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An enigmatic [[The Stoic|emotionless]] female character.
In most media, women are shown to be [[Hysterical Woman|hysterical and panicky]], or at least relying on their emotions to perceive the world around them, especially teenage girls. That is in sharp contrast to men who are supposed to function solely on logic and reason. Consequently, most shows focus on [[Screaming Woman|women's reactions to events]] to set an atmosphere.
Thus, it just
Sometimes used by animators as the [[The Comically Serious|comic foil]], especially in noisy, chaotic situations.
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Not necessarily a fan of pure logic and reason like [[The Spock]], as compassionate under the skin as the [[Tin Man]], as wise and profound as [[Silent Bob]], or as strong and [[Badass]] as [[The Stoic]]. She just stands out for keeping cool in stressful situations or when taking decisions.
In certain instances, she may be an actual [[Robot Girl]]. See also [[The Quiet One]], [[Strange Girl]], and [[The Snark Knight]]. Often [[Foil|contrasted]] with a more [[Hot
An interesting twist on the Emotionless Girl is the Emotionally [[Beneath the Mask|Repressed]] Girl. This girl feels the emotions but doesn't express them openly or vividly. These girls can draw the viewers into the scene by forcing one to pick up on her subtle cues - so that when the seemingly Emotionless Girl finally does smile, there's a tremendous amount of satisfaction.
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Polar opposite of the [[Hysterical Woman]].
{{examples
== Anime and Manga ==
* Yuki Nagato, from ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'', is also the [[The Spock]], [[The Stoic]] and the [[Badass Bookworm]]. {{spoiler|The tenth novel reveals that she's surprisingly bitter about being designed to be so unemotive and that the IDTE ''could'' have made her more expressive like they did Asakura, but didn't. This largely confirms the point below, which prior to this were based mostly on [[Unreliable Narrator|Kyon's]] interpretations.}}
** Though as the series progresses, it is clear that (due to [[Character Development]]) in spite of her lack of ''apparent'' feeling, Yuki is a warm, caring and kind-hearted girl. It could be said that Yuki and Asakura are subversions of this trope (and by extension, [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]). Yuki appears emotionless and coldly logical, while her inner workings are clearly fighting in the other direction. Asakura is what could best be described as a [[Purity Sue]] on the outside, while ''she'' is the [[Uncanny Valley Girl|creepy]], [[Dissonant Serenity|emotionless]] [[Knife Nut]] whose {{spoiler|attempted murder of Kyon}} was actually a calculated act designed to reach a specific goal.
** Somewhat subverted by the "official-but-not-exactly-canon" Haruhi-Chan, which shows Yuki staring into space after completely finishing a anime/game series, and telling Kyon "It was an emotional game." Aside from this, she actually laughs at one point, but it is hidden by her arm.
** Yuki smiled at one point in the movie, and it was completely visible. It was a major event, as {{spoiler|it was what made Kyon consider staying in the [[Alternate Universe]].}}
* Eureka from [[Eureka Seven]]. The girl is literally close to emotionless since her birth until she met her destined partner Renton and gradually fell deeply in love with him. Although 3 years ago she did experience her first emotion which is "surprise" when she realized she orphaned the three children she would later adopt.
* Senri from ''[[
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'':
** There's also Egypt, who could have doubled for a [[Cute Mute]] (though he does speak one sentence).
** Norway keeps the same [[The Stoic|stoic]] expression when he is eating cake, when his friend was defeated in battle, when he is captured, and when he is strangling someone.
* Chane Laforet from ''[[
* Kazuo Kiriyama from the ''[[Battle Royale]]'' manga is an
* Ai Enma from ''[[Hell Girl]]''. Subverted in that she ''does'' have emotions, but she must repress them to carry out her atonement for {{spoiler|the revenge she carried out on the villagers who buried her alive.}}. Or else, she'll wind up in Hell. {{spoiler|We first see it when she snaps before Hajime towards the end of the first season, and [[Nightmare Fuel|it's not a nice sight to behold]]}}.
* R. Dorothy Waynewright from ''[[
* Nemu, Mayuri Kurotsuchi's Lieutenant in ''[[Bleach]]'', is not just emotionless but seems to have no free will of her own. She exists almost as an extension of Kurotsuchi's will; no matter how horribly he treats her, she never reacts. {{spoiler|[[Mad Scientist]] Kurotsuchi CREATED Nemu. His "daughter" is really just an [[Opposite
** Nemu may not be able to disobey direct commands but she does have free will as shown when she {{spoiler|cures Uryruu after he was poisoned during his fight with Mayuri}}.
