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{{quote|"''Before I put on this dress, you couldn't even remember my'' name." |'''Carter''', ''[[Princess Protection Program]]''}}
Alice is an all around [[Nice Guy|nice girl]]: she's quiet and maybe a bit of a pushover, but every so often she hints at having some ''deep'' [[Hidden Depths]]. She's sure to do whatever Bobby asks her, not just because of her [[True Companions|loyalty]] but because she "doesn't seem to mind". She may even have a crush on Bobby, [[Oblivious to Love|who seldom notices]], dates everyone else but her, and asks her for dating advice. Over the course of the story Bobby will go on adventures and drag Alice along with him, putting her through progressively more embarrassing, painful, and emotionally hurtful situations while [[Comedic
Until she says "No". Bobby will be blown away and fail to understand why: "How can you be so selfish? I've always treated you right!"
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At this point Alice [[What the Hell, Hero?|lets loose]] a simple yet [[Armor-Piercing Question|powerful question:]] "Did you think I can't feel?"
Turns out that Alice may be [[The Stoic|Stoic]] or even an [[Extreme Doormat]], and that [[The Woobie|she'll tolerate heaps of emotional torture]] just to be next to Bobby even if she can't date him... but [[Break the Cutie|he's finally crossed the line]], not because of his schemes, but for both failing to consider she has feelings and that he was badly hurting them. Alice will then painfully lay out just what it is he's put her through and leave. If [[Beware the Nice Ones|Alice is especially nice]], you can expect at least some violence to follow. If Alice is [[Shrinking Violet|very shy]] she may run away instead, leaving it up to another character to enlighten Bobby on his carelessness.
Knocked out of his [[It's All About Me|egocentric]] [[Protagonist-Centered Morality|worldview]], Bobby now has to find a way to patch up their friendship or pursue a romance. In a kid's show, this is usually accompanied with [[An Aesop]] about considering other people's feelings.
Alice can be of either gender, but as a character there are a lot of types that fit: The [[Nice Guy]], [[The Stoic]], [[Extreme Doormat]], [[The Cutie]], [[Cloudcuckoolander]] (though they may be Bobby if they are very inconsiderate). Bobby may be [[Hot
Alice may be motivated by [[I
If this happens in the beginning of the story, this may lead to [[Madden Into Misanthropy]] as Alice changes her character radically. Compare [[Not So Stoic]], where a Stoic is pushed past their limits. Also compare [[Stoic Woobie]].
Not to be confused with "[[Don't Think, Feel]]."
{{noreallife|unfortunately, this is too common to trope.}}
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== Anime
* ''[[
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (
* At the beginning of [[Apocalypse Wow|the second part]] of ''The [[End of Evangelion]]'', Gendo finally gets what was coming to him.
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'''Rei:''' I will not be a puppet for you to control. ''([[Shut UP, Hannibal|cuts off his hand]])''
'''Gendo:''' Rei, why?!
'''Rei:''' Because I am not like you. }}
** Then Rei does it ''again'' in the second ''[[
* In the later ''[[
* A pivotal moment in ''[[
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* Averted in ''[[
* In ''[[Star Blazers]] ([[Space Battleship Yamato]]),'' when [[Robot Buddy|I.Q.-9]] and Nova are prisoners, Nova makes a hurtful remark to the effect that I.Q. has nothing to worry about, that he can't be killed because he isn't alive. I.Q. then proceeds to make a very touching little speech about how much he does feel, and Nova is ashamed of what she said to him.
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Watchmen (
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** Also, the bit between Dan and Rorschach. Dan finally snaps from all the bullshit, and Rorschach actually seems to feel bad.
* Near the latter half of [[Scott Pilgrim]], {{spoiler|each of the girls that the eponymous character has dated at some point tell him off for being such an inconsiderate jerk in the past.}}
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* In ''[[Gosford Park]]'', Commander Meredith was eating jam preserves and sulking when Dorothy, a maid, walks in on him, he starts saying that his life sucks when she jumps in with a heart wrenching speech about how loving, even if it's [[All Love Is Unrequited|unrequited]], makes life worthwhile and worth living. It helps to mention that Dorothy was in love with the butler Jennings, and though she often hinted to him she was interested, he was always too afraid to start anything. Not expecting anywhere near that emotional wisdom, he goes back upstairs and passionately kisses his loving wife.
* A variation; in ''[[Carrie]]'', it's [[Stern Teacher|Miss Collins]] who does this for the title character after the shower prank, giving a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] to her gym class.
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** A straight example would be when Carrie finally stands up to her [[Abusive Parents]], [[The Fundamentalist|raving fundamentalist]] of a [[My Beloved Smother|mother]].
