History Main / ShowerOfAngst

* Done twice with [[{{Homestuck}} Gamzee]] in {{Fanfic/Hivefled}}, first in Reprise after the first time he is raped by the Grand Highblood, and has to clean himself up alone while wishing his friends were there, and later in Hivefled proper when the trolls are on the ship.

* In rthstewart's ChroniclesofNarnia fanfiction 'The Queen Susan in Tashbaan', Susan takes one after [[spoiler: Bardon/Guy's death]], completely calm and not hysterical at all... except for thinking she's back in Narnia.

* Norman Jayden from HeavyRain technically ''does'' have a shower scene, but considering that he's hallucinating and suffering from painful [[DeadlyNosebleed withdrawal symptoms]] at the time, it's not really meant to be {{Fanservice}}.

* In the {{Glee}} fanfic ''FanFic/HuntingTheUnicorn'', Blaine takes ''a lot'' of cold showers to deal with his ParalyzingFearOfSexuality.

* Parodied, like nearly every other breakup trope in {{Manwhores}}, with Kevin having a shower with his clothes still on during his post-breakup montage.

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* Used in TheOrangeInsanity's [[http://youtu.be/AcJMqIyOVL8?t=17m39s review]] of ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', as a reaction to the scene where [[spoiler:The Cat yells "Son of a bitch" in front of the children]], together with [[BrokenTears loud sobbing]] and [[StylisticSuck screaming an utterly broken]] version of ''Unfaithful'' by Rihanna.

** Also from Channel Awesome is Brad 'WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob' Jones' meltdown halfway through his synopsis of ''Sadomania'' when he discovers the attractive warden is played by a {{transsexual}}. Cue shower scene and frantic phone-call to his girlfriend:

Of course, when it comes to {{fanservice}}, these showers of angst are solid gold (and no, not ''that'' kind of shower). You can't argue with the titillation provided by seeing a hot-bodied person nude, soaking wet, and [[TheWoobie in desperate need of support]] (though in most cases of Shower of Angst, the person showering will be so distraught or depressed that he or she will shower with clothes on, resulting in a WetSariScene). However, in some cases, this can border on creepy, such as when a woman takes a shower of angst after being physically or sexually abused (or is suicidal and trying to kill herself by slashing her wrists and letting the running water bleed her dry). That particular version of the trope is common in soap operas, most serious movies, and cable dramas.

* Used in TheOrangeInsanity's [[http://youtu.be/AcJMqIyOVL8?t=17m39s review]] of ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', as a reaction to the scene where [[spoiler:The Cat yells "Son of a bitch" in front of the children]], together with [[BrokenTears loud sobbing]] and an [[StylisticSuck utterly broken]] version of ''Unfaithful'' by Rihanna.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'', after the latest setback in getting back to normal, Ash soaks herself in the shower for over an hour, unwilling to leave the bathroom and face the world. [[http://www.misfile.com/?date=2008-11-03 Emily has to go in and snap her out of it]].

*** The TheFanFictionCritic will occasionally announce after reading a filthy or horrible fanction that she needs to take a shower, bordering on OutDamnedSpot when she does this several times per review.

* After a story in which GreenArrow was tortured, his girlfriend BlackCanary found him huddled in the bathtub, half-dressed, with the shower on full blast.

[[caption-width-right:330:[[BloodOnTheseHands Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?]]]]

* Parodied in ''TheGuild'' when a fully-clothed Vork takes one of these in someone else's shower after learning that Clara had betrayed his trust (i.e. [[SeriousBusiness corpse-camped him in]] VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft.)

Of course, when it comes to {{fanservice}}, these showers of angst are solid gold (and no, not ''that'' kind of shower). You can't argue with the titillation provided by seeing a hot-bodied person nude, soaking wet, and [[TheWoobie in desperate need of support]]. However, in some cases, this can border on creepy, such as when a woman takes a shower of angst after being physically or sexually abused (or is suicidal and trying to kill herself by slashing her wrists and letting the running water bleed her dry). That particular version of the trope is common in soap operas, most serious movies, and cable dramas.

Of course, when it comes to {{fanservice}}, these showers of angst are solid gold (and no, not ''that'' kind of shower). You can't argue with the titillation provided by seeing a hot-bodied person nude, soaking wet, and [[TheWoobie in desperate need of support]]. However, in some cases, this can border on creepy, such as when the Shower of Angst lingers on a woman who was recently raped. That particular version of the trope is common in soap operas. This is also a good opportunity to use a ToplessnessFromTheBack shot to prevent things from getting too explicit.

The post-rape shower also has ramifications in a CrimeAndPunishmentSeries scenario -- if the victim takes a shower before a SAE kit has been collected, then vital forensic evidence is lost. Unfortunately TruthInTelevision.

Men are not in the least exempt from this trope, since every shower scene is also a ShirtlessScene. This male variant often features a hunky male leaning towards the wall, with the running water falling on his back.

