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[[File:Goodfellas-Joe-Pesci.jpg|link=Goodfellas|thumb|400px|Dude, he brought you your drink. What more do you want?]]
{{quote|''"I'm '''always''' pissed off."''
|'''[[The Punisher]]''', ''Dark Wolverine #89''}}
A character with a hair-trigger temper flies into a rage at the slightest provocation. Masters of [[Disproportionate Retribution]], they react explosively to the slightest annoyance. Unlike someone with a [[Berserk Button]], who is generally calm unless their specific button is pressed, characters with a hair-trigger temper can be set off by ''anything''. This makes them far less predictable—and far more dangerous to any poor sod who doesn't know what they're dealing with.
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{{examples}}
== [[Advertising]] ==▼
▲== Advertising ==
* A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys0cmMiW6bI Snickers ad] had a guy turn into [[Joe Pesci]] who blew up at every single comment when he was hungry.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Bleach]]'':
** Mayuri Kurotsuchi, the unhinged [[Mad Scientist]], has something of a hair-trigger temper. This was extremely prevalent in his early appearances, where he flew off the handle at the most minute of provocations, [[Kick the Dog|which he often took out on his daughter]]. He ''has'' chilled out significantly since then, however, and while he is still [[Jerkass|callous]] and easily annoyed, [[Poke the Poodle|he handles it a lot better]]. This has resulted in a running joke amongst the fandom that [[Five-Man Band|the]] [[True Companions|heroes]] simply broke into Soul Society on one of Mayuri's bad days.
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* 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!"}}
** Akane Tendo can sometimes come off as this around Ranma Saotome, mainly in the earlier parts of the anime and manga. At least one [[Dark Fic]] (''[[The Bitter End]]'', for which we have a page) made such a decent argument for it being all-out Intermittent Explosive Disorder that it almost instantly became [[Fanon]] among ''Ranma'' fandom.
* 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.
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* [[Hot Scientist]] and [[Knight Templar Big Brother]] Souichi Tatsumi from the [[Boys Love]] manga ''[[Challengers]]'' and ''[[The Tyrant Falls in Love]]'' had viewed every action of his [[Invisible to Gaydar]] lab assistant as a transparent attempt to get him into bed from his [[Anguished Declaration of Love]] onwards. His suspicions weren't entirely unfounded, but on the whole Morinaga suffers the brunt of his anger unnecessarily. His [[Big Brother Instinct|overprotective]] and homophobic traits also cause his little brother's boyfriend, Kurokawa, to suffer greatly - on hearing the news that Tomoe's married him in Los Angeles, he threatens to fly over there to murder Kurokawa and single-handedly take down the USA for being so "perverted" as to allow gays to marry in the first place. And it's all [[Played for Laughs]].
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* There is ''absolutely no way'' of knowing whether saying something to [[
* Tina the technical writer in ''[[Dilbert]]'', who "regards every conversation within her hearing distance as an insult to her occupation and [[Straw Feminist|gender]]." She's lightened up considerably in recent years, though.▼
** Alice and her Fist Of Death on the other hand...▼
▲* There is ''absolutely no way'' of knowing whether saying something to [[Batman|The Joker]] will result in him laughing or killing you, horribly and violently. Or doing both.
** 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.
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* Monica from Brazilian comic ''[[Monica's Gang]]''. Just a slight provocation might earn a [[Improbable Weapon User|plush bunny]] beating.
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲== Film ==
* [[Joe Pesci]] specialized in playing this type, mostly through his work with [[Martin Scorsese]]. In fact, the trope was once named "The Pesci". In [[Real Life]], though, Pesci is a sterling example of [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]].
** The biggest inspiration for the trope is Tommy DeVito from ''[[Goodfellas]]'', who has a vicious temper and can snap at the slightest provocation. His instability ultimately causes problems for him later in his career. Interestingly, DeVito is very aware of his reputation. In the scene that supplies the page quote, he feigns offense at a harmless compliment to toy with his friends. The hardened gangsters not only believe that his rage is real, but they're terrified of him. {{spoiler|This eventually gets Tommy killed when he kills a made man, which you do NOT do in the mob without a sitdown and an okay from the boss}}.
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** Conspiracy Brother doth protest too much. He actually ''does'' spend a lot of his time smoking pot. His paranoia is in no small amount due to this.
* Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) in ''[[The Big Lebowski]]'' is an unbalanced ex-Vietnam soldier with serious rage issues who will pull a gun over a bowling league dispute.
