History VillainousBreakdown / Film

--> '''Derek'': "[[BerserkButton ...One look? ...ONE LOOK?]][[ShutUpHannibal I don't think so!]]"

* "Who cares about Derek {{Film/Zoolander}} anyway? The man has only one look for Christ's sake! Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigre? They're the ''same face!'' Doesn't anyone notice this?! ''[[OnlySaneMan I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!]]'' I invented the ''piano key necktie!'' I invented it! What have you done, Derek?! Nothing! ''You've got '''nothing! NOTHING!'''''And I will be a monkey's uncle if I have you ruin this for me! Because if you can't get the job done, then I will! (to the Prime Minister of Malaysia) DIE YOU WAGE-HANKING SCUM!"

* Commodus in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' after learning of [[spoiler: his sister's *****]]. [[ChewingTheScenery "AM I NOT MERCIFUL?!?"]]

* The Violator has a minor one in the middle of the ''Film/{{Spawn}}'' movie. Upset that Malebolgia chose Spawn to lead the armies of the damned instead of him, Violator throws a hissy fit, whining that it isn't fair. He catches himself in the middle of his rant, realizing that his whining really isn't making him look any better in front of his boss. This growing frustration with this apparent snub, his own ***** the Clown guise, and Spawn's constant refusal to cooperate eventually drives Violator to ditch all subtlety and just beat Spawn into submission with his true power.

* Commodus in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' after learning of [[spoiler: his sister's betrayal]]. [[ChewingTheScenery "AM I NOT MERCIFUL?!?"]]

* The Violator has a minor one in the middle of the ''Film/{{Spawn}}'' movie. Upset that Malebolgia chose Spawn to lead the armies of the damned instead of him, Violator throws a hissy fit, whining that it isn't fair. He catches himself in the middle of his rant, realizing that his whining really isn't making him look any better in front of his boss. This growing frustration with this apparent snub, his own hatred of the Clown guise, and Spawn's constant refusal to cooperate eventually drives Violator to ditch all subtlety and just beat Spawn into submission with his true power.

* "Who cares about Derek {{Film/Zoolander}} anyway? The man has only one look for Christ's sake! Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigre? They're the ''same face!'' Doesn't anyone notice this?! ''[[OnlySaneMan I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!]]'' I invented the ''piano key necktie!'' I invented it! What have you done, Derek?! Nothing! ''You've got '''nothing! NOTHING!'''''"

** Sanchez in ''Film/LicenceToKill'' had a minor case of this during the final action sequence. He goes from treating his employees with trust and respect to impaling them on forklifts, gunning down TheScrappy, and swinging madly with a machete when he sees Bond, cutting the air brake on his oil tanker truck, which naturally leads to StuffBlowingUp.
** In ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', when BigBad Dominic Greene's plans [[StuffBlowingUp explode]] around his ears, he goes insane, trying to chop Bond to little pieces [[AxCrazy using an axe]] while making sounds more appropriately shrieked by demonic monkeys. His fury gets the better of him when he ''axes himself in the foot''.
** ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'': [=LeChiffre=] goes from coldy and effortlessly dismantling his opponents at the poker table to a screaming, sweaty nervous wreck that has to resort to his own [[GroinAttack dirty work]].

--> '''Chekov:''' You lie! On Ceti Alpha Five there was life! A fair chance --
--> '''Khan:''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhu5V8VRxFU THIS IS CETI ALPHA FIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]

* In ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'', Juror #10 engages in a lengthy racist rant about how the defendant, a Latino immigrant kid, is scum from birth and is racially programmed to lie, steal and murder. It so offends and disgusts the other jurors, even the vindictive Juror #3, that all of them either walk away from the table or turn away from him in disgust until:

* We already know James Cagney's character in ''WhiteHeat'' is dangerously unpredictable, but he reaches new heights in the infamous prison cafeteria scene. Upon hearing of his mother's death, Cody Jarrett begins crying and screaming uncontrollably; he leaps up on the table and stumbles in panic toward the door, managing to knock no less than ''four'' guards unconscious before being subdued and carried out bodily, still sobbing at the top of his lungs.

** Afterwards when Batman beats him, all Bane can do is say in stunned disbelief: "I broke you."

* In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' when Batman breaks Bane's mask which stops him from feeling pain, Bane goes berserk, throwing flurries of punches and even cracking a concrete pillar. A major contrast from the otherwise cold and calculating fighter he had been for the rest of the movie.

*** Khan's death is a minor-key version of this, as the clearly unhinged and critically injured Khan drags himself to the Genesis Device's control panel in a last-ditch bid to destroy the Enterprise by using the Genesis Device as a bomb and blowing up the entire area. Watching the Enterprise slowly limp out of the nebula, he loses the last of his sanity and begins quoting the FamousLastWords of [[MobyDick Captain Ahab]] during that character's ''own'' Villainous Breakdown.

** ''Indominus rex'' was already mentally questionable due to her captivity treatment, but you can see her begin to slip deeper into madness at the climax after [[spoiler:the raptors she turned to her side switch back to Owen, she gets clawed and bitten up by them as Owen blasts her with a shotgun, and then Rexie charges into battle]]. When [[spoiler:Blue comes racing in and prevents her from finishing off Rexie]], the final straw has landed and ''Indominus'' gives a massive roar of pure rage [[spoiler:before she's curb-stomped by Rexie, Blue, and the ''Mosasaurus'']].

** ''Indominus rex'' was already mentally questionable due to her captivity treatment, but you can see her begin to slip deeper into madness at the climax after [[spoiler: the raptors she turned to her side switch back to Owen, she gets clawed and bitten up by them as Owen blasts her with a shotgun, and then Rexie charges into battle]]. When [[spoiler: Blue comes racing in and prevents her from finishing off Rexie]], the final straw has landed and ''Indominus'' gives a massive roar of pure rage [[spoiler: before she's curb-stomped by Rexie, Blue, and the ''Mosasaurus''[[.

* In ''Film/BatmanBegins'', when Falcone is captured, he becomes progressively more disheveled and fearful as Batman takes his goons down. Later, when speaking to Crane in the asylum, he starts off as his usual self...sarcastic, confident...but he grows just a little uncertain when Crane starts talking about his mask. He plays it off with some humour, and then out comes the mask...

* The Violator has a minor one in the middle of the ''Film/{{Spawn}}'' movie. Upset that Malebolgia chose Spawn to lead the armies of the damned instead of him, Violator throws a hissy fit, whining that it isn't fair. He catches himself in the middle of his rant, realizing that his whining really isn't making him look any better in front of his boss. This growing frustration with this apparent snub, his own hatred of the Clown guise, and Spawn's constant refusal to cooperate eventually drives Violator to ditch all subtlety and just beat Spawn into submission with his true power.

* In ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'', Juror #10 engages in a lengthy racist rant about how the defendant, a Latino immigrant kid, is scum from birth and is racially programmed to lie, steal and murder. It so offends and disgusts the other jurors, even the vindictive Juror #3, that all of them either walk away from the table or turn away from him in disgust until:
--->'''Juror #10''': Listen to me. We're... This kid on trial here... his type, well, don't you know about them? There's a, there's a danger here. These people are dangerous. They're wild. Listen to me. Listen.
---> '''Juror #4''': [[ShutUpHannibal I have. Now sit down and don't open your mouth again.]]

