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Lots of [[Hot-Blooded]] heroes like to power up by doing something violent. Whether it's [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|Punctuated Emphasis]] while yelling their [[In the Name of the Moon]] speech, tearing off a [[Power Limiter]], shouting as they charge up a [[Ki Attacks]], flexing as they invoke the [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]], or even bleeding. Not [[The Stoic|this guy though]]; he expresses his enhanced combat ability by entering the [[Buddhism|Lotus Position.]]
Rather than express violence with violence, he pauses mid battle (or pre-battle) and meditates. It doesn't have to be a twenty minute session, usually all he needs is five seconds, closed eyes, even breathing, mentioning a [[Survival Mantra]] or [[Koan]] to enter a state of near perfect calm (or murderous [[Tranquil Fury]]), and then [[Let's Get Dangerous|the bad people fall down.]]
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Virgo Shaka of ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' is basically the king of this trope. Even his peers among the Gold Saints ''dread'' having to fight him for fear of him stopping his meditation to open his eyes. In the Hades arc, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|he fights three resurrected Gold Saints at the same time]] {{spoiler|and he loses only because [[Thanatos Gambit|he allows them to.]] By the end of the fight, the Gold Saints have [[Curb Stomp Battle|each lost four of their five senses and gotten beat up pretty bad.]]}}
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