* Six year-old Rin Kaga of ''[[Bunny Drop]]'' appears as such at first, but she's actually a [[Deconstruction]]. She is only like this because of shyness and anxiety around people she does not know. Around other children and Daikichi, Rin is anything but emotionless.
** Not to mention, her emotionless facade is even used by members of her father's family as an excuse not to take her in, saying that they believe her to be a borderline [[Creepy Child]].
* ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]'' has ''two'' male versions: Carlos Santana and Stefan Levin. The first one becomes emotionless after a [[Freudian Excuse|tragic childhood]] [[Break the Cutie|where he lost everything]] (from his adoptive parents to his friends), the second lost his emotions [[Love Makes You Evil|after his fiancée Karen tragically dies in his arms]]. Both start to [[Character Development|gradually]] [[Defrosting Ice Queen|heal]] through the series, {{spoiler|and Santana even gets to find his [[Missing Mom]]}}.
* Fiore from ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', although it's hinted throughout the series that she may not be as emotionless as she
* Anya from ''[[Code Geass]]''. Maybe she was just traumatized from {{spoiler|seeing Marianne killed in gory fashion and then getting Marianne's consciousness put into her head against her will.}}.
** C.C. has the same blank look in her eyes. Living for too long is simply exhausting.
** Though unlike Anya, C.C. actually still has emotions. She smiles more than a few times during the series.
* Yin, and others, from ''[[Darker
* Saki Hanajima from ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', and surprise! She does have [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl|special powers]]. Her little brother, Megumi, is also emotionless and can curse people.
** Ironically, both of them are actually familiar and regularly express the one emotion that causes most of these examples to come out of their shell: Love. Saki is extremely protective and (sometimes overly) friendly towards her best friend Tohru, and Megumi behaves similarly towards his sister. Saki's treatment, thus, ends up flip-flopped between Emotionless Girl and Yamato Nadeshiko depending entirely on who she's associating with at that particular moment. Just don't mess with Tohru. Ever.
* Vanilla from ''[[Galaxy Angel (
* Feldt Grace from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'', though she later starts to become more emotional.
** Tiffa Adil from ''[[After War Gundam X]]'', being a shy, quiet and generally withdrawn girl.
* Kanna from ''[[Inuyasha]]'' most certainly fits this trope, as she was created to be emotionless so that she would be undetectable by any trace of Demonic Energy or Scent. In fact, the translation of her name quite literally means 'void'.
** By the end, it is subverted as she actually has emotion as her heart can feel.
* Toyama Sachi from ''[[Jubei-chan]]''. In the dub, she is referred to as "the strange, emotionless girl" once.
* Eucliwood Hellscythe from ''[[Kore wa Zombie Desu
* Rei Ayanami from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' is frequently mistaken for being emotionless, but viewers who pay any actual attention to the show know that she's [[Sugar and Ice Personality|just repressed]]. As many
** As Rei's [[Expy]] in [[Parallel Trouble Adventure Dual
** Much like the "Spock eyebrow", the subtle hint that Rei is actually having an emotional reaction is if she ''bothers to make eye contact'' with something, which she normally doesn't do.
** Also much like Spock, there are hints that the reason she appears to be emotionless is because otherwise, she'll be OVERLY Emotional, similar to how Vulcans suppress their emotions in fear of being consumed by them instead.
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* Karin's little sister, Anju, in ''[[Karin]]''.
** Although Anju is more the 'doesn't emote but is certainly feeling a lot' type, rather than truly unemotional:
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Bge: "Yes, you are. Your voice doesn't crack. Tears don't fall. But all the same, you're crying." }}
* Another
* Sai Jounouchi from ''[[
* Kirika from ''[[Noir]]'' acts emotionless, but hides deep concern about her apparent amnesia. {{spoiler|She becomes truly emotionless when her memory is restored.}}
* Most of the eponymous warriors in ''[[Claymore]]'', though that makes them more like [[The Stoic]].
* ''[[
* Ritsuko from ''[[Kujibiki Unbalance]]'' hides secret feelings for Chihiro behind an emotionless exterior.
* In ''[[Please Teacher
* Lumiere from ''[[Kiddy Grade]]'' is both this and [[The Spock]].
