf:''' Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!
* Known for his "impatience with a less active intelligence than his own," Franchise/SherlockHolmes' exasperation at the police's bungling could drive him into condescending rants. The only mention in the entire canon of Holmes cursing comes by his frustration at the police for failing to capture [[ArchEnemy Professor]] [[WorthyOpponent Moriarty]] after Holmes had all but gift-wrapped the evidence and capture for them.

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In ''Series/AllThat'' this was practically the entire premise of the "Ask Ashley" sketches. Ashley (played by Amanda Bynes) would receive letters from kids asking her advice, but the questions they ask could easily be solved by someone who had an [=IQ=] higher than 3, such as wondering what to do because their house is on fire, or wondering why they can't write very well on a slice of bologna. Ashley ''would'' give them the advice they asked for, but she would shout it at them while berating them for being so stupid.
* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'': Later incarnations of Edmund Blackadder are usually quite resigned to being SurroundedByIdiots. Whenever he does snap, however, it's usually because of Baldrick, George, Percy, or The Queen doing something profoundly stupid.
* In the early days of ''Series/BreakingBad'', Walter was prone to extensive ranting at Jesse's screw-ups.
* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': Part of the humour of the show is seeing Brittas do this to anyone he meets. People who start the episode calm and collected usually end up trying to kill him or attacking him by the end of the episode. For an example, In "Set In Concrete" he gets someone in to access whether the building has Sick Building Syndrome. By the end of the episode, Brittas has annoyed the guy so much that he loses it and starts shouting to people to get out whilst they still can.
* This is one of Creator/{{David Mitchell|Actor}}'s many [[BerserkButton buttons]], as seen frequently on panel shows, mostly ''Series/WouldILieToYou''.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Luke Rattigan, from season 4 of [=NuWho=]. He's an InsufferableGenius who, among many things, hate it when people refer to his creation as the ATMOS System. "It's a tautology! It stands for Atmospheric Omission System so you're just saying Atmospheric Omission System System!" Note: [[RecursiveAcronym that's not a tautology]].
* One of the main sources of humor in ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' is how Chavo's and Quiko's (lack of) intelligence will often exasperate, or infuriate the other characters that have average intelligence.
-->'''Said by several Characters:''' I better leave, it (stupidity) may be contagious.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Tywin Lannister. He's perpetually unamused, given that his standards are high, he has no tolerance for incompetence, and [[TheCaligula Joffrey]]'s rule has been a long parade of follies and disasters. Given that many of his subordinates ([[PuppetKing including Joffrey]]) are frequently StupidEvil, it's little wonder Tywin sees himself as SurroundedByIdiots.
--->'''Tywin:''' Madness, madness and stupidity! ''(regarding Ned Stark's execution)''
** Tyrion as well; he has a habit of bitchslapping Joffrey for outstandingly foolish decisions.
* Creator/GordonRamsay in both ''Series/HellsKitchen'' and ''Series/KitchenNightmares'', to the point where many viewers initially tune in just to watch him flip out... And are probably surprised to discover that he's actually a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, albeit one with [[ConsummateProfessional no tolerance for sloppy work or bad behavior]], whose legendary rants are [[DownplayedTrope reserved for people who have done something to legitimately warrant a reprimand.]] [[EpicFail/HellsKitchen Which... happens pretty often]].
* Major Hochstetter from ''Series/HogansHeroes'' gets enraged by simply being in the presence of [[GeneralFailure Colonel Klink]] and [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Sergeant Schultz]].
* Uther in ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}''. Most of the time it just results in an angry tirade and Merlin getting sent to the stocks, but he isn't above having someone imprisoned or killed if it went too far.
* By his own admission, [[FatIdiot Kevin]] from the US version of ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' [[HypocriticalHumor has very little patience for stupidity]].
* In ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' episode "The Sixth Finger"
-->'''Gwylim Griffiths:''' Your ignorance makes me ill and angry.
* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': While it's not uncommon for Lord Zedd to lash out in anger, the idiocy of his half-brother Rito Revolto was another story, especially with him getting his name wrong.
** ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'': The only thing that seems to anger Void Knight outside of the Rangers is the fact that one of his henchman is Mucus, who is far from the smartest or most competent Ranger villain.
* ''Series/{{QI}}'': Creator/StephenFry went off on a tirade on this theme after Lee Mack repeatedly attempted to use the word "ceiling" to disprove the former "i before e except after c"-rule.
-->'''Stephen:''' Are you incapable of rational thought?! You cannot be this stupid! You cannot be this stupid!
* In an ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' skit of KentBrockmanNews, the anchor shouted that he was annoyed because "I'm surrounded by ''incompetence''!".
* ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'': Roseanne is often exasperated by the antics of her friends and family, especially her sister Jackie or her mother Beverley. One stand-out moment is the season 4 episode where the family is preparing to go and see DJ in the Spelling Bee finals, has DJ put gel in his hair and styles it weirdly because he thinks it makes him look good. Roseanne orders him to go upstairs and wash it out, a few minutes later Darlene emerges and says that Roseanne probably should have told him to take his jacket and shirt off first. Roseanne literally pulls at her hair, exclaiming '''"Why does he do that?"''' before stomping upstairs.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Bert and Ernie may be friends, but the latter's antics tend to drive the former as up the wall as a shows aimed at small children will allow them to.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': Dr.Cox habitually makes it clear he has very little tolerance for the antics and stupidity of everyone around him, especially JD.
* Almost ''anyone'' who encounters Frank Spencer of ''Series/SomeMothersDoAveEm'' may be calm and collected to begin with, but his seemingly boundless dimness and ineptitude inevitably send them into fits of frothing rage of which they didn't even know themselves to be capable, sometimes followed by blubbering, gibbering insanity. For example, in "The Public Relations Course", PR guru Mr Watson leads a five-day training course, but on the first day, he asks Frank to participate in a role-playing exercise as first a dissatisfied customer and then a PR representative dealing with a dissatisfied customer played by Eddie, a fellow student who has taken Frank under his wing. For the former, Frank simply fires off insults that he heard from Lang, a militant who thinks public relations is pure hokum, and for the latter, he blithely agrees that the dissatisfied customer has grounds to sue his hypothetical employer. Mr Watson flies into a rage, and when Eddie intervenes and says Frank was only trying to help him, Mr Watson snarls, "He's not '''supposed''' to help you! He's a public relations officer!"... thereby convincing the entire group that Lang is right about PR being pure hokum, leading them to storm out ''en masse''.
* Tony Soprano of ''Series/TheSopranos'' has a HairTriggerTemper in general, but the stupidity of his mooks and his Son ranks near the top of his list of triggers. In "[[Recap/TheSopranosS6E15RememberWhen Remember When]]", he considers ''murdering'' Paulie for his annoying and dimwitted tendencies.
* One of the few things to make Malcolm Tucker of ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' lose his cool. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99CZHHgAOy8 Witness.]]
* ''Series/TheTribe'': Ram murders one of his Techno {{mooks}} in front of Ebony after the minion presents him with a set of nonsensical programming orders that would actually erase most of Ram's computer systems.
* In ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'', this seems to be David Horton's default setting. Geraldine dabbles frequently but tends to keep herself more composed.
* [[BigBad Grimlord]] from ''Series/VRTroopers'' quickly begins to feel this way as the first season wears on and his forces are continually beaten by the VR Troopers, at one point declaring "I am surrounded by incompetence!" He even says a few times he really should just [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness destroy them all for having failed too much]], and delivers on this threat during season 2's "Quest for Power" saga after [[MidSeasonUpgrade getting a new upgrade and minions]]; that said, his new minions still enrage him for their failures against the Troopers (who themselves have gotten an upgrade to level the playing field), albeit a bit less.
* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' appears to experience this while she, Gabrielle, Joxer, and Callisto (who is currently a god) are on their way to defeat another mad god. Joxer falls off his horse (again), and Xena becomes enraged and kicks him out of the party. In reality, she needed to get him away from the rest of the party so that he could retrieve a god-killing weapon without Callisto noticing.

