Hair- Trigger Temper - TV Tropes. Dude, he brought you your drink. Psychiatrists working with suicidal patients. He knows that supporting a tax increase would be politically suicidal. Would you admit it to a therapist? I have had it since I was a child. It gets really, really, really bad when I am. What more do you want?"Some poser hands me cake at a birthday party. Whatcha want me to do with this? Eat it? HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GROUND! I threw the rest of the cake too! Welcome to the real world, jackass!"A character with a hair- trigger temper flies into a rage at the slightest provocation. Masters of Disproportionate Retribution, they react explosively to the slightest annoyance. Unlike someone with a Berserk Button, who is generally calm until a specific button is pressed, characters with a hair- trigger temper can be set off by anything. This makes them far less predictable — and far more dangerous. In comparison to the "avoid the Big Red Button" approach with someone with a Berserk Button, conversation with someone like this is like trying to navigate a minefield without a metal detector. You know the danger is there, but you have no clue exactly where it is. At best he's tetchy and anxiety- inducing.
At worst, he's a surly, dangerous, ticking time bomb. The very act of trying to talk to them might be enough to set them off. Trying to joke with them is downright suicidal. And even just trying to stay away from them won't necessarily help; they're likely to take being ignored or avoided as a deliberate snub, and.. Characters with a hair- trigger temper are generally grumpy to everybody, but they usually have a favorite victim for their rampages — often a Naïve Newcomer who doesn't understand how they keep managing to offend the guy. This can be harmful to the victim's health — while heroic characters with a Hair Trigger Temper generally restrain themselves to verbal abuse, Anti Villainous ones can get physically violent, and out- and- out Villainous ones may even kill people for annoying them. Sometimes, the character is this way because they're generally irritable and misanthropic — they don't really like anyone they deal with. Sometimes the character is suffering from Intermittent Explosive Disorder. And sometimes, the character with the Hair Trigger Temper is trying to pick a fight or intimidate or abuse someone. With the latter scenario, it doesn't really matter what you do or don't say to them — they will use it as an excuse to go off on you and make your life hell, essentially doing a verbal version of Why Did You Make Me Hit You? If someone tougher or higher ranked than them tells them to knock it off, they probably will, at least for the moment. In a Four- Temperament Ensemble, this character is Choleric. This can obviously have disastrous consequences though if they let their temper get the better of them far too often. Homicidal Impulse 1992Expect the victim who has taken too much abuse to suddenly snap in front of them with sudden and alarming reversal of roles, where the abuser's rage now pales in comparison to their victims. Compare Drama Queen (who acts dramatic at the drop of a hat). Contrast Extreme Doormat (who will not respond angrily to anything), Passive- Aggressive Kombat, Rage Breaking Point. The Sociopath is a very likely character to have this, due to their low tolerance for inconvenience or irritation, which is often displayed through a lack of impulse control. The particularly psychotic examples almost always overlap with Ax- Crazy. Doesn't blow up too, unfortunately. Advertising A Snickers ad had a guy turn into Joe Pesci who blew up at every single comment when he was hungry. The (German) animated shorts for HB cigarettes were made of this trope. Typically everything went wrong and the guy literarily "went up into the air" (this is still a catchphrase in Germany). Then he smoked a HB and everything went well magically. The General Surgeon: Blatant Lies.). Homicidal Impulse 1991Anime and Manga Switzerland and South Italy of Axis Powers Hetalia. So, so much. Bulgaria was believed to be one as well, but this was later Jossed. Belarus as well, to the point of attacking Denmark for making a small comment about how he'd win the costume contest, because it implied that he thought he could beat her darling Russia. England definitely counts, too. This becomes more apparent when France or America is around. Grineed from Beet the Vandel Buster goes berserk when he's addressed in a casual manner. Dude, calm down" will make him blow a crater in the ground with the sheer force of his trembling with rage. He constantly soaks himself in sedative resin, because he knows that sort of thing is "Not OK", no matter who you are. If you so much as blink around Revy in Black Lagoon, odds are she'll get pissed off enough to fill you with holes. Mayuri Kurotsuchi, the unhinged Mad Scientist, has something of a hair- trigger temper. This was extremely prevalent in his early appearances, where he flew off the handle at the most minute of provocations, which he often took out on his daughter. He has chilled out significantly since then, however, and while he is still callous and easily annoyed, he