* A very, very rare male version of this trope: Mytho from ''[[Princess Tutu]]'', who is ''literally'' emotionless, thanks to a spell that shattered his heart.
* Nozomu from ''[[
** She even has no qualms essentially pimping the main male lead out to Chizuru in order to try and {{spoiler|"fix" her stolen magic / breasts, }} and in the [[Gecko Ending]] of the anime it's Nozomu who suggests {{spoiler|the [[Tenchi Solution]].}}
* Akira Takano from ''[[School Rumble]]''.
** Male example: Oddball Karasuma. Yeah. He {{spoiler|had been repressing his feelings from the very beginning in an attempt to distance himself from everyone}}. When he finally snaps very late in the manga, his bouts of emotion are so expressive, he becomes almost unrecognizable.
* ''[[Now and Then, Here
* Fate in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. Fate actually does have emotions, but keeps them suppressed as a defense mechanism against her [[No Sympathy|mothers insane demands]] and even [[Abusive Parents|more insane punishment for failure.]] Although she recovers later, Fate remains quieter and more reserved than the rest of the [[
** Lutecia in ''StrikerS''. Likely a result of [[Mad Scientist|Jail's]] experiments and/or of growing up without her mother. She becomes more emotional by ''ViVid''.
** The youngest Combat Cyborgs- Otto, Deed and Sette- also count. Deed doesn't even change expressions while asking Wendi to [[Skinship Grope|get her hands off her breasts]], and when she and Otto don't react as Wendi celebrates her victory over one of the Einherjar installations, Wendi gets annoyed and complains about having to be in the same group as them. The youngest, Sette, is almost completely devoid of emotions to the point of seeming robotic, and Tre tells her to put some life into her daily routines.
* Lila from ''[[Najica Blitz Tactics]]'' showcases many characteristics of this trope, being an [[Artificial Human]], although she can fake emotions to some degree if needed to achieve a certain goal (like seducing men). Later in the series she starts to genuinely warm up toward the protagonist though.
* Alissa Southerncross from ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]''.
* ''[[Koihime Musou]]'' has Ryoufu, a [[Gender Flip
** From another ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' gender flip, ''[[Ikki Tousen]]'', there's Zhuge Liang's reincarnation Shokatsuryou Koumei who mixes this with [[Little Miss Snarker]] and [[Creepy Child]]...
* Akira Okochi in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has her emotions, but is usually so quiet, her [[Day in The Limelight]] chapter was told entirely without dialogue.
** {{spoiler|Asuna}} was also emotionless in the backstory. She was still emotionless upon arrival, but ten years of being bugged by Ayaka taught her emotions, albeit mostly emotions regarding irritation.
** Zazie Rainyday is emotionless to the point of [[Cute Mute]]. Although she speaks up in the endgame of both the first anime and the manga, she still shows very, very little emotion. The manga makes you ''think'' she's showing a playfully humorous side- but no, she isn't. {{spoiler|That's her twin sister. She herself}} is still mildly altruistic, infuriatingly mysterious, and as emotional as a dead yak.
** Chachamaru is a justified
* Shizuku, the [[Token
* Otome from ''[[Koi Koi 7]]''. It probably comes from being the oldest of the group, but stuck at a young age, since she was the first to become a cyborg.
* Ayuki of ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]'' seems to be one of these in the anime. However, in the manga, she just seems [[The Stoic|quiet and calm]]. However, even then she never shows much emotion other then some casual comedy moments. {{spoiler|Except in a later chapter, where she cries and screams at Hitoshi when she learns that Hazumu will die in 29 days. This only fuels the theory that she is in love with Hazumu, which was never really hinted at in the anime (instead, it was hinted she likes ''Tomari'')}}
* Anthy Himemiya from ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' is a variant on the Emotionally Repressed Girl, in that she is effectively anaesthetized by the circumstances of her... ''very complicated'' connection to her brother.
* Tomoe Yukishiro from ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' plays this for tragedy, since {{spoiler|she couldn't show her fiancé Akira how happy she was when they got engaged, so he thought he wasn't good enough for her and went to search for his fortune to Kyoto... where he got killed}}.
* Zefiris from ''[[Scrapped Princess]]''. Also a [[Robot Girl]] - kind of.
* Momo from ''[[Shinigami no Ballad]]'' is a subversion. She appears emotionless, but allegedly feels more strongly than normal humans do. The other shinigami plays this straight though.
