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  • Ace Combat: The Equestrian War:
    • Scythe. Due to Garuda team performing a Big Damn Heroes moment and preventing the bombing of Stalliongrad's Eastern Sector. When he tries to do it himself later, Mobius defeats him.
    • Gilda grows gradually more ballistic as Rainbow Dash gains advantage over her during the final duel.
  • The Amazing Spider-Luz in: Across the Owl-Verse!: When Amity first meets Grom, it's mocking and sadistic, eager to break her as it has done to many witches before. Once Amity displays magic it's never seen before and proves herself capable of hurting and killing it, the creature's confidence quickly shatters and soon it starts desperately trying to flee as Amity binds its power to herself before burning what's left of it to ash.
  • Apprentice: Mecha Sally is really emotionless when it comes to taking Eggman's orders. That is until Sasuke Uchiha comes by and started beating her up, showing he's better than her. With him insulting and taunting her the whole time until she has a breakdown.
  • The Bridge (MLP):
    • When King Sombra is confronted by Princess Cadance, he briefly mistakes her for Princess Amore Diamante, then starts screaming and ranting that it isn't possible because he had personally killed her a thousand years ago. He calms down a bit when Cadance corrects him, but then savagely attacks her while ranting about how much he hated Amore. He has another one when Cadance manages to break his nose during their fight.
    • Bagan throws a tantrum and thrashes the room while thinking about how Mothra and Godzilla interfered with his invasion of Canterlot. However, after about a minute, he calms down and says it was but a minor setback.
    • Grand King Ghidorah loses it when he is mortally wounded through the combined efforts of Godzilla Junior and Xenilla. Faced with the notion of dying without accomplishing his lifelong goal of creating or becoming something powerful enough to defeat Bagan, he snaps and powers up his Breath Weapon to perform a Taking You with Me on all of Equestria. His state of mind only gets worse as he starts losing the Beam-O-War. He calms down again when he sees a vision of a being who will be able to defeat Bagan and calmly accepts his death as the Godzillas' power destroys him.
  • Burning Black has Remy Buxaplenty suffering from the gradually progressing type. It's very alarming to his fairy, Juandissimo, and just as alarming to Timmy. It seems to get worse with every new fact he learns about Timothy and every Dark Spire that gets destroyed.
  • Child of the Storm:
    • Lucius Malfoy, Big Bad of Book I, simply slips into a Villainous BSoD, but General Lukin, Arc Villain of Forever Red in Book II, slips first into a scenery-chewing breakdown, mainly aimed at Maddie, whose unexpected interference and development from Living Weapon into a person who can think for herself, then tearing apart his counter-measures, is one of a number of factors causing him to descend into frothing insanity, only made worse by her deflecting his Hannibal Lecture with a brief Shut Up, Hannibal!. Dark Phoenix Harry tearing apart his plans and obliterating his ace in the hole like it isn't even there sends him into gibbering denial.
    • Dracula, the Arc Villain of Book II's Bloody Hell arc, goes from calm and controlled, as he had been in all his appearances, to a mixture of mindless terror and blind rage when it looks like the Phoenix is paying him a visit. Harry's actually pretending to be the Phoenix, and once Dracula realizes that he's been tricked, and that his plan has been comprehensively derailed, he goes absolutely apeshit.
  • Children of Time: Professor Moriarty is a Faux Affably Evil gentleman, smooth-talking and logical, the kind of man who will rip your heart to shreds just by talking to you. Until the world starts to crumble around him. Then he will be furious, and he will make you his new plaything to torture.
  • The version of Lisa in The Flynns Move To Springfield gets a big one at the end, cementing her story-long Sanity Slippage. Lisa's attempts to sabotage Isabella's moment in the limelight actually helps her. At the end, frazzled, humiliated, and stark-raving mad, she walks up to Isabella backstage and, not realizing everything that she says is being recorded, accidentally outs herself as the cause of all the accidents that occurred.
    • She gets an earlier one where she is screaming revenge on Isabella (who is the center character here, despite the title), while strangling and hitting Maggie. Before then she was an Affably Evil Villain with Good Publicity, after that scene, she becomes more psychopathic as she gradually loses her sanity.
  • In the The Familiar of Zero/Fate/stay night crossover The Hill Of Swords the villainess Sheffield starts out as a Smug Super supremely confident mage that swiftly devolves into a raving lunatic as Shirou outmatches her in each of their encounters. During their final encounter in chapter 22 she spends quite a bit of it just shrieking "DIE!" as Shirou refuses to do just that. The breakdown is so bad that she falls for one of the oldest tricks in the book: the old "your shoelace is untied" gag.
  • The two principle villains of the two series that make up Kwami Magi Homura Magica, Gabriel Agreste/Monarch and Kyubey have breakdowns in the third chapter.
    • Gabriel's starts when he gets stabbed by Bunnyx's umbrella, making it impossible to deny that he's dead, having been shot by Homura in the first chapter. As much as he doesn't take that part well, it gets worse when the Miraculous characters make it impossible for him to deny that he seriously screwed up a chance to end the entire mess back in 'Evolution', and he can't blame anyone but himself. Not that he doesn't try.
    Gabriel: Ladybug! You killed her! You stopped me from saving my wife! You cost me Nathalie, it’s you! YOU! YOU! It’s always YOU! My family is destroyed because of YOU! I was already dying because of YOU! I am dead because of YOU! YOU! YOU! YOU! YOU!
    • Kyubey's comes when Marinette presents Homura with an alternative wish, instead of using the Miraculouses to remove the Incubators from ever having existed and likely create a reality-breaking paradox, instead they'd use the Miraculouses to rewrite history to allow the Kwami to grand powers to those that the Incubators would target instead, outcompeting the Incubators by having their preferred candidates get powers from benevolent beings without strings attached instead. Kyubey, faced with both the inescapable revelation that the Kwami are real and that such a reality-altering wish is possible and they can't stop it, immediately starts shouting and writhing in the midst of a mental breakdown. To add insult to injury, this clues in Mami that Kyubey is the same Incubator that Homura had mentioned, and she promptly shoots him.
  • The Big Bad in The Man with No Name has a mental battle with the Doctor. After the villain wins, the Doctor reveals that's exactly what he wanted him to do, as his mind is now trapped. Breakdown ensues.
  • Metal Gear: Green: When the Tyrant detonates a nuke in Nigeria, wiping out Gecko's group, All for One finds out about it from one of his servants. Suffice to say, he becomes infuriated that a man with a near useless Quirk upstarted his ass.
    All For One: You mean to tell me, some upstart with an almost worthless quirk MANAGED TO DETONATE A NUKE IN AFRICA?!
  • My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator:
    • Shigaraki is very pissed at the Slayer for ripping off one of his arms and beating him half to death with it. In Chapter 24, just seeing a still image of the Slayer is enough to have Shigaraki launch into an I hate you spiel.
    • Nine is no better by the midpoint of Chapter 16. The Slayer had butchered the entire organization and killed off Slice and Mummy, and was now in the throes of a total meltdown.
    Nine: I have carried out dozens of operations without fail, amassed an army of trained soldiers, and killed dozens of this stagnant society’s false paragons. I WILL NOT LOSE TO SOME NO-NAME VIGILANTE!
    Narration: The Doom Slayer was not impressed. This baby gets pummeled a couple of times, lost some of his flunkies and now he was going all out just so he could preserve what was left of his tattered pride. How the fuck did the Heroes have so much trouble nabbing this guy?
  • Loki, the Big Bad of My Little Avengers (a Fusion Fic of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Marvel Comics) loses it during the Final Battle when Big Macintosh not only regains Thor's powers but reveals that he isn't Loki's Worthy Opponent brother reborn — as everyone had assumed — but just a "mere" earth pony with his powers and some of his memories. Likewise, his Dark Avengers each have small scale ones of their own during their own fights with the other Avengers — Ghost Flyer has the "This Cannot Be!"-panic variety when Captain Equestria breaks through his Penance Stare through sheer willpower, while Iron Monger and Red Skull both go into blind rages when Firebird and Iron Pony turn their own Breaking Speeches back on them.
  • Several Arc Villains in The Night Unfurls don't take it well upon their defeat.
  • The Stars Will Aid Their Escape: Herald actually gets angry when the Princesses, in their true forms, begin to win against him, damaging him faster than he can heal, symbolized by his mask being cracked when he returns to the mortal plain. While he maintains his composure, he loses enough of his smarts to leave himself wide open to the Elements of Harmony.
    Herald: Your Majesties... you are beginning to frustrate me...
  • Time Lords and Terror: Hydia has a minor one when Draggle confronts her about how summoning the S’Müz is a blindingly stupid idea.
    • The S’Müz pretty much freaks when the ponies start stealing its PKE, killing it.
    • In the sequel Mines of Dragon Mountain, Tirac ends up frantically begging Gabbro not to stop him by jumping into a lava pit and dragging him in. And then Gabbro does it anyway.
  • Happens to Ludlow in Rise of the Galeforces after Violet forces him through an epic Humiliation Conga. After all of his contingency plans fail, he shoots her in the back, and when she is revived, he sings "Rock of Ages" and starts hallucinating about going to heaven. Too disgusted with the guy to want anything to do with him at this point, Violet sics the baby tyrannosaurs on him, and the last thing he hears is his own terrified screaming as he is ripped to shreds and devoured alive.
  • In the Avengers of the Ring sequel, Scarlet Witch and the Thirteen Dwarves, Wanda Maximoff drives Ultron to one after he's defeated in the Battle of Six Armies when she compares him to Iron Man and then shows him a vision of his greatest fear; the other Avengers standing over Ultron's grave with no idea who he was and dismissing the very concept of him as a foolish mistake.
  • Equestrylvania:
  • A Shadow of the Titans: When Raven beats Jade out of his pendant, and during Jade's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to him, the Master of Games loses his composure briefly for the only time in the chapter (save his defeat), though he manages to catch himself quickly.
  • In the Jackie Chan Adventures and W.I.T.C.H. crossover fanfic Kage (part of Project Dark Jade, like A Shadow of the Titans above and Queen of All Oni below,), Drago is apparently in the middle of one as he cast the spell that banishes Jade, Laughing Madly as he does so, and continuing to do so even as he and his father are dragged out of the earthly reality.
  • Justice League of Equestria:
    • Mare of Steel:
      • Trixie has one early on when Rainbow Dash says she's "not worth it" (that is, not worth fighting her over who's superior).
      • General Zod has one during his final fight with Supermare as she starts to overpower him, finally deciding to blow both of them, and Canterlot, to kingdom come.
      • Steel Wing loses it after Luna arrests him for harassing Supermare, constantly ranting about the Princesses being in a conspiracy with Supermare to take over Equestria.
      • Brainiac's is much less noticeable, but after Supermare manages to defeat his supposedly foolproof Sadistic Choice, he actually gets angry and decides that instead of adding her to his collection, he'll just kill her.
      Kara Jor-El... You have become an annoyance.
    • The Princess of Themyscira: Ares completely loses it during the Final Battle when Diana manages to destroy the Alicorn Amulet and close the portal he's opened to Tartarus. He's left desperately trying to keep the portal open and when he starts getting sucked in, lashes out and grabs Diana in an attempt to drag her down with him.
  • The Magical Girl Crossover Shattered Skies: The Morning Lights begins with one, specifically that of Joker. During the final battle of the series, he loses his faith in his master and creator, Emperor Pierrot, and realizes his purpose was for nothing... Then he wakes up in the afterlife and resolves to go Omnicidal Maniac on everything to get revenge.
  • Worldfall: During Operation Endgame, Straha completely loses his shit as he realizes that the "primitive" humans are about to wipe out the combined forces of what's left of the Conquest Fleet and the Thuktun Flishithy. The Herdmaster uses this as an opening to kill him.
  • The Review Team series has a subpage dedicated to this trope. Turns out, the villains there don't have the most graceful of falls.
  • Soul Chess: Aizen loses it after Lelouch refuses to acknowledge him at the end of their second confrontation. Viewing him as his rival, the one person that is (intellectually) on his level, the fact that Lelouch won't even renounce his ideals is the ultimate insult to Aizen's pride. After that, it becomes clear that while Aizen's main goal is still usurping the Soul King, screwing over Lelouch is a very, very close second.
  • Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters: Prince Phobos is already quite insane to begin with, but as far as Evil Overlords go is still fairly functional. However, after Wong's failed coup attempt, he completely snaps, to the point that he's now fully delusional and hearing voices. Even then, he manages to maintain some semblance of self-control, until successfully stealing the Heart of Meridian, at which point that all goes out the window and leaves him a raving lunatic.
  • Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship: The Dazzlings become increasingly unhinged as they start losing the Final Battle, screaming in a rage about how unfair their lives are. When they see the Elements of Harmony about to be used on them, Adagio starts desperately begging Sunset for mercy.
  • Shadows over Meridian:

