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{{quote|''"There are any number of plausible, scientific explanations for what followed, but I think it was just a question of '''hatred.''' It is the way of men to create monsters... [[Turned Against Their Masters|it is the nature of monsters to destroy their makers]]."''|'''Harlan Wade''', ''[[
One of the worst things you can ever do with a hero is to do something that gets them well and truly ''furious'', because rage makes good guys unbeatable. They will go into a frenzy and become stronger, faster, braver, more agile and more indestructible than they've ever been, and they ''will'' [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|annihilate you]]. This holds particularly true if the character in question is generally [[Beware the Nice Ones|meek]] and [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|feeble]]. Often indicated with [[Angry Eyebrows]] in animation. Caution must be employed by the character, since such tantrums can sometimes lead to a [[Heroic BSOD]].
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== Anime ==
* ''[[
** Only when he gets into his early adulthood is he actually able to fully access it without any emotional assistance. Other than that, the power disappeared soon after Gohan went Super Saiyan 2; Vegeta even later comments that he was a lot stronger when he was a kid.
** Likely due to being calmer with age, since at first, all someone had to do is down Krillin to get Gohan to go crazy. Later, Cell had to practically torture his friends and family to make Gohan lose it and after that, he only lost his temper after feeling shame and realizing Majin Buu was going to be released.
** Goku's first Super Saiyan transformation also qualifies. He's out of power, then has to watch Piccolo, his rival and valuable ally at the time, and his best friend, Krillin, both get attacked by Frieza, with Krillin murdered outright. This pushes Goku over the edge.
** Broly is Hulk without the green skin. As he gets madder, his power increases, but sooner or later he has to cool off.
* ''[[
* ''[[
** Orochimaru invokes this trope. And boy does he not learn his lesson.
* For ''[[
* ''[[Ranma ½
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''. After Taiyou's defeat against the Hakushuu Dinosaurs, a stupid fan (recurring [[Jerkass]] background character Satoshi of Deimon's soccer team) mocked one of Taiyou's offensive linemen, Banba, who was beaten brutally by [[Blood Knight|Gaou Rikiya]] despite his best effort. [[Berserk Button|This pissed off Gaou]], who admired Banba's determination, and he demand the idiot to show himself. When the coward didn't show up, [[Kill'Em All|he decided to just completely freak out on the spectators until the guy fessed up]]. Luckily, Riku saves the day by taking the blame (although Gaou can see that Riku didn't say that, he let it off, impressed by Riku's courage).
** Is also subverted numerous times such as when {{spoiler|Tetsuma charges at Gaou after he severely injures Kid and is still soundly defeated}}
* In ''[[
* In the finale of ''[[GaoGaiGar
* See ''[[
** That's not Kira angry. Go watch the episode where {{spoiler|He and Athrun succumb to their rage and try to kill one another.}} Both of them convey their rage very well with the sheer brutality of their attacks. No more hesitation, no more clever tricks. Their minds are set on the same part of the dial: "Two men enter, one man leaves." {{spoiler|Unfortunately for Kira, between the two of them, Athrun is the better of the two in melee combat.}}
** To say nothing of Shinn from ''[[
** In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
** Setsuna F. Seiei from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00
* Fuyuki Hinata in the manga/anime ''[[
* ''[[
** In ''[[
* Ayato Kamina from ''[[
* The [[Captain Ersatz|slightly related]] [[Cthulhu Tech|Engels]] and [[Guyver
* Chimchar in an episode of ''[[Pokémon (
** After being knocked unconscious by Paul's Ursaring in a later battle, the true extent of Chimchar's power is unleashed and it needs a [[Cooldown Hug]] when it doesn't go back to normal. This unnatural power has been explained as its ability, Blaze.
*** Later on, after it's evolved into Monferno, it does this again, and requires another [[Cooldown Hug]] from Ash in order to calm down. {{spoiler|Then it evolves into Infernape, after which it's able to control the Ability.}}
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** [[Played for Laughs]] with Jessie, especially [[Berserk Button|when her hair gets damaged]]. Poor Seviper [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|found out the hard way.]]
** None of the above hold a candle to a pissed-off [[Physical God|Mewtwo.]]
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (
** The best and aforementioned example the third season, after Yugi's soul is taken by the Oricalchos and Insector Haga taunts Yami by tearing up a card in front of him claiming it was Yugi's, just "as a joke", and Yami ''completely loses it''.
*** Even worse for Haga: Since a duel within the Seal is effectively a Shadow Game, he ''physically felt each and every blow Breaker dealt to him.'' The true chill-down-the-spine moment, however, comes shortly after he reveals his ruse:
{{quote| '''Yami:''' Wash your neck and wait, Haga.}}
**** This order was traditionally given to prisoners before being executed, meaning Yami had gone past saying "I'm going to kick your ass" and issued ''a death sentence'' to Haga, which he then proceeded to carry out with ''brutal'' efficiency.
** In full swing for [[Break the Cutie|Judai]] by Season 4 of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (
* In ''[[
* Subaru of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
** Also, Vita in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As
** [[Summon Magic|Caro]] is no slouch either. The response when she found that [[Berserk Button|her squad's home is destroyed]]: she summons '''''[[Physical God|Voltaire]]'''''. ("Godzilla with wings" wouldn't be an inaccurate description.)
* Tsukasa Domyoji from ''[[
* ''[[
** A particularly notable example from the anime comes during the Griffith rescue arc, when Guts finds out just [[Cold-Blooded Torture|what had been done to Griffith]]. After holding him for a few moments with tears in his eyes, he ''smashes through a thick wooden door'' to take out the bastard who had tortured him, and then proceeds to go utterly ''berserk'' on every last [[Mooks|Midland guard]] standing between the Hawks and the way out. They don't call this guy the "Hundred Man Slayer" for nothing.
** The most extreme example came when the Eclipse happened, when {{spoiler|Guts sees the only other survivor of the massacre, his lover Casca, being assaulted by demons, he goes flying into an extreme rage and goes barreling toward the horde, only to have his left arm clamped down on by another demon. Then, [[It Got Worse|to make matters worse]], newly made demon lord Griffith-turned-Femto flies down and [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|begins raping Casca]], which serves to piss Guts off to the '''very''' extreme, and when his sword breaks against the flesh of the demon who is holding him captive, so embroiled in rage he is that Guts doesn't so much as to even twitch at the pain of [[Life or Limb Decision|HACKING OFF HIS OWN ARM TO ESCAPE]]. [[I Ain't Got Time to Bleed|He's covered in his own blood]], [[Say My Name|screaming Griffith's name]], [[Blank White Eyes|white-eyed with fury]] and everything else. [[Hope Spot|Nothing can stop this fucker now]]}}. [[Stuffed in The Fridge|Unfortunately]], [[Subverted Trope|Guts' rage is]] [[Forced to Watch|anything but unstoppable]], [[Break the Cutie|and isn't enough]] [[Go Mad From the Revelation|to save Casca]].
* It's generally not smart to get Wolfgang Grimmer of ''[[Monster (
* In ''[[
* When [[Ghost in
* In ''[[
* Several players in ''[[
* People who piss off [[Fist of the North Star
* If you're an [[The Heartless|Akuma]], and you tick off Allen Walker of ''[[D
** Think about it in this way: a permanent upgrade to his weapon will only hamper your goals in the long run, but if you get the weapon mad you will lose so much of your force, that the scales will probably balance.
* Kazuya Ryuuzaki in ''[[
* Both Takato and Guilmon of ''[[
** Speaking of uncharacteristic rage, T.K.'s/Takaishi Takeru had moments of intense anger in ''[[
*** And [[Tranquil Fury|he looks and talks so damn calmly]] [[Dissonant Serenity|just before]] [[Beware the Nice Ones|doing that.]]
* In the very final chapter of ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* In ''[[Mai-HiME (
* In ''[[
** Also during the Valentine Brothers attack on the Headquarters.
** Alexander Anderson from the series seems to fit this trope as well when he is in combat, typically demonstrating nothing but sheer joy at the prospect of battle. He attacks Integra, a high ranking British official who didn't even want to start a fight, head on, killing her bodyguards and decapitating one of them before threatening to paint to walls with her blood. He runs into gunfire without even trying to dodge and due to his augmentations is able to slaughter hundreds of undead mooks without any difficulty. In the TV version, at one point he gets both of his arms shot off. He simply kneels to the ground and grabs his knife with his teeth, and then proceeds to run at his opponent with it while he's still being shot at.
* Subverted? In a [[Shonen Demographic]] anime? Unnatural! But in ''[[
** Demonstrated quite well in the Yoh vs. Faust VIII fight. Faust taunts and enrages Yoh from the start of the fight by harming Manta, and when Yoh is on his last legs, his last-ditch strategy is to punch Faust's [[Berserk Button]] as hard as he can. And it probably would have worked if Yoh had had just a little more furyoku to spare.
