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* 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 ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon|Callahans Crosstime Saloon]]'' stories Jake mentions that Callahan doesn't shout or get loud when he's ''really'' angry, but he'll do that to people who don't know him if they act like jerks to intimidate them. When he well and truly pissed, he doesn't say a word.
* 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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{{quote|'''Rory Williams''': Would you like me to ''repeat'' the question?}}
*** 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]]'': Murdock is the sweetest, friendliest [[Cloudcuckoolander|insane guy]] you will ever meet. Unless you shoot his best friend. If you are stupid enough to do this, he will stare silently at you with a look that could kill, he will walk up to you, unarmed, while you are still holding a loaded gun, and he will calmly tell you that you are just one step away from being in the same condition as his best friend that you just shot. Then, when he and his other friends have regained control of the situation, he will pin you against a wall and pound you relentlessly until he is forcibly pulled off of you. [[Berserk Button|Do. Not. Hurt.]] [[Unstoppable Rage|Murdock's. Best. Friend.]]
* ''[[Starsky and Hutch]]'': Starsky is generally the most impulsive of the Zebra Three pair. But the calmer he looks, the more worried you should be. In other words, if you mess with his partner, Starsky will hand it back to you in a silver platter.
* Teal'c, [[The Big Guy]] in ''[[Stargate SG-1]],'' is exceptionally good at this.
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