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*** The [[Over Nine Thousand|even higher levels of Super Saiyan]] get unlocked by both [[Training From Hell|ridiculous training]] and just the right combination of passion and purpose.
** Goodness, no mention of Son Gohan during the Cell games? When he hits super saiyan 2, he becomes completely calm and completely cruel. He spends several episodes just dodging Cell's attacks with no effort, giving him cold gazes in-between. It's it's more noticeable in the movie Bojack Unbound when he reaches super saiyan 2 once again. In that state, he's merely advancing towards big bad with a most eerily slow walk. Minions use some sort of ki-attack that tries to trap-bind him, but he just keeps walking, not giving a damn, still creepily slow.
*** It's actually a technique, it first debuted when he first reaches
** In [[Dragon Ball Abridged|the abridged series]], Vegeta himself has arrived at a moment of tranquil fury upon having his tail cut off.
{{quote|'''Vegeta''': [Calmly] You know... I thought I'd be angrier, what with the utter humiliation and loss of my tail... Or maybe I'm just so unbelievably enraged that I've come full circle. Oh well! Either way, it's time to put an end to this.}}
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* Kenshin's golden-eyed "[[Super-Powered Evil Side|Battousai]]" state in ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' is his state of Tranquil Fury. He's not necessarily mad, he's just done playing nice and is now ready to beat you to a pulp.
** Though as the original Hitokiri Battousai he was more of a "kill off my emotion for efficiency" [[Empathic Weapon|empathic killer]].
** Kenshin loses it in one story arc where the cast attacks a rich mogul who says that his only motivation for doing what he does is plain and simple: [[Money, Dear Boy|Money]], saying that it can do anything. After he kills the henchmen that have turned against him with a [[Gatling Good|gatling gun]], Kenshin runs at him. Due to the efforts of said henchmen, the gun jams, and the guy starts begging for mercy. Kenshin replies by screaming "If you value your life, PRAY TO YOUR BELOVED MONEY!!" before smashing the guy's face in.
** And again in the Kyoto Arc. During the fight with Chou "Sword Hunter" Sawagejou, Chou makes as if to impale an infant on his sword, in an effort to break Kenshin's concentration. It works. Sort of. Kenshin does indeed lose his focus, but instead of forgetting about Chou's special attack, {{spoiler|Kenshin instead forgets that he doesn't want Chou's cervical vertebrae to part ways. He was only saved by the fact that the new sword was, unbeknownst to everyone, a sakabatou. Even then, the sheer force of the blow might have Darth Mauled him anyway(and would certainly have snapped his spine), if not for the BFS wrapped around his torso like a bandage}}
* In ''[[Saiyuki]]'', [[Stepford Smiler]] Hakkai is very good at this, able to carry on polite conversations as he is engaged in battle. But his {{spoiler|past life}} Tenpou in the ''Gaiden'' manga raises this to a very creepy new level, politely saying "excuse me" before he calmly punches his superior's lights out, and {{spoiler|in the battle where he sacrifices his life}}, engages in all manner of meaningless prattle that is totally unrelated to the battle at hand.
* Luck Gandor demonstrates Tranquil Fury in the first ''[[Baccano]]!'' light novel, in contrast to his brother Berga's furniture-smashing rage over the deaths of several of their men. When Berga rejects Luck's request for him to calm down, Luck patiently explains - while gripping a piece of broken wood hard enough to draw blood from his own hand - that he is in fact very angry, and that he wants to rip those responsible to pieces with his own hands, and that he is keeping himself occupied with thinking over the details lest he go on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] and possibly even kill police or innocent bystanders if they got in the way. He then asks his brother to shoot him if it's necessary to keep him from doing so; all the while, his expression never changes, and by the time he's done Berga apologizes and says that Luck needs to calm down even more than he himself does.
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{{quote|[[spoiler:'''Captain America''': "Doctor Banner. Now might be a really good time for you to get angry."
'''Bruce Banner''': [smiling] "That's my secret, Cap. I'm always angry."]] }}
** This trope is the reason why Bruce creeps out almost everyone he meets who knows he's the Hulk. On the outside he's calm, soft-spoken, and agreeable, but there's still...something off about his demeanor that makes it clear that a raging beast is lurking right below the surface.
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"Your sword's smoking," the female bouda said.