Adventure Time

  • Frozen Hearts (Red Witch): When we first see him, General Barton appeared to be reasonable but inwardly plotting to backstab the creatures in Ooo by analyzing their strengths and weaknesses as well as calming an equally racist Damon down whenever he tries to openly attack them. But after he starts getting humiliated by the penguins, he began acting no better than Damon as he ignores the advice from his colonel, ordered his soldiers to execute anyone that is either wounded or diseased, and imprisons both his colonel and the other scientists. Barton eventually reached the peak of his breakdown when he launched a nuclear missile right onto Candy Kingdom out of spite which turned all the other surviving humans against him.

Amphibia

  • A Moth to a Flame: The whole throne room confrontation scene is a prolonged one for Marcy, as Anne and Sasha's rejection of her manipulations and plans causes her to snap into a berserker rage and attack them. By the end of the fight, she has had Madness Makeover, is willing to grievously harm her human friends to prevent them from leaving her, tries to kill her former non-human friends for "stealing" Anne from her, and the last thing she says to Anne before she escapes is that she hates her before passing out from her injuries.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

  • Bring Me All Your Elderly!: M. Night Shyamalan does not take the news that no one wants to see The Last Airbender 2 very well, and after channeling Ozai he tries to kill Awng for not being right for his movie.
  • The Last Firebender (sinistercinnamon): At the end, Ozai's power quickly and definitively crumbles once Zuko returns and firebending is restored for everyone but him. Having been publicly humiliated and shorn of his title, power, bending and dignity, Ozai is reduced a ranting madman.

ChalkZone

  • Sinful Behaviors:
    • Mr. Cosmo. Throughout most of the story, he is calm and collected, rarely raising his voice. By the end, when everything is falling apart, he snaps and attacks Rudy blindly in a desperate attempt to kill him. This results in his untimely death.
    • Play the Game, the sequel, has a more terrifying example with Bardot. Like Mr. Cosmo, he manages to keep his cool, but his tempers flare up a bit more frequently. And when Snap manages to exceed his expectations in a way he did not enjoy, Bardot becomes feral and proceeds to tear apart an already mortally wounded Snap.

Danganronpa

  • And Again: The Mastermind behind the Deadly Game of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc throws a hissy fit when their mole murders one of the others, then promptly confesses to the crime, denying them the pleasure of a drawn out, dramatic trial and execution. By the end of that loop, they completely break down when Naegi reveals her staged murder as a hoax, meaning her game ended with only one murder, no real trials, and none of the drama and despair she'd been hoping for.
  • Three-Point Shot diverges from Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony when, during the investigation of the first murder, Kokichi throws the shotput ball that was the murder weapon up onto the bookshelf, thus inspiring Shuichi to investigate further, thus eventually revealing that Kaede didn't kill Rantaro- the mastermind did. At the end of the class trial, after being convicted of murder, the mastermind is furious with Kaede for not playing the role intended for her, and even more so with Kokichi for having "ruined everything with one fucking joke!"
    • In the final class trial, Monokuma is furious after it's revealed that Kaede did not use the Flashback Light that he gave her (which would have altered her memories and made her into the mastermind).
    "I JUST NEED YOU TO DO ONE, STUPID, SIMPLE THING, AND YOU CAN'T EVEN DO THAT RIGHT! WHY IS IT YOU FEEL LIKE RUINING MY PLANS AT EVERY TURN?!!"
  • Where Talent Goes to Die has the third culprit, who, having failed to trick the others into thinking the victims killed each other, or that his designated Fall Guy is the culprit, becomes increasingly desperate and unhinged, eventually threatening the others with an unloaded gun and demanding that they vote for someone they know couldn't have done it. When even that fails, he points the gun at the main character's head and repeatedly pulls the trigger, to no avail.

The DCU

Death Note

  • In Fever Dreams when L screws up his plan to get them back together Light very calmly goes up to his room, collapses into bed, and screams into his pillow.
    Rem: Light Yagami, I did not realize you were capable of having feelings.

Final Fantasy

  • Vaticus in The Tainted Grimoire had a brief one before being defeated. He became a Graceful Loser after being defeated.
  • Us and Them: Professor Hojo kidnaps Ifalna and Gast, but they are soon rescued and in the process, he learns the truth about Jenova's origin, which leaves him giggling to himself, which is how Vincent finds him. He has a further breakdown when he realizes Vincent had no part in the rescue and begins demanding to know what's going on. Vincent just shoots him.

Godzilla

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed

  • After being calm for the majority of Gold Poisons, Jin Guangshan starts screaming and yelling once he's revealed.

Happy Tree Friends

  • The Stranger: After the titular Stranger proves to the other tree friends that they are trapped in a virtual reality puppeteered by a godhood-seeking Mad Man, the Mad Man snaps and shows how powerful he really is. He delivers a booming monologue from the sky (up until this point he only spoke with The Stranger telepathically), drops a giant meteor onto the crowd, and summons a Living Shadow army to chase everyone out of town.

Harry Potter

In Nomine

  • The Oops Cycle: All three of the Demon Princes go through one as part of their redemptions, but the one that takes the cake is Haagenti, the former Prince of Gluttony. After spending centuries devouring and consuming anything in his path, the breakdown that leads to his redemption is caused by Kobal feeding him something that gives him indigestion.

Invader Zim

Jackie Chan Adventures

  • Queen of All Oni:
    • Lung starts cracking when it becomes evident that his plan to break Jade to his will is failing, and then he breaks completely when her minions show up to save her.
    • Drago eventually has one due to the repeated failures of his attempts to gain power in the past. He ultimately snaps and rants that rather than doing things strategically, he's just going to smash everyone and everything in sight and see what effect that has on the timeline. Fortunately, he's banished back to the future before he has a chance to.
    • Jade herself has one when her PTSD from Lung's actions finally hits a breaking point. After Tohru's failed attempt to capture her in the Vault of Endless Night, she snaps, becoming paranoid and delusional, convinced that the heroes (and humans in general) are out to either seal or kill her (and her emotional confrontation with her father doesn't help, least of all the reveal that she was accidentally conceived and nearly aborted).
  • Webwork:
    • Daolon Wong completely loses his shit when Uncle, who's gained the upper hand in their Wizard Duel, says that he pities him.
    • After being beaten and Brought Down to Normal, Valmont breaks down and laughs as he's arrested, believing that his life is a joke only he gets, telling Jackie that he won in the end because there was nowhere they could put him that was worse than the crummy apartment that he was in before, and at least in jail he'll have three meals a day, and sarcastically wishes them good luck in their constant, thankless and futile quest against the supernatural.

