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{{quote|''"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy." ''|'''[[The Joker]]''', ''[[The Killing Joke]]''}}
When a character is [[Not Himself]], but for real, and (usually) permanently. In the course of a single episode, the character goes through something traumatic enough to change their personality forever (even Freak-Outs that are temporary have lasting effects on a character). It could be a [[Mind Rape]] or a really [[Awful Truth]], but it has to be pretty nasty. Sometimes a
A well-done
May double with a [[He's Back]]. If the character's
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* Sasuke in ''[[Naruto]]'' has a massive one after finding out that Itachi killed their parents among many others, as well as when he gets put under [[Mind Rape]]. Arguably experienced a very controlled version when {{spoiler|Madara revealed the cause of the Uchiha massacre, leading to Sasuke's [[Kill'Em All|new life goal]]}}.
** Gaara suffered this twice in his life. The first time was when {{spoiler|Yashimaru crushed all of Gaara's hopes and tried to kill him}} resulting in the homicidal maniac we all have vivid nightmares about. The second was when he saw his own blood after Sasuke injured him.
** Naruto had one when he thought Sasuke had been killed by Haku, and an even worse one when he saw {{spoiler|Pain, the man who had murdered his beloved mentor and blown up his village, stab Hinata with a giant spike just after she confessed her feelings}}. The
*** And before that, he'd gone into his four-tailed form when Orochimaru goaded him to breaking point.
* ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'': Creed. Any time that Train is involved or even mentioned, or if someone [[Murder the Hypotenuse|gets in the way]].
* ''[[Outlaw Star]]'': Being shot in the shoulder by Gene, sends Harry over the edge, well even more so than before. Also, [[Love Makes You Crazy|anything involving Melfina]] has this affect on him as well.
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** Also in the [[Grand Finale]], {{spoiler|Mikami freaks out when he sees his god, Light, get arrested by Near}}, and starts makes crazy faces that outcrazy Nina's face above. In the anime, {{spoiler|he even stabs himself in the heart with his pen and [[High-Pressure Blood|spews a fountain of blood until he dies]]}}.
** Matsuda also has one when he sees Light trying to write Near's name in a hidden death note and shoots his hand, goes into a rage and shoots him some more, and tries to deliver the killing blow but he is stopped.
* ''[[Eureka Seven]]'': While brutally mutilating an enemy LFO in Episode 20, Renton hallucinates a blob that reflects his own face. If [[
* Kish from ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' gets this way when Ichigo rejects him, or when someone else threatens to come between him and Ichigo.
* ''[[School Days]]'': Sekai, after Kotonoha and Makoto make out in front of her, and Kotonoha after she is raped by Makoto's best friend and then dumped by Makoto.
* Keiichi from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' has a truly epic one in the Satoko arc. He spends the majority of the arc having one of the most [[Mind Screw|surreal]] experiences this side of David Lynch. When he finds out that {{spoiler|he never killed Satoko's uncle, and he's been having paranoid delusions}}, he goes batshit crazy and {{spoiler|tears up Satoko's house with a hatchet looking for him.}}
** {{spoiler|Except he really ''did'' kill Satoko's uncle.}} He only believes that {{spoiler|he's still alive because Satoko told him that he was, not realizing that Satoko is approaching a mental breakdown of her own.}} The one who has a true Freak Out is {{spoiler|Satoko herself, when she thinks Keiichi killed Rika. She ends up pushing him off a bridge.}}
** Earlier in the same arc, Satoko herself has a ''spectacular'' [[Post Traumatic Stress Disorder]]-type
** As this is a series known almost famously for its levels of [[Break the Cutie]], several of the main characters go through one of these at least once, in at least one arc. Keiichi, then {{spoiler|Shion}}, then Satoko -and- Keiichi, then {{spoiler|Rena in the Atonement Arc, mirroring Keiichi's first}}, it gets to the point where we learn that even {{spoiler|Takano Miyo, the ''cause'' of Rika's repeated deaths, actually had one or more of these as a child, preluding the ''entire series'' and showing the reason for her villainous tendencies.}}
* This trope was perfected by the anime ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'', where the entire theme of the show was about nervous breakdowns. Whenever the show had a
** Although we don't see it onscreen, Maniwa presumably has one of these after being fired, as the next time we see him he's gone from a reasonably open-minded good cop archetype to a delusional homeless person who believes he is a [[Superhero]].