[[folder:Music]]
* "Look At All Those Idiots", a song sung by ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' character Mr. Burns from ''Music/TheSimpsonsSingTheBlues''.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* ''Theatre/{{Brand}}'', when the quite {{ditz}}y bailiff does not grasp the meaning of Brand`s speech pattern for the umpteenth time, Brand reacts almost with an ''Aaaargh'' - or he would have if Creator/HenrikIbsen had read enough comics to get the reference. This instigates a big BerserkButton when his superior, the provost, acts and talks just as stupid.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': There's only so much Frylock can tolerate, but Shake's self-centered stupidity has made it so Frylock has no problem hitting him or leaving him to die.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': While there's no doubt Nicole loves her family, there have been times where they've done something that requires a huge amount of negligence, short-sightedness and (most of the time) stupidity that she'll snap, either shouting or breaking the nearest object. More often then not, it's her husband Richard who brings this out of her.
* Basically ''anybody'' who is around ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead''. Needless to say, almost NOBODY has patience with these two morons, [[InsufferableImbecile and with good reason]].
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Bob Belcher does his best to tolerate the zaniness (or more likely stupidity) of the people in his life before he reaches his limit. He's a lot more tolerant of his wife and kids since they're his family, though it's not easy for him. He's a lot less tolerant when it's his sister-in-law Gayle or best friend Teddy, as they've made him hit his RageBreakingPoint for how much their poor decisions or lack of common sense has ruined his day.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'': As shown in a flashback in the episode "[[Recap/CentaurworldS2E5BunchOScrunch Bunch O' Scrunch]]", Durpleton’s father was very unpleased with his son’s silliness and yelled at him for using stupid nicknames.
* In a ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode, after Numbuh 1 gets stranded in a jungle and turns feral, the team's attempts at getting him back yield no results, until they learn the mission they were sent on was for the purpose of learning the answer for a contest to win a decorative keychain as a prize, causing Numbuh 1 to snap back and rant how no mission could ever be so idiotic.
-->'''Numbuh 1:''' '''''A KEYCHAIN?!?!?!'''''
** Numbuh 5 in general, can't stand her other teammates stupidity. She's often seen arguing with TheDitz Numbuh 4, and in the mission where they were being attacked by nerd zombies when she thought they were rescuing a fellow agent, only to find out they were instead rescuing a ''trading card'' she snaps and rants at Numbuh 2, who she usually just rags on for making bad puns.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' is dedicated to the title character's annoyance at everyone's stupidity.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': Mr. [=DeMartino=] has a HairTriggerTemper as a general rule, but few things will send him into a frothing rage as readily as the ignorance of [[TheDitz some of his students]].
* Dexter from ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' is always angered by his older sister Dee Dee messing around with his experiments and breaking things in his laboratory as well as her ditzy behavior.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'':
** Eddy sometimes gets annoyed by other people's idiotic behavior around him, especially [[TheDitz Ed]]'s. On occasion, though, Eddy seems to be amused by Ed's idiotic antics (as long as they don't ruin one of his plans, obviously).
** Downplayed with Edd, based on [[SurroundedByIdiots his last lines]] at the end of the episode "Dim Lit Ed" but he was more annoyed than enraged. And he's usually much more tolerant of Ed's idiocy than Eddy is.
** Sarah, probably even more than Eddy. Unfortunately, she is related to the biggest idiot of the Cul-de-Sac and this makes her almost always angry.
* Col. Nozzaire to [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget Lieutenant Gadget]] on ''WesternAnimation/GadgetAndTheGadgetinis''.
* In one sketch on ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', Johnny faces a supercomputer in a game of chess. Johnny's childishness and stupidity end up frustrating the supercomputer so much that it malfunctions.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'':
** [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat]] has a HairTriggerTemper because he's SurroundedByIdiots but finds stupid people very annoying. To the extent that [[WithFriendsLikeThese he's actually tried to kill his friends]] because they anger him with their stupidity.
** Olaf has a pretty short temper, but he gets angry at [[TheDitz Stumpy]] very easily because he's even more of an idiot than the other characters.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'':
** [[DownplayedTrope While she will never hit him or threaten him for it]], there have been times where Ron's childish attitude, clumsiness or general cluelessness get on Kim's nerves.
** While Doctor Drakken is her boss, Shego does not hide her snarkiness or lack of respect for him. Whenever he does his more hairbrained schemes, she has very little patience.
* [[OnlySaneMan Hank Hill]] on ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' is this rather frequently. He even said as much on an episode where he had to go to anger management classes to end a restraining order filed on him by Dale, saying that he didn't have an anger problem, but an "idiot problem".
* Benson from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' takes this trope to new levels whenever Mordecai & Rigby's (''especially'' Rigby) antics create problems for the park.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': Ren simply cannot stand Stimpy's stupidity. There's a very good reason why his CatchPhrase is "You eeeeeediot!"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Frank Grimes in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer's Enemy]]", who comes to work at the Springfield nuclear plant and is driven crazy by Homer’s dangerous incompetence and laziness. Grimes serves as a deconstruction of Homer’s comedic incompetence by being the OnlySaneMan at the plant who isn’t desensitized to Homer’s antics, and by demonstrating how quickly a real person would be driven insane if they actually had to work with Homer.
** Lisa is like this too sometimes.
--->'''Lisa:''' ''[to Homer]'' You, sir, are a ''baboon''! '''BABOON, BABOON, ''BABOON''!!!'''
* Squidward from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''. It doesn't help that [[OnlySaneMan his house is located smack dab in the middle of complete morons [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's.]] For Squilvia, this is what makes her attracted to him.
* Grand Admiral Thrawn from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' may be a NoNonsenseNemesis to the Rebellion, but his plans largely fail because he's SurroundedByIdiots. In one example, Governor Pryce blows up the fuel depot for his TIE Defender factory in a (failed) attempt to eliminate a rebel cell. Thrawn (who's on Coruscant at the time) is barely able to restrain his fury as he tells her [[YouHaveFailedMe what the consequences will be]].
-->'''Thrawn:''' I...will deal with ''you''...when I return...''Governor''.
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* Masayuki Hori from ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'' is regularly driven to acts of [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender comedically over the top violence]] by Yuu Kashima's insistence on skipping club practice, irresponsibility, and completely askew sense of pattern recognition. Noteworthy because he absolutely worships Kashima whenever she ''isn't'' being an idiot in his presence (which in practice is only when she isn't in his presence at all.)

