• Nacht Faust from Black Clover is a more subdued example than most, but he can't stand incompetence — which is the reason why he hates the Black Bulls and never came to the hideout even though he's the Vice-Captain: because they were a band of destructive good-for-nothings in the past, which he believes isn't necessarily erased by their recent accomplishments in the war against the Elves. It's implied that this attitude stems partly from how he used to be a delinquent himself in the past, and how his own incompetence and destructive tendencies ended up getting his entire family killed — his twin brother Morgen included, which he deeply regrets.
• Call of the Night: When Midori asks Nazuna to cover for one of her coworkers at the maid café she works at, she quickly loses her patience when Nazuna can't grasp that she's supposed to act like a maid and serve the customers, causing her to break character. Loudly.
  Nazuna: Also, can I sit here, too?
  Midori: NO WAY IN HELL! YOU WANNA DIE?!
• Light Yagami from Death Note frequently gets annoyed by Misa Amane's frequent acts of stupidity that constantly puts them at risk of being exposed as Kira. In fact, Misa's actions lead to Light commonly saying "Misa, you idiot!"
• Dr. STONE: Senku gets an Eye Pop when he hears a dumb question.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • Stardust Crusaders: While enraged is stretching it, Jotaro Kujo doesn't seem to have the patience for people who do silly things, with Joseph Joestar being a frequent offender.
  • In Golden Wind, Pannacotta Fugo is attempting to tutor Narancia Ghirga in mathematics, and sees that he answered 16 × 55 = 28^note The correct answer would be 880... after previously having correctly answered 5 × 6 = 30. His response is to immediately stab Narancia in the face with a fork.
    Fugo: YOU STUPID DELINQUENT! ARE YOU MESSING WITH ME!? HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS BEFORE YOU LEARN!? YOU SHIT FOR BRAINS!
• Kill la Kill:
  • In episode 3, Satsuki briefly becomes upset when Mako interrupts her fight with Ryuko to spout her usual nonsense.
  • Nui Harime pretty much considers every human other than Ragyo (and maybe Hououmaru) to be contemptible trash barely worth provoking. However, episode 22 implies that Mako in particular tries Nui's patience with her antics, to the point that she goes out of her way to try and kill Mako first in the final episode.
• Kizuna no Allele: Noelle always gets angry at Miracle for her goofy attitude and tries to flick her.
• In March Comes in Like a Lion, Rei becomes incensed when Yasui doesn't learn from his mistakes both inside professional shogi (choosing not to learn from his losses) and outside (opting to once again drink his loss away instead of spending his last Christmas with his daughter as a family and initially pretending to forget about the presents he bought). Implicitly blaming Rei for the latter is what sets it off.
• Masayuki Hori from Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun is regularly driven to acts of comedically over the top violence by Yuu Kashima's insistence on skipping club practice, irresponsibility, and completely askew sense of pattern recognition. Noteworthy because he absolutely worships Kashima whenever she isn't being an idiot in his presence (which in practice is only when she isn't in his presence at all.)
• One Piece:
  • While Luffy's extreme stupidity is enough to make all of his friends lose their patience now and then, Nami is the only one to really flip out every time he says something really stupid (which is half of the time; the other half he just says something somewhat stupid). She gets equally angry at the other crew members when they act idiotic. Usopp is becoming similar to her, though he seems more enraged by the inability to think normally than stupidity per se.
  • Sir Crocodile's Fatal Flaw is that he's so incredulously enraged by Luffy's antics that he leaves himself vulnerable by attacking him physically instead of making his usual smart use of his Touch of Death.
• Reborn! (2004): One of the only times Reborn loses his cool and beats up Tsuna is after he does a blatantly obvious transformation sequence into his adult form behind a tiny rock and Tsuna is completely unaware they're the same person, which everyone else in the area lampshades as super dumb.
• Naofumi from The Rising of the Shield Hero is regularly (and quite justifiably) pissed off when it comes to Motoyasu and the Three Heroes Church. None of which is Played for Laughs, by the way, as Motoyasu's sheer idiocy regularly endangers innocent bystanders and the Church doesn't even care for collateral damage so long as its enemies are destroyed.
• Sailor Moon:
  • Luna has this in regards to Usagi, as the latter often fails to take things seriously. Artemis also has this in regards to Minako, but is usually more rational with her than Luna is towards Usagi.
  • As much as he loves his sister, Shingo can't help but feel annoyed by how ditzy and lazy Usagi is.
• SPY×FAMILY:
  • When Twilight first encounters his incredibly incompetent Unknown Rival, Daybreak, he ends up accidentally breaking character to yell at Daybreak over just how utterly bad the latter was at espionage.
  • When Yuri offers to tutor Anya for her upcoming exam, he loses it when he asks her if she's mastered her grammar lesson, only for her to respond "what's grammar?"

• George Carlin dedicated a lot of routines to stupid human behaviour.
• Lewis Black seems to constantly suffer from this trope.

• This is Atomic Robo's Berserk Button. It's one of the more notable reasons that he hates Dr. Dinosaur.
• Deadpool — consciously or not — uses this to great effect on his opponents, distracting them with babble until they lose focus.
• Lucky Luke
  • Luke rarely gets angry, but the prison guards once again letting the Dalton brothers escape from the Cardboard Prison is one way to do it. Once, when he was telegraphed about yet another breakout, his only reply was "idiots".
  • For the same reason, in later stories he gets increasingly sick of having to constantly deal with the Daltons idiocy since they refuse to give up their criminal ways and never learn their lesson (neither does Billy The Kid, but Luke doesn't have to deal with him nearly as often). In one story, where the brothers have a falling out and sets out on their own to see who'll be a bigger success, which culminates in all four shooting at each other, Luke is actually tempted to just walk away because he's so sick of the same routine. He only changes his mind and steps in when he realizes the Daltons will kill each other if he doesn't.
  • Joe Dalton often enrages at the stupidity displayed by his brother Averell.

Crossovers

• Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus: Paul London's thoughts on Grace Monroe and Simon Laurent (the leaders of the denizen-killing cult, the Apex) are that they just don't get the hint that they are being assholes who don't give a damn about what they're doing and that the numbers on their arms are worthless except to indicate that they'll have a harder time going home. It doesn't help that Miss Grace "I'm the expert on the Train" Monroe can't accept the hint that she has to change. London makes his annoyance known by beating them within an inch of their lives while they are helpless against a near 40-year-old wrestler that has telekinesis and has nothing to lose at this point.
• Marinette's Island Adventure: Chloé is constantly infuriated by Lindsay’s stupidity, viewing her Dumb Blonde stereotype as an insult to blonde girls everywhere.
• A Necromancer's Wild Card: Downplayed with Minato, who's rather upset with the utter lack of interest the other students at Ayumu's school showed over the crawfish Megalo that Ayumu killed right in front of them.
• A Possible Encounter for a Phantom: As a Hyper-Competent Sidekick, Shego repeatedly gets frustrated by the sheer stupidity of both Drakken and Vlad, as they keep coming up with utterly hairbrained schemes or blinded by their obsessions. Her brothers are no better; Hego's old-fashioned heroism and Mego's narcissistic attitude similarly drove her up the wall.
• The Vigilante Boss and His Failed Retirement Plan: Senkuu finds it incredibly frustrating that society has grown so obsessed with Quirks that simple intelligence is being overlooked, to the point that Pro Heroes are so over-reliant upon their Quirks that they won't consider any alternative or mundane solutions to problems.

