History Main / RagebreakingPoint

Eventually there will be a last straw. It could range from a [[RantInducingSlight minor thing]], to out-and-out hitting the character's BerserkButton. But now the flood of anger comes pouring out like water from a burst dam. It usually involves UnstoppableRage, but in some cases it can even be TranquilFury. Some stories might even have this trigger a HeroicSecondWind. Also, if the berserk button is hit, this character might even be twice as berserk as usual.

* Possibly the most [[TearJerker tear jerking]] example happens to Gohan in [[DragonBall Dragon Ball Z]]. First off, him and all his friends (and family) are fighting against the super powerful [[AllYourPowersCombined Cell]], and one after another, they all fall. Eventually, Android #16 decides to try and preform a TakingYouWithMe Attack that [[spoiler: doesn't work, because the bomb inside him was removed by Dr. Briefs. Cell then completely destroys him. #16 then proceeds to tell Gohan to unleash his rage, as it's for the greater good. [[ShootTheDog Then Cell crushes his head.]] Let's just say things didn't go well for Cell.]]

* Possibly the most [[TearJerker tear jerking]] example happens to Gohan in [[DragonBall Dragon Ball Z]]. First off, him and all his friends (and family) are fighting against the super powerful [[AllYourPowersCombined Cell], and one after another, they all fall. Eventually, Android #16 decides to try and preform a TakingYouWithMe Attack that [[spoiler: doesn't work, because the bomb inside him was removed by Dr. Briefs. Cell then completely destroys him. #16 then proceeds to tell Gohan to unleash his rage, as it's for the greater good. [[ShootTheDog Then Cell crushes his head.]] Let's just say things didn't go well for Cell.]]

* Possibly the most [[TearJerker tear jerking]] example happens to Gohan in [[DragonBall Dragon Ball Z]]. First off, him and all his friends (and family) are fighting against the super powerful [[AllYourPowersCombined Cell], and one after another, they all fall. Eventually, Android #16 decides to try and preform a [[TakingYouWithMe Internal Explosion Attack]] that [[spoiler: doesn't work, because the bomb inside him was removed by Dr. Briefs. Cell then completely destroys him. #16 then proceeds to tell Gohan to unleash his rage, as it's for the greater good. [[ShootTheDog Then Cell crushes his head.]] Let's just say things didn't go well for Cell.]]

* Possibly the most [[TearJerker tear jerking]] example happens to Gohan in [[DragonBall Dragon Ball Z]]. First off, him and all his friends (and family) are fighting against the super powerful [[AllYourPowersCombined Cell], and one after another, they all fall. Eventually, Android #16 decides to try and preform a [[TakingYouWithMe Internal Explosion Attack]] that [[spoiler: doesn't work, because the bomb inside him was removed by Dr. Briefs. Cell then completely destroys him. #16 then proceeds to tell Gohan to unleash his rage, as it's for the greater good. [[ShootTheDog Then Cell crushes his head.]] Let's just say things didn't go well for Cell.

* When Manga/{{Naruto}} learned of the harm he caused by using the [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Kyuubi's power]] to the point where [[FourIsDeath he can't even control himself]], he restrains his anger to avoid transforming again. After what seems like a month or so, his beloved mentor Jiraiya is killed, his village is destroyed while he is away, and his teacher Kakashi has died from overuse of chakra. All have been caused by one guy, Pain. Naruto goes to defeat Pain with [[SuperMode his new power]], but is quickly brought down. Of all times, Hinata comes to [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove confess her love for Naruto]] and defend him from Pain, but she is thrown around and then stabbed. Naruto, now [[AngstNuke an over-pressured boiler filled with rage]], gives himself to the very power that harmed his comrades before...

* [[ButtMonkey Milton Waddams]] in "Office Space" finally has one after his desk is moved to the basement, and he sets the building on fire.

* ''Webcomic/BittersweetCandyBowl'' sees Mike eventually reach this point when he thinks Lucy is passive-aggressively PlayingTheVictimCard and trying to guilt him into feeling bad that [[spoiler:his long distance girlfriend Sandy is visiting over winter holiday]]. Instead of lashing out physically, he lays out a ''devestating'' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, which takes her to task for ten years of [[AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale abuse]]. Made all the more painful by the fact this calling-out comes while she's [[CharacterDevelopment trying to improve]] and ''stop'' being such a hot-headed {{Tsundere}}.

-->-- Stuart, ''SmallSoldiers''

* When {{Naruto}} learned of the harm he caused by using the [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Kyuubi's power]] to the point where [[FourIsDeath he can't even control himself]], he restrains his anger to avoid transforming again. After what seems like a month or so, his beloved mentor Jiraiya is killed, his village is destroyed while he is away, and his teacher Kakashi has died from overuse of chakra. All have been caused by one guy, Pain. Naruto goes to defeat Pain with [[SuperMode his new power]], but is quickly brought down. Of all times, Hinata comes to [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove confess her love for Naruto]] and defend him from Pain, but she is thrown around and then stabbed. Naruto, now [[AngstNuke an over-pressured boiler filled with rage]], gives himself to the very power that harmed his comrades before...

