Hair Trigger Temper / Western Animation

• Adventure Time:
  • The Earl of Lemongrab. Being the angry, screaming result of a science experiment gone horribly wrong, he has quite a few issues to sort out.
  • There's also Flame Princess, Finn's Ambiguously evil ex. This is best demonstrated in her first two episodes, where Finn has an extremely hard time not pissing her off while trying to stop her from burning a village.
    Flame Princess: Don't mess with the emotions of a fire elemental.
• Aladdin: The Series: In the episode "The Seven Faces of Genie", Genie's Anger is this trope personified. And throughout a good majority of the episode, said anger is taken out on Abis Mal.
  Anger Genie: POINT THAT BEARD AT ME AGAIN, AND I'LL RIP YOUR SPINE OUT!!!
• The Amazing World of Gumball:
  • Nicole, the mother, goes from "sweet, caring mother" to "so angry she punches a hole in the wall" at the drop of a hat.
  • Ocho (a student) is normally friendly and hangs out with his other classmates, but any minor happenings like bumping onto someone or breaking the tip of a pencil can make him extremely destructive and rageful.
  • While Jamie (the new school bully) was mostly harmless in the first two seasons (her worst action was attempting to throw a TV out the window, which chose to do so itself), she becomes much more hot-headed as of "The Coach", where almost any comment would result in a beating.
  • Miss Simian, especially when Gumball is involved. And when she gets angry, she'll literally go ape and throw or knock over any furniture in the room. This is best shown in "The Apology", where she tries to get Gumball and Darwin in trouble just because they were too disgusted to tell her that her ass was showing. And when Principal Brown doesn't punish them (he instead calls her out for framing them), she settles on going berserk and chasing them across the school.
• American Dad!:
  • Stan Smith is shown to be a very impulsive man with anger issues. Most of his actions on the show are examples of Disproportionate Retribution. He does not hesitate in pointing his gun at everything such as shooting a toaster for delivering toast and pointing a gun at lasagna. He even pointed a gun at his own son Steve multiple times.
  • Roger Smith also occasionally shows such a temper too but due to his Ax-Crazy nature, he often takes it up to extreme levels. Examples include running over teens with a limo because they didn't pay him for riding them home safely and attempting to sabotage a CIA telethon because Stan stole Roger's idea to host such a telethon, not to mention taking over the home association and doing everything to the neighborhood that Stan hated just because Stan forgot to buy grenadine from the grocery store.
• Animaniacs:
  • Pesto the pigeon from the "Goodfeathers" segments is based on Tommy DeVito played by Joe Pesci in GoodFellas. He aims his outbursts mostly at Squit, who never quite figures out that calling Pesto anything results in his getting beat up. In another case, Pesto has lost his sister's egg, and Bobby reassures him that they'll get it back. Squit agrees with Bobby. Pesto smacks Squit. What'd he do? "Nothing. I just felt like smackin' somebody." (His voice actor was not Joe Pesci, just Chick Vennera doing a damned good Pesci impression.)
  • One episode shows that Pesto's sister can get even angrier than he can.
  • Taken to an absolute extreme with Katie Kaboom. Imagine the kind of creature that The Hulk would think needs to calm down, or run away from because her transformations are too freaky. That's our Katie. Each episode was her encountering some sort of trivial thing, then transforming into some sort of rage monster based on the problem and having an Angst Nuke that destroyed everything in the area. Then immediately calming down and acting like nothing happened.
  • Thaddeus Plotz, the (In-Universe) CEO of Warner Bros. who frequently gets pissed off with not only the Warner siblings' antics, but Dr. Scratchansniff's constant failure to deal with them. He also has No Indoor Voice.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • Zuko had a tendency to get angry, especially before his Heel–Face Turn. Quite appropriate for a Hot-Blooded character with fire-based Personality Powers.
  • Azula is able to be set off by anything by the end of the series, once her massive Villainous Breakdown begins.
• Batman: The Animated Series: Two-Face's origin story shows that the persona that is Two-Face is called "Big Bad Harv", a subconscious personality that exists within Harvey Dent's mind that represents years and years of repressed anger. The smallest slight can push this side of him into the fore and cause him to lash out, which can happen even if he's on camera or at a public event.
