Hair-Trigger Temper: Difference between revisions

Characters with a hair-trigger temper are generally grumpy to everybody, but they usually have a favorite victim for their rampages -- often a [[Naive Newcomer]] who doesn't understand ''how'' they keep managing to offend the guy. This can be harmful to the victim's health -- while heroic characters generally restrain themselves to verbal abuse, [[Anti-Villain]]ous ones can get physically violent, and out-and-out [[Villain]]ous ones may even ''kill'' people for annoying them. However, such characters are essentially bullies -- if someone tougher or higher ranked than them tells them to knock it off, they probably will.

 

 

Compare [[Drama Queen]] (who acts dramatic at the drop of a hat).

* Misty Raines from ''[[The Amanda Show]]'' [[Show Within a Show]], "Moody's Point." [[Catch Phrase|"You're so hurtful!"]]

* Everyone in ''[[Pizza (TV)|Pizza]]'', as is standard for Australians.

* [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.

* Susie Greene from ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'', in spades. Usually combined with [[Cluster F-Bomb]]

* [[Memetic Mutation|LEMME TELL YA SOMETHIN', TV TROPES]]. [[Ben 10 (Animation)|RATH]] IS MAD YOU DIDN'T PUT [[Third Person Person|RATH]] ON HERE ALREADY.

* [[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.}}

* 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 [[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]].

* People with bipolar disorder may seem like this when a manic episode occurs.

* [[Horsing Around|Camels, and indeed some horses,]] [[Moody Mount|can be like this]].

* [[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]].

* Toddlers also tend to be like this, especially under the age of 3. This is kind of justified because they're very limited in ways to express themselves.

* Excessive alcohol consumption can induce this. Recovering alcoholics are also often like this when they first quit drinking.

* [[Scott Steiner]], who by all accounts is a perfectly pleasant person with an incredibly short temper.

 

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