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{{quote|''"Astfgl had passed through the earlier stage of fury and was now in that calm lagoon of rage where the voice is steady, the manner is measured and polite, and only a faint trace of spittle at the corner of the mouth betrays the inner inferno."''
|'''''[[Eric]]'''''}}
In every [[Badass]]'s life, there may come a time when going berserk simply does not work. In this case, many people choose to turn to '''Tranquil Fury'''. This state of mind allows much whoop-ass to be uncanned without undue stress. When the time comes for the showdown between the [[The Hero|Hero]] and the [[Big Bad]], do not expect to see furious angry rage. Instead, expect [[The Hero]] (or [[Anti-Hero]])'s face to be serenely, eerily calm. They will not appear to be even slightly put out with the villain. Of course, that won't stop them from trying to hack the villain to hundreds of tiny pieces. A defeat by someone in the grip of Tranquil Fury is likely to be more comprehensive than others, as the job ''will'' [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|be done in a properly thorough fashion.]]
''This is different'' from [[The Quiet One]] and [[The Stoic]]. The character in the grip of Tranquil Fury isn't necessarily an emotional cripple, and in day to day life they may be perfectly normal and happy. What ''defines'' Tranquil Fury is the tendency to become [[Let's Get Dangerous|deadly serious]] when it gets deadly serious.
Tranquil Fury is often preceded by the phrase "[[This Is Unforgivable!|I didn't want to have to do this]]," or something similar. A loose real-life equivalent would be the concept of [
Compare [[Don't Make Me Destroy You]], [[Bored
Contrast: [[Berserker Tears]], [[Unstoppable Rage]]. Compare ''and'' contrast [[Dissonant Serenity]]. These characters often use [[Creepy Monotone]], [[Death Glare]], and [[Slasher Smile]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[
* ''[[
** Monkey D. Luffy is a master of this, especially in the original Japanese. There are few times when Luffy will go in screaming and rip roaring mad, though to look at him you'd suppose otherwise. His most angry, serious look tends to be blank eyes.
** Whitebeard is known for [[Unstoppable Rage|going apeshit over anyone harming his]] "[[A Father to His Men|sons]]". Killing one of them is a different story. In fact, it's this trope when {{spoiler|[[Magma Man|Akainu]] kills Portgas D. Ace, and Whitebeard silently but brutally punishes him by using a [[Megaton Punch]] and sending him through a fault with his earthquake-powers. The only words he said were after Akainu ''[[Only a Flesh Wound|burnt half his face off]]'': "I'm just getting started". Fittingly, the chapter was called ''Silent Rage''}}.
* ''[[
** This can be a fairy common attitude that indicates a character has gained superiority, or is feeling superior, in a fight. It's a way of showing the character is in completely control, even over their rage. One particularly glaring example occurs in the [[Mood Whiplash]] battle between Charlotte and Yumichika. This swings from a [[Silly Reason for War]] into a [[What You Are in
** When Yamamoto defeats [[Dark Action Girl|Halibel's]] three fracción, [[Mama Bear|Halibel]] proceeds to unleash a brutal [[No
*** Speaking of Yamamoto, he's now in a constant state of this due to {{spoiler|the death of his lieutenant, Chojiro Sasakibe}}.
** Hisagi displays some tendency towards this during his fight with Findor, especially at the end when his rage at Findor trying to pass himself off as captain-class results in very softly-spoken anger.
** In a [[Filler]] arc, [[Big Bad|Shusuke Amagai]] is so chillingly icy during his fight with Ichigo that he seems to combine Tranquil Fury with [[Creepy Monotone]].
** Ichigo himself shows signs of this at the start of his Deicide battle with Aizen, mostly at the beginning of the fight when he first arrives and assesses the torment and mayhem Aizen has created. {{spoiler|He softly tells Aizen they will adjourn to a different battlefield and when Aizen tries to stall, Ichigo simply grabs him by the face and drags him there.}} All done with such icy calm and detachment that is so abnormal for his usually fiery temperament that it borders on [[Dissonant Serenity]].
** Byakuya is the king of this trope. When [[Drunk
** Recently, {{spoiler|the newly re-instated Third Division captai Rojuro "Rose" Ootoribayashi}} has slipped into this state as well, after seeing {{spoiler|half of his squad (including Kira, his liutenant) brutally and horribly curbstomped by the Vandereich.}} [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|It's awesome.]]
* Briareos in ''[[Appleseed]]'' is quite good at this. Having a blank metal plate and five cameras in lieu of a face certainly helps.
* In ''[[
** There's a convenient scale on Arcueid's path: {{spoiler|Killing Arcueid? Definitely heated fury. Killing Nero? Middle-ground. Killing Roa? Pure calm.}}
* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', the Super Saiyan form is typically unlocked after emotional stress and anger
**
** Son Gohan lapses into this during the Cell Games upon reaching Super Saiyan 2. He becomes completely calm and cruel, first few minutes [[The Juggernaut|slowly walking through everything the Cell Juniors threw at him]] - and then, one-by-one, ''kicks and punches them all in half''. He then spends several episodes just dodging Cell's attacks with no effort, fixing him with a cold gaze the entire time. Games and other material made following this arc make this a technique called "Quiet Rage".
** In ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound]]'', Gohan does this again to break out of a ki bind used by one of Bojack's minions.
* In ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam]]'', this is said to be the highest state of mind for a fighter - a serene calm that cannot be broken by the strongest of maelstroms. It is through control and not stemming of his trademark [[Unstoppable Rage]] that Domon Kasshu finally achieves this and becomes truly worthy.
* Kira Yamato's "SEED Mode" in both ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED]]''. At first it was a sort of [[Unstoppable Rage]] but even after it became this, it is still just as exciting.
* In ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]],'' the standard Dying Will mode is a form of [[Unstoppable Rage]], while Hyper Dying Will mode is more Tranquil Fury.
* The eponymous Afro in ''[[Afro Samurai]]'' uses this to call upon his subconscious to come up with an on-the-fly fighting style to counter his ''[[Mirror Match]]'' robot double. It could also be argued that Afro is in a constant state of quiet rage for the entire series.
* [[The Stoic|Jin]] of ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'' is nearly the personification of this.
* Kenshin's golden-eyed "[[Super
** Though as the original Hitokiri Battousai he was more of a "kill off my emotion for efficiency" [[Empathic Weapon|empathic killer]].
** Kenshin loses it in one story arc where the cast attacks a rich mogul who says that his only motivation for doing what he does is plain and simple: [[Money, Dear Boy|Money]], saying that it can do anything. After he kills the henchmen that have turned against him with a [[Gatling Good|gatling gun]], Kenshin runs at him. Due to the efforts of said henchmen, the gun jams, and the guy starts begging for mercy. Kenshin replies by screaming "If you value your life, PRAY TO YOUR BELOVED MONEY!!" before smashing the guy's face in.
** And again in the Kyoto Arc. During the fight with Chou "Sword Hunter" Sawagejou, Chou makes as if to impale an infant on his sword, in an effort to break Kenshin's concentration. It works. Sort of. Kenshin does indeed lose his focus, but instead of forgetting about Chou's special attack, {{spoiler|Kenshin instead forgets that he doesn't want Chou's cervical vertebrae to part ways. He was only saved by the fact that the new sword was, unbeknownst to everyone, a sakabatou. Even then, the sheer force of the blow might have Darth Mauled him anyway(and would certainly have snapped his spine), if not for the BFS wrapped around his torso like a bandage}}
* In ''[[Saiyuki]]'', [[Stepford Smiler]] Hakkai is very good at this, able to carry on polite conversations as he is engaged in battle. But his {{spoiler|past life}} Tenpou in the ''Gaiden'' manga raises this to a very creepy new level, politely saying "excuse me" before he calmly punches his superior's lights out, and {{spoiler|in the battle where he sacrifices his life}}, engages in all manner of meaningless prattle that is totally unrelated to the battle at hand.
* Luck Gandor demonstrates Tranquil Fury in the first ''[[Baccano
** [[Big Brother Mentor|Maiza]] also exhibits Tranquil Fury, although not to such a dramatic degree as the above, when a police officer makes the mistake of [[Big Brother Instinct|insulting Firo in his presence]].
* ''[[
** Sensui (the real one). I'd shake his hand if I were you.
** Also, Kurama. He's never loses his reserve, but you can always tell when he's mad. [[Beware the Nice Ones|Yeah, you can definitely always tell]].