* Primula in ''[[
* Sara Werec of ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' is an example of an
* Latune Subbota from ''[[Super Robot Wars]]: Original Generation''. Then she gets a crush on the [[Hot
* Yami from ''[[To
* Michiru from ''[[Uta Kata]]''.
* Echo from ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' although later on in the manga she changes to more of a [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]
* Laila from ''[[Venus Versus Virus]]'', in contrast with her somewhat livelier twin sister, Lola.
* Tabitha of ''[[
* Miyabi "Professor" Oomichi of ''[[GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class]]'' is extremely subtle in her expression of emotion, but her friends seem able to pick up on her emotions sometimes: during the yaminabe arc, there's a panel with a closeup of Miyabi's face looking stoic as ever, yet Tomokane can tell she looks happy. Also, the reader can see an expression of
* Marie Kagura of [[Tona Gura]]. Subverted somewhat in that this state hides a desire that {{spoiler|her older brother Yuuji revert to his pre-puberty self and pay attention only to her}}.
* Aki Izayoi from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!
* ''[[Shinigami Trilogy]]'': Himeka, a [[Devil in Plain Sight]], basically [[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* Dou Haguro from ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen]]'' is an amoral emotionless guy who occasionally wonders "how his face looks" and casually leaves the keys to his sizable arsenal in front of a vengeance-crazed lackey {{spoiler|who he provoked by secretly unplugging the lackey's brother's life support}}. Not even being ambushed and shot several times while in the fifth grade can break him, until he encounters the [[Anti
* Lucy from ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' before {{spoiler|the children at her orphanage kill her puppy right in front of her.}}
** She also verges on emotionless whenever she takes over from Nyu in the anime.
* Eve from ''[[Black Cat (
* Sabrina (or Natsume in Japanese), the Psychic Gym Leader from ''[[
* [[Child Soldier]] Jonah from ''[[Jormungand]]'' displays these tendencies, likely due both to the trauma of seeing his parents killed in a bombing when he was a small child, and all the violence and strife he has witnessed since.
* ''[[Vampire Knight]]'' gives us two: Seiren and Rima.
* ''[[Tenshi
* Temporary ''[[Sky Girls]]'' Aisha. Somewhat justified in that she's actually fused with nanotech which may or may not influence her brain functions.
* In ''[[Wild
* Reki from ''[[Hidan no Aria]]''.
* Protagonist of ''Potemayo'' is a male version of this. No amount of moeblobs can affect Sunao's calm character.
* Outside the eponymous cafe of ''[[Eve no Jikan]]'', Sammy and Akiko behave this way. They transform into a [[Shrinking Violet]] and a [[Genki Girl]], respectively, when given the opportunity to express their emotions. However, behaving like humans in public would draw unwanted attention, and they are ''very'' good at suppressing their feelings.
** Actually, half of the robots in-series ([[Robot Girl|the female half]]) qualify. Sammy and Akiko just happen to have been given the most character development.
* Maria, manager of the Hakushuu Dinosaurs in ''[[Eyeshield
* Machi Kuragi from ''[[Fruits Basket]]''.
* ''[[
* Homura Akemi from ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' starts out as this. She never smiles, has a completely toneless voice, and acts like she's made of stone when {{spoiler|Mami dies and Sayaka turns into a witch.}} It is {{spoiler|subverted}} as we find out that she {{spoiler|invoked this trope ''on purpose'' after watching her friends die again and again while stuck in her [[Groundhog Day Loop]]. She went from being a [[Shrinking Violet]] with glasses and a heart condition to a coolheaded stoic in a desperate attempt to finally save Madoka from her terrible fate.}}
* Key from ''[[Key the Metal Idol]]'' seems to be emotionless initially, claiming to be a robot, but is eventually revealed to be {{spoiler|a severe case of emotional repression prompted by merely being convinced and, as a result, convincing others that she is a robot when she is, in fact, a human to prevent her potent extra-physical abilities from awakening}}.
* Kanade Tachibana, the titular Angel of ''[[Angel Beats!]]'' is, at least on the surface, an example of this. She's quiet, and impassive seeming even when dishing out violence or receiving grievous injury. She has emotions, but she rarely shows them.
