History WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds / Film

* In ''{{Film/Sicario}}'', Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del Toro) was once a criminal prosecutor, until the murder of his wife and daughter by a drug lord pushed him into becoming a relentless, revenge-seeking assassin.

* Dr. Tolian Soran in ''Film/StarTrekGenerations''. His homeworld is destroyed by the Borg, causing him to lose his family. He then ends up in a LotusEaterMachine where (presumably) he's reunited with them, only to be torn away by people trying to rescue him. No wonder he gets obsessed with getting back what he lost.
** From the [[Film/StarTrek reboot]] [[Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness series]], we have Nero and John Harrison/[[spoiler: Khan]]. The former was a Romulan miner who tried saving his homeworld from being destroyed by a supernova, only for the galactic bureaucrats to dismiss him and becoming driven insane with grief and a thirst for vengeance against Spock, the man who promised to save his world. The latter [[spoiler: ,while an EvilOverlord back in the day,]] just wants to save his crew from [[spoiler: Admiral Marcus, who forced him into making weapons for the Federation at the risk of having them killed.]] Harrison even calls them his family and starts [[ManlyTears tearing up]] about how he couldn't save them.

** [[Characters/MCULoki Loki]] in ''Film/{{Thor}}''. He wanted to [[TheUnfavorite to show his father that his brother wasn't perfect]], and then found out that he [[spoiler:was a Frost Giant, after being raised by Asgardians to hate the Frost Giants as monsters. He's the natural son of his adopted father's greatest enemy. Convinced his family has never loved him and Odin only kept him alive for some ulterior purpose, he sets out to prove himself as an heir. [[ParentalFavoritism He was passed over in favor of Thor]] [[TheResenter a lot]] during their childhood.]] He becomes a literal example in the film's climax when he [[spoiler:tries to use the power of the Bifrost to destroy Jotunheim.]]

* ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes''
** Caesar in ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes''. He decides to lead a primate uprising partly because [[spoiler:he believes that the man who raised him doesn't love him anymore]].
** In ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' we have Koba, who wants to KillAllHumans because of the [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil horrific abuse he suffered through]] when he was a test subject of them.
%%* Norman Bates in the ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' series is practically the TropeCodifier.

* In Film/Sicario, Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del Toro) was once a criminal prosecutor, until the murder of his wife and daughter by a drug lord pushed him into becoming a relentless, revenge-seeking assassin.

* [[TroubledButCute Sonny]] from the independent, ComingOfAgeStory ''Film/Trash'' 1999. He starts off the movie as a well-intentioned, if slightly [[HairTriggerTemper gruff]] young man i.e. he fights his peers to a bloody pulp as a hobby but loves looking after small [[FriendToAllLivingThings animals]] and [[FriendToAllChildren children]], which include his [[MoralityPet infant niece]] and the [[ChildrenAreInnocent adorable]] [[DisabledMeansHelpless down syndrome afflicted little brother]] of his best friends LoveInterest (whom he also seems to have a thing for). Over the course of the movie however he goes on to kill three people and a [[AndYourLittleDogToo little dog]], without seemingly any real reason to. Even after he rightly gets arrested for this, you can’t help but feel bad for him. To sum his life up; he’s the breadwinner for a family that consists of a [[AbusiveParents violently drunk dad who regularly beats the crap out of him and a crack addict mother]] who only stops her husband by stating that their son ''ain’t worth it'' (dear old dad follows this up with a straight forward IHaveNoSon tirade)! It’s no wonder that at the end his [[spoiler: SuicideByCop actually feels like a ''blessing'']]!

** Erik "Killmonger" Stevens in ''Film/BlackPanther2018'', whose story began with him finding his father dead in their apartment. [[spoiler: His father was an undercover Wakandan prince who'd grown disillusioned with his nation's isolationism, and helped Klaue steal vibranium weapons with the goal of starting a revolution in America. Erik, aka Prince N'Jadaka, spent the rest of his life gaining the skills he needed to find and take over Wakanda, while only growing *more* furious with their refusal to help the rest of the world.]] During the movie's climax, he outright tells T'Challa that the world took everything from him.