* Circe Augusta von Zerbst, from ''[[
* Revy's "Whitman Fever" from ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', which is more of a relapse of [[Ax Crazy]] than actual
* Kenshiro of ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' does this ''every single time'' that there's anything shown between the mook of the week crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]], and Ken getting into his screaming [[Rapid
* Only to be expected given the [[Tin Man|slightly weird]] [[Lack of Empathy|mindset]] of contractors in ''[[Darker
** Good November 11 example would be after his partner, April, gets badly injured. As he watches her at the hospital, his face is no longer his perpetual smirk, or even the expected rage; it's basically expressionless, although slightly glum. This is pretty much [[Dull Surprise]] made terrifying.
* In the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' manga, King Bradley {{spoiler|is the embodiment of wrath}} but never actually seems angry. He swaps between this and [[Dissonant Serenity]].
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** ''"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG6FhVX6I5M I hear you, Luna. I am not afraid anymore.]"''
* ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' has done this with a number of characters, but most recently and perhaps most extremely, {{spoiler|Gon. Ever since his mentor Kaito was savaged by the Chimera Ants, Gon's been getting progressively more scary quiet, to the point that people will recoil from him when he's ''just sitting there''. After finding out Kaito is [[Killed Off for Real]], Gon has apparently [http://www.onemanga.com/Hunter_X_Hunter/306/06/ aged ten years and unlocked incredible power].}}
* In ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' season 2, T.K. confronts the Digimon Emperor this way, after giving his [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|He takes a whip crack from the Emperor into his face without even flinching, calmly looks at his injury then proceeds to beat the crap out of the Emperor]].
* This was [[Lady of War|Signum's]] reaction in ''[[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'' when [[But for Me It Was Tuesday|Cypha acted flippantly about her massacre of a world]]. No roaring, no screaming, just pure, controlled rage from Signum as she completely dismantles Cypha, leaving the latter on the ground and missing an arm. {{spoiler|[[Healing Factor|Unfortunately]], [[Anti
* [[Big Eater|Diamond]] of ''[[Pokémon Special]]''. Whenever he finds himself with less than savory characters, he will simply state that he doesn't approve of what they're doing before fighting. What really stands out though, is when he tells Pearl that he has his own mind and refuses to be bossed around without ever raising his voice.
* [[The Stoic|Kakashi]] of ''[[Naruto]]''. After Zabuza completely disregards {{spoiler|Haku's sacrifice}} and attempts to {{spoiler|''cut right through him'' to get at his enemy}}, Kakashi decides [[
** After Pain {{spoiler|destroyed the village}}, he came on the receiving end of [[Super Mode|Sage Mode]] Naruto's
** One way or another, it seems Zabuza is Kakashi's [[Berserk Button]]. In the most recent manga arc {{spoiler|Zabuza and Haku's resurrected bodies were taken over}} to fight in the war and their {{spoiler|minds blanked out for greater efficiency}}. This disrespect to their friendship and sacrifice is the final straw...
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::: [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome|We're not shown the ensuing fight,]] but it wipes out the
* Negi from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' spends most of Chapter 315 in this state {{spoiler|after he sees that [[Ax Crazy|Quartum]] has cut [[Robot Girl|Chachamaru]] in half. He [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb stomps]] Quartum, culminating in Quartum '''[[Laser
*
* Though his signature reaction to most serious situations is [[Unstoppable Rage]], Guts from ''[[
* The end of the first arc of the ''[[
* In ''[[
* In episode 22 of ''[[
** Black Mage Zeref needs only to flash a [[Death Glare]] at somebody and announce they've angered him to have everyone on the floor shitting themselves.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Ichiban Ushiro no
* In ''[[Inu
* In ''[[Persona 4: The Animation]],'' Yu {{spoiler|drags Namatame over to the TV and nearly throws him into it}} without a hint of emotion on his face.
* In ''Gakuen Babysitters'', [[Aloof Big Brother|Hayato]] [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Kamitani]] is [[The Stoic]] with a [[Hair-Trigger Temper]], so his rage is manifested as this trope.
** In the [[Out-of-Character is Serious Business|rare moments]] [[Beware the Nice Ones|he actually gets angry]], [[Nice Guy|Ryuuichi]] [[The Protagonist|Kashima]] shows this trope. A particular example is when Hebihara-sensei ({{spoiler|who is Hayato's [[Disappeared Dad|estranged dad]]}}) coldly dismissed Hayato, Ryuuichi angrily delivers his essay {{spoiler|detailing Hayato and Taka's activities in the daycare center}} with few words. Hebihara-sensei commented he felt like being slapped in the face, further lampshading this trope.
* In ''[[Genshiken]]'', [[Nice Guy|Sasahara]] enters this when [[Smug Snake|Haraguchi]] starts badmouthing [[True Companions|the Genshiken club]]. He [[Stepford Smiler|keeps himself composed]] as he listens, with the only visual hint being [[Cross-Popping Veins]] around his face.
== Comic Books ==
* [[The Punisher]] will vary between Tranquil Fury and [[Unstoppable Rage]], depending on the situation and writer, although sometimes one hides the other. ({{spoiler|The point of the infamous Nicky Cavella incident was to cause him to mess up, and it worked -- once he could no longer hide the [[Unstoppable Rage]] under the veneer of Tranquil Fury, Frank knowingly walked right into the trap, only surviving through outside intervention, and it was only by returning to Tranquil Fury that he successfully ends the arc... and Nicky, ever so slowly.}})
** Everyone keeps referring to the Nicky Cavella incident as [[The Punisher]] in [[Unstoppable Rage]] mode, but it is actually [[The Punisher]] in Tranquil Fury mode. {{spoiler|If he was truly in [[Unstoppable Rage]], he would have charged straight towards Nicky, but instead he just goes from [[Bad Guy Bar]] to [[Bad Guy Bar]] massacring unconnected criminals until the city officials rebury his family. Then he goes after Nicky.}} Tunnel vision is a side effect to Tranquil Fury.
* ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]'': When Julia Diggers went [[Mama Bear]] on the assassin Zero, who was waiting in ambush near her first student Gar's body mortally wounded and no longer breathing. He was count on seeing Gar causing Julia to lose her cool and he could take advantage of it to kill her, since Zero needed only the slightest opening to gain the edge. He was badly mistaken.
* Jack From Jupiter is on the rough end of this trope on ''[[The Boys]]''.
* [[Darkseid]] is this ''all the time''.
* ''[[World War Hulk]]'' has the Hulk so angry he's calm.
* Lyra, who is the daughter of the Hulk from a future timeline, actually becomes weaker as she becomes angrier, in contrast to her father. So she is at her strongest when she is calm and collected.
*
* ''[[X Wing Series
** The novels mention a few times that the Wedge in starfighter combat is very unlike the usual Wedge - much, much more focused. It may not just be in combat, but when he has a purpose in mind and can't let himself fail - Iella remarks on this. One of his pilots, Wes Janson, is a snarky prankster, but similarly becomes extremely focused and controlled in combat.
* This is exactly the reason you do not piss off [[Spider-Man]]. You wouldn't know it considering how [[You Fight Like a Cow|he loves talk]], but the nanosecond you get him to stop joking ([[And Your Little Dog, Too|usually by doing something to threaten his family or friends]]), you've ensured yourself a very [[Beware the Nice Ones|painful and thorough defeat]].
** Or death, if it just happens to be a What If universe. {{spoiler|Oh and if it wasn't for a [[Retcon]] Spider-man would've committed his first real murder.}}
* V of ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' serves his vengeance cold, not once raising his voice to his targets (unless you count Madam Justice). His kills are usually done quietly and made to look like unrelated accidents, but by the time we see him in the comic, he's elevated killing to high theater. Sometimes he slaughters men while reciting Shakespeare or Bible verses, sometimes he abducts them and puts on little plays, or manipulates an [[Innocent Bystander]] into doing the killing for him, and in the "Vertigo" episode simply stands motionless in complete silence and compels his victim to kill himself. The fact that at all times he's wearing a mask with the most cheerful smile imaginable makes him all the more terrifying to those who wronged him.
* This is how ''[[Watchmen (
** This is changed in the movie, however. His blank stare is replaced by a [[Clint Squint]], and he is prone to fits of eye-twitchery. In 1975, when pushed to his limitations, instead of breaking down into the calm psycho he breaks up into an aggressive animal.
* Word of advice: when [[Superman]] [[Unstoppable Rage|gets angry]] and you don't have [[Kryptonite Factor|kryponite]] on you, run. Sure, no one but [[The Flash]] can actually outrace him, but he'll respect the effort, and your best shot is to hope that something more important will distract him in the seconds he lets you run. However, when he's gone past the point of anger, and entered [[Batman]]-levels of rage, [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]] and all, pray to your maker, because you'll be lucky to end up in critical condition.