* ''BittersweetCandyBowl'' sees Mike eventually reach this point when he thinks Lucy is passive-aggressively PlayingTheVictimCard and trying to guilt him into feeling bad that [[spoiler:his long distance girlfriend Sandy is visiting over winter holiday]]. Instead of lashing out physically, he lays out a ''devestating'' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, which takes her to task for ten years of [[AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale abuse]]. Made all the more painful by the fact this calling-out comes while she's [[CharacterDevelopment trying to improve]] and ''stop'' being such a hot-headed {{Tsundere}}.

* Piro from the webcomic ''MegaTokyo''. Normally the nicest guy you could ask for, wouldn't hurt a fly. But he's been shown to have a violent temper, so push him over the edge at your peril. See also BewareTheQuietOnes.

* In ToBoldlyFlee, [[TheGameHeroes 8 Bit Mickey]] has been abducted (again) by TheNostalgiaCritic and roped into yet another wacky adventure. However, it isn't until a minor villain, Lame R. Prick, [[BerserkButton starts making short jokes]] that Mickey snaps and [[spoiler:[[{{Squick}} shoves Prick's head into a weed wacker]]]].

* In the SamuraiJack episode, "Jack Vs Mad Jack," Jack has just fought off a small army of bounty hunters single-handed, but he manages to calm himself down... then his sandle strap breaks...

-->'''Meg''': We're out of paper towels.\\
'''Lois''': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis No... paper... towels?!]] ''(screams in anger, throws chair through the window)''

* One episode of ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' had Malcolm deciding to get his opinions to himself. However throughout the episode he constantly gets annoyed by his family and the idiocy of his basketball team that we hear his rage in his thoughts which gets more and more distorted. Eventually he holds it in so much that he gets sick with a peptic ulcer and has to be taken to the hospital. His mother demands to know what he's so stressed about at his age. Malcolm decides to just let loose right then and there.

* One episode of ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' had Malcolm deciding to repress his anger. However throughout the episode he constantly gets annoyed by his family and the idiocy of his basketball team that we hear his rage in his thoughts which gets more and more distorted. Eventually he holds it in so much that he gets sick and has to be taken to the hospital. His mother demands to know what he's so stressed about at his age. Malcolm decides to just let loose right then and there.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Having been in a state of TranquilFury for many chapters [[spoiler: ever since his NumberTwo Choujirou Sasakibe was killed]], Yamamoto finally hits his RageBreakingPoint in Chapters 503-505. In the story's most epic ItsPersonal BerserkButton moment to date, ''the entire shinigami city'' feels his rage explode like a volcano.

* StarWars: Luke Skywalker had already been through enough by the time the climactic battle in ''ReturnOfTheJedi'' rolls around. But he knew that getting furious now would lead to TheDarkSide. Vader and the Emperor taunt him, but he stays calm. But then Vader [[RelativeButton threatens to take the last family he has left]]. Luke lets out a BigNever and wails on Vader, coming very close to killing him.

* PlayedForLaughs when ''BrowsHeldHigh'' reviewed ''A Serbian Film''.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Bullocks to Stan", Stan's boss has been mistreating him all through the episode, making him do lots of menial tasks, all to get his promotion. The also includes being quiet about sleeping with his grown daughter. But then after the two break up, Bullocks calls her a slut. Stan goes berserk, with a few AndThisIsFor punches.

* Ned Flanders in that one ''TheSimpsons'' episode about the hurricane where his house was destroyed, when Ned saw the crappy job the town had done on his house, he lost it. He tried to be nice, but he spoke gibberish and then snapped, and insulted everyone there. Particularly notable in this case, because he'd been building up his rage for ''decades''. Hell, it's the reason he has his VerbalTic.
* Lois has one in a Christmas episode of FamilyGuy, after Peter lost all of the gifts and the house was practicaly destroyed in a fire she says that [[BlatantLies everything's going to be all right]].
-->'''Lois''': Meg, get me the paper towels.
-->'''Meg''': We're out of them.
-->'''Lois''':''(throws chair through the window)''

* SmallSoldiers: Tom punches out resident JerkAss Larry near the ends of the movie, providing the page quote.

-->'''Loki''': [{{Beat}}] [[PrecisionFStrike Damn]].

* In the 2009 ''Film/StarTrek'' Kirk is [[InvokedTrope advised to do this]] to Spock, by Spock's alternate timeline self, in order to make his other self realize that he had been emotionally compromised due to seeing both his mother and his homeworld die.

* PlayedForLaughs when ''BrowsHeldHigh'' reviewed ''ASerbianFilm''.