History HeroicBSOD / Film

* Sarah Connor Blue Screens in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' upon seeing a Terminator very much identical to the one that persistently tried to kill her in the previous film. Complete with slow motion, deer in the headlights look, and catatonia, which contrasts nicely with her put-on catatonia earlier in the day after she's shown photos of the Terminator walking around a shopping mall. She couldn't even fight back the orderlies who are subduing her - the same orderlies who were getting their asses kicked by her a few minutes ago. She has another later in the film when she looks into Miles Dyson's terrified face and can't bring herself to kill him. She realizes then that ''she's'' become a Terminator.

** Between Episodes VI (''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'') and VII (''Film/TheForceAwakens''), Luke seems to be suffering a huge one after his nephew, Kylo Ren,destroyed his new Jedi Order after he turned to the Dark Side of the Force and wiped out most, if not all, his other students. Blaming himself over what happened, Luke soon went into hiding, totally severing contact with his friends and relatives, seemingly resigned to be the last Jedi once more. Only time will tell if he snaps out of it during the events of Episode VIII: ''Film/TheLastJedi''.

** In Disney's ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'', Basil snaps after falling for Ratigan's EvilPlan, silently and stoically sits through the ToThePain lecture, and just waits for the DeathTrap to go off, feeling completely humiliated, outwitted, and defeated. Since this is a family film, he gets better.
-->'''Dawson''': Dash it all, Basil! The queen's in danger, Olivia's counting on us, we're about to be horribly splatted, and all you can do is lie there feeling sorry for yourself!
** [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast The Beast]] has a near suicidal moment after he lets Belle return to her father.

* The third ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' has Rocky fall into one after both his humiliating defeat to Clubber Lang as well as [[spoiler: Mickey's subsequent fatal heart attack]], causing him to completely lose his fighting spirit for a good portion of the film until Adrian is able to rouse him out of it.

* Sean has a brief one after [[spoiler: Han is killed]] in ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift]]''. Neela has to physically drag him away.

* ''Franchise/StarWars:

* [[spoiler:The character Sarah]] has one of these about two thirds of the way through ''Film/TheDescent'' and doesn't come back for the rest of the movie. On the upside, her BSOD is [[ActionGirl very]] [[BadAss hardcore]], and in all likelyhood it saved her life [[spoiler:in the American version with the revised ending.]]

* ''Creator/Pixar'':

* Jackie Robinson gets one in ''[[Film/FortyTwo 42]]'' after enduring a barrage of racial epithets from Philadelphia Phillies' coach Ben Chapman.

* From the action film ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', Mr. Incredible has a brief one when he thinks his family is dead.
* From the CGI movie ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'', Raphael confronts Leonardo, breaks his swords and beats him for once - leaving him vulnerable when the Big Bads gang up on him and capture him. The realization that this was all his fault turns Raphael into a babbling, incoherent emotional mess.
--> '''Raph''': But, Master Splinter, I messed up big tonight. (shows Leo's broken swords) They took him...
* [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast The Beast]] has a near suicidal moment after he lets Belle return to her father.
* ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'': The title character has a mild one after her cover is blown.
* In ''Disney/TheLionKing'', Simba has one after the stampede because he [[ItsAllMyFault blames himself for his father's death]], which is also made worse when Scar convinces him he is responsible for it, even though it was actually Scar who did the deed.
* In Disney's ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'', Basil snaps after falling for Ratigan's EvilPlan, silently and stoically sits through the ToThePain lecture, and just waits for the DeathTrap to go off, feeling completely humiliated, outwitted, and defeated. Since this is a family film, he gets better.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' has the famous moment when Buzz Lightyear finally realizes he's just a toy.
* In ''Disney/BrotherBear'', this trope happens when Kenai finally listens to Koda's story about his mother and realizes it is about the fight he and his brothers had with a bear. Kenai puts the pieces together and realizes to his horror that he killed Koda's mother. At that, Kenai flees the bear gathering in profound fear and shame.
* In ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' after Pinocchio turns out to be a hit at Stromboli's puppet show, Jiminy Cricket temporarily winds up getting in a state where he feels he's failed as a conscience and believes the little wooden boy would be better off without him.
* In ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', Quasimodo goes into a depression when his attempts to rescue Esmeralda have allowed Frollo to capture her and Phoebus. When Frollo has him chained to the belltower of Notre Dame, the hunchback can only remark how ItsAllMyFault as the gargoyle trio try to rouse him;

