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Examples of Rage Breaking Point in Western Animation.

  • American Dad!
    • In "Bullocks to Stan", Stan's boss has been mistreating him all through the episode, making him do lots of menial tasks, all to get his promotion. This also includes being quiet about sleeping with his grown daughter. But then after the two break up, Bullock calls her a slut. Stan goes berserk, with a few And This Is for... punches. After a lengthy beating, Bullock claims this to have been a Secret Test of Character, though it's blatantly obvious that he's just playing it off like that to keep Stan from brutalizing him further.
    • Jeff, of all people, has one in "The Devil Wears a Lapel Pin". Hayley actively destroys Stan's CIA calendar shoot as revenge for overanalyzing everything in her life (including giving a negative review of a picture of the two she drew at six years old as a bedtime story), only to reconsider when Stan actually compliments her for the first time, going so far as to completely restage the pictures herself when Jeff accidentally set them on fire anyway. Unfortunately, Stan proves such an Ungrateful Bastard that he immediately cancels out the compliment and declares her help not even worth it to her face over the barely noticeable design of his flag pin (namely, getting one with dots instead of stars). When Hayley runs away in tears, Jeff snaps, revealing his part in the plan and admitting he didn't deserve a daughter as respectful as Hayley. Stan, realizing just how badly he messed up, immediately runs to her to apologize.
  • In Animaniacs, the Warners who usually only retaliate after being attacked played The Prankster role in "The International Friendship Song". The extremely good-natured obese professor took jokes about his long name and weight in stride, but then when they went from curious children into full-blown antagonists and took away most of his clothes, he gave the Warners the boot (literally). After they landed, Yakko said "Boy, some international friendship song." and the cartoon ended right then and there, indicating that they knew they deserved it because of how they were acting.
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender: Anytime Aang is in danger or this, it results in him transforming into the Avatar State.
    • Invoked when an Earth Kingdom general with too much ambition and too little sense wants to utilize Aang's Avatar State. Aang doesn't want to do it since it's so devastating. The general sets his troops against him and even threatens his friends, finally making him break by burying Katara alive (just long enough to make him lose it). The general considers it a massive success and plans to work on the control aspect as they go, which leads to Sokka knocking him out so the Gaang can leave.
    • As Sokka prepares to fight in the Northern Water Tribe's mission to infiltrate the Fire Nation Navy, Hahn spends his preparation time antagonizing Sokka while the latter is losing patience but trying to stay composed. When Hahn insults Sokka for being from the Southern Water Tribe, Sokka loses it and fights Hahn.
    • Uncle Iroh is a pretty cheerful and patient guy (he has to be to put up with Zuko's Angsting). He finally loses his patience when Zuko breaks into the Dai Li's underground base to kidnap Appa for a chance at capturing the Avatar, berating Zuko for never thinking through his plans and telling him to ask himself what he truly wants, This is one of only two times Iroh is ever seen to be truly angry.
    • The other time Iroh shows anger is when Zhao gives into his mad ambition, refuses to listen to him, and kills the Moon spirit. The following Curb-Stomp Battle that Iroh delivers to Zhao's soldiers makes the corrupt general run for his life.
    • Double subverted for laughs during the escape from the Boiling Rock. The plan involves starting a Prison Riot, so Hakoda violently shoves a big, scary-looking prisoner... who responds with, "You hurt my feelings." He says he's been learning to control his anger. When Chit Sang starts an actual riot, the prisoner promptly loses it. "Forget about controlling my anger. Let's riot!"
    • Aang gets one without transforming into his One-Winged Angel form. After Aapa gets kidnapped by the Sandbenders, Momo is taken by a huge wasp. Aang proceeds to chase it down, rescue Momo, and uncharacteristically for him, proceeds to slice the giant wasp in half with his airbending.
    • In Sequel Series The Legend of Korra, whenever Korra gets frustrated with her Airbending training, out come the fireballs at whatever object incurs her wrath.
  • Batman Beyond villain Derek Powers was transformed into the glowing skeletal Blight in the pilot episode. He conceals this with artificial skinsuits but is exposed when protesters break into a corporate board meeting and trigger an angry flareup that burns away the material.
