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Sometimes the pilots [[Heroic BSOD|crash even harder]] than the mechas.
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* Oga from ''[[Beelzebub]]'' experiences a huge one after {{spoiler|Hilda lets herself get captured by the Jabberwock and his Dragon to save Oga and Baby Beel}}. Considering this was primarily a comedy driven manga until almost this ''very'' chapter, the readers faces mirror Oga's quite well.
* In ''[[Soul Eater]]'', Maka goes into a brief one (during the remedial lesson in the graveyard that introduces Sid the Zombie and Dr. Franken Stein after finding out from Shinigami-sama that 1) she's been collecting a grand total of zero souls and 2) she will be expelled if she fails to pass the remedial lesson. It takes a full four panels (and for Sid to pop out of the ground, hoisting her into the air and holding her by her ankle) to snap her out of it.
** Played for laughs when Death the Kid is taking his exam, crying about not being able to write his name neatly enough...and then rips the paper. Fainting and blood ensue.
** Played more seriously when {{spoiler|Maka enters the Envy Chapter in the Book of Eibon, and is reduced to tears upon aknowledging sides of herself that she hates.}}
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* Kiba, the protagonist from ''[[Wolf's Rain]]'' has one, once his [[Interspecies Romance|humanoid flower/girlfriend]] and reason for living, Cheza, ''disintegrates'' into millions of seeds in his hands after fighting an epic battle with the [[Big Bad]] for [[Failure Knight|''her'' safety.]] This one is a little more intense, as he never gets over it, and dies shortly after. He's also the ''last thing on earth to die''.
* ''[[Peacemaker Kurogane]]'': Quite a lot of characters have several, with Tetsunosuke being the most frequent victim. Also, Suzu after he finds {{spoiler|his master Yoshida dead.}}
* ''[[School Days]]'': Sekai has one after {{spoiler|Makoto kisses Kotonoha in front of her}}, and Kotonoha very likely has a '''[[Go Mad
** Kotonoha ''did'' recover when Makoto hugged her and apologized. {{spoiler|Only to '''permanently'' go [[Yandere]] once she finds him dead.}}
** Nanami has a brief one when {{spoiler|everyone sees the tape featuring her and her boyfriend having sex.}}
* Kaede in ''[[
* Usagi in [[Tail of the Moon]] {{spoiler|after the destruction of her home and the presumed death of her husband}}.
* Ichigo Kurosaki from ''[[Bleach]]'' has a brief one after his friends are almost {{spoiler|killed by Yammy}} and he was unable to save them because of his inner psycho. After visiting Orihime in the hospital, Ichigo basically shuts down internally because of his failure. Then Rukia kicks him in the head and forces him to handle his problems rather than freaking out about them.
** Also when {{spoiler|Ichigo transforms back into himself after stabbing Ishida and Ulquiorra pulls the sword out}}, he majorly freezes up, unable to grasp how he could have done such a thing.
** Orihime barely manages to get out of an ''epic'' one that hit her in full force after she and Ishida witness Ichigo, the first person she has loved since her brother died, {{spoiler|being nearly ''killed'' by Ulquiorra}}...only to {{spoiler|witness Ichigo turn into ''[[Super-Powered Evil Side|that]]''}}.
** After {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|accidentally impaling]] his childhood friend/the one person he has sworn to protect with all his being}}, {{spoiler|Hitsugaya}} briefly goes into one. {{spoiler|He then attacks Aizen in a blind fury and gets cut down for his trouble.}}
** In the fourth movie, Ichigo [http://kokoro-beat.tumblr.com/post/16024184315 suffers another massive BSOD] after {{spoiler|Kokuto kills not only several of his friends, but also ''his little sister Yuzu''. And then taunts him with the girl's lifeless body.}}
** The X-Cution arc brings one so bad for Ichigo that he almost crosses the [[Despair Event Horizon]] {{spoiler|after Tsukishima brainwashes his friends and sisters and drives them against him}}, and '''then''' {{spoiler|Ginjo reveals that he and Tsukishima are the [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]}}. This reduces poor Ichigo to a complete mess, {{spoiler|and it takes a MASSSIVE intervention from the shinigami to get him fixed}}.
* In ''Ichigo 100%'', Satsuki has one when she witnesses what she thinks is Junpei out on a date at a movie theatre when he is really showing the new girl the awesomeness that he sees in movies.
* Yomiko Readman suffers a [[Heroic BSOD]] late in the ''[[Read or Die]]'' manga {{spoiler|when she relives the events that led to her lover Donnie's death, and learns that ''she'' was the one who was [[Shoot the Dog|forced to kill him]]}}. It gets so bad that she doesn't even want to read books anymore for a good few chapters.
** In ROD: The TV, all of the Paper Sisters, especially Maggie and Anita more so, suffer from collective [[Heroic BSOD
* Chrono suffers from this ''several'' times in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', although the worst is probably after the [[It Got Worse|disastrous]] battle at the carnival mid-way through the series. In the manga he goes so far as to go into an [[Angst Coma]] over it.