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* Hamel in ''[[
* ''[[
** Do not anger Luffy enough to make him take off his hat. God help you if you make Luffy take off his hat. How can you do this? Insult anyone's dreams, hurt his friends, mock anything to do with a pirate's pride, threaten anyone close to him...
** And if you want to make it several billion times worse, if you [[Hat Damage|step on Luffy's hat or do anything to damage it]], 2 steps will follow:
{{quote| '''1.''' Luffy will call you a bastard.<br />
'''2.''' Luffy will kick your ass from here to next Wednesday. }}
** Exemplified in ''[[One Piece Film: Strong World
{{quote| '''Luffy:''' ''You think after everything you've done to my friend, and my sea, that I'm going to let you get away with all of this?!!''}}
** To put it in perspective, the character Luffy said that to had spent over twenty years developing his plan, and it was so far along that the only way it could fail is if he happened to blab too many of his secrets to someone who would oppose it, allow that someone to discover the remaining secrets, bring that someone to his home base, and refrain from killing that someone when he had the chance. But even if a someone was armed with all that, they would need to have an ''absurd'' amount of power to stop him. And who does he do that to except for the Straw Hat Pirates? And he made it infinitely worse by [[Berserk Button|kidnapping their navigator]] — whose meteorology skills are unrivaled in that world — in order to ''remove the only possible threat to his plan.'' He learned the hard way that the unpredictable cyclones of the Grand Line were ''nothing'' when compared to the Straw Hats' Unstoppable Rage.
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** Although this could also go under [[Tranquil Fury]], there's also {{spoiler|Whitebeard}} in the War of the Best, where after {{spoiler|everyone witnesses Ace's death and despite sustaining heavy injuries from being shot, stabbed, slashed, burned and having half his face melted off, he defeats Akainu in 2 hits, the second hit destroying most of Marineford and separating the pirates and Marines with a giant chasm.}} In short, never, ''ever'' piss the old man off.
** Recap of the past few [[Big Bad|Big Bads]]. Number 1: Arlong. Killed Nami's mother and enslaved her and her home island. Promised to free them if Nami paid him a hefty amount of money. Utilized [[Loophole Abuse]] to ensure she doesn't get the amount after eight years of hard, hard work. Mocked her and provoked her entire village to attack him in what would inevitably be a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] with everyone she loved ending up dead. The culmination of this? Nami bursts into tears, and asks Luffy for help. He and his other three cremates march off to Arlong Park, and a couple of hours later, Arlong is unconscious and half-dead beneath the rubble of what used to be his base, and all of his henchmen aren't much better off.
* Roberta from ''[[
* Shortly after Kiyomaro of ''[[
* Ryoma from ''New [[
* Miu gets this when she finds her friends {{spoiler|badly beaten by Shou Kanou}} during the D of D arc in ''[[Historys Strongest Disciple Kenichi]]''. How does Kenichi snap her out of it? ''By groping her chest''. Which was apparently a ''technique'' that [[Dirty Old Man|Ma Kensei]] taught him.
* Bado from ''[[DOGS: Bullets
* Negi Springfield of ''[[
** It happens again when [[Smug Snake|Kurt Godel]] [[I Shall Taunt You|starts taunting]] Negi about his past. {{spoiler|The fact that Kurt claims to be responsible for Negi's [[Doomed Hometown]], combined with the fact that Negi's [[Black Magic]] is starting to get out of his control means that [[Super-Powered Evil Side|bad things are starting to happen]].}}
** Yue and Beatrice don't take it well when one of the demons erases [[Class Representative|Emily]].
* ''[[
** In the earlier parts of the manga, pushing Ichigo too far was an invitation for his [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Inner Hollow]] to come out and play. Eventually, he's driven into an unstoppable form of pure instinct as a result of Orihime being left vulnerable to Ulquiorra. This results in both Ulquiorra and Ishida (who tries to calm Ichigo down) to take the full brunt of Ichigo's state.
** When Captain Aizen appears to have been murdered, it's Hinamori who finds the body. Convinced the grinning Gin is the culprit she flies into an [[Unstoppable Rage]], causing one of her best friends, Kira (Gin's [[Number Two]]) to step in to defend his captain. Even then, Hinamori won't stop, calm down or see reason and it takes the intervention of another captain to get the situation back under control (by arresting both Hinamori and Kira).
* ''[[
* ''[[Wolf's Rain
* Edward in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' goes into one of these when he finds that {{spoiler|Shou Tucker, an alchemist famous for making chimeras, turned his own ''wife'' into one, and then later turned his '''daughter''' and his dog into one. Shou makes it worse however, by provoking Edward about the use of human lives, and saying that they aren't so different, leading Edward to continually scream "YOU'RE WRONG!", whilst punching him repeatedly.}} Ouch.
** When Al {{spoiler|sacrifices himself to give Ed his arm back}}, Ed goes berserk on Father Homunculus ...and ''HOW''.
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** Notably averted, however, with the Homunculus Wrath. Despite being a ruthless fighter, he is always calm and composed in a fight.
** [[Big Bad|Father]] as well {{spoiler|in the Final Battle he shows much anger}}
* In the first part of "Jupiter Jazz" from ''[[
{{quote| '''Spike:''' You think I'm Vicious? YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT VICIOUS IS!}}
* It's never wise to threaten/try to kill [[Badass Normal|Yukiteru]] in front of [[Yandere|Yuno]] in ''[[
* One: Do not mess with [[The Quiet One|Senri's]] friends. Two: Do not remove Senri's eyepatch. Three: When white hair appears on his forehead (after you have ignored number two), you run away as quickly as possible, through that really isn't going to help, you're going to be clawed to bits anyway. Even if ''[[
** You get to see Senri {{spoiler|go into an [[Unstoppable Rage]] two times. Once while he is a young child, and the other time he's in Moss Mountain with Cooro, Nana, and Husky.}}
* In ''[[
{{quote| ''' {{spoiler|Matsuda}}:''' ''"I have to kill him! HE HAS TO DIE!"''}}
* ''[[
* The otherwise peaceful and docile Ohmu of ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley
** Nausicaa herself flies into a rage and {{spoiler|annihilates a roomful of trained soldiers with just a staff}}.
* England of ''[[
* The Nodos in ''[[
* Ivan Isaac's superpower in ''[[Priest (
* Shizuo Heiwajima in ''[[
* In episode 11 of the ''[[Tenchi Muyo!
* In ''[[Bakugan
* ''[[
** In his fight against Bryan Hawk, in the moment that is beyond doubt the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMOA]] of [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMOAs]], Takamura goes into a state of pure, uncontrolled rage (while half-unconcious to boot) and proceeds to beat the flying shit out of Hawk. It's so unbelievably awesome that words cannot capture the moment.
* In a recent ''[[
* ''[[
* After spending almost the entire second season as nothing but a hostage, Kojuro of ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[Halo Legends (Anime)|Halo Legends]]'', Harka has the wife of Fal 'Chavamee, the original Arbiter, killed to provoke him into a duel after he refuses to serve the Covenant. {{spoiler|Fal wipes out an elite hit-squad, hundreds of Covenant infantry, a Wraith and three gigantic Hunters before dying along with Harka in the eponymous duel.}}
* If you kill one of [[Galaxy Fraulein Yuna
* In the second series of ''[[
* Don't mess with any ''[[
* In ''[[
* In the ''[[
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
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** In Marvel's ''[[World War Hulk]]'' storyline, he's busy with a particularly [[Unstoppable Rage]], mopping the floor with ''everyone'' in his way. The truly frightening thing was that he had gone into [[Tranquil Fury]] at the same time, leaving him with enough mind to keep his head and employ strategy and trickery.
* This is also one of [[Wolverine]]'s defining traits. He's usually composed and calculating when he fights, but when he's pushed beyond a breaking point, he gives in to his animal instincts and his fighting style becomes more erratic and feral, and it's usually in these occasions where his body count rises the most.
* If Hulk weren't the poster boy for this trope, the [[GL Red Lantern Corps/Characters|Red Lantern Corps]] in ''[[
* In the ''[[Hush]]'' storyline, [[
** In ''Superman/Batman'' #1, Batman finds himself witnessing a similar situation between [[
** In the film adaptation, ''[[Superman
{{quote| '''Superman''': That was my best friend... and you just killed him!}}
** Other [[Relative Button|triggers]] include [[Papa Wolf|trying to kill Nightwing, having killed Robin, making him relive Robin's death...]] If you do any of the above, you'd better hope someone is there to [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him|stop him]].
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** Another example happened during the "Back In Black" story arc following ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]''. Aunt May lay dying after taking a sniper's bullet meant for Spider-Man. Donning his black costume, Spider-Man tracked down the man responsible, The Kingpin (who was serving prison time at that point), broke into the prison, confronted The Kingpin and then proceeded to give him a very savage beatdown. No jokes, No quips. He ends it by threatening to fill Kingpin's throat with enough webbing to kill him if he ever comes for Spider-Man again.
