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See ya soon, Sephiroth.

"When kind men grow angry, things are about to change."
Harry Dresden, ''Blood Rites''

"I had no idea this Kofi Kingston existed, and I've been in the ring with Kofi!"
Matt Striker, Monday Night Raw

Sometimes, trying to Break The Cutie can have consequences. Sometimes, the nicest person in the story gets pushed to the limit of what they can take and the results... are not pretty.

The sweeter, gentler, more polite, and overall nicer a character is, especially if they're female, the worse it will be for the planet when they're subjected to one too many rounds of Break The Cutie, or Dude Wheres My Respect, Rant Inducing Slight, or hitting their Berserk Button. What was once a sweet and nice individual suddenly snaps and becomes something far worse then the Big Bad could have expected.

It's called Unstoppable Rage for a reason, you know.

Things get even worse if they're a Technical Pacifist, and worse still if they're an Actual Pacifist, since outright villains will only kill you. If a sweet, gentle soul snaps, all you can do is pray for a quick death.

This is also why pushing the Gentle Giant too far is generally a bad idea, and why Teaching Him Anger is a suicidal idea.

See also Good Is Not Nice, where one condition is when a normally nice character realizes that nice will not get things done in a situation. They can coincide, if the realization and the outrage are triggered at the same time. The results are quite similar if they Madden Into Misanthropy, the difference being the new misanthrope isn't so much a violent dynamo as a care free Jerk Ass.

Lets Get Dangerous, Crouching Moron Hidden Badass, Crouching Scholar Hidden Badass, The So Called Coward, and Who's Laughing Now can be seen as subtropes of this. A This Means War! declaration may be delivered as a result of it. The polar opposite of I Feel Angry. See also: Yandere, Yangire, Mama Bear, Killer Rabbit, and Action Santa. While Mike Nelson may be a destroyer of worlds in his own right, he's not a woobie...we think.


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