* In the first ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' has Sage, a mutant whose brain works much like a computer, and as such, approaches Rei Ayanami level emotionlessness at times, though occasionally shifting to [[The Stoic]] level when really, ''really'' worked up. (Naturally, she's such an expert at [[Perp Sweating]] that her gaze alone accomplishes what Wolverine's famed "claw on either side of neck; dare me to pop the middle?" approach cannot.) Surprisingly, "computer brain" simply describes her brain works. Despite the functions of her mind often being described in computer terms, it, and the rest of her, are a hundred percent organic.
** She can still say her name in [[Rainbow Speak|gigantic, colorful letters]], though.
* Raven from ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]''. This based out of necessity because if she ever let her emotions go, her demonic father, Trigon would seize control of her and take over Earth's dimension. Her learning to accept and express emotions after the defeat of her father is a major piece of [[Character Development]].
* The Passionchild in ''[[Shade the Changing Man]]'', an androgynous pretty boy who incited emotion to the psychotic degree in everyone around him, but never expressed anything. He didn't even speak until Shade cracked into his inner world, and found nothing.
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* [[Sin City|Miho]] combines this with [[The Voiceless]].
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* Pretty much ''any'' Jack Rudd-written ''[[Neighbours]]'' fanfic starring Lisa Jeffries.
* The [[Mary Sue|eponymous heroine]] of ''[[Legolas By Laura
* In [[X
== Film ==
* Wednesday forcing a smile in ''[[The Addams Family
▲* Wednesday forcing a smile in ''[[The Addams Family (TV)|Addams Family Values]]'' evokes horror in onlookers.
** Even in the audience...yet the [[Genre Blind|camp councilors]] [[Adults Are Useless|cluelessly delight]] in finally getting her to smile.
* Lydia in ''[[
* Subverted and [[Lampshaded]] mercilessly in the ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]] [[The Movie|movie]]'' with agent [[Punny Name|Karen Sympathy]]. She tries relentlessly to be an
* Miette starts off like this in ''[[The City of Lost Children]]''.
* Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) in ''[[The Royal Tenenbaums]]''.
* Emily in ''[[The Final]]''. {{spoiler|Until Ravi is killed.}} Then she goes right back to this.
* Summer, in ''[[
* In ''[[The Happening]]'', Zooey Deschanel is actually given the line "I don't like to show my emotions," which many suspect was a late addition to the script to try to cover up her less than enthusiastic performance.
== Literature ==
* Estella from ''[[Great Expectations]]''.
* Susan Calvin from [[Isaac Asimov]]'s many robot short stories.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Susan Sto Helit of ''[[
** Adora Belle Dearheart in the "Moist Von Lipwig" novels also comes across as emotionless, when she's actually repressing a mountain of rage. [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Alternatively]], she comes across as a woman burying her issues under [[Deadpan Snarker|a mountain of bitter sarcasm]].
* In the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] novels, Winter Celchu (an aide and childhood friend of Leia's), an Intelligence agent with a [[Photographic Memory|holographic memory]], has lost her composure perhaps once in the entirety of her
* Kahlan of ''[[The Sword of Truth]]'' has this as a public persona: A voice to freeze water. Another example is Nicci, who is more in the idea of an impassive [[Dark Magical Girl]] hardened by an unpleasant life until she no longer cares about life anymore. {{spoiler|Richard does manage to get through to her in the sixth book, though, shortly before she does a [[High Heel Face Turn]].}}
* Actually ''subverted'' in ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. Ivy appears to be totally emotionless for quite a while after we meet her, {{spoiler|but it turns out that this is actually one of the Archive's defense mechanisms. Ivy herself is lonely and has to cope with the fact that she has almost no personal identity; even her name is just [[The Nicknamer|a nickname Harry gave her]]. She's also cursed with the Archive's perfect recall, so she knows ''exactly'' how her mother felt about her. (Hint: It wasn't real positive)}}
* In the ''[[Wicked Lovely]]'' series, Leslie becomes a literal emotionless girl when she is acting as the dark court's shadow girl (her emotions are channeled into Irial) and this is part of Sorcha's [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask|mask]].
* In the Lowell Bair translation of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' novel, Raoul describes Christine as "indifference personified." (He wouldn't be surprised if he knew what the poor girl was going through at that point, of course...)
* Miranda in L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[
* Charlotte Crescent/C2 from ''[[Charlotte Powers]]'', at least on appearance. She cannot intuitively 'read' the emotions of others, and has difficulty understanding and expressing her own emotional state.
