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* ''[[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.<br /><br />When Ichigo calls him by his name without any honorifics, he lets it slide with only a small complaint, causing the other captains present to comment that he must be in a very good mood to be so lenient.
** A huge part of the Vizard [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Kensei Muguruma's]] personality. When first meeting the Vizards, Orihime nervously asked where the bathroom was. Love and Lisa had to restrain him from hurting her out of pure irritation. Let's also consider how he comforts a child who almost got killed by a Hollow: [[Jerk
** The biggest example in the series is Hiyori Sarugaki. She hates everyone, and takes offense at nearly anything the other characters say to her. She even once jumpkicked Shinji for literally no reason before telling him that she wasn't going to apologize.
* Eiri Yuki from ''[[Gravitation]]'' has this sort of temper with boyfriend Shuichi whenever he's trying to mess with the guy's head. In a slight subversion, however, Shuichi catches on to this ploy pretty quickly. That's not to say that he's any good at defending against it though.
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** 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.
** A giveaway is the fact that his [[Meaningful Name|surname]] is a homophone for the Japanese word for anger.
* Switzerland and South Italy of ''[[
** 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.
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* 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 ''[[
* 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.
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* ''[[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 ''[[
* [[Hot Scientist]] and [[Knight Templar Big Brother]] Souichi Tatsumi from the [[Boys Love]] manga ''[[
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* Johnny C, from ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]''. In addition to being [[Ax Crazy]], Johnny has killed dozens of people for one person's poor choice of words. He's wacky like that.
** Great, now ''you're'' dead.
* Mustafa / "Staffie" from ''[[
* Honestly, [[The Incredible Hulk]] should be the poster boy for this trope. His entire existence basically hinges on this entire concept, and even if you do manage to get him to a calm state, he often assumes that someone is stealth insulting him or trying to to tell him what to do, which either causes him to leave in a huff or just attempt to smash your ass.
* Namor the [[Sub-Mariner]].
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** Pesci's character from ''Eight Heads In A Duffel Bag'' is basically a more subdued version Tommy from ''Goodfellas'' - who has all the hair trigger of the other character but is smart enough to know that shooting everything in sight just because it's annoying him is a bad idea - he makes do by making very sincere promises to kill everyone later instead. In the end, however, [[Heel Face Turn|he decides against it.]]
** And of course, there's Leo Getz's penchant for the epic [[Cluster F-Bomb]] in the ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'' series.
* Don Logan from ''[[
* Annie Wilkes from the film ''[[Misery]]'' is a frightening and [[Yandere|demented]] example of a woman with a [[Hair-Trigger Temper]] turned [[Up to Eleven]], all the way to [[Ax Crazy]] [[Stalker
** The scene is even more traumatic in the book, thanks to Annie's [[An Axe to Grind|choice of weapon]]. The movie version is a case of [[Pragmatic Adaptation]].
* Francis Begbie from ''[[Trainspotting]]''. He picks fights for disturbingly minor provocations, including one incident where he blamed a man eating chips of spoiling his pool shot. However, Begbie also intentionally provokes fights for no other reason than that he's addicted to violence and mayhem. In the book, Begbie is described as a large and imposing man, but director [[Danny Boyle]] decided to imply a [[Napoleon Complex]] by casting the fairly short [[Robert Carlyle]].
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{{quote| "[[This Is Sparta|This is bowling]]! [[Memetic Mutation|There are]] ''[[Memetic Mutation|rules]]''! ''[[Serious Business|MARK IT ZERO]]!''}}
** 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 (
* Amon Göth in ''[[Schindler's List]]''. [[Truth in Television]].
* Harvey Keitel as Feraud in ''The Duelists''.
* [[Robert Downey, Jr.]] in ''[[Due Date]]'', whose character's outburst gets him kicked off the plane and placed on the "no-fly" list, kicking off the movie plot. His wife even mentions his temper.
* 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]].
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== Literature ==
* ''[[
* 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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* 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.
* Visser Three in ''[[
* Vlad "The Impaler" in ''[[
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* The doorman from ''[[Seinfeld]]''.