*** [[Beware the Nice Ones/Comic Books|Spidey is a nice guy even for a superhero, but when he goes off, you better be damn sure you aren't standing in his way.]]
* [[
** In ''[[For the Man Who Has Everything]]'', Superman loses it on Mongul after waking-up from a [[Lotus Eater Machine]], but his innate morality prevents him from actually killing Mongul off.
** In the ''[[Elseworlds]]'' story ''[[Kingdom Come]]'', Superman enters into an [[Unstoppable Rage]] when most of the metahumans are killed by a UN-launched nuclear warhead and nearly tears down the United Nations.
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'''Johnathan''': Crime's down. }}
** It was so bad that he wasn't even really aware of what he was doing each time until the recoil from his gun kicked in. He was in a sort of perpetual hallucination until his family was returned to their grave.
* The final arc from the ''[[Star Fox (
* ''[[Sleepwalker]]'' had plenty of reason to be angry at his archenemy Cobweb in the final issue of his comic series, not least because Cobweb tricked Sleepwalker into furthering his plans to conquer Earth, and because he committed mass murder on Earth and pinned the whole thing on Sleepwalker. [[Foe-Tossing Charge|Throwing aside Cobweb's minions like they were nothing]], Sleepwalker catches up to Cobweb and proceeds to [[Sleepwalker/Awesome|rip his MacGuffin right out of Cobweb's body]], before using it to banish Cobweb once and for all.
* A possible variation on this is Rorschach from ''[[Watchmen (
* In the ''[[Disney Ducks Comic Universe]]'' Scrooge McDuck has many famous Comic book iterations of this, but none quite as amazingly awesome as [http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=20&loc=D92514&s=date these] [http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=21&loc=D92514&s=date three] [http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=22&loc=D92514&s=date pages]. A 45 Kg Duck destroying a riverboat with his bare hands, and a concert piano.
* Tycho Celchu in the ''[[X Wing Series]]'', at least in the comics - in the novels, Isard apparently managed to neatly excise his ability to be angry - [http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/3926/blz19dn1.jpg gets mad] and starts [http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/7245/blz18.jpg swinging] very easily.
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* [[Supergirl]] was once so angry she ''overloaded'' [[Emotion Eater|Sakki, The Hate Furnace and Gakidou]].
** Also, Supergirl during her mini-series discovered that her lover [[Lex Luthor]] had made thousands of clones of her from the residue he collected after her fight with Doomsday. She was very close to killing him too.
* In ''[[
** In the "EndGame" arc (issues #47-#50) when Knothole Village was seemingly destroyed by Robotnik's doomsday weapon (but in the end learns that it was trapped in another timezone for a short time).
*** Likewise in the same arc, a character named Hershey the Cat pummeled her ex-boyfriend Drago Wolf to a pulp after learning that he tricked her into killing Princess Sally (the princess herself survived, however).
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* ''The Hard Goodbye'' from the [[Sin City]] series features Marv going on on for about a week straight, eventually taking on one of the most powerful crime families in the country. This was all because they killed one of the few people that was nice to him.
* For [[Wonder Woman]] and other Amazons in their pre-Crisis incarnations, the Bracelets of Submission acted as a check against the use of unrestrained power. If Wonder Woman's bracelets were removed, she became intoxicated with power, violent and nearly unstoppable.
* In ''[[
* Similar to the [[Wonder Woman]] example above, Orion from the [[New Gods]] has a intense, building rage inside him that's held back by a Mother Box. The reason for this is that his father is [[Darkseid]], and the burning hatred for all living things is [[In the Blood]].
== Fanfiction ==
* ''[[Kyon:
* An example shows up in the ''[[
* In the ''[[
* Logan Wright from ''[[
* [[Papa Wolf|Blaze]] from ''[[The Legend of Spyro a New Dawn (Fanfic)|The Legend of Spyro a New Dawn]]'' enters this when {{spoiler|the curse preventing him from helping his daughter fight [[The Dragon|the Warden]] is broken. He shoots the Warden a [[Death Glare]], plows straight through everything between him and his target (including the cage he was in and [[Foe-Tossing Charge|a mob of Gargoyles]]), and sends the Warden flying clear across the room twice in a row. He then leads the former slaves and his daughter in a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] on the Warden, ending it by blasting the Warden through a wall. Do not mess with Blaze's daughter!}}
* [[
* [[Ultimate Sleepwalker (Fanfic)|Sleepwalker]] will explode into this trope when confronted with his [[Arch Enemy]] Cobweb, who trapped him on Earth, or his [[Evil Counterpart]] Psyko, who murdered the parents of his [[Heroic Host]] Rick Sheridan. Sleepwalker's anger typically pushes him beyond his normal limits when dealing with Psyko, although even then the result is a bloodbath from which Sleepwalker typically emerges more dead than alive. An unusual twist on this trope is that Cobweb has also played on Sleepwalker's anger to manipulate him into losing focus and making bad decisions that would get him killed...at least until Rick serves as a [[Spanner in
* [[I Am Not Weasel|Pterosaurs are not Dinosaurs.]] [[Rise of the Galeforces
* In ''[[
== Film ==
* ''[[The Blind Side]]'': Michael, normally a [[Gentle Giant]], gets his [[Berserk Button]] hit and hulks out when {{spoiler|a drug dealer [[Where Da White Women At?|makes sexual comments]] about Leigh Anne and Collins}}.
* In ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]'', Big Chris, for all his ruthless coercion and threatening demeanor, is rather a reasonable chap . . . until a man takes his son prisoner. He goes full [[Papa Wolf]] on the man, smashing his head repeatedly in a car door while roaring incoherently.
* ''[[
** Luke Skywalker spends most of the original trilogy actively not giving into anger, because that leads to [[The Dark Side]], but when Darth Vader makes the mistake of [[Berserk Button|attempting to threaten to do something terrible to Leia]], he immediately goes berserk, interrupts Vader's sentence, and beats Vader on sheer, Force-augmenting aggression (despite being a full foot shorter and with the corresponding reach disadvantage), only stopping after he chops off Vader's mechanical hand and realizes just how close he just came to [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him|becoming like him]].
** It runs in the family: when Anakin completely destroys a village of Sand People after they killed his mother.
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** Obi-Wan Kenobi {{spoiler|after Darth Maul mortally wounds Qui-Gon Jinn}}.
* Subversion: In ''[[Mystery Men]]'', [[Ben Stiller]]'s character Mr. Furious was a superhero seemingly built around [[Unstoppable Rage]] - except that when he raged, he wasn't much less stoppable than a "normal" adrenaline-fueled angry person. He didn't become substantially stronger, tougher or faster, which wasn't very useful. During the final battle, however, {{spoiler|his rage apparently gave him enough momentum to overcome the [[Big Bad]]. In fact, it is implied that his "rage" had really been an act until that point.}}
* Lancelot in ''[[
** [[Older Than They Think|This is a trait of the character in the original legends.]]
* Oddly enough, in both ''[[
** Actually averted in Pesci's famous "You think I'm funny?" scene from Goodfellas. He's just screwing around with Henry Hill. What he does to Billy Bats and Spider, on the other hand...
* ''[[Equilibrium]]'''s John Preston goes into a [[Tranquil Fury]] version of this after DuPont spends a moment to gloat about how Preston [[Unwitting Pawn|played right into his hands]]. No one survives the resultant [[Gun Kata]] [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|asskicking spree.]]
** [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|"No. Not without incident..."]] Good times.
* In ''[[
** The name in the Latin American dubbing is ''Serenity: Unstoppable Rage''.
** Reavers are like this ALL THE TIME.
* ''[[
* ''[[Godzilla]]'' destroys cities because he's angry.
* In ''[[300
** This is even more [[Badass]] when his screams are carried all the way to the Persian camp, and ''scares them more than the deepest battledrums''.
* The 3rd act of the [[Jackie Chan]] film ''Police Story'' features a rare look at Jackie's typical happy go lucky character snapping and going to town on everyone that's done him wrong. This includes beating the crap out of people who can't fight worth a damn like a doctor and a lawyer, but they've all been such huge jerks through the whole film that we're cheering him on every step of the way.
* French & Indian War veteran Benjamin Martin is fueled with unstoppable rage when his second-oldest son is shot point blank by the evil British Cavalry officer Col. Tavington in ''[[
* In the film adaptation of ''[[Legends of the Fall]]'', Brad Pitt's character Tristan Ludlow goes on an [[Unstoppable Rage]]-fueled [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] after he watches his younger brother die on a WWI battlefield from machine gun fire and mustard gas. He not only slaughters every German in the vicinity but arrives back at field camp the next morning wearing warpaint of mud and blood and strings of fresh German scalps.
