Hair-Trigger Temper: Difference between revisions

* Ryoga from ''[[Ranma ½]]'' can often be this way if he ever finds someone insulting Akane.

{{quote|'''Ryoga''': "NO MAN SHALL INSULT AKANE'S LEGS!"}}

* Daigo Ikari from ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' will always get angry when someone mentioned Ojou High School or White Knights (the football team) in bad light; the problem is that every time he hears anything, he always quick to ''assume the worst''.

** This leads to a running gag that Ikari never actually gets to play in a game until the second time Oujou plays Daimon, at least a dozen games into their season. The reason is because he always attacks someone and gets himself ejected before the game even starts. His teammates try to prevent this by ''binding him with chains''. It doesn't work.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

** Though arguably, that's because the Joker is [[Ax Crazy]] rather than having a Hair-Trigger Temper.

** You're on slightly safer ground with [[Marx Brothers]] quotes.

* [[Anita Blake]]. She regularly has to clamp down on her "seething emotions"- even if it's because someone has pointed out a *gasp* possible flaw in her plan.

* The Gillian Key books are full of this- she's a v. grumpy lady.

** [[Dark Action Girl|Bellatrix]] [[Complete Monster|Lestrange]] spends most of her time in the books either [[Kick the Dog|evilly taunting people]] or [[Large Ham|screaming her head off in rage]]. She tends to kill people in either state.

* From ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', the Mountain, [[Complete Monster|Ser Gregor Clegane]], snaps at the slightest provocation or perceived insult, and being over seven feet tall and wielding a greatsword one handed, carnage generally ensues. When he loses a jousting tournament due to a misbehaving horse, he ''decapitates'' said horse in a blind rage and attacks his celebrating opponent (and his own brother when he attempts to break up the attack), only stopping when ordered to by the King. This is only a mild example.

* The titular character of the 1900s-vintage comic strip ''[[The Outbursts of Everett True]]'' explodes into violence at the smallest, most inconsequential provocation, delivering savage beatings to the objects of his ire. This was the ''point'' of the strip and supposed to be ''funny''.

* ''[[The Far Side]]'' had a lot of cartoons like this. For instance, one early strip showed an angry man holding a smoking shotgun, having killed two people with it, while his wife behind him angrily says, "That settles it, Carl! From now on, you're only getting decaffeinated coffee!"

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* Many flash cartoons feature mass fighting where characters can be provoked even by bumping into them.

* Paul Hammerbro from ''[[Bowser's Kingdom]]'' is notorious for having this. Just don't dent his winged platform or do anything to upset him.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==