History VillainousBreakdown / Film

%%* Deliberately exacerbated by Mameha to Hatsumomo in ''MemoirsOfAGeisha''.

* In ''Film/{{Get Out}}'', [[spoiler:a NotQuiteDead Jeremy Armitage reaches the pinnacle of his psychotic, AxCrazy behavior shown throughout the movie and ambushes the escaping Chris with a headlock at the front door, huskily screaming profanities and whispering "One Mississippi...two Mississippi...three Mississippi" as he chokes him out. Understandable, seeing that Chris effectively foiled [[GrandTheftMe the Armitage family's sinister process of gaining pseudo-immortality]] and had just killed Jeremy's MadDoctor father and PsychoPsychologist mother during his escape.]]

* [[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]].

* ''Film/XMen'':

* Common in ''Film/JamesBond'' films.

** ''Film/DieAnotherDay'': [[spoiler:Once his father disowns him for what he's become, Gustav Graves/Colonel Tan-Sun Moon kills him, and tries to kill 007 by trying to toss him into a turbine.]]

** In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', Kylo Ren suffers multiple breakdowns. He destroys a console when he learns of BB-8's escape, but ultimately calms down. This fit has nothing on his response to [[spoiler:Rey freeing herself using a 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. Whatever sanity Ren managed to hold onto following this tantrum slips away after he [[spoiler:kills his father, Han Solo, and gets shot]]. Mortally wounded and unmasked, he tails the heroes, screams at Finn, throws Rey against a tree and furiously beats the wound in his abdomen. The ensuing lightsaber battle is brutal, with Ren barely keeping it together and seeming to toy with his adversaries until Rey ultimately [[spoiler:gets the upper hand by channeling the Force.]]

* ''{{Film/Bright}}'': The [[TheFairFolk elf terrorist]] Leilah acts calm and composed during the entire movie without barely showing emotion, until the end when she sees [[CainAndAbel her sister]] [[MysticalWaif Tikka]] refuses to rejoin their group and then she throws a ranting and screaming fit towards Daryl Ward for having having "corrupted" her somehow.

* "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''?"

--->'''[[TheDragon Joachim:''' No, sir! You have Genesis! You can have whatever you--

** 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:

** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'': Similar to Le Chiffre, Rosa Klebb has one in her final scene, [[spoiler:where she desperately tries to kill Bond in a Venice hotel room.]]

** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'': Similar to Le Chiffre, Rosa Klebb has one in her final scene, where she desperately tries to kill Bond in a Venice hotel room.

** ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'': In the opening scene, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who spent years in hiding and plotted his revenge against 007 for foiling his {{Evil Plan}}s, tries to kill Bond while the latter is visiting the grave of his dead wife via a remote-controlled helicopter, [[BadBoss kills one of his own men]], and sadistically toys with Bond during the aforementioned assassination attempt. But when Bond regains control over the helicopter, Blofeld pathetically pleads with 007 to be spared, but Bond ignores it and drops him down an industrial chimney stack, killing him for good.
** While Max Zorin in ''Film/AViewToAKill'' was already an insane psychopath to begin with, he slowly loses his grip on sanity as the film progresses. [[spoiler:By the end of the movie, he's completely AxCrazy to the point of wielding a fire axe against Bond after entering breakdown mode while killing his henchmen left and right.]]
** Sanchez in ''Film/LicenceToKill'' loses his sanity by the end of the film. He goes from [[BenevolentBoss treating his employees with trust and respect]] [[spoiler: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.]]

** ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'': Le Chiffre goes from coldy and effortlessly dismantling his opponents at the poker table to a screaming, sweaty nervous wreck as Bond is taunting him despite being painfully tortured.

** Sanchez in ''Film/LicenceToKill'' had a minor case of this during the final action sequence. He goes from [[BenevolentBoss 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/DoctorStrange'', [[spoiler:Strange ends up putting Dormammu into this by trapping the two of them in a time loop, with Strange dropping in again, declaring "Dormammu! I've come to bargain!" every time Strange is killed by Dormammu. After a couple dozen times of this, he gets fed up and begs for the loop to end.]]

* 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.]]

** 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.]]

* ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate'': After Kevin [[spoiler: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]].

* ''Film/StarTrek'' (2009). Nero's ''"Fire everything!"'' when he realizes Spock is doing a suicide run. But Ayel also has one when we first see him, upon realising he's [[TimeTravel arrived 25 years too early]]. This is in contrast to Nero who commonly speaks very little or else says things like "Hello Christopher. I'm Nero."
** He momentarily lapses into this when Pike tells him that Romulus (the one in the new timeline, though he doesn't know that) hasn't been destroyed. "'''DON'T TELL ME IT DIDN'T HAPPEN! IT ''DID HAPPEN!!'' I ''SAW'' IT HAPPEN!!'''
** He also has a [[TheKhan Khan moment]] after he learns that Spock has just ruined his plan to [[spoiler:destroy Earth the way he earlier destroyed Spock's home planet]]. '''"SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!"'''
** '''"I WANT SPOCK DEAD NOOOOW!"'''
* ''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]].
* [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent]] tyrant [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Khan]] has had a few of these. The most notable one occurs between the original series episode [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries "Space Seed"]] and the beginning of the film, when an ApocalypseHow ruins his world and kills his wife. He has another when his two puppet-controlled assassins fail to kill Kirk. His last one is when his attempt to destroy the Enterprise in a Nebula fails. Strangely enough, Khan quickly regains his composure and goes back on the offensive in line with the Magnificent Bastard he is. But it's clear that his psyche is damaged by his constant need to dominate.
** Khan's only true breakdown is when Chekov tries to claim that Khan was given a fair deal being exiled on Ceti Alpha Five which had since turned into a dead wasteland.
-->'''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 the making of the movie, Ricardo Montalban who played Khan even commented that he wanted that scene to be Khan's one true breakdown moment where he blew his top rather than acting or speaking in a deliberate controlled fashion.

--> "Full POWERRRRR! - ''damn you!''"

** In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', Kylo Ren suffers multiple breakdowns. He destroys a console when he learns of BB-8's escape, but ultimately calms down. This fit has nothing on his response to [[spoiler:Rey freeing herself using a 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. Whatever sanity Ren managed to hold onto following this tantrum slips away after he [[spoiler:kills his father and gets shot]]. Mortally wounded and unmasked, he tails the heroes, screams at Finn, throws Rey against a tree and furiously beats the wound in his abdomen. The ensuing lightsaber battle is brutal, with Ren barely keeping it together and seeming to toy with his adversaries until Rey ultimately [[spoiler:gets the upper hand by channeling the Force.]]

* 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.

** ''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.

** ''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/WallStreet'': Near the film's climax, [[BigBad Gordon]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Gekko]] dumps his remaining interest in Bluestar Airlines, 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 his former protege Bud Fox engineered the entire scheme (after realizing that [[BrokenPedestal Gekko]] has cheated him out on the Bluestar deal), Gekko physically assaults Bud, berating his ingratitude for several of their illegal business transactions (including Bluestar). Also counts as a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech trope.