handles it a lot better. The running joke in the fandom is that Ichigo's group broke into Soul Society on one of Mayuri's bad days. This is made even funnier later on when Mayuri offers only a complaint when Ichigo dares refer to him without rank or honorifics: the other captains comment that Mayuri must be in an excellent mood to let Ichigo off so lightly. Mayuri's good mood does promptly vanish a short while later when Ichigo compares him to Urahara. Even a good day can't stop Mayuri's temper triggering to that accusation. Kensei Muguruma's personality. When first meeting the Vizards, Orihime nervously asked where the bathroom was. Love and Lisa had to restrain him from hurting her out of pure irritation. His method for comforting a child almost killed by hollows was "Smile, dammit!". For extra humour, he is stuck with a lieutenant who happens to be The Ditz meets Man Child, who flits between Genki Girl and Hair- Trigger Temper over the most minor things (such as sesame- topped rice balls). Hiyori Sarugaki hates everyone, and takes offense at nearly anything the other characters say to her. She even once jump- kicked Shinji for literally no reason before telling him that she wasn't going to apologize. Byakuya Kuchiki is revealed to have had one in his youth. His grandfather commented that he needed to learn how to control the temper before he could develop his talent. As an adult, he acts like The Stoic but there are very strong hints that he's merely become extremely good at hiding the fact he's still got a short temper. Yanagin in Daily Lives of High School Boys maybe a Distaff Counterpart to Hidenori in that they're both bookish, Genre Savvy and a bit of a Big Ham—what's different is Yanagin has a hair- trigger temper (and punches out Ikushima a lot in the process). Usahara from Damekko Doubutsu is very aggressive around others. Especially Urno the wolf, who he treats like crap by kicking up and sometimes attacking him. Dragon Ball Vegeta was always temperamental, but being bested or knowing Goku's better is usually what gets him the most mad. Chi- Chi.. big time. Her temper has caused almost every character she confronted to fear her (well, expect Super Buu). Bulma's temper is not as bad as Vegeta's, but the littlest things set her off. In Resurrection of F, Goku and Vegeta return to Earth as quickly as possible because they know Bulma's going to say something insulting to Frieza and make him blow up the whole planet. Bulma: Hey, creep! Were the first two losses not enough? How'd you come back to life, anyways? You're not just obsessed with revenge, you suck at it! Pan from Dragon Ball GT gets angry very easily for trivial reasons. Most of the threat Beerus provides comes in the combination of his incomprehensible power and extremely short fuse. He authorized the destruction of planet Vegeta because King Vegeta only gave him the second- comfiest pillow, and nearly blew up the Earth because Majin Buu wouldn't share his pudding cup with him. Heiwajima Shizuo of Durarara!! However, he's aware and ashamed of his violent habits and wants to get "strong enough" to keep a lid on them. Daigo Ikari from Eyeshield 2. Ojou High School or its football team, the White Knights, in a bad light; the problem is that every time he hears anything, he's always quick to assume the worst. This leads to a running gag that Ikari never actually gets to play in a game until the second time Ojou plays Daimon, at least a dozen games into their season. The reason is because he always attacks someone and gets himself ejected before the game even starts. His teammates try to prevent this by binding him with chains. It doesn't work. A giveaway is the fact that his surname is a homophone for the Japanese word for anger. Hiro Sohma from Fruits Basket is a particularly obnoxious version, made even more irritating by his monotone delivery. Gullible Tohru falls over herself trying to appease him, while most viewers quietly harbor a desire to hit the little brat with something heavy. Black Haru", laid- back Hatsuharu Sohma's hostile split personality, has shown signs of this trope as well, deliberately misconstruing Tohru and the student council's president (though the latter probably deserved it). Fullmetal Alchemist Edward Elric gets angry at loads of things, from people calling him short to being told to drink milk. He gets better as the series goes on, though. His master Izumi Curtis, who will throw the Elric brothers into walls at the drop of a hat. Sousuke from Full Metal Panic! Kaname. Even the most mundane, normal things that people say or do can be misconstrued by him as being a dangerous "threat" that must be eliminated. Justified in that he was raised by the KGB, with a highly suspicious, Crazy Survivalist nature. Cross Marian of D. Gray- Man may fit somewhat. It seems he can be very cool and composed if need be. But there are times when he's prone to showing a bit of a violent temper. Such as him having to nurse Allen back to health. Allen is unresponsive, thus Cross has to cook for him, feed him, and do his laundry. Cross' response to Allen not eating is kicking in a table and creaming.
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