Danganronpa

• Class 78th Watches the Future: A pretty good way to define the class' reaction to about 90% of Hiro's Free Time Events, and other moments that highlight his thought process. Some highlights include his "explanation" of his clairvoyant abilities and sales pitch for a recording that's supposed to aid the listener in enlightenment (Junko was left massaging her forehead going "Ow. Ow, my brain." at the sheer stupidity involved), the recounting of his "close encounter with aliens" (Which led Leon to ask him point blank whether he was on drugs), his theory that the culprit of Case 3 would be either Chihiro or Alter Ego (Mondo actually had to be physically restrained from beating Hiro to a pulp), and his revelation that he was conned into paying a million dollars for a glass ball (Byakuya lost his temper at that, and Celeste mused that she was right to classify Hiro as D-Rank). Of course, there's also the way everyone reacted when they learned Hiro was willing to ask Makoto to sell his organs to pay off Hiro's debt, rather than dip into his retirement fund, but that's a different trope.

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi

• A Game for the Fool: While reviewing field reports for a group assignment, Wei Wuxian becomes extremely frustrated by the various errors that were made as a result of the field cultivators' clashing egos. He requests to meet with said cultivators so that he can insult them directly to their faces.

Harry Potter

• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: While neither of them tolerate idiocy well, Professor Quirrell tends to react much more strongly than the main character, whose reaction is usually more in line with facepalming. As it turns out, being able to do whatever he wants with idiots is his one remaining pleasure in life and is essentially the main reason Riddle went fully evil.
• Harry Potter And The Rune Stone Path: Barty Junior resists the urge to Facepalm after Umbridge enters Harry's name in the Goblet without making sure it was magically linked to him first. As Barty notes in that scenario, all Harry had to do was sit back and refuse to participate, and the contract would take Umbridge's magic as a result.

High School D×D

• Issei: The Gaming Gear: Raynare and Mittlet leave to report back on the execution of Armârôs and resupply. During this, Dohnaseek and Kalawarner are told to not let Asia out of their sight for any reason whatsoever. When the two return four days later, they find out that Asia is missing, that the two didn't even bother to assign a Stray Exorcist to keep an eye on her, let alone bother to look for her, and their utter dismissal (mainly Kalawarner), of the severity of the situation pisses Raynare off to high hell. She even notes that it would be very unlikely for Kalawarner's Cadre grandmother to pull her ass out of the fire this time.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

• The Wild Youth: Like in canon, Pannacotta Fugo gets infuriated when his teammates, mainly Narancia, do something stupid. In one scene, not he gets mad when Narancia asks Giorno if he has "Ass Burgers", but also when he thinks it's a disease that makes it harder to read facial expressions. Fugo gives his friend a brutal lecture on how Asperger's Syndrome is a mental condition on the autism spectrum instead of a disease and that he shouldn't make assumptions about Giorno since he isn't a psychologist. In another scene, he calls Giorno an idiot when he finds out that Giorno hasn't eaten since their fight against Illusio.
  Fugo: You fucking idiot! How are you supposed to regain your energy if you don't eat? That should be the first thing you worry about after a battle—regaining your energy. You're so stupid, Giorno. And how did you manage to cut yourself like that? You-You really need to be more careful, alright, you moron? The last thing we need is for the healer to get killed...

Love Hina

• For His Own Sake: Most of the Hinata Inn residents provoke this reaction from Keitaro. But Mutsumi is on a whole other level, as her constantly insisting that Keitaro and Naru need to get back together makes her a lightning rod for this, especially when her determination to "help" them get back together results in her working with some Obviously Evil "allies".
  • After a frustratingly one-sided conversation in which Keitaro repeatedly stresses to her that he doesn't want to be with Naru anymore and that their relationship will never work out, Mitsumi continues to insist that he needs to make up with his ex-girlfriend. Keitaro then hits his Rage Breaking Point and tells her to stay away from him from now on.
  • During a conversation with Naru's mother, Saori, Mitsumi naively insists that Naru must have gotten over her illness due to "the magic of the inn". Saori explains that she took her to a specialist, only for Mitsumi to declare that she must be mistaken, much to Saori's frustration.
  • Haruka calls out Mitsumi for trusting two people that she'd only just met to help her "help Keitaro". Even after she warns her about their unsavory history, Mitsumi continues to insist that they can't possibly be bad people. Haruka winds up firing her and banning her from the Hinata property as a result.
  • When Keitaro is being held hostage by his kidnappers, Naru takes advantage of the situation to rough him up. Then Kagura attempts to seduce him, and Mitsumi protests, having completely ignored what Naru was doing and everything else about the situation:
    Mutsumi: Kagura, you shouldn't do that. Keitaro is Naru's beloved.
    Keitaro: Oh for God's sake!
  • Even after Naru explains to her that she NEVER wanted to get back together with Keitaro and only ever played along with Mutsumi's efforts so she could get her revenge, Mutsumi remains deep in denial.
  • Finally, when Kagura and Chisato call in their thugs, Mitsumi cluelessly asks why the gang is there when their plan was supposed to be helping Keitaro and Naru get back together. Chisato finally snaps, slaps her, and asks why she thinks everything was going to go according to her plans:
    Chisato: Will you just shut the hell up? Even Naru said that she didn't want to work things out with Keitaro, so what makes you think that after all that was said, all that you heard that things were going to go as you wanted?
    Kagura: It was so easy to have you wrapped around our fingers, but even so, we didn't think that you were so... well, so stupid. I mean, there has to be a limit of how stupid someone can be, right?
    Chisato: Why on earth would we actually be friends with someone like you? That's why even Naru can't stand you.
    Mutsumi: Stop it please. We're friends. You said that we're friends.
    Kagara: [addressing some of her hired goons] Hey you three, deal with her as well. [points at Mutsumi]
    Mutsumi Wait, wait? No, what are you... [shakes her head, disbelieving] No, don't do this.

Luca

• Downplayed in The Story of Apollo, Daphne and Luca: An Italian Tragedy with the collected, cool-headed and slow to anger Bianca, who gets at the most annoyed and unimpressed by Vincenzo's obliviousness to his own crush on Luca.

