History Main / SelectiveSqueamishnessSuppression

* [[Series/{{Monk}} Adrian Monk]] has a laundry list of neuroses and neatness issues, but is able to set them aside at will upon needing to view a grisly crime scene. Even though he can hardly stand to be in a dusty room (because it's dirty), blood doesn't seem to faze him. There was also the time when he was struggling to investigate normally at a crime scene because there was dog mess there, but the blood wasn't a problem.
* Ned the pie maker from ''Series/PushingDaisies'' is also rather neurotic. But given his [[LockedIntoStrangeness particular]] [[BlessedWithSuck ability]], he keeps rotting fruit in the back room, and might likely go mad if he didn't develop this as a survival skill/coping method. This got particularly odd when Ned discovered a dead rat in a taffy vat. He commented on it being gross (apparently only because it was a rat in food). This is a man who makes his living ''touching corpses with his bare finger''.
* Martin and Daphne often discussed gory murders over breakfast on ''Series/{{Frasier}}''.
%%* Of course, in the case of ''Series/QuincyME'' it's a JustifiedTrope. He's a medical examiner.

* [[TheCoroner Dr.]] [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Henry]] [[ResurrectiveImmortality Morgan]] of [[Series/Forever2014 ''Forever'']] is a very neat and tidy man, and his co-workers scoff at the very idea of him joining in searching through rubble accumulated at a sewer grate after a storm. However, he does perform autopsies for a living and has no problem handling human organs or kneeling down on a dirty sidewalk and sniffing (or rather, [[CharacterTic using a hand to waft the scent up to his face]] as any good chemist would do) to check the odor of a stain at a crime scene.
* Gus Fring of ''Series/BreakingBad'' and ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' is obsessively neat and clean, to the point it seems like he might actually have OCD, but doesn't bat an eye about killing someone in an excessively bloody fashion.

* Mordecai Heller from ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'' is an obsessively tidy person to [[SuperOCD an extreme]]...who you [[http://lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=27 first see]] in blood-spattered underwear, having just chopped someone up with a hatchet. He also cleans up the places he robs.

This ability, to keep one's gorge from rising despite one's otherwise squeamish tendencies, is Selective Squeamishness Suppression.

* [[Series/{{Monk}} Adrian Monk]] has a laundry list of neuroses and neatness issues, but is able to set them aside at will upon needing to view a grisly crime scene.
** Most noticeably, even though he can hardly stand to be in a dusty room (because it's dirty), blood doesn't seem to faze him.
** There was also the time when he was struggling to investigate normally at a crime scene because there was dog mess there, but the blood wasn't a problem.

* All too often seen in Tabletop [=RPGs=]. Depending on the back story of your character ([[TheRoleplayer provided you've written it]]), you may come from a very posh, sheltered life style, and yet have no qualms swinging a sword or blasting magic at a group of Goblins, resulting in piles of sliced limbs and pulped corpses. Even dedicated roleplayers will usually not have their character get queasy, even if it would make sense to do so. This can become very prevalent in the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness, or similar games, where your character has a vice and a virtue. Unless the GM enforces it, most players will hardly notice their vices.

* On ''Series/{{Bones}}'', Brennan, Addy and Hodgins at the Jeffersonian all appear to have this trait -- Hodgins even revels in the finding of bugs and insects in the goriest of places. Dr. Saroyan, despite being a Medical Examiner in her own right, is a little put off by the state of a couple of the more interesting bodies they get.

*** Justified because Bones is inured to corpses, but not to witnessing pain in the living.

** Justified in that he's a trauma surgeon, blood and torn up flesh are old news. And he's never shown all that much aversion to dirt and mess, just practices appropriate hygiene and organisation for a medical professional.

* In one episode of ''Series/SledgeHammer'', Hammer ate his lunch in the same room the coroner was doing an autopsy in.
* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' justifies this trope rather baldly because Dexter is a serial killer himself who finds bloody crime scenes to be appealing. One episode subverts this when another serial killer soaks an entire hotel room in blood to remind Dexter of a traumatic past experience. His horrified reaction causes a cop to note that at least there's ''something'' he can't handle.

* TabletopGame/UnknownArmies does it in an interesting way. There is not one SanityMeter; there are five, and your ability to deal with one threat to your mental balance does not carry over from one to the other. The five branches are Violence, Isolation, Self, Unnatural, and Helplessness. You can have ''hardened'' notches, making you immune to certain stresses at a cost of some of your humanity, or ''failed'' notches where you are more likely to go to pieces.
A character so hardened to Violence that they don't bat an eyelash seeing people blown to bits might be reduced to a quaking pile of nerves by the sight of disturbing magic.

* TabletopGame/UnknownArmies does it in an interesting way. There is not one SanityMeter; there are five, and your ability to deal with one threat to your mental balance does not carry over from one to the other. The five branches are Violence, Isolation, Self, Unnatural, and Helplessness. A character so hardened to Violence that they don't bat an eyelash seeing people blown to bits might be reduced to a quaking pile of nerves by the sight of disturbing magic.

This ability, to keep one's gorge from rising despite one's otherwise squeamish tendencies, is SelectiveSqueamishnessSuppression.

* ''Series/{{House}}'' is the medical example, of course. Wiggling parasites in the intestines. House doesn't flinch. (Though sometimes people on his team do).

* Of course, in the case of ''Series/{{Quincy}}, M.E.'' it's a JustifiedTrope. He's a medical examiner.

* In ''[[JediAcademyTrilogy I, Jedi]]'' the [[SpacePolice ex-CorSec officer]] Corran Horn is able to look at a man who had been burned to death and calmly point out what's strange about the body, while Luke winces and the other Jedi-in-training are starkly horrified. Corran later is extremely shaken up when he's hit by the 'disturbance in the Force' caused by Kyp destroying Carida, even [[VomitingCop running outside and throwing up]].

* Of course, in the case of ''{{Quincy}}, M.E.'' it's a JustifiedTrope. He's a medical examiner.

* All too often seen in Tabletop [=RPGs=]. Depending on the back story of your character ([[TheRoleplayer provided you've written it]]), you may come from a very posh, sheltered life style, and yet have no qualms swinging a sword or blasting magic at a group of Goblins, resulting in piles of sliced limbs and pulped corpses. Even dedicated roleplayers will usually not have their character get queasy, even if it would make sense to do so. This can become very prevalent in the NewWorldOfDarkness, or similar games, where your character has a vice and a virtue. Unless the GM enforces it, most players will hardly notice their vices.

** Justified in that he's a surgeon. And he's never shown all that much aversion to dirt and mess, just practices appropriate hygiene and organisation for a medical professional.

*** Justified because Bones is enured to corpses, but not to witnessing pain in the living.