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** [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/05/22/e3-05-dream-analysis/ One guest strip] had Black Mage push her over the edge with one too many pickup lines, whereupon she began chasing him with a chainsaw.

** A better example would be Fighter, the nicest, friendliest, [[The Ditz|ditziest]] character in the comic who has a very potent [[Berserk Button]] whenever his friends, especially Black Mage, are threatened. He went into an [[Unstoppable Rage]] when Black Mage was killed, fought a ''fire demon'' to a standstill after she {{spoiler|killed Black Belt}}, and [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/12/11/episode-930-turnabout/ this comic].

** Thief and Red Mage better watch themselves... they [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2008/06/28/episode-1010-nightmare-fuel/ almost made that mistake again].

'''Thief''': Okay, good thing we're all on the same page then! }}

** While he is in no way [[Jerkass|a nice one]], a case can be made for {{spoiler|Sarda}} given that {{spoiler|he used to be the Onion Kid whose life Black Mage repeatedly ruined and seeks revenge against the Light Warriors for doing nothing to stop Black Mage.}}

** To not quite as potent an extent, Elliot. He's extremely nice and by default helpful. Of course, mocking Tedd or any of his friends changes things.

** And now, we learn, Noah. Not only do his [[Viewer Gender Confusion|girly looks]] hide inhuman strength and speed, but his [[Spock Speak|particular speech patterns]] are a deliberate focusing mechanism to keep control of an otherwise short temper.

* Rikk, the leader of the Science Fiction Club in ''[[Fans]]!'', is as nice, gentle and forgiving a man as you're ever likely to meet. However, during a storyline in ''[[Fans]]!'' which sees a bitter ex-boyfriend of Alisin's blackmail her into joining him, while simultaneously attempting to destroy the fan-club and replace it with a [[Darker and Edgier|new, darker version]] - Rikk is finally pushed too far, and beats the ex-boyfriend to a pulp before someone stops him from going too far.

** Ping from the same comic could be an example, as well. She's normally sweet, cute and caring, but get her angry and she proves to have the strength to uproot a street lamp and use it to beat a [[Kaiju|giant monster]] into submission.

*** "[http://megatokyo.com/strip/376 That was very rude,] [http://megatokyo.com/strip/378 Mr. Turtle!]"

* Nice people in the [[Walkyverse]] usually get this. Joyce is a prime example. So is Walky himself, for that matter. Not to mention Amber... this list could go on for a bit.

* Lemmy in ''Fanboys'' is a genuinely nice guy, but woe be unto anybody that says Nintendo is a kiddy system.

** An impact to the head can do it. When running from a crazed feral crab in the [[Beach Episode]], he crashes headfirst into a sign, which triggers the aforementioned Angry Clown Mode, allowing him to handily demolish his tormentor.

* Sam has a moment of this when blackmailing a ninja in this [http://samandfuzzy.com/963 this] [[Sam and Fuzzy]] strip.

* [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1108 Surprisingly], Hannelore, ''[[Questionable Content]]'''s resident [[Woobie]]. Not to mention her [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1171 dreams].

** For that matter, Dan. While normally a nice guy with a vague career of adventuring behind him, [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_971.php recent events] [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_972.php have] [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_973.php shown] just how [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_974.php dangerous] he really is after being pushed over the edge. It's [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_981.php not pretty].

** It's not as explicit now that element of her character seems to have been [[Early Installment Weirdness|phased out]], but Lorenda Soulstealer used to eat people who annoyed her, and she still acts enough like a demon to terrorize a group of papparazzis into leaving Jyrras alone even after he gets declared "This Year's Most Eligible Bachelor". Otherwise, though, she's a cheery, good-natured cow whose [[Fat and Proud|not offended in the slightest by comments on her chubbiness]].

