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Sometimes characters have every reason to be angry, but they try to hold it back for various reasons. Sometimes the reasons are selfish; sometimes they are because they know it would be wrong to get angry or that blowing their top would have bad consequences (such as losing their job or getting killed); and sometimes the reason is just for the sake of appearances.
Eventually there will be a last straw. It could range from a [[Rant-Inducing Slight|minor thing]], to out-and-out hitting the character's [[Berserk Button]]. But now the character's '''Rage Breaking Point''' has been reached and a flood of anger comes pouring out like water from a burst dam. It usually involves [[Unstoppable Rage]], but in some cases it can even be [[Tranquil Fury]]. Some stories might even have this trigger a [[Heroic Second Wind]]. Also, if the berserk button is hit, this character might even be twice as berserk as usual.
A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry]].
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Contrast [[Hair-Trigger Temper]], [[The Stoic]].
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== Anime & Manga ==▼
* Minoru Shiraishi from ''[[Lucky Star]]''. His moment was even made the page image for [[Beware the Nice Ones]].
* When [[Naruto]] learned of the harm he caused by using the [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Kyuubi's power]] to the point where [[Four Is Death|he can't even control himself]], he restrains his anger to avoid transforming again. After what seems like a month or so, his beloved mentor Jiraiya is killed, his village is destroyed while he is away, and his teacher Kakashi has died from overuse of chakra. All have been caused by one guy, Pain. Naruto goes to defeat Pain with [[Super Mode|his new power]], but is quickly brought down. Of all times, Hinata comes to [[Anguished Declaration of Love|confess her love for Naruto]] and defend him from Pain, but she is thrown around and then stabbed. Naruto, now [[Angst Nuke|an over-pressured boiler filled with rage]], gives himself to the very power that harmed his comrades before...
* Possibly the most heartbreaking example happens to Gohan in ''[[Dragon Ball Z]]''. First off, he and all his friends (and family) are fighting against the super powerful Cell, and one after another, they all fall. Eventually, Android #16 decides to try and perform a [[Taking You with Me]] Attack {{spoiler|that doesn't work, because the bomb inside him was removed by Dr. Briefs. Cell then completely destroys him, save for his still-alive head, which Mr Satan tosses to Gohan. #16 then proceeds to tell Gohan to unleash his rage, as it's for the greater good. [[Kick the Dog|Then Cell crushes his head]]}}. This is the final straw that pushes Gohan over the edge, going beyond his normal Super Saiyan form and into Super Saiyan 2. Let's just say things didn't go well for Cell.
** Earlier Frieza killed Krillin on Namek and then threatened to do the same to Gohan, finally infuriating Goku enough to trigger his first Super Saiyan transformation.
== Film ==
* In the movie ''[[Drive (film)|Drive]]'' this pretty much describes the character of Driver. He is a quiet emotionless guy but after his [[Love Interest]]'s husband comes home from prison, you start to see that he is holding back a lot of anger. As things start going to hell, he maintains his cool up until the elevator scene {{spoiler|where he stomps on a mook's head so many times that it is nothing more than a bloody smear once he's finally done}}.
* [[Star Wars]]: Luke Skywalker had already been through enough by the time the climactic battle in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' rolls around. But he knew that getting furious now would lead to [[The Dark Side]]. Vader and the Emperor taunt him, but he stays calm. But then Vader [[Relative Button|threatens to take the last family he has left]]. Luke lets out a [[Big "Never!"]] and wails on Vader, coming very close to killing him.
* At the start of ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]'', Thor pays a "visit" to the frost giants, and Loki manages to talk him out of violence. Until one of the frost giants resorts to name calling...
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'''Loki''':
* [[Small Soldiers]]: Tom punches out resident [[Jerkass]] Larry near the ends of the movie, providing the page quote.
* In the 2009 ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' Kirk is [[Invoked Trope|advised to do this]] to Spock, by Spock's alternate timeline self, in order to make his other self realize that he had been emotionally compromised due to seeing both his mother and his homeworld die.
== Literature ==
* In the novel ''[[Deryni The|Bishop's Heir]]'', after Morgan and Duncan {{spoiler|fail to save Sidana's life when Llewell slashes her throat just after she exchanged wedding vows with Kelson}}, Morgan looks up and sees Llewell's triumphant expression, leaps to his feet, grabs Llewell by his tunic, yanks him downward and shouts, "On your knees before your king, Mearan excrement!" He wants to kill Llewell and says so. Cardiel has to grasp Morgan by the wrist and forbid him from acting.
