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* The boar at the beginning of ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' was crazy/evil because of a bullet (or rather the ensuing infection).
* In the ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' movie, Inori/Cure Pine gets stuck in a prehistoric jungle and got chased off by an angry UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex. But then, Pine found out that it's just in a rampage because a glass or sorts got stuck in its leg, so being the KindlyVet, Pine removed that glass thing to calm it down.
* This is essentially the effect of "black gears" in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' and dark rings and dark spirals in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''.
* A supernatural variant occurs in ''Anime/SpiritedAway''. The bathhouse is besieged by a rather grouchy stink spirit; while it's in the bath, Chihiro notices that it has a thorn in its side [[spoiler: actually the handlebar from a bicycle, which leads to ''a lot'' of miscellaneous junk stuck in its body, the result of people throwing unwanted objects into the river]]. When she pulls the thorn [[spoiler: and everything else along with it]] out, the stink spirit transforms into a much more benign river spirit.

* This wasn't an actual nail, but there was a {{Superman}}/[[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Hulk]] crossover story where Hulk is on a rampage and Superman discovers a tiny little machine is emitting a sound that is driving Hulk crazy. Superman destroys it and soon after Hulk begins to calm down.

* The film ''Namu, The Killer Whale'' had one of these--Namu was provoked into a rage by someone throwing him a fish rigged with a hook. He finally calmed when someone found the hook and pulled it out.
* In ''Film/SnowDogs'', the malamute Demon seems to have a permanently vicious temperament. Near the end of the film, we learn that it's all due to a bad tooth. Ted (a dentist) pulls out the tooth, and Demon gratefully licks his face.

* ''VideoGame/{{DuckTales}} [[VideoGameRemake Remastered]]'': The Yeti boss of the Himalayas attacks Scrooge [[spoiler:because of the Crown of Ghengis Khan stuck in ''[[SamusIsAGirl her]]'' foot.]]
* ''VideoGame/ChampionsOnline'': The reason for the Qualar invasion in the tutorial; several devices in champion's headquarters are making a [[BrownNote sound]] that is "[[MemeticMutation driving the Qualar CRAZY!]]

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "Little Ed Blue", Ed becomes abnormally grumpy and bad-tempered, and goes on a rampage that genuinely scares the entire cast, all because [[spoiler:he has a pebble in his shoe]]. Edd can't believe that it was all over so small a problem when it's finally resolved and Ed goes back to being his regular happy self.

* ''WesternAnimation/DinkTheLittleDinosaur'': Dink and his friends had to convince a really huge dinosaur to help them in one episode. He initially refused, stating he had his own share of trouble, he had a thorn stuck on his foot.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', this is how Danny meets Frostbite.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' episode "That Thing You Drew", the Yadda Yadda Yeti turns out to be good-natured and was only acting fierce because she had a pickle dog stuck between her toes and it was causing her pain.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', the giant flaming squirrel rampaging through Townsville turns out to be saying "Help! Put me out! I'm on fire!" in Spanish. Bubbles is able to translate thanks to her ability to speak Spanish. Blossom is able to put out the fire with her ice breath. The bulk of the episode is then dedicated to Buttercup trying to find her own special power.
* In one episode ''WesternAnimation/EekTheCat,'' Eek is being chased by an angry dinosaur, and then discovers it's only angry because of a corn cob stuck in its foot. The dinosaur then turns out to be very friendly after Eek pulls the cob out.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "Little Ed Blue", Ed becomes abnormally grump and bad-tempered, and goes on a rampage that genuinely scares the entire cast, all because [[spoiler:he has a pebble in his shoe]].

* In the ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' movie, Inori/Cure Pine gets stuck in a prehistoric jungle and got chased off by an angry TyrannosaurusRex. But then, Pine found out that it's just in a rampage because a glass or sorts got stuck in its leg, so being the KindlyVet, Pine removed that glass thing to calm it down.

* The MLP crack fic ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/216953/king-sombras-greatest-weakness King Sombra's Greatest Weakness]]'' does this to Sombra's entire rampage: After [[spoiler:his village was afflicted with hoof rot]], Sombra couldn't step on anything without suffering, only marginally helped by his boots, which are adapted into a sort of primitive orthopedic. The whole story kicks off because Sombra ends up stepping on a nail, the pain [[spoiler:fed negative emotion into his dark magic]], and his motive, of course, was to inflict pain on others, physically or mentally, because he was in so much himself. He does get better, though, and this changes things; he can no longer utilize dark magic due to the pain being gone, his outlook is more positive (though the counselling might have helped,) he doesn't need his boots anymore, and [[spoiler:when another nail makes itself known, Sombra doesn't feel a thing.]]

* The MLP crack fic ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/216953/king-sombras-greatest-weakness King Sombra's Greatest Weakness]]'' does this to Sombra's entire rampage: After his village was afflicted with hoof rot, Sombra couldn't step on anything without suffering, only marginally helped by his boots, which are adapted into a sort of primitive orthopedic. The whole story kicks off because Sombra ends up stepping on a nail, the pain fed negative emotion into his dark magic, and his motive, of course, was to inflict pain on others, physically or mentally, because he was in so much himself. He does get better, though, and this changes things; he can no longer utilize dark magic due to the pain being gone, his outlook is more positive (though the counselling might have helped,) he doesn't need his boots anymore, and when another nail makes itself known, Sombra doesn't feel a thing.

