History Main / DramaticDeadpan

---> mr Nansen, I suggest you bring forth your gun now...

* Before being the launched into space, Astronaut Alan Shepard stated over the comms: "Let's not fuck this up."

* ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' (manga):

* ''{{Macross}}'': "We may need to call for reinforcements" - Britai, said after the first use of the Daedalus Attack. (His executive officer is considerably less deadpan.)

* When trapped in Moria in the movie of ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', Boromir looks out the door and announces, "They have a cave troll." The tone is almost conversational. The circumstances, that ''this'' is important information in an already critical situation, make it dramatic.

* ''[[Film/TheBourneSeries The Bourne Identity]]''. When trapped in the farmhouse Bourne is asked if the children will be harmed. "Not gonna happen," is his reply.

* RickPointBlank has this fun bit of dialogue in reference to a healing serum after Rick shoots Don.

* [[Franchise/{{Dragnet}} Just the facts, ]][[MemeticMutation ma'am.]]

* [[Series/{{Dragnet}} Just the facts, ]][[MemeticMutation ma'am.]]

* ''Film/{{Snatch}}'': When Turkish realises that Mickey is going to win a fight they have promised a psychotic gangster he will lose, his voice over quietly says "Now... we are fucked."

* ''{{Equilibrium}}'': "No." and "''[[TranquilFury Not without incident]].''"

* ''TheLastStarfighter'':

* TheLastDaysOfFoxhound - In [[http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php?id=18 The Psycho Test]] Decoy Octopus is disguised as Psycho Mantis purely to get Liquid Snake in trouble with the rest of the team. He ends up catching Sniper Wolf when Revolver Ocelot pushes her over, thereby giving the game away.

* Mr. Freeze in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' usually talks in an emotionless CreepyMonotone, but, when he's revived in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', he put his tragic past behind him and talks with more emotion. When he's betrayed and left for dead, he still talks more emotionally that he used to, but a few lines are dramatically used in his classic monotone. For example: "[[PreMortemOneLiner There may be some momentary discomfort,]]" and "[[DeathSeeker Believe me...]] [[TearJerker you're the only one who cares]]."

->''"[[BeamMeUpScotty You're]] [[GonnaNeedMoreX gonna need a bigger boat]]."'''

--->"I fight for '''ME!!"'''

* The British tradition of StiffUpperLip has led to a few cases of this, sometimes funny, sometimes not. In one case during the Korean war, a British force asked their American superiors for support, as they were in [[{{Understatement}} "a bit of a sticky situation"]]. The Americans didn't realise that what the Brits were actually describing was a situation in which they had been reduced to throwing their tinned rations at the enemy and had, after putting up one hell of a fight, been forced to retreat. Help was only sent after the Brits had been almost completely wiped out.

-->'''Hackett:''' Holy shit. S/He did it.

* Much of Nicholas Angel's dialogue in the last half of ''HotFuzz'' is a direct parody of this very common action movie trope.

* ''StarWars'': Alec Guiness as Obi-Wan Kenobi says "Obi-Wan Kenobi. Obi-Wan... Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time."

* [[{{Apollo 13}} "Houston, we've had a problem."]] Undeniable proof that astronauts are ''hardcore''.

* ''Soldier''. Creator/KurtRussell's laconic character Todd (104 words total spoken in the movie).

* ''Soldier''. Kurt Russell's laconic character Todd (104 words total spoken in the movie).

Compare TranquilFury, and the stage direction ''sotto voce''- "in soft tones, not to be overheard." Closely related to MajorInjuryUnderreaction. Can overlap with DangerDeadpan. Sometimes used for ThisIsGonnaSuck, as the Boromir example shows.

Contrast ChewingTheScenery, LargeHam. See also CasualDangerDialog.

LittleNo and FlatWhat are subtropes.

** Napoleon's [[EliteMooks Imperial Guard]] ended up in a similar position during the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Historical accounts render the commander's response as either "La Garde meurt, elle ne se rend pas." ("The guard dies, it does not surrender."), or the similar "Merde." ("Shit.").

* When trapped in Moria in the movie of ''[[TheLordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', Boromir looks out the door and announces, "They have a cave troll." The tone is almost conversational. The circumstances, that ''this'' is important information in an already critical situation, make it dramatic.
** I took his tone as being more of [[ThisIsGonnaSuck sarcastic resignation]], ie "Oh great. A cave troll. What else can go wrong?"
*** Which would be TemptingFate, since the cave troll is [[BossRush topped soon thereafter]] by the arrival of the [[DiabolusExMachina Balrog]].

--> [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries James T.]] [[BadAss Kirk]], 30 seconds from being eaten and blow'd up by a Giant Space Doomsday Machine.