Naruto

• One Eye, Full of Wisdom: Temari proves to be such a Sore Loser during the Chuunin Exams that she attacks her opponent after the match has already been called, while the Hokage is congratulating them for winning. Her jounin instructor Baki is infuriated, and smashes her war fan apart, informing her that she will personally perform every step required to replace it, after explaining herself to her father. Furthermore, she won't have any other missions until she's finished replacing her Wrecked Weapon.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

• In Going Another Way, Shinji goes off on Asuka after their first battle with Israfel, calling her out on her Skewed Priorities and inability to work with others.
  Shinji: You... You damn IDIOT! You always run around with the great Asuka this, the great Asuka that, while in reality you are a total rookie! You ignored orders to satisfy your ego and your battle record is more important to you, than saving mankind! You make me sick!
  Asuka: Who do you think-
  Shinji: Oh no. Just shut the fuck up! Shut - the - fuck - up! I have enough of this!

Odd Squad

• My Dream Is Yours: Ohlm's ditziness manages to drive Jamie Jam absolutely insane when she tries to deliver him a clue as to where she'll strike next in a "Knock Knock" Joke, but he fails to comprehend what such a joke is. He ends up invoking and exploiting this trope fully by the time he's done, as she hits her Rage Breaking Point and forgets the punchline of the joke.

One Piece

• In This Bites!:
  • Cross and Soundbite usually roll along with Luffy's stupidity. However, they reach their limits when Luffy somehow mistakes Coby (the boy he met when he began his pirate career) for Natsu Dragneel.
    Cross: ARE YOU SERIOUSLY TELLING ME THAT YOUR STUPIDITY LITERALLY TRANSCENDS TIME AND SPACE?!
  • On the side of the Government, as Cross keeps exposing Spandam's evil all over the world in Enies Lobby, Sengoku gets increasingly pissed off at Spandam's idiocy.
    Sengoku: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FAILURE OF A HUMAN BEING!
• To Protect Everything: As a Marine, Luffy does not tolerate incompetent subordinates. Especially when that incompetence results in pirates that they've captured managing to break out and make a clean getaway.

Ranma ½

• Becoming a Man Among Men: Ranma is repeatedly frustrated by Akane's obstinance and contrariness, such as when she sides with Ryoga after hearing his explanation about the bread feud. He also slaps her when she accuses her sister Kasumi of being a 'whore' simply because she's spending time with Ranma.
• Imperial Servant: When Dabbler, a succubus who was called to perform a "good deed", realizes her summoner doesn't have a "banishing anchor" for her, which is a safeguard to send any summoned creature back where it belongs in an instant, she shows him why banishing anchors are important by attacking him with a flaming sword.

RWBY

• Coeur Al'Aran:
  • Raise: As Jaune grows increasingly jaded and embittered by how he's being treated, he starts asking out the people he revives died in the first place. He's quite frustrated to learn that many of the deaths could have been easily prevented by people exercising a little more caution.
  • The Second Torch: If there is one thing that both Roman and Neo can agree on, it is that idiots are able to get on their nerves. And being saddled with a bunch of incompetent terrorists like the White Fang are getting on their nerves and then some. Roman in particular is infuriated by how stupid Ruby was being when she let herself get caught: not only did she not take her weapon with her when she left her group in an area filled with Grimm, she didn't even use her Aura to tank any hits from the White Fang, and didn't even think to turn on her Scroll's tracker so the others could find her more easily. As he puts it, she's his nemesis now, so she has to be smarter than this, as he will not tolerate an idiotic nemesis.

Sword Art Online

• Akihiko Kayaba of Sword Art Online Abridged has been bottling up two years' worth of rage at the prospect that the lion's share of his player base simply cannot function at a higher level of thought process than "group up and hit it 'til it dies". Part of the reason he took on his Heathcliff alias is to alleviate the massive number of player deaths that resulted from a glitch of his own sleep-deprived creation; that a massive number of players died in incredibly stupid ways despite this does not help his temper one bit.

Worm

• Great Grand-Uncle Schimmelhorn's Toolbox: As she details the stupidity of Sophia's actions in not only bullying a girl in spite of her probation, but also in attempting to frame said girl for selling drugs but (apparently) failing to actually plant the drugs, Piggot states she's sorely tempted to just blow Sophia's brains out and claim she was trying to escape.
• Nemesis (BeaconHill): One omake features Bumblebee using giant bees in trenchcoats and fedoras to scout out a Merchant front casino. The Merchant staff are too stoned to even notice that half of their customers are said giant bees. The Undersiders, who were also casing the joint, find it both hilarious and outrageously infuriating that the staff are so incompetent.

Young Justice

• With This Ring (2013):
  • The protagonist is often disappointed, frustrated, and fed up with people's poor choices. A group of Green Lanterns trying to free a prisoner from a possibly lawful confinement by an epically powerful Lantern really takes the cake, though, in terms of getting him riled.
  Paul: Illustres to WHATEVER IDIOT JUST DECIDED TO PICK A FIGHT WITH LORD MALVOLIO I HOPE YOUR LIFE INSURANCE IS UP TO DATE.
  • This is something of an overall theme in the story as part of deconstructing the Reed Richards Is Useless trope that tends to plague superhero fiction - while Paul manages to accomplish a lot of good, and inspires his friends and allies to move beyond what is expected of them, they also run into the simple, infuriating fact that sentient life is not rational, and will, in fact, very often make incredibly stupid choices out of personal bias, greed, anger, selfishness, racism, or any number of things.

• The Iron Giant: General Rogard regularly gets extremely frustrated with Kent Mansley's paranoia and tendency to jump to insane conclusions without proof. The crowning moment is when he believes that Mansley has brought Rogard's troops out to Rockville to deal with an art installation;
  Mansley: Sir, I... Sir, listen! I....
  Gen. Rogard: Step outside, Mansley.
  Mansley: Yes, sir. [sighs]
  [Gilligan Cut]
  Gen. Rogard: YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH HARDWARE I BROUGHT OUT HERE?! YOU JUST BLEW MILLIONS OF UNCLE SAM'S DOLLARS OUTTA YER BUTT!
• My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks: There's only one thing that seems to piss Adagio off, it's Sonata being ditzy and clueless all the time. It's enough to sour her mood even when things are going according to plan.
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: The Wolf, later revealed to be The Grim Reaper has a vendetta against Puss in Boots, disgusted and enraged by the fact the "arrogant little legend" threw away 8 out of his 9 lives (which is far more than most people ever get) on deaths that were completely avoidable and idiotic, such as lifting extremely heavy weights without a spotter, having an oven on too hot, walking off a tall building to prove how cats always land on their feet, eating shellfish despite having a fatal reaction and refusing to stop or get treatment, and firing himself out of a cannon.
  Death: You know... I'm not a cat person. I find the very idea of "nine lives" absurd. And you didn't value any of them!
• Strange Magic: After a line of talking mushrooms creates enough Gossip Evolution that the message "An elf is in the dark forest" becomes "A tall chef is into shark storage", the Bog King gets so frustrated that he physically beats his way through the line of mushrooms until he reaches the original.

