Heroic BSOD / Comic Books

Poor Whisper...

Heroic BSoD: If this is your superpower, you're in trouble.

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• In Animal Man, Buddy Baker has a BSOD lasting at least several days when an assassin murders his wife and children. This subverts temporarily the normal tendency of Dark Age superheroes to immediately go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. The storyline was a subversion of the Dark Age itself, and the constant string of murder and humiliation its heroes were forced by their writers to endure.
• In Astro City, the Street Angel has one after Black Velvet confronts him with the Fridge Logic of his Thou Shalt Not Kill policy during his Darker and Edgier period. Specifically, she pointed out that for all of his nonlethal combat tactics, it's not like he ensured medical attention for every internal injury he caused and that many thugs likely died in cold alleys because of Street Angel's beatings.
  Black Velvet: How many have you left lying in alleyways these past two years, skull fractured, lung punctured? How many internal injuries? Did they all get medical attention? Did they all live? DID THEY?
• Batman:
  • Bats has one of these in the Elseworlds series The Nail (set in a world where Superman was not raised by the Kents) when he kills the Joker after being forced to witness the Joker's extremely sadistic double murder of Robin and Batgirl. He makes it back to the Batcave but is catatonic until Catwoman (who did a Heel–Face Turn to help him against the Joker) puts on the Robin costume and shocks him out of it.
  • Another Elseworlds example occurs in the Batman Vampire novel Bloodstorm after Batman drinks the Joker's blood, only 'snapping out of it' when he begins to feel the pain of the crosses around him so that he can stab the Joker in the heart to ensure that his enemy won't come back as another vampire.
  • Prior to Knightfall, Batman was heading down this path in something of a superhero midlife crisis: he failed to capture the Black Mask, he was butting heads with Commissioner Gordon's wife, he'd been beaten by a few one-shot villains he usually wouldn't and Superman had just recently died in battle. He'd hit it full time with Bane breaking everyone out of Arkham Asylum with the hero staggering out and screaming to the heavens in anguish.
  • His son Bruce Wayne Jr. has one in Superman & Batman: Generations when he sees his wife Kara Kent (Supergirl) with her heart torn out of her chest.
  • He has a much more grievous one in Infinite Crisis as the Society assaults every hero worldwide, and realizes that to make it worse, his rogue creation Brother Eye has dispatched an army to annihilate the Amazons, starting with Wonder Woman.
  • In Batgirl (2011), Barbara Gordon hurls a batarang at her brother to prevent him from murdering their mother, accidentally causing him to fall into the Gotham Bay's waters. Believing him drowned, Babs is so upset she gives up her Batgirl identity.
• Berrybrook Middle School: Every main character goes through this, usually during the Darkest Hour.
  • Peppi when her stealing the science club's remote for the sake of Mari not only seemingly costs her friendship with Jaime, but also contributes to both clubs being banned from the festival, resulting in the students hating each other more than ever. It takes Ms. Tobins' words of encouragement for her to get an idea to unite them again.
  • Jensen has the most intense and literal of them all, emotionally collapsing under the weight of being The Friend Nobody Likes to the point of being rendered physically ill for about a week. In truth, it was a bad case of the flu, but the timing could not have been more fitting.
  • Jorge ends up in this situation when he's framed for being a part of a horribly offensive chat, becoming the enemy of just about everyone in the school for something he didn't do, on top of it in fact being because of Garrett's reckless actions while James rubs it in his face. Thankfully, Jazmine didn't believe any of it even before Liv cleared things up.