Contrast RedemptionInTheRain -- a joyful, liberating shower in the rain. Can also be an instance of OutDamnedSpot if the showering becomes a compulsion.

[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Occurs in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' with Homer sitting in a tub, looking traumatized with wide eyes as he crazily scrubs at his skin repeating, "Still not clean, stink of failure still on me! Still ''not clean'', ''Still'' '''not''' '''clean'''!" after the newspaper editor rejected his first draft of his food review.
* This was also used in ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' when Jay was calling around to find a date to a [[HilariousInHindsight musical of]] ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', where a woman he'd gone on a date with was still in the shower three ''days'' later.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' episode "Requiem for a Reality Show", after Captain Hero degrades himself sexually to Foxxy Love in exchange for food, we see him sitting in the Shower of Angst eating cookies.
* Parodied in a ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' cutaway, where [[StarWars Darth Vader]] showers in a depressed manner after a hard day at his job as a meter maid, and just before he resolves to apply for a loan to build the Death Star. On the commentary, SethMacFarlane refers to the trope, saying every pretentious independent film needs to have an obligatory scene where the character "showers the pain away".
** Parodied again when Peter the Strawberry took one after being "violated" by a worm.
-->"He was my neighbor...and he violated me! Now I'll never know the inside of a fancy pie!"
** Stewie sits fully clothed under the shower spray crying as he washes Rupert after learning that New Brian humped Rupert.
** Brian does this when he finds out that the women he slept with the prior night was Ida, Quagmire's post-op dad.
* Murderface does this in an episode of ''{{Metalocalypse}}'' after a [[spoiler:gay]] doctor accidentally [[spoiler:(or not)]] jerks Murderface off in his face and he goes into a state of paranoia about his own sexuality. Later mirrored in a still-shower-based RedemptionInTheRain moment when Murderface finds out that [[spoiler:it was the doctor, not him, who was gay]].
* In the ''SpongebobSquarePants'' episode "Squid's Day Off", Squidward goes crazy from paranoia after leaving Spongebob at the Krusty Krab by himself and tries to take a bubble bath to calm himself down. He ends up hallucinating while in the bath and seeing Spongebob everywhere.
* In ''TheRenAndStimpyShow'' Ren who is exhausted from work, and Stimpy's nonsense, takes a bath in very dirty water, while wearing lipstick.
* In the ''RegularShow'' Episode ''Muscle Woman'', Muscleman, who is distraught after breaking up with his girlfriend, spends a lot of time crying in the shower.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': One of the scenes opening "Ass Burgers" which show Stan with a [[HeroicBSOD disaffected, sad face]] have him standing in the shower, standing still just like this.
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* In one ''LibertyMeadows'' strip, Dean the Pig takes one, after he hit on Ralph by mistake (he even sings "the crying game"). Ralph was in drag at the time, to catch an unruly beaver that was causing trouble at the santuary. Said beaver ends up with his own shower scene afterwards.

