Breakdown
Splinter
Splinter verb - To cut into long slender pieces.
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Breakdown and splinter are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Breakdown" instead a verb "Splinter".
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- The "staged breakdown" version of this is the premise of Splinter Cell Double Agent, except that the death of Sam's daughter was very real; that Myth Arc is to be continued in Conviction.
Source: Fake Defector - As they do, Michaelangelo's nunchaku gets tangled up in the escape ladder, which, when Splinter pulls off his Big Damn Heroes moment and sends Shredder into a Villainous Breakdown, is used to toss the Shredder into a dump truck and his first death.
Source: Hoist By His Own Petard / Film
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