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* Creator/CSLewis' short story "The Shoddy Lands" (PDF link [[http://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Shoddy-Lands.pdf here]]) also has its protagonist experience a telepathic vision of a StepfordSmiler's mental landscape.
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* Creator/CSLewis' short story "The Shoddy Lands" (PDF link [[http://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Shoddy-Lands.pdf here]]) also has its protagonist experience a telepathic vision of a StepfordSmiler's mental landscape. Or... well, it's a misogynistic idea of what CS Lewis imagines a woman's mind is like, [[VanityIsFeminine very dull and materialistic and unappealing to him]], with a vague dread to it, that has the protagonist despising her as shallow.
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* There are some of these in ''Literature/TheShipWho''.
** Kira in ''The Ship Who Killed'' swings between wildly enthusiastic displays of happiness and explosive rage, covering her profound grief at her husband's death and her own DeathSeeker tendencies.
** Young Tia puts on the face of a CheerfulChild when around other people. Before she was [[ICantFeelMyLegs paralyzed]] she worried that otherwise either her [[ParentalNeglect parents would withhold time with her as punishment]] or the DepartmentOfChildDisservices would take her away and make her go to school and interact with other children. ''Afterwards'', she just didn't want them to worry. As a brainship, she's professional but a bit more willing to share how she really feels.
** Especially in ''The Ship Errant'', Carialle insists that she's cured of her old trauma and downplays her anxiety and panic attacks to present herself as cheerful and enthusiastic about the mission.
** Kira in ''The Ship Who Killed'' swings between wildly enthusiastic displays of happiness and explosive rage, covering her profound grief at her husband's death and her own DeathSeeker tendencies.
** Young Tia puts on the face of a CheerfulChild when around other people. Before she was [[ICantFeelMyLegs paralyzed]] she worried that otherwise either her [[ParentalNeglect parents would withhold time with her as punishment]] or the DepartmentOfChildDisservices would take her away and make her go to school and interact with other children. ''Afterwards'', she just didn't want them to worry. As a brainship, she's professional but a bit more willing to share how she really feels.
** Especially in ''The Ship Errant'', Carialle insists that she's cured of her old trauma and downplays her anxiety and panic attacks to present herself as cheerful and enthusiastic about the mission.
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* ''Everyone'' in the short story "It's a Good Life" (and the episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' based on it). Because if they're not, Anthony might wish them out to the cornfield.
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* Dee and James from ''Literature/TheHeartsWeSold'' both qualify. Dee is the more obvious example, putting on a happy face whenever she visits home to avoid inciting further abuse from her father, but we later find out that [[spoiler:a lot of James' silliness and adventurousness stems from the fact that he has a brain tumor.]]
* Vincent and Carrie Raymond (in Geoph Essex's ''Lovely Assistant'') are astonishingly warm and cheerful [[TheBeautifulElite Beautiful People]], [[spoiler: though their plans to summon a galaxy-sized monster and destroy the world places them squarely as Unstable]]. Jenny even thinks about the Stepford effect by name.
** Jenny's friend [[TheLancer Keith Heckler]] is also described with a constant smile and a completely amoral personality, even though he ''is'' one of the good guys, and when [[LetsGetDangerous things get ''really'' serious]], he does occasionally drop the smile.
---> Heckler didn't seem too bothered, though it seemed likely that Heckler had hunted down and killed his conscience in some tribal rite of passage when he'd smoked his first cigarette at thirteen. If any moral core remained, it was huddled in a dark corner of the attic in his mind, running a near-toothless comb through tangled thinning hair, rocking back and forth and mumbling eerie sing-song lyrics to forgotten nursery rhymes. That thought alone made Heckler's perpetually cheerful grin seem downright petrifying.
* Vincent and Carrie Raymond (in Geoph Essex's ''Lovely Assistant'') are astonishingly warm and cheerful [[TheBeautifulElite Beautiful People]], [[spoiler: though their plans to summon a galaxy-sized monster and destroy the world places them squarely as Unstable]]. Jenny even thinks about the Stepford effect by name.
