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11->''You cannot fuck me! You cannot fuck me! I am unfuckable! I have never been fucked. And if you fucking try and fuck me, you'll find my fucking arse will fucking grow fucking fangs and fucking snap your fucking cock off!... You '''will''' see me again. '''You will fucking see me again!'''''
12-->-- '''Malcolm Tucker''', ''Series/TheThickOfIt'', after being fucked.
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17* ''Series/TwentyFour'': [[PresidentEvil Charles Logan]] goes into full breakdown mode in the series finale after [[spoiler: President Taylor [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone backs out]] of his plot]]. Within minutes he's [[spoiler: executed his own [[TheDragon dragon]] and [[DrivenToSuicide shot himself in the head]]]], all part of one last ditch [[TakingYouWithMe spiteful]] effort to eliminate Jack Bauer.
18* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'':
19** [[spoiler: After being given the same Kree serum that brought Coulson back to life, John Garrett goes into meltdown with a massive side of soliloquy, shifting from calm speaking to mad ranting. When he recovers from the first attempt to kill him in the Season 1 finale, he loses it even more only to be swatted permanently by Coulson in mid-rant]].
20** Cal/Mr. Hyde is constantly on the verge of a freak out due to his anger issues and unbalanced mental state, but the most dramatic breakdown occurs when [[spoiler: Coulson kills Dr. Whitehall, inadvertently robbing Cal of the revenge he had spent decades seeking]].
21** Ward isn't the most stable individual, but most of the time he's able to keep himself composed remarkably well, to near DissonantSerenity levels. However, in Season 3, when he learns that [[spoiler: Team Coulson has his younger brother, who's giving them information]], he '''loses his shit''' in a spectacular fashion, roaring like a lunatic before hurling his communicator into a wall so hard it ''explodes''.
22* ''Series/AndThenThereWereNone2015'': The point of U.N. Owen's plot was to execute ten murderers who, for various reasons, had escaped the British legal system. The original book goes into more detail of their thought process, in which Owen kills in order of least to most heinous, with the increasing fear and tension driving the remaining victims further into despair and guilt for their crimes. (The exception is Marston; though his crime was despicable, he's too much of a sociopath to ever feel remorse.) Armstrong accepts death almost immediately, having been gripped by remorse since the moment of his crime. Emily Brent begins to hallucinate the girl she'd DrivenToSuicide in her HolierThanThou fanaticism and collapses into an old, frail woman. Blore, who is one of the final four survivors, eventually breaks down as he realizes how hideous his unprovoked murder of a gay prisoner was and how easy it would have been to do the right thing instead, and comes to believe that he is ''already'' in Hell for it.
23* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': [[spoiler: The Rogue Power Jasmine ''flips out'' after the heroes break her power over humanity making everyone see her as a hideous monster. She tries her very hardest to kill Angel, all the while ranting and screaming about how she sacrificed so much to offer humanity peace and love. Now she only wants to kill all humans after being rejected. In the end she's reduced to begging Connor for help. The disillusioned Connor finishes her off instead]].
24* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'':
25** [[BigBad Malcolm]], normally calm and completely collected, falls apart in fury in the first season finale when [[spoiler: not only does Tommy reject him after discovering his plan to destroy The Glades, but Moira betrays and publicly exposes him]]. He doesn't really recover from it.
26** Adam Hunt, the StarterVillain from the Pilot, completely loses it when he realizes that all of his ill-gotten money is gone:
27--->'''Hunt:''' ''(on the phone with an underling)'' Untraceable?! IT IS ''40 MILLION'' DOLLARS! FIND IT!
28** Nyssa has had two (though one more subtle than the other) both in regards to [[spoiler: Sara]]. The first being when [[spoiler: Nyssa believes Sara is going to die, leading to her abandoning all control and attacking Oliver, despite his claims of being able to save Sara.]] And the second being when Nyssa [[spoiler: finds out Sara is dead, you can literally see the moment she finds out how close she is to falling to pieces.]]
29* ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'': In the final episode, ManipulativeBastard 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.]]
30* ''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.
31* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'': Baltar could always be counted upon to break down when things weren't going his way.
32-->'''Baltar''': What does Cain care about the fleet or the Galactica? He...HE WANTS ME!
33* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': Tom Zarek has one of these during the back end of [[spoiler:Gaeta's mutiny]], losing his cool completely as things fell apart. [[spoiler:Gaeta]] had a VillainousBSOD instead.
34* ''Series/BreakingBad'':
35** Though it's arguable [[BlackAndGrayMorality who's the good guy in the series]], Hank Schrader gets one of these in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS3E7OneMinute 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.
36** 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 is 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 reflect the breakdown, he only speaks after the whole thing is over, [[PragmaticVillainy telling everyone remaining in the room to get back to work]].
37** Walter [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWfK5JyD2bA has a rather terrifying breakdown]] at the end of "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E11CrawlSpace Crawl Space]]", complete with [[LaughingMad insane laughter]].
38*** Walt has an equally memorable one in the third-to-last episode, "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E14Ozymandias Ozymandias]]", upon seeing he has lost everything. To sum it up:
39--->'''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 thinking he killed Hank and escaped[[/note]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone We're a family...]]
40* ''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury'': [[BigBad Princess Ardala]] has one of these after being told off by the Zad War Witch Zarina in ''Flight of the War Witch'' (part II).
41* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
42** "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E22GraduationDayPart2 Graduation Day, Part 2]]": [[FamilyValuesVillain The Mayor]], upon seeing Faith in a coma, shows rage [[AffablyEvil for the first time]] and tries to smother Buffy in her sleep and attacks Angel in front of civilians, going so far as to break his foul language etiquette. He regains his composure for the final showdown though, his last words being [[GoshDangItToHeck "Well, gosh!"]]
43--->'''Mayor:''' Murderous little fiend! Did you see what she did to my Faith?\
44'''Angel:''' Hadn't any plans to weep over that one.\
45'''Mayor:''' Well, I'd get set for some ''weeping'' if I were you. I'd get set for a ''world'' of pain! Misery loves company, young man, and I'm looking to share that with ''you and your whore!''
46** A minor example can also be found in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne Anne]]". "Humans don't fight back! ''Humans don't fight back! '''That's not how this works!'''''"
47** The Master has one in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E2TheHarvest The Harvest]]" after he senses that Luke -- the key to his plan to free himself -- has been killed.
48** The Master has another one really briefly in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E7Angel Angel]]", due to Darla's death.
49** Faith has one herself in the spinoff show, ''Series/{{Angel}}'', where she [[spoiler: carries out an elaborate charade to [[SuicideByCop get Angel to kill her]]]].