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold:
  • Guy Gardner can and will start brawls over being accidentally served the wrong type of eggs for lunch.
  • Black Lightning, unlike his comic counterpart, is incensed by everything in sight - dogs pooping, people on their phones, people using jeeps to carry groceries, wearing white after Labor Day, Toilet Humor, superheroes wearing capes, and worst of all... Uri the Unicorn!
    Black Lightning: HUGS DO NOT SOLVE EVERYBODY'S PROBLEMS!
• Batman: Under the Red Hood has Black Mask, who seems to have two temper settings. Mad, and punch all my henchmen mad. Almost all of his scenes consist of him yelling angrily. An odd exception comes near the end. After being betrayed and captured by the Joker and told that the Joker wanted something to wear and a very large truck, Black Mask asks if he wants anything else in a rather subdued way. Later, when he learns that he and Joker had been tricked by the Red Hood, he gives a rather deadpan "Can't. trust. no one."
• Beavis and Butt-Head: Coach Buzzcut, a Drill Sergeant Nasty gym coach whose students makes his temper fly off the wall.
• CatDog has Rancid Rabbit. His Catchphrase is even an annoyed "What?! What?! What?!"
• ChalkZone: Mr. Wilter gets pissed off so easy if someone makes a mess in his classroom or draws (as he puts it) CARTOOOONS!!!
• Dan Vs.: The titular character is this. The slightest thing will set him off. Be it that the ATM charges him 50 cents more than last time causing him to rob a bank, or that Chris won't pick up his phone in the middle of the night to join in on one of his crazy schemes. Most of the times Dan's anger is justified at the end, but even so he will still be set off by minuscule things all the way through, and the fact that the targets of his rage often turn out to deserve it is pretty much a coincidence.
• Daria:
  • Mr. DeMartino was very easily pissed off by the stupidity of his own students, especially Kevin and Brittney.
  • Ms. Janet Barch could also be a similar example, though she usually directs her rage at men.
• Donald Duck is infamous for his bad temper.
  • Perhaps more so Daisy Duck, Donald is at least usually cranky on a consistent basis. Daisy on the other hand can go from polite and kindly to ten times as violent, sometimes for even pettier reasons than Donald (not that it stops Daisy from criticizing Donald for his bad temper).
• Ed, Edd n Eddy:
  • The episode "Luck of the Ed" has this for Eddy, bordering on full-blown insanity when Ed loses the magazines Eddy was hiding from his mom and Eddy goes ballistic.
  • A one episode example has Gentle Giant Ed become this in "Little Ed Blue", in which he gets a stone in his shoe, making him far more ferocious than Sarah ever was.
• The Fairly OddParents!: Denzel Crocker. Even discounting his fairy-triggered Berserk Button, there is nothing you can say to this guy without him going crazy.
  "If they survive this, then they're FAIRIES! If they don't, I HAVE TENURE!"
  "Of course, HE survived that too. That must mean...HE'S A FAIRY!"
  "Hmm, you're right. HAVE A NICE DAY!!!" *Twitch*
• Family Guy:
  • Brian often finds himself triggering this with Glenn Quagmire, who takes offense to nearly any comment Brian directs towards him and erupts in a verbal (and sometimes physical) smackdown. Granted, this is not a consistent character trait for Quagmire, but provoked more from his hatred for Brian and everything he stands for.
  • Joe too even more so he often lashes out with even the slightest provocation and beats even his friends to a bloody pulp, this is rather jarring because in the early episodes he was very friendly and outgoing and he rarely got upset.
  • Mental Mike, The Brute and an Ax-Crazy psycho who wanted to kill Meg in "A Fistful of Meg". Why? She accidentally got ketchup on his jacket.
  • Oh, and not far behind is, of course, Stewie Griffin! One notable example of his temper is the time where he beat the ever-loving crap out of Brian after the latter failed to come up with the money he owed him from a bet and another time where he brutally beat one of Lois's piano students simply because he was playing while Stewie was watching the History Channel.
• The Flintstones: Fred Flintstone is well-known for his anger. You can often hear him shouting "WILLMMAA!!!" or "BARNEY!" with good reason.
• Futurama:
  • Bit character Roberto has a hair trigger with a hair trigger:
    Roberto: I'm thinking of a number between one and ten, guess it, and you die first! Go!
