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* ''Theatre/TheSpongeBobMusical'': [=SpongeBob=] suffers a short one before the first act finale, after his best friend betrays him and another avalanche nearly destroys Bikini Bottom, before Sandy pulls him out of it.
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* ''Blog/InvisibleGames'': . In ''Killswitch'', a man acquires what may be the last surviving copy of the titular video game ([[SingleAttemptGame which deletes itself when lost or completed]]) and promises to upload online videos of his playthrough to show off the ending of the notoriously impossible to play Ghast. [[spoiler:The only video he ever posts is of him crying while the game, still stuck on the character select, runs on a screen in the background.]]
* Website/TheOnion: [[https://www.theonion.com/report-make-it-stop-1839364957 Report: Make It Stop.]] It's been reprinted a few times, but only the pictures change.

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* ''Blog/InvisibleGames'': . ''Blog/InvisibleGames'': In ''Killswitch'', a man acquires what may be the last surviving copy of the titular video game ([[SingleAttemptGame which deletes itself when lost or completed]]) and promises to upload online videos of his playthrough to show off the ending of the notoriously impossible to play Ghast. [[spoiler:The only video he ever posts is of him crying while the game, still stuck on the character select, runs on a screen in the background.]]
* Website/TheOnion: ''Website/TheOnion'': [[https://www.theonion.com/report-make-it-stop-1839364957 Report: Make It Stop.]] It's been reprinted a few times, but only the pictures change.
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* ''Blog/InvisibleGames'': . In ''Killswitch'', a man acquires what may be the last surviving copy of the titular video game ( [[SingleAttemptGane which deletes itself when lost or completed]]) and promises to upload online videos of his playthrough to show off the ending of the notoriously impossible to play Ghast. [[spoiler:The only video he ever posts is of him crying while the game, still stuck on the character select, runs on a screen in the background.]]

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* ''Blog/InvisibleGames'': . In ''Killswitch'', a man acquires what may be the last surviving copy of the titular video game ( [[SingleAttemptGane ([[SingleAttemptGame which deletes itself when lost or completed]]) and promises to upload online videos of his playthrough to show off the ending of the notoriously impossible to play Ghast. [[spoiler:The only video he ever posts is of him crying while the game, still stuck on the character select, runs on a screen in the background.]]
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* ''Blog/InvisibleGames'': . In ''Killswitch'', a man acquires what may be the last surviving copy of the titular video game ( [[SingleAttemptGane which deletes itself when lost or completed]]) and promises to upload online videos of his playthrough to show off the ending of the notoriously impossible to play Ghast. [[spoiler:The only video he ever posts is of him crying while the game, still stuck on the character select, runs on a screen in the background.]]
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* In ''VisualNovel/SilverCrisis'', this happens to [[spoiler: Lucario and Lucas]] in Chapter 10. After his fight with Silver leaves him utterly defeated and unconscious, [[spoiler: Lucario]] is trapped in his own mind with his emotions, also being unable to use his True Power by opening his door until he resolves his inner conflict. He then comes to terms that isolating himself is the wrong thing to do, and realizes how important it is to place trust in others and Humankind once more. This allows himself to finally wake up, only to see [[spoiler: Lucas]] being consumed by his own Aura’s rage due to his belief that he will always be useless and can never become strong enough to save Ness. [[spoiler: Lucario then convinces Lucas that he isn’t useless, and how his trust in Lucario was what really saved him, not just his own physical strength. [[TearJerker Lucas then starts crying tears of joy at finally hearing that he has been helpful]], finally snapping Lucas out of his funk as well.]]

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* In ''VisualNovel/SilverCrisis'', this happens to [[spoiler: Lucario and Lucas]] in Chapter 10. After his fight with Silver leaves him utterly defeated and unconscious, [[spoiler: Lucario]] is trapped in his own mind with his emotions, also being unable to use his True Power by opening his door until he resolves his inner conflict. He then comes to terms that isolating himself is the wrong thing to do, and realizes how important it is to place trust in others and Humankind once more. This allows himself to finally wake up, only to see [[spoiler: Lucas]] being consumed by his own Aura’s Aura's rage due to his belief that he will always be useless and can never become strong enough to save Ness. [[spoiler: Lucario then convinces Lucas that he isn’t isn't useless, and how his trust in Lucario was what really saved him, not just his own physical strength. [[TearJerker Lucas then starts crying tears of joy at finally hearing that he has been helpful]], finally snapping Lucas out of his funk as well.]]