• In The Big Short, investor Mark Baum has no tolerance for anything he suspects is bullshit, and will immediately respond with a barrage of F-bombs.
• Glass Onion: Benoit Blanc rakes Miles Bron over the coals for being a total clownshoes buffoon who couldn't even come up with a halfway decent plan to commit a murder and ended up having to add two more people to the kill list just to paper over his stupidity. Early on, he even dismisses Bron as a suspect because he wouldn't be stupid enough to murder a woman he'd just had a very messy legal battle with, right? Wrong. Not only is he that stupid, he's so stupid that he uses his one-of-a-kind car as the getaway vehicle. Blanc is particularly incensed that the most inventive part of Miles's scheme - turning off the lights and trying to shoot someone in the confusion - was not only stolen, but stolen from Blanc himself in an earlier conversation.
  Blanc: You dimwitted... brainless... JACKASS! Your one murder with any panache at all, and you stole the whole idea from me!
• In Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), King Ghidorah's middle head is very dissatisfied with the antics of the left head, which is clueless as a toddler. He constantly tries to bite on his horns and make him pay focus to their main target.
• In the The Pink Panther film series, Clouseau's constant bungling actually drives his superior, Chief Inspector Dreyfus, to try and outright murder him.
• Star Wars: Darth Vader has no tolerance for incompetent officers, though he doesn't typically shout or make a big emotional scene. Instead, he prefers to Force-choke them when they fail him for the last time.
• The Wolf of Wall Street has Max Belfort, Jordan's father and Stratton Oakmont's unofficial CFO. He is frequently seen yelling at his son and his cronies for their behavior such as racking up thousands of dollars in business expenses (read: Hookers and Blow), horsing around while the SEC is visiting the office and all the other idiotic things they do.

• Animorphs: Visser Three. He has little tolerance for incompetence (despite being a colossal example of The Peter Principle), and more often than not, it ends with whoever he considers is being stupid getting offed.
• The Apothecary Diaries: The normally calm and stoic Maomao puts up with Consort Lihua's ladies-in-waiting insulting her and preventing her from treating Lihua's illness at first, but she becomes ruthlessly angry when she discovers that one of the ladies-in-waiting still puts face powder on Lihua—the same face powder that was previously banned due to being poisonous, having killed Lihua's infant son and has now made Lihua herself gravely ill. Maomao slaps the lady-in-waiting, dumps the face powder over her head, and calls her out on her stupidity.
  "You don't understand why this stuff was forbidden, do you?! It's poison!" Maomao was well and truly angry now. Not because of the sneers and glares, not because of the spilled porridge, but because of this fool of a lady-in-waiting who thought of nothing, but simply assumed she was right about everything.
• Bruce Coville's Book of... Aliens II: The alien teacher in "Field Trip" gets infuriated when the students at the human school he's taken his class to spend more time cracking jokes than trying to spread knowledge, and finally decides to take his students and leave.
• In Dragon Bones, Ward has been Obfuscating Stupidity for seven years. His father is enraged by Ward's stupid facial expression and overall stupidity — quite ironic, considering that Ward started to pretend to have more brain damage from his father's violent beatings than he actually had because he feared his father would kill him if he seemed too dangerous.
• The Footprint of Mussolini: Rommel initially refuses to partake in the plotting of Operation Valkyrie due to his oath to obey Hitler. Then Hitler makes the strategically moronic decision to invade neutral Italy, dragging the entire Roman Alliance into the war on the Allies' side when Germany is already losing on both the Western and Eastern fronts, at which point Rommel decides that Hitler is effectively brain dead and joins the conspiracy.
• The title character of Franny K. Stein occasionally gets quite furious when she has to deal with stupidity.
  • A chapter in Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid has Franny try to talk to a friend from school named Percy over the phone about her latest invention. Percy doesn't pay attention and only babbles about how much he likes corn chips, which causes Franny to angrily hang up the phone while imagining that Percy has a safety pin for a head.
  • In The Invisible Fran, Franny gives her classmates Erin, Lawrence, and Phil an earful for attempting to make improvements to her two-headed robot and instead making the robot into a highly destructive idiot that's now going around vandalizing the school. She also gets really infuriated when she sees that the two-headed robot is going to destroy all the books in the school library.
• In the Kharkanas Trilogy, this is the biggest reason the artist Kadaspala Enes behaves like a Jerkass. He often sees through people and hates it how they shower him with praise when he's looking and call him a pretentious brat when he's not. Add such remarks while he's painting, and he's this close to stabbing people with brushes.
• In The Lord of the Rings, Peregrine ("Pippin") Took accidentally makes a potentially enemy-alerting noise in the Mines of Moria (namely, dropping a stone down a deep well — exaggerated to a bucket with chains in the movie). The usually calm and compassionate Gandalf's response is uncharacteristically upset. (Considering what happens next, it's hard not to sympathise with him.)
  Gandalf: Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!
• Known for his "impatience with a less active intelligence than his own," Sherlock Holmes' exasperation at the police's bungling could drive him into condescending rants. The only mention in the entire canon of Holmes cursing comes by his frustration at the police for failing to capture Professor Moriarty after Holmes had all but gift-wrapped the evidence and capture for them.
• Space Brat: Skippy absolutely hates the mind-boggling stupidity of the other Dips, which is why he fled his homeworld and ended up on the Planet of Cranky People.
• Wear Your Soul Round Your Neck: Nothing makes Lili angrier than Thyssa making irrational decisions.