"It does that occasionally." My voice sounded flat. }}
* Douglas Hill's series ''Last Legionary.'' A sci-fi story, a entire planet of warriors trained from birth to the utmost levels of physical and mental perfection, to sell their services as mercenaries. Until all but one gets wiped out by a planet-killer bomb. The best part? This is the state of mind ''every last one of them'' gets trained in for combat purposes.
** Which was probably the other part of the reason the {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]] of the series killed them all off. [[Genocide Backfire|Too bad he missed one...]]}}
* In [[The Wheel of Time|The Gathering Storm]], Rand spends most of the book {{spoiler|after killing Semirhage}} in a ''deliberate'' state of Tranquil Fury. ''Everyone'', including Cadsuane and Tuon, find it infinitely creepy and terrifying, especially considering the contrast with his highly vocal releases of rage which had increased in both duration and frequency during the course of his six book mental breakdown.
** For that matter look at the Aes Sedai all throughout the books. An angry Aes Sedai is always described as being "cool" and not showing outward signs of emotion.
* Niko, the martial-arts expert, self-educated, "Buddha-loving" swordsman brother of [[Cal Leandros]] is almost always tranquil, the epitome of Zen. But threaten the ones he loves, '''especially''' his little brother, and that tranquility turns into a cold rage that makes him the perfect weapon, driven by nothing but the desire to bring death. He says himself that the thing he does best is kill.
* In [[Raymond E. Feist]]'s ''[[Riftwar Cycle|Rise of A Merchant Prince]]'' After his father in law is killed, Rupert notes down that the way of getting revenge is keep the fury cold and calculating, so one can properly formulate a plot that can succeed, and then let the anger burn hot and fierce when it completes.
* In ''[[The Dresden Files|Changes]]'', this pretty much defines how Harry spends the majority of the book, with him struggling to keep his ever-intensifying anger at what is happening to his daughter from transforming into an outright [[Unstoppable Rage]]. As he points out at the beginning of the book, a wizard who cuts loose can level city blocks in their fury, so he has to keep his anger on a tight leash. It nonetheless leaks out; for example, when fighting the vampires in his office building, Harry keeps his cool but unthinkingly pumps [[White Magic|soulfire]] into his flame blasts, without even considering the consequences, because he's ''that damned angry'', proving that even Tranquil Fury can potentially be self-destructive.
* In the last book of ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]'', [[Ax Crazy]] Jedi Master clone Joruus C'baoth (half of the trilogy's [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]), goes into a quite spectacular [[Villainous Breakdown]] during the climax. At first, he's completely flipped and incoherently raging, but then he goes right ''past'' that and straight into Tranquil Fury. Everyone thinks it's ''much'' more disturbing than the mad screaming.
{{quote|C'baoth (in a perfectly calm, level voice): You will die for that, Mara Jade. Slowly, and in ''great pain''.}}
** Also in [[Star Wars]], ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'' has this happen to {{spoiler|Luke Skywalker, of all people, after his wife is killed. No hammy temper tantrums like his father}}; simply an unbreakable resolve to avenge her that probably nothing in the galaxy could stop.
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** The ''Original Series'' [[Battlestar Galactica Classic|Adama]], could be even ''worse'' when he got pissed. Because he's frakking Lorne Greene.
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Tenth Doctor, in contrast to the [[Unstoppable Rage|Ninth Doctor]], is very fond of doing this. At the big showdowns against the Sycorax (Christmas special 2005), the Racnoss (Christmas special 2006), the Family of Blood (2007), and the Vashta Nerada (2008) he has displayed very little emotion. [[No Indoor Voice|Then again, loud is his normal state.]]
** In "The Christmas Invasion", the Doctor kills the Sycorax leader by arising open the floor beneath his feet, announcing "No second chances. I'm that sort of man." Moments later, he has a second moment against the Prime Minister, after she shoots down the retreating fleet, killing thousands needlessly, as he sees it. He talks over her pleas, saying "I could bring down your government with a single word... No... six words. Six." He whispered to her aide, "Don't you think she looks tired?" This ''alters the course of history'' and strongly reverbarates all the way through to the end of series 3 of ''Doctor Who'' and the ''[[Torchwood]]'' miniseries ''[[Torchwood: Children of Earth|Children of Earth]]''.
