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* Oga from ''[[Beelzebub (Manga)|Beelzebub]]'' experiences a huge one after {{spoiler|Hilda lets herself get captured by the Jabberwock and his Dragon to save Oga and Baby Beel}}. Considering this was primarily a comedy driven manga until almost this ''very'' chapter, the readers faces mirror Oga's quite well.
* In ''[[Soul Eater (Manga)|Soul Eater]]'', Maka goes into a brief one (during the remedial lesson in the graveyard that introduces Sid the Zombie and Dr. Franken Stein after finding out from Shinigami-sama that 1) she's been collecting a grand total of zero souls and 2) she will be expelled if she fails to pass the remedial lesson. It takes a full four panels (and for Sid to pop out of the ground, hoisting her into the air and holding her by her ankle) to snap her out of it.
** 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.}}
* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush|Yuno Gasai]] of ''[[Mirai Nikki (Manga)|Mirai Nikki]]'' fame does this when she realizes that, due to the rules of the Future Diary game, {{spoiler|she will eventually have to kill Yukiteru, the boy she's been working together with and is [[Yandere|hopelessly in love with]]}}.
** {{spoiler|Yuki}} suffers a pretty nasty one complete with [[Paranoia Fuel]], of the [[Kill Them All]] variety in chapter 50.
* In ''[[Robotech]]: New Generation'', Scott Bernard spends an entire episode in this state after the heroes go to join a force of over 6000 soldiers (and giant robots) only to find the entire army completely wiped out. He only snaps out of it to save a helpless amnesiac girl (who he then names after his dead fiancé. Yeah...).
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* Takatsuki from ''[[Wandering Son]]'' seizes up and curls up on the ground when her gym teacher yells at her to wear a bra. Her class thinks it's funny, but being a transsexual, she takes it badly. She gets over it, and does some shopping.
** Nitori had one of these after he {{spoiler|crossdressed to school and got hit with a [[Double Standard]] compared to the girls, making him a laughing stock}}. He got over it eventually. Chiba had these constantly in middle school.
* Kiba, the protagonist from ''[[WolfsWolf's Rain]]'' has one, once his [[Interspecies Romance|humanoid flower/girlfriend]] and reason for living, Cheza, ''disintegrates'' into millions of seeds in his hands after fighting an epic battle with the [[Big Bad]] for [[Failure Knight|''her'' safety.]] This one is a little more intense, as he never gets over it, and dies shortly after. He's also the ''last thing on earth to die''.
* ''[[Peacemaker Kurogane]]'': Quite a lot of characters have several, with Tetsunosuke being the most frequent victim. Also, Suzu after he finds {{spoiler|his master Yoshida dead.}}
* ''[[School Days (Visual Novel)|School Days]]'': Sekai has one after {{spoiler|Makoto kisses Kotonoha in front of her}}, and Kotonoha very likely has a '''[[Go Mad From the Revelation|permanent]]''' '''[[Despair Event Horizon|one]]''' after {{spoiler|she is raped by Makoto's friend Taisuke}} and then dumped by Makoto.
** 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.}}
* Kaede in ''[[Shuffle (Visual Novel)|Shuffle]]'' has one after her mother dies and another after Rin starts dating Asa.
* 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.
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** 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.
* Yomiko Readman suffers a [[Heroic BSOD]] late in the ''[[Read or Die (Anime)|Read or Die]]'' manga {{spoiler|when she relives the events that led to her lover Donnie's death, and learns that ''she'' was the one who was [[Shoot the Dog|forced to kill him]]}}. It gets so bad that she doesn't even want to read books anymore for a good few chapters.
** In ROD: The TV, all of the Paper Sisters, especially Maggie and Anita more so, suffer from collective [[Heroic BSOD|Heroic BSODs]] when {{spoiler|Joker reveals that them becoming sisters, their powers, and all of their memories from before their joining were all planned.}}
* Chrono suffers from this ''several'' times in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', although the worst is probably after the [[It Got Worse|disastrous]] battle at the carnival mid-way through the series. In the manga he goes so far as to go into an [[Angst Coma]] over it.
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** He later has a more traditional BSOD when Jack Rakan reveals how weak Negi is compared to his enemies.
** And has a [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v04/c033/19.html more comedic one] when a series of stressful events is followed by [[Shrinking Violet|Nodoka]] confessing her love for him.
** Yue has a dramatic one when {{spoiler|she finally accepts that she does, in fact, love Negi; believing that she's betrayed her best friend (the aforementioned Nodoka) by [[Matchmaker Crush|developing feelings for Negi herself]] when [[Shipper Onon Deck|she's supposed to be supporting Nodoka's relationship with him]]. Nodoka, of course, doesn't look at it that way and has to [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slap Yue out of it]].}} The breakdown is even more pronounced due to Yue mostly being an [[Emotionless Girl]] up to that point.
*** She later subverts it, as it looks like she will go into another {{spoiler|when her classmate from the magic academy Emily is erased from existence in her arms}}, but once her other friends {{spoiler|Colette and Beatrice}} are under attack she reacts and joins them in the fight.
*** Negi has an epic one in the [[Gecko Ending]] of the anime, after {{spoiler|Asuna dies. He manages to hold it back for a short while, but then he finds one of the bells she used to wear in her hair and completely breaks down. He does eventually find a way to save her.}}
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** Negi has ''yet another'' one of these when he starts realizing just [[Love Dodecahedron|how]] [[Unwanted Harem|many]] [[Shotacon|of his]] [[Hot for Student|students]] like him ''that'' way. Notably, while he BSOD'd at being informed that there were two more besides the one he knew about, ''[[Up to Eleven|there were several haremettes that the person cluing him in had left out]]''.
** And his most profound one was when the reveal exactly why and who was behind {{spoiler|his home town getting [[Petrified]] so enraged Nodoka's [[Mind Probe|Mind Reading book]] [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v29/c265/9.html turns black with thoughts of "Kill them" and "Do Not Forgive"] which requires an [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Epic]] [[Bright Slap]] from [[Meta Guy|Chisame]] to slap him out of it}}.
