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* ''RockAndRule''. Mok has a spectacular breakdown.

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* ''RockAndRule''. Mok has a spectacular breakdown.breakdown when his climactic demon-summoning plan goes badly awry:


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--> "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.
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* In ''[[Film/KickAss Kick-Ass]]'', 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.
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* The Other Mother is normally a creepy StepfordSmiler. She looses her fragile composure after ''Film/{{Coraline}}'' refuses to apologize to her and after Coraline throws the cat at her face and it [[EyeScream claws off her button eyes]]. Also, when Coraline is escaping to the real world from the other world the Other Mother looses it and screams "DON'T LEAVE ME! DON'T LEAVE ME! I'LL DIE, I'LL DIE WITHOUT YOU!!!!!!" Also, after they throw the hand and the key inside the well, if you listen closely, you can hear the Other Mother whispering 'No'.

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* The Other Mother is normally a creepy StepfordSmiler. She looses loses her fragile composure after ''Film/{{Coraline}}'' refuses to apologize to her and after Coraline throws the cat at her face and it [[EyeScream claws off her button eyes]]. Also, when Coraline is escaping to the real world from the other world the Other Mother looses it and screams "DON'T LEAVE ME! DON'T LEAVE ME! I'LL DIE, I'LL DIE WITHOUT YOU!!!!!!" Also, after they throw the hand and the key inside the well, if you listen closely, you can hear the Other Mother whispering 'No'.
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* Neville Sinclair in ''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 Jenny catches her reading up on it and takes her hostage for real.

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* Neville Sinclair in ''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 Jenny he catches her Jenny reading up on it and takes her hostage for real.

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* Neville Sinclair in ''TheRocketeer'' suffers this kind of breakdown when he is confronted with the information that he is in fact a Nazi spy. He becomes bilingual in English and German in the process and promptly turns on Valentine's gang just as they had turned on him.

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* Neville Sinclair in ''TheRocketeer'' suffers this kind of breakdown when he is confronted with the information that he is in fact a Nazi spy. He becomes first breaks down in this way when Jenny catches her reading up on it and takes her hostage for real.
--> '''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, becoming
bilingual in English and German in the process and promptly turns turning on Valentine's gang gang, just as they had turned on him.him, with another gang, this one of Nazis spies lurking in the shadows.
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* Jafar in ''Disney/Aladdin'' has this after learning that Aladdin took back the lamp at the cave of wonders. And then there's his LaughingMad moment after the Prince Ali Reprise and his BigNo when he realizes that he's a slave to the lamp after becoming an all powerful genie.

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* Jafar in ''Disney/Aladdin'' has this after learning that Aladdin ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' took back the lamp at the cave of wonders. And then there's his LaughingMad moment after the Prince Ali Reprise and his BigNo when he realizes that he's a slave to the lamp after becoming an all powerful genie.
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* Jafar in ''Disney/Aladdin'' has this after learning that Aladdin took back the lamp at the cave of wonders. And then there's his LaughingMad moment after the Prince Ali Reprise and his BigNo when he realizes that he's a slave to the lamp after becoming an all powerful genie.
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* In ''The Adventures Of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina'' the Mole King goes AxCrazy when Thumbelina rejects him and chooses Tom instead.

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* In ''The Adventures Of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina'' the Mole King goes AxCrazy when Thumbelina rejects him and chooses Tom instead.instead and when Tom smashes his HighClassGlass that allows him to see.
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* In ''The Adventures Of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina'' the Mole King goes Ax Crazy when Thumbelina rejects him and chooses Tom instead.

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* In ''The Adventures Of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina'' the Mole King goes Ax Crazy AxCrazy when Thumbelina rejects him and chooses Tom instead.

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* In ''MeanGirls'' [[AlphaBitch Regina George]] has one when she realizes that Cady deliberately made her gain weight.

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* In ''MeanGirls'' [[AlphaBitch Regina George]] has one when she realizes that Cady deliberately made her gain weight.weight and another one when Janie Ian reveals to everyone how Cady had been trying to ruin her life.
* In ''The Adventures Of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina'' the Mole King goes Ax Crazy when Thumbelina rejects him and chooses Tom instead.
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* In ''MeanGirls'' [[AlphaBitch Regina George]] has one when she realizes that Cady deliberately made her gain weight.

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* ''{{Misery}}'': Annie has these frequently being so AxCrazy. The most notable one comes after Paul supposedly burns the manuscript.