  • In CatDog Cat is the resident Chew Toy, often suffering horribly for no reason at all and being screwed over by most of the cast. In one episode, when said characters who had screwed him over subject him to even more Amusing Injuries after Dog drags him into participating in a monster truck rally, Cat does his best to stay calm... until the audience calls him a loser, at which point he snaps and goes into an Unstoppable Rage, utterly destroying everyone in the arena, culminating in him destroying the Greasers' monster truck with a single punch.
  • In Central Park, Season 1 "Squirrel, Interrupted", while on the "squavenger hunt" based around Cole's favorite books, The Squirrel Quarrels, Owen keeps complaining about the details in books not making sense, which frustrates Cole. And as Birdie states later on, he went "too damn far" when he complains about the squirrels becoming dinosaurs in one book and saying squirrels didn't evolve from them. Cole gets fed up and abandons Owen to continue the "squavenger hunt" with Enrique.
  • DC Super Hero Girls 2019: Jessica's attempts to get Dexter adopted do no favors for said cat's already sour mood. The final straw ends up being her dressing him up in a cute outfit and surrounding him with kids who refuse to respect his personal space, at which point Dexter gets angry enough to attract a Red Power Ring.
  • In Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show, Double D is subjected to humiliating pranks by Eddy and Ed over the course of the movie, his final straw being when they decide to pretend they died in quicksand and laugh at him. This enraged Double D so much to make him physically attack Eddy, shout that he'll rather go home and face the consequences than "wander aimlessly with a so called friend" and leave. This was actually enough to make Eddy cry and made him admit their troubles was all his fault.
  • In The Fairly OddParents! special "Fairy Idol", part of Norm's scheme to become a fairy godparent was to make Cosmo and Wanda quit their jobs as Timmy's godparents. This involved creating a Jerkass clone of Timmy to abuse them while the real Timmy hung out with his friends, the final straw being when he used their fish bowl to boil tea and complained that it tasted like "stupid green fish and fat pink fish", which was enough to make them leave him.
  • Family Guy:
    • Lois has one in a Christmas episode after Peter lost all of the gifts, the house was severely damaged in a fire, and she says that everything's going to be all right. She tells Meg to get paper towels to clean up while she continues trying to calm the rest of the family, and:
      Meg: We're out of paper towels.
      Lois: No... paper... towels?! (screams in anger, throws chair through the window)
      Meg: Oh, here's the paper towels!
    • In "Road to Rupert", Meg is driving Peter and his drunk friends, who proceed to annoy her, set her hair on fire, and make her crash into the car in front of her. When the driver comes out and yells at her, she finally loses it and beats the ever-loving crap out of him.
    • In the hurricane episode where the family has to stay inside, Peter makes lots of annoying sounds that greatly bother Meg, but she says nothing about it. However, the minute she makes a sound, Peter scolds her for it, causing her to snap and spill out all the pent up anger she held back from her family for years by giving them the biggest "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
    • In "Quagmire's Dad", when Quagmire finds out that Brian slept with his transgender father:
      WHERE IS HE?! WHERE IS THAT SELF-CENTERED, ARROGANT SON OF A BITCH?!
  • In many an episode of Grojband, Trina Riffin writes in her diary when in anger mode whenever she reaches this.
  • Hey Arnold!: Harold strikes up a friendship with Big Patty. Sid and Stinky, however, tease him about it. This leads to Harold avoiding Big Patty. But after the two continue to make fun of Patty while eating lunch, Harold loses it with the two, and threatens them if they ever insult Patty again.
  • Played very darkly at the end of the second season of Invincible. After spending two seasons undergoing a Trauma Conga Line, Mark loses when not only does his Arch-Enemy Angstrom Levy take his family hostage, but breaks his mother Debbie's arm and threatens to murder them to spite Mark. Mark snaps and beats Levy to a pulp, only realizing too late that he's killed him.
    Mark: STOP! THREATENING! MY FAMILY! [punch] YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'VE BEEN THROUGH! [punch] HOW MUCH I'VE BEEN HOLDING BACK! [punch] I'LL NEVER! EVER! LET ANYONE HURT MY FAMILY!
  • Kaeloo: Once an Episode, Kaeloo will get pushed past this point, resulting in her Hulking Out and turning into a monster who will beat up whoever made her angry. The problem is that Mr. Cat, who has a crush on her alternate form, will do anything to make her angry.
  • One episode of Kim Possible involves Ron being crowned Homecoming King and Bonnie being crowned Queen. Bonnie then proceeds to take every opportunity to flirt with Ron in front of Kim (who is Ron's girlfriend at this point). Kim bears it patiently...until Bonnie forces a kiss on Ron. Kim's ensuing rage (and the unspoken threat of a teen-hero beatdown) is so alarming that it drives Bonnie to tears.
