Misused: Berserk Button

Yes.

If anyone has thought of any crowner options, please post a list of them.

Upvote to maintain and downvote to remove from conditions.

• A button should be recurring/consistent.
• The response should be disproprtionate / temporary Unstoppable Rage.
• The nature of the button is oddly specific/absurd/minor, instead of being directly insulted/upset/threatened, which would make angry anyone.
• A character can only have 1-2 buttons, otherwise it's Hair-Trigger Temper.
• A character should be happy/stoic normally and anger is atypical/out-of-character.

Edited by Amonimus on Mar 7th 2022 at 10:05:20 AM

Crowner hooked with the above options

Just stating for the record that a upvoted all of them.

Might be worth considering giving BB a name better reflecting it's intended use (like "Trivial/Arbitrary Berserk Button").

Renaming is off the table. We are only discussing redefining the trope and rewriting the description on this thread.

That's a lot of votes by now.

I wonder if the downvoted option is Beware the Nice Ones actually.

Regarding the one that says direct insults don't count, could an exception be made when only a specific type of insult triggers the Berserk Button? For example, someone who will laugh off most mockery, except for insults about his hair, which make him fly into a blind rage.

I mean, that's what the trope mostly is already.

I think that is acceptable.

Will it still count if the button being recurring/consistent is an Informed Attribute? I.E. we only see it in one episode but another character says something like "Never do this to them, they always get upset"?

^ Sounds like a discussed version.

Implied, more like.

It would be stated to be the trope and we'd see the reaction, so "discussed" feels more likely since the "button" part is what's informed.

So, any ideas on how to rewrite the description to better fit the new requirements. I notice that Sandbox.Berserk Button (which was made when this thread was sent back to LTP) has some notes on it.

In light of the redefinition, I wanted to ask about this entry on The Whiskey Vault:

• Berserk Button: It's repeatedly made clear that while good-natured ball busting among their friends and fans is allowed and even expected, the one thing that neither Daniel nor Rex will abide is genuine whiskey snobbery, i.e. actually putting people down for their preferences.

I didn't really think it fit when I originally added it, but I was at a loss as to what else it could fit. With the redefinition, it really doesn't fit; does it fit something else, or should it just be removed?

Everyone Has Standards, maybe?

Is the new definition any different? All of it seems more-or-less the same.

It mostly is, yeah.

We just adjusted it a bit so we could begin cleanup, as well as definitively nail it down. Speaking of, is it time to move back to the cleanup thread and get to work?

Think so.

Don't we have to tweak the description first?

Do we? The only change is that the character doesn't need to be normally calm and nice.