* Kambili from ''[[
* In ''[[The Last Unicorn]]'', the titular character can be seen as such. In fact, she's rather [[The Stoic|stoic]] when she's in her normal form. Even if she can feels sorrow, joy and fear, she's unable to feel some human feelings, such as regret and love. As an immortal being, she does not fear mortality. [[Emergency Transformation|When she's turned into a human by Schmendrick]], she's horrified. Following this traumatic event, she becomes completly emotionless, and slowly forget who she was. It's not until later in the story that she's able to feel emotions again.
* Coira, the protagonist of ''[[White
* Thérèse herself of ''[[Therese Raquin]]'' becomes emotionless over the course of her childhood due to living with her overbearing aunt and her sickly, petulant cousin Camille. Then [[Kissing Cousins|she and Camille get married]] and it gets worse.
* [[The Hunger Games (
== Live Action TV ==
** Seven of Nine from ''[[Star Trek: Voyager
▲* ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' sports a couple examples, such as:
** T'Pol from ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise
▲** Seven of Nine from ''[[Star Trek Voyager (TV)|Voyager]]'' is a former Borg drone, so underplays emotions while focusing on efficiently completing tasks. However, she does annoyance really well.
** T'Pring and T'Pau from the ''[[Star Trek:
▲** T'Pol from ''[[Star Trek Enterprise (TV)|Enterprise]]'' is a Vulcan whose frustration with humans isn't veiled as well as it could be, but otherwise fits this trope. (Jolene Blalock has claimed this is intentional, but (YMMV) it does tend to come off as a half-baked Seven Of Nine impression.)
▲** T'Pring and T'Pau from the ''[[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episode "Amok Time".
** The first officer of Captain Pike, known only as [[Number One]], was one of these.
* Cameron, the female [[Terminator]] of ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' fits this quite accurately, though she is quite capable of ''simulating'' human emotions when she needs to. The rather sudden shift from emotionless blankness to a laughing, smiling teenage girl is....[[Creepy Child|creepy.]]
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** Although this is deliberately encouraged by keeping them in a calm and peaceful place. If exposed to more dramatic stimulus they gain emotions quite quickly - terrified and freaked out.
* Irina from [[Vintergatan]] 5B, a Swedish children's sci-fi comedy show. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in this dialogue:
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'''Irina''': Cosmonauts don't ''have'' any feelings, Henrik! }}
* Effy from [[Skins]].
* Aeryn Sun in ''[[
* [[Fringe]]'s Agent Olivia Dunham became this when being experimented on as a child caused her to suppress her emotions in preparation of becoming a cross-universal supersoldier.
* Averted in [[Boston Legal]]. In the episode "Smile", lawyer Alan Shore tries to get a prestigious school to accept a little girl (actually a child prodigy) lacking the facial muscles to smile. The child has strong positive emotions, she's just completely unable to express them facially.
* Parker on [[Leverage]] is a bizarre example in that while she does show emotions, they are typically wrong for that situation. Played with in "The Twelve Step Job" when she goes on anti-depressants as part of her cover and suddenly becomes a more or less normal, well-adjusted human being.
** In "The Snow Job", Parker has to pretend to be a patient dying of a brain tumor and Sophie is trying to help her prepare for the role.
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'''Parker''': (laughs hysterically) }}
== Manhwa ==
* Vera Linus, in the [[Manhwa]] ''[[Veritas]]'', generally shows no emotion except when dealing with something that has to do with Lightning Tiger, the guy who taught her the meaning of "fear".
== Video Games ==
* A plot point in the ''[[
▲* A plot point in the ''[[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|Darkstalkers]]'' series of fighting games. Donovan, a half-vampire monk meets Anita, a young girl who is also a half-vampire, who has lost the ability to feel emotions. He decides to try to slay the world's supply of monsters to cure her. He succeeds in restoring her emotions and humanity, but becomes a full vampire himself. This leads to a climactic flash forward cliffhanger showdown between her as the messiah of the human race and him as her main opposition. Especially notable because the creators of the series were sometimes criticized in interviews for using this trope, which was in its peak at the time.
* Gamall in ''Thief 2'' is an example of this trope played to perfection.
* Amy from ''[[Soul Calibur]]'' can come off as one of these, although it was stated that she locks her emotions away, so it's possible that it's all a facade.
* Presea Combatir of ''[[
** She still gives off [[The Stoic|the impression]] of being emotionless even in the sequel, though she [[Tales
* In ''[[Suikoden]] V'', which has [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] ([[
* Bastila of ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' tries. She tries very hard. Perhaps too hard. [[Defrosting Ice Queen|And utterly fails]]. [[Face Heel Turn|Though not in a good way]]. [[Heel Face Turn|Probably]].
