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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 come with the territory that any woman who ''isn't'' an emotional wreck draws attention to herself simply by being dispassionate and collected.
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** 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 claims--and her relationship with Joshua is a partial reason.
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* 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-Hero]]-Protagonist Akira Inugami during [[Our Werewolves Are Different|that time of the month]] and [[Fan Nickname|Smugwolf]] makes it very clear that, despite being a [[Complete Monster]], Dou is still just a human and that surviving the ambush was pure dumb luck. Dou is so overwhelmed after feeling fear for the first time that after Smugwolf leaves [[Villainous Breakdown|he laughs and cries uncontrollably at the same time]]. And then [[It Gets Worse]].
* 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 (manga)|Black Cat]]'' and pretty much any character dubbed by Brina Palencia. She appears to be a specialist at playing monotonous and emotionless girl characters and gets typecast as such.
* Sabrina (or Natsume in Japanese), the Psychic Gym Leader from ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue]]'', appears as an Emotionless Girl in the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime. In the first episode in which she appears, she has that trademark creepy blank stare and a doll who sits on her lap and does all the talking for her. She beats Ash easily, then lets her doll "play" with him and his friends in her dollhouse. Later, the viewers find out she had a rough childhood and reacted by stuffing all her emotions into her doll (who represents her childhood self) and having no mercy on the trainers who come to visit her. Ash teaches her to laugh again and by the end of the second episode she's a normal girl (well, with psychic powers). In the ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' manga she almost qualifies as one, but still cracks a smile or a glare every once in a while.
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* ''[[Hanaukyo Maid Tai]]''. To varying degrees, the maids Grace, Konoe, and Mariel all fit this trope.
* 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 ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' movie, Syaoran's mom is usually this, though she does become a [[Defrosting Ice Queen]] around [[Moe|Sakura]].
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* Coira, the protagonist of ''[[White as Snow]]'' never shows emotions as they were, symbolically, bled out of her after a childhood illness caused by her mother rejecting her love. She is sometimes stated to feel things, such as disgust when her drunken brother asks to dance with her, but the emotion is so distant and she accepts the offer so coolly that nobody can tell. In a twist on the usual [[When She Smiles]], the big sign of Coira opening her heart to someone is crying.
* 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 (novel)|Katniss Everdeen]], probably as a direct result of being a [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]] (and that's ''before'' [[It Got Worse|she enters the arena]]).
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* A plot point in the ''[[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 ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' was, among other side-effects, robbed of her emotions when implanted with an Exsphere without a Key Crest. She became so robotically narrow-minded that she didn't even notice her father had died in his bed years ago, though his body lay there decaying the whole time. She gets better when she joins the heroes, who give her a Key Crest, but then she has to deal with the pain of everything that's happened while she was like that.
** She still gives off [[The Stoic|the impression]] of being emotionless even in the sequel, though she [[Tales (series)/Funny|proves she's found a sense of humor]] within moments of her first appearance.
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== 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.
* 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.
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