* Tiana in ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' after seeing "Naveen" (actually Lawrence, transformed with blood magic) ready to marry Charlotte.[[note]]If she had thought about it rationally, she'd have remembered that it was impossible to break the curse on Naveen without also breaking it on her, so it couldn't have been the real Naveen.[[/note]] She runs into the French graveyard and sits down on a tombstone, completely depressed. When Ray tries to cheer her up, she accidentally breaks his spirit as well.
* Disney/{{Pocahontas}} has one after [[spoiler:Kocoum's death and John Smith's capture]].
* Po throughout most of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' when he starts having visions about the night his parents were murdered. He eventually comes out of it when he stumbles across the ruins of his DoomedHometown and comes to terms with the tragedy.
* Tommy Pickles hits this spectacularly in ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'' when Phil and Lil abandon him and his brother Dil in the woods, Chuckie following them, and Dil's greediness leading to his favorite blanket being torn in the middle of a cold and raging storm. Lil suffers one when a tree crashes down and, when all Lil can find is Phil's shoes, she starts to break down thinking he's dead. He's fine, just that he lost his shoes when the tree fell.
* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'' suffers this after the villain [[spoiler: (actually TheDragon)]] employs BreakThemByTalking. He wanders alone into the desert, and has to receive guidance before he can pull himself together for the final showdown.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'', the movie begins with [[CuteClumsyGirl Fairy Princess Marianne]] as a blissfully happy bride-to-be, joyfully getting ready for her wedding to the handsome Roland...[[spoiler:and then she finds him cheating on her with an unnamed girl. [[BastardBoyfriend On the day of their wedding.]]]]. The sudden cut from the music and the echoing silence, [[BreakTheCutie along with Marianne's heartbreaking expression]], really hammers home the devastating power of this moment.

* Happens twice to Elsa in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', the first time when she receives the news of the death of her parents. The second time, [[spoiler: she believes Hans that she was directly responsible for her sister's death. She's ready for a SuicideByCop, and even her ice powers lock up.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'', when Fish - the troll who raised Eggs for ten years; his adoptive father - is [[spoiler:finally captured by Snatcher]], Eggs seem to shut down for a little while before ultimately deciding to [[spoiler:rescue him, thus finally taking action against Snatcher for the first time.]]
* In ''Disney/BigHero6'', Hiro goes into one of these after [[spoiler:Tadashi's death]] that lasts for several weeks, during which he stays in his room with the blinds drawn, not eating, not responding to messages from friends, not registering at the school he worked so hard to get into...it only ends when he drops part of his battle bot on his foot and accidentally activates Baymax.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'', Mike is devastated after learning that [[spoiler:humans aren't scared by him at all, meaning he really is incapable of being a proper scarer]].
* In ''Disney/TheJungleBook'', Mowgli suffers one when Baloo, who promised him that he could stay in the jungle with him, tells him that he has to go to the man-village.
* Jack Frost in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' has a minor one in Antarctica after Pitch breaks his staff.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' has two in rapid succession; first when he panics upon discovering [[BigBad Steele]] messed with his markers, and then after he falls off a cliff (with the medicine) while trying to get out of the maze Steele's created.
* In ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'', Judy suffers one when she brings about increased prejudice and division in Zootopia than ever before as a result of her comments during a press conference about the regressed predators, and she ends up resigning from the force out of shame.

* 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.
* ''Film/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 ''Film/{{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.]]
* Oskari in ''Film/BigGame'' has a brief moment of breakdown when he finds out that his father's "good hunting place" contains a refrigerator with a head of an already-shot deer, meaning that a father of a WellDoneSonGuy doesn't believe that he ''can'' do it well.

* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** Barbossa (arguably this rather than a VillainousBreakdown, given his brief stint as a "hero") has one in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third movie]], after his plan to save the pirates by releasing Calypso fails miserably. Upon seeing the maelstrom that the ''Pearl'' is forced to weather, he just stands on the deck staring at it, before Elizabeth snaps him out of it by reminding that he's needed at the helm.
** Jack also gets one when just as he [[spoiler:prepares to stab the heart, Davy Jones fatally wounds Will]]
** Norrington in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest second movie]] is in grips of one, because he lost his ship in pursuit of Jack Sparrow.
* ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'': Barbra has one after seeing her brother killed by a zombie, then being chased across the countryside by said zombie. She recovers [[spoiler: almost the whole film later, when her brother leads the mob of zombies that kill her.]]
* In the Korean action movie ''Film/{{Shiri}}'', the main character has a bit of a BSOD when he discovers [[spoiler:his girlfriend is in fact a North Korean assassin]].
* Ditto the Korean thriller ''Film/{{Oldboy 2003}}'', where the main character [=BSODs=] hardcore (AND dumps core, and probably files a cosmic bug report) when [[spoiler:he finds out he's been manipulated into sleeping with his own daughter as karmic payback for talking too much about a schoolmate who got his own sister pregnant]].
* Done pretty well for a comedy in ''Film/TropicThunder'', when extreme method actor Kirk Lazarus is called out for his methods, used because he's afraid of what's deep inside, by a rather insane Tugg Speedman (who's suffered his own BSOD after accidentally killing a panda, then supposedly "[[IChooseToStay found a family]]"). It takes the OnlySaneMan, resident {{geek}}, and PromotedFanboy (of sorts) Kevin to shake Kirk out of it...and, well, he ''attempted'' to do so with Speedman.
* Su in ''True Legend'' suffers a catastrophic crash midway through the movie as [[spoiler: his wife dies shortly before being rescued]]. Long story short, [[FromBadToWorse he doesn't pull out of it]], thus becoming the mythic Beggar Su.
* Oskar Schindler in ''Film/SchindlersList'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIp_8RNNX4k 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.
* The plot of ''Film/CharlieStCloud'' has the title character suffer one of these after his little brother was killed in a car accident.
* In ''Franchise/StarWars Episode V: Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', Luke suffers a BSOD after [[LukeIAmYourFather Darth Vader's notorious reveal]]. Which brings us to...
** The non-canon ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' Expanded Universe events of the franchise also hint that he continuously suffered from the BSOD even after getting his hand replaced.
** In Film/RevengeOfTheSith, Obi-Wan Kenobi slowly falls into one as he and Yoda see the full extent of the massacre in the Jedi Temple. He's tipped over the edge when he sees a hologram proving that Anakin is responsible but, being [[TheStoic stoic]] and [[{{Determinator}} determined]], manages to keep going and [[TragicBromance fight the man]] he's [[HeterosexualLifePartners loved as a brother]]. He finally lets his emotions come out after he's defeated Vader and, although he keeps going, it's clear from that point onwards that he's tipped over the DespairEventHorizon. Even nineteen years later, it's clear that he hasn't fully recovered.
* In the UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} movie ''Bollywood/{{Pukar}}'', the main character, Jai, goes through this after having been wrongfully accused of treason and facing court martial. Made all the worse that his girlfriend has left him and his family has been shamed. Ironic, that the only one listening is [[WomanScorned the person who put him in that predicament]] (though she never thought it would go so far) and her father. He gets better.
* Shilo has a fairly extensive one by the end of ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera''.
* Nicole Kidman's character in ''Birth'' has a BSOD while [[AtTheOperaTonight at the opera]]. The camera locks on her face for ''a full three minutes'' while she shuts down. The result is fairly haunting.
* An early cinematic example occurs in ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' when Freder collapses and has a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNVbFLaO2jQ&feature=PlayList&p=F3AAC80014E0AC58&index=18 four-minute apocalyptic vision]] after he (apparently) discovers [[spoiler: [[RobotGirl (Robot) Maria]]]] is in league with his father, Joh.
* Sarah Connor Blue Screens in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' upon seeing a Terminator very much identical to the one that persistently tried to kill her in the previous film. Complete with slow motion, deer in the headlights look, and catatonia, which contrasts nicely with her put-on catatonia earlier in the day after she's shown photos of the Terminator walking around a shopping mall. She couldn't even fight back the orderlies who are subduing her - the same orderlies who were getting their asses kicked by her a few minutes ago.
** She has another later in the film when she looks into Miles Dyson's terrified face and can't bring herself to kill him. She realizes then that ''she's'' become a Terminator.
* In ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'' noble knight Bowen blames young Eion turning into a murderous tyrant on the boy having half of a dragon's heart. Bowen then proceeds to hunt dragons until he and the last one (Draco, the very one Bowen was hunting for) form an alliance. In a fight, Eion makes it clear that he never believed in the Old Code and was just using Bowen and Bowen is stunned to realize the boy was always going to be a monster and he hunted a species to extinction for no reason.
* ''Film/PitchBlack''. When Riddick tries to make Fry leave Imam and Jack behind on the dead planet or he'll leave all of them she calls him out on his manipulation, but breaks down into an unresponsive, crying mess in front of Riddick when she realizes he's dead serious, torn between trying to save herself or die trying to save the others.

