I do this. A LOT. "Hello. What deep dark corner of slimy dark evilness have you come out of?" or, if it's one specific kid "Hello, Cat." He HATES that name.

I remember during high school I had a fight with a peer. I don't remember the reason, but he was hitting me, and I was just sitting there. Then things reached a breaking point when he caused the gum I was chewing to fall out of my mouth. I turned around, held his arm in a hold and stuck the gum I was chewing in his hair. And then punched him. Once.

I am starting to have this happen. My scale of anger goes like this: Annoyed>Potential for cussing and snarky comments>Potential for violence (It is hard to get me here)>Smiling. Once I start bowing and making my voice higher pitched, start running. No, seriously. As in, I will choke you if you are dumb enough to start ticking me off when I'm in smiling mode.

This troper once attended a summer camp, which had more classes than camp in it (Not that that was a bad thing). Most of the teachers were of the goofy sort, but one in particular topped them all. During one of the alumni classes he taught, one of the students mentioned an incident of reverse religious discrimination that had happened at her school. The teacher got very quiet and very serious, even indicating that he was "ticked."

What on earth is "reverse religious discrimination"?

I smile when I'm in this mood. People know when to back off.

I am generally polite and prefer to solve petty conflicts in a diplomatic way. Also, I don't manage to look into other people's eyes, earning the reputation of a quite submissive element. However, when ''really'' angry, I manage to look into the interested person's eyes while my nostrils slightly dilate. And that's enough to make bigger people back down. Must be the GreenEyes.

This troper only shout and screams when he's bugged by something unimportant. I'm at my quietest when ''really'' hacked off, or in a serious mess.

The same here, troper. I will always be extremely polite, calm and emotion-less when really pissed off. After some tiring day, ''in the middle of the classroom'', some girls behind me kept insulting me. I just turned my head to face them, smiled kindly, and ''smashed one of the girls' pencil case into the other girl's face''. And I politely asked, afterwards "Do you need any help ?" The girls were pissed, as you could guess.

That's not just me does this, then? I was trying to teach a bunch of inexperienced students how to use a sword, and a random stranger came in and started TALKING TO HIS FRIENDS VERY LOUDLY IN AN ECHOEY HALL SO THAT MY STUDENTS COULDN'T HEAR ME SPEAK. So I simply sheathed my sword, walked over and cleared my throat. He kept yammering to his friend. Tried again. Still nothing. After that, I settled for "Excuse me, ''sir''" and proceeded to lecture him for endangering my students through his carelessness. Never raised my voice above cold politeness, but he still left remarkably quickly. Maybe the fact I was wearing a sword had something to do with it.

After weeks of being annoyed by her partially incompetent French teacher, this multilingual troper finally decided that enough was enough. With what the people in the class later described as "The creepiest fuckin' smile ever" she proceeded to tell him how useless and pitiful he was, ''in the language he was suppossed to be teaching her'', while calmly not even lifting her eyes from her sketchbook. The drawing? A dummy in a suit being hanged by barbed wire who looked suspiciously like the teacher in question.

This troper rarely gets the hotheaded kind of angry due to his emotional control, and will skip straight from annoyed to this. However his body language relaxes, which could be read as submission, and he becomes exceedingly polite and formal in his speech which will either pacify his aggressors, or is shortly followed with a Reason You Suck Speech}} calm critique of the aggressor's failings, and if the fool is stupid enough to try to be physically violent he is dropped immediately and consistently until he backs off, but without any serious injuries because that creates hassles with the police

This Troper sometimes gets like this, and for some reason it seems to give me a huge bonus to Intimidate checks. I'm thinking of one instance in particular, when I was walking through the main lobby of my high school, and a freshman threw her water bottle over the stairs and it hit me in the head. Hard. Hurt like hell. I don't know why, but that seems to be a pattern in my life--if someone is throwing something around carelessly anywhere near me, it always seems to end up hitting me, usually in the head. I walked up to the freshman in question, and in a calm voice explained to her that water is heavy and that it /hurt/. That she was being careless and could have seriously injured someone. I then proceeded to tell her that I was going to pour the water bottle out and dump it on her head. She said "Okay" and I did. In retrospect, it was fairly evil of me and not one of my finer moments.