** When Superman narrowly managed to defeat Subjekt-17, an alien with strength and speed on par with him coupled with [[Psychic Powers]], Subjekt-17 comments:
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* Speaking of Bats... he starts off as [[The Stoic]], then goes into an [[Unstoppable Rage]], and then... let's just say that you really, really, ''really'' [[Curb Stomp Battle|don't want to make him go past that point]]. It's saying something when a normal human in that state can scare the hell out of characters akin to gods - then again, Batman ain't a "normal human" ''per se''.
* One story in ''[[Deadpool]]'' #900 has the Merc With The Mouth going to a psychiatrist. During the session Deadpool brings up his occasional "pro bono" work when something really catches his attention, and mentions a story about a therapist who took sexual advantage of a young girl who was his patient, eventually driving her to suicide. {{spoiler|Eventually it's revealed that he's speaking to that very same therapist. Deadpool then beheads the man and quietly walks away. The kicker? Deadpool's usual wisecracking internal dialogue was notably absent from the story until after the therapist was killed, showing that Deadpool was 100% not fucking around.}}
* [[Wolverine]] is known for entering [[Unstoppable Rage]] moments. In fact, it's kinda his trademark, but also an [[Achilles' Heel]], since he's somewhat mindless when like this, so you MAY be able survive. [[This Is Gonna Suck|God help you]] if you piss him off SO much that he goes past this and regains control...
* ''[[Paperinik New Adventures]]'' has Xadhoom. It doesn't look that way, as you usually see her killing Evrons in the most painful way she could think of, but at the end of her introductory story she revealed that if she ever lost control she'd become a ''nova'', and that's when you realize she's in full Tranquil Fury. A later story reveals that Xadhoom is ''unable'' to go into [[Unstoppable Rage]] mode (in the occasion she was mad beyond reason and tried to let her control slip, but she survived and produced a relatively small explosion), and another showed she's actually able to ''weaponize'' her hate when she killed an Evron cyborg capable to absorb emotions by letting her control slip just a little for a single moment, killing the cyborg by indigestion.
== Fan Works ==
* Emily Hastings from ''[[An Entry With a Bang]]'' does this when a friend of hers gets killed, toying with the ASF pilot responsible and taking him out methodically weapon-by-weapon.
* These lines from ''[[Team 8]]'' after {{spoiler|Neji demolishes Hinata in the Chuunin Exam preliminaries}} demonstrate both this trope and his knowledge that Naruto will not take this lightly.
{{quote|'''Shino:''' What variety of flowers would be appropriate?
'''Tenten:''' What?
'''Shino:''' For your teammate's funeral. }}
* ''[[Enemy of My Enemy (Fanfic)|
* After his subordinates are wiped out, a [[Yakuza]] boss in ''[[Kyon
** It's also one interpretation of {{spoiler|Kyon's mental state after someone nearly killed Tsuruya}}.
* In the last installment of the ''[[
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If Ed were blind, he would still be able to see that this is the Wrongest Thing anyone has ever said to Mustang. He fully expects him to light the prosecutor on fire, although this wouldn't exactly help his case. At the very least, he expects Mustang to explode.
He doesn't. His black eyes are burning a hole through the prosecutor's head, but he remains seated, clutching the arms of the chair in a furious grip. And when he speaks, his voice is dangerously low and hissing, and fully informing the prosecutor that he has crossed the uncrossable line.
''"I don't love '''anything''' more than my wife."'' }}
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
** Luna is [[Nightmare Fuel|unnervingly calm]] when she [[And I Must Scream|turns Discord to stone in the dreamworld]], even showing ''no reaction at all'' when he [[Villainous Breakdown|begs her to stop.]] Whether this counts as a [[Moral Event Horizon]] for Luna has sparked some debate among fans.
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* In ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5945419/1/A_Month_as_Naruto_Uzumaki A Month as Naruto Uzumaki]'', Sarutobi [[Exactly What It Says
* In ''[[
== Film ==
* ''[[
* Eric Draven, in the big shootout in the club towards the end of ''[[The Crow]]'': "You're all going to die." Said so calmly and quietly he probably wasn't even heard over the thumping music.
* John Preston in ''[[Equilibrium]].'' Four words: "No. Not without incident."
** Accompanied by two other words when the polygraph he's hooked up to flatlines after the Tranquil Fury takes over: "Oh, ''[[Oh Crap|shit!]]''" So either he was so angry that his heart stopped, or the machine was broken by his PURE RAGE!
* River's decision in ''[[
** What makes this scene ''truly'' powerful? If you've watched the TV series and know that River is not only one of the most erratically emotive characters in the series, but that she is ''physically incapable of controlling her emotions.'' Especially ''fear.'' So to see her slowly, calmly turn her head, look straight at {{spoiler|the Alliance soldiers}}, and prepare to massacre them too without the tiniest twitch of emotion on her face isn't simply awesome...its a bit terrifying.
** Earlier in the film she has another. After she wanders into the bar where Mal is meeting with a contact, the Alliance bad guys trigger her [[Berserk Button]] with a subliminal message. She proceeds to wipe out everyone in the bar with more or less the same calm as she shows in the previous example. What makes it especially disorienting is that the scene includes a few shots of the fight through River-vision: she's almost alone in a bright, empty space, moving so slowly and gracefully that she's almost dancing. Then it immediately cuts back to the noise and chaos in the crowded bar where she's attacking everyone who comes within reach.
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** Why is River not freaking out at all the Alliance grunts pointing rifles at her? [[Fridge Brilliance|She can plot the trajectory of every bullet that will be fired]]... just like she did in the episode "War Stories".
*** Of course, that all fades away when she proceeds to [[Unstoppable Rage|stab that Reaver to a bloody mush.]]
* In [[Mission: Impossible]], Ethan Hunt does this when {{spoiler|he realizes that, not only is his team dead, his boss thinks he's the mole}}.
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'''Ethan:''' [[Pre
* In ''[[The Princess Bride (
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** In the actual book, it is explained that this is what [[The Chessmaster|Vizzini]] becomes like when he gets mad: he speaks in a very soft voice, with a very calm face, and scares the ''hell'' out of Inigo and Fezzik. Of course, in the movie, he just gets higher and higher pitched.
* Dustin Hoffman's [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|long-awaited]] rampage at the end of ''[[Straw Dogs]]''. He's slightly nervous, and that's about it.
* William Wallace in ''[[Braveheart]]'' after his wife is killed. His expression is virtually blank from the moment he rides into the village to the moment he cuts the murderer's throat.
* In ''[[Aguirre
* The scene in ''[[Over the Hedge (
** Which is shown by the fact that he is casually strolling ''ahead of a newly activated laser beam.'' That's faster-than-light strolling.
* The assassin named T, from the Singaporean movie ''One Last Dance'', has this as his signature style. It is shown mainly in the confrontation with his former partner-in-crime, as well as the ensuing revenge on {{spoiler|the men who raped his friend's sister.}}
* Michael Corleone in ''[[
* Would-be presidential assassin Mitch Leary in [[In the Line of Fire]].
* The protagonist of [[I Saw the Devil]] may qualify, as he gets on a revenge fest, looking very calm and cold most of the time. His fury goes on during the WHOLE. MOVIE.
* [[Evil Genius|Gru]] in ''[[Despicable Me]]'' when in his {{spoiler|[[Papa Wolf]]}} mode. Culminated with him {{spoiler|[[Offhand Backhand|offhandedly punching out]] a ''shark''}}.
* Erik's powers in [[X
* In ''[[Snatch]]'', Brick Top is always very loud and aggressive. Until he gets truly pissed off. Then he gets very, very quiet.
* When [[Ip Man]] challenges the ten Japanese pugilists after {{spoiler|seeing Master Liu get shot}}, he is calm and focused, with only a steely [[Death Glare]] to show his anger, even when he's [[Combat Pragmatist|dislocating joints and dealing out other brutality.]]
* For most of ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'', [[The Captain|Jean-Luc Picard]] appears to be the very same composed, rational man that we see throughout [[Star Trek:
** Specifically, Picard dispassionately [[Mercy Kill|kills]] a partially-assimilated crew member who was asking for help, shows obvious pleasure at gunning down two drones, and finally shatters a display case in the observation lounge during a argument.
* In ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]],'' Ratigan spends most of the movie like this whenever his lackeys mess up, reigning in his anger enough to threaten and kill them [[Faux Affably Evil|in a polite sort of way]]. During the climax with Basil, however, [[Villainous Breakdown|his patience finally gives in]].
* In [[Cape Fear]], Max Cady has a quiet, permanent animal rage under his skin. And occasionally, [[No
* At the climax of ''[[The Avengers (
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'''Bruce Banner''': [smiling] "That's my secret, Cap. I'm always angry."
