Tropescilloscope: The Stoic

A character who shows little to no emotion. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes I Have Your Wife Deliberately Monochrome Romantic False Lead Alpha Bitch Paper-Thin Disguise Canadian Movies Australian Movies Never My Fault Insult Backfire The Musical Actor Allusion Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Faking the Dead O.O.C. Is Serious Business Humiliation Conga Offscreen Moment of Awesome Chase Scene Bond Villain Stupidity Rule of Cool Artistic License – History Red Herring Composite Character The Atoner Bare Your Midriff Early Installment Weirdness Bloodless Carnage Heroes Want Redheads Bar Brawl He Knows Too Much Manly Tears From Bad to Worse Bloodier and Gorier Mad Scientist Same Language Dub Ambiguous Ending Shower Scene Whole Plot Reference Evil vs. Evil Apocalypse How Black and Gray Morality Foil Insistent Terminology A Father to His Men Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Depraved Bisexual Villain with Good Publicity Nothing Is Scarier Cool Car Random Events Plot Dies Wide Open Poor Communication Kills Works Set in World War II Gold Digger Wham Shot The X of Y Damsel in Distress Dramatic Gun Cock Scenery Porn Jerkass Ironic Echo Cool Guns Romantic Comedy Dirty Cop Punny Name The '60s Shown Their Work Defrosting Ice Queen The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Word of God Yandere The Hero One-Man Army Becoming the Mask Bullying a Dragon Anti-Hero Flashback Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Parental Abandonment Line-of-Sight Name Artistic License – Law The Cameo Crucified Hero Shot Beauty Is Never Tarnished Hate Sink Everyone Has Standards World of Ham Agony of the Feet Silence Is Golden Bury Your Gays Almost Kiss Dwindling Party Rousing Speech Adaptational Badass Abhorrent Admirer Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Honor Before Reason Not So Stoic Empathic Environment Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Broken Aesop Bald of Evil Break the Cutie Rasputinian Death NO INDOOR VOICE For the Evulz Retirony Bottomless Magazines Have a Gay Old Time Closed Circle Heroic BSoD Important Haircut Decoy Protagonist Crazy Jealous Guy Fatal Family Photo Funny Background Event Took a Level in Badass It's Personal Dull Surprise Anachronism Stew Anachronic Order Big Bad Leitmotif Catapult Nightmare Didn't Think This Through Genre Throwback The Smart Guy The End... Or Is It? Narrator Does This Remind You of Anything? I'm a Humanitarian Film Noir Reckless Gun Usage Deliberate Values Dissonance Attempted Rape Adorkable Not Quite Dead La Résistance Not Even Bothering with the Accent Love at First Sight Diabolus ex Machina Would Hit a Girl Gory Discretion Shot Disguised in Drag Eye Scream Femme Fatale Japanese Films Rule of Three The Mole Russian Films As the Good Book Says... Eiffel Tower Effect The Quiet One The Casanova Your Head A-Splode The Load Kill It with Fire Greater-Scope Villain Kill 'em All Annoying Younger Sibling Ripped from the Headlines Taking the Bullet Unusual Euphemism Put on a Bus Bunny-Ears Lawyer Break the Haughty Canon Foreigner Woman Scorned Children Are Innocent Sole Survivor Adaptation Distillation I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Villain Song Animal Motifs Unspoken Plan Guarantee Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Maybe Ever After "Shaggy Dog" Story Belligerent Sexual Tension Curse Cut Short Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Framing Device Take a Third Option Bi the Way Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Fanservice Dark Action Girl Motor Mouth Here We Go Again! Ascended Extra Ambiguously Gay Biopic The Great Depression Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Central Theme Bolivian Army Ending Title Drop Idiot Ball Not Using the "Z" Word Abusive Parents Babies Ever After Homage Roaring Rampage of Revenge Beta Couple Extremely Short Timespan Karmic Death Leave the Camera Running Our Vampires Are Different Double Entendre Shirtless Scene Fantasy Films Aside Glance Final Girl Translation Convention Camera Abuse Papa Wolf Drowning My Sorrows Real Life Writes the Plot Pretty in Mink Shut Up, Hannibal! N-Word Privileges Mexican Standoff Badass Bookworm Kids Are Cruel Male Gaze Tranquil Fury Small Name, Big Ego Foregone Conclusion Show Within a Show Wicked Cultured Boom, Headshot! She's Got Legs Disney Death Pragmatic Villainy Those Two Bad Guys Dirty Old Man Anguished Declaration of Love Improvised Weapon Revenge Television Movie Index Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Smoking