* At the end of ''Warrior King'', Tony Jaa has a pretty epic Heroic BSOD when [[spoiler:he sees the skeleton of his father's elephant (which he has been trailing all film) behind the throne of the big bad]] and collapses to the ground, getting kicked in the head repeatedly while he reboots, before unleashing the ''mother'' of all {{Unstoppable Rage}}s on every last motherfucker in the room.
* Both Thomas and Guy-Manuel in ''Film/DaftPunksElectroma''. Thomas [[spoiler: self-destructs, and later on, Guy tries to blow himself up, but [[Main/ICannotSelfTerminate cannot reach his self-destruction panel]], so he starts himself on fire using a glass shard from his broken helmet and the sun.]]

* ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'':
** Upham gets one, being only able to walk among the carnage. The Germans realize his condition and never shoot him, even though he has loads of bullets around his neck. He gets over the BSOD only after TheCavalry arrives.
** Captain Miller has one upon arriving on the beaches of Normandy. What's even more interesting is you get to see it through ''his'' eyes as it happens.
* In ''Film/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 ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' [[strike:fame]] infamy), 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.
* This typically happens in the [[MadeForTVMovie TV movies]] Creator/{{Lifetime}} 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.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
** In ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', Kirk's BSOD over [[spoiler: Spock's death]] somewhat continues into the third movie, wherein he snaps out of it and starts to kick Klingon ass and take names.
** Kirk has one in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' after David is killed. You know Kirk is out of it when he [[ThrowItIn missed his own chair]].
** He has a very brief one in after the assassination of the Klingon chancellor in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''. Having apparently fired on the chancellor's ship, the Klingon battlecruiser recovers, rights itself, and prepares to retaliate on the unshielded ''Enterprise'' with photon torpedoes. Kirk just stares slack-jawed at the viewscreen for a full ten seconds--likely he's trying to process the fact that ''Enterprise'' seems to have just fired the first shots of an interstellar war.
** ''Film/StarTrekGenerations''. Done as only Creator/PatrickStewart can deliver. After receiving word of his brother and nephew's deaths, he keeps a stiff upper lip for much of the movie, but in the immediate aftermath is very curt with his senior staff and delegates to Riker many of the duties regarding the observatory rescue operation he would normally handle himself. A typical RedShirt might not notice anything wrong with Picard other than maybe he's having a bad day ''(which is both true and a massive understatement)'', but Riker and the others gather some inkling that something is very wrong. It eventually gets even worse when Soran says something that calls back to the event of their deaths ("Time is the fire in which we burn.")
** ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''. Kirk suffers two of them, first when [[spoiler: Christopher Pike strips Kirk of his command of the Enterprise]] and second when [[spoiler: Harrison kills Pike during the attack on Starfleet Headquarters, causing him to break down into tears]].

* In James Cameron's ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', Captain Edward Smith has a mental breakdown following the ship striking the iceberg and has to be strongly encouraged by one of his officers to give the order to abandon ship. This scene is historically accurate as the real-life Captain Smith actually did suffer a mental breakdown and was only briefly brought out of his stupor by his first officer shouting at him and asking if they should start putting women and children into the lifeboats.