[[folder:Films]]
* This is [[AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame all there is to know]] about ''TheCryingGame''.
* ''HarrietTheSpy'': After being ruthlessly bullied by everyone in class (including her former friends), and having paint dumped on her, Harriet runs home upset and dives into the bathtub fully clothed, scrubbing furiously at a tattoo signifying the friendship she had with her friends.
* In both the 1976 version and remake of ''{{Carrie}}'' the titular character is seen in the openings taking a shower after gym and freaking out after getting her first period and not knowing what it is, and having the other girls tease her for it. Her abusive mother Margaret does ''not'' help matters later on either, rather she yells at Carrie and throws her into a closet convinced that she sinned. Also, at the end of both movies, when Carrie finally returns home after going on a rampage around town she climbs into the tub, sobbing while she scrubs the pig's blood off her, quickly turning the water pink.
* The female protagonist takes one of these in ''Punk Love'' after being raped by a cab driver. Its worth noting that she does not take a shower after she is raped by her step-father (at least not on screen).
* ''Film/{{Spider-Man}} 3'': Peter goes home and takes a steaming shower after managing to free himself of the symbiote.
* Vesper, the Bond girl of ''Film/CasinoRoyale'', has a minor nervous breakdown after helping [[JamesBond Bond]] kill an assailant, and sits under a running shower with her clothes on. Bond joins her in the shower, also completely clothed showing her he knows exactly how she feels. The original script called for her to be in her underdrawers, but Creator/DanielCraig convinced them that it didn't make character sense, so she kept her dress on. Weird, but probably more dramatically effective.
* In this same vein, an unrelated shower scene in ''{{Saw}} III''' (more like Shower Of Pain, honestly) shows Danica naked in the Ice Shower trap because the directors were concerned that the original idea of filming her in a wet t-shirt and panties would be seen as "too sexual".
* [[TransSexual Female-to-male transperson]] Brandon Teena of ''BoysDontCry'' takes a shower after he has been raped by men who discovered his birth sex, with the camera lingering on shots of his female body.
* In ''Literature/ThePuppetMasters'', the male lead showers after being freed from the control of an alien parasite; he breaks down completely and is comforted by the female lead whilst still naked. Oddly touching, but uncomfortably voyeuristic.
* ''AmericanBeauty'': "Look at me, masturbating in the shower. This is the high point of my day. It's all downhill from here."
* NaomiWatts has one in the American remake of ''TheRing''.
* In ''AptPupil'', the protagonist finds himself showering with holocaust victims.
* AceVentura, after realizing the woman he kissed [[spoiler:[[AcceptableTargets is a man]].]] He also chews an enormous wad of gum. And burns all his clothes, uses a toilet plunger on his face, and vomits his entire stomach contents.
* Nick takes one after [[spoiler:he commits his first murder]] in ''Film/DeathSentence''.
* In ''{{Knowing}}'' NicolasCage's character, John, takes one of these after he witnesses a [[spoiler:plane crash that was predicted by the list of numbers that predict all the major tragedies from 1959 on]].
* One of the deleted scenes of ''{{Unbreakable}}'' featured Dunn taking a shower after the train crash, but it was removed from the final cut because the [[Creator/MNightShyamalan director]] deemed it too emotional for the beginning of the movie.
* In a deleted scene from ''{{Hostel}} II'', two of the protagonists parody this after a night of drinking when one asks the other to act out a scene from a movie. When one girl asks what scene to act out, the other girl says, "Rape shower!"
* Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins' character in Brit crime flick TheLongGoodFriday) appears in a shower scene washing the blood off himself after [[spoiler:he inadvertently kills his right-hand man Jeff in a fit of rage during a heated argument]].
* Marion Crane in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. She takes one after deciding to return to Phoenix, but it is horribly subverted.
* Grace in ''OnceWereWarriors'' has one of these after she is [[spoiler:raped by her uncle.]] She later [[spoiler:commits suicide.]]
* Sgt. James gets one of these two-thirds of the way through ''TheHurtLocker'' in full uniform after [[spoiler: getting Eldrige shot]].
* ''RequiemForADream'': After Marion has [[DrugsAreBad prostituted herself for a drug fix]], she's seen [[MoodDissonance serenely]] holding her head underwater and then [[OutDamnedSpot starts screaming]].
** This shot was taken from ''PerfectBlue''; filmmaker Darren Aronofsky [[DoingItForTheArt bought the rights to the film purely to use that visual.]]
* Gus Maitland, played by Jeremy Renner in ''12 & Holding'' has a particularly heart-wrenching one.
* In "TheCookTheThiefHisWifeAndHerLover", we see two. At the beginning of the movie, the Thief humiliates a man in front of the restaurant by stripping him and wiping dog excrement on him. The Cook hoses him off and pours a glass of wine for him in a scene that is both surreal and sad. Later, the Wife and Lover escape the Thief by hiding naked in the back of a truck filled with spoiled meat (they were making love and had to hightail it out of there). After they get out and reach safety, they are hosed down in much the same manner.
* In ''CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'', Roy Neary fears he's cracking up - he's found by his wife fully clothed in the shower, curled up and crying (but his watch still works).
* ''Film/{{Heathers}}''. The day after Veronica kills Heather #1 and makes it look like a suicide, she hears other girls in the locker room buzzing about how her death has raised her status even higher. Veronica staggers, still clothed, into the shower. It may look to the others that she's stunned by the news, but it's more because her plan backfired.
* Glenn Close's character in ''TheBigChill''.
** And her character in the film ''Jagged Edge'', after realizing that she just slept with a murderer -- a man who she had successfully defended on charges of killing his wife.
* ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' does a pretty exceptional one of these--not only is he brooding, but he pulls out a cracked tooth, broken in a fight, and tosses it down the drain.
* Bill does one of these in ''Beautiful Boy'', very understandably, as [[spoiler:his son has just murdered 20-odd people on a college campus and then killed himself]].
* Elizabeth Shue's character Sera in ''LeavingLasVegas'' takes one of these after [[spoiler:being gang-raped]].
* In ''TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo'', Lisbeth has one after she [[spoiler:is raped the lawyer Nils Bjurman, who is in charge of any money she may get. She gets him back for it though.]]
* In the French film ''La Moustache'' Marc shaves off his moustache only to find himself in a world where everybody says he never had one. After burying in the trash to find the moustache clippings, to prove he isn't going insane, and shows them his frightened wife he calms down and sits in the shower absolutely stunned, allowing the (possible) clippings to get washed down the drain.
* In ''L!fe Happens'', Kim has a good cry in the bath, complete with running mascara, after Nicholas [[spoiler: discovers that the baby Kim has been carrying around was actually her's and not her roommate's, and Kim runs out on him.]]
* In ''Fire with Fire'', Jeremy has one.