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', when the title character is confronted by the [[One-Winged Angel|true form]] of Graf Herrman, he goes into an ''[[Unstoppable Rage]]'' that nearly gets him killed.
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* This happens with Ayato in ''[[RahXephon]]'' during episode 19 after realizing that the Dolem he destroyed was {{spoiler|directly connected to his friend, Hiroko Asahina, killing her in the process}}. What's especially brutal is that {{spoiler|he realizes this after reading her confession of love and a goodbye written in city lights}}.
* The titular character in ''[[Ranma ½]]'' all but shuts down when he believes {{spoiler|Akane has died}}. He snaps back to form when he finds out {{spoiler|she hasn't, not ''yet'', but is in desperate danger anyway}}.
* Half the HiME throughout ''[[
** Mai Tokiha herself gets quite a few of these, even in situations that aren't really that dramatic, but in which a real person would probably react this way. For example, in the first episode, after becoming an unexpected witness of the fight between Natsuki and Mikoto that wrecks her ship to Fuuka, Mai is so shocked that she wanders aimlessly through the garage, nearly catatonic, until Yuuichi rescues her.
** Natsuki suffers a mental breakdown, unable to summon her CHILD for a few episodes after she learned that {{spoiler|the story about her mother escaping from the First District lab to save her was a lie, and that Saeko was actually going to hand her over to Searrs to continue her research}}. Another few traumatic episodes later, it takes a [[Friendship Moment|pep talk with Mai]] to snap her out of her funk.
*** It also happens to her in [[Mai-HiME (manga)|the manga]], when {{spoiler|it becomes evident that [[First Girl Wins|Yuuichi has chosen Mai over her]]}}. This is also roughly the point where {{spoiler|[[Not Quite Dead|Saeko herself steps in]] and takes over the school}}.
* ''[[Mai-Otome]]''
** Shizuru has one in the picture drama "Shizuru Viola Memoirs", when Natsuki rather forcefully rejects her offer to make her one of her room attendants because she thinks of Natsuki as just another [[Fan Girl]]. It takes Haruka coming up with a plan to make having Natsuki as a room attendant the stakes of the welcoming duel between them, as well as Natsuki retracting her decision and accepting after talking wtih Mai, to get Shizuru back to normal.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': Asuka after being [[Mind Rape|mind raped]], and Shinji during most of ''End of Evangelion'' after being forced to [[Shoot the Dog]]. He spends the entire first half of the story barely able to walk and completely unable to speak, and occasionally curls up into a ball when he hears about more imminent danger. Misato evokes [[Distracted by the Sexy]] to get him conscious again: she gives him a "grown-up kiss" and promises "the rest" if he manages to survive. He snaps out of his BSOD and goes to find Unit 01. {{spoiler|Of course, as soon as he can't see Misato anymore, she collapses and dies.}}
** Shinji sometimes displays another, much more unnerving version of this trope in a form of a [[Unstoppable Rage|berserk rage]] when he gets pushed past what his rational mind can handle.
** Let's not forget Misato, who suffered one as a child after her father {{spoiler|sacrificed his life to save her.}}
* A far less serious version of this is Dororo from ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', whose "Trauma Switch" (triggered by feeling ignored, or by a reminder of how Keroro took advantage of him in their childhood) would frequently cause him to sulk in the [[Corner of Woe]], on the verge of tears. In one episode this became a plot point, where the Trauma Switch got "stuck", and Keroro, Tamama, and Giroro had to [[Journey to the Center of the Mind|enter Dororo's mind]] to fix things. Ironically, Keroro can sometimes go through something similar when all the pent-up remorse from being ''responsible'' for Dororo's childhood trauma kicks in.
** In an earlier episode, the Garuru Platoon's invasion is pinned on Keroro at first, and even his best friend Fuyuki doesn't believe in his innocence. Keroro is reduced to an emotional wreck as a result. [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|Cue Giroro's intervention]] (though it only made Keroro feel [[It Got Worse|worse]]).
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** Kaiba, of course, takes awhile to recover mentally whenever he loses a duel: [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|"I lost a card game! I no longer have a reason to live!"]] One of these duels, however, makes it worse: {{spoiler|not only he was fighting to rescue his kidnapped brother Mokuba, practically turned into a zombie after his soul is stolen by Pegasus, but ''he'' gets his own soul stolen as well when he loses ''badly'' against his rival.}} He also almost had one {{spoiler|when he arrived to ancient Egypt and witnessed the tragedy that surrounded the creation of his Blue Eyes White Dragon.}}
** Atem/The Pharaoh has his turn in the Doma arc when he gives in to his inner darkness, plays the [[Artifact of Doom|Seal of Orichalcos]], and loses Yugi's soul.
