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** Played for laughs when Death the Kid is taking his exam, crying about not being able to write his name neatly enough...and then rips the paper. Fainting and blood ensue.

** Played more seriously when {{spoiler|Maka enters the Envy Chapter in the Book of Eibon, and is reduced to tears upon aknowledging sides of herself that she hates.}}

** Kotonoha ''did'' recover when Makoto hugged her and apologized. {{spoiler|Only to '''permanently'' go [[Yandere]] once she finds him dead.}}

** Nanami has a brief one when {{spoiler|everyone sees the tape featuring her and her boyfriend having sex.}}

* Usagi in [[Tail of the Moon]] {{spoiler|after the destruction of her home and the presumed death of her husband}}.

* Ichigo Kurosaki from ''[[Bleach]]'' has a brief one after his friends are almost {{spoiler|killed by Yammy}} and he was unable to save them because of his inner psycho. After visiting Orihime in the hospital, Ichigo basically shuts down internally because of his failure. Then Rukia kicks him in the head and forces him to handle his problems rather than freaking out about them.

** Also when {{spoiler|Ichigo transforms back into himself after stabbing Ishida and Ulquiorra pulls the sword out}}, he majorly freezes up, unable to grasp how he could have done such a thing.

** After {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|accidentally impaling]] his childhood friend/the one person he has sworn to protect with all his being}}, {{spoiler|Hitsugaya}} briefly goes into one. {{spoiler|He then attacks Aizen in a blind fury and gets cut down for his trouble.}}

** The X-Cution arc brings one so bad for Ichigo that he almost crosses the [[Despair Event Horizon]] {{spoiler|after Tsukishima brainwashes his friends and sisters and drives them against him}}, and '''then''' {{spoiler|Ginjo reveals that he and Tsukishima are the [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]}}. This reduces poor Ichigo to a complete mess, {{spoiler|and it takes a MASSSIVE intervention from the shinigami to get him fixed}}.

* In ''Ichigo 100%'', Satsuki has one when she witnesses what she thinks is Junpei out on a date at a movie theatre when he is really showing the new girl the awesomeness that he sees in movies.

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': Asuka after being [[Mind Rape|mind raped]], and Shinji during most of ''End of Evangelion'' after being forced to [[Shoot the Dog]]. He spends the entire first half of the story barely able to walk and completely unable to speak, and occasionally curls up into a ball when he hears about more imminent danger. Misato evokes [[Distracted by the Sexy]] to get him conscious again: she gives him a "grown-up kiss" and promises "the rest" if he manages to survive. He snaps out of his BSOD and goes to find Unit 01. {{spoiler|Of course, as soon as he can't see Misato anymore, she collapses and dies.}}

** Shinji sometimes displays another, much more unnerving version of this trope in a form of a [[Unstoppable Rage|berserk rage]] when he gets pushed past what his rational mind can handle.

* A far less serious version of this is Dororo from ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', whose "Trauma Switch" (triggered by feeling ignored, or by a reminder of how Keroro took advantage of him in their childhood) would frequently cause him to sulk in the [[Corner of Woe]], on the verge of tears. In one episode this became a plot point, where the Trauma Switch got "stuck", and Keroro, Tamama, and Giroro had to [[Journey to the Center of the Mind|enter Dororo's mind]] to fix things. Ironically, Keroro can sometimes go through something similar when all the pent-up remorse from being ''responsible'' for Dororo's childhood trauma kicks in.

** In an earlier episode, the Garuru Platoon's invasion is pinned on Keroro at first, and even his best friend Fuyuki doesn't believe in his innocence. Keroro is reduced to an emotional wreck as a result. [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|Cue Giroro's intervention]] (though it only made Keroro feel [[It Got Worse|worse]]).

* In ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' Fakir suffers a brief one after Ahiru digs up the {{spoiler|suppressed memories of his parents' violent deaths--that were the fault of his powers}}.

