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** As a possible subversion, Ping (A robot, and therefore possibly capable of a literal BSOD) seems to be having one after nearly accidentally hurting her friend [http://megatokyo.com/strip/794 here]. It's commented upon by Piro [http://megatokyo.com/strip/808 here].
* In ''[[Erfworld]]'', when Jillian is unable to rationalize her way around a conflict between Wanda's [[More Than Mind Control|influence]] and [[The Power of Love|her loyalty to Ansom]], she briefly collapses. {{spoiler|She recovers and charges into battle, resulting in a major victory for Ansom's side. This stuns Wanda into a considerably more severe BSOD of her own.}}
** Later, it turns out that this may simply be [https://web.archive.org/web/20130830183704/http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0093.html backlash] from the breaking of Wanda's suggestion spell.
* Parodied in ''[[Exterminatus Now]]!'' After hearing that an old friend of his is behind an assassination attempt on his boss, Eastwood goes into a trance and spends a few minutes repeating his name. His teammates take the opportunity to steal his wallet.
* [[El Goonish Shive|Grace]] ''kinda'' has one of these after {{spoiler|making [[Big Bad]] Damien blow himself up.}}
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** Elan goes through this after he realizes his father Tarquin is evil, and not in a [[Noble Demon]] sort of way. It gets worse when he tries to kill him, only for his father to tell him that [[Morton's Fork|he'll win either way]]: If he wins then he wins and if he loses then he'll at least he'll go down in legend and that he'll at least have lived a great life.
** And Vaarsuvius, again, has the mother of all Heroic BSOD when {{spoiler|s/he realizes that the earlier casting of the Familicide spell had not only killed black dragons, [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0843.html but numerous human families on the Western Continent] through the dragonblooded Draketooth clan.}}
* In ''[[Fletcher Apts]]'', Doug often blanks out and mentally reboots when he sees a girl flash her breasts. Like in [https://web.archive.org/web/20110212001024/http://www.fletcherapts.com/archive/20060217.html this strip], he forgot the answer to the homework problem he was talking about, and in [https://web.archive.org/web/20110212000453/http://www.fletcherapts.com/archive/20060331.html this strip] his brain literally flashes a BSOD, causing Doug to forget his lesson and possibly the entire week beforehand.
* Lampshaded in ''[[Shortpacked]]!'' When Ethan realizes how gratuitously evil he's being, his shock and horror causes the strip itself to "crash"--[http://www.shortpacked.com/blog/2009/03/31/gpf/ complete with BSOD].
** As an added bonus, that entire chapter was ''named'' [[Lampshade Hanging|Heroic BSOD]]
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* Parodied in [http://concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20090320 this] ''[[Concession]]'', where [[Virginity Makes You Stupid|Matt]] (post-destupidification) [[Ambiguous Innocence|seemingly]] goes into a [[Heroic BSOD]] when he learns that [[The Internet Is for Porn]].
* Kate of ''[[Instant Classic]]'' suffers one after learning that Orson Welles (whom she idolizes) voice acted in an anime (a genre that she regards as the lowest, least dignified form of filmmaking).
* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', John is given the command [https://web.archive.org/web/20130921104243/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002879 "mental breakdown"] after discovering Fruit Gushers are made by Betty Crocker. {{spoiler|In actuality, this trope is brilliantly and hilariously subverted. THIS IS STUPID}}
** However, this is played very straight immediately before the above example, {{spoiler|where John's discovery that his dad is just a boring businessman and [[Mind Screw|isn't really into "harlequins" at all]] is enough to send him into the fetal postion.}}
** Later on in Act 5, ''[[Jerkass|Karkat]]'' of all people has one after {{spoiler|he fails to get Sollux into the Medium in time.}} [[Mood Whiplash|It doesn't last for very long, though.]]
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* Antimony, in chapter 31 of ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' after being told that {{spoiler|she was the reason for her mother's death}}, reels back in shock and proceeds to run out of the Court and into the Forest, setting off the alarm, and creating a huge firewall of death to prevent anyone following her.
** It helps that the art is also [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=808 bizarrely warped] to represent her crazed state of mind
* ''[[Girl Genius]]''
* [[Girl Genius|Gilgamesh Wulfenbach]] suffers one of these when he thinks that {{spoiler|Agatha's dead.}} Agatha later has one of her own when {{spoiler|Lars dies}}, but hers involves a calliope and an attack carousel. Given the [[Gray and Black Morality]] of the characters, the degree of Heroic in [[Heroic BSOD]] may vary.▼
** Gilgamesh Wulfenbach suffers one of these when he thinks that {{spoiler|Agatha's dead.}}
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* Germany literally BSOD's in [http://satwcomic.com/cute-puppy this comic]([[Scandinavia and The World]]) when faced with a dog that Finland trained. He's sorry! [[The Atoner|He's changed! He really, really has!]] [[Apologises a Lot|He's sorry!]] [[Madness Mantra|He's sorry!]] [[Rule of Three|He's sorry!]]
** For those that don't want to click, the dog gives him a Nazi salute.
** Not the first time Germany BSODs. He did it before when, after he begs the Scandinavian countries not to fly his flag around cause it makes his people prideful, it's pointed out that his ''shirt'' has the flag on it too.
* [[Walkyverse|Its Walky!]]: During the strip's climax, Linda Walkerton was taken out of commission by {{spoiler|Her preserved, pre-ressurection corpse and the information that she'd died, been brought back, and manipulated into doing the will of Dargon Chesterfield and his compatriots, which turned her understanding of the most important moment in her life and the aftermath thereof on its head.}}
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* ''[[Squid Row]]'' [http://squidrowcomics.com/?p=454 Total system shutdown]
* In ''[[Wapsi Square]]'', Shelly [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/are-you-there-2/ went through one of these] after {{spoiler|being trapped in another world as a sphinx for 80,000 years, while [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|no time at all passed for her friends.]] She got better surprisingly quickly.}}
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* ''[[Ninth Elsewhere]]'': Carmen enters this when she {{spoiler|accidentally destroys the key that unlocks her mind because of her lack of self-control of her lucidity.}}
* [[Dubious Company]]'s Leeroy has one [[Undying Loyalty|complete]] with [[Oh Crap]] stare when the magic fades from the latest [[Quantum Leap|leap]] to [[Another Dimension]] and [[Childhood Friends|Sal]] is missing.
* In ''[[Blue Yonder]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20121225085829/http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1332262/blue-yonder-chapter-1-page-34/ Jared shows it when they are attacked again]
* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', [
{{quote|'''Doctor Bunnigus''': It's not her blood, sir.
'''Captain Tagon''': What do you want me to do, give her a bath?
'''Doctor Bunnigus''': It's worse than that. I think she needs a hug. }}
** Karl Tagon in Book 16.
* In [[Goblin Hollow]], by the creator of Tales Of The Questor, the protagonist Ben Bruin's brain shorts out after he receives news of his impending fatherhood.▼
{{quote|'''Kathryn''': Oh, no… I thought [[Dysfunctional Family|he was broken]] before, but now he's actually broken-broken. }}
** Vaal in Book 17, when he had to kill some co-workers ho had their brains hacked. Chelle found him there staring at the corpses, still holding a wrench and sidearm.
{{quote|'''Chelle''': ''Bosun!'' Are you okay?
'''Vaal''': Nope. }}
▲* In ''[[Goblin Hollow]]'', by the creator of ''[[Tales Of The Questor]]'', the protagonist Ben Bruin's brain shorts out after he receives news of his impending fatherhood.
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209182853/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2310 Lil' Evil wants a film] with [[Bad Guys Win]] and [[Humiliation Conga]], ending in this.
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