* Elan in most of ''[[Order of the Stick]]''; naive, sweet-natured but [[The Ditz|ditzy]] [[Cloudcuckoolander]]. Elan in strip # [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0594.html 594], after [[Smug Snake]] Kubota poisons his lackey Therkla (who was in the midst of a [[Heel Face Turn]]) and she [[Died in Your Arms Tonight|dies in Elan's arms]]; [[Unstoppable Rage]]-driven [[Badass]]. It's only Kubota's swift-but-slimy opportunism that prevents him from getting a severely lethal ass-kicking at Elan's hands, and even then he still gets a black eye for his trouble.

** Black Eye? That's a black eye to you? He got {{spoiler|reduced to dust by V}}.

* Quentyn of ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'' gets his sword stolen, and in the course of retrieving it gets arrested multiple times, mugged, shot at, dropped through a roof, stripped naked in front of a crowd of toffs (and his childhood crush), and then violently beaten and tossed in a dumpster. He promptly girds up his loins and proceeds to utterly wreck not one, but TWO street gangs singlehandedly and literally pull an entire building down around their ears... and would have REALLY torn them a new one had the city guard not intervened.

* Plant Woman. It's one thing if you've only built *two* machines of death and destruction. The first law of robotics is thrown out the window completely when you announce the third.

* Calvin/Freckle from ''[[Lackadaisy Cats]]''. Shy, scared, and gullible, but put him in a life-or-death situation and [http://www.lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=49 give him a gun]...

** And Ivy too, [http://www.lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=84 as Rocky soon found out].

* Just about every one of ''"[[The Dragon Doctors]]"'' qualifies for this. Goofball wizard Sarin has a dark criminal past and has immense transformational powers when pressed. Kili the sweet and sensitive shaman can transform into a snarling werewolf due to her recent contraction of lycanthropy. Even their mostly-quiet leader Mori, a [[Magitek|magical scientist]], has combat options, and has invented a magic beam that can [[The Nudifier|blow your clothes and weapons away.]]

** Don't make {{spoiler|Kanaya}} angry. {{spoiler|1=She will come back from the dead, turn into a [[Our Vampires Are Different|rainbow-drinker]], and kick you [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005425 OFF A CLIFF.]}}

** {{spoiler|Or clock you in the jaw. Or, if you were the one who killed her, chainsaw you in half.}}

** John totally fails to invoke this trope. Behold John [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004567 getting angry]:

* Subverted in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]].'' Bob is usually remarkably effective at getting things done and defeating enemies, and he hardly ever throws a punch; but it turns out that, idealism aside, part of the reason he isn't a fighter is that [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20101026.html he isn't very good at it.] [[Berserk Button|(Galatea, on the other hand...)]]

* Iceland from ''[[Scandinavia and The World]]''. [http://satwcomic.com/babysitter This explain its all.]

* [[Nodwick|PIFFANY.]] Seriously, guys, vex not the [[Tastes Like Diabetes|diabetes-inducingly-sweet cleric]]. She's basically made of so much pure, distilled goodness that ''it gives her [[Reality Warper]] powers'', in addition to the [[Superpower Lottery|awesome spellcasting]] [[Dungeons and Dragons]] [[Superpower Lottery|clerics]] are normally capable of. So on the rare occassion that she ''does'' get angry with someone, it inevitably ends badly for them.

* Big Ears in [[Goblins]] is a genuinely [[Lawful Good]] paladin who occasionaly strays into [[Honor Before Reason]] but avoids [[Knight Templar]] and [[Lawful Stupid]]. Oh, and he doesn't like it when you [http://www.goblinscomic.com/10122009/ throw rocks at his catatonic friend].

* [[The Oswald Chronicles]] has the eponymous Oswald, a mild-mannered and polite gentlemouse. He prefers to talk things out instead of resorting to violence. Hurt his friends, however, [http://www.theoswaldchronicles.com/?webcomic_post=0044-lettered and...]

* Julie, from ''[[Our Little Adventure]]'' when {{spoiler|an armored Minotaur kills Pauline, a member of her [[True Companions|Nakama.]]}} Her bubbly, happy personality vanishes and is replaced by something violent and scary, complete with [[Creepy Monotone]] and [[Hidden Eyes]]. In the next page we see her [[Royal Rapier|rapier]] embedded in the Minotaur's skull.

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