Tropescilloscope: The Stoic

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

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