** Jenny's friend [[TheLancer Keith Heckler]] is also described with a constant smile and a completely amoral personality, even though he ''is'' one of the good guys, and when [[LetsGetDangerous things get ''really'' serious]], he does occasionally drop the smile.
---> Heckler didn't seem too bothered, though it seemed likely that Heckler had hunted down and killed his conscience in some tribal rite of passage when he'd smoked his first cigarette at thirteen. If any moral core remained, it was huddled in a dark corner of the attic in his mind, running a near-toothless comb through tangled thinning hair, rocking back and forth and mumbling eerie sing-song lyrics to forgotten nursery rhymes. That thought alone made Heckler's perpetually cheerful grin seem downright petrifying.
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* Dee and James from ''Literature/TheHeartsWeSold'' both qualify. Dee is the more obvious example, putting on a happy face whenever she visits home to avoid inciting further abuse from her father, but we later find out that [[spoiler:a lot of James' silliness and adventurousness stems from the fact that he has a brain tumor.]]
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* Anyone not named [[EnfantTerrible Anthony]] in "Literature/ItsAGoodLife". Anthony is the local RealityWarper, and he gets ticked if anyone has any negative thoughts.
* Vincent and Carrie Raymond(in in Geoph Essex's ''Lovely Assistant'') Assistant'' are astonishingly warm and cheerful [[TheBeautifulElite Beautiful People]], [[spoiler: though their plans to summon a galaxy-sized monster and destroy the world places them squarely as Unstable]]. Jenny even thinks about the Stepford effect by name.
**name. Jenny's friend [[TheLancer Keith Heckler]] is also described with a constant smile and a completely amoral personality, even though he ''is'' one of the good guys, and when [[LetsGetDangerous things get ''really'' serious]], he does occasionally drop the smile.
---> Heckler -->Heckler didn't seem too bothered, though it seemed likely that Heckler had hunted down and killed his conscience in some tribal rite of passage when he'd smoked his first cigarette at thirteen. If any moral core remained, it was huddled in a dark corner of the attic in his mind, running a near-toothless comb through tangled thinning hair, rocking back and forth and mumbling eerie sing-song lyrics to forgotten nursery rhymes. That thought alone made Heckler's perpetually cheerful grin seem downright petrifying.
* Anyone not named [[EnfantTerrible Anthony]] in "Literature/ItsAGoodLife". Anthony is the local RealityWarper, and he gets ticked if anyone has any negative thoughts.
* Vincent and Carrie Raymond
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* ''Literature/TheStorm'': Throughout the years she's been married to him, the wife puts on a facade of happiness and lies to herself that she's content with her distant husband. As a result, her smile feels fake; she plasters it on herself every morning and never finds it to look quite right.
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* ''Literature/TheStorm'': ''Literature/TheStormAravDagli'': Throughout the years she's been married to him, the wife puts on a facade of happiness and lies to herself that she's content with her distant husband. As a result, her smile feels fake; she plasters it on herself every morning and never finds it to look quite right.
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* ''Literature/TheStorm'': Throughout the years she's been married to him, the wife puts on a facade of happiness and lies to herself that she's content with her distant husband. As a result, her smile feels fake; she plasters it on herself every morning and never finds it to look quite right.
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* Joplaya in ''Literature/EarthsChildren'' appears to be cheerful and carefree much of the time, but has a more melancholy side she keeps hidden. Her flirting with Jondalar is often laughed off as jokes with no deeper meaning and she goes along with this, but the narrative makes it clear that she's actually serious and [[LoveHurts feels despondent]] that Jondalar has [[ObliviousToLove never picked up on this]]. This worsens after Jondalar returns to his homeland with his fiancee Ayla; although Joplaya puts on a brave face in public and sincerely insists she's [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy happy for Jondalar]], she's secretly crushed (Ayla - who is skilled at reading body language - picks up on this and feels sorry for Joplaya).