* Being as ''[[Naru TaruNarutaru]]'' is an unapologetically brutal [[Deconstruction]] of the [[Mon]] genre, lead character [[Action Girl|Shiina Tamai]] is rather prone to this trope. The first time it happens is after {{spoiler|a painful [[Shoot the Dog]] scenario, in which [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|her crazed friend Hiroko]] is killed by Shiina's mon Hoshimaru right in front of her}}. Several volumes later, {{spoiler|she learns at the ''worst'' possible time that Hoshimaru isn't actually ''hers'', but instead belongs to her ally [[Manipulative Bastard|Takeo]].}} Finally, {{spoiler|witnessing the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] of her beloved father Shunji}} leaves her in such a terrible state that {{spoiler|her friend Akira - a ''[[Shrinking Violet]]'' - has to [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slap her out of it]].}}
* From [[Mohiro Kitoh|the same author]], there's ''[[Bokurano]]'''s [[Deconstruction]] of the [[Humongous Mecha]] genre, and as such it also features more than one of these.
** When {{spoiler|Masaru "Kodama" Kodaka}} realises that {{spoiler|he accidentally killed his father in his battle}}, he blanks out and starts with a [[Madness Mantra]]: "There's no way {{spoiler|my dad}} could've died... there's no way {{spoiler|my dad}} could've died..."
** {{spoiler|Aiko "Anko" Tokosumi}} has another in the anime when {{spoiler|the kids find out that Youko Machi is [[The Mole]]}}, screaming and [[Armor-Piercing Slap|slapping]] {{spoiler|her}} around repeatedly, and then letting out a [[Big No]] as {{spoiler|Koyemshi punishes her by making her the next Pilot.}} Made worse by {{spoiler|her dad being involved in a scandal when caught cheating on her mom; Mrs. Tokosumi has ''another one'', going [[Lady Drunk]] at the whole situation.}} However, {{spoiler|Anko reocovers in the nick of time and goes all [[Plucky Girl]], winning her battle and then dying in peace}}.
** {{spoiler|Jun Ushiro}} has another in the manga, during his battle. {{spoiler|He almost cracks because of the pressure on him and his situation as a [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] and [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot|throws up]] over his clothes. After putting on a [[Custom Uniform]], though, he gets somewhat better and finishes his match, passing away afterwards.}}
* This happens with Ayato in ''[[Rah XephonRahXephon]]'' during episode 19 after realizing that the Dolem he destroyed was {{spoiler|directly connected to his friend, Hiroko Asahina, killing her in the process}}. What's especially brutal is that {{spoiler|he realizes this after reading her confession of love and a goodbye written in city lights}}.
* The titular character in ''[[Ranma One Half]]'' all but shuts down when he believes {{spoiler|Akane has died}}. He snaps back to form when he finds out {{spoiler|she hasn't, not ''yet'', but is in desperate danger anyway}}.
* Half the HiME throughout ''[[Mai-HiME (Anime)|Mai-HiME]]'' suffer this as their loved ones are eliminated one by one in the [[There Can Be Only One|"HiMElander"]] arc (almost the only reason the other half didn't go into [[Heroic BSOD]] is because they died. {{spoiler|The only ones not BSOD'ing are Yukino and Nao, and even ''then'' they don't look good: Yukino is ''even more'' of a [[Shrinking Violet]] and Nao gets beaten up by the thugs she robbed and humiliated as revenge for her childhood trauma}} ).
** Mai Tokiha herself gets quite a few of these, even in situations that aren't really that dramatic, but in which a real person would probably react this way. For example, in the first episode, after becoming an unexpected witness of the fight between Natsuki and Mikoto that wrecks her ship to Fuuka, Mai is so shocked that she wanders aimlessly through the garage, nearly catatonic, until Yuuichi rescues her.
** Natsuki suffers a mental breakdown, unable to summon her CHILD for a few episodes after she learned that {{spoiler|the story about her mother escaping from the First District lab to save her was a lie, and that Saeko was actually going to hand her over to Searrs to continue her research}}. Another few traumatic episodes later, it takes a [[Friendship Moment|pep talk with Mai]] to snap her out of her funk.
*** It also happens to her in [[Mai-HiME (Mangamanga)|the manga]], when {{spoiler|it becomes evident that [[First Girl Wins|Yuuichi has chosen Mai over her]]}}. This is also roughly the point where {{spoiler|[[Not Quite Dead|Saeko herself steps in]] and takes over the school}}.
* ''[[Mai-Otome (Anime)|Mai-Otome]]'' -- after the events of the [[Mood Whiplash]] [[Wham! Episode]] near the midpoint of the series, Arika is virtually catatonic.
** Shizuru has one in the picture drama "Shizuru Viola Memoirs", when Natsuki rather forcefully rejects her offer to make her one of her room attendants because she thinks of Natsuki as just another [[Fan Girl]]. It takes Haruka coming up with a plan to make having Natsuki as a room attendant the stakes of the welcoming duel between them, as well as Natsuki retracting her decision and accepting after talking wtih Mai, to get Shizuru back to normal.
* ''[[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 Byby 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.
** Let's not forget Misato, who suffered one as a child after her father {{spoiler|sacrificed his life to save her.}}
* 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 Thethe Center of Thethe 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]]).
** New character [[Hospital Hottie|Pururu]] gets something like this as well, shutting down as she quietly babbles to herself, whenever anyone calls her ''[[Oba-san]]''. The fact that she's Keroro's childhood sweetheart, and he's possibly a few hundred years old, makes her the oldest female in the show...
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** A much shorter BSOD also happens to {{spoiler|Alice after Lain [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|wipes Alice's humiliation from the memories of everyone they know]] and then talks to and gruesomely kills [[A God Am I|the self-declared god Masama Eiri]]. Lain}} had to hold the poor girl up or she would've fallen, and hitting the floor probably wouldn't have changed her heartbreakingly blank expression. {{spoiler|What a friend, though--Lain proceeded to [[Reset Button|rip reality a new one]] to fix Alice and [[Give Him a Normal Life|give her a normal life]].}}
* More than once in ''[[Soukou no Strain]]''.
* Yusuke Urameshi during the fight Dark Tournament finals in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', where Toguro {{spoiler|pretends to kill Kuwabara in order to bring Yusuke's [[Power Level]] to his own level becoming a [[Worthy Opponent]]}} Interesting though at this time, his [[Battle Aura]] becomes the polar opposite of Toguro's own [[Battle Aura]] which killed well over a quarter of the stadium's spectators.
** After Toguro kills {{spoiler|Genkai}}, Yusuke falls into a huge funk for the following episode. {{spoiler|Part of the reason is he blames himself for her death, as just prior to this she had transferred her power to him. Yusuke felt that she hadn't done so, then maybe she could have survived against Toguro.}} Koenma is able to later to get his fighting spirit back with a pep talk.
