Hair-Trigger Temper: Difference between revisions

* Dilandau Albatou from ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'' seems to be a combination between Hair Trigger Temper and a [[Psycho for Hire]].

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

** 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]] 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''.

* Kevin "O-Dog" from ''[[Menace II Society]]''. Imagine a black, slightly more trigger-happy version of Tommy DeVito from ''Goodfellas'' and you have O-Dog. In opening scene, O-Dog and the main character are in a liquor store and suspiciously watched by the proprietors. After they pay for their drinks, which they have already started drinking, the cashier tells O-Dog that he pities his mother. O-Dog responds by killing him and his wife and stealing the surveillance tape, which he proudly plays for his friends.

* Conspiracy Brother in ''[[Undercover Brother]]'' flies off on overly-paranoid, outraged (and often absurdly ill-informed) [[The Man]]-is-keeping-me-down rants on the flimsiest of provocations. Even someone cheerfully saying "Hi, Conspiracy Brother!" in greeting is guaranteed to send him spiraling off into a rant about how everyone assumes that black people spend all their time getting high.

** 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.

** 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]]}}.

** 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!!!!!!!'''"

** ''{when Ralph and Norton are spending the night together}''

'''Ralph Kramden:''' WILL YOU GO TO SLEEP! }}

* The Janitor from ''[[Scrubs]]'' warps every word that comes out of J.D's mouth into justification for making the doctor's life a living hell. After spending an eternity trying to placate the [[Manipulative Bastard]], J.D eventually gives up and tries to beat the Janitor at his own game. It's rare that he succeeds.

* Crazy Steve on ''[[Drake and Josh]]''.

** '''YOU TOOK MY ENCHILADAAAAAAAAAAA!!!'''

* In the episode "I Never Killed For My Father" from the first season of ''[[Family Ties]]'', Steven dreads that his father is coming to visit - so he tries to make a list of "safe" topics to discuss. As it turns out, though, there is no "safe" topic. When he [[Calling the Old Man Out|lets his father have it]] at the end, then the two of them manage to reconcile.

* Kim Kelly of ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'' was so sensitive that saying anything to her could strike a nerve and turn her hostile. Her boyfriend Daniel once suggested that she be rational about something, to which she replied, in a hair-trigger fashion: "Are you calling me irrational? Because I'll tear your head off, Daniel. I'll tear it off and I'll throw it over that fence."

* Chang on ''[[Community]]'' flies off the handle with little or no provocation.

* DS Barbara Havers of ''[[The Inspector Lynley Mysteries]]'', particularly in the early days.

* King Uther in ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''

 

* 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:

'''Roberto:''' "56? 56?! That's all I can think about! I'm gonna kill you you lousy 56ing..." }}

** '''[[Memetic Mutation|Windmills do not work that way!!!]]'''