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== Film - Animated ==
* [[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|The Beast]] has a near suicidal maverione after he lets Belle return to her father.
* In ''[[The Lion King]]'', Simba has one because he [[
* In Disney's ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'', Basil snaps after falling for Ratigan's [[Evil Plan]], silently and stoically sits through the [[To the Pain]] lecture, and just waits for the [[Death Trap]] to go off, feeling completely humiliated, outwitted, and defeated. Since this is a family film, he gets better.
{{quote| '''Dawson''': Dash it all, Basil! The queen's in danger, Olivia's counting on us, we're about to be horribly splatted, and all you can do is lie there feeling sorry for yourself!}}
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== Film - Live Action ==
* In ''[[Braveheart]]'', William Wallace has one of these when he finds out that {{spoiler|Robert the Bruce}} was working with Edward Longshanks. It is enough to where he lies down to {{spoiler|almost get captured by a band of English soldiers before the Bruce lets him go}}. At the same time, when {{spoiler|Robert the Bruce}} realizes the horror on Wallace's face, he looks as if he is about to succumb to one as well.
* In ''[[Ferris
* ''[[Sleepy Hollow]]'' used it twice, first when Ichabod first sees the "monster" ("It was a headless horseman. But it was a headless horseman. No, you must believe me. It was a horseman, a dead one. Headless.") and then at the finale: {{spoiler|the Horseman brings Lady Van Tassel with him to the underworld, her hand is stuck at the roots of the "tree portal". The hand closes. Ichabod promptly faints.}}
* John "Scottie" Ferguson gets one of these in ''[[Vertigo]]'' that lasts long enough for him to be put in a mental hospital {{spoiler|after the woman he loves is killed. She comes back later.}}
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* Oskar Schindler in ''[[Schindler's List]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvyZnOukZLg breaks down towards the end of the film] after thinking that even if he had saved the lives of about 1,100 Jews, he might have been able to save more had he used his money wisely.
* The plot of the new movie ''Charlie St. Cloud'' has the titular character suffer one of these after his little brother was killed in a car accident.
* ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Film)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'': Sweeney Todd goes into a [[Villainous Breakdown|not-so-heroic one]] of these after [[What an Idiot!|Anthony's colossally bad timing in telling him about Johanna and his plan to elope with her]] [[Spanner in The Works|blows his first shot at revenge on Judge Turpin straight to hell]]. This leads to him launching into the epic number "Epiphany" that marks his transition into full-on [[Villain Protagonist]] mode.
* In ''[[Star Wars|Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back]]'', Luke suffers a BSOD after [[Luke, I Am Your Father|Darth Vader's notorious reveal]]. Which brings us to... <!--???-->
** The Expanded Universe events of the franchise also hint that he continuously suffered from the BSOD even after getting his hand replaced.
* In the [[Bollywood]] movie ''[[Pukar]]'', the main character, Jai, goes through this after having been wrongfully accused of treason and facing court martial. Made all the worse that his girlfriend has left him and his family has been shamed. Ironic, that the only one listening is [[Woman Scorned|the person who put him in that predicament]] (though she never thought it would go so far) and her father. He gets better.
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* In [[Reservoir Dogs]], Mr. White (although [[Villainous Breakdown]] / [[Villainous BSOD|BSOD]] might fit here in this case) suffers from a catastrophic one, causing Harvey Keitel to emit the most heartbreaking squeak ever uttered by man when he discovers {{spoiler|Mr. Orange is an undercover cop AFTER he shot his boss and oldest friend in defense of Orange}}. This ends poorly for everyone.
* Frodo has one at the near end of ''[[Lord of the Rings]]: The Fellowship Of The Ring''. Frodo just stares with the [[Thousand Yard Stare]] on the river from the shore while holding the Ring on the open palm of his hand, obiviously traumatized by Gandalf's death, Boromir's corruption and the Uruk-Hais' sudden attack, and thinking back when he told Gandalf that he wished that nothing of the events would have ever happened. He snaps out of it when he remembers Gandalf's answer and decides to continue to Mordor.
* Robert Neville (played by Will Smith) goes into one in [[I Am Legend]] after being forced to kill his vampire-infected dog, who had been his only companion for the three years that had elapsed since the beginning of the [[Zombie Apocalypse|vampire apocalypse]], in self defense. The following shot of Neville sitting in his car after burying the dog's body and blankly staring at the now empty passenger seat really drives home the point. His depression gets to the point that he [[I Cannot Self
* Gomez enters one after he loses his fortune and is evicted from his home in the first ''[[The Addams Family (TV)|Addams Family]]'' movie. Thing snaps him out of it just before the climax with a three word message: {{spoiler|MORTICIA IN DANGER}}.
* Sam from ''[[Transformers (Film)|Transformers]]'' suffers one in the second film when {{spoiler|Optimus dies}}. And again in the third film when {{spoiler|he sees the Autobots' ship destroyed by Starscream and believes the Autobots are dead.}} Also, various bystanders are shown to be standing speechless or sitting dejectedly after {{spoiler|Chicago's invasion by the Decepticons}} and even Epps and NEST soldiers {{spoiler|gave up and declared the fight over. They fortunately snap out of it when Optimus and the rest of the Autobots [[Big Damn Heroes|came back]].}}
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