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* In Will Elliott's ''Literature/ThePiloFamilyCircus'', Kurt Pilo has a particularly spectacular breakdown; convinced that his underlings are turning traitor on him and overcome by rage, he begins [[OneWingedAngel mutating into a monstrous demonic reptile]] with a habit for [[GigglingVillain giggling insanely under his breath]]. Then, he kills every single carny in his path to killing off the suspected traitors, before being fooled into descending into the depths of the funhous e- and [[spoiler: coming face to face with his [[EldritchAbomination less-than-approving Employers]].]]
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* In Will Elliott's ''Literature/ThePiloFamilyCircus'', Kurt Pilo has a particularly spectacular breakdown; convinced that his underlings are turning traitor on him and overcome by rage, he begins [[OneWingedAngel mutating into a monstrous demonic reptile]] with a habit for [[GigglingVillain giggling insanely under his breath]]. Then, he kills every single carny in his path to killing off the suspected traitors, before being fooled into descending into the depths of the funhous e- funhouse and [[spoiler: coming face to face with his [[EldritchAbomination less-than-approving Employers]].]]
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* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'': Broud has a complete meltdown at the end of ''The Clan of the Cave Bear''. He orders Ayla be cursed with death when she publicly stands up to him over his unjust actions, but any triumph he feels dissipates quickly when an earthquake strikes, destroying the clan's cave. Broud desperately tries to blame it on Ayla, insisting she brings bad luck, but it's obvious that the majority of the clan and Broud himself fear that ''he'' angered the spirits by abruptly and unjustly cursing Ayla and caused the destruction. Ayla stands up to Broud again, insisting that she isn't really dead and that no matter what else he does to hurt her, he cannot force her to die. Broud gets so riled up by Ayla's words that he completely loses it and tries to hit her; he immediately realises that he's made himself look even worse because he publicly acknowledged a cursed person, which is thought to be bad luck, and proved once again he has little self-control. Broud tries to deflect the negative attention onto his own father after noticing he subtly acknowledged Ayla, only for Brun to turn it back on him. Broud is left utterly humiliated in front of everyone.
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* ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'': [=DomDaniel=] suffers a Villainous Breakdown including begging for mercy when he's spotted by Marcia Overstrand as having tries to use his Apprentice's body as his own to fool them.
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* ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'': [=DomDaniel=] suffers a Villainous Breakdown including begging for mercy when he's spotted by Marcia Overstrand as having tries tried to use his Apprentice's body as his own to fool them.
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** Sauron himself has one upon realizing [[SoulJar the One Ring]] is at Mount Doom, the one place in all of Middle Earth it, and by extension him, is actually in mortal danger. He becomes both enraged and ''terrified'' at the realization for the first time in thousands of years, his life is in actual ''danger''.
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** Sauron himself has one upon realizing [[SoulJar the One Ring]] is at Mount Doom, the one place in all of Middle Earth it, and by extension him, is actually in mortal danger. He becomes both enraged and ''terrified'' at the realization that for the first time in thousands of years, his life is in actual ''danger''.
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* Tokinada in ''Literature/BleachCannotFearYourOwnWorld'' [[VillainExitStageLeft retreats back to his mansion]] after his plan falls apart, where he's met by Mayuri, who gives him a brief TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. Tokinada goes off on a self-aggrandizing rant about how no matter what his punishment is, he'll always be the embodiment of the {{Karma}} of the Soul Society. Then, he's stabbed by a [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty completely random girl who's family he killed]]. That's when Tokinada completely ''[[FreakOut freaks out]]'' and starts {{laughing|Mad}} and screaming to everyone he ever hurt or killed about how this is how it ends, and how none of them will ever get the satisfaction of killing him with their own hands, in spite of the fact most of them [[SmallNameBigEgo don't even care anymore]], or are even around to hear it.
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* Tokinada in ''Literature/BleachCannotFearYourOwnWorld'' ''Literature/BleachCantFearYourOwnWorld'' [[VillainExitStageLeft retreats back to his mansion]] after his plan falls apart, where he's met by Mayuri, who gives him a brief TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. Tokinada goes off on a self-aggrandizing rant about how no matter what his punishment is, he'll always be the embodiment of the {{Karma}} of the Soul Society. Then, he's stabbed by a [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty completely random girl who's family he killed]]. That's when Tokinada completely ''[[FreakOut freaks out]]'' and starts {{laughing|Mad}} and screaming to everyone he ever hurt or killed about how this is how it ends, and how none of them will ever get the satisfaction of killing him with their own hands, in spite of the fact most of them [[SmallNameBigEgo don't even care anymore]], or are even around to hear it.
