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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I can't help myself! I have no control over this, this evil thing inside of me, the fire, the voices, the torment!"'']]
->"''That was an order! Steiner's assault was an order! Who do you think you are, to dare to disobey an order that I give?! Is this what it has come to!? The military has been lying to me! Everybody has been lying to me! Even the SS! Our generals are just a bunch of contemptible, disloyal cowards!''"
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler''', ''Film/{{Downfall}}''. [[GagSub It's subtitles has been]] [[MemeticMutation altered by many since.]]

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* ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'':
** Juror #10 engages in a lengthy racist rant about how the defendant, a Latino immigrant kid, is scum from birth and is racially programmed to lie, steal and murder. It so offends and sickens the other jurors, even the vindictive Juror #3, that all of them either walk away from the table or turn away from him in disgust until:
--->'''Juror #10''': Listen to me. We're... This kid on trial here... his type, well, don't you know about them? There's a, there's a danger here. These people are dangerous. They're wild. Listen to me. Listen.
---> '''Juror #4''': [[ShutUpHannibal I have. Now sit down and don't open your mouth again.]]
** Shortly afterward, Juror #3 has one as well after realizing that he's just contradicted his own argument.
* HAL from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', right after Bowman gets back onto the ship to pull his chips. This one is a little hard to detect, as he sounds just as calm as he does when he was a psychopathic killer, but through his words you can hear his desperate attempts to save his own life:
-->'''HAL:''' Look, Dave. I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you want to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission, and I want to help you. Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
* ''Film/ThreeHundred'' has King Xerxes flip out and execute half his generals after they repeatedly fail to dislodge the Spartans. Later, being grazed with a spear ([[AGodAmI which reminds him that he can, in fact, bleed]]) causes him to have a VillainousBSOD as well.
* In the 1930s and 1940s, any villain played by Tod Slaughter could be counted on to have one in Every. Single. Film. Fortunately, he was talented enough to make this work, since his villains were all different in motivation and action.
* The BigBad in ''All About Evil'' is already insane from the get-go, being an AxCrazy SerialKiller who's dedicated to keeping her late father's movie theatre running by making "independent movies" of herself and her henchmen killing anyone she doesn't like. However, she completely falls apart during the film's climax -- the protagonist has prevented her "masterpiece" of slaughtering a packed audience, the police have arrived, and she's dragged the protagonist's mother up to the roof. She starts ranting, but the protagonist cuts her off, stating that her father would be ashamed of what she's become. This sets her off, and she starts screaming to the sky "Daddy, I did it for you!", then clutching her head and yelling at the protagonist to shut up... at which point [[spoiler: the protagonist's mother grabs her knife and stabs her in the neck, and she stumbles back off the roof.]]
* In the [[Film/TheATeam A-Team movie,]] [[spoiler:Lynch]] has one when he overhears that [[spoiler:The A-Team and General Morrison survived his bombing.]] He has a tantrum and repeatedly kicks in front of him like a kid.
* ''Film/AustinPowers''
** Number Two, normally a calm executor of Dr. Evil's plans, throws a hissy fit at the climax of the first :
--> '''Number Two:''' Dr. Evil, I spent 30 years of my life turning this two-bit evil empire into a world class multi-national. I was going to have a cover story with Forbes. But you, like an '''''idiot''''', want to take over the world! And you don't realize ''there is no world anymore! It's only corporations!''
** Scott Evil does this in the third movie in reaction to his father's HeelFaceTurn.
* Towards the end of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', [[spoiler:Loki, after seeing his plans turning south, throws a hissy fit at the approaching Hulk. [[MetronomicManMashing He doesn't get far]]. His final reaction after the battle is [[GracefulLoser much more composed]].]]
-->[[spoiler:"If it's all the same with you, [[INeedAFreakingDrink I'll have that drink now]]."]]
** The entire second half of ''Film/{{Thor}}'' is one for Loki. But for a specific moment, [[spoiler:when Thor confronts him as he's destroying Jotunheim, Loki's normal composure cracks and he starts screaming, [[BerserkerTears crying]] and making petty threats.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Thor:''' This is madness!]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Loki:''' Is it madness? Is it? '''''IS IT!?''''']]
* A more understated one comes in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', when the titular villain is reduced to muttering lyrics from [[{{Disney/Pinocchio}} ''I Got No Strings'']].
* In possibly the most [[PersonOfMassDestruction destuctive]] example in film history, Thanos in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', [[spoiler: after being reminded of Gamora’s death at his hands, ''[[HolyShitQuotient shatters a moon and throws it at the heroes fighting him,]]'']] all while wearing an expression of '''[[UnstoppableRage absolute fury.]]'''
* In ''Film/Batman1989'', the Joker ends up breaking down completely near the end of the movie, when he has Batman and Vicky Vale hanging for dear life. While he was insane beforehand, he at least had some self-restraint to his insanity. By that point however, he couldn't stop himself from laughing insanely and frequently, and destroying parts of the Cathedral in trying to stomp on their hands ("Oh, they sure don't make 'em like they used to! (mad laughter as he smashes the bricks with his feet) do they, huh? (insane giggling) Eh, Batsy? (laughs up a storm)")
* In ''Film/BatmanForever'' the Riddler, already half-sane at best in this version (it ''is'' Creator/JimCarrey playing him after all), becomes utterly, delusionally psychotic when Batman [[spoiler:fries his brain by short-circuiting his own mind-reading invention. Partial subversion in that this renders him completely harmless.]]
** "[[{{Understatement}} Bummer!]]"
* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', Lex's breakdown comes fairly late, after he's already been defeated and imprisoned. When Comicbook/{{Batman}} comfronts him, Lex is still very smug, [[spoiler: rubbing in that he knows Batman's identity, and the only thing preventing him from revealing it is that he's been certified insane, so [[CassandraTruth no-one would believe him]].]] Batman replies that he's [[spoiler: arranged for Lex to be imprisoned in [[BedlamHouse Arkham Asylum]]]] and Lex snaps, ranting about the threat he's seen is coming [[spoiler: now that Comicbook/{{Superman}} is dead]].
--> '''Lex''': But the bell's already been rung. And [[Comicbook/NewGods they've]] heard it, out there, amongst the stars. [[spoiler: Ding dong, the God is dead.]] The bell cannot be unrung! [[Comicbook/{{Darkseid}} He's]] hungry! He's found us. [[AStormIsComing And he's coming!]] [[MadnessMantra Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding. Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding...]]
* ''{{Film/Bright}}'': The [[TheFairFolk elf terrorist]] Leilah acts [[TheStoic calm and composed]] during the entire movie barely showing any emotion, until the end when she sees [[CainAndAbel her sister]] [[MysticalWaif Tikka]] refuses to rejoin their group and then she throws a ranting and screaming fit towards Daryl Ward for having having "corrupted" her somehow.
* Captain Queeg in ''Film/TheCaineMutiny'' combines this with EngineeredPublicConfession when he's put on the stand in the trial of the man who mutinied against him, who has argued that he did it because Queeg was mentally unbalanced but forced to confess that he had never seen the captain "ranting and raving" as such. Under the defense attorney's questioning Queeg does start genuinely ranting and raving while also displaying his nervous tic of rubbing a pair of ball bearings together. Rather unusually we in the audience, having been privy to all that happened leading up to the mutiny, can kind of see where he's coming from, and it's left ambiguous whether he's actually insane.
* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': "YOU ARE FAILING!!!"
** A more subtle instance: Red Skull uses a BreakingSpeech about how the captain was lied to, Captain America replies that the only thing Erskine ever told him about Red Skull was that Red Skull was insane. He is briefly irritated, but he regains his composure and deduces that he must have seen something inside him that Erskine believed deserved the formula more, and asks what was special about him. Captain America doesn't give him the response he wants ("Nothing. I'm just a kid from Brooklyn."), and he breaks down completely, punching Captain America three times.
** The eponymous Winter Soldier in [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier the sequel]] [[TheStoic barely speaks at all]] until his final showdown with Cap [[spoiler: who is trying to trigger the Soldier's memories of who he used to be.]]
-->'''Captain America:''' [[spoiler: You know me. Your name is James Buchanan Barnes]]
-->'''Winter Soldier:''' SHUT UP!
-->'''Captain America:''' [[spoiler: I'm not gonna fight you. You're my friend.]]
-->'''Winter Soldier:''' You're my mission. [[PunctuatedPounding YOU'RE! MY! MISSION!]]
