History VillainousBreakdown / LiveActionTV

** ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Power Rangers Super Megaforce]]'': Prince Vekor begins his series-long breakdown when the Super Megaforce team haul the Legendary Megazord into space and proceed with a RoaringRampageOfRevenge for the Armada's attacks on the Earth.

* ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'': In the final episode, MagnificentBastard / TheTrickster DCI Jim Keats has a spectacular one when he [[spoiler: loses his patience with the people he's trying to turn against Gene Hunt, beats Gene to a pulp, and breaks the illusion of CID to expose the true nature of Purgatory. It seems like he's going to win, but Alex fixes the world, the team rallies together, and Gene helps them all cross over.]] He then has another, less badass one when he [[spoiler: breaks down upon being beaten by Gene, to the point of laughing in a deranged fashion, speaking in random, babyish sentences and stumbling off in no particular direction.]]

-->'''Walt''': '''WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!? WE'RE A FAMILY!!'''[[note]]He screams at Skyler after she pulled a knife on him for leading Hank to his death[[/note]] [[OhCrap We're]] [[HeelRealization a]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone family...]]

*** Walt has an equally memorable one in the third-to-last episode, "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E14Ozymandias]]", upon seeing he has lost everything. To sum it up:

** Gus Fring had one in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E1BoxCutter Box Cutter]]", when upon finding out that [[spoiler: Walter and Jesse [[OutGambitted had killed his replacement chemist Gale]] to force him to [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou spare their lives lest he be left with no way to produce more meth]], he goes to the meth lab and slits the throat of one of his subordinates, Victor, and restrains him so that he cannot stop his hemorrhage and bleeds to death, apparently to vent his anger and to scare the shit out of the protagonists, and Victor was the only person in the room that was expendable.]] Also notable because it's only his actions that which reflect the breakdown, he only speaks after the whole thing is over, [[PragmaticVillainy telling everyone remaining in the room to get back to work]].

** After seven seasons of being the show's most notable MagnificentBastard, [[spoiler: Littlefinger's KarmaHoudini status is finally revoked. He thinks he's set Sansa and Arya against each other with Sansa calling Arya to answer charges of treason. Instead, Sansa reveals ''Littlefinger'' is the one on trial as all his various misdeeds are laid out. Too late, Littlefinger realizes he has no allies here and he's been set up. He tries to win Sansa back only for her to throw his own words back on control and not showing mercy, driving Littlefinger to lose his cool. He literally gets on his knees to beg for mercy. Instead, Arya slices his throat and lets him die in the hall.]]

** After seven seasons of the show's most notable MagnificentBastard, [[spoiler: Littlefinger's KarmaHoudini finally runs out. He thinks he's set Sansa and Arya against each other with Sansa calling Arya to answer charges of treason. Instead, Sansa reveals ''Littlefinger'' is the one on trial as all his various misdeeds are laid out. Too late, Littlefinger realizes he has no allies here and he's been set up. He tries to win Sansa back only for her to throw his own words back on control and not showing mercy, driving Littlefinger to lose his cool. He literally gets on his knees to beg for mercy. Instead, Arya slices his throat and lets him die in the hall.]]

* ''Series/ColdCase'': George Marks, the SmugSnake serial killer undergoes this in the season 2 finale. Lilly refuses to let George get to him, and after confronting him with his mother's crime she rips apart his god complex saying that all George is is a scared little boy whose mommy never loved him. George proceeds to lose his cool and screams at Lilly to shut up repeatedly. After watching him walk away in a previous episode, witnessing him loose his cool was kind of satisfying. In the season 1 finale, the villian Jim Larkin keeps his cool until they reveal that they have dna evidence linking him to the crime, at which point he completely drops the facade and screams about how both of his targets were supposed to have died that night. John Smith also experiences this twice; first when his target avoids being broken, and the second when the detectives figure out where his victim is being held in time to save her.

** Season 8 eventually reaches the breaking point where she watches Daenerys and Drogon burn down King's Landing to the ground with all of her forces decimated. By then, she is forced to leave the collapsing Red Keep. When she reunites with Jaime one last time, she breaks down into tears, begging that she wants their baby to live. And despite reaching the escape route, it's already blocked by fallen debris so, she and Jaime eventually accept their fate and hold on to each other as the rocks fall onto them.

