No Sense of Humor: Difference between revisions

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* Hatori Sohma from ''[[Fruits Basket]]''.

* Mikael from ''[[Tenshi ni Narumon]]''{{spoiler|... if we're not counting the last three or four episodes that is -- although in those episodes it's not what one would call "a healthy sense of humor" either.}}

== Comic Books ==

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* ''[[X-Men]]'': Professor X and Magneto are frequently flanderized as no-nonsense extremists. James McAvoy's portrayal of Xavier in ''[[X-Men: First Class]]'' is the first attempt to move away from this, although one might simply assume that as he gets older, he will get more serious. Also, Ian McKellen gave Magneto a deadpan, cynical sense of humor which was expanded on by Michael Fassbender.

== Film ==

== Film -- Live-Action ==

* In ''[[No Country for Old Men]]'', according to Carson Wells the big problem with Anton Chighurh isn't that he is batshit insane, but that he lacks a sense of humor.

* The various [[Terminator]]s exhibit this behavior, being emotionless robots.

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* Judge Doom from ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' {{spoiler|A very serious case, considering he's a toon.}}

* In ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' Nicholas Angel's devotion to his job above everything else has made him a first-class police officer. It's also rendered him a completely humourless, pedantic and uptight prick.

== Literature ==

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** Granny Weatherwax understands humor on a conceptual level, but has absolutely no sense of humor and has no understanding of how or why jokes work.

** Death also has No Sense of Humor, being an anthropomorphic personification who doesn't understand human emotions. His brief attempts to inject humor into his work [[Cannot Tell a Joke|failed spectacularly]].

** In ''[[~~Discworld/~~Going Postal|Going Postal]]'', Adora Belle Dearheart tells Moist Von Lipwig that she has no sense of humour due to her embarrassing name.

** In ''[[Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'', Adora Belle Dearheart tells Moist Von Lipwig that she has no sense of humour due to her embarrassing name.

** In ''[[~~Discworld/Making Money|~~Making Money]]'', the head bank clerk Malvolio Bent has "no sense of humour whatsoever. It has been proven by phrenology." It becomes more apparent when one considers {{spoiler|his background as the child of a clown, being laughed out of the arena during his first performance (which failed), fleeing from the circus and vowing never to laugh again}}.

** In ''[[Making Money]]'', the head bank clerk Malvolio Bent has "no sense of humour whatsoever. It has been proven by phrenology." It becomes more apparent when one considers {{spoiler|his background as the child of a clown, being laughed out of the arena during his first performance (which failed), fleeing from the circus and vowing never to laugh again}}.

* In ''[[The Deed of Paksenarrion]]'', gnomes are absolute [[Lawful Neutral]] with No Sense of Humor, believing that only they know and follow the true laws laid down at creation by the High Lord.

* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'': Percy Weasley "wouldn't recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby's tea cozy." He does have a bit of a harshly sarcastic moment in ''Deathly Hallows,'' though, which is remarked upon with astonishment by his siblings.

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* In ''[[Warrior Cats]]'', Rainflower begins scolding Crookedjaw and Oakheart for telling friendly jokes about the queens, making a (quite) boring lecture about how the queens "enjoy helping their Clan". Crookedjaw and Oakheart just roll their eyes at this.

* [[Deadpan Snarker|Asher]] in ''[[Someone Else's War]]''.

== Live-Action TV ==

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** Teal'c almost never tells a joke or laughs (unless you count his occasional plays on Earth idioms), with one [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka6tvlewO3c exception].

* Wesley on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' started out this way, but later became a more rounded character as he transitioned to ''[[Angel]]''.

== Newspaper Comics ==

* [http://www.gocomics.com/barneyandclyde/2012/05/30 Harold] in ''[[Barney & Clyde]]''. So far, that's his sole character trait.

== Puppet Shows ==

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** In one of the ''Muppet'''s "at the ball" sketches, a female dancer asked her partner, "Do you know who is the most humorless man in the world?" When he said no, she replied, "You are, Fathead!" He, of course, responded, "I don't get it."

* From ''[[Les Guignols de l'info]]'', Eva Joly, a French-Norwegian ecologist and former judge.

== Tabletop Games ==

* Any being with the disadvantage "No Sense Of Humor" in ''[[GURPS]]''.

== Video Games ==

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** Also in the first two games, extremely Serious sims (Sims with very few points in the Playful personality aspect) typically don't respond well to jokes.

* Resident synthetic intelligences EDI and Legion from ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''. Though EDI [[Cannot Convey Sarcasm|certainly tries.]]

== Web Comics ==

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* Third Character of ''[http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com/ Jayden and Crusader]'' is a particularly violent atheist with no sense of humour at all.

* [[The Comically Serious|Frank]] from ''[[Two Guys and Guy]]''.

== Web Original ==

* CivGeneral of ''[[Draw Your Own Story]]'', but only towards jokes directed towards him.

== Western Animation ==

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