* In ''[[Transformers:
{{quote| "You'll never stop at one! ''I'LL TAKE YOU ALL ON!''"}}
** In DOTM, Optimus might as well be ''fueled'' by [[Unstoppable Rage]].
{{quote| "We will ''kill them all"''}}
* [[Spider-Man (
** In the first film Green Goblin taunts that after finishing him in their fight, he will kill Mary Jane, whilst making her death 'nice and slow', Spider-Man quickly recovers and beats the crap out of him.
*** After kidnapping Mary Jane in the second film, Dr. Octopus rather smugly refuses to give up her location and Spidey attacks him in retaliation.
**** This happens several times in ''Spider-Man 3'', once where he confronts and almost kills the Sandman for killing his uncle, the next where he thrashes Harry Osborn in his own home for ruining his life with Mary Jane, the next where Harry takes a blow (two spikes attached to his board) from Venom meant for Peter and is killed because of it.
* Ralphie, in ''[[A Christmas Story]]''. After getting a C+ on his "What I Want For Christmas" essay, and feeling really despondent, neighborhood bully Scot Farkus pelts him in the face with a snowball. After verbally taunting Ralphie, Ralphie snaps and beats the everloving crap out of him, while other neighborhood kids look on, reducing Farkus to a sobbing, miserable wreck.
* ''[[
* Kham in ''[[Tom Yum Goong]]'' (aka ''The Protector''). After discovering that {{spoiler|his elephant had been butchered and the bones set with gold and jewels}}, he goes into serious [[Heroic BSOD]] mode. He doesn't notice the horde of thugs beating on him until one makes the mistake of stabbing him in the side. This snaps him out of his grief and turns his BSOD into a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]].
* The titular character from ''[[
** Explicitly stated to be part of his programming, that has absolutely nothing to do with rage and he has no conscious control over it initially. To be clear, {{spoiler|he resists with his little friend's help and runs away, but when the attacks persist and his friend appears to be dead, the giant emotes some very clear rage and engages his attack-response programming}}
* ''[[The Fugitive (
== Literature ==
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]. After Patroclus' death in ''[[
{{quote| "Sing goddess, of the wrath of Peleus' son, Achilles, that destructive wrath which brought countless woes upon the Achaeans, and sent forth to Hades many valiant souls of heroes..."}}
* [[
** In ''Mission of Honor'' this is what {{spoiler|Mike Henke has Baroness Medusa and her staff do to Admiral Crandall.}}
* Commander Vimes in the ''[[
{{quote| {{spoiler|"You misunderstand me. I am not here to keep the darkness out. I am here to keep it in." Yeah. He fought unstoppable rage--not 'someone under rage', the rage itself as it tried to use him--and ''stopped'' it.}}}}
* The rogue drow fighter/ranger Drizzt do'Urden from Salvatore's ''[[
* In ''~Wizard's First Rule~'', the first book of the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series, when Kahlan {{spoiler|is told Richard has died, which he hasn't}}, she goes into a "blood rage", killing the men who had her held down against the ground and ready to be raped without breaking a sweat.
* The badgers in the ''[[Redwall]]'' series are prone to a "bloodwrath," in which they become unstoppable berserkers who are blind to all but their target.
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** Hradani didn't start with the Rage - it was forced into their species by dark wizards serving the evil pantheon of that world. Even twelve hundred years later, you wouldn't want to face one of them - Hradani come in two sizes: large and ginormous. Bahzel falls in the ginormous category himself - he's nearly eight feet tall, weighs nearly four hundred fifty pounds, and he moves like a cat. And that's when he ''isn't'' using the Rage.
* ''[[Deepgate Codex]]'': Carnival is dangerous enough at the best of times, but when she gets sick of something {{spoiler|she goes into god mode, at which point not even the laws of physics can stop her single-handedly slaughtering ''half an army'' using a regular everyday ''handheld gardening fork''.}}
* [[The Dresden Files
** And all that pales in comparison to [[Person of Mass Destruction|"Blackstaff" McCoy]], {{spoiler|who in a fit of rage over a threat to someone he cares about yanks a old Soviet satellite out of orbit and drops it on a vampire nobleman's estate just to make a point. Or later, when defending his family and friends simply rips the life out of dozens of people. No fire, no explosions, he just points at them and they die.}}
* A particularly extreme example of this is Icarium from Steven Erickson's ''[[Malazan Book of the Fallen]]''. Icarium, normally a gentle and creative fellow verging on pacifism, has a tendency to go into a berserker mode that's downright genocidal when provoked, usually followed by an inability to remember what just happened. In milder cases, this means he wakes up confused among the gutted bodies of whatever ferocious pack of creatures just attacked him. In a few more extreme cases, he woke up among the shattered ruins and dead citizens of ''entire civilizations'', completely unaware of what had just transpired.
* Erik in ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' is prone to these, especially when you hit his [[Berserk Button]] and {{spoiler|ask him to remove his mask}}.
* In ''[[The Pendragon Adventure]]'', Saint Dane has a habit of confronting Bobby in order to smack him around for the hell of it. For the most part, though, he's just egging Bobby on as part of his [[Mind Screw]] technique. This changes in ''Rivers of Zadaa'' when Bobby - in the midst of being smacked around - stands up to Saint Dane and claims that the villain is [[Berserk Button|getting desperate because he is losing the overall war]]. Saint Dane [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|utterly snaps]] and proceeds to ''beat the living shit'' out of Bobby, to the point where Bobby spends a month in a hospital before he can ''walk'' again.
* Each of the villains in the ''[[Keys to
** The part of the Will he guards, which symbolizes Justice, has anger issues as well, spitting in the face of someone during a parley.
* ''[[Darkest Powers]]'': Although Derek [[Nerves of Steel|keeps his cool]] when he's the one in danger of being seriously hurt, possibly tortured, or killed, the same does not hold true when other people are at risk. Being a werewolf, Derek's rational mind will shut down and give way to pure "protect my pack" instinct when [[Berserk Button|the tiny number of people he actually cares about are in danger]]. At least one person is already spending the rest of his life regretting having threatened Derek's brother.
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** Hagrid may be a [[Gentle Giant]], but if you do manage to get him into a real temper you'll find out that he's partially immune to spell damage and has more than enough strength to take down five armed attackers with his bare hands.
** For the villains' side, if you bring Voldemort bad news... [[Shoot the Messenger|he'll flip out and indiscriminately kill ANYONE who happens to just be hanging around.]]
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "[[The Phoenix
{{quote| ''But the horror that paralyzed and destroyed Ascalante roused in the Cimmerian a frenzied fury akin to madness.''}}
* Touchstone in the ''[[Old Kingdom]]'' series, in the first book, Sabriel is shot with an arrow and he runs very, very fast. Later a [[Noodle Incident]] is mentioned in which a fake ambassador (in this case a 2 metres tall barbarian) tries to kill Sabriel with a toasting fork. [[Badass|Touchstone]] grabs him and throws him down the table while roaring with rage. He then tries to throw the throne after him. Counts as a CMOA for Sabriel, who just sits there calming him down while everyone else is having a WTF moment, until he stops trying to pick up and throw the throne.
* In the ''[[Lonely Werewolf Girl]]'' books, Kalix's unstoppable rage when she goes wolf has been the downfall of more than one werewolf hunter.
* This trope is an inherited characteristic of the Viking-descended Barnikel lineage in [[Edward Rutherfurd]]'s multi-generation historical novels. Do ''not'' anger a member of this family, whether it's by threatening to expose their role in [[La Résistance]] or abusing a puppy in front of a fifteen-year-old Barnikel boy.
* Visser Three in ''[[
== Live Action TV ==
* The show ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV series)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' is all about the [[Unstoppable Rage]], and provides the page quote above.
{{quote| '''David Banner:''' "Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."}}
** 'Nuff said.
* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Niki Sanders's alter ego "Jessica", who has super-strength, mostly appears whenever somebody else [[Mama Bear|threatens her son]] or otherwise angers her.
* In ''[[
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Runaway Bride", after seeing the Doctor bring down the wrath of a Time Lord on his enemies, Donna points out just how creepy [[Unstoppable Rage]] is, especially coming from the hero, and questions whether we should be rooting for it.
{{quote| '''Donna''': That place was flooding and burning and they were dying and you stood there like...I don't know, a stranger.}}
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*** Case in point: After a companion is kidnapped in series 6, the 11th Doctor blows up an ''entire legion of Cyberships'' just for some information (and to prove a point) and forms an army storm the guilty party's base. {{spoiler|This quickly backfires in a spectacular fashion, but still.}}
** In the episode ''Dalek'' it took an entire team of security officers to drag the Ninth Doctor away from the "last" Dalek when he was trying to kill it. It really skirts the boundaries between unstoppable rage and [[Tranquil Fury]], but he shows to much emotion for it to count.