* Judai Yuki in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' goes into this state after realizing {{spoiler|all the suffering [[Stalker with a Crush|Yubel]] caused his friends -- including forcing a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] out of his new [[Ho Yay]] partner Johan/Jesse -- was because of its twisted devotion to ''him'' and ire at being launched into space. Not only is Judai stuck in a catatonic state of guilt soon afterwards, but becomes obsessed with finding Johan alone.}} Judai's subsequent discovery of his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]
* Yusei Fudo gets his turn in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'' after his almost-lethal duel with Kalin, his former best friend/BigBrotherMentor who has come [[Back
** Jack had his own period of depression and guilt brought on by losing his title to Yusei and realizing the full impact of everything he'd done, all the lies he'd lived by and betraying his friends to get to the top. Carly helps to snap him out of it, and he later pleads [[Love Redeems]] in response to the [[Big Bad]]'s [[Hannibal Lecture]] during the [[Final Battle]].
* When the true identity of Deep Blue is revealed, poor Ichigo of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' is shocked into a loss of common sense, attacking her teammates and then refusing to fight, until Minto [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slaps her back to sanity]]. We wouldn't blame her; after all, it ''was'' {{spoiler|her boyfriend and ex [[Mysterious Protector]], Masaya}}.
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* This occurs in ''[[Hotaru no Haka|Grave of the Fireflies]]'' to the main character Seita before he dies, though it is no wonder due to him {{spoiler|losing his entire family and everything that he ever cared for in a horrifically tragic manner}}.
* ''[[Elfen Lied]]'': Kouta, the male lead, suffers amnesia and spends an entire year in an [[Angst Coma]] after {{spoiler|watching his little sister Kanae and his father get slaughtered right in front of him by Lucy}}. Lucy herself suffers some pretty bad ones, like...her ''entire'' <s>childhood</s> life.
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Alex Louis Armstrong, known best for being the [[Plucky Comic Relief]], has a complete nervous breakdown during the Ishval massacre, [[
** [[Axe Crazy|Barry]] suggests to Al (just for shits and giggles) that he may actually [[Replacement Goldfish|just be a construct built by Ed]]. Poor Al got the [[Cloning Blues]] until [[Wrench Wench|Winry]] [[Percussive Maintenance|went to town on him with her wrench]], [[Berserker Tears|complete with angry tears.]]
** Ed occasionally gets this too. After the failed attempt to bring back their mother, Hawkeye even notes that he looks lost. Of course, in this series, characters get the BSOD so often, they must be running on [[Windows]] [[Take That|Millennium Edition.]]
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* Happens to Kazuma in ''[[S-Cry-ed]]'' after the death of {{spoiler|Kunihiko Kimishima}}. Rather than making precision strikes against his enemies (often for money) he madly swings his fist at anything with a HOLY logo on it until [[Worthy Opponent|Ryuhou]] comes out to stop him. By this point, however, Kazuma had beaten up Scheris and Ryuho's search for him had resulted in Kanami witnessing her and Kazuma's house getting ripped apart, so ''both'' of them were pretty pissed, {{spoiler|1=and the restultant fight shakes up ''the entire Lost Ground''. Then they ''both'' went into amnesia and BSODs. Kazuma had to be kickstarted with help from Asuka and later Cougar while Ryuho's blackout results in a [[Heel Realization]] as he forgets his grudges just long enough to relearn a softer sense of justice.}}
* Chief Ikari from ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'', after being fired for his and Maniwa's mishandling of the Shonen Bat case, effectively has one of these, retreating into a ''[[Lotus Eater Machine]]'' based on how he would ideally like the world to be. Maniwa himself went somewhat batty, but this being a [[Satoshi Kon]] work, he was actually closer to the truth as a result. He doesn't snap out of it until {{spoiler|the death of his wife, as her soul is able to visit him in there just long enough to make him come to his senses}}.
* A significant portion of the main cast of ''[[Blood
** Haji had one himself after the events of Vietnam, though it was mostly offscreen. Prequel manga "City of Nightwalkers" reveals that he spent the next several decades slowly starving himself to death, refusing to drink blood out of a combination of fear of losing control of himself and self-imposed penance for having been even momentarily afraid of Saya.
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Gundam SEED]]'': After the climactic battle between Kira and Athrun where {{spoiler|Kira's friend Tolle is killed and he realises he caused the same pain to Athrun by killing Nicol}}, Kira alternates between unconsciousness and hysterical sobbing until he gets a pep talk from Lacus and thinks things over.
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*** Shinn Asuka also gets one near the end of the series (although in his case it plays out more like the traditional [[Villainous Breakdown]]) for... well, no discernable reason. By the end of the [[Final Battle]] he is literally hallucinating and this close to landing a lethal blow on his own ally/girlfriend before Athrun forcibly stops him.