** There's a quote from "The Family of Blood" that pretty much sums up this trope:
{{quote|"He never raised his voice. That was the worst thing. The fury of the Time Lord. And then we discovered why. Why this Doctor, who had fought with gods and demons, why he had run away from us and hidden... He was being kind."}}
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** To be honest, most of the Doctor's incarnations have behaved similarly at least once. As he gets angrier, he tends to go from smiling to annoyed scowling to shouting to steely-eyed gazing.
** In ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 E13 The Big Bang|The Big Bang]]'', {{spoiler|When the Eleventh Doctor pulls off his first [[Disney Death]] thanks to being shot by [[It Makes Sense in Context|a stone Dalek]], River Song gets seriously pissed at said Dalek. She lets it ask for mercy ''three times'', all that time remaining completely calm and emotionless. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Then she shoots it.]]}} To recap: River Song ''made a Dalek ask for mercy'', and then she ''didn't give it''. All without raising her voice. Oh, here -- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJkB6Ky6gJ0 watch it for yourselves.]
** The Eleventh Doctor shows flashes of this a couple times <ref>The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, and The Hungry Earth, among others</ref> and is genuinely menacing. You do ''not'' want to get him angry at you. He also displays some truly fearsome Tranquil Fury in "A Good Man Goes To War", complete with the [[Humiliation Conga]] for the target of his anger.
{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' Those words. "Run away." I want you to be famous for those exact words. I want people to call you Colonel Runaway. I want children laughing outside your door, 'cause they've found the house of Colonel Runaway. And when people come to you and ask if trying to get to me THROUGH THE PEOPLE I LOVE!...is in any way a good idea, I want you to tell them your name.
'''The Doctor:''' Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many. }}
*** Rory demonstrates this trope at the start of the episode as well, with the "fury" of it trickling through when he {{spoiler|orders the Cyber Commander of the 12th Cyber Legion to tell him where his wife is.}} When his question goes unanswered, {{spoiler|''every single other ship of the 12th Cyber Legion is destroyed.''}}
{{quote|'''Rory Williams''': Would you like me to ''repeat'' the question?}}
*** Amy Pond finally goes off the deep end in "The Wedding Of River Song", and very calmly {{spoiler|murders Madame Koravian}}. Went she returns to her normal life, she reveals that she's traumatised by it.
* [[The A-Team|Murdock]] is the sweetest, friendliest, [[Cloudcuckoolander|insane guy]] you will ever meet. Unless you shoot his best friend. If you are stupid enough to do this, he will stare silently at you with a look that could kill, he will walk up to you, unarmed, while you are still holding a loaded gun, and he will calmly tell you that you are just one step away from being in the same condition as his best friend that you just shot. Then, when he and his other friends have regained control of the situation, he will pin you against a wall and pound you relentlessly until he is forcibly pulled off of you. [[Berserk Button|Do. Not. Hurt.]] [[Unstoppable Rage|Murdock's. Best. Friend.]]
* [[Starsky and Hutch|Starsky]] is generally the most impulsive of the Zebra Three pair. But the calmer he looks, the more worried you should be. In other words, if you mess with his partner, Starsky will hand it back to you in a silver platter.
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** Shepard's final confrontation with Kai Leng. After Shepard curb-stomps him, leaving him defeated-but-alive, s/he calmly goes back to what they were doing before the assassin showed up. Kai-Leng slowly gets back to his feet, picks up his sword, walks over and prepares to strike Shepard from behind. In a split second, Shepard turns around, {{spoiler|either dodges or breaks the sword in half with their ''bare hands'', unfurls their omniblade and [[Karmic Death|stabs him hard in the gut.]]}}
{{quote|'''Shepard''': That was for {{spoiler|Thane/Miranda/Kirrahe}}, ''you son of a bitch''.}}
* Diego Armando at the end of Case 3-4 of [[Ace Attorney]]. Having witnessed what {{spoiler|Dahlia Hawthorne}} has done, he calls her a witch, claims that [[This Is Unforgivable!]] and then squeezes his coffee cup so hard that it shatters and the shards cut him. Then he turn to Mia, smiling and with his hand full of blood and tells her it isn't over yet.
* In ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', Fenris is nearly permanently in this state. One of his abilities (Veneer of Calm) even invokes this, noting that while outwardly he appears calm and emotionless, inwardly he's infuriated and deals more damage based on the amount of damage he himself has taken.
* Joshua Graham of ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' is a calm and patient man towards the Courier. However, this doesn't make him any less of a terrifying [[Knight Templar]] who believes in the utter obliteration of his enemies whenever possible.
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