* Jack Harkness of ''[[
* Although usually the epitome of [[The Stoic]], really piss [[Stargate SG-1
** This also almost happens in an earlier episode when he finds out that his wife remarried.
* Miss Piggy of [[The Muppets]], especially in ''[[The Muppet Movie]]''. Step away from the frog if you know what's good for you.
* Jeff of ''[[
* Data gets a brief one of these in the first part of the ''[[Star Trek:
* Common on ''[[
** When Glory drives Willow's girlfriend insane, Willow attacks her with black magic, actually managing to hurt her despite Glory being a ''hellgod''. This foreshadows her Dark Willow phase - when Warren kills {{spoiler|Tara}}, Willow ''flays him alive'', goes after his partners, fights her own friends when they try to stop her, and nearly destroys the world.
** Giles goes after Angelus after the latter murdered {{spoiler|Jenny Calendar}}. ''With a flaming baseball bat''.
** Seen several times with Buffy herself; during her first fight with Angelus, he initially has the upper hand before he goes overboard with his taunts, after which she beats him up and backs him into a corner, but stops just short of killing him, instead settling for [[Groin Attack|kicking him in the groin and walking away]].
* On the ''[[
{{quote| '''Angel:''' YOU THINK I'D FORGIVE YOU? NEVER! YOU TOOK MY SON! I'LL KILL YOU! YOU'RE A DEAD MAN, PRYCE! YOU'RE DEAD! YOU HEAR ME?! DEAD!! DEAD!!}}
* Never ever make [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Admiral William Adama]] angry, because not only will you get the most terrifying [[Death Glare|Death Glares]] on TV but he'll make sure you are dead within three episodes. For instance, when he suffers a mutiny, he flies into a [[Foe-Tossing Charge]] to the CIC, and the mutiny leader surrenders before he gets there...
* In season one of ''[[24
** In season 8, it gets turned [[Up to Eleven]] when they off {{spoiler|Renee Walker}}. When you [[Berserk Button|mess with someone Jack's that close to]], ''[[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|nobody is safe]]''.
* In the ''[[ICarly
* Crops up in [[Professional Wrestling]] at times; it's typically called 'Hulking Up'. The bigger you are, the more you can get away with here.
** [[
* Parodied in ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]''. Normally unflappable spy Steed gets thrown around by a bigger, better fighter. His eventual victory takes place ''off screen'', with Steed's boss Mother narrating the villain's fatal error: ''He made Steed angry''.
* [[Mork and Mindy
* Similar to the example in ''[[Sword of Truth]]'', the show ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'' takes it one step further by having Kahlan's eyes go blood-red, scream loudly, and gain the abity to confess multiple people remotely (which, apparently, also allows her to confess a Mord'Sith without killing her). The first time it happens when [[Big Bad|Darken Rahl]] taunts her by saying that he will use her powers to confess Richard. She actually expels the needles stuck in her with such force that they stick into Rahl's wizard's neck, leaving Zedd the last wizard of the First Order. The second time happens when she finds out that Cara killed her sister, forcing Richard to hold her down, as Cara escapes. The last time (due to cancellation) happens in the finale, when a Sister of the Dark manages to confess Kahlan. When the heroes, with assistance from Mord'Sith, try to kill the Sister, Kahlan again flies into the Con'Dar state, confesses the Mord'Sith and has them kill each other. She then tries to confess Richard but fails, so she stabs him instead.
* The title character from ''[[Kamen Rider Kuuga]]'' is normally a pretty nice guy that wants nothing more than to protect people's smiles. That said, ''do not piss him off''. When a sadistic Grongi by the name of Go-Jaraji-Da pushed him too far in episode 35, the result was a ''brutal'' [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] that ended with Godai finishing him off with a rage-fueled Rising Calamity Titan attack.
* This is at the core of [[Kamen Rider Agito|Kamen Rider Agito's]] Burning Form. The angrier Agito gets, the more powerful it becomes. However, somewhat subverted as it's not as strong as its evolution, Shineing Form, which doesn't require rage.
* In the ''[[
* Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo from ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
{{quote| '''Sheppard''': "Ronon has some things he wants to take care of first."<br />
'''McKay''': "Are you insane? There's at least twenty-five Wraith down there!"<br />
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* [[Older Than Dirt]]: Sekhmet, an [[Egyptian Mythology|Egyptian goddess]] of war, pestilence, and healing, went on a bender when some mortals dared suggest that her father, the sun god Re, was getting a little old. She had no intention of stopping and nearly exterminated humanity. Finally Re himself stopped her, and then only by making a literal sea of beer mixed with pomegranate juice. Sekhmet, mistaking it for blood, drank herself stupid, and thus the world was saved by alcohol.
* Cuchulainn from [[Celtic Mythology|Irish mythology]] has a prime example of the "[[Super-Powered Evil Side|monster within]]" kind of unstoppable rage. In the epic, ''Táin Bó Cúailnge'', he enters a "ríastrad" or "Warp Spasm". In this state he transforms into a [[Demon Head|horribly mutilated monster]] who doesn't know friend from foe. At one time, they broke him out of his rage by dunking him into three separate water barrels. The first one exploded, the other began boiling, and the last one finally cooled him down.
** This would later be co-opted into ''[[
* In [[Classical Mythology]], Hercules killed his wife and children in a rage induced by Hera. Less supernaturally, as a kid Hercules killed his music teacher with a lyre.
* The normally gentle [[Hindu Mythology]] goddesss Uma can transform into death dealing, world ending Kali. She does this to kill the demon Raktabija, after all the gods cut into the demon, only to find that his blood creates clone of himself once it hits the ground. Kali fixes the situation by inhaling all the blood before it touches the ground as she goes on her killing frenzy. Some legends continue that she would have turned her violence on the gods if Shiva, her husband, didn’t lie amongst the dead in a desperate gambit to get her to stop. This is particularly sobering as Shiva has the ability to unmake all of creation and was pretty sure the only thing that could stop his wife from killing everyone was [[Batman Gambit|to gamble on his importance to her]].
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== Tabletop Games ==
* If the Black Templars from ''[[Warhammer 40000
** Another ''WH 40K'' example is the Blood Angels group of [[Space Marine|Space Marines]], who are occasionally affected by the Red Thirst or Blood-Rage, a berserker rage which grants them a whole heap of [[Heroic Resolve]] at the cost of any sense of self-preservation. This can go even further - on the eve of battle, a Blood Angel can succumb to the Black Rage, in which he relives the genetic memory of the chapter's Primarch (super-powered leader and genetic template) dying in a duel with the leader of the forces of Chaos. These individuals are quietly taken away, and used as berserker suicide squads. In gameplay terms, a random number of your soldiers, potentially including your souped-up general, are taken away and replaced with a squad of uncontrollable marines who rush into hand-to-hand combat with the most powerful enemy available. Your normal squads can periodically fall into the same rage, abandoning any fortifications they were manning to rush into close combat. This is not necessarily a bad thing if you are playing offensively, as it means your army can potentially cross the table in a few turns.
** Most obviously, Chaos Berzerkers of the Chaos God Khorne. Their quintessential [[Ax Crazy|crazy]] special character, Kharn the Betrayer, ''always'' hits in melee; if he rolls a miss, he's hit his own side. Frequently portrayed in the fiction as slaughtering his own men when he runs out of enemies.
** One of the special abilities of the Tau Ethereal leader Aun Va is that he is ''so'' beloved by his troops that if he dies, he triggers an [[Unstoppable Rage]] in all Tau troops in line of sight - except in this case, the [[Unstoppable Rage]] is with plasma guns.
* ''[[
** When a vampire character in [[White Wolf]]'s ''[[
** Werewolves from ''[[
** Both gamelines' vampires, and ''Forsaken'''s werewolves, can instead enter Unstoppable ''Terror'' -- or "Rötschreck," as it's known for vampires -- with the victim fleeing in blind panic from the trigger, tossing aside or shredding anything that stands in the way of doing so. In ''[[
** [[Promethean: The Created
* In ''[[
** Third Edition also has an "on steroids" -- or perhaps, "on 'roid rage" -- prestige class version of the barbarian: the Frenzied Berserker. The main difference is that there are few defensive benefits to a frenzy (but see below) as opposed to a rage, that its bonuses and penalties can stack with a rage, that frenzy will continue until its time limit expires or the character forces himself out (rage can be ended at will, but you need to make a Will save to end a frenzy) -- and if he runs out of enemies the character will attack anyone in the vicinity, including allies -- and finally that it can be triggered by damage as well as entered at will. Finally, he can also inspire frenzy in his ''allies'', which if you consider that most frenzied berserkers probably hang around a lot of barbarians and fighters as opposed to wizards and rogues is a very scary thought.