50--->'''Faith:''' [[PunctuatedPounding I'm evil! I'm bad! I'm evil! Do you hear me? I'm bad! Angel, I'm bad!]] I'm bad! Do you hear me? I'm bad! I'm bad! I'm bad. [[TearsOfRemorse Please. Angel, please, just do it. Angel please, just do it. Just do it.]] Just kill me. Just kill me.
51*** Just to up the angst factor, the above scene takes place amidst a [[GreyRainOfDepression torrential downpour.]]
52** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E22TheGift The Gift]]", 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.
53** Warren has one when he realizes that Willow cannot be reasoned with in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E20Villains Villains]]".
54* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': Shaw was a CIA agent who was level-headed, calm, and dedicated to the job, and had an aversion to guns and killing, like Chuck. After finding out from the Ring Director that Sarah,[[spoiler: his new love interest]], under CIA orders, killed his wife (who had gone undercover and seemingly turned to the ring), he turned to the Ring, and set his sights on killing Sarah. He took her to Paris, with the intention of killing her, but Chuck found them and seemingly killed Shaw. When Shaw returns later in the season, he attempts to discredit Chuck and get him arrested, but when that fails, tries to kill him, and had killed Chucks father. It also doesn't help that he uploads the Intersect, which has been known to cause insanity in its host. When he returns in Season 5, he kidnaps Sarah, and while carrying out his plan to [[spoiler: update his Intersect even more,]] he reveals he will kill Chuck, Sarah's husband, as she killed his wife, then proceeds to [[spoiler: make out with her against her will]]. Keep in mind this is the woman who killed his wife.
55* During the ''Series/{{Chucky}}'' episode "Dressed To Kill", Chucky goes ''apeshit'' when he finds out [[spoiler:all his White House murdering has not got him back into Dambala's good graces, and he's rapidly aging to death.]]
56-->'''Chucky''': DAMBALA, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?!
57* ''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.
58** In the Season 1 finale, the villain 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 façade and screams about how both of his targets were supposed to have died that night.
59** John Smith ("The Road") 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.
60* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'': In "Dagger of the Mind", Lt. Columbo [[spoiler: plants evidence implicating a Shakespearean actor in a murder, causing him to go mad]]. But it's [[FramingTheGuiltyParty okay]].
61* ''Series/ControlZ'':
62** Pablo when he finds out that Raúl has been harboring [[spoiler:Gerry from the police for murdering Luis]] and starts violently beating him up in retaliation.
63--> '''Pablo:''' MOTHERF--KER!!! YOU'VE BEEN HARBORING THAT F--KING MURDERER!!!
64** Raúl when he demands his money back and wrestles over the bag alongside Sofía, Javier, María, Claudia and Susana.
65--> '''Raúl:''' THAT MONEY WAS STOLEN FROM ME!!!
66* ''Series/CriminalMinds'':
67** "Parasite" ''starts'' with the villain in the midst of his breakdown, and he just gets worse as it goes on.
68** In fact they have a RealLife term for this, "devolving", and killers are most dangerous when they start spiraling into this.
69* In ''Series/Daredevil2015'', Wilson Fisk gets into this during his fight against Matt, considering him responsible for all of his plans going awry and his public image destroyed while giving him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
70* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': Has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQzg53mDl9E&NR=1 pretty good one]] in Episode 9 of Season 3, when he learns that he's been [[spoiler:manipulated by Miguel Prado after believing the man to be his friend]]. It's [[DaydreamSurprise internal]], but still. Another in Season 2: "It is OVER WHEN I SAY IT IS!"
71* ''Series/DirtySexyMoney'': Simon Elder finally gets control of his rival Trip Darling's business, only for all the major stockholders to refuse to work with him and abandon the company. When one of his employees has trouble turning off the television, playing news of the company's catastrophic stock drop, Simon throws a champagne bottle into the TV. In the middle of a board meeting. Ironically it turns out this wasn't a {{Batman Gambit}} on Trip's part as Simon assumed at the time; he had genuinely given up and was just as surprised at the stockholders' actions.
72* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E5ThePoisonSky "The Poison Sky"]], the Sontarans' human agent, Luke Rattigan, has a meltdown when his handpicked survivors turn out to be totally uninterested in his plan to colonise a new planet with just them and start leaving to find their families. After threatening them with a gun to no avail, he throws a tantrum about how much smarter he is than them, and learning that the Sontarans were lying all along leaves him curled up on the floor sobbing.
73* ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'': Adelle [=DeWitt=], the AntiVillain[=/=]AntiHero ([[BlackAndGrayMorality sort of]]), has a variant in the episode "Stop-Loss", where she begins to drink heavily due to realizing she has no life outside her job and that she's rapidly losing control even of that. Good-guy Boyd snaps her out of it by reminding her of her true nature...but in a [[SubvertedTrope Subversion]], she only gets ''more'' villainous, since she now remembers what a MagnificentBastard she can be.
74** And then DoubleSubverted: she was actually working against the bad guys by [[spoiler:putting Echo in the Attic]].
75* ''Series/{{ER}}'':
76** A few instances. Chief nurse Eve, though not really a villain (the rest of the ER cast might disagree), loses her ruthless, cool head when she gets dumped from her boyfriend and fired from her job on Christmas Eve. She promptly snapped at Kovac, who had warned her about her impulsiveness for punching out a patient, and Sam, arguably the only person who tried to stick up for her.
77** Another instance was a former patient Curtis Ames, who had lost the use of his right arm under Kovac's care. He would subsequently be divorced from his wife, separate from his kids, watch his kids call another man "dad" and lose his job. When he brought the kidnapped Kovac to his old house, he started laughing maniacally and mentioning how he shouldn't call the run-down, filthy house "beautiful". And in the scene where there were police lights outside his house, he started yelling at ''the flashing lights'' to leave him alone.
78* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'':
79** The BigBad of a particular season or plot arc will always suffer one of these at some point; Captain Bialar Crais of the first season began cracking up almost immediately after we met him, and went on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge for the accidental death of his brother, which wasn't to end until Peacekeeper High Command removed him and he was [[HeelFaceTurn forced to become a hero]].
80** Scorpius suffered his own at the end of Season 3, when [[HeroicSacrifice Crais sacrificed himself to destroy Scorpius' commmand carrier]]. It involved a stunned and somewhat [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd Cutler Beckett-esque]] stroll through his exploding ship, wandering through hordes of evacuating Peacekeepers until he encountered John Crichton, wearily explained he had no plans for revenge, and vanished—until the next season. Notably, it's the only time ''in the entire series'' that we ever see Scorpius well and truly ''defeated''.
81** Commandant Grayza's was quite severe, given that unlike the other two villains, she had very little to make her likeable or sympathetic (the date-rape had plenty to do with it). After being captured by the Scarrans and seeing all her negotiations for her vaunted alliance fail, she attempted a suicidal charge on the Scarran base that would have resulted in the death of all who were still loyal to her. However, MauveShirt Captain Braca decided she'd gone too far, and arrested her, allowing Scorpius to retake the ship.
