Tame His Anger: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling —- I don't think it's any of that —- it's helpless ... it's absence of control —- and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that —- I have no use for it whatsoever."''|Toni Morrison, interview with Don Swaim, 1987}}

 

 

 

There are many ways they can go about to achieve this inner peach. One of the most prominent ways is [[Walking the Earth]]. The character leaves on a journey to learn more about themselves, the world, and their place within the world. This often involves leaving behind their posessions as well.

 

In a comedy, this often leads to [[We Want Our Jerk Back]] because [[Status Quo Is God]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

** [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]] Ranma Saotome is a milder example. In one episode, he get's [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] after Akane makes him hit his head on a rock and starts to believe that he's a girl. Because he's a girl, he becomes nicer and more peaceful. The [[Unfortunate Implications]] here are obvious.

*** Another example from one [[Rumiko Takahashi|Rumiko Takahashi's]] works. In ''Inuyasha'' several demons went around with a chip on their shoulder. They were cruel, vicious, and only wanted power. Prime examples being [[Protagonist|Inuyasha]], [[The Rival|Koga]], and [[Aloof Big Brother|Sesshoumaru]]. By the end of the series, Inuyasha {{spoiler|settles down and is married to Kagome. He is a much happier and more peaceful perseon. Sesshoumaru is still aloof and still [[Walking the Earth|wanders the Earth]] with [[Butt Monkey|Jaken]] at his side. However, [[Morality Pet|Rin]] has clearly changed him for the better, helping him [[Character Development|move from]] being a cold blooded killer to a [[The Stoic|stoic]] but caring individual. And [[The Rival|Koga]], at least in the anime, settles down and marries another member of his tribe.}}

* Done more than once in ''[[Donald Duck]]'' comics: [[Classic Disney Shorts|Daisy Duck]] tries to force him to control his temper at one point. Donald's nephews take advantage of this and misbehave, knowing that he won't spank them. They keep on pushing his buttons. Daisy tells Donald that it's okay to spank them as long as he does it with a smile. [[Karma|He spanks them in the end]].

** In the ''[[Classic Disney Short]] "Cured Duck"'', Donald is told by Daisy to control his temper. He answers an ad on the paper about a cure and gets a machine that doles out indiginties at him for ten minutes straight, and if he can sit through the ordeal without losing it, he's cured. Donald is eventually cured, [[Hypocritical Humor|only now Daisy is the one who loses her temper.]]

* ''[[The Incredible Hulk]]'' tries this a lot. It doesn't work very often. Usually because his enemies won't, [[Leave Me Alone|'Leave Hulk Alone']].

* Just like [[The Incredible Hulk|the Hulk]], ''[[Wolverine]]'' tries to do this a lot. And just like the Hulk, it doesn't last. Notable examples include {{spoiler|the volume where Wolverine and [[Precocious Crush|Rose]] work at a mine in British Colombia and Wolverine finds peace and tranquility. That peace is interrupted when [[Big Bad Friend|Dog]] kills Rose. Wolverine later meets a Native American woman called Silver Fox and they fall in love. Sabretooth, [[Green-Eyed Monster|jealous of the peace Wolverine found]], kills Silver Fox. Yeah. [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|He tends to do that a lot]].}}

* [[Batman]]: In Batman [[Bratty Half-Pint]] Damian Wayne starts out with almost little to no respect for anyone besides [[Badass Normal|Batman]] and [[Evil Is Sexy|Talia Al Ghul]]. His anger leads to him {{spoiler|nearly killing Tim Drake to replace him as Batman's sidekick.}} He's still a little bit of an angry [[Jerkass]], {{spoiler|not even showing his grandparents respect on the anniversary of their deaths}}, but he's a lot better.

 

== Film ==

 

== Live Action Television ==

* In ''[[All in The Family]]'' Edith Bunker tries to keep [[Noble Bigot|Archie Bunker]] calm all of the time. Considering he has a [[Straw Feminist]] for a daughter, and a [[Hippy Teacher|Hippy arrogant intellectual]] for a son-in-law. It doesn't work.

** Just like the example above, George Jefferson from ''[[The Jeffersons]]'' had a [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]. Probably even worse than Archie Bunker. He does manage to control it on occasions, but only when he's trying to keep up appearances and curry favors.

** Marvin the Martian is an example of a [[Looney Tunes]] character who can and does control his temper, however it's mostly because he's meant to be [[Affably Evil]].

* Done hilariously in ''[[Family Guy]]''. [[Flat Earth Atheist|Brian Griffin]] finds out that [[Dirty Old Man|Glnen Quagmire]] doesn't like him. He goes out of his way to try and win Quagmire over, with each attempt failing miserably and Quagmire mostly puts up with it. At the end of the episode, Brian asks Quagmire why he doesn't like him. So Quagmire unloads on him every grievance that he ([[The Scrappy|and the fans]]), have had with Brian over the years in one hell of a long [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|reason you suck speech]].

 

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