This Troper has only truly lost his temper once when young, discovering in the process that the red mist is NOT a metaphor. Since then, troper has been concentrating on self-control. This has succeeded to such a degree that this Troper now gets apparently calmer and quieter the more angry he gets. Fortunately, he has only had to summon said fury once, to see off a would-be mugger. Muggers don't like having their knives removed forcibly from their hand and this Troper was impressed by how fast said mugger fled. Still scared over how dangerous he can be, and praying a similar situation never rises again.

This troper remembers one from the sysadmin at her former school. One of her classmates had disabled their room's PC's admin account and set up his own. Having a sudden revelation, said sysadmin said something in the lines of "[classmate] is screwing with that computer." and rushed past her towards her classroom. Out of a mix of curiosity and boredom, this troper followed him. He didn't rise his voice above normal. Even his tone didn't really change. But even thinking back to that scene gives this troper the creeps.

This troper's drama teacher/ play producer. He's loud, boisterous, and overall a very funny guy. But if we're doing really badly during rehearsal, screwing around, goofing off, not paying attention, etc he goes quiet. Silent. He'll sit there, arms folded and unmoving, until someone notices. Then we all get real quiet, real fast. Because he's freaking scary when he gets mad- the glares and cold voice are just so much more effective.

This troper herself. She's generally an easygoing sort, with a mouth that runs a mile a minute and cheerful greetings and hugs all around. I don't usually swear, and it takes a lot of work to get me actually angry; I'm prone to shrugging off insults or making a joke out of them and laughing a lot. I'm also passive aggressive. My friends have gotten pretty good at just letting me leave if we're in an argument and I get very quiet and walk away. If they chase after me they sometimes catch my quiet, monotone whisper of "I hate you. I hate you, I hate you, I really f*cking hate you. You're ''insert individual-specific insults here'' and I ''hate you'',"- additional f-bombs optional. Said mantra is usually delivered with a smile on my face. Once, one of my friends made me really angry- I can't remember how- and I ran away. Literally, as we were running a warm up for field hockey. She ran after me, asked me why I was running away, and I said something along the lines of "I swear to god if you f*ing follow me I will f*ing hurt you, so leave me the f* alone." Not one of my prouder moments...

This troper had an incident where he honestly thought he was either going to A) Die B) be seriously injured or C) Inflict A or B on the person in question. A bit of back story: I was hanging with a friend from high school and she had brough her boyfriend who was fresh out of AIT for the Nat Guard and we were shooting the shit. Guard boy makes an offhand remark about the Air Force, and I respond with a crack on the Guard (something about meat sheilds, don't quite remember) because he had spent the entire time insulting me, my religion,and my brother(who is entering Air Force to be a CRO). Mr. Tough guy gets up and threatens to throw me out of the third story window that I was less than a foot in front of. I am understandably pissed off at this point,but I remained calm and him as politely as I could to get out of my apartment. The situation is diffused and they all leave, and I get a call later from my friend saying that I scared the over loving hell outta both of them as I had never raised my voice and was as calm as a glass smooth lake. Moral of the story: Politeness and tranquility add alot to intimidation, as it is nigh impossible to fake it and the other party gets the distinct impression you will rearrange their internal organs all over the room without any outward signs of emotion.

My remedial math teacher was very much prone to this, to the point where he would have to tell us what emotions he was feeling. He didn't frown in the least, not even after an incident which caused him to resort to the ClusterFBomb to describe us (and reportedly got him fired).