** This page seriously got away without mentioning The Soup Nazi or Frank Costanza? For shame.
* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' once parodied this with a game called "What Are You Trying to Say?" where Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles played ''two'' people with hair trigger tempers taking each other's comments the wrong way.
* Misty Raines from ''[[The Amanda Show]]'' [[Show Within a Show]], "Moody's Point." [[Catch Phrase|"You're so hurtful!"]]
* Everyone in ''[[
* Nord, Vandal of the Roads, from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''The Greatest Show in the Galaxy''. Any offer of help is met with threats, as is any request for assistance.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuBFAp6EmnY&feature=related Malcolm Tucker and Jamie McDonald] of ''[[The Thick of It]]'' are both possessors of very, very short fuses for anger.
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* [[Manipulative Editing]] and the stressful nature of ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' will make it seem like several racers a season have one of these, but Season 14's [[Fiery Redhead|Jaime Faith Edmondson]], above all others, was infamous for going from calm to a rampaging monster at the drop of a hat.
** Jonathan from season six also became infamous for it, to the point that pretty much all the viewers were genuinely concerned that he was physically abusive to his wife and teammate, and the two received a talking-to from Dr. Phil after the season ended.
* Chef Ramsey from ''[[
* Chang on ''[[
* DS Barbara Havers of ''[[The Inspector Lynley Mysteries]]'', particularly in the early days.
{{quote| '''Lynley''': The woman is a minefield!}}
* King Uther in ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''
== Music ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYL5H46QnQ "I threw it on the ground!"]
* On [[
== Tabletop Games ==
* This is the clan weakness for the Brujah in ''[[
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* 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 [[
* 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]]...
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== Web Animation ==
* Many flash cartoons feature mass fighting where characters can be provoked even by bumping into them.
* Paul Hammerbro from ''[[
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== 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 [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].
* [[True Capitalist
* 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.
== Western Animation ==
* Pesto the pigeon from the "Goodfeathers" segment of ''[[
** 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 ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]''. Even discounting his fairy-triggered [[Berserk Button]], there is ''nothing'' you can say to this guy without him going crazy.
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*** 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
** 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''.
*** Also in G1, Galvatron often exhibits this.
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** Perhaps more so Daisy, Donald is at least usually cranky on a consistant basis. Daisy on the other hand can go from polite and kindly to ''ten times as violent'', sometimes for even pettier reasons than Donald.
* Heloise and Lucius from ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''.
* The Earl of Lemongrab from ''[[
* The titular Ren from ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]''.
* [[Memetic Mutation|LEMME TELL YA SOMETHIN', TV TROPES]]. [[Ben 10
* [[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
* 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.
* Spike the bulldog from [[
* 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.
* [[Squidbillies|Early Cuyler]]: Mad as hell and twice as drunk.
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* Also, a good portion of the male minor nobility in Europe in the 16th and 17th Centuries AD - the ones who were commonly known as "swashbucklers" for their habit of roaming the streets slapping their sword blades against their small shields ("swashing the buckler") spoiling for a fight. As Edwin Tunis related in his book "Weapons" (1954), it was practically impossible to speak to one of these "lads" civilly enough to avoid him challenging you to a duel on the spot.
** Sydney Anglo, in his book ''The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe'', noted Renaissance sword-fighting schools emphasized offense over defense, and especially getting the first strike in a fight. Beer and wine were also cheap and readily available in the cities (they were cleaner than the water and Europeans didn't have a lot of other options for mood-altering substances). The combination of the two was pretty lethal.
* Samurai during the Tokugawa period. The long era of peace left many of the samurai redundant, making them especially irritable, and if ''ronin'', masterless samurai, with nothing left to lose. This made them basically walking powder barrels, as can be attested in the ''[[
* [[John Milius]], director of ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' and ''[[Red Dawn]]''. Was largely the basis for [[The Big Lebowski|Walter Sobchak]]. What does that tell ya?
* Sports coaches and gym teachers in general.
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* Sean Penn.
* Canada Geese can be ''vicious''.
* [[
* Adam Carolla. His [[Loveline]] and podcast rants have made this an artform.
* [[The Napoleon|George "Baby Face" Nelson]]. Such a stark-raving maniac that he scared the crap out of John Dillinger.
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