    Bender: Er, 56... ish...
    Roberto: 56? 56?! Aw man! Now that's all I can think about! I'm gonna kill you, you no-good 56ing...
  • Alien newscaster Morbo is quick to lose his temper with his ditzy co-star Linda.
    Linda: I'm sure those windmills will keep them cool...
    Morbo: Windmills do not work that way! GOOD NIGHT!
  • Malfunctioning Eddie is this. He literally explodes from even the slightest amount of shock or surprise. It doesn't even have to be anger; in "Insane in the Mainframe", when he introduces himself to Fry, Fry responds "We've met before", causing Eddie to scream "WHAT?!" and immediately explode on him.
  • Leela qualifies. Of course it's Depending on the Writer. One such example is in the movie "Bender's game" to the point wear she has to wear a shock collar to keep her temper in check. Another example is in an episode where a space whale ruins her delivery and she embarks on a Captain Ahab-style hunt.
  • The Omicronians are somewhat infamous for their bad tempers, especially their leader LRRR, RULER OF OMICRON PERSEI VIII! In "When Aliens Attack", they invaded the Earth over not being able to see the final episode of a centuries-old sitcom, and in "Love and Rocket" Lrrr and his wife Ndnd chased the Planet Express crew off their planet all because of some cutesy candy hearts that said "I WUV YOU".
    Lrrr: This concept of "wuv" confuses and infuriates us!
• Gravity Falls:
  • Li'l Gideon has a huge anger problem, to the point that his own parents are deathly afraid of him. Being a tyrant with the shameful low aspiration or two, plus controlling his own small intuition that people will look the other way from his corruption will do that.
  • Grunkle Stan is shown to have one too. This is Played for Drama in "A Tale of Two Stans" where his temper leads him to inadvertently break his brother's Perpetual Motion Machine (after slamming his fists on the table it was on) and ruining his chances of getting into his dream school, causing his parents to kick him out.
  • Dipper Pines, despite having a reputation both in and out of universe as a calm and brutally honest Deadpan Snarker (one that's admittedly very well-deserved), oscillates between this trope and something bordering on The Finicky One pretty often, considering how he makes it clear that he hates being called cute or condescended to in regards to his perceived tendency to try and throw others for a loop intellectually, but also tends to let grudges get to his head very easily (even when he doesn't really end up holding them), especially if your name is Blendin Blandin and you immediately get accused by him, who's nothing more than a random person to you, of trying to ruin other random people's lives, or if you're someone like Grunkle Stan; while they genuinely love each other even if both struggle to admit it, he's the type of guy who'll do anything criminal, immoral, or just plain normal to anger Dipper at the drop of a hat (though it does become more justified when Stan crosses into unfettered territory). These examples aside, he's (usually) not constantly erratic, though one can see how he takes after Stan. Moderate case of Like Great-Uncle, Like Grandnephew?
  • Manly Dan takes offense at anything and everything, ranging from simple things like having been told lies to completely ridiculous things like fish swimming around instead of doing what's "natural" (namely, jumping on his boat while he tries to catch him bare-handed). It can be said that he's not angry around the clock, but only because his idea of anger management is literally punching the street clocks around town.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Mandy has a frighteningly-crazed Death Glare, to go with her explosive temper that even Grim as well her parents are afraid of her. When this glare is followed by her demonic yells, she can scare almost everyone to death.
• Grojband has Trina Riffin. Each and every episode, whenever things don't go her way, she'll fly into a rage and writes her frustrations in her diary. Corey and his friends intentionally drive her up the wall all the time, so they can use the rants she writes in her diary as song material.
• Hey Arnold!: Helga G. Pataki has a very short, if not non-existent, fuse. Even the slightest provocation will cause her to either yell, beat someone's ass or give them "The Reason You Suck" Speech. Lila even acknowledges her bad temper in "Helga's Makeover" and tries to help her curtail it (though Helga's only interested in doing so because she thinks it'll make Arnold like her more).
• The husband from the Canadian short Hot Stuff can get angry very easily, due to his impatience at missing his show. Unfortunately, this temper is what drives him to do something stupid like jam a fork in a toaster to get the toast out.