• In All That this was practically the entire premise of the "Ask Ashley" sketches. Ashley (played by Amanda Bynes) would receive letters from kids asking her advice, but the questions they ask could easily be solved by someone who had an IQ higher than 3, such as wondering what to do because their house is on fire, or wondering why they can't write very well on a slice of bologna. Ashley would give them the advice they asked for, but she would shout it at them while berating them for being so stupid.
• Blackadder: Later incarnations of Edmund Blackadder are usually quite resigned to being Surrounded by Idiots. Whenever he does snap, however, it's usually because of Baldrick, George, Percy, or The Queen doing something profoundly stupid.
• In the early days of Breaking Bad, Walter was prone to extensive ranting at Jesse's screw-ups.
• The Brittas Empire: Part of the humour of the show is seeing Brittas do this to anyone he meets. People who start the episode calm and collected usually end up trying to kill him or attacking him by the end of the episode. For an example, in "Set in Concrete", he gets someone in to access whether the building has Sick Building Syndrome. By the end of the episode, Brittas has annoyed the guy so much that he loses it and starts shouting to people to get out whilst they still can.
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine: In the episode "M.E. Time," a flashback reveals the normally stoic Captain Holt is absolutely livid when Scully presents him with an abysmal report. Also a subversion of a running gag in the episode where almost everyone in the precinct mentions a time where they've had trouble reading Holt due to his extreme stoicism.
  Captain Holt: This is the most incompetent, worthless report I have ever read in my life! Get your act together or so help me God, you won't live to see retirement!
• Chernobyl: The Soviet heads of state import a West German robot to help clean the radioactive rubble off the reactor's roof, only for it to get fried in moments. It turns out that they gave the Germans the propaganda number that the Chernobyl meltdown was putting out only 2,000 roentgen of radiation, not the more accurate 15,000, which led the Germans to send a robot designed to handle only 2,000 roentgen. When Boris Shcherbina realizes this, he goes into a blind rage at his superiors for thinking that covering their asses was more important than preventing said asses from melting off from radiation poisoning.
• Doctor Who:
  • Luke Rattigan, from season 4 of NuWho. He's an Insufferable Genius who, among many things, hate it when people refer to his creation as the ATMOS System. "It's a tautology! It stands for Atmospheric Omission System so you're just saying Atmospheric Omission System System!" Note: that's not a tautology.
  • Several of the Doctor's incarnations are this as well, most notably Twelve. Little surprise, given who played him.
• One of the main sources of humor in El Chavo del ocho is how Chavo's and Quiko's (lack of) intelligence will often exasperate, or infuriate the other characters that have average intelligence.
  Said by several characters: I better leave, it (stupidity) may be contagious.
• Family Matters: Steve Urkel's pretty jovial for a Bully Magnet who gets rejected by his crush all day. The one thing that truly sets him off is boneheaded behavior. A few episodes show the typically placid Steve raging at his friend Waldo when he fails at basic comprehension.
  Steve: State your name.
  Waldo: Illinois.
  Steve: [beat, then strained ...I said "State your name", not "Name your state."
• Game of Thrones:
  • Tywin Lannister. He's perpetually unamused, given that his standards are high, he has no tolerance for incompetence, and Joffrey's rule has been a long parade of follies and disasters. Given that many of his subordinates (including Joffrey) are frequently Stupid Evil, it's little wonder Tywin sees himself as Surrounded by Idiots.
    Tywin: Madness, madness and stupidity! [regarding Ned Stark's execution]
  • Tyrion as well; he has a habit of bitchslapping Joffrey for outstandingly foolish decisions.
• Gordon Ramsay in both Hell's Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares, to the point where many viewers initially tune in just to watch him flip out... And are probably surprised to discover that he's actually a Reasonable Authority Figure, albeit one with no tolerance for sloppy work or bad behavior, whose legendary rants are reserved for people who have done something to legitimately warrant a reprimand. Which... happens pretty often.
• Major Hochstetter from Hogan's Heroes gets enraged by simply being in the presence of Colonel Klink and Sergeant Schultz.
• Doctor House is usually amused by idiocy, until the patient's idiocy threatens their life, or worse, one of his fellow doctors' idiocy threatens the patient's life. That's when this trope kicks in.
• Uther in Merlin. Most of the time it just results in an angry tirade and Merlin getting sent to the stocks, but he isn't above having someone imprisoned or killed if it went too far.
• By his own admission, Kevin from the US version of The Office (US) has very little patience for stupidity.
• In The Outer Limits (1963) episode "The Sixth Finger"
  Gwylim Griffiths: Your ignorance makes me ill and angry.
• Power Rangers:
  • Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: While it's not uncommon for Lord Zedd to lash out in anger, the idiocy of his half-brother Rito Revolto was another story, especially with him getting his name wrong.
  • Power Rangers Dino Fury: The only thing that seems to anger Void Knight outside of the Rangers is the fact that one of his henchman is Mucus, who is far from the smartest or most competent Ranger villain.
• QI: Stephen Fry went off on a tirade on this theme after Lee Mack repeatedly attempted to use the word "ceiling" to disprove the former "i before e except after c"-rule.
  Stephen: Are you incapable of rational thought?! You cannot be this stupid! You cannot be this stupid!
• In an SCTV skit of Kent Brockman News, the anchor shouted that he was annoyed because "I'm surrounded by incompetence!".
• Roseanne: Roseanne is often exasperated by the antics of her friends and family, especially her sister Jackie or her mother Beverley. One stand-out moment is the season 4 episode where the family is preparing to go and see DJ in the Spelling Bee finals, has DJ put gel in his hair and styles it weirdly because he thinks it makes him look good. Roseanne orders him to go upstairs and wash it out, a few minutes later Darlene emerges and says that Roseanne probably should have told him to take his jacket and shirt off first. Roseanne literally pulls at her hair, exclaiming "Why does he do that?" before stomping upstairs.
• Scrubs: Dr. Cox habitually makes it clear he has very little tolerance for the antics and stupidity of everyone around him, especially JD.
• Almost anyone who encounters Frank Spencer of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em may be calm and collected to begin with, but his seemingly boundless dimness and ineptitude inevitably send them into fits of frothing rage of which they didn't even know themselves to be capable, sometimes followed by blubbering, gibbering insanity. For example, in "The Public Relations Course", PR guru Mr Watson leads a five-day training course, but on the first day, he asks Frank to participate in a role-playing exercise as first a dissatisfied customer and then a PR representative dealing with a dissatisfied customer played by Eddie, a fellow student who has taken Frank under his wing. For the former, Frank simply fires off insults that he heard from Lang, a militant who thinks public relations is pure hokum, and for the latter, he blithely agrees that the dissatisfied customer has grounds to sue his hypothetical employer. Mr Watson flies into a rage, and when Eddie intervenes and says Frank was only trying to help him, Mr Watson snarls, "He's not supposed to help you! He's a public relations officer!"... thereby convincing the entire group that Lang is right about PR being pure hokum, leading them to storm out en masse.
• Tony Soprano of The Sopranos has a Hair-Trigger Temper in general, but the stupidity of his mooks and his family ranks near the top of his list of triggers. In "Remember When", he considers murdering Paulie for his annoying and dimwitted tendencies.
• One of the few things to make Malcolm Tucker of The Thick of It lose his cool. Witness.
• The Tribe: Ram murders one of his Techno mooks in front of Ebony after the minion presents him with a set of nonsensical programming orders that would actually erase most of Ram's computer systems.
• In The Vicar of Dibley, this seems to be David Horton's default setting. Geraldine dabbles frequently but tends to keep herself more composed.
• Grimlord from VR Troopers quickly begins to feel this way as the first season wears on and his forces are continually beaten by the VR Troopers, at one point declaring "I am surrounded by incompetence!" He even says a few times he really should just destroy them all for having failed too much, and delivers on this threat during season 2's "Quest for Power" saga after getting a new upgrade and minions; that said, his new minions still enrage him for their failures against the Troopers (who themselves have gotten an upgrade to level the playing field), albeit a bit less.
• Xena: Warrior Princess appears to experience this while she, Gabrielle, Joxer, and Callisto (who is currently a god) are on their way to defeat another mad god. Joxer falls off his horse (again), and Xena becomes enraged and kicks him out of the party. In reality, she needed to get him away from the rest of the party so that he could retrieve a god-killing weapon without Callisto noticing.