* Yugi in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' was plunged into a near-catatonic state after losing a duel to Seto Kaiba on the ramparts of Pegasus' castle. Kaiba played a desperate and cruel [[Batman Gambit]] in order to win: he stood on the edge of the castle wall and threatened to jump to his death if Yugi attacked his Blue Eyes White Dragon. Yugi's Heroic BSOD was brought on when he had to stop the Pharaoh from ''killing'' Kaiba, which for the first time ''fully'' alerted him to the presence of his [[Knight Templar]] of an "other self" and made him realize just how dangerous it could be. {{spoiler|Anzu half-pulled him out of it after duelling with Mai, but it wasn't until ''his'' duel with Mai that Yugi fully recovered.}}
** Kaiba, of course, takes awhile to recover mentally whenever he loses a duel: [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series (Web Video)|"I lost a card game! I no longer have a reason to live!"]] One of these duels, however, makes it worse: {{spoiler|not only he was fighting to rescue his kidnapped brother Mokuba, practically turned into a zombie after his soul is stolen by Pegasus, but ''he'' gets his own soul stolen as well when he loses ''badly'' against his rival.}} He also almost had one {{spoiler|when he arrived to ancient Egypt and witnessed the tragedy that surrounded the creation of his Blue Eyes White Dragon.}}
** Atem/The Pharaoh has his turn in the Doma arc when he gives in to his inner darkness, plays the [[Artifact of Doom|Seal of Orichalcos]], and loses Yugi's soul.
* Judai Yuki in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' goes into this state after realizing {{spoiler|all the suffering [[Stalker Withwith a Crush|Yubel]] caused his friends -- including forcing a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] out of his new [[Ho Yay]] partner Johan/Jesse -- was because of its twisted devotion to ''him'' and ire at being launched into space. Not only is Judai stuck in a catatonic state of guilt soon afterwards, but becomes obsessed with finding Johan alone.}} Judai's subsequent discovery of his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] -- the Supreme King -- while in this state leaves him in an even ''deeper'' BSOD state after his rescue. But unlike Yugi, who recovered within the same arc, Judai never fully recovers {{spoiler|until literally the very last episode. Otherwise throughout the fourth season, he's still pissy and emo, even after reconciling with Yubel. Apparently, he's been dueling so long for the fate of the world and/or his friends, that the game isn't fun for him, anymore.}}
* Yusei Fudo gets his turn in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5 Ds5D's]]'' after his almost-lethal duel with Kalin, his former best friend/BigBrotherMentor who has come [[Back From the Dead]] as a Dark Signer out to kill Yusei in revenge for supposedly betraying him and causing his arrest and death. [[The Power of Friendship]], Aki as a [[A Friend in Need]], some lecturing from his [[Apron Matron]] Martha, and a [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]] beatdown from Jack combine to snap him out of it.
** Jack had his own period of depression and guilt brought on by losing his title to Yusei and realizing the full impact of everything he'd done, all the lies he'd lived by and betraying his friends to get to the top. Carly helps to snap him out of it, and he later pleads [[Love Redeems]] in response to the [[Big Bad]]'s [[Hannibal Lecture]] during the [[Final Battle]].
* When the true identity of Deep Blue is revealed, poor Ichigo of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' is shocked into a loss of common sense, attacking her teammates and then refusing to fight, until Minto [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slaps her back to sanity]]. We wouldn't blame her; after all, it ''was'' {{spoiler|her boyfriend and ex [[Mysterious Protector]], Masaya}}.
* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', after Enishi defeats Kenshin, he {{spoiler|[[Faking the Dead|fakes Kaoru's death]] ''[[Faking the Dead|very]]'' [[Faking the Dead|realistically]] }}, causing Kenshin to go into shock and spend a good few weeks catatonic in Rakuninmura (a village for people who no longer have anything to live for), [[Ten -Minute Retirement|with his sword chained shut]]. It takes {{spoiler|Yakiho almost being killed}} to return.
** And it happens to Enishi as well when Kenshin finally defeats him. {{spoiler|He eventually regains enough strength of mind to escape from captivity but as Kenshin notes in his current state he's simply incapable of hurting anyone.}}
** Also in ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', Kaoru has one of these after Kenshin leaves for Kyoto.
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* This occurs in ''[[Hotaru no Haka|Grave of the Fireflies]]'' to the main character Seita before he dies, though it is no wonder due to him {{spoiler|losing his entire family and everything that he ever cared for in a horrifically tragic manner}}.
* ''[[Elfen Lied]]'': Kouta, the male lead, suffers amnesia and spends an entire year in an [[Angst Coma]] after {{spoiler|watching his little sister Kanae and his father get slaughtered right in front of him by Lucy}}. Lucy herself suffers some pretty bad ones, like...her ''entire'' <s>childhood</s> life.
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Mangamanga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Alex Louis Armstrong, known best for being the [[Plucky Comic Relief]], has a complete nervous breakdown during the Ishval massacre, [[Pieta Plagiarism|clutching a dead Ishvallan child]] [[Fullmetal Alchemist (Mangamanga)/Tear Jerker|while crying]], and is forced to go home.
** [[Axe Crazy|Barry]] suggests to Al (just for shits and giggles) that he may actually [[Replacement Goldfish|just be a construct built by Ed]]. Poor Al got the [[Cloning Blues]] until [[Wrench Wench|Winry]] [[Percussive Maintenance|went to town on him with her wrench]], [[Berserker Tears|complete with angry tears.]]
** Ed occasionally gets this too. After the failed attempt to bring back their mother, Hawkeye even notes that he looks lost. Of course, in this series, characters get the BSOD so often, they must be running on [[Windows]] [[Take That|Millennium Edition.]]
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** Al goes into one when {{spoiler|Ed and Ling are eaten by Gluttony.}} They all get better.
** Mustang gets a short-lived one when Bradley {{spoiler|plays the [[Love Is a Weakness]] card and transfers Hawkeye to his own immediate command. She's essentially a hostage for Mustang's good behavior - Bradley practically says as much, noting that "I know ''exactly'' who to use as ''your'' weak point."}}
** This is spoofed in [[Fullmetal Alchemist (Animeanime)|the 2003 anime version]] when Second Lieutenant Jean Havoc, after getting [[Casanova Wannabe|soundly rejected by an attractive woman]], falls into a catatonic state for the rest of the episode with a simple, yet comedic, whistle-like sound playing every time the camera focuses on his blank face.