82*** And just to illustrate how badly she was doing, we had this exchange:
83---->'''Grayza:''' All that astonishing wormhole knowledge and still you will not share it with us. You came in here big and bold, dancing on tabletops. And look at you now; begging for scraps.\
84'''Crichton:''' I may be jammed, possibly dead. But I am not begging- you can get that fantasy out of your head.\
85'''Grayza:''' (Forcefully) In my hands, you can have peace! ''I can have peace!''\
86'''Crichton:''' I have ''been'' in your hands. There's no peace there... just power.\
87'''Grayza:''' ''You are so self-righteous! I have used all my skills, my resources for one perfect chance at peace! AND BECAUSE OF YOU, IT IS GONE AND '''I''' AM--''\
88(She stops, almost in tears, trying to steady herself.)\
89'''Crichton:''' (Coldly) Frelled? Screwed? ''Raped?'' Welcome to the universe, Commandant.
90** Later in the same episode Scorpius has a brief one when realizing that he is one tiny step away from crippling the Scarrans; a simple forcefield that given time they could easily get past, but there is no time to do anything other but uselessly shoot at it. He even points a gun at the rest of the group for pointing out that they have to leave.
91---> '''Scorpius:''' I. DO NOT LOSE!
92* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'':
93** The usually cool, calm, and collected [[IHaveManyNames Saffron/Bridget/Yolanda]] suffers this in "[[Recap/FireflyE11Trash Trash]]" during a confrontation with her ex-husband when she and Mal are caught in the act of stealing from him.
94--->'''[=YoSaffBridg=]:''' Durren, you have no idea what he's forced me to...\
95'''Durren:''' Yolanda... stop. Just... stop. [Gives her a PuppyDogEyes look]\
96'''[=YoSaffBridg=]:''' [Lowers the gun she'd been pointing at him] Don't look at me like that. [He continues looking at her, she raises the gun and points it at him so angrily that she's shaking] ''I SAID DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT!!!''
97** "Objects in Space": Even through most of River telling him [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech exactly what a pathetic piece of work he is]], Jubal Early stays cool and collected, until he suddenly realizes [[spoiler:she's been on his ship the whole time! [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo She's fiddling with those shiny buttons]]!]] Cue panic attack.
98* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': The first season's BigBad [[spoiler: Eobard Thawne, AKA the Reverse-Flash, mantains a calm demeanor during the whole season while masquerading as Harrison Wells. But in the SeasonFinale, when Barry destroys his TimeMachine, he goes into a full-blown psychotic rage and tries to kill him.]]
99** In the Season 2 finale Zoom completely loses it when he realizes that [[spoiler: Flash has led the [[ClockRoaches time wraiths]] to him.]] It's pretty disturbing; seconds beforehand he was practically daring Flash to kill him and laughing off everything the heroes did, but when [[spoiler: the time wraiths]] show up he immediately just starts ''screaming''.
100** In the Season 3 finale, Savitar realizes that due to the StableTimeLoop being broken by [[spoiler: Iris' life being saved]], he's doomed to be [[RetGone erased from existence]]. At first, he maintains his composure as he carries out a backup plan to merge with the Speed Force and truly become a god, but when that's foiled he ''snaps'', declaring his intention to spend what little time he has left killing everyone Barry loves.
101** The Thinker spends the entirety of Season 4 staying one step ahead of the heroes, and justifiably smug over it. Then, in the season finale, he's finally foiled as [[spoiler: Ralph's consciousness retakes control of his body, ejecting the Thinker]]. The megalomaniac spends his last moments ranting about how it's not possible for the heroes to have outwitted him, and while his VirtualGhost is more composed, he still essentially {{Rage Quit}}s by triggering a ColonyDrop that could potentially cause an extinction-level event, purely out of [[EvilIsPetty spite]].
102* ''Series/FlashGordon2007'': 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.]]
103* ''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.
104* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
105** [[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. His eventual begging does nothing to help.
106** 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. 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 with his "golden crown."
107** Joffrey Baratheon has one when he realizes that he's been poisoned in his own wedding. He spends his last moments scared, panicking, gasping for air, and trying to scream to no avail while making accusations and begging for someone to save him before finally dying with pure terror on his face.
108** Tywin has a downplayed example at the beginning of the war, "They have my SON!".
109** Cersei has several:
110*** She angrily loses her cool when Tyrion shows up in a meeting of the Small Council, and much to her chagrin reveals that he's acting Hand of the King.
111*** In "The Lion and the Rose", Cersei visibly ''shatters'' as Joffrey dies helplessly in her arms.
112*** In "The Gift", she goes from being a SmugSmiler for the majority of Season 5 to screaming "I am the queen!" as she is dragged away to the Black Cells by the High Sparrow's Faith Militant.
113*** 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.
114*** 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. She and Jaime eventually accept their fate and hold on to each other as the rocks fall onto them.
115** After seven seasons of being the show's most notable {{Chessmaster}}, [[spoiler: Littlefinger's KarmaHoudiniWarranty kicks in. 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.]]
116** Gregor is already murderously angry and unhinged when on his best behavior, but he ''really'' loses his cool during his fight with Oberyn.
117** 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 carried out.
118** 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 he 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.
119* Professor Hugo Strange suffers a rather dramatic one in the Season 2 finale of ''{{Series/Gotham}}''. As his plans completely fall apart, his employers abandon him, and his experiments begin running loose, he steadily breaks down into terrified sobbing and rambling. At the episode's end, the self-assured MagnificentBastard who had caused unending terror for the heroes is reduced to pathetically begging for leniency as he's carted off to jail.
120* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'':
121** 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]].
122** 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.
123--->'''Samuel''': They can't have all left... they're here somewhere... you can't leave ''me''... you COWARDS! Where are ya?? ...Come back here! You're NOTHING without me!! (collapses into VillainousBSOD).
124* ''Series/HitlerTheRiseOfEvil'': Hitler has a mental breakdown after the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. He flees to the Hanfstaengl home, where he seems to be HearingVoices and almost shoots himself in front of Helene, [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom who talks him out of it]].
125* ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'':
126** Luther Mahoney maintains his cool throughout the series, knowing that he's protected himself well enough that he knows he has nothing to fear from Lewis and Kellerman can't hurt him. When everything starts to go wrong for him in his final episode, he gradually snaps and bursts into a screaming fit.
127** At the end of "The Gas Man", Victor Helms finds that he can't bring himself to kill Pembleton and breaks down in tears.
128** Joseph Cardero has a truly spectacular one in "Heartbeat", where he completely loses it and goes to town on his apartment with a hammer. It culminates in him [[DrivenToSuicide committing suicide by]] burying himself alive behind a brick wall, [[KarmicDeath the same way he killed his victim.]]