* Smoothly and successfully executed in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' in the case of Kaiser Ryo's transformation to "Hell Kaiser."
* Kai's first [[Face Heel Turn]] in ''[[Beyblade]]'' was the result of a
* A few [[Face Heel Turn
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. Shinji from episode 19 to the end of the series, [[The Movie]] included. Also Asuka in episode 22 and after her [[Mind Rape]], Ritsuko, Misato, and [[Dysfunction Junction|everyone else]].
** ''End of Evangelion'' does this masterfully with Third Impact. Poor Shinji completely loses his sanity.
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* In ''[[Bokurano]]'' and ''[[Narutaru]]'' many of the characters are no stranger to this.
* Akito from ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' often has violent, screaming fits on the least provocation.
* ''[[
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'': Ed has at least two of these. The first is when he saw the failed attempt at resurrecting his mother as a child, and again (in the first anime) when he realizes that he has killed Greed.
** In the manga, [[Fan Nickname|Greedling]] suffers one after he encounters {{spoiler|1=the last surviving loyal chimera henchman of the previous Greed lurking under CentCom. He kills the chimera, and then the memories of the previous Greed all come rushing back}}.
* ''[[Perfect Blue]]'': Mima, coming home at the end of a particular traumatic day, finds her beloved pet fish dead, and loses control for a moment, trashing her apartment. The trauma was because of a rape scene, which [[Mind Screw|may or may not have]] become genuine, as her screams got more and more convincing. She, as well as Rumi have numerous moments where they
* Ken in ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' had two. The first was a nervous breakdown when he realized the [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|sins]] he'd committed were
** Hikari had one, also when she returned to the black ocean, that she needed to be slapped out of it in a very [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]] moment.
* In the manga version of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', it's revealed in a flashback that Aion had one of these after finding out that {{spoiler|his mother was a human transformed into a demon, and she was pregnant with him and Chrono when it happened}}. It appears to be one of his underlying motivations for almost all of his actions in the series.
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* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' suggests that Russia became [[Cute and Psycho]] after Bloody Sunday. Fandom speculation is that the execution of the Romanov dynasty is what drove him completely over the edge.
* In a flashback of ''Muhyo and Roji'', Enchu is introduced as working hard to become an Executor to support his sick mother. He is called away when his mother's condition turns critical, and while he is away, she dies and Muhyo is chosen as Executor over him. In another flashback, this happens to a mother when her daughter dies in a car accident; she becomes obsessed with making copies of the doll that her daughter had wanted.
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', Sensui has one in the past {{spoiler|after finding out about humans torturing demons, which challenged his belief that demons were evil and that he should protect humanity from them}}.
* In ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', Roberta is a [[Dojikko|clumsy]] [[Meido|maid]] by profession, but actually a retired FARC guerrilla with extensive knowledge in weaponry, combat tactics, and [[Implacable Man|near inhuman physical abilities]]. And she admires her employer very much. So when said employer dies thanks to [[Eagle Land|certain country]] operatives, she ''[[Beware the Nice Ones|snaps]]''.... And when she snaps, [[Ax Crazy|she]] ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|really]] [[One-Man Army|snaps.]]''
* Hitomi from ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'' has a few. Although they mostly occur after simple Tarot readings turn into [[Mind Rape]].
