An asian kid who lives near me is this. And he is only ten years old.

This troper is a weird variety: On the surface I'm a just a GrumpyBear Kuudere, but under the surface and when no one else is around, I'm full-on HairTriggerTemper. The littlest thing will piss me off to no end, I seem to constantly be under the influence of UnstoppableRage, I contemplate DisproportionateRetribution on a daily basis, but I rarely ''do'' anything about it or express it directly. People can still sense this streak of fury in me and tend to keep their distance whenever my mask drops enough for me to get a certain look in my eye. Seriously, wtf's the matter with me ...?

This troper is glad to know she isn't the only one like this. The only difference is that she's a bit more of a Tsundere than a Kuudere, and people don't seem to get that she wants to be left alone, but otherwise it's the same. She doesn't like it very much.

This troper's older brother. Full. ''Fucking''. Stop.

Ditto. Fortunetly, I can usually just leave the room.

There is a man in This Tropers neighbourhood who is well described by this Trope. There are a long list of stories about things he's done to people for next to no reason, including biting a man's nose off after an argument over a game of Snooker, and after a dispute at a house party waiting outside before running his target over with his car. As you'd imagine, he also has an equally long history of being incarcerated, and these interludes are some of the most peaceful eras know to this area. Unfortunately we frequent the same Local pub, and one night I made the mistake of going over to the quiz machine having failed to recognise this feared individual at the table next to it (in fairness I was somewhat inebriated and he had seemingly doubled the amount of fat on his body in a short time). What ensued were the most uncomfortable 15 minutes I can remember. First off he mocked the shirt I was wearing by singing "The Lumberjack Song", despite it bearing only a passing resemblance to the apparel of lumberjacks, leaving me with a dillema; laughing could offend him, not laughing could offend him. I managed to feign deep concentration on the quiz machine and a lack of cognisance, which seems to have worked. Next he adressed me directly and asked my taste in music, which in all truth I felt somewhat relieved by as it represents the only common ground I have with this man, as I happened to know we both like 70s and 80s Punk. So the conversation actually, for a short while, got downright pleasant, as we compared favourite bands and sounds, until he asked me if I liked, actual quote, "Niggers and Pakis". The man is an active and extreme racist, and the most honest answer I could have given would have been along the lines of "I haven't met them all, but I probably like most more than I like you", but this would have gotten me glassed and I didn't really want that. Neither was I prepared to say anything abhorrent on account of a BNP fuck like him, so I just said "I judge on merit", or similar. Conversation died down after that, but as I went to leave after finishing my drink a few minutes later he told me I wasn't a punk (baffling me because I never claim to be) and I was a disgrace because of how I dressed, and I should shave and get a haircut. I know enough about the man to know that these are the tactics he resorts to when he's looking for a fight and all else has failed, and that any retort or attempt at humour would almost certainly end in my permanent disfigurement, so I simply said "Ok", guessing that was the only response he couldn't use to legitimise violence. Seems to have worked because then he let me go. In a conversation with my Grandad the next day, I was told that managing to get through that kind of a minefield, especially considering how much of a drunken state I was in, was nothing short of miraculous. Not something I'd ever repeat, that experience. Apologies for the wall of text.

This troper's friend has two 10-year-old twin brothers, Zack and Drew, who embody this trope, but especially Drew. Their parents didn't put much effort into raising them, especially after two other kids, so the two basically raised themselves. Despite being 10, they both speak like they're 3 or 4 because they insist on speaking in whatever language they came up with when talking to each other (a sort of bad English), and their parents won't teach them how to speak properly because they cry when they have to learn. However, the major problem with their lack of proper raising is that they're both extraordinarily selfish and become violent easily. They respond to just about anything they don't like, including being in their room when they don't want you to be, playing a video game when they want to play instead, playing bad music, doing bad on video games, and especially forcing them off the Xbox 360 (which they're literally addicted to) by screaming, crying, and flying into a rage. This troper isn't particularly injured by their punches or kicks unless they make a hit to his head (they don't eat much either, so they're skinny and tiny as well), but Drew once jerked his head by his hair, which was enough to make this troper push him hard enough to toss him across the room. Generally, walking into their house, especially a room they're in, is playing with your health and sanity.

My sister is a HairTriggerTemper. I am a {{jerkass}} PungeonMaster. This is not a good combination.

A friend of this troper has a HairTriggerTemper. I've only heard about her raging, but from what I've heard, it's not pretty.

This troper's friend. For instance, he got turned down by one lesbian and is now completely homophobic. He is also a TedBaxter (at least on the outside). He's great fun to troll.

