History HeroicBSOD / Film

* In ''{{Braveheart}}'', William Wallace has one of these when he finds out that [[spoiler: Robert the Bruce]] was working with Edward Longshanks. It is enough to where he lies down to [[spoiler: almost get captured by a band of English soldiers before the Bruce lets him go]]. At the same time, when [[spoiler: Robert the Bruce]] realizes the horror on Wallace's face, he looks as if he is about to succumb to one as well.
* In ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'', Cameron seems to have one of these when he sees that the valet took his father's car - his most prized possession, for a joyride. He screams at the top of his lungs for the whole city to hear, then lapses into his BSOD. Ferris and his girlfriend Sloane try desperately to revive him, which culminates with the two of them in a hot tub, and Cameron on a folding chair at the end of a diving board. He falls (or jumps) in, and Ferris "rescues" him, reviving him from his cataplexy in the process. He reveals that he wasn't really catatonic the whole time. Sloane then asks if he saw her get changed, which he replies to with a grin.

* ''SleepyHollow'' used it twice, first when Ichabod first sees the "monster" ("It was a headless horseman. But it was a headless horseman. No, you must believe me. It was a horseman, a dead one. Headless.") and then at the finale: [[spoiler: the Horseman brings Lady Van Tassel with him to the underworld, her hand is stuck at the roots of the "tree portal". The hand closes. Ichabod promptly faints.]]

* John "Scottie" Ferguson gets one of these in ''{{Vertigo}}'' that lasts long enough for him to be put in a mental hospital [[spoiler: after the woman he loves is killed. She comes back later.]]

* In ''[[DistrictNine District 9]]'', Christopher is purely interested originally in getting himself, his son and maybe a few others the hell off Earth. However, when he and Wikus raid MNU's lab, he enters this state realizing the horrifically evil things being done to his people. Once he snaps out of it, he is now dedicated to return to both free his people and help Wikus.

* Gomez enters one after he loses his fortune and is evicted from his home in the first ''AddamsFamily'' movie. Thing snaps him out of it just before the climax with a three word message: [[spoiler:MORTICIA IN DANGER]].

* In ''{{Memento}}'', this has happened to Lenny- permanently.

* In ''FerrisBuellersDayOff'', Cameron seems to have one of these when he sees that the valet took his father's car - his most prized possession, for a joyride. He screams at the top of his lungs for the whole city to hear, then lapses into his BSOD. Ferris and his girlfriend Sloane try desperately to revive him, which culminates with the two of them in a hot tub, and Cameron on a folding chair at the end of a diving board. He falls (or jumps) in, and Ferris "rescues" him, reviving him from his cataplexy in the process. He reveals that he wasn't really catatonic the whole time. Sloane then asks if he saw her get changed, which he replies to with a grin.

* ''SweeneyTodd'' goes into a not-so-heroic one of these after [[WhatAnIdiot Anthony's colossally bad timing in telling him about Johanna and his plan to elope with her]] [[SpannerInTheWorks blows his first shot at revenge on Judge Turpin straight to hell]]. This leads to him launching into the epic number "Epiphany" that marks his transition into full-on VillainProtagonist mode.

* Robert Neville (played by Will Smith) goes into one in IAmLegend after being forced to kill his vampire-infected dog, who had been his only companion for the three years that had elapsed since the beginning of the [[ZombieApocalypse vampire apocalypse]], in self defense. The following shot of Neville sitting in his car after burying the dog's body and blankly staring at the now empty passenger seat really drives home the point. His depression gets to the point that he [[ICannotSelfTerminate attempts suicide by vampire]]. He gets snapped out of it after [[DuesExMachina being saved by a pair of other human survivors]].

* Frodo has one at the near end of ''LordOfTheRings: The Fellowship Of The Ring''. Frodo just stares with the ThousandYardStare on the river from the shore while holding the Ring on the open palm of his hand, obiviously traumatized by Gandalf's death, Boromir's corruption and the Uruk-Hais' sudden attack, and thinking back when he told Gandalf that he wised that nothing of the events would have ever happen. He snaps out of it when he remembers Gandalf's answer and decides to continue to Mordor.

* This typically happens in the [[MadeForTVMovie TV movies]] the {{Lifetime Channel}} airs (some they made themselves, others not) when either the main protagonist (or any other character for that matter) discovers some horrible (or otherwise shocking) [[TheReveal Reveal]] in whatever the context happens to be in at the time. It's happened so often that it has now become a stereotypical plot element in such movies.

* ''SleepyHollow'' used it twice, first when Ichabod first sees the "monster" ("It was a headless horseman. But it was a headless horseman. No, you must believe me. It was a horseman, a dead one. Headless.") and then at the finale: [[spoiler: the Horseman brings a woman with him to the underworld, her hand is stuck at the roots of the "tree portal". The hand beckons. Ichabod promptly faints.]]

* In ''{{Greedy}}'', Danny McTeague gets a very bad, but brief, BSOD after getting a gutter ball that ruins his chances of getting into the finals of a bowling tournament.

* In ''TheLionKing'', Simba has one because he [[ItsAllMyFault blames himself for his father's death]]

* Oskar Schindler in ''SchindlersList'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvyZnOukZLg&feature=related breaks down towards the end of the film]] after thinking that even if he had saved the lives of about 1,100 Jews, he might have been able to save more had he used his money wisely.

* In ''[[StarWars Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back]]'', Luke suffers a BSOD after [[LukeIAmYourFather Darth Vader's notorious reveal]]. Which brings us to...

* Taken literally in ''{{Terminator}} 3'' when [[ArnoldSchwarzenegger Ahnold]] gets captured by the T-X and reprogrammed to kill John Connor. Connor saves himself by [[spoiler: making the T-800 realize that accomplishing that goal would mean failing its original mission; the logical conflict between the two causes the T-800 to destroy a truck instead of Connor, then shut itself down (but [[IGotBetter it got better]]]].

* In TheLionKing, Simba has one because he [[ItsAllMyFault blames himself for his father's death]]

* In ''SpaceCamp'', Katherine (played by Lea Thompson) has one of these after finding the manual override switch. Katherine didn't know whether to pull the switch so they could save their camp counselor Andie (played by Kate Capshaw of ''IndianaJones and the Temple of Doom'' fame), or not pull it and allow mission control to bring them back to Earth on auto-pilot (they were low on oxygen). It eventually takes Kevin (Tate Donovan) who previously "didn't ask to be responsible" to do just that and pull the switch to rescue Andie.

* In [[The Deer Hunter]], there's Nicky.