This troper didn't show emotion through his last 2 years at elementary school. But, during our "Graduation" party, his eyes ran because it forced him to face it. then, on the last day of school, almost everybody else started crying, and he broke down because he would not see many of his friends again.

A good friend of mine was a book example of both a Stoic and a Deadpan Snarker - I have seen her cry two times in the six year history of our friendship, and those were clearly tears of pain after she broke her nose and got accidentaly hit. A year ago, at the school year ending, she suddenly hugged me and bursted into tears in front of everyone. Sobbing, she told me, that she doesn't want to grow up and leave me. Seeing this rock-hard girl crying like a baby was one of the strongest experiences in my life.

This troper had a tendency to just be very quiet and stick to himself in middle school, rarely if ever showing emotion or even speaking unless spoken to. Any time I swore, I could count on at least a couple of nearby students staring at me in complete shock.

This troper is usually {{The Stoic}} when at Venturers... until that one night I was there when our Venturer leader, Robyn, was away, and her replacement, the mum of one of the other Venturers, caught me swearing quietly and sent me out for it. Cue screaming and yelling at her and then going over to the swings (yes, our Scout Hall is located near the basketball court type thing of the local playground) to calm down... WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE. Keep in mind that this is not {{Arson Murder And Jaywalking}}, because when I first became a Venturer, Robyn had made it very clear that I was not to wander off as I had been wont to do as a Scout. I had to be taken home early, and thanked the Lord that I had a talent night the next week.

Oh, and at home, I'm just... normal. At school, I don't lose it unless I'm doing something on the computer and one of the bullies sneaks up and turns it off. Cue {{Unstoppable Rage}}. It's only when I'm at Venturers that I feel like I have to lock my emotions away.

"sjust"? Bah. I meant "just". Stupid typos.

This troper is always very stoic and hardly reacts to anything, unless his GF is around in which cause he can't seem to stay serious.

This troper may not be known as stoic so much as "mellow in the face of adversity" (see: Coming in second place in a contest while finishing in half the time of the other contestants, simply because because I wasn't ripping my hair out about colour schemes), but my friends constantly comment about how startled and shocked they are when me and my mother suddenly explode in to a "screaming fit to end all screaming fits". They say this despite the fact that we do this on a semi regular basis, our arguments sometimes dissolving in to throwing things at each other. Needless to say, this is our way of relieving stress, usually with both of us being wrong, and we're on relative good footing with each other.

During my entire school day, i'm incredibly mellow, being very, very hard to provoke into any kind of real emotion. However, when I go into Gym, I suddenly become like the definition of Crazy Awesome according to my friends. Once, a senior did the whole trick trip thing where he got someone to bend down behind me and pushed me. I waited about five minutes, and then barreled into him as hard as I could. Keep in mind, i'm a football lineman weighing in at over 280 pounds. The senior went out like a light, and everyone just couldn't stop laughing for a good few minutes. Another time is when we were playing kickball, and this one kid was being real c***y, taking his time before throwing the ball. When he threw it, I just hollered "F*** YOU!", punching the ball as it came towards me and sending it across the entire gym. There was even more laughter. And let's not forget when we played pickleball, I managed to hit the ball into one of the little fan things, where it by all rights should have just slid off. Nope. I managed to hit the ONE SPOT in the very small fan where it would stay still. I then ran around all the bases about twenty times, screaming "INFINITE HOME RUN!". It was pretty epic. Oh, and all of this happened in the last month. And then, when the people in my gym class see me in my normal environment, they're almost freaked out about how calm I am. Pretty intense.

This troper is also similarly mellow, but one time in high school, a little confrontation ended with the football team's star player bashing him in the nose with his history book, at which point this troper proceeded to beat the holy s*** out of him.

Tropers/RedWren tends to react to truly terrible things by either shutting down or going into hysterics. For instance, after convincing herself that others didn't mean to make her feel like she was less than a person, some stupid classmate says: "Like you're even human." Cue this troper trembling, then collapsing to her desk, sobbing. No one in the class knew how to react, teacher included. ...What? Someone needed to even out the anger quotient!

This troper is the same way, and thinks that "I'm sorry" would have been a suitable reaction.

*laugh* Your sympathy is appreciated, thanks.

This Troper rarely goes out of his way to show emotion or even speak unless he has a real reason to do so. The only times he shows his emotions blatantly are during instances of this trope. Which, combined with his appearance, often lead some very unfortunate understandings.

I'm normally so stoic its lampshaded by members of the charity group I work with. I've only barely cleared myself of being labelled heartless by lampshading a {{Tearjerker}} story someone was telling after I showed no outward emotional signs and seemed completely cold, and I'm well known for keeping a straight face. This stoic reputation quickly went to hell after I'd screwed up organising the tickets to where we were going to collect. Despite the rest of the group managing to sort the mess out, I was noticeably anxious and angry at myself the entire time.

This troper is making a videogame. At one point, the player is given an exit, but only he can use it, leaving behind two teammates and the body of someone who just died to get them this far. If you try to choose not to go, the Stoic of the team just logically explains why you should get out now. If you keep trying to stay, he flips out and starts yelling at you to make sure at least one person survives this instead of staying behind and dying like an idiot.