• Invader Zim:
  • The titular character would frequently be pissed off by Gir's antics and to a lesser extent, Dib foiling his plans. He's pretty much the patron saint of No Indoor Voice.
  • Gaz as well, mostly targeted at Dib (and sometimes Zim), but in general, it's dangerous to mess with her; "Game Slave 2" has her stalk and attempt to murder a boy who managed to grab the last unit of the titular handheld before she could. In later episodes, she would frequently beat Dib for minor infractions.
• The Jetsons: Mr. Spacely is very easily pissed off, which directly contributes to George’s infamously poor job security.
• Jimmy Two-Shoes:
  • Lucius Heinous VII is a hot-headed Bad Boss who hates fun, especially when it involves a certain Two-Shoes....
  • Heloise, to the point where even Jimmy and Lucius are afraid of angering her. You can usually expect something violent to occur to someone who pushes her buttons in even the slightest.
• Johnny Test: Hugh Test easily gets mad, although it's usually justified given how irresponsible Johnny is.
• Kaeloo:
  • Mr. Cat can be set off by the slightest annoyance. It really doesn't help that he's an Ax-Crazy Sadist with an arsenal of weapons, including a bazooka and a chainsaw.
  • Pretty actually makes Mr. Cat look patient. While Mr. Cat may sometimes try to reason with the other person before trying to destroy them, Pretty on the other hand attacks anyone for minor annoyances even if it wasn't their fault.
• King of the Hill:
  • Cotton Hill, a jerkass who will easily get to attacking people if he wants to. He once went storming through Japan with the plan of spitting on Emperor during a peace ceremony when his son from Japan renounces his American side.
  • Hank Hill had a short fuse near the beginning of the series, to the point where there was an episode about him trying to manage his anger after reflecting on his outbursts over the series and witnessing someone die of a stroke from anger. There is a reason why his catchphrase is "I'm gonna kick your ass!" Dale and Bill's antics did not help. This was toned down as the series progressed.
• Looney Tunes:
  • The Tasmanian Devil is an ill-tempered and aggressive predator, which is what makes him so dangerous. The only reliable way of calming him down is music, as Daffy found out.
  • Giovanni Jones from Long-Haired Hare would get furious and beat up Bugs every time he interrupted his singing.
  • Yosemite Sam, to the point where "Blow My Stack", his first musical number, in The Looney Tunes Show revolves around his temper, where his attempts to curb his temper fail because of things like people turning their books in late or having a dolphin look at him the wrong way. The 1960 short From Hare to Heir has Bugs exploit Yosemite's problems with anger management by deducting from his 1 million pound inheritance for each time he is observed (or even rumored to be) losing his temper (of course, with Bugs aggravating him at every turn).
  • Henry "Papa" Bear from the Three Bears shorts definitely counts. He will yell and scream at the top of his lungs and/or beat up Junyer with minimal provocation, even though his behaviour often just makes things harder for him.
  • Post-Flanderization, Daffy Duck has reached these levels, especially around the likes of Bugs Bunny and (later) Speedy Gonzales. In Rabbit Fire and its follow-ups, his inability to control his temper is the main thing that Bugs uses to play him like a fiddle.
• Molly of Denali: In "Culture Clash", Trini gets angry whenever Molly and Tooey unintentionally suggest that she's too short for the basketball team, that she's not tough enough, and that she doesn't know how to play, landing Molly and Tooey on her bad side. They try to get on her good side for the rest of the episode.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In the first season, Applejack is shown to have quite the temper, being incredibly stubborn and easily ticked off by criticism and defiance, which often created conflicts with her friends. As time went on, she became more even-tempered and laid-back.
  • In episode "The Washouts", the aptly named Short Fuse is a pegasus who was kicked out of the Wonderbolts for anger issues, which he shows throughout the episode at random times by Suddenly Shouting. His short stature, temper, and reddish coloration makes him very close to a ponified version of Inside Out's Anger.
• Our Cartoon President: Amy Klobuchar has a tendency to fly into a rage whenever someone attempts to communicate with her, and constantly threatens to try and wound, maim, or even outright murder her fellow Democrats and political rivals, and often follows through with those threats, usually through a form of Disproportionate Retribution.
  Amy: Name, Amy. Skills, BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA!
