Tropescilloscope: The Stoic

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

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