--> '''Cross''': ARE YOU SERIOUSLY TELLING ME THAT YOUR STUPIDITY ''LITERALLY'' TRANSCENDS TIME AND SPACE?!

* Major Hochstetter from ''Series/HogansHeroes'' gets enraged by simply being in the presence of [[GeneralFailure Colonel Klink]] and [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Sergeant Schultz]].
* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': Part of the humour of the show is seeing Brittas do this to anyone he meets. People who start the episode calm and collected usually end up trying to kill him or attacking him by the end of the episode. For an example, In "Set In Concrete" he gets someone in to access whether the building has Sick Building Syndrome. By the end of the episode, Brittas has annoyed the guy so much that he loses it and starts shouting to people to get out whilst they still can.
* [[BigBad Grimlord]] from ''Series/VRTroopers'' quickly begins to feel this way as the first season wears on and his forces are continually beaten by the VR Troopers, at one point declaring "I am surrounded by incompetence!" He even says a few times he really should just [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness destroy them all for having failed too much]], and delivers on this threat during season 2's "Quest for Power" saga after [[MidSeasonUpgrade getting a new upgrade and minions]]; that said, his new minions still enrage him for their failures against the Troopers (who themselves have gotten an upgrade to level the playing field), albeit a bit less.

* Theatre/{{Brand}}, when the quite {{ditz}}y bailiff does not grasp the meaning of Brand`s speech pattern for the umpteenth time, Brand reacts almost with an ''Aaaargh'' - or he would have if Creator/HenrikIbsen had read enough comics to get the reference. This instigates a big BerserkButton when his superior, the provost, acts and talks just as stupid.

