History VillainousBreakdown / Film

* ''Film/WallStreet'': Near the film's climax, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Gekko]] dumps his remaining interest in Bluestar, only to learn on the evening news that the shares have been picked up at a lower price by Sir Lawrence Wildman, who will become the airline's new majority shareholder. Realizing that Bud engineered the entire scheme, he physically assaults his former protege, berating his ingratitude for several of their illegal business transactions (including Bluestar). Also counts as a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech trope.

* ''Film/WallStreet: Near the film's climax, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Gekko]] dumps his remaining interest in Bluestar, only to learn on the evening news that the shares have been picked up at a lower price by Sir Lawrence Wildman, who will become the airline's new majority shareholder. Realizing that Bud engineered the entire scheme, he physically assaults his former protege, berating his ingratitude for several of their illegal business transactions (including Bluestar). Also counts as a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech trope.

** 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)

** 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!"

* The famous "Hitler Reacts" scene in ''Film/{{Downfall}}'', where the Fuher loses his temper - and his marbles - when told that Germany's defeat is imminent. Even without the subtitle, he gets his point across clearly. (Due to MemeticMutation, the scene has become a well-known internet meme.)

* A more understated one comes in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', when the titular villain is reduced to muttering lyrics from [[Disney/Pinocchio ''I Got No Strings'']].

* A more understated one comes in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', when the titular villain is reduced to muttering lyrics from [[Pinocchio/Disney ''I Got No Strings'']].

* A more understated one comes in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', when the titular villain is reduced to muttering lyrics from [[WesternAnimation/Pinocchio ''I Got No Strings'']].

* A more understated one comes in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', when the titular villain is reduced to muttering lyrics from [[Film/Pinocchio I Got No Strings]].

* A more understated one comes in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', when the titular villain is reduced to muttering lyrics from [[Film/Pinocchio ''I Got No Strings'']].

-->'''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!!]]"

* 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.

* 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]].]]

** In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', Kylo Ren destroys a console when he learns BB-8 escaped, but calms down quickly. This fit has nothing on his response to [[spoiler:Rey escaping with the Jedi Mind Trick]], at first refusing to accept it and then proceeding to tear apart the entire room. For added hilarity a patrolling pair of Stormtroopers realizes what's going on and immediately turn around.

* 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.

* 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."

* 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.

* In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', Kylo Ren destroys a console when he learns BB-8 escaped, but calms down quickly. This fit has nothing on his response to [[spoiler:Rey escaping with the Jedi Mind Trick]], at first refusing to accept it and then proceeding to tear apart the entire room. For added hilarity a patrolling pair of Stormtroopers realizes what's going on and immediately turn around.

* ''Film/TheGodfather'': Michael Corleone completely drops his typical [[DissonantSerenity calm]], [[SoftSpokenSadist collected]] [[FauxAffablyEvil demeanour]] in the second movie when his wife Kay reveals that [[spoiler:she got an abortion and lied to him about it because she couldn't bear to risk bringing a child into Michael's way of life.]]
* Lockdown in ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction''. Most of the time, he is shown as calm, cold mercenary who only shows one emotion while hunting his target. After leaving earth to take his target Optimus Prime for his unseen client(s), he finds out that Prime escaped. He returns to earth, and destroys most of Hong Kong to get him back. In addition, during the final battle between him and Prime, he completely loses it after the humans start interfering.

* Both the Washizus have this happen to him in ''Film/ThroneofBlood''. After being convinced by his wife to murder Lord Tsuzuki, the husband, Taketoki, becomes increasingly paranoid and starts seeing hallucinations, while the wife herself, Asaji, completely snaps and is last seen [[OutDamnSpot trying to clean the stench of nonexistent blood off her hands]].

-->'''Neville:''' ''(laughs, then [[SuddenlyShouting screaming ragingly]])'' [[GratuitousGerman STURBABTEILUNG! ANGREIFAN! LOS, LOS! ACHTUNG!]]

* In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', Kylo Ren destroys a console when he learns BB-8 escapes, but calms down afterwards. This fit has nothing on his response to [[spoiler:Rey escaping with the Jedi Mind Trick]], at first refusing to accept it and then proceeding to tear apart the entire room. For added hilarity a patrolling pair of Stormtroopers realizes what's going on and immediately turn around.

* In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', Kylo Ren has had a destructive fit before when BB-8 got away, but calmed down afterwards. It's when Rey learns the Jedi Mind Trick to get out of her bonds does he proceed to utterly flip his shit, destroying the room she was in. Just for added hilarity, two Stormtroopers on patrol see the rage fit and turn right the hell around.

* 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.

* ''[[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]]]].

* Both the Washizus have this happen to him in ''ThroneofBlood''. After being convinced by his wife to murder Lord Tsuzuki, the husband, Taketoki, becomes increasingly paranoid and starts seeing hallucinations, while the wife herself, Asaji, completely snaps and is last seen [[OutDamnSpot trying to clean the stench of nonexistent blood off her hands]].

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