[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga Memory]]'', when Miles Vorkosigan begins to realize who he is as Lord Vorkosigan (he'd shunted all of his energies into [[SecretIdentity Admiral Naismith]] for years), one of his first actions is to take a hot shower, "to scrub out the unpleasant, lingering scent of shame." He even explicitly compares it to a baptism. He then dresses, for the first time, in full Vor Lord regalia, and begins on the path that would become his future. It's practically [[RedemptionInTheRain Redemption in the Shower]].
* In TheOtherBoleynGirl, following her bloody and painful miscarriage of the King's son (basically the main reason she's Queen), Anne orders a bath be drawn up for herself, making the water so hot her skin flushes red. Her sister Mary (the narrator) remarks on the usual similarities to baptism. After this thorough cleaning, Anne puts on a dazzling silver and white gown to emphasize her innocence and purity.
* When Harry asks after Quidditch team captain Wood after the Gryffindor team loses their first match in [[HarryPotter ''Prisoner of Azkaban'']], the twins admit that he is still in the showers, and joke (we hope) that they think he's trying to drown himself. Add to this that they'd been playing in a thunderstorm, and were all already soaked.
* After the disastrous ball at Bianca's Michael finds [[DresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] huddled under the spray of his unheated shower suffering from angst and the early stages of hypothermia.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* In the LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek ''No One Would Tell'', Stacy is seen taking a hot steaming shower in order to soothe her aches and bruises she got at the hands of her abusive boyfriend.
* Occurs a good number of times among the inmates in ''Series/{{Oz}}'' and ''PrisonBreak''.
* [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment Tobias Fünke]] has ''three'' of these in one episode after his wife Lindsey gets the first acting part he tries out for. Unfortunately he also missed the call telling him that Lindsay hadn't shown up and he had got the part because he was in the shower at the time.
** He also received a bad review from the school paper for the high school production of ''[[Creator/WilliamShakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' he directed. Cut to Tobias weeping in the shower wearing cut-off jean shorts. It isn't [[RunningGag the only time.]]
* ''GeneralHospital'': Liz Webber is shown crying in the shower after Lucky brings her to his house to comfort her post-rape.
* ''GreysAnatomy'': At the conclusion of "As We Know It," the main character and her two co-workers all shower (full-clothed) her off.
* ''Series/ICarly'': Carly takes showers that can be one or two hours long when she is unhappy.
* ''OneLifeToLive'': Marty Saybrooke is shown in the shower crying and reliving her gang-rape.
** A year later, Max Holden has a similar scene, horrified and disgusted with himself for having cheated on his wife.
** Not to mention the fan-favorite [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF66GVkj58M "Gay Shower of Angst"]] cutting between Rex/Gigi and Brody.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Buffy takes a particularly hard fall on patrol and goes to take a shower to soothe away her aches and pains. This plan goes awry when Spike accosts and tries to rape her.
** Willow after the first time she visits the magic dealer.
** "I Only Have Eyes For You". Angelus is possessed by a ghost and forced to act out a tragic love affair with a similarly-possessed Buffy. He's seen afterwards vigorously scrubbing his body in cold water and complaining about having been violated.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': After Faith gets the crap beaten out of her, she showers off to clean up the blood. Then she vents her frustrations on the shower tiles.
* Lana on ''{{Smallville}}'' is shown taking a shower after a hard day at school caused by the MonsterOfTheWeek. [[DistressedDamsel Again]].
** Male version: ShirtlessScene ALERT! Davis does this in season 8.. to show to the audience that he's an indestructible monster or something... (which would possibly make it a DracoInLeatherPants moment but that's a different story)
* ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': Several rape victims are introduced crying in the shower after the ordeal.
* Battle-weary Easy Company men in ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' get showers when they enter Germany; the scene focuses on one of the characters, Donald Malarkey, who has been suffering from severe HeroicFatigue.
* ''XFiles'': Scully finds Mulder huddles in a shower in a sleezy hotel room after he wakes up, disoriented, suffering amnesia and covered in blood.
* Ronnie did this a couple of times a season on ''VeronicaMars''. Especially when she broke up with Logan.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': B'Elanna has one of these in the sonic shower after having to kill an insane alien in "Juggernaut".
* ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'' has one of these involving Sarah herself.
* ''DarkAngel'' has one of these with Max, in the episode "meow", after she has sex with a random guy to sate her literal "cat heat" and afterwards cries in the shower because she wanted it to be Logan. Considering Creator/JessicaAlba is involved, it is surprisingly tastefully done, mostly focused on the shoulders up.
* A male example happens in ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'', after [[spoiler: Ballard has sex with Mellie/November one last time]].
** Adelle [=DeWitt=] takes one of these in episode 2x09 in an attempt to sober up and regain control.
* ''{{Cracker}}''. DS Penhaligon takes a bath after she's been raped, but makes sure to wrap her hand in plastic first to preserve evidence from when she scratched her attacker.
* Jay Leno played this for laughs in his version of ''TheTonightShow''. Leno mentions something {{Squick}}y in a monologue -- cut to a (mercifully) tight shot of him in the shower frantically scrubbing his chest and saying "[=EwEwEwEwEwEw=]".
* Carrie does this in ''SexAndTheCity'' in the episode when she turns 35 and [[ButtMonkey everything is going wrong]] -- even to the point where she drops her own $60 birthday cake in fresh tar, in front of a couple of fat construction workers screaming at her to move herself out of the way. I'd probably head straight for the shower, too -- to drown myself.
** One of Miranda's guys-of-the-week does this after sex with her, which kinda bums her out. When she attempts to empathise with him, her assumptions about his Catholicism offend him and he storms out. Carrie muses that the dialogue of this fight finds its way into a play he was writing.
* The ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' episode "My Cold Shower" has a recurring gag of showing the characters taking cold showers, although these are moreso caused by sexual frustration and played for laughs. [[spoiler:But JD's last cold shower in the episode's final scene acts as a true Shower of Angst, as he realizes that he still has feelings for Elliot right after she accepted Keith's marriage proposal, with JD realizing "It should have been me." [[AsideGlance and then he looks at the camera]]]]
* An episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' features Catherine Willows waking up half-dressed and disoriented in a cheap motel. She takes a shower--''after'' improvising a SAE kit to run on herself. It wouldn't be admissible in court, but she just wants to know, one way or the other.
* An episode of ''TheDrewCareyShow'' has Drew taking one of these after realizing the woman he just had cybersex with was [[SitcomArchNemesis Mimi]]. He was fully clothed, though.
* ''FlightOfTheConchords'': In the episode "Girlfriends" after having painfully awkward sex with his girlfriend, Bret goes home and sits in the tub under the running shower, fully clothed and silently crying.
* Naomi has one of these in ''Series/{{Skins}}'' while struggling to cope with her relationship with Emily. Effy later has a Bath Of Angst over splitting Katie's head open with a rock.
* Bette of ''TheLWord'' has a Shower of Angst in the episode "Limb from Limb".
* Lampshaded somewhat on ''{{Friends}}'' when Joey gets an acting gig as AlPacino's 'butt double' in a shower scene in a movie, and manages to overact the moment:
-->'''Director:''' And cut. Hey, Butt Guy, what the hell are you doing?
-->'''Joey:''' Well, I'm--I'm showering.
-->'''Director:''' No, that was clenching.
-->'''Joey:''' Oh. Well, the way I see it, the guy's upset here, y'know? I mean, his wife's dead, his brother's missing... I think his butt would be angry here.
-->'''Director:''' I think his butt would like to get this shot before lunch. Once again, rolling... water working... and action... ''(Joey does the scene again)'' ...and cut. What was that?
-->'''Joey:''' I was going for quiet desperation. But if you have to ask...
* Overlaps with Shower Of {{Gayngst}} in ''{{ER}}'': Kerry Weaver, pre- and post-date with Kim Legaspi.
* Played for laughs on ''Series/TheColbertReport'' where a reporter was promoting "Voter Abstinence" (a promise not to vote) and was pretty much doing a sexual abstinence PSA only using "voting" as an UnusualEuphemism. He said that he'd been "tricked" into voting for a candidate that he thought had his best interests in mind, but once he was elected, he abandoned those who'd elected him. He was then shown crying in the shower as if he'd been raped and was trying to get himself clean.
* The first season finale of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' has the survivors find temporary shelter, complete with hot showers. Most of them enjoy it, but Shane carries a wine bottle in there with him and breaks down sobbing. Of course, he's carrying a lot of angst by this point. Andrea is in a fetal position, since she had recently mercy killed her zombified younger sister.
* In the second episode of ''SpartacusGodsOfTheArena'', [[spoiler:Melitta]] has the ancient Roman slave equivalent, tearfully scrubbing herself with a washcloth and bucket in the wake of [[spoiler: Gannicus]] and her being forced to put on a live sex show.
* Chandler of ''Series/{{Whitechapel}}'' is seen sitting down in the shower, fully clothed and having a serious HeroicBSOD, after [[spoiler: Cazenove]] commits suicide so close to him that his blood and brains splatter onto him.
* In the ''Series/{{Witchblade}}'' pilot, Sarah takes one complete with fetal position after nearly getting killed in a shootout with a hitman. Her inner monologue communicates the angst quite nicely:
-->I don't know why I keep pushing the envelope. Something's gotta change. ''I've'' gotta change.
* On ''{{Glee}}'', Blaine is briefly seen taking one after being forced to confront his rough relationship with his brother. Also a case of pure {{Fanservice}}.

