Heroic BSOD/Video Games

Heroic BSOD - The one BSOD that's not Microsoft's fault. Usually.

"Merrill: (falls to her knees) I didn't want this. I never wanted this! Please, Creators, let this all be a bad dream. I'll wake up, and she'll scold me for being an idiot..."
 * In Final Fantasy IV the After Years an interesting blend of this and Villainous BSOD happens to poor After this, her control over him is broken, and he realizes precisely what it is he has done. He goes completely catatonic as a result.
 * Terra has one of these in Final Fantasy VI when she realises that . The player (along with the rest of her party) doesn't find this out until significantly later in the game, so the fact that she transforms, flies away, and becomes completely incoherent seems completely random when it first happens.
 * Terra also has another Terra eventually loses all her fighting spirit and is even nearly killed defending a group of orphans from a monster called Phunbaba until Sabin and Celes save her. When Phunbaba returns for a rematch and nearly kills her friends, the shock of this is enough to motivate her back into action...
 * Cyan, meanwhile, is introduced as a noble samurai... and then Kefka wipes out everyone in his home kingdom (including his wife and son). Cyan's first response? Charge into a nearby Imperial camp and challenge everyone present to battle. He manages to get a hold of himself, but if you revisit Doma in the World of Ruin, you'll have to engage in what amounts to hands-on psychotherapy.
 * If dies, then Celes winds up losing herself to despair and hurls herself off a cliff. Her suicide attempt fails and she wakes up to discover, which causes her to realize she isn't alone and leads her to search to reunite with the rest of the party.
 * In Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth convinces the hero Cloud.
 * Cloud is really, really good at these in general. He has a spectacular one after Aeris dies, blaming himself for another BSOD during her murder at the hands of Sephiroth. '...But I just let her die.'
 * The prequel Crisis Core gives poor Cloud yet another BSOD during.
 * Well, okay, it's more like
 * Really, it's more of an inversion of the BSOD -
 * Surprisingly, Sephiroth's current nature was implied to be the direct result of this.
 * Though his BSODs may pale in comparison to Cloud's, Vincent Valentine deserves a mention. He convinced himself that it was his fault for not protecting his beloved one, Lucrecia. So he lay in a coffin. For three decades.
 * In the original game, Barrett has a good one in Midgar when one of the city's upper plates crashes into the slums bellow killing his friends and, seemingly, his  daughter Marlene. All he could do is scream and shoot into the rubble.
 * Final Fantasy VIII has Squall suffer an interesting version of it beginning with the third disc. Up until then, he'd been the taciturn and reluctant hero, doing what he'd thought everyone wanted him to do as a good soldier. Then
 * The end sequence of FFVIII also involves a more standard version when Squall tries and fails to make it out of Time Compression using The Power of Friendship, getting stranded alone outside of time and having an epic Heroic BSOD complete with hallucinations.
 * Final Fantasy IX. After her mother's death (suffered whilst trying to kill her, after finding out that she never loved her and just wanted her powers) closely followed by her witnessing the epic destruction of her new kingdom on the eve of her coronation, Garnet/Dagger spends a good chunk of the later game completely catatonic, unable to talk and just dragged around by her comrades. Oddly enough, she could still join you in battle, though her hit chance went right down, and occasionally, she just gave up, with the notice "Garnet can't concentrate".
 * Well, she doesn't become catatonic until  You can hardly blame Garnet for developing post-traumatic stress disorder after a trauma like that.
 * Also, during her death scene, Brahne apologizes for it and claims that she did it out of overwhelming (and recently realized) greed, not that she never loved Garnet in the first place.
 * Another prime case of Heroic BSOD occurs near the end of the game to Zidane. After finding out his true origins and the morbid purpose of his existence he goes temporarily insane, turning into a raging, foul-mouthed misanthrope who attacks everything in his path both verbally and physically.
 * He was having his soul sucked out by his creator. It'd put you in a foul mood. Before Garland did the soul drain, Zidane was shocked about his origins, but he immediately turned against his maker, on the grounds that his true place was with his friends; when the party finds him after the fact, he's slumped in a chair and when he walks, its at a slow stumbling gait.
 * In Final Fantasy X Auron has a rather spectacular one when he finds out that
 * Tidus also has a major BSOD when Rikku and the Al Bhed tell him, Valefor comforting him is probably one of the most touching scenes in the game.