Is Cool Jump Scare Badass in a Nice Suit Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Dreaded Easily Forgiven And the Adventure Continues Failed a Spot Check A God Am I The Power of Love Neck Snap Slasher Smile There Is No Kill Like Overkill "The Reason You Suck" Speech Off-into-the-Distance Ending Adults Are Useless Sassy Black Woman What the Hell, Hero? Slap-Slap-Kiss Fingore Thriller Riddle for the Ages Epic Movie Creative Closing Credits Fun with Acronyms The Mafia Actually Pretty Funny Casting Gag Very Loosely Based on a True Story For Want of a Nail Call-Forward Manchild Chekhov's Gunman Totally Radical Cat Fight Older Than They Look Animated Credits Opening Domestic Abuse Guns Akimbo Accidental Murder Deconstruction Face–Heel Turn Kick the Son of a Bitch Cassandra Truth Getting Crap Past the Radar Betty and Veronica Zombie Stories Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Lost Lenore Military and Warfare Films Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Vomit Indiscretion Shot Nice Hat Villain Protagonist Politically Incorrect Villain Blatant Lies Refuge in Audacity Book-Ends Blackmail Truth in Television The Alcoholic Time Skip How We Got Here Recycled IN SPACE! Pet the Dog Mugging the Monster Artistic License – Physics Mama Bear Danny Peary Cult Movies List One-Word Title Cluster F-Bomb Vampire Fiction German Films Up to Eleven Only a Flesh Wound An Aesop Hong Kong Films Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Plot Hole The Brute Based on a True Story Rule of Symbolism Once More, with Clarity! Room Full of Crazy Obviously Evil Ass Shove Plucky Comic Relief Not So Different Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Bound and Gagged Mighty Whitey Friend to All Children Anti-Villain Driven to Suicide Really Gets Around Would Hurt a Child Corrupt Corporate Executive Outrun the Fireball Heel Realization Heroic Sacrifice Vomit Discretion Shot All Just a Dream Body Horror Took a Level in Jerkass Suddenly SHOUTING! Deadpan Snarker Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Fatal Flaw The Vamp Henpecked Husband Affably Evil Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Bad Boss Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Running Gag Bring My Brown Pants Dramatic Irony Hidden Depths Villain Opening Scene Fire-Forged Friends Only One Name Sequel Escalation Red Shirt Self-Deprecation Cool Old Guy Mythology Gag Playing Gertrude Well-Intentioned Extremist Film Series Expository Hairstyle Change Arc Words Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Gilligan Cut Bond One-Liner Meet Cute Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking All for Nothing Establishing Character Moment Manic Pixie Dream Girl Eldritch Abomination Rated M for Manly Developing Doomed Characters Parental Substitute Off with His Head! Expy Animal Title Index Immune to Bullets Chiaroscuro In Medias Res Bittersweet Ending Shell-Shocked Veteran Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Trailers Always Spoil Adaptational Attractiveness Beard of Evil Dark Is Not Evil Amoral Attorney The Ditz Hollywood Darkness No Good Deed Goes Unpunished From Nobody to Nightmare You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Cool Old Lady Jerk with a Heart of Gold Death Glare B-Movie Say My Name Parental Incest Sacrificial Lion Straight Gay Ship Tease Cat Scare Names to Run Away from Really Fast No OSHA Compliance Logo Joke Sinister Minister Country Matters Death Seeker The Place Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Adaptation Name Change Black Best Friend Made of Iron Overprotective Dad Video Credits Sadistic Choice Storming the Castle All There in the Manual Eyepatch of Power Informed Ability Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! No-Sell Four-Temperament Ensemble Super Strength Fanservice Extra Fate Worse than Death Shipper on Deck Dogged Nice Guy Author Appeal Made of Explodium Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Action Prologue Red Oni, Blue Oni Worthy Opponent Combat Pragmatist Pimped-Out Dress Mistaken for Gay Anyone Can Die Creepy Child The Stoic A Date with Rosie Palms Curb-Stomp Battle Accidental Misnaming Deus ex Machina No Celebrities Were Harmed Chekhov's Skill Twist Ending The Starscream Fish out of Water 20 Minutes into the Future My Beloved Smother The '70s Token Minority Unusually Uninteresting Sight Fan Disservice Daylight Horror Half the Man He Used to Be The Lancer Artistic License – Gun Safety Stepford Smiler Corpsing Non-Indicative Name Epic Fail Air-Vent Passageway