** This trope is the reason why Bruce creeps out almost everyone he meets who knows he's the Hulk. On the outside he's calm, soft-spoken, and agreeable, but there's still...something off about his demeanor that makes it clear that a raging beast is lurking right below the surface.
== Literature ==
* The titular character in "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" After being {{spoiler|blackmailed and brutally raped by her new caseworker,}} Lizbeth Salander reminds us that "cooperative" is very much NOT the same as "submissive." Where another might fly into a homicidal rage or even BSOD, our heroine instead puts the scumbag in his place with a focus and purpose not unlike channeling a nuclear blast through a gunbarrel. {{spoiler|having capture the rape on camera, she turns the tables an blackmails HIM, but not before giving him a taste of his own medicine, tattooing I Am A Rapist on his chest, and leaving him tied up to think about what he did.}}
* In one of the ''[[
* Harry's entire fight with Voldemort at the end of ''[[Harry Potter and
** Also, Professor McGonagall's conversation with Umbridge in ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (novel)|Order of the Phoenix]]''. Actually, everytime McGonagall's angry, you will see this trope.
*** Which is why, when she very uncharacteristically flies into a screaming rage at Fudge over the Dementor incident at the end of [[Harry Potter and
** This is Snape's default setting, along with [[Deadpan Snarker]]. Him snapping at Harry in a fury towards the end of ''[[Harry Potter and
* A trait of ''[[Elenium]]''{{'}}s Sparhawk. In fact, when {{spoiler|his wife}} is kidnapped, he acts so calm that one of the knights {{spoiler|(who's infatuated with her)}} actually tells him that he doesn't love her, or he would be angrier. Some very scared friends of Sparhawk have to stop him and basically describe this trope for him before something unfortunate happens.
** Also, the final battle of the Tamuli Trilogy. {{spoiler|Of course, being a God kinda helps.}}
* Invoked ad infinitum in ''The [[Black Jewels]] Trilogy,'' where hot anger is the lesser danger; Blood can be pushed to something called the 'killing edge' which is a sort of glacially calm-seeming berserker state. You can be sure that when a character is speaking "too gently" or is "too calm" that they are a breath away from tearing someone apart.
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* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Captain Carrot, in ''[[Men at Arms]]'' dropped the [[Big Bad]] with barely a word. He would be just doing his duty... if it weren't for {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] having shot his girlfriend}}. Significantly, he does so by putting a sword into (well, through) a stone, which earlier in the book is described as vastly more impressive than [[King Arthur|drawing a sword out of a stone]].
** For clarity's sake, it should be noted that said [[Big Bad]] was ''between'' Carrot's sword and the aforementioned stone. Carrot's expression does not change.
** Vimes' thoughts on the subject are virtually the definition of Tranquil Fury.
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** Vimes himself gets into one of
** Normally accompanied by Carrot calmly pointing out that "personal isn't the same as important." He really believes this
*** It should be noted that the one time we see Carrot abandon this trope (When he chases after Angua in ''[[
*** Which is very likely a (perhaps subconsciously planned) [[Xanatos Gambit]] on Carrot's part, to put himself in a position where Angua would have to come to ''his'' aid, and therefore force her hand against her brother.
** Terry Pratchett quite likes having his heroes remain outwardly calm as they knock seven bells out of the villains. Granny Weatherwax seems to do it once per book, and is described as storing up her anger behind a mental dam in her head, so that when she really needs it she can turn the tap and let it out.
*** [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Though it may be]] that Granny Weatherwax exists in a permanent state of Tranquil Fury because she wanted to be a wicked witch, but her sister chose to be the "wicked" one {{spoiler|and didn't even have the common courtesy to enjoy it}} which left Granny with no choice but to be the "good" witch. Again and again, we see how much she despises the people of Lancre, her own closest friends not excepted, yet her entire life is devoted to helping them overcome their various troubles. Of all the characters in the Discworld novels, she seems to be the most effective force for good, and the most glaring example of [[Good Is Not Nice]].
* At least one [[Badass]] in every single one of [[David Gemmell]]'s
** Waylander especially epitomises this trope. In the first novel, Dardalion uses his powers to observe Waylander's aura and describes it as a state of "controlled fury."
*** And his long-time friend was clearly a case of ''[[Dissonant Serenity]]'', as his aura was one of calmness. This is maybe the time to remind you that David Gemmell has probably known violence first-hand as a bouncer. It might be a case of [[Truth in Television]] or not, everyone has to make up his/her own mind on this.
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** Worth noting, though, turning the blade white is actually the opposite of Tranquil Fury. While hate and anger normally fuel the Sword's magic, it's ''love'' that turns it white.
* Guido usually regards violence and threats as work, but shows this in ''[[Myth Adventures|M.Y.T.H. Inc in Action]]'':
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** This also tends to happen on the rare occasions when Skeeve ''really'' loses his temper. He gets very cold and very calm and people start backing away ''very'' fast.
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* Two examples from [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]''. The first is from ''Barrayar'' when Aral apparently catches Cordelia canoodling with Lt Koudelka. When Cordelia goes to have it out with him she wonders if she can keep her voice down and reflects: "Aral's no problem; when he gets mad he whispers."
** The second is referenced in this exchange from ''A Civil Campaign'':
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'''Ivan:''' Exactly the same as he does the rest of the time. That's the scary part. }}
** Incidentally, that event? Gregor was confronting the man who tried to murder his head of security, framed his foster brother for the crippling attack, then framed his new fiancee's friend ''and'' tried to bribe the aforementioned foster brother when that did not stick. The foster brother in question observed that he was "so neutral he was grey."
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* ''[[
** Honor personifies this in her duel with Pavel Young. He tried to rape her in the academy, he's used his family connections to block her advancement, he's left her to die when he was her superior, ''he arranged the death of her lover'', and when she managed to corner him and challenge him to a duel, he broke the laws on dueling by turning early. Her response was to send 3 bullets into his heart without a single twitch of facial muscle despite his cheating in the duel and ''turning around early to shoot her in the back''.
*** From the (first) climax of ''Flag in Exile'':
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"Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled, or dead?" }}
*** Moreover, she maintains that utter calm throughout the (very short) duel, and it's exactly what enables her to kill the far more experienced swordsman Burdette.
*** This is how her ''husband'' sees her.
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*** Her reaction when she finds some of her captured subordinates who have been brutally raped and beaten over and over and over, in ''The Honor of the Queen''. She calmly walks out of the room, finds the CO of the base that allowed it to happen, and is only barely prevented from calmly blowing his brains out when a marine in power armor physically interposes himself, while begging her to not do it. She doesn't actually lower the gun, however, until a man representing the local authorities promises the man will be executed by the courts.
** Havenite leader Eloise Pritchart is manages to remain calm, if frustrated, while negotiations with Manticore spiral downward during ''War of Honor''. Arnold Giancola, {{spoiler|who's been manipulating diplomatic correspondence}} realizes too late that he went too far and Eloise's outward calm actually hid the fact that she was pissed off enough to order a resumption of hostilities.
*** Pritchart can certainly pull off Tranquil Fury when necessary, but that wasn't really an example. Giancola just badly misread her character, thinking she'd back down and he could step in and play the decisive statesman in a moment of crisis. Note carefully: [[Too Dumb to Live|he assumed that Eloise Pritchart]] - [[The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified|Aprilist]] [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters|'Brigade Commander Delta']], [[State Sec
** Really, ''anybody'' in the Honorverse who can maintain a level of Tranquil Fury is going to be about twenty times more dangerous than someone who rants, raves, and screams. Perhaps best highlighted with Manticore's Queen Elizabeth. She's an intelligent, crafty, and very effective leader. ''If'' she keeps her head. Her biggest blunders, such as failing to get into a better position to head off the High Ridge Government's excesses and resuming hostilities with Haven after peace talks were sabotaged, occurred primarily because the "famed Winton temper" was provoked.
* The Outlaw Chronicles have Robin Hood himself as being almost perpetually like this, being described by Tuck as a 'Cold-hot man' fire inside, icy control on the outside. And the results are ''terrifying''. The narrator, Alan Dale, has by Book 3 begun to become something similar, previously mentioning his wife (who has an incredible temper matched only by her courage) having described him as ruthless, without pity, and Friar Tuck as being a cold man.