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* Grey in ''Literature/KnightsOfTheBorrowedDark'' is a cheerful, friendly joker who takes Denizen under his wing, but it's soon revealed that BeneathTheMask he's a ShellShockedVeteran struggling with PTSD. [[TraumaCongaLine Various]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy traumatic]] [[MindRape events]] make it difficult for him to keep the mask up later in the series.
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** In a somewhat unusual example there's [[ActionGirl Asha Greyjoy]]. Asha has managed to become a leader in a culture that ''completely'' believes in RatedMForManly and TestosteronePoisoning as being the right way to do things while thinking that all women should StayInTheKitchen. As a result of this she is secretly afraid that any slip-up, mistake or failure will lead to her being forcibly removed from the position of authority she has fought to achieve, and she overcompensates and practices a tough girl catchphrase in an attempt to prevent anyone from even trying to do that.
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** In a somewhat unusual example there's [[ActionGirl Asha Greyjoy]]. Asha has managed to become a leader in a culture that ''completely'' believes in RatedMForManly and TestosteronePoisoning an extremely manly approach as being the right way to do things while thinking that all women should StayInTheKitchen. As a result of this she is secretly afraid that any slip-up, mistake or failure will lead to her being forcibly removed from the position of authority she has fought to achieve, and she overcompensates and practices a tough girl catchphrase in an attempt to prevent anyone from even trying to do that.
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** In a somewhat unusual example there's [[ActionGirl Asha Greyjoy]]. Asha has managed to become a leader in a culture that ''completely'' believes in RatedMForManly and TestosteronePoisoning as being the right way to do things while thinking that all women should StayInTheKitchen. As a result of this she is secretly afraid that any slip-up, mistake or failure will lead to her being forcibly removed from the position of authority she has fought to achieve. As a result, she overcompensates and practices a tough girl catchphrase in an attempt to prevent anyone from even trying to do that.
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** In a somewhat unusual example there's [[ActionGirl Asha Greyjoy]]. Asha has managed to become a leader in a culture that ''completely'' believes in RatedMForManly and TestosteronePoisoning as being the right way to do things while thinking that all women should StayInTheKitchen. As a result of this she is secretly afraid that any slip-up, mistake or failure will lead to her being forcibly removed from the position of authority she has fought to achieve. As a result, achieve, and she overcompensates and practices a tough girl catchphrase in an attempt to prevent anyone from even trying to do that.
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---> I am glad I have my grin. In this house, you either grin, or weep.
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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' serial killer Carcer is deceptively cheerful and innocent-looking, with his smile putting people off guard...until they look in his eyes and see the monster behind the mask. But of course then you've taken your eyes off his hands, and at least one of them is holding a knife by now. He's the kind of guy who would murder a man for a loaf of bread and then stand over the corpse saying 'Who, me, guvnor?' and almost ''convincing'' you.
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* Yuki Sohma from ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' is so terrified of being rejected by his peers that he uses his numerous skills (martial arts, good looks, charisma, etc.) to hide the massive inferiority complex that ParentalAbandonment and Akito's MindRape gave him.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' serial killer Carcer is deceptively cheerful and innocent-looking, with his smile putting people off guard...until they look in his eyes and see the monster behind the mask. But of course then you've taken your eyes off his hands, and at least one of them is holding a knife by now. He's the kind of guy who would murder a man for a loaf of bread and then stand over the corpse saying 'Who, me, guvnor?' and almost ''convincing'' you.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' serial killer Carcer is deceptively cheerful and innocent-looking, with his smile putting people off guard...until they look in his eyes and see the monster behind the mask. But of course then you've taken your eyes off his hands, and at least one of them is holding a knife by now. He's the kind of guy who would murder a man for a loaf of bread and then stand over the corpse saying 'Who, me, guvnor?' and almost ''convincing'' you.
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* Yoko Nakajima, the main character of ''Literaturef/TheTwelveKingdoms'', starts out the series as a junior version of this in regards to her home and social life; she reveals later the fear that there was truly nothing inside.