** Erik "Killmonger" Stevens in ''Film/BlackPanther2018'', When he was a child, he found his father dead in their apartment. [[spoiler: His father was an undercover Wakandan prince who'd grown disillusioned with his nation's isolationism, and helped Klaue steal vibranium weapons with the goal of starting a revolution in America. Erik, aka Prince N'Jadaka, spent the rest of his life gaining the skills he needed to find and take over Wakanda, while only growing *more* furious with their refusal to help the rest of the world.]] During the movie's climax, he outright tells T'Challa that the world took everything from him.

* [[Characters/MCULoki Loki]] in ''Film/{{Thor}}''. He wanted to [[TheUnfavorite to show his father that his brother wasn't perfect]], and then found out that he [[spoiler:was a Frost Giant, after being raised by Asgardians to hate the Frost Giants as monsters. He's the natural son of his adopted father's greatest enemy. Convinced his family has never loved him and Odin only kept him alive for some ulterior purpose, he sets out to prove himself as an heir. [[ParentalFavoritism He was passed over in favor of Thor]] [[TheResenter a lot]] during their childhood]]. He becomes a literal example in the film's climax when he [[spoiler:tries to use the power of the Bifrost to destroy Jotunheim]].

* The [[spoiler:female]] half of the BigBadDuumvirate in ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''. Being [[spoiler:abandoned to be repeatedly raped by terrorists ''by your own father'', and at the advice of ''the BigGood'' no less]], certainly won't do wonders for your sanity.

* ''Film/XMen'':

* Loki in ''Film/{{Thor}}''. He wanted to [[TheUnfavorite to show his father that his brother wasn't perfect]], and then found out that he [[spoiler:was a Frost Giant, after being raised by Asgardians to hate the Frost Giants as monsters. He's the natural son of his adopted father's greatest enemy. Convinced his family has never loved him and Odin only kept him alive for some ulterior purpose, he sets out to prove himself as an heir. [[ParentalFavoritism He was passed over in favor of Thor]] [[TheResenter a lot]] during their childhood]]. He becomes a literal example in the film's climax when he [[spoiler:tries to use the power of the Bifrost to destroy Jotunheim]].

* Gurdy the Clown / [[spoiler:Luther Edward Baxter]] from ''100 Tears''.
* The Ymir from ''Film/TwentyMillionMilesToEarth''.

* [[spoiler:Brahms]] from ''Film/TheBoy'', [[spoiler: during the climax.]]

* [[spoiler: Jack Brennan]] in ''Film/{{Calvary}}''

* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy''
** Harvey Dent/Two-Face in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''.
** Both Bane and [[spoiler:Miranda Tate/Talia al Ghul]] from ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.

* From ''Film/{{Kill Bill}}'': O-Ren Ishii. At age seven, she saw her parents die horribly. At age eleven, she was a bitter {{Little Miss Badass}} skilled enough to kill the {{Yakuza}} lord who orphaned her. At age twenty, she was among the top female assassins in the world. Now, she's the [[FromNobodyToNightmare most powerful Yakuza leader]].

* Norman Bates in the ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' series is practically the TropeCodifier.

** Likewise, Silva in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}.''

** Jean Grey in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''.

** Also a Decontruction of the trope, as his police officer counterpart, Prendergast, is experiencing similar bad fortunes, with co-workers who don't respect him and can't wait to usher him off to retirement, a wife who walks all over him, and a general sense of fatigue for most of the film. However, he doesn't break, and in fact, delivers a beautiful TheREasonYouSuckSpeech to Foster.

