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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-Blooded]] partner to form a [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]] pair. Despite the name, the trope isn't [[Always Female]] and male characters also apply but, due to men being expected to have [[A Real Man Is a Killer|no emotions other than anger]], they're less noticed.
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.
They may suffer from [[Bad Dreams]] and/or find it difficult to [[Does Not Know How to Say Thanks|express gratitude]]. Contrast [[Sugar and Ice Personality]], who may initially appear emotionless but in fact has a cute inner side. Will often be the subject of [[Must Make Her Laugh]] and/or [[When She Smiles]].
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* 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 ''[[Plus Anima]]'' fits this perfectly, even though he's a boy.
* ''[[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 ''[[Baccano!]]'', who actually is mute. Series main [[Ax Crazy|Ax]] [[Crazy Awesome|Crazy]] [[Creepy Awesome|Awesome]] instantly falls for her because of that.
* 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 ''[[The Big O]]''. She's an actual [[Robot Girl]]. On at least one occasion, she expresses relief on never being programmed with emotions, although arguably she didn't need to
* 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 Sex Clone]].}}
** 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}}.
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** 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.
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* 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 ka?]]''. On top of showing little emotion, her main means of communication is writing in a notebook as opposed to talking. The reason for this being {{spoiler|that her magic is so powerful that any of her words can trigger devastating magic. Subverted and justified in that [[Sugar and Ice Personality|she's not really emotionless]], but her magic requires her to be in control of her emotions}}.
* 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|Dual!]], D fits this until the final battle. She's actually frightened about showing emotion.
** 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.
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{{quote|Anju: "I'm not crying."
Bge: "Yes, you are. Your voice doesn't crack. Tears don't fall. But all the same, you're crying." }}
* Another
* Sai Jounouchi from ''[[Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer]]''. The anime made her emotionally repressed and gave her a [[Dead Little Sister]], the manga doesn't explore her character enough.
* Kirika from ''[[Noir]]'' acts emotionless, but hides deep concern about her apparent amnesia. {{spoiler|She becomes truly emotionless when her memory is restored.}}
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* ''[[Angel Densetsu]]'''s expy to ''[[Claymore]]'' (Ikuno/Claire) is a [[Deadpan Snarker]] too.
* Ritsuko from ''[[Kujibiki Unbalance]]'' hides secret feelings for Chihiro behind an emotionless exterior.
* In ''[[Please Teacher]]'' and its sequel ''[[Onegai Twins]],'' (aka ''Please Teacher!'' and ''Please Twins!'') extreme emotion can induce the [[Heroic BSOD|coma-like "standstill" state]]. Ichigo Morino, who has experienced this, forces herself to be calm, but the writers sorta didn't get it right: she gives the same lines anyone else might give, but with a HAL-like delivery. She sports [[Mind Control Eyes]] but makes otherwise normal facial expressions. In other words, no more the
* 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 ''[[Kanokon]]''. Her [[Big Eater|gluttony notwithstanding]], she is a subversion. While she ''acts'' emotionless, with a consistent monotone voice and blank expression, she displays an unexplained attraction to the hero. And she is able to easily keep up with
** 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]]''.
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* 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 Mini-Moe]] [[Cute Monster Girl]] from ''[[Omamori Himari]]''.
* 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.
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* 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 ''[[SHUFFLE!]]'' is an excellent example of the repressed type.
* 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-Blooded]] [[Ascended Fanboy|Ascended]] [[Super Robot]] [[Ascended Fanboy|Fanboy]], and clears all that right up.
* Yami from ''[[To Love Ru]]'', although she has shown the barest hint of emotions other than "I hate ecchi people" on occasion.
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* Laila from ''[[Venus Versus Virus]]'', in contrast with her somewhat livelier twin sister, Lola.
* Tabitha of ''[[Zero no Tsukaima]]'', of the repressed variety.
* 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! 5D's]]''.
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** Even in the audience...yet the [[Genre Blind|camp councilors]] [[Adults Are Useless|cluelessly delight]] in finally getting her to smile.
* Lydia in ''[[Beetlejuice]]''. In the [[Beetlejuice (animation)|animated series]], she becomes a [[Perky Goth]].
* 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]]''.
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* Susan Sto Helit of ''[[Discworld/Soul Music|Soul Music]]'', ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'' and ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'' shows no outward emotion on hearing of the deaths of her parents, and otherwise fits the "cool in a crisis" model. She does occasionally get angry. Don't get in her way at this point.
** 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)}}
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{{quote|'''Shanoa:''' "I do not smile."}}
** 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 Meier's Alpha Centauri]]''. She would pretty much count as a [[Suzumiya Haruhi|Nagato]] [[Expy]] if the game wasn't 8 years older. She's fully human (born Aki Luttinen in
* Princess Katrina of ''[[Wild Arms XF]]''. Although she's said to only not understand the concept of fear, she doesn't seem to feel much in the way of anything else, either.
* Vasilios Cosmos (a guy) of ''[[Space Colony]]'', withdrawn and doesn't consider himself human.
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* 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 [[Blaz Blue]] also count as some, to be exact. To be fair, they're android clones of Saya, after all. Nu and Lambda only get emotions when they're around Ragna (Lambda usually doesn't do so except on special occasions), and Mu gets emotions when suffering a [[Villainous Breakdown]] before being turned back into her old self (Noel) by Ragna.
* Eifer Skute of ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]'' could also count as an
== Visual Novels ==
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** 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.
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