* A slow build over the course of five specific episodes leads to the main character of ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]'', Doremi Harukaze, going into this in the series finale. {{spoiler|Her best friends for the past four years are either moving or going to a different school, so Doremi locks herself in the Maho-dou on the day of her elementary school graduation. It takes Hana-chan threatening to reveal her identity as a witch to force her out.}}
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'''s Simon goes into a big one of these after {{spoiler|Kamina dies}}. However, when Simon [[He's Back|reboots]], he ''[[
* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Gundam 00]]'', [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Tieria Erde]] suffers a ([[Epileptic Trees|literal?]]) [[Heroic BSOD]] after {{spoiler|his partner and close friend Lockon Stratos is killed.}} And before that, {{spoiler|he had one when VEDA was hijacked and crashed, making him completely lose their connection.}}
** In the second season, poor {{spoiler|Louise Halevy}} has ''several'' of those in different degrees, {{spoiler|as a side effect of her [[Ill Girl|medical treatment]].}}
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* In ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' Fakir suffers a brief one after Ahiru digs up the {{spoiler|suppressed memories of his parents' violent deaths--that were the fault of his powers}}.
* In ''[[Sentou Yousei Yukikaze]]'', Rei suffers this when his beloved aircraft is destroyed. Somewhat justified that he is a loner, and somewhat a [[Loners Are Freaks|freak]] at that. Freak as in, he prefers the company of his aircraft (and the titular AI inside it) rather than anyone else, even his [[Ho Yay|unusually very close commanding major]]. Thing is, the AI uploaded itself into a new aircraft before the old one got blasted, and it seems that the new AI, in the new aircraft, destroyed the old one in what seems as a [[Mercy Kill]]. As a result, Rei doesn't trust the new aircraft, even if it contains his old AI. [[MST3K Mantra|Better not think about this too much...]]
** The titular AI itself goes through a [[Heroic BSOD]] as it feels that Rei doesn't trust it, and needs its reassurance before it can work properly in its new mainframe.
* In ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]] Kai'', {{spoiler|Rika Furude, revealed as the true protagonist behind the scenes of the entire series, goes through temporary BSOD every time she inevitably dies in each arc at which point Hanyū Furude, an ancestral victim turned shrine god, resets her. It takes a while, the aid of Hanyu and events that create deja vu, to spark Rika's memory each time, since she lives her live over each and every time until her memories slowly flood back to her. Hanyu herself has gone through an epic BSOD in which she has lost all hope for changing Rika's fate and just goes through the motions of resurrecting her each time. It takes Rika's changes in attitude (which happens as a result of K1's loyalty and hope) to change Hanyu's attitude.}}
** {{spoiler|Rika}} gets a more tangible and obvious [[Heroic BSOD]] moment during Minagoroshi-hen. {{spoiler|When Satoko's [[Evil Uncle]] Teppei returns to Hinamizawa (a sign Rika usually takes as making a lost cause of a particular world), she's inspired to reach out for help, which she at first gets from Irie and Takano. However, when she's told that nothing can be done because the Uncle is already being tracked by the authorities, which forgoes any interference by the "Institute", she breaks down and curses at each one to die (in ways she knows they die by in past worlds), and then proceeds to drink herself into a stupor serious even by her standards.}}
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** She almost had another in ''Striker's S'' when [[Mad Scientist|Jail Scaglietti]] subjects her to a cruel [[Hannibal Lecture]] about how she is raising Caro and Erio, which in Jail's opinion [[Not So Different|makes her just as evil as Precia]], as he claims that she influenced them to love her unconditionally and do anything she wants because she is afraid of being abandoned. She's luckier this time, though, since Erio and Caro go all "[[Shut UP, Hannibal]]" on Jail and reassure Fate that they love her and chose their own paths, which gives her enough [[Heroic Resolve]] to defeat Jail.
** Also in ''Striker's S'', Nanoha has a brief one when Vivio is kidnapped. At first she continues to carry out her duties through sheer willpower, but when she finishes and no longer has anything to distract her, she breaks down crying in Fate's arms. Of course, being [[Determinator|Nanoha]], she doesn't let her emotions keep her down, and channels them into rescuing Vivio and kicking the crap out of her enemies.
* Sousuke spends a significant portion of ''[[Full Metal Panic!]] The Second Raid'' in the throes of a [[Heroic BSOD]] after he's ordered to cease serving as Kaname's bodyguard and cut off all contact with her. Eventually it gets bad enough that he simply walks away in the middle of a mission and wanders aimlessly around Hong Kong, getting a bottle of scotch and picking up (or allowing himself to be picked up by) a prostitute who looks like Kaname. And then [[It Got Worse|It Gets Worse]]...
* {{spoiler|Tsukasa}} suffers one in ''[[.hack|.hack//sign]]'' {{spoiler|after Morganna tortures him. In fact, this was Morganna's plan: to build Tsukasa up and make him feel safe so that when it was "BSOD time" it would be more traumatic.}}
** To be honest, it's kinda hard not to when you've been {{spoiler|Data Drained.}}
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{{quote|'''Ikanov''': And to think that {{spoiler|that same elder brother died in front of his very eyes, so that he would be saved…}} What God or Buddha would permit that…?! That’s something that could easily crumble one, nay, two minds!!! }}
*** The latest chapters {{spoiler|[[Flash Back|tell the story]] of Luffy, Ace, and [[Death by Origin Story|surrogate brother Sabo]] and how they came become the men they were, with Ace's promise that they would survive, and Luffy's vow to get stronger and become the Pirate King.}} By the end, {{spoiler|everything that has happened has caused Luffy's dream to come crashing down on him. For a series about chasing your dreams, this is heartbreaking.}}
▲** [[media:Luffy-King_of_the_Heroic_BSOD.gif|Is he already the King of the Heroic BSOD trope?]]