• The Sentinel of Liberty himself suffers a mild one in an issue of Captain America, when he (alongside his current girlfriend Diamondback) is summoned to Skull House, the home of his arch-nemesis the Red Skull. Believing the real Skull to be dead and the summoner to be an imposter, Cap remains incredulous until he approaches the Skull's bedside and is gripped by the wrist, then forced to look directly into the man's face. After a brief exchange (during which Captain America says next to nothing), Cap leaves, still in apparent stunned silence. Diamondback asks Cap why he's acting so strangely, and we get this chilling response:

  Captain America: His eyes... so unfathomably empty... so completely devoid of compassion, humanity... no one else has eyes like that! NO ONE! All these months, I've been living in a fool's paradise, refusing to believe his claims to be the real Red Skull... refusing to believe that my greatest enemy had found a way to cheat death... but he has. The Red Skull lives...God help us all.

• Captain Marvel/Shazam!:
  • Billy Batson goes through one in DC Comics' Legends, during the time that he believed that he as Captain Marvel killed Magno-Man. He gets over it when he realizes that it was a hoax.
  • Black Adam had one of these upon discovering the death of Isis, his wife at the time. This lead to the Roaring Rampage of Revenge that is known as World War III.
• Catwoman has a rather bad one after her sister is forced to watch her husband tortured into insanity by the Black Mask. Holly has a similar one at the same time after killing Selina's friend.
• Meriem experiences one in Cavewoman: Primal when she believes Bruce is dead. She charges into the jungle in a dinosaur-slaying frenzy, seemingly trying to get herself killed.
• The title character has one of these in Cerebus the Aardvark after witnessing what he believed to be the death of his love interest: Jaka. He spends several issues hanging out in a diner/inn while in a near-catatonic state until somebody pushes his Berserk Button.
• After a brush with death in Clean Room, one of the generals of the Mueller organization goes into solitary retreat in a mountain cabin. She's far enough gone that she attempts a Secret Test for the loyalty of the aide sent to find her, betting her own life.
• In Conan the Barbarian #197, Red Sonja had one following her defeat by the warlord Bakht. Despite the ambush tactics and magical aid Bakht received during the battle, Sonja was so severely injured that she became convinced that she had lost her divine gift for combat. She was back to her old-self by the end of Conan #200, after a confrontation which forced her to fight back or die proved that she still had her skills.
• Deadpool In the Secret Empire tie-ins, Deadpool started working for Hydra Steve Rogers, not knowing he was bad. He killed S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson on Cap's orders, who could have prevented the Hydra takeover. When one of Wade's closest friends — agent Emily Preston finds out, she beats Wade mercilessly and reveals she's thought up a way to kill him over the years because he's too easily manipulated, given his weak mind. As Wade lies bleeding on the ground, he concludes he made a mistake trying to be good because people only want him for Dirty Business, foreshadowing his upcoming Face–Heel Turn. After he founds out Cap is the bad guy, he does what he can to hinder Hydra, including not turning in the big heroes of the resistance, whose hideout he found. Word of God says Deadpool will pull strings and fix some things, but still get 100% blame for his mistakes and no credit for the good he did. This will prompt Wade to give up trying to be a hero because his effort has only gotten him "tears."
• The eponymous character of The Desert Peach (Erwin Rommel's brother) suffers one (complete with "Attempting reboot" comment) after some men in his army unit give him some compelling evidence about the implementation of Adolf Hitler's Final Solution.
• Played for laughs in Dr. Blink: Superhero Shrink — Dr. Blink suffers from one of these after hearing about all of the problems Arachno-Lad has to deal with.
• ElfQuest:
  • Strongbow the elf archer loses his will (and consequently ability) to use his bow after making the traumatic decision to kill an elf who attempted to kill his son (up until that point in 10000 years of elf history, no elf had ever killed another elf, barring numerous threats and a couple of failed attempts). Only after he is able to connect with his victim's spirit and beg its forgiveness does he return to his old self.
  • Clearbrook also suffers a Heroic BSoD after her lifemate One-Eye dies, but forces herself to keep fighting once the next battle starts.
• In Echo, Ivy Raven had more than a few rough spots throughout the series, but when she woke up and did not remember the story she began to break down.
  Ivy: I need to know...Julie, I woke up and I couldn't remember...