Police Brutality Ominous Latin Chanting Your Cheating Heart Red Right Hand Freeze-Frame Bonus Antagonist Title Last-Name Basis Adult Fear Brick Joke Blood Knight Race Lift Posthumous Character Only Known by Their Nickname Dual Wielding Beware the Nice Ones Science Fiction Films Even Evil Has Loved Ones Auto Erotica Brainless Beauty Evil Cannot Comprehend Good It Can Think In the Back Face Death with Dignity Undying Loyalty Rape as Drama Alliterative Name Mr. Exposition The Dog Bites Back Batman Gambit Historical-Domain Character Arranged Marriage Music Stories Adaptation Dye-Job Dutch Angle Chewing the Scenery Visual Pun Those Two Guys Moment Killer Foreshadowing Broken Bird Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Deal with the Devil Meaningful Name Heterosexual Life-Partners Award-Bait Song Naked People Are Funny Monumental Damage Pragmatic Adaptation The Remake Slashed Throat Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Car Fu Brother–Sister Incest Punch-Clock Villain Slasher Movie Sports Stories Double-Meaning Title Stealth Pun War Is Hell Scenery Gorn Aluminum Christmas Trees Defiant to the End Only in It for the Money The Oner Protagonist Title Crazy-Prepared Bad "Bad Acting" Wham Line Black Comedy Rape Film Noir Index Action Survivor Morality Pet Grey and Gray Morality Black Comedy I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Demonic Possession Spiritual Successor Stealth Hi/Bye folderlabel Artistic License – Military Camp Gay Eagleland Artistic License – Geography Conspicuous CG Let's Get Dangerous! Scary Black Man Historical Hero Upgrade Brutal Honesty Big Fancy House Frame-Up Daddy's Girl Match Cut Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Smurfette Principle Death by Irony Authority Equals Asskicking The Bully Unreliable Narrator Knight Templar Evil Is Petty Gorn Disappeared Dad The '50s Soft Glass Pay Evil unto Evil The Film of the Book Public Domain Feature Films Gainax Ending Coming-of-Age Story Married to the Job Never Trust a Trailer Broken Pedestal Determinator Did Not Get the Girl Extreme Doormat You Killed My Father Evil-Detecting Dog Hypocritical Humor The Ace Jerk Jock Asshole Victim Not What It Looks Like And Starring Ax-Crazy Sexy Discretion Shot Jerkass Has a Point Call-Back Intergenerational Friendship Fat Bastard Documentary Oh, Crap! Gratuitous English An Arm and a Leg Rewatch Bonus Retired Badass It Will Never Catch On Continuity Nod Action Girl Evil Laugh Alas, Poor Villain The Ghost Adaptation Expansion Reality Has No Subtitles Happily Married The Alleged Car As Himself Naïve Newcomer The Voiceless Unwitting Instigator of Doom Spared by the Adaptation Superhero Dressing as the Enemy No Antagonist Race Against the Clock Madness Mantra Parental Neglect Stock Footage Villainous Breakdown Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Intrepid Reporter The Bad Guy Wins Armor-Piercing Question Despair Event Horizon Flipping the Bird Kubrick Stare Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Humans Are Bastards Blood from the Mouth Killed Mid-Sentence Stuff Blowing Up Stalker with a Crush Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Eureka Moment Men Are the Expendable Gender Suspiciously Similar Substitute "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Dirty Coward Insane Troll Logic Berserk Button Not So Above It All An Axe to Grind Scare Chord May–December Romance Bait-and-Switch Serious Business Fourth Date Marriage Good Is Not Nice I Need a Freaking Drink Get Out! Christmas Movies Index No Ending Needs Wiki Magic Love Big Brother Instinct Cruel and Unusual Death Dumb Blonde Demoted to Extra BFG Index of Film Westerns Star-Crossed Lovers Offscreen Teleportation Back from the Dead Nice Guy Wretched Hive Taking You with Me The '80s Grievous Bottley Harm Those Wacky Nazis Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Author Avatar Faux Affably Evil Sealed Evil in a Can Hooker with a Heart of Gold Sir Swears-a-Lot Italian Films Card-Carrying Villain Meaningful Echo A Minor Kidroduction Never Found the Body Black Dude Dies First My Greatest Failure Too Dumb to Live "Awesome McCool" Name Big Eater Obstructive Bureaucrat Pre-Mortem One-Liner Bowdlerise Ghost Fiction Pyrrhic Victory Amusing Injuries Groin Attack This Is Gonna Suck Shoot the Shaggy Dog Arch-Enemy Fantastic Racism Evil Plan MacGuffin Every Car Is a Pinto Novelization Even Evil Has Standards My God, What Have I Done? Badass Normal Spiteful Spit Cowboy Cop Fainting Due to the Dead Tempting Fate Precision F-Strike Five-Man Band Mr. Fanservice Early-Bird