History Main / IFeelAngry

->'''Ekaterin Vorsoisson:''' Oh. Drat.
->'''Lord Auditor Vorkosigan:''' Madame Vorsoisson, has it ever occurred to you that you may be just a touch oversocialized?
-->-- ''Komarr''

->'''Giselle:''' "No!" "No! "No!" Over and over again! Every word out of your mouth is "No!" It just makes me so...Oh, sometimes you make me so...
->'''Robert:''' Make you so what?
->'''Giselle:''' You make me so...so...angry! (laughs) I'm angry! (laughs)
-->-- ''{{Enchanted}}''

When the [[TheIngenue all-too-innocent girl]] (for some reason, it's [[AlwaysFemale always a girl]]) who's [[TastesLikeDiabetes always cheerful and sweet to everyone]] finally gets pushed too far, it's almost always played for laughs, and one of two things will happen. Either she'll [[BewareTheNiceOnes go totally postal]], or she'll vent her frustration in polite, often somewhat embarrassed words, without any rage whatsoever, which almost always comes across as "cute."

Two people arguing in this manner will usually take the form of PolitenessJudo.

May overlap with {{That Makes Me Feel Angry}}, which is the practice of just saying what one feels without showing it, and is usually is due more to BadWriting than the character simply lacking experience with the emotion.

Compare and contrast BewareTheNiceOnes, [[LetsGetDangerous Let's Get Dangerous]], and BerserkButton.
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!!Examples:

[[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]
* Princess Nia Teppelin from ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. [[strike: "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM"]] "Are you aware of exactly who I am?"
** "You... are a pissing-off-person!"
* The only time the ridiculously sweet-natured Kasumi is seen to lose her temper in ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'' is when her father tries to gamble away her kitchen. She produces a BattleAura that terrifies everyone, though she still speaks to him in the same level tone and inoffensive words.
* [[ThePrinceOfTennis Why does Ryoma-kun have to play with an injured eye? TELL ME! WHY?... Oh, I'm sorry...]]
* [[StaffChick Sylphiel]] in ''TheSlayers NEXT'' goes angry at Phibrizzo when Lina tells her he kidnapped Gourry. This is the first time she is seen angry, and HilarityEnsues.
* Cream, the sweet little girl in ''SonicX'', who enjoys making [[TastesLikeDiabetes flower rings and baking cakes]] though it's slightly subverted in that her anger on one occasion turns out to be highly effective (i.e. she [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome takes out a robot that even Sonic and Knuckles couldn't handle]].)
* In ''InuYasha'', at least the Spanish version, has Kagome tell Naraku: "[...] Please allow me to tell you that you are despicable! [...]".

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* The trope name comes from ''{{Enchanted}}'', when the militantly cheerful Giselle, frustrated by Robert's [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism feet-firmly-planted-on-the-ground attitude,]] finally gets in a big fight with him, she eventually realizes what this strange new feeling inside her is. "Sometimes you make me so... angry!" * laughs with surprise*

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* The page quote from ''[[VorkosiganSaga Komarr]]'', by LoisMcMasterBujold. Although Ekaterin isn't an all-too-innocent girl but a 30-year-old married woman possessed of such unfailing reserve that she refuses to show visible anger or frustration even after ''falling headfirst into a pond''.
* Happens to Miss Bates in the film adaptation of Jayne Austen's ''{{Emma}}'', after the titular character throws her an unintentional insult. Of course, with the film being set in Georgian England, it makes the tension thick enough to absorb radiation.

[[AC:{{Live-Action TV}}]]
* While far from sweet and innocent, on ''{{Seinfeld}}'' Jerry is told that no one's ever actually seen him angry. He tries to prove that's not true by shouting at Kramer. Kramer thinks it's part of Jerry's comedy act and just laughs his ass off.
* An IFA moment happens to Father Mulcahy in ''[[{{Mash}} M* A* S* H]]'' in several different episodes when he's getting screwed over in some way or another.
* Neelix in ''[[StarTrekVoyager Voyager]];; - possibly PTSD-influenced, as he's characterised as a war survivor.