  Julie: Remember what?
  Ivy: Anything! I didn't know where I was, how I got here...I've been telling myself these changes to our bodies are just external but, I don't know. What if it's affecting our minds, too?
• Two at the end of Vol 5 of Empowered, right after another. Sistah Spooky snaps upon being just a few seconds too late to save Mind????, something her powers warned her about but she didn't recognize the significance of at the time. Immediately afterwards, Emp breaks down as well, explaining to a murderous Sistah Spooky that if she had only been just a little bit more confident, maybe Mind???? would have let her try using her powers to survive re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
• In Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance, features each member of the Super Young Team going through one of these at one point or another. Well-Spoken Sonic Lightning Flash has his when the team splits up, walking aimlessly and endlessly through the desert, while Big Atomic Lantern Boy's comes when Shiny Happy Aquazon explicitly turns him down for the first time.
• The Flash:
  • The eponymous hero suffers an extended one due to the course of events over the "Blitz" story arc. A good friend turns nemesis Zoom, hospitalizing Flash's wife and killing his unborn children. The villain's permanently faster than Flash, exhausting the hero just trying to keep up. Three of the Flash family lose their powers trying to help, one permanently. At the end, the Flash stops Zoom, only to fall to his knees in horror at the realization that all he's gained from "saving the day" is a lost friend, weakened allies, and an uncertain future with his wife. Meanwhile, the next villain to come along gets to pick up right where Zoom left off.
  • Another famous one was in the The Return of Barry Allen arc. When his own hero seemingly has a BSOD of his own and then apparently commits one huge Face–Heel Turn and leaves him for dead, Wally loses his all his beliefs, throws his costume away, and shuts himself off from the rest of the world. Only the discovery that "Barry" is actually the original Zoom is enough to shake him out of it.
• Cassie Hack of Hack/Slash went through one (entering what was an Angst Coma to boot) after the Re-Animator crossover, in which her long-lost father dies, and she's forced to kill her mother (... again).
• Hawkeye died during the events of Avengers Disassembled, only to still be alive after reality is shifted to the House of M. He goes through a breakdown after his memories of his original life are restored & he learns that he's supposed to be dead.
• In Immortal Iron Fist's Seven Deadly Weapons spin-off mini, Fat Cobra meets with the writer from whom he'd commissioned a biography. Fat Cobra has, through the power of chi, lived a very long time — and through the power of alcohol and concussions, has forgotten much of his life beyond the past decade or so. During their discussion, he learns just how he became the Cobra Warrior of Peng Lai; he slept with many women and had scores of children. Those children grew into adulthood and sought revenge on their deadbeat father. They came for him. He killed them, in so doing growing more powerful than he ever had before, strong enough to finally claim the title of Cobra Warrior. Upon discovering this, he has his biography burned and dismisses his company. He glares at the fireplace in disgust as he sits alone.
• For a certain value of heroic Harley Quinn has an epic one, combined with a huge dose of My God, What Have I Done? at the end of the original comic series when she promises to save a little girl from going permanently blind, only to do so anyway when offered a big enough reward. Afterwards she has a massive mental breakdown, and, even after recovering, feels so guilty and miserable she willingly turns herself in to Arkham.
• Laff-A-Lympics #5, "The Day The Rottens Won" has Yogi Bear blue-screening when Boo Boo says he doesn't want to be friends with him anymore. It turned out to be Magic Rabbit from the Rottens impersonating Boo Boo (his owner, the Great Fondoo, impersonated the Blue Falcon from the Scooby Doobies.)
• In The Magicians: Alice's Story, it's revealed that Alice was actually suffering from one of these around the time when — in the original novel — Quentin was busy blowing his potential on unfulfilling acts of hedonism. Realizing that Quentin has broken the promise they made, Alice flees their home into the nearest taxi; minutes later, she breaks down in tears, explaining to the driver their problem of Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life and how Quentin just doesn't seem to care anymore. Eventually, the taxi driver manages to talk her into going back and confessing her feelings to her boyfriend... only to find that Quentin's been screwing Janet in her absence. Alice is left sitting on the edge of the bed, near-catatonic with despair.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW):
  Twilight: Maybe I've been wrong this whole time... The magic of friendship can't save everything... It couldn't save Spike.