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* ''{{Misery}}'': Annie has these frequently being so AxCrazy. The most notable one comes after Paul supposedly burns the manuscript. manuscript.
* In ''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.
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* ''{{Misery}}'': Annie has these frequently being so AxCrazy. The most notable one comes after Paul supposedly burns the manuscript.
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** In the first film Gaston increasingly goes from being a {{Jerkass}} StalkerWithACrush into an unhinged {{Yandere}} CompleteMonster. It's especially evident after [[NotGoodWithRejection Belle keeps refusing him]].

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** In the first film Gaston increasingly goes from being a {{Jerkass}} StalkerWithACrush into an unhinged {{Yandere}} CompleteMonster. It's especially evident after [[NotGoodWithRejection Belle keeps refusing him]].



* The Other Mother has creepy ones after ''Film/{{Coraline}}'' refuses to apologize to her and after Coraline throws the cat at her face and it [[EyeScream claws off her button eyes]]. Also, when Coraline is escaping to the real world from the other world the Other Mother screams "DON'T LEAVE ME! DON'T LEAVE ME! I'LL DIE, I'LL DIE WITHOUT YOU!!!!!!"

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* The Other Mother has is normally a creepy ones StepfordSmiler. She looses her fragile composure after ''Film/{{Coraline}}'' refuses to apologize to her and after Coraline throws the cat at her face and it [[EyeScream claws off her button eyes]]. Also, when Coraline is escaping to the real world from the other world the Other Mother looses it and screams "DON'T LEAVE ME! DON'T LEAVE ME! I'LL DIE, I'LL DIE WITHOUT YOU!!!!!!"YOU!!!!!!" Also, after they throw the hand and the key inside the well, if you listen closely, you can hear the Other Mother whispering 'No'.
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** In the first film Gaston increasingly goes from being a {{Jerkass}} StalkerWithACrush into an unhinged {{Yandere}} CompleteMonster. It's especially evident after [[NotGoodWithRejection Belle keeps refusing him]].
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* The Other Mother has creepy ones after ''Film/{{Coraline}}'' refuses to apologize to her and after Coraline throws the cat at her face and it [[EyeScream claws off her button eyes]]. Also, when Coraline is escaping to the real world from the other world the Other Mother screams "DON'T LEAVE ME! DON'T LEAVE ME! I'LL DIE, I'LL DIE WITHOUT YOU!!!!!!"
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* Neville Sinclair in ''TheRocketeer'' suffers this breakdown when he is confronted with the information that he is in fact a Nazi spy, becoming bilingual in English and German in the process and turning on Valentine's gang just as they had turned on him.
* ''BeautyAndTheBeastTheEnchantedChristmas'': Forte goes absolutely nuts and looses what remaining sanity he had left at the climax of the film because he thinks that he's no longer important.

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* Neville Sinclair in ''TheRocketeer'' suffers this kind of breakdown when he is confronted with the information that he is in fact a Nazi spy, becoming spy. He becomes bilingual in English and German in the process and turning promptly turns on Valentine's gang just as they had turned on him.
* ''BeautyAndTheBeastTheEnchantedChristmas'': Forte goes absolutely nuts and looses loses what remaining sanity he had left at the climax of the film because he thinks that he's no longer important.
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* At the end of Disney's animated ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' (see the image on the right), Ratigan goes from being a smarmy, smug intellectual [[OneWingedAngel to a feral, crazed rat]], savagely attacking Basil. Although he does have quick seconds of losing his cool throughout the film, he is just as quickly able to recollect himself as calm and collective. Until the end, of course, when Basil saves the entire Flaversham clan. Throughout the whole movie, Olivia and her father remain more or less separated from each other by Ratigan, but when Basil manages to successfully save them both, Ratigan breaks down.

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* At the end of Disney's animated ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' (see the image on the right), Ratigan goes from being a smarmy, smug intellectual [[OneWingedAngel to a feral, crazed rat]], savagely attacking Basil. Although he does have quick seconds of losing his cool throughout the film, he is just as quickly able to recollect himself as calm and collective. Until the end, of course, when Basil saves the entire Flaversham clan. Throughout the whole movie, Olivia and her father remain more or less clan, whom, thanks to Ratigan, had been kept separated from each other by Ratigan, but other. But when Basil manages to successfully save them both, saves and reunites Olivia and her father, Ratigan breaks down.
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* When he's captured by the police in ''{{Casablanca}}'', Ugarte has a brief but memorable breakdown.
--> '''Ugarte''': ''PLEEEASSEEE RICK!''
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* ''BeautyAndTheBeastTheEnchantedChristmas'': Forte goes absolutely nuts and looses what remaining sanity he had left at the climax of the film because he thinks that he's no longer important.
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* Neville Sinclair in ''TheRocketeer'' suffers this breakdown when he is confronted with the information that he is in fact a Nazi spy, becoming bilingual in English and German in the process.