* In ''Small Favor'', from ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', Harry is tired, angry, scared (mostly for his friend who is being eyed intently by a Valkyrie) and being chased by fallen angels. When one of them shoots his friend with an AK-47, Harry flips out and blasts a massive hole in the shooters chest (the shooter being a 2000 years old, demon possessed and a heavy weight sorcerer to boot) with a fire blast that is described as so intense it was almost a solid object.
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** Earlier, in ''Grave Peril'', Harry quickly discovers that he's been manipulated into a losing position: if he acts, it's bad. If he doesn't act, it's bad. In addition, he's found out that his lover has been cursed, his friends are in peril, and his lack of forethought and planning might spell doom for the Knights of the Cross. On top of all that, his discovery was ''planned'' for all of this to have maximum psychological impact. He responds thusly:
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* The ''[[Worlds of Power]]'' novelization for ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' explains the "art of the fire wheel" as a weapon Ryu was taught to create through his anger. He unleashes it when struggling against a difficult enemy gets heaped on top of the other issues currently plaguing
== Video Games ==
* Bartz, the protagonist of ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'', is a pretty even-tempered guy throughout the game. He supports his friends, rolls his eyes at their antics, and keeps up a steady determination to save the world from Exdeath despite numerous failures. {{spoiler|Then Exdeath hurls Bartz's hometown into the Void for no reason but to demonstrate his power}}, and Bartz flips his lid, sending the airship careening across the world so fast he nearly destroys it.
* Paragon Shepard from the [[Mass Effect]] series gets a few of these moments.
** During the Overlord DLC for [[Mass Effect 2]], Shepard will get a Paragon interrupt where s/he pistol whips a scientist who was using his own autistic brother as a test subject in a brutal experiment.
** In the third game of the series, one mission has Shepard investigating an indoctrinated hanar diplomat. When the hanar justifies his actions with some [[Insane Troll Logic]], Shepard snaps:
{{quote|'''Shepard''': You... ''Big! Stupid!!'' '''Jellyfish!!!'''}}
* [[The Medic]] in the ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' comic "Old Wounds". After being fired, he started working for [[Knight of Cerebus|the Classic Team]], and has been putting up their insults and disrespect with [[Stepford Smiler|his cheery attitude]]. But when Classic Heavy [[Moral Event Horizon|nearly kills]] [[Kick the Morality Pet|his beloved dove Archimedes]] and berates him for {{spoiler|reviving one of his former teammates}}, it's [[Death Glare|pretty]] [[Tranquil Fury|clear]] he's not going to tolerate any more of his bullshit and is about to [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|go berserk]].
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* ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]'' sees Mike eventually reach this point when he thinks Lucy is passive-aggressively [[Playing the Victim Card]] and trying to guilt him into feeling bad that {{spoiler|his long distance girlfriend Sandy is visiting over winter holiday}}. Instead of lashing out physically, he lays out a ''devestating'' [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]], which takes her to task for ten years of [[
* Happened in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' twice, to Antimony, who is usually nice and calm to the point of seeming emotionless. The second time was very unhealthy and prompted her to jump on the first proposal of teaching her some self-control.
* Piro from the webcomic ''[[Megatokyo]]''. Normally the nicest guy you could ask for, wouldn't hurt a fly. But he's been shown to have a violent temper, so push him over the edge at your peril. See also [[Beware the Quiet Ones]].
== Web Original ==
* [[Played for Laughs]] when ''[[Brows Held High]]'' reviewed ''[[A Serbian Film]]''. Oancitizen kept insisting the film was art, and not deserving of the hate many reviewers gave it. He kept a [[Stepford Smiler]] attitude about it, right until the review was over, and then snapped and called NATO, asking them to bomb Serbia (fortunately they didn't).
== Western Animation ==
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* Ned Flanders in that one ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode about the hurricane where his house was destroyed, when Ned saw the crappy job the town had done on his house, he lost it. He tried to be nice, but he spoke gibberish and then snapped, and insulted everyone there. Particularly notable in this case, because he'd been building up his rage for ''decades''. Hell, it's the reason he has his [[Verbal Tic]].
* Lois has one in a Christmas episode of [[Family Guy]], after Peter lost all of the gifts and the house was practicaly destroyed in a fire she says that [[Blatant Lies|everything's going to be all right]].
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'''Meg''': We're out of them.
'''Lois''':''(throws chair through the window)'' }}
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[[Category:Anger Tropes]]
[[Category:You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry]]
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