* When he's captured by the police in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', Ugarte has a brief but memorable breakdown.
--> '''Ugarte''': ''PLEEEASSEEE RICK!''
* In ''Film/{{Cinderella 2015}}'', Lady Tremaine has a rather subdued one: When her efforts to keep Ella away from Kit fail, she can only watch in silence as Ella walks away towards her happy ending. Just to rub it in, Ella tells Tremaine that she ''forgives her'' for her actions. The woman is clearly dumbfounded that Ella was able to retain her happiness and kindness despite experiencing great sorrow, something the narration earlier said Lady Tremaine was incapable of.
* ''Film/CitizenX''. Andrei Chikatilo breaks down and sobs when psychiatrist Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky reads his psychological profile of the suspected serial killer; his theoretical assessment of the serial killer (Chikatilo) turns out to be on the money.
* ''Film/{{Clue}}'': "[[spoiler: I killed Yvette!]] I hated her... ''so... much'', It* it... the f* , it* flame... flames... flames on the side of my face, breathing, breath... heaving breaths... heaving..."
* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'':
** In ''Film/BatmanBegins'', when Falcone is captured, he becomes progressively more disheveled and fearful as Batman takes his goons down. Later, when speaking to Crane in the asylum, he starts off as his usual self...sarcastic, confident...but he grows just a little uncertain when Crane starts talking about his mask. He plays it off with some humour, and then out comes the mask...
** The Joker from ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Though one could argue that, being insane, he was already broken down before the movie started, he has a surprisingly subtle breakdown when [[spoiler:neither of the ferries' passengers use the detonators, proving that RousseauWasRight, and not ALL HumansAreBastards. It's the first time in the whole movie things haven't followed his script, and he sees for just a moment that he might be wrong about life. His response is to whine that people aren't reliable and try to blow them up himself]]. It's the equivalent of [[RageQuit turning over the chessboard and punching the other player]] when you're facing checkmate.
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' when Batman breaks Bane's mask which stops him from feeling pain, Bane goes berserk, throwing flurries of punches and even cracking a concrete pillar. A major contrast from the otherwise cold and calculating fighter he had been for the rest of the movie. Afterwards when Batman beats him, all Bane can do is say in stunned disbelief: "I broke you."
* In ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' [[spoiler: Koba]] has one after [[spoiler: the fight between Caesar, is cut short by an explosion and the apes accept Caesar as their leader again. Koba gets a hold of a machine gun and while Caesar is helping the injured apes, Koba opens fire on them, not caring who gets hurt in the crossfire. When Koba is subdued, he still has the gall to bring up the law ''[[VillainsWantMercy Ape]] [[{{Hypocrite}} not kill]] [[EntitledBastard Ape]]''.]]
* The protagonist of ''Film/DayNightDayNight'' is in a state of outright existential despair after she [[WheresTheKaboom fails in her mission]].
* In ''Film/TheDeparted'' when Colin Sullivan (TheIrishMob's [[TheMole Mole]] inside the police) is finally caught by Billy Costigan, He tries threatening and intimidating Costigan out of arresting him, then, nearly in tears, he starts begging Costigan to "Just fucking kill me.". Costigan's reply: "I am killing you.".
** Frank Costello grew less stable as the film went on, too. "Don't laugh! This ain't reality TV!"
* ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate'': After Kevin [[spoiler:kills himself]] in order to prevent [[{{Satan}} Milton's]] [[TheAntichrist plans]] from going forward, Milton [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGIaEP49wyc quite literally erupts (NSFW)]].
%%* Debbie in ''Devil in the Flesh'' on account of being such a {{Yandere}}.
* ''Franchise/DieHard'':
** In ''Film/DieHard'', Hans Gruber acts very calm and collected up until the point where Holly calls him "just a common thief", at which point you can see his facade of civility crumble into derangement.
** In ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'', Simon Gruber is able to keep his cool nearly all the way through the movie...until he realizes that [=McClane=] tracked him to Canada.
* In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', [[spoiler:Strange ends up putting Dormammu into this by trapping the two of them in a time loop, with Strange dropping in again, declaring "Dormammu! I've come to bargain!" every time Strange is killed by Dormammu. After a couple dozen times of this, he gets fed up and begs for the loop to end.]]
* In ''Film/{{Dogma}}''. Bartleby and Loki has made it to the church in New Jersey that would allow them to get back to Heaven. However, by this time, Loki's come to regret this decision and Bartleby's decided he's going back [[TakingYouWithMe and taking all of Creation with him]] as he realized that they'd never be forgiven by God. Bartleby's killed a police officer and revealed that he's an angel before everyone and wants Loki to do the same, but when Loki still gets cold feet, he flips his lid.
-->'''Bartleby:''' Loki, wings.\\
'''Loki:''' Look, I don't think we should...\\
'''Bartleby:''' ''DO IIIIIIT!''
* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler in virtually the whole of ''Film/{{Downfall}}'' (past the opening PetTheDog interview with his new secretary)
** When he learns that Himmler, his most trusted underling, has betrayed him to the Allies by offering to negotiate a peace settlement... and before that, when Herman Goering says that if he doesn't get a reply by 2200 hours (10 pm), he'll assume Hitler incapacitated and take over. Let's just say that in the week leading up to his death, Hitler has a ''lot'' of breakdowns.
** When he's told that one of his generals could not muster up enough forces to halt the Allied offensive on Berlin, Hitler [[TranquilFury quietly and calmly]] orders everyone except his top people out of the room, and then [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2fl-sHUwrc completely loses his shit, ranting and raving so loudly they can hear him outside a steel door]]. Has provided hilarious [[MemeticMutation spoof material]] for GagSub Youtube videos, such as this one with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfkDxF2kn1I&feature=related Hitler getting banned from Xbox Live]].
--->'''Hitler:''' That was an order! Steiner's assault was an order! Who do you think you are, to dare to disobey an order that I give?! Is this what it has come to!? The military has been lying to me! Everybody has been lying to me! Even the SS! Our generals are just a bunch of contemptible, disloyal cowards!\\
'''General:''': My Fuhrer, I cannot allow you to insult the soldiers like this!\\
'''Hitler''': [[KickTheDog They are cowards, traitors]] [[YouHaveFailedMe and failures!!]]
*** ''[[Literature/TheWindsOfWarAndWarAndRemembrance War and Remembrance]]'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huf9JUibW0E Hitler's Steiner breakdown]], for what it lacks in memetic value, more than makes up for it in ham.
*** "''THIS IS THE END! TREACHERY, INCOMPETENCE, COWARDICE! '''THE END! THE END!''' I SHALL KILL MYSELF! '''[[CatchPhrase MY DECISION IS IRREVOCABLE!]]''' [...] THE WAR IS''' LOST! LOST! LOST! LOST!'''''"
** There's another minor example in the form of a German general who delves into a screaming fit when the possibility of surrendering to the advancing armies of the Western/Soviet alliance is brought up, refusing to even consider it because he remembers Germany's surrender in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and the humiliating clauses Germany had to accept in signing the Versailles Treaty. It's a sobering reminder of all the suffering and misery that was caused by what can be essentially chalked up as arrogance and wounded pride gone mad.
* Fritz Lang's movie ''Film/DrMabuseTheGambler'' ends with the eponymous villain (played by Rudolf Klein-Rogge) suffering one of these, while being surrounded by the ghosts of all the people he had murdered earlier.
* ''{{Film/Equilibrium}}'' has a couple of these with [=DuPont=]. It often backfires on Preston, because it's too easy for him to be found out. Also, the point where this happens is where [=DuPont=] is specifically asking him ''that there's a traitor within the Tetragrammaton trying to take down Libria from the inside'', and it's not ideal to press him further by [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretending to have no idea]] in case it gets turned on him. [[spoiler: Preston discovers at the end that he's been used as an UnwittingPawn anyway, so it's a SubvertedTrope in that [=DuPont=] was getting him to play into his hands by behaving normally, scaring Preston into finding the Resistance rather than just getting angry at Preston for talking back (Preston is trying not to show any emotion, so he's busy trying to concentrate on concealing this by agreeing with what [=DuPont=]'s saying)]].
--> '''[=DuPont=] (smashes hand on desk):''' ARE YOU PLAYING WITH ME, CLERIC?!?
** A second one is played straight, as [=DuPont=] visibly breaks incrementally as Preston destroys each line of his defence at the finale. What finally does it, is when [[spoiler: the latter murders Brandt, his right hand man, within 5 seconds of him challenging Preston to a fight]]. [=DuPont=] picks up a gun and finally has his one on one with Preston.