'''Story:''' The doctor had exclaimed that it was a miracle that Sombra could walk without screaming, and he had never seen hooves so terrible on any living pony that didn't involve sticking a limb in a wood chipper.

* The MLP crack fic ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/216953/king-sombras-greatest-weakness King Sombra's Greatest Weakness]]'' does this to Sombra's entire rampage: After his village was afflicted with hoof rot, Sombra couldn't step on anything without suffering, only marginally helped by his boots, which are adapted into a sort of primitive orthopedic. The whole story kicks off because Sombra ends up stepping on a nail, the pain fed negative emotion into his dark magic, and his motive, of course, was to inflict pain on others, physically or mentally, because he was in so much himself.

* The MLP crack fic [https://www.fimfiction.net/story/216953/king-sombras-greatest-weakness/King Sombra's Greatest Weakness] does this to Sombra's entire rampage: After his village was afflicted with hoof rot, Sombra couldn't step on anything without suffering, only marginally helped by his boots, which are adapted into a sort of primitive orthopedic. The whole story kicks off because Sombra ends up stepping on a nail, the pain fed negative emotion into his dark magic, and his motive, of course, was to inflict pain on others, physically or mentally, because he was in so much himself.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': "The Smoking Peanut" has a giant clam behaving this way. Everyone thinks it's because it had a peanut thrown at it, but later it turns out its egg was stolen.

* ''Videogame/ChampionsOnline'': The reason for the Qualar invasion in the tutorial; several devices in champion's headquarters are making a [[BrownNote sound]] that is "[[MemeticMutation driving the Qualar CRAZY!]]

* In one ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' [[http://oglaf.com/overbite/1/ strip]], a dentist-wizard ends a monster's rampage by curing the beast's impacted molar.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', the giant flaming squirrel rampaging through Townsville turns out the be saying "Help! Put me out! I'm on fire!" in Spanish. Bubbles is able to translate thanks to her ability to speak Spanish. Blossom is able to put out the fire with her ice breath. The bulk of the episode is then dedicated to Buttercup trying to find her own special power.

* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', Angron and his World Eaters are the absolute incarnation of this trope. Hell, they got devices called Butcher's Nails in their heads that cause them to go berserk. And you know what? We may never know, but Angron could have been the most brotherly primarch (read: Demi-God) if he didn't had that mind raping, eternally hurting device installed on his skull by Nucerian Slavers, based on the his and the twelfth legion's past.

* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', Angron became a gladiator slave and was implanted with so-called "Butcher's nails" which amplified his aggression. He also gave downgraded versions of these nails to his Space Marine Legion.

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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': The rachni are wreaking havoc on the research station on Noveria. It turns out this is because they are separated from their mother, causing them to become mindless and violent. The original Rachni Wars were also a result of this: the rachni are normally a peaceful species but the Reapers made a "sour, yellow note" that caused the rachni to viciously attack the salarians and asari.
* ''VideoGame/{{DuckTales}} [[VideoGameRemake Remastered]]'': The Yeti boss of the Himalayas attacks Scrooge [[spoiler: because of the Crown of Ghengis Khan stuck in ''[[SamusIsAGirl her]]'' foot.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsAdventureInWonderland'' had the Jabberwocky, who was in a state of crankiness, due to a thorn stuck in his paw. With the combined effort of everyone, the thorn was removed, inciting the Jabberwocky's {{Heel Face Turn}}.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "Little Ed Blue", Ed becomes abnormally grump and bad-tempered, and goes on a rampage that genuinely scares the entire cast, all because [[spoiler: he has a pebble in his shoe]].

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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' Ed goes on a rampage that genuinely scares the entire cast because [[spoiler: he has a pebble in his shoe]].

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': The Rachni are wreaking havoc on the research station on Noveria. It turns out this is because they are separated from their mother.

* Wild animals in general are wary of humans and don't try to attack them unless they've grown accustomed to human presence (usually by way of feeding), or are very ill.
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankebetsu_brown_bear_incident Sankebetsu]] [[SuperPersistentPredator man-eating]] {{bear|sAreBadNews}} that terrorized Hokkaido during the winter of 1915 sported a huge scar in the shoulder, leading some people to suspect that it had been either shot by a hunter or wounded in a trap earlier in the year, and that this wound had made it unable to gather enough food in the autumn for hibernation. Hence why it spent the winter eating the only "resource" available - people.

* In Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG, Rex's only tamed Mutant T-Rex, Maw, suddenly went on a maddened rampage and, in the process, nearly killed Dino Attack Team's founding members. When Rex was finally able to calm Maw down, he discovered that the T-Rex had been stabbed in the foot by Sam Sinister.

* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40k'', Angron became a gladiator slave and was implanted with so-called "Butcher's nails" which amplified his aggression. He also gave downgraded versions of these nails to his Space Marine Legion.

* A supernatural variant occurs in ''SpiritedAway''. The bathhouse is besieged by a rather grouchy stink spirit; while it's in the bath, Chihiro notices that it has a thorn in its side [[spoiler: actually the handlebar from a bicycle, which leads to ''a lot'' of miscellaneous junk stuck in its body, the result of people throwing unwanted objects into the river]]. When she pulls the thorn [[spoiler: and everything else along with it]] out, the stink spirit transforms into a much more benign river spirit.

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Not to be confused with: ForWantOfANail. Or IBrokeANail.

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