• Nightwing:
  • Dick Grayson has an enormous BSOD after a series of events including an attack on Barbara Gordon, who proceeds to dump him; his circus, which was burned down; his apartment building being bombed that culminates in the death of a certain villain, and he plunges further into mind breakage when he's subsequently raped by his particularly disturbed accessory to the death of said villain.
  • He also had a milder one after the Crisis Crossover where he nearly killed the Joker.
• Preacher: the All In The Family Story Arc, where one of the villains comments on the eponymous protagonist's Heroic BSoD, after he saw his lover shot dead right in front of him.
  Boy looks like he took a shit and found his liver in the bowl.
• The Punisher:
  • Frank Castle suffers one of these in a MAX comic after believing that he shot and killed a young girl. He nearly kills himself over it, until discovering that she was already dead and he was set up.
  • The same plotline occurred years earlier in the main series event Countdown, with Bullseye having killed a family of tourists in the same way. Unlike the MAX one which lasted a single issue this BSOD (after a short buildup period where he went on one last rampage) had Frank fall into a complete catatonic state which he was pulled out of by brainwashing in another event called Over the Edge, which sent him on a after Nick Fury. He then fell back into it and plead guilty to the murders, not breaking out until Bullseye revealed the ruse to him on the eve of his execution.
• Runaways:
  • Victor Mancha, a cyborg, goes into what characters describe as a Blue Screen of Death when he hears three pre-determined questions that conflict with his logic programming and spirituality. Only one has been used (Q: Could God make a sandwich so big, he could not eat it? A: Yes, and then he would finish it anyway.), but Chase mentioned that there are three questions in total. However, each question only works once.
  • The very last issue ends with Nico slipping into a more traditional BSOD, having realized that she has no idea where Chase is and her team might not trust her decisions anymore.
• Scott Pilgrim gets one at the end of Book 5 and for more than half of Book 6 when Ramona leaves. His friends try various ways to break him out of it, but in the end, he has to confront his desire to forget his mistakes and jerkassedness before he can recover.
• In Scribblenauts Unmasked, Maxwell briefly had one after The Anti-Monitor defeated the Justice League, revealed to be invulnerable thanks to a Van De Graaff Generator, and the Phantom Stranger performed a Heroic Sacrifice to protect him and Lily and teleported them to Limbo to get them to safety. Fortunately, some pep talk from Lily and Madame Xanadu brought him back to his senses.
• Sonic The Hedgehog:
  • Tails suffer this when he finds out Fiona Fox, his crush, was a traitor and was cheating on Sonic for his negative counterpart Scourge, going to his side for the thrill of being bad, and as if things weren't bad enough for him, she tells him off with a "You can't trust anyone." And she promptly slaps him several feet away, leaving him a confused, crying mess.
  • Sonic himself had one when his girlfriend, Princess Sally, is roboticized, the evil Ixis Naugus becomes king, the Babylon Rogues get away after endangering his city For Science!, Antione makes a Heroic Sacrifice that saves Sonic's life (whom of which he wasn't exactly the nicest person to) and Bunnie runs away from feeling useless due to her recent derobotization. He's gotten better though.
  • Sally suffered one following her watching Sonic pull off a seeming Heroic Sacrifice. It got worse after Sonic came back and he was STILL fighting Eggman. This lead to the infamous slap.
  • Following the Cosmic Retcon of Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Collide, Antoine, Bunnie and Sally each suffer one in quick succession after they have the memories of the old Mobius restored. Thankfully, it's brief, but it shakes them up badly, especially Sally, who now remembers her time as Mecha Sally.