--> '''[=DuPont=] (barely maintaining face):''' Be careful, Preston. You're treading on my dreams.
%%* ''Film/FallingDown'' is essentially one of these spread throughout a movie.
* In ''Film/{{Fargo}}'', as Jerry Lundegaard's plans, which weren't that thought-out to begin with, start spiraling rapidly out of control, he experiences several relatively minor outbursts of increasing intensity as things he didn't anticipate come back to bite him (such as an arm-waving tantrum in a frozen carpark while trying to scratch ice from his windscreen, and slamming his blotter down on his desk). By the end of the movie, everything has gone catastrophically wrong and he's been forced to flee. When the police finally catch up with Jerry, he's reduced to a hysterical, shrieking wreck of a man writhing about on the bed of a motel room as the cops restrain him. All of this just serves to show what an ultimately pathetic, inadequate man Jerry is and how deeply out of his depth he'd gotten himself.
* While not always cool and calm, Jean-Baptist Emanuel Zorg of ''Film/TheFifthElement'' certainly fits the bill with his preferred means of shouting to display his disappointment.
* [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Sarris]] from ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' spends most of the movie composed and assured of his own superiority. When the actors he had mocked earlier begin to take the upper hand, he starts to lose it.
-->'''James Nesbit''': It doesn't take a good actor to know a bad one, Sarris. You're ''sweating!''
* In ''Film/GetOut2017'', [[spoiler:a NotQuiteDead Jeremy Armitage reaches the pinnacle of his psychotic, AxCrazy behavior shown throughout the movie and ambushes the escaping Chris with a headlock at the front door, huskily screaming profanities and whispering "One Mississippi...two Mississippi...three Mississippi" as he chokes him out. Understandable, seeing that Chris effectively foiled [[GrandTheftMe the Armitage family's sinister process of gaining pseudo-immortality]] and had just killed Jeremy's MadDoctor father and PsychoPsychologist mother during his escape.]]
* Commodus in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' after learning of [[spoiler: his sister's betrayal]]. [[ChewingTheScenery "AM I NOT MERCIFUL?!?"]]
* ''Film/TheGodfather'': Michael Corleone completely drops his typical [[DissonantSerenity calm]], [[SoftSpokenSadist collected]] [[FauxAffablyEvil demeanour]] in the second movie when his wife Kay reveals that [[spoiler:she got an abortion and lied to him about it because she couldn't bear to risk bringing a child into Michael's way of life.]]
* The Controller[=/=]X from ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' suffers a tantrum every time Godzilla kills one of his {{Kaiju}}, but when he's finally defeated and his ship exploding around him, he finally completely loses it and is last seen screaming his head off as it goes up in a fireball.
* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'':
** After acting calm and all smug, Ego starts to lose his composure after his son Peter slowly starts to gain the upper hand against him along with the fact that there is a bomb in his core that is strong enough to kill him. This culminates in the end when the bomb is only seconds away from exploding and Ego is reduced to desperately begging for his life and when Peter shuts him up, he begins to scream in terror before finally disintegrating within Peter's arms and the planet exploding away.
** Ayesha remains calm and collected, until the second Sovereign fleet is destroyed, foiling yet another attempt to get revenge on the Guardians. She then starts a RapidFireNo while pounding her console.
* In the final ''Film/HarryPotter'' movie Voldemort resorts to hitting and kicking Harry despite the fact that that sort of thing is for ''[[FantasticRacism Muggles]]'', and he's passing up an opportunity to kill him immediately. The implication presumably is that forget the practicalities, he wants to ''hurt'' Harry, and doing so with magic isn't satisfying enough.
* In ''Film/TheHowling'' ''VI: The Freaks'', the vampire villain Harker loses his cool near the end when the mob he formed to kill the werewolf hero refuses to shoot him because the hero is still in human form -- they were prepared to kill a dangerous monster, not an unarmed man. Harker vamps out and tries to kill the hero personally.
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': A minor one from the heavily-wounded [[spoiler:Cato]], who snaps at the Capitol audience for seeing his impending death as entertainment and lapses into the realization that all he knows how to do is kill people. Then he snaps out of it and decides he can [[TakingYouWithMe take]] [[spoiler:Peeta]] [[TakingYouWithMe with him.]]
** Also, [[spoiler: Clove has one just before Thresh kills her, screaming frantically for Cato.]]
* [[spoiler:Obadiah Stane]] remains on a pretty even keel throughout most of ''Film/IronMan'', including the ending. However, well ''before'' the finale, when his evil plans have been stonewalled, there is a scene where he snaps under the pressure and throws a tantrum. [[MemeticMutation You know the one.]]
-->'''William:''' Yes, Mr. [[spoiler:Stane]]? Sir, we've explored what you've asked us and it seems as though there's a little hiccup. Actually...\\
[[spoiler:'''Stane:''']] A hiccup?\\
'''William:''' Yes, to power the suit, sir... the technology actually doesn't exist. So, it's...\\
[[spoiler:'''Stane:''']] Wait, wait, wait. The technology? (''motions to the large repulsor generator'') William, here is the technology. I've asked you to simply make it smaller.\\
'''William:''' Okay, sir, and that's what we're trying to do, but honestly, it's impossible.\\
[[spoiler:'''Stane:''']] ''TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!''
* Common in ''Film/JamesBond'' films. When things don't go their way, the villains begin to flip out.
** ''Film/DrNo'': Dr. No loses his temper after Bond foils his plans [[spoiler:to sabotage American missile tests and desperately tries to kill 007, but falls into a [[DisneyVillainDeath vat of boiling radioactive water]].]]
** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'': Similar to Le Chiffre, Rosa Klebb has one in her final scene, [[spoiler:where she desperately tries to kill Bond in a Venice hotel room. This is justified in that if she fails to kill Bond and get the Lektor, she'll end up like Kronsteen.]]
** ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'': Goldfinger loses his cool once 007 foils his plan [[spoiler:to irradiate the American gold supply. He dresses up as an American military officer to escape Fort Knox once Operation Grand Slam fails, and then tries to kill Bond aboard a plane, but is sucked out by the air pressure when he fires his gun on a window.]]
** ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'': Once his plans go south, Emilio Largo tortures Domino and tries to kill Bond after his plan is completely foiled.
** ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'': The only time Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big really got mad was when he lambastes Solitaire for losing her powers.
** ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'': Hugo Drax is a SoftSpokenSadist. The only time he loses his temper and raises his voice was when [[spoiler:Jaws refuses to follow his orders, joining Bond's side]] towards the end.
** ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'': In TheTeaser, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who spent years in hiding and plotted his revenge against 007 for foiling his {{Evil Plan}}s, tries to kill Bond while the latter is visiting the grave of his dead wife via a remote-controlled helicopter, [[BadBoss expresses no concern for the death of his pilot]], and sadistically toys with 007 during the aforementioned assassination attempt. [[spoiler:But when Bond regains control over the helicopter, Blofeld ''[[VillainsWantMercy pathetically]]'' [[VillainsWantMercy pleads with]] [[DirtyCoward 007 to be spared]], strangely offering to buy Bond a stainless steel delicatessen in exchange for his life. Unimpressed with this [[SarcasmMode totally tempting offer]] from the man who ''murdered his wife,'' Bond drops the villain down an industrial chimney stack, killing him for good.]]
** ''Film/AViewToAKill'': While Max Zorin was already an insane psychopath to begin with, he slowly loses his grip on sanity as the film progresses. [[spoiler:By the end of the movie, he's AxCrazy to the point of wildly swinging an axe against Bond on top of the Golden Gate Bridge in the final fight after gleefully killing his henchmen left and right.]]
** Likewise, Franz Sanchez in ''Film/LicenceToKill'' loses his sanity by the end of the film. He goes from [[BenevolentBoss treating his employees with trust and respect]] [[spoiler:to impaling them on forklifts, gunning down TheScrappy, and swinging madly with a machete when he sees Bond, cutting the air brake on his oil tanker truck, which naturally leads to StuffBlowingUp.]]
** ''Film/GoldenEye'': When [[spoiler:Alec Trevelyan]]/Janus explains how he plans to steal from the Bank of England and cover it up with an EMP blast from the eponymous KillSat [[spoiler:as part of his revenge against the British government for having his parents killed]], Bond quips that it still "boils down to petty theft," [[DisappointedByTheMotive and that he's nothing more than a "common thief"]], which does infuriate [[spoiler:Trevelyan]]. [[spoiler:Trevelyan's]] self-control finally dissolves when Natalya manages to sabotage the KillSat to stop it from detonating over London by guiding it away from London and out of orbit.
** ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'': When Bond smugly tells Renard that [[spoiler:Elektra is dead, he loses any sanity he had and starts pummeling 007, screaming, "Liar!" And he goes forward with inserting a plutonium rod into the core, which overloads its already radioactive contents.]]
** ''Film/DieAnotherDay'': [[spoiler:Once his father disowns him for what he's become, Gustav Graves/Colonel Tan-Sun Moon kills him, and then tries to kill 007 by tossing him into a turbine.]]
** ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'': Le Chiffre goes from coldly and effortlessly dismantling his opponents at the poker table [[spoiler:to a screaming, sweaty nervous wreck as Bond is taunting him despite being painfully tortured.]]
** In ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', when BigBad Dominic Greene's plans [[StuffBlowingUp explode]] around his ears, he goes insane, trying to chop Bond to little pieces [[AxCrazy using an axe]] while making sounds more appropriately shrieked by demonic monkeys. His fury gets the better of him when he ''axes himself in the foot''.
** In ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', Silva had kept his cool throughout the whole movie but once his plans had started to awry, he started to break down considerably. Especially after learning [[spoiler:M is mortally wounded.]]
** In ''Film/{{Spectre}}'': After being revealed as SPECTRE's MoleInCharge within the British government, [[spoiler:Max Denbigh/C]] tries one last time to break M by saying that he doesn't matter anymore and face it. After M says "Maybe I don't, but something has to," [[spoiler:Max]] abruptly starts fighting M over the gun.
* Vic Hoskins of ''Film/JurassicWorld''. The moment [[spoiler:Delta corners him in the lab and is just about to tear him to shreds]], the smug BloodKnight[=/=]SocialDarwinist head of security who spent the whole film preaching the virtues of war and struggle winds up ironically [[DirtyCoward pathetically begging for his life]].
** ''Indominus rex'' was already mentally questionable due to her captivity treatment, but you can see her begin to slip deeper into madness at the climax after [[spoiler:the raptors she turned to her side switch back to Owen, she gets clawed and bitten up by them as Owen blasts her with a shotgun, and then Rexie charges into battle]]. When [[spoiler:Blue comes racing in and prevents her from finishing off Rexie]], the final straw has landed and ''Indominus'' gives a massive roar of pure rage [[spoiler:before she's curb-stomped by Rexie, Blue, and the Mosasaurus]].
* In ''Film/KickAss'', Frank D'Amico gets so distressed by Big Daddy's disruption of his crimes that he starts using drugs again and kills a Kick-Ass impersonator in broad daylight. His Dragon is vocally distressed by it.
* The villain in ''Film/{{Kickboxer}} 3'' has a downright pitiful breakdown, as his empire falls apart around him and he is reduced to trying to hold onto a teen prostitution ring, acting as if he deserves something to start over with. His last words are a dull, "How could this happen?"
* Elle Driver from ''Film/KillBill'', very much the SmugSnake during the course of the two movies, has a pretty epic one of these after [[spoiler:the Bride snatches out her remaining eye and crushes it underfoot]] in Volume 2, reducing her to little more than a wailing, screaming and thrashing lunatic.
* In ''Film/BladeRunner'', Roy's DarkChick girlfriend Pris goes out in a screaming fit of rage very similar to Elle Driver. Roy himself has one when he meets Tyrell [[spoiler:and learns his mission was AllForNothing, that he is going to die soon and nothing can be done to extend his life. Ultimately {{Subverted|Trope}} because Roy calms down and gives one of the most poignant examples of VillainsDyingGrace ever put to film.]]
* ''Film/KingOfNewYork'':
** When Jimmy gets shot by Detective Gilley, he starts raving furiously and gloating about his previous murder of Detective Flanigan until Gilley has had enough and goes in for a CoupDeGrace.
** Frank becomes increasingly unhinged as his criminal empire starts collapsing around him, proceeding to murder cops in broad daylight and with multiple witnesses around, ranting at the police captain pursuing him about how everyone he killed had it coming, holding an innocent woman hostage, and finally [[spoiler:dying in the backseat of a taxi from a previously sustained gunshot wound while surrounded by cops gathered to arrest him.]]
%%* PresidentEvil Idi Amin in ''TheLastKingOfScotland''. Trying to track his Breakdowns can be... challenging.
* [[AxCrazy Dancer]] in ''The Lineup'' was always unhinged. But after his explanation to his boss that [[spoiler: the heroin he had attempted to smuggle was used by a little girl to powder a doll's face]] is met with scorn and disbelief, and a reply that [[YourDaysareNumbered his days are numbered]], he completely snaps. Killing his boss by [[RailingKill pushing him over a railing over an ice rink]] is only the start of it. Then as he and his accomplices and hostages are making their escape in the car, he offers that he and his partner shoot it out over the dispute, things going FromBadtoWorse with the police on their tail.
* ''Little Voice'' has an impressive one for abusive talent agent Ray Say (Creator/MichaelCaine). Throughout the film, he has pressured the painfully shy [[TheIngenue ingenue]] Laura "Little Voice" Hoff into a club singing career she doesn't want, all to make enough money to cover his debts to a couple of mobster types. He eventually browbeats her so much she's left almost catatonic, and upon checking on her, she suddenly begins insanely quoting Judy Garland movies at him and ultimately shoving him down a tall flight of stairs. Following this, he drives to the club where Laursa was due to perform that night, gets on stage, punches his equally-sleazy accomplice, club emcee Mr. Boo, in the face, steals the mic from him, and, without a word, launches into a crazed rendition of Music/RoyOrbison's "Over," seriously disturbing the club's patrons. Once the song is over, he equally silently resigns himself to an unknown-but-doubtless-unpleasant fate at the mobsters' hands.
* The current page illustration is from ''Film/{{M}}'', where TragicVillain Hans Beckert is arguing for his life before a KangarooCourt of underworld types, desperately trying to explain that he has a horrible compulsion to abduct and kill children.
* Joel Cairo (Creator/PeterLorre) in ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'', turning on Kaspar Gutman (Sidney Greenstreet) after finding out the eponymous statue is a worthless fake made of lead:
-->"You. It's you who bungled it. You and your stupid attempt to buy it! Kemedov found out how valuable it was. No ''wonder'' we had such an easy time stealing it, you...YOU IMBECILE! YOU BLOATED IDIOT! YOU STUPID FATHEAD! YOU..." (*collapses sobbing into a chair*)
** Gutman has a very subtle one himself: he only keeps stabbing the bird once and again, trying to find the gold and jewels below the lead. When it's obvious to everyone the falcon is false, he only collapses into a chair, like he is having a heart attack.
* ''Film/ManOfSteel'': General Zod undergoes one in the climax. [[spoiler: After the heroes bomb the Kryptonians back to the Phantom Zone, the only one left is Zod, who collapses to his knees in the rubble of Metropolis. He gives a brief, furious [[IDidWhatIHadToDo speech justifying his actions]] [[KnightTemplar in defense of his people]], and now [[DespairEventHorizon he has no people left]]. He then swears to destroy Earth and everyone on it out of retribution for what Superman has done.]] What follows is a city-spanning superhuman brawl between Superman and Zod, destroying several buildings in the process.
* Screwface, the BigBad of the Creator/StevenSeagal film ''Film/MarkedForDeath'' has one moment a little less than halfway in the movie where he loses it. He goes to sit down at a card game with his {{mooks}}, then notices one his men is missing and asks where he is. For a second or two after Screwface is told that Seagal's character John Hatcher killed that mook, he seems to take it calmly, then he start pounding on the table, turns it over, rips a leg off the frame and starts beating a mook who can't get out of the way fast enough with it. Then he screams that he wants Hatcher and Hatcher's whole family dead, and if they aren't up to it, ''he'll'' do it... then he'll kill all of them.
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'':
** [[Film/TheMatrix In the first movie]], Agent Smith's ability to actually ''hate'' humans sets him apart from his emotionless fellow Agents, and he starts losing his cool after Neo and Trinity rescue Morpheus. When Neo comes BackFromTheDead, he loses what composure he still had and charges at him in a fury.
** All this is then overshadowed by Smith's scenery-chewing, spit-spraying breakdown at the end of ''[[Film/TheMatrixRevolutions Revolutions]]''. When he sees that Neo won't stay down no matter how many skyscrapers he gets smashed through, he goes on a minute-plus rant about the [[StrawNihilist pointlessness of existence]] before demanding "Why, Mister Anderson, why, WHY DO YOU PERSIST?"