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* ''WebAnimation/BabushkaTheMovie'', an animatic adaption of a famous round of ''VideoGame/AmongUs'', closes with one. As in the actual game, the impostors win. The video closes with a member of the crew (who had agreed not to inform on the impostors in order to [[IOweYouMyLife pay back a favor he owed]] one of them), sitting in the middle of the launch pad surrounded by the bodies of the crew that were slaughtered there, staring straight ahead with a ThousandYardStare. His last words as the video ends are "All my friends are dead."

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* ''WebAnimation/BabushkaTheMovie'', an animatic adaption of a famous round of ''VideoGame/AmongUs'', closes with one. As in the actual game, [[TheBadGuyWins the impostors win.win]]. The video closes with a member of the crew (who had agreed not to inform on the impostors in order to [[IOweYouMyLife pay back a favor he owed]] one of them), sitting in the middle of the launch pad surrounded by the bodies of the crew that were slaughtered there, staring straight ahead with a ThousandYardStare. His last words as the video ends are "All my friends are dead."

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* The Critique's [[http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/453578/the-critiques-first-year-anniversary review of "Princess Molestia"]] all but wrecked him. The review itself contains very few jokes, and the storyline is the Critique just [[CriticBreakdown wandering around trying to make sense of his life]].
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* Website/TheOnion: [[https://www.theonion.com/report-make-it-stop-1839364957 Report: Make It Stop.]] It's been reprinted a few times, but only the pictures change.
* In the ''Website/SCPFoundation'', one SCP is a benign entity that resides in a book, creating fantastic dream worlds for anyone who reads the book before going to sleep. One researcher spent 200 years in the dream world (he slept for 24 hours straight), and [[DrivenToSuicide immediately committed suicide]] when the book entity forced him to wake up. [[TearJerker The entity was so distraught by this, it stopped making dream worlds for three weeks, only able to write "I'm so sorry. I never intended for this to happen. I just wanted to make people happy..." on every page, the book leaking tears the whole time.]] Another researcher brings the entity out of this by talking to it and reminding it that the tragedy wasn't its fault.
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* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole:'' Caleb from Campaign 2 suffers from severe PTSD, stemming from the years of abuse he suffered under Trent Ikithon, culminating with [[spoiler:being tricked into killing his own parents by setting their house on fire]]. This event broke him mentally, and landed him in an asylum for 11 years, during which he was practically catatonic. [[SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration His PTSD is included as a game mechanic]] -- whenever Caleb [[TraumaButton kills a humanoid with fire]], he needs to make a Wisdom saving throw. If he fails, he is stunned as he becomes consumed by flashbacks.

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Caleb from Campaign 2 suffers from severe PTSD, stemming from the years of abuse he suffered under Trent Ikithon, culminating with [[spoiler:being tricked into killing his own parents by setting their house on fire]]. This event broke him mentally, and landed him in an asylum for 11 years, during which he was practically catatonic. [[SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration His PTSD is included as a game mechanic]] -- whenever Caleb [[TraumaButton kills a humanoid with fire]], he needs to make a Wisdom saving throw. If he fails, he is stunned as he becomes consumed by flashbacks.flashbacks.
** In Episode 17 of Campaign 1, Grog is narrowly defeated in a pit fight by Kern, the reigning champion at the Crucible in Vasselheim. Due to being a half-orc, Kern used a racial ability which allowed him to stay conscious a bit longer to deliver the finishing blow to Grog. Grog... does not take it well, by which he immediately goes to drown his sorrows in ale at the nearest tavern, mistakes a barstool for fried chicken... and eats it anyway, as well as "sloppily disappointing" a prostitute paid for by the tavern patrons, and comments that a mug of water is "pretty smooth" while in the throes of a hangover the next morning. [[spoiler: Six episodes later, he returns to the Crucible and gets his revenge.]]