• "Look At All Those Idiots", a song sung by Mr. Burns from The Simpsons Sing the Blues.

• Sesame Street: Bert and Ernie may be friends, but the latter's antics tend to drive the former up the wall as much as a show aimed at small children will allow them to.

• Brand: When the quite ditzy bailiff does not grasp the meaning of Brand`s speech pattern for the umpteenth time, Brand reacts almost with an Aaaargh—or he would have if Henrik Ibsen had read enough comics to get the reference. This instigates a big Berserk Button when his superior, the provost, acts and talks just as stupid.

• ANNO: Mutationem: In one sidequest, Ann has to find who tossed a computer from the top floor of a building. One of the two suspects claim the other did it after being annoyed by someone ding-dong ditching and took his frustration out on the computer.
• Brütal Legend: Eddie screams in frustration after he sees the lead guitarist of Kabbage Boy climbing on the back of the stage set during the show, which Eddie had explicitly told him wasn't safe. He predictably falls and is saved only by Eddie, setting off a chain reaction that leaves Eddie badly injured and ultimately kicks off the plot of the game.
  Eddie: I told you not to climb on that, you stupid, motherfucking piece of shit!
• In Ashe's recruitment event of Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia, Penelo asks her to join by saying how much better it will be to be part of a group in the dangerous wilderness. Unfortunately, right behind Penelo are Laguna and Yuffie. Ashe takes one look and turns around to keep traveling on her own.
• Maiden Cops has Nina's main comedic trait. Which is throwing a fit every time Priscilla is being a naive moron or Meiga is being a masochist.
• Wess from Mother 3. When his son Duster brought back the wrong artifact from Osohe Castle, Wess flips out and smashes it on the ground, then comes with Duster to Osohe Castle to guide him so he gets the correct artifact this time. For the rest of the game, he refers to Duster as "Moron."
• In Pokémon Legends: Z-A, each time you visit the research lab for plot reasons, Mable will immediately be heard ranting about how poorly-thought-out the various Wild Zones are and how much of a workload they're giving her. In a postgame mission, she even explodes at how stupid the mayor is for wanting to make even more Wild Zones purely for tourism purposes.
• Super Mario Bros.: Bowser typically blames his minions for any failures and incompetence whenever they screw up or goof off. He then usually blames them for all of his schemes derailing.
• Leon Magnus in Tales of Destiny. A lot. In the original, he'd use shock tiaras on whoever the perceived idiot is or storm off in disgust.
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines: Mitnick has a moment with this trope when you first meet him.
  Oh my god, are you kidding me? What are you using for security down there, a Trash-80? Guys, it's called "encryption". This is too easy; I'd let you off the hook, but stupidity always brings out the asshole in me.
• The World Ends with You: Mitsuki Konishi doesn't tolerate stupidity. This eventually comes to a head after Beat points out that she actually can't predict some of his OWN decisions, tells her that he will become the next Conductor and she will work for him, and she snaps at him in frustration:
  Konishi: You vexatious monkey! You're right. No analysis could ever plumb the depts of the fatuity... Arrrgh! Enough of your chimp-speak! I will obliterate any disruptive elements in my path!

• Tamara from Double Homework is the epitome of this. She has no tolerance for bullshit or slowness on the uptake, and pretty much whenever Henry walks into the room and says anything, she gets pissed off.

• DEATH BATTLE!: Boomstick's stupidity and general lack of respect for science has more often than not gotten on Wiz's nerves.
• Helluva Boss: Andrealphus is very unsubtle about how hot he finds his sister Stella, but he's also regularly put off by the fact that she's dumb as a box of rocks.
  • In "Western Energy", he tries to explain to Stella that sending an assassin after her ex-husband Stolas may not be a smart move since, if he does get killed, all his assets will be inherited by their daughter Octavia. When Stella repeatedly fails to see his point, Andrealphus snaps and bluntly yells at her that she will be left with nothing, calling her a stupid cow before telling her how lucky she is to be so attractive.
  • In "Mastermind", he learns that Stella knew the whole time that Stolas let Blitzo use his grimoire and didn't tell him sooner.
    Andrealphus: Stolas was letting an imp use his Goetia-given grimoire, and you didn't tell me?
    Stella: Why do you care?
    Andrealphus: Because! We have been trying to find out a means to usurp your horny ex-husband's power, and this whole time you knew about the incredibly illegal thing he was doing, and you didn't think. It might be a good idea. To LET ME KNOW?!
• If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device tells the story of the Emperor of Mankind, a King in the Mountain who spends his time Catching Up on History. He soon learns that humanity, in the 10,000 years he's been gone, weren't exactly too sharp. This causes him to be anywhere from awfully grumpy to completely outraged about the things he learned about his Imperium's current state.
  • Magnus, being the Insufferable Genius he is, finds it hard to tolerate both more simple-minded Kitten (who isn't even dumb; just not Primarch-tier) and letters from the Imperial citizens (who are rather unfortunately slow and absurdly ignorant). The former makes him break into lectures and generally snap at him constantly, the other has him fly into rages. Notably, this also applies to events that he finds are stupid, such as when he thought it really was reuniting Vulkan's artifacts that brought the man himself back, meaning a prophecy that had no reason to work was true after all:
    Magnus: That! Makes! No! SENSE! WHY WOULD THAT WORK!? THAT CAN'T BE IT, THAT'S STUPID!
• The Most Popular Girls in School: Brittnay Matthews' reaction to Cézanne-Marguerite's, how you say, Verbal Tic is largely this.
• Neurotically Yours: This is mostly Foamy's shtick. He is a squirrel who often rants about humans being stupid and annoying. He even sings about it.
• Pretty Blood: Bloon can be triggered by Copper's pacifist attitude, which can lead to the latter's stupidity. At first, when He realized the gun lacked ammos (which were removed by Copper), He shouted "ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?!?!" but He then calmed down... which was until Elma went crazy and hallucinated about Rinny (which again happened by Copper's fault). That's just how Bloon finally lost the marbles and released his rage on Copper.
• This happens a lot in Red vs. Blue, usually when the Only Sane Man of the hour loses their patience with The Ditz. But for specific examples:
  • Agent Carolina's interactions with the Reds and Blues in Season 10; her impatience to find and kill the ex-Director of Project Freelancer, combined with the teams' usual ineptitude makes for some very loud outbursts on her end.
  • In Season 11, Sarge builds another robot, Lopez Dos-Point-Oh. Unlike the original Lopez, who just sank into immense cynicism, Dos-Point-Oh becomes so stunned by the Red Team's stupidity (Particularly Sarge's) that he uploads his mind into a Humongous Mecha and goes on a shooting spree.
• Sgt Ducky: Ducky believes that a majority of customers don't have the best social skills. He recalls one moment where a customer called the store he worked at just to ask if it was the place they were looking for.
• Yo Mama: Some of the "Yo Mama So Stupid" bits end with Brody yelling at the woman for being such an idiot.

