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* 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!}}

* In ''[[Brother Bear]]'', this trope happens when Kenai finally listens to Koda's story about his mother and realizes it is about the fight he and his brothers had with a bear. Kenai puts the pieces together and realizes to his horror that he killed Koda's mother. At that, Kenai flees the bear gathering in profound fear and shame.

 

* 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 Bueller's Day Off|Ferris Buellers Day Off]]'', Cameron seems to have one of these when he sees that the valet took his father's car - his most prized possession, for a joyride. He screams at the top of his lungs for the whole city to hear, then lapses into his BSOD. Ferris and his girlfriend Sloane try desperately to revive him, which culminates with the two of them in a hot tub, and Cameron on a folding chair at the end of a diving board. He falls (or jumps) in, and Ferris "rescues" him, reviving him from his cataplexy in the process. He reveals that he wasn't really catatonic the whole time. Sloane then asks if he saw her get changed, which he replies to with a grin.

* 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.}}

* In ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', Harvey Dent. Pretty much all the scenes in the hospital after he finds out what happened are just him on his bed, staring blankly at the ceiling. Of course, you either die a hero, or [[Fallen Hero|reboot into a villain]]...

* 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.

** 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.

* In ''[[District 9]]'', Christopher is purely interested originally in getting himself, his son and maybe a few others the hell off Earth. However, when he and Wikus raid MNU's lab, he enters this state realizing the horrifically evil things being done to his people. Once he snaps out of it, he is now dedicated to return to both free his people and help Wikus.

* Kirk has one in ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]'' after David is killed.

* ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' gives us another lovely quote after the team has viewed the transformation of Gozer into the Stay Puft Marshamallow Man.

{{quote|'''Peter''': ''Ray has gone bye-bye, Egon. What have you got left?''

* In [[Little Women]]'s [[The Movie of the Book]] (more exactly, the classic one of the 40's), Beth has a huge one when she and Amy [[Snooping Little Kid|sneak into the Christmas Party]] and overhear the [[Gossipy Hens]] speculating about Marmee's "plans" of marrying either Meg or Jo off to Laurie. This is parallel to the book scene where Meg is the one who has such an experience and keeps self cool for a bit, then breaks down crying when she's alone.

* [[Creepshow]] has a rare literal example. The screen actually turns blue behind the hero.

** Odin too could count since {{spoiler|Loki's discovery of his true ancestry and resulting outburst caused his powers to shut off.}}

* 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.

 

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