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{{quote|"''Oh! I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt," said Estella, "and of course if it ceased to beat I should cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no--sympathy-sentiment--nonsense.''"

 

These characters (often female) are coping with a [[Despair Event Horizon]] or a [[Dark and Troubled Past]] by becoming as cynical, stoic, and/or badass as possible.

* Zakuro Fujiwara from ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' rejected a band of [[True Companions]] that offered to include her, because she "didn't want to join anything". Someone she cared for died many years ago, her fame and beauty made people only want to be around her for shallow reasons, and on top of that, she'd become a [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-animal]] [[Magical Girl]]. She eventually saw that the girls were sincere and became their close friend, even going as close to returning [[Fan Girl]] Aizawa Minto's affections [[Hide Your Lesbians|as they could show on TV]].

* Caren from ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'', first season.

* Juri in ''[[Digimon Tamers]]''. Her bright, cheerful demeanour would appear to be a mask to hide her inner pain due to her mom's death and her inability to relate to her dad and her kind stepmother, a mask that shatters after the brutal killing of {{spoiler|her partner, Leomon}}. In fact, Ruki has an inner monologue in which she aknowledges that she may be hard on others and all but still has loved ones that support her unconditionally, whereas Juri's emotional/mental problems run terribly deep, and which finishes with Ruki feeling useless as she cannot help Juri.

* Angel from ''[[The Big O]]'' - right down to the scars on her back where her wings were plucked. It's hard, learning that your memories were fabricated and being told that you're not human; little wonder she ends up {{spoiler|piloting a [[Deus Ex Machina]] [[Humongous Mecha]] in order to erase the world}}.

** There is some debate over whether or not [[Mind Screw|this is what really happened.]]

* Chika Ogiue from ''[[Genshiken]]''.

* {{spoiler|Mukuro}} from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''. Arguably, also Genkai.