*** There is a real one in the 2003 series for Roy Mustang, caused by his participation in the Ishval massacre (specifically his orders to {{spoiler|kill Winry's parents}}) as shown in a flashback. It was so bad that he was a few seconds away from [[Driven to Suicide|eating the barrel of his own gun right then and there]], and had to be snapped out of it by Dr. Marcoh.
* Happens to Kazuma in ''[[S-Cry-ed]]'' after the death of {{spoiler|Kunihiko Kimishima}}. Rather than making precision strikes against his enemies (often for money) he madly swings his fist at anything with a HOLY logo on it until [[Worthy Opponent|Ryuhou]] comes out to stop him. By this point, however, Kazuma had beaten up Scheris and Ryuho's search for him had resulted in Kanami witnessing her and Kazuma's house getting ripped apart, so ''both'' of them were pretty pissed, {{spoiler|1=and the restultant fight shakes up ''the entire Lost Ground''. Then they ''both'' went into amnesia and BSODs. Kazuma had to be kickstarted with help from Asuka and later Cougar while Ryuho's blackout results in a [[Heel Realization]] as he forgets his grudges just long enough to relearn a softer sense of justice.}}
* Chief Ikari from ''[[Paranoia Agent (Anime)|Paranoia Agent]]'', after being fired for his and Maniwa's mishandling of the Shonen Bat case, effectively has one of these, retreating into a ''[[Lotus Eater Machine]]'' based on how he would ideally like the world to be. Maniwa himself went somewhat batty, but this being a [[Satoshi Kon]] work, he was actually closer to the truth as a result. He doesn't snap out of it until {{spoiler|the death of his wife, as her soul is able to visit him in there just long enough to make him come to his senses}}.
* A significant portion of the main cast of ''[[Blood Plus]]'' experience [[Heroic BSOD|Heroic BSODs]] following Diva's mid-series crossing of the [[Moral Event Horizon]] ( {{spoiler|raping and killing poor Riku}}), especially Saya (who attempts to cut herself off from the rest of the cast and become an emotionless killing machine) and David (who spends a timeskip and several subsequent episodes depressed and pretty much [[Drowning My Sorrows|constantly drunk]]).
** Haji had one himself after the events of Vietnam, though it was mostly offscreen. Prequel manga "City of Nightwalkers" reveals that he spent the next several decades slowly starving himself to death, refusing to drink blood out of a combination of fear of losing control of himself and self-imposed penance for having been even momentarily afraid of Saya.
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Anime)|Gundam SEED]]'': After the climactic battle between Kira and Athrun where {{spoiler|Kira's friend Tolle is killed and he realises he caused the same pain to Athrun by killing Nicol}}, Kira alternates between unconsciousness and hysterical sobbing until he gets a pep talk from Lacus and thinks things over.
** Actually, poor Kira goes through PLENTY of these throughout Gundam SEED. The first is after Yzak vaporizes a shuttle that intercepted their battle. Kira's so far out of it that the Archangel must change course to save him from burning up and it allows his [[Yandere]] girlfriend Flay to manipulate him.
*** Another one is after Flay is launched out in a lifepod during the Battle of Mendal. Kira tries to save her, only to get blasted away and Flay taken by the Dominion crew. When he comes to, he spazzes out when he hallucinates Flay instead of seeing Lacus. The boy has problems.
** In the [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (Anime)|sequel]] Athrun goes through a slow forming one after he realizes that his plan to help Orb by rejoining Zaft to fight that EA just went up in smoke after Orb joined the EA instead and Kira and Lacus went rogue. His skills in combat continue to get poorer and poorer as he find himself fighting against Orb and eventually Kira as well and comes to head when Kira outright tells him that by staying with Zaft Athrun is only causing Orb and his friends pain and isn't helping them at all. After this Athrun freezes up entirely and basically lets Kira defeat him, causing him to mope around for about 10 eps before finally snapping back.
*** Shinn Asuka also gets one near the end of the series (although in his case it plays out more like the traditional [[Villainous Breakdown]]) for... well, no discernable reason. By the end of the [[Final Battle]] he is literally hallucinating and this close to landing a lethal blow on his own ally/girlfriend before Athrun forcibly stops him.
* A slow build over the course of five specific episodes leads to the main character of ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]'', Doremi Harukaze, going into this in the series finale. {{spoiler|Her best friends for the past four years are either moving or going to a different school, so Doremi locks herself in the Maho-dou on the day of her elementary school graduation. It takes Hana-chan threatening to reveal her identity as a witch to force her out.}}
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'''s Simon goes into a big one of these after {{spoiler|Kamina dies}}. However, when Simon [[He's Back|reboots]], he ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome Mecha Anime|reboots]]''...complete with [[Took a Level In Badass|several levels in badass]].
* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Gundam 00]]'', [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Tieria Erde]] suffers a ([[Epileptic Trees|literal?]]) [[Heroic BSOD]] after {{spoiler|his partner and close friend Lockon Stratos is killed.}} And before that, {{spoiler|he had one when VEDA was hijacked and crashed, making him completely lose their connection.}}
** In the second season, poor {{spoiler|Louise Halevy}} has ''several'' of those in different degrees, {{spoiler|as a side effect of her [[Ill Girl|medical treatment]].}}
** Not to mention {{spoiler|Saji Crossroad, who had his BSOD moment when he realises he's responsible for the death of all the Katharon members.}}
** In S2 ep 20 {{spoiler|Lyle Dylandy}} has his own BSOD after his {{spoiler|girlfriend [[Star-Crossed Lovers|Anew Returner]] is [[Love Hurts|killed right in front of him]] by no other than Setsuna}}.
* {{spoiler|Kamille Bidan}} suffers a massive one at the end of ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (Anime)|Zeta Gundam]]'', after being on the receiving end of a [[Mind Rape]] by {{spoiler|Scirocco}}. He starts babbling like a child and then shortly falls into near-catatonia. It takes him most of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (Anime)|Gundam ZZ]]'' to recover from this.
* [[Gundam Unicorn|Banagher]] [[Reluctant Warrior|Links]] has one in episode 4 after {{spoiler|killing Gilboa Sant, a Neo-Zeon pilot who sheltered him, and crashing the Garencieres into the desert by grabbing it during re-entry}}. He gets over it by having a good cry shortly afterwards, {{spoiler|only for him to have another one after he fails to talk Loni down from her rampage at Torrington}}.