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* In ''[[One Piece]]'' anime expanding off of a scene in the manga, Luffy suffers one of these after {{spoiler|his entire crew is vanished by Kuma.}}
** Luffy also suffers another one of these after {{spoiler|his brother Ace is killed}}.
* In ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'', {{spoiler|c!Syaoran suffers one of these when he kills c!Sakura. This also when [[Heel Face Turn|he (re)gained his own heart]].}} Don't think so? the evidence is [https://web.archive.org/web/20090205181854/http://www.onemanga.com/Tsubasa_Reservoir_Chronicles/179/12/ right] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090205115015/http://www.onemanga.com/Tsubasa_Reservoir_Chronicles/179/13/ here].
* Faust VIII from ''[[Shaman King]]'' is usually calm (being a doctor), but when Yoh Asakura calls Faust's beloved Eliza ({{spoiler|Eliza was Faust's wife who was brutally shot and killed, and now is Faust's spirit}}) a doll, he goes apeshit!
* For 21 episodes of ''[[Lucky Star|Lucky Channel]]'', [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|Minoru Shiraishi]] calmly endures the ''[[Butt Monkey|constant abuse and disrespect]]'' of his diva of a co-star, [[Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight|Akira Kogami]]. Then he gets roped into trekking two weeks through the wilderness to retrieve a fresh bottle of spring water for her, getting [[Everything's Worse with Bears|mauled by a bear]] in the process. When he returns to find himself replaced as co-star by [[Daisuke Ono]] and ''then'' has Akira throw the water back in his face for being too warm, he goes ''[[Beware the Nice Ones|completely berserk]]''. He tells off Akira, trashes the set, clobbers crew members who try to restrain him, [[Camera Abuse|attacks the cameraman]], and is last seen chasing Akira off-stage with presumably murderous intent. He eventually calms down, but in the concluding episode he is a completely different character, much less overtly cheerful and with a bitter, cynical inside.
** As aside, one can't help noting that his interactions with Akira in that last episode resemble the early phases of a [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] plotline. The series ends before this can be explored very deeply. About damn time. For both the freakout, and the Sexual Tension.
* Darcia from ''[[Wolf's Rain]]'''s bloody self-mutilation and [[Skyward Scream]] upon coming home to find that {{spoiler|his lover, Hamona, has been murdered}}.
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* ''[[Space Battleship Yamato]]''. The scriptwriters love making Desslok freak. In season one, his home planet is [[Curb Stomp Battle|Curb Stomped]] and he freaks. In The New Journey, his planet is utterly destroyed, so he freaks. Then his love interest kills herself. He completely loses it and begs Wildstar to destroy his ship.
* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' {{spoiler|Mami in the third timeline}} undergoes this when she finds out the [[Awful Truth]] first hand and {{spoiler|attempts [[Mercy Kill|mercy killing]] everyone else before Madoka stops her.}}
* After the horrible, ''horrible'' events [[Total Eclipse of the Plot|during the Eclipse]] in ''[[Berserk]]'', and he awakens [[Asleep for Days|days later]], Guts goes through a monumental freak out that consists of [[Manly Tears|many tears]], [[Despair Event Horizon|utter despair]], bursts of rage, and finally [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|an epic]] [[This Means War|vow of revenge]] [[Redemption in the Rain|in the rain]], the point at which Guts becomes a changed man. It's too bad that his lover, Casca, [[Break the Cutie|did not come out of the Eclipse]] [[Go Mad
* ''[[Black Butler|Black Butler II]]'' episode 10. It begins with Hannah talking to Ciel and saying that she has something to show him. Then her mouth opens unnaturally wide to reveal [[Body Horror|this black abyss where the inside of a human mouth would be]]. The eye she stole from Alois Trancy is rooted in the back of her throat, and since Ciel's soul has been partially fused with Alois's at this point, he's staring at himself from inside her. Hannah watches calmly while Ciel suffers a
* In ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]'' Ganta does this understandably as he's being forced to watch the Carnival of Corpses.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Bleach]]'' Rukia does this after Gin [[Kick the Dog|breaks her resolve with words]].
* ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'': Leo's reaction to {{spoiler|Elliot's death}} had a lot of sobbing and screaming. He went on with this as Pandora was interrogating him until Vincent came along.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Batman|The Joker]] is a firm believer in this trope, once saying that all it takes to separate the sane from maniacs such as himself is "one bad day." ''The Killing Joke'' storyline features him trying to give Commissioner Gordon his Bad Day.