[[AC:{{Theatre}}]]
* Many examples about in the works of Oscar Wilde, such as in ''TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'' when the two primary female characters have an extremely polite, yet vitriolic fight over tea and muffins.
** Part of this hostility comes from Gwendolyn being suspicious of Cecily and vice versa.

[[AC:{{Video Games}}]]
* In the ''NeverwinterNights2'' expansion ''Mask of the Betrayer,'' you can gain a party member named Kaelyn the Dove. If you use voice commands and select "cuss," she'll sputter for a moment and end with "I don't know any profanity, how embarrassing." It is ''adorable.''
* Colette Brunel from ''TalesOfSymphonia'' has a case of this [[LimitBreak every now and then.]] "I'M MAD NOW!!"

[[AC:{{Web Original}}]]
* Also happened to Two from ''TalesOfMU'', while under the influence of the [[ArtifactOfDoom evil rage-inducing cursed pitchfork]].

[[AC:{{Western Animation}}]]
* Happens to [[ClassicDisneyShorts Minnie]] in the straight-to-DVD episode "[[HouseofMouse Mickey's House of Villains]]." When Jafar and the other villains take over the club, and Mickey and his sidekicks Donald and Goofy fail to extract them, Minnie tells the boys to step aside and charges right into the mass of villains to take care of the problem in her own special, naive way. Obviously, her delicate attempts are met with a complete lack of concern. Actually, Minnie seems to experience this a lot, be it in the classic cartoons of the past, or in more modern incarnations like "Runaway Brain" - only Mickey seems to cringe when she's angry. And when she is, Minnie has such trouble expressing it that she stomps her high-heeled foot in typical "feminine" fashion, and her words fail to damage anyone.
-->'''Goofy:''' "Gawrsh, I've never seen her so mad."
-->'''Mickey:''' "Oh, I have."
** This Troper adores that scene do to her personal belief that Walt and his crew made Mickey and Minnie shorts when they were mad at their wives.
* In the Disney version of ''The Reluctant Dragon'', the [[AmbiguouslyGay very fey]] title character tries to get angry enough to be able to breathe fire. When he does (by being called a "punk poet") he reacts by cheerfully skiping and chirping "ooh, I'm mad, I'm mad!"
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* The page quote from ''Komarr'', by LoisMcMasterBujold. Although Ekaterin isn't an all-too-innocent girl but a 30-year-old married woman possessed of such unfailing reserve that she refuses to show visible anger or frustration even after ''falling headfirst into a pond''.

* Neelix in ''[[StarTrekVoyager Voyager]];; - possibly PTSD-influenced, as he's characterised as a war hero.
** Well, he ''tells'' people he's a war hero (if they ask, he's not a braggart). The reality is that he was away from home, ''protesting'' the war because he didn't morally agree with it, when the enemy dropped a supernuke on the moon his family lived on, a Space Hiroshima that ended the war, with his side losing and his entire family dying in the blast. Given his sad past, they sort of imply that he tries to act cheerful to overcompensate.

* Cream, the sweet little girl in ''SonicX'', who enjoys making [[TastesLikeDiabetes flower rings and baking cakes]] though it's slightly subverted in that her anger on one occasion turns out to be highly effective (i.e. she [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome takes out a robot that even ''Sonic and Knuckles'' couldn't handle]].)

->'''Giselle:'''' "No! No! No!" Over and over again! Every word out of your mouth is "No!" It just makes me so...Oh, sometimes you make me so...