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* Tokinada in ''LightNovel/BleachCannotFearYourOwnWorld'' [[VillainExitStageLeft retreats back to his mansion]] after his plan falls apart, where he's met by Mayuri, who gives him a brief TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. Tokinada goes off on a self-aggrandizing rant about how no matter what his punishment is, he'll always be the embodiment of the {{Karma}} of the Soul Society. Then, he's stabbed by a [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty completely random girl who's family he killed]]. That's when Tokinada completely ''[[FreakOut freaks out]]'' and starts {{laughing|Mad}} and screaming to everyone he ever hurt or killed about how this is how it ends, and how none of them will ever get the satisfaction of killing him with their own hands, in spite of the fact most of them [[SmallNameBigEgo don't even care anymore]], or are even around to hear it.
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* Tokinada in ''LightNovel/BleachCannotFearYourOwnWorld'' ''Literature/BleachCannotFearYourOwnWorld'' [[VillainExitStageLeft retreats back to his mansion]] after his plan falls apart, where he's met by Mayuri, who gives him a brief TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. Tokinada goes off on a self-aggrandizing rant about how no matter what his punishment is, he'll always be the embodiment of the {{Karma}} of the Soul Society. Then, he's stabbed by a [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty completely random girl who's family he killed]]. That's when Tokinada completely ''[[FreakOut freaks out]]'' and starts {{laughing|Mad}} and screaming to everyone he ever hurt or killed about how this is how it ends, and how none of them will ever get the satisfaction of killing him with their own hands, in spite of the fact most of them [[SmallNameBigEgo don't even care anymore]], or are even around to hear it.
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* ''Literature/TheFootprintOfMussolini'':
** Adolf Eichmann is provoked into one at the Nuremberg Trials. When prosecutor Hartley Shawcross asks him a series of questions about Jewish combatants designed to get under his skin, he loses his temper and goes on a furious anti-Semitic rant.
-->"I never begged to those disgusting vermin! I've done nothing wrong! The fact that we killed five million of them is the greatest thing we ever accomplished! I'll go into my grave with a clean conscience that I did so much to remove those cockroaches from the face of the Earth!"
** During the tail end of the Second Arabian War, after [[spoiler: Cairo is nuked during Operation Samson and he's blinded after looking at the explosion]], Gamal Nasser's sanity goes up in smoke as well. Still determined to fight the Italians and the Anglo-Sudanese to the very end (despite the fact that Egypt's war effort has all but collapsed) and become the leader of the crumbling [[MiddleEasternCoalition UAR]], he becomes obsessed with getting revenge on Aflaq after he reveals to the world that Nasser [[spoiler: was blinded by the Cairo nuke]]. Nasser degrades so much that his own close friend Anwar Sadat had to kill him just to save Egypt.
-->'''Anwar Sadat''': "It was October 1st. Nasser was escorted to the table and we delivered a report discussing the situation in Kurdistan – about the Kurds rebelling and seeking Iranian help. Once we finished, and we talked for about fifteen minutes, Nasser spoke for a whole hour about nothing except how much he hated Aflaq and that we must plan a way to get him to lead the UAR instead of him. Then he left – the words 'Kurdistan' or 'Kurds' weren't spoken. Yasser [Arafat] came to me after the meeting and said, 'We can't live like this – we need to do something'. He was right, and I told him he was. That was when, with the heaviest heart, I decided to put my love of my country over the love of my friend."
** After she coups Mao out of power for his disastrous leadership during the Chinese War, it quickly became clear to Jiang Qing that the rump PRC is nothing but a starving PuppetState beholden to Moscow. Jiang decides to return to the big screen in North China to escape her situation by starring in movies that star herself in various Mary Sue-like roles, even mandating her people see her horrible films or face reprisal. What began as an escapist project, however, would soon become an obsession and then a mania, and the worse things got, the worse she sank into delusion, which contributes to how she dies. During the Fall of North China, Jiang would lock herself inside one of the underground theaters in her bunker where she gave one last decree to the projectionist to broadcast all her films nonstop, which she continued watching until she died from exhaustion and starvation. The author even describes her situation as "basically ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'' but Gloria Swanson runs the whole country".
