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* ''[[Warrior Cats]]'': Pretty much everyone. They aren't outright happy or excited (except maybe Lionblaze), but no one seems to be at all fazed by all the bloody battles in the series. Noteworthy quotes from various characters:
{{quote| "I'd welcome any cat who'd help me rip out their entrails."<br />
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* As [[Rudyard Kipling]] in ''The Ballad of Boh Da Thone'' described [[The Captain]] remembering old times when he tried to catch his archenemy:
{{quote| In his eye lit the passionless passion of slaughter}}
* In [[Forgotten Realms]] novel ''The Making of a Mage'' [[Does Not Like Magic|resentful]] Elminster (age 17) witnessed how one [[The Magocracy|magelord]] summoned and tried to command the incumbent Magister. Dorgon "Stonecloak" Heamiiolothtar
* In [[Discworld]]'s ''[[Discworld/Night Watch|Night Watch]]'', Carcer is this trope. This man will smile serenely as he's stabbing you, and then with a look of childlike innocence, go "Who, me?" to any bystanders, as if he didn't just kill someone in cold blood.
* During Act I, Scene III of [[Shakespeare]]'s ''Julius Caesar'', a heavy storm hits Rome, the earth shakes, fire is seen in the skies and lions, ghosts and burning men walk the streets of Rome. And into this, enters Cassius, who smiles contentedly and calls it "a very pleasing night to honest men."
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* In the [[Honor Harrington]] novel ''In Enemy Hands'', when Honor {{spoiler|is in [[State Sec]] custody}}, she finds that the "deadness" and "cold-eyed patience" of some is even worse than the others' fiercely delighted hatred. In ''Echoes of Honor'' a similar observation is made of Oscar Saint-Just.
* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: In the book ''Collateral Damage'', Paula Woodley talks to Lizzie Fox about her husband Karl Woodley. She asks Lizzie if she's being too sadistic, and she says this in the tone of someone discussing the weather. Of course, she had been abused by her [[Complete Monster]] [[Domestic Abuser]] husband for years. No decent person could fault her for wanting to make him pay for that!
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