** The Handmaiden in the sequel does a better job of it. Most of the time.
* Ashley from the ''[[
* Amoretta from ''[[Grim Grimoire]]'', a recently made homunculus with an angel for a soul. She has emotions, but she's quiet, composed, and probably very depressed by the emptiness of her existence up to that point, so it's understandable that she's less lively than the ''ghosts'' who show up.
* Latooni Subota from ''[[Super Robot Wars]]: Original Generation'' starts out like this due to her [[Break the Cutie]] past.
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** Don't forget Limstella, the [[Dark Action Girl]] from ''[[Fire Emblem]]''. {{spoiler|Though to be fair, she can also be seen as a sort-of [[Robot Girl]], since she's one of the morphs created by Nergal.}}
** Sonia of the same series could be seen as a subversion, instead being an {{spoiler|"emotionless" doll who believes herself to be a perfect human. Limstella puts and end to such illusions, however.}}
* In ''[[
* Shanoa in ''[[Castlevania]]: Order of Ecclesia''. Justified in that her emotions (and memories) were blown away at the beginning of the game. In fact, when told by a villager that she should smile more often...
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** This may be reversed to some degree in the ending, as she sheds tears over {{spoiler|Albus finally passing away}}.
* Somewhere in between this and a fully fledged [[Robot Girl]] is Aki Zeta-Five, leader of the Cybernetic Consciousness in the expansion pack to ''[[Sid
* Princess Katrina of ''[[Wild
* Vasilios Cosmos (a guy) of ''[[Space Colony]]'', withdrawn and doesn't consider himself human.
* Jacqli of [[Ar
* Misaki in [[Canvas 2]] initially speaks in a very deadpan manner, but warms up over time.
* Eleanor, the "Cold Princess" in ''[[Rule of Rose]]'' - the least developed of the Aristocrats, almost nothing is known about her except that she loves birds and fantasizes about flying away from everything. When her beloved pet bird dies in Bird of Happiness-chapter, she just throws its corpse back in the cage without tiniest spec of visible emotion, and walks off.
* Valentine of [[Guilty Gear]] 2 Overture counts as one, and regularly speaks in a calm, monotone voice without changing it. However, when she gets her [[Villainous Breakdown]] once Sol stops the process of the Key by destroying it, that's where she gets [[Berserk Button|her first emotion ever]].
* Nu, Lambda, and Mu of [[
* Eifer Skute of ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]'' could also count as an
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* Aselia and the minor spirit Nanaru in ''[[Eien no Aselia]]'' are both rather emotionless. The latter isn't even an exaggeration or merely based on her behavior, since her profile indicates that her sword has eaten away most of her personality. She genuinely feels very little until she gets to know Yuuto.
* Mai from ''[[Kanon]]''.
* ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' had Lana Skye, who had shut herself off to the outside world. Her control cracks when {{spoiler|it appears her sister Ema is being accused of murder; she throws herself on the witness stand in a desperate panic. At the very end, when everything is settled and she finally smiles, several of this wiki's editors teared up.}}
** Vera Misham in Apollo Justice is of the repressed type. She never changes her facial expression, instead drawing smilies on a notebook she always has. {{spoiler|In the good ending, she gives a proper smile at last.}}
* Hisui from ''[[Tsukihime]]'' seems to follow this trope at first, though it becomes apparent fairly quickly that she just suppresses her emotions very well. {{spoiler|The real emotionless girl is actually the [[Stepford Smiler|ever-smiling Kohaku]]}}.
** You also learn in the first route that [[Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire|Arcueid Brunestud]] started out as one, until Shiki killed her and, by her own admission, broke 'something' inside her, resulting in the [[Genki Girl|energetic]], [[Badass Adorable|friendly]] version we're familiar with.
* Unan of ''[[
* Antimony from ''[[
▲== Webcomics ==
▲* Antimony from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' is both [[The Stoic|stoic]] due to [[Parental Abandonment|a recent tragedy]] and unflappable in the face of weirdness due to a very unusual childhood. {{spoiler|She soon begins opening up to her best friend, but her unnervingly emotionless demeanor shows no sign of abating.}}
** Recent events suggest that the appearance of emotions on Antimony's face is directly related to her friendship with [[Gadgeteer Genius|Kat]]. [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=460 Because she gets ''really creepy'' when Kat is in trouble.]