* Freesia in the second season of ''[[Jubei-chan]]'' engages in psychological warfare on Jiyu; {{spoiler|By revealing herself as ''not'' her best friend, stabbing her, throwing her off a cliff, and then turning her beloved father against her. This causes Jiyu to reject Ayunosuke and go catatonic, which results in Ayunosuke to turn into a tree. It takes some serious [[Power of Love]] to get everyone back.}}
* In ''[[X 1999]]'', Kamui does this after a REALLY rough day in which his childhood best friend {{spoiler|turns murderously insane, impales Kamui on assorted objects, molests him, and forces him to watch as he kills his ''other'' childhood best friend, who happens to be his own little sister.}} Team mystic Subaru Sumeragi, who once went through an [[Heroic BSOD]] himself {{spoiler|after his boyfriend revealed himself to be an evil murderer who never cared for him and then killed Subaru's beloved older sister}}, is called upon to [[Journey to Thethe Center of Thethe Mind|go psychic-spelunking through Kamui's head]] to find his reboot button.
* For being such a [[Magnificent Bastard]] otherwise, Lelouch Lamperouge of ''[[Code Geass]]'' goes into one of these nearly every other episode.
** Considering the consequences some of his [[Idiot Ball]] moments have had, some Heroic BSOD is rather called for. Not to mention the fact that [[Chew Toy|the show's universe is pretty much designed to screw him]].
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* 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...]]
** The titular AI itself goes through a [[Heroic BSOD]] as it feels that Rei doesn't trust it, and needs its reassurance before it can work properly in its new mainframe.
* In ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]] 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.}}
** Satoko also suffers through a brief state of BSOD at the end of Yakusamashi-hen, in which she witnesses {{spoiler|Rika's horrific murder}} and later {{spoiler|the annihilation of her entire village}}. She gets better, {{spoiler|only to be [[It Got Worse|murdered herself shortly after.]]}}
* In ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'', Battler goes through such a bad episode of Heroic BSOD upon the revelation that {{spoiler|his [[Missing Mom]] Asumu is not, in fact, his real mother}} that he doesn't just stop functioning temporarily - {{spoiler|he erases his (meta) physical presence}}. Don't worry he gets better.
** Followed by {{spoiler|Beatrice's}} similar, epic BSOD in EP 5. {{spoiler|Do worry, [[It Got Worse|she doesn't get better.]]}}
*** In EP 6, she {{spoiler|actually does get better}}.
** Episode 7 has {{spoiler|his half-sister Ange}} suffer a just as epic one, after learning that {{spoiler|her beloved mother Kyrie didn't give a shit about her, and that her much-hated aunt Eva preferred [[Silent Scapegoat|to let the girl hate her forever]] rather than have her find out such a terrible truth.}}
* Grovyle in ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'' has a Heroic BSOD when he finds out his love interest, a cute and motherly female Meganium, is already in a relationship with his rival. It only worsens when he evolves into a Sceptile, yet loses his ability to attack. It takes Ash almost getting killed two episodes later to rescue Pikachu ''and'' Sceptile from Team Rocket to make him get better.
* Subaru in the ''[[Mega Man Star Force|Ryuusei no Rockman]]'' anime has one when the villain of the week informs him that his alien partner whom he fuses with to become Rockman {{spoiler|killed his father}}. The shock of the revelation is enough that his body literally forces itself away from said partner and he reverts to normal. Four hundred feet above the ground. Whoops.
* Fate of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' got one in the first season after {{spoiler|she discovers [[Cloning Blues|what she is]]}}, followed by a tirade from [[Evil Matriarch|her mother]], Precia, that ends with her stating how much she has despised Fate ever since she was born. The mind of [[The Woobie|poor]], [[Love Martyr]] Fate simply couldn't take it and temporarily shut down in despair.
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** To be honest, it's kinda hard not to when you've been {{spoiler|Data Drained.}}
** In ''.hack//ROOTS'', Haseo has a breakdown, then goes on a rage-driven warpath, throughout the last third of the series after Tri-Edge{{spoiler|/Azure Kite}} {{spoiler|puts Shino into a coma}}.
* In ''[[Dai-Guard]]'', Ibuki shuts down when she learns that {{spoiler|her father died in a monster attack, not because he was trying to save the world, but because he was trying desperately to prove his pet theory}}. Problem is, she shuts down in the middle of a mecha-fight and almost gets her team killed, leading to a [[Ten -Minute Retirement]].
* Dio of ''[[Last Exile]]'' goes into one of these after the ship he's on (the Silvana) is captured by his evil sister Delphine and he believes his [[Battle Butler|friend and companion]] Luciola has betrayed him. He only snaps out of it right before his [[Mind Rape|Rite of the Covenant]]. And then [[It Got Worse|it gets worse.]] {{spoiler|He gets better, though. Sort of.}}
** Tatiana also has a minor one after she freezes up during a mission with Claus and allows her vanship to crash, shaking her perception of herself as a perfectionist pilot.
* Luffy gets three of these in ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'', all under similar circumstances. The first is in the sixth movie when he thinks his crew is dead after witnessing them being absorbed into a life force draining plant. The second happens later in the manga when {{spoiler|Bartholomew Kuma vanishes his crew one by one before his eyes}}. In both cases, he gets better after realizing that they are still alive. The third case occurs at the end of the Marineford arc when {{spoiler|his brother Ace dies in his arms}}. This case is by far the worst of them all and this time Luffy was already pushed his body past his limits and doesn't have the benefit of {{spoiler|realizing that they're alive (as he's [[Killed Off for Real|"dead for reals"]]).}}
** The sixth movie probably pulls it off the best. The latter two he really just freaked out, no matter how heart-wrenching it may be. In the movie, he loses any will to fight, or even do anything at all, which is a far more serious reaction.
** The second one is a particularly long-lasting one. In both Manga and Anime, the entire crew gets one of these as they simultaneously face off against {{spoiler|an [[Authority Equals Asskicking|Admiral]], the admiral's top subordinate (who [[Deadly Upgrade|Monster Chopper]] couldn't land a single hit on), and a SECOND Pacifista, after they struggled to beat the FIRST Pacifista, and were more tired than they'd been in recent memory, '''Then''' Bartholemew [[Trickster Mentor|Kuma]] shows up, and [[Hopeless Boss Fight|utterly]] [[Faking the Dead|annihilates]] them}}. in the anime adaptation, it starts off as this at the BEGINNING of the episode, and by the end becomes one of the most heart-breaking [[Freak-Out|freakouts]] possible when a hero of this caliber realizes he's failed completely, and never stood a chance.
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* Takumi in ''[[Initial D]]'' goes into one after {{spoiler|his Trueno's engine breaks down in mid-race}}.
