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== Anime and Manga ==

* Shinku from ''[[Rozen Maiden]]'' acts this way towards Jun. She treats him coldly and like a servant. Her behavior overlaps with [[Tsundere]], as she also constantly abuses him verbally and physically. However, she shows that she does care deeply about him.

* Hiro from ''[[Wa Ga Na Wa Umishi]]'' is a textbook example; her warm side comes out very rarely.

* Sakaki from ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', natch. So, so very compassionate and cute on the inside, but outside, she looks like a cold, tough [[Huge Schoolgirl]]. She manages to break out of her cold, reticent shell once she finally manages to pet a cat without getting hurt. A [[Shrinking Violet]], but only because she laments never being cute as a child. Her coldness isn't a façade she's putting up to fool everyone, but something she does ''completely by accident''.

* Amu Hinamori, the main character from ''[[Shugo Chara]]'', is known as the "cool and spicy" girl at school because of her unique fashion style and her blunt attitude. However, she actually just wants to be normal and girly, and it's actually because she's shy that she puts on a cool girl act.

** Rima arguably qualifies as well. First impressions: dainty, spoiled, yet cold. She's really actually a [[Cute but Troubled|sweet girl]] and just needed time to warm up to Amu and her friends. Plus, as serious as Rima is, her "would-be self" is a clown, because she wants to make people laugh.

* Riza Hawkeye from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' [[Break the Cutie|wasn't]] [[Backstory|always]] as [[The Stoic|stoic]] as she is today. [[Bodyguard Crush|Roy Mustang]] can [[Incredibly Lame Pun|spark off]] [[Luminescent Blush|quite]] [[Berserker Tears|spectacular]] [[Not So Stoic|reactions]] from her, and she has a [[Morality Pet|cute puppy]] that she adores. She's also shown demonstrating kindness to the Elric brothers and Winry Rockbell, and there are indications that, Mustang aside, she really cares about the members of her [[True Companions|military team]].

** Sloth from the first anime qualifies as well, being apathetic and at times patronizing on the outside...but inside is a whole other story.

** Sweden, who is pretty much a [[Huge Schoolgirl]] in the body of [[The Big Guy]]. Scares everyone with his [[Face of a Thug]], but he's quite the playful guy on the inside, as his profile mentions.

** In [[Fanon]], [[Deadpan Snarker|Norway]] is either this or [[Tsundere]] towards Denmark.

** In [[Fanon]], [[Deadpan Snarker]] Hong Kong is usually rewritten as having a Sugar and Ice Personality. Makes sense considering the author's notes on him, which reveal him as a serious prankster.

** The same case with Belarus, when she's not with Russia [[Brother-Sister Incest|("Nii-san, let's get MARRIEDMARRIEDMARRIED")]] in fanon she's usually portrayed as this.

** Japan is most likely one too. He [[Perpetual Frowner|shows little emotion on his face]], he remains [[The Stoic|relatively stoic]] [[That Makes Me Feel Angry|even when angry]], and he's pretty much the epitome of [[Inscrutable Oriental]] overall...but he genuinely cares for his friends and tries his best to get along with them even when they confuse or baffle him, and you get the feeling that his excessive politeness and seeming indifference at times are more a product of him not quite knowing how to deal with others with personalities vastly different from his own than him being condescending or disdainful toward them. Not to mention him maintaining close relationships with both America, in spite of his [[Idiot Hero|often patience-testing]] [[Large Ham|personality]], and Greece, with whom he shares a [[Kindhearted Cat Lover|love of cats]].

* [[Dark Magical Girl]] Fate, particularly during season 1 of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. Later seasons has her warm side coming out more, with the cool part being reserved for combat.

* Android 18 from ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' is very cold unless she's with Krillin and their daughter, in which case she drops her coldness and shows her warmer side.

* Shizuku of ''[[Kämpfer]]'' is a fairly aggressive example - {{spoiler|kissing her love interest as early as episode 5, and taking him on a date in episode 8.}}

* ''[[Darker than Black]]'' has Hei, who is [[Stoic]] and can be a [[Jerkass]], but is actually still [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|traumatized]] from Heaven's War, and ''god help you'' if you mess with his [[True Companions]]. Then there's [[Fair Cop|Kirihara]], who is cool and professional at first glance, but almost [[Moe]] when she's not on the job.

* Setsuna Meiou, a.k.a. Sailor Pluto, from ''[[Sailor Moon]]'': she gets mistaken for an [[Emotionless Girl]] at first, but it turns out that she's just sad and lonely, having to guard the time gate while watching her life go by. It makes sense that she is guarded, because she is a Sailor Soldier first (installed at the gate as a very young child) and has to come up with a civilian identity later.

