Sugar and Ice Personality: Difference between revisions

* Light Yagami from ''[[Death Note]]'' is cold, stoic, manipulative, and [[Axe Crazy|homocidal]] but then in a later arc he becomes warm, open, kind and honorable. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded:]] "He's like a different person now!" It's more than likely trauma-induced seeing as {{spoiler|one side remembers being a mass murderer, the other doesn't.}}

* ''[[Gundam Wing]]'''s protagonist Heero Yuy is more often credited as [[The Stoic]], but this trope is a better match for him. He never actually denied his emotions; he just tries to keep them in check because being overly emotional on the battlefield can get you killed. At the start of the show he mostly seems to be shouldering the burden of Operation Meteor ([[The Atoner|and the lives it'll cost]]) all by himself, but interaction with people like [[The Ojou|Relena]], [[The Lancer|Duo]], and [[The Heart|Quatre]] causes him to accept the idea that [[You Are Not Alone|he isn't alone]].

* Much like Rei from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Casca from ''[[Berserk]]'' is a mix of this and the [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]. She starts off distant, cool - even cold - collected but temperamental toward her comrades, but after awhile, she starts showing a sensitive side that no one would ever have expected from [[The Squadette|a woman of her profession]] once Guts defrosts her (which would make her behavior and personality a lot more understandable other than the whole [[Love Triangle]] thing, since Casca is the sole female member in a group of mercenaries AND she's second in command, so she must always put on [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask|a facade of seriousness so that her male cohorts would not falter under her command]]).

* Himura "Maria" Maruko of ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' was like this in the past, being a [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]] [[The Stoic|Stoic]] on the outside and [[The Chick]]/[[The Heart]] on the inside. Then [[Manipulative Bastard|Reiji "Marco" Maruko]] took over the team, instituted a [[Second Place Is for Losers]]-driven reign of terror, and started crippling opposing players, all in the name of his [[Villainous Crush|crush]] [[Love Makes You Evil|on her]]; this drives her straight into [[Emotionless Girl]] territory.

* Rika Furude from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' shows hints of this in the earlier arcs, but her true Sugar and Ice Personality is featured much more in the later arcs of the series. Due to her normally happy and almost careless demeanour, she rarely shows her true self to anyone, unless she wishes to make herself seem serious, or to intimidate others.

* {{spoiler|Zeref}} from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' has a personality like this. Though he hasn't been shown acting particualarly warm he has a side to him that's calm and worries about the well being, which is how he behaves half the time. The other half of the time he's downright murderous.

 

== Comic Books ==

* Unintentional [[Ice Queen]] Machiko Noguchi from ''[[Alien vs. Predator]]'' didn't realize that she should have integrated herself into the colonists when she arrived at her new executive job, instead of spending three months hardly communicating with them at all. She's actually rather caring and considerate, but that's not how she presented herself.

* Miho from ''[[Sin City]]'' seems almost completely unemotional, but there have been moments in which she showed genuine affection for a select few people. The prime example is in ''Family Values'', where she lays on Dwight's lap and takes a nap.

 

== Film ==

 

== Literature ==

* Peggy from ''[[The Tales of Alvin Maker]]'' is like this when she first appears in the second book. When Taleswaper asks her mother about Peggy, she tells him she's gone too cold for anyone to tolerate her. He carefully refrains from telling her that ice can only be thawed with warmth, and then proceeds to get smiles and laughs from Peggy in private.

* Silas from ''[[The Graveyard Book]]'' is one - he's [[The Stoic]] most of the time, but Bod triggers his occasional moments of warmness.

* Some [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]s of [[Sherlock Holmes]] give him a Sugar and Ice Personality. His personality leans very heavily towards the "logical and frosty" side of things, but there are moments, such as in "[[Heartwarming Moment/Sherlock Holmes|The Three Garridebs]]," in which he [[Not So Stoic|shows flashes of a kinder side]].

{{quote|'' "It was worth a wound; it was worth many wounds; to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation." '' }}

* [[Honor Harrington]] combines this trope with [[Woman In The Queenly Mask]]. She is perfectly willing to face down her enemies with nothing but an icy glare on her face, even with her life and the life of those around her in the balance, but the several books in the series make it clear that she's a completely different person around the ones she loves. {{spoiler|Which makes her love's death in the fifth book that much more tragic, and her vengeance that much colder.}}

 

* Dana Scully from ''[[The X-Files]]'' is very steely and professional towards everyone, and is even distant with her own family. The only person who gets her to loosen up? Mulder, naturally.

* T'Pol from ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'': using her cold exterior and her repressed but detectable emotions, she typically insults and berates people, but occasionally shows a compassionate side. She usually justifies both sorts of actions as logical, though it is often apparent to the viewer (and recipient) that this is mostly just a rationalization.

* Prince Arthur from ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' has to maintain a professional, calm demeanour in front of the court and his knights, but relaxes considerably when he's with Merlin, and even more so with Guinevere.

* Like his [[A Song of Ice and Fire|book]] counterpart, Ned Stark has this in ''[[Game of Thrones]]''. His son, Robb, seems to have inherited it.

 

== Music ==

Rappelling down from above

You snuck your way right into my heart }}

 

== Video Games ==

* Aqua from ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' is directly stated to be one of these (not by the trope name, of course) in [[Word of God|an interview with Tetsuya Nomura]]. She's the type where we see mostly the Sugar side and is also an honor student type. Isa establishes himself as one in a single cutscene.

 

* Misaki in ''[[Canvas 2]]'' is probably the gentlest person in the cast, but her normal demeanor is rather distant and cool.

* Sora from ''Yosuga no Sora''. If you're not her brother, consider yourself the luckiest person on earth if you're able to see her smile. To be more precise, she is [[Tsundere]] to her brother, [[Yandere]] to ''every'' other girl around her brother, and cold to ''every'' other boy beside her brother. And you may have noticed already but, yeah, ''[[Twincest|she has a sexual desire for her twin brother.]]''

** [[The Stoic|Dave Strider]] is even colder—at least Rose ''smiles''. Dave's face barely ever changes. Besides that, he's incredibly calm about all the bizarre crap happening in the series, not to mention being very deserving of the almost-name "[[Deadpan Snarker|Insufferable]] [[Too Clever by Half|Prick.]]" Yet like Rose he's proven himself to be [[Not So Stoic]], such as his rather sweet reaction to [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004944 Rose's plan of a suicide mission].

** Genius technician [[Noble Bigot|Equius Zahhak]] would like to have you believe he has nothing but contempt for the lower castes. But put him beside [[Morality Pet|Nepeta]] and he melts like butter.

 

== Web Original ==

* Himei in ''[[Sailor Nothing]]'': At first, she is almost entirely cold towards everyone, but as the story goes on her warmer side starts showing more often.

* Weiss Schnee from ''[[RWBY]]'' started out in full [[Ice Queen]] [[Rich Bitch]] mode at the beginning of the series, and had already warmed up considerably by volume 3. And as of volume 5, the Ice Queen appears to be long gone except as an affectionate nickname.

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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