 * Though not to the same degree as the other two, Tidus has another one earlier in the game when Auron reveals to him that Jecht, Tidus's father who he had believed to have died ten years earlier, is not only alive, but is the Big Bad that the party is on a mission to kill. This is made especially clear when you compare Tidus's extremely depressed mood during his interaction with Yuna in the subsequent cutscene to the much more cheerful mood he had shown during all his previous interactions with her up to that point.
 * Yuna gets a brief one of her own (combined with a very healthy dose of Oh Crap that she shares with the rest of the party and first time players) during the Operation Mi-ihen cutscene. She obviously knew well before this that Sin's destructive power was unmatched by anything else in Spira, but this was the first time that she had actually witnessed the full extent of it firsthand.
 * In Final Fantasy XII, Larsa has a brief one when Al-Cid reveals that
 * In Final Fantasy XIII, the Idiot Hero Snow has one of these when he learns that Hope, whom he previously though to be just an innocent Tagalong Kid, is actually son of the woman whom he let plummet to her death in the prologue and whose death has been gnawing at his conscience ever since. Not only that, but Hope actively hates his guts and really, really wants him dead (their previous lack of understanding is not helped any by Hope's inability to just spit it out and Snow living in his private happy-go-lucky world most of the time).
 * This occurs to Kratos from God of War after he . He spends all of the first and second games in a constantly enraged state and on the brink of madness (although he may have had this personality even before his Heroic BSOD.
 * He has another one on II, during a Boss Battle, after He's so pissed off and distraught, shouting challenges to the gods and lamenting his fate that he completely ignores the giant monstrous Kraken climbing up the tower until it actually grabs him.
 * Even before that in Chains of Olympus when he discovers the harsh truth that . Not being allowed even some redemption at the end of GOW 1 (which takes place a few years later and he has nightmares every night ever since) drives him to attempt  . He is not even allowed that.
 * In Fire Emblem, the  bard Nils suffers a Heroic BSOD  . He snaps out of it and returns two stages later.
 * Eliwood himself suffers one earlier on in the game, after.
 * Averted in Path of Radiance. After, Ike seems afflicted with Heroic BSOD which manifests itself as insomnia. However, aside from appearing more tired than usual, the other characters do not notice. It doesn't affect his performance on the battlefield either.  A Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
 * Ike went through something similar, but more severe, when he learned about his mother's death. At least, his insomnia that night was more obvious.
 * Ephraim and Eirika both also suffer a minor one when . L'Arachel and Tana, depending on who's route you took, manage to snap them out of it by the next chapter.
 * Happens to the main character in Shadow Hearts 3, when he's . Effectively, it unleashes a Super-Powered Evil Side, and he nearly ends up killing his friends before being brought to his senses.
 * Suikoden likes to invoke this trope, usually when plotline death occurs. Examples below:
 * Suikoden I suggests this as the hero's reaction to.
 * Slightly subverted in Suikoden II to the little girl Pilika, whom after watching her parents Polk get murdered in front of her by Luca Blight, is emotionally scarred and mute for the majority of the game. She eventually regains her speech when
 * shuts down the war temporarily so the hero can recover.
 * Suikoden III manages to have this happen with assumed antagonist, Sasarai, when
 * Hugo when.
 * gets one in the best ending of Dead Rising when he sees . He's so out of it that he doesn't notice.
 * Looked to me like he was completely aware of the horde of zombies behind him... he just didn't care anymore. Made the ending a lot better in my eyes, especially in a somewhat story-light game.
 * Except that isn't the.
 * Then he has another one.
 * Chuck has one in the worst ending for Dead Rising 2:
 * Kyosuke Nanbu in Super Robot Wars Original Generation Gaiden suffers this. Just when he thought he saved his Robot Girl companion Lamia Loveless, he got a bit distracted and that caused a cheap shot to get fired at him and promptly lose her, leading him to think that it's his fault she's dead. Heroic BSOD occurs for about 10 minutes, after the said killer was taken care of, and he vanished from the player's control for several missions. Shortly after he came back in action (or get controlled by the player again), he found out that Lamia is Not Quite Dead and Brainwashed and Crazy. Another Heroic BSOD occurs in Kyosuke for about 10 minutes again after the battle concludes. And in their next encounter, Kyosuke was about to suffer another Heroic BSOD recalling his failure to protect her, until his rival turned good Axel Almer proved otherwise and completely saved her. From thereafter, Kyosuke no longer suffers casual Heroic BSODs, but it's kinda worth noting that in one game he suffers this trope THREE TIMES.