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* Neville Sinclair in ''TheRocketeer'' suffers this breakdown when he is confronted with the information that he is in fact a Nazi spy, becoming bilingual in English and German in the process.process and turning on Valentine's gang just as they had turned on him.
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* At the end of Disney's animated ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' (see the image on the right), Ratigan goes from being a smarmy, smug intellectual [[OneWingedAngel to a feral, crazed rat]], savagely attacking Basil. Although he does have quick seconds of losing his cool throughout the film, he is just as quickly able to recollect himself as calm and collective. Until the end, of course.

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* At the end of Disney's animated ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' (see the image on the right), Ratigan goes from being a smarmy, smug intellectual [[OneWingedAngel to a feral, crazed rat]], savagely attacking Basil. Although he does have quick seconds of losing his cool throughout the film, he is just as quickly able to recollect himself as calm and collective. Until the end, of course.course, when Basil saves the entire Flaversham clan. Throughout the whole movie, Olivia and her father remain more or less separated from each other by Ratigan, but when Basil manages to successfully save them both, Ratigan breaks down.
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* Neville Sinclair in ''TheRocketeer'' suffers this breakdown when he is confronted with the information that he is in fact a Nazi spy, becoming bilingual in English and German in the process.
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* At the end of Disney's animated ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' (see the image on the right), Ratigan goes from being a smarmy, smug intellectual to a feral, crazed rat, savagely attacking Basil. Although he does have quick seconds of losing his cool throughout the film, he is just as quickly able to recollect himself as calm and collective. Until the end, of course.

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* At the end of Disney's animated ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' (see the image on the right), Ratigan goes from being a smarmy, smug intellectual [[OneWingedAngel to a feral, crazed rat, rat]], savagely attacking Basil. Although he does have quick seconds of losing his cool throughout the film, he is just as quickly able to recollect himself as calm and collective. Until the end, of course.
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* Screwface, the BigBad of StevenSeagal film ''Film/MarkedForDeath'' has one moment a little less than halfway in the movie where he totally 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.

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* Screwface, the BigBad of StevenSeagal film ''Film/MarkedForDeath'' ''MarkedForDeath'' has one moment a little less than halfway in the movie where he totally 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.
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* Screwface, the BigBad of StevenSeagal film ''Film/MarkedForDeath'' has one moment a little less than halfway in the movie where he totally 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.
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* AdolfHitler in virtually the whole of ''{{Downfall}}'' (past the opening PetTheDog interview with his new secretary), but most notably when he's told that one of his generals could not muster up enough forces to halt the Allied offensive on Berlin. Hitler quietly 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]].

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* AdolfHitler in virtually the whole of ''{{Downfall}}'' ''Film/{{Downfall}}'' (past the opening PetTheDog interview with his new secretary), but most notably when he's told that one of his generals could not muster up enough forces to halt the Allied offensive on Berlin. Hitler quietly 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]].
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* ''Falling Down'' is essentially one of these spread throughout an entire movie.

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* Hopper in ''ABugsLife'' has two: first, when the fake bird is exposed and the ants then stand up to the grasshoppers; second and more acutely, when his taking Flik hostage is thwarted by Atta and Hopper gives chase, viciously pursuing Flik [[spoiler:to an actual bird's nest, where Hopper, doesn't think that the birds are real until it's too late]].

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* Hopper in ''ABugsLife'' has two: first, when the fake bird is exposed and the ants then stand up to the grasshoppers; second and more acutely, when his taking Flik hostage is thwarted by Atta and Hopper gives chase, viciously pursuing Flik [[spoiler:to an actual bird's nest, where Hopper, Hopper doesn't think that the birds are real until it's too late]].


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* ''ChickenRun'': As Mrs. Tweedy tries to stop the chickens from escaping, wielding an axe, Rocky knocks her out and the chickens all manage to escape. But when Mrs. Tweedy comes to, she lets loose with primal rage and literally goes AxCrazy in her determination to stop the chickens in general and execute Ginger in particular with the axe.

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