  • In the Littlest Pet Shop (2012) episode "Senior Day," Russell's father Jerry spends the first two-thirds of the episode following closely behind Russell and mocking, belittling, and teasing him with everything he does. Russell reaches his limits at the end of Act 2 when Jerry pokes fun of Russell in front of his friends, causing all of them to laugh at Russell, and snaps back at Jerry with one of the loudest, angriest rants seen in the series.
  • Looney Tunes
    • In the 1939 short Prest-O Change-O, Happy Rabbit (a character best known for eventually evolving into Bugs Bunny) torments two dogs with magic after they seek refuge in his home. After a number of shenanigans, Happy Rabbit tries a disappearing act, only for the larger dog to angrily interrupt it and sock him all the way across the room into a fish bowl.
    • In The Ducksters, Porky Pig is a contestant on a Sadistic Game Show hosted by Daffy Duck, where the prizes aren't much better than the penalties. He is able to control his temper for much of the cartoon. However, after getting mauled by a Killer Gorilla, Porky is about to throttle Daffy, who then gives him a giant sack of cash for being such a good sport. Porky then buys the radio station (thus becoming Daffy's boss) and delights in inflicting the exact same sadistic punishments on him.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
    • Rarity is prone to this. Both "Sisterhooves Social" and "Rarity Takes Manehattan" have plot points centering around Rarity suffering a gradual buildup of frustration and stress only to eventually lash out at someone.
    • Sweetie Belle experiences this in "For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils" when the play she wrote, directed, and acted in gets overshadowed by the costumes she had Rarity make for the story. She's absolutely furious to the point she assumes Rarity did it on purpose and spends the entire rest of that day venting her frustrations.
    • Twilight is prone to this as well, with her perfectionist tendencies often leading her to hold in her emotions until she explodes.
  • The Owl House:
    • Amity hits hers when she realizes her abusive mother Odalia is trying to kill the girl she's in love with. Not only does she go toe to toe with the Aboma-ton 2.0, but she stands up to her mother for what might be the first time in her life. She does it again when Odalia says that she'll find Amity a new girlfriend.
    • King and Eda hit theirs when Belos kills Luz. The sound of King's sonic attack changes from a cute "weh" to a roar of fury, while Eda turns into the Owl Beast. Eda manages to briefly keep some composure, but King is completely beyond words, tears streaming down his face as he and Eda attack Belos. Thankfully, Both snap out of it almost instantly when they see that Luz has been revived by the Titan's magic, and their Beserker Tears turn into Tears of Joy.
  • Regular Show:
    • Taken to an extreme degree in "Think Postive" where Pops forbids Benson from losing his temper, and as a result, Benson can do nothing but stand by while Mordecai's and Rigby's incompetence keeps pushing Benson's patience to the limit where he's not just at the breaking point, but so close to the verge that he will explode if he doesn't release his bottled anger, and Pops has no choice but to order Benson to tell Mordecai and Rigby off, and he delivers what may be considered the ultimate vitriolic "Reason You Suck" Speech (talking "Benson getting Dragon Ball Z-style powers from the sheer amount of rage being unleashed, which he uses to blast them" kind of 'beyond'):
      Benson: RAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! YOU LAZY, NO-GOOD SLACKERS DRIVE ME NUTS!!! CAN'T YOU JUST LISTEN TO ME ONCE IN YOUR WORTHLESS LIVES?!! 'CAUSE IF YOU DID, YOU'D SEE THAT I'M TRYING TO TEACH YOU SOME SIMPLE RESPONSIBILITY, SOME PRIDE IN DOING A JOB WELL DONE!!! BUT YOU WOULDN'T KNOW A JOB WELL DONE IF YOU PAID SOMEONE TO DO IT FOR YOU, AND EVEN THEN, YOU'D SCREW IT ALL UP ON THE ACCOUNT THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN FOLLOW THE SIMPLEST OF INSTRUCTIONS, WORRYING MORE ABOUT LOOKING COOL THAN DOING YOUR JOB!!!!!