 * Calvina Coulange from Super Robot Wars Judgment suffers this in the early portion of the game, though this is justified that she hasn't been piloting for years and fears her skills have deteriorated so it doesn't ensure survival for the imminent battle.
 * Ryusei in Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 takes it very literally when Hazal destroyed his SRX and seemingly killed Aya. Took about a Time Skip (just several months) and several missions to get him back to fighting state. And since this hasn't happened in the OG Universe... He may get one later.
 * Kazuma Ardygun in Super Robot Wars W has one when Blessfield is . A six-month timeskip later, his family finds him working with the Serpent Tail, seemingly amnesiac under the name of Kite.
 * In Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works when Shirou falls on the floor after seeing a vision of his future self as Archer impaled by swords on a hill of swords. Subverted when Shirou still fights back against Archer.
 * Flint from Mother 3 gets one
 * He gets another near the end of the game,
 * The PC for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness has one when
 * The rival in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (and Platinum) has one after.
 * In Pokémon Black and White, Motor Mouth  goes from grudgingly admitting your victory and that his goals were faulty, to utter, broken silence, when  . He recovers a little after , but then flees because he can't stand to face you after that.
 * Laharl from Disgaea Hour of Darkness suffers his Afterwards, depending on what ending the player got, either,  or, finally,
 * Also happens to Adell in the Bad Ending of Disgaea 2 Cursed Memories after he . This being the Bad Ending, of course, things immediately go from bad to worse as it jumps right into a big bloody pool of Nightmare Fuel.
 * Lloyd Irving of Tales of Symphonia does this when
 * Doesn't Emil's realization from the sequel that  count?
 * Fellow Idiot Hero and Tales (series) protagonist, Luke fon Fabre of Tales of the Abyss, also has an epic one when, after the first part of the game, he begins to realize the gravity of what he's done: He comes out of the BSOD with wide eyes and new resolution, deciding that he'll do whatever it takes to become a better person. Indeed, throughout the rest of the game he completes his transformation from Jerkass to The Messiah. And it's great.
 * Mitsuru Kirijo, in Persona 3 gets this when
 * Everybody in the party kind of emotionally checks out for a couple of weeks in December after the revelation . They manage to rally themselves out of it in time for Christmas.
 * Happens to everyone in Persona 4 if
 * Sera in Digital Devil Saga 2 gets one of these when she
 * Jade from Beyond Good and Evil has one of these. Said soliloquy was so impressive that they even included it on the official OST album under the trackname "Enfants Disparus".
 * Adrienne Delaney of the Sierra game Phantasmagoria is a shining example of this trope at game's end, walking away from her former home with an utterly blank expression on her face. Of course, by that point  So yeah, it's easy to see why she'd be so messed up...
 * drives into one in The World Ends With You. The next day,
 * The games end, where Neku
 * Alien Syndrome had an early case of the Heroic BSOD when Aileen was searching for survivors on the Kronos, despite finding the survivors, they have all turned mad and tried to kill her (without much success) and when she got back, she entered a stage of Heroic BSOD before getting the pieces together in order to find her boyfriend. Needless to say, she hears of the fateful log where her boyfriend suffers something akin to Prey's second boss later on. It only gets worse as she learns of her roots and how the alien queen is really an young girl who is the sole sentient survivor of her people and she wants to die so she can finally rest in piece.
 * Wonderfully averted in Riviera the Promised Land after Ein's memory block is released and he remembers that he's a Grim Angel who is supposed to destroy the world: instead of angsting about it, he immediately vows to find a better way to defeat the demons, because the Sprites really aren't so bad.
 * Jude from Wild Arms 4 has one after . He snaps out of it after his teammates convince him to keep going and.
 * Lan Hikari has one of these in Mega Man Battle Network 3. Lan has just . Lan misses school for about three days, even lashing out at Mayl and Yai, and it takes Chaud asking for his help after an "I didn't hear anything" to bring him out.
 * It takes three games, but Geo, the protagonist of Mega Man Star Force, finally gets one in the third game when Just to rub it in, the villain immediately goes on to the Evil Laugh.
 * Geo was having BSODs waaaay before that. In the first game he had a BSOD for 3 years or so when his dad went missing. Then he has ANOTHER one when . And then ANOTHER one in the second game when he only manages to save just one of his friends from falling in a non-lethal hole of doom. Also, in the same game, ANOTHER one when . Geo's the king of this trope, no kidding.