* ''Film/LittleVoice'' has an impressive one for abusive talent agent Ray Say (Creator/MichaelCaine). Throughout the film, he has pressured the painfully shy [[TheIngenue ingenue]] Laura "Little Voice" Hoff into a club singing career she doesn't want, all to make enough money to cover his debts to a couple of mobster types. He eventually browbeats her so much she's left almost catatonic, and upon checking on her, she suddenly begins insanely quoting Judy Garland movies at him and ultimately shoving him down a tall flight of stairs. Following this, he drives to the club where Laursa was due to perform that night, gets on stage, punches his equally-sleazy accomplice, club emcee Mr. Boo, in the face, steals the mic from him, and, without a word, launches into a crazed rendition of Music/RoyOrbison's "Over," seriously disturbing the club's patrons. Once the song is over, he equally silently resigns himself to an unknown-but-doubtless-unpleasant fate at the mobsters' hands.

* In Tim Burton's ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'', the last we see of General Thade is him completely losing his sanity upon being trapped up inside a spaceship cell, reverting to a primal, screeching ape.
** Well, that's not the ''last'' we see of Thade . . .

* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' had a great one at the end of the film -- [[spoiler:Rotti Largo loses it in front of the entire audience at the Genetic Opera when Blind Mag defies him during her final song. He kills Mag -- all the while insisting to the audience that it's AllPartOfTheShow -- drags Nathan and Shilo on stage, and tries to force Shilo to kill Nathan. When she refuses, he kills Nathan himself. The stress of his breakdown causes him to finally succumb to his disease. His last actions (performed very deliriously and weakly) are to insult his betrayed children and insist to the audience that the world was lucky to ever have him.]]
* Towards the end of ''Film/ReturnToOz,'' the Nome King suffers a breakdown when Dorothy manages to finally beat him at his own game -- three times in a row: for every victory, the King loses both his temper and a little of the humanity he'd gained from the contest, gradually transforming from an AffablyEvil humanoid to a [[OneWingedAngel gigantic Earth Elemental]]. He even destroys his [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking pipe]] with a blast of magic, ends the contest in a tantrum, and goes on to destroy his entire palace in his attempt to kill Dorothy- [[spoiler: which would have been successful had Billina not laid an egg.]]