Jem

  • In Our Time Is Now, losing both his job and fortune has taken a toll on Eric. The normally calm businessman turns to alcohol, which only worsens his Sanity Slippage. After finding out the truth about Jem, he ends up kidnapping Jerrica. He threatens to rape her and attempts to murder her. On trial, he is considered incompetent due to insanity.

Kim Possible

  • In the All Things Probable story, A Friend In Darkness, Monkey Fist, who was usually the most calm-minded and suave villain in the cartoon, suffers from one of these in the final battle of the story after being humiliated, reducing him to raging and shrieking like an actual monkey while unleashing the dark power he had been cursed by. The irony is, his breakdown wasn't caused by Ron Stoppable, his actual Arch-Enemy and the one more likely to drive him into one.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

  • In Girls' School, Lucy Horowitz, a girl accused of holding down another girl as the other girl was raped, has one after learning that the rapist was caught, thus denying her a bargaining chip for a reduced sentence.

The Legend of Korra

  • In the continuation fanfic Book Five: Legends we have Temuji. Normally calm and clinical, like a good medic should be, they start to break down in the final chapters of the story when he cannot seem to save his mother and is having trouble controlling his new powers. In the end, they're a raging, rampaging monster, crying out for his mommy as he tries to destroy Korra, irrationally blaming her for everything. In addition, Fumiko has a similar breakdown when the most important thing to them, her older brother Temuji is dead. It completely shatters their fun-loving personality, leaving them a crying mess.

The Legend of Spyro

  • In A Dark Beginning, Dredd, the commanding Ape on the Tall Plains, has one of these after he discovers Kane escaped, going from Faux Affably Evil to screaming his death threats and his You Have Failed Me trait surfacing. After he falls for Spyro and company's plan to free and arm his captives, resulting in his entire group to be wiped out, he's left stunned at what happened before getting enraged and going into a Last Villain Stand against Kane that leads to his demise.

Logical Journey of the Zoombinis

Marvel Universe

  • In Ultimate Spider-Woman: Change With The Light, Spider-Woman's Arch-Enemy Jack O' Lantern's sanity has been going downhill for a very long time. Developing an increasingly crazed obsession with his teenage nemesis for her constantly interfering in his "fun", he hatches a plan to mentally break her and make her his heir. When she overcomes that, he goes berserk in an attempt to kill her. When she defeats him and he's hauled off to jail, he's raving insanely in his cell and hallucinating everything from screaming witches, dancing skeletons, and flaming pumpkins to giant human-headed spiders that alternately have the face of Spider-Woman or her civilian identity of Mary Jane Watson.

Mass Effect

  • In Project Gethinator, the Big Bad, Admiral Daro'Xen, who is Yandere in a big way for Commander Shepard, loses it quite spectacularly after Shepard decisively turns down her advances and calls her on her crazy scheme and her obsession with him. Her breakdown is of literally star-system-shattering proportions — she takes the same mineral scanner that Prazza, Tali's idiot crewman from Inglorious Bosh'tets, accidentally used to make a star go supernova and uses it on the main star of the Eta Carinae system to make the thing go hyper-nova, making sure to have the Normandy's drive core disabled so Shepard, Tali and the crew cannot escape. When the crew does manage to escape Just in Time (via Shepard's quick thinking and Legion's advanced skills getting everyone out of there alive), Xen proceeds to lose it even further.

Mega Man (Classic)

  • In Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race, ever since episode 4 and the Gamma ordeal, Wily's been slowly losing it.
    • Mr. Black's been losing it as well, especially given his replacement, Tiesel Bonne.

Miraculous Ladybug

  • Dad Villain AU: Emelie Agreste does not have a good time during the Charity Ball arc. First she learns the Awful Truth about her husband when Viceroy publicly confronts him, with Gabriel outright bragging about how he used a reality-altering Wish to screw over a superheroine who no longer exists. She then uses the Peacock Pin to become Mayura despite now being fully aware that the broken Miraculous has a backlash effect, assuring herself that it's fine because Gabriel Wished for others to suffer its effects instead. But she suffers Laser-Guided Karma thanks to Viceroy's powers protecting all of the viable targets aside from herself. On top of all this, when she attempts to order Adrien back to her side rather than letting Bitterbug carry him to safety, it doesn't work because Felix secretly switched out the ring with a fake several weeks prior, leaving her frantically stammering and freaking out at its failure.
  • LadyBugOut: Lila naturally pretends to be involved with Ladybug's blog. When Marinette posts an interview with her Secret Identity, Lila accuses them of trying to make her look bad... only for Ivan to point out that Marinette didn't even know she was claiming to be involved. Lila promptly trips all over her tongue trying to lie her way out of it, only succeeding in digging herself deeper and alienating most of her classmates with her wild accusations. She then attempts to claim that she never actually said she WAS helping with the blog, only that Ladybug had ASKED her... which her now angered classmates call her out on, demanding to know the truth.
  • Rate This (Trust is Hard to Come By):
    • Alya starts spiraling into one after Gardener's power reveals that Ladybug no longer trusts her, while Marinette, whom she Easily Condemned on Lila's word, has an incredibly high rating. Chloé tauntingly reminds her that Marinette was the one who arranged her first interview with Ladybug, declaring that she sacrificed her bond with Ladybug's real bestie for someone falsely claiming that title. While Alya refuses to believe that at first, when Lila walks in sporting a blood-red -51, she collapses into a sobbing mess, wailing that she had no way of knowing that Lila was lying.
    • Lila herself is horrified to learn just what the number she'd dismissed as an Unusually Uninteresting Sight means, and that images of her walking around with said number and all of its warning signs exposed have already gone viral. All of Paris wants to know just who she is and why Ladybug HATES her so much, giving her the attention she craved in the most destructive way.
  • The Wolves in the Woods:
    • Lila has one that starts with a Heel Realization when Ms. Bustier announces that Marinette is transferring to another school. Seeing that Alya and most of the class are gearing up to mob Marinette, she distracts them long enough for her to escape, only to hear that they mobbed the Dupain-Cheng bakery while calling their former friend a traitor and coward. She soon realizes that with her gone, her classmates expect her to replace their 'everyday Ladybug', using connections she doesn't have to benefit them with receiving nothing but their False Friendship in return. This spurs her to break down crying while hiding in Ms. Medeleiev's class, admitting her deception and tearfully asking how long it will take for them to turn on her next.
    • Alya has one when her parents confront her with evidence of her scheming to ruin the reputations of Marinette's new friends at St. Catherine's. Under pressure, she blurts out that she knew Lila was lying the whole time, but played along and encouraged everyone to turn on her 'bestie' as part of a plan to 'knock her down a few pegs'. She tearfully insists that she just didn't want Marinette to leave her behind - something that happened as a direct result of her actions - and begs her parents to reassure her that she's not a villain. Said breakdown becomes an Ignored Epiphany.