* In ''[[Cyborg 009]]'', Francoise (003) suffers one of these when {{spoiler|she witnesses the destruction of a whole city with her powers and is unable to stop it}}, and Joe (the titular 009) has to talk her out of it. Later, Joe has a full one when {{spoiler|he lands into an [[Alternate Universe]] where the Black Ghost organization, the group he and his people have fought against during the whole series, have actually ''won'' the war and now own the world.}}
* The Major from ''[[Ghost in Thethe Shell]]'' has a BSOD at least twice over the course of the anime series. In the first, she's shellshocked after {{spoiler|encountering a traumatic memory in Kuze's cyberbrain}}. Later, she adopts this expression after {{spoiler|a rag-tag refugee takes down their super-duper V-22 with fifty dollar's worth of suicide bomb, severely injuring super-hacker Ishikawa and sending Section 9's million-dollar tiltrotor tumbling into a chasm. This is right after a team member has been killed.}} And all of this occurs in the time span of about one hour. Wouldn't you?
* ''[[Gravion]] Zwei'' has ''three'' people suffering [[Heroic BSOD]] in a relatively close time together:
** Leele after finding out that {{spoiler|Sandman is her father}} (no thanks to [[The White Prince|Touga]]), right after finding out her real name {{spoiler|Leele Zeravire, which means she is connected with the invading enemies}}, was too much in a shock she goes into a frantic walk that got her slipping off the bridge falling to the lake.
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**** Much earlier before that, Sakura goes through a [[Heroic BSOD]] when {{spoiler|Sai tells her that Naruto really did love her, and everything he did, all the hell he goes through was to make her happy. Until that moment, she just saw Naruto's affections for her as a childish crush.}}
** The [[Start of Darkness]] for {{spoiler|Kabuto}} features one when, during a battle, he {{spoiler|wounds a woman who had been like his mother and is unable to recognize him}}.
* In ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'', [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eSMtT5rQeQU&feature=related L has one of these and falls off his chair] when he hears about 'Shinigami'.
** And another one after he decides that {{spoiler|the Kira power must switch between people}}, so his investigating is useless. He becomes depressed and loses his will to work. It cumulates in him and Light having a punch-up that breaks vases and overturns couches, and is probably one of the most fangirled-over fight scenes in recent history.
** Light also had one in the last episode when {{spoiler|Near managed to outsmart him.}}
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*** 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.
** Gohan has two simultaneous ones during his fight against Cell - first when Cell prepares to blow up the Earth, which he blames himself for, and then when Goku [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrifices himself]] to {{spoiler|try to}} kill Cell, which Gohan also blames himself for.
* Mai Kawasumi from ''[[Kanon (Visual Novel)|Kanon]]'' has her [[Heroic BSOD]] when Sayuri is attacked by the demons that she had been fighting. Said demons are {{spoiler|actually manifestations of her own denial of her healing powers.}}
* Kotomi Ichinose from ''[[Clannad (Visual Novel)|Clannad]]'' has her [[Heroic BSOD]] when she thinks that her friend Ryou was involved in the bus accident at the intersection. Justified in that {{spoiler|she lost her parents in a plane crash, ansd the memories come back when this happen}}.
** Ryou's sister Kyou has a BSOD when the epic [[Ship Sinking]] of ''[[Clannad (Visual Novel)|Clannad]]'' took place. Apparently, she had [[Trying Not to Cry|promised herself that she wouldn't cry]], but when Tomoya's unconscious actions tell the rest of his [[Unwanted Harem|harem]] [[First Girl Wins|who he's picked]], she, to say the least, does not take it well.
** Then there's Tomoya himself in After Story. {{spoiler|After Nagisa dies}}, he leaves town for about five years during the BSOD, {{spoiler|ignoring his newly born daughter Ushio in the process. He gets better. [[It Got Worse|And then worse.]] [[Retcon|And better again]].}}
*** He didn't actually leave the city, {{spoiler|he just left Ushio with the Furukawas for that period in time and didn't do anything. He was ''that'' out of it.}}
** Don't forget Nagisa's BSOD near the end of the first season, when {{spoiler|she found out about her parents's past and ''what'' they gave up to raise her.}}
* Kouji Kabuto from ''[[Shin Mazinger (Anime)|Shin Mazinger]]'' experiences one of these when he realizes that by fighting in his [[Humongous Mecha]], he has accidentally killed dozens of civilians.
** In the original ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z]]'' series, Kouji's [[Battle Couple|girlfriend and partner]] Sayaka Yumi has a HUGE one when {{spoiler|her [[Humongous Mecha]], Aphrodite A, is destroyed}}. It's so bad that the poor girl {{spoiler|almost kills herself by drowning, as she believes that Aphrodite is calling her from a nearby lake.}}
** She got another way earlier, in episode 7. A mob -enraged at having their hometown leveld by two battling [[Humongous Mecha]]- threw stones to her father, landing him in the hospital, and almost broke in the Institute. She was so upset and distraught she considered quitting of battling.
** And in the original manga, Kouji has another in an early chapter after being forced to kill an Iron Mask. He remained [http://www.mangareader.net/735-34819-161/mazinger-z/chapter-1.html kneeled] and [http://www.mangareader.net/735-34819-162/mazinger-z/chapter-1.html shaking].
** And in ''[[Great Mazinger (Anime)|Great Mazinger]]'', Tetsuya Tsurugi has one after realizing {{spoiler|his adoptive father pulled an [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save his life}} and it would not have happened {{spoiler|if he would not have been so jealousy from Kouji he refused helping him when he was in danger.}} After the inicial [[My God, What Have I Done?]] his reactions varied: in the anime he went into a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] and after, as he lying down on a hospital bed, he rambled about how [[It's All My Fault|it was all his fault]]; in one of the manga storylines he {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice|self-detonated Great Mazinger and himself]]}} to blow all commanders of Mykene army up.
** ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer (Anime)|UFO Robo Grendizer]]'': When a Vegan spy reveals to Duke that {{spoiler|the Saucer Beasts he's been fighting are powered by the minds of his home planet's slain people (including ''[[Powered Byby a Forsaken Child|his own little brother]]'')}}, he flips out completely. Luckily, Kouji and Dr. Umon snap him out of it sometime afterwards.
* During the Great Eclipse in ''[[Berserk]]'', Guts briefly experiences a [[Heroic BSOD]]. Casca, on the other hand, ''[[Break the Cutie|thoroughly]]'' experiences hers, to the point of being driven completely insane. Those who have seen the Eclipse in action know that this need not be elaborated further.