* In ''Film/ReturnToOz,'' Dorothy manages to endure a lot, including the destruction of virtually everything she ever loved about Oz, but with a lot of [[XanatosSpeedChess hastily-revised plans]] and some helpful friends, she remains stable. However, when the Nome King transforms the Scarecrow into an ornament and abandons her in a chamber deep inside his palace, Dorothy finally bursts into tears. After a PetTheDog moment from the Nome King and then a KickTheDog moment, she falls into a period of despair which she finally recovers when she [[SpannerInTheWorks beats the Nome King at his own game.]]
* ''Film/{{United 93}}'''s entire cast (besides the passengers aboard the titular flight) suffers one after United 175 smashes into the South Tower.
* Katherine, the protagonist's love interest in ''Film/{{Fury 1936}}'', has one after seeing an angry mob burn her fiance alive. [[spoiler: He gets better.]] Afterwards she's [[DumbStruck unable to speak]], and has a post-traumatic freakout whenever she sees fire (including people lighting their cigarettes).
* ''Film/CemeteryMan''. Learning [[spoiler:the rest of the world doesn't exist for you because you're not real]] could do that to anyone.
* Towards the end of ''Film/BoogieNights'', there's an extended shot of Dirk just staring into space. Somewhat of a subversion, as this is more due to his cocaine addiction, and all the shit that's going on around him.
* In ''Film/TheHowling'', Karen White suffers one her first time back on TV after being attacked by Eddie Quist.
* In ''Film/{{Predator}}'', the character Mac suffers one after seeing Blain get killed by the Predator (and actually seeing the Predator for the first time). Only Dutch can reboot him by yelling "Sergeant!".

* Maverick in ''Film/TopGun'' likely takes the cake for having a BSOD in the middle of a two vs six aerial dogfight. After flying into an enemy fighter's jet wash, he is reminded of his friend's death after which he mentally shuts down for a few seconds. However, being that aerial combat is a fast, furious affair that requires quick reflexes and a pilot's full attention, it is miraculous that our protagonist wasn't instantly blown out of the sky.
* In ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' Shaun suffers from this after beating a zombie to a bloody pulp with his best friend Ed. Ed [[CrowningMomentOfFunny seems completely oblivious to this while eating a Cornetto]]
* ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'' ends with this both for the protagonist J.J. Gittes and the viewer.
* Not sure if he counts as a hero, especially considering the events immediately following this scene, but Philip Seymour Hoffman's character has an epic one in ''Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'' after [[spoiler: his wife leaves him and reveals she's been sleeping with his brother.]] He calmly and systematically dismantles their apartment, pouring their decorative marbles over the coffee table and tearing up his entire bedroom. And then shit really hits the fan.
* In ''The Last Temptation of Christ'', Jesus has been rescued from the Cross by his guardian angel (in the form of a little girl). He has married Mary Magdalene, and is raising a family. He has his BSOD when his former disciples [[TheReveal reveal]] his ever-present guardian angel as [[spoiler:Satan, having sabotaged his dying for the sins of the world.]] Fortunately, [[spoiler:ItWasAllJustADream or Satan's tempting fantasy.]]
* In ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'' an emotionally exhausted Mary embraces Jesus after he has been taken down from the cross ... and is too spent to do anything but give the thousand yard stare.
* In ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'', the title character has a few of these, most notably, after he's unable to save Daud from quicksand while on his way back to Cairo to report that he took Aquba from the Turkish.
** The other notable moment, which is after he's captured and beaten by Turkish soldiers, however, is more of a DespairEventHorizon for Lawrence.
* Both Wellington and Napoleon are in BSOD mode pretty hard after the titular battle in ''Film/{{Waterloo}}''. Wellington has won the battle but at tremendous cost to his army, and only after having seen most of his aides and officers killed. Napoleon meanwhile is broken by his loss, and the knowledge that dismal exile is the only possible fate for him now.
** Pretty much TruthInTelevision. This is how it was, folks.
* In ''Film/TheDeerHunter'', there's Nicky.
* In ''Film/{{Memento}}'', this has happened to Lenny-- permanently.

* ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' has a rare literal example. The screen actually turns blue behind the hero.
* ''Film/{{Thor}}'' goes into one when he discovers that [[spoiler:he can no longer lift {{Mjolnir}}.]] Also Loki visiting him and [[spoiler: lying to him that their father had died and that he was banished from Asgard forever.]]
** Odin too could count since [[spoiler: Loki's discovery of his true ancestry and resulting outburst caused his powers to shut off.]]

