Villainous Breakdown/Live-Action TV: Difference between revisions

== Other series ==

* ''[[White Collar]]'' has the controlled, smug [[The Chessmaster|Chessmaster]] Vincent Adler being crushed to the brink of tears when {{spoiler|all the treasure he spent his life searching for blew up in front of him.}}

* Near the end of the third season of ''[[Lost]]'', Ben became increasingly unnerved by the fact that he wasn't recovering from surgery as fast as he should have (people aren't supposed to get sick on the island -- [[Mind Screw|or something like that]]), as well as his people becoming more and more drawn to Locke. He finally snaps in his [[A Day in the Limelight|spotlight episode]], shooting Locke and returning to camp acting quite erratic. Oddly enough, even though things have gotten ''a lot'' worse for him since then, he's managed to keep his cool.

** He snapped for real when Keamy {{spoiler|killed his adopted daughter Alex}} in season four.

* In ''[[Kamen Rider Kabuto]]'', title Rider Tendou annoys the sanity out of Sou Yaguruma (then Kamen Rider TheBee and the respected commander of Zect's elite [[Red Shirt]] force Shadow). Though he's not a villain, he is a [[Knight Templar]] about Zect's rules, and Kabuto using Zect's Rider technology while not being part of the organization is ''not'' smiled upon. Yaguruma, like many a villain has his original motivation give way to "[[The Hero]] must pay!" after not too many instances of being defied by him. Mister "[[Catch Phrase|Perfect Harmony]]" finally completely loses it in the middle of a battle, making him ignore the fact that the Worms (the series' token evil monsters/aliens) are massacring his underlings because he's consumed by the desire to defeat Tendou. It leads to his [[Transformation Trinket]] rejecting him for good, to him being disgraced in front of his former team (later), and eventually to his return after [[Took a Level in Badass|taking a level in badass]]... and [[Took a Level in Jerkass|jerkass]], becoming the dark Rider Kick Hopper. (His [[Villainous Breakdown]] continues, because even though Kick Hopper and Punch Hopper beat up the good Riders at first, they still kinda don't know what to do. It's kinda like "Okay, we're ''dark'' now. So, now what do we do?" and sit around hilariously trying to be cool and... if it was in a school setting, we'd say 'gothy.' It doesn't erase, but underscore, how far he'd fallen.)

** In ''[[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight]]'', General Xaviax is starting to show signs of this once the Advent Master appears and starts undoing his work by bringing back Ventara's fallen Kamen Riders. All this following the fact that Xaviax's corrupt Kamen Riders from Earth have all been vented. He was all calm and collected but his mask cracked every so often, especially when he was down to ''one'' Rider.

* {{spoiler|The Rogue Power Jasmine}} from ''[[Angel]]'' ''flips out'' {{spoiler|after the heroes break her power over humanity making everyone sees her as a hideous monster. She tries her very hardest to kill Angel, all the while ranting and screaming about how she sacrificed so much to offer humanity peace and love. Now she only wants to kill all humans after being rejected. In the end she's reduced to begging Connor for help. The disillusioned Connor finishes her off instead}}.

* Agent Aburera starts out as a cool, calculating [[The Man Behind the Man|Man Behind The Man]] at the beginning of ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]'', but gets increasingly twitchy as more and more of his deals are scuttled due to the titular team's interference with his clients' schemes. Eventually, he starts gunning for the Rangers himself, first through indirect assaults using hired thugs and attempting to discredit their integrity, then by attacking them himself in a personal confrontation. It's only at the end, after his black market empire is in shambles and he's out of options that he executes his ultimate plan: invading the Rangers' base directly with an army of [[Mecha-Mooks]], taking control of it, trouncing around the city causing massive destruction in its [[Humongous Mecha]] mode, and using the mayhem to lure the rest of the SPD fleet to their doom, all while raving about how he will pave the way for a galactic criminal paradise with their ashes. And after ''that'' plan fails, his final words are a [[Hannibal Lecture]] about how his dreams aren't dead, and that [[There Is Another]] that will take his place and [[Avenging the Villain|avenge him and bring forth his twisted utopia]]. (We meet ''that'' one in [[Reunion Show|Magiranger vs. Dekaranger]].)