This game sounds good. You mind linking us to it when its ready?

{{HSZMV}} is normally TheStoic of his groups of friends, to the point that he is almost the StoneWall of the group in terms of insults (being 6'3" and 200 lbs doesn't hurt for his roll in an actual fight, either). That said, he wonders if some of his antagonists would still continue to poke his buttons if they knew that he's been to counseling for Anger Management Issues. That BeserkerButton is hard to press, but pressing it is never good.

MAI 742 developed stoicism as a response to a decade's worth of social... displacement. No insult is as ineffective as that which has no effect. This lead to problems when my situation changed; suffice to say, in a new environment I couldn't adapt to people genuinely being interested in me and needing to be responsive all the time, leading to some unfounded accusations of superiority and sociopathy. Thankfully, this has since been cleared up for the better.

This troper is TheStoic of her entire grade. She usually keeps her face completely devoid of anything but typical stoic traits--most of the time, dignified disdain. Most other people are afraid and uncomfortable around her due to this and keep away. However, there's one friend this troper knows who is uncomfortable with her stoicism but continues to be her friend. It was this friend that this troper broke down in front of when she was having a bad day. Her friend's response? "I like you better with emotions."

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This troper is {{The Stoic}} mostly at school. Maybe because of the Spectacles}} glasses I have to wear sometime in school. But outside of school and in P.E., I am full of emotion. Definitely at school, when being intellectual or Spock}} logical at the moment or emotion I ''refuse'' to let out because of reputation or to add to entertainment. But when I'm near my friend, in school, P.E., or even outside of school, I am a stoic to him on purpose because he's a {{Grumpy Bear}} caused by a {{Dark and Troubled Past}} in middle school. I'm still friends with him because he's giving me Insensitivity training and adds to my ''balance'' of friend types.

FrozenFace? Check. No reaction at normally scary sneak attacks? Check. No Pain}} Strong Pain Resistance? Check. Spectacles}} The glasses? Check. You could call me a {{Terminator}} and I wouldn't flinch at that.

I'm not an extreme stoic (or insane). Decent things like being alone or a good rollercoaster I still enjoy.

In what may be my straightest use of this trope, at the last funeral I went to, I think I started developing ''"The Sexy Cry.''" (Maybe I should enter this as a Web Original example.)

This troper is usually pretty stoic, when my 14 year old dog vanished off her leash last week I took it pretty well, almost too well since I barely felt anything. However, when my cat drank from my dog's still full water bowl, I lost it, smacking her away and yelling at her for drinking my dogs water, then I just collapsed and started crying.

This troper has a friend who is very nice and fun enough to hang out with, but doesn't talk very much, and rarely shows much actual emotion, to the point that people have called him cold. One day though, he came into school and didn't talk at all, until a me and another friend pestered him about it at lunch the way we usually would. After trying for maybe a minute of goading him into talking, he got up and we saw that he had been crying. He told us, in a shaky but menacing voice to leave him alone, and then he stormed out of the cafeteria. We later learned that his brother had suffered a massive heart attack, and could die if it happened again.

I'm not a cold, unfriendly person, I do show some emotion, but I'm mostly quiet. If I'm around people when a {{Tearjerker}} is going on (the ending of Brian's Song, Schindler's List, a documentary showing the last letters of soldiers in Iraq and the effects on their famlilies) my visible emotion isn't the same as everyone else's (some are crying, some are holding back tears, I look the same as I usually do). When I'm alone, I show more emotion. The reason for this is because I used to cry a lot when I was younger and was embarrassed by it (seriously, a 12 year old boy shouldn't cry that much). One day I decided I'd had enough of that crap and learned to, for the most part, hide my emotions.

I am somewhat like you, I guess. Ever since I got to high school, I stopped crying (mostly) because it was making me look like a cry-baby. Nowadays, I don't show much emotion, even online. Sometimes feel embarrassed when I come across a TearJerker and can't cry, because I'm kinda torn between looking unmanly or heartless. So far, only one thing has ever made me cry out of genuine sadness and not laughter, frustration or rage: this. I sometimes fear I may lack any form of empathy.

For the most part, this troper is very quiet, hardly speaking a word all freshman year. Jump to her sophmore year, where she's suddenly more talkative and hyper. Gave a whiplash to her teachers and peers. (What they didn't know was that she was give Prozac for the three year long depression she's had and was feeling really great.)

Same troper as above. Recently she's been very talkative in class (no more Prozac). Oddly, even though everyone thought she was waaay too hyper and happy, she was actually feeling very down that day and was simply acting out. She added a comment to the end of each of the teacher's statement. It reached a breaking point when, after the teacher saying some may move out of the class since they don't like it, she said, "Why? Because you don't like them?" He gave her the stink eye for the rest of the class period. This troper still thinks it's extremely hilarious while all her friends were thinking "What the fuck was she on? She's usually so quiet!"