This Troper is an ''inverse'' HairTriggerTemper. Particularly in my Drama class. Literally everything I say or do is met with anger and hatred. Quarter of a second late to close the curtains? Screaming. Deliver a line improperly? Tell me I'm a dumbass. Deliver a line perfectly? Tell me I'm a dumbass. Ask what, for the love of God, is everybody's problem? Get told I'm weird and an asshole. point out that one of the other students is going around rubbing his crotch against people? Get told to stop being a jerk.

Maybe you should find some new people to hang out with.

This troper's father. I learned before I was ''three'' to tread carefully around him, and it still doesn't work.

Me, sometimes. Compounded by extreme paranoia.

This troper's boyfriend. No grape juice at school? RAGE! Pizza's burnt? RAGE! Touch his stuff? RAGE! Interrupt him? RAGE! Just mess up on saying something or it's inconsistent? "{{BAKA}}!" Added some explanation to an answer? "YOU DON'T NEED TO EXPLAIN!" Responded to something he said? "YOU DIDN'T NEED TO ANSWER THAT!/IT WAS A RHETORICAL QUESTION!" It's hard to NOT piss him off at some point each day!

Baffling. Why ''are'' you with him?

I'm with this troper.

Don't move this troper's stuff. Don't use any of this troper's consumables. Don't try to talk to him when I have my headphones on. The term ape-shit ceases to be adequate.

This troper had a friend who was like this. At first this troper thought she was just like this with her boyfriend (they would literally argue about everything!) but then she wound up in this troper's drama group, and it turned out, no, she acted as if anything everyone said or did was a personal insult to her intelligence. She literally threw a tantrum once because her boyfriend bought her a gift that was on sale at the time. It didn't even matter that she had been pestering him to buy it for her. Poor guy.

This troper has possibly THE WORST HairTriggerTemper of all. Her main BerserkButton is misuse of English, but ''anything'' and ''she means anything'' can set her off.

This troper used to enter rages like a 20th level barbarian when he thought he was insulted or being condescended to. Now it takes a lot more to get me riled up, but you do not tease younger kids in my prescence].

This editor '''is''' this trope. Almost anything he finds in the Internet hits a BerserkButton. This wiki is no exception. The troper tales page is no exception. Well, there is a notable exception.

This troper is an odd version of this - in my case, it's other peoples' tempers that are the trigger. I can stay calm through just about anything, but the minute that somebody else blows up, I follow suit immediately, even if their anger isn't directed at me. So, hypocritically enough, my BerserkButton is any type of drastic overreaction.

This troper knows a girl who oddly combines HTT with TranquilFury, making her a vicious DeadpanSnarker {{Tsundere}} Type 1.

This troper has an extremely short temper -- but I'm also a pacifist who hates violence and who's never gotten into a fight before. Quite inconsistent, I do realise that, but my temper often gets the better of me, no matter how much I try to control it. Lately though I've been having ''some'' success in controlling it: hopefully things will get better.

This troper is this trope in an odd way. The tiniest things can set her off, but much bigger things (unless they're VERY serious) don't seem to bother her one bit. If you touch my stuff, use my things without my permission, criticize me (even slightly), try to send me to bed when I'm not tired or eat my food or anything similar, my fuse will have been blown and there'll be no way to calm me down! But give me an F on a test I studied all week for? Whatever. Accidentally drop my keyboard (if I allowed you to use my computer)? I don't care. Erase my save file on a video game I'd just completed after working on it for months? I couldn't care less. Yeah, I'm a weird person.

This troper's English teacher. Let's just say there is a reason he is feared by everyone, even those who have been in his lessons (VOLUME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).

This (same) troper has a habit of switching from completely uninterested in a conversation through to being able to make a snarky comment to a person speaking with little effort. Has resulted in a few [=MoW's=]/CMOA's, but particularly against one guy who seems to have a bad comment about EVERYTHING! The best one (at the time of typing) is on Sophisticated As Hell (which also sums me up).

This troper is usually a nice, caring, quiet (in school) person. I consider myself to be a {{Yangire}}. But I am definietely this, and this is a side of me you DON'T want to see. A couple of hours ago, I went NUCKING FUTS because my G*DDAMNED COMPUTER DELETED THE SIMS 3 GAME I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST '''TWO DAYS'''. I was very specific into what color the hair was, the color of the clothing, the width of the house, how far apart the furniture was, etc. AND EVEN AFTER I SAVED IT, MY COMPUTER MESSED UP, AND NOW EVERYTHING IS GONE. To get rid of my rage, I wanted to kill a (pre-made) Sims family by setting their house on fire. THEN MY COMPUTER SHUT DOWN, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE. (After all that time spent getting the baby fed, changed and far away from the soon-to-be burning house) Keep in mind, that this was over a computer game. Not only this, but also when I hurt myself, when people move my stuff (this is when my OCD kicks in), make me go to bed early, "shush" me, cancel plans with me, critcize me (''not'' constructive criticism), when people yell at me (their anger just makes mine worse), etc. A couple weeks ago, in my orchestra class, I was sitting next to this one girl, and my friend, holding [my friend's] phone, looking at something. Then the girl reached over and tried to take it, but I said, "hold on a sec". Then, she gets up in my face and says, "''Let go''". If it wasn't for the fact that there were other people in that room, I probably would've smacked her. And this is only when I'm ''very annoyed''. You don't want to know what happens when I'm PO'd.