* Gordon Dickson wrote a short story about this, in which the dominant powers of the galaxy recruit a Token Brigade of humans and other less-advanced species to help fight an oncoming invasion--[[You Suck|we're useless]], but we have a stake in the outcome and deserve to have our shot. Turns out said dominant powers are [[Straw Vulcan
* Chili Palmer, the [[Anti
** "Look at me."
* The eponymous hero of [[Andrew Vachss]]' [http://www.vachss.com/av_novels/index_theburkeseries.html Burke] novels is a master of this:
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And the more of that you have, the easier it is. }}
* John Kelly/Clark, from [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''[[
* In the Iain M Banks [[The Culture|Culture]] novel ''[[The Culture/The Player of Games|The Culture]]'', there is an example of Tranquil Fury against a whole civilisation. The protagonist, Jurneau Gurgeh is sent to the foreign Azadian empire to play in a games tournament (winning the tournament makes you the emperor). After having a fairly enjoyable time playing and drinking in what he sees as a crude but still interesting society, Jurneau's companion shows him just how bad things are in the empire (exploitation of mentally sick people, no support for the elderly or poor, brutal police force etc). He gets a bit upset, but doesn't think much of it. He's then shown a series of TV programs showing, in order, normal pornography, sado-dominative pornography, and finally, the most twisted kinds of sexually motivated anatomically horrific torture possibly conceived (a particularly vile example shows a pregnant woman being thrown into a room with a violently psychopathic prisoner armed with knife and injected with a massive amount of sex hormones). He is then informed that this kind of thing happens all the time in the Azadian Empire. Cue his next games match. Where previously, he'd been playing out of sport and fun, Jurneau utterly annihilates his opponent in the most absolute way possible.
** And it's a sign of how complex a writer Banks is that the opponent being annihilated is the most sympathetic one Gurgeh has ever faced and the penalty for losing is ''gelding.'' And what makes it worse is that the opponent is ''pregnant'' for the first time and will lose all hope of ever having children, as well as his/her job (the ruling class in the Empire are hermaphrodites.) There are strong hints that Gurgeh has been driven somewhat [[Ax Crazy]] by seeing the dark side of the Empire up close and personal.
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*** It's even worse than that: Gurgeh was chosen because he is the best player of games in the Culture, a civilization which sees games as a [[Serious Business|very important elaborate form of art]], and his play style actually epitomize the way the Culture behaves as a civilization: the way he plays is basically the way the Culture conducts politics, diplomacy and war: they're good at it, they tend to be decontracted about it, until someone push the [[Berserk Button|wrong buttons]], at which point their happy go lucky attitude collapse and they turn into one of the [[Superweapon Surprise|most ruthless civilization of the known universe]]. If anything the first chapters showing Gurgeh's ordinary life are here to show that the Culturniks are really a [[Beware the Nice Ones|nice people]] and their happy go lucky attitude is not [[Faux Affably Evil|merelly a facade]].
* Yo-less, in ''[[Johnny Maxwell Trilogy|Johnny and the Bomb]]''.
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* When [[Kate Daniels]] is angry, she swears and threatens violence. When she's really angry, she sits still and speaks calmly, and only her [[Empathic Weapon]] gives her away.
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"Your sword's smoking," the female bouda said.
"It does that occasionally." My voice sounded flat. }}
* Douglas Hill's series ''Last Legionary.'' A sci-fi story, a entire planet of warriors trained from birth to the utmost levels of physical and mental perfection, to sell their services as mercenaries. Until all but one gets wiped out by a planet-killer bomb. The best part? This is the state of mind ''every last one of them'' gets trained in for combat purposes.
** Which was probably the other part of the reason the {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]] of the series killed them all off. [[Genocide Backfire|Too bad he missed one...]]}}
* In [[The Wheel of Time|The Gathering Storm]], Rand spends most of the book {{spoiler|after killing Semirhage}} in a ''deliberate'' state of Tranquil Fury. ''Everyone'', including Cadsuane and Tuon, find it infinitely creepy and terrifying, especially considering the contrast with his highly vocal releases of rage which had increased in both duration and frequency during the course of his six book mental breakdown.
** For that matter look at the Aes Sedai all throughout the books. An angry Aes Sedai is always described as being "cool" and not showing outward signs of emotion.
* Niko, the martial-arts expert, self-educated, "Buddha-loving" swordsman brother of [[Cal Leandros]] is almost always tranquil, the epitome of Zen. But threaten the ones he loves, '''especially''' his little brother, and that tranquility turns into a cold rage that makes him the perfect weapon, driven by nothing but the desire to bring death. He says himself that the thing he does best is kill.
* In [[Raymond E. Feist]]'s ''[[Riftwar Cycle|Rise of A Merchant Prince]]'' After his father in law is killed, Rupert notes down that the way of getting revenge is keep the fury cold and calculating, so one can properly formulate a plot that can succeed, and then let the anger burn hot and fierce when it completes.
* In ''[[The Dresden Files|Changes]]'', this pretty much defines how Harry spends the majority of the book, with him struggling to keep his ever-intensifying anger at what is happening to his daughter from transforming into an outright [[Unstoppable Rage]]. As he points out at the beginning of the book, a wizard who cuts loose can level city blocks in their fury, so he has to keep his anger on a tight leash. It nonetheless leaks out; for example, when fighting the vampires in his office building, Harry keeps his cool but unthinkingly pumps [[White Magic|soulfire]] into his flame blasts, without even considering the consequences, because he's ''that damned angry'', proving that even Tranquil Fury can potentially be self-destructive.
* In the last book of ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]'', [[Ax Crazy]] Jedi Master clone Joruus C'baoth (half of the trilogy's [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]), goes into a quite spectacular [[Villainous Breakdown]] during the climax. At first, he's completely flipped and incoherently raging, but then he goes right ''past'' that and straight into Tranquil Fury. Everyone thinks it's ''much'' more disturbing than the mad screaming.
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** Also in [[Star Wars]], ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'' has this happen to {{spoiler|Luke Skywalker, of all people, after his wife is killed. No hammy temper tantrums like his father}}; simply an unbreakable resolve to avenge her that probably nothing in the galaxy could stop.
* In ''Emperor Mage'' by Tamora Pierce, the third book in the Immortals Quartet, this happens to Daine {{spoiler|when she finds out the Emperor Ozorne has already executed her teacher Numair while she was out of it}}. And scares the living shit out of everyone nearby.
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Kaddar was shaking her. "Daine! Can you hear me?"
She gently pushed his hands away. "Stop that. I'm thinking."
His eyes and Tano's held the same worried, frightened look. "You weren't answering. You looked frozen-"
She put a finger to her lips, and he shut up. A thought was coming in the distance. She waited, patiently, skin rippling in brief shivers, until it reached her: [[Big Bad|Ozorne]] had to pay. }}
== Live-Action TV ==
* [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|The 2004 reboot of ''Battlestar Galactica'']]: Admiral Adama is truly terrifying to behold when pissed off - and speaks in little more than a whisper when he is.
** The [[Battlestar Galactica
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Tenth Doctor, in contrast to the [[Unstoppable Rage|Ninth Doctor]], is very fond of doing this. At the big showdowns against the Sycorax (Christmas special 2005), the Racnoss (Christmas special 2006), the Family of Blood (2007), and the Vashta Nerada (2008) he has displayed very little emotion. [[No Indoor Voice|Then again, loud is his normal state.]]
** In "The Christmas Invasion", the Doctor kills the Sycorax leader by arising open the floor beneath his feet, announcing "No second chances. I'm that sort of man." Moments later, he has a second moment against the Prime Minister, after she shoots down the retreating fleet, killing thousands needlessly, as he sees it. He talks over her pleas, saying "I could bring down your government with a single word... No... six words. Six." He whispered to her aide, "Don't you think she looks tired?" This ''alters the course of history'' and strongly reverbarates all the way through to the end of series 3 of ''Doctor Who'' and the ''[[Torchwood]]'' miniseries ''[[Torchwood: Children of Earth|Children of Earth]]''.
** There's a quote from "The Family of Blood" that pretty much sums up this trope:
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** Faced with his own daughter's dead body, the Doctor picks up the gun that killed her, holds it against the head of the man who fired it and delivers the spine-chilling {{spoiler|"[[
** To be honest, most of the Doctor's incarnations have behaved similarly at least once. As he gets angrier, he tends to go from smiling to annoyed scowling to shouting to steely-eyed gazing.
** In ''[[Doctor Who
** The Eleventh Doctor shows flashes of this a couple times <ref>The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, and The Hungry Earth, among others</ref> and is genuinely menacing. You do ''not'' want to get him angry at you. He also displays some truly fearsome Tranquil Fury in "A Good Man Goes To War", complete with the [[Humiliation Conga]] for the target of his anger.
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'''The Doctor:''' Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many. }}
*** Rory demonstrates this trope at the start of the episode as well, with the "fury" of it trickling through when he {{spoiler|orders the Cyber Commander of the 12th Cyber Legion to tell him where his wife is.}} When his question goes unanswered, {{spoiler|''every single other ship of the 12th Cyber Legion is destroyed.''}}
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*** Amy Pond finally goes off the deep end in "The Wedding Of River Song", and very calmly {{spoiler|murders Madame Koravian}}. Went she returns to her normal life, she reveals that she's traumatised by it.
