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* Elliot Stabler of ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' has had trouble controlling himself before.
** Somewhat averted in ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent|Law & Order: Criminal Intent]]'': in Season 6, Det. Goren is interviewing convicted serial killer Mark Ford Brady in an effort to find more of his victims before he is executed, and when it becomes clear that Brady {{spoiler|raped Goren's mother and may well be his own father}}, Goren snaps and goes for his throat. There's a prison guard right there in the room, but he doesn't interfere in any way; Goren just gets control of himself.
* Happened in an episode of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' but it was not one of the team who went across the table at the unsub; it was in fact the priest of the local church, who had helped organize a search for a missing woman in the community, and had been asked to talk to the suspect after they captured him as he was a parishioner and might talk to the priest. The
** Subverted by the episode "Masterpiece", where it's after Rossi's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] that Jason Alexander's UnSub lunges across the table at Rossi - who promptly gains the upper hand, slams his head against a plate-glass window a couple times, and then calmly lets him go.
* Sgt. Kelloway from the movie version of ''[[The Mask (film)|The Mask]]''. Granted, it had definitely become personal at that point, what with them finding a picture of Kelloway's wife in Stanley's pants.
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* Parodied in an episode of ''[[The Last Detective]]'', where the protagonist, who is as far from being a [[Rabid Cop]] as is possible does this against a criminal who beat up his best friend. It's a rather ineffectual lunge and Dangerous' boss, an [[Old-Fashioned Copper]], finds it amusing.
* When [[Honor Harrington]] learns, in ''The Honor of the Queen'', that a P.O.W. prison guard has been [[Moral Event Horizon|ordering prisoners raped and beaten]], she goes after him with murderous intent. Only the intervention of one of her subordinates, who shoves her arm aside as she's pulling the trigger, keeps her from killing him. Rather than an [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]] speech, though, she's told that there's no need to commit career suicide by killing him without a trial, when there's plenty of evidence to convict him and hang him after a full court-martial.
* Inverted, subverted, and played straight to different degrees in J.D. Robb's ''[[In Death]]'' series. Most of the time Eve, the [[Good Cop, Bad Cop|Bad Cop]] in almost every interview, intentionally provokes this reaction, sometimes even letting them land a blow to justify [[Kicking Ass and Taking Names]]. At the same time, some of the series's [[Complete Monster
* In [[L.A. Confidential]], Bud White's [[Berserk Button]] is triggered as he listens to a black suspect confessing to the incidental crime of kidnapping and raping a Mexican woman. He shatters the back of the chair he is leaning on, storms into the interrogation room, violently pushes the suspect against the wall, and places the barrel of his gun into his mouth. Go 50's!
* From [[Scooby Doo]], [[The Scrappy|the abomination whose name we shall not speak.]]
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