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* ''Fanfic/{{Jessica}}'': After being bullied at school, Cameron starts throwing his belongings around everywhere to vent and accidentally cracks the cartridge of his ''Pokémon Yellow'' game, killing his team.

* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk:'' ''Way'' too many examples of this applying to the Hulk exist to count, but it's most likely to happen with the Savage Hulk, who already has a childlike mind as-is, and is therefore easily enraged or duped. Once Hulk's upset, it takes a ''lot'' to calm him down.

* ''ComicBook/IronFist1975:'' Storm of the X-Men, of all people, has this happen to her during a brawl between the team and Iron Fist (which Wolverine started for petty reasons). She initially tries to break up the fight, only to get some food in her face, at which point she goes ''ballistic''. Once everything's calmed down, she's pretty embarassed.

* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'', after being defeated, Lord Shen attacks Po with a dagger, not realizing that in doing so [[spoiler:he's also cutting the ropes holding up his cannon. He is standing right under it just as the last rope gives way, and has barely enough time to FaceDeathWithDignity as the cannon falls and crushes him.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', Clayton [[spoiler:gets tangled up in vines as he chases after Tarzan up in the trees. He angrily starts hacking them apart, not noticing that one of the vines is wrapping around his neck. Tarzan tries to warn him, but it's too late; the vines give way, Clayton falls and ends up hanging himself.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', this trope describes Anger's main negative aspect, reflecting the irrationality of angry people.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'': As Widow Tweed warned him at one point, Amos Slade's bad temper gets him in hot water when his obsession with hunting Tod for inadvertently lead Chief to get hurt nearly does him in when he makes an enemy out of a wild bear.

* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': Iron Man's team has managed to restrain Thanos when they learn [[spoiler:he had sacrificed Gamora's life to obtain the Soul Stone]]. An enraged Star-Lord lashes out, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero which allows Thanos to break free of Mantis's empathic powers and scuttles the team's plan to take the Infinity Gauntlet from him]]. This ended up actually being a good thing as in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', it's revealed that Thanos was only granted a temporary victory before all of which was undone by the Avengers.
* In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', Anakin rushes to attack Dooku, ostensibly to avenge the Jedi slain during the battle. Dooku quickly incapacitates the impulsive charge with Force Lightning, incapacitating Anakin and forcing his mentor, Obi-Wan, to battle Dooku on his own.

* The page quote comes from ''Literature/EndersGame'' , which uses this to underscore the difference between TranquilFury and BlindedByRage in Ender's fight [[spoiler: against Bonzo, who'd ordered his flunkies to back off so he could fight Ender alone after Ender insulted his honor]].
* In ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' [[HairTriggerTemper Daylen]] frequently regrets the things [[SayingTooMuch he says]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone or does]] in the [[TheBerserker midst of]] [[UnstoppableRage his rages]], as his reason returns as soon as he calms down.
* In ''Literature/GoingPostal'', Moist exploits this trope, saying that "Angry people make mistakes", in the hope of goading Reacher Gilt into messing up during the Clacks-Post Race. Everything from being late to the start of the race, to making sure the message for both sides to deliver was a ''book'', to visibly attempting to put a FlyingBroomstick on the coach, is a part of Moist's [[KansasCityShuffle distracting Reacher about what his plan is]].

-->"MY NINTENDO! AAAAAAAA!!!"

* ''TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}'': The Clans are a ProudWarriorRace who have practically no cultural sense of humor and take their personal honour very seriously. As such, "Clan Warrior provoked into accepting a rash duel/trial/handicap for a battle" is a very common event, with even some Clans becoming very good at it. When he was taken as a bondsman by Clan Wolf, Phelan Kell used this trope a lot against [[TheNativeRival his rival]] Vlad, making Vlad look petty, or even provoking him into cheating (which backfired badly when he was found out).

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}'', Steve knows that the title character stole her guitar back from him and made embarrassing posts on his social media, but he can't prove it. Instead, he does things like cause disturbances at Melody's concerts (which gets ''very'' predictable reactions from security), and on Melody's romantic path, [[spoiler:he actually slaps his ally, Bethany, when she relents on giving her back the guitar if the player makes ''just'' the right decision.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'': In Season 3, [[spoiler:Elena is consumed with rage and [[IrrationalHatred hatred]] at Esteban once his alliance with Shuriki is out in the open, and she allows it to run her actions even after coming to terms with her feelings in "Dreamcatcher," readily trying to capture or kill him and [[RevengeBeforeReason focusing on doing so]] over trying to stop Ash, the ''real'' threat to Avalor. This bites her in the ass come "Coronation Day," where this allows Ash to unleash the Four Shades of Awesome on Avalor and leads to Elena herself being trapped in the Spirit World. The spirits of her parents even tell her that her job is to protect the kingdom, not to seek vengeance, and doing so will only lead to her making bad decisions.]]

