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* In the ''[[All Things Probable Series (Fanfic)|All Things Probable]]'' story, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120501140432/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3785522/34/A_Friend_In_Darkness A Friend In Darkness]'', Monkey Fist, who was usually the most calm-minded and suave villain in the series, suffers from one of these in the final battle of the story after being humiliated, reducing him to raging and shrieking like an actual monkey while unleashing the dark power he had been cursed by. The irony is, his breakdown wasn't caused by Ron Stoppable, his actual [[Arch Enemy]] and the one more likely to drive him into one.

* In the ''[[ZeroThe noFamiliar Tsukaimaof (Light Novel)|Zero no Tsukaima]]'' /''[[Fate/stay Stay Nightnight]]'' crossover ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6154638/1/The_Hill_of_Swords The Hill Of Swords]'' the villainess Sheffield starts out as a [[Smug Super]] supremely confident mage that swiftly devolves into a raving lunatic as Shirou outmatches her in each of their encounters. During their final encounter in chapter 22 she spends quite a bit of it just shrieking "DIE!" as Shirou refuses to do just that. The breakdown is so bad that she {{spoiler|falls for one of the oldest tricks in the book: the old "your shoelace is untied" gag.}}

* In the ''[[Law and& Order: Special Victims Unit]]'' fanfic [https://web.archive.org/web/20120407063853/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4927091/1/Girls_School Girls' School], Lucy Horowitz, a girl accused of holding down another girl as the other girl was raped, has one after learning that {{spoiler|the rapist was caught, thus denying her a bargaining chip for a reduced sentence}}.

* In ''[[The Legend of Spyro]]'' fanfic ''[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20190822073832/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6321817/1/The_Legend_of_Spyro_Retelling_A_New_Beginning A Dark Beginning]'', [[Complete Monster|Dredd]], the commanding Ape on the Tall Plains, has one of these after he discovers Kane escaped, going from [[Faux Affably Evil]] to screaming his death threats and his [[You Have Failed Me...]] trait surfacing. After {{spoiler|he falls for Spyro and company's plan to free and arm his captives, resulting in his entire group to be wiped out, he's left stunned at what happened before getting enraged and going into a [[Last Villain Stand]] against Kane that leads to his demise.}}

* The [[Big Bad]] in ''[[The Man Withwith No Name (Fanficfanfic)|The Man With No Name]]'' has a mental battle with [[Doctor Who (TV)|the Doctor]]. {{spoiler|After the villain wins, the Doctor reveals that's [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard|exactly what he wanted him to do, as his mind is now trapped]]. Breakdown ensues}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Enemy Within|Loneliness]]}} from the ''[[Pony POV Series (Fanfic)|Pony POV Series]]'' loses her cool a bit every time Twilight manages to fend off her mind games, but snaps completely once {{spoiler|Twilight actually manages to break through to Trixie. Loneliness goes [[One-Winged Angel]] and drops her facade of "love" towards Trixie, breaking her leg and outright trying to ''murder'' Twilight rather than let Trixie escape her clutches.}}

* Discord had a ''hysterical'' breakdown in ''[[Progress (Fanfic)|Progress]]'', when Luna [[And I Must Scream|turned him to stone in the dream world]]. He went from psychotic fury to frantically pleading for mercy ''in the space of a few seconds.''

* Several in ''[[With Strings Attached (Fanfic)|With Strings Attached]]'':

** Jeft has two:

* {{spoiler|Vaticus}} in [[The Tainted Grimoire (Fanfic)|The Tainted Grimoire]] had a brief one ''before'' being defeated. He became a [[Graceful Loser]] after being defeated.

* Razor in ''[[Ace Combat the Equestrian War (Fanfic)|Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]''. Due to {{spoiler|Garuda team performing a [[Big Damn Heroes]] and preventing the bombing of Stalliongrad's Eastern Sector}}. When he tries to do it himself later, {{spoiler|Mobius defeats him}}.