  • NICOLE suffered one after Ixis Naugus exiles her from New Mobotropolis after turning the citizens against her, thanks unwittingly to Mina Mongoose. When Mina arrives to try to talk to her, she's clearly not in that mood.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW):
  • After Whisper the Wolf learns of her best friend Tangle becoming infected by the Metal Virus wreaking havoc at the time the normally quiet Whisper screams her name, tries to rush back to get her and in the end has to be pulled back by her own Wisps. The image is the aftermath of this with Cream and the Wisps comforting her, made even more poignant as Cream is also in shock after losing her mother to the same virus.
  • Later on Cream also convinces Whisper to not assassinate Dr. Eggman for creating the Metal Virus that cost her her friend; she was willing to do the deed before Cream convinced her to stop.
• Spider-Man:
  • Spidey is a master of this. The Night Gwen Stacy Died is the best and most famous example.
  • In The Clone Saga it happens one time after another and the level of his Wangst is just ridiculously big.
  • The Amazing Spider-Man (Lee & Ditko): His first true defeat at the hands of Doctor Octopus convinced Peter that he wasn't up to snuff and considered retiring. It's only after an assembly where the Human Torch gave somewhat generic encouraging words to the students that Peter gets his act together and realize one defeat doesn't mean anything.
  • Kraven's Last Hunt: Spider-Man is easily suffering from this due to being buried alive. It's obvious he just wants to get back home and hide with Mary Jane for a very long time, but he pushes himself to keep going.
  • Superior Spider Man is hit with this in issue #29 when the Goblin King makes his move on Spider-Island, leaving him utterly speechless and unable to move his men.
  • At the start of Go Down Swinging, the sight of Norman Osborn with the Carnage Symbiote temporarily shuts down Peter's brain, causes him to sputter "#$*% me." and try to get out of town.
• Superman:
  • In Post-Crisis continuity Superman's cousin Kara Zor-El had one of these after the destruction of New Krypton. Superman hugged her while she cried in space. In the beginning of Bizarrogirl Kara has nightly nightmares, sufffers from horrible Survivor Guilt, and wants to forget about her Kryptonian identity. When Metropolis is attacked she locks herself in her room and tries to convince herself that the Justice League will handle it.
  • In the Red Daughter of Krypton arc she went through one after meeting and beating Lobo, believing everyone wanted to manipulate her and she belonged nowhere. She was so upset and furious that she became a Red Lantern. A while later she was told that she would be a Red Lantern forever because she would die if she took her Power Ring off. She fell to her knees in despair and fury, threw her head back and screamed while incandescent light poured from her eyes.
  • Who is Superwoman?: As Supergirl and Superwoman are fighting, the former tears the latter’s power costume apart, causing it to malfunction. Superwoman's body quickly falls apart and explodes due to the energies unleashed, and Kara falls down to her knees and cries, thinking she has just killed someone.
  • In Superman: Brainiac, Kara has a breakdown when she examines a Brainiac probe that stir up memories of Brainiac stealing the city of Kandor. She starts shuddering, hugs herself and blasts the probe into molten slag.
  • In Krypton No More, Superman is about to have a breakdown because of him feeling lonely and isolated. And then he is told that his life is a lie, and he just doesn't know what to do…
  • Superman suffered one in The Supergirl Saga. After being dragged into another dimension to deal with three alternate universe Kryptonian criminals who had practically wiped all life from Earth, Superman is forced to execute them as there would be no other way to bring them to justice on his world. The decision causes him to have a breakdown and start sleepwalking... well, sleepvigilante as Gangbuster until the Guardian snapped him out of it. Supes was so horrified by what he had done, he exiled himself from the Earth and stayed that way until he could confront his demons.
  • In Superman/Batman: The Search For K, Superman fell to his knees in despair when he and Batman found out that the squad armed to the teeth with kryptonite weapons and out for Supes' blood was created, funded, and sanctioned by the US Government itself. They don't give a crap about Superman's heroism and devotion to protecting the people, and want him dead. Oh, and Lex Luthor had nothing to do with this, either. He bounces back in spectacular asskicking fashion when Batman says that he believes in him.