[[folder:Fanfic]]
* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fanfic titled [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4263492/5/Broken "Broken"]] by [=SekushiAi=] Light starts taking these to an obsessive extent after [[spoiler: being raped]].
* In AKK's ''[[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers Galaxy Rangers]]'' fanfic "The Lie," the fact that Zachary spent longer than usual in the shower after being rescued from the Queen was one of the factors that tipped off [[spoiler: Goose]] to the fact that, contrary to the official report, the Queen ''didn't'' toss Zach in the Psychocrypt right away.
* Also from ''Series/ICarly'' in the fanfiction [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5986982/7/iFind_And_Keep_You "iFind and Keep You"]], a wedded Carly and Freddie steps into this (along with ShowerOfLove) after Carly goes into an emotional meltdown in reliving her childhood memories with their late best friend.
* In the {{Glee}} fanfic ''FanFic/HuntingTheUnicorn'', Blaine takes ''a lot'' of cold showers to deal with his ParalyzingFearOfSexuality.
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8818635/17/ This chapter]] of an Avatar: The Last Airbender fanfic has Toph crying in the shower after she ran away from her parents home after a brutal fight.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Ponyfall}}: The Dawning of Twilight'', Twilight Sparkle does this after a traumatic experience in the ER where her brony friend Matt works, where she had to help him save someone from bleeding to death. Overlaps with OutDamnedSpot