** While his status as a hero is questionable, a recent manga chapter shows that, {{spoiler|Squad seems to go into one after realizing how thoroughly the Marines had manipulated him into stabbing Whitebeard.}}
** A variation, Perona's ''Horo Horo no Mi'' Devil Fruit power can cause this in a victim artificially via her Negative Hollows. A victim is drained of his morale and self-esteem, feeling worthless. It is possible to resist this power, however, as Usopp did, in which case [[Hoist By Her Own Petard| it was turned back on Perona]].
* Takumi in ''[[Initial D]]'' goes into one after {{spoiler|his Trueno's engine breaks down in mid-race}}.
* In ''[[Cyborg 009]]'', Francoise (003) suffers one of these when {{spoiler|she witnesses the destruction of a whole city with her powers and is unable to stop it}}, and Joe (the titular 009) has to talk her out of it. Later, Joe has a full one when {{spoiler|he lands into an [[Alternate Universe]] where the Black Ghost organization, the group he and his people have fought against during the whole series, have actually ''won'' the war and now own the world.}}
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** ...Of course, one could argue that what happened {{spoiler|after she ''did'' cast the spell}} was, in fact, the ultimate [[Heroic BSOD]], {{spoiler|as the Lord Of Nightmares completely takes over Lina, pretty much ''killing'' her}}.
** She nearly had another one a few episodes earlier, when she was attacked by the zombified citizens of Sylphiel's [[Doomed Hometown]], reanimated as puppets by the aforementioned dark lord. In self-defense, she stabbed a little girl who was attacking her with a knife; upon realizing it, [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child|poor Lina]] nearly lost it and started screaming in horror ("I... I killed a child? It was a little girl! [[This Cannot Be!|It can't be, it can't be, IT CAN'T BE!]]") -- until Sylphiel gave her a [[Cooldown Hug]] and reminded her that the child, and all the people attacking her, were already dead.
*** And in the original series, Sylphiel had two pretty serious BSOD's. One, when her aforementioned hometown was destroyed, and another when {{spoiler|she wasn't sure if her powers were enough to save a critically injured Lina, who had taken a huge energy blast for her.}}
* Tamaki of ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' has a pretty epic one during one of Casanova... Bossa Nova... er, [[My Name Is Not Durwood|Kasanoda's]] visits to the music room, when he realizes he ''actually isn't'' Haruhi's father (and realizes the [[Parental Incest|strange]] [[Wife Husbandry|implications]] that being her father would carry). Played entirely for laughs.
* Vegeta of ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' gets one of these in the first Broly movie. Upon realizing what they're dealing with, he goes almost catatonic with hopelessness and actually sits out most of the fight. Then Piccolo grabs him by the hair and tries to insult some sense into him - he just hangs limp, blathering about the pointlessness of it all until Piccolo gives up and tosses him to the ground. He's on his feet and fighting a few minutes later, so apparently it sank in.
** A canon BSOD happens during the Frieza fight. When Vegeta finally realizes that even with his new powers he's still no match for Frieza, he freezes up and starts crying.
** Arguably, the violant rampage variant of this happens when several of the characters become Super Saiyans, particularly Goku's transformation while fighting Freiza, Gohan while fighting Cell, and Trunks in the special about his past.
** Future Trunks has a short lived one telling Perfect Cell to kill him after realizing he cannot defeat the villain as an Ultra Super Saiyan.
** Piccolo gets a minor one in the anime version of the Buu saga, when {{spoiler|Gotenks' reckless fight with Buu blows Kami's lookout to hell and back.}} He stands there {{spoiler|holding a chunk of the floor}}, gaping at it and rambling until circumstances force him to... y'know, ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged|dodge]]''.
*** Piccolo also has a brief one when he first meets Cell. When Cell manages to absorb a human through his tail, Piccolo was staring in shock and horror, and reacts with an even more horrified expression when Cell addresses him by his name, continuously remaining frozen in place as Cell powers up. He gets better, though.
** Gohan has two simultaneous ones during his fight against Cell - first when Cell prepares to blow up the Earth, which he blames himself for, and then when Goku [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrifices himself]] to {{spoiler|try to}} kill Cell, which Gohan also blames himself for.