My Hero Academia

  • Sleeper Hit AU: Pro Hero or not, Bakugou Katsuki is utterly convinced that he was right to bully Midoriya, especially after Aizawa expelled him on their first day. When he learns that this didn't break Midoriya's will, and that he found another school willing to accept him into their Hero Course — that he, in fact, became Sleeper Hit, the world's first Quirkless Pro Hero and ranked seven slots above him during their debut — he absolutely loses it, spiraling ever further out of control while trying to reconcile his worldview with this reality. By the time he confronts him on Dagobah Beach, Katsuki is so far gone that he declares that Deku should have taken his advice back then — that even if he hadn't really meant it at the time, he does now, wishing with all his heart that Izuku was dead.
  • In Viridian: The Green Guide, All For One appears to keep things together as his plans are driven off the rails by Viridian, but each plan becomes noticeably more tunnel-visioned as his Cold Anger builds and his failures mount. Initially he brushed Viridian off as a minor but annoying inconvenience in the bigger picture, even comparing him to someone playing a kazoo next to a mid-performance orchestra, but by the end of the Sports Festival All For One's desire to punish Viridian for his interference has overridden All For One's common sense and his ability to focus on his original goals. By the climax All For One has full grasp on the Villain Ball, having destroyed his own long built-up power base and resources and screwed over his own minions due to his fixation on killing Viridian.
  • Whispered Tribulation: When Naomasa and his sister clear Midoriya's name, determining that he's completely innocent, Aizawa can't process the notion that he was wrong and that his efforts to prove Midoriya was U.A.'s mole were All for Nothing. He starts ranting madly about how Midoriya has to be the traitor and advancing on him before Nedzu intervenes and drags him out of the room.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