129* In the first ''Series/HoratioHornblower'' telefilm, all the lieutenants have been killed in a cutting-out expedition. The malicious (and senior) Midshipman Simpson tries to take command, but Hornblower says that Lieutenant Eccleston gave the responsibility to him, and their subordinates hesitate. Simpson soon realizes that he doesn't intimidate his underlings the way he could aboard his old ship and pitches a fit, foot-stamping and all, as he shrieks that he's senior officer. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain This convinces the others that they should definitely follow Hornblower instead]].
130* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
131** ''Series/KamenRiderBlade'' had Hiroshi Tennoji [[spoiler:slowly grow insane when he was defeated in the end by the riders, before being killed by the last king card kaijin.]]
132** ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'': Kai has a slow, series wide one. He gradually goes more and more insane as the series progresses as a result of sending Imagin into the past through himself, destroying his past selves. Being a Singularity Point like Ryotaro, this doesn't kill him, but it gradually tears away his mental state. Even his [[TheDragon Dragon]] points out he's getting worse. [[spoiler:Finally, he discovers that Sakurai isn't the Junction Point as he believed, he completely loses it. He uses all his remaining memories to grant all his Imagin physical form and create the superpowerful Death Imagin, sending them on an all-out attack on Tokyo. He then proceeds to try and let loose a blast of temporal energy to erase the entire city from time, ''along with his army!'']]
133** ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'': General Xaviax is starting to show signs of this once the Advent Master appears and starts undoing his work by bringing back Ventara's fallen Kamen Riders. All this following the fact that Xaviax's corrupt Kamen Riders from Earth have all been vented. He was all calm and collected but his mask cracked every so often, especially when he was down to ''one'' Rider.
134** ''Series/KamenRiderKabuto'': Title Rider Tendou annoys the sanity out of Sou Yaguruma (then Kamen Rider [=TheBee=] and the respected commander of Zect's elite RedShirt force Shadow). Though he's not a villain, he is a KnightTemplar about Zect's rules, and Kabuto using Zect's Rider technology while not being part of the organization is ''not'' smiled upon. Yaguruma, like many a villain has his original motivation give way to "TheHero must pay!" after not too many instances of being defied by him. Mister "[[CatchPhrase Perfect Harmony]]" finally completely loses it in the middle of a battle, making him ignore the fact that the Worms (the series' token evil monsters/aliens) are massacring his underlings because he's consumed by the desire to defeat Tendou. It leads to his TransformationTrinket rejecting him for good, to him being disgraced in front of his former team (later), and eventually to his return after [[TookALevelInBadass taking a level in badass]]... and [[TookALevelInJerkass jerkass]], becoming the dark Rider Kick Hopper. (His VillainousBreakdown continues, because even though Kick Hopper and Punch Hopper beat up the good Riders at first, they still kinda don't know what to do. It's kinda like "Okay, we're ''dark'' now. So, now what do we do?" and sit around hilariously trying to be cool and... if it was in a school setting, we'd say 'gothy.' It doesn't erase, but underscore, how far he'd fallen.)
135** ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'': [[spoiler:[[BigBad Blood Stalk/Evolt]]]]. He's an example in that he is ''very'' rarely prone to these, [[FauxAffablyEvil being typically relaxed, borderline lazy]] as [[TheChessmaster he goes along bringing his schemes to fruition.]] So, whenever he actually hits [[SpannerInTheWorks a snag in his long-term plans]]...well, when he snaps, he fucking SNAPS, making these breakdowns [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness all the more noteworthy]]. [[spoiler: [[KarmicDeath The most prominent of these is in the finale.]]]]
136** ''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne'':[[spoiler: Amatsu Gai, the ringleader for the events of Daybreak, creation of Metsuboujinrai.net and sabotaging everything to acquire Hiden Intelligence, totally snapped due to his failure to realise the patents for Humagear and Zero-One related technology, Hiden Aruto created a new company to oppose him and got his ass handed by Aruto and Jin.]]
137* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': Since the series is a crime drama it's full of all manner of people that lose it when they previously think they'd gotten away with a crime only for those dreams to be rudely shut down. Its spin-off series ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' has one episode where Stabler and Benson take down an animal trafficker, who ends up being caught in the end when he falls off of a conveyer belt while running from Stabler. His leg is pinned and injured, and he's screaming at Stabler to shoot him because when he gets out he's going to come for him. Elliot scoffs at the prospect of him getting out (in addition to him being part of a known animal trafficking ring, the animals he'd been selling were also ''being eaten'') and he's still screaming at him even as he's on a stretcher being loaded into a police ambulance. One might think that he didn't appreciate the irony of him being nothing but an animal in a cage.
138* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'': Every culprit goes through one in their episode's {{Denouement}}. This applies to most of the culprits in the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' franchise in general, but the Criminal Intent culprits' breakdowns really stand out.
139* Damian Darhk gets a subtle one in the ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' episode [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E5Compromised "Compromised"]] after [[Comicbook/BlackCanary Sara]] hits him with a BreakingSpeech revealing his future -- his ultimate defeat and the loss of his [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes loved ones]]. His smug demeanor quickly breaks down, but unfortunately for the Legends, he rallies quickly and decides to attempt to ScrewDestiny.
140* Quite common for the bad guys on ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' when they realize too late how they've been taken for a ride by the team and are about to lose all their money and/or go to jail. More often than not, you'll see them screaming while being dragged away by the cops on how this is all a big set-up but no one listens.
141* Lex Luthor, the BigBad of the first season of ''Series/LoisAndClark'', goes very quickly in the last few minutes of the first season finale, peaking with him running into the basement to [[AxeCrazy grab an ax and kill Superman]], who had been trapped in a Kryptonite cage, only to learn he's escaped; he screams incoherently, rushes ''upstairs'', and -- with police closing in -- delivers some dramatic last words about how he won't "live in a cage" and jumps from the top floor of his penthouse... though there are hints that that last part may have been him faking his death.
142* ''Series/{{Lost}}'':
143** Near the end of the third season, Ben became increasingly unnerved by the fact that he wasn't recovering from surgery as fast as he should have (The Island heals people), as well as his people becoming more and more drawn to Locke. He finally snaps in his [[ADayInTheLimelight spotlight episode]], shooting Locke and returning to camp acting quite erratic. Oddly enough, even though things have gotten ''a lot'' worse for him since then, he's managed to keep his cool.
144** He snapped for real when Keamy [[spoiler:killed his adopted daughter Alex]] in Season 4.
145** And once again in "The Incident" thanks to [[spoiler:Jacob's enemy, who [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates him]] into killing Jacob.]]