** In the episode [[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS1E23DirtyObjects ''Dirty Objects'']] James gets so angered by Toby's burn against him that he bumps the trucks and ends up forgetting that they need to stop on Gordon's Hill giving the trucks a chance to [[RunawayTrain get revenge.]]
** In [[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS1E24OffTheRails ''Off The Rails'']], Gordon gets so angry over the fact that he has to take a special train of trucks that he attempts to jam the turntable only to find himself unable to stop and lands in a ditch.

* ''Literature/TheHike2023'': After a long day of hiking, Helena gets into an argument with Joni and Liz (when the latter tries to defend Joni) shortly before they reach a river they have to cross. Helena is so angry and fed up with her friends, she stubbornly tries to cross the river by herself right there and then, despite Liz warning her that the current is too fast here and that they should cross together, with Helena dismissing her as being a know-it-all. Helena realises she's made a big mistake when she wades to the middle of the river and realises the current ''is'' too strong for her to go on, but she also can't easily turn around and go back. She slips on the rocks and lands face first in the water; although the river is only knee-deep Helena's pack pins her down and she would've likely drowned if Joni hadn't rushed in to pull her up and help her to the opposite bank. Helena knows she's lucky all she got was wet, cold and humiliated.

Is the direct inverse of EnragedByIdiocy, where anger is ''caused by'' idiocy instead of ''causing'' it. Furthermore, it is also the direct inverse of UnstoppableRage, where getting angry leads to badassery instead of stupidity. Likely to show up as a FatalFlaw, especially if the character is HotBlooded or has a HairTriggerTemper. Has some overlap with RevengeBeforeReason (it's not uncommon for vengeance to overlap with anger, after all) and ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime. See AlcoholInducedIdiocy and ExhaustionInducedIdiocy for other elements that cause people to act irrationally. When a character intentionally invokes this in order to make their opponent slip up, that's BlindedByRage. SubTrope to ATragedyOfImpulsiveness; specifically, this trope covers impulsiveness caused by anger.

* In one early ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'' arc, Jason fruitlessly tries to pester his mom into getting him a (then-new) [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]]. When she says no, Jason goes up to his room where he loses his temper and kicks his [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] in a fit of rage, destroying it. He immediately regrets it (especially since Andy refuses to replace it).

* During the ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', this is what lead the definite FaceHeelTurn (closer to a FaceMonsterTurn actually) to Superboy-Prime. His foolish actions during the CrisisCrossover cause great damage to the entire story and lead to his final Heel turn. A good example of this is when the ComicBook/TeenTitans tried to save ComicBook/{{Superboy}} from his beatdown, murdering every member that tried to get away from him with no intention to kill them at first.

-->--''Literature/EndersGame'', explaining the difference between TranquilFury that doesn't fall prey to this trope, and HotBlooded anger which does.

* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': Iron Man's team has managed to restrain Thanos when they learn [[spoiler:he had sacrificed Gamora's life to obtain the Soul Stone]]. An enraged Star-Lord lashes out, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero which allows Thanos to break free of Mantis's empathic powers and scuttles the team's plan to take the Infinity Gauntlet from him]]. This ended up actually being a good thing as in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', it’s revealed that Thanos was only granted a temporary victory before all of which was undone by the Avengers.

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}'', Steve knows that the title character stole her guitar back from him and made embarrassing posts on his social media, but he can’t prove it. Instead, he does things like cause disturbances at Melody’s concerts (which gets ''very'' predictable reactions from security), and on Melody’s romantic path, [[spoiler:he actually slaps his ally, Bethany, when she relents on giving her back the guitar if the player makes ''just'' the right decision.]]

