Literally Fearless

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Bravery is not the absence of fear, this trope is the absence of fear. As fear is part of a functioning human being, this is often considered a disability as much as a superpower.

A Fearless Fool may not feel fear at appropriate times, but isn't necessarily totally devoid of the feeling. An Emotionless Girl lacks more emotions than just fear. Compare What Is This Thing You Call Love?, where a robot or alien doesn't have (or at least, doesn't understand) a different emotion.

Examples of Literally Fearless include:

Literature

• Ashok Vadal of the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series is renown for his lack of fear in the face of demons, wizards, and lawbreakers in his status as the greatest among Lok's Protectors of the Law. It turns out "Ashok Vadal" was magically programmed over a slave boy's real identity to spare the Vadal family embarrassment after he winds up accidentally bound to Vadal's Ancestor Blade, and his sense of fear was removed so he was more likely to die and make room for a real Vadal to bind to the blade.

Tabletop Games

• This is traditionally a class feature of the Paladin in Dungeons & Dragons. Ravenloft makes it explicit that the Paladin isn't merely in control of his fear, but totally shielded from it. Accordingly it alters the class within the setting to only have protection from supernatural fear effects (meaning a paladin is still subject to intimidation, atmosphere, etc.) since one of the victims not having fear is a Story-Breaker Power for a horror setting.

Video Games

• One line of dialog in Deus Ex allows the player character to insinuate that UNATCO's Cyborg troops have wiring to reroute their fear. If this is actually anything more than a snarky comment at a superior's expense is unclear.