-->'''Neo:''' Because I choose to.\\
'''Smith:''' ''(attacks)''
** Compare his reaction when he finally sees that he's going to lose: a quiet "No, no, it's not fair."
* In ''Film/MeanGirls'' [[AlphaBitch Regina George]] has one when she realizes that Cady deliberately made her gain weight and another one when Janie Ian reveals to everyone how Cady had been trying to ruin her life.
%%* Deliberately exacerbated by Mameha to Hatsumomo in ''Film/MemoirsOfAGeisha''.
* In ''Film/MichaelClayton'', Karen freaks out the moment she's confronted by the presumed-dead Clayton (he escaped the car bomb she had her cronies plant), stammers and babbles her way through the conversation with him, and begins shaking when he reveals that she's been caught on tape. By the time she outright collapses to the floor as the cops close in on her, they're genuinely concerned that she needs medical care.
* In ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'', Ivan Ooze loses his composure after Scorpitron is destroyed by missiles from the Falconzord, [[BerserkButton becoming so angry that]] [[spoiler:he leaves himself no choice but to go OneWingedAngel by fusing with Hornitor]].
* At the end of ''Film/PowerRangers2017'', when Jason tells Rita that she's going back to Zordon to be judged for her actions. She flips out and attempts to attack the Megazord head on. [[spoiler:She's knocked into space for her troubles.]]
-->'''Rita Repulsa:''' Zordon? Judge ''me''? '''Never'''. No matter what Zordon says, I know... ''I AM WORTHY!''
* ''Film/{{Misery}}'': Annie has these frequently being so AxCrazy. Like after Paul supposedly burns the manuscript.
* The 1939 film ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington'' ends with a Villainous Breakdown. The secondary villain Senator Paine, previously conflicted but standing firm on staying on the side of evil, finally snaps when Jeff Smith collapses from the exhaustion of his ordeal. Senator Paine rushes out of the senate room, tries to shoot himself, and when that fails, he runs back into the senate room screaming the truth regarding the corruption that he is a part of, giving Smith the victory.
* In ''Literature/NoCountryForOldMen'', Anton Chigurh has a ''very'' subtle one in his encounter with the wife of Llewelyn Moss, who he promised to kill if Moss didn't get him the money. He decides to place her fate on a coin toss.
--> Chigurh: This is the best I can do. Call it.
--> Carla Jean: I knowed you was crazy when I saw you settin' there. I knowed exactly what was in store for me.
--> Chigurh: ''(smiling)'' Call it.
--> Carla Jean: No. I'm not gonna call it.
--> Chigurh: ''(smile fades)'' ...''Call it.''
--> Carla Jean: [[YouKeepTellingYourselfThat The coin don't have no say.]] [[PsychoForHire It's just YOU]].
* ''Film/{{Orphan}}'': After failing to seduce John, Esther runs to her room, removes everything she uses to pass herself off as a nine-year-old, while throwing a screaming fit and wrecking the room.
* [[Film/OsmosisJones Thrax]] has a subtle breakdown during his final confrontation with Osmosis. His normally slick dreadlocks fall out of place, his voice gets rougher, and his EvilLaugh gets creepier. It does escalate to a ThisCannotBe moment [[spoiler:just before he falls into a beaker of alcohol]].
* In ''Film/PainAndGain'' Daniel starts to lose it ''hard'' when they [[spoiler:kill their second target by accident]].
* ''Film/{{Pandorum}}'': goes crazy with this trope. It is revealed to the audience that [[spoiler:Gallo is the one responsible for the malicious mutants and nightmarish madness on the ship. At one point, Payton locks Gallo in an escape pod, and he cracks, screaming/yelling and threatening to carve Payton up. He escapes, and attacks Payton. Payton's own sanity is questioned in this fight when he also threatens to carve Gallo up. After the fight, it's revealed that Gallo and Payton are the same person, with Gallo being the manifestation of a breakdown Payton had before the movie plot started. And yes, this reveal makes Gallo (Which is his real name) evil.]] So, just to sum it all up: The villainous breakdown ''itself'' has a villainous breakdown while fighting the villain, who has a breakdown during that fight without even knowing he was the villain. [[spoiler:Later in the movie, Gallo has a calm voice and demeanor...until Bower says Gallo is suffering from pandorum, which results in nihilistic rants, trying to kill Nadia, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a not-so-calm voice.]] ]]
* Lord Cutler Beckett in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'' has an unusually calm breakdown when [[spoiler:his flagship is being torn apart between two legendary ships, and he can't even give the order to abandon ship. Instead, he just says "It's just... good business" and walks down the stairs to his doom]].
* In Tim Burton's ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'', the last we see of General Thade is him completely losing his sanity upon being trapped up inside a spaceship cell, reverting to a primal, screeching ape.
** Well, that's not the ''last'' we see of Thade . . .
* Norman Stansfield from ''Film/TheProfessional'', after Leon rescues Mathilda from the SWAT team, has a quite famous breakdown:
-->'''Stansfield:''' Benny...bring me everyone.
-->'''Benny:''' What do you mean everyone?
-->'''Stansfield:''' '''[[SuddenlyShouting EVE-RY-ONE!!!]]'''
* In ''Film/ThePurge'', the otherwise-unnamed "Polite Leader" of the Freaks has a big, demented smile on his face as he does his best to go through with the ritualized violence of the "Purge", and he struggles to maintain it as the Sandin family harbors the poor guy they wanted to hit and move on from... but when they fail to meet his deadline, which comes about halfway through the movie, his exterior slips and he drops the erudite politeness to yell indignantly that this isn't what he wanted, and that their victim ''exists'' to meet his need to "Purge" and this is all on them now and he hopes they're happy 'cause he warned them and now this is happening.
* Jackson Rippner in ''Film/RedEye'' loses his suave, intimidating demeanor just after [[spoiler:Lisa stabs him in the neck with a pen]].
* '' Film/ReservoirDogs'' have Nice Guy Eddie losing his temper when he found his best friend, Mr. Blonde, laying dead in the warehouse. His first action is to shoot Marvin Nash, who is a policeman tied up to a chair. And when [[spoiler:he gets involved in a MexicanStandoff between himself, his dad and Mr. White, he screams out to Mr. White to stop pointing the gun at his dad before getting killed.]]
** Mr. White, who is not a calm man to being with, suffers from one when [[spoiler:he finds out that Mr. Orange is working for the police all along right '''after''' he killed his boss and oldest friend, in defense of Orange himself.]]
* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' had a great one at the end of the film -- [[spoiler:Rotti Largo loses it in front of the entire audience at the Genetic Opera when Blind Mag defies him during her final song. He kills Mag -- all the while insisting to the audience that it's AllPartOfTheShow -- drags Nathan and Shilo on stage, and tries to force Shilo to kill Nathan. When she refuses, he kills Nathan himself. The stress of his breakdown causes him to finally succumb to his disease. His last actions (performed very deliriously and weakly) are to insult his betrayed children and insist to the audience that the world was lucky to ever have him.]]
* Towards the end of ''Film/ReturnToOz,'' the Nome King suffers a breakdown when Dorothy manages to finally beat him at his own game -- three times in a row: for every victory, the King loses both his temper and a little of the humanity he'd gained from the contest, gradually transforming from an AffablyEvil humanoid to a [[OneWingedAngel gigantic Earth Elemental]]. He even destroys his [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking pipe]] with a blast of magic, ends the contest in a tantrum, and goes on to destroy his entire palace in his attempt to kill Dorothy- [[spoiler: which would have been successful had Billina not laid an egg.]]
* ''Film/RockAndRule''. Mok has a spectacular breakdown when his climactic demon-summoning plan goes badly awry:
-->'''Mok:''' [[ThisCannotBe You can't do this to me!]] '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis I! AM! MOK!]]'''
--> "The magic of ''one voice''!...of ''one soul''!...But there ''is''...''NO...ONE!...''"
** It's also foreshadowed in his crazed rampage after Angel comprehensively spurns his advances...
--> '''Mok:''' ...she can ''sing'', or she can ''SCREAM''!!!...but she still pissed me off.
* Neville Sinclair in ''Film/TheRocketeer'' suffers this kind of breakdown when he is confronted with the information that he is in fact a Nazi spy. He first breaks down in this way when he catches Jenny reading up on it and kidnaps her for real (and not having to fake it anymore).