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* Luthor, in the ''{{Superman}} vs. Atom Man'' serial, undergoes a subtle breakdown in the final few chapters as Superman closes in. He doesn't go completely over the edge, but after maintaining a picture of composition for most of the story, his shadowed eyes and (delightfully) deranged demeanor make it clear that he is losing his grip.
* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' had a great one at the end of the film -- [[spoiler:Rotti Largo loses it in front of the entire audience at the Genetic Opera when Blind Mag defies him during her final song. He kills Mag -- all the while insisting to the audience that it's AllPartOfTheShow -- drags Nathan and Shilo on stage, and tries to force Shilo to kill Nathan. When she refuses, he kills Nathan himself. The stress of his breakdown causes him to finally succumb to his disease. His last actions (performed very deliriously and weakly) are to insult his betrayed children and insist to the audience that the world was lucky to ever have him.]]
* Captain Queeg in ''Film/TheCaineMutiny'' combines this with EngineeredPublicConfession when he's put on the stand in the trial of the man who mutinied against him, who has argued that he did it because Queeg was mentally unbalanced but forced to confess that he had never seen the captain "ranting and raving" as such. Under the defense attorney's questioning Queeg does start genuinely ranting and raving while also displaying his nervous tic of rubbing a pair of ball bearings together. Rather unusually we in the audience, having been privy to all that happened leading up to the mutiny, can kind of see where he's coming from, and it's left ambiguous whether he's actually insane.
* The Duke Brothers in ''Film/TradingPlaces'' have a nice one after the heroes manipulate the [[strike:stock]] Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice market and cause them to lose everything. Randolph has a heart attack, and Mortimer abandons all pretense of civility, declaring [[PrecisionFStrike "Fuck him!"]] (re: his brother), and screaming for them to reopen trade and "turn those machines back on!"
* Fritz Lang's movie ''Film/DrMabuseTheGambler'' ends with the eponymous villain (played by Rudolf Klein-Rogge) suffering one of these, while being surrounded by the ghosts of all the people he had murdered earlier.
* The villain in ''Film/{{Kickboxer}} 3'' has a downright pitiful breakdown, as his empire falls apart around him and he is reduced to trying to hold onto a teen prostitution ring, acting as if he deserves something to start over with. His last words are a dull, "How could this happen?"
* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler in virtually the whole of ''Film/{{Downfall}}'' (past the opening PetTheDog interview with his new secretary)
** When he learns that Himmler, his most trusted underling, has betrayed him to the Allies by offering to negotiate a peace settlement... and before that, when Herman Goering says that if he doesn't get a reply by 2200 hours (10 pm), he'll assume Hitler incapacitated and take over. Let's just say that in the week leading up to his death, Hitler has a ''lot'' of breakdowns.
** When he's told that one of his generals could not muster up enough forces to halt the Allied offensive on Berlin, Hitler [[TranquilFury quietly and calmly]] orders everyone except his top people out of the room, and then [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2fl-sHUwrc completely loses his shit, ranting and raving so loudly they can hear him outside a steel door]]. Has provided hilarious [[MemeticMutation spoof material]] for GagSub Youtube videos, such as this one with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfkDxF2kn1I&feature=related Hitler getting banned from Xbox Live]].
-->'''Hitler''': "That was an order! Steiner's assault was an order! Who do you think you are, to dare to disobey an order that I give?! Is this what it has come to!? The military has been lying to me! Everybody has been lying to me! Even the SS! Our generals are just a bunch of contemptible, disloyal cowards!"
-->'''General''': "My Fuhrer, I cannot allow you to insult the soldiers like this!"
-->'''Hitler''': "[[KickTheDog They are cowards, traitors]] [[YouHaveFailedMe and failures!!]]"
*** ''[[Literature/TheWindsOfWarAndWarAndRemembrance War and Remembrance]]'': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huf9JUibW0E Hitler's Steiner breakdown]], for what it lacks in memetic value, more than makes up for it in ham.
**** "''THIS IS THE END! TREACHERY, INCOMPETENCE, COWARDICE! '''THE END! THE END!''' I SHALL KILL MYSELF! '''[[CatchPhrase MY DECISION IS IRREVOCABLE!]]''' [...] THE WAR IS''' LOST! LOST! LOST! LOST!'''''"
** There's another minor example in the form of a German general who delves into a screaming fit when the possibility of surrendering to the advancing armies of the Western/Soviet alliance is brought up, refusing to even consider it because he remembers Germany's surrender in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and the humiliating clauses Germany had to accept in signing the Versailles Treaty. It's a sobering reminder of all the suffering and misery that was caused by what can be essentially chalked up as arrogance and wounded pride gone mad.
* The 1939 film ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington'' ends with a Villainous Breakdown. The secondary villain Senator Paine, previously conflicted but standing firm on staying on the side of evil, finally snaps when Jeff Smith collapses from the exhaustion of his ordeal. Senator Paine rushes out of the senate room, tries to shoot himself, and when that fails, he runs back into the senate room screaming the truth regarding the corruption that he is a part of, giving Smith the victory.
* In Tim Burton's ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'', the last we see of General Thade is him completely losing his sanity upon being trapped up inside a spaceship cell, reverting to a primal, screeching ape.
** Well, that's not the ''last'' we see of Thade . . .
%%* PresidentEvil Idi Amin in ''TheLastKingOfScotland''. Trying to track his Breakdowns can be... challenging.
* [[OsmosisJones Thrax]] has a subtle breakdown during his final confrontation with Osmosis. His normally slick dreadlocks fall out of place, his voice gets rougher, and his EvilLaugh gets creepier. It does escalate to a ThisCannotBe moment [[spoiler:just before he falls into a beaker of alcohol]].
* Happens toward the end of ''Film/TrainingDay'', when Alonzo Harris realizes that the neighborhood he used to run as a corrupt cop will no longer play along with his criminal enterprises after his partner Jake Hoyt subdues him in the middle of the street.
** The exact same ending happens in ''Pride and Glory''!
* Elle Driver from ''Film/KillBill'', very much the SmugSnake during the course of the two movies, has a pretty epic one of these after [[spoiler:the Bride snatches out her remaining eye and crushes it underfoot]] in Volume 2, reducing her to little more than a wailing, screaming and thrashing lunatic.
** This performance was similar to Pris's death rages in ''Film/BladeRunner''.
* Towards the end of ''Film/ReturnToOz,'' the Nome King suffers a breakdown when Dorothy manages to finally beat him at his own game- three times in a row: for every victory, the King loses both his temper and a little of the humanity he'd gained from the contest, gradually transforming from an AffablyEvil humanoid to a [[OneWingedAngel gigantic Earth Elemental]]. He even destroys his [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking pipe]] with a blast of magic, ends the contest in a tantrum, and goes on to destroy his entire palace in his attempt to kill Dorothy- [[spoiler: which would have been successful had Billina not laid an egg.]]
* ''Film/SpeedRacer'': On the final lap of the Grand Prix...
--> '''Royalton:''' ''STOOOOOOOP HIIIIIIIM!!!!!!!''
%%* ''Film/FallingDown'' is essentially one of these spread throughout a movie.
* In the 1930s and 1940s, any villain played by Tod Slaughter could be counted on to have one in Every. Single. Film. Fortunately, he was talented enough to make this work, since his villains were all different in motivation and action.
* [[spoiler:Obadiah Stane]] remains on a pretty even keel throughout most of ''Film/IronMan'', including the ending. However, well ''before'' the finale, when his evil plans have been stonewalled, there is a scene where he snaps under the pressure and throws a tantrum. [[MemeticMutation You know the one.]]
* Commodus in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' after learning of [[spoiler: his sister's betrayal]]. [[ChewingTheScenery "AM I NOT MERCIFUL?!?"]]
%%* Deliberately exacerbated by Mameha to Hatsumomo in ''MemoirsOfAGeisha''.
* Joel Cairo (Creator/PeterLorre) in ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'', turning on Kaspar Gutman (Sidney Greenstreet) after finding out the eponymous statue is a worthless fake made of lead:
-->"You. It's you who bungled it. You and your stupid attempt to buy it! Kemedov found out how valuable it was. No ''wonder'' we had such an easy time stealing it, you...YOU IMBECILE! YOU BLOATED IDIOT! YOU STUPID FATHEAD! YOU..." (*collapses sobbing into a chair*)
** Gutman has a very subtle one himself: he only keeps stabbing the bird once and again, trying to find the gold and jewels below the lead. When it's obvious to everyone the falcon is false, he only collapses into a chair, like he is having a heart attack.
* In ''Film/{{Fargo}}'', as his plans (which weren't ''that'' incredibly well thought out to begin with) spiral rapidly out of control, Jerry Lundegaard experiences several relatively minor outbursts of increasing intensity as things he didn't anticipate come back to bite him (such as an arm-waving tantrum in a frozen carpark while trying to scratch ice from his windscreen, and slamming his blotter down on his desk). By the end of the movie, everything has gone catastrophically wrong and he's been forced to flee, and when the police finally catch up with him he's reduced to a hysterical, shrieking wreck of a man writhing about on the bed of a motel room as the cops try and restrain him. All of this just serves to show what an ultimately pathetic, inadequate man Jerry is and how deeply out of his depth he's gotten himself.
* Though he's not exactly calm for the whole movie, the original ''[[Film/TotalRecall1990 Total Recall]]'''s antagonist Cohaagen is very mean to virtually everyone, even his right hand man Richter. The only ones he is ever nice to are his friend [[spoiler: Hauser (who had his memory erased to become the freedom fighter Doug Quaid)]] and his fish, whom he feeds while in the middle of chastising Richter. When it's clear that [[spoiler: Quaid won't let Cohaagen's men turn him back into Hauser]], and Cohaagen gives Richter the order to kill him as he is close to ruining Cohaagen's plans, Cohaagen knocks over his fish tank, killing the fish by suffocation.
--> [[spoiler: "but NOOOOO! You want to be Quaid!"]]