** Also, Michiru Kaiou, a.k.a. Sailor Neptune. She is very calm, cool and collected, as well as extremely dedicated to her Senshi mission...but she can also be very gentle to those she loves (if in a very princess-like way, befitting an [[Ojou]] like her), particularly her girlfriend, Haruka.

* Karl-Heinz Schneider from ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]'' looks cool, professional and proud, but, ''holy shit'', he's loving towards his parents and his little sister.

* Mirielle of ''[[Noir]]'' is, for most of the series, a [[Badass]] [[Action Girl]] assassin who only occasionally lets her soft side show, but late in the show when {{spoiler|she finds Kirika's heartfelt note}} she starts crying.

* Fiore from ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' comes across this way because of her outward [[Emotionless Girl]] personality. She believes herself to be completely without emotions and can often be blunt (in a very polite sort of way), but when Joshua gets into a fight she later admits with tears in her eyes that she was "so worried", and she goes out of her way to make sure all of the Sinners [[Team Mom|eat their veggies]].

* Light Yagami from ''[[Death Note]]'' is cold, stoic, manipulative, and [[Axe Crazy|homocidal]] but then in a later arc he becomes warm, open, kind and honorable. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded:]] "He's like a different person now!" It's more than likely trauma-induced seeing as {{spoiler|one side remembers being a mass murderer, the other doesn't.}}

* ''[[Gundam Wing]]'''s protagonist Heero Yuy is more often credited as [[The Stoic]], but this trope is a better match for him. He never actually denied his emotions; he just tries to keep them in check because being overly emotional on the battlefield can get you killed. At the start of the show he mostly seems to be shouldering the burden of Operation Meteor ([[The Atoner|and the lives it'll cost]]) all by himself, but interaction with people like [[The Ojou|Relena]], [[The Lancer|Duo]], and [[The Heart|Quatre]] causes him to accept the idea that [[You Are Not Alone|he isn't alone]].

* Much like Rei from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Casca from ''[[Berserk]]'' is a mix of this and the [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]. She starts off distant, cool - even cold - collected but temperamental toward her comrades, but after awhile, she starts showing a sensitive side that no one would ever have expected from [[The Squadette|a woman of her profession]] once Guts defrosts her (which would make her behavior and personality a lot more understandable other than the whole [[Love Triangle]] thing, since Casca is the sole female member in a group of mercenaries AND she's second in command, so she must always put on [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask|a facade of seriousness so that her male cohorts would not falter under her command]]).

* Himura "Maria" Maruko of ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' was like this in the past, being a [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]] [[The Stoic|Stoic]] on the outside and [[The Chick]]/[[The Heart]] on the inside. Then [[Manipulative Bastard|Reiji "Marco" Maruko]] took over the team, instituted a [[Second Place Is for Losers]]-driven reign of terror, and started crippling opposing players, all in the name of his [[Villainous Crush|crush]] [[Love Makes You Evil|on her]]; this drives her straight into [[Emotionless Girl]] territory.

* Rika Furude from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' shows hints of this in the earlier arcs, but her true Sugar and Ice Personality is featured much more in the later arcs of the series. Due to her normally happy and almost careless demeanour, she rarely shows her true self to anyone, unless she wishes to make herself seem serious, or to intimidate others.

* {{spoiler|Zeref}} from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' has a personality like this. Though he hasn't been shown acting particualarly warm he has a side to him that's calm and worries about the well being, which is how he behaves half the time. The other half of the time he's downright murderous.

 

== Comic Books ==

* Unintentional [[Ice Queen]] Machiko Noguchi from ''[[Alien vs. Predator]]'' didn't realize that she should have integrated herself into the colonists when she arrived at her new executive job, instead of spending three months hardly communicating with them at all. She's actually rather caring and considerate, but that's not how she presented herself.

* Miho from ''[[Sin City]]'' seems almost completely unemotional, but there have been moments in which she showed genuine affection for a select few people. The prime example is in ''Family Values'', where she lays on Dwight's lap and takes a nap.

 

== Film ==

 

== Literature ==

* Peggy from ''[[The Tales of Alvin Maker]]'' is like this when she first appears in the second book. When Taleswaper asks her mother about Peggy, she tells him she's gone too cold for anyone to tolerate her. He carefully refrains from telling her that ice can only be thawed with warmth, and then proceeds to get smiles and laughs from Peggy in private.

* Silas from ''[[The Graveyard Book]]'' is one - he's [[The Stoic]] most of the time, but Bod triggers his occasional moments of warmness.