--> '''Jenny:''' ''(gasps)'' Oh, God, Neville Sinclair's a--
--> '''Neville:''' ''(about to take her hostage)'' A what? Spy? Saboteur? Fascist? All of the above.
** That's nothing compared to when Cliff manages to convince Eddie Valentine and his gang that Sinclair, their boss, is a Nazi, and they promptly [[MookFaceTurn turn their back on him]]. Sinclair responds with an AccentRelapse:
-->'''Neville:''' Come on, Eddie, I'm paying you well. Does it matter who I work for?
-->'''Eddie:''' It matters to me. I may not make an honest buck, but I'm 100% American. And I don't work for no two-bit Nazi. Let [Jenny] go.
-->'''Neville:''' ''(laughs, then [[SuddenlyShouting screaming ragingly]])'' [[GratuitousGerman STURMABTEILUNG! ANGREIFAN! LOS, LOS! ACHTUNG!]]
** On this, a group of heavily armed German commandos hidden in the bushes emerges and holds everyone at gunpoint.
* Tony Montana from ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}'' wasn't usually a calm guy to begin with, but after having everything come crashing down and losing his sister Gina during [[TheSiege the final assault on his mansion by Sosa's killers]], Tony goes utterly ballistic, taking up an M-16 with an M-203 grenade launcher with the now-famous cry of "Say hello to my little friend!" and going on a one-man cocaine-fueled rampage. He almost succeeds in taking every one of his attackers down.
* In ''Film/{{Scream 3}}'', when Sidney finally confronts [[spoiler: Roman Bridger the series instigator, during his MotiveRant about her life that [[ItsAllAboutMe he should have had]], [[ShutUpHannibal she tells him to stop whining]], that he's responsible for his own choices and simply wants an excuse to kill people. Roman snaps and a mutual NoHoldsBarredBeatdown ensues.]]
* The Operative in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' is unflappable for most of the story, going so far as to proclaim that Mal ''can't'' make him angry during their first confrontation at the Companion Training House. If you watch carefully, though, you can see the first pebbles of the rockslide earlier in the movie... until the climax where he [[OhCrap freaks out]].
-->(''[[CoolStarship Serenity]]'' is followed through the ion cloud by [[spoiler:a fleet of Reavers]])\\
'''Operative:''' ... target the [[spoiler:Reavers]]. Target the [[spoiler:Reavers]]! Target ''[[AllOfThem everyone]]''! ''SOMEBODY FIRE''!
* ''Film/ShadowOfTheVampire'' has its BadBoss and secondary villain Director F. W. Murnau breaking down under the stress of using Max Schreck, a real vampire, in his film production. Already considered somewhat eccentric due to his addiction to laudanum and his obsession with realistic film, Murnau cracks during the final day of shooting, after Schreck kills the cinematographer and the producer: rather than ranting and raving, however, he simply orders Schreck back into position in a somewhat CreepyMonotone and continues filming. Eventually the doors of the makeshift studio are opened, exposing the vampire to sunlight, killing him; as Scheck disintegrates, Murnau continues working the film camera, rambling insanely.
* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' has [[spoiler:warden Samuel Norton freaking out over Andy being missing from his prison cell. His rant doubles as FridgeBrilliance on the movie's part, as Norton's clearly [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection projecting]] his corrupt nature onto everyone else.]] This is a special case, because what the villain's freaking out over happens BEFORE [[spoiler:he gets exposed as a crook]], (and is somewhat mild in comparison) and likely before he has any reason to expect that to even happen.
* Professor Moriarty has an exceptionally subtle one towards the end of ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows''. While there's no ranting and raving involved, he develops a rather sinister facial twitch, visibly struggles to prevent his (usually terrifyingly composed) voice from shaking with fury, and resorts to using his fists on Holmes rather than continue their intellectual sparring match.
* The Violator has a minor one in the middle of the ''Film/{{Spawn}}'' movie. Upset that Malebolgia chose Spawn to lead the armies of the damned instead of him, Violator throws a hissy fit, whining that it isn't fair. He catches himself in the middle of his rant, realizing that his whining really isn't making him look any better in front of his boss. This growing frustration with this apparent snub, his own hatred of the Clown guise, and Spawn's constant refusal to cooperate eventually drives Violator to ditch all subtlety and just beat Spawn into submission with his true power.
* The BigBad of the [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard-on-a-bus]] film ''Film/{{Speed}}'' has two such breakdowns. The first is when he realizes that his bus-bomb has already exploded with nobody on it, and the second happens when his money is ruined by a dye pack.
* ''Film/SpeedRacer'': On the final lap of the Grand Prix...
--> '''Royalton:''' ''STOOOOOOOP HIIIIIIIM!!!!!!!''
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'': [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent]] tyrant Khan has had a few of these. The most notable one occurs between the original series episode [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries "Space Seed"]] and the beginning of the film, when an ApocalypseHow ruins his world and kills his wife. He has another when his two puppet-controlled assassins fail to kill Kirk. His last one is when his attempt to destroy the Enterprise in a Nebula fails. Strangely enough, Khan quickly regains his composure and goes back on the offensive in line with the Magnificent Bastard he is. But it's clear that his psyche is damaged by his constant need to dominate.
*** Khan's only true breakdown is when Chekov tries to claim that Khan was given a fair deal being exiled on Ceti Alpha Five which had since turned into a dead wasteland.
--->'''Chekov:''' You lie! On Ceti Alpha Five there was life! A fair chance --
--->'''Khan:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhu5V8VRxFU THIS IS CETI ALPHA FIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]
*** In the making of the movie, Ricardo Montalban who played Khan even commented that he wanted that scene to be Khan's one true breakdown moment where he blew his top rather than acting or speaking in a deliberate controlled fashion.
*** Khan's death is a minor-key version of this, as the clearly unhinged and critically injured Khan drags himself to the Genesis Device's control panel in a last-ditch bid to destroy the Enterprise by using the Genesis Device as a bomb and blowing up the entire area. Watching the Enterprise slowly limp out of the nebula, he loses the last of his sanity and begins quoting the FamousLastWords of [[Literature/MobyDick Captain Ahab]] during that character's ''own'' Villainous Breakdown.
--->'''Khan:''' (''softly'') Full impulse power.
--->'''[[TheDragon Joachim:]]''' No, sir! You have Genesis! You can have whatever you--
--->'''Khan:''' [[SuddenlyShouting Full POWERRRRR]]!!! - ''damn you!''
** ''Film/StarTrek2009''. Nero's ''"Fire everything!"'' when he realizes Spock is doing a suicide run. But Ayel also has one when we first see him, upon realising he's [[TimeTravel arrived 25 years too early]]. This is in contrast to Nero who commonly speaks very little or else says things like "Hello Christopher. I'm Nero."
*** He momentarily lapses into this when Pike tells him that Romulus (the one in the new timeline, though he doesn't know that) hasn't been destroyed. "'''DON'T TELL ME IT DIDN'T HAPPEN! IT ''DID HAPPEN!!'' I ''SAW'' IT HAPPEN!!'''
*** He also has a [[TheKhan Khan moment]] after he learns that Spock has just ruined his plan to [[spoiler:destroy Earth the way he earlier destroyed Spock's home planet]]. '''"SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!"'''
--->'''Nero:''' '''"I WANT SPOCK DEAD NOOOOW!"'''
** ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'':
*** Harrison freaks out [[spoiler:and tries to crash his ship into Starfleet Academy when Spock detonates the torpedoes inside the ''Vengeance'', ruining Khan's plans and leading him to believe that his people are dead]].
*** [[spoiler:Admiral Marcus goes on a tirade about how he's the only one willing to protect the Federation when Kirk tries to have him arrested. Then Khan kills him]].
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Governor Wilhuff Tarkin has a brief one in ''Film/ANewHope'' when he learns that Leia had lied to him about the present location of the Rebel base. In some versions, he even swears to wipe out every last star system in the sector if that's what he has to do to find the actual Rebel base. It's the one time in the entire film where he completely loses his cool.
** Emperor Palpatine in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' has a subtle one. When Luke refuses to give into his hatred and spares Vader, Palpatine is visibly shocked. After this, he simply drops the FauxAffablyEvil act and tells Luke "If you will not be turned, then you will be destroyed." For the first time in the entire saga, things have not followed his script and he is not pleased about it. It doesn't help that Palpatine is offering the one thing to Luke that he never really sought: power. Luke wants to defeat the Emperor, save his father, his friends, and free the galaxy, but he never wants power for its own sake the way Anakin did. The Emperor, having enjoyed absolute power for so long, simply can't fathom that any Force user would reject it.