* Mai Kawasumi from ''[[Kanon]]'' has her [[Heroic BSOD]] when Sayuri is attacked by the demons that she had been fighting. Said demons are {{spoiler|actually manifestations of her own denial of her healing powers.}}
* Kotomi Ichinose from ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' has her [[Heroic BSOD]] when she thinks that her friend Ryou was involved in the bus accident at the intersection. Justified in that {{spoiler|she lost her parents in a plane crash, ansd the memories come back when this happen}}.
** Ryou's sister Kyou has a BSOD when the epic [[Ship Sinking]] of ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' took place. Apparently, she had [[Trying Not to Cry|promised herself that she wouldn't cry]], but when Tomoya's unconscious actions tell the rest of his [[Unwanted Harem|harem]] [[First Girl Wins|who he's picked]], she, to say the least, does not take it well.
** Then there's Tomoya himself in After Story. {{spoiler|After Nagisa dies}}, he leaves town for about five years during the BSOD, {{spoiler|ignoring his newly born daughter Ushio in the process. He gets better. [[It Got Worse|And then worse.]] [[Retcon|And better again]].}}
*** He didn't actually leave the city, {{spoiler|he just left Ushio with the Furukawas for that period in time and didn't do anything. He was ''that'' out of it.}}
** Don't forget Nagisa's BSOD near the end of the first season, when {{spoiler|she found out about her parents's past and ''what'' they gave up to raise her.}}
* Kouji Kabuto from ''[[Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hen]]'' experiences one of these when he realizes that by fighting in his [[Humongous Mecha]], he has accidentally killed dozens of civilians.
** In the original ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' series, Kouji's [[Battle Couple|girlfriend and partner]] Sayaka Yumi has a HUGE one when {{spoiler|her [[Humongous Mecha]], Aphrodite A, is destroyed}}. It's so bad that the poor girl {{spoiler|almost kills herself by drowning, as she believes that Aphrodite is calling her from a nearby lake.}}
** She got another way earlier, in episode 7. A mob -enraged at having their hometown leveld by two battling [[Humongous Mecha]]- threw stones to her father, landing him in the hospital, and almost broke in the Institute. She was so upset and distraught she considered quitting of battling.
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** Let's not forget when Guts finishes his assassination on Julius, where he had to kill a kid who very much reminded him of... him.
*** He doesn't actually experience a full HBSD there. He's falling into one, and then the arrival of a pair of guards [[Heroic Safe Mode|force him back to the present.]]
*** ... And then it returned after he got away from the guards in the sewers and stumbles his way back to tavern where the rest of the Hawks were.
** And Griffith had one when Guts left the Hawks and defeated him, which would soon lead to worse things to come for him.
* In the ''[[Bastard!!]]'' manga, Dark Schneider occasionally experiences Heroic BSOD's for a variety of reasons. Some of them are very minor and short (often triggered by a spat with Yoko in the beginning of the series, when Rushe still matters), but a major one (off-screen) when he {{spoiler|finds out that Yoko apparently died, then goes to hell.}} He's promptly snapped out of it by Porno Dianno by virtue of her wandering all over the place pretty much naked. Talk about priority placement.
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** White is hit ''hard'' after {{spoiler|Gigi, her star Tepig actress, willingly decides to side with N, leaving White to fall out of the Ferris Wheel alone. She is left sprawled on the ground, her eyes blank and full of tears}}.
* In ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'', Tamahome goes into the violent rampage variety of BSOD when he {{spoiler|comes home to find his entire family - including his younger siblings ranging in age from five to twelve years old - have been gruesomely murdered.}}
** He also suffered a more comedic one after Miaka returned to our world, slowly falling into apathy and [[Cloudcuckoolander]] behavior.
{{quote|'''Nuriko''': [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Tama-chan. That's a dish.]]}}
* At the end of the second episode of ''[[After War Gundam X|Gundam X]]'', [[Fainting Seer|Tiffa]] [[The Woobie|Addil]] has a ''memorable'' one (screaming and collapsing included), after {{spoiler|Garrod fires the Satellite Cannon with her help and she senses the deaths of ''many'' people under its powers}}.
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** Love suffers one in [[The Movie]] when she finds out her doll Usapyon is a part of the movie's [[Big Bad]] ToyMajin, making her think that she had the same resentment as the rest of the toys within him. Miki has to [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slap Love]] to get her back in the game.
* ''[[Loveless]]'' the manga (possibly the anime too if they ever make a second season following the manga): Soubi has a complete and utter Heroic BSOD when he {{spoiler|not only discovers that his previous Sacrifice, who had staged his own death, was well and truly alive, but was ordered by said Sacrifice to destroy the windows of the compound he is trapped in so that he can make his escape. (Keep in mind the Sacrifice is a serious bad guy and would routinely torture the sh* t out of Soubi, who was rather powerless to defend himself, given his status as the Fighter unit.) Following the escape, Soubi breaks down to the obvious horror of those who care about him, especially Ritsuka. Soubi says over and over in a quiet voice, "I don't want to," meaning he didn't want to help the Sacrifice escape, but had no choice.}}
* Shingo from ''[[Bio
* In ''[[Et Cetera]]'', Mingchao has one when it's revealed that Mr. Gothic, the terror behind the whole Syndicate and the man who the group has been waiting so long to destroy, {{spoiler|is her father and her last living relative.}} This is followed by a slight [[Freak-Out]]. Baskerville also gets one during a flashback when {{spoiler|he comes home to find his [[Ill Girl]] little sister dead.}}
* In ''[[Holyland]]'', Yuu suffers one of these after {{spoiler|Shin gets beaten up because of him.}} This does [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|not end well for the bad guys.]]