* Robert Neville (played by Will Smith) goes into one in ''Film/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 [[DeusExMachina being saved by a pair of other human survivors]].
* Gomez enters one after he loses his fortune and is evicted from his home in the first ''[[Series/TheAddamsFamily Addams Family]]'' movie. Thing snaps him out of it just before the climax with a three word message: [[spoiler:MORTICIA IN DANGER]].
* Sam from ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' suffers one in the second film when [[spoiler: Optimus dies]]. And again in the third film when [[spoiler: he sees the Autobots' ship destroyed by Starscream and believes the Autobots are dead.]] Also, various bystanders are shown to be standing speechless or sitting dejectedly after [[spoiler: Chicago's invasion by the Decepticons]] and even Epps and NEST soldiers [[spoiler: gave up and declared the fight over. They fortunately snap out of it when Optimus and the rest of the Autobots [[BigDamnHeroes came back]].]]
* ''Film/TheFifthElement'': Leeloo descends into despair as she sees [[HumansAreBastards humans' inhumanity to their fellow humans]], almost losing it completely when Diva is killed, and then decides to read up on the "WAR" section of the dictionary. This becomes an important plot point almost immediately afterward, as she initially refuses to save the universe if war and violence are all it has to offer.
* The third ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' has Rocky fall into one after both his humiliating defeat to Clubber Lang as well as [[spoiler: Mickey's subsequent fatal heart attack]], causing him to completely lose his fighting spirit for a good portion of the film until Adrian is able to rouse him out of it.
* In ''Film/StageDoor'', Terry suffers one right before she goes on stage opening night when she finds out [[spoiler: Kaye killed herself because she wanted Terry's part]]. However, because TheShowMustGoOn, she pulls herself together enough to give a great performance.
* Film/JamesBond has one in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' after [[spoiler:he's declared dead after being shot and falling off a bridge during a mission]]. He debauches himself most thoroughly, but he's clearly depressed.
* In ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', as explained by The Metatron, this is the reason for [[JesusTheEarlyYears the unexplained gap in Jesus's life]] from the time he was twelve, until his thirties. When told he was the son of God, and was doomed to be betrayed by the very people he was trying to help, it triggered a two decades long BSOD. This was told to Bethany when she started her own BSOD after Rufus tells her that she's a descendant of Jesus and that's why she's targeted.

* In ''Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer'', the main plot of the film is to see how Tom Hansen is handling his breakup with Summer Finn, and looking back to see what he did wrong. He... doesn't take it well.
* Jackie Robinson gets one in ''[[Film/FortyTwo 42]]'' after enduring a barrage of racial epithets from Philadelphia Phillies' coach Ben Chapman.
* In ''Film/IronMan2'' Tony goes into one big time, [[spoiler: due to him suffering a slow death due to Palladium contamination]]. It culminates into him throwing a party, [[DrowningMySorrows completely drunk]], ''while in his Iron Man armor''.
* In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', Marty has a huge one in 1985-A when [[spoiler:he finds his father's grave]].
* Doc goes into one in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'' after he [[spoiler: tries to tell Clara he is from the future and she doesn't believe him and slams the door in his face]].
* In ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'', our hero finds... oh wait... [[spoiler: anyway, he finds Lois dead, carries her body to the ground, shakes his head, and screams to the heavens!!! He snaps out of it to reverse time by reversing the Earth's rotation to save her life.]]
* Then there was ''Film/ManOfSteel'' wherein Supes [[spoiler: okay, contrary to what people say, they DO call him "Superman," but in any case, he snaps Zod's neck and screams in emotional anguish.]]