** In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', Kylo Ren suffers multiple breakdowns. He destroys a console when he learns of BB-8's escape, but ultimately calms down. This fit has nothing on his response to [[spoiler:Rey freeing herself using a Jedi Mind Trick]], at first refusing to accept it and then proceeding to tear apart the entire room. For added hilarity a patrolling pair of Stormtroopers realizes what's going on and immediately turn around. Whatever sanity Ren managed to hold onto following this tantrum slips away after he [[spoiler:kills his father, Han Solo, and gets shot]]. Badly wounded and unmasked, he tails the heroes, screams at Finn, throws Rey against a tree and furiously beats the wound in his abdomen. The ensuing lightsaber battle is brutal, with Ren barely keeping it together and seeming to toy with his adversaries until Rey ultimately [[spoiler:gets the upper hand by channeling the Force.]]
** Kylo gets another one after he has a difficult day in ''Film/TheLastJedi''. The breakdown builds from the moment he [[spoiler: kills Snoke to assume control of the First Order,]] but he really loses it when he sees [[spoiler: Luke Skywalker standing between him and the Resistance base on Crait.]] He orders for "every gun we have to fire on [[spoiler: that man,]]" and lets them fire continuously for thirty seconds, screaming for: "MORE! MORE!" until he gets countermanded. [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]] He then tosses [[ButtMonkey Hux]] around demands to be brought down to the planet's surface, and things only get worse for him from there, as he flails his saber wildly and screams at [[spoiler: a preternaturally calm Luke]] some more. When Kylo realizes that [[spoiler: Luke isn't really there, just projecting himself from Ahch-To to let the Resistance escape,]] all he can do is let out a BigNo.
** General Hux has a brief one before the climax in ''Film/TheLastJedi''. When Vice Admiral Holdo starts powering up the hyperdrive of the cruiser she's on, he writes it off as a diversion, already firing on the Resistance transports that are trying to escape. [[OhCrap Then he realizes]] that the ship is [[RammingAlwaysWorks turning towards them]].
-->'''General Hux''': ''' ''FIRE ON THAT CRUISER!!!'' '''
* Luthor, in the ''{{Superman}} vs. Atom Man'' serial, undergoes a subtle breakdown in the final few chapters as Superman closes in. He doesn't go completely over the edge, but after maintaining a picture of composition for most of the story, his shadowed eyes and (delightfully) deranged demeanor make it clear that he is losing his grip.
* Zod has an early one in ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'', as his WeCanRuleTogether speech swiftly degenerates into deranged screaming about how Jor-El or his heir will kneel before him.
* In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'', Shredder goes into this when Splinter [[BigDamnHeroes shows up to confront him and save his sons]]. Where he easily mopped the floor with the Turtles, when Splinter shows up, he goes into a shaking rage that leads to his (first) death.
* In ''Film/TerrorInATexasTown'', Johnny Crale undergoes one after he encounters, for the first time in his life, a man who was unafraid to die.
* Both the Washizus have this happen to him in ''Film/ThroneOfBlood''. After being convinced by his wife to murder Lord Tsuzuki, the husband, Taketoki, becomes increasingly paranoid and starts seeing hallucinations, while the wife herself, Asaji, completely snaps and is last seen [[OutDamnedSpot trying to clean the stench of nonexistent blood off her hands]]. Being as ''Throne of Blood'' is essentially ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' [[RecycledInSpace WITH SAMURAI]], this was very much intentional.
* Cal of ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' on account of being such a {{Yandere}}. By the end of the scene, he's giggling when he realizes the irony of him losing the Heart of the Ocean.
* Though he's not exactly calm for the whole movie, the original ''[[Film/TotalRecall1990 Total Recall]]'''s antagonist Cohaagen is very mean to virtually everyone, even his right hand man Richter. The only ones he is ever nice to are his friend [[spoiler: Hauser (who had his memory erased to become the freedom fighter Doug Quaid)]] and his fish, whom he feeds while in the middle of chastising Richter. When it's clear that [[spoiler: Quaid won't let Cohaagen's men turn him back into Hauser]], and Cohaagen gives Richter the order to kill him as he is close to ruining Cohaagen's plans, Cohaagen knocks over his fish tank, killing the fish by suffocation.
--> [[spoiler: "but NOOOOO! You want to be Quaid!"]]
* The Duke Brothers in ''Film/TradingPlaces'' have a nice one after the heroes manipulate the [[strike:stock]] Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice market and cause them to lose everything. Randolph has a heart attack, and Mortimer abandons all pretense of civility, declaring [[PrecisionFStrike "Fuck him!"]] (re: his brother), and screaming for them to reopen trade and "turn those machines back on!"
* Happens toward the end of ''Film/TrainingDay'', when Alonzo Harris realizes that the neighborhood he used to run as a corrupt cop will no longer play along with his criminal enterprises after his partner Jake Hoyt subdues him in the middle of the street.
** The exact same ending happens in ''Pride and Glory''!
* Lockdown in ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction''. Most of the time, he is shown as calm, cold mercenary who only shows one emotion while hunting his target. After leaving earth to take his target Optimus Prime for his unseen client(s), he finds out that Prime escaped. He returns to earth, and destroys most of Hong Kong to get him back. In addition, during the final battle between him and Prime, he completely loses it after the humans start interfering.
* Clu in ''Film/TRONLegacy'' as he searches Flynn's abandoned home, reminding him how much he still loves his creator. His reaction to the flashback when he was first created is a defiant rage. And later when [[CallingTheOldManOut confronting Flynn]], he screamed at Flynn for breaking his promise and shouting "I did everything you asked!" When Flynn admits that perfection could never be achieved (and thus everything Clu had done was a lie), he simply lost it.
* In ''Film/TheFirm'', FBI's agent Wayne Tarrance goes full breakdown when Mitch's brother Ray escapes his surveillance.
--> '''Tarrance:''' And get me a map of Louisiana.
--> '''Tarrance:''' GET ME A MAP OF LOUISIANA!
* In ''Film/TheTrumanShow''
** When it looks like Truman's about to escape the island on a sail boat or die trying, previously unflappable director [[MeaningfulName Christof]] begins acting increasingly unhinged, culminating in a screamed order to "INCREASE THE WIND!" and capsize Truman's boat, regardless of the fact that Truman has tied himself to the sail and could drown as a result.
-->'''"How close are we?...Capsize him, tip him over...''SHUT UP!''...do it...''DO IT!''"'''
** He also has a much quieter breakdown after Truman [[spoiler:rebuffs his offer to stay.]] While it seems like a simple BSOD breakdown at first, look closely when his screen shuts off and you see him slump over, either dead or in shock.
* ''Film/UnderSiege'': Strannix goes completely insane after Krill is killed, including babbling about cartoon characters. Shell shock from the deck gun blasts probably contributes, but still.
* ''Film/UnderSiege2DarkTerritory'': Dane has a bit of a breakdown when the KillSat CD is stolen, but goes back to normal when he gets it back. Of course, he has another one once Ryback starts messing his plans up big time.
* In ''Film/{{United 93}}'', after several minutes of mounting tension, the al-Qaeda terrorists finally seem to realize that they are stuck in an enclosed space with 40+ people who know about the World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks and now have nothing to lose. Even after yelling and waving a knife at them, it becomes clear that the passengers don't give a shit anymore and are actively planning an attack from the back of the plane. And then the hijackers completely freak out when the enraged passengers storm towards the cockpit and start beating each of them to death.
-->'''Ahmed al-Nami:''' Open up! They've gone to the back of the plane! They're talking together!
-->'''Saeed al-Ghamdi:''' What are we going to do? If they're planning an attack...
-->'''Ziad Jarrah:''' Oh God! Oh God!
* When Alonzo learns about Nanon and Malabar getting together in ''Film/TheUnknown'', you can see in his eyes how torn apart he is.
* Al Capone in ''Film/TheUntouchables'':
** His rant about Ness:
-->"I want you to find this nancy-boy Eliot Ness, I want him DEAD! I want his family DEAD! I want his house burned to the GROUND! I wanna go there in the middle of the night and I wanna PISS ON HIS ASHES!"