{{quote|"[[
** Interestingly, among the cut scenes was a discussion revealing that Walter was never actually in 'Nam; his habit of bringing it up is just a shallow attempt to excuse his own issues since the number of people likely to actually contest that point in the face of Walter losing his shit is almost nil (basically just Jeff Lebowski).
* In the film ''[[Primal Fear (film)|Primal Fear]]'', a plot point is that Aaron Stampler, a stuttering boy accused of brutally murdering an abusive archbishop, when under enough stress, switches into another sociopathic persona named Roy, a textbook example of this trope. At the very end of the movie, it's revealed that {{spoiler|Aaron not only murdered the archbishop and another girl, but he had made up the Aaron personality to win the case, establishing himself as a [[Manipulative Bastard]] and [[Complete Monster]]}}.
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* Tugger from ''[[Brick]]'' is high-class muscle and the second in command of "The Pin". His tendency to fly into a blind rage at the slightest provocation makes him more trouble than he's worth, however, and causes numerous serious problems throughout the movie.
* [[Fiery Redhead|Cherish]] ([[Alicia Witt]]) in ''[[Cecil B. Demented]]'': always seems to be either horny, pissed off, or both; at one point, shoots up a popcorn machine because [[Serious Business|the popcorn is cooked in coconut oil]].
* The Beast of Disney's ''[[Beauty and
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* The Serpent Queen — a woman with a serpent for a head — from the [[Fighting Fantasy]] gamebooks possesses such a temper, having murdered a number of the retainers provided to her by Azzur, the lord of Port Blacksand.▼
▲== Literature ==
* ''[[The Hagakure]]'', a 18th century Japanese treatise on samurai and their virtues, ''suggests'' Hair-Trigger Temper as highly commendable lifestyle for samurai.
* A character known only as The Kid from the extended edition of [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Stand]]''. He starts out with fairly clear Berserk Buttons, which the Trashcan Man avoids setting off to survive, but his insanity becomes more apparent as the story goes on. It's clear that, {{spoiler|if he hadn't been killed}}, he would have found an excuse to kill the Trashcan Man no matter what he did.
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* [[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.
* [[Harry Potter]], but only in ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (novel)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]''. Fans refer to Harry in this book as "CAPSLOCK!Harry", for reasons obvious to those who have read it.
** [[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.
* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', Harry develops one of these after the events of ''Death Masks''. As the series progresses he gets easier and easier to anger, reaching a point where an outburst of stubbornness from his apprentice results in him blowing up a trashcan with a bolt of fire in sheer frustration. He eventually realizes that this is because {{spoiler|of [[Fallen Angel|Lasciel's]] influence on his mind.}}
* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: Kathryn Lucas and Maggie Spritzer sure have these kinds of tempers. Their friends can only live with it.
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* Vlad "The Impaler" in ''[[Count and Countess]]''.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
▲== Live-Action TV ==
* Ralph Kramden from ''[[The Honeymooners]]'' is practically volcanic, especially when things don't go his way. He is especially like this towards Alice and Ed Norton, and also towards his [[Obnoxious In-Laws|mother-in-law]]. A couple of examples:
** When he overhears his mother-in-law tell Alice the "surprise ending" of a murder mystery, that {{spoiler|it wasn't the uncle, but the husband, who committed the murder}}, Ralph shouts at her, "'''You are a BLABBERMOUTH!!!!!!!'''"
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* King Uther in ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYL5H46QnQ "I threw it on the ground!"]
* On [[Tenacious D]]'s first album, there was a bit where JB karate chops KG for eating his schnitzel. He also loses it and tells KG he's fired for saying that 'inward singing' isn't ''completely'' non-stop.
* 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!"
▲* Tina the technical writer in ''[[Dilbert]]'', who "regards every conversation within her hearing distance as an insult to her occupation and [[Straw Feminist|gender]]." She's lightened up considerably in recent years, though.
▲** Alice and her Fist Of Death on the other hand...
* In ''[[Peanuts]]'', Lucy van Pelt's temper is legendary.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* This is the clan weakness for the Brujah in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]''. As passionate warrior-philosophers turned modern rabble, they have a rather difficult time resisting [[Unstoppable Rage|Frenzy]] compared to the other clans.
▲* The Serpent Queen — a woman with a serpent for a head — from the ''[[Fighting Fantasy]]'' gamebooks possesses such a temper, having murdered a number of the retainers provided to her by Azzur, the lord of Port Blacksand.