== Literature ==
* Elinor Dashwood of ''[[Sense and Sensibility (
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'''Elinor:''' I understand you. -- You do not suppose that I have ever felt much. -- For four months, Marianne, I have had all this hanging on my mind, without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature; knowing that it would make you and my mother most unhappy whenever it were explained to you, yet unable to prepare you for it in the least. -- It was told me, -- it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself, whose prior engagement ruined all my prospects; and told me, as I thought, with triumph. -- This person's suspicions, therefore, I have had to oppose, by endeavouring to appear indifferent where I have been most deeply interested; -- and it has not been only once; -- I have had her hopes and exultation to listen to again and again. -- I have known myself to be divided from Edward for ever, without hearing one circumstance that could make me less desire the connection. -- Nothing has proved him unworthy; nor has anything declared him indifferent to me. -- I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages. -- And all this has been going on at a time, when, as you know too well, it has not been my only unhappiness. -- If you can think me capable of ever feeling -- surely you may suppose that I have suffered NOW. The composure of mind with which I have brought myself at present to consider the matter, the consolation that I have been willing to admit, have been the effect of constant and painful exertion; -- they did not spring up of themselves; -- they did not occur to relieve my spirits at first. -- No, Marianne. -- THEN, if I had not been bound to silence, perhaps nothing could have kept me entirely -- not even what I owed to my dearest friends -- from openly shewing that I was VERY unhappy. }}
* Viola in the ''[[Chaos Walking]]'' series gets a moment like this early in the first book. It's the precursor to some really great character development between her and Todd and helps highlight just how deep their bond of trust grows to be.
* In ''[[Jane Eyre]],'' Rochester deliberately provokes Jane into this: constantly gushing about his upcoming marriage to this woman who is not suited to him, and he knows it and Jane knows it, but Jane has no power to speak up because she's a governess, and in no way equal to Rochester's apparent intended. Jane takes this to awesome levels.
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* In ''Where Angels Fear to Tread'' by E.M. Forster, Lilia says this nearly word for word after her ex-brother-in-law, when trying to convince her to call off her marriage to her much-younger Italian fiance (who she's already married anyway), insinuates that her fiance is bullying her into staying. (unfortunatly for Lilia, they're right to try and stop her marriage, but she doesn't know this yet.)
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* There's a form of this in ''Yoda: [[Dark Rendezvous]]''. After the Padawans Master Yoda is traveling with lose their masters, he comforts them, and one gets angry at his advice, claiming that he wouldn't understand grief. Of course, he would, and he reminds them of this. In nine hundred years there have been many friends and students lost, and grief like they can't imagine.
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* ''[[Drake and Josh]]'' had an episode devoted to this.
* Instead of saying it to Buffy, [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Spike]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBl82U4rQrQ&feature=related sings it] in the [[Musical Episode]].
** Xander is also on the receiving end of this when, having failed to successfully ask Buffy to a high school dance, he tactlessly asks Willow (who has been crushing on him all season) to go with him as his backup.
* In ''[[
* Steve Urkel of ''[[Family Matters]]'' finally [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|stood up to Laura]] after she refused to show any consideration for Steve giving her a ride to an out-of-town function, caused his car to break down by putting it into high gear and insisting she take the bed alone while Steve sleeps in the bathtub in their motel, culminating in the line [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukH_g_HMonk&feature=related "I'm a person, I have feelings and I demand to be treated with respect and dignity."]
* In ''[[Coupling]]'', [[Cloudcuckoolander|Jane]] gives a [[Tear Jerker|speech]] to Steve about this.
* A variation in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' occurs when Barney finally realises how much his behaviour post-breakup is hurting Robin, although its more a "Do you think she can't feel" as its the rest of the gang who eventually break it to him (after each realising themselves how much they weren't helping the situation).
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' after Guy of Gisborne discovers that Marian is in fact the Night Watchman (a vigilante who steals for the poor) he manages to bring the entire situation back to his unrequited feelings for her. Marian? She's more concerned about not getting hanged for treason.
* Throughout ''[[
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== Theatre ==
* [[Older Than Steam]]: [[William Shakespeare]] [[Zeroth Law of Trope Examples|brings us]] ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' and Shylock's "Hath not a Jew eyes?" speech to the court. While Shylock isn't a nice guy, the thrust of the speech is still the same: "I've got feelings, too."
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== Web Original ==
* In the [[TV Tropes]] webseries ''[[
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* The general message is used in the beginning of the episode "Ren Seeks Help" of ''[[Ren and Stimpy]] Adult Party Cartoon''. [[Noodle Incident|Apparently, Ren had said something so insulting, it broke down even Stimpy]], who was always immune to nearly all of his offensive behaviour. Stimpy shouts at Ren for being horrible and disrespectful towards him.
* Jessie gives Nitz one of these in the finale of ''[[Undergrads]]''
* [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Edd and Eddy]] both get one of these in the same scene towards one another in [[The Movie]]. Edd spends the entire course of the show suffering the torturous alienation that comes with Eddy's friendship, but when Ed and Eddy fake their deaths for a cheap laugh at Edd, Edd blows up at them for being oblivious to his feelings and leaves for the first time in the entire series... prompting Eddy to blow up and unearth his own [[Hidden Depths]] right back. It ends up a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]
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