  • A Brief History of Equestria has Sullamander (the pegasi Supreme Commander before Hurricane), who wasn't quite sane to begin with, completely fall into anger, paranoia, and madness during her last days as Hurricane and his lover General Wind Whistler led a successful coup against her. Her last confirmed action (everything else being unconfirmed myth and rumor) before her final duel with Hurricane was to accuse her loyal generals of being traitors and killing them, before fighting Hurricane to the death; during the fight, it seems she didn't even notice her large assortment of wounds, being so solely focused on killing her rival.
    • Viscount Arsenic ended up falling apart during the Lake Trot Crisis, due to his supposedly superior troops being curbstomped by the Hyracotherium Republic forces under Lady Cripps (the fact that she was a mare contributed to it). This eventually led to him trying to personally lead his forces in the final naval battle of the conflict, which got him killed.
  • Earth and Sky
    • Diamond Tiara breaks down completely in light of all her plans falling apart, being captured by the changelings, and then being left to die in the badlands by them because even they can't stand her. By the end, she's so broken that the only thing keeping her going is her hatred for Apple Bloom and her determination not to see her rival beat her. She starts to get better when her life is saved.
    • Professor Destiny completely loses what sanity he had left after he and his brother are disqualified from the race. He becomes determined to finish the race no matter what, and basically turns their flight harness into a weapon and the race into a suicide run, not even caring when they're about to hit the shield covering Canterlot. They survive, and it seems he finally had some sense knocked into him.
  • Equestria: A History Revealed: In the Civil War flashback, after learning of her loss at the Battle of Canterlot, Princess Luna began to do this as she slowly went insane. It got even worse when she realized the war was lost upon the final battle at the Everfree fields, and she started thinking of all the crimes she committed in the war. This would all serve to help her eventual complete transformation into Nightmare Moon, despite the deep regret she had for her actions towards the end.
  • Getting Back on Your Hooves: Checker Monarch, whose special talent is manipulating other ponies and has been doing so all story in order to ruin Trixie's life, has a massive Freak Out whenever her plans fail. However, she really starts cracking when her plan to ruin Trixie's charity show is prevented at every end by her friends (who are aware that someone is trying to ruin Trixie), and finally develops full-blown "Cutie Mark Failure Insanity Syndrome" when she tries to Mind Rape Trixie with a dream infiltration spell, only for Trixie to see through the mind games, fight back, and defeat her, something she simply cannot comprehend.
    • Then, what little sanity she has left goes out the window when Helping Hoof and the Diamond Dogs turn on her and help Trixie and the Mane Six set up an Engineered Public Confession. This breakdown continues through the Final Battle and is ultimately so severe that she's left completely insane and will likely spend the rest of her life in an insane asylum.
  • Heir of the Nightmare: Nightmare Moon suffers a particularly terrifying one after her daughter Twilight tells her off for her insanity . Nightmare first unleashes a destructive wave that wrecks Canterlot Castle. Then, while chasing after Twilight, she speaks in a crazed tone, while claiming their chase to be like hide and seek.
  • The Immortal Game:
  • Inner Demons: Twilight Sparkle stopped being sane the moment she was consumed by her Queen persona, but even by that standard, she really flips during the Battle of Fillydelphia when she realizes that her beloved brother is choosing to stand against her with the protagonists. She starts ranting and screaming that she'll kill all the heroes, Shining Armor included, and is only stopped from carrying out an execution on Cadence by the other heroes arriving in time. Interestingly, they also somewhat accidentally calm her down from the breakdown when they then confront her over Trixie (nearly) killing Rarity on her orders.
    • She has a much more severe breakdown when Trixie — the only pony left she felt she could trust and call a friend — dies right in front of her. She starts laughing and crying before the emotional trauma causes her to transform into an Alicorn. She then declares that she's going to unleash the hordes of Tartarus, because if she can't be Equestria's ruler, she'll be its destroyer. On the plus side, the shock of all this disrupts all her spells, thus restoring Cadence's powers, freeing Luna and the Royal Guard from her Mind Control, and freeing Celestia from her stone imprisonment.
  • My Little Mages: The Nightmare's Return: Nightmare Moon, after spending the whole story in a self-assured confidence that the heroes can't even hurt her let alone stop her, panics when they manage to activate the Elements of Harmony and flies into a blind rage when they actually manage to hurt her. As is pointed out in the story, she even stops using the Royal "We" she'd been using all story.
  • The Nuptialverse: At the climax of Families, Olive Branch completely falls apart when Celestia laughs in his face, pointing out how incredibly flawed his master plan is, and he realizes she's right. By the end, the formerly smug manipulator is wildly crying and begging the Princesses not to hurt him as he's dragged off and arrested.
  • The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: The Nightmare, when it realizes it just accidentally revealed the key to its defeat to the Bearers, flips out and tries to kill five of them before Xvital can get there. It fails.
  • The Pony POV Series does this quite a bit. Since each of the Concepts can hardly understand the idea of themselves losing, they tend to get it the worst.
    • Enemy Within Loneliness loses her cool a bit every time Twilight manages to fend off her mind games but snaps completely once Twilight actually manages to break through to Trixie. Loneliness goes One-Winged Angel and drops her facade of "love". In her rage, Loneliness breaks Trixie's leg and tries to kill Twilight rather than let Trixie escape her clutches.
    • Discord has two in "Origins". The first is when Mimic reveals to Discord that the bridge between Ponyland and Earth has been destroyed, thus protecting humanity. Discord is rendered speechless for a few minutes and left beside himself with anger. This is just long enough for Discord to forget he's an omnipotent Reality Warper so that Mimic can perform her Dying Moment of Awesome. The second comes when Shady - The Dragon and earthly mother whose love for Discord that he's manipulated for a thousand years - betrays him. This allows Celestia and Luna to defeat Discord.
      • During Mind Games, while Discord is working on breaking Diamond Tiara, she somehow views his memories of being raised happily by his mortal mother Shady (Diamond's ancestor). This causes Discord to flip out.
    • A flashback during the Dark World arc reveals that the Epilogue version of Discord had another one. In the aftermath of an attempted Alien Invasion of Equestria, Discord went after the aliens' leader, only for him to take pity on the sick old man and return him to perfect health for a day. The breakdown occurs as a result of Discord having no idea why he did it, even after Twilight Tragedy explains it to him.
    • Also in the Dark World, Traitor Dash slowly loses it over the course of the Duel of Tears as she desperately tries to kill Twilight. The whole time, Traitor Dask keeps trying to convince Twilight, her friends, and herself that it's the right thing to do. Twilight actually invokes this to defeat Traitor Dash, and then uses the memory spell to restore her.
    • General-Admiral Makarov, the Big Bad of the Shining Armor Arc, has a small one when Sergeant Thunderchild ruins his plan to capture and/or kill Shining Armor, though he recovers quick enough to order a retreat of his forces.
    • The Valeyard ends up having one as well when the Dark World Elements of Harmony discover that he's using a regeneration template to preserve his personality and he starts frantically trying to stop them from exploiting this fact to beat him. He fails.