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998):
  • Fuzzy Lumpkins is always in a bad mood, but if you really make him mad, he goes berserk and lays has the subtlety of dynamite.
  • Buttercup also has an extremely short temper, and it really doesn't take much to piss her off.
  • Princess Morbucks throws a tantrum any time she doesn't get her way.
• Regular Show:
  • Benson is always on the brink of losing it, especially when dealing with his slacker workforce.
  • Rigby is pretty easily angered, often yelling at people to "STOP TALKING!!!!". In "Death Punchies", he goes on a destructive rampage through the park just because he couldn't be player one in a video game. This is more notable in season 1, as later episodes tend to transfer his bad temper to his dad.
  • One of the symptoms of becoming a wereskunk is having angry outbursts and Hulking Out over trivial matters.
• The Ren & Stimpy Show:
  • Ren is infamous for his short, if not non-existent fuse. Especially since he has to put up with the antics of his "eediot" best friend Stimpy. In fact, at the end of "Stimpy's Invention", it's implied he enjoys being angry.
    Ren: DO YOU HAVE TO KEEP TAPPING LIKE THAT, YOU BLOATED SACK OF PROTOPLASM?!!!!
    • It's worth nothing that Ren is so small and weak that he can't usually get away with lashing out at anyone else, since he himself would be easily beaten to a pulp.
  • Kowalski, who Ren adopted in "Fake Dad", would get angry quite easily, and would proceed to destroy their furniture.
• Rocko's Modern Life:
  • Ed Bighead, Rocko's Cranky Neighbor. He could get set off by almost anything, from Spunky going through his salmon bushes to Rocko and his friends in general. "Junk Junkies" even shows him losing his temper over a toilet seat costing 25 cents!
  • Gladys the Hippo Lady will pummel Rocko anytime he accidentally violates her personal space.
    Gladys (shouting deeply): HOW DARE YOU!
  • Many background characters, especially in Season 1, were quite short-tempered and dealt with it by beating up Rocko; examples included an angry customer at the supermarket who claimed Rocko stole his cart and a laundromat customer who was annoyed by Spunky's antics.
  • Rocko's boss Mr. Smitty may be the worst example on the show, treating both Rocko and his customers like dirt simply because their "unsatisfactory conduct" drives him up the wall, whether or not they've even spent five seconds in his store.
• Frankie from the 1951 UPA cartoon Rooty Toot Toot, whose temper leads her to shoot her sweetheart Johnny when she thinks he's cheating on her for a singer named Nelly Bly. Immediately after Frankie's found not guilty, her inability to control her temper leads her to shooting her lawyer, who told the court he wanted to marry Frankie, in front of the entire court when he celebrates by dancing with Nelly Bly.
• Samurai Jack: One episode has Jack lose his temper and briefly fly off the handle. This causes Aku to create an Evil Knockoff fueled by the samurai's anger, Mad Jack. Naturally, Mad Jack is constantly angry and is easily made even more mad.
• The Simpsons:
  • Homer Simpson is a rageaholic. He can't live without rageahol. More so in the Tracey Ullman shorts and Season 1.
  • Groundskeeper Willie also has a very nasty temper, being both a Violent Glaswegian and a Fiery Redhead.
    Willie: It won't last. Brothers and sisters are natural enemies! Like Englishmen and Scots! Or Welshmen and Scots! Or Japanese and Scots! Or Scots and other Scots! Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!
    Skinner: You Scots sure are a contentious people.
    Willie (in Skinner's face): You just made an enemy for life!
  • It isn't that hard to piss off Gary Chalmers, especially if your name is Seymour Skinner.
• South Park:
  • Kyle Broflovski is quite easily pissed off. It's often because of something Cartman says or does, but to that end he seems pretty open to questions about his morality (real or even purely thought of in a headspace) only when they come from a place of pre-existing knowledge.
    • His mother Sheila is, in many ways, even worse, going as far as starting a war with Canada over some vulgar humor and becoming incredibly violent and unhinged at the end of Season 20 over something that a) is clearly a misunderstanding and b) she knows very little about (namely, Ike being framed for trolling and causing a war with Denmark after a Danish celebrity's death).