* ''[[The A-Team
* ''[[Starsky and Hutch
* Teal'c, [[The Big Guy]] in ''[[Stargate SG-1]],'' is exceptionally good at this.
** Indeed.
** The episode "Talion" showcases it nicely, as seen in the excerpt currently at [[Stargate Verse
* ''[[The West Wing]]'': "[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|I am not frightened. I'm gonna blow them off the face of the earth with the fury of God's own thunder.]]" Don't mess with anyone who
* ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles
* ''[[Angel]]'' can do this when he's especially angry. Of course, judging by the Darla plot arc in the third season, this is a sign of a descent into darkness that we'd prefer not to see.
** Wesley as well, in late season 5, though that's also just total despair on his part after {{spoiler|Fred dies}}
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** Still in ''Buffy'', The Mayor shows this when trying to smother Buffy at the hospital.
** Xander is a surprising example of this trope given his usual goofy temperament, but threaten some one he cares about and it doesn't matter how much stronger than him you may be he will calmly inform you that he will kill you (see his conversation with Buffy after she got Willow kidnapped, or his conversation with Angel at the hospital.) It is telling that none of the super powered characters he has threatened have ignored the threat. The man can be scary when he wants to be.
*
*** His latest interview with Bill O'Reilly on the O' Reilly Factor [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icp0tAsl95s&feature=response_watch should also count where he rips into] [[Fox News]].
** Let's just say that slighting New York City's patriotism in front of Jon Stewart is a [[Berserk Button|very bad idea...]]
* [[David Letterman]] in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKftpGB03vU&feature=related this video].
* Raylan Givens in the very first minutes of the first episode of ''[[Justified (TV series)|Justified]]'' and several times after.
* Gene Hunt from ''[[Life On Mars]]'' is normally given to yelling his head off at all and sundry... but when one of Ray Carling's screwups results in a death in police custody, his punishment is cold, calm and severe.
* Vulcans in every incarnation of ''[[Star Trek]]'' are pictures of perfect tranquility, even when fighting. Whether they take someone out with a nerve pinch, fight hand-to-hand or blast it out with phasers, they always have a blank look of complete calm. Sometimes that calm slips a bit, and we get a glimpse of the Hot Green Blood that made them choose this path as an alternative to ''completely destroying themselves.''
* ''[[Dad's Army]]'', "High Finance": Wilson, after hearing {{spoiler|Hodges}} would write off a £50 debt he was owed to him in rent by Mrs. Pike ([[Old Money|Pre-decimalisation, remember]]) if she'd be "nice" to him. Cue Wilson walking calmly from one end of the table to the other:
{{quote|'''Wilson''': I say, would you mind awfully if you could stand up.
''He stands and Wilson promptly lands a punch on his face.''
'''Wilson''':''(to Mainwaring)'' Do carry on sir. }}
* Dan on ''Roseanne'' often played into this trope when he was really angry or disappointed.
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* ''[[Chuck]]'', since Intersect 2.0. When he is upset, he is a rather harmless geek as he cannot flash in that state. When he is calm, [[Curb Stomp Battle|run!]]
* Played with hilariously in an episode of ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' . While on court ordered happy pills, Joy turns from blonde bitch to annoyingly calm, even putting up with some obnoxious neighbors who park their trailer right next to hers... until they tag Earl Jr. with a beer can. Even the pills couldn't turn off her [[Mama Bear]] instincts. She explains in a scary happy voice that she's gonna come back in a few days, when the chemical calm wears off, and thrash them in several unpleasant ways. They decide to move before she does.
* ''[[Law and Order
* Kim from ''[[Yes, Dear]]'' did this once in one
* On ''[[Babylon 5]]'', when [[Magnificent Bastard|Alfred Bester]] learns that Captain Sheridan may have used his lover (and the mother of his child) as {{spoiler|a living weapon in the liberation of Earth}}, he drops his usual [[Deadpan Snarker]] persona completely and replaces it with blunt threats on Sheridan's life. But he never once raises his voice.
** Delenn usually expresses anger with an imperious [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]. But during the Drakh attack in ''Lines of Communication'', when she said "who said we were leaving" you knew the drakh were doomed.
* Wash of ''[[Firefly]]'' was supposed to become deadly serious when things got serious. As the DVD commentary explains, that plan did not survive contact with Alan Tudyk. However, despite the jokey lines, Wash ''is'' usually extraordinarily calm, beyond even [[Deadpan Snarker]].
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'''Mal:''' Define "interesting."
'''Wash:''' "Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die"? }}
* In the ''[[
* John Reese on ''[[Person of Interest]]'' is quite capable of taking out enemy assassins without so much as raising his voice, even when it's personal.
* When Steven from ''[[V (TV series)|V]]'' believes that Daniel Bernstein (a traitor to humanity who sided with the reptilian Visitors, of which Steven is a commander of) indirectly killed his number two Brian, while he doesn’t outwardly show it, he’s simply furious. So furious that not only does he have Daniel savagely beaten, he decides to give the other Visitors permission to feast on him as well. It’s for this reason Daniel doesn’t immediately realizes his intentions.
== Music ==
* [[Geto Boys]], "Scarface":
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* Scottish traditional song ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v15wEsHg3gY Jock O'Braidosly]'', which describes a Scottish poacher who is ambushed and fatally wounded by a party of English foresters while sleeping in the forest. Leaping to his feet, he props himself against a tree, calmly strings his bow and proceeds to kill six, driving away a single grievously wounded survivor.
== Tabletop Games ==
* Drizzt Do'Urden normally does an [[Unstoppable Rage]] when he's pressed enough; he calls that mindset The Hunter. But he also has a "level 2" variant, referred to as the Warrior Incarnate, that's much more Tranquil Fury. He's only ever entered that once, and then only when he thought all his friends had been killed at the same time.
* The berserkers of the Crab Clan in ''[[Legend of the Five Rings]]'' were originally portrayed as this, but are occasionally Flanderized into the normal, [[Unstoppable Rage]] kind of berserkers.
* In [[Dungeons
* ''[[Warhammer
** Space Marines and Eldar deliberately try to enter this state rather than "hot" fury. Given what they know about Chaos, justified trope. Tau are also normally calm during battle unless their [[Berserk Button]] gets pushed.
** In fact, Tau are ''so'' calm during battle, that when their [[Berserk Button]] is pushed, ''this'' is the trope they exemplify. The Tau Codex gives a very good description of a Tau force advancing relentlessly pouring an ever-increasing torrent of fire into the enemy after their Ethereal is killed.
** Even the home-brew Angry Marines aim for this. While their motto is "Always Angry, All the Time", it's a ''focused'' anger.
* In ''[[
== Theater ==
* Anthony Hopkins's portrayal of ''[[Shakespeare|Othello]]'' in the BBC TV show, during the climax, was mostly like this.
* In Peter Shaffer's "Black Comedy", Shaffer even writes this into the stage directions. The main character has surreptitiously borrowed his neighbor's very expensive furniture to impress a guest, but then there is a power outage and the neighbor comes home unexpectedly, prompting the lead to scramble about replacing the furniture while his girlfriend stalls the neighbor. At some point, the lead accidentally drops a priceless sculpture at his neighbor's
== Video Games ==
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* Considering Squall in ''Final Fantasy VIII'' is [[Not So Stoic]], an [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] could have him being in a state of this for ''at least half of the game''.
* In [[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Crystal Bearers|Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers]], when protagonist [[Gravity Master|Layle]] {{spoiler|attempts to crush [[Big Bad|Jegran]] to death after the latter kills Amidatelion}}, the expression on his face seems almost like one of boredom.
* ''[[Ryu ga Gotoku|Yakuza]]'':
**Kazuma Kiryuu exists in a state of Tranquil Fury pretty much all the time. Which makes the moments when he ''does'' get visibly pissed off that much more awesome.
**Gorou Majima is usually [[Laughing Mad]] or open in his displeasure. When he's only glaring seriously, he's truly pissed.
* In ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]: Deadlocked'', when Vox catches Ratchet in his attempt to {{spoiler|deactivate the cells holding the other heroes captive}}, Ratchet just smiles as if to say, "Congratulations, now watch me destroy your frickin' space station."
* [[The Stoic|Kyosuke Nanbu]] of ''[[Super Robot Wars]]''. In the first ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]'', his fellow allies wonder how he can be so calm and monosyllabic [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QiJBTaX7mM when confronted by] {{spoiler|a taunting, [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] [[More Than Mind Control
** Ironically, it's the [[Ascended Fanboy]], [[Hot
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** Katina's...special with rage.