* In ''[[Sentou Yousei Yukikaze]]'', Rei suffers this when his beloved aircraft is destroyed. Somewhat justified that he is a loner, and somewhat a [[Loners Are Freaks|freak]] at that. Freak as in, he prefers the company of his aircraft (and the titular AI inside it) rather than anyone else, even his [[Ho Yay|unusually very close commanding major]]. Thing is, the AI uploaded itself into a new aircraft before the old one got blasted, and it seems that the new AI, in the new aircraft, destroyed the old one in what seems as a [[Mercy Kill]]. As a result, Rei doesn't trust the new aircraft, even if it contains his old AI. [[MST3K Mantra|Better not think about this too much...]]

* In ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]] Kai'', {{spoiler|Rika Furude, revealed as the true protagonist behind the scenes of the entire series, goes through temporary BSOD every time she inevitably dies in each arc at which point Hanyū Furude, an ancestral victim turned shrine god, resets her. It takes a while, the aid of Hanyu and events that create deja vu, to spark Rika's memory each time, since she lives her live over each and every time until her memories slowly flood back to her. Hanyu herself has gone through an epic BSOD in which she has lost all hope for changing Rika's fate and just goes through the motions of resurrecting her each time. It takes Rika's changes in attitude (which happens as a result of K1's loyalty and hope) to change Hanyu's attitude.}}

** {{spoiler|Rika}} gets a more tangible and obvious [[Heroic BSOD]] moment during Minagoroshi-hen. {{spoiler|When Satoko's [[Evil Uncle]] Teppei returns to Hinamizawa (a sign Rika usually takes as making a lost cause of a particular world), she's inspired to reach out for help, which she at first gets from Irie and Takano. However, when she's told that nothing can be done because the Uncle is already being tracked by the authorities, which forgoes any interference by the "Institute", she breaks down and curses at each one to die (in ways she knows they die by in past worlds), and then proceeds to drink herself into a stupor serious even by her standards.}}

** ...Of course, one could argue that what happened {{spoiler|after she ''did'' cast the spell}} was, in fact, the ultimate [[Heroic BSOD]], {{spoiler|as the Lord Of Nightmares completely takes over Lina, pretty much ''killing'' her}}.

** She nearly had another one a few episodes earlier, when she was attacked by the zombified citizens of Sylphiel's [[Doomed Hometown]], reanimated as puppets by the aforementioned dark lord. In self-defense, she stabbed a little girl who was attacking her with a knife; upon realizing it, [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child|poor Lina]] nearly lost it and started screaming in horror ("I... I killed a child? It was a little girl! [[This Cannot Be!|It can't be, it can't be, IT CAN'T BE!]]") -- until Sylphiel gave her a [[Cooldown Hug]] and reminded her that the child, and all the people attacking her, were already dead.

* Tamaki of ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' has a pretty epic one during one of Casanova... Bossa Nova... er, [[My Name Is Not Durwood|Kasanoda's]] visits to the music room, when he realizes he ''actually isn't'' Haruhi's father (and realizes the [[Parental Incest|strange]] [[Wife Husbandry|implications]] that being her father would carry). Played entirely for laughs.

* Vegeta of ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' gets one of these in the first Broly movie. Upon realizing what they're dealing with, he goes almost catatonic with hopelessness and actually sits out most of the fight. Then Piccolo grabs him by the hair and tries to insult some sense into him - he just hangs limp, blathering about the pointlessness of it all until Piccolo gives up and tosses him to the ground. He's on his feet and fighting a few minutes later, so apparently it sank in.

** A canon BSOD happens during the Frieza fight. When Vegeta finally realizes that even with his new powers he's still no match for Frieza, he freezes up and starts crying.

** Arguably, the violant rampage variant of this happens when several of the characters become Super Saiyans, particularly Goku's transformation while fighting Freiza, Gohan while fighting Cell, and Trunks in the special about his past.

** Piccolo gets a minor one in the anime version of the Buu saga, when {{spoiler|Gotenks' reckless fight with Buu blows Kami's lookout to hell and back.}} He stands there {{spoiler|holding a chunk of the floor}}, gaping at it and rambling until circumstances force him to... y'know, ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged|dodge]]''.

*** Piccolo also has a brief one when he first meets Cell. When Cell manages to absorb a human through his tail, Piccolo was staring in shock and horror, and reacts with an even more horrified expression when Cell addresses him by his name, continuously remaining frozen in place as Cell powers up. He gets better, though.