* ''Film/ToySoldiers'': After Joey is killed [[spoiler:by Cali's soldiers while trying to free his friends]], Billy sinks in deep depression, [[spoiler:almost missing their chance that they planned so hard for]].
* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'': Once the mask is knocked off the Winter Soldier's face and Cap sees that it's [[spoiler:his old friend Bucky]], Cap is frozen in place. He doesn't even put up a fight [[spoiler:when the STRIKE team arrests him]].
* In ''Film/TheLastLaugh'', the hero is in this state pretty much continually after getting demoted. The actor, Emil Jannings, is ChewingTheScenery pretty hard in those minutes.
* Eddie Felton gets one in ''Film/TheColorOfMoney'' after he himself is hustled by Amos, who smoothly pretends to be a lucky amateur and suckers Eddie into a series of double-or-nothing games.
* ''Film/IntoTheStorm2009'' has two four [[UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill our protagonist]]. Churchill starts having one when the sheer loss of life the war caused starts to get him, and a second one after he loses the election near the end of the movie, he spends the rest of the movie with an empty gaze.
* ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
** What Xavier has been in since the [[BreakTheCutie end]] of ''Film/XMenFirstClass''. A lot has happened in the TimeSkip between the two movies, resulting in the deaths of most of the characters from ''First Class'' who don't appear here. It's also stated that Charles lost many of his students and teachers to conscription and the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar, effectively closing down his newly budding school.
** Wolverine also has one when he sees Stryker, and his is more [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything like a PTSD flashback]].
* In ''Film/BatmanTheMovie'', Batman suffers something of one when he discovers that Catwoman was Miss Kitka, the Russian reporter he met and fell in love with. When Robin goes to offer his sympathies, Batman recovers and stops him before he ends up revealing who they were.
* In a {{Retcon}} to the ending of his series, ''Film/HeiseiRiderVsShowaRiderKamenRiderWarsFeaturingSuperSentai'' revealed that Takumi Inui, Series/KamenRiderFaiz, had been in one since the death of Masato Kusaka, Kamen Rider Kaixa.[[note]]In the original, Kusaka died without anyone knowing.[[/note]]
* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' subverts this. While Uncle Ben's death could have plunged Peter into a swill of misery, he instead channels it into rage and becomes a reckless and vengeful vigilante with his powers but lacks the "ComesGreatResponsibility" part of being Spider-Man.
* Peter Parker hangs up the suit for five months after [[spoiler:[[ILetGwenStacyDie watching Gwen die because of his attempt to save her]]]] in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2''. He visits [[spoiler:her grave regularly]] and sulks until he gets the courage to watch [[spoiler:her graduation speech]] and find his HeroicResolve anew.
* In ''Madame Curie'', based on the story of RealLife scientist Marie Curie, she goes into one after her husband and research partner Pierre is killed after being run over by a horsecart on the street.
* ''Film/{{Annie 2014}}'' when she is revealed to be [[spoiler:unable to read. Also when she thinks Stacks hired the fake parents to make himself look good]].
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': Katniss [[spoiler:after Rue's death.]]
* ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1'':
** Katniss suffers several of these.
*** In what's left of District 12, because of the sheer number of casualties. [[spoiler:9,085 of District 12's 10,000 residents don't make it out.]]
*** After [[PresidentEvil Snow]] leaves hundreds of white roses following the Capitol's [[spoiler:unsuccessful]] raid on District 13.
*** When Peeta [[spoiler:attacks and nearly kills her.]]
*** And before that last one, she completely breaks down when [[spoiler:President Snow delivers a WhamLine at the end of their video conversation about being fully aware of District 13's rescue operation of the victors and effectively cuts off their communication with the rescue unit. Understandably, she has every reason to believe that she's lost both Peeta and Gale (who was part of that unit), even though it ends up not being the case]].
** Finnick also suffers from one that's bad enough to leave him in a depressive state for a good chunk of the film (although it's elaborated on less than it was in the book). It mostly stems from a combination of the Capitol having taken Annie, his one true love, captive, and guilt for not going back to save Johanna and Peeta at the end of the Quarter Quell.
* Barney Ross from ''Film/TheExpendables'' suffers this in the third movie after [[spoiler: Caesar is wounded and hospitalized by [[BigBad Conrad Stonebanks]], forcing him to temporary disband the team.]]

* Sean has a brief one after [[spoiler: Han is killed]] in ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift]]''. Neela has to physically drag him away.