** Mikhail Suslov first begins to crack when Malenkov takes full control of the USSR but leaves him alive afterwards, and finally shatters by the time of the Trier Trial. During his trial, he would call Malenkov "a cross-humping faggot", call Molotov "the bastard son of a gypsy and a vodka bottle", and declared that he had secret Communist agents within the court ready to kill everyone in the room and rescue him. Future historians note that had the circumstances been different, Suslov would've been declared unfit for trial.
** Adolf Eichmann is provoked into one at the Nuremberg Trials. When prosecutor Hartley Shawcross asks him a series of questions about Jewish combatants designed to get under his skin, he loses his temper and goes on a furious anti-Semitic rant.
-->"I never begged to those disgusting vermin! I've done nothing wrong! The fact that we killed five million of them is the greatest thing we ever accomplished! I'll go into my grave with a clean conscience that I did so much to remove those cockroaches from the face of the Earth!"
** During the tail end of the Second Arabian War, after [[spoiler: Cairo is nuked during Operation Samson and he's blinded after looking at the explosion]], Gamal Nasser's sanity goes up in smoke as well. Still determined to fight the Italians and the Anglo-Sudanese to the very end (despite the fact that Egypt's war effort has all but collapsed) and become the leader of the crumbling [[MiddleEasternCoalition UAR]], he becomes obsessed with getting revenge on Aflaq after he reveals to the world that Nasser [[spoiler: was blinded by the Cairo nuke]]. Nasser degrades so much that his own close friend Anwar Sadat had to kill him just to save Egypt.
-->'''Anwar Sadat''': "It was October 1st. Nasser was escorted to the table and we delivered a report discussing the situation in Kurdistan – about the Kurds rebelling and seeking Iranian help. Once we finished, and we talked for about fifteen minutes, Nasser spoke for a whole hour about nothing except how much he hated Aflaq and that we must plan a way to get him to lead the UAR instead of him. Then he left – the words 'Kurdistan' or 'Kurds' weren't spoken. Yasser [Arafat] came to me after the meeting and said, 'We can't live like this – we need to do something'. He was right, and I told him he was. That was when, with the heaviest heart, I decided to put my love of my country over the love of my friend."
** After she coups Mao out of power for his disastrous leadership during the Chinese War, it quickly became clear to Jiang Qing that the rump PRC is nothing but a starving PuppetState beholden to Moscow. Jiang decides to return to the big screen in North China to escape her situation by starring in movies that star herself in various Mary Sue-like roles, even mandating her people see her horrible films or face reprisal. What began as an escapist project, however, would soon become an obsession and then a mania, and the worse things got, the worse she sank into delusion, which contributes to how she dies. During the Fall of North China, Jiang would lock herself inside one of the underground theaters in her bunker where she gave one last decree to the projectionist to broadcast all her films nonstop, which she continued watching until she died from exhaustion and starvation. The author even describes her situation as "basically ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'' but Gloria Swanson runs the whole country".
** Mikhail Suslov first begins to crack when Malenkov takes full control of the USSR but leaves him alive afterwards, and finally shatters by the time of the Trier Trial. During his trial, he would call Malenkov "a cross-humping faggot", call Molotov "the bastard son of a gypsy and a vodka bottle", and declared that he had secret Communist agents within the court ready to kill everyone in the room and rescue him. Future historians note that had the circumstances been different, Suslov would've been declared unfit for trial.
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* ''Literature/DeGriezelbus'': At the end of book 4, Onnoval almost breaks down into tears when his EvilPlan actually succeeds, but is then foiled when his manuscript is rewritten on Mister Jacques' computer. He curses the children for defeating him yet again and disappears into the DarkWorld as a puddle of slime.
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* ''Literature/DeGriezelbus'': At the end of book 4, Onnoval almost breaks down into tears when his EvilPlan actually succeeds, but is then foiled when his manuscript is rewritten on Mister Jacques' computer. He whines about how "unfair" it is, curses the children for defeating him yet again again, and disappears into the DarkWorld as a puddle of slime.
