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Courtesy of boston_bruiser's mun:

Berserk buttons. Lots of characters have them. Does yours? What is it? What's the one or more things guaranteed to send them into a frothing rage?

Further information on berserk buttons is available on TV Tropes, but search it yourself if you want it. I won't be responsible for you being sucked in by a link.

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[saphyria.livejournal.com]

Yrael: Trying to cage or otherwise imprison him (necessitating him being good at avoiding security), anyone putting anything around his neck, to trying to hurt him or any of his friends.

Rae: Needless cruelty, especially if the person being cruel is enjoying it. *eyes Bo*

Zelgadiss: Comments on his appearance are sure to rile him, staring at him too openly, and any attempts to use or control him.

[boston_bruiser]

Canon Voodoo doesn't really have a berserk button, but postcanon Voodoo? If you value your life and/or orthopedic integrity in the least, don't ever, ever threaten or harm a child in his presence.

John's is his family - it doesn't matter what's standing between them and him, if it's preventing him from seeing them, it's going down. Hard.

[needs_fern]

This.

For reference, two of the three times she's used the Stare were in direct response to some creature hurting one or more of her friends, and threatening further harm. The one time she's been mad enough to call someone else names, it was because he not only hurt her friends, but mind-raped her into also doing so.


Felix doesn't do rage much, but when he does what sets him off is betrayal. He's very big on loyalty and keeping promises.

[a1enzo]

Hasn't actually come up yet, but... do not threaten his nieces. (The same sort of applies to the rest of his family and his girlfriend, but generally speaking they can take care of themselves. If there is ever a threat where they can't, though...)

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

616 and Ult Ben both have the same button. Do not threaten their family, do not threaten innocents or kids and do not threaten the Earth. You may be stronger or more powerful but they will not quit until you go down, even if it kills them.

Thalia: Hurt her friends (i.e. her real family) or kids around her and you will see why the Greeks feared Zeus.

Val: Do not mess with her family. You wouldn't like it. It's not pretty.

Julie: Hurt any one she is convinced likes her or values her and it's over. Or her super hero costume which her family saved up for a long time to buy for her as these two (http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ps238/comics/index.php?date=2011-04-18) mysterious attackers (http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ps238/comics/index.php?date=2011-04-20) found out (http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ps238/comics/index.php?date=2011-04-22).

I don't think Rincewind has a button. If he did it'd likely be pushed by too much fear (I know that sounds impossible with him) and the likely result would be completely accidental but devistating.

[varadia]

X conveniently has a trigger scent that sets her rage button off! The only other thing that makes her angry, even fleetingly, tends to be people she cares about treating her like she is stupid. She was well-trained not to get angry in combat. It makes you make terrible mistakes.

Raven's rage button involves cages. He will go mindless with other-annihilating panic when it happens. It never ends well.

Michael's rage button = demons messing with humans, particularly when those demons are also fallen angels and her kin. Yeah.

Diana's rage-o-vision tends to get triggered when people go after her family (esp her mother). I mean, she gets angry when people threaten innocents and all that, but that kind of rage seems to be a cold one.

Dean goes batshit when a) someone threatens Sammy b) someone threatens his Dad c) he's dealing with Hell issues and d)he just doesn't like your face.

Flemeth mostly thinks people trying to piss her off are funny.

Sam Tyler really hates dirty cops and people that use other people. Also football hooligans.

Nynaeve's rage button involves other people breathing in her general vicinity. Sad but true.

Galadan's rage-button tends to revolve around his hurting pride. He's gotten better about it, but swearing eternal vengeance against all reality because your not-really-a-girlfriend threw you over for another guy is . . . well. You know. Crazy. These days he's likely to take steps toward annihilation of people who damage (or seek to damage) one Miss Mary Lennox, or Gabriel Tam. River, he figures, can take care of herself.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Hahaha.

a) Damn you for making me go on TV TRopes (even though you didn't really).

Anyway. Gene has a link on there to 'Berserk Button' from his very own 'Gene Hunt Interrogation Technique'. I will C&P.

Episode 2.06: Four Words — Gene and the crane.

To wit, a corrupt businessman's thugs have come after both Gene and Alex, beating Gene with a baseball bat in an alley and intending to do the same to Alex if she hadn't hidden. One does not hurt women around Gene Hunt, especially women for whom he has feelings. Gene goes to find Riley, the businessman, handcuffs him to the inside of a car, and picks the car up with a forklift-crane, interrogating him about the murders they're investigating. Every time Riley denies all knowledge, Gene lowers the car nearer to the crusher. Just in time, Alex, Ray and Chris get to him with new evidence that proves Riley's innocence.

I should add - when Alex pointed out he could have killed him, his response was 'better luck nest time, eh?'

So, yeah. Do not hurt women around Gene. Particularly the 80s version thereof.

