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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]s in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:

* ''[[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.}}
* ''[[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.}}
* In ''[[Cold Case]]'', George Marks, the [[Smug Snake]] and [[Complete Monster]] serial killer undergoes this in the season 2 finale. Lilly refuses to let George get to him, and after confronting him with his mother's crime she rips apart his god complex saying that all George is is a scared little boy who's mommy never loved him. George proceeds to loose his cool and screams at Lilly to shut up repeatedly. After watching him walk away in a previous episode, witnessing him loose his cool was kind of satisfying. In the season 1 finale, the villian Jim Larkin (another [[Complete Monster]]) keeps his cool until they reveal that they have dna evidence linking him to the crime, at which point he completely drops the facade and screams about how both of his targets were supposed to have died that night. John Smith also experiences this twice; first when his target avoids being broken, and the second when the detectives figure out where his victim is being held in time to save her.
* In ''[[Cold Case]]'', George Marks, the [[Smug Snake]] and [[Complete Monster]] serial killer undergoes this in the season 2 finale. Lilly refuses to let George get to him, and after confronting him with his mother's crime she rips apart his god complex saying that all George is is a scared little boy who's mommy never loved him. George proceeds to loose his cool and screams at Lilly to shut up repeatedly. After watching him walk away in a previous episode, witnessing him loose his cool was kind of satisfying. In the season 1 finale, the villian Jim Larkin (another [[Complete Monster]]) keeps his cool until they reveal that they have dna evidence linking him to the crime, at which point he completely drops the facade and screams about how both of his targets were supposed to have died that night. John Smith also experiences this twice; first when his target avoids being broken, and the second when the detectives figure out where his victim is being held in time to save her.
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** Doctor Janice Lester grows increasingly unhinged and insane while in Kirk's body, her irrational behaviour causing the rest of the crew to be suspicious. By the time she returned back to her own body, she was sobbing hysterically and screaming about how she wanted Kirk dead.
** Doctor Janice Lester grows increasingly unhinged and insane while in Kirk's body, her irrational behaviour causing the rest of the crew to be suspicious. By the time she returned back to her own body, she was sobbing hysterically and screaming about how she wanted Kirk dead.
** In "The Conscience of the King", actor Karidian's daughter Lenore {{spoiler|after revealing she had killed seven of the nine witnesses who knew her father as Kodos the Executioner}} ran out to the stage with a phraser, trying to kill Kirk, one of the witnesses. The mad glint in her eyes told us that she lost her mind. And when {{spoiler|she accidentally killed her father}}, she broke down into tears and later on, she insistently believed that {{spoiler|her father was still alive and still performing}}.
** In "The Conscience of the King", actor Karidian's daughter Lenore {{spoiler|after revealing she had killed seven of the nine witnesses who knew her father as Kodos the Executioner}} ran out to the stage with a phraser, trying to kill Kirk, one of the witnesses. The mad glint in her eyes told us that she lost her mind. And when {{spoiler|she accidentally killed her father}}, she broke down into tears and later on, she insistently believed that {{spoiler|her father was still alive and still performing}}.
** General Trelane at first tries to pass himself off as [[A Man of Wealth and Taste]]; his true [[Psychopathic Manchild]] colours to bleed through around the time that he starts [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game|hunting Captain Kirk for sport]], but when he posied, ready for the kill, and ''parents'' show-up to give him a stern lecture about interfering with primitive species (and presumably, take him to his room), he starts whining like a particularly pathetic five year old.
** General Trelane at first tries to pass himself off as a [[Man of Wealth and Taste]]; his true [[Psychopathic Manchild]] colours to bleed through around the time that he starts [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game|hunting Captain Kirk for sport]], but when he posied, ready for the kill, and ''parents'' show-up to give him a stern lecture about interfering with primitive species (and presumably, take him to his room), he starts whining like a particularly pathetic five year old.
* Sylar in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' Volume 4. {{spoiler|After stealing a shape shifting power Sylar begins to suffer a severe case of MPD as his body begins shifting and changing against his will, altering his DNA to new and unfamiliar patterns. It's not long before he's imagining that he's talking to his dead mother, shape shifting into her to talk to her and breaking down sobbing about how no one loves him and how alone he is. This only gets worse as he then tries to seduce Claire, believeing her to be "Destined" to be his because the two are immortal, while plotting to be president just so he can feel special and loved for a little while}}.
* Sylar in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' Volume 4. {{spoiler|After stealing a shape shifting power Sylar begins to suffer a severe case of MPD as his body begins shifting and changing against his will, altering his DNA to new and unfamiliar patterns. It's not long before he's imagining that he's talking to his dead mother, shape shifting into her to talk to her and breaking down sobbing about how no one loves him and how alone he is. This only gets worse as he then tries to seduce Claire, believeing her to be "Destined" to be his because the two are immortal, while plotting to be president just so he can feel special and loved for a little while}}.
** See also: Samuel Sullivan. {{spoiler|The crumbling starts when the chink in his armor (his murder of his brother) is finally revealed before an audience, and he just comes more and more undone as the other carnies -- whom he considers his family -- desert him, causing him to lose the source of his power, until it finally all falls apart and he collapses.}} Major points to Robert Knepper.
** See also: Samuel Sullivan. {{spoiler|The crumbling starts when the chink in his armor (his murder of his brother) is finally revealed before an audience, and he just comes more and more undone as the other carnies -- whom he considers his family -- desert him, causing him to lose the source of his power, until it finally all falls apart and he collapses.}} Major points to Robert Knepper.
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