* Oswald Cobblepot in ''Film/BatmanReturns'': disfigured since birth, his aristocratic parents attempted to drown him in the sewers. He was found by a traveling circus, and was raised in the freak show as "The Penguin". While the public views him with sympathy, he has become a warped sociopath, plotting to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge murder all the first born sons of Gotham City]]. When Batman foils him, he straps rockets to his hundreds (thousands?) of pet penguins, intending to use them in a suicide bombing to kill all of Gotham, which, as the only setting we see, is extremely {{omnicidal|Maniac}} in context. And yet, you still can't help but [[AlasPoorVillain pity him at his death]].*

* [[spoiler: Jack Brennan]] in ''Film/{{Calvery}}''

* Milton (Creator/StephenRoot) in ''Film/OfficeSpace''. After enduring bureaucratic neglect, managerial indifference, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking stapler deprivation]], he [[spoiler:walks into the Initech office complex, finds and steals an envelope full of embezzled cash, and burns the place down]].

* [[spoiler:Brahms]] from ''Film/TheBoy'', [[spoiler: during the climax.]]
* The eponymous character of ''Film/{{Carrie 1976}}'' is certainly a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, even if she doesn't quite want to destroy ''worlds''... just most of her high school. Her rampage luckily ends before she gets the chance to do anything more.
** But only in the 1976 film. In [[Literature/{{Carrie}} the book]] and the remakes, she wants to kill everyone at her school, everyone in her town, and everybody else. Fortunately, she dies before she can commit anything more than demolishing her school, giving her mom a heart attack that kills her, killing two horrible bullies in a car crash, electrocuting several people, and setting her town on fire.
** Spoofed in the zany teen comedy ''Zapped!'', in which science nerd Barney Springboro is similarly degraded at a prom when the AlphaBitch throws a watermelon at his head, almost knocking him out and causing almost everyone in attendance to laugh at him. Barney avenges himself by using his telekinetic powers to blow open the gymnasium doors and summon a hurricane-like wind that strips everyone except Barney's prom date and his best friend down to their underwear. Woobie, [[TheNudifier Nudifier]] of Worlds, perhaps?
* '''The Moorwen'''!!! In ''Film/{{Outlander}}'', its species is destroyed for being less intelligent than man, and its only offspring is killed off brutally. You should give it a hug...if you believe you won't get torn apart.
* Ramon from ''Film/{{Alligator}}'' counts as this to an extent. Flushed down the toilet and abandoned in a sewer all his life before he grows into a ''big'' friggin' gator with an appetite for humans.
* ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'': As part of the film's AdaptationExpansion, the Grinch is given this treatment. He was adopted by two elderly Whos as a baby, and bullied for his appearance, particularly by Augustus May Who, the current Mayor of Whoville. During one Christmas season, he made a gift for his crush, Martha May Whovier, but after being made fun of for having a "beard" at his age, tried to shave his face, cutting himself in the process. When his classmates ridiculed him yet again for his shaving cuts the next morning, that was the last straw: he went berserk and went on a rampage, destroying the gift he made and throwing a Christmas tree across the classroom before fleeing to the top of Mount Crumpit, declaring his hatred of Christmas.
* J.D. (Creator/ChristianSlater) in ''Film/{{Heathers}}''. For starters, his father is [[AbusiveParents a sociopathic bastard who doesn't care for him]] (when asked if he even likes his father, he responds that he "[hasn't] given the matter much thought"), and his mother killed herself in front of his eyes to get away from her husband. His entire life was spent moving around from town to town and school to school wherever his father's demolition job took him, where, it is implied, he saw the same scenario of clique groups bullying other students at every high school he's attended. He starts out by murdering {{Jerk Jock}}s and {{Alpha Bitch}}es and making their deaths appear as suicides (also implied as something he's done before), but he ultimately resorts [[spoiler:to trying to blow up the entire school. He explains his intentions are such because he believes that nobody loves him, and that "the only place different social types can genuinely get along with each other is in heaven", somehow seeing the school as a representation of society itself.]]