** Ironically, his biggest success (Harley Quinn) was apparently a [[Hannibal Lecture|fairly meticulous process of chiseling away at her sanity and sense of self-worth]].
* ''[[Batman]]'' is '''the''' poster comic of
** Don't force a mousy botanist into a [[Pygmalion Plot]] by making her ''more fruitful'' or you'll get a man-hating Poison Ivy.
** Let lonely German [[Mad Scientist
** Don't fire your enthusiastic psychology professor just because a few students wet themselves. A frightful encounter with the Scarecrow is sure to follow.
** If you are going to kill your secretary, don't leave her in an alley full of stray cats...
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** Eddie, haven't you ever considered just ''suing'' the people that stole your inventions instead of proving you're smarter?
** Mary, have you ever considered voice acting?
** Batman himself, don't shoot a child's parents in front of him or he'll grow up to become...well...Batman.
* When ''[[Green Lantern]]'' Hal Jordan suddenly lost his marbles and became the universe-destroying maniac Parallax in the 1990's, after his home city was destroyed by a [[Super Villain]]. Years later, it was later [[
* Hank Pym, of [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|the Avengers]], had a period where he thought he was someone else, and apparently went full on mad scientist, to the point of setting killer robots on a major city just so he could destroy them to look good. He eventually recovered, and how much this gets played up depends on the writer. Some have him as having become fairly well adjusted, others have him just a medication bottle away from another psychotic episode. And then there's ''Secret Invasion''.
* [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Scarlet]]. [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Witch]]. And when ''she'' snapped, the entire [[Marvel
* Happens to Nuke from the ''[[Squadron Supreme]]'' after his parents died from radiation poisoning. Then again, he was probably not too stable to begin with, given that his attempt to solve the problem was asking a teammate to ''find a cure for cancer''...
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== [[Film]] ==
* [[Star Wars]]: Anakin Skywalker's turn. Yeah, there was the thing with the Tusken Raiders, and the [[Warped Aesop]] that wanting someone you love to not die is ''bad,'' but the actual turn happens when Mace Windu gets handed the [[Idiot Ball]] and tries to rather un-Jedi-ishly execute Palpatine. After Anakin chops off his arm so that Windu can get blown out the window by Palpatine's lightning (snicker) he's suddenly a different person, from good with a lot of [[Wangst]] and a dislike of people who torture his mother to death to someone who is fully devoted to Palpatine, and thinks nothing of mass slaughter, even when it comes to children. Anakin did that because he knew that once he turned on Mace Windu (which he only did because he did not want the possibility of his wife's salvation to die along with Palpatine), he had gone too
* Mousy secretary Selina Kyle from ''[[Batman]] Returns'', after almost being killed by her boss Max Shreck for [[He Knows Too Much|knowing too much]] about a power plant that will ultimately hurt Gotham City, is in a very bad way. After being revived by her cat Miss Kitty and all of her feline friends, Selina returns to her apartment, repeating the words she said the last time she was there in a [[Creepy Monotone]], and just manages to hold herself together until an ad on her answering machine that mentions "a candlelight staff meeting for two" ''with her boss'' proves to be the final straw that pushes Selina over the edge and drives her to trash her apartment and become the dark and dangerous Catwoman.
** [[The Dark Knight Saga/WMG|If the rumors are true]], the ''next'' Catwoman's origin story is already in progress, and should be equally interesting.
* ''[[The Descent (film)|The Descent]]''. A year after being in a car crash that killed her husband and daughter [which itself caused a
** Interestingly, Juno waffles back and forth on this trope. Alone, she starts down the same path as Sarah on the bloodlusty killing machine bit, but this stops once she finds two of the other girls. {{spoiler|They die - bloodlusty killing machine time. Sarah meets up with her, and for a minute Juno is normal again, but Sarah herself being a bloodlusty killing machine causes Juno to follow suit again before being murdered herself}}.
