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{{trope}}
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A character who has just gone through some sort of trauma, learned something they [[Go Mad
Note that this trope describes the stare/facial expression itself, and not what causes it or anything related.
"Thousand-yard-stare" is believed to have originated in [[World War
See also [[Heroic BSOD]], for what usually goes hand-in-hand with this. Not related to the '[[Flash Back Back Back|Thousand Yard Stare of Impending Flashbacks]]', an affliction near universally shared by the characters of ''[[Lost]]''.
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== [[Anime|Anime and Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', Chiyo does this whenever Yukari's driving is mentioned since she barely survived it.
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* Commonly, the expression on some of the characters in ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'' (indeed, the beginning graveyard scene ends with this).
** [[Enforced Method Acting]]: The entire cast was run rugged, interminable military exercises - ''except'' Matt Damon (who plays Pvt. Ryan). It even made the cast ''resent'' Damon, which was entirely the point.
* WWII veteran and b-movie star [[Audie Murphy]], who saw many of his comrades in arms killed and is credited with personally killing, wounding or capturing more than two hundred Axis soldiers, had a particularly bleak and distant stare, which director [[John Huston]] put to good use in [[The Red Badge of Courage]]. Murphy developed a warmer and somewhat more animated screen persona around 1953, perhaps due to the birth of his beloved son Terry, but he never really lost the
* If there is a fetish for thousand-yard stares, the film version of ''[[The Road]]'' is your fuel.
* ''[[Boogie Nights]]'': During the scene at Rahad Jackson's house, a drug-addled Dirk stares into space for what seems like an eternity.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* [[The Ace]] does this after being [[Broken Ace|broken]] in the ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|
* Some (canonical) DVD specials from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' have noted this about Rory Williams. He spent almost two thousand years guarding a box as an immortal centurion. It happened in a defunct timeline, but he still has the memories, which he must suppress for his own sanity, though as the Doctor points out "Sometimes you catch him just staring..."
** He mentions that he can remember all two thousand years he stood guard, but he can't always remember it.
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* Part of the arena banter in ''[[Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal]]'' refers to Ratchet having one of these, making him extra dangerous.
* Adrienne Delaney at the end of ''[[Phantasmagoria]]'' as part of her [[Heroic BSOD]].
* [[Yandere (visual novel)|''Yandere'']]: The Thousand-Yard Stare is basically a big warning sign to both protagonist Subaru and the player that whatever woman happens to be in the scene just said bye-bye to her sanity.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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