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* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'':
** Linkara has one caused by his loss to Lord Vyce. A very legitimate, played straight BSOD as Lewis tries hopelessly to fix his old morpher, mumbling about losing and barely being able to beat Mechakara. It was quite sad.
** He also had one after being told that he killed a little girl to create the magic gun. [[spoiler:That girl was his daughter. However she wasn't and he didn't kill her but Dolorem told him he did.]]
** He suffered a more literal BSOD after discovering that Ben Grimm's CharacterDevelopment in ''Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four in: Brain Drain'' was penned by Marvel's former editor-in-chief.
** In ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWallTheMovie'', [[spoiler: Linkara shuts down when he learns that Mechakara is still alive. He completely freezes as Mechakara orders ''Comicron-1'' to be destroyed, forcing [=MarzGurl=] to take over. She confronts Linkara about this later on and he admits that after all the trauma he's been through over the years, he was actually ready to die at that moment]].
* ''WebVideo/{{Carmilla}}'':
** Carmilla is pretty much in a perpetual state of this in the first season. She lost the love of her life, was buried in a coffin filled with blood for almost a century, then forced to start assisting her "mother" in kidnapping girls AGAIN! [[spoiler: This gets worse as she is forced to choose between Laura dying, or sabotaging Laura's attempts to save the victims. Her choice ends up for naught as Laura finds out.]]
** Perry seems to go through this when [[spoiler: [=LaFontaine=] is kidnapped]], especially since before they were they were having a fight about [[spoiler: [=LaFontaine=]'s gender identity]]. She later appears to [[TookALevelInBadAss take a level in badass]], [[spoiler: threatening Carmilla with a stake and staking Will in the later battle]].
** Laura after [[spoiler: Carmilla's DisneyDeath]].
* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole:'' Caleb from Campaign 2 suffers from severe PTSD, stemming from the years of abuse he suffered under Trent Ikithon, culminating with [[spoiler:being tricked into killing his own parents by setting their house on fire]]. This event broke him mentally, and landed him in an asylum for 11 years, during which he was practically catatonic. [[SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration His PTSD is included as a game mechanic]] -- whenever Caleb [[TraumaButton kills a humanoid with fire]], he needs to make a Wisdom saving throw. If he fails, he is stunned as he becomes consumed by flashbacks.
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** After he finds the secret treasure at the end of his LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/LaMulana'', he gets completely quiet for about three seconds before screaming, sobbing uncontrollably and starting to stutter sentence like structures.
** He gets another one during the BreakTheCutie that is making a LP of ''VideoGame/{{Eversion}}''.
%%* Larxene from ''WebVideo/DemyxTime'' has one when Axel breaks her hair.
* In Act III of ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'', [[spoiler: Dr. Horrible gets a simultaneous [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor dream come true]] and Villain BSOD, and expresses both in song to carry out the [[TwistEnding denoument.]]]] This [[InvertedTrope inverted]] Heroic BSOD is appropriate for a show that inverts the very superhero genre by adroitly representing [[CardCarryingVillain self-proclaimed villain]] as protagonist, and self-proclaimed hero as antagonist.
* WebVideo/TheFanFictionCritic went on a drinking binge when she couldn't review any more fanfics after having to review her own fics.
* WebVideo/LukeMochrieAndTheInners attempted to go through a review of ''Skyline'': while Phillip the Inner Pessimist took it all in stride, Ringo the Inner Optimist progressively shut down, up until:
--> "The movie's awful, ok? That's right! The optimist can hate! THE OPTIMIST CAN HATE!"
* While playing the Surfing Minigame from ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'', {{LetsPlay/Chuggaaconroy}} states that he never obtained the equipment from this minigame, so he decided to obtain the beans instead. He notices his time and notes that it may be good enough for a Hoo Bean, but when he realizes he got the equipment instead (that and the fact he had to redo the recording four different times) his reaction was understandable: a scream, followed by him being speechless for a minute.
-->'''Chugga:''' Well, I'm not complaining!
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'':
