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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]]''}}
|'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}sFBhR4QcBtE Robot Devil]''', ''[[Futurama]]''}}
 
A classic rule in textwritingwriting is to [[Show, Don't Tell]]. That includes emotions. If a character is happy, that should be obvious from his actions—not from the fact that he says "I'm happy" out loud. Imagine what real life would be like if people did that.
 
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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== Anime and Manga ==
* This is amongstpart of the [[Narm|superficial]] way a MISAKAMisaka Sister speaks in ''[[ToA AruCertain Majutsu noMagical Index]]'' speaksand ''[[A Certain Scientific Railgun]]'', and once you know how a [[Hive Mind|MISAKAMisaka Sister]] is [[Cloning Blues|different]] from [[Shock and Awe|Misaka Mikoto]], it's both creepy and [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|tragic]].
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', from Kiku/Japan: "An unpleasant sensation..." Cue the [[Discretion Shot]].
* In ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', Gretel says or implies she feels a little bad about using 2 local orphans as decoys pretty much insuring there death.
* 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., Wewe 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 "[[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]" style is also in contrast to the story's treatment of Haruhi's inner state, which is almost exclusively [[Show, Don't Tell]].
* 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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** [[Tranquil Fury|Or that he's just really skilled at hiding his rage]]. [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|For a few seconds, anyway]]...
** His name is ''Wrath'', not "rage" or "fury". The emotion of wrath is not nearly as overt as the others, and it is not mutually exclusive with tranquility.
* In ''[[xxxHolic×××HOLiC]]'', Watanuki does this in [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/xxxholic/v16/c190/9.html chapter 190].
* [[Catch Phrase|I'm in despair!]] The fact that ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' uses this trope constantly has left me in despair!
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', {{spoiler|the Nine-Tails Demon Fox roars}} “Narutoooo!!!! You have angered me!!!! Narutoooooo!!!!!!” {{spoiler|after Naruto rips the chakra from the Fox's body, claiming it for his own, thus allowing Naruto to fully control the Fox's power.}}
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** Touji is prone to this in his first appearance in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', talking quite plainly about how angry he is about what happened to his sister.
* Elgala from the original manga of ''[[Excel Saga (manga)|Excel Saga]]'' [[Third Person Person|does the exact same thing]], [[No Indoor Voice|with an emphasis on the "loud"]], and [[Selective Obliviousness|minus any conscious knowledge that she's actually speaking]] (she thinks all her co-workers are mind-reading mutants).
 
 
== Comic Books ==
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* There are a few examples of characters doing this in the earlier ''[[Tintin]]'' comics.
 
== Fan Works ==
* Invoked for humor's sake by Saurial in the ''[[Worm]]/[[Luna Varga]]'' crossover ''[[Taylor Varga]]'' when she leans against Amy and says, "Hold me, I'm sad" because her other aspect -- ''herself'' -- is being mean to her during prep for the third study session.
 
== Film ==
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* Likewise in ''[[Sex and the City]]'': Candice Bergen's character announces "I am so angry right now" with a blank facial expression. Not only has it been established that she's had botox, but this line is actually a callback to early in the episode when Samantha goes for a botox treatment and the nurse warns her that, because of her reduced facial expressiveness, she'll have to explicitly announce her emotions.
{{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 ''[[World Wrestling Entertainment|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 That Makes Me Feel Angry followed by [[Catch Phrase|"My face shows it, doesn't it?"]] Of course, since he doesn't seem to have a normal range of emotions ([[Slasher Smile|smiling evilly most of the time]])...
* [[Lampshaded]] in an episode of ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]'' when the agent says "What's that emotion that makes you go 'RRRRRRRR'?"
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** Best description of that scene ever!
* This trope made for one of the world's most favorite [[Narm]] moments in a [[Very Special Episode]] of [[Saved by the Bell]], when Jessie, having become addicted to caffeine pills, starts singing "I'm So Excited" (itself an example of this trope, see below), and it ends up "I'm so excited! I'm so excited! I'm so... so scared!"
* Used rather pointedly by Mal in [[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]] when Zoe and Wash's marital disputes started getting on his nerves.
{{quote|"Okay, uh, I'm lost. I'm angry. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|And I'm armed.]]"}}
* [[Red Dwarf|Mr. Flibble's very cross]]
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== Music ==
* Ivor Cutler, one of the quirkiest men to have ever lived, sang a song that tells you he is happy in [https://web.archive.org/web/20111231073313/http://elbo.ws/video/H5fA184R6EA/ the funniest way possible.]
* Lots and lots of songs. Those with uh...[[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|negative themes,]] especially.
* "I'm so excited! And I just can't hide it!" [[Captain Obvious|Now what do you suppose the artist is trying to convey with these lyrics?]]
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* The [[The Woobie|excruciatingly insecure]] Tavros Nitram from [[Homestuck]] eventually tries to get some self-confidence. Unfortunately, he thinks this means constantly stating how confident he is and that what he is saying and doing is exactly what a confident person would say and do.
* ''[[Sandra and Woo]]'' has an eagle who is [http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/04/14/0262-predator-and-prey/ "sad and a little bit angry."]
* ''Critical Miss'' of ''[[The Escapist]]'' has this beautiful bit of ''[[Mass Effect]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20110903043920/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/8820-Critical-Miss-Mass-Effect fanfiction.] It is, of course, a little context-sensitive.
 
 
== Web Original ==
* Sung merrily by Randy of[[Manwhores]]: "Broken heart. Sad feelings. Suicidal tendencies, are on my mind. I'm gonna kill myself. Doo, doo, dee, doo, I'm gonna kill myself." during his emotional downward spiral, before engaging in an incredibly transparent [[I Have This Friend]] dialogue with a sympathetic bartender.
* Captain Hammer, in [[DoctorDr. HorriblesHorrible's Sing -Along Blog]]: "Oh, I'm in pain! I think this is what pain feels like!"
* The "angry gorilla" in ''Auto-Tune the News'' on [[YouTube]], while not acting very angry, continuously expresses verbally how angry he is.
* The titular [[The Irate Gamer|Irate Gamer]] does this constantly. Arguably justified due to his poor acting making his "anger" sound like indifference or even boredom.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
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* It is often advised to talk this way around small children and encourage them to talk this way, because they may have difficulty reading and expressing emotion.
** Same deal with people with Asperger's Syndrome or some other kind of autistic spectrum disorder. Most of them will actually use this trope themselves so as to avoid having any confusion caused by misreading of their ways of showing emotions.
* 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[[The veryOther wikiTropes 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 activity—it just increases your anger and makes it last longer, and it makes you more critical of the person you were mad at in the first place. Stating that you're angry and doing something constructive to solve the problem is the healthiest way to deal with anger.