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{{trope}}
[[File:2000yardstare-
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 ''[[
* Tsukune Aono of ''[[Rosario
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Mustang and Hughes discuss it during the Ishbalan war. Hawkeye approaches, and Mustang laments that Hawkeye has the stare too.
** I thought they just talked about all of them having ''killers' eyes''....
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* [[Trigun|Vash the Stampede]] is prone to this expression when pushed far enough. Even leaving aside his [[Heroic BSOD]] after Legato's death, he will do this while ''smiling'' sometimes.
** Nothing emphasizes his isolation from humanity better or more tragically than a sad-Vash thousand-yard-smile, especially if he's doing something like hugging Miss Elizabeth while she breaks down over his not being evil, after trying to blow up the town to kill him.
* [[Rurouni Kenshin]] starts doing this when his angst level picks up late in the manga, though his first uses are after taking absurdly heavy damage in the Shishio arc. Maxes out during his especially persistent [[Heroic BSOD]] and [[Ten
** A less pitiful-looking version was also employed back when he was Hitokiri Battousai, aka Teenage Kenshin, and attempting to put off his moral crisis and shellshock for as long as possible so as to fulfill his duty.
* In ''[[Naruto]]'' victims of the [[Cold-Blooded Torture|Tsukuyomi]] generally end up like this.
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** Chibodee Crockett of ''[[G Gundam]]'' has one while wandering around in a (somewhat violent) daze resulting from his clown phobia.
** Kira Yamato of ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' and ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'' looks like this following the conclusion of the Bloody Valentine War. He spends most of his time sitting on his porch, staring off into space, and flashing back.
** Setsuna F. Seiei of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' has a permanant one. Being an ex-[[Child Soldier]] will do that to a guy.
** Asemu Asuno of ''[[Gundam AGE]]'' does this briefly after {{spoiler|his [[No
* This serves as another deconstruction for Casca's post-Eclipse behavior in ''[[Berserk]]''. After going through a very heinous ordeal of {{spoiler|being raped by her former captain-turned-demon lord Griffith right in front of her lover Guts}}, Casca shows very realistic signs of {{spoiler|rape}} trauma syndrome, one of them being that she often vacantly zones off and stares at nothing. Prominently shown on the hilltop scene when {{spoiler|she miscarries her baby.}}
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* In ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'', Payback gives an extended speech about this.
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** Joker himself gets to do the stare after {{spoiler|shooting a sniper as a [[Mercy Kill]]}}.
* One of the soldiers on leave in ''[[Band of Brothers (TV series)|Band of Brothers]]'' (the whole episode focused on various soldiers dealing with the sudden change from battle to civilian life) has this.
* 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 (
* Some (canonical) DVD specials from ''[[
** He mentions that he can remember all two thousand years he stood guard, but he can't always remember it.
* In [[Horatio Hornblower]], Archie does this mostly in Series One. Being ruthlessly tormented by a shipmate followed by {{spoiler|being presumed dead, imprisoned by the enemy, and punished painfully for escape attempts}} and then getting caught up in someone else's war where the chances of survival/victory are extremely low will have an impact on a person.
== [[Music]] ==
* Referred to in the song "Assassing" (sic) by Marillion.
* Shown in the music video for "Ghost of You" by [[My Chemical Romance]], much of which is set during the landings at Normandy during [[World War II]]. The music video ends with a shot of the lead singer's stunned eyes.
* Referred to more humorously in [[Tom Smith]]'s "Rich Fantasy Lives"
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
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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]] ==
* In an episode of ''[[
* [[Donald Duck]]'s stuck with one at the end of "Up A Tree", after Chip n' Dale blew up his house into smithereens.
* Used in ''[[
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