** After seven seasons of the show's most notable MagnificentBastard, [[spoiler: Littlefinger's KarmaHoudini finally runs out. He thinks he's set Sansa and Arya against each other with Sansa calling Arya to answer charges of treason. Instead, Sansa reveals ''Littlefinger'' is the one on trial as all his various misdeeds are laid out. Too late, Littlefinger realizes he has no allies here and he's been set up. He tries to win Sansa back only for her to throw his own words back on control and not showing mercy, driving Littlefinger to lose his cool. He literally gets on his knees to beg for mercy but instead, Arya slices his throat and lets him die in the hall.]]

** In [[Recap/GameOfThronesS3E4AndNowHisWatchIsEnded "And Now His Watch is Ended"]], Kraznys mo Nakloz has made a trade with Daenerys, with her agreeing to give one of her dragons in exchange for his army of Unsullied, after insulting her one last time in the Valyrian tongue, Daenerys reveals that [[spoiler: she speaks it as well]], much to his horror and watches as she orders her new army to slaughter the Good Masters of Astapor. He frantically attempts to order the Unsullied to cease their attack, to no avail, shortly before she orders the dragon she handed over to him to burn him alive.

** Sylar in Volume 4. [[spoiler: After stealing a shape-shifting power Sylar begins to suffer a severe case of MPD as his body begins shifting and changing against his will, altering his DNA to new and unfamiliar patterns. It's not long before he's imagining that he's talking to his dead mother, shape shifting into her to talk to her and breaking down sobbing about how no one loves him and how alone he is. This only gets worse as he then tries to seduce Claire, believing her to be "Destined" to be his because the two are immortal, while plotting to be president just so he can feel special and loved for a little while]].
** See also: Samuel Sullivan. [[spoiler:The crumbling starts when the chink in his armor (his murder of his brother) is finally revealed before an audience, and he just comes more and more undone as the other carnies -- whom he considers his family -- desert him, causing him to lose the source of his power, until it finally all falls apart and he collapses.]] Major points to Robert Knepper.

** Apophis' ''second'' death being the most memorable.

* ''Series/{{Flash Gordon|2007}}'': Ming gets this quite a bit in Sci-Fi's show. The best is the series finale, when [[spoiler:all of the heroes join forces to bring down Ming's regime once and for all. Aura opts to ally herself with her brother and betray her father at least, but still can't resist trying one last time to explain to him how she still loves him despite all he's done and begs him to just surrender. Ming looks moved and acts like he's about to stroke her face. Cue a few scenes later when Flash runs in to find Ming strangling Aura, muttering how he should have killed her as a baby. He then releases her and goes full nutty trying to chop Flash up with a sword.]]
* ''Series/TheFollowing'': Joe Carroll has an ''epic'' one in the first-season finale. The cult he invented is basically one big murderous performance art project, and his control freak nature will not permit the project to go any way other than the way he wants it to. When that starts to happen, well..."freakout" doesn't quite do justice to his reaction.

** [[BastardBastard Ramsay Bolton]] spent almost the entire series gleefully indulging in some of the most horrific acts of violence that the show had ever seen, which is one hell of an accomplishment in [[CrapsackWorld this setting]]. [[{{Sadist}} From sadistic torture, to rape, flaying people alive, hunting women for sport, and feeding people (including his stepmother and newborn half-brother) to his vicious hounds]], Ramsay kept his confidence that karma would never catch up to him. He finally loses his cool when his wife who he had domestically abused and raped nightly has him chained up in a kennel and she finally releases his hounds, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard which he had starved for a week in hopes of feeding Jon Snow to them]]. His orders for them to back down start off defiant but become more panic-stricken as the seconds roll by and he realizes that his sadism won't save him this time. [[AssholeVictim His eventual]] [[DevouredByTheHorde begging does]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath nothing to help]].
** Never the most stable of individuals to begin with, Viserys begins showing greater and greater signs of this as he spends more time among the Dothraki, as he loses control over Daenerys and realizes his powerlessness in the new 'alliance' with Khal Drogo. His breakdown reaches its climax when he drunkenly storms into a feast and ''threatens Drogo's wife and unborn child in front of him and his entire Khalasar''. He ends his life whimpering and begging before the molten gold does its work, after Khal Drogo presents him his "golden crown."

*** Her sanity worsens as her situation does throughout Season 6. This ends up being the dangerous version, since she's desperate and crazy enough in the finale to use the wildfire caches in King's Landing to simply kill all of her rivals at once.
** Season 8 eventually reaches to the breaking point where she watches Daenerys and Drogon burn down King's Landing to the ground with all of her forces decimated. By then, she is forced to leave the collapsing Red Keep. When she reunites with Jaime one last time, she breaks down into tears, begging that she wants their baby to live. And despite reaching the escape route, it's already blocked by fallen debris so, she and Jaime eventually accept their fate and hold on to each other as the rocks fall onto them.

