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** Bulgaria is believed to be one as well.
* Sousuke from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' can get this way towards people, mostly if it seems to him like the person is "threatening the wellbeing of" Kaname. Even the most mundane, normal things that people say or do can be misconstrued by him as being a dangerous "threat" that must be eliminated. Justified in that he was raised by the KGB, with a highly suspicious, [[Crazy Survivalist]] nature.
* Heiwajima Shizuo of ''[[Durarara!!]]'' has a hair-trigger temper and [[Charles Atlas Superpower|monstrous strength]] to go along with it. Subverted somewhat, as he's aware and ashamed of his violent habits and wants to get "strong enough" to keep a lid on them.
* Buggy the Clown of ''[[One Piece]]'' is an interesting variation, where there is [[Berserk Button|only one thing that sets him off]]: Mentioning his red nose. However, he seems to be a bit hard of hearing, and tends to interpret anything you say as an insult to his nose, meaning he effectively has a [[Hair-Trigger Temper]].
* Shinobu of ''[[Junjou Romantica]]'' often misinterprets even the slightest of things and becomes irrationally angry over them. The fact that he knows he's smarter than everyone else only makes this more apparent.
* [[Big Bad|Grineed]] from ''[[Beet the Vandel Buster]]'' goes berserk when he's addressed in a casual manner. "Dude, calm down" will make him blow a crater in the ground with the sheer force of his trembling with rage. He constantly soaks himself in sedative resin, because he knows that sort of thing is "Not OK", no matter who you are.
* Manabizaki, the main character of ''[[SWOT]]'', always seems angry and annoyed. He gets pissed at anything he deems which interrupts his study time (which happens a lot), and has a tendency to fly into [[Berserk Button|a rage at the slightest provocation]]. The fact that his school is filled with [[Delinquents]] doesn't help.
* Maho from ''[[Wandering Son]]'' gets mad at everything. Saori is a more mild case, and has tried to change.
* Mio from ''[[Nichijou]]'' has a tendency to get angry whenever Yuuko or her sister, Yoshino is around. When she gets angry, [[Berserk Button|she]] [[Unstoppable Rage|gets]] ''[[Unstoppable Rage|angry]]''.
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'' seems to have a base state of "mildly irritated", which flares up to "pissed" and finally "[[Super-Powered Evil Side|homicidal]]" (if you have the misfortune to separate him from [[Restraining Bolt|Tetsusaiga]] while putting him under threat of death)
** As does his brother, Sesshoumaru. It's less dramatic because his brother's idea of getting angry tends to be [[Tranquil Fury]], but [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] on at least one occasion by [[Ultimate Blacksmith|Toutousai]] who comments that it's easy to see they're brothers due to their identical short tempers.
* Yanagin in ''[[Daily Lives of High School Boys]]'' maybe a [[Distaff Counterpart]] to Hidenori in that they're both bookish, [[Genre Savvy]] and a bit of a [[Big Ham]]--what's different is Yanagin has a hair-trigger temper (and punches out Ikushima a lot in the process).
* [[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 [[
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== 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.
** Another King instance: Wilma in ''[[Needful Things]]''.
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== 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.
== 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.
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* 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.''
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** "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!
*** "Hmm, you're right. HAVE A NICE DAY!!!" *Twitch*
* As a result of drastic [[Not as You Know Them]] treatment, the formerly sanguine Silverbolt starts showing a surly hair trigger temper in ''[[Transformers]] [[Beast Machines]]''. Particularly whenever Blackarachnia speaks to him. Explosive outbursts are rare, but he still takes exception to nearly everything.
** Then there are G1 characters Afterburner, Rampage, and Slugfest. Afterburner displays dizzying heights of hysteric anger and rage at the most innocuous comment (though he's ''always'' angry, he tends to need some "setting off" for it to show all that strongly); Rampage is angry all the time except while watching television; and Slugfest, being both stupid and paranoid, is too dim to know when someone ''isn't'' making fun of him and just always reacts with aggression to ''everything''.
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* 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]], a song in [[The Looney Tunes Show]] is basically about his temper.
* 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]].
** Joe too even more so he often lashes out with even the slightest provocation and beats even his friends to a bloody pulp, this is rather jarring because in the early episodes he was very friendly and outgoing and he rarely got upset.
* 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.
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* 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|The general public, as testified by retail employees]]. You can't win. They won't let you.
** 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 occassion crippled another graduate student with a metal ashtray stand because of an insult. The film omits this aspect of Nash's character, which is somewhat ironic with Nash being played by Crowe.
* 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, 200lbs (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.
* In the non-fiction book ''Wiseguy'' on which the film ''Goodfellas'' is based, Henry Hill and author Nicholos Pileggi describe another mobster(who was not portrayed in the film) named Stanley Diamond, who, like Tommy De Simone, had an awful Hair Trigger Temper that terrified even his fellow gangsters. Likewise, Jimmy Burke, the gangster played by Robert De Niro in the film, was toned down for the movie and in reality was nearly as volatile as De Simone and Diamond.
* Pesci's ''Casino'' character was based on Tony Spilotro, suspected of at least 22 murders.
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* Mel Gibson, if those tapes are any indication.
* Sean Penn.
* Canada Geese can be ''vicious''.
* [[Vanilla Ice]]. In a way, it's hard to blame him; he's been one of [[Hip Hop]]'s biggest whipping boys for years. Of course, that doesn't make it any easier to watch his outbursts on ''The Surreal Life.''
* Adam Carolla. His [[Loveline]] and podcast rants have made this an artform.
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