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** "Deadly Cam" was reworked and now just let you use any attack for no rage while you gather more rage. Nothing more, nothing less.
** And the final straw it's a universal skill for warriors named "Inner Rage", in when you use it the cooldown in Heroic Strike (strong blow with lots of threat that can be used with other attacks) and Cleave (same, but striking two objectives) are reduced in half for 15 sec. The thing is, even if a Protection warrior use it always because it means he will do more threat, and Fury warrior can achieve a rate of decent rage generation to allow him to use it from time to time, you cannot use Deadly Calm and Inner rage at the same time as Arms (using one locks the other), and where Deadly Calm it's beneficial for the Arms warrior, he never have a rate of rage generation comparable to that of the Fury warrior. It's like the devs saying that those Arms warriors are the real badasses of the crew and they actually are in peace at themselves.
* At the end of Tails' story in [[
* ''[[Silent Hill 4]]'': Even though he may yell from the force of his attacks, don't expect
* ''[[Professor Layton and
* A Renegade option in ''[[
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** In the Operation Overlord DLC, one can ''hear'' this in Shepard's voice if s/he chooses to {{spoiler|spare David and take him to Grissom Academy}}. When Dr. Archer draws his gun, Shepard's only response is to [[Pistol Whip]] him and then tell him, in cold, calm, enraged, and entirely certain terms, that if Archer {{spoiler|tries to come after his brother again}}, that [[Good Is Not Soft|"This bullet will be waiting for you."]]
** [[
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** Shepard's final confrontation with Kai Leng. After Shepard curb-stomps him, leaving him defeated-but-alive, s/he calmly goes back to what they were doing before the assassin showed up. Kai-Leng slowly gets back to his feet, picks up his sword, walks over and prepares to strike Shepard from behind. In a split second, Shepard turns around, {{spoiler|either dodges or breaks the sword in half with their ''bare hands'', unfurls their omniblade and [[Karmic Death|stabs him hard in the gut.]]}}
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* Diego Armando at the end of Case 3-4 of [[Ace Attorney]]. Having witnessed what {{spoiler|Dahlia Hawthorne}} has done, he calls her a witch, claims that [[This Is Unforgivable!]] and then squeezes his coffee cup so hard that it shatters and the shards cut him. Then he turn to Mia, smiling and with his hand full of blood and tells her it isn't over yet.
* In ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', Fenris is nearly permanently in this state. One of his abilities (Veneer of Calm) even invokes this, noting that while outwardly he appears calm and emotionless, inwardly he's infuriated and deals more damage based on the amount of damage he himself has taken.
* Joshua Graham of ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' is a calm and patient man towards the Courier. However, this doesn't make him any less of a terrifying [[Knight Templar]] who believes in the utter obliteration of his enemies whenever possible.
** As your constant conversing with him along the Lonesome Road shows, Ulysses speaks to you calmly, slowly and with pure unbridled hate dripping from every word.
* This is presumably why casting Calm in the middle of combat is a very [[The Many Deaths of You|bad idea]] in [[Quest for Glory I]].
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* Garrett from ''[[Thief]]''. He's hardly interested in the City's various nutty goings on and has nerves of iron, but even at his most emotional he rarely so much as raises his voice. Try to assassinate him and narrowly fail? He's annoyed by the lack of style, and proceeds to comprehensively destroy the enemy's credibility. {{spoiler|Eyeball ripped ''straight out of his head''? Well, he screams at the time, but recounts the event with at best mild irritation. Robbing a ''god'' - the one who ripped his eye out? He's intrigued by the challenge. Fanatical splinter group converting homeless people into cyborg slaves, consciousness intact but tormented, without will and unable to die? "I could really learn to hate these guys."}} Threaten to destroy the entire city, and possibly more? He'll take his time to think of a nice, methodical way to crush you. Kill his friends, and all hell will break loose...but he'll remain chillingly calm throughout. And then you'll die very suddenly, [[Stealth Expert|without ever seeing him]] [[Paranoia Fuel|at all]].
* With all the anger tropes in the game, ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'' would obviously use this at some point. His {{spoiler|[[Eleventh
* In ''[[Batman
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'''Penguin:''' Aren't you scary! ([[Evil Laugh]])
'''Batman:''' You're about to find out. }}
* ''[[Magical Diary: Horse Hall]]'' Do ''not'' let
* Pit in ''[[Kid Icarus]]: Uprising'' is prone to throwing out one-
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Sam and Fuzzy]]'', what did begin with a normal and quite amusing, really, [http://samandfuzzy.com/archive.php?comicID=974 Unstoppable Rage], became first a little [http://samandfuzzy.com/archive.php?comicID=975 monologue] from Mr. Black (that, actually, made me feel really bad for Mr. Blank), then [http://samandfuzzy.com/archive.php?comicID=976 Tranquil Fury] from Mr. Blank. The funny thing? ''I'm even more sorry for Mr. Blank''... even if that is, probably, a [[Kick the Dog]] moment. Or... [[Shoot the Dog]]. Choose the best.
* In ''[[
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* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', [[Implacable Man|Airman Axel]] [[The Magnificent|"The Unstoppable"]] [[Made of Iron|Higgs]] slides into this state after Zola {{spoiler|stabs Zeetha}}. Every panel showing him afterwards depicts him with this look of pure yet tempered and determined fury on his face as he relentlessly pursues and fights her.
** After beating Vole using [[Unstoppable Rage]], Gil points out that his father feels like this ''all the time'', which means the baron lives in tranquil fury all the time he doesn't spend in non-tranquil fury.
* [[Sakana|Jiro Sakana]], usually a [[Shrinking Violet]] [[Extreme Doormat]], shows this trope when he gets angry. Case in point: {{spoiler|When Yuudai's abusive ex-boyfriend Arata starts harassing him at work, Jiro (with help from his [[Love Interest]] Chie) kicks him out of the stall with just a [[Death Glare]] and a stone cold voice. Later, he tells Yuudai in no uncertain terms [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...|he cannot hurt his best friend Taisei in any way]], all without raising his voice.}} This fully shows he's [[Not So Different|not that different]] from his [[Hot-Blooded]] older brother, who combines this trope with [[Unstoppable Rage]].
== Web Original ==
* In [[
** "Brand New Day", ''especially'' the first verse. Just... guh.
* In ''[[The Salvation War]]'': ''Armageddon?'', the Soldiers in the PLFH (particularly Aeanas) experience this when they come across the {{spoiler|[[Moral Event Horizon|demonic merchants who sell human children as delicacies]]}}:
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* ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'':
** Vegeta temporarily passes through this phase after losing his tail - and coming off the other end of a previous lapse into [[Unstoppable Rage]] ("That's IT, ''EVERYBODY DIES!''") - and finds himself bemused by it all.
{{quote|'''Vegeta''': You know, I thought I'd be angrier, what with the utter humiliation and loss of my tail, or maybe I'm just so ''unbelievably'' enraged that I've come full circle. Oh well! Either way, it's time to put an end to this.}}
:* Gohan's ascension to Super Saiyan 2 plays out as it did in canon, though it starts off with a little more... ''[[Nightmare Fuel|intensity]]''.
{{quote|'''Perfect Cell''': Dear Lord in Piccolo, finally! And here I thought killing 16 was harder for me than it was for you. I'm confused, though. Were you friends? Did you talk about birds together? A couple of bird nerds?
'''SSJ2 Gohan''': The murder of one's own child or children.
'''Perfect Cell''': Uhhh... (Gohan suddenly snatches the bag of Senzu Beans) Wha--?!
'''SSJ2 Gohan''': (appears in front of a Cell Junior) [[Ironic Echo|You wanted me to define "filicide"]].
(Gohan beheads and kills the Cell Junior in one swift blow)}}
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* [[Atop the Fourth Wall]]: Linkara getting angry is shouting and speaking in an immature tone. [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|Lewis Lovhaug]] getting angry is deathly cold and collected. As shown with ''Cry For Justice'' and ''Holy Terror'', you don't push him to that point.
* ''[[Ink City]]'' saw [[Transformers Prime|Optimus Prime]] go into this when [[Aeon Flux|Trevor]] kidnapped [[The Secret of Kells|Aisling]]. Trevor's insistence on [[Blatant Lies|blatantly lying]] about her presence reminded him all too much of the Decepticons, causing him to very calmly and methodically tear Goodchild's compound apart.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
** This is how Aang is ''supposed'' to unlock and control the [[Unstoppable Rage|Avatar State]].
** Normally, their previous confrontations were the reverse, but in their final bout it is Zuko's Tranquil Fury against Azula's [[Unstoppable Rage|insanity-fueled fury]], accentuated in various parts by wide shots of the city underlaid with unusually calm music and two tiny dark sports circling each other in the distance. And [[Scenery Porn|massive gusts of red and blue fire reaching hundreds of feet into the night sky]].