• Black Mage of 8-Bit Theater. As with most of life's problems, he responds to it with extreme violence.
• The Bedfellows: Be the idiocy in the form of an Ear Worm, or Being Touched, or who knows what else, you can count on Sheen to yell and curse and become violent on a hair-trigger whenever it happens.
• Alex Williams of Captain SNES apparently hates stupid people so much that the Anthropomorphic Personification of his "hatred" is, consequently, an utter moron.
• Dr. Jean Poule (who has a PhD in polymicrofragilistic monoclonalexpialidicous) in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! has moments of this, due to just how spectacularly dumb and oblivious most of her neighbors are to the paranormal weirdness happening in their midst. Most notably here.
• The Order of the Stick:
  • Durkon, Roy and Vaarsuvius have each had "moments" thanks to Elan. Thog considering himself to be Roy's Evil Counterpart also drives Roy to distraction.
  • Redcloak also finds himself exasperated with Xykon's impulsiveness and refusal to think deeply or strategize.
  • Hilgya Firehelm, a cleric of Loki and the mother of Durkon's child Kudzu, also has no patience for idiocy. This was her main problem with her arranged husband Ivan, whose only seen fault was how incredibly dense he was. She also killed a newly de-vampirized and resurrected Durkon when he proposed to her, raising him again right after and stating that she reserved the right to respond to idiocy with cleansing divine fire.
• Stand Still, Stay Silent: This seems to be a factor in Lalli's dislike of Reynir. Lalli is a grown-up Child Soldier with a few years of magic practice behind him, if little training in it. Reynir is a Sheltered Aristocrat with just a few days (a few weeks after a the Time Skip) of even knowing he's a mage, causing him to still be Easily Impressed by the Invisible to Normals aspect of it. When an omen that only the two of them can see appears, Lalli's reaction to Reynir's gawking at it is to scold him for "looking stupid".

• At the end of the Atop the Fourth Wall review of Marville #4, Linkara - instead of running down the worst aspects of the issue, as usual — is reduced to screaming.
• Bennett the Sage did this after sitting through Very Private Lesson, with the utter stupidity of the OVA rendering him unable to do anything but scream the name of the subject of his next review when it was finally over.
• Brows Held High is sometimes immune to this, especially as an actual intellectual among people who merely think they're the same.
• Common among Caustic Critic reviewers of the late 2000's and the early 2010's, especially The Nostalgia Critic and Spoony.
• Vegeta, Piccolo and Freeza of Dragon Ball Z Abridged, usually thanks to Goku or Nappa. The page quote is the best example in the series to date.
  • Vegeta had a hard enough time in the anime/manga version, but Nappa and Goku are even stupider here and much to his displeasure they are incredibly hard to kill and tend to come back. His pride prevents him from admitting his own stupidity enrages him as well.
  • Freeza thinks he's found a worthy opponent in Goku, and he has... physically. But prolonged exposure to Goku's unique personality slowly drives him to greater and greater rage and sanity slippage. It's incredibly satisfying for the audience watching his cold, taunting demeanor dissolve into childish insults and tantrums.
  • Piccolo deals with it the best, though he still flips out over his student being unable to dodge anything. Goku and Vegeta do make him angry, though he deals with their stupidity through sarcasm and insults later in the series.
• Party Crashers: "This Mario Party CPU lost me $100" and "we bet money on Mario Party CPUs" has all four members actively losing their minds throughout the entirety of both sessions due to the CPUs constantly doing the most brain-dead plays. Special mention to the minigame Insectiride, where they're just left screaming at the top of their lungs over the CPUs simply not pressing a button.
• Retsupurae gives us the Busco Quadnary "Kickstarter Nonstarter", where a man rambles about computer programming in a way that makes it clear he has no clue where he's going with it. Slowbeef, a computer programmer in his day job, detonates, collapsing into Angrish about halfway through.
• Todd in the Shadows frequently gets enraged at pop music in this fashion, though his anger has toned down as his content has matured.
• Two Best Friends Play: Given that Matt is characterized as a moron and Pat is nearly perpetually angry, this trope forms a great deal of the humor in the series.
• The general endpoint of What the Fuck Is Wrong with You?, especially with final stories of live episodes.