** An alternative interpretation is that {{spoiler|virtually the entire film is a hallucination after Sarah goes [[Ax Crazy]] and kills her friends, inventing the monsters as a rationale}}.
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** In ''[[Batman Begins]]'' while in prison, Falcone tries to blackmail Crane into allowing him a part in the upcoming fear toxin project. Crane instead gasses him with the fear toxin, causing him to have a screaming fit.
* Harry Osborn, Norman Osborn, Eddie Brock, and Doc Ock have this happen in the ''[[Spider-Man]]'' movies. As well as Peter after he finds his uncle dead on the ground, and anytime a villain kidnaps Mary Jane and threatens to kill her.
* Lon Chaney Jr. has a truly impressive one in the film ''The Unknown'' (1927). He plays Alonzo, a criminal fugitive who's hidden out at a circus disguised as an armless knife-thrower (he has his arms, but also a distinctive and identifiable hand deformity); Nanon (Crawford), the circus owner's daughter, has a distaste for being touched by men due to some past trauma and becomes friendly with him. As his love for her grows, he takes the next step and '' {{spoiler|has both his arms amputated}}''
* The infamous 'He's gonna pop' scene in the Matrix.
* In [[Thor]] when Loki found out that he is really a Jotun, he then plans on {{spoiler|using the Bifröst to destroy Jotunheim.}}
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Ivan's manic episode in ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'' took its time in developing. You can see him start to go insane from very early on in the book. It becomes obvious to us when he starts to [[The Devil|talk to the devil]]. But he finally has his
* Done in ''[[Ender's Game]]'' when Ender decided that if the people who run the games won't be fair, then he won't play the game.
* In book 8 of ''[[The Pendragon Adventure]]'', Bobby hears {{spoiler|Twig say that they should go back to Ibara, which confuses him because he was on the territory of Ibara. This leads to him freaking out while asking why Twig said this. The explanation that Ibara is the name of the island only made things worse. This climaxed with Bobby asking what the name of the planet was and being told that the planet's name was "Veelox". Veelox being the first Territory he had failed to save. So apparently he's been on a far future version of the planet this entire time and realized just how badly he'd been played by the [[Big Bad]]}}
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'''Susan''': {{spoiler|My name is Susan}}.
'''Bryce''': {{spoiler|Not anymore}}. }}
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire|A Storm of Swords]]'': {{spoiler|Catelyn Stark}} has hers at the Red Wedding. {{spoiler|With her husband executed, one of her daughters held a political hostage, the other missing, and two of her sons believed dead, Catelyn only really has Robb left as her family. Then Robb is killed by one of her turncoat bannerman. She starts laughing hysterically, claws at her face, and as her enemies move to slit her throat, all she can think is she hopes they don't cut her hair, as her husband loves her hair. The
* In the second book of the second ''[[Well World]]'' series, a fairly subdued version happens to {{spoiler|<s>Julian</s> Alowi, as she insists on being called from then on out}} when {{spoiler|she's afraid that her husband is dying and realizes that she loves him}}. [[Gender Bender|The fact that she'd been male (and very straight) until not long before the wedding]] played into that as well.
* After gradual [[Sanity Slippage]] throughout the book, Dwayne Hoover finally loses it entirely in [[Kurt Vonnegut|Kurt Vonnegut's]] ''[[Breakfast of Champions]]'' and starts physically assaulting everybody unfortunate enough to be near him.
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* Every now and then, [[Firefly|River Tam]] will have some sort of freak out, some worse than others. The one in Objects In Space takes the cake for the series (but the movie outdoes it) with her feeling some people's emotions and reading others' minds. This freak out also gave us many peoples favorite scene, River rubbing herself (though not there, If You Know What I Mean) while watching Zoe and Wash have sex.
* On ''[[Ally McBeal]]'', Billy started out as the straight man of the cast. Later, he suddenly dyed his hair blonde, and turned into a sexist, smug jerk (with an occasional flash of remorse). This was later explained as a brain tumor, which killed him.