This troper tends to exhibit a high trigger temper because her high functioning autism prevents her from understanding when someone is making a joke or exhibiting sarcasm without trying to hurt her feelings.

This troper wants to punch and murder everyone on this page for having hair trigger tempers. That should say enough about mine.

This troper's friend Katie has the worst temper of anyone I know. We're convinced she's bipolar. Girl will got grom upbeat and cheerful to murderous bitch for either ''no reason whatso ever'' or because someone said something. Not anything bad, no, just anything in general. This includes ''"good morning"''.

This troper comes off as this sometimes, mostly to her AnnoyingYoungerSibling, but usally because he's talking to her when she's trying to do something and is telling me things ''I honestly don't care about''. He also keeps tapping my shoulder and goes "Hey. Hey Meg. Meeeeg! Listen to this!". Tapping my shoulder is somethin that greatly annoys me.

This Troper's father is this to a very annoying degree. He is always set off by the stupidest and mildest of things, and it becomes impossible to have a regular conversation with him without hitting his button. His temper is even worse when he is half-awake; you cannot interact with him during that time, anything you say to him will set him off, especially criticism. When he is set off, he screams like a gorilla and tries to defend himself with the stupidest arguments. Honestly, he seriously borders on constant Jerkass.

Something even more stupid with his temper came up. My mom was feeling a little sick, so she asked him to make a salad. He tried to shove it onto me by saying he is watching the news, but I told him she asked HIM to do it. All of a sudden, he gets angry and start shouting and saying to leave him alone and let him watch the news. All because of a fucking salad. He's such an ass.

And yet another thing came up. My sister and had made some food for ourselves at noon because we were...well, hungry. He comes back in the afternoon, and for no apparent reason starts raging about the fact that we didn't make food for him as well. This is coupled with when we ate some of his favorite ham, which he CLEARLY stated was something he would share with the family. The next day, he starts raging that there is no ham left. And he takes it out on my mother. I'm beginning to question his ability to run a family.

This troper is a cause of ''BewareTheNiceOnes'' But there some people who REALLY set me off, ESPECIALLY homophobes, racists and religious extremists, and if people get in my face for no reason, they WILL be in for a VERY rude awakening, I can go from quiet and non-threatening to completely fucking enraged so fast it would make your head spin(I sorta get that from my dad, who also has a hair trigger temper, but considering the people he has to deal with at his job all day, it's hard to blame him)

This troper has one, but in many cases, she doesn't get as mad or mad at all at her closest friends or her current crush when they do things that usually outrage her. She doesn't like the sight of anyone tapping their fingers, she doesn't like people licking their forks/spoons/fingers/hands after they eat, she doesn't like when people burp without excusing themselves, she doesn't like when people take/use her things without permission, she doesn't like when people try to get her to talk to them when she's in a separate conversation (Hellooo, I'm talking here!), etc. Those and other very small things often make this troper very, unjustifiably mad. Big things don't tend to upset her as much unless they are REALLY big.

In addition, this troper's father and best friend have hair trigger tempers. Her father will jump out of his seat and shout at you if you do something, whether it's small or large, that annoys him. Her best friend will try (and fail) to act tough or whine at you if you do something, again, whether it's small or large, to make her mad.

I have elaborate, violent murder fantasies about anyone who condescends me or insults me. (I mean those subtle bitchy insults, like I said once as a joke I'd be a 40 year old virgin, a friend said "aw, don't be silly," and this other person went, "wait, did you say she wasn't going to be a 40-year old virgin? Huh?" That person is going to either get stabbed in the forehead or shot several times in the face with a gun. I'm actually kinda quiet and dorky. But in my mind, alot of people are dying horribly.

This troper's mum seems to randomly switch between being completely okay with everything, and this for reasons completely unknown to me. Every hour or so, maybe longer, I've never really tested it because it's fucking scary. I think this has actually messed me up a bit; I'm now incredibly shy and quiet because I worry about absolutely everything I say.

This Troper is often this when at the computer... Lag? Rage. Freezing? RAGE. Freezing while I'm watching/listening to something AND THE SOUND STILL KEEPS FUCKING PLAYING WITH NO POSSIBILITY TO SHUT IT OFF? RAAAAAGE!

This troper will flip out on people with very little warning if she's irritated - which is a lot of the time.