** Let's not forget when Guts finishes his assassination on Julius, where he had to kill a kid who very much reminded him of... him.

*** He doesn't actually experience a full HBSD there. He's falling into one, and then the arrival of a pair of guards [[Heroic Safe Mode|force him back to the present.]]

** And Griffith had one when Guts left the Hawks and defeated him, which would soon lead to worse things to come for him.

* In the ''[[Bastard!!]]'' manga, Dark Schneider occasionally experiences Heroic BSOD's for a variety of reasons. Some of them are very minor and short (often triggered by a spat with Yoko in the beginning of the series, when Rushe still matters), but a major one (off-screen) when he {{spoiler|finds out that Yoko apparently died, then goes to hell.}} He's promptly snapped out of it by Porno Dianno by virtue of her wandering all over the place pretty much naked. Talk about priority placement.

** White is hit ''hard'' after {{spoiler|Gigi, her star Tepig actress, willingly decides to side with N, leaving White to fall out of the Ferris Wheel alone. She is left sprawled on the ground, her eyes blank and full of tears}}.

* In ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'', Tamahome goes into the violent rampage variety of BSOD when he {{spoiler|comes home to find his entire family - including his younger siblings ranging in age from five to twelve years old - have been gruesomely murdered.}}

{{quote|'''Nuriko''': [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Tama-chan. That's a dish.]]}}

* At the end of the second episode of ''[[After War Gundam X|Gundam X]]'', [[Fainting Seer|Tiffa]] [[The Woobie|Addil]] has a ''memorable'' one (screaming and collapsing included), after {{spoiler|Garrod fires the Satellite Cannon with her help and she senses the deaths of ''many'' people under its powers}}.

* In ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula]]'', Hayato goes through this more than once, but especially the one in the TV series when {{spoiler|he learned that his father, the person who created Asurada's system, was killed by his former boss.}} His BSOD over this event was a major factor in {{spoiler|him using Asurada GSX's [[Nitro Boost|boost]] in a very dangerous spot at the qualifying round of the fourth race, causing Asurada to crash into the trees, tearing up the car whole.}} The driver's cockpit, however, remained intact, Hayato came out unharmed and recovers after that.

* ''[[Jyu-Oh-Sei]]'''s Thor and Third both go through these; Thor after discovering {{spoiler|that he is a bioengineered organism creating from the DNA of past Beast Kings}}, and Third after {{spoiler|learning that Earth, which he has dreamed of seeing for his entire life, was destroyed over 130 years ago.}} Third does not recover.

** Later, {{spoiler|Homura}} suffers a brief but tearful one when {{spoiler|Madoka ''almost'' makes the dreaded contract with Kyuubey. After shooting Kyuubey to stop him, she breaks down crying.}}

** {{spoiler|Sayaka}} not only suffers one {{spoiler|when she starts angsting and realising what being a Puella Magi ''truly'' means (isolation, becoming a Lich, etc.)}}... but she actually [[Despair Event Horizon|goes further]] {{spoiler|and becomes a witch.}}

* In ''[[Virgin Love|Junai no Seinen]]'', Kaoru has a panic attack the first time Daigo leaves him, and then again when Daigo shows up at Ian's farewell party with a date.

* In ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]'', Kaidou Kaoru has a really hilarious one when Inui {{spoiler|tells him that they're going on a date just as Kaidou's phone runs out of battery. Inui actually meant that he believed Momoshiro and An are going out, but he couldn't say it for the above mentioned reason.}}

** A more serious BSOD happens to Ryoma {{spoiler|when he loses ''badly'' to Sanada}} in the anime.

* In the anime of ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', Tohru has one after {{spoiler|seeing Kyo's true form and getting verbally tormented by Akito}}, and staggers about in the rain and mud with a blank stare on her face. She later snaps out of it.