[[folder:Music]]
* Toni Braxton does this in the video for "Unbreak My Heart," as she mourns her boyfriend who had been killed in a motorcycle accident.
** Overlaps with ShowerOfLove as she also recalls how they used to frolic in the same shower stall.
* As does Amy Lee in the video "Everybody's Fool". Complete with a shot of her underwater in the tub with her eyes wide open.
* Music/{{Pink}} in her music video [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_l4pa0IkOo&feature=fvsr Nobody Knows.]]

[[folder:Theater]]
* ''AStreetcarNamedDesire'': Blanche frequently takes a hot bath to "calm her nerves." Later on, after her [[spoiler: rape at the hands of Stanley]] she takes a really long one. Only at this point she's too permanently traumatized for the bath to be much help.
** Earlier, Stanley's friends shove him under a shower spray fully clothed in an attempt to sober him up after he got drunk, subsequently lost his self control and hit Stella.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Norman Jayden from HeavyRain technically ''does'' have a shower scene, but considering that he's hallucinating and suffering from painful [[DeadlyNosebleed withdrawal symptoms]] at the time, it's not really meant to be {{Fanservice}}.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'', after the latest setback in getting back to normal, Ash soaks herself in the shower for over an hour, unwilling to leave the bathroom and face the world. [[http://www.misfile.com/?date=2008-11-03 Emily has to go in and snap her out of it]].
* PlayedForLaughs in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=128 this]] ''Webcomic/VGCats'' strip.
* Same in [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?comic=78 these]] two [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?comic=80 pages]] of ''Webcomic/{{Fanboys}}''. [[spoiler:It ends… um… [[ShowerOfLove happily]].]]
* This is used in ''Webcomic/AGirlAndHerFed'' to show that the titular girl is not nearly as confident in the outcome of a situation as [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.821.html she appears.]]
* ''Webcomic/LivingWithInsanity'' has one at the start of its [[http://www.livingwithinsanity.com/index/?p=624 Vendetta arc]].
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Ellen [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-01-03 has one]] while suffering from CloningBlues.
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-->--''Series/ICarly''