  • Last Daughter of Krypton: After listening to her father's last words and realizing her old life is gone for good, Supergirl screams, flies through a wall, lands on the street below with strength enough to detonate the ground, and starts tearing down the area while she cries.
  • A Mind-Switch in Time: After getting stranded in the future, Superboy learns his parents are dead. In reaction, he goes back to his future self's apartment, covers his face with his hands and bursts into tears.
  • In Superman/Supergirl: Maelstrom, the titular villainess knocks Supergirl out after bringing one hospital down on her head. When she comes around, Kara is wounded and exhausted, but she begins searching for wounded frantically, unwilling to hear her cousin saying it is useless. Finally, she passes out again. Three days later, she is still sobbing and blaming herself for being unable to save people.
  • In The Plague of the Antibiotic Man, Superman battles Nam-Ek, believing he might be behind the plague ravaging Central City. Nevertheless, Nam-Ek vanishes during the battle, and Superman freaks out for several reasons: he believes he has killed Nam-Ek; since Nam-Ek's strange mutated physiology could hold the cure for the plague, unnumbered millions will die; Lois Lane will be counted among those millions, since she has just contracted the plague. Superman feels so broken down when Lois falls sick that he falls on his knees, covers his face with his hands, and sobs.
  • Let My People Grow!: Superman covers his face with his hand and falls to his knees when his size-changing ray enlarges the Kandorians but destroys their city.
  • The Super-Revenge of Lex Luthor: Lex Luthor spends weeks gaslighting Superman until the Man of Steel becomes convinced that he is cracking up. He becomes unable to do anything because he believes he will inevitable mess it up, and even considers hanging up his cape.
  • Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot: After witnessing a Christmas party which reminds him everything he has lost, Deadman's mood rapidly shifts from frustrated to upset to mad to sad. After screaming angrily at the Heavens, Deadman deflates, sits down on the street and starts brooding over the Lords of Order, humans, his fate and everything altogether.
  • "Legion of Super-Heroes/Bugs Bunny Special" starts with Brainiac 5 having a breakdown and throwing his lab equipment around because he cannot find a cure for Supergirl's deadly Rigel fever.
• Swamp Thing: Downplayed. The titular character has a brief one in Lesson of Anatomy, after he learns that he isn't Alec Holland turned into a plant, but a plant that absorbed the deceased Alec Holland's memories. His BSOD lasts one issue and ends with him accepting his true nature, so as to ensure that the series didn't bog itself down in the Wangst of Swamp Thing (already a serial moper) moping about because he was a literal monster and never Alec Holland to begin with.
• Ultimate Marvel:
  • Ultimate Galactus Trilogy: Captain America was so shocked by the details of Gah Lak Tus, a creature of planetary size that systematically destroys all life in the universe, that he even held his religious faith in doubt. How can God allow such a creature to exist?
  • All-New Ultimates: Bombshell had one when her boyfriend Poey was killed.
  • The Ultimates: Iron Man had one of those after dragging the giant spaceship off-course to avoid it falling on a city. He had a crisis of faith after it, refusing to rejoin the fight. He said that this stuff was too big, and that he couldn't manage it.
• Rick from The Walking Dead has too many of these to count, most notably after Lori and Judith die escaping the prison.
• Wonder Woman:
  • Wonder Woman (1942): When Diana realizes that her mother modified her memories to hide from her that Steve Trevor has died and been brought back twice, as she was terrified of the implications, Diana leaves her mother with the knowledge that their relationship is broken and she will never trust her again. Hippolyta spends the next two months in something of a daze just doing the bare minimum to keep up her duty to her people, which leads Antiope to organize a coup against the queen.