** [[Film/BatmanAndRobin A BAT CREDIT CARD?]]
** After realizing [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale what happened to him]] in ''Spooning With Spoony II'', he goes into open-mouthed, wide-eyed shock and [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments stays like that for the entire episode]], only coming out to [[TheWoobie cry about his prom-night]].
** And much earlier, in "Spooning With Spoony", WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick had a complete [[TheWoobie crying breakdown]] about [[BlackComedyRape what happened to]] ''[[BlackComedyRape her]]''.
** In ''The Cat in the Hat'', the Critic spends an entire night out on a hill staring into space after a particularly scarring scene.
** A calmer version happens after he angrily calls the director of ''My Pet Monster'' to complain, but then finding himself having to explain he's a 28-year-old guy who watches little kid's movies for a living. This sends him into a depression on how pathetic this makes him until the end of the ''next episode''.
** In his review of ''Baby Geniuses'', the Critic was so traumatized that all he could do was wander through the convention he was attending with a blank look on his face.
** NC has a mini one in his review of the ''other'' animated Titanic movie, in response to the [[InsaneTrollLogic "talking to animals with magical moonbeams"]] moment. ''In a Titanic movie.'' He starts hyperventilating and stammering before declaring that he has to go stare at himself in the mirror and cry. GilliganCut to him doing [[ExactWords exactly that]] for 10 seconds before coming back to continue.
* WebVideo/ObscurusLupa, while reviewing the ''Film/AmericanNinja'' movies, noticed they were getting progressively worse, and ended up sobbing near the end of the fourth movie.
* An outtake from [[LetsPlay/TheOnlineWarrior Maximilian]]'s ''"Boss Rage"'' series (against Oni in ''Ultra Street Fighter 4'') shows him slamming headlong into one. Playing as Ryu, he finds himself up against Hugo. With the two of them on low health, Max attempts to finish Hugo off with a Metsu Hadoken; normally a decent bet as, with less than 25% health remaining, a direct hit with it would have given Max the win. The AI playing Hugo, however, throws out an EX Monster Lariat. With the aid of "super armour" (a fighting game mechanic where taking damage doesn't interrupt a move being performed), Hugo tanks ''the entire'' Super Combo and punches Ryu in the face. All Max can do is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XqJtYc5ZS4 scream at Ryu's demise and stare at the screen in disbelief]]
* When WebVideo/PatTheNESPunk lent his copy of ''Videogame/NintendoWorldChampionships'' to WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, he suffered a heroic BSOD when the Nerd smashed both his cartridge of the game ''and the Nerd's gold one'' with a hammer. Pat understandably chokes the Nerd shortly afterwards.
* WebVideo/PawDugan, during a WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows video, curled up into the foetal position upon learning that Sia had appeared in a Flo Rida song.
* The chef at the end of "Massive Meatloaf Mayhem" episode of ''WebVideo/RegularOrdinarySwedishMealTime'', having realised they forgot to buy mayo.
* ''WebVideo/SMPLive'': When Connor accidentally [[spoiler:[[AndCallHimGeorge kills his parrot by feeding it a cookie]]]], he stares in silence for a few moments as the camera begins to zoom out.
* ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'':
** Spoony has one of these himself when he reviews Highlander II and takes a moment to read the back of the VHS box and reads that it's the smartest cyberpunk movie since Film/BladeRunner... He actually gets a pop-up error message (in this case a divide by zero error) and crashes.
** He has yet another one at the end of his review of ''Night Claws''. Upon witnessing [[spoiler:Creator/RebBrown get unceremoniously killed via NeckSnap]], he can only stare in shock at the screen for about 30 seconds before silently stumbling away.
** In his review of ''VideoGame/UltimaIX'', he suffers one after hearing the line, "You did it, Avatar! When you restored the final shrine, I was given my life back!" where he just talks quietly about how he became a fan of the series, and then starts throwing things around, yelling, "It's all been a waste of time!"
* Bowser Junior from ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'' has had a few:
** In "Bowser's Christmas Problem", he keeps demanding Bowser about Santa, until the latter reaches his RageBreakingPoint and yells at him that Santa does not exist. This causes Junior to undergo a HeroicBSOD, eventually crying and ruining Bowser's spare time, kicking off the plot of the episode.
** Another one in "The Christmas Special!" when Junior realizes he was demanding for a golden ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' toy and Santa "forgot to get it for him". Doesn't help that Chef Pee Pee and Bowser ''didn't remember him demanding them for the golden Thomas toy''.
** Chef Pee Pee himself breaks down at the end of "Bowser Junior's Caprisun" after Bowser comes in saying his lunch break is over, he [[BlatantLies eats like a child]][[labelnote:*]]when really it was Chef Pee Pee trying to open the Caprisun for Junior[[/labelnote]], and takes the former's meal.
* Rowdy C of WebVideo/TVTrash went through this after watching ''Series/HeilHoneyImHome''. He got better at the beginning of the next season.
* Derek the Bard suffers several during ''WebVideo/WarningReadersAdvisory'':
** At the beginning of the Crooked Little Vein review. Twice.
** His ''subconscious'' suffers one in Episode 20.
--->"Did I just break my subconscious!?"
** Minor one in Episode 22, after the [[spoiler:vampire tentacle bukkake scene in Necroscope]], combined with INeedAFreakingDrink.
** During the climax of SF Shinseiki Lensman, again combined with INeedAFreakingDrink.
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