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Manga/BlackLagoon: Roberta has one after [[spoiler: her master, Diego Lovelace, is killed by a bomb at a political rally in the first chapter of El Baile de Muerte.]] She also shatters the bathroom mirror in anger.
* ''LightNovel/AiNoKusabi'': In the OVA after Riki's gang is attacked Riki takes one, reminiscing about all that has happened.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has ''many''. Most notable is the one Asuka took after her MindRape at the hands of an Angel.
* Henry from Anime/DigimonTamers after Terriermon digivolves, where he reflects on his duties as a Tamer and his pacifist beliefs
* ''{{Higurashi}}'' has a few of these too. Keiichi finds a depressed Satoko passed out in the bathtub from being in the hot water for too long.
** It's more complicated than that: [[spoiler:She was hallucinating that her abusive uncle had told her to stand under the boiling hot water and count to 10,000, since moving into his house meant she stopped getting treatment for her Hinamizawa Syndrome. She went along with all of the horrible things he did to her because of a combination of guilt (blaming herself for Satochi's disappearance), blackmail (he constantly threatened to burn down Satoshi's room), and plain old fear.]] Yeah, [[TheWoobie Satoko has it rough]].
* Kaede Fuyou in ''{{Shuffle}}'' goes {{Yandere}} on her friend Asa when the boy they both love, Rin, shows interest in her. She has one of these before [[spoiler: climbing into Rin's bed ''naked to cuddle with him''.]]
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'': Lucy has one after she [[BewareTheNiceOnes snaps and murders]] the [[KidsAreCruel cruel kids who beat her puppy to death]].
* ''PerfectBlue'': After Mima endures a good deal of disturbing hardships, she partakes in a hot bath which she screams into as she hugs herself underwater.
* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': During the aftermath of his traumatic loss to Edo and being demoted in the pro leagues, Kaiser Ryo Marufuji takes a shower after losing yet ''another'' duel, while reminiscing about being fired by his sponsor. He's [[FreakOut freaked out]] by the end of the episode.
* In ''{{Zeiram}}: The Animation'', bounty-hunting heroine Iria takes two in a six-episode OAV.
* Kozue Izumi from ''InfiniteRyvius'' is found taking one of these after she was assaulted by the other girls at the end of episode 18.
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': Yoko takes a surprisingly FanService-free Shower of Angst after [[spoiler:Kamina dies]].
** Averted in the manga, when the cartoonist behind it, Kotaro Mori, gives you a complete view of her naked body, with boobies clearly visible. Yeah, Mori, a good time to see a woman naked is when she's just had her heart BROKEN.
* ''{{Berserk}}'': After [[spoiler:being raped by a newly-demonic Griffith]], Casca is seen sitting fully-clothed under a waterfall. Also Griffith, after he becomes a prostitute to make money, complete with a wonderfully disturbing scene of him angsting while clawing at his arms until they bleed when washing himself. He only stops when Casca [[CooldownHug tearfully embraces him from behind.]]
* Done by Asagami Fujino in ''[[{{Nasuverse}} Kara no Kyoukai]]''; [[spoiler: in her case, she actually ''was'' raped]]. The value of this scene jumps to eleven when [[TheFilmOfTheBook the film adaptation]] came out. [[spoiler:Then again, she becomes a psychotic murderer who is simultaneously terrified of her powers and unconsciously leering at the horrid violence.]]
* [[LightNovel/ChromeShelledRegios Nina]] tends to do this when upstaged by Layfon, or losing a battle to another platoon.
* Juri from ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' indulges in this.
** Utena has one in episode 37, after [[spoiler: finding out about Anthy and Akio.]]
* Mr. MagnificentBastard Lelouch Lamperouge from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' did this once, after [[spoiler:Shirley's father]]'s death really made him confront the consequences of his actions. It actually managed to humanize him after all the killing he did. (Of course, by the end of the shower he decided that the best way to ease his troubled conscience was ''more killing''.)
** You can also count Milly in as well, when she was in a depressed state for a while after Nina told her off in R2 (while everyone else during bath time were happy and giddy with their upcoming date with Lelouch). This happened near the beginning of episode 12.
*** Milly seemed more upset that so many girls had a date with Lelouch and she didn't as the UnluckyChildhoodFriend.
* Rin from ''{{Mnemosyne}}'' does this in episode 5 after her first genuine lover ''in centuries'' (she is an ever-young immortal, by the way) dies.
* Setsuna Sakurazaki of ''MahouSenseiNegima'' after her humiliating defeat by Tsukiyomi.
** Later on, [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v27/c244/16.html Ako]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v27/c244/17.html Izumi]] has one after [[spoiler: she finds out that the boy she loves doesn't actually exist]].
* Souichi from ''TheTyrantFallsInLove'' after every time he has sex with Morinaga.
* Happens twice in ''[[CuteyHoney Re: Cutie Honey]] (once after a shouting match with Natsuko and once after [[UnstoppableRage losing it]] in a battle aganst Black Claw). The first one turns into a ShowerOfAwkward when [[HandsomeLech Seiji]] decides to tag along with Natsuko in pulling her out of her rut.
* Lucia angsted in the shower once in VenusVersusVirus.
* In the manga version of KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl, [[spoiler:Tomari angsted in the shower in one chapter after hearing that her crush, her [[RelationshipUpgrade best friend]] Hazumu, is said to die within a month.]]
* Tony from ''TowardTheTerra'' had one of these while in MyGodWhatHaveIDone mode after he [[spoiler: killed Matsuka]].
* Nodoka of ''Manga/{{Saki}}'' had one of these in the second episode of the anime after her loss and subsequent argument with Saki.
* Faye Valentine of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' has a Shower Of Angst scene after she recovers her lost memories.
