{{MCE}}: Does this trope include comedy use of Brain lockup, such as a characters being accidentally pushed over went poked or other characters dressing them up?

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I do not understand the origin of this term. The only BSOD I know is "Blue Screen of Death," a locked-up error condition to which some flavors of MicroSoft Windows are annoyingly prone.

Is the writer saying that in these circumstances the hero goes into inert motionless brainlock and can take no further action unless someone turns him off and back on again?

{{osh}}: Basically.

KendraKirai: I was a little confused too, but then I thought about it, and yeah, the Hero basically requires a reset. They need to have their previous experiences that led them to begin being a Hero in the first place repeated to them. Restore from backup. :)

{{Tabby}}: Added clarification to the main page.
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{{Seth}}: The term "Mindrape" is greatness.

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{{Scrounge}}: Is there a villain counterpart to this? Scheme freeze-up or something? I've seen too many bad guys with a deer-in-the-headlights expression to belive there isn't.

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Fathom: There is. I posted an example from http://www.drhorrible.com/ that shows all the earmarks of trauma BSOD. It's an [[ItsAllMyFault It's All My Fault]] critical error that caused his emotional withdrawal. It even ventured somewhat into the territory of the [[FreakOut Freak Out]], but fortunately that's often good for villains.

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LickyLindsay: did this go through the YKTTW crucible? Somebody would have pointed out that the name will make people think of HeroicBDSM, and SquickyMagic would have taken care of the rest.

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RySenkari: Hmmm... is HeroicBDSM in the TitleBin yet?

LickyLindsay: it is now.

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ShayGuy: Is there a reason Peter Parker identifying Ben's murderer isn't on here?

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{{Vulpy}}: This title is MadeOfWin, by the way. "TheHero has encountered a fatal error and must be rebooted." Props to whoever named it.

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FreezairForALimitedTime: Proving that [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife TV Tropes Will Ruin Your REM Cycles]], I had a dream last night in which this article was vandalized. So I am now bringing this fact up here to keep it from happening. Or something. I don't know. ''I felt like sharing.''

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AKK: Ranma in the final book of the series suffers from this when Akane saves him(saying more would be spoilerific and I don't quite know how to blank those out yet).
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{{Rogue 7}}: Perhaps it's because I haven't seen {{Shuffle}}, but I would vote for a return to [[TalesOfSymphonia Lloyd Irving]]. Particularly since the caption was much, much better.
Edit: better picture than the first one, but I still like the "Lloyd Irving has enountered an error and needs to be rebooted" caption.

*SparkyLurkdragon: I don't care who or what's in the picture, but we ''need'' to keep the caption in some form or another.