Tropescilloscope: The Stoic

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

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