    • A heartbreaking example happens when Muscle Man, who is on a road trip with Mordecai and Rigby to scatter his recently deceased father’s hat ashes, starts telling them nice stories about his father while doing his best to stay composed and tries to turn on some music to lighten the mood, only for the volume dial to snap off. Muscle Man snaps from the accumulation of all the stress and grief he’s going through and starts screaming his head off while Mordecai desperately assures him it isn’t that big of a deal.
  • The Rocko's Modern Life episode "Rocko's Happy Sack" has Rocko enduring a massive Humiliation Conga just to take advantage of a super sale at a grocery store. He makes the deadline, but it switches over to the normal total thanks to Filbert's slowness. Rocko completely flips his lid and vows that if Filbert doesn't fix the total he will do something "not nice".
  • In the Samurai Jack episode, "Jack Vs Mad Jack," Jack has just fought off a small army of bounty hunters single-handed, but he manages to calm himself down... then his sandal strap breaks...
  • She-Ra and the Princesses of Power:
    • In "Moment of Truth", Entrapta tells Catra that going through with Hordak's plan to open an interdimensional portal would cause the universe to collapse, just as Adora said. This leads to one hell of a Villainous Breakdown, in which she decides to destroy the universe if it means destroying Adora along with it.
      Entrapta: Opening a portal right now would be disastrous! It's going to collapse and take us all with it! Adora was right!
      Catra: Adora is right? (laughs manically) Adora gets everything she wants! (hyperventilates) But not this time. This time, I am going to win! I don't CARE what it takes! We are opening that portal! NOW!
    • In season 4, Double Trouble tells Hordak that Catra exiled Entrapta to Beast Island. Hordak, who has romantic feelings for Entrapta, immediately goes berserk and tries to kill Catra.
  • The Simpsons:
  • SpongeBob SquarePants:
    • While he is generally a very sweet and good-natured guy, SpongeBob can be pushed to this when his patience wears thin:
      • In "Can You Spare a Dime?", after Mr. Krabs accuses Squidward of stealing his first dime, Squidward resigns from his job and ends up homeless as a result. SpongeBob finds him and takes him into his home until he can find a new job, and while initially grateful, Squidward soon takes advantage of the situation, refusing to get out of bed and turning SpongeBob into his personal slave (even forcing him to wear a maid's uniform). SpongeBob doesn't completely lose his temper, but does snap a bit and drops some very obvious hints that Squidward should go look for a job of his own already. The latter refuses to take said hints to get his own job, though, so SpongeBob furiously takes Squidward, still in bed, all the way to the Krusty Krab. He tries to convince Mr. Krabs to hire Squidward back, and when that doesn't work, the sponge finally snaps, outright Neck Lifts Krabs, and shakes him while screaming at him over how stupid the situation is (which in turn causes the first dime to appear):
        SpongeBob: Listen, you crustaceous cheapskate! Squidward's been living at my house driving me crazy! And you're not gonna hire him back ALL BECAUSE OF A STUPID DIME?!
        (Dime falls out of Mr. Krabs' pocket; he immediately calms down)
      • In "Krusty Love," Mr. Krabs brings him along on his date with Mrs. Puff and puts him in charge of his money to make sure he doesn't spend it all, but he nonetheless keeps demanding that SpongeBob buy increasingly unnecessary items for Mrs. Puff, all while lashing out at him for spending his money when he was the one who asked him to do so in the first place. When Mr. Krabs declares that SpongeBob is "loose with other people's money", SpongeBob finally snaps, goes off on an Angrish rant towards Krabs (heavily implied to be swear words), and storms off, muttering to himself angrily. Mrs. Puff gravely underestimates how intense his vocabulary was by calling it "colorful".
      • In "Driven to Tears", SpongeBob is jealous when Patrick wins a new boatmobile for passing his driver's test while he fails as always, even rubbing it in the sponge's face. SpongeBob eventually finds his rage reaching high levels and admits his jealousy; Patrick momentarily accuses SpongeBob of not being happy over his obtainment of his license before going far to literally rub his license in the poor sponge's face.
      • In "Stuck in the Wringer", SpongeBob gets glued to his wringer when Patrick mixes "unstick" with "stick" and continuously gets humiliated and injured when he tries to go through his life. After Patrick sends SpongeBob flying out the Tilt-A-Whirl and offers him cotton candy (which SpongeBob cannot eat in the first place, as he couldn't eat ice cream with the wringer on), SpongeBob snaps and tells Patrick to go away and leave him alone. Unfortunately, the Bikini Bottomites who witnessed this misinterpret it as bullying and send SpongeBob into a depression by claiming he deserves what happened to him.