* The Controller[=/=]X from ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' suffers a tantrum every time Godzilla kills one of his {{Kaiju}}, but when he's finally defeated and his ship exploding around him, he finally completely loses it and is last seen screaming his head off as it goes up in a fireball.
* Cal of ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' on account of being such a {{Yandere}}. By the end of the scene, he's giggling when he realizes the irony of him losing the Heart of the Ocean.
* ''Film/{{Orphan}}'': After failing to seduce John, Esther runs to her room, removes everything she uses to pass herself off as a nine-year-old, while throwing a screaming fit and wrecking the room.
* In the final ''Film/HarryPotter'' movie Voldemort resorts to hitting and kicking Harry despite the fact that that sort of thing is for ''[[FantasticRacism Muggles]]'', and he's passing up an opportunity to kill him immediately. The implication presumably is that forget the practicalities, he wants to ''hurt'' Harry, and doing so with magic isn't satisfying enough.
%%* Debbie in ''Devil in the Flesh'' on account of being such a {{Yandere}}.
* Screwface, the BigBad of the StevenSeagal film ''Film/MarkedForDeath'' has one moment a little less than halfway in the movie where he loses it. He goes to sit down at a card game with his {{mooks}}, then notices one his men is missing and asks where he is. For a second or two after Screwface is told that Seagal's character killed that mook, he seems to take it calmly, then he start pounding on the table, turns it over, rips a leg off the frame and starts beating a mook who can't get out of the way fast enough with it. Then he screams that he wants Seagal and Seagal's whole family dead, and if they aren't up to it, ''he'll'' do it... then he'll kill all of them.
* When he's captured by the police in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', Ugarte has a brief but memorable breakdown.
--> '''Ugarte''': ''PLEEEASSEEE RICK!''
* ''Film/{{Misery}}'': Annie has these frequently being so AxCrazy. Like after Paul supposedly burns the manuscript.
* In ''Film/TheHowling'' ''VI: The Freaks'', the vampire villain Harker loses his cool near the end when the mob he formed to kill the werewolf hero refuses to shoot him because the hero is still in human form -- they were prepared to kill a dangerous monster, not an unarmed man. Harker vamps out and tries to kill the hero personally.
* In ''Film/MichaelClayton'', Karen freaks out the moment she's confronted by the presumed-dead Clayton (he escaped the car bomb she had her cronies plant), stammers and babbles her way through the conversation with him, and begins shaking when he reveals that she's been caught on tape. By the time she outright collapses to the floor as the cops close in on her, they're genuinely concerned that she needs medical care.
* In ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'', Ivan Ooze loses his composure after Scorpitron is destroyed by missiles from the Falconzord, [[BerserkButton becoming so angry that]] [[spoiler:he leaves himself no choice but to go OneWingedAngel by fusing with Hornitor]].
* Professor Moriarty has an exceptionally subtle one towards the end of ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows''. While there's no ranting and raving involved, he develops a rather sinister facial twitch, visibly struggles to prevent his (usually terrifyingly composed) voice from shaking with fury, and resorts to using his fists on Holmes rather than continue their intellectual sparring match.
* ''Film/UnderSiege'': Strannix goes completely insane after Krill is killed, including babbling about cartoon characters. Shell shock from the deck gun blasts probably contributes, but still.
* ''Film/UnderSiege2DarkTerritory'': Dane has a bit of a breakdown when the KillSat CD is stolen, but goes back to normal when he gets it back. Of course, he has another one once Ryback starts messing his plans up big time.
* ''Film/ManOfSteel'': General Zod undergoes one in the climax. [[spoiler: After the heroes bomb the Kryptonians back to the Phantom Zone, the only one left is Zod, who collapses to his knees in the rubble of Metropolis. He gives a brief, furious [[IDidWhatIHadToDo speech justifying his actions]] [[KnightTemplar in defense of his people]], and now [[DespairEventHorizon he has no people left]]. He then swears to destroy Earth and everyone on it out of retribution for what Superman has done.]] What follows is a city-spanning superhuman brawl between Superman and Zod, destroying several buildings in the process.
* ''Film/XMen'':
** Jason Stryker in ''Film/X2XMenUnited''. Twice in a row! First, when Magneto manages to briefly shut down Cerebro - proving immune to Jason's attempts at manipulating him in the process. Secondly, when Storm uses a blizzard to break his hold over Xavier once and for all. In both situations, Jason can only express his terror through his illusions.
*** Mostly downplayed in the first case, as all his reaction to Magneto being immune to his powers is an annoyed look to Erik's helmet. (or maybe not, as he's not shown displaying any physical reactions until then and him actually expressing them speaks volumes)
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': [[spoiler:Shingen Yashida, after Viper scarred him. He losses all composure and fights Wolverine like some berserker.]]
** In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Bolivar Trask has a mild one when Magneto commandeers his Sentinels. When President Nixon (rightly) asks him what the hell is going on when they open fire on the crowd, Trask irritably replies "I'll fix it!"
* ''[[Film/TheDevilsAdvocate The Devil's Advocate]]'': [[spoiler:After Kevin kills himself in order to prevent [[{{Satan}} Milton's]] [[TheAntichrist plans]] from going forward, Milton [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGIaEP49wyc quite literally erupts]]]].
* In ''Film/PainAndGain'' Daniel starts to lose it ''hard'' when they [[spoiler:kill their second target by accident]].
* In ''Film/ThePurge'', the otherwise-unnamed "Polite Leader" of the Freaks has a big, demented smile on his face as he does his best to go through with the ritualized violence of the "Purge", and he struggles to maintain it as the Sandin family harbors the poor guy they wanted to hit and move on from... but when they fail to meet his deadline, which comes about halfway through the movie, his exterior slips and he drops the erudite politeness to yell indignantly that this isn't what he wanted, and that their victim ''exists'' to meet his need to "Purge" and this is all on them now and he hopes they're happy 'cause he warned them and now this is happening.
* In ''Film/{{Dogma}}''. Bartleby and Loki has made it to the church in New Jersey that would allow them to get back to Heaven. However, by this time, Loki's come to regret this decision and Bartleby's decided he's going back [[TakingYouWithMe and taking all of Creation with him]] as he realized that they'd never be forgiven by God. Bartleby's killed a police officer and revealed that he's an angel before everyone and wants Loki to do the same, but when Loki still gets cold feet, he flips his lid.
-->'''Bartleby:''' Loki, wings.\\
'''Loki:''' Look, I don't think we should...\\
'''Bartleby:''' ''DO IIIIIIT!''
* ''{{Film/Equilibrium}}'' has a couple of these with [=DuPont=]. It often backfires on Preston, because it's too easy for him to be found out. Also, the point where this happens is where [=DuPont=] is specifically asking him ''that there's a traitor within the Tetragrammaton trying to take down Libria from the inside'', and it's not ideal to press him further by [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretending to have no idea]] in case it gets turned on him. [[spoiler: Preston discovers at the end that he's been used as an UnwittingPawn anyway, so it's a SubvertedTrope in that [=DuPont=] was getting him to play into his hands by behaving normally, scaring Preston into finding the Resistance rather than just getting angry at Preston for talking back (Preston is trying not to show any emotion, so he's busy trying to concentrate on concealing this by agreeing with what [=DuPont=]'s saying)]].
--> '''[=DuPont=] (smashes hand on desk):''' ARE YOU PLAYING WITH ME, CLERIC?!?
** A second one is played straight, as [=DuPont=] visibly breaks incrementally as Preston destroys each line of his defence at the finale. What finally does it, is when [[spoiler: the latter murders Brandt, his right hand man, within 5 seconds of him challenging Preston to a fight]]. [=DuPont=] picks up a gun and finally has his one on one with Preston.
--> '''[=DuPont=] (barely maintaining face):''' Be careful, Preston. You're treading on my dreams.
* The current page illustration is from ''Film/{{M}}'', where TragicVillain Hans Beckert is arguing for his life before a KangarooCourt of underworld types, desperately trying to explain that he has a horrible compulsion to abduct and kill children.
* In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', Shredder goes into this when Splinter [[BigDamnHeroes shows up to confront him and save his sons]]. Where he easily mopped the floor with the Turtles, when Splinter shows up, he goes into a shaking rage that leads to his (first) death.
* In ''Film/{{Scream 3}}'', when Sidney finally confronts [[spoiler: Roman Bridger the series instigator, during his MotiveRant about her life that [[ItsAllAboutMe he should have had]], [[ShutUpHannibal she tells him to stop whining]], that he's responsible for his own choices and simply wants an excuse to kill people. Roman snaps and a mutual NoHoldsBarredBeatdown ensues.]]
* In ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' [[spoiler: Koba]] has one after [[spoiler: the fight between Caesar, is cut short by an explosion and the apes accept Caesar as their leader again. Koba gets a hold of a machine gun and while Caesar is helping the injured apes, Koba opens fire on them, not caring who gets hurt in the crossfire. When Koba is subdued, he still has the gall to bring up the law ''[[VillainsWantMercy Ape]] [[{{Hypocrite}} not kill]] [[EntitledBastard Ape]]''.]]
* ''Film/LittleVoice'' has an impressive one for abusive talent agent Ray Say (Creator/MichaelCaine). Throughout the film, he has pressured the painfully shy [[TheIngenue ingenue]] Laura "Little Voice" Hoff into a club singing career she doesn't want, all to make enough money to cover his debts to a couple of mobster types. He eventually browbeats her so much she's left almost catatonic, and upon checking on her, she suddenly begins insanely quoting Judy Garland movies at him and ultimately shoving him down a tall flight of stairs. Following this, he drives to the club where Laursa was due to perform that night, gets on stage, punches his equally-sleazy accomplice, club emcee Mr. Boo, in the face, steals the mic from him, and, without a word, launches into a crazed rendition of Music/RoyOrbison's "Over," seriously disturbing the club's patrons. Once the song is over, he equally silently resigns himself to an unknown-but-doubtless-unpleasant fate at the mobsters' hands.