I would also recommend not being a drug addict/dealer/offering him drugs/mentioning the subject of drugs. Particularly around the 70s version, in this case - by the 80s, the problem is so widespread he's more numb to it. In '73, heroin is new, and he's still got enough rage in him to take most drug cases personally.

Also, slow drivers. Stupid people. Anyone who gets in his way, on a bad day. Criminals in general. Supporters of Man. United. People he doesn't like.

He's quite an angry man, when all's said and done.

[minkhollow]

Claudia's would be her family. You do not hurt her family, or she will end you.

Apollo's a little better about not rage-turning-people-into-plants (or otherwise cursing them) because they try to say they're better than him, these days. But if you go after Artemis he will not be best pleased.

Sam: Rapists. No, really, even if he's on an assignment, if he catches you raping someone he will kill your ass. Canon.

[myriadbeautiful]

Amascut's button used to be necromancers and people coming back to life, but after several millenia of not being able to deal with the problem in an efficient way (Killing them dead forever in great numbers instead of one by one), especially after her brother brought in necromancers who could resist her will even when she was a goddess, she has learned to not fly into a total rage. It is a waste of time and it blows her cover. It still will get her angry, though. Even someone or something that never was killed but that she was sure was dead can do it.

The thing with cats can go into the fight part of the fight or flight response, but that isn't rage. It can have the same effect, though.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

Raph: He used to have a rather sizable berserker streak, but it's been quelled by time, and forced introspection that followed his experiences at Saint Mungo's and subsequent decade in Tortall.

Mike: Mike doesn't rage. He holds grudges.

Splinter: I don't know that Splinter has a berserk button. I think he's far too contained for that. He'll dish out a whole dozen cans of whoopass, but it won't be in a blind rage.

Aang: Overwhelming emotional states and/or physical threats are what bring Aang's Avatar State to the forefront. It's something he'll be working to control between now and when "The Promise" comes out.

Ida: Not only does Ida have a berserk button, it's candy-apple red.

The Loompas: The return of the Wonka would send the Loompas over the edge.

[saphyria.livejournal.com]

Yrael: *hears Raven on the cage-rage*

[have_no_mercy]

Clark has made damn sure he doesn't have one. Because if he were ever to go into a frothing rage, the planet wouldn't survive it.

Tess has really only gone completely unhinged once in canon, I think, which was over sexual humiliation. Also, the guy was a dick. She kicked his head in to death. Generally, she just gets quiet, cold and plots your unfortunate demise which she will most certainly make good on.

[ceitfianna]

Will's less angry than he used to be but you don't mess with his family, friends and hurt someone for fun. Of all of mine, he's the closest to a berserker.

Sameth doesn't have a berserker button, his father's a beserker and Sam when he fights tends to be doing his best but he knows he's not like his father.

Moist doesn't go berserk but when he gets near getting caught, he starts thinking faster and he rides that adrenaline. He tries to avoid fights.

Demeter, don't mess with those she considers family, she'll make you a tree. :-) Her family has a history of knowing the proper scale reaction to things.

William, you don't insult his mother or his father, also hinting about what happened in Contention will get him angry. He's been trying to not get into fights as often but he does enjoy them.

Jane gets angry when she's insulted or treated like an idiot though her attacks come in sharp wordplay.

Tumnus doesn't get angry that much but I think if you hurt the Pevensies and tries to hurt those he cared about he would. He's just not a fighter like some of my others.

The Pirate King don't insult him, his ship, and especially don't play tricks on him.

[seat_five_girl]

Ako has milli-canon feeling about mind control and memory editing. Feelings best expressed through the medium of death rays.

Tyler has a daughter and the contacts to put anyone who hurts her in pieces spread out across more than one dimension. I don't think he has but he's more than willing.

The rest aren't really berserk button types. Hot and cold running crazy some days, but not berserkers.

[yakalskovich]

Teja literally goes berserker in battle; he just fights and doesn't mind anything else. That's canon. He can fight for hours on end and just goes on until he's achieved what he wanted.

[a1enzo]

Rincewind has only a panic button. Which is pretty much everything.

[crazyfurries.livejournal.com]

Tyler's beserker triggers...well. They're what you'd expect, harm his friends and he'll get you at the ankles and start working his way up. Call him powerless and do the same and congrats, you've just darwined yourself.

Mother....well he's had ONE instance of beserker-blooey (http://foxy-l33t.livejournal.com/26982.html#comments). No one's sure if it's leftover stress from police interrogation, too many Trucker's Delight pills, Adrenaline crash, or someone busting the preciosssssss HMS GHMRV. ...me, I wanna see what he does the next time it's triggered.

[craftylildoodlepumpkin]

Clem: Child abuse. Forever and always, child abuse ("I don't necessarily like kids, but they don't deserve THAT!"), and violence toward women.

Juliet: Being lied to. You do NOT lie to Jules.

Dixie: Hurting of the downtrodden and the innocent, through she's a very calm sort of girl.