History VillainousBreakdown / AnimatedFilms

--> '''Darla:''' I... should've drowned you all when I ''flooded the stage!''

** [[spoiler:Hans]] in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'': After witnessing [[spoiler:Elsa's escape from the castle dungeon before he can murder her,]] he gets pissed off that he pursues her into the blizzard in order to do so with any costs.

** [[spoiler:Hans]] in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'':After witnessing [[spoiler:Elsa's escape from the castle dungeon before he can murder her,]] he gets pissed off that he pursues her into the blizzard in order to do so with any costs.

** [[spoiler:Hans]] in ''Disney/Frozen'':After witnessing [[spoiler:Elsa's escape from the castle dungeon before he can murder her,]] he gets pissed off that he pursues her into the blizzard in order to do so with any costs.

** ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'': Ursula towards the end after Ariel destroys her eel pets, effectively triggering her OneWingedAngel transformation, which involves her [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever growing to GIGANTIC size]] and [[EvilSoundsDeep speaking in a]] ''[[EvilSoundsDeep deep]]'' [[EvilSoundsDeep voice]]. Also, when she transforms into Vanessa, it is implied that she lost quite a bit of sanity (to the point of becoming a borderline AxCrazy) when turning into her, as she talks to her mirror in a manner similar to a schizophrenic, emits a psychotic grin when throwing a pin at a mirror's head with enough velocity to knock the mirror back, and most certainly tries to kill a person had that been a human being, and her cackling.

*** This is a particularly interesting example, as rather than suffering from Villain decay because of it, this scene is made one of the more terrifying in the film, and even becomes the closest this villain gets to actually killing the hero.

** In ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'', Cruella De Vil's sanity slowly whittles away over the course of the film, as her obsession with making a fur coat out of the Dalmatian puppies evidently goes to her head. It begins after the Radcliffes refuse to sell her the puppies and she makes it clear to them that she is NotGoodWithRejection. It continues to erode when she becomes impatient with her {{Mook}}s, Horace and Jasper, to get the job of skinning the dogs done, and, soon after, when they discover the dogs missing and have to hunt for them. Eventually, what little sanity remaining in Cruella is completely spent during the climatic ChaseScene. The fact that she has completely lost it becomes especially acute after she ragingly drives her car out of a ditch and through some thorny bushes, trashing the car pretty good in the process. Clearly, by this time, it is either the dogs or her -- and she doesn't care who gets in her way. And when her mooks' rickety old truck t-bones her already-trashed-car, destroying both cars completely and leaving Cruella and her henchmen adrift amid the wreckage, Cruella ravingly bawls them out and breaks down sobbing, to which Jasper has had enough and tells her, "[[BigShutUp Ahhh, shaddup!]]"
** ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'': Ursula towards the end after Ariel destroys her eel pets. Also, when she transforms into Vanessa, its implied that she lost quite a bit of sanity (to the point of becoming a borderline AxCrazy) when turning into her, as she talks to her mirror in a manner similar to a schizophrenic, emits a psychotic grin when throwing a pin at a mirror's head with enough velocity to knock the mirror back, and most certainly tries to kill a person had that been a human being, and her cackling.
** In ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Gaston increasingly goes from being a {{Jerkass}} StalkerWithACrush into an unhinged {{Yandere}}. It's especially evident after [[NotGoodWithRejection Belle keeps refusing him]] but the last straw was when he discovered that she prefered a literal monster than him.

** Jafar has this after learning that ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' took back the lamp at the cave of wonders. And then there's his LaughingMad moment after the Prince Ali Reprise and his BigNo when he realizes that he's a slave to the lamp after becoming an all powerful genie. Subverted earlier on when Jafar starts laughing maniacally after being exposed for the EvilChancellor he is. Iago thinks he's cracked, but in reality, he realized that Prince Ali is actually Aladdin.

* Darla Dimple of ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' gets a big one at the end. Darla's attempts to sabotage Danny's last-ditch effort to show that animals can be stars actually ''helps'' them. At the end, frazzled, exhausted and more than a little mad, Darla crawls up to Danny and, in front of the audience, makes the foolish mistake of outing herself as the one who sabotaged his earlier attempt.

* ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'': As Mrs. Tweedy tries to stop the chickens from escaping, wielding an axe, Rocky knocks her out and the chickens all manage to escape. But when Mrs. Tweedy comes to, she lets loose with primal rage and goes AxCrazy in her determination to stop the chickens in general and execute Ginger in particular with the axe.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}''. The Other Mother is normally a creepy StepfordSmiler. She loses her fragile composure after Coraline refuses to apologize to her and after Coraline throws the cat at her face and it [[EyeScream claws off her button eyes]]. Also, when Coraline is escaping to the real world from the other world the Other Mother looses it and screams "DON'T LEAVE ME! DON'T LEAVE ME! I'LL DIE, I'LL DIE WITHOUT YOU!!!!!!" Also, after they throw the hand and the key inside the well, if you listen closely, you can hear the Other Mother whispering [[LittleNo 'No'.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'', Sunset Shimmer is looking very uncertain, like she might even be open to a truce, after Twilight Sparkle calls her bluff -- at least until Twilight's friends start praising her as the sort of leader Sunset wanted to be regarded as....

* In ''The Adventures Of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina'' the Mole King goes AxCrazy when Thumbelina rejects him and chooses Tom instead and when Tom smashes his HighClassGlass that allows him to see.

** Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog: Dr. Facilier, during his final moments, devolves from [[FauxAffablyEvil a smooth, charismatic, and calm con-man]] into a [[OhCrap screaming and frantically panicking wreck]] begging for his life [[spoiler: as the voodoo spirits he owed a debt to drag him off.]]

** Dr. Facilier, during his final moments, devolves from [[FauxAffablyEvil a smooth, charismatic, and calm con-man]] into a [[OhCrap screaming and frantically panicking wreck]] begging for his life [[spoiler: as the voodoo spirits he owed a debt to drag him off.]]

** At the end of Disney's animated ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' (see the image on the right), Ratigan goes from being a smarmy, smug intellectual [[OneWingedAngel to a feral, crazed rat]], savagely attacking Basil. Although he does have quick seconds of losing his cool throughout the film, he is just as quickly able to recover and be calm and collected. But when Basil both humiliates Ratigan in front of dozens of aristocrats and saves and reunites Olivia and her father, Ratigan breaks down.
** In ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'', Cruella De Vil's sanity slowly whittles away over the course of the film, as her obsession with making a fur coat out of the Dalmatian puppies evidently goes to her head. It begins after the Radcliffes refuse to sell her the puppies and she makes it clear to them that she is NotGoodWithRejection. It continues to erode when she becomes impatient with her {{Mook}}s, Horace and Jasper, to get the job of skinning the dogs done, and, soon after, when they discover the dogs missing and have to hunt for them. Eventually, what little sanity remaining in Cruella is completely spent during the climatic ChaseScene. The fact that she has completely lost it becomes especially acute after she ragingly drives her car out of a ditch and through some thorny bushes, trashing the car pretty good in the process. Clearly, by this time, it is either the dogs or her. And when her mooks' rickety old truck t-bones her already-trashed-car, destroying both cars completely and leaving Cruella and her henchmen adrift amid the wreckage, Cruella ravingly bawls them out and breaks down sobbing, to which Jasper has had enough and tells her, "[[BigShutUp Ahhh, shaddup!]]"

* [[spoiler:AUTO]] in ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' sums up the trope with one sequence. [[spoiler:The captain has raised the Holo-Imager on the lido deck, so AUTO knocks him aside and hits the button to retract it. WALL•E blocks it from retracting with his body. AUTO hits the button again, and when it still hasn't gone down, he hits the button so hard and rapidly it ''cracks'', and then tasers it.]]

* Darla Dimple of ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' gets a big one at the end. Darla's attempts to sabotage Danny's last-ditch effort to show that animals can be stars actually ''helps'' them. At the end, frazzled, exhausted and more than a little mad, Darla crawls up to Danny and, in front of the audience, accidentally outs herself as the one who sabotaged his earlier attempt.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}''. The Other Mother is normally a creepy StepfordSmiler. She loses her fragile composure after Coraline refuses to apologize to her and after Coraline throws the cat at her face and it [[EyeScream claws off her button eyes]]. Also, when Coraline is escaping to the real world from the other world the Other Mother looses it and screams "DON'T LEAVE ME! DON'T LEAVE ME! I'LL DIE, I'LL DIE WITHOUT YOU!!!!!!" Also, after they throw the hand and the key inside the well, if you listen closely, you can hear the Other Mother whispering 'No'.

** Sykes in''Disney/OliverAndCompany''. While he's mainly calm throughout the movie, in the climactic car chase he pulls down the gear stick so hard it breaks off, and ''punches his hand through his car's window'' to get at the heroine.

'''Hein:''' ''I know!'' But it must be done.

** At the end of Disney's animated ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' (see the image on the right), Ratigan goes from being a smarmy, smug intellectual [[OneWingedAngel to a feral, crazed rat]], savagely attacking Basil. Although he does have quick seconds of losing his cool throughout the film, he is just as quickly able to recollect himself as calm and collective. Until the end, when Basil saves the Flaversham clan, whom, thanks to Ratigan, had been kept separated from each other. But when Basil both humiliates Ratigan in front of dozens of aristocrats and saves and reunites Olivia and her father, Ratigan breaks down.

** And in the sequel, WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2, Po appearing as Shen is about to sail to triumph seems to result in the peacock finally losing it; [[spoiler:while he remains sane, he kicks the AttackAttackAttack strategy he'd employed with his cannons up to 11, even willing to fire on his own fleet to clear out all obstacles and casually knifing his own {{Dragon}} when he refuses. This results in Shen refusing to cease using his cannons even when Po has perfected the catch and return technique, resulting in a pretty epic OhCrap when Po's final returned shot makes a yin-yang symbol before striking his flagship. When Po confronts him on his ship after crippling it, he finds Shen completely stunned by both the fact everything he created has been destroyed and the fact that Po managed to overcome his traumatic past and find inner peace. When Po explains it to him, he snaps and tries to kill Po. Unlike Tai Lung, however, Shen doesn't lose his head, managing TranquilFury despite his breakdown, resulting in a much more even fight.]]

** [[spoiler:This is most likely due to the Soothsayer's prediction starting to come to pass and by this point Shen is getting desperate to change it. His MindScrew didn't work and force is his only option. You can sense it in Shen's voice when he ask how Po overcame his trauma. Even if its calm, his ambition has been left in ruins and he got nothing to lose. Leading to the final assault and ultimately death at his own hands.]]

!!Films -- Animated