I myself reached a bizarre variation on such. Here's the context: I had tripped over a set of poorly placed cables, knocking a used [=iPod=] and a set of speakers to the ground. The owner managed to invoke this afterwards, in an incident which culminated in me agreeing to pay him more than a fifth of my financial aid checks for the semester. Hours later, I had finally realized how close to a scam this actually was. I tried texting him over repairs. No response. The next day, I tried calling him. My phone gets little to no reception on college grounds, and it was running out of power. I wound up pacing about outside the grounds, praying to God I'd get a signal. I dialed up the number he gave me--only to find out ''his phone was actively rejecting calls." That was it--or it should have been. Instead, I spent the next half-hour or so in an inhuman state of glee, laughing like a hyena and quite cheerily discussing how far I thought his head was up his ass.

If I'm annoyed at someone, I'll let them know pretty clearly. If I'm seriously pissed off, usually the only obvious indication is that I go into EmotionlessGirl mode and suddenly get very, very articulate.

Thanks to my training I'm always pretty calm in a serious situation. Got out a fight with a guy who was bullying a girl because he was scared off by the fact I was so calm that I didn't take my hands out of my pockets or remove my shades. Smart guy.

This troper, usually grits his teeth and grumbles when mildly annoyed, but when truly pissed off I become something one of my friends described as "A cross between Johan and Spock", possibly because I've always had a huge vocabulary and tend to go into Spock Speak and Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. The example that most sticks out in my mind was from elementary school. this troper had a Sadistic Principal (let's call her "Ms. S) who would really only listen to you if your parents were on the PTA. Mine weren't. A pattern was established: I lose my temper and yell at someone for deliberately annoying me? "Unacceptable. You need to accept consequences. You'll understand when you're older." Another kid (Felix) spends several months regularly pushing e to the ground at recess? "It's your fault for bothering him." Eventually, I got fed up with said kid bothering me, and shoved him. I was immediately sent to her office, and she began giving me the usual "You need to be better, I'm not mad I'm just disappointed, look at me aren't I scary" routine, and I responded with this. #QUOTE#"Please stop talking. You don't intimidate me, and despite how much you seem to like talking about how I should respect "authority figures", I don't respect you in the slightest. You're an incompetent, egotistical jerk who only cars about students if you can find a way to use them to schmooze up to the PTA. I'm tired of your unequal application of the rules. Either apply them to everyone, or I'll have my parents complain to the district and get you replaced with someone who can actually do their job properly. Good day." I never got sent to her office again, and she retired early at the end of the year.

Wow. That is definitely a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for you.

Back in high school, I had a teacher who was rather nice. However, nobody wanted to see him being pissed off. Why? Well he, never, EVER yelled, unlike other teachers. He wasn't too tall nor broad. But, I don't know how the hell he did it, but he could make you wet your pants by simply ''glaring'' at you.

Why do I have the feeling that you've met my father? This is his signature move. He's average height and not particularly bulky in any way, shape, or form. He's also at a disadvantage thanks to a birth defect that left him with a high-pitched voice (he compares it to the voice of a 12-year-old girl, and it actually IS high enough to me mistakenly called Ma'am over the phone). Despite all this, he never has to yell to get what he wants from someone. All it takes is a stern-but-deadpan lecturing and The Look, which can be felt even if you aren't looking at him and through objects held in between you and him, and is both effective and terrifying enough to warrent capitalization.

This troper is generally quite loud, snarky and has the mouth of a sailor. Usually, when I'm angry, I just become snarkier and bitchier, and perhaps a little violent. On rare occasions, when something really pisses me off, I go completely silent; that's usually when my friends realize something is actually wrong.

This is this troper's automatic reaction to anger, as she is something of a cross between an EmotionlessGirl and a StepfordSmiler and has great difficulty expressing emotions besides happiness or apathy. It gets to the point where no one realizes she's angry, even though to her it sounds like her cheerful words are ''oozing'' sarcasm.

This happens to me when I'm really upset to the point that speaking only worsens my anger.

This troper is very, very difficult to tick off. If I actually care about you and you get me to that point, I might shout your head off. If I don't...Happened once back when I was fourteen and went to my 2-years younger brother's class during recess to give him his lunch money, only to see him getting bullied. I grabbed the bully by the collar, and he started bashing me over the head with a bike helmet he was holding. I calmly chocked him until he went limp, took my brother, and walked away.

