The Stoic/Playing With
Basic Trope: Someone who shows (almost) no emotion, regardless of what happens.
- Straight: Bob generally shows no emotions, whatsoever.
- Exaggerated: Bob shows no emotion, ever. Even when his wife fell sick, when his daughter had her first birthday, at holidays, when his sister has an accident, when his little cat dies...
- Justified: Bob is an extremely powerful sorcerer who suppresses his emotion, because otherwise he will lose control of his powers.
- Bob comes from a race where emotion is either suppressed or nonexistent.
- Bob is a Roman centurion. And he actually is a stoic.
- Inverted: Bob is Hot-Blooded.
- Subverted: Bob starts showing his emotions to his True Companions, showing himself to have a Sugar and Ice Personality.
- Double Subverted: ...Except it was just that his stoic facade fell for a moment.
- Parodied: Bob is so silent, he doesn't even react to the most ridiculous of circumstances.
- Deconstructed: Bob's stoicism drives him into isolation, because the society he lives in values displays of emotion, or shuns those who refuse to show such.
- Reconstructed: Bob finds his way to a society where displays of emotion are rare and his ways can be accepted.
- Zig Zagged: Bob has multiple personalities, which means he'll be stoic sometimes, highly emotional, other times, and yet other times, right in the middle.
- Averted: Bob was never stoic. He emotes just as much as the rest of the cast.
- Enforced: "Alice is extremely Hot-Blooded, so let's have Bob be a contrast to that."
- Lampshaded: "You, know, Bob, normal people would be whooping and cheering right now."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: The Big Bad relies on transforming into the things that scare the heroes the most to defeat them. Bob's stoicism makes it so the Big Bad has no idea what he fears, allowing Bob to defeat him.
- Bob has a stressful job such as military officer, ship captain, police detective, or whatever. Stoicism is his way of dealing with it.
- Defied: Bob's friends and family try their hardest to turn Bob into a Kuudere.
- Discussed: "I wonder if Bob actually feels anything, or he really is that unemotional."
- Conversed: "How does Bob hide his emotions so well?"
- Played For Laughs: Bob acts cool and collected all the time, even in the most ludicrous situations.
- Played For Drama: In a moment where his stoic facade drops, Bob reveals that he's stoic because he doesn't want pity for the things that have happened to him.
- Bob actually upgrades his stoicism in hard times. His closest friends can tell when he is emotionally strained; that's the time he looks most like a robot.
Let's go back to The Stoic, but in the meantime, try to show a little feeling.