Going Postal: Difference between revisions

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Some jobs are bad enough to knock a guy off his rocker. If ''one more person'' [[Office Space|comes by and tells them to put the new TPS cover on the TPS report]], they will go on a murderous rampage.

While '''Going Postal''' is strictly a work-related massacre caused by a disgruntled employee, it may involve elements of a [[Berserk Button]], a [[Rant-Inducing Slight]], [[Beware the Nice Ones]], [[Selective Enforcement]] or a combination of the four.

 

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* The ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' doujin ''"I'm working at a mahou shoujo recruitment company, but I think I may be at my limit"'' has {{spoiler|Kyubey}} going on one of these near the end. {{spoiler|Being screwed out of good work by his only friend in the workplace (when he's already in danger of being fired) and then finding out that he's been doing the nasty with his wife on the side and that the kid she's carrying isn't his was just too much for our favorite [[Starfish Alien]]}}.

 

* ''[[Judge Dredd]]'': A lot of people suffer from this. It is known as Future Shock or ''Going Futsie.'' Interesting in that it is treated as a medical condition, rather than a crime.

* The comic ''[[Irredeemable]]'' is the story of the day a [[Superman]] [[Captain Ersatz]] goes entirely and globally postal.

* This surprisingly never occurs in the horror film ''The Mailman''. The villain is a murderer, though not one of this type.

 

* One episode of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' dealt with a workplace killer willing to do anything to avenge himself on the pharmaceutical company that (from his perspective) had abused him for years.

* One of the group reaps in ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' involves this scenario. We don't see the actual shooting, and it (somewhat surprisingly, for this show) isn't played for laughs.

* The [[Courier]] in [[Fallout: New Vegas]], if you so choose, can turn their journey across the Mojave into this.

 

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

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