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': Exploited by {{Literature/Wulfrik}} the Wanderer, a Chaos Champion who was given the [[{{Omniglot}} Gift of Tongues]] in order to deliver an unrefusable challenge to any enemy the Chaos gods want him to kill, in the form of crude insults that so infuriate the target they not only accept the challenge, no matter how one-sided, and make elementary mistakes (such as one Imperial noble who left the safety of his city walls to fight Wulfrik one-on-one after the latter had made a "your wife and my kids" comment). This was supposed to be BlessedBySuck by the Chaos Gods through forcing Wulfrik to challenge tough enemies until he got himself killed as Wulfrik had pissed them off, but Wulfrik proved too much of a BloodKnight to care about the danger and instead turned it into a case of CursedWithAwesome.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': Exploited by {{Literature/Wulfrik}} the Wanderer, a Chaos Champion who was given the [[{{Omniglot}} Gift of Tongues]] in order to deliver an unrefusable challenge to any enemy the Chaos gods want him to kill, in the form of crude insults that so infuriate the target they not only accept the challenge, no matter how one-sided, and make elementary mistakes (such as one Imperial noble who left the safety of his city walls to fight Wulfrik one-on-one after the latter had made a "your wife and my kids" comment).

* In the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' movie, when the titular green ogre overhears Fiona saying no one could love an ogre to Donkey, he assumes she meant him when she actually meant herself since she's cursed to turn into an ogre at sunset. The next morning, a completely disgruntled Shrek arrives with Lord Farquaad and refuses to hear Fiona and Donkey out when they try to explain the situation. Had it not been for Donkey's tenacity and eventually learning about the misunderstanding, Shrek and Fiona could have led miserable lives.

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** Vegeta's FatalFlaw, alongside his {{pride}}, is his wrath. When he gets angry enough, he gets extremely reckless, leading to humiliating defeats and exacerbating the problem.

** After Cell pushes Gohan into an UnstoppableRage for the sake of [[EmotionalPowers unleashing his hidden power]] and getting a WorthyOpponent, he [[GoneHorriblyRight gets his]] [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor wish]]; Gohan ascends to Super Saiyan 2 and beats Cell to a pulp, but when he has the chance to end it, he refuses despite Goku [[KillHimAlready screaming at him to finish it before Cell gets desperate]] purely because he felt Cell [[ColdBloodedTorture hadn't suffered enough for his crimes]]. This bites him in the ass ''big time'' when Cell is driven to a VillainousBreakdown and tries to blow up the Earth, forcing Goku to sacrifice himself to save the world. On top of it all, Cell is able to regenerate FromASingleCell and return [[CameBackStrong stronger than ever]] thanks to his Saiyan genes, and Gohan [[ItsAllMyFault knows he has only himself to blame for it all]].

** Vic himself does this when the turtles try to saves his hide form the Kraang, yelling at them and blaming them for getting him into this mess ([[NeverMyFault when it was his own fault to begin with]]), which leads to the Kraang once again drawing their attention to them and no it soon results in Vic being transformed into Spider-Bites.

* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Even Haara's internal monologue admits she was making a terrible decision when she attacked the wyrmling sorcerer with a mote of ''produce flame'' after he boasts about his plans to ally with the Genasi Empire.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}'': The Clans are a ProudWarriorRace who have practically no cultural sense of humor and take their personal honour very seriously. As such, "Clan Warrior provoked into accepting a rash duel/trial/handicap for a battle" is a very common event, with even some Clans becoming very good at it.
** When he was taken as a bondsman by Clan Wolf, Phelan Kell used this trope a lot against [[TheNativeRival his rival]] Vlad, making Vlad look petty, or even provoking him into cheating (which backfired badly when he was found out).

** Kharn the Betrayer got his name from an incident when both the World Eaters and the Emperor's Children Legions stopped fighting due to the intense cold, instead seeking shelter. Infuriated by such cowardice, he ran around with a flamer setting fire to every shelter and every Space Marine he saw, crippling both Legions to the point where millennia later they are reduced to small warbands. Despite the name, neither Kharn, the World Eaters or Khorne himself see it as a betrayal (Khorne demands that his followers spill blood in his name at every opportunity, no matter if it's their enemy's, their ally's or their own), and the Blood God rewarded Kharn for his deeds by making him his champion.

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMax'': The arc "Up is Down, Black is White" revolves around the attempted [[InvokedTrope invocation]] of this trope by a Mafia lieutenant - he hopes that, by pissing off Frank Castle more than anybody has ever done, he will be too damn angry to think straight and he will be easy to lead into a trap. He perform this angering by digging up the bodies of Castle's wife and children, pissing on them, and sending the videotape of this act to the news. The part of the plan where Castle is angrier than ever [[GoneHorriblyRight was achieved, all right]], but [[InvertedTrope instead]] Frank went into a razor-sharp TranquilFury and massacring a large number of criminal underworld groups in a single night in his relentless hunt [[StupidCrooks for the idiot]].

* In ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', [[ManiacMonkeys Primeape]]'s blood circulation is boosted when enraged. This makes its muscles stronger, but also severely lowers its intelligence.