** And his ending breakdown, when he's been convicted of tax fraud and his criminal empire is being dismantled, is a pretty significant one as well:
--->'''Eliot Ness''': Never stop. Never stop fighting until the fight is done.\\
'''Al Capone''': What? What'd you say?\\
'''Eliot Ness''': You heard, Capone. Here endeth the lesson. ''[Ness turns and calmly walks away]''\\
'''Al Capone''': Ah, you're nothin' but a lot of talk and a badge. ''[Ness pays him no attention; louder]'' You're nothin' but a lot of talk and a badge! ''[Psychotically]'' '''''You're nothing but a lot of talk and a badge!'''''
* ''Film/WallStreet'': Near the film's climax, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Gordon Gekko]] dumps his remaining interest in Bluestar Airlines, only to learn on the evening news that the shares have been picked up at a lower price by Sir Lawrence Wildman, who will become the airline's new majority shareholder. Realizing that his former protege Bud Fox engineered the entire scheme (after realizing that [[BrokenPedestal Gekko]] has cheated him out on the Bluestar deal), Gekko physically assaults Bud, berating his ingratitude for several of their illegal business transactions (including Bluestar). Also counts as a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech trope.
-->'''Gordon Gekko''': ''[smugly]'' Hiya, Buddy.\\
'''Bud Fox''': Gordon.
-->'''Gekko''': ''[still smug]'' You sandbagged me on Bluestar? I guess you think you taught the teacher a lesson, that the tail can wag the dog, huh? Well let me clue you in, pal. The ice is melting right underneath your feet. ''[abruptly punches Bud and grabs him by the collar]'' Did you think you could've gotten this far this fast with anybody else, huh? You think you'd be out there dicking someone like Darien? No. You'd be cold-calling widows and dentists trying to buy 20 shares of some fucking dog-shit stock. I took ''you'' in. ''[hits Fox a 2nd time]'' '''A NOBODY!''' ''[hits him again]'' I opened the doors for you. I showed you how the system works. The value of information, how to '''get it!''' Fulham Oil, Brant Resources, Geodynamics. And this is how you fucking ''pay me back,'' '''you cockroach!''' ''[Gekko hits him a 4th time, but the force of the hit knocks Bud into the ground.]'' '''''[[SuddenlyShouting I GAVE YOU DARIEN! I GAVE YOU YOUR MANHOOD, I GAVE YOU EVERYTHING!]]''''' ''[Gekko calms down, then tosses a handkerchief to Bud to clean off the blood on his lip.]'' You could have been one of the great ones, Buddy. I look at you, and I see myself. Why?\\
'''Bud''': ''[gets up]'' I don't know. I guess I realized ''I'm just Bud Fox''. ''[firmly]'' As much as I wanted to be Gordon Gekko, I'll ''always'' be Bud Fox. ''[Bud tosses back the handkerchief and walks away, leaving Gekko to ponder in thought.]''
* "Baby" Jane Hudson, of ''Film/WhatEverHappenedToBabyJane'', goes completely insane upon learning in the end that the accident which crippled her sister, Blanche, was in fact caused by Blanche herself in an attempt to kill Jane, and not Jane in an alcoholic bender, and launches into her old song and dance routine, despite being 40-50 years too old.
-->"You mean, all this time we coulda been ''friends''?"
* We already know James Cagney's character in ''Film/WhiteHeat'' is dangerously unpredictable, but he reaches new heights in the infamous prison cafeteria scene. Upon hearing of his mother's death, Cody Jarrett begins crying and screaming uncontrollably; he leaps up on the table and stumbles in panic toward the door, managing to knock no less than ''four'' guards unconscious before being subdued and carried out bodily, still sobbing at the top of his lungs.
** Cagney also offers up a more comedic version at the end of ''Literature/MisterRoberts'', with his petty tyrant of a ship captain coming unglued and ranting [[EngineeredPublicConfession over the intercom]].
* Judge Doom of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' is normally quite composed but when he gets run over by a steamroller and reveals himself as a toon, he goes completely and openly AxCrazy.
-->"Remember me, Eddie? When I ''killed your brother'', I talked ''JUST... ''LIKE''... '''''THIIIIIIS'''''!!''"
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Jason Stryker, twice in a row! First, when Magneto manages to briefly shut down Cerebro, proving immune to Jason's attempts at manipulating him in the process. Secondly, when Storm uses a blizzard to break his hold over Xavier once and for all. In both situations, Jason can only express his terror through his illusions.
*** Mostly downplayed in the first case, as all his reaction to Magneto being immune to his powers is an annoyed look to Erik's helmet. (Or maybe not, as he's not shown displaying any physical reactions until then and him actually expressing them speaks volumes.)
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': [[spoiler:Shingen Yashida, after Viper scarred him. He losses all composure and fights Wolverine like some berserker.]]
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Bolivar Trask has a mild one when Magneto commandeers his Sentinels. When President Nixon (rightly) asks him what the hell is going on when they open fire on the crowd, Trask irritably replies "I'll fix it!"
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': After the X-Men prevent Apocalypse from [[spoiler:possessing Xavier]], he becomes noticeably more unhinged and desperate. It only worsens after [[spoiler:Storm and Magneto betray him]].
* "Who cares about Derek {{Film/Zoolander}} anyway? The man has only one look for Christ's sake! Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigre? They're the ''same face!'' Doesn't anyone notice this?! ''[[OnlySaneMan I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!]]'' I invented the ''piano key necktie!'' I invented it! What have you done, Derek?! Nothing! ''You've got '''nothing! NOTHING!''''' And I will be a monkey's uncle if I have you ruin this for me! Because if you can't get the job done, then I will! (to the Prime Minister of Malaysia) DIE YOU WAGE-HANKING SCUM!"
--> '''Derek''': "[[BerserkButton ...One look? ...ONE LOOK?]] [[ShutUpHannibal I don't think so!]]"
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** ''Film/GoldenEye'': When [[spoiler:Alec Trevelyan]]/Janus explains how he plans to steal from the Bank of England and cover it up with an EMP blast from his KillSat [[spoiler:as part of his revenge against the British government for having his parents killed]], Bond quips that it still "boils down to petty theft," [[DisappointedByTheMotive and that he's nothing more than a "common thief"]], which does infuriate [[spoiler:Trevelyan]]. [[spoiler:Trevelyan's]] self-control finally dissolves when Bond manages to sabotage the KillSat to stop it from detonating over London.

%%* Norman Stansfield from ''Film/TheProfessional''.

** ''Film/GoldenEye'': When [[spoiler:Alec Trevelyan]]/Janus explains how he plans to steal from the Bank of England and cover it up with an EMP blast from his KillSat [[spoiler:as part of his revenge against the British government for having his parents killed]], Bond quips that it still "boils down to petty theft," [[DisgustedByTheMotive and that he's nothing more than a "common thief"]], which does infuriate [[spoiler:Trevelyan]]. [[spoiler:Trevelyan's]] self-control finally dissolves when Bond manages to sabotage the KillSat to stop it from detonating over London.

** While Max Zorin in ''Film/AViewToAKill'' was already an insane psychopath to begin with, he slowly loses his grip on sanity as the film progresses. [[spoiler:By the end of the movie, he's batshit AxCrazy to the point of wildly swinging a fire ax against Bond on top of the Golden Gate Bridge in the final fight after gleefully killing his henchmen left and right.]]

** ''Film/GoldenEye'': When [[spoiler:Alec Trevelyan]]/Janus explains how he plans to steal from the Bank of England and cover it up with an EMP blast from his KillSat [[spoiler:as part of his revenge against the British government for having his parents killed]], Bond quips that it still "boils down to petty theft", [[EvilCannotComprehendGood and that he's nothing more than a "common thief"]], which does infuriate [[spoiler:Trevelyan]].

** ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'': The only time Mr. Big really got mad was when he lambastes Solitaire for losing her powers.

* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' after acting calm and all smug, Ego starts to lose his composure after his son Peter slowly starts to gain the upper hand against him along with the fact that there is a bomb in his core that is strong enough to kill him. This culminates in the end when the bomb is only seconds away from exploding and Ego is reduced to desperately begging for his life and when Peter shuts him up, he begins to scream in terror before finally disintegrating within Peter's arms and the planet exploding away.

* In possibly the most [[PersonOfMassDestruction destuctive]] example in film history, Thanos in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar]], [[spoiler: after being reminded of Gamora’s death at his hands, ''[[HolyShitQuotient shatters a moon and throws it at the heroes fighting him,]]'']] all while wearing an expression of '''[[UnstoppableRage absolute fury.]]'''