*** This is a very good example of the trope, as a properly built Frenzied Berserker is one of the most powerful physical combatants possible under 3rd and 3.5 edition rules--without even going into epic level, a half-orc Frenzied Berseker could have a Strength of 36 while in a raging frenzy. This is enough to match or out-muscle most high-level fiends and celestials, all but the oldest and mightiest dragons, and many lesser deities in terms of raw strength.
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** And now there's Fourth Edition, which introduces the Barbarian again. The 4E Barbarian is a bit more primal than his 3E counterpart, and his Daily powers, known as Rages, give effects that last for the entire encounter or until he enters a new Rage, give his At Will powers more power, and allow him to dish out Rage Strikes that expend unused Dailies to deal more damage against an enemy.
** ''[[Pathfinder]]'' allows barbarians the option of performing any number of superhuman feats, or shaking off any number of incapacitating effects, while raging.
* ''[[
** [[Limit Break]] in this game is part [[Heroic BSOD]] and part [[Unstoppable Rage]]. After having their virtues pushed to the breaking point, many Exalted will either A) act towards them with little thought of restraint, or B) act ''against'' them with little thought of restraint. This can get messy fast when the Exalt in question values Compassion or Valor. The two Solar Limit Breaks that best exemplify this are Berserk Anger and Red Rage of Compassion. RROC is slightly less psychotic but still tends to cause collateral damage on par with a very cranky airstrike.
** The [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|Lunars]] can become the very embodiment of this trope using the aptly-named Endurance Charms. One charm lets you shrug all damage as long as you channel [[Mana|Essence]] to it, another lets you not drop dead even if you, by all rights, ''should be''. The fluffs say that Lunars using those charms raged for ''days'' as the world arrayed to kill them and their [[The Caligula|Solar]] mates.
** Solars also have a Resistance Charm that allows them to do this. Prematurely ending it takes a significant mental toll (it costs a ton of Willpower points and accumulates a lot of Limit) ''unless'' they are [[Cooldown Hug|restrained by a friend or loved one]].
* Righteous Fury mode is the ''[[
* Several races in ''[[
== Theatre ==
* In ''[[
** ''[[
** ''[[The Winter's Tale
== Video Games ==
* In the ''[[Ryu ga Gotoku|Yakuza]]'' series, [[Berserk Button|hurt a kid]] in front of [[Papa Wolf|Kazuma]] [[Friend to All Children|Kiryu]]. Then count how many teeth you have left after he's done [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|beating you within an inch of your life]].
* ''[[Assassin's Creed Revelations
* ''[[Splinter Cell]]'': Sam Fisher hits this at the end of mission eight of ''Conviction'', where he {{spoiler|learns that Lambert was behind faking his daughter's death in Double Agent,}} at which point, at least for the rest of the mission, Mark and Executes are free, as in no need to CQC enemies to earn them, and the meter is up to a max of six at this point.
* "[[Unstoppable Rage]]" sums up [[Villain Protagonist|Kratos]] from the ''[[God of War (
** In ''Ghost of Sparta'', Kratos may have topped himself {{spoiler|after seeing Thanatos kill his brother.}} The man truly becomes rage incarnate at that moment.
* Fairly late in ''[[
** Partially subverted in that {{spoiler|Kyosuke}} never actually shows any real emotion.
{{quote| '''Katina''': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}0QiJBTaX7mM Wow. He can stay calm even through this?]<br />
'''Ryusei''': No. [[Tranquil Fury|I've never seen him this angry before]]. }}
* The Kaiser Dragon from ''[[
** The scene where he unlocks it in IV is particularly noteworthy. After he easily exterminates the army officer who pissed him off to such a degree (by slaughtering a village of innocent civilians and THEN setting an absurdly powerful monster on your team, which Ryu also destroyed), he's STILL angry and ready to kill, quickly turning his sights on another officer (who can only point her gun at him while shaking in terror), getting his only lines in the game by screaming in rage the entire time. The whole scene is [[Nightmare Fuel|decidedly scary]], and it takes a [[Cooldown Hug]] from Nina to bring him back to normal.
*** As the said [[Cooldown Hug]] occurs, Fou-lu is driven to rage when his girlfriend is used to fuel a nuke.
* Arcueid of ''[[
** In Arcueid's own route, when she {{spoiler|gets cut in half by Roa and dies in Shiki's arms}}, Shiki goes '''berserk.''' {{spoiler|Roa}} is several kinds of [[Deader Than Dead]] by the time Shiki comes down from it.
** Actually, nearly all of the routes have a tendency to end with Shiki falling into this mode. In Akiha's route, after {{spoiler|SHIKI hurts Akiha, Shiki completely loses it and goes into his killer mode. Later, in the same route, when SHIKI [[Mind Rape|Mind Rapes]] Akiha, it takes all of Shiki's willpower to not kill SHIKI immediately. He does kill him, but not before SHIKI tells him how to bring Akiha back to normal.}} Then, in Hisui's route {{spoiler|he goes into a similar homicidal rage when SHIKI either badly wounds or, if it's your first playthrough, kills Akiha and slice him in half in a single stroke.}} Finally, Kohaku's route {{spoiler|features an aversion, when Akiha seems to murder Kohaku in cold blood, Shiki loses any semblance of reason and attempts to kill his own sister. In the end, despite all the wrongs Akiha has committed against Shiki during the course of the route, Shiki still finds himself unable to kill her, realizing that, no matter what she's done to him, she's still his irreplaceable sister. In fact, he even cries when he realizes this. Luckily, as it turns out, Akiha was unable to kill Kohaku either, so all's well that ends well.}}
* Occasionally occurs as a plot device in the ''[[
** [[Highly-Visible Ninja|Edge]] in ''[[
{{quote| ''You think our rage... a weakness? Then let me show you '''''how wrong you are'''''!}}
* Happens before the plot of ''[[Drakengard]]'', so the protagonist is in almost a constant state of [[Unstoppable Rage]] throughout the game. His rage abates by the time any of the endings roll around, but hey, [[Kill'Em All|most of the people are dead anyway.]]
** It doesn't abate for long. Although by the time the sequel comes around, he has a ''very'' good reason to be pissed off. {{spoiler|You'd probably be mad too if your pact partner was imprisoned and tortured for eighteen years after she voluntarily sacrificed herself to become the new [[Cosmic Keystone]].}}
* Many video games have a [[Mana Meter|rage/fury meter]] that, when full, can allow you to go into [[Super Mode]] or grants you the ability to use a [[Finishing Move]] or [[Limit Break]].
* The attack Rage was unstoppable in ''[[
** There's also Hyper and Reverse Modes in ''[[
*** Having your Shadow Pokemon go into Hyper Mode is actually a good thing, since snapping them out of it is a fast way of purifying them.
* [[Super Mode|Darkspine]] [[
** In his debut from ''[[
** IGN, when revealing the Shamar trailer for ''[[
{{quote| He may not be green, but you won't like him when he's angry.}}
* [[
** At multiple points in ''Project Origin'', Alma attacks and slaughters people without warning in random spats of sheer violent hatred, complete with her distorted voice screaming '''" I HATE YOU!"''' over and over again.
* In ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (
** It's worth noting that in his Wookie Fury, Hanharr can tear through even ''Dark Jedi'' without taking any significant damage.
* At the end of the Marine campaign in ''[[Call of Duty
* In the ''[[Halo (
** When its "blood brother" is killed, the other Hunter will immediately attack whatever enemy who stands in its way, attacking them like a enraged elephant without using the arm cannon, just its shield swinging it like a bat.
* In ''[[
* Tony Montana in ''[[
** The instruction booklet put it best, "Nobody flips the fuck out like Tony Montana".
* In ''[[Baldur's Gate
** He also has a berserker rage option in combat. It can be a problem, because he regularly just wigs out and forgets who's a member of the party and who's not. He does, however, get points for shouting "I will inspire you by CHARGING BLINDLY ON!"
* Meta Knight had one of these moments during the "Revenge of Meta Knight" Mini game in ''[[
* In ''[[
** Also, the Daedra Lords should you fail one of their quests, especially if you choose not to return Umbra to Clavicus Vile.
** In the Shivering Islands, Sheogorath has a few of these, though they are mostly funny.
** Though you don't see it, Falcar supposedly had one before leaving the Mages Guild in Cheydenhal.
* Somewhat used for Don Flamenco in the Wii version of ''[[
* You only see Axel do this twice in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''.
{{quote| "You really ''do'' remember me this time? I'm soooo FLATTERED!" (''Cue flames rising, weapons appearing out of nowhere, and a scary guy with red, spiky hair giving you a [[Slasher Smile]]'') "But you're TOO LATE!"<br />
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** When its seemed that {{spoiler|Goofy died}}, Sora, Donald, and King Mickey immediately attacked [[The Heartless]] horde with much more ferocity. The rages of Donald and the King was clear, such as Mickey saying "[[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|They'll pay for this]]" and then rushed right at the horde with his keyblade at his hand, with Donald and Sora right behind him, and they curb-stomped at least 1000 heartless each.