This troper shows symptoms of bipolarity. The "episodes" happen only a few times a year, and only last for a couple of weeks at most- and all the rest of the time, he's a CloudCuckooLander stoic. This combination of spacing out and thick-skinned-ness leads people to mentally designate him as "immune to stress" or "that quiet doormat type". That assessment is completely correct- usually. Until a bipolar episode crops up, at which point he usually has several consecutive freak-outs from people still treating him like his soul is made of granite. Fluffy, pliable, patient granite. Then he feels very guilty about the whole thing, and tries to be more stoic in the future, thus perpetuating the cycle of being seen as emotionally imperturbable.

This troper, when in public, is stoic almost all of the time. The exceptions are when he's under a lot of stress, and someone starts asking him about it, or when he sees something funny.

a bit of background: this troper has been picked on since she was 6, by any and all classmates, some cousins, church group...so theres that. she's also highly emotional, the last person you'd think to seem at all stoic. in 11th grade, she had to deal with a nasty jerkjock, who always tried to get a rise out of her, saying cruel and crude things, mocking her ideals, religion, hobbies- anything and everything. for the first time in nearly 11 years, she tried her hardest to 'just ignore it.' things came to a head one day when after several minutes of abuse( in class, no less, although we were watching a movie and had a sub) another classmate told him to lay off. he said, in essence, that it was fine to pick on this troper, as she had no feelings. to the shook of everyone in the room, this troper suddenly burst into loud sobs, screamed something at the kid, and ran, knocking over her desk in the process.

This troper is TheStoic, TheSpock, and TheDaria all wrapped up into one. I haven't cried over anything that has happened to me in years, even though I do genuinely feel bad for people I care about when bad things happen to them, I just have a very, very hard time showing it because I'm painfully awkward about opening up and showing my feelings. One day in my American lit class, we were all discussing a short story (which I found rather boring and unmoving while reading it) that dealt heavily with mental illness. I raised my hand to make a comment about my interpretation of one of the characters, and...without any warning whatsoever....literally went from being my normally-Stoic-self-engaged-as-always-and-interested-in-the-text to choking up right there in front of the whole class. I suddenly had started thinking about my mom, and my best friend who also is manic depressive. I still don't know what came over me.

This troper's friend is known for being extremely stoic, to the point of denying being friends with people he hangs out with regularly (apparently, it's all just a distraction). But when he gets drunk... He becomes the most hilariously endearing thing ever. "The floor is my new best friend... I must hug the floor." How cute.

This troper isn't so much stoic as a cheerful idiot, as he doesn't like to talk about his feelings much, since everyone has problems and he'd rather not have other people deal with his as well, and makes jokes about feelings instead. But then, he somehow got on the topic of his sick father with his friends. He stuck to his general routine of cracking jokes about his feelings and trying to assure everyone that it was okay; but suddenly in the middle of his joking behaviour he broke down crying, because he wasn't sure if it really was going to be okay at all.

I didn't know what I was classified as, but the more I read these page, and am told things by my friends, I've found out that I'm the Broken Bird Stoic Woobie that ends up being Not So Stoic. Middle school pretty much ruined me to the point where I cried twice a day, then after that...numbness. Cue me growing into the cynical sarcastic person I grew into. And yes, I went through a 5 year "Nobody gives a crap anyways" phase, and a year of not speaking except for "Yes" and "No" and maybe 2 years without laughing. I do, however, still have feelings, but the only way to see them that doesn't result in being so beat up that you won't remember it, is to be my friend. Then I go right through the Not So Stoic and get back to the Broken Bird tendencies.

I(female) have this friend. For a big deal of the year I barely bothered at talking to him, because he was always in a corner with his only friend while everybody was getting to meet each other (first year of college). But after a while my friends and I got a time to meet him and...it was like talking to a brickwall: he barely smiled and, when he did, it was condescending. But one day other friend was talking about how you should treat your girl's parents, and he not only laughed, but almost falls into the ground while doing it. It was borderline creepy.

This troper is typically a DeadpanSnarker, stoic around most people. But if he's close to them, such as his close family, he'll be quite open around them. He's also prone to fits of laughter and snickering at little things so he can change from stoic, to a snickering clown, to stoic in a few seconds.

This troper is usually fairly stoic around others (if slightly less so around his family), but news that suggests that getting into print journalism is difficult or impossible is one of the few things that can make him visibly upset when he's trying to keep his emotional guard up. There's also usually a brief moment after something unexpectedly bad happens that he's quite shaken, although he tends to regain his composure before long.

This troper doubly subverts this trope. She is normally a loud, energetic person, but when people do something that pushes her over the edge, she goes very cold, calculating, and DeadpanSnarker. However, if someone manages to push her even FURTHER, she REALLY loses her temper and starts screaming.

This troper has an online friend who isn't completely stoic, but he doesn't show many emotions other than anger, frustration, or mild amusement. He's the kind of person who makes fun of people's flaws so that people recognise them and get better, though most don't realize this. One day, it turned out that the cynical angry asshole who yells at people for being stupid is actually an optimist and someone who sees the entire planet and everything and everyone on it as something beautiful.

This troper is trying to do this. He's good at it in public, and quite good when interacting with friends. On his own, however, he sometimes breaks down, utterly and completely. Stress can do that to him.