History PlayingWith / BerserkButton

** Brad would stay mostly calm but he would give anyone who insults his mom a weary look that makes them think twice about doing it again in the future.

* '''Reconstructed''': ... but he has made sure NO ONE will ever make fun of his shoes again

'''Basic Trope''': Something minor that regularly sends a character into a rage.

* '''Zig Zagged''':

* '''Played For Laughs''':

* '''Played For Drama''':

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** Brad has serious case of OedipusComplex that cause him to over-react to everything involve his mother.

** Brad is normally the OnlySaneMan, but he'll go into a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech long and brutal rant]] if [[RantInducingSlight someone calls him a bastard]].

'''Basic Trope''': Something that sends a character into a violent rage.

* '''Exaggerated''': Someone touches Brad's shoes. Brad, normally an ExtremeDoormat, [[AxeCrazy goes on a murderously psychotic rampage that results in the deaths of the people responsible]].

* '''Exaggerated''': Someone touches Brad's shoes. Brad, normally an ExtremeDoormat, [[AzeCrazy goes on a murderously psychotic rampage that results in the deaths of the people responsible]].

* '''Exaggerated''': Someone touches Brad's shoes. Brad, normally an ExtremeDoormat, [[OmnicidalManiac goes on a murderously psychotic rampage that results in the deaths of the people responsible]].

* '''Played For Drama''': Bob's Berserk Button leads to someone getting hurt or even killed, leading to everything going to hell for him.

* '''Justified''': Brad has serious case of OedipusComplex that cause him to over-react to everything involve his mother.

** Bob is a perfectly functional man until you insult his mother, and then you find out that his functionality was just a part of his MaskOfSanity and you just metaphorically yanked it off his face. As for the carnage that ensues, you're the only one to blame.

* '''Played for Horror''': Bob is a SerialKiller and he chooses who to slaughter by reviewing every conversation they ever had for insults to his mother, either outright stated or implied... [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness or that he imagines they implied]]...

* '''Played for Horror''': Bob is a SerialKiller and he chooses who to slaughter by reviewing every conversation they ever had for insults to his mother, either outright stated or impliied... [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness or that he imagines they implied]]...

* '''Exaggerated''': Someone touches Brad's shoes. Brad, normally an ExtremeDoormat, goes on a murderously psychotic rampage that results in the deaths of the people responsible.

* "The things that would be Brad's berserk buttons don't bother him at all.

* '''Defied''': "You think that's going to piss me off?! Ha! You're wrong!"

* '''Averted''': The things that would be Brad's berserk buttons don't bother him at all.

* '''Straight''': Brad, normally a rational and non-aggressive person, beats the crap out of someone because they [[YourMom jokingly insulted his mother]].

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* '''Exaggerated''':
** Someone touches Brad's shoes. Brad, normally an ExtremeDoormat, goes on a murderously psychotic rampage that results in the deaths of the people responsible.
** Brad has a HairTriggerTemper, or put another way, he has quite a few {{Berserk Button}}s and people press them frequently.

* '''Justified''':
** Brad's mother was a prostitute, and it's a sore spot for him. Besides, EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas.
** Brad is a ''[[HeroicBastard literal]]'' [[HeroicBastard bastard]], which is why he takes such offence to that particular insult.
** Brad has a bad childhood memory of the incident.
** Brad's mother is his LivingEmotionalCrutch. Anybody that wishes her harm in any way, shape or form tangentially threatens to destroy whatever sanity he's got left.

* '''Straight''': Brad, normally a rational and non-aggressive person, beats the crap out of someone because they [[YourMom insulted his mother]].

** If someone insults Brad's mother, Brad will pretty much go to them, get on his knees and talk to them that [[TheAce they are cool, rational guys that do a whole lot for the community and thus everybody, incuding Brad himself, loves them]], so he is struggling deep down inside and catching at straws to keep himself from jumping onto them like a mad dog and tearing their throats out with his teeth before stomping their heads into mulch... [[DissonantSerenity but he has managed, so he's giving them this warning to please don't do it again.]] [[BullyingTheDragon And not understanding how truthful his words are]], [[GoryDiscretionShot they do...]]

* '''Zig Zagged''': After being pushed too far, Brad picks a fight with the scoundrel but is horribly outmatched. Now his face makes his shoes look intact by comparison.