146** The Man in Black tends to be pretty calm and smug, but he goes a little crazy when he sees Jacob's ghost in the jungle. He chases him frantically, and the ancient invincible entity of destruction trips on a branch. He has a brief one when [[spoiler:he realizes he's become mortal in the series finale.]]
147* In the third episode of ''Series/LukeCage2016'', 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.
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150* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'': Lois' horrible mother Ida tries to con a rich man into marrying her by keeping him drugged while they were dating. However, during the wedding ceremony, he starts to come to and, since Ida doesn't have any pills left, she's reduced to clinging to his leg begging him not to go. The scene ends with her sobbing on the floor like a child throwing a tantrum, screaming about how unfair it is.
151* ''Series/{{Mash}}'': Major Frank Burns -- the closest thing the series has to a villain -- begins experiencing SanitySlippage after the arrival of Col. Potter and the development of Margaret Houlihan into a more complex character. However, he still has a couple Villainous Breakdowns at the end of the fifth season and off-screen at the start of the sixth season.
152** The first occurs when Frank learns that his former girlfriend Margaret Houlihan has gotten engaged to one Lieutenant Donald Penobscot while in Tokyo. This prompts him to run off into the Korean countryside, kidnap a Korean family at gunpoint, and bring them back to the 4077th, claiming that they are spies. Col. Potter has the family let go and shown to the mess tent for food and anything else they need. Meanwhile, Potter takes Burns to his office and tries to talk to Burns, who is so crazed that he points an automatic weapon at Potter, Hunnicut, and Pierce. Thinking on his feet, Radar puts through a call to Burns's mother and has her talk her son down. After a few minutes of talking, he drifts off to sleep.
153** The second breakdown occurs off-screen at the beginning of the sixth season. After the marriage of Houlihan and Penobscott at the end of season five, Burns has gone on leave to Seoul. Burns does not return from leave as scheduled, and the camp soon hears from the military police about how Burns has been running around Seoul accosting every blonde woman who resembles Houlihan. Eventually, he hops into a bath with a General Kester and his wife. Mrs. Kester does not take kindly to this, and a short time later, Burns is apprehended by the [=MP=]s. Held for psychiatric evaluation, he is permanently transferred out of the 4077th.[[note]]Burns actor Larry Linville had declined to renew his contract after five seasons, feeling he had done all he could with the character, so the second breakdown was used as a way of writing him out of the series.[[/note]]
154* ''Series/Merlin2008'': [[BigBad Morgana]] spends the entire series [[SanitySlippage slipping down the slope of madness]], but in the GrandFinale [[spoiler: she loses the two things that kept her even remotely grounded, Mordred and Aithusa, her army is defeated, and all she has left is an obsession to kill Arthur]]. By the time Merlin catches up to her and [[spoiler:sticks Excalibur in her gut, you'd be forgiven for thinking she'd let him do it.]]
155* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': Charlotte's reaction in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E1 Death in the Slow Lane]]" when John reveals that Nerys and Bethan taped her getting dressed to go to the nightclubs to sell drugs, and when she talked to her mother about it. She tries to attack them as they laugh at her.
156* ''Series/MissionImpossible'': Very common, when the [[BigBad Big Bad's]] scheme has been derailed, a [[EngineeredPublicConfession public confession has been engineered]], etc.
157* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'':
158** Dr. Forrester has one in "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E12Mitchell Mitchell]]" when Joel escapes, quickly recomposing himself when Mike ends up walking up to them.
159** Pearl suffers one in "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S10E13Diabolik Diabolik]]" when she accidentally activates the return to Earth mechanism on the Satellite of Love. It's actually quite the TearJerker.[[note]]Also a case of RealitySubtext, as her actress took the show's cancellation the hardest of the crew.[[/note]]
160* In the ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' episode "Mind Games", Gibbs has to deal with Kyle Boone, a serial rapist/murderer he'd busted years earlier who is now on death row. Just a few days before Boone's execution, a new body pops up with his M.O., revealing that there's a copycat. It turns out that Boone's lawyer is also his accomplice/apprentice, and he's kidnapped Agent Cassidy to add to their list of victims. As for Boone, his endgame is to make Gibbs angry enough to personally kill him and thus ruin his own life. His plan, however, goes sideways when Gibbs puts a gun to his head and pulls the trigger, only to reveal that the gun is unloaded, which starts Boone's breakdown. It then goes into overdrive when Cassidy shows up alive with [=DiNozzo=] telling Boone that his lawyer/accomplice is dead; Boone is dragged ''literally'' kicking and screaming to his execution.
161* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Rumplestiltskin absolutely flips when he thinks that [[UnwittingPawn Belle]] was [[HoneyTrap working for Regina/The Evil Queen in a plot to take away his powers.]]
162* ''Series/{{Oz}}'': This happens often. Like when Keller [[spoiler: goes nuts and commits suicide after Beecher rejects him for the final time]]. This is an interesting case, as it also crosses over into [[spoiler: ThanatosGambit]].
163* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
164** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': In "Green No More - Part II", Lord Zedd goes completely bonkers and rants in disbelief when Tommy manages to destroy the Green Crystal and teleport the Dark Rangers away, and in "Changing of the Zords - Part III", he's left lamenting his failure and appears to be on the verge of tears and after having been humiliated and had his staff broken and the Shogunzords claimed from him by Tommy and the other rangers. The latter of those two breakdowns of his is played for laughs.
165** ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'': Dark Specter snaps completely when Darkonda betrays him by shooting him with a super torpedo that was originally designed to destroy Earth, furiously deciding to spend his final moments getting revenge on him for his treachery by taking the hit from another torpedo fired at the Dark Fortress and eating his Velocifighter [[TakingYouWithMe just before he perishes]].
166** ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'': Grizzaka was [[HairTriggerTemper always short-tempered]], but he really goes off the deep end big time when Jellica informs him that she was only able to recover three Crystal Eyes. In fact, he gets so angry that he has no qualms about attacking her over and over again before Dai Shi arrives to reclaim his throne from him, and screams at him that those loyal to him lost the beast war because of him not long after he lectures him on his tendency to destroy what he refuses to have. Not too long later on, he loses it again when the Rangers finally manage to beat him after an intense, brutal, and chaotic battle against him, [[ThisCannotBe voicing his disbelief that he lost]] and screaming that no one is stronger than him [[DefeatEqualsExplosion just before he explodes]].
167** ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'': Serrator completely loses it and flips out, [[PsychoElectro throwing lighting]] ''[[PsychoElectro everywhere]]'' after Deker [[EvenEvilHasStandards refuses to split open the Earth]] and strikes him instead.
168** ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Power Rangers Super Megaforce]]'': Prince Vekar 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.
169* ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'':
170** In "Hammer into Anvil", No. 6 makes the new No. 2 have one of these, [[ParanoiaGambit convincing him his masters are spying on him]] with some irregular acts and fake messages, ultimately ending with No. 2 getting rid of everyone, accusing them of being traitors, before collapsing into tears; No. 6 points out that a loyal man would have accepted the spying, and convinces him to turn himself in.
171** It happens again in "Once Upon A Time". While No. 2 was clearly panicky and unstable from the beginning, he really loses it and [[spoiler: dies from a heart attack]] when No. 6 manages to turn the tables on him with HeroicWillpower alone.
172* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'':
173** The normally flat, emotionless Captain Neville eventually resorts to slapping Danny upside the head to keep him quiet, like in [[Recap/RevolutionS1E2ChainedHeat Episode 2]] and [[Recap/RevolutionS1E5SoulTrain Episode 5]]. [[Recap/RevolutionS1E10NobodysFaultButMine Episode 10]] had an outraged Neville promising revenge on Miles when the guy outwitted him. [[Recap/RevolutionS1E11TheStand Episode 11]] had Neville beat up his son Jason and throw him out when he refused to follow orders. [[Recap/RevolutionS1E13TheSongRemainsTheSame Episode 13]] had Neville go into one when he realized that Jason is not only working for the rebels but he tricked him into divulging information about his mission. [[Recap/RevolutionS1E16TheLoveBoat Episode 16]] had Neville fly into a raging tantrum when Charlie, Nora, and Jason led a mutiny and helped Dr. Ethan Camp and his family to escape. [[Recap/RevolutionS1E17TheLongestDay Episode 17]] has Tom Neville go up to his son Jason and actually try to get him to shoot his own father, and then laughing about how he'll never be rid of him when Jason doesn't do it. The [[Recap/RevolutionS1E20TheDarkTower first season finale]] has him promise Jason that he'll spare Rachel and Charlie, but as soon as those two get into the special room in level 12 to get the power back on, Neville decides to just try to break into the room and kill them all.
174** AvertedTrope with the preternaturally calm Monroe so far...not that it makes the viewers any less keen to see him get his Bass kicked. [[Recap/RevolutionS1E9Kashmir Episode 9]] has Monroe actually yell for the first time when he finds out that Rachel is actually building a sophisticated bomb and not the power amplifier he wanted. Played straight for Monroe in "Nobody's Fault But Mine." When Miles and Monroe finally confront each other, Monroe has the opportunity to kill Miles. Instead, he drops his gun and literally begs Miles to come back into the Militia, saying that he needs him. Miles just gives him TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, at which point Monroe loses it completely. [[Recap/RevolutionS1E14TheNightTheLightsWentOutInGeorgia Episode 14]] has Monroe try to blow up Atlanta, Georgia with a small nuclear bomb, and he is visibly furious when Alec Penner fails to detonate the bomb. [[Recap/RevolutionS1E15Home Episode 15]] has Monroe fly into a rage when [[spoiler: his girlfriend Emma Bennett gets killed off before she can tell him where their son is]]. [[Recap/RevolutionS1E18Clue Episode 18]] has Monroe scream at Randall Flynn when he finds out that Randall had been holding out of him about the Tower's existence. [[Recap/RevolutionS1E19ChildrenOfMen Episode 19]] has Monroe basically forget about the entire Monroe Republic agenda and focus on settling his personal vendetta with Miles.
175* ''Series/TheScarletPimpernel'': Robespierre in the BBC adaptation is almost always chillingly calm and formal, even if he's ordering mass executions or plotting to violently crush insurrections. Merely getting flustered and impatient is a sign that he's about to retaliate with drastically excessive force, and when the Pimpernel's antics finally make him lose his shit you know everyone's gonna be in for a rough time.
176* ''Series/ScholarWhoWalksTheNight'': Gwi goes through one after Hye Ryung's death. It includes carrying her corpse back to his lair and telling her he didn't mean to kill her, then murdering most of the court officials.
177* ''Series/{{Search}}'': Lee Hyeok suffers one after accidentally killing [[spoiler: Jun-seong]]. Initially he's too shocked to react. Then he screams and fires wildly at everyone around him.
178* ''Series/ShakaZulu'': After Shaka spends most of the series using his cunning and ingenuity to carve out an empire in Southeastern Africa, after his mother dies, he goes entirely off the rails, becoming TheCaligula by starting a famine and ordering his forces to engage in random democide, and planning to invade the Cape Colony out of anger against the western visitors who tricked the mighty Shaka.
179* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': The villain, Jim Moriarty, has sudden mood swings that end with screaming, which he quickly folds back into his smooth, campy personality. These are often triggered by exasperation or frustration:
180-->'''Sherlock Holmes''': People have died.\
181'''Moriarty''': That's what people '''DO'''!
182* ''Series/{{Slasher}}'': When the Executioner's plan finally goes awry in the Season 1 finale because Sarah discovered his true identity he starts sobbing like a little boy after stabbing her.
183* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': Major Zod was never exactly stable, what with being an AxeCrazy LargeHam with a HairTriggerTemper. He spent most of the season slowly deconstructing, as stress and his inability to cope with his failures enroached on his sanity. He was able to keep in under control for most of Season 9 however, recovering whenever he slipped up. In the season finale, "Savior", however, he lost it, following his army's defection. He pulls Blue K knife out from under his coat, jumps on Clark and engages him in a KnifeFight, ranting at the top of his lungs the entire time.
184* ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'': Batiatus has these with increasing frequency as the series goes on. His wife Lucretia and resident RichBitch Ilithya also get in on the act at least once each.
185* This is very common among the Goa'uld System Lords in ''Series/StargateSG1'':
186** Apophis's ''second'' death being the most memorable.
187** Hathor goes on a little rant before O'Neill sneaks up on her and dunks her in a pool of liquid nitrogen.
188** Anubis, both times.
189* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
190** In the BottleEpisode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet Duet]]" Major Kira discovers an ailing Cardassian passenger to be the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName infamous]] [[PuttingOnTheReich labor camp director]] Gul Darheel, and arrests him. What ensues is a [[LargeHam hamtastic]] performance from the captured RetiredMonster, as he extolls his genocidal actions against his Bajoran prisoners as virtuous and 'clean', practically dancing on their graves and reveling in his evil. Ranting at length in such an unhinged manner would qualify as a breakdown itself until [[spoiler:it's revealed he's ''not'' Gul Darheel, but Amin Marritza, his filing clerk. [[InelegantBlubbering Amin breaks down into sobs]], [[AccompliceByInaction decrying himself a coward for not stopping the horrors, despite obviously being powerless to do so]]. So, consumed with guilt, he posed as Gul Darheel and got himself caught by the Bajorans, hoping that his summary execution would force Cardassia to admit its atrocities against Bajor. Kira refuses his pleads to play along, stating that 'enough good people have already died'.]]