== [[Theatre]] ==▼
* In Jean Kerr's parody of ''[[Mike Hammer]]'', "Don Brown's Body" (originally staged as a revue sketch and published in ''Please Don't Eat the Daisies''), Mike maims random strangers for doing things like asking him the time of day. "Like I say--I don't take slop from nobody."▼
▲== Theatre ==
▲* In Jean Kerr's parody of [[Mike Hammer]], "Don Brown's Body" (originally staged as a revue sketch and published in ''Please Don't Eat the Daisies''), Mike maims random strangers for doing things like asking him the time of day. "Like I say--I don't take slop from nobody."
* Katerina from ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' is an iconic example. Petruchio solves her problem by feigning it himself, thereby giving her a taste of her own medicine.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* In the first ''[[Dungeon Keeper]]'' game, the Horned Reaper. When he gets annoyed he'll go berserk and start killing everything in sight. These are a few things that annoy him: Asking him to train. Asking him to work. Asking him to study. Asking him to live with other people. Not feeding him promptly. Not paying him promptly. Allowing him to pray, something that's supposed to make creatures happier. Leaving him on his own to do nothing. It helps if you drop gold on him at regular intervals.
* It's an [[Informed Ability]], given that we never see it happen, but Prosecutor Byrne Faraday in ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' could apparently get very nasty when he got angry over things as small as a detective showing up late to work. In fact, {{spoiler|Prosecutor Faraday blowing up at him and docking his pay is the motive Gumshoe is assigned when he's accused of killing him. Yes, [[Big Damn Heroes|that]] [[The Watson|Gumshoe]].}}
** Victor Kudo will use any excuse to throw seeds at people.
* [[Violent Glaswegian|The Demoman]] from ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' has one, at least when he's [[In Vino Veritas|drunk]].
* In the ''[[Pokémon]]'' game series, there is a Fighting-type pig monkey Pokémon called Primeape. The species as a whole will lose their temper as a response to ''anything'' and will chase the cause of their anger until they catch it and ''beat it bloody.''
* Seems to affect veteran [[Real Life|players]] of competitive team based video games. MOBA games like ''[[Heroes of Newerth]]'' and ''[[League of Legends]]'' have a notoriously [[GIFT|bad community]]. If you are unlucky, every visible mistake you make results in a barrage of "[[No Social Skills|retard]]" and "[[Drill Sergeant Nasty|nooooob]]" all the way to "[[For the Evulz|kill yourself irl]]" from your teammates, and god have mercy on you if you tell your team it is your [[Suffers Newbies Poorly|first game]]...
== [[Web Animation]] ==▼
▲== Web Animation ==
* 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.
* ''[[Battle for Dream Island]]''{{'}}s got Donut, Four, Blocky, Snowball, Golf Ball and Fanny.
* ''[[Inanimate Insanity]]'' has Paintbrush, whose bristles actually caught on fire when angered.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': [[Team Dad|Karkat Vantas]] tries to come off as the living embodiment of this trope, and he's certainly it verbally... physically, not so much. Also, most of his temperamentality is directed at [[I Hate Past Me|himself]].
* ''[[The In Joke]]'' has Phoebe [http://theinjoke.thecomicseries.com/comics/3 here] - and/or whoever [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|may]] or may not [[Demonic Possession|possess]] her.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Sean Malstrom]] has been known to belittle entire gaming sites in his blog merely because several people in the comments section made offhanded jabs at him. Case in point: a single guy at GoNintendo named Garfitor [
* [[True Capitalist|Ghost]] from ''[[Radio Grafitti]]'' is so, SO this trope, in internet radio form. Almost every [[Troll]] that calls him manages to set him off, not to mention anything that isn't capitalism. Doesn't help that he has tons of [[Berserk Button]]s.▼
* Protagonist Mack of ''[[Tales of MU]]'', prone to [[Cute but Cacophonic|unnecessary shouting]] and pointless argumentation is a strange hybrid of this and [[Extreme Doormat]] depending on who is around her. [[Character Development|She has moved away from this as the series goes on]], but still occasionally snaps and yells with little provocation.▼
==
* ''[[Animaniacs]]''
▲* [[Sean Malstrom]] has been known to belittle entire gaming sites in his blog merely because several people in the comments section made offhanded jabs at him. Case in point: a single guy at GoNintendo named Garfitor [http://www.gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=118989 says] "Don't worry Darth Vader, Malstrom and his followers are still gonna hate [''Metroid: [[Other M]]'']." [http://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/who-is-malstrom-and-his-followers/ This is how Malstrom responded]. Said GoNintendo guy [http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=seanmalstrom.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgonintendo.com%2Fviewstory.php%3Fid%3D60983%23comment-218056&sref=http%3A%2F%2Fseanmalstrom.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F02%2Femail-pachter-calls-vitality-sensor-stupid%2F found Malstrom's response funny]. [http://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/email-pachter-calls-vitality-sensor-stupid/ This is Malstrom's response to THAT comment].
