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{{quote|''"Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! [[Hypocritical Humor|That makes me]] [[Trope Namer|feel angry!]]"''|'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBhR4QcBtE Robot Devil]''', ''[[Futurama]]''}}
A classic rule in textwriting is to [[Show, Don't Tell]]. That includes emotions. If a character is happy, that should be obvious from his
This trope ''can'' be used for comedic effect. It can also be rather scary when the "so happy" line is delivered with barely concealed rage by a skilled actor. [[Tropes Are Not Bad]], after all.
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* One of the things that Kyon does as an [[Unreliable Narrator]] in ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]''. For example, he'll say he's terrified about something but only rarely will he show actions that actually show it. Once he was narrating how scared he was about a monster; when Itsuki mused that he sure didn't act scared. We were treated to him devoting a paragraph or two of him listing how he had the traits of being scared...until that trails off and it isn't addressed again.
** What's more, one of the common devices that the series uses is to have Kyon's actions contradict his words; he tells us things that are different than what's shown. Example from the anime's chronological first episode: Kyon tells us that he's not interested in Haruhi, while the animation shows us that he's very obviously checking her out over the course of a few weeks.
** Kyon's
* Sagara Sousuke from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', when he's [[Most Definitely Not a Villain|attempting to convince]] [[Muggles]] that he's [[The Stoic|feeling normal human emotions]].
{{quote|'''Sousuke:''' You perceive wrongly. I feel unimaginable happiness wasting time talking with women. I'm that type of human.}}
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* ''[[Incredible Hulk|The Incredible Hulk]]'' is [http://www.hulkmovie.com/images/hulkmash/hr121.jpg practically] a poster child of this trope. There's a reason why [[You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry]] exists, after all.
** Well, at least he ''looks'' angry. Always.
*** Until [[Corrupt Corporate Executive
** [[Hulk Speak|Hulk can be forgiven for Hulk's constant reminders of Hulk's current mood. Hulk's mood very important to know for people around Hulk. Furthermore, Hulk not very articulate.]]
* Judge Roy Bean is presented as doing this in ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]''. Played entirely for comedy because [[The Stoic|he only has one facial expression that has no emotion visible on it]], and his voice is implied to be similarly monotonic.
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{{quote|'''Nurse:''' Some patients have said they found it difficult to register emotion on their faces after the procedure. So you may have to say things like, 'I am so angry right now.'}}
* On an episode of ''[[WWE]] Smackdown'' leading into ''Wrestlemania 25'', [[The Undertaker]] comments on the fact that the other wrestlers have gone from quaking in fear of him to seeking him out to prove themselves: "This... displeases me."
* Kai, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'', often uses a
* [[Lampshaded]] in an episode of ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]'' when the agent says "What's that emotion that makes you go 'RRRRRRRR'?"
* Illyria of ''[[Angel]]'' often demonstrates this. Being an [[Eldritch Abomination|ancient demon]] bound into the body of a human, she lacks the understanding of human expressions and even the underlying emotions, making her unable to emote properly.
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== Theater and Opera ==
* [[William Shakespeare]] in ''[[Henry V]]'' has King Henry say "I was not angry since I came to France/Until this instant" when he sees a bunch of [[Moral Event Horizon|slaughtered boys.]]
** Fully [[Justified Trope|justified]] in Shakespeare's
* Happens in too many [[
* Act II of ''[[Into the Woods]]'' opens with the main characters singing about how perfectly happy they
* In [[The Musical]] ''High Spirits'' (an adaptation of ''Blithe Spirit''), Charles pulls out a record his [[Cute Ghost Girl|recently-returned-as-a-ghost]] wife played on their wedding night and finds she doesn't remember it. She claims "it's all coming back" to her, but Charles tells her, "It isn't, and I'm upset."
* In the sequel to [[A Very Potter Musical]], A Very Potter Sequel, Harry screams, "I'M IN A RAGE! THIS IS THE MADDEST I'VE EVER BEEN!"
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** There's also The Cobra's from ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]''. The Pain says "Pain" anytime you shoot him, The Fear announces his fear after you beat him, The End says "The end" anytime he sneaks up on you (which doesn't count unless [[Oh Crap]] counts as an emotion), The Sorrow tells us how sad he is. The only one exempt from this is The Fury.
** The infamous [[Blind Idiot Translation|Engrish]] translation of the original [[Metal Gear]] game features guards which, to let you know they were about to [[The Guards Must Be Crazy|fall asleep at their posts]], would shout "I'M GETTING SLEEPY!!", followed by "I FEEL ASLEEP!!" to announce that they were, in fact, asleep and safe to sneak past.
** Whether you find it a [[Tear Jerker]] or [[Narm
* Agent Superball from Telltale's ''[[Sam and Max]]'' series of games:
{{quote|"I'm sorry. I'm gushing."
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* ''[[Mission Hill]]'' has an internal example, when the gay neighbors Wally and Gus reveal they fell in love during the filming of a movie. Wally, the director, cast Gus as an alien robot. But since Gus only has one facial expression, he had to make it obvious when he was angry by... installing two lights on his costume that went from [[Morality Dial|"Calm"]] to "Angry!" Needless to say, the movie would have made [[Ed Wood (creator)|Ed Wood]] proud, even curing a depressed man's sadness!
* In the ''[[Peanuts]]'' TV special "He's a Bully, Charlie Brown", Peppermint Patty says "My jealousy has overcome my reason!".
** Made especially [[Narm
*** Which is what makes it even funnier, because you know that the child has ''no'' idea what they're actually talking about, they're just repeating the lines they were told to say.
* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Mobile Homer." The made-for-TV movie that Marge watches is practically nothing but That Makes Me Feel Angry moments. And since it was a parody of [[Lifetime Movie of the Week|Lifetime movies of the week]], that just makes it funnier.
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* While this can be useful in certain situations, there's a reason this trope and so many others are noted to be considered creepy on this very wiki (namely, [[Self-Demonstrating Article|they're creepy in fiction because they're creepy in real life]]). To take an example at random, when Sartin and MacLennon reviewed FATAL, one of the first things they mentioned was the clinical, unemotional, wannabe-professional attitude the creator adopted on message boards when discussing the game, and how unsettling they found it (which is both describing an example of this trope, and an example in and of itself-my head's starting to spin). You know what they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder.
* A common problem with political cartoons, as noted in [http://www.cracked.com/article_18680_political-cartoons-lowest-form-communication.html?wa_user1=5&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=flashback this Cracked article].
* Psychologists recommend this to deal with your negative emotions. Letting out your anger by, say, hitting your pillow is actually a destructive
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