* Some [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]s of [[Sherlock Holmes]] give him a Sugar and Ice Personality. His personality leans very heavily towards the "logical and frosty" side of things, but there are moments, such as in "[[Heartwarming Moment/Sherlock Holmes|The Three Garridebs]]," in which he [[Not So Stoic|shows flashes of a kinder side]].

{{quote|'' "It was worth a wound; it was worth many wounds; to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation." '' }}

* [[Honor Harrington]] combines this trope with [[Woman In The Queenly Mask]]. She is perfectly willing to face down her enemies with nothing but an icy glare on her face, even with her life and the life of those around her in the balance, but the several books in the series make it clear that she's a completely different person around the ones she loves. {{spoiler|Which makes her love's death in the fifth book that much more tragic, and her vengeance that much colder.}}

 

* Dana Scully from ''[[The X-Files]]'' is very steely and professional towards everyone, and is even distant with her own family. The only person who gets her to loosen up? Mulder, naturally.

* T'Pol from ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'': using her cold exterior and her repressed but detectable emotions, she typically insults and berates people, but occasionally shows a compassionate side. She usually justifies both sorts of actions as logical, though it is often apparent to the viewer (and recipient) that this is mostly just a rationalization.

* Prince Arthur from ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' has to maintain a professional, calm demeanour in front of the court and his knights, but relaxes considerably when he's with Merlin, and even more so with Guinevere.

* Like his [[A Song of Ice and Fire|book]] counterpart, Ned Stark has this in ''[[Game of Thrones]]''. His son, Robb, seems to have inherited it.

 

== Music ==

* The girl who's the subject of Savage Garden's "To the moon and back" mixes [[Broken Bird]] with a Sugar and Ice Personality.

So would you be my baby?" }}

* [[Phineas and Ferb|Love Handel]]'s "You Snuck Your Way Right Into My Heart" seems to describe this trope rather accurately:

Rappelling down from above

You snuck your way right into my heart }}

 

== Video Games ==

** [[Hidden Heart of Gold|Lightning]]: an [[Establishing Character Moment]] in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GujB6SX8CLM#t=2m21s the introduction] has her staring at a dandelion-like piece of fluff with her regular stoic expression. However, when she catches it her touch is gentle enough to keep it perfectly intact [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|until a gust of wind blows to pieces out of her hands]].

** In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'', Squall Leonhart is cold with everyone besides Rinoa, to whom he is a [[Defrosting Ice King]].

* ''[[Dragon Age]]''

** [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|The Sten]] in ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' is the most stoic and rigid of your party members, rarely getting along with others and preferring to focus on accomplishing your goal as soon as possible. However, Leliana notes that he does indeed have a hidden [[Gentle Giant]] aspect to him (which she chides him about) and if the player improves their relationship, he proceeds to become part of the [[True Companions]] in his own way, even sometimes addressing the player character with an affectionate pet name if he likes them enough.

* Aqua from ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' is directly stated to be one of these (not by the trope name, of course) in [[Word of God|an interview with Tetsuya Nomura]]. She's the type where we see mostly the Sugar side and is also an honor student type. Isa establishes himself as one in a single cutscene.

 

* Misaki in ''[[Canvas 2]]'' is probably the gentlest person in the cast, but her normal demeanor is rather distant and cool.

* Akira of [[Togainu no Chi]] is pretty much cold towards everyone. However, when push comes to shove he shows that he truly cares about the people close to him even after they've {{spoiler|raped or betrayed him earlier}}.

* Miku in ''[[A Profile]]'' was raised to be cool, dismissive and aloof, which is both contrasted and enforced by the fact that at heart she's a [[Shrinking Violet]], meaning she hides that behind the aloof behavior.

** [[The Stoic|Dave Strider]] is even colder—at least Rose ''smiles''. Dave's face barely ever changes. Besides that, he's incredibly calm about all the bizarre crap happening in the series, not to mention being very deserving of the almost-name "[[Deadpan Snarker|Insufferable]] [[Too Clever by Half|Prick.]]" Yet like Rose he's proven himself to be [[Not So Stoic]], such as his rather sweet reaction to [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004944 Rose's plan of a suicide mission].

** Genius technician [[Noble Bigot|Equius Zahhak]] would like to have you believe he has nothing but contempt for the lower castes. But put him beside [[Morality Pet|Nepeta]] and he melts like butter.

 

== Web Original ==

* Himei in ''[[Sailor Nothing]]'': At first, she is almost entirely cold towards everyone, but as the story goes on her warmer side starts showing more often.

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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[[Category:More Than Meets the Eye]]

[[Category:Love Interests]]

[[Category:Character Flaw Index]]

[[Category:Index With a Heart of Gold]]

[[Category:Emotion Tropes]]

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