  • PC Principal from "Stunning and Brave" will go ballistic when you say something even the slightest bit offensive. Cartman learns that the hard way.
  • Due to Flanderization, Mr. Mackey developed an episode-specific Hair-Trigger Temper, mostly apparent in episodes like "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce", "Royal Pudding" and (to a lesser extent) "Insheeption".
  • The South Park version of Russell Crowe has a TV show where he travels the world getting into fights at the slightest provocation.
  • Stan's sister Shelly Marsh too. She often flips out about insults that are entirely in her head, mostly about her appearance. Sometimes, insults are more than enough:
  Shelly: Are you looking at my headgear?
  • Eric Cartman falls under this trope as well, and the results usually aren't pretty. He's prone to screeching in Angrish when he doesn't get something he wants immediately, particularly in the first four seasons, and he's notoriously nosy as a result. You can count on one hand the times he doesn't fly into a rage when he even thinks he's lost a very low-stakes bet, or when he has to do any amount of work in lowering any of his standards for dating, having fun or attempts to talk to someone in private, and everyone else's for that matter.
  • Mr. Garrison is one of the few characters able to match Cartman in terms of this trope. It really comes out whenever he asks for a favor about his love life that everyone (including his own boyfriend) is shy about, anyone pulling strings behind his back when he becomes the President, or his slow but genuinely progressive development on keeping a tight bond with someone for reasons other than his personal appearance.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • Squidward Tentacles. He could frequently be set off by SpongeBob's annoying behavior. This is more noticable in later episodes.
  • Sheldon Plankton, much more so in early episodes. He frequently got very angry when provoked. He calmed down later on to become more depressed.
  • Various background fish in Bikini Bottom are prone to getting upset, especially Tom & Harold.
  • The sea bear from "The Camping Episode". It has a laundry list of mundane things that make it angry (such as cubed cheese, wearing a sombrero in a goofy position, or wearing a hoop skirt), and Squidward decided to do all of them at once to prove it doesn't exist. Getting away from one is easier said than done, because sea bears are also offended by running or limping away from them.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Star's demon ex-boyfriend Tom isn't truly a bad person, but is easily angered and actually bursts into flames when he gets mad. However, he's taken anger management classes to get over it and eventually manages to become a calmer person (with occasional relapses).
  • A third season episode seems to imply he gets it from his dad.
• Static Shock: An unusual variation comes from a bang baby who turns into a Hulk-expy whenever he’s frustrated. The unusual part isn’t from the fact that he lashes out later as his alter-ego, but rather he gets upset at situations where being angry usually isn’t the expected reaction. When his English teacher gives him a 99 on his essay, he attacks her on her way home, with absolutely no clue as to what she did to deserve the repercussion. This can be explained by the fact that his strict father wants him to focus only on academics, later revealed to be disappointed in the 99 he received. He’s also forbidden him from having a social life because he sees it as a distraction (which includes having friends). Basically, the bang baby became this trope because he’s been forced to study 24/7 with nothing to allow him to release all the built-up stress he’s been accumulating.
• Steven Universe: It seems to be a reoccuring theme amongst the Diamonds, even Pink Diamond prior to her Character Development:
  • It's quite apparent that Yellow Diamond has a volcanic temper, particularly if it involves anything related to Earth.
  • Ironically, Blue Diamond's temper can be even worse than Yellow Diamond's. It took one of her followers calling her what is probably the equivalent of a Gem swear, and in another case being accused of murdering her own sister, for Yellow to finally snap and get violent. Blue, on the other hand, was immediately ready to shatter one of her own gems for accidentally fusing with one of her elites, and totally lost her composure because "Rose Quartz" apparently didn't want to remember the most traumatic event in her life. This comes to heights during the battle in "Reunited".
    Blue Diamond: Lapis Lazuli...! Does every Gem that comes in contact with this planet TURN TRAITOR?!