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** Voldemort is always close to the edge, but somehow maintains his cool... until ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' at least, where Voldemort has so completely ripped his soul apart from his repeated killing and use of Horcruxes that he completely loses it on several occasions, at one point [[ShootTheMessenger killing everyone in the room]] because a hapless goblin [[BearerOfBadNews delivers some bad news]]. Even when he BSOD's during the final fight against Harry, he transfers the shock of that into rage and denial.
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** Voldemort is always close to the edge, but somehow maintains his cool... until ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' at least, where Voldemort has so completely ripped his soul apart from his repeated killing and use of Horcruxes that he completely loses it on several occasions, at one point [[ShootTheMessenger killing everyone in the room]] because a hapless goblin [[BearerOfBadNews delivers some bad news]]. (Of course, that bad news is that Harry and his friends just stole an artifact that Voldy had turned into a horcrux; he outright panics because Harry knows about and is actively working to destroy the horcruxes.) Even when he BSOD's during the final fight against Harry, he transfers the shock of that into rage and denial.
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* ''Literature/DeGriezelbus'': At the end of book 4, Onnoval almost breaks down into tears when his plan actually succeeds, but is then foiled when his manuscript is rewritten on Mister Jacques' computer. He curses the children for defeating him yet again and disappears into the Dark World as a puddle of slime.
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* ''Literature/DeGriezelbus'': At the end of book 4, Onnoval almost breaks down into tears when his plan EvilPlan actually succeeds, but is then foiled when his manuscript is rewritten on Mister Jacques' computer. He curses the children for defeating him yet again and disappears into the Dark World DarkWorld as a puddle of slime.
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* ''Literature/DeGriezelbus'': At the end of book 4, Onnoval almost breaks down into tears when his plan actually succeeds, but is then foiled when his manuscript is rewritten on Mister Jacques' computer. He curses the children for defeating him yet again and disappears into the Dark World as a puddle of slime.
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* At the end of ''Literature/TheDeathCure'', A.D. Janson gets a major one [[spoiler:during his fight with Thomas, partially because the Gladers have escaped and his plans have been foiled, and partially because he is becoming increasingly more deranged due to having contracted [[HatePlague the Flare]] sometime earlier]].
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* ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'': At the end of ''The Death Cure'', A.D. Janson gets a major one [[spoiler:during his fight with Thomas, partially because the Gladers have escaped and his plans have been foiled, and partially because he is becoming increasingly more deranged due to having contracted [[HatePlague the Flare]] sometime earlier]].
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* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' largely averts this by having most of the villains start off [[AxCrazy Pre-broken-down]]. However, when [[SixthRangerTraitor David]] finds out he has been deceived and trapped, he begins sliding into this, and when he finds out that his fate is to be [[ForcefulTransformation trapped in]] [[BodyHorror the body of a rat]] for the rest of his life, he slides over the scale. All through the two hour morph limit, and up until they transport him out to a small island and leave him, he ''never stops screaming the word [[BigNo "No"]] over and over, even after they leave.'' Understandable, considering the [[FateWorseThanDeath circumstances.]] Even [[DarkActionGirl Rachel]] is haunted by that experience throughout the series.
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* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' largely averts this by having most of the villains start off [[AxCrazy Pre-broken-down]]. However, when [[SixthRangerTraitor David]] finds out he has been deceived and trapped, he begins sliding into this, and when he finds out that his fate is to be [[ForcefulTransformation [[ForcedTransformation trapped in]] [[BodyHorror the body of a rat]] for the rest of his life, he slides over the scale. All through the two hour morph limit, and up until they transport him out to a small island and leave him, he ''never stops screaming the word [[BigNo "No"]] over and over, even after they leave.'' Understandable, considering the [[FateWorseThanDeath circumstances.]] Even [[DarkActionGirl Rachel]] is haunted by that experience throughout the series.
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* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' largely averts this by having most of the villains start off [[AxCrazy Pre-broken-down]]. However, when [[SixthRangerTraitor David]] finds out he has been deceived and trapped, he begins sliding into this, and when he finds out that his fate is to be [[BalefulPolymorph [[ForcefulTransformation trapped in]] [[BodyHorror the body of a rat]] for the rest of his life, he slides over the scale. All through the two hour morph limit, and up until they transport him out to a small island and leave him, he ''never stops screaming the word [[BigNo "No"]] over and over, even after they leave.'' Understandable, considering the [[FateWorseThanDeath circumstances.]] Even [[DarkActionGirl Rachel]] is haunted by that experience throughout the series.