* In early ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Angel had a
** If you're going to come back to your arch-nemesis' place with a gun, be careful where you point that thing...
*** {{spoiler|Unless the last thing you want to hear before before being deprived of your epidermis is "Bored Now".}}
** After the accidental killing of the deputy mayor, Faith reacts by becoming simply and utterly psychotically monsterous. After something of a reformation, she does it again after the death of her father figure. The second (and possibly the first) time is because she is attempting [[Suicide by Cop|suicide by whomever she can anger enough into killing her.]]
** Exemplified by {{spoiler|Dark Willow}}. When {{spoiler|Tara}} is gunned down in cold blood, {{spoiler|Willow}} utterly loses it and in the space of the next 24 hours or so manages to kill Sunnydale's most powerful magic user, smack down the combined powers of the UK's strongest wiccans, effortlessly murder the season's Big Bad up to that point, beat the stuffing out of {{spoiler|the Slayer}}, and nearly blow up the world.
* Manny on ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' started out as a [[Kawaiiko|cute, giggly girl]] who acted about half her real age. In a single episode, she finally realized that people didn't take her
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Doctor, during the transition from his Tenth to Eleventh incarnation was extremely reluctant and panicked when undergoing the regeneration process. The eventual energy release blew apart portions of the TARDIS bridge.
** Seven freaked out prior to becoming Eight, but for different reasons. He regenerated because the doctor trying to save his life was actually killing him due to her ignorance of his alien physiology.
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* In the last season of ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', {{spoiler|Felix Gaeta}} loses it big time after {{spoiler|fellow [[Bridge Bunny]] Dee shoots herself dead, being unable to cope with the consequences of the latest [[Wham! Episode]].}} It had actually been [[Break the Cutie|building for some time]], but the change in his demeanor and attitude after this particular incident was quite drastic. Getting {{spoiler|shot in the leg by Anders and then losing said leg}} didn't help much either, nor did finding out that {{spoiler|the afforementioned Anders and the XO are Cylons}} and discovering that {{spoiler|as he half-suspected but was in denial about, he was involved in the deaths of several innocent people on New Caprica thanks to Cylon treachery}}. And {{spoiler|He was nearly airlocked as a Cylon collaborator... And half the people who were about to kill him turned out to ''be'' Cylons.}} That can't be good for the sanity.
* Buck Compton from ''[[Band of Brothers]]'' showed signs of a [[Heroic BSOD]] after he got shot in the Netherlands, then he finally freaked out after seeing two of his friends get hit with artillery fire near Foy.
* On ''[[Deep Space Nine]],'' Sisko breaks through [[Affably Evil|Gul Dukat's]] wall of denial and makes him acknowledge that he really had been a [[Complete Monster]] to the Bajorans when he was in charge of the planet. Dukat then [[Gone Mad From the Revelation|suffers]] an ''epic''
* In ''[[Big Time Rush]]'' the band and Gustavo are ordered to make 3 christmas songs by their stuck up manager by the end of the day, forcing Gustavo and Kelly to delay their vaction to Fiji. But after already making 3 songs, the manger orders them to make one more song, Gustavo finally snaps and starts smashing instruments in the studio.
== [[Music]] ==
* "Freak Out!" (1966) is the name of [[Frank Zappa]]'s debut album. And it lives up to its name during "Help, I'm A Rock", "It Can't Happen Here", and "The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet".
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* [[Final Fantasy VIII]] includes a couple of these as Squall is forced to gradually open up. The first is after losing {{spoiler|Ellone}} once more, when he realizes that even though he doesn't want to rely on anyone else that he could lose, he doesn't know how to keep going without someone else's help - he even asks himself whether anyone knows how to live for themselves before realizing that even that means he'd be asking for someone else to help him with his problems. Revelation after revelation breaks his normal, [[The Stoic|stoic demeanor]] and he slowly changes, culminating in {{spoiler|his reaction to Rinoa's collapse after Edea's defeat, where he decides he absolutely will not let anyone else be taken away from him and ends up dragging Rinoa across a bridge that spans the length of a continent just to get to somebody who '''might''' be able to help and admits that he needs help from others to get what he wants.}} There's also another, minor one when {{spoiler|Rinoa turns out to be a sorceress and is taken away by Esthar}}, where Squall nearly admits defeat before deciding he'll defend her to the very end with a little prodding from his friends, leading him to finally take command and open up to his team.