  • According to the other Diamonds, White Diamond can be "difficult" and has a high temper, so much so that even Yellow Diamond fears her. When we actually do see her, she displays terrifying apathy, and one can't help but get the impression that she would be very dangerous if someone actually made her angry. It's possible that Pink may have been subjected to White's wrath in the past, but in any case one can only draw so many conclusions from the battered appearance and robotic mannerisms of White's Pearl. It's revealed in Steven Universe: Future that White's Pearl was originally Pink Diamond's first Pearl before she was taken away by White and placed under her control while Pink was given a second Pearl, who would eventually become the Crystal Gem Pearl from the main cast. It is shown that Pink Pearl's broken eye was caused by one of Pink Diamond's temper tantrums when White told her that she wasn't fit to have her own colony, which angered Pink to the point where she ended up breaking part of Pink Pearl's physical form, which led her to be taken away and replaced by the would-be Crystal Gem Pearl, as mentioned above. As shown in the original series and according to Pink Pearl, Pink Diamond was initially a Royal Brat with destructive powers that could shatter walls and break parts of a Gem's physical form with a loud scream whenever she threw temper tantrums. After Pink Pearl was taken away and placed under White's control, Pink Diamond realized how horrible her temper was and deconstructed this trope by using her powers to heal and help other Gems. Thousands of years later, the other 3 Diamonds deconstruct this trope as well after their Heel–Face Turn in "Change Your Mind", which is further deconstructed in Steven Universe: Future, where Yellow, Blue, and White are no longer in control of Homeworld and are shown to be much happier without their empire, and they've even managed to develop new powers that can heal and help other Gems, just like Pink did thousands of years ago.
  • She's not a Diamond, but Jasper can certainly give them a run for their money in the temper department. She doesn't have calm moments, just times when she's slightly less angry and seething in preparation for her next blow up. Just about anything the Crystal Gems do sets her off, and it only gets worse when she suffers a Villainous Breakdown. Her temper certainly can't be helped by the fact that she's been made to return to Earth, the location of the worst moment of her life, but Peridot indicates that Jasper is a nightmare to be around even back on Homeworld.
    Peridot: Just being on a ship with her made me tired.
  • To a lesser extent, Peridot gets this whenever she's stressed, as she seemed to have become a lot calmer after the Cluster was dealt with.
• Tangled: The Series: Cassandra has quite the temper. She would often get angry and argumentative with anyone (most commonly Eugene) and she constantly gets frustrated with Rapunzel's bubbly, carefree nature. A lot of her temper stems from her Inferiority Superiority Complex as whenever her ego is bruised, you can expect her to get mad. This gets worse after her Face–Heel Turn in the third season and her subsequent Sanity Slippage has made her temper a lot more volatile and dangerous.
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Raphael has severe anger issues to the point where they each had an episode that had him focus on being more calm-minded.
• Tom and Jerry:
  • Spike the Bulldog, though a decent guy when in a good mood, is easily angered by basically anything Tom does (especially if he's woken up from a nap), when he threatens Tom with violence after he bothers him Jerry makes sure to exploit this to make sure it happens.
  • In the Gene Deitch shorts, Tom has a Clint Clobber-like owner that will mercilessly kick his ass for any perceived slight.
• Total Drama:
  • Eva is an extremely irritable lady who will beat up or threaten anyone who even looks at her the wrong way. Pretty much every character is afraid of her (including animals) because of this. It isn't helped by the fact that she also has Super-Strength to coincide with her anger issues.
  • Due to the Flanderization of her hyper-competitive tendencies, Courtney has developed an anger problem in Action onwards.
  • Duncan too. He's super aggressive, moody, violent and definitely not a person to mess with.
• Transformers Beast Machines: As a result of drastic Not as You Know Them treatment, the formerly sanguine Silverbolt starts showing a surly hair trigger temper. Particularly whenever Blackarachnia speaks to him. Explosive outbursts are rare, but he still takes exception to nearly everything.
  • Then there are G1 characters Afterburner, Rampage, and Slugfest. Afterburner displays dizzying heights of hysteric anger and rage at the most innocuous comment (though he's always angry, he tends to need some "setting off" for it to show all that strongly); Rampage is angry all the time except while watching television; and Slugfest, being both stupid and paranoid, is too dim to know when someone isn't making fun of him and just always reacts with aggression to everything.
• Young Justice (2010): Superboy was grown as a clone and thus has no idea how to control his emotions, resulting in this trope. It's played for some laughs when he goes to school for the first time, and Miss Martian has to constantly stop him from attacking everything. By Season 2, he's grown out of it, thanks to being mentored by Superman.

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