Cameo Calling the Old Man Out Large Ham Laughing Mad Big "NO!" French Films Lighter and Softer The '90s Stylistic Suck Neck Lift Be Careful What You Wish For Sci-Fi Horror True Companions Setting Update Obfuscating Stupidity Jitter Cam Disney Villain Death He Who Fights Monsters Guile Hero Knife Nut Take That! Drill Sergeant Nasty Light Is Not Good The Sociopath Horror Comedy Hair-Trigger Temper In Name Only British Films Loophole Abuse Bilingual Bonus Chekhov's Gun Dark and Troubled Past Mood Whiplash Death by Sex As Long as It Sounds Foreign Dramedy Meaningful Background Event Hell Is That Noise Bland-Name Product Manipulative Bastard After the End Darkest Hour The Cavalry Man on Fire Determinator aka: The Determinator Department of Redundancy Department Breaking the Fourth Wall Evil Counterpart Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Creator Cameo What Happened to the Mouse? Artistic License – Biology Villain Ball Kick the Dog Spell My Name with an "S" The Hero Dies Butt-Monkey Unresolved Sexual Tension Exact Words Contrived Coincidence Leaning on the Fourth Wall Covers Always Lie Reasonable Authority Figure All There in the Script Ms. Fanservice Soundtrack Dissonance Martial Arts Movie Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Character Development Age Lift Affectionate Parody Adaptational Heroism Together in Death Sequel Hook Disproportionate Retribution Woman in White Genre Shift Suspiciously Specific Denial The Reveal Badass Longcoat Hero of Another Story Big Bad Duumvirate Major Injury Underreaction Advertised Extra Mooks I Did What I Had to Do All Men Are Perverts Cain and Abel Cloudcuckoolander Destination Defenestration Pretty Little Headshots Red Eyes, Take Warning Missing Mom Noodle Incident Darker and Edgier Badass Grandpa Product Placement She Cleans Up Nicely Dissonant Serenity Drives Like Crazy Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Lock and Load Montage Captain Ersatz Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Gender Flip Reality Ensues Dying Moment of Awesome Improbable Aiming Skills A.I. Is a Crapshoot Love Triangle Cool Shades Crapsack World Badass Boast Hero Antagonist The Un-Reveal Freudian Excuse The Big Guy Psycho for Hire Redemption Equals Death Interrupted Suicide Properly Paranoid Left the Background Music On Malevolent Masked Men Comically Missing the Point And I Must Scream Reality Is Unrealistic Famous Last Words Historical In-Joke Only Sane Man Fiery Redhead Irony Skewed Priorities Hope Spot "Well Done, Son!" Guy More Dakka Loads and Loads of Characters Exactly What It Says on the Tin Toplessness from the Back Evil Sounds Deep Improbable Weapon User Catch-Phrase Hypocrite Imagine Spot Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Death of a Child Credits Gag Gone Horribly Right Karma Houdini Re-Cut Instant Death Bullet Mind Screw Make It Look Like an Accident Heel–Face Turn Shout-Out Downer Ending Does Not Like Shoes Costume Porn All Girls Want Bad Boys Cold-Blooded Torture Serial Killer Fake Shemp Smug Snake Retcon Our Zombies Are Different Big Applesauce Redshirt Army The Chessmaster Genre Savvy Evil Is Hammy Wounded Gazelle Gambit Market-Based Title Spanner in the Works Mystery and Detective Films Hollywood Law '80s Hair Big Damn Heroes Green-Eyed Monster You Have Failed Me Adapted Out Bavarian Fire Drill Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Lampshade Hanging Implacable Man The Chick What You Are in the Dark Peek-a-Boo Corpse Distracted by the Sexy Real Life Dark Reprise You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Hoist by His Own Petard Dropped a Bridge on Him No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Funny Foreigner Better to Die than Be Killed Ungrateful Bastard Overly Long Gag Drugs Are Bad Horror Films Tap on the Head Historical Villain Upgrade Psychopathic Manchild As You Know Celebrity Paradox Action Genre Evil Brit Mercy Kill The Stoner Vacation Films Mundane Made Awesome Sanity Slippage Training Montage Tagline Bloody Hilarious Rule of Funny Earn Your Happy Ending Psychological Thriller Male Frontal Nudity Victoria's Secret Compartment Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Ambiguous Disorder It's All About Me Captain Obvious The Dragon The Faceless Vitriolic Best Buds The Stinger Silent Movie Death by Adaptation Enemy Mine Big-Bad Ensemble Facial Horror No Name Given Police are Useless One Steve Limit Awesome, but Impractical timeperiod Wrong Genre Savvy Handicapped Badass Laser-Guided Karma Rich Bitch Adaptational Villainy Impaled with Extreme Prejudice