** Then there's Terra's. {{spoiler|It reanimated his armour just to fight the guy who had possessed him}} and the musical theme accompanying this battle? Its (very fittingly) called ''Rage Awakened.''
* Played straight in ''[[
** And with the warrior skill Bladestorm, whose tooltip states you [[The Terminator|do not feel pity or remorse or fear and cannot be stopped unless killed]] [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|or disarmed]].
*** Likewise with the Hunter talent, Bestial Wrath, which causes the Hunter's ''pet'' to do this (Again, without feeling "pity or remorse or fear"). A further talent allows the Hunter himself to share the rage.
** Even straighter in [[Runes of Magic]], where warrior classes use Rage energy to attack, have a self buff increasing how fast they become enraged, potions also increasing rage, a straight up rage button, and two abilities that are essentially "I'm pissed so I'm going to hit you harder now." buttons.
* In ''[[Watchmen (
* This is what happened to Mother Brain at the end of ''Super [[Video Game]]/Metroid''.
* In the ''Rome: [[
** Panicked war elephants and chariots may also qualify for this.
** Hopeleslly surrounded units may choose to "fight to the death" rather than flee.
* While very short, Junpei's Persona evolution in ''[[
* ''[[Diablo (
* [[Prototype (
{{quote| '''''"NOTHING CAN PROTECT YOU FROM ME! NOT MEN! NOT WEAPONS! NOT ARMOR!"'''''<br />
'''''"DIG IN! LIKE IT'S GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!"''''' }}
* Almost every character in ''[[
** [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Ragna the Bloodedge]]: Got his sister kidnapped, his brother brainwashed and his arm torn off. Response? Annihilate [[The Empire|the world goverment]] and slaughter every single individual associated with it. By the way, this guy is supposed to be the hero of the game.
** Noel Vermillon: Don't ever, EVER mention [[Pettanko|her lack of "assets"]]. If you're lucky, she'll put you under arrest. If you're less lucky, she'll put those guns of hers to good use and some bullets in your head.
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** [[Troll|Hazama]]: Normally, he's the one trying to draw this reaction from you. But if you give him the idea you're toying with him, he'll skip to killing you. And if you have any knowledge the containment of which is vital to his plot, well...
{{quote| ''Restriction 666 released! Dimensional interference forcefield deployed! *[[Evil Laugh|laugh]]* I'll show '''you''' the true power of the Azure! Code: S.O.L.! BlazBlue, activate! [[Prepare to Die|Let's go, you little bitch!]]''}}
* ''[[
{{quote| '''''"SHUT YOUR STINKING MOUTH, BITCH!"'''''}}
* Dwarfs in ''[[
** It goes further. One step up from "tantrum" is "berserk rage", which will make your dwarves ''really'' fuck shit up. As in killing other dwarves, breaking workshops, hitting levers and all that until either the millitary or the fortress guard take them down (usually, the take-down is permanent...). The phenomenon known as "martial trance" is more like [[Tranquil Fury]], all things considered. The OTHER kind of rage status in combat, simply called "enraged", is triggered when a dwarf in the squad (or a dog) dies. At least one if not a few dwarves around the recently deceased will do some kind of acrobatic somersault off the handle - but this time, those tiny drunken sociopaths target ''the enemy''. [[Ludicrous Gibs|Splattering ensues.]] One user set the probability for dwarfs to enrage extremely high. Then, he let three dwarfs storm onto two trolls. The speardwarf enraged, ran to them, beheaded one (WITH A SPEAR) and killed the other with a stab through the heart before the other two dwarfs even reached him.
* In [[Yuri Genre]] [[Visual Novel]] ''[[
** [[Genki Girl|Tsudura]] can also go into one {{spoiler|[[Devour the Dragon|after she merges with Obana]]}}, although her rage is about [[Shock and Awe|throwing magic around]]. {{spoiler|[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Usually, this ends with her forcefully drinking your blood]].}}
** There's [[Unstoppable Rage]] for Syouko and Kaya in the sort-of sequel ''[[
* ''[[Asura's Wrath]]''. It's all in the title.
** So much so, that Asura himself is now the [[Trope Pantheons/Emotion|God of the trope]].
** Asura goes from "pissed off" to "pissed off enough to punch a planet-sized Buddha to death" to "pissed off enough to not care that my arms have shattered" to "pissed off to the point that I'm indiscriminately firing nuclear-scale explosions into space."
** Late in the game, Asura has become so unthinkingly, unstoppably pissed off that Yasha realizes the only way to calm him down is to ''kill him''. [[Like a Badass Out of Hell|They've killed him three times already and he just keeps coming back]] [[Determinator|faster each time]], so this isn't quite as extreme as it sounds.
** He makes [[Prototype (
** Of note, however, is that in spite of Asura's wrath being a terrifying and unstoppable force, he is at the same time not a '''mindless'' force. Even when completely lost within his own sheer, violent, supreme hatred, Asura still refrains from harming innocents and noncombatants. But anything he perceives as an enemy - such as the Gohma or the Seven Deities and their soldiers - are targets.
* Grolla Seyfarth of ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]'' is generally calm and collected and is every bit as strict with others as she is with herself. But what happens if you hit her [[Berserk Button]] in any way? Cue [[Unstoppable Rage]]. She'll go on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] and won't stop until she finally has her revenge.
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** Olaf played right is this. His ultimate removes crowd-control effects as well as making him immune to crowd-control effects and reduces damage taken for its duration, his passive increases attack speed for the % of health his is missing, and another choice ability to this in one which increases his damage and gives him [[Life Drain]] based off damage he does for a duration. Timed right, he will be a unstoppable and furious attacker where attempts to kill him just cause him to do more damage due to him not hitting [[Critical Existence Failure]]. Timed wrong, well... [[Death or Glory Attack|it probably won't be worth the try.]]
** And then there is Renekton, who at this point feels nothing but rage.
* In ''[[Star Wars]]:
* Ever fight the Fire King in ''[[Odin Sphere]]''? He fits this to a tea. What sets him off is {{spoiler|not being able to make Gwen love him}} and {{spoiler|the end of the world prediction that his rage actually sends him into playing his role in it to end up being stopped by the world tree}}. He takes entire kingdoms down in his rage.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Complains Of Names from ''[[
* [http://ea.snafu-comics.com/index.php?comic_id=24 Red] of ''[[Ever After (
* Lemmy from ''[[Fanboys (
* In ''[[
* Fighter from ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' is highly protective of Black Mage, whom he thinks as his best friend (despite the fact that Black Mage [[Vitriolic Best Buds|hates Fighter and has tried to kill him since they first met]]. {{spoiler|When Black Mage is [[Berserk Button|killed by Lich]], Fighter, after a [[Please Wake Up]] moment goes into a screaming rage which he unleashes upon Lich}}.
** Also Berserker, a normally cultured and eloquent dwarf who goes into a terrible (and monosyllabic) rage when he takes his monocle off.
* Roger Pepitone of ''[[College Roomies
* An ever-present and incredibly dangerous trope in the [[Walkyverse]]. See, for example [http://www.itswalky.com/d/20001015.html Joyce] and [http://www.shortpacked.com/2007/comic/book-4/08-the-gospel-of-faz/confidence/ Amber]. [http://www.itswalky.com/d/20030721.html Walky] is by far the scariest example, though.
* In ''[[Funny Farm]]'', ASCII goes into one when his slot machine "girlfriend" gets shot. He accompanies his rampage by saying leet versions of "delete", "format", and "defragment".
* In ''[[
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|"YOU! BROKE! MY! SWORD!"]]'''''}}}}
** [[Evil Counterpart|Thog]] [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0796.html rages].
* In ''[[Hookie Dookie Panic]]'', Adda pulls a few of these, the biggest being {{spoiler|when she loses a Dance Dance Revolution tournament due to a fight going on, and she proceeds to go into a psychotic rampage and kill those responsible for the fight.}}
* Few days ago, in ''[[Sam and Fuzzy]]'', Mr. Blank had his moment of Unstoppable Rage against Mr. Black, at least in the beginning. The funny (or creepy) thing is, the audience could already sense the doom months ago.
* Averted in ''[[
* ''[[
** Tarvek flies into one of these while fighting {{spoiler|Zola}}, beating her tot he point where she tries to surrender - only Tarvek isn't listening to silly notions like that.
* Dr. Jean Poule in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' can go from adorable [[Girl Next Door]] innocence to [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20060926.html blind fury] without too much trouble. This rarely manifests as physical violence, as the mere force of her yelling is usually enough to produce results (i.e., Bob: "Wow! Thanks, Jean! You're swell at yelling at people!" Jean: "Well, the secret is to ''enjoy'' it...") but it has gotten her into [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20061230.html fights upon occasion.]
