A character having a freak out due to uncertainty regarding who or what they are is having an Identity Breakdown. May overlap with Break the Cutie and Go Mad ...

In Real Life psychology, this sort of thing is known as an acute stress reaction , or a mental breakdown , and is related to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. HeroicBSOD / Live-Action TV · Blue Screen of Death » Useful... · Heroic RRoD

A character is experiencing a mental/nervous/emotional breakdown (sometimes with some Sanity Slippage attached) is to have them feel tears come to their eyes.

Common causes include: an extremely traumatic incident one can't recover from, an assault on your senses to the point where the brain shuts down.

This is the tendency of relatively calm and composed villains to lose their cool over the course of the story. Break the Haughty · Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie... · Axtarish Animation · PlayingWith

A tendency in media to regard mental disorders as some kind of put-on or character flaw that is amusing at best and annoying at worst.

No Case Should Remain Unsolved: When Song Minyeong lost her child, she suffered a mental breakdown, and despite therapy, she never became better. A certain ... Reluctant Psycho · Room Full of Crazy · Best Quotes for Sanity... · Madness Mantra

Break the Badass: A badass character has an emotional breakdown. · Break the Believer: A character's strongly-held belief is shattered. · Break the Comedian: A ...

The Creator Breakdown trope as used in popular culture. Sometimes, you just have a bad day. The people who tell stories are just like anyone else. The … Live-Action TV · CreatorBreakdown / Anime · A Mighty Wind

24 сент. 2024 г. · I love this trope because it really always manages to scare you. It manages to show humans in their worst form and it always works for me. I think it's genius!