* In ''[[Oniisama e...|Oniisama E]]'', several characters find themselves at the receiving end:

** The lead Nanako Misonou has a huge one that lasts for at very least ''two days'' when {{spoiler|her love interest Rei dies, after she falls from a bridge and gets fatally hit by a train while trying to catch a falling bouquet of flowers... [[Stood Up|on her way to their first date]].}} She had several others in the course of the story, but she put herself back to her feet thanks to [[The Power of Friendship]]; this one, however, is so powerful that she almost crosses the [[Despair Event Horizon]]. {{spoiler|Though she does get better in the end.}}

** In the anime, {{spoiler|Mariko Shinobu}} has ''four'' [[Up to Eleven|in, oh,]] [[Trauma Conga Line|around a week.]] First, when {{spoiler|she finds her father Hikawa with his girlfriend in a restaurant, during an outing with Nanako and Tomoko.}} Second, when {{spoiler|her mother Hisako tries to calm her down, only for Mariko to tell her what happened and call her out on how she always hides her feelings in regards to her cheating husband. (Which causes poor Hisako a BSOD of her own, as Mariko locks herself in her room to cry.)}} This is followed by another after {{spoiler|she attacks Aya in class with a boxcutter for mocking her parents's divorce in public}}. And the final one happens {{spoiler|some days after the attack, when she realizes that for all of her hate towards Aya, [[You Are What You Hate|they're actually]] [[Not So Different]].}} (In the manga, [[Adaptation Expansion|only the second and the third one happen.]])

** Takehiko Henmi, Nanako's "Oniisama" aka her [[Big Brother Mentor]], suffers a milder one in the anime {{spoiler|when he learns that his girlfriend Kaoru might have a relapse on her breast cancer, which all but states that she will die in less than four years. He recovers relatively quickly, however.}}

** Out of the other Shuffle Aliance members, only {{spoiler|Argo Gulskii}} did NOT go through an Heroic BSOD after {{spoiler|being forcibly infected with DG Cells ''and'' being [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]}}. The other three showed their mental and emotional damage in different ways: {{spoiler|Chibodee drank himself into a stupor twice in a row, George acted snippy and rude to others while mentally reviving a tragedy from his past, and Sai Saici acted nonchalant at first but heavily hallucinated that Argo was the Devil Gundam when they were face to face.}}

* ''[[Inuyasha]]'': Just as [[Aloof Big Brother|Sesshoumaru's]] finally getting used to the idea that [[BFS|Tessaiga]] was meant for [[The Hero|Inuyasha]] and [[Healing Shiv|Tenseiga]] was meant for him, he learns the [[Awful Truth|truth]]: {{spoiler|Tenseiga is merely a cast-off piece of Tessaiga, separated from Tessaiga so that Sesshoumaru could master the Meidou Zangetsuha technique and then transfer it back to Tessaiga, meaning that the attack form he earned due to his compassion for [[Broken Bird|Kagura's]] [[Tear Jerker|death]] isn't his to keep - it's destined for Inuyasha's use.}} Sesshoumaru takes the news badly and goes to Toutousai for confirmation where he concludes it's proof he was the [[The Unfavourite|outcast son]] and that his father was [[Parental Favouritism|training Inuyasha to kill him]]. Even Inuyasha and his friends think Inuyasha's father was being [[Abusive Parent|far too cruel]]. Sesshoumaru shuts down so completely over this knowledge that, when Naraku takes advantage of his visit to Toutousai to attack Sesshoumaru's unprotected group, Sesshoumaru simply watches from a distant cliff top and doesn't go to their rescue. Inuyasha's group saves them instead and stays with Sesshoumaru's group until Sesshoumaru finally decides to return. {{spoiler|When he does it's to confront the situation with Inuyasha once and for all in a [[Die or Fly]] test that not only resolves the issue of the swords but also helps start Sesshoumaru on the road to recovery from his [[Heroic BSOD]].}}

* Yomi in ''[[Black Rock Shooter]]'' after Kagari talks about how she no longer needs Yomi's support now that she's independent.

* ''[[Irresponsible Captain Tylor]]'': You wouldn't think happy-go-lucky Tylor would be the type to suffer from one, but {{spoiler|the death of his mentor, Admiral Hanner,}} hits him hard. He practically sleepwalks through (and right out of) a medal ceremony in his honor, and is later found atop a flagpole by his crew. He reboots, and {{spoiler|decides to leave the UPSF, though [[Ten-Minute Retirement|this doesn't stick]]}}.