Stoic Woobie: Difference between revisions

[[File:466446802443795 6669.png|link=Blame|frame| His life sucks, [[The Stoic|but he'll never complain]].]]

 

 

This character needs a hug. Badly. [[Beneath the Mask|Don't expect them to admit it]], though. [[Captain Obvious|A subtrope of]] [[The Stoic]], unlike other [[Woobie]] characters, they won't cry, angst, or outwardly show how much they're suffering at all. (Internally is another story). [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!|They don't want your pity]], and in a great number of cases, will [[Tin Man|deny having emotions at all]]. Don't be fooled. The plot has heaped complication after complication on them, and silently, internally, they're suffering. They may inadvertently show their suffering for a moment, in which case they are [[Not So Stoic]], or they may just have [[Bad Dreams]]. Sometimes, however if they are lucky they will find a [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]] to comfort them and live happily ever after as a reward for their stoicism.

 

Polar opposite of [[Wangst]], where a character overemotes at the most minor suffering. Compare [[Did You Think I Can't Feel?]] Also compare [[Mangst]].

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* Pictured above: Killy from ''[[Blame]]!'', especially near the end when it is clear his mission is finally taking a toll on his [[Made of Iron|nigh indestructible]] body.

* Hei and Yin from ''[[Darker than Black]]'' are rather woobieish once [[Dark and Troubled Past|their backstories]] come out. [[Anti-Hero|Hei]] {{spoiler|was dragged into a war [[Child Soldiers|as a child]] while trying to [[Big Brother Instinct|protect his little sister]], who he had to watch turn into a sociopathic killing machine. He was then (apparently) betrayed by the only other person he trusted, leaving him the sole survivor of his team, lost and alone with his sister's powers, no idea what happened to her, and the Syndicate basically holding a gun to his head to make sure he stays [[Punch Clock Villain|working as their assassin]].}} Yin is an [[Emotionless Girl]] due to [[Mind Rape]], is blind, and {{spoiler|lost both her parents in tragic circumstances. Her father died in a plane crash, and shortly afterward, she realized her mother and piano tutor were in love and tried to run away; her mother had to sacrifice herself to save her from an oncoming truck after Little Yin ran into the road, and Yin holds herself responsible for this.}} No wonder Hei's a [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|shell-shocked]] [[Stoic]].

* Major Motoko Kusanagi from [[Ghost in the Shell]].

 

* Cyclops, leader of the [[X-Men]]. Even though some think he acts like a [[Knight Templar]] dick, you have to pity this guy. Starters he lost his family in a plane crash where he and his brother were the only known survivors; said brother would then be adopted and taken away from him, leaving him alone in a Crapsack of an orphanage where he was bullied by other children and tortured/experimented on by Mister Sinister. He can’t control his powers. His first two wives turned crazy and evil with one of them resurrecting and dying over and over. Not to mention he's been [[Mind Rape]]d a number of times. Yet he never complains, ever.

* [[Batman]] just embodies this trope. First ''[[Orphan's Ordeal|his parents are killed before his eyes,]]'' and then his sidekick and ward, Jason Todd, is '''''brutally murdered''''' by none other than [[Complete Monster|the Joker.]] But Batman never complains- If he did, he wouldn't be [[The Determinator|Batman.]]

 

 

* Many ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' fanfics that focus on Rika and Renamon prior to the former's [[Defrosting Ice Queen|defrosting]] tend to depict the latter as this, usually with one or two [[Not So Stoic]] moments (like silently crying when no one's looking).

* When it comes to Melanie in ''[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21828973?view_full_work=true Just Taken]'', [[Spice Girls]]/[[Ace of Base]] [[Real Person Fic|RPF]], she takes on this role... maybe too much.