* Norman Bates in the ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' series is practically the TropeCodifier.
* Davy Jones from ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' doesn't seem to want to destroy ''everything'' - just everything that crosses his path. He's like this because his one true love, [[spoiler:the goddess Calypso]], betrayed him (presumably for another man, though it's never elaborated on) centuries ago. Jones' agony was unbearable, so he cut out his own heart to end it. When that failed, he adopted a different tactic—finding relief by sharing his pain with everyone he meets.
* Oswald Cobblepot in ''Film/BatmanReturns'': disfigured since birth, his aristocratic parents attempted to drown him in the sewers. He was found by a traveling circus, and was raised in the freak show as "The Penguin". While the public views him with sympathy, he has become a warped sociopath, plotting to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge murder all the first born sons of Gotham City]]. When Batman foils him, he straps rockets to his hundreds (thousands?) of pet penguins, intending to use them in a suicide bombing to kill all of Gotham, which, as the only setting we see, is extremely {{omnicidal|Maniac}} in context. And yet, you still can't help but [[AlasPoorVillain pity him at his death]].
* ''Film/XMen'':
** Magneto. Holocaust survivor. Extremist willing to kill lots of people. Highlighted in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''.
** Jean Grey in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''.
* [[TokenGoodTeammate Glen Ray]] from ''Film/SeedOfChucky'' briefly fell into this when [[DespairEventHorizon he saw his father, Chucky, murdering his mother, Tiffany]]. Despite being the kindest living doll that had the [[FaceOfAThug face of a demon, but the mind of an angel]], seeing his father murdering his mother hit him hard because of his love of life. It's no wonder why he snapped and killed Chucky for doing this. He's not like his sister, Glenda (who's just like Chucky); his love for his mother broke him down and seeing his father do such a thing eventually made him turn against him. He slices off Chucky's arms and legs and as he's doing this [[WellDoneSonGuy he asks his father if he's proud of who he is]] and then decapitates and kills him.
* Kim Jong Il from ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice''. He's plotting the destruction of society as we know it, but deep down, he's just "a rittre ronery" (read: little lonely).
* Francis Dolarhyde from ''Film/{{Manhunter}}'' (1986) and ''Film/RedDragon'' (2002): actually lampshaded by Will Graham; he says that he feels a lot of sympathy for the child he once was, but thinks someone should put a bullet in the adult Francis' brain.
* Seymour Parrish (Creator/RobinWilliams) in ''Film/OneHourPhoto''. He starts out sympathetic, if a little deranged, then you find out [[ParentalIncest what]] [[AbusiveParents made]] [[FreudianExcuse him]] [[BrainBleach crazy]].
* Big Daddy from ''Film/KickAss'' is a rare heroic version when you find out what Frank D'Amico did to his life.

* In a perfect example of BreakTheCutie, Alessa Gillespie from ''Film/SilentHill'' was burned alive by the cult she was a member of, but survived by her own power and remained wrapped in bandages for 30 years, unable to move anything but her eyes (and her lips, but only enough to kind of smile, but not enough to form words). She does the only logical thing and splits her soul into 3 parts so she can kill everyone in the cult (excluding [[spoiler:Rose, her good half, Sharon, and her mother]]).
%%* Film/KingKong.
* The Ymir from ''Film/TwentyMillionMilesToEarth''.
* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Film/TheShining'' (1997), Jack Torrance is portrayed sympathetically. His turn to {{Ax Craz|y}}iness is tragic AND terrifying.
* Gurdy the Clown / [[spoiler:Luther Edward Baxter]] from ''100 Tears''.
* ''Film/{{May}}'' is a particularly heartbreaking-cum-vicious example.
* The infant(s) of ''Film/ItsAlive'', whose homicidal rampage turns out to be birth trauma and separation anxiety, and who longs only to be reunited with his family.
* Sadako in ''Film/{{Ringu}}'' and her counterpart, Samara, in the US remake, ''Film/TheRing'', considering that both were mistreated and murdered.
* Asami in ''Film/{{Audition}}''. She endured a horrific childhood.
* Eli in ''Film/LetTheRightOneIn'', a vampire who is trapped not just physically in a 12 year old body but apparently emotionally as well, forced to kill to survive, whose only friend is an equally screwed up boy.
** Also, Abby in ''Let Me In'', the remake of ''Let the Right One In''.