** 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.
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*** ... And then it returned after he got away from the guards in the sewers and stumbles his way back to tavern where the rest of the Hawks were.
** 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.
* Comedic use in Episode 7 of ''[[Haruhi-chan]]'' when Haruhi had Kyon go Scavenger Hunting for "A barrier of the heart", and Kyon grabbed Koizumi.
{{quote| '''Haruhi:''' "A barrier to the heart", why him? <br />
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** He also suffered a more comedic one after Miaka returned to our world, slowly falling into apathy and [[Cloudcuckoolander]] behavior.
{{quote| '''Nuriko''': [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Tama-chan. That's a dish.]]}}
* At the end of the second episode of ''[[After War Gundam X (Anime)|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}}.
* Joe himself experiences this in the ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'' anime adaption after {{spoiler|finding out that Captain Blue is the [[Big Bad]]. It takes Blue Jr. and people Joe met through Movie Land to get him out of it}}.
* Takato of ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' suffers a relatively short, but ''very'' intense and Shinji-like one {{spoiler|after transforming his digital pet into a [[Deadly Upgrade|ravenous monster]] and watching it lose to Beelzebumon}}, though he was pretty much out of it from the moment Guilmon went monster and {{spoiler|his [[Transformation Trinket|digivice]] shattered}}.
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*** In their defense (this goes both for Tamers and Digidestined), the oldest is what? thirteen?
*** Also, the children didn't actually ''know'' at first. The sovereigns came up with the whole plan and clued them in later. If anyone, be mad at them.
* Blade/Takaya/D-Boy in ''[[Tekkaman Blade (Anime)|Tekkaman Blade]]'' starts suffering hallucinations and nightmares that cause him to be unable to fight after his corrupted sibling Saber/Shinya/Evil causes him to overstay his [[Hour of Power]] and suffer a [[Face Heel Turn]]. While he was brought back to normal, he almost tore apart one of his friends before he snapped out of it, and things come to a head when the military reveals its new [[Power Armor|Teknosuits]] and he gets arrested. He is left an utter wreck until Aki/Star [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slaps and shouts some sense into him]].
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', as Yusuke is getting the tar beaten out of him by Younger Toguro, Keiko, unable to bear seeing her boyfriend go through such unimaginable agony, snaps and becomes completly catatonic for one and a half episodes.
* Tenma and Nina go through a large number of these in ''[[Monster (Animemanga)|Monster]]''. Nina's goes as far as to verge on suicide, but Tenma thankfully saves her.
* In ''[[Trinity Blood]]'', Abel spends the day/episode in one of these when {{spoiler|Noelle dies.}}
** There are also a few scenes throughout the series where Abel will come to a screeching halt, usually when he loses control of himself due to the [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Crusnik]] [[Nanomachines]] and Esther sees him during this time and has a subsequent freak out. The last of these scenes has an... undesirable outcome.
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* In ''[[Et Cetera]]'', Mingchao has one when it's revealed that Mr. Gothic, the terror behind the whole Syndicate and the man who the group has been waiting so long to destroy, {{spoiler|is her father and her last living relative.}} This is followed by a slight [[Freak-Out]]. Baskerville also gets one during a flashback when {{spoiler|he comes home to find his [[Ill Girl]] little sister dead.}}
* In ''[[Holyland]]'', Yuu suffers one of these after {{spoiler|Shin gets beaten up because of him.}} This does [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|not end well for the bad guys.]]
* ''[[Black Butler (Manga)|Black Butler]]'': While Ciel's intentions for the circus children back at the workhouse might not be described as "heroic" so much as "self-serving with a side of philanthropy", Ciel's reaction in chapter 36 upon realizing that the entire workhouse was empty and abandoned, and had been for what looked like years, meaning ''the circus children had fought—and died—in vain'' can be aptly described as a BSOD. A very, very frightening one.
** Ciel has one in chapter 41, after {{spoiler|finding Sebastian's body.}} Whether it was genuine or just a very dramatic act remains to be seen, though.
** By the end of the chapter, {{spoiler|it turns out it was a very convincing act, as Sebastian was faking his death.}}
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** In the movie, Eureka does not fully understand [[Love Martyr|Renton's feelings for her and the lengths he would go to protect her]] ([[Tsundere|even rebuking him for it]]) until she sees him get shot by Hap while pummeling him for assaulting her. She then spends a brief period sulking in the dark outside Renton's hospital room blaming herself for being so inconsiderate, and later ultimately realizes how far she herself will go to save his life.
* In ''[[Kitchen Princess]]'', Najika loses her sense of taste after {{spoiler|Sora dies after a truck hits him as he's crossing the street, holding vanilla beans he meant to give to Najika.}} She later {{spoiler|loses}} the competition that he was bringing the ingredient to her for.
* In ''[[Ride BackRideback]]'', Rin undergoes a monstrous BSOD (even her friends can't help her out of it) when {{spoiler|her friend Suzuri gets killed because the government thinks it's her, and that [[Wham! Episode|she's a terrorist]]}}.
* ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'' plays this for laughs. Whenever something happens that makes Belldandy jealous, she blanks out, her eyes go wide, and she stares off into the distance. She does this because jealousy is so unfamiliar to her that she can't handle it. Her jealousy also sometimes manifests itself paranormally -- nearby glass shatters, the power goes out, pipes burst, and there's sometimes an explosion. Often, this will put a stop to whatever was making Belldandy jealous so she can just snap out of it.
* ''[[Baki the Grappler]]'' gets one when his mother beats him and chews him out for not being as strong as his father. He's so bummed afterwards that he doesn't even defend himself when three punks start roughing him up. Fortunately, [[Friendly Enemy|Hanayama]] comes along and snaps him out of it.
* In ''[[D 4D4 Princess]]'', the main character gets one when {{spoiler|one of her opponents is killed in an accident during battle}} and doesn't snap out of it until near the end of the series. It didn't help that the rest of her school didn't seem to care that someone had ''died''.
* In ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula (Anime)|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.
* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Anime)|Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', {{spoiler|Sayaka and ''specially'' Madoka}} fall in this state in episode 3, when all of a sudden {{spoiler|their sempai and friend Mami is ''horrifyingly'' eaten alive in front of them, which goes on to show them that being a [[Magical Girl Warrior]] [[Deconstructed Trope|isn't as pretty as it seems]].}}
** 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.}}
** A cross between fiction and [[Real Life]]: Seiyuus [[Aoi Yuki]] (Madoka) and [[Emiri Katou]] (Kyubey), and also character designer [[Ume Aoki]] have a slight case of this upon seeing the script for the third episode.