* The final showdown of Disney's ''[[Hercules (1997 film)||Hercules]]'' certainly qualifies.
* Brock Samson of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' is the master of both Tranquil Fury AND [[Unstoppable Rage]].
{{quote|They hit me with a truck.}}
* Optimus Prime, from ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]''. After so many battles, he's finally got Megatron beaten to the ground and facing the wrong end of his blaster. Megatron begs for mercy, and he replies:
{{quote|'''Optimus Prime''': You, who are without mercy, now ''plead for it?'' I thought you were made of sterner stuff.}}
:* Prowl, of ''[[Transformers Animated]],'' as befits a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|robot ninja]].
{{quote|'''Prowl''': "Stillness... then ''strike''."}}
:* Megatron in the first episode of the same series has an especially good moment as well. After being half blown-up (by none other than [[The Starscream|Starscream]]), he still manages to get aboard the Autobots' ship and pins Optimus Prime to the wall whilst demanding the whereabouts of the All Spark. Prowl and Ratchet attempt to attack him from behind; he casually swings around (still holding Optimus) and knocks them away, then pins Optimus again. He then very calmly states, "I grow impatient."
:** In fact, the only time he really seems to lose his cool is at [[Villainous Breakdown|the end of the final episode]], though in the latter half of season 3 the strain starts showing.
:* And this moment from ''[[Beast Wars]]'':
{{quote|'''Megatron:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|Oh, a STICK.]] [[Tempting Fate|What are you going to do with it?]]
'''Dinobot:''' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Im... pro... vise.]] }}
* [[Gadgeteer Genius|Numbuh Two]] from ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' is usually a cheerful, goofy wannabe [[Pungeon Master]], but he has shown this trope when fully angry. If his voice gets lower and stops making puns, you know the guy's serious, and [[Beware the Silly Ones|it's not a good idea to piss him off]]...
* Surprisingly, the ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy's Big Picture Show|movie]] shows two instances of this trope:
** [[Gadgeteer Genius|Edd]] is in this state for most of the movie, being his usual collected, snarky self while [[Death Glare|subtly]] showing his anger at [[Jerkass|Eddy]] for the mess they've got into. It's not until Eddy pushes him to his [[Rage Breaking Point]] his anger [[Unstoppable Rage|really becomes apparent]].
** [[Cloudcuckoolander|Ed]], of all people, runs into this by the film's climax. {{spoiler|After witnessing [[True Companions|his beloved best friends Edd and Eddy]] being brutally [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|beaten up]] by [[Big Brother Bully|Eddy's abusive older brother]], he becomes [[Out-of-Character is Serious Business|calm and determined]], only spouting a mere [[Death Glare]]. Then [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|he removes the bolts from a steel door Eddy was clinging onto, turning Eddy into a slingshot and slamming the door in the bastard's face, knocking him out]].}} Made even more impressive by {{spoiler|being the first, if not only, stance ''in the entire series'' he hurts someone ''[[Out-of-Character is Serious Business|on purpose]]''.}}
* Believe it or not, ''[[The Superhero Squad Show]]'' has one with the Silver Surfer. Dr. Doom kidnaps him and uses his Power Cosmic to fuse the [[MacGuffin|Infinity Fractals]] he's collected into a smaller version of the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity Sword,]] which he uses to beat the crap out of the Squad. After being rescued, the Surfer carries Doom into space and dismantles the Fractal Dagger, resulting in an explosion that sends Doom screaming back to Earth...and Surfer is smiling all the while.
* In ''[[Ben 10]]'', Ben has one of these against Kevin 11 in their second battle. Kevin used Ben's powers to frame him, insults every good thing Ben's tried to do with him. Finally having enough, Ben gets serious and calm (at least as far as Ben goes) and easily beats him with Fourarms, then walks off, telling him that he's not worth finishing off. Unfortunately it backfires in this case.
* ''[[Justice League]]'' has a good example of what would happen if you push [[Superman]] too far. Many times, mind you. {{spoiler|Superman kills [[Lex Luthor]], with his heat vision. Superman talking about [[World of Cardboard Speech|World of Cardboard]].}}
* Happens very (very) occasionally on ''[[Danny Phantom]]''. At one point, Spectra has successfully driven Danny into a [[Heroic BSOD]], and he finally snaps out of it by realizing that Spectra is a ghost who feeds off depression. This leads to this awesome interchange in the confrontation:
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'''Spectra:''' Why would I do that? [[There Are No Therapists|Your grief, your misery…]] oh, it's delicious! And the best part is, as soon as that silly speech is over, and the last domino falls and the sparklers vaporize the speaker, [[Butt Monkey|we'll leave you here to]] [[The Scapegoat|take the blame!!]] And by the time I'm done with you, you'll be sure it was ''all your fault!''
'''Danny:''' Man, I am so tired of you dumping on me. And I am ''so tired'' of dumping on myself. Jazz never did that, even when I was mad at her. [[Punctuated!
'''Spectra:''' Bertrand? ''Sic 'im!''
''(Bertrand turns into ninja, much posturing ensues)''
'''Danny (flatly):''' [[Shut UP, Hannibal|I so don't have time for this.]] ''(sucks him into the thermos)'' }}
* ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'':
* In ''[[
** In "Scott Tenorman Must Die", Cartman appears to be making himself the [[Butt Monkey]] by constantly asking Scott to give him his money back. Turns out he was keeping Scott complacent all the while putting in motion his plan to {{spoiler|serve Scott his own parents in a big pot of chili, then have Scott's favorite band call him a loser}}. When this is calmly revealed in detail by Cartman the other kids just stand there, open-mouthed, totally in shock. The only comments they can manage are Stan's horrified "Jesus Christ, dude!" and Kyle's episode-concluding "Dude, I think it might be best for us to never piss Cartman off again."
** In "T.M.I.", a therapist tries to test Cartman's anger response with [[Tempting Fate|a barrage of fat jokes]]. Cartman calmly types away on his iPhone, while the doctor comes to the conclusion that the boy has no anger problems at all. Then the doctor gets a call from his wife, hysterically ranting about web chat logs with a 14-year-old girl and a police report before shooting herself. Cartman calmly but firmly replies, "I'm not fat; I'm big-boned." The therapist obsequiously cowers before Cartman for the rest of the episode.
** In the ending of "Bass To Mouth". Cartman gave laxative-laced cupcakes to the school administrators as revenge for getting thrown under a bus, which said bus effectively gave him a broken arm and leg, all while calmly saying [[Faux Affably Evil|"are you okay?"]]
* In ''[[Batman:
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* In the classic ''[[Simpsons]]'' episode "Bart on the Road", Lisa just finished a [[Motor Mouth|rapid fire explanation]] of Bart's predicament to Homer, who responds with:
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Homer (unnervingly calm): Yes...that's a real pickle. Would you excuse me for a moment?
'''(puts on Hazmat suit helmet and [[Angrish|screams loudly and incoherently]] for several seconds, fogging the face plate)'''
Homer ([[Blatant Lies|calm]] once more): All right, I have thought this through. I will send Bart the money to fly home. [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|Then I will murder him.]]
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'''(as Bart and Lisa do so, Homer stands up and inhales deeply)'''
'''F-- [[Curse Cut Short|The rest of it is drowned out by a loud, harsh]] [[Stealth Pun|F-cord]] [[Curse Cut Short|on a pipe organ]].}}
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'':
** Princess Celestia, the [[Out-of-Character Moment|(very) few times]] she's gotten angry. It's... somewhat unsettling, particularly when she reprimanded Twilight in "Lesson Zero".
** Fluttershy as well, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|particularly in "Dragonshy"]]:
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* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'':
** This is how Blossom reacts in "Stuck Up, Up and Away" when [[Spoiled Brat|Princess]] uses her newly-bought supersuit to temporarily knock out Bubbles and Buttercup and begins gloating to Blossom about it. Blossom's response to this is merely a furious silence, followed by her dodging every single one of Princess' attacks and then, as her sisters wake up, deliver one deliciously awesome [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]].
== Real Life ==
* The U.S. Army's Delta Force selects for this. Their usual send-off before training or a mission is a calm "Have a good one".
* On January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed when a fire broke out in the cockpit during a routine test on the launch pad. The Monday after the fire, Flight Director Gene Kranz called everyone at Mission Control in for a meeting and gave everyone the biggest ass-chewing that they had ever experienced. The speech he gave that day became known as the "Kranz Dictum":
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