* Loki in ''Film/{{Thor}}''. He wanted to [[TheUnfavorite to show his father that his brother wasn't perfect]], and then found out that he [[spoiler:was a Frost Giant, after being raised by Asgardians to hate the Frost Giants as monsters. He's the natural son of his adopted father's greatest enemy. Convinced his family has never loved him and Odin only kept him alive for some ulterior purpose, he sets out to prove himself as an heir. [[ParentalFavoritism He was passed over in favor of Thor]] [[TheResenter a lot]] during their childhood]]. He becomes a literal example in the film's climax when he [[spoiler:tries to use the power of the Bifrost to destroy Jotunheim]].

* Dr. Tolian Soran in ''Film/StarTrekGenerations''. His homeworld is destroyed by the Borg, causing him to lose his family. He then ends up in a LotusEaterMachine where (presumably) he's reunited with them, only to be torn away by people trying to rescue him. No wonder he gets obsessed with getting back what he lost.
** From the [[Film/StarTrek reboot]] [[Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness series]], we have Nero and John Harrison/[[spoiler: Khan]]. The former was a Romulan miner who tried saving his homeworld from being destroyed by a supernova, only for the galactic bureaucrats to dismiss him and becoming driven insane with grief and a thirst for vengeance against Spock, the man who promised to save his world. The latter [[spoiler: ,while an EvilOverlord back in the day,]] just wants to save his crew from [[spoiler: Admiral Marcus, who forced him into making weapons for the Federation at the risk of having them killed.]] Harrison even calls them his family and starts [[ManlyTears tearing up]] about how he couldn't save them.
* The [[spoiler:female]] half of the BigBadDuumvirate in ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''. Being [[spoiler:abandoned to be repeatedly raped by terrorists ''by your own father'', and at the advice of ''the BigGood'' no less]], certainly won't do wonders for your sanity.
** Likewise, Silva in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}.''
* ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes''
** Caesar in ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes''. He decides to lead a primate uprising partly because [[spoiler:he believes that the man who raised him doesn't love him anymore]].
** In ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' we have Koba, who wants to KillAllHumans because of the [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil horrific abuse he suffered through]] when he was a test subject of them.
* In ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', Anakin Skywalker's final transformation into Darth Vader is shown to be caused by losing everything and everyone he cares for, albeit due to his own actions.
* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Also see the theatre page.

* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''
** [[Film/{{Gojira}} The original film]] shows Godzilla as a TragicVillain, just as much a victim of nuclear weaponry as anyone else. This is especially evident in the Heisei films, where he's portrayed as more of a "force of nature" rather than an outright villain.
** In ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah'' this is taken to its most literal extreme when [[spoiler:Junior's death]] causes him to go into a grief-stricken meltdown [[HeroicRROD (As it causes him to go into a nuclear meltdown)]].
* [[spoiler:Elijah Price]] in ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'' is [[spoiler:afflicted with Osteogenesis Imperfecta, which creates a brittleness in his bones that make them very susceptible to fracture. He can't do things other kids can do in his childhood, is constantly in casts, and only has comicbooks to bring him joy.]] Then he decides that his purpose in life is to be a supervillain...

* ''Film/{{Candyman}}'': Candyman became an undead monster after he was murdered by a lynch mob because he was a cultured black man who fell in love with a white woman in the 19th century.
* From ''Film/{{Kill Bill}}'': O-Ren Ishii. At age seven, she saw her parents die horribly. At age eleven, she was a bitter {{Little Miss Badass}} skilled enough to kill the {{Yakuza}} lord who orphaned her. At age twenty, she was among the top female assassins in the world. Now, she's the [[FromNobodyToNightmare most powerful Yakuza leader]].
* ''Film/EveOfDestruction'': EVE III is somewhat of a tragic villain in that she's mostly just confused and kills people who she thinks have either wronged or upset her while believing that she's the real Dr. Eve Simmons. It's not even clear if the robot itself is aware that the nuclear device inside it has been triggered at all.
* ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' introduces us to the concept of an Obscurus, which is a rare and powerful magical parasite that is the end result of a powerful magical child being abused and forced to repress their abilities until they can’t be contained anymore. At which point the resulting PersonOfMassDestruction goes on a rampage destroying everything in its path, scared and angry after a lifetime of pain. A specific example would be [[spoiler: Credence Barebone: He’s abused and controlled by his FantasticRacist of an adoptive mother (along with his adoptive sisters, though he gets the worst of it), which has left him shy, deeply insecure and emotionally stunted. He has no friends besides his youngest sister Modesty and is mocked by the Shaws (particularly Henry Shaw Jr, who has no qualms about calling him a freak). This leaves him open to manipulation by Percival Graves/Gellert Grindlewald, who baits him with affection and the promise of teaching him magic so that the older man can use him for his own selfish reasons. And once Grindle!Graves gets what he wants, he has no issue throwing the poor guy away or calling him worthless. This leads to Credence hitting the RageBreakingPoint and willingly unleashing his Obscurus on New York City, which is as tragic as it is terrifying]].

* ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' introduces us to the concept of an Obscurus, which is a rare and powerful magical parasite that is the end result of a powerful magical child being abused and forced to repress their magic until it can’t be contained anymore. At which point the resulting PersonOfMassDestruction goes on a rampage destroying everything in its past, scared and angry after a lifetime of pain. A specific example would be [[spoiler: Credence Barebone: He’s abused and controlled by his FantasticRacist of an adoptive mother (along with his adoptive sisters, though he gets the worst of it), which has left him shy, deeply insecure and emotionally stunted. He has no friends besides his youngest sister Modesty and is mocked by the Shaws (particularly Henry Shaw Jr, who has no qualms about calling him a freak). This leaves him open to manipulation by Percival Graves/Gellert Grindlewald, who baits him with affection and the promise of teaching him magic so that the older man can use him for his own selfish reasons. And once Grindle!Graves gets what he wants, he has no issue throwing the poor guy away or calling him worthless. This leads to Credence hitting the RageBreakingPoint and willingly unleashing his Obscurus on New York City, which is as tragic as it is terrifying]].

* ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' introduces us to the concept of an Obscurus, which is a rare and powerful magical parasite that is the end result of a powerful magical child being abused and forced to repress their magic until it can’t be contained anymore. At which point the resulting PersonOfMassDestruction goes on a rampage destroying everything in its past, scared and angry after a lifetime of pain. A specific example would be [[spoiler: Credence Barebone: He’s abused and controlled by his FantasticRacist of an adoptive mother (along with his adoptive sisters, though he gets the worst of it), which has left him shy, deeply insecure and emotionally stunted. He has no friends besides his youngest sister Modesty and is mocked by the Shaws (particularly Henry Shaw Jr, who has no qualms about calling him a freak). This leaves him open to manipulation by Percival Graves/Gellert Grindlewald, who baits him with affection and the promise of teaching him magic so that the older man can use him for his own selfish reasons. And once Grindle!Graves gets what he wants, he has no issue throwing the poor guy away or calling him worthless. This leads to Credence hitting the RageBreakingPoint and willingly unleashing his Obscurus on New York City, which is as tragic as it is terrifying.

* In ''Franchise/StarWars'', Darth Vader[=/=]Anakin was revealed to be one in Return of the Jedi. Anakin's final transformation into Darth Vader is shown to be caused by losing everything and everyone he cares for, albeit due to his own actions.

* Hiroki Sawada -- or [[BrainUploading Noah's Ark]] in the ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' NonSerialMovie ''Phantom of Baker Street''. A ChildProdigy who was [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation already beyond what the Japanese elementary school can handle]], which sparked arguments among his parents, culminating in his mother [[TakingTheKids taking him to the US]]. When [[MissingMom she died]] soon after, he was adequately homeschooled and adopted by his father's employer, Joe Schneider, which quickly made him a LonelyRichKid, who also exploit his intelligence...Schneider's own fear of InTheBlood, though, [[DrivenToSuicide drove him to suicide]], [[BrainUploading leaving a digitalized form of himself]] behind, who caused a HolodeckMalfunction on Schneider's [[{{cyberspace}} VR game]] launch, taking 50 kids as hostages...