    • Fluttercruel has one when Rarity turns the tables on her by shooting Tom's fragment through Fluttercruel's eye, and subsequently manages to mortally wound her. Fluttercruel basically throws a temper tantrum, screaming how Rarity "cheated" and calling her every profanity she can muster.
      • Much later, Cruel starts to crack as the heroes start to poke holes in her life philosophy (expressing love through violence and torture), but doesn't have a full emotional breakdown until Rancor betrays and mortally wounds Discord with the Concept Killing Spear. Cruel, unable to accept this, absorbs the Shadows of Existence and turns into a full Draconequus. After that, Cruel starts ranting on how she'll kill the heroes and everything else until she and her father are all that's left. By the time the heroes are close to defeating Fluttercruel, she's reduced to a ranting, screaming, whimpering mess. At the very end of the fight, Cruel had been hallucinating so badly that she wasn't even a threat anymore.
    • Physical God Rancor has a relatively mild one when Genius Bruiser Spike turns the fight around, and Rancor actually starts feeling pain. She goes from smug Affably Evil villain to whining like a Spoiled Brat. Justified because she is a teenager (relatively speaking) and being immune to violence means she hasn't gotten hurt all that much, and thus hasn't experienced pain frequently enough to build up a tolerance to it.
    • Angry Pie starts to crack more than usual due to her former friends' continued efforts to get through Pinkie Pie, in a sort of combo of Evil Cannot Comprehend Good and Logic Bomb. And then, Angry Pie just falls apart when Twilight, who Angry Pie thought she had killed, is not only revealed to be Not Quite Dead, but then jumps off the slippery slope by starting to torture her to death as punishment.
    • The Nameless Passenger/Nightmare Eclipse/Paradox has several over the course of Dark World, but always manages to recover. However, as the Final Battle rages on, the heroes keep countering her attacks, and the Big Damn Heroes keep showing up. Paradox's composure begins to slip more and more frequently as her frustration and anger mount. The Benevolent Interloper even mentions that Paradox is becoming desperate. This reaches its zenith when Minty Pie enters the battle and refuses to stay down, ultimately thwarting Paradox's attempt to corrupt Twilight.
      Nightmare Paradox: YOU! WHAT PART OF "LIE ON THE GROUND AND SILENTLY BLEED TO DEATH" WAS HARD TO UNDERSTAND?!
    • Throughout "AJ's Dreams", Nightmare Mirror stays calm and speaks in an even, cultured tone. But as Applejack and Orangejack continue to defy her, the more she starts to crack, along with her voice starting to degrade back into her normal country accent.
    • The Defense Attorney in the trial for Starlight's soul in her 7 Dreams/Nightmare story has one when Starlight declares herself guilty and is forgiven by the Prosecutor. The Defense Attorney goes on a tirade, flipping the table over and screaming Starlight wasn't supposed to be forgiven...then laughs and says it was fun. Turns out "she" was Havoc the entire time (the Father of All Alicorns was the Prosecutor) and He pretended to have a breakdown when he saw he was losing because It Amused Him.
    • The Master has one when Minuette resists his attempts to tempt her into opening her fob watch and become him again, eventually losing his cool and screaming at her.
    The Master: YOU EQUINE FOOL! You are ME! You are the MASTER!
    • Queen Chrysalis has one when Blueblood arrives with the real Cadence at the wedding, becoming so enraged she tries to vaporize him, blowing her cover and forcing her to reveal herself. She manages to regain her composure and the advantage, but she spends most of the chapter openly furious.
      • She has a bigger one when Applebloom arrives in the throne room and frees Applejack, ruining the thus far flawless plan to defeat the heroes, which was on the verge of allowing Chrysalis to kill Twilight and brainwash her team. Chrysalis goes completely berserk and flies into a psychotic rage. After Applejack and Applebloom use AJ's Living Lie Detector powers and the Apple Family's Power of Love to shatter Chrysalis' self-deception that her past is dead, she snaps and ends her scene laughing with an insane smile, swearing to make Twilight suffer. Even her Changelings are freaked out. Noticeably, she doesn't seem to fully recover from this breakdown and shows signs of Sanity Slippage afterwards. Such as responding to Maua, her Childhood Friend who she drained as a filly and openly mentioning things she knows via her Peggy Sue status.
      • Her biggest comes when Applejack points out her ascension into an Alicorn wasn't just the power boost she expected it to be and came with a new heart. Finding herself unable to enjoy her victory as she actually cares that she caused untold amounts of misery to get to it, she loses it and goes berserk.
    • Professor Kabuto has one when Garnet and Misfit inject him with a counteragent to his One-Winged Angel form, resulting in not only his defeat but a Superpower Meltdown that turns him into an Earth Pony. He's reduced to absolute fury and charges Garnet in a blind rage to try and kill her, resulting in him being knocked out cold. He gets worse afterwards trying to kill himself and suffering Sanity Slippage due to being given a, in his mind, Fate Worse than Death.
  • The Pony POV Series Chaos Verse: By the time Nightmare Phobia goes One-Winged Angel, she's completely lost what little sanity she had left and turned into an Omnicidal Maniac. When the Final Battle begins to turn against her, she completely falls apart, going from threats to begging for her life, trying to convince the heroes to spare her.
  • Discord had a hysterical breakdown in Progress, when Luna turned him to stone in the dream world. He went from psychotic fury to frantically pleading for mercy in the space of a few seconds.
  • RealityCheck's Nyxverse:
    • Alicornundrum: Duke Blueblood (Prince Blueblood's father) ends up having one at the climax when not only are he and his co-conspirators exposed and arrested for their treason against the throne but it's made clear that even if his coup had worked, the Celestial Council would have stepped in and prevented his bid to Take Over the World. His mind basically shuts down at this, reducing him to quivering on the floor, sucking his hoof like a foal. It later turns out that this is because the shock actually caused him to burst several blood vessels in his brain, causing enough damage to reduce his mental state to that of a foal.
    • Tirek Gets A Righteous Beatdown: After the titular beatdown, then the rest of the Humiliation Conga that it's a part of, Tirek completely falls apart. When he gets back to Tartarus, he actually barricades himself in his cell and curls up in the fetal position.
  • Spectacular Seven: Moondancer gradually goes more insane over the course of the "Phoenix Rising" chapters, not helped by wearing the Archon Amulet, which drives her to more extreme decisions. It starts off when Twilight sees Moondancer's Face–Heel Turn for what it is: petty jealousy over Sunset Shimmer being more special than her. Twilight firmly refuses to have anything to do with Moondancer, which leads to Moondancer attacking Sunset, declaring that she'll kill the Spectacular Seven, Twilight included. Then, when Sunset unlocks her Golden Super Mode and regains all of the lost pieces of her soul, Moondancer completely snaps, giving a Motive Rant complete with a few slips that prove she's Driven by Envy. After that moment, Sunset proves the dark magic boost from the Archon Amulet still wasn't enough to defeat The Power of Friendship when Sunset slashes Moondancer across the face with phoenix fire, scarring Moondancer and reducing her to a sobbing, fuming wreck.
    Moondancer: Don’t you dare speak to me about my mother! How? How does filth like you crawl out of the darkest abyss, while my mother — who could escape anything — continues to languish there? [...] She loves me! She wouldn’t choose to stay in some dark pit! She would pick me! Somebody has to pick me! [...] I’m trying to create a better world! And to do that, Tirek must be revived! And you must die!