** In [[Wham! Episode|Episode 10]], {{spoiler|We find in one timeline that Mami utterly breaks down, kills Kyouko, and would have killed Madoka, Homura, and ''herself'' upon finding out that Puella Magi eventually become witches.}}
* In ''[[JunaiVirgin no Seinen (Manga)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 (Manga)|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.}}
** Sakuno has another comedic one when she believes that Ryoma [[Through His Stomach|dislikes like her cooking]]. He actually ''[[Supreme Chef|likes]]'' it, but back then he was distracted and said his "mada mada dane" ("you still have to work on") [[Catch Phrase]]... referring to something else.
** A more serious BSOD happens to Ryoma {{spoiler|when he loses ''badly'' to Sanada}} in the anime.
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** The former BSOD happens also in the manga, along with an epic one after Kyo coldly rejects her [[Anguished Declaration of Love]] {{spoiler|because he doesn't think he deserves Tohru's love after not having been able to save her mother Kyoko.}}
* Barnaby from ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' experiences one in episodes 18-19 upon discovering that {{spoiler|Jake Martinez was not his parents' murderer, and not only are his memories of the incident (which he relied upon heavily during his investigation into the killer's identity) faulty, but everything he believed in and worked for during the ''past twenty years'' might be a hoax.}}
* In the ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'' OVA, Lloyd experiences one after failing to stop {{spoiler|[[It Sucks to Be Thethe Chosen One|Colette from sacrificing her soul to save the world]]}}. He drops his swords and falls to his knees, just crying and screaming her name. He quickly snaps out of it, but it is still pretty heartbreaking, considering how optimistic he normally is.
* Kirby in [[Kirby of the Stars (Anime)|his self-titled anime]] had quite a BSOD in the one-year anniversary episode. He wakes up and goes off to play with everyone only to discover that nobody wants to play with him. When he goes to see Tokkori about it, Tokkori just laughs and says to him that "nobody likes him". Kirby suddenly breaks down at that and then packs up some of his things and runs away from home to Kabu Canyon. Feeling lonely and guilty for thinking everybody hated him, Kirby [[Tear Jerker|actually cries]]. It isn't until Meta Knight and Tokkori remind him that everyone was really worried about him and waiting for him to come back home that Kirby boots back up. And to top it all off, he didn't know that everybody was actually preparing his first anniversary party and that they really love him very much.
* Happens quite a few times in ''[[Claymore (Manga)|Claymore]]''. {{spoiler|Clare}} goes through one during her two final battles, after {{spoiler|having almost all of her commerades killed brutally}}- Fully [Or almost fully] awakening as a result. {{spoiler|Jeanne}} awakes after being mentally and physically tortured by Riful. And, of course, {{spoiler|Priscilla}} goes through such, after realizing she's about to lose to a {{spoiler|Claymore who rebelled against the organization}}.
* In ''[[Tsukigasa (Manga)|Tsukigasa]]'', Azuma has one for months after cutting off Kuroe's arm while under the influence, and is [[Driven to Suicide]] at one point.
* Joe Yabuki from the classic boxing manga [[Ashita no Joe]] suffers a huge one when {{spoiler|his best rival, Tooru Riikishi, dies of internal injuries ''right after their match is over''.}} It's actually so bad that {{spoiler|for several months he cannot bring himself to punch his other rivals on the face, since that's what caused Riikishi his fatal [[Heroic RROD]].}}
* In ''[[Sekaiichi Hatsukoi (Manga)|Sekaiichi Hatsukoi]]'', {{spoiler|[[Unlucky Childhood Friend|Yanase]]}} shuts down not only because {{spoiler|[[Oblivious to Love|Chiaki]] rejected him a second time again without giving him a reason why he would choose [[Yandere|Hatori]] over him, but also when Hatori breaks into his place and [[Kick Them While They Are Down|proceeds to beat the crap out of him.]]}} Chiaki prevents anything worse from happening the but the episode leaves him in that state. And this is supposed to be a shonen ai romantic comedy with some drama but not [[Wham! Episode|this]] [[Tear Jerker|episode.]]
* In ''[[Oniisama E (Manga)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.}}
** Also, {{spoiler|Fukiko}} suffers another one almost at the same time, when {{spoiler|she and her brother Takeshi are told by the police about Rei's death.}}
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** In the past, {{spoiler|Professor Misonou}} also suffered a pretty bad one, [[Drowning My Sorrows|drinking himself into a stupor for several days]] after {{spoiler|his marriage ends in an horrible note and his wife not only leaves him, but takes their son away -- which, considering Japanese laws on divorce, means that ''he'll likely never see said son again''. And the son? He is then-10-year-old Takehiko.}}
* In ''[[Heartcatch Precure]]'', Yuri suffers two of them. The first happens before the beginning {{spoiler|after suffering a major loss during a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] by Cure Dark, leaving her powerless and partnerless}}. She gets a second, minor one near the end when {{spoiler|she finds out that Professor Saabaku, the man who created Cure Dark, was [[Luke, I Am Your Father|her missing father]]}}.
* In ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Anime)|G Gundam]]'', Rain suffers a pretty big one (bordering on [[Despair Event Horizon]] crossing) when she finds out that her father {{spoiler|basically destroyed the Kasshu family and used her and the last surviving/conscious member of that family (who she just happened to be in love with) in his schemes}}.
** Domon himself goes through a couple when {{spoiler|Rain leaves him as the result of her BSOD and becomes the core life unit of the Devil Gundam}}.
** 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.}}
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** Kagome has some of her own, and the worst of them is the one that comes when {{spoiler|she represses her feelings after Kikyou's "death" in the Shichinintai arc and tells Inuyasha to go see if she's alive or not... and then [[Creepy Child|Arago]] comes and subjects her to a very cruel [[Hannibal Lecture]] about the [[Love Triangle]] as a whole.}}
* 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]]}}.
* Kurita in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' lost his will to fight after {{spoiler|Gaou breaks Hiruma's arm, sending him out of the game for a quarter and a halftime.}} He even loses the ability to understand Komusubi, signifying that he was no longer a strong man. It takes Sena and Komusubi risking their lives going against {{spoiler|Gaou}} to snap him out of it.
** Komusubi at one point felt his lack of height had become a liability especially since the Posideon players and their cheerleaders are exceptionally taller than him. It takes some talk from Sena and the Ha-Ha Brothers (literally) kicking some sense to him to get him back on track.
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