 * In the course of fighting off an alien invasion, Iji is shaken by the death of her father and sister, and she suffers a Heroic BSOD  Also note that failing is very probable in the first playthrough unless you've read about it in advance.
 * Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Soulstorm.
 * It happens in any situation an Ethereal dies. And the commander didn't live, he joined the Ethereal in death
 * Another case is from the earlier Dark Crusade, when the objective in the Tau stronghold is to kill the Ethereal Aun'El. As Aun'El falls whispering "All is lost... all is lost...", a crisis commander begins to freak out before Shas'O Kais, barely keeping things together, announces "Fall back, now! All forces, fall back. Evacuate the city. We will return Aun'El to T'au for burial. There is nothing left for us here..."
 * Worth noting that about half the planet's population consists of Tau when they evacuate...
 * Link partially suffers one, collasping to his knees and breathing heavily, in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, after he learns.
 * By Episode 3 of Phantasy Star Universe, Laia Martinez has gone through one after a series of events near the end of Episode 2. First . Then   The fact that the GUARDIANS   doesn't help. In the first chapter of Ep. 3, it's revealed that Laia had   She gets better.
 * Oersted (Orsted in the first translation patch) from Live a Live has one following The Reveal. It doesn't end well.
 * Call of Duty: World at War, Sgt. Roebuck suffers this in the last American mission, when Pvt. Polonsky dies from a Japanese fake surrender ambush and they're forced to take on a massive wave of enemy forces.
 * Silent Hill 2 has James do at least 3 (maybe 4) of these:.
 * Let's not beat around the bush,
 * Mio in Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, right at the end of the game in the Bittersweet Ending. And this is the canon ending!
 * Will has one in Advance Wars Days of Ruin  He snaps out of it when Isabella tells him that his happiness is her happiness. He then goes on to
 * Isabella has one
 * Zero from Mega Man X 4 gets an exceedingly narmtastic heroic BSOD after being forced to kill his girlfriend Iris. See it in all its glory here. He continues to Wangst about it.
 * His BSOD is portrayed much, much better and much more seriously with the original Japanese voice-acting, so it is not so "narmtastic" after all
 * Kingdom Hearts II. When Sora learns that his killing Heartless is exactly what the Organization wants him to do. He recovers really quickly, after a pep talk from Goofy, which basically boils down to "The Heartless still need to be stopped, because they hurt people."
 * And a less plot-relevant example is given to Hercules when he finds out that Olympus Coliseum was utterly demolished by the Hydra that he didn't quite kill in his hurry to save his girlfriend. You would think he suffered enough in the movie.
 * Mickey, Donald Duck, and Sora all slip into a shared one in when Goofy is seemingly killed. It only lasts a few seconds before all three of them quickly transition into Unstoppable Rage. After they finish ruthlessly slaughtering every last Heartless and Nobody in the immediate vicinity, Goofy catches up to them and reveals that he was not dead, only knocked unconscious.
 * Mickey Mouse has one in the ending of Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep over his failure to save any of the protagonists from their fates worse than death. Master Yen Sid rouses him out of it fairly quickly, although there are some hints that it still haunted him years later in the original Kingdom Hearts, just not cripplingly.
 * Shiki in Tsukihime when Arcueid disappears. Throughout the day he's in a state of total shock and numbness, merely going through the motions at school. He's only at school because it was less effort than dealing with Akiha if didn't. He gets better when
 * In Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty, Raiden quite understandably
 * Also happens to in MGS2, after
 * Solid Snake constantly wrestles against the BSOD throughout the series, suffering a literal barrage of conspiracies and mindbenders that could be named by the entire Gambit Index right to the bitter end. Yet somehow, Snake generally manages to keep it together and not crash (though he comes pretty damn close at times in four, when he's obviously reached his limit.). A true blue soldier he is!
 * Although...between Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake (second game) and Metal Gear Solid it's said that a certain event shook him up a bit to the point he disappeared into Alaska for a while. This may be an off screen slight BSOD he suffered. Said incident was in fact learning that Big Boss was his father minutes before Snake killed him in a particularly horrific way. Evidently, this disillusioned him so heavily that he couldn't deal with people anymore.
 * Snake can have an on-screen BSOD in Guns of the Patriots; kill around fifty enemies (kill, not just knock out) and he'll have a flashback to his brother Liquid accusing him of enjoying all the killing he does before vomiting right then and there.