** Aerys "The Mad King" Targaryen completely lost it when his defeat was imminent after Rhaegar was defeated in the Battle of the Trident. [[ProperlyParanoid He already had prepared huge caches on wildfire under the sewers]] in case his allies turn against him. When his most trusted friend, Tywin Lannister, switched sides to Robert Baratheon during the Sack of King's Landing, Aerys lost it and yelled "BURN THEM ALL!!" so that he could take everyone in King's Landing to his grave. Jaime put a stop to his madness [[TheKingslayer by slaying him]] before the order to light the wildfire caches was carred out.

** Sylar in Volume 4. [[spoiler:After stealing a shape shifting power Sylar begins to suffer a severe case of MPD as his body begins shifting and changing against his will, altering his DNA to new and unfamiliar patterns. It's not long before he's imagining that he's talking to his dead mother, shape shifting into her to talk to her and breaking down sobbing about how no one loves him and how alone he is. This only gets worse as he then tries to seduce Claire, believing her to be "Destined" to be his because the two are immortal, while plotting to be president just so he can feel special and loved for a little while]].

** As their final showdown takes place and Buffy gets the advantage, Glory loses it, stating that Buffy couldn't understand her pain and, near the end, actually starts crying and begging Buffy to stop and leave her alone. Given all of the pain and bullshit Glory has put her through over the past year, Buffy couldn't care less about Glory's speech and simply beats her to a pulp.
** Warren has one when he realizes that Willow cannot be reasoned with.

** In [[Recap/AndHisWatchHasEnded]], Kraznys mo Nakloz has made a trade with Daenerys, with her agreeing to give one of her dragons in exchange for his army of Unsullied, after insulting her one last time in the Valyrian tongue, Daenerys reveals that [[spoiler: she speaks it as well]], much to his horror and watches as she orders her new army to slaughter the Good Masters of Astapor. He frantically attempts to order the Unsullied to cease their attack, to no avail, shortly before she orders the dragon she handed over to him to burn him alive.

** A minor example can also be found in "[[Recap/BufyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne Anne]]". "Humans don't fight back! ''Humans don't fight back! '''That's not how this works!'''''"

** Gus Fring had one in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E1BoxCutter Box Cutter]]", when upon finding out that [[spoiler: Walter and Jesse [[OutGambitted had killed his replacement chemist Gale]] [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou to force him to spare their lives lest he will be left with no way to produce more meth]], [[spoiler: he goes to the meth lab and slits the throat of one of his subordinates, Victor, and restrains him so that he cannot stop his hemorrhage and bleeds to death, apparently to vent his anger and to scare the shit out of the protagonists, and Victor was the only person in the room that was expendable.]] Also notable because it's only his actions that which reflect the breakdown, he only speaks after the whole thing is over, [[PragmaticVillainy telling everyone remaining in the room to get back to work]].

* ''Series/Barry'': In 1-7, the title character lashes out and then completely shuts down after his friend informs him that he's going to the police, and that [[HaveYouToldAnyoneElse he didn't tell his wife he and Barry were going to meet]]. Afterwards, after [[spoiler:murdering said friend]], Barry goes into a complete FreakOut mode, complete with hallucinations and furniture smashing.

*** In Recap/AndHisWatchHasEnded, Kraznys mo Nakloz has made a trade with Daenerys, with her agreeing to give one of her dragons in exchange for his army of Unsullied, after insulting her one last time in the Valyrian tongue, Daenerys reveals that [[spoiler: she speaks it as well]], much to his horror and watches as she orders her new army to slaughter the Good Masters of Astapor. He frantically attempts to order the Unsullied to cease their attack, to no avail, shortly before she orders the dragon she handed over to him to burn him alive.

** Though it's arguable [[BlackAndGreyMorality who's the good guy in the series]], Hank Schrader gets one of these in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E7OneMinute One Minute]]". After he discovers that news of his wife being in a car crash was faked (to allow Walt and Jesse to escape an RV they were hiding in), [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown he tracks down Jesse at his house and assaults him]], outraged that they knew some of his important personal details. He ends up being thrown out of the DEA as a result.

* In the third episode of ''Series/LukeCage'', Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes has one of these after Luke tears through the Crispus Attucks complex where all of his money was stashed, leaving it for the police to be found, taking a bat to his own office.