History HeroicBSOD / AnimeAndManga

** For being such a MagnificentBastard otherwise, [[TheChessmaster Lelouch Lamperouge/vi Britannia]] goes into one of these nearly every other episode. Considering the consequences some of his IdiotBall moments have had, some Heroic BSOD is rather called for. Not to mention the fact that [[ChewToy the show's universe is pretty much designed to screw him]].

** Suzaku suffers one when [[spoiler:the Geass command on him ''causes'' him to [[NuclearWeaponsTaboo "nuke"]] Tokyo with the F.L.E.I.J.A., making him responsible for the millions killed]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kOUZLaxzjE His response]] is to stand in the crater for hours, then [[LaughingMad finally break down in crazed laughter]]. He gets better... sort-of.

** And then there's [[CanonImmigrant Ryo Akiyama]], in the [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] UsefulNotes/WonderSwan games he stars in - in ''D-1 Tamers'', the [=DigiDestined=] manipulate him via a tournament to get him to train hard enough to defeat Moon-Millenniumon. When they ''do'' tell him the truth, it's a bit late to apologize -- he closes himself off from everyone else, his blue screen lasting into the next game.

** Ed occasionally gets this too. After the failed attempt to bring back their mother, Hawkeye even notes that he looks lost. Of course, in this series, characters get the BSOD so often, they must be running on [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] [[TakeThat Millennium Edition.]]

** Kirito suffered an extreme one after [[spoiler: the death of Eugeo]]. To put it simply, he was left unable to speak, unable to express emotions, and basically unable to do anything. This is a major plot point in the anime's current arc.

* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', Izuku is so shaken after All Might tells him that he can't become a hero that he stands there, frozen in shock for several minutes.

** Shizuru has one in the picture drama "Shizuru Viola Memoirs", when Natsuki rather forcefully rejects her offer to make her one of her room attendants because she thinks of Natsuki as just another FanGirl. It takes Haruka coming up with a plan to make having Natsuki as a room attendant the stakes of the welcoming duel between them, as well as Natsuki retracting her decision and accepting after talking to Mai, to get Shizuru back to normal.

** [[spoiler:Guts is in the full throes of his absolute worst one yet following losing Casca, who he had spent the good part of the manga helping to get better after the Eclipse drove her insane, to Griffith, who did the most to put her in that state to begin with, in Elfhelm after not being able to lay so much as a scratch on him with the Dragonslayer]].

** [[spoiler:Guts is in the full throes of his absolute worst one yet following losing Casca to Griffith in Elfhelm after not being able to lay so much as a scratch on him]].

** During the Great Eclipse Guts briefly experiences a Heroic BSOD, but quickly converts it into unyielding, determined rage against Apostlekind. Casca, on the other hand, ''[[BreakTheCutie thoroughly]]'' experiences hers, to the point of being driven completely insane. Those who have seen the Eclipse in action know that this need not be elaborated further. It only goes to show how strong Gut's willpower actually is.

** [[spoiler:Guts is in the full throes of his worst one yet following losing Casca to Griffith on Elfhelm after not being able to lay so much as a scratch on him with the Dragonslayer]].

*** [[spoiler:Finally, his own [[LaResistance Black Knights]] ''[[EtTuBrute betray him]]'' because they were convinced by [[TheEvilPrince Schneizel]] that he never intended to help them liberate Japan, and that he brainwashed them all with Geass, something they'd never been told about until now. And this happens in the same episode that he flips out over Nunnally's supposed death. This is the final straw for the already broken Lelouch; [[ShooTheDog he shooes Kallen, who had just come back to his side and was trying to make a case for him, away]], convincing the Black Knights that he used them all just because he's finally been DrivenToSuicide. He survives this only because Rolo [[DyingMomentOfAwesomd sacrifices himself to save him]], and it allows Lelouch to get himself together. But he remains suicidal even afterwards, and despite coming out of his [=BSOD=], he has crossed so far over the DespairEventHorizon that his final plan in the series involves [[ZeroApprovalGambit becoming the most hated man on Earth]], [[ThanatosGambit then orchestrating his own assassination]] [[GenghisGambit after causing the whole world to unite against him]].]]