 * At the end of Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater,
 * Big Boss's Heroic BSOD was also implied to have worsened quite a bit in Peace Walker, as he was starting to sweat profusely when hearing people or refer to him as Jack, as well as experience flashbacks to Operation Snake Eater. It's likely that Gene's revelation in Portable Ops may have affected him a lot more than in Metal Gear Solid 3.
 * Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots relies heavily on this. With the Sons of the Patriot system, soldiers no longer experience fear or pain and are able to keep fighting effectively for much longer. But when the system is shut down, the emotion suppression immediately ends and everything comes crashing down on the soldiers, who never had to deal with their past or recieved any kind of counseling at all, sending every single one of them into a massive BSOD.
 * Steve Burnside in Resident Evil Code: Veronica gets a short one when he discovers that his father has been zombified, and he becomes unable to "kill" it. Only when Claire is threatened by the zombie does he finally turn his submachine guns on it, proceeding to drain his entire supply of bullets into the corpse, and his fingers remain locked into the triggers despite the clicking from the drained guns.
 * Edge Maverick from Star Ocean the Last Hope gets a BSOD after . While this is an understandable case of BSOD, it has received fan criticism for the shear length and overreaction of his BSOD, refusing to even speak for the subsequent chapter of the game, despite being the main character.
 * In La-Mulana, YOU, that's right, YOU, after discovering the.
 * Much of the entertainment value of the Let's Play videos of I Wanna Be the Guy comes from watching the LP'ers experiencing heroic BSOD's.
 * One particular epic heroic BSOD comes from a user who had a complete mental breakdown after MANY failed attempts to kill Mecha Birdo. In fact, he uploaded the attempted fights as a completely separate video in the LP he was doing of the game just to show how crazy he had went.
 * In the same vein, pokecapn has a major one during the five-part finale of the Sonic 2006 Let's Play. What follows is the most painful silence imaginable.
 * Ratchet gets one during the first Ratchet and Clank 2002 game after  At this point, the only thing keeping him from dumping Clank and packing it all in is a need for mutual cooperation.
 * In Mass Effect, Wrex's race, the Krogan are dying out due to a specially designed bioweapon used on them during a Krogan Uprising. On Virmire, he learns that on the base you intend to blow up Saren is developing a cure. He storms off; you either have to convince him that extinction would be preferable to his race being the indoctrinated servants of Seran, or you have to kill him.
 * Shepard has one too,
 * Mordin in Mass Effect 2. During loyalty mission, learns that student conducting live experiments and torture. Trying to figure cure Genophage, Mordin's greatest work... Clearly sad. Over it quickly. Salarians deal with emotions faster. Shorter life cycles.
 * Joker gets one of this after  and chews Shepard out for what happened there before quickly calming down.
 * Some of your squadmates in Mass Effect 2 if you fail their loyalty mission. Tali, Thane and Samara will be brooding for the rest of the mission if you for some reason fail their loyalty
 * Shepard is on the edge of one for ALL of Mass Effect 3, as the decisions that s/he's forced to make in the Reaper War and all the people who have died in the fight against the Reapers takes it's physical and mental toll on him/her. This is most evident after
 * Cosette suffers a heroic bsod when she gets her first true taste of warplace casualties as she could not tend to the dying due to her hematophobia in effect. She basically is frozen in complete terror when she saw the wounded and dying.
 * Happens to Holmes himself in Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack The Ripper, when he sees Mary Jane Kelly's dead body. He doesn't actually pass out, but is so shaken that Watson has to shepherd him home. Justified, as the last of the Whitechapel murders was by far the most gruesome and perverse of the killings.
 * In the game Nightmare Before Christmas Oogies Revenge if you do not succeed in the chapter Saving Sandy, Jack will limply fall to his hands and knees followed by the death screen. Meaning the shock killed him or Jack was too tramitized to defend himself and was killed by Oogie because of it.
 * Ellis from Left 4 Dead will go silent if a teammate dies, and refuses to talk until they are revived. This is in sharp contrast with his otherwise chatty nature.
 * Supposedly, this is due to a bug. At least, that's what TV Tropes said.
 * In Planescape: Torment, a good-aligned Nameless One will, throughout his journey, hear and learn of the actions of one of his past selves, the Practical Incarnation. As he learns more and more of the Incarnation's various atrocities, he is clearly disturbed. This ultimately reaches a head when he recalls how . The sheer horror at what he once was and what he did causes the Nameless One to break down, complete with Tears of Blood.