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* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' has [[spoiler:warden Samuel Norton freaking out over Andy being missing from his prison cell. His rant doubles as FridgeBrilliance on the movie's part, as Norton's clearly [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection projecting]] his corrupt nature onto everyone else.]] This is a special case, because what the villain's freaking out over happens BEFORE [[spoiler:he gets exposed as a crook]], (and is somewhat mild in comparison) and likely before he has any reason to expect that to even happen.

* ''Film/{{Pandorum}}'': goes crazy with this trope. It is revealed to the audience that [[spoiler:Gallo is the one responsible for the malicious mutants and nightmarish madness on the ship. At one point, Payton locks Gallo in an escape pod, and he cracks, screaming/yelling and threatening to carve Payton up. He escapes, and attacks Payton. Payton's own sanity is questioned in this fight when he also threatens to carve Gallo up. After the fight, it's revealed that Gallo and Payton are the same person, with Gallo being the manifestation of a breakdown Payton had before the movie plot started. And yes, this reveal makes Gallo (Which is his real name) evil.]] So, just to sum it all up: The villainous breakdown ''itself'' has a villainous breakdown while fighting the villain, who has a breakdown during that fight without even knowing he was the villain. [[spoiler:Later in the movie, Gallo has a calm voice and demeanor...until Bower says Gallo is suffering from pandorum, which results in nihilistic rants, trying to kill Nadia, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a not-so-calm voice.]] ]]
* In ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'', Juror #10 engages in a lengthy racist rant about how the defendant, a Latino immigrant kid, is scum from birth and is racially programmed to lie, steal and murder. It so offends and disgusts the other jurors, even the vindictive Juror #3, that all of them either walk away from the table or turn away from him in disgust until:
--->'''Juror #10''': Listen to me. We're... This kid on trial here... his type, well, don't you know about them? There's a, there's a danger here. These people are dangerous. They're wild. Listen to me. Listen.
---> '''Juror #4''': [[ShutUpHannibal I have. Now sit down and don't open your mouth again.]]
%%* Norman Stansfield from ''Film/TheProfessional''.
* ''Film/RockAndRule''. Mok has a spectacular breakdown when his climactic demon-summoning plan goes badly awry:
-->'''Mok:''' [[ThisCannotBe You can't do this to me!]] '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis I! AM! MOK!]]'''
--> "The magic of ''one voice''!...of ''one soul''!...But there ''is''...''NO...ONE!...''"
** It's also foreshadowed in his crazed rampage after Angel comprehensively spurns his advances...
--> '''Mok:''' ...she can ''sing'', or she can ''SCREAM''!!!...but she still pissed me off.
* ''Film/ThreeHundred'' has King Xerxes flip out and execute half his generals after they repeatedly fail to dislodge the Spartans. Later, being grazed with a spear ([[AGodAmI which reminds him that he can, in fact, bleed]]) causes him to have a VillainousBSOD as well.
* In ''Film/KickAss'', Frank D'Amico gets so distressed by Big Daddy's disruption of his crimes that he starts using drugs again and kills a Kick-Ass impersonator in broad daylight. His Dragon is vocally distressed by it.
* In ''Film/{{United 93}}'', after several minutes of mounting tension, the al-Qaeda terrorists finally seem to realize that they are stuck in an enclosed space with 40+ people who know about the World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks and now have nothing to lose. Even after yelling and waving a knife at them, it becomes clear that the passengers don't give a shit anymore and are actively planning an attack from the back of the plane. And then the hijackers completely freak out when the enraged passengers storm towards the cockpit and start beating each of them to death.
-->'''Ahmed al-Nami:''' Open up! They've gone to the back of the plane! They're talking together!
-->'''Saeed al-Ghamdi:''' What are we going to do? If they're planning an attack...
-->'''Ziad Jarrah:''' Oh God! Oh God!
* Common in ''Film/JamesBond'' films.
** Sanchez in ''Film/LicenceToKill'' had a minor case of this during the final action sequence. He goes from treating his employees with trust and respect to impaling them on forklifts, gunning down TheScrappy, and swinging madly with a machete when he sees Bond, cutting the air brake on his oil tanker truck, which naturally leads to StuffBlowingUp.
** In ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', when BigBad Dominic Greene's plans [[StuffBlowingUp explode]] around his ears, he goes insane, trying to chop Bond to little pieces [[AxCrazy using an axe]] while making sounds more appropriately shrieked by demonic monkeys. His fury gets the better of him when he ''axes himself in the foot''.
** ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'': [=LeChiffre=] goes from coldy and effortlessly dismantling his opponents at the poker table to a screaming, sweaty nervous wreck that has to resort to his own [[GroinAttack dirty work]].
** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'': Similar to [=LeChiffre=], Rosa Kleeb has one in her final scene, where she desperately tries to kill Bond in a Venice hotel room.

* In ''Film/DieHard'', Hans Gruber acts very calm and collected up until the point where Holly calls him "just a common thief", at which point you can see his facade of civility crumble into derangement.
* In ''Film/DieHard With a Vengeance'', Simon Gruber is able to keep his cool nearly all the way through the movie...until he realizes that [=McClane=] tracked him to Canada.
* Agent Smith (later just Smith) in ''Film/TheMatrix''. In the first movie, his ability to actually ''hate'' humans sets him apart from his emotionless fellow Agents, and he starts losing his cool after Neo and Trinity rescue Morpheus. When Neo comes BackFromTheDead, he loses what composure he still had and charges at him in a fury. And even all of this is overshadowed by his scenery-chewing, spit-spraying breakdown at the end of ''[[Film/TheMatrixRevolutions Revolutions]]''. When he sees that Neo won't stay down no matter how many skyscrapers he gets smashed through, he goes on a minute-plus rant about the [[StrawNihilist pointlessness of existence]] before demanding "Why, Mister Anderson, why, WHY DO YOU PERSIST?"
-->'''Neo:''' Because I choose to.
-->'''Smith:''' ''(attacks)''
** Compare his reaction when he finally sees that he's going to lose: a quiet "No, no, it's not fair."

* The BigBad of the [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard-on-a-bus]] film ''Film/{{Speed}}'' has two such breakdowns. The first is when he realizes that his bus-bomb has already exploded with nobody on it, and the second happens when his money is ruined by a dye pack.
* The Operative in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' is unflappable for most of the story, going so far as to proclaim that Mal ''can't'' make him angry during their first confrontation at the Companion Training House. If you watch carefully, though, you can see the first pebbles of the rockslide earlier in the movie... until the climax where he [[OhCrap freaks out]].
-->(''[[CoolStarship Serenity]]'' is followed through the ion cloud by [[spoiler:a fleet of Reavers]])\\
'''Operative:''' ... target the [[spoiler:Reavers]]. Target the [[spoiler:Reavers]]! Target ''[[AllOfThem everyone]]''! ''SOMEBODY FIRE''!

* Al Capone in ''Film/TheUntouchables'':
** His rant about Ness:
-->"I want you to find this nancy-boy Eliot Ness, I want him DEAD! I want his family DEAD! I want his house burned to the GROUND! I wanna go there in the middle of the night and I wanna PISS ON HIS ASHES!"
** And his ending breakdown, when he's been convicted of tax fraud and his criminal empire is being dismantled, is a pretty significant one as well:
--->'''Eliot Ness''': Never stop. Never stop fighting until the fight is done.\\
'''Al Capone''': What? What'd you say?\\
'''Eliot Ness''': You heard, Capone. Here endeth the lesson. ''[Ness turns and calmly walks away]''\\
'''Al Capone''': Ah, you're nothin' but a lot of talk and a badge. ''[Ness pays him no attention; louder]'' You're nothin' but a lot of talk and a badge! ''[Psychotically]'' '''''You're nothing but a lot of talk and a badge!'''''
* HAL from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', right after Bowman gets back onto the ship to pull his chips. This one is a little hard to detect, as he sounds just as calm as he does when he was a psychopathic killer, but through his words you can hear his desperate attempts to save his own life:
-->'''HAL:''' Look, Dave. I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you want to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission, and I want to help you. Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.

* "Baby" Jane Hudson, of ''Film/WhatEverHappenedToBabyJane?'', goes completely insane upon learning in the end that the accident which crippled her sister, Blanche, was in fact caused by Blanche herself in an attempt to kill Jane, and not Jane in an alcoholic bender, and launches into her old song and dance routine, despite being 40-50 years too old. Jane to Blanche: "You mean, all this time we coulda been ''friends''?"