* [[Myst|"Your sons, Atrus.]] Do you know what they did?"
* [[Action Girlfriend|Hello]] [[Fate/stay night|Saber]]. [[The Corruption|Goodbye Saber.]] [[Back
** [[The Woobie|Hello]] [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Sakura]]. [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|Don't do it]], [[Complete Monster|Shinji!]] How are you feel, [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Dark Sakura]]?
* Princess Zelda turned into a creepy, screaming bitch for one whole cutscene in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks|The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks]]'', when Anjean revealed to her that a male demon was going to take over her body soon. She even scared Link while telling him that ''HE'' needs to ''GO OUT'' and ''BRING BACK HER BODY'' while ''SHE'' waits in the Tower like ''[[Lampshading|A GOOD PRINCESS]]''. It's played for laughs, still, the change was so frightening that not only was Link understandably scared to death, a good percentage of the players were as well. She snapped out of it rather quickly, when Anjean told her that she couldn't force Link to do it alone (like usually), since several traps in the Tower of Spirits needed teamwork to be survived.
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* Happened to all the serial killers in ''[[Kara no Shoujo]].'' The most sympathetic of the three described involved rape, parental incest, involuntary manslaughter on their part and [[Mad Artist|a beautiful work of art about their mother.]]
* A ''lot'' of witnesses in [[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]] most likely the final villain, give EPIC breakdowns when you start [[Pull the Thread|pulling the thread]] and back them into a corner, usually backed up with [[Crowning Music of Awesome]].
* ''[[Deadly Premonition]]'': {{spoiler|Thomas}}. [[Break the Cutie|It]] [[Et Tu, Brute?|just]] [[Go Mad
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In the webcomic ''[[Loserz]]'', one of the protagonists (Jodie) has a temporary
* The eponymous character of ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' suffered one of these just before the [[Breather Episode|breather arc]] where he and Luna [[World Building|take a cruise around the world]]. A list of grievances include {{spoiler|losing his teaching job because ''no one'' signed up for his class the next semester, planning his upcoming wedding, one of his students becoming drastically ill, another teacher locking himself in ''his'' office, learning his longtime childhood comic book hero is [[Canon Defilement|getting a]] [[Darker and Edgier]] makeover}} and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|
** He was very lucky it wasn't a lot worse, as the reader learns later on in the aforementioned breather arc: It's possible for a powerful seer under sufficient stress to undergo [[Heroic RROD|"mindbreak"]], which tends to result in significant collateral damage. And Dominic is a ''very'' powerful seer indeed.
* Happens in ''[[Narbonic]]'' when a character finally manifests the [[Science-Related Memetic Disorder]]. Especially {{spoiler|the main character Dave}}.
* Mischievous and chummy {{spoiler|Jack}} from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' gets locked in a [[Dark World]] and becomes suspicious and frustrated about the supernatural and Antimony, the main character. It's implied that the mean streak may have been there all along.
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** Yep. Jack has appeared in some of the comic's more recent storylines, now Demonic Mind-Spider free. He seems to be perfectly nice guy who is nursing a crush on... Zimmy.
* Reverend Joeb Kim CPA, a priest/accountant has a [http://theoryofeverythingcomics.com/god/01/ mental breakdown at work]. But then again, it hasn't happened yet.[http://theoryofeverythingcomics.com/god/ God(tm)]
* Sal from ''[[Walkyverse|It's Walky!]]'' is always full of [[Wangst]], especially after {{spoiler|when her parents were threatened, she told the villian she didn't care if they died, and ''he recorded her saying it'', murdered her parents and taunted her with the recording}}. She a complete
* ''[[The Meek]]''. This happens to Luca when {{spoiler|his wife is killed}}.