Neon Genesis Evangelion

One Piece

  • This Bites!:
    • Bellamy has one when he hears Luffy's proclamation (amped by Soundbite), that the City of Gold did exist in the sky all along.
    • The entirety of the Enies Lobby incident is turning into this for Sengoku, who is increasingly stressed out and enraged by the ongoing actions of the Straw Hats and the other Super Rookies (even suffering a heart attack over it). By the time Spandam spills the beans on his plans to overthrow the Five Elder Stars, live on the SBS, he has a Slasher Smile on his face when he informs Spandam of his eventual fate once he returns to HQ.
    • Gecko Moria has one even worse than in canon, as his Rage Breaking Point upon seeing that his zombie army has been destroyed causes him to Awaken his Devil Fruit, after which he's left ranting and screaming mindlessly as he hunts down the Straw Hats in his One-Winged Angel form.
    • Shiki is basically in a constant meltdown, by the time his fight with Luffy and Bartolomeo is drawing to a conclusion - partly because his palace and army were defeated by their crews, then because Gol. D Roger made a Phone Call from the Dead to taunt him, which led to him mistaking Luffy for Roger and screaming in denial as he realizes that he's about to lose to Roger again.
    • During the climax of the Marineford arc, Ace immolates Whitebeard's body before Blackbeard can steal the Tremor-Tremor Fruit from it. Seeing this and realizing that it renders all his planning pointless, Blackbeard completely loses his shit, becoming a raving, incoherent mess who ultimately decides to essentially nuke the island with his powers and kill everyone there. It takes Shanks showing up and scaring him into submission to make him stand down.

Pokémon

  • The Sensational Sisters in Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, in a desperate attempt to keep their Gym, drag Ash into an unfair battle to make sure he loses. They get increasingly angry when they're unable to defeat Ash's Pokémon, despite using their strongest team, culminating in a borderline murderous rage after Ash wins the battle. Even as they're being arrested by Nurse Joy, they give off furious and half-insane screams.

Rango

Real-Person Fic

  • Several in With Strings Attached:
    • Kerrun as she realizes that the four aren't on her side after all; and, later, when she goes off the deep end completely and declares that every skahs in Ehndris is actually an Idri.
    • Jeft has two:
      • When the Hunter makes friends with the four instead of fighting them, Jeft is so pissed at this subversion of his favorite gaming character that he sics square miles of undead on them as payback. He freaks out completely when the five manage to destroy the Heart of Evil powering the whole show.
      • A few hours later, when the Hunter agrees to ditch his BFS in order to return to C'hou with the four, the still-simmering Jeft goes crazy with anger and turns the sword back into the demon it always was in an attempt to kill the four and regain control of the Hunter.