        SpongeBob: That's nice, Patrick, but I don't want any cotton candy.
        Patrick: Well, have some. It'll make you feel better.
        SpongeBob: I said I don't want any!
        Patrick: You ruined my cotton candy!
        SpongeBob: GOOD!! Maybe now you know how I feel about YOU RUINING MY LIFE!!
    • To say Squidward got angry in "Good Neighbors" following his perfect Sunday's death when SpongeBob and Patrick get in Squidward's bubble is an understatement. To put it in detail, the guy destroys their fezzes beneath his feet, bans them from his property, and gives them a savage "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
    • In "Hooky", Squidward lets out an outburst after the customers complain to him:
      Squidward: Why do you wanna eat this stuff anyway?!
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks: "Reflection" has Mariner and Boimler stuck running a Starfleet recruitment booth at a job fair; throughout the day, beings from the other booths needle them constantly with questions about everything Starfleet does (many of which are raised by real-life fans), including an Adventure Archaeologist the next booth over. It seems like, as usual, Mariner's going to lose it, given how she didn't want the assignment (and was threatened a transfer to Starbase 80 if she didn't go along), until a couple of snooty outpost scientists come along, and after pretending to be interested, take Boimler's rank pip, toss it into the dirt and stomp on it. This pushes Boimler's Berserk Button and he goes off the chain, ranting about how everyone else there is ungrateful to Starfleet (given how without Starfleet to defend them for the greater good, everyone there would've been killed or assimilated by the Klingons or the Borg) and generally tears into them for everything he hates about them. Funny enough, this acutally ends up getting a lot of beings to sign up for Starfleet based on Boimler's anger (they think it's confidence); Commander Ransom is bewildered to see Mariner calmly following orders and Boimler literally hopping mad (smashing a table), swearing and running amok. (He's forced by Starfleet regulations to put Boimler in the brig, but makes it clear he's proud of Boimler for standing up like that in the defense of Starfleet.)
  • In Star vs. the Forces of Evil episode "Blood Moon Ball", Star's demonic ex-boyfriend Tom tries to keep his temper under control in order to win Star back, even though it's implied that every little thing that goes wrong is making him angrier and angrier. When Star and Marco have a Dance of Romance, Tom finally loses it and tries to incinerate the Earthling.
  • Strawberry Shortcake:
    • The Brambleberry Fairy experiences this following the Kingdom's failure to deliver an invitation to her house for the birth of Princess Strawberry Rose. Her ire is so great that she takes every attempt to calm her down as an insult and tries to kill Princess Strawberry Rose just so she can get revenge.note . (During the ending, the Brambleberry Fairy finds that her rage was unjust; it was really her own fault for the Kingdom's failure to deliver an invitation to her house. The Brambleberry bushes that she claims would act as an anti-thief wall? Turns out, those brambleberries also keep those who do not want to steal the Brambleberry Fairy's goods out, making it an effective dead zone for delivery.)
    • Lime Chiffon experiences this when Blueberry Muffin shoots her mouth off with her legends in "A Berryworks Mystery". Strawberry Shortcake fortunately defuses the situation.
  • Steven Universe:
    • As an All-Loving Hero, Steven does not anger easily outside some rare instances. In the second season, he shows a great deal of patience in dealing with and befriending the haughty and aggressive Peridot. Only when Peridot appears to have betrayed them does Steven get genuinely angry with her and immediately tells the Crystal Gems what he thinks she's been up to.
    • In "Steven's Dream", when Steven tries to question the Crystal Gems about the palanquin he saw in his dream, Amethyst doesn't know what it is but Garnet and Pearl are clearly trying not to tell him anything. He begins a Calling the Old Man Out on them, noting that he knows the palanquin is connected to his mother Rose Quartz's secrets and that he, out of anyone, deserves to know the truth.
    • In "Kindergarten Kid", Steven doesn't get especially angry himself, but he does begin pelting Peridot with marshmallows to push her to her Rage Breaking Point and teach her a lesson about empathy with the corrupted gem monster they're up against in that episode.
    • Season one's "Lars and the Cool Kids" has Steven snapping at Lars and calling him out on how much of an ass he is after Lars insults his "weird mom". Steven tells him that his mother saw beauty in everything, including jerks like Lars.
