Depp's next screen role is as the Mad Hatter in director Tim Burton's adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland," which opens on Friday in the United States and other markets and in mid-April in Japan.

Fig4. Ink colors represent personalities: red for bossiness and petty tyranny, green for eccentricity and multi-coloured for mad.

The latest incident, in Brisbane on Thursday night, lasted less than a second but was, inevitably, soon being Shared across the globe on social media.