* In ''Film/{{Batman}}'', the Joker ends up breaking down completely near the end of the movie, when he has Batman and Vicky Vale hanging for dear life. While he was insane beforehand, he at least had some self-restraint to his insanity. By that point however, he couldn't stop himself from laughing insanely and frequently, and destroying parts of the Cathedral in trying to stomp on their hands ("Oh, they sure don't make 'em like they used to! (mad laughter as he smashes the bricks with his feet) do they, huh? (insane giggling) Eh, Batsy? (laughs up a storm)")
* In ''Film/BatmanForever'' the Riddler, already half-sane at best in this version (it ''is'' JimCarrey playing him after all), becomes utterly, delusionally psychotic when Batman [[spoiler:fries his brain by short-circuiting his own mind-reading invention. Partial subversion in that this renders him completely harmless.]]
** "[[{{Understatement}} Bummer!]]"
* In ''Film/BatmanBegins'', when Falcone is captured, he becomes progressively more disheveled and fearful as Batman takes his goons down. Later, when speaking to Crane in the asylum, he starts off as his usual self...sarcastic, confident...but he grows just a little uncertain when Crane starts talking about his mask. He plays it off with some humour, and then out comes the mask...
* The Joker from ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Though one could argue that, being insane, he was already broken down before the movie started, he has a surprisingly subtle breakdown when [[spoiler:neither of the ferries' passengers use the detonators, proving that RousseauWasRight, and not ALL HumansAreBastards. It's the first time in the whole movie things haven't followed his script, and he sees for just a moment that he might be wrong about life. His response is to whine that people aren't reliable and try to blow them up himself]]. It's the equivalent of [[RageQuit turning over the chessboard and punching the other player]] when you're facing checkmate.
* In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' when Batman breaks Bane's mask which stops him from feeling pain, Bane goes berserk, throwing flurries of punches and even cracking a concrete pillar. A major contrast from the otherwise cold and calculating fighter he had been for the rest of the movie.
** Afterwards when Batman beats him, all Bane can do is say in stunned disbelief: "I broke you."
* In ''Film/TheTrumanShow''
** When it looks like Truman's about to escape the island on a sail boat or die trying, previously unflappable director [[MeaningfulName Christof]] begins acting increasingly unhinged, culminating in a screamed order to "INCREASE THE WIND!" and capsize Truman's boat, regardless of the fact that Truman has tied himself to the sail and could drown as a result.
-->'''"How close are we?...Capsize him, tip him over...''SHUT UP!''...do it...''DO IT!''"'''
** He also has a much quieter breakdown after Truman [[spoiler:rebuffs his offer to stay.]] While it seems like a simple BSOD breakdown at first, look closely when his screen shuts off and you see him slump over, either dead or in shock.
* Luthor, in the ''{{Superman}} vs. Atom Man'' serial, undergoes a subtle breakdown in the final few chapters as Superman closes in. He doesn't go completely over the edge, but after maintaining a picture of composition for most of the story, his shadowed eyes and (delightfully) deranged demeanor make it clear that he is losing his grip.
* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' had a great one at the end of the film -- [[spoiler:Rotti Largo loses it in front of the entire audience at the Genetic Opera when Blind Mag defies him during her final song. He kills Mag -- all the while insisting to the audience that it's AllPartOfTheShow -- drags Nathan and Shilo on stage, and tries to force Shilo to kill Nathan. When she refuses, he kills Nathan himself. The stress of his breakdown causes him to finally succumb to his disease. His last actions (performed very deliriously and weakly) are to insult his betrayed children and insist to the audience that the world was lucky to ever have him.]]
* Captain Queeg in ''Film/TheCaineMutiny'' combines this with EngineeredPublicConfession when he's put on the stand in the trial of the man who mutinied against him, who has argued that he did it because Queeg was mentally unbalanced but forced to confess that he had never seen the captain "ranting and raving" as such. Under the defense attorney's questioning Queeg does start genuinely ranting and raving while also displaying his nervous tic of rubbing a pair of ball bearings together. Rather unusually we in the audience, having been privy to all that happened leading up to the mutiny, can kind of see where he's coming from, and it's left ambiguous whether he's actually insane.

* The Duke Brothers in ''Film/TradingPlaces'' have a nice one after the heroes manipulate the [[strike:stock]] Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice market and cause them to lose everything. Randolph has a heart attack, and Mortimer abandons all pretense of civility, declaring [[PrecisionFStrike "Fuck him!"]] (re: his brother), and screaming for them to reopen trade and "turn those machines back on!"
* Fritz Lang's movie ''Film/DrMabuseTheGambler'' ends with the eponymous villain (played by Rudolf Klein-Rogge) suffering one of these, while being surrounded by the ghosts of all the people he had murdered earlier.
* The villain in ''Film/{{Kickboxer}} 3'' has a downright pitiful breakdown, as his empire falls apart around him and he is reduced to trying to hold onto a teen prostitution ring, acting as if he deserves something to start over with. His last words are a dull, "How could this happen?"
* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler in virtually the whole of ''Film/{{Downfall}}'' (past the opening PetTheDog interview with his new secretary)
** When he learns that Himmler, his most trusted underling, has betrayed him to the Allies by offering to negotiate a peace settlement... and before that, when Herman Goering says that if he doesn't get a reply by 2200 hours (10 pm), he'll assume Hitler incapacitated and take over. Let's just say that in the week leading up to his death, Hitler has a ''lot'' of breakdowns.
** When he's told that one of his generals could not muster up enough forces to halt the Allied offensive on Berlin, Hitler [[TranquilFury quietly and calmly]] orders everyone except his top people out of the room, and then [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2fl-sHUwrc completely loses his shit, ranting and raving so loudly they can hear him outside a steel door]]. Has provided hilarious [[MemeticMutation spoof material]] for GagSub Youtube videos, such as this one with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfkDxF2kn1I&feature=related Hitler getting banned from Xbox Live]].
-->'''Hitler''': "That was an order! Steiner's assault was an order! Who do you think you are, to dare to disobey an order that I give?! Is this what it has come to!? The military has been lying to me! Everybody has been lying to me! Even the SS! Our generals are just a bunch of contemptible, disloyal cowards!"
-->'''General''': "My Fuhrer, I cannot allow you to insult the soldiers like this!"
-->'''Hitler''': "[[KickTheDog They are cowards, traitors]] [[YouHaveFailedMe and failures!!]]"
*** ''[[Literature/TheWindsOfWarAndWarAndRemembrance War and Remembrance]]'': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huf9JUibW0E Hitler's Steiner breakdown]], for what it lacks in memetic value, more than makes up for it in ham.
**** "''THIS IS THE END! TREACHERY, INCOMPETENCE, COWARDICE! '''THE END! THE END!''' I SHALL KILL MYSELF! '''[[CatchPhrase MY DECISION IS IRREVOCABLE!]]''' [...] THE WAR IS''' LOST! LOST! LOST! LOST!'''''"
** There's another minor example in the form of a German general who delves into a screaming fit when the possibility of surrendering to the advancing armies of the Western/Soviet alliance is brought up, refusing to even consider it because he remembers Germany's surrender in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and the humiliating clauses Germany had to accept in signing the Versailles Treaty. It's a sobering reminder of all the suffering and misery that was caused by what can be essentially chalked up as arrogance and wounded pride gone mad.
* The 1939 film ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington'' ends with a Villainous Breakdown. The secondary villain Senator Paine, previously conflicted but standing firm on staying on the side of evil, finally snaps when Jeff Smith collapses from the exhaustion of his ordeal. Senator Paine rushes out of the senate room, tries to shoot himself, and when that fails, he runs back into the senate room screaming the truth regarding the corruption that he is a part of, giving Smith the victory.