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* Yoko Nakajima, the main character of ''Literaturef/TheTwelveKingdoms'', ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms'', starts out the series as a junior version of this in regards to her home and social life; she reveals later the fear that there was truly nothing inside.
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* Ryoko Asakura from ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' is the Unstable type. Being the most popular girl in her class due to her beauty and kindness, she keeps a cute, caring and friendly appearance, even when she is about to stab you with a combat knife, ''or'' when dying. Since she is an ArtificialHuman, unable to empathize with humans, it is very likely that it is just a fixed masquerade.
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* Akeno Himejima of ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' is rarely seen not smiling or giggling, most of the time maintaining a cheerful and flirtatious disposition. However, she probably has the worst DarkAndTroubledPast among the members of Rias' Peerage (which is saying ''a lot'') due to losing her mother and blaming her father for not protecting her, and Issei is pretty shocked when she breaks down crying as she tells him of it.
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* ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'':
** Most of the time, Geordo's princely smile only consists of this. This is because he's so much of TheAce that [[LonelyAtTheTop he has no drive in life since everything is too easy for him]].
** While Maria is always been and always will be a genuinely kind and caring girl, [[BlessedWithSuck everything that happened since the reveal of her light magic drove her into deep loneliness]], which she kept hidden by masking it with her normal kind and caring attitude. Though that all changed after she met Catarina.
** According to Catarina, Mary has two types of smiles. First is the genuine, affectionate smile reserved almost solely for Catarina herself. Second, there is the "social" smile that she uses as a mask. At one point, Catarina notices the change but does not put two-and-two together that it's because Mary noticed that Geordo was up to something with Catarina.
--->''Mary, who had been smiling at me just a second ago, now suddenly had the smile she usually reserved for social affairs on her face.''
** In the original ''Fortune Lover'' scenario, Keith's womanizing tendencies belie a lonely heart, broken by years of verbal and/or physical abuse from his half-siblings, and then [[AlphaBitch Catarina]]. Of course, in the work's timeline, Catarina has a major change in personality and makes everyone's lives better.
** Most of the time, Geordo's princely smile only consists of this. This is because he's so much of TheAce that [[LonelyAtTheTop he has no drive in life since everything is too easy for him]].
** While Maria is always been and always will be a genuinely kind and caring girl, [[BlessedWithSuck everything that happened since the reveal of her light magic drove her into deep loneliness]], which she kept hidden by masking it with her normal kind and caring attitude. Though that all changed after she met Catarina.
** According to Catarina, Mary has two types of smiles. First is the genuine, affectionate smile reserved almost solely for Catarina herself. Second, there is the "social" smile that she uses as a mask. At one point, Catarina notices the change but does not put two-and-two together that it's because Mary noticed that Geordo was up to something with Catarina.
--->''Mary, who had been smiling at me just a second ago, now suddenly had the smile she usually reserved for social affairs on her face.''
** In the original ''Fortune Lover'' scenario, Keith's womanizing tendencies belie a lonely heart, broken by years of verbal and/or physical abuse from his half-siblings, and then [[AlphaBitch Catarina]]. Of course, in the work's timeline, Catarina has a major change in personality and makes everyone's lives better.
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* The [[GenkiGirl over-enthusiastic]] [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething princess]] Amelia from ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'', if one looks deeper, is Depressed; as a daughter of a prestigious and powerful royal family, she is subjected to horrific violence and carnage as her family battles over the line of succession to the throne. Her MissingMom was murdered, in-series she sees one of her uncles and her cousin get killed attempting a coup, her sister has long since run away, and her father (the current heir apparent) is a go-to target for assassins. It's summed up well enough in the LightNovel she's introduced in:
--> "''But you know," [Amelia] added, still sporting that strange smile, "I really don't like that you can't trust people in your own family around here." It could've been my (Lina's) imagination, but just then I sensed a great sadness in Amelia behind that bubbly facade. There was definitely more to that girl than met the eye''.