* In ''[[
* Kedamono from ''[[The Pride of Life]]'' in episode six.
* Aradia Megido of ''[[
** Karkat Vantas walks around in a state of perpetual ire and will verbally tear into anyone with little provocation, so it's kind of a subversion that he doesn't do this.
** {{spoiler|1=Gamzee Makara's [[Character Class System|title]] is the Bard of Rage. From all accounts, it manifests as him being nigh-unstoppable when he gets going - he is said to have dealt the most damage to the [[Final Boss|Black King]] with just one strike, and that was [[The Stoner|when he was high]]. [[Ax Crazy|When]] [[Omnicidal Maniac|he's]] [[No Medication for Me|sober]], this trope is more or less his default state. To wit: [http://mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005350 what he did to Nepeta]...}}
*** {{spoiler|Eventually however, Gamzee's rage is stopped by Karkat via a [[Cooldown Hug]].}}
** Bec Noir goes into this after {{spoiler|Jade dies again}}, and slaughters most of the Trolls' Dream Selves in their session.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
** [http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/106 Rejoice. For very bad things are about to happen.]
* In ''[[
* It takes a lot to make Byron from [[
== Web Original ==
* Happens occasionally in ''[[
** Such as {{spoiler|Adam Dodd going ballistic on Cody Jenson near the end of V1, who he has [[It's Personal|every reason]] to want dead}}.
* ''[[
* While it is debatable whether Nist Akath of ''[[
{{quote| "As he watched the dwarf crushed his wife's form, he came to a sudden, horrid realization. Ironblood didn't use an axe because he needed it. He used it to be kind. And right now he wasn't being kind."}}
* Badfic is so horrendously bad that unstoppable rage is a common reaction for ''[[Protectors of the Plot Continuum]]'' agents, especially when a favorite canon character is threatened.
* Parodied in Linkara's review of ''Wolverine: Adamantium Rage.''
** [[Atop the Fourth Wall
* Caboose tries to intentionally invoke this in himself when he and Sarge are trapped in a bizarre land of eternal war in ''[[
* From ''[[The Gamers]]'': 'Barbarian rage! Blood, death, and vengeance!'. Success rate? {{spoiler|1 for 2.}}
* When [[Big Bad|Flint]] {{spoiler|kills Ruby}} in ''[[
** And in ''5'', {{spoiler|Dust}} does Snowball one better after {{spoiler|killing him under the influence of the [[Psycho Serum]] that Smoke had injected into him}} by {{spoiler|completely devastating Smoke's army of mooks, wrecking his helicopter gunship as he tries to get away and then sending the bastard right through its rotor blades}}.
* In ''[[
* The whole point of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4SSYjOAs0A RAEG TRAIN].
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=682kuejphjo Angry German Kid], which is a staged performance of a kid getting angry after his computer breaks, and then he proceeds to scream and throw his keyboard across the room.
* Along with his better-known abilities, [[
* Among the boards of 4chan, /v/ is (rightly) the butt of many jokes as being rage incarnate...
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
* Parodied in the ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[
** {{spoiler|However, the final fight of the series has Aang regaining control over the Avatar State after it had finished tossing around a supercharged Ozai like a ragdoll in time to prevent it from killing him.}}
*** {{spoiler|Not just that - he regains the ''use'' of the avatar state, and ''then'' subsequently achieving control.}}
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** Played straight in Avatar when Avatar Roku assists Aang and {{spoiler|tears down a Fire Temple around the treacherous monks within}}.
* Happens when Cat from ''[[Cat Dog]]'' snaps at a Monster Truck Rally.
* Heroes and villains alike in ''[[
** ''[[
* Brock Samson from ''[[
* Ren Hoek of ''[[
** Except for one episode, "Man's Best Friend" (which was [[Executive Meddling|banned from Nickelodeon]] in part because of this), in which Ren, bought by George Liquor as a pet/guard/show dog, is pushed to the brink, and proceeds to beat George to a pulp with a boat oar, laughing maniacally as he does it.
** This happens again in the Adult Party Cartoon episode "Ren Seeks Help", in which, after Mr. Horse insults his sanity one too many times and threatens to kill him, he transforms into an insane wild animal and proceeds to beat the crap out of him and eventually beats him to death with his gun. Nothing could snap him out of it and he's sent off to an insane asylum, not before biting off one of the guards' hands.
* The Beast in [[Disney Animated Canon]]'s ''[[Beauty and
** Vincent in the '80s ''[[Beauty and
* Pumbaa the Warthog in Disney's ''[[
{{quote| '''Pumbaa:''' They call me... '''''MISTER PIIIIIIIG!!!'''''}}
* [[Donald Duck]]: In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXGR4NBKkRo "Cured Duck,"] he tears apart Daisy's (his girlfriend) house, even ripping out telephone poles because he couldn't open her window (it was locked).
** In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNYePRc8eGQ "Sea Scouts,"] he knocks out a shark with a single punch because it ruined his hat!
** In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysPdGeX5vr0 "Donald's Double Trouble,"] he finds out his "double" is kissing Daisy in the Tunnel of Love and nearly destroys the entire ride! And when people or animals truly annoy him as in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poPFWcB-jHo Donald's Penguin"] he's come close to killing them [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R09WVwjutus even his own nephews!] Although he's always managed to stop himself in time. He manifests this trope to such an extent that he's often depicted with the features of a devil while in this state.
* Toki Wartooth in ''[[
* Gi from ''[[Captain Planet and
* [[
* [[Darkwing Duck (
* In ''[[
** The "threaten her sisters" part could be applied to all of them as Blossom opened a can of whoopass on Princess after she knocked out Buttercup and Bubbles. And Bubbles in the movie went [[Trigger Happy]] with her lasers on Mojo after he grabbed Blossom and Buttercup and started trying to squeeze them to death.
*** Bubbles does this in "Bubblevicious" to prove to her sisters that she's not a baby, and in the pilot "Meat Fuzzy Lumkins" after Fuzzy's meat gun turns her pigtail into a chicken leg.
* During the big showdown at the end of ''[[
* In the "Low Tidings" episode of ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'', Captain K'nuckles is revealed to have had a traumatic childhood experience on Low Tidings Day in which a group of mermen stuffed him into a sack for not being a good person (as is tradition for all of the bad people in town). When K'nuckles plays the part of the "quiet boy" in a Low Tidings pageant in an attempt to be a good person, the other cast members have him stuffed into a sack for the same offense. Needless to say, the pageant was doomed from that point forward.
{{quote| '''Audience Member:''' He has the strength of ''ten'' quiet boys!}}
* ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
* ''[[Teen Titans (
** Robin will also go into a rage when compared to Slade, the [[Big Bad]].
** All of the Titans can be pretty nasty when pushed, which is proved in The End Part I, when they go to all ends to protect Raven from Slade. Starfire can gather massive amounts of energy and unleash it in a big blast, Beast Boy apparantly learned to turn into that man-beast thing at will and beat up anything, Robin turned his birdarangs into swords (a feature we see for the first and only time, and Cyborg turns into a walking cannon! [[More Dakka|He drains the tower's power supply to fire a massive blast at Slade and his army]], very nearly succeeding, too. The Titans are not to be fucked with.
* In the appropriately titled ''[[G.I. Joe: Renegades]]'' episode "Rage", James McCullen attempts to deliberately [[Invoked Trope|invoke this trope]] by using his mech-suits to stimulate a "fight-or-flight" reaction in the pilots. {{spoiler|It ends up [[Gone Horribly Right|working a bit too well]] in Roadblock's case}}.
* In the first ''[[
* Stan Smith in ''[[
** When Stan told Francine that he framed her for murder and caused her to run away to Africa, she was far from angry.
{{quote| '''"I PRAYED TO A FREAKIN''' '''''ELEPHANT!!!"'''''}}
** When Hayley was dumped, she flew into one of these. Hayley is a trained CIA [[Super Soldier]], and her rages are to be taken ''very'' seriously. Even by Stan.
* In the ''[[
* Zazoom, the cute little donkey in Hanna-Barbera's "Arabian Knights" (a segment of ''[[
* In ''[[The Simpsons (
* ''[[Justice League (
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* Klaus Kinski was an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yITx7txr-7M angry], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYKLmTC20xQ angry] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXyDfbzyOcM man].
* Marion "The Barbarian" Barber of the Dallas Cowboys and Bob Sanders of the Indianapolis Colts are two NFL players whose style has been described as such. Unfortunately, for the latter this has left to a number of serious, often season-ending injuries.
* [[Hideto Matsumoto
* Male elephants in a state of musth become hyper-aggressive and nearly impossible to control.
** Ditto for any (unneutered) male ungulate in rut, eg bulls.
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