191** Admiral Leyton in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E12ParadiseLost Paradise Lost]]" remains self-assured until Worf announces that Captain Benteen, Leyton's NumberTwo, has stood down her ship. When Sisko pressures Layton to give in, Leyton slams the desk and shouts "It's not over!" in his first loss of self-control during the entire two-parter.
192** The day started so well for [[Characters/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineGulDukat Gul Dukat]] in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E06SacrificeOfAngels Sacrifice of Angels]]": After months of work he finally destroyed the minefield in front of the wormhole, which allows him to recieve massive reinforcements that will turn the slow going war against the Federation and the Klingons into a very one-sided CurbStompBattle. [[spoiler:But then the wormhole opens and not a single of his ships comes out, the entire fleet apparently vanished from existence]] and his expression rightfully turns into a full blown BSOD. Then [[spoiler:his highly beloved daughter tells him she won't come with him when his remaining troops have to retreat and that she helped the saboteurs to stop his plans]]. Then [[spoiler:his second in command Damar shoots her in the heart because she's a traitor]] and Dukat slips completely into insanity, oblivious of whats going on around him.
193** To say nothing about "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E11Waltz Waltz]]", when he freaks out and decides to destroy Bajor: "I'm so glad we had this time together, Benjamin. Because we won't be seeing each other for a while. I have unfinished business on Bajor! They thought I was their enemy! They don't know what it is to be my enemy, but they will! From this day forward, Bajor is dead. All of Bajor! And this time, even their Emissary won't be able to save them!" This was after spending the entire episode suffering from hallucinations of Weyoun, Damar and Major Kira taunting him and demanding that he kill Sisko, and periodically flipping out and shooting at people who were not, technically speaking, there. His SanitySlippage finally kicks in when his attempt to convince Sisko he's a HeroWithBadPublicity falls apart spectacularly.
194--->'''Dukat:''' Of course I hated them! I hated everything about them! Their superstitions and their cries for sympathy, their treachery and their lies, their smug superiority and their stiff necked obstinacy, their earrings and their broken wrinkled noses.
195--->'''Sisko:''' [[IShallTauntYou You should have killed them all.]]
196--->'''Dukat:''' [[BlindedByRage Yes! Yes, that's right, isn't it?]] I knew it! I've always known it! I should have killed every last one of them. I should have turned their planet into a graveyard the likes of which the galaxy had never seen! ''[[HeelRealisation (Beat)]]'' [[DissonantSerenity I should have killed them all...]]
197* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
198** In " [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E21TheDrumhead The Drumhead]]", the ''Enterprise'' is host to a series of ever-more-paranoid hearings and trials searching for a saboteur or spy. The spearhead of these trials, a respected admiral who is the daughter of an even-more-respected jurist, is pushing for Starfleet-wide witch hunts, all looking for supposed traitors. When she calls Picard to the stand, he responds to her accusations by quoting ''her father'', pointing out that these accusations without cause are destroying the Federation that she claims to love more assuredly than if there actually was a traitor. She ''begins ranting'', damning Picard for having the gall to quote her father, and displays her paranoia to such an extent that the head of Starfleet Intelligence, who had been there to observe, actually ''leaves the room''. When ''the guy whose job is to be paranoid'' thinks you are going too far, you know you've broken.
199* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':
200** Khan Noonien Singh in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed Space Seed]]", when the crew refuses to bow down to him even as he's slowly killing Captain Kirk in the decompression chamber, even prompting him to yell: ''"It's so USELESS!"'' to nobody in particular.
201** Doctor Janice Lester in "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E24TurnaboutIntruder Turnabout Intruder]]" grows increasingly unhinged and insane while in Kirk's body, her irrational behaviour causing the rest of the crew to be suspicious. By the time she returned back to her own body, she was sobbing hysterically and screaming about how she wanted Kirk dead.
202** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing The Conscience of the King]]", actor Karidian's daughter Lenore [[spoiler: after revealing she had killed seven of the nine witnesses who knew her father as Kodos the Executioner]] ran out to the stage with a phraser, trying to kill Kirk, one of the witnesses. The mad glint in her eyes told us that she lost her mind. And when [[spoiler: she accidentally killed her father]], she broke down into tears and later on, she insistently believed that [[spoiler: her father was still alive and still performing]].
203** General Trelane in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E17TheSquireOfGothos The Squire of Gothos]]" at first tries to pass himself off as AManOfWealthAndTaste; his true PsychopathicManchild colours to bleed through around the time that he starts [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting Captain Kirk for sport]], but when he's poised, ready for the kill, and his ''parents'' show-up to give him a stern lecture about interfering with primitive species (and presumably take him to his room), he starts whining like a particularly pathetic five year old.
204** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E5TheEnemyWithin The Enemy Within]]", after Kirk is separated into two halves, one good and one evil, the evil one hits SanitySlippage after trying to rape a crewmember, then assaulting a member of security. When the good Kirk, along with Spock and [=McCoy=] realize what's going on and the good Kirk wants the evil one stopped unharmed, he hits a full breakdown, wrecking Kirk's room screaming "''I'M CAPTAIN KIRK!''"
205* The Mind Flayer from ''Series/StrangerThings'' seems to go in throws of these whenever his plans go awry or whenever [[WeaksauceWeakness he's near heat]]. These mannerisms are best seen [[spoiler: [[DemonicPossession through Will]]]].
206-->'''[[spoiler:Will/Mind Flayer]]:''' ''[when restrained by Joyce]'' [[MadnessMantra LET ME GO! LET ME GO! LET ME GO!]] '''''[[VoiceOfTheLegion LET ME GO! LET ME GO!]]'''''
207* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
208** Lucifer is usually able to seem [[AManOfWealthAndTaste quite sophisticated]], but he becomes much more [[EvilIsPetty openly mean]] after he confronts Michael for the Apocalypse: being annoyed at the interruptions, he snappishly removes Castiel's head, and then beats up on Dean with his fists. Similarly, after being locked in the Cage, he is no longer thinking about becoming free and bringing about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt; rather, his appearances in Season 7 are just about inflicting psychological tortures on Sam.
209** Much later in the Season 13 finale, "Let the Good Times Roll", Lucifer finally completely snaps: [[spoiler: After Jack, his {{Nephilim}} son, rejects him as his father, he goes berserk, screaming in unbridled rage so loudly that it deafens the room. Then he proceeds to steal and power himself up with Jack's grace, and taking him and accidentally Sam to a convent, threatening to kill both unless one kills the others, and intends to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the universe]] and [[AGodAmI rebuild it in his own image]].]]