* ''Literature/SoICantPlayH'': Initially, it seems Ilia has it all: she's a popular {{teen idol}} and [[HeadTurningBeauty a babe]], who doubles as a spokesperson for the Merlot Life Insurance company. That is, until Ilia's manager reveals that people used to make fun of her, because [[spoiler: Ilia's [[ACupAngst semi-flat-chested.]] Plus, her lisp and her natural accent slurred her speech so badly, hardly anyone could understand her]]. It's left her with an extremely poor self-image. So as long as the spell holds, Ilia brims with confidence, but if it anyone sees, ''or hears'', what she's really like, [[DontLookAtMe she runs away in tears.]]
--> "''But you know," [Amelia] added, still sporting that strange smile, "I really don't like that you can't trust people in your own family around here." It could've been my (Lina's) imagination, but just then I sensed a great sadness in Amelia behind that bubbly facade. There was definitely more to that girl than met the eye''.
* ''Literature/SoICantPlayH'': Initially, it seems Ilia has it all: she's a popular {{teen idol}} and [[HeadTurningBeauty a babe]], who doubles as a spokesperson for the Merlot Life Insurance company. That is, until Ilia's manager reveals that people used to make fun of her, because [[spoiler: Ilia's [[ACupAngst semi-flat-chested.]] Plus, her lisp and her natural accent slurred her speech so badly, hardly anyone could understand her]]. It's left her with an extremely poor self-image. So as long as the spell holds, Ilia brims with confidence, but if it anyone sees, ''or hears'', what she's really like, [[DontLookAtMe she runs away in tears.]]
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* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'': [[spoiler:Kida]] is not naturally that cheerful; it's a front he puts up for Mikado's sake.
* Yuki Sohma from ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' is so terrified of being rejected by his peers that he uses his numerous skills (martial arts, good looks, charisma, etc.) to hide the massive inferiority complex that ParentalAbandonment and Akito's MindRape gave him.
* Yuki Sohma from ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' is so terrified of being rejected by his peers that he uses his numerous skills (martial arts, good looks, charisma, etc.) to hide the massive inferiority complex that ParentalAbandonment and Akito's MindRape gave him.
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* Itsuki Koizumi from ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' [[PerpetualSmiler always keeps a constant smile]] and a cheerful attitude. Granted, he's still mostly sane and calm, but his Stepfordness always creeps Kyon out to no end. [[BrokenSmile But when his smile disappears... you better start fearing the worst!]] He actually expresses an open jealousy towards Mikuru and all the other members of the SOS brigade, because he has to keep a facade of his true personality to fit Haruhi's expectations of his, while the rest do not (aside of Mikuru's Obfuscating Helplessness). At points in the novels it's made pretty clear that Itsuki's finding it difficult to keep smiling, such as in volume 9 [[spoiler:he's been unable to sleep well for a lengthy period of time due to constant closed space activity, appearing exhausted and using a rather forced version of the usual grin, which falls off if he isn't concentrating]]. What is he really thinking? Who knows, [[MrExposition it's the one thing he doesn't really talk about. Probably]].
** [[spoiler:To add fire to the fuel, in the eleventh novel, he cheerfully prepares to fight (and probably kill, it wasn't made clear afterwards) the novel's BigBad. Note the word ''cheerfully''.]]
** [[spoiler:To add fire to the fuel, in the eleventh novel, he cheerfully prepares to fight (and probably kill, it wasn't made clear afterwards) the novel's BigBad. Note the word ''cheerfully''.]]
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* Natsuki Subaru from ''Literature/ReZero'' starts to become one of these as the series goes on. [[spoiler:Possibly even started out as one from the beginning.]] As the series goes on it becomes clear that his happy-go-lucky attitude is covering up severe self-doubt and depression [[spoiler:from trying to save his friends only to see them die over and over again and regret with how he spent his old life on Earth]].
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* In ''LightNovel/EndoAndKobayashiLiveTheLatestOnTsundereVillainessLieselotte'', Lieselotte noticed this of her fiance Crown Prince Siegwald before she entered the academy. Not that Siegwald has any mental issues, [[TheChainsOfCommanding but his station demands it]].
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