** Pesto the pigeon from the "Goodfeathers" segment
▲* [[True Capitalist|Ghost from Radio Grafitti]] is so, SO this trope, in internet radio form. Almost every [[Troll]] that calls him manages to set him off, not to mention anything that isn't capitalism. Doesn't help that he has tons of [[Berserk Button]]s.
*** That episode with his sister shows that [[In The Blood|she is even worse.]]
▲* Protagonist Mack of [[Tales of MU]], prone to [[Cute but Cacophonic|unnecessary shouting]] and pointless argumentation is a strange hybrid of this and [[Extreme Doormat]] depending on who is around her. [[Character Development|She has moved away from this as the series goes on]], but still occasionally snaps and yells with little provocation.
▲* Pesto the pigeon from the "Goodfeathers" segment of ''[[Animaniacs]]'' is based on the Tommy character played by Joe Pesci, above. He aims his outbursts mostly at Squit, who never quite figures out that calling Pesto ''anything'' results in his getting beat up. In another case, Pesto has lost his sister's egg, and Bobby reassures him that they'll get it back. Squit agrees with Bobby. Pesto smacks Squit. What'd he do? "Nothing. I just felt like smackin' somebody." (His voice actor was not [[Joe Pesci]], just Chick Vennera doing a damned good Pesci impression.)
** Taken to an absolute extreme with Katie Kaboom. Imagine the kind of creature that The Hulk would think needs to calm down, or run away from because her transformations are too freaky. That's our Katie.
* Denzel Crocker, from ''[[The Fairly
** "If they survive this, then they're FAIRIES! If they don't, I HAVE TENURE!"
*** Of course, HE survived that too. That must mean...HE'S A FAIRY!
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*** Also in G1, Galvatron often exhibits this.
* Cotton Hill, from ''[[King of the Hill]]''.
* ''[[Futurama]]''{{'}}s bit character [http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Roberto Roberto] has a hair trigger with a hair trigger:
{{quote|'''Roberto:''' "I'm thinking of a number between one and ten, guess it, I kill ya!"
'''Bender:''' "Er, 56... ish"
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* The Earl of Lemongrab from ''[[Adventure Time]].'' Being the angry, screaming result of a science experiment gone horribly wrong, he has quite a few issues to sort out.
* The titular Ren from ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]''.
* [[Memetic Mutation|LEMME TELL YA SOMETHIN',
* ''[[Batman: Under the Red Hood]]'' has Black Mask, who seems to have two temper settings. Mad, and punch all my henchmen mad. Almost all of his scenes consist of him yelling angrily. An odd exception comes near the end. {{spoiler|After being betrayed and captured by the Joker, he gives a rather deadpan "Can't. trust. no one.}}
* Zuko from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' has this tendency, especially before {{spoiler|his [[Heel Face Turn]]}}. Quite appropriate for a [[Hot-Blooded]] character with [[Playing with Fire|fire-based]] [[Personality Powers]].
* Nicole, the mother in ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'', goes from "sweet, caring mother" to "so angry she punches a hole in the wall" at the drop of a hat.
* [[Big Bad|Father]] from ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' has a fiery and explosive temper, [[Kill It With Fire| literally]]. "Operation: M.U.N.C.H.I.E.S." shows him buying vitriol at [[Welcome to Evil Mart| the villain-exclusive supermarket]], simply in order to ''keep'' his Hair-Trigger Temper.
* Spike the bulldog from [[Tom and Jerry]].
* Kyle Broflovski from ''[[South Park]]'' is quite easily pissed off. Usually because of something Cartman says or does.
** Cartman falls under this trope as well, and the results usually aren't pretty.
* [[Looney Tunes|Yosemite Sam]]
▲* The Beast of [[Beauty and The Beast]] was this initially, eventually after he warms up to Belle he learns to control his temper.
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'': Eddy and Sarah are most definitely this. Doesn't help that Eddy has [[No Indoor Voice]] whatsoever.
* Brian often finds himself triggering this with Quagmire in ''[[Family Guy]]'', who takes offense to nearly any comment Brian directs towards him and erupts in a verbal (and sometimes physical) smackdown. Granted this is not a consistent character trait for Quagmire but provoked more from [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis|his hatred for Brian and everything he stands for]].