This troper does this for people he cares little for. On one occasion a boy who had been bullying me outside of class finally decided to pick on me in class. He insulted my name and used several racist expressions. I calmly turned to him and told him he was a fool who needed to pick on others to make himself feel better. I told him to shut up and go home to the dog he called his mother. At a different school, a baseball player thought it would be amusing to grab me by the cheek and lecture me about "safety". I proceeded to grab his arm, twist it, and push him face forward into a bench. Quietly, I then told him that if he messed with me again I would make sure that he would never pitch again.

This troper's older brother has a variation of this. Normally, he's a LargeHam who's goofy and loud 24/7, but when he even becomes a little bit ''annoyed'', he starts acting ''unnervingly calm'' and is suddenly TheStoic until he's gotten over it.

This Troper has a tendency to have the opposite emotional state of whoever he is arguing with when the argument is actually serious. For example, I have one friend who always argues matter-of-factly about the inherent scum-like nature of humanity, so I tend to get agitated when arguing with him. On the other hand, since most people tend to get angry when arguing, I instead take on an eerie calm punctuated only by the occasional eyebrow raise. I literally stared down people who I was certain were half a breath away from punching me in the face while insulting them.

Zig-zagged in my case because my "default" expression is where I think I'm pretty calm and laid-back, like usual...but more often than not, people have asked me "Are you okay? You look mad!". When something frustrates me I will scream and curse and holler. When I am genuinely mad at you...you will know. Not because I'm yelling, but because I am calmly telling you exactly what made me mad, and in not-so-nice wording. . . . I'm actually manipulative in general.

When this troper inhales deeply, and then exhales while making a toothy grin and slightly tilting my head; you've gone to far and have crossed the event horizon and you will either cry or lose something (Such as a tooth. or limb.). Easily the best example was in 9th grade, when my best friend was bullied constantly by this prick jock guy. Apparently, not being a blond ditz with huge tits, a fat ass and flat belly who slaps on makeup by the gallon made her the most "fugly bitch" he's ever seen. I cheered her up each time this happened, but eventually this troper couldn't handle it anymore. After seeing prick jock guy harass my friend to the point of crying, I made my little smile as I entered {{TranquilFury}}. This troper then, in a polite and calm demeanor, told prick jock guy EXACTLY what he would do to prick jock guy if he didn't cut it out immediately and left his friend alone, in a way very similar to this. When he didn't, this troper then did everything he just listed (except the {{eyescream}} and tooth part), all the while completely calm. Don't mess with my friends.

Whenever this Tropette gets truly angry, she becomes very polite and soft-spoken with fists clenched until blood oozes out. She has warned her friends that if they ever see her like that, get the hell out of the room because it won't be the same when the rage comes out. An example of this was when her boyfriend cheated on her with someone much, much younger right in front of her. I took him to the side and told him, "What the am I to you? An experiment?" Cue groin job and headbutt and a job well done.

This Troper once had a MisplacedKindergartenTeacher in ninth grade who annoyed him and his classmates with her antics and way of speaking one too many times, so he decided to confront her during one of her lectures. She was unnerved by his calm tone and low voice. "I appreciate the fact that you'd like to teach us as if we're little kids, but please stop. It's patronizing, demeaning, and condescending, and quite frankly, it seems as though you don't respect us. Either speak to us like we're adults or don't speak to us at all." The class applauded, and within the month the teacher quit and was replaced with one of the best teachers this Troper has ever had.

This troper being as unpredictable as you can imagine,either suddenly gets openly violent and goes ClusterFBomb crazy or plays this one,all depending on the mood and what the offender does. For example when someone stole my lunch in ninth grade I opted for the former and cussed everybody out. However when someone mocked my religion and destroyed my homework,I calmly got out a water bottle busted the cap and squirted it into the guys face,and then I put him in a headlock,he squiggled free so I scratched him and I still remained silent and stoic. Hrrk, gk-bzrt, pf- gaak- *deep breath* Please return to the main page. I have a handful of piano wire in my left pocket, and I'd very much like not to use it.