History Main / ShowerOfAngst

Contrast RedemptionInTheRain -- a joyful, liberating shower in the rain. Can also be an instance of OutDamnedSpot if the showering is because a character is trying to wash away guilt.

** WebVideo/{{Phelous}} does this during his review of ''ASerbianFilm'' ... after a particularly horrifying scene.

* ShowerOfAngst/{{Film}}

* In rthstewart's ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' 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.

* ''{{Webcomic/Clarissa}}'' has the grade-schooler treat her baths like this, [[ParentalIncest and for good reason]].

[[folder:Web Original]]
* Parodied in ''WebVideo/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.)
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic suffered an absolutely epic psychotic meltdown when he reviewed ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII''. He tells us all to sit back and enjoy it. Five minutes later, he's having a Shower of Angst, as pictured above, spews {{Angrish}} and yells a long stream of psychotic screams and grunts.
** [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Sean Fausz]], of ''Epic Fail'', has crying in shower to Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" as a RunningGag.
*** And in reference, WebVideo/PawDugan did the same thing in his review of Total Distortion with it being a music game that is devoid of good music.
*** The game over music would like to have a word with you.

-->'''Snob:''' "Honey we need to have sex. Right. Now. I'm very, ''very'' confused..."
*** WebVideo/TheFanFictionCritic will occasionally announce after reading a filthy or horrible fanfiction that she needs to take a shower, bordering on OutDamnedSpot when she does this several times per review.

-->'''Todd:''' "CAN'T...GET...CLEAN!!!"
* 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 [[InelegantBlubbering loud sobbing]] and [[StylisticSuck screaming an utterly broken]] version of ''Unfaithful'' by Rihanna.
-->'''The Orange Insanity:''' "I DON'T WANNA DO THIS ANYMORE!! I DON'T WANNA BE THE REASON WHY-- OH MY GOD ''WHY-HY-HY-HYYY?!!'' ''(wails violently)''"
* In ''Roleplay/DeptHeavenApocrypha'', this is [[spoiler:Meria]]'s first reaction to having been cheated on by [[spoiler:Seth]] the day after they first slept together. (Given the character, her breakdown [[FromBadToWorse picked]] [[DrowningMySorrows up]] [[RevengeBeforeReason speed]] quickly, but...) The example is a little unusual in that we never actually ''see'' her in the shower -- it's just mentioned by another character that she's been crying in there for hours.

* Parodied in WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries where Tristan is washing him self up in a lake, he's muttering "Must.. wash.. away.. the sin"
* Parodied, like nearly every other breakup trope in WebVideo/{{Manwhores}}, with Kevin having a shower with his clothes still on during his post-breakup montage.
* ''WebVideo/{{yourchonny}}'' comically acts out one of these in his [[http://youtu.be/qqh9CKDJldE?t=45s "Getting out of the shower"]] video. While sobbing, goes to wipe his tears...with underwear his dad hung on the shower door. Cue horrified scream.

** Also from Channel Awesome is WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob's 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:

* 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]].

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 SexySoakedShirt scene). However, in some cases, this can border on creepy, such as when a woman takes a shower of angst after being physically or [[RapeAsDrama sexually abused]] (or is [[BathSuicide 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.

** {{Phelous}} does this during his review of ''ASerbianFilm'' ... after a particularly horrifying scene.
** MikeJ also does this after waking up from a dream sequence which ends with him [[spoiler: kissing Film Brain]].

*** And in reference, PawDugan did the same thing in his review of Total Distortion with it being a music game that is devoid of good music.

* In ''DeptHeavenApocrypha'', this is [[spoiler:Meria]]'s first reaction to having been cheated on by [[spoiler:Seth]] the day after they first slept together. (Given the character, her breakdown [[FromBadToWorse picked]] [[DrowningMySorrows up]] [[RevengeBeforeReason speed]] quickly, but...) The example is a little unusual in that we never actually ''see'' her in the shower -- it's just mentioned by another character that she's been crying in there for hours.

* 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.

** WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows has had a couple as well, in the reviews of ChrisBrown's "Deuces" and Music/FloRida's "Whistle" after each of those songs had particularly blatant {{Double Entendre}}s.

* 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.)

* ''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.

A character (often female) has had a rough day. She's suffered some sort of physical or emotional trauma that makes her want to run home and [[TroubledFetalPosition curl up into a ball]].

Naturally, the first thing the woman wants to do is go home and take a nice, long, hot shower. This is not surprising; many people find the best way to relax after a hard day is to take that shower, put on fluffy pajamas and just let it all go. Water is also an archetypal purifier in general, capable of symbolically washing away sins or past events -- though that doesn't mean it'll ''work''.

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 SexySoakedShirt scene). 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.

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic suffered an absolutely epic psychotic meltdown when he reviewed the third live-action ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' film. He tells us all to sit back and enjoy it. Five minutes later, he's having a Shower of Angst, as pictured above, spews {{Angrish}} and yells a long stream of psychotic screams and grunts.

->'''Spencer:''' She takes really long showers when she gets depressed.
->'''Sam:''' Well, when do you think she's going to come out?
->'''Spencer:''' I don't know. She took a chair in there.

[[folder:Comics]]

* 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 sanctuary. Said beaver ends up with his own shower scene afterwards.

* 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}}.

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

* The lead singer of *Pop Evil* is briefly seen taking one in the music video for *Torn to Pieces*.

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