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* The titular character on ''[[Dan Vs.]]'' is this. The slightest thing well set him off. Be it that the ATM charges him 50 cents more than last time causing him to rob a bank, or that Chris won't pick up his phone in the middle of the night to join in on one of his crazy schemes. Most of the times Dan's anger is justified at the end, but even so he will still be set off by miniscule things all the way through.
* Benson from ''[[Regular Show]]'' is always on the brink of losing it, especially when dealing with his slacker workforce.
* ''[[Squidbillies
== Real Life ==
* Pikes are extremely aggressive, and are known to attack people on swimming.
* [[Klaus Kinski]] was known for being extremely short-tempered on film sets (as is shown in the documentary ''My Best Fiend''). He once shot a gun at a hut where extras were playing poker, simply because they were making too much noise.
* ''[[(The Customer is) Not Always Right
** Sometimes those employees are the same way, especially with things related to their job. Occasionally a secretary who hears phones ringing all day in their job might snap when they hear a phone anywhere else.
* Russell Crowe
* The real Professor John Nash—portrayed by Russell Crowe in ''[[A Beautiful Mind]]''—in his younger days before he became schizophrenic. He once stuffed ice cubes down the back of another graduate student to settle an argument and on another
* Averted with the real [[Joe Pesci]], despite his tendency to play such characters. Most accounts place him as a [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|well-adjusted, pleasant man]].
* Tommy De Simone, the guy Tommy De Vito was based on. The real-life Henry Hill says the performance was "90-95%" accurate, so he really was ''that'' batshit crazy. Difference? He was actually much, much bigger—6`4, 200 lbs (and 6 years younger than Hill). Also, he killed two close friends of Gotti (one of them being the character Batts was based on), but the final straw that led to his boss deciding to have him whacked was his [[Attempted Rape]] of Karen Hill when her husband was in prison.
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* Andrew Dice Clay - a man who blows his top at the slightest provocation, even at gestures of friendship. The guy takes anything and everything the wrong way. He's a fictional character played by a guy who rarely ever breaks character, sort of like a misanthropic Pee-Wee Herman or Larry the Cable Guy.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YersIyzsOpc This kid] who not only goes off like he's possessed because his [[WoW]] account is cancelled, but because he is losing a game in another video.
** There are loads of other videos showing him throwing various other temper tantrums over silly things. One particularly [[Egregious]] example is when he's auditioning for a company's advertisement and the director happens to use the word "gay" in a sentence while coincidentally gesticulating towards the kid. Cue a
* [[Jim Cornette]], Full Stop. Watch any of his RF Video shoot interviews and you see a man who A) [[Caustic Critic|believes that he is infallible and has never failed in the world of wrestling]], B) [[Cluster F-Bomb|cusses with such abandon he would make a sailor blush with shame]], and C) Can and will go off at the slightest provocation (although admittedly that is what makes him so darn fun to watch). There is a reason he doesn't work with a major wrestling company.
* People with bipolar disorder may seem like this when a manic episode occurs.
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* The clinical term for this is [[wikipedia:Intermittent explosive disorder|Intermittent Explosive Disorder]]
* [[James Cameron]], by his own admission, has one, which has led to quite a bit of friction on the sets of his movies. The people who worked with him on ''[[Avatar]]'' say he has mellowed out since such scuffles, though.
** For example, when it got to the point where he was ready to fire Edward Furlong for forgetting his lines over nervousness about acting alongside Linda Hamilton in ''[[Terminator 2]]'', Mali Finn was the only one who was able to rein him in and convince him to give Furlong one more chance. Furlong nailed the scene, hoping to not [[You Have Failed Me...|waste that chance]].
* Al three remaining members of [[Depeche Mode]]—Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, and Andy Fletcher—had shades of this in their younger days. (It may have been a factor in why Alan Wilder left the band in 1995.) However, they all seem much calmer and more stable now.
* DMX.
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* [[Scott Steiner]], who by all accounts is a perfectly pleasant person with an incredibly short temper.
* One trait of [[wikipedia:Borderline personality disorder|Borderline Personality Disorder]] is "inappropriate anger or difficulty controlling anger".
* [[World War II]] era US Admiral Ernest King was noted to be constantly flying into rages. Not always unjustified, such as upon learning how the extreme failures of the effectively untested Mark 14 torpedo (which would not detonate, or would detonate in a way that took out its user).
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