* In Tim Burton's ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'', the last we see of General Thade is him completely losing his sanity upon being trapped up inside a spaceship cell, reverting to a primal, screeching ape.
** Well, that's not the ''last'' we see of Thade . . .
%%* PresidentEvil Idi Amin in ''TheLastKingOfScotland''. Trying to track his Breakdowns can be... challenging.
* [[OsmosisJones Thrax]] has a subtle breakdown during his final confrontation with Osmosis. His normally slick dreadlocks fall out of place, his voice gets rougher, and his EvilLaugh gets creepier. It does escalate to a ThisCannotBe moment [[spoiler:just before he falls into a beaker of alcohol]].
* Happens toward the end of ''Film/TrainingDay'', when Alonzo Harris realizes that the neighborhood he used to run as a corrupt cop will no longer play along with his criminal enterprises after his partner Jake Hoyt subdues him in the middle of the street.
** The exact same ending happens in ''Pride and Glory''!

* Elle Driver from ''Film/KillBill'', very much the SmugSnake during the course of the two movies, has a pretty epic one of these after [[spoiler:the Bride snatches out her remaining eye and crushes it underfoot]] in Volume 2, reducing her to little more than a wailing, screaming and thrashing lunatic.
** This performance was similar to Pris's death rages in ''Film/BladeRunner''.
* Towards the end of ''Film/ReturnToOz,'' the Nome King suffers a breakdown when Dorothy manages to finally beat him at his own game- three times in a row: for every victory, the King loses both his temper and a little of the humanity he'd gained from the contest, gradually transforming from an AffablyEvil humanoid to a [[OneWingedAngel gigantic Earth Elemental]]. He even destroys his [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking pipe]] with a blast of magic, ends the contest in a tantrum, and goes on to destroy his entire palace in his attempt to kill Dorothy- [[spoiler: which would have been successful had Billina not laid an egg.]]
* ''Film/SpeedRacer'': On the final lap of the Grand Prix...
--> '''Royalton:''' ''STOOOOOOOP HIIIIIIIM!!!!!!!''
%%* ''Film/FallingDown'' is essentially one of these spread throughout a movie.
* In the 1930s and 1940s, any villain played by Tod Slaughter could be counted on to have one in Every. Single. Film. Fortunately, he was talented enough to make this work, since his villains were all different in motivation and action.
* The Violator has a minor one in the middle of the ''Film/{{Spawn}}'' movie. Upset that Malebolgia chose Spawn to lead the armies of the damned instead of him, Violator throws a hissy fit, whining that it isn't fair. He catches himself in the middle of his rant, realizing that his whining really isn't making him look any better in front of his boss. This growing frustration with this apparent snub, his own hatred of the Clown guise, and Spawn's constant refusal to cooperate eventually drives Violator to ditch all subtlety and just beat Spawn into submission with his true power.

* ''Film/{{Clue}}'': "[[spoiler: I killed Yvette!]] I hated her... ''so... much'', It* it... the f* , it* flame... flames... flames on the side of my face, breathing, breath... heaving breaths... heaving..."

* Jackson Rippner in ''Film/RedEye'' loses his suave, intimidating demeanor just after [[spoiler:Lisa stabs him in the neck with a pen]].
* In ''Film/TheDeparted'' when Colin Sullivan (TheIrishMob's [[TheMole Mole]] inside the police) is finally caught by Billy Costigan, He tries threatening and intimidating Costigan out of arresting him, then, nearly in tears, he starts begging Costigan to "Just fucking kill me.". Costigan's reply: "I am killing you.".
** Frank Costello grew less stable as the film went on, too. "Don't laugh! This ain't reality TV!"
* In ''Literature/NoCountryForOldMen'', Anton Chigurh has a ''very'' subtle one in his encounter with the wife of Llewelyn Moss, who he promised to kill if Moss didn't get him the money. He decides to place her fate on a coin toss.
--> Chigurh: This is the best I can do. Call it.
--> Carla Jean: I knowed you was crazy when I saw you settin' there. I knowed exactly what was in store for me.
--> Chigurh: ''(smiling)'' Call it.
--> Carla Jean: No. I'm not gonna call it.
--> Chigurh: ''(smile fades)'' ...''Call it.''
--> Carla Jean: [[YouKeepTellingYourselfThat The coin don't have no say.]] [[PsychoForHire It's just YOU]].

* Clu in ''Film/TRONLegacy'' as he searches Flynn's abandoned home, reminding him how much he still loves his creator. His reaction to the flashback when he was first created is a defiant rage. And later when [[CallingTheOldManOut confronting Flynn]], he screamed at Flynn for breaking his promise and shouting "I did everything you asked!" When Flynn admits that perfection could never be achieved (and thus everything Clu had done was a lie), he simply lost it.
* Emperor Palpatine in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' has a subtle one. When Luke refuses to give into his hatred and spares Vader, Palpatine is visibly shocked. After this, he simply drops the FauxAffablyEvil act and tells Luke "If you will not be turned, then you will be destroyed." For the first time in the entire saga, things have not followed his script and he is not pleased about it.
** It didn't help that Palpatine was offering the one thing to Luke that he never really sought: power. Luke wanted to defeat the Emperor, save his father, his friends, and free the galaxy, but he never wanted power for its own sake the way Anakin did. The Emperor, having enjoyed absolute power for so long, simply couldn't fathom that any Force user would reject it.
*** You could argue that the Emperor didn't really care whether or not Luke accepted his offer. Either he kills Darth Vader and becomes the new #2 Sith (and a powerful one at that), or he refuses and faces the Force Lightning.
* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': "YOU ARE FAILING!!!"
** A more subtle instance: Red Skull uses a BreakingSpeech about how the captain was lied to, Captain America replies that the only thing Erskine ever told him about Red Skull was that Red Skull was insane. He is briefly irritated, but he regains his composure and deduces that he must have seen something inside him that Erskine believed deserved the formula more, and asks what was special about him. Captain America doesn't give him the response he wants ("Nothing. I'm just a kid from Brooklyn."), and he breaks down completely, punching Captain America three times.
** The eponymous Winter Soldier in [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier the sequel]] [[TheStoic barely speaks at all]] until his final showdown with Cap [[spoiler: who is trying to trigger the Soldier's memories of who he used to be.]]
-->'''Captain America:''' [[spoiler: You know me. Your name is James Buchanan Barnes]]
-->'''Winter Soldier:''' SHUT UP!
-->'''Captain America:''' [[spoiler: I'm not gonna fight you. You're my friend.]]
-->'''Winter Soldier:''' You're my mission. [[PunctuatedPounding YOU'RE! MY! MISSION!]]
* Towards the end of ''Film/TheAvengers'', [[spoiler:Loki, after seeing his plans turning south, throws a hissy fit at the approaching Hulk. [[MetronomicManMashing He doesn't get far]]. His final reaction after the battle is [[GracefulLoser much more composed]].]]
-->[[spoiler:"If it's all the same with you, [[INeedAFreakingDrink I'll have that drink now]]."]]
** The entire second half of ''Film/{{Thor}}'' is one for Loki. But for a specific moment, [[spoiler:when Thor confronts him as he's destroying Jotunheim, Loki's normal composure cracks and he starts screaming, crying and making petty threats.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Thor''': This is madness!]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Loki''': Is it madness? Is it? '''''IS IT!?''''']]