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Susan, a feminist, wasn't amused to discover her efforts to punish men for insulting women were actually encouraging them and the method she was using was created with this in mind as a joke.
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** {{spoiler|Gamzee has one of these shortly after Dave shows him ICP.}}
** Rose has two within a very short time-frame: first after she found out {{spoiler|Jack killed her mother}}, and the second when {{spoiler|she asked an omniscient fortune-telling device whether or not the [[Eldritch Abomination|Gods of the Furthest Ring]] were evil. The answer appears to have turned her into a [[Humanoid Abomination]].}}
** You can tell when a First Guardian goes through one of these: their text becomes huge and crackles with energy. Examples: [
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' has the cocky and condescending Vaarsuvius [[Troubled Fetal Position|reduced to a shriveling mess]] upon discovering the true consequences of carelessly using powerful magic during [[Drunk on the Dark Side|a serious power trip under the effects of soul splices.]] This experience was the main catalyst for V's [[Character Development]] into a more humble and cooperative wizard.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'': Happens to Raven in her numerous appearances, most notably after her [[Mind Rape]] at the hands of Slade. The episode "Haunted" is devoted to one massive
* Everyone in ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' had done this at least once.
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'': Vlad after his beloved clone of Danny is destroyed. He almost was ''this'' close to killing off two half ghosts if not for a timely intervene by Danny's friends. But he spent the rest of the series tormenting Danny. One could say that Vlad's
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''
** Aang goes into an [[Unstoppable Rage]] multiple times in the show whenever he suspects his friends to be in danger, when Appa goes missing, or when he finds Monk Gyatso, who was like a father to him, dead. Azula [[Villainous Breakdown|has a permanent one]] and goes '''insane'''. But she was shipped off to a mental health facility and, according to [[Word of God]], will possibly make a recovery in the future.
** Aang could be viewed as having undergone a
* In ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]],'' Electro's [[Face Heel Turn]] is the result of an [[Comes Great Insanity|inability to cope]] with the [[Power Incontinence]] and loss of humanity that accompany the [[Psycho Electro|electrical powers]] he gained in a [[Freak Lab Accident]]. Doctor Octopus' is a result of the massive, traumatic [[Lightning Can Do Anything|electromagnetic shock]] that fused his [[Artificial Limbs|harness]] to his spine and changed him from meek to [[Mad Scientist|megalomaniacal]].
* Kenai does this in ''[[Brother Bear]]'' when he realizes he turned into a bear.
* Being a failed science experiment with more mental issues than even the most skilled therapist could count, ''[[Adventure Time]]'''s Lemongrab is CONSTANTLY in the midst of a freak-out.
* Fry from ''[[Futurama]]'' suffers a
* [[The Simpsons]]: Hurricane Ned.
{{quote|'''Ned''': Calm down, Neddly diddily diddily diddily, doodily. They did their best shodaiddily iddily iddily diddily diddily. Gotta be nice, hostidididildilidilly ah HELL diddily ding dong ''crap!'' Can't you morons do anything RIGHT!?
[shocked gasps] }}
* In [[The Batman]], Officer Bennet suffers a
* Daffy Duck's
* ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]''
** Ren is prone to these.
** Stimpy's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX672lZzZ6U "I Like Darren!" rant] from "Mad Dog Höek". Especially towards the end, where he's screaming his lines out like a madman, his voice has an echo effect, and the music is all crazy.
{{quote|'''Stimpy:''' '''''[[Punctuated!
* Happens to Twilight Sparkle in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
** In [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
** These freak outs have been classified by fanon as "Cutie-Mark Failure Insanity Syndrome" a condition that causes ponies to lose control and over-react to situations that cause them to doubt the purpose in life they found when they received their cutie-mark.
* [[Ed Edd and Eddy|AND DAD WILL JUST SIT THERE AND WATCH TV!!!!]]
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