* When Atreyu meets the Rock Biter in ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'', The Nothing has already claimed much of Fantasia, including the Teeny Weeny and the Night Hob, whom the Rock Biter befriended at the beginning of the movie. Even though he knew fighting The Nothing was beyond his ability, the Rock Biter is crushed that he couldn't help them.
-->'''Rock Biter:''' ''They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they? I always thought that's what they were. ''
* Both ''Franchise/{{Hellboy}}'' movies.
** Hellboy experiences one in the [[Film/{{Hellboy}} first film]] after [[spoiler: Professor Broom]] dies.
** And again in the [[Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy second one]] where Liz "breaks up" with him (she actually just left to contemplate [[spoiler: being pregnant]] but it seemed that way to Red). This comes not long after he learns how much the public fears and hates him, and he's so distraught that he stops filing his horns down, and picks fights with superiors.
* In ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', Furiosa has one after the group finds the Many Mothers, and she learns that the Green Place has become a barren swamp.
* President Whitmore undergoes one in ''Film/IndependenceDay'' while on Air Force One, reflecting on his failure to respond to the devastating first wave.
-->"We could have evacuated the cities ''hours ago''. That's the advantage of being a fighter pilot. In the Gulf War, we knew what we had to do. It's just...not simple anymore. A lot of people died today. How many didn't have to?"
** While not quite as severe as other examples, David hits rock bottom when the military launches a nuke against the aliens, against his wishes, and fails. He gets drunk and makes a mess of the place until his father is able to calm him down and inadvertently provide an idea on how to defeat the aliens.
* Rusty Dennis has one at the end of ''Film/{{Mask}}'', when she realizes that Rocky isn't just sleeping. She wanders into the kitchen in shock, and proceeds to smash things in her grief.
* In ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'', when Karen Eiffel learns that the subject of her latest book, Harold Crick, is a real person that she's going to kill via her writing, she becomes horrified at what she was about to do, and the fact that she may have inadvertently killed other real people with previous books. Later, when she does type out her planned death for Harold, she has a complete breakdown.
* In ''Film/CaptainPhillips'', based on the ''Maersk Alabama'' hijacking, the eponymous captain is rescued by the U.S. Navy after they dispatch the hijackers holding him hostage, but has to be treated for shock since he just narrowly avoided death at his captors' hands. The poor guy is in tears and can barely even talk.
* In Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice, [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Clark]], already struggling with self-doubt, goes through one after [[spoiler: [[Comicbook/LexLuthor Lex]] blows up a Senate hearing that Superman is attending, using a bomb hidden in a lead-lined wheelchair so Clark can't see it]], killing and injuring hundreds of people that Clark is unable to save. It takes [[spoiler: a DeadPersonConversation with the ghost of Jonathan Kent]] to snap him out of it.

* ''Film/{{Thor}}'' goes into one when he discovers that [[spoiler:he can no longer lift Mjolnir.]] Also Loki visiting him and [[spoiler: lying to him that their father had died and that he was banished from Asgard forever.]]

** Barbossa (arguably this rather than a VillainousBreakdown, given his brief stint as a "hero" in the third movie) has one in the third movie, after his plan to save the pirates by releasing Calypso fails miserably. Upon seeing the maelstrom that the Pearl is forced to weather, he just stands on the deck staring at it, before Elizabeth snaps him out of it by reminding that he's needed at the helm.

** Norrington in the second movie.

* The plot of ''Charlie St. Cloud'' has the title character suffer one of these after his little brother was killed in a car accident.

* In LittleWomen's TheFilmOfTheBook (more exactly, the classic one of the 40's), Beth has a huge one when she and Amy [[SnoopingLittleKid sneak into the Christmas Party]] and overhear the GossipyHens speculating about Marmee's "plans" of marrying either Meg or Jo off to Laurie. This is parallel to the book scene where Meg is the one who has such an experience and keeps self cool for a bit, then breaks down crying when she's alone.

* In Film/''TheDeerHunter'', there's Nicky.
* In ''Film/{{Memento}}'', this has happened to Lenny- permanently.

* Katherine, the protagonist's love interest in ''Fury'', has one after seeing an angry mob burn her fiance alive. [[spoiler: He gets better.]] Afterwards she's [[DumbStruck unable to speak]], and has a post-traumatic freakout whenever she sees fire (including people lighting their cigarettes).

** The Expanded Universe events of the franchise also hint that he continuously suffered from the BSOD even after getting his hand replaced.