* Neville Sinclair in ''Film/TheRocketeer'' suffers this kind of breakdown when he is confronted with the information that he is in fact a Nazi spy. He first breaks down in this way when he catches Jenny reading up on it and kidnaps her for real (and not having to fake it anymore).
--> '''Jenny:''' ''(gasps)'' Oh, God, Neville Sinclair's a--
--> '''Neville:''' ''(about to take her hostage)'' A what? Spy? Saboteur? Fascist? All of the above.
** That's nothing compared to when Cliff manages to convince Eddie Valentine and his gang that Sinclair, their boss, is a Nazi, and they promptly [[MookFaceTurn turn their back on him]]. Sinclair responds with an AccentRelapse:
-->'''Neville:''' Come on, Eddie, I'm paying you well. Does it matter who I work for?
-->'''Eddie:''' It matters to me. I may not make an honest buck, but I'm 100% American. And I don't work for no two-bit Nazi. Let [Jenny] go.
-->'''Neville:''' ''(laughs, then [[SuddenlyShouting screaming ragingly]])'' [[GratuitousGerman STURBABTEILUNG! ANGREIFAN! LOS, LOS! ACHTUNG!]]
** On this, a group of heavily armed German commandos hidden in the bushes emerges and holds everyone at gunpoint.

* In ''Film/MeanGirls'' [[AlphaBitch Regina George]] has one when she realizes that Cady deliberately made her gain weight and another one when Janie Ian reveals to everyone how Cady had been trying to ruin her life.
* Judge Doom of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' is normally quite composed but when he gets run over by a steamroller and reveals himself as a toon, he goes completely and openly AxCrazy.
-->"Remember me, Eddie? When I ''killed your brother'', I talked ''JUST... ''LIKE''... '''''THIIIIIIS'''''!!''"
* The BigBad in ''All About Evil'' is already insane from the get-go, being an AxCrazy SerialKiller who's dedicated to keeping her late father's movie theatre running by making "independent movies" of herself and her henchmen killing anyone she doesn't like. However, she completely falls apart during the film's climax -- the protagonist has prevented her "masterpiece" of slaughtering a packed audience, the police have arrived, and she's dragged the protagonist's mother up to the roof. She starts ranting, but the protagonist cuts her off, stating that her father would be ashamed of what she's become. This sets her off, and she starts screaming to the sky "Daddy, I did it for you!", then clutching her head and yelling at the protagonist to shut up... at which point [[spoiler: the protagonist's mother grabs her knife and stabs her in the neck, and she stumbles back off the roof.]]

* '' Film/ReservoirDogs'' have Nice Guy Eddie losing his temper when he found his best friend, Mr. Blonde, laying dead in the warehouse. His first action is to shoot Marvin Nash, who is a policeman tied up to a chair. And when [[spoiler:he gets involved in a MexicanStandoff between himself, his dad and Mr. White, he screams out to Mr. White to stop pointing the gun at his dad before getting killed.]]
** Mr. White, who is not a calm man to being with, suffers from one when [[spoiler:he finds out that Mr. Orange is working for the police all along right '''after''' he killed his boss and oldest friend, in defense of Orange himself.]]

* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'':
** Harrison freaks out [[spoiler:and tries to crash his ship into Starfleet Academy when Spock detonates the torpedoes inside the ''Vengeance'', ruining Khan's plans and leading him to believe that his people are dead]].
** [[spoiler:Admiral Marcus goes on a tirade about how he's the only one willing to protect the Federation when Kirk tries to have him arrested. Then Khan kills him]].

* When Alonzo learns about Nanon and Malabar getting together in ''Film/TheUnknown'', you can see in his eyes how torn apart he is.

* Vic Hoskins of ''Film/JurassicWorld''. The moment [[spoiler:Delta corners him in the lab and is just about to tear him to shreds]], the smug BloodKnight[=/=]SocialDarwinist head of security who spent the whole film preaching the virtues of war and struggle winds up ironically [[DirtyCoward pathetically begging for his life]].
* In ''Film/{{Cinderella 2015}}'', Lady Tremaine has a rather subdued one: When her efforts to keep Ella away from Kit fail, she can only watch in silence as Ella walks away towards her happy ending. Just to rub it in, Ella tells Tremaine that she ''forgives her'' for her actions. The woman is clearly dumbfounded that Ella was able to retain her happiness and kindness despite experiencing great sorrow, something the narration earlier said Lady Tremaine was incapable of.

* ''{{Film/Equilibrium}}'' has a couple of these with [=DuPont=]. It often backfires on Preston, because it's too easy for him to be found out. Also, the point where this happens is where [=DuPont=]is specifically asking him ''that there's a traitor within the Tetragrammaton trying to take down Libria from the inside'', and it's not ideal to press him further by [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretending to have no idea]] in case it gets turned on him. [[spoiler: Preston discovers at the end that he's been used as an UnwittingPawn anyway, so it's a SubvertedTrope in that [=DuPont=] was getting him to play into his hands by behaving normally, scaring Preston into finding the Resistance rather than just getting angry at Preston for talking back (Preston is trying not to show any emotion, so he's busy trying to concentrate on concealing this by agreeing with what [=DuPont=]'s saying)]].

** Afterwards when Batman beats him all he can do is say in stunned disbelief: "I broke you."

* Agent Smith (later just Smith) in ''Film/TheMatrix''. In the first movie, his ability to actually ''hate'' humans sets him apart from his emotionless fellow Agents, and he starts losing his cool after Neo and Trinity rescue Morpheus. When Neo comes BackFromTheDead, he loses what composure he still had and charges at him in a fury. All of this is overshadowed by his scenery-chewing, spit-spraying breakdown at the end of ''[[Film/TheMatrixRevolutions Revolutions]]''. When he sees that Neo won't stay down no matter how many skyscrapers he gets smashed through, he goes on a minute-plus rant about the [[StrawNihilist pointlessness of existence]] before demanding "Why, Mister Anderson, why, WHY DO YOU PERSIST?"

** ''Film/CasinoRoyale'': [=LeChiffre=] goes from coldy and effortlessly dismantling his opponents at the poker table to a screaming, sweaty nervous wreck that has to resort to his own [[GroinAttack dirty work]].

* ''Film/LittleVoice'' has an impressive one for abusive talent agent Ray Say (Creator/MichaelCaine). Throughout the film, he has pressured the painfully shy [[TheIngenue ingenue]] Laura "Little Voice" Hoff into a club singing career she doesn't want, all to make enough money to cover his debts to a couple of mobster types. He eventually browbeats her so much she's left almost catatonic, and upon checking on her, she suddenly begins insanely quoting Judy Garland movies at him and ultimately shoving him down a tall flight of stairs. Following this, he drives to the club where Laursa was due to perform that night, gets on stage, punches his equally-sleazy accomplice, club emcee Mr. Boo, in the face, steals the mic from him, and, without a word, launches into a crazed rendition of Music/RoyOrbison's "Over," seriously disturbing the club's patrons. Once the song is over, he equally silently resigns himself to an unknown-but-doubtless-unpleasant fate at the mobsters' hands.

* In ''Film/{{Scream 3}}'', when Sidney finally confronts [[spoiler: Roman Bridger the series instigator, during his MotiveRant about her life that [[ItsAllAboutMe he should of had]], [[ShutUpHannibal she tells him to stop whining]], that he's responsible for his own choices and simply wants an excuse to kill people. Roman snaps and a mutual NoHoldsBarredBeatdown ensues.]]

* Obadiah Stane in ''Film/IronMan1'', after finding out no one but Tony knows how to make a miniaturized arc reactor.
-->'''Stane:''' ''TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!'''

* Emperor Palpatine in StarWars has a subtle one. When Luke refuses to give into his hatred and spares Vader, Palpatine is visibly shocked. After this, he simply drops the FauxAffablyEvil act and tells Luke "If you will not be turned, then you will be destroyed." For the first time in the entire saga, things have not followed his script and he is not pleased about it.