RWBY

  • Null: At the climax, after Cinder has accidentally destroyed the Fall Maiden power forever (and in doing so permanently robbed Salem of any chance to gather all four of the Relics on which all her plans hinge), Cinder becomes pale, shaking, and loses all faux politeness she had for her allies, lashing out and blaming them for her failure. Terrified of what Salem will do to her for ruining the latter's endgame so irreversibly, Cinder attempts to kill Amber Arc in an effort to restore the Maiden power or at least eke out some mercy for Salem once the latter finds out what happened, which leads to Amber's brother Jaune killing Cinder.
  • Professor Arc: In the finale, Cinder goes through various degrees of anger and fear, mostly directed towards Jaune. She ends up screaming his name repeatedly in futile rage, after having her plans ruined and her eye cut off. Memories of this failure and Jaune in particular keep haunting her even long after the battle.
  • In How Salem Should Have Dealt With Tyrian, the breakdown that Tyrian already had in canon was made much worse. After begging Salem for forgiveness, Tyrian still gets her cold reply of "You disappoint me," but instead of walking off, she traps Tryian in a bind, and calls upon Roman Torchwick to torture and murder him. This causes Tyrian to be in further states of panic, made worse by the fact that both Salem and Roman tell him that Tyrian will always be inferior to Roman, plus Roman kicking Tyrian in the balls, then blowing his arms off one by one. To top it all off, Tyrian laughing maniacally while beating a Grimm to death has been swapped out for Roman laughing maniacally while beating Tyrian to death, which also frightened Cinder.

Sonic the Hedgehog

  • Sonic X: Dark Chaos has a number.
    • Tsali completely loses his cool when he is defeated by Super Sonic and friends.
    • In Episode 74 Tsali has another mental breakdown after discovering Maledict was responsible for the entire Metarex war and everything that had happened to him. In the same Episode, the Metarex leaders (especially Dark Oak) have their own breakdowns when Maledict captures them and reveals that they were his pawns all along.
    • Maledict himself has a minor breakdown from Sonic's (apparent) death in Episode 64. However, when Sonic refuses his We Can Rule Together offer, D'Arnazhee destroys the Galaxy Crusher's firing mechanism, and Jesus and the Angels come to Sonic's rescue in Episode 75, he utterly loses it and unleashes his true power.
    • The Metarex leaders, especially Dark Oak himself, have a collective breakdown after their decisive defeat in Episode 64.

A Song of Ice and Fire

  • An Empire of Ice and Fire:
    • As his regime collapses around him, Joffrey loses his remaining sanity and is reduced to a crying man-child.
    • When the Night King sees Jon arrive at the Battle of Winterfell, despite having previously been killed, his rage and fear at the sight causes him to snap, and he throws out all tactics in favor of having his forces just Zerg Rush the defenders to wipe them out for good.

Soul Eater

  • In the penultimate chapter of Breaking Point, Medusa has one when Chrona continually refuses to let her take over his body despite being tortured. Especially jarring since in the original series, she never once comes close to losing her cool, hardly even raising her voice.
    Medusa: NO! YOU THINK YOU CAN ABANDON ME NOW! I WAS THE FIRST! I WAS HERE BEFORE ANY OF THEM! I WILL NOT BE CAST ASIDE!

Total Drama

  • Monster Chronicles The final chapter is essentially one colossal one for Cedric, first losing his smug and cheerful facade after Cody plays to his hatred of being outwitted and Fantastic Racism of humanity to send him on a psychotic rampage that distracts him from his goals in favor of hunting Cody down. After the final three have him in checkmate and Baron Samedi takes him back to Hell with intent to punish him for his failure, he goes through another breakdown where he is dragged screaming in terror for what the loa has in store.
  • A Codette World Tour: Alejandro goes totally crazy after his Berserk Button (being called "Al" and reminding him of his Big Brother Bully Jose) is pushed one too many times and his own helpers accidentally help Bridgette get ahead during the season's final challenge, which results in him trying to kill Bridgette and her helpers.
  • Total Drama Legacy: Drew, when he loses the battle royale in "Virtual Royale-ity". When informed he'll be going home that night, he flies into a rage, smashes his VR headset and controller, and tries to attack Chris. Even after being restrained by interns, he has to be pushed off the Dive of Shame and is resisting and screaming the whole time.

Touhou Project

  • In Touhou Ibunshu, after Yukari's attempt to destroy Gensokyo has failed, she starts breaking into pieces when Yuyuko confronts her on her manipulations and devolves into outright savagery when confronted by Ran, who uses the wording of her shikigami contract to start siphoning Yukari's power in an attempt to kill her. However, she ends up completely shattered when her final pawn, Chen, sides with Ran, leaving her completely alone. She gets better, but at the time it's her emotional nadir.
  • Lunarian Lord Tenshou of A New World, who was a mediocre commander to begin with, always second-guessing himself and doubting his own orders, has one when Yukari reveals her full plan and just how thoroughly he has been owned in a futile attempt to kill her. Thoroughly maddened by the revelations, Tenshou keeps desperately firing at Yukari, who keeps toying with him until her abilities are fully unchained and promptly has him sucked in one of her gaps.

Turning Red

  • Turning Red: Secrets of the Panda:
    • Jason Vaugn slips into one after Mei and Xia expose his true colours at the auction, prompting his own men to turn against him.
      "You know what? You are all traitors, every single one of you in this room, and you shall all share the same fate! I've spent enough time trying to expose these freaks for what they are, yet you're now accusing ME of being the dangerous one even though these pandas are literally walking weapons of mass destruction? Perhaps now it is time for me to finish my ancestors' work!"
    • He goes through a bigger one during the climax, where he starts attacking Mei and Xia in an Unstoppable Rage after they interferred with his plans too many times, leading to him trying to attack the two of them with his knife, and shooting Mei in the stomach. Thankfully, both Xia and Mei survive, whereas Jason does not.
      "Because your miserable, freaky family, with its pathetic devotion to those hideous red pandas, should have gone extinct ages ago, Xia, along with the animals you so adore! What, did you think your treacherous ancestor Sun Yee died from old age or an illness, young lady? No, it was my ancestors who did that, Lee!"
      ""Don't you see how weak and pathetic you lot are, Xia? This is why you should have died long ago, Lee! But soon, I will exterminate all of you, and I'll be known as this cities saviour! I don't need that foolish demon to help me, anymore. His work is done, and he'll soon be elliminated as well!""

Undertale

WALL•E

  • There's a fanfic that takes the film WALL•E and humanizes all of the characters. At the appropriate point, AUTO's breakdown becomes a much worse version of the one in the original film, since he's an indoctrinated officer, bent on following orders completely. He isn't sane to start with, and seeing the orders he was raised to follow being broken isn't very good for temper and mental health. Humanizing him made his breakdown much scarier.

Warrior Cats

  • Better Bones AU: Ashfur doesn't take it well when he realizes his former victim Shadowsight found a way to turn their supernatural connection against him to hold him down.

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