-->''"Oh. Drat."''
-->''"Madame Vorsoisson, has it ever occurred to you that you may be just a touch oversocialized?"''
--> -- Ekaterin Vorsoisson and Lord Auditor Vorkosigan, ''Komarr''

-->''"No! No! No!" Over and over again! Every word out of your mouth is "No!" It just makes me so...Oh, sometimes you make me so..."''
--> ''"Make you so what?"''
--> ''"You make me so...so...angry! (laughs) I'm angry! (laughs)"''
--> -- Giselle and Robert. ''Enchanted''

* The trope name comes from ''{{Enchanted}}'', when the militantly cheerful Giselle, frustrated by Robert's [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism feet-firmly-planted-on-the-ground attitude,]] finally gets in a big fight with him, she eventually realizes what this strange new feeling inside her is. "Sometimes you make me so... angry!" * laughs with surprise*

* Also happened to Two from ''TalesOfMU'', while under the influence of the [[ArtifactOfDoom evil rage-inducing cursed pitchfork]].
* The page quote from ''Komarr'', by LoisMcMasterBujold. Although Ekaterin isn't an all-too-innocent girl but a 30-year-old married woman possessed of such unfailing reserve that she refuses to show visible anger or frustration even after ''falling headfirst into a pond''.
* In the ''NeverwinterNights2'' expansion ''Mask of the Betrayer,'' you can gain a party member named Kaelyn the Dove. If you use voice commands and select "cuss," she'll sputter for a moment and end with "I don't know any profanity, how embarrassing." It is ''adorable.''
* Colette Brunel from ''TalesOfSymphonia'' has a case of this [[LimitBreak every now and then.]] "I'M MAD NOW!!"

* [[StaffChick Sylphiel]] in TheSlayers NEXT goes angry at Phibrizzo when Lina tells her he kidnapped Gourry. This is the first time she is seen angry, and HilarityEnsues.
* Happens to [[ClassicDisneyShorts Minnie]] in the straight-to-DVD episode "[[HouseofMouse Mickey's House of Villains]]." When Jafar and the other villains take over the club, and Mickey and his sidekicks Donald and Goofy fail to extract them, Minnie tells the boys to step aside and charges right into the mass of villains to take care of the problem in her own special, naive way. Obviously, her delicate attempts are met with a complete lack of concern. Actually, Minnie seems to experience this a lot, be it in the classic cartoons of the past, or in more modern incarnations like "Runaway Brain" - only Mickey seems to cringe when she's angry. And when she is, Minnie has such trouble expressing it that she stomps her high-heeled foot in typical "feminine" fashion, and her words fail to damage anyone.
-->'''Goofy:''' "Gawrsh, I've never seen her so mad."
-->'''Mickey:''' "Oh, I have."
** This Troper adores that scene do to her personal belief that Walt and his crew made Mickey and Minnie shorts when they were mad at their wives.
* When it's pointed out to Jerry Seinfeld that he doesn't so much get angry as get a shrill "comedic twinge", he resolves to learn how to get mad. Unfortunately this is the gateway to letting all of his emotions out.
* Cream, the sweet little girl in SonicX, who enjoys making [[TastesLikeDiabetes flower rings and baking cakes]] though it's slightly subverted in that her anger on one occasion turns out to be highly effective (i.e. she [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome takes out a robot that even ''Sonic and Knuckles'' couldn't handle]].)
* An IFA moment happens to Father Mulcahy in M* A* S* H in several different episodes when he's getting screwed over in some way or another.
* Neelix in [[StarTrekVoyager Voyager]] - possibly PTSD-influenced, as he's characterised as a war hero.
** Well, he ''tells'' people he's a war hero (if they ask, he's not a braggart). The reality is that he was away from home, ''protesting'' the war because he didn't morally agree with it, when the enemy dropped a supernuke on the moon his family lived on, a Space Hiroshima that ended the war, with his side losing and his entire family dying in the blast. Given his sad past, they sort of imply that he tries to act cheerful to overcompensate.
* In InuYasha, at least the spanish version, has Kagome tell Naraku: "[...] Please allow me to tell you that you are despicable! [...]".

* Many examples about in the works of Oscar Wilde, such as in ''TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'' when the two primary female characters have an extremely polite, yet vitriolic fight over tea and muffins.
** Part of this hostility comes from Gwendolyn being suspicious of Cecily and vice versa.

<<|AngerTropes|>>

*Many examples about in the works of Oscar Wilde, such as in The Importance of Being Earnest when the two primary female characters have an extremely polite, yet vitriolic fight over tea and muffins.