* In ''[[Project Gethinator (Fanfic)|Project Gethinator]]'', the [[Big Bad]], Admiral Daro'Xen, who is [[Yandere]] in a big way for Commander Shepard, loses it quite spectacularly after Shepard decisively turns down her advances and calls her on her crazy scheme and her obsession with him. {{spoiler|Her breakdown is of literally star-system-shattering proportions -- she takes the same mineral scanner that Prazza, Tali's idiot crewman from ''[[Inglorious Boshtets (Fanfic)|Inglorious Boshtets]]'', accidentally used to make a star go supernova and uses it on the main star of the Eta Carinae system to make the thing go ''hyper-nova'', making sure to have the ''Normandy's'' drive core disabled so Shepard, Tali and the crew cannot escape. When the crew does manage to escape [[Just in Time]] (via Shepard's quick thinking and Legion's advanced skills getting everyone out of there alive), Xen proceeds to lose it ''even further''}}.

* Loki, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[My Little Avengers (Fanfic)|My Little Avengers]]'' (a [[Fusion Fic]] of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' and [[Marvel Comics]]) loses it during the [[Final Battle]] when {{spoiler|Big Macintosh not only regains Thor's powers, but reveals that he isn't Loki's [[Worthy Opponent]] brother reborn -- as everyone had assumed -- but just a "mere" earth pony with his powers and some of his memories}}. Likewise, his [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Dark Avengers]] each have small scale ones of their own during their own fights with the other Avengers -- Ghost Flyer has the "[[This Cannot Be!]]"-panic variety when Captain Equestria breaks through his [[Mind Rape|Penance Stare]] through ''[[Heroic Willpower|sheer willpower]]'', while Iron Monger and Red Skull both go into blind rages when Firebird and Iron Pony turn their own [[Hannibal Lecture|Hannibal Lectures]] [[Shut UP, Hannibal|back on them]].

* ''[[Queen of All Oni (Fanfic)|Queen of All Oni]]'': [[Smug Snake|Lung]] starts cracking when it becomes evident that his plan to break Jade to his will is failing, and then he breaks completely when her minions show up to save her.

* Freeza gets it bad in ''[[Dragonball Z Abridged]]'' during his fight with Goku, due to his exposure to Goku's [[Idiot Hero|remarkable stupidity.]]

* ''[[Ponies Make War (Fanfic)|Ponies Make War]]'' has a couple. First, [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Nihilus]] -- who wasn't [[Ax Crazy|all that sane to begin with]] -- completely loses her shit when {{spoiler|Rainbow Dash not only breaks free of her mind control, but she learns that she ''hasn't'' corrupted the Elements of Harmony, as she thought}}. Then, near the end of the story, [[Royal Brat|Empyrean]] totally falls apart when the Mane Six [[Storming the Castle|break into his throne room]] to confront him, and fires off the magical equivalent of a [[Wave Motion Gun]] to try and fry them {{spoiler|only for the Elements to be used to strip his powers instead}}.

* In ''[[Fever Dreams (Fanfic)|Fever Dreams]]'' when {{spoiler|L screws up his plan [[Slash Fic|to get them back together]]}} Light very calmly goes up to his room, collapses into bed, and screams into his pillow.

{{quote| '''Rem''': Light Yagami, I did not realize you were capable of having feelings.}}

* ''[[Inner Demons (Fanfic)|Inner Demons]]'': Twilight Sparkle [[Ax Crazy|stopped being sane]] the moment she was consumed by her [[Enemy Within|Queen persona]], but even by that standard she ''really'' flips her shit during the Battle of Fillydelphia when she realizes that her [[Villainous Incest|beloved brother]] is choosing to stand against her with the protagonists. She starts ranting and screaming that she'll kill all the heroes, Shining Armor included, and is only stopped from carrying out an execution on Cadence by the other heroes arriving in time. Interestingly, they also somewhat accidentally calm her down from the breakdown when they then confront her over {{spoiler|[[The Dragon|Trixie]] killing Rarity on her orders.}}