 * Somewhat surprisingly, Garrosh Hellscream in Cataclysm. The short version:
 * Jaina Proudmoore at Icecrown Citadel. is quite traumatic.
 * In Metroid: Other M, Samus spends a good portion of the game struggling to come to terms with At one point,  It's made perfectly clear that this encounter is not helping her.
 * Soma Cruz experiences a Heroic BSOD in Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow when he witnesses, provided he's not holding Mina's Talisman when it occurs. This causes   This acts as one of the game's Multiple Endings.
 * Capell from Infinite Undiscovery has one when he sees  He starts resenting
 * Phoenix Wright has one in the final case of the second Ace Attorney game when he finds out that Maya has been kidnapped by in exchange for a Not Guilty verdict for Matt Engarde. He basically spends the entire case desperately trying to obtain said verdict at any cost, even when he knows that his client is guilty as sin. It takes  reminding him of his duty as a defense attorney to snap him out of it.
 * Notably, he's unable to tell anyone about the circumstances he's in, which results in the court audience angrily shouting that he's a scumbag as his tactics become ever more desperate. When he finds himself backed into a hole, he experiences his only Freak-Out in the series, in a creepily similar manner to the Villainous Breakdown his opponents usually suffer from. And no one knows why.
 * Judging by this cinematic from Star Craft 2, Kerrigan's last act as a human is to have one, after realising that her allies have abandoned her and she has no ammo or energy. Then she sees a swarm of Zerg coming towards her.
 * The nameless marine in the Brood War opening cinematic has one as he sees the UED Battlecruiser pull away, leaving him to die at the hands of the zerg.
 * One of the girls of Tokimeki Memorial 2, Kaori Yae, starts the game in the middle of one. Once a Genki Girl, she has been, and as a result, she has lost confidence in both herself and the others, has shut herself off from everyone in fear of being hurt again, and is in a depressive state. It'll take the player   patient care and love to finally give her the courage to confess her past and allow her to recover from her emotional wounds..
 * As a common trope in the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, this is incorporated into games based on his works, such as the PC/console game Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, and the iPhone game Necronomicon. Co C:D Cot E emphasizes this with a system that causes a player to lose physical control of a character whose sanity dips too low. Hallucinations are an early warning sign.
 * Much of the challenge of the videogame adaptation of The Thing is in keeping NPCs from falling into this, in the face of both horrifying events and rampant paranoia. If they snap, they may start firing on friendly characters (including the player); and it may trigger a transformation if they are already infected.
 * There is a point in Dragon Age II where Hawke The following two scenes with  and Hawke's love interest respectively depict Hawke completely shut off from reality.
 * If Bethany is still alive and Hawke sides with the Templars, after
 * At the conclusion of Merrill's final Companion Quest "A New Path", Merrill goes through one . She collapses to her knees and begs her gods to let this all just be a terrible dream.


 * In Dragon Age: Origins, Alistair has one after the battle at Ostagar that lasts until you reach Lothering.
 * In the ending of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, present-day protagonist Desmond Miles was possessed upon touching the Apple of Eden and, after which he BSODs so hard that he went into shock, and despite being put back into the Animus in an attempt to keep his mind busy he ended up going into a coma, which he remains in as of Assassin's Creed: Revelations.
 * If one starts the da Vinci Disappearance DLC after after one has already cleared the game's memory Sequences as opposed to before that, the opening dialogue changes to reflect the above BSOD, although either way the ending dialogue is set after the BSOD.
 * In Rosenkreuzstilette, Tia gets this when.
 * Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon has the Player-Cheracter go through one extremely late-game when  The PC is so shocked by this that he is unable to speak for the rest of the game, and as a result the player can no longer use the escape-spell Egress.
 * In Heavy Rain, many of the parents who lost children to the Origami Killer are suffering from this, in particular Lauren, who seems to have fallen into a pit of despair and remains genuinely stoic throughout the entire game.
 * In one of the worst endings, commits suicide after learning of   death.
 * In Baten Kaitos Origins, the Heart-to-Heart scene is Sagi going through a brief one after learning.
 * Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai:
 * Wanko after, thus having to.
 * Miyako when Yamato decides to  In both this and the above example Cooldown Hugs are eventually involved.
 * In the anime, Momoyo in episode 8 when.
 * In Asura's Wrath, Asura experiences this in the aftermath of  Of course, this being Asura, when he hits his BSOD, he defaults to one state. And his wrath is awe-inspiring to behold.