• The Amazing World of Gumball: While there's no doubt Nicole loves her family, there have been times where they've done something that requires a huge amount of negligence, short-sightedness and (most of the time) stupidity that she'll snap, either shouting or breaking the nearest object. More often then not, it's her husband Richard who brings this out of her.
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force: There's only so much Frylock can tolerate, but Shake's self-centered stupidity has made it so Frylock has no problem hitting him or leaving him to die.
• Basically anybody who is around Beavis and Butt-Head. Needless to say, almost NOBODY has patience with these two morons, and with good reason.
• Bob's Burgers: Bob Belcher does his best to tolerate the zaniness (or more likely stupidity) of the people in his life before he reaches his limit. He's a lot more tolerant of his wife and kids since they're his family, though it's not easy for him. He's a lot less tolerant when it's his sister-in-law Gayle or best friend Teddy, as they've made him hit his Rage Breaking Point for how much their poor decisions or lack of common sense has ruined his day.
• Centaurworld: As shown in a flashback in the episode "Bunch O' Scrunch", Durpleton’s father was very unpleased with his son’s silliness and yelled at him for using stupid nicknames.
• In a Codename: Kids Next Door episode, after Numbuh 1 gets stranded in a jungle and turns feral, the team's attempts at getting him back yield no results, until they learn the mission they were sent on was for the purpose of learning the answer for a contest to win a decorative keychain as a prize, causing Numbuh 1 to snap back and rant how no mission could ever be so idiotic.
  Numbuh 1: A KEYCHAIN?!?!?! You mean to tell me I risked my life, endangered my team, and spent valuable Kids Next Door resources so you could win A STUPID KEYCHAIN?!?!?!
  • Numbuh 5 in general, can't stand her other teammates stupidity. She's often seen arguing with The Ditz Numbuh 4, and in the mission where they were being attacked by nerd zombies when she thought they were rescuing a fellow agent, only to find out they were instead rescuing a trading card she snaps and rants at Numbuh 2, who she usually just rags on for making bad puns.
• An episode of Dan Vs. is dedicated to the title character's annoyance at everyone's stupidity.
• Daria: Mr. DeMartino has a Hair-Trigger Temper as a general rule, but few things will send him into a frothing rage as readily as the ignorance of some of his students.
• Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory is always angered by his older sister Dee Dee messing around with his experiments and breaking things in his laboratory as well as her ditzy behavior.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy:
  • Eddy sometimes gets annoyed by other people's idiotic behavior around him, especially Ed's. On occasion, though, Eddy seems to be amused by Ed's idiotic antics (as long as they don't ruin one of his plans, obviously).
  • Downplayed with Edd, based on his last lines at the end of the episode "Dim Lit Ed" but he was more annoyed than enraged. And he's usually much more tolerant of Ed's idiocy than Eddy is.
  • Sarah, probably even more than Eddy. Unfortunately, she is related to the biggest idiot of the Cul-de-Sac and this makes her almost always angry.
  • Rolf is a zig-zagged example. He is one of the few kids that don't mind the Eds usually, unless they directly target him for a scam. He has shown to have limits with them and their antics though, like in "A Twist of Ed" when Ed fails to understand his simple explanation of using a smaller rock to break a bigger rock, he becomes extremely tempted to bash Ed's head in with the rock.
• Family Guy: "A Shot in the Dark" focuses on Peter accidentally shooting Cleveland Brown Jr., and tells Lois his brilliant plan to prove he isn't racist by painting his naked body with brown paint in the town square. This pushes Lois well past the Rage Breaking Point and she stops Peter from doing it by assaulting him with a rolled-up magazine, all while screaming about how exhausted she is from all his stupid ideas. And with the amount of times Peter annoyed her with his stupidity, she has every right to be angry.
  Lois: You can't pretend to be Black! That's a stupid idea!
  Peter: What?
  Lois: IT'S A STUPID IDEA! You're a stupid man! A stupid, STUPID MAN!
  [Lois savagely beats Peter with a magazine]
  Peter: Ow! You're hurting me! Stop it! Stop it Lois!
  Lois: NO! I'm so sick of your crap! Why do you always do these stupid things?! And why do you always announce them to me BEFORE YOU DO THEM?! ARE YOU TRYING TO GET A RISE OUT OF ME?! ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?! IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT?!
• Hazbin Hotel: Alastor never reacts to the shenanigans of his coworkers with anything beyond a little snark. Sir Pentious' Egg Boiz, however, test his patience to the point that his eyes twitch when they start rambling nonsense.
• In one sketch on Johnny Bravo, Johnny faces a supercomputer in a game of chess. Johnny's childishness and stupidity end up frustrating the supercomputer so much that it malfunctions.
• Kaeloo:
  • Mr. Cat has a Hair-Trigger Temper because he's Surrounded by Idiots but finds stupid people very annoying. To the extent that he's actually tried to kill his friends because they anger him with their stupidity.
  • Olaf has a pretty short temper, but he gets angry at Stumpy very easily because he's even more of an idiot than the other characters.
• Kim Possible:
  • While she will never hit him or threaten him for it, there have been times where Ron's childish attitude, clumsiness or general cluelessness get on Kim's nerves.
  • While Doctor Drakken is her boss, Shego does not hide her snarkiness or lack of respect for him. Whenever he does his more hairbrained schemes, she has very little patience. Based on what we learn of her backstory, Shego became a villain because the annoying personalities and general stupidity of her superhero brothers got on her nerves.
• Hank Hill on King of the Hill is this rather frequently. He even said as much on an episode where he had to go to anger management classes to end a restraining order filed on him by Dale, saying that he didn't have an anger problem, but an "idiot problem".
• Rabbids Invasion: Gina Xenson is shown to get easily pissed off at the Rabbids' behavior during experiments. Judging by her screams of frustration and constantly banging her head against something, she's been experimenting for quite some time.
• Benson from Regular Show takes this to new levels whenever Mordecai and Rigby's (especially Rigby's) antics create problems for the park.
• The Ren & Stimpy Show: Ren simply cannot stand Stimpy's stupidity. There's a very good reason why his catchphrase is "You eeeeeediot!"
• The Simpsons:
  • Frank Grimes in the episode "Homer's Enemy", who comes to work at the Springfield nuclear plant and is driven crazy by Homer’s dangerous incompetence and laziness. Grimes serves as a deconstruction of Homer’s comedic incompetence by being the Only Sane Man at the plant who isn’t desensitized to Homer’s antics, and by demonstrating how quickly a real person would be driven insane if they actually had to work with Homer.
  • Lisa is like this too sometimes.
    Lisa: [to Homer] You, sir, are a baboon! BABOON, BABOON, BABOON!!!
• Squidward from SpongeBob SquarePants. It doesn't help that his house is located smack dab in between those of complete morons SpongeBob and Patrick. For Squilvia, this is what makes her attracted to him.
• Grand Admiral Thrawn from Star Wars Rebels may be a No-Nonsense Nemesis to the Rebellion, but his plans largely fail because he's Surrounded by Idiots. In one example, Governor Pryce blows up the fuel depot for his TIE Defender factory in a (failed) attempt to eliminate a rebel cell. Thrawn (who's on Coruscant at the time) is barely able to restrain his fury as he tells her what the consequences will be.
  Thrawn: I...will deal with you...when I return...Governor.

• Admiral Hyman Rickover, the father of the American nuclear navy, could not stand incompetent subordinates or superiors. One of his men said that Rickover believed if a man was stupid, that man should be dead. However, this attitude was in some ways a positive thing given his profession and job, as Rickover was absolutely determined to have a safe nuclear fleet and it appears to have rubbed off on his successors. To this day, the U.S. Navy has never had a nuclear accident.
• Admiral Zinovy Petrovich Rozhestvensky. The unfortunate man chosen to lead the Russian Second Pacific Squadron on their arduous and painful journey from the Baltic Sea to the Far East, during the Russo-Japanese war. Rozhestvensky had already earned the name "Mad Dog" for his temper and tendency to beat sensless Crew and Officers (those who weren't protected by connections to those in the Russian Imperial Court). Rozhestvensky's staff had ensured to bring up to 50 pairs of binoculars due to the Admiral's tendency to chuck them at ships which annoyed him, such as the repair ship Kamchatka. Before its untimely demise at the Battle of Tsushima, Rozhestvensky had endured imaginary Japanese torpedo boats (in reality English fishing boats), the Kamchatka, almost starting a war with a global superpower, accidentally shooting up their own ships, the Kamchatka, disease, mountainous seas, the Kamchatka, venomous snakes, prophets of the end times, the Kamchatka, highborn officers running rat hunts through the fleet and being saddled with a bunch of obsolete floating targets that only served to slow them down, and of course, the Kamchatka. It's a surprise the stress of this did not kill the man. That was done by a heart attack, four years later in 1909.
• Jean-Baptiste Lully, a French Baroque composer known for courtly dances under Louis XIV, was an infamous perfectionist to the point where he was known to assault musicians who didn't meet his standards. Musicologist Denis Stevens writes of Lully smashing violins over players' heads, and even kicking a pregnant soprano who sang out of tune.
• Many mobile game ads exploit/invoke this trope by depicting a player failing to solve a puzzle so mind-numbingly simple that it would be charitable to even call it a puzzle at all. The hope is that you'll get so pissed off at this absolute moron who can't even tell which number is bigger than the other that you'll download the game just to prove that you can do it better than them. Which you can't. Not because the puzzle is actually more difficult than it looks, but because it's not even in the game to begin with.