  • Wonder Woman (Rebirth): After realizing the Amazons she's talking to, including her mother, are actually fakes, and that she's never actually been back to Themiscyra since she left, Diana freezes up entirely, no longer believing anything is real, not even Steve Trevor. By the end of the issue, she's so badly shaken Steve has to put her in a hospital.
  • Wonder Woman: Dead Earth: At the end of Issue #2, upon discovering what happened to the Amazons and that the apocalypse was her fault, Diana deserts from the humans, coming to believe that Hippolyta was right: they didn't deserve her. And she doesn't deserve them.
• X-Men:
  • In The Dark Phoenix Saga, accidentally blowing up a planet three billions of sentient beings during a Drunk with Power moment is more than Jean Grey can bear, so she kills herself to ensure it never happens again.
  • The Brood Saga: The X-Men suffer this at several levels once they learn that they are doomed to die a excruciating death and become hosts for the Brood that range from Angst? What Angst? to Dying as Yourself. Xavier's suffering of this on Earth is what leads Moira to telling him about new young mutants in need of his assistance, spurring him to form the New Mutants.
  • Cyclops, in Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run, has a severe one of these when Emma Frost says that his inability to control his powers is the result of a complex he developed about self-control as teenager, rather than a brain injury resulting from a concussion, as he had previously believed. He spends and issue or two in a completely catatonic state, his powers not functioning. He soon recovers enough to move around and lead the team (perhaps even more effectively than usual, with his self-control issues out of the way) and later surprises everyone by revealing (with a point blank blast in the face of his interrogator) that his powers still work, and that he now has full control over them. At the end of the arc, this control fades as the "clarity" he got from Emma's intervention wears off. See Status Quo Is God.
  • X-23 is constantly slipping in and out of these. When first introduced in NYX she's virtually mute, and in her first few panels she seems as if she's barely aware of what's going on around her. Then we learn in X-23: Innocence Lost and Target: X just what put her into that state. In fact, in the latter book she's broken so completely she's gone outright Death Seeker, intending to kill Wolverine and herself. She goes into another in the third arc of her solo series when she accidentally attacks Gambit, and spends the rest of the day and well into the night curled up in bed staring at her claws with Gambit sitting vigil over her. By the time she turns up in All-New X-Men she's in yet another one, due to the 1-2 punch of what happened to her on Murderworld and shortly after being captured and tortured by the Purifiers, leaving her wandering the streets of Miami in an amnesiac state.
• In Zot!, Jenny has a major one after 9-Jack-9 kills the president's daughter, Susan. Zot himself has one as well, but manages to hold it off until after bringing Jenny to Woody's house, telling him to take care of her.
• Megatron suffers from one in the Season Two finale of The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye after the Decepticon Justice Division destroys his fusion cannon. This was actually a feint on his part so that he could lure them close and destroy them.
  • Rodimus has a brief one during "Lost Light", although the last word is surprisingly literal: it's because they're all dead and in the afterlife or at least that's what they're supposed to think. Rodimus, understandably, has certain problems coping with their quest ending in an apparent party wipe. His difficulties don't even last for a whole issue, though, because Whirl knows exactly where Rodimus's Berserk Buttons are located and had a good old stab at the biggest one.
  • Rewind's death practically breaks his conjunx endura Chromedome, putting the Autobot in a state where he's barely functional, holding it together just for a little bit longer, until he has an opportunity to stick his memory-editing needles into his own head and forget he ever knew a "Rewind". When he receives a farewell message from his dead husband and decides to hold on to the memories, he ends up becoming a Hikikomori, refusing to do anything other watch that farewell message again and again, until quantum shenanigans end up effectively bringing Rewind back to life.
• In the What If? story "What if the All-New, All-Different X-Men died in their first mission?" (v2 #9), Professor X suffers a massive one when he detects the deaths of both the original and new X-Men teams. Beast tells Moira MacTaggart that, had he not dropped in for an unannounced visit, Xavier would have died.

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