  • The Looney Tunes Show:
    • This version of Porky Pig is willing to put up with a lot, but there are a few instances where he’s snapped.
      • In “French Fries”, he gets into a fight with Daffy, who is outraged because Porky ate “his” fries (which he thought were for the table, and he turned out to be right). Porky was initially calm and civil, but eventually gets angry when he believes Bugs is taking Daffy’s side. While the two initially make up due to gift baskets Bugs gives them, he gets angry again when he finds out Bugs was the one who got the gift baskets, to the point of ripping up the football game tickets.
      • More infamously was "The Float" where Daffy tricks Porky into giving him his life savings (and then some) for a fake kidney transplant, and has to live in the dark and eat garbage as a result. When Bugs informs him that Daffy actually used the money to buy a yacht, an enraged Porky gives him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to the point that Daffy really did need a kidney transplant afterward.
    • The only time Foghorn Leghorn has gotten angry over the course of the series was in "The Foghorn Leghorn Story", when Daffy ends up ruining the film’s most important and expensive scene, which had to be done in one take. This culminated in a massive fistfight between the two.
  • The Magic School Bus: "Lost in Space", Arnold's cousin Janet is being her Jerkass self and he's tolerating it, even defending her to his classmates... until she insults Ms. Frizzle.
    No one is better than Ms. Frizzle.
  • The Powerpuff Girls (1998): Blossom spends most of "Slave the Day" trying to be patient with Big Billy when he attempts to help them with crime-fighting, but he does more harm than good. Blossom finally snaps when Big Billy destroys Townsville in his attempts to defeat a monster to the point that she gives him one of the series' biggest hateful speeches.
    Blossom: That's it! First, you let the bank robbers get away, then you destroyed irreplaceable art, and now you've destroyed all of Townsville! You do less damage as a member of the Gangreen Gang! Now go!
  • In the Tom and Jerry episode "The Million Dollar Cat," Tom inherits a million dollars in accordance with the will of his owners' aunt, but at a catch: if he hurts any living thing, even a mouse, he'll immediately lose everything. Naturally, Jerry learns of it and starts milking it for all its worth, doing such things as eating his sundae, attacking him in his limousine, stealing his bedroom towel, and even throwing him out of his own bed, and every time Tom gets pissed off enough to retaliate, Jerry simply produces the telegram to get him to back off. However, when Jerry eats Tom's breakfast, throws lemon juice and butter in his eyes, and finally slaps Tom's dickey in his face, Tom finally snaps, and Jerry has just enough time to realize he pushed Tom too far before Tom furiously rips the telegram to pieces and outright shoves the piece that reads "even a mouse" down Jerry's throat, literally making Jerry eat his words, before attacking him in an Unstoppable Rage. Tom does briefly stop to contemplate that he'll lose his fortune by doing so:
    Tom: Gee, I'm throwing away a million dollars... but I'm happy! [continues attacking Jerry while laughing]
  • The stress of command finally gets to Optimus Prime during the first season finale of Transformers: Animated. Facing the threat of a Decepticon invasion, his subordinates decide that's the best moment to let him know that they disobeyed him and helped the Dinobots escape. On top of that Sari and Bumblebee are using her key to play with toys in the middle of briefing. After his initial blow-up, he spends the rest of the episode cold and authoritarian only to learn that this leadership style is just making things worse. And then Megatron revives.
    • Also happens in the first season finale of Transformers: Prime when Megatron has the nerve to chuckle about unintentionally putting Raf in a coma. Optimus spent much of the first season still attempting to reach out to Megatron. In response to this, Optimus delivers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to the Decepticon leader and abandons all attempts at a dialogue with him.
      • While Ratchet is normally curt and grouchy, he only really blows up twice in the series. The first is due to personality altering steroids. The second is in response to the loss of the Omega Lock and with it any hope of reviving Cybertron. His critique of Optimus's leadership is scathing and he falls into a Despair Event Horizon shortly afterward.
    • Transformers: Cyberverse sees a pretty terrifying one from Megatron after Starscream tries to kill him and take command and leave him for scrap. Unlike every other time across the franchise, Megatron is so filled with rage that he doesn't even talk. He just grunts and yells while brutally pummeling Starscream to death. And Starscream can only try to run away and futilely beg for mercy. The rest of the Cons can only watch in shock and awe as their true leader unleahses his fury. Only when it's over and Starscream is left a dead corpse does Megatron talk again.
    Megatron: We are done here...

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