--> Oh my god, are you kidding me? What are you using for security down there, a [[{{UsefulNotes/TRS80}} Trash-80]]? Guys, it's called "encryption." This is too easy; I'd let you off the hook, but stupidity always brings out the asshole in me...

* Dr. Jean Poule (who has a [=PhD=] in [[{{Technobabble}} polymicrofragilistic monoclonal]][[Film/MaryPoppins expialidicous]]) in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has moments of this, due to just how spectacularly dumb and [[WeirdnessCensor oblivious]] most of her neighbors are to the paranormal weirdness happening in their midst. Most notably [[http://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/185/ here.]]

* Common among CausticCritic reviewers of the late 2000's and the early 2010's, especially WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]].
* At the end of the ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' review of ''ComicBook/{{Marville}} #4'', Linkara - instead of running down the worst aspects of the issue, as usual -- is reduced to screaming.
* WebVideo/BennettTheSage did this after sitting through ''Very Private Lesson'', with the [[IdiotPlot utter stupidity]] of the OVA rendering him unable to do anything but scream the name of [[Anime/ThePlacePromisedInOurEarlyDays the subject of his next review]] when it was finally over.
* LetsPlay/{{Pwnage}} In ''VideoGame/EarthWormJim'' video, Damian performs dances and makes odd noises with his yodeling pickle. This causes Kyle to eventually rage quit.

* The main draw of Website/CollegeHumor's "CEO" videos is to see the corporate executive played by Brennan Lee Mulligan blow his stack over [[SurroundedByIdiots his employees creating products that will only undermine his efforts to save face after recent gaffes as well as hearing the ludicrous reasons behind their poorly thought-out product names and design choices]].
* In general, a source of quite a bit of the humor in AbridgedSeries. What makes it funnier is that usually the people getting enraged are [[HypocriticalHumor just as stupid as the people they're angered by]].
* ''WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh'' is sometimes immune to this, especially as an actual intellectual among people who merely [[KnowNothingKnowItAll think they're the same]].
* WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows frequently gets enraged at pop music in this fashion, though his anger has toned down as his content has matured.

When this trait kicks in it can be the last straw for a normally reasonable person or an intense enough irritation to be their BerserkButton -- especially for the OnlySaneMan or those SurroundedByIdiots. Of course, this reaction is sometimes totally justified when the act of foolishness is or has put people in danger.

The results of becoming Enraged by Idiocy can vary from a DopeSlap to a ClusterFBomb to acts of violence. As with any loss of temper, this usually becomes a weak point or dangerous distraction for the angry party -- making it a handy tactic for anyone merely [[ObfuscatingStupidity playing dumb]].

If both the persistant idiocy and the inability to treat the anger go on for too long, it can go into MaddenIntoMisanthropy territory.

-->'''Numbuh 1:''' '''''A STUPID KEYCHAIN?!?!?!'''''

* ''Fanfic/Class78WatchesTheFuture'': A pretty good way to define the class' reaction to about 90% of Hiro's Free Time Events, and other moments that highlight [[InsaneTrollLogic his thought]] [[ConspiracyTheorist process]]. Some highlights include his "explanation" of his clairvoyant abilities and sales pitch for a recording that's supposed to aid the listener in enlightenment ([[AwesomenessbyAnalysis Junko]] was left massaging her forehead going "Ow. Ow, my brain." at the sheer stupidity involved), the recounting of his "close encounter with aliens" (Which led Leon to ask him point blank whether he was on drugs), his theory that the culprit of Case 3 would be either [[KilledOffForReal Chihiro]] or Alter Ego (Mondo actually had to be physically restrained from beating Hiro to a pulp), and his revelation that he was [[TooDumbToLive conned into paying a million dollars for a glass ball]] (''Byakuya'' lost his temper at that, and Celeste mused that she was right to classify Hiro as D-Rank). Of course, there's also the way everyone reacted when they learned Hiro was willing to ask Makoto to sell his organs to pay off his debt, rather than dip into his retirement fund, but ''that's'' a different trope.