210** Crowley has a minor one during the Demon Tablet arc, when Sam is [[spoiler: injecting him with human blood to make him more human, just like consuming demon blood made Sam more demonic, as an attempt to fulfill the trial of restoring a demon's humanity. At one point, Crowley starts rambling about his {{Jerkass}} mother and how she never really loved him like a mother should, culminating in him crying and screaming "I deserve to be loved!". This is the first sign that the blood is working, since he is experiencing a human need for affection for the first time in hundreds of years]].
211* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': In "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS1E1TheManWhoWasDeath The Man Who Was Death]]", the VigilanteMan executioner protagonist is reduced to a cowardly wreck begging for his life when he is finally caught and gets the electric chair. This just after he spent the entire episode extolling the virtues of capital punishment.
212* ''Los títeres'': Adriana Godán in this Chilean telenovela has a particularly memorable one: her plans wrecked, she regresses to childhood, revealing that [[FreudianExcuse she tried and failed to get her father's love, but he wanted a boy]], jumps into a pool and starts playing with her old dolls. Apparently, "to comb the doll" is now slang for a breakdown in Chile.
213* ''Series/TokusouRoboJanperson'': Shun Sugata's performance as Ryuzaburou Tatewaki demonstrates how to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-uAMIlXZu4 destroy your office while screaming the name of your archenemy over and over and then burn his picture in the paper while cackling like a madman and sticking out your tongue]].
214* ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'': Agent Aburera starts out as a cool, calculating [[TheManBehindTheMan Man Behind The Man]] at the beginning, but gets increasingly twitchy as more and more of his deals are scuttled due to the titular team's interference with his clients' schemes. Eventually, he starts gunning for the Rangers himself, first through indirect assaults using hired thugs and attempting to discredit their integrity, then by attacking them himself in a personal confrontation. It's only at the end, after his black market empire is in shambles and he's out of options that he executes his ultimate plan: invading the Rangers' base directly with an army of MechaMooks, taking control of it, trouncing around the city causing massive destruction in its HumongousMecha mode, and using the mayhem to lure the rest of the SPD fleet to their doom, all while raving about how he will pave the way for a galactic criminal paradise with their ashes. And after ''that'' plan fails, his final words are a speech about how his dreams aren't dead, and that ThereIsAnother that will take his place and [[AvengingTheVillain avenge him and bring forth his twisted utopia]]. (We meet ''that'' one in [[ReunionShow Magiranger vs. Dekaranger]].)
215* ''Series/{{V 2009}}'': Anna has a positively '''''epic''''' one at the end of the first season after Erica destroys nearly all her soldier eggs culminating in her going "RocksFallEveryoneDies" on the entire planet.
216* ''Film/WEIRDWorld'' (FailedPilotEpisode):
217** Dr Dylan Bledsoe, normally a smug, calculating psychopath, completely loses his composure on realizing [[spoiler: that Noah is about to infect him to his own killer virus]], and is reduced to pathetically begging Diane for mercy. [[TheDogBitesBack When Diane naturally refuses to help]], he's left impotently screaming as he's locked in the biolab.
218** After crashing his car and injuring himself in a failed attempt to kill his own sister, Bob Provost throws a temper-tantrum when Patty throws her prototype time machine into the road rather than just give it to him, spending the left few seconds furiously ranting about how she couldn't make anything easy for him as he limps after the machine... and he's even more enraged when he realizes that she just made him chase after her driver's license. [[spoiler: And then he gets hit by a car.]]
219** Bryan Mayhew can schmooze his way out of anything and is totally secure in his ability to gaslight Abby O'Reardon into submission. However, in their final confrontation, he's left so terrified that he can't even speak through most of it, and when he realizes just how thoroughly he's been outplayed, he can only whimper and cry in despair, before nodding helplessly along with Abby's demands for good behavior. [[spoiler: This is because he's suffering the advanced effects of Abby's youth serum and [[RaiseHimRightThisTime is doomed to start his life over as her baby son]].]]
220* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'' saw the Governor gear up his people to attack the Prison where Rick and his group were sheltering. He convinced them it was necessary to destroy Rick's group because they were conspiring to destroy the Governor's group. After the attack is repelled, the Governor's group turns on him, demanding to know what the point of the attack was. The Governor, who has been going through a season of LaserGuidedKarma, flips out and guns down everyone that's not fanatically loyal to him, which is most of his people.
221* ''Series/WhiteCollar'' has the controlled, smug [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] Vincent Adler being crushed to the brink of tears when [[spoiler:all the treasure he spent his life searching for blew up in front of him.]]
222* ''Series/TheWire'':
223** For three seasons, Marlo Stanfield is completely calm and unflappable, even when things aren't going well for him. In the last two episodes, however, he has two villainous breakdowns. After getting thrown in jail, Marlo takes it in stride as just part of the game. Then he learns that his subordinates have been hiding the fact that his nemesis Omar has been calling him out. He flips out, screaming that he has to step up to defend his name. This is the first time he ever raises his voice:
224--->'''Chris Partlow:''' It's some bullshit man. You don't need that shit on your mind.\
225'''Marlo:''' What the FUCK you know about what I need on my mind, motherfucker?!! My name was on the street! When we bounce from this shit here, y'all go down on them corners and let them people know, word did not get back to me! Tell em' Marlo step to any motherfucker, Omar, Barksdale, whoever. MY NAME IS MY NAME!!
226** In the final episode, [[spoiler:Marlo seems to have won, taking a plea bargain and earning his freedom with all the money he's accumulated, on the condition that he leaves the game. Almost immediately he realizes that he can't live as a civilian, picking a pointless fight with some gangsters and screaming to an empty street corner that he's still a force to be reckoned with.]]
227* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'': The show isn't usually known for this trope, but Zagreas has a rather epic breakdown after Xena manipulates the evil giant Gareth into destroying his army. It can also be seen as a surrogate to how most warlords feel about Xena's HeelFaceTurn and how hard she's made their lives. It fit the nature of the episode in general.
228* ''Series/YTheLastMan2021'': When Roxanne's Amazons surrender to opposing forces, she goes on an epic ClusterFBomb rant right out of town. It was at that point that she lost credibility among her girls.
229* ''Series/YesMinister'': Although not exactly a villain (more of a neutral, amoral antagonist), [[TheBarnum Sir Humphrey Appleby]] is usually smug, cool and collected. When he's in charge, that is, which is most of the time. However, when events occur that he did not expect, or someone actually manages to get one over him, his typical response is spluttering, panicked incoherence (not helped by his SesquipedalianLoquaciousness). See "The Skeleton in the Cupboard", in which an old cock-up he made comes back to haunt him, or "The Key", in which a threat to his job (and powerbase), coupled with being deprived automatic access to the Prime Minister, leads to him desperately climbing out of his window and up a drainpipe in order to see him.
230-->'''Hacker:''' We will still be able to destroy Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad...\
231'''Humphrey:''' Yes, BUT THAT'S '''ALL!'''
232[[/folder]]

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