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* In ''[[Kitchen Princess]]'', Najika loses her sense of taste after {{spoiler|Sora dies after a truck hits him as he's crossing the street, holding vanilla beans he meant to give to Najika.}} She later {{spoiler|loses}} the competition that he was bringing the ingredient to her for.
* In ''[[Rideback]]'', Rin undergoes a monstrous BSOD (even her friends can't help her out of it) when {{spoiler|her friend Suzuri gets killed because the government thinks it's her, and that [[Wham! Episode|she's a terrorist]]}}.
* ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' plays this for laughs. Whenever something happens that makes Belldandy jealous, she blanks out, her eyes go wide, and she stares off into the distance. She does this because jealousy is so unfamiliar to her that she can't handle it. Her jealousy also sometimes manifests itself
* ''[[Baki the Grappler]]'' gets one when his mother beats him and chews him out for not being as strong as his father. He's so bummed afterwards that he doesn't even defend himself when three punks start roughing him up. Fortunately, [[Friendly Enemy|Hanayama]] comes along and snaps him out of it.
* In ''[[D4 Princess]]'', the main character gets one when {{spoiler|one of her opponents is killed in an accident during battle}} and doesn't snap out of it until near the end of the series. It didn't help that the rest of her school didn't seem to care that someone had ''died''.
* In ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula]]'', Hayato goes through this more than once, but especially the one in the TV series when {{spoiler|he learned that his father, the person who created Asurada's system, was killed by his former boss.}} His BSOD over this event was a major factor in {{spoiler|him using Asurada GSX's [[Nitro Boost|boost]] in a very dangerous spot at the qualifying round of the fourth race, causing Asurada to crash into the trees, tearing up the car whole.}} The driver's cockpit, however, remained intact, Hayato came out unharmed and recovers after that.
* ''[[Jyu-Oh-Sei]]'''s Thor and Third both go through these; Thor after discovering {{spoiler|that he is a bioengineered organism creating from the DNA of past Beast Kings}}, and Third after {{spoiler|learning that Earth, which he has dreamed of seeing for his entire life, was destroyed over 130 years ago.}} Third does not recover.
* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', {{spoiler|Sayaka and ''specially'' Madoka}} fall in this state in episode 3, when all of a sudden {{spoiler|their sempai and friend Mami is ''horrifyingly'' eaten alive in front of them, which goes on to show them that being a [[Magical Girl Warrior]] [[Deconstructed Trope|isn't as pretty as it seems]].}}
** Later, {{spoiler|Homura}} suffers a brief but tearful one when {{spoiler|Madoka ''almost'' makes the dreaded contract with Kyuubey. After shooting Kyuubey to stop him, she breaks down crying.}}
** {{spoiler|Sayaka}} not only suffers one {{spoiler|when she starts angsting and realising what being a Puella Magi ''truly'' means (isolation, becoming a Lich, etc.)}}... but she actually [[Despair Event Horizon|goes further]] {{spoiler|and becomes a witch.}}
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* In ''[[Virgin Love|Junai no Seinen]]'', Kaoru has a panic attack the first time Daigo leaves him, and then again when Daigo shows up at Ian's farewell party with a date.
* In ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]'', Kaidou Kaoru has a really hilarious one when Inui {{spoiler|tells him that they're going on a date just as Kaidou's phone runs out of battery. Inui actually meant that he believed Momoshiro and An are going out, but he couldn't say it for the above mentioned reason.}}
** Sakuno has another comedic one when she believes that Ryoma [[Through His Stomach|dislikes like her cooking]]. He actually ''[[Supreme Chef|likes]]'' it, but back then he was distracted and said his "mada mada dane" ("you still have to work on") [[Catch Phrase]]... referring to something else.
** A more serious BSOD happens to Ryoma {{spoiler|when he loses ''badly'' to Sanada}} in the anime.
* In the anime of ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', Tohru has one after {{spoiler|seeing Kyo's true form and getting verbally tormented by Akito}}, and staggers about in the rain and mud with a blank stare on her face. She later snaps out of it.
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* Barnaby from ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' experiences one in episodes 18-19 upon discovering that {{spoiler|Jake Martinez was not his parents' murderer, and not only are his memories of the incident (which he relied upon heavily during his investigation into the killer's identity) faulty, but everything he believed in and worked for during the ''past twenty years'' might be a hoax.}}
* In the ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' OVA, Lloyd experiences one after failing to stop {{spoiler|[[It Sucks to Be the Chosen One|Colette from sacrificing her soul to save the world]]}}. He drops his swords and falls to his knees, just crying and screaming her name. He quickly snaps out of it, but it is still pretty heartbreaking, considering how optimistic he normally is.
