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* Foul-mouthed, unapproachable tough guy Shinjiro Aragaki in ''[[Persona 3]]'' turns out to have a well-hidden soft center, hinted at in the main game but put on full display in the female protagonist's route in the portable version of the game.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Mildly demented]] [[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Double H]] comes across as strictly military most of the time, always quoting his training manual...right up to the point where he starts repurposing those trite quotes into ways of saying, "Dude, I'm here for you. No matter what."
* Snow Villiers from ''Final Fantasy 13'' . He's big, muscly and punches monsters twice his size square in the face! He also has a little girlfriend that he dotes on and can takes
* Common character trait in ''[[Resident Evil]]''.
** Barry Burton, [[Gun Nut|gun collector]] and [[The Big Guy|mostly muscles]], is [[Happily Married]] and carries a photo of his wife and two daughters in his uniform.<ref>The photo has a message on the back for his family, presumably in case he dies during a mission, so the body recovery will be a bittersweet reunion.</ref> He is also a [[Pungeon Master]] and an ally to Jill Valentine. When Jill becomes missing-in-action in the series, Barry was apparently the most devastated out of the old friend group, as if he saw her as his surrogate daughter.
** Claire Redfield is a [[Biker Babe]] who always has her big brother's back, and a [[Friend to All Children]]. When she tells big brother Chris she was so worried about his safety, Chris quips at how [[OOC Is Serious Business|out-of-character]] that was for a "tough girl" like her.
** Both Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield served several years in the military before becoming police officers (army and Delta Force, and Air Force, respectively), but are both [[A Father to His Men|Parents to Their Men]] throughout the series and are [[Bash Brothers|Bash Siblings]] with each other.
** Ada Wong is a spy-for-hire who works for dubious people and mostly acts like an [[Ice Queen]] with an occasional knowing grin, but notably helps out the opposition frequently to defeat a mutual enemy.
** Jake Muller is a [[Perpetual Frowner]] with a [[Face of a Thug]], but became a mercenary as a teen to afford medical treatment for his dying mother (unfortunately, she didn't make it).
** Former CIA agent Helena Harper has a reputation for being [[Cowboy Cop|aggressive and grumpy]]. One of the reasons she was relocated to Secret Service was because her little sister Deborah revealed a recent ex-boyfriend was abusive, so she [[Knight Templar Big Sister|shot him]] in the leg.
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* [[Chuck Norris]].
* For someone who does her own stunts and once played action stars like [[Mad Max: Fury Road|Furiosa]] and Atomic Blonde, [[Charlize Theron]] is pretty [[The Klutz|accident-prone]] and frequently suffers from [[Sand in My Eyes]] if she gets a compliment.
* By all accounts, [[Ernest Hemingway]]. According to ''Papa Hemingway'', when he was still a struggling writer in Paris, he would sit alone for hours and ''cry'' over rejection letters.
** Considering the fragile ego of some writers (at the best of times) and the fact the man was seriously depressed, eventually killed himself and could only shut up his inner editor with lots and lots of booze...
* Charles Boyer was said to have a reputation of being cold and unapproachable, but could open up when ready. Irene Dunne once said of him: "Charles really had a rare and genuine warmth, like a fire that starts slowly. He was the kind of log that was difficult to ignite, but then would burn so beautifully."
* [[Clark Gable]] [[Defied Trope|tried to hide]] his sensitive side from his fans due to his characters' reputations of being stoic, [[Rated M For Manly]] [[hunk]]s. Biographers and other movie stars of the time, however, later gushed about Gable's big softy moments, such as his love of reading (Myrna Loy, for example, said in her autobiography that he loved reading poetry, especially Shakespeare sonnets) and how relaxed and romantic he became during his marriage to Carole Lombard. When she died, many said that she'd [[The Lost Lenore|taken a piece of Gable]] with her.
* According to one of [[Lauren Bacall]]'s autobiographies, [[Humphrey Bogart]] tried extremely hard to hold back [[Tears of Joy]] when his son went to school for the first time.
* When [[Jessica Chastain]] was asked about what it was like working with Hollywood "tough guy" actors (e.g. [[Al Pacino]], [[Sean Penn]], Sam Worthington), she replied that the public shouldn't be fooled because they're "kittens" that play tough to hide their vulnerability.
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