* Tsuzuki in ''YamiNoMatsuei'' has a private Shower of Angst [[spoiler: after being possessed by the demon Sargantanas]] in the Devil's Trill Arc.
** Double points for the shower drowning out his vocalizations of misery while [[spoiler: losing to the EnemyWithin.]]
* In the newest ''CaptainTsubasa'' series, Koujirou Hyuga has a shower of ''rage'' [[spoiler: after clashing with Willem violently in his first training session in Italy]].
* ''FushigiYuugi'' doesn't actually feature Miaka in a shower (she's in a lake), but it still has that same effect as she [[spoiler:furiously scrubs herself with twigs to the point of bleeding in the hopes that it would purify her after Nakago had raped her. Of course, he didn't really get to do that]].
* How Esther is introduced in ''TrinityBlood'', with touches of OutDamnedSpot.
* ''GundamSEED'' was fond of these, providing shower scenes for Kira, Athrun and Cagalli (if memory serves). Oddly enough, the TV episodes had Cagalli moping in a bathtub, while the movie compilations changed it into a shower scene for no apparent reason other than to show a little more skin.
* Sora Naegino of ''KaleidoStar'' has several showers of angst.
* More a Shower of Painful Memories than of Angst, but Riza Hawkeye is shown doing this in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', complete with a very significant ToplessnessFromTheBack shot.
* Erza has one in the 23rd episode of ''Manga/FairyTail'' after retreating in a battle against Phantom Lord.
** Lucy has one after losing her fight against Flare Corona.
* In RahXephon, Elvy has one after [[spoiler: one of her fellow pilots is killed]]. Ayato also evokes this trope by stumbling into a bathroom during one very angsty scene and getting wet by breaking the shower faucet.
* {{Simoun}} likes this trope a lot. Paraietta had an attack of guilt or two in the shower while reflecting on [[spoiler:her AttemptedRape of Neveril]].
* Occurs in ''RealDrive''. For a male character, even.
* Ichise from ''{{Texhnolyze}}'' takes one in the first episode.
* Occurs several times in the yaoi manga ''Manga/UnderGrandHotel'' mostly because whenever someone's taking a shower there's a chance they'll either end up getting raped or beaten up and then left there for a bit under the running shower.
* ''LightNovel/{{Sukisho}}'': Sora takes one in the first episode.
* Occurs in ''LightNovel/StrawberryPanic'' as a result of rampant unrequited love and general FanService.
* ''{{Happiness}}'': Yuuma after he almost kills Sumomo.
* ''GreatTeacherOnizuka'': Miyabi, after being "betrayed" by her teacher.
* Yuya of ''SamuraiDeeperKyo'' has a few of these.
* ''{{Gankutsuou}}'': Albert takes one in episode 8. (Sitting in the tub while the shower is running with his head bowed.)
** He takes another one in episode 14, musing over the threat "disaster will befall your house as well!" Peppo even states "you've been in there for a while."
* ''LegendOfTheBlueWolves'' has a particularly chilling example. Jonathan is shoved fully clothed under a running shower for a moment before [[spoiler: being approached by a nude Captain Continental who intends to rape him]].
* A variation exists in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''. Orochimaru is desperately waiting for Sasuke to arrive and [[BodySurf provide a new body]] but his arms have finally reached their breaking point. As he stands in a shower, they begin to flake off and crumble. Despite his agony, Orochimaru is driven to rage when he must finally accept he needs a new body ''now'' and can't wait for Sasuke.
* ''[[DGrayMan D.Gray-man]]'': Lenalee takes one on the ship to Japan, highly upset by [[spoiler:Allen's "death"]].
* In ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'', Miki Jounouchi has one in an episode of ''Double-One'' when she thinks that Clair is a better worker in the Sugo team than her. In fact, this is a recurring theme in the OVA series, as evidenced by Asuka Sugo in ''SAGA'' and Kyoko Aoi in ''SIN''.
* In ''Anime/{{Noir}}'', Mireille takes a shower when she decides to kill [[spoiler:her uncle, who raised her after her parents were killed]] in order to protect Kirika.
* Tira takes one in one of the ''SorcererHunters'' side novels after a big fight with Carrot.
* Akiko Aoshika from ''WolfGuyWolfenCrest'' is seen more than once taking showers. Then again, considering the CrapsackWorld she lives in, no wonder she does so.
* In ''AngelLinks'', Meifon Li has one while she bangs her head against the wall.
* ''HaouAiren'': Kurumi, after she [[spoiler: has a failed IntimatePsychotherapy "session" with Hakuron's NumberTwo]] and then learns about [[spoiler: Reilan's ThanatosGambit.]]
* ''KarakuridoujiUltimo'': Yamato has one in chapter 4 when Sayama mistakes him for being a child molester.
* ''Manga/SkipBeat'' gives us Fuwa Sho at one point, angsting when he learns that [[spoiler: Kyouko is dating a rival of his. Turns out to be untrue though.]]
* In ''Manga/OniisamaE...'', Mariko doesn't necessarily take a shower, but she does have a bath (and it has the same effect of this trope) after [[spoiler:the incident with Nanako in which she [[MurderSuicide threatens to kill Nanako and herself]].]]
** Rei also has her moments of these more than once. Considering that she is a BrokenBird, it's pretty understandable.
* In ''Teacher's Pet'' Misuzu takes a Shower of Angst after she's [[spoiler:[[RapeAsDrama raped]] by Masahiro.]]
* In {{Hetalia}}, Lithuania is seen having a bath of angst in Poland's house, and [[spoiler: we get to see the scars on his back.]]
* In the ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' anime, we briefly see Komari taking one [[spoiler:during her BSOD]]. She has one in the visual novel as well, and while we don't see it, we do see the immediate aftermath - a just-dried girl with wet hair wearing a guy's shirt for pyjamas manages to achieve [[TheWoobie a similar]] [[{{Fanservice}} impact.]]
* In AiYoriAoshi, [[http://animebaths.wikia.com/wiki/File:Ai_yori_aoshi_v10c79.aya_v10c79p74.jpg Kaoru]] has at least one of these as the thinks of his AcheyScars.
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