* Kirby in [[Kirby:
* Happens quite a few times in ''[[Claymore]]''. {{spoiler|Clare}} goes through one during her two final battles, after {{spoiler|having almost all of her commerades killed brutally}}- Fully [Or almost fully] awakening as a result. {{spoiler|Jeanne}} awakes after being mentally and physically tortured by Riful. And, of course, {{spoiler|Priscilla}} goes through such, after realizing she's about to lose to a {{spoiler|Claymore who rebelled against the organization}}.
* In ''[[Tsukigasa]]'', Azuma has one for months after cutting off Kuroe's arm while under the influence, and is [[Driven to Suicide]] at one point.
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* In ''[[Oniisama e...|Oniisama E]]'', several characters find themselves at the receiving end:
** The lead Nanako Misonou has a huge one that lasts for at very least ''two days'' when {{spoiler|her love interest Rei dies, after she falls from a bridge and gets fatally hit by a train while trying to catch a falling bouquet of flowers... [[Stood Up|on her way to their first date]].}} She had several others in the course of the story, but she put herself back to her feet thanks to [[The Power of Friendship]]; this one, however, is so powerful that she almost crosses the [[Despair Event Horizon]]. {{spoiler|Though she does get better in the end.}}
** Also, {{spoiler|Fukiko}} suffers another one almost at the same time, when {{spoiler|she and her brother Takeshi are told by the police about Rei's death.}}
** In the anime, {{spoiler|Mariko Shinobu}} has ''four'' [[Up to Eleven|in, oh,]] [[Trauma Conga Line|around a week.]] First, when {{spoiler|she finds her father Hikawa with his girlfriend in a restaurant, during an outing with Nanako and Tomoko.}} Second, when {{spoiler|her mother Hisako tries to calm her down, only for Mariko to tell her what happened and call her out on how she always hides her feelings in regards to her cheating husband. (Which causes poor Hisako a BSOD of her own, as Mariko locks herself in her room to cry.)}} This is followed by another after {{spoiler|she attacks Aya in class with a boxcutter for mocking her parents's divorce in public}}. And the final one happens {{spoiler|some days after the attack, when she realizes that for all of her hate towards Aya, [[You Are What You Hate|they're actually]] [[Not So Different]].}} (In the manga, [[Adaptation Expansion|only the second and the third one happen.]])
** Takehiko Henmi, Nanako's "Oniisama" aka her [[Big Brother Mentor]], suffers a milder one in the anime {{spoiler|when he learns that his girlfriend Kaoru might have a relapse on her breast cancer, which all but states that she will die in less than four years. He recovers relatively quickly, however.}}
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** Domon himself goes through a couple when {{spoiler|Rain leaves him as the result of her BSOD and becomes the core life unit of the Devil Gundam}}.
** Out of the other Shuffle Aliance members, only {{spoiler|Argo Gulskii}} did NOT go through an Heroic BSOD after {{spoiler|being forcibly infected with DG Cells ''and'' being [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]}}. The other three showed their mental and emotional damage in different ways: {{spoiler|Chibodee drank himself into a stupor twice in a row, George acted snippy and rude to others while mentally reviving a tragedy from his past, and Sai Saici acted nonchalant at first but heavily hallucinated that Argo was the Devil Gundam when they were face to face.}}
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'': Just as [[Aloof Big Brother|Sesshoumaru's]] finally getting used to the idea that [[
** Kagome has some of her own, and the worst of them is the one that comes when {{spoiler|she represses her feelings after Kikyou's "death" in the Shichinintai arc and tells Inuyasha to go see if she's alive or not... and then [[Creepy Child|Arago]] comes and subjects her to a very cruel [[Hannibal Lecture]] about the [[Love Triangle]] as a whole.}}
* Yomi in ''[[
* ''[[Irresponsible Captain Tylor]]'': You wouldn't think happy-go-lucky Tylor would be the type to suffer from one, but
* Kurita in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' lost his will to fight after {{spoiler|Gaou breaks Hiruma's arm, sending him out of the game for a quarter and a halftime.}} He even loses the ability to understand Komusubi, signifying that he was no longer a strong man. It takes Sena and Komusubi risking their lives going against
** Komusubi at one point felt his lack of height had become a liability especially since the Posideon players and their cheerleaders are exceptionally taller than him. It takes some talk from Sena and the Ha-Ha Brothers (literally) kicking some sense to him to get him back on track.
** Monta got one when he realized he would be going against Honjou Taka, the son of his lifetime idol.
* This happened in the backstory for Tsukasa in ''Kuroneko Guardian''. She was {{spoiler|raped by a burglar which caused her to stop speaking and responding to people for some time}}. Even after recovering she's still [[The Stoic]].
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