** Then there's Jones, who is even more of a blank slate. Whether she's [[Exposition|expositing]], flirting, [[Trickster Mentor|intentionally ticking her student off]], or even affirming that something was "hilarious", her expression ''does not change''. Antimony herself has speculated that Jones might be a robot masquerading as a human, but Jones denies this.
* For an example of an
* Sara Amraphel from ''[[Errant Story]]'', often lampshaded.
** And made disturbing in a recent sequence where for the purposes of subterfuge, she assumes an appearance and attitude that are very OOC.
* Ditto for Wanda Firebaugh from ''[[Erfworld]]'', who also [https://web.archive.org/web/20130830160929/http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0023.html lampshades] her status.
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* Aradia in ''[[
* Ozy of ''[[
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111115105233/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=646 Naal], ''[[
* ''[[Archipelago]]'': Lucinda, after a powerful tragedy, [[Deal
* After [[The Reveal]] in ''[[Flipside]]'', {{spoiler|Maytag herself}} is shown to be this. The story of how she got this way is currently (November 12, 2012) still being written.
== Web Original ==
* Alysia Morales from ''[[Arcana Magi]]'' must remain emotionless or she will suffer physically.
* Pathologist Madeline Frost in [http://www.shadowunit.org Shadow Unit] is the adult version of this trope; no one knows if she's autistic, sociopathic, deeply PTSD, or what, but the hospital where she works has a standing rule about letting her talk to actual living people. (Another character calls her "Cthulhu's Dream Date.")
* Since [[The Erotic Mind Control Story Archive]] features, well, [[Captain Obvious|mind control]], this trope appears a lot. (See also "Real Life" below.)
* [http://vgdivision.livejournal.com/ Agent Xericka]{{broken link}} of the [[Protectors of the Plot Continuum|PPC]]'s Bad Slash unit, who was a Nobody in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' before her recruitment.
* Electra in [[Greek Ninja]]. She shows little emotion even when she's informed of the death of her sensei. During stressful situations, such as battles, she remains cool and stoic.
* [[
== Western Animation ==
* Raven from ''[[Teen Titans (
** Though Raven can actually be ''intensely'' emotional - you do ''not'' want to see her angry. She needs to stay repressed in order to avoid losing control of her powers and/or unleashing her [[Super
▲* Raven from ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'' (emotionally repressed out of necessity more than choice). She becomes more and more open as the series progresses.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121101012825/http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep23/ep23-187.png Mai] from ''[[
▲** Though Raven can actually be ''intensely'' emotional- you do ''not'' want to see her angry. She needs to stay repressed in order to avoid losing control of her powers and/or unleashing her [[Super Powered Evil Side]].
* Mandy in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
▲* [http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep23/ep23-187.png Mai] from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]],'' who finds everything in life [[Deadpan Snarker|boring and "unbearably bleak"]]... everything except [[Victorious Childhood Friend|Prince Zuko]].
▲* Mandy in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'' seems to have only three major emotions: indifference, disgust, and anger. The rarity of her smiles, especially in the later seasons was lampshaded in "My Fair Mandy", where her attempt at a ''cheerful'' smile ended up destroying the universe.
** Giving a look of genuine sadness is even rarer; she's only done it once.
** She's also shown shock and confusion, but that's understandable given the kind of people/things she hangs out with.
* A minor ''[[Freakazoid!]]'' villain, aptly named Deadpan.
== Real Life ==
* The [[Brainwashed]] trope, and several [[Mind Control]] tropes related to it, is an example of this trope. When you hypnotize someone, this is almost always what you eventually achieve. The subject is just too deeply relaxed and her mind is too focused on the hypnotist to emote, hence the stereotypical blank stare and mouth hanging open.
▲* The [[Brainwashed]] trope, and several [[Mind Control]] tropes related to it, is an example of this trope. When you hypnotize someone, this is almost always what you eventually achieve. The subject is just too deeply relaxed and her mind is too focused on the hypnotist to emote, hence the stereotypical blank stare and mouth hanging open.
* Alice Glass of the band Crystal Castles acts like this quite a bit. See their music video for the song "Crimewave"
* Those who suffer from Möbius Syndrome may seem like this, as they are not able to create facial expressions.
** People with Schizoid personality disorder. While able to create expressions, they have a "blunted effect" when it comes to their emotions. ([
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