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--> "''I'm sorry I can't be as [[HotBlooded high-strung]] and crazy as the rest of you.''"\\
- '''Mai''', ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''

The enigmatic [[TheStoic emotionless]] character. Sometimes the anchor in the midst of chaos; other times just quietly mysterious. Draws attention to herself simply by her non-reaction. Can be seen as purposeful, cool in a crisis, i.e., "she's all business." May also have some sort of [[ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl secret special power]].

Sometimes used by animators as the [[{{Unfunny}} comic foil]], especially in noisy, chaotic situations.

Not necessarily a fan of pure logic and reason like TheSpock, as compassionate under the skin as the TinMan, as wise and profound as SilentBob, or as strong and [[BadAss badass]] as TheStoic.

In certain instances, may be an actual RobotGirl. See also TheQuietOne, StrangeGirl, and TheDaria. Often [[{{Foil}} contrasted]] with a more HotBlooded partner to form a RedOniBlueOni pair.

An interesting twist on the Emotionless Girl is the Emotionally [[StepfordSmiler Repressed]] Girl. This girl feels the emotions but doesn't express them openly or vividly. These girls can draw the viewers into the scene by forcing one to pick up on her subtle cues - so that when the seemingly Emotionless Girl finally does smile, there's a tremendous amount of satisfaction.

They may suffer from BadDreams. Contrast {{Kuudere}}, who may initially appear emotionless but in fact has a cute inner side. Will often be the subject of MustMakeHerLaugh.
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* Senri from [[PlusAnima ''+Anima'']] fits this perfectly, even though he's a boy.
* ''AxisPowersHetalia'': [[EmotionlessGirl Emotionless Boy]] Hong Kong. Belarus is a female version, who mixes it with {{Yandere}} as well.
* Chane Laforet from ''[[{{Baccano}} Baccano!]]'', who actually is mute.
* Kazuo Kiriyama from the ''BattleRoyale'' manga is an [[EmotionlessGirl Emotionless Boy]]. He was rendered incapable of emotion when he was brain-damaged at the age of six (since birth in the original novel), and is described in-story as a sociopath. Add to this his phenomenal analytical ability and intelligence and you've got a very tough match-up.
* R. Dorothy Waynewright from ''TheBigO''. She's an actual RobotGirl. On at least one occasion, she expresses relief on never being programmed with emotions, although arguably she didn't need to be -- she demonstrates disgust, loyalty, nostalgia, and numerous other emotions, just not at what a human would call full intensity.
** Never mind the {{irony}} of ''feeling relieved'' not to have emotions.
* Nemu, Mayuri Kurotsuchi's Lieutenant in ''{{Bleach}}'', is not just emotionless but seems to have no free will of her own. She exists almost as an extension of Kurotsuchi's will; no matter how horribly he treats her, she never reacts. [[spoiler:MadScientist Kurotsuchi CREATED Nemu. His "daughter" is really just an OppositeSexClone.]]
* Six year-old Rin Kaga of ''BunnyDrop'' appears as such at first. It is even used by members of her father's family as an excuse not to take her in. However, Rin is more of a {{Deconstruction}} given that she is only like this because of shyness and anxiety around people she does not know. Around other children and Daikichi, Rin is anything but emotionless.
* ''CaptainTsubasa'' has ''two'' male versions: Carlos Santana and Stefan Levin. The first one becomes emotionless after a [[FreudianExcuse tragic childhood]] [[BreakTheCutie where he lost everything]] (from his adoptive parents to his friends), the second lost his emotions [[LoveMakesYouEvil after his fiancée Karen tragically dies in his arms]]. Both start to [[CharacterDevelopment gradually]] [[DefrostingIceQueen heal]] through the series, [[spoiler: and Santana even gets to find his MissingMom]].
* Fiore from ''ChronoCrusade'', although it's hinted throughout the series that she may not be as emotionless as she claims--and her relationship with Joshua is a partial reason.
* Anya from ''CodeGeass''. Maybe she was just traumatized from [[spoiler:seeing Marianne killed in gory fashion]].
* Yin, and others, from ''DarkerThanBlack'' - one plot point of the show is the existence of Dolls, humans {{brainwashed}} into (nearly) emotionless mediums that can be used as undetectable spies.
* Saki Hanajima from ''{{Fruits Basket}}'', and surprise! She does have [[ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl special powers]]. Her little brother, Megumi, is also emotionless and can curse people.
** Ironically, both of them are actually familiar and regularly express the one emotion that causes most of these examples to come out of their shell: Love. Saki is extremely protective and (sometimes overly) friendly towards her best friend Tohru, and Megumi behaves similarly towards his sister. Saki's treatment, thus, ends up flip-flopped between Emotionless Girl and Yamato Nadeshiko depending entirely on who she's associating with at that particular moment. Just don't mess with Tohru. Ever.
*** But even when defending Tohru, she does so in a CreepyMonotone.
* Vanilla from ''GalaxyAngel''. Used in the anime to comic effect. In [[GalaxyAngelGameverse the games]], her {{story arc}}s deal with her coming to terms with expressing emotion.
* Feldt Grace from ''{{Gundam 00}}'', though she later starts to become more emotional.
* Kanna from ''InuYasha'' most certainly fits this trope, as she was created to be emotionless so that she would be undetectable by any trace of Demonic Energy or Scent. In fact, the translation of her name quite literally means 'void'.
** Though before she die her[[http://inuyasha.wikia.com/wiki/File:Kanna_emotion.jpg / last emotion]] pretty much tear jerker.
* Toyama Sachi from ''{{Jubei-chan}}''. In the dub, she is referred to as "the strange, emotionless girl" once.
* Yuki Nagato from ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'', the girl from the pic above, is also the TheSpock, TheStoic and the BadassBookworm.
** Though as the series progresses, it is clear that (due to CharacterDevelopment) in spite of her lack of ''apparent'' feeling, Yuki is a warm, caring and kind-hearted girl. It could be said that Yuki and Asakura are inversions of this trope (and by extension, RedOniBlueOni). Yuki appears emotionless and coldly logical, while her inner workings are clearly fighting in the other direction. Asakura is what could best be described as a PuritySue on the outside, while ''she'' is the [[UncannyValleyGirl creepy]], [[DissonantSerenity emotionless]] KnifeNut whose [[spoiler:attempted murder of Kyon]] was actually a calculated act designed to reach a specific goal.
** [[spoiler:Kuyou Suou]], another [[spoiler:alien interface, albeit from a different entity]] appears in the ninth novel. She appears to be a genuine EmotionlessGirl.
* Rei Ayanami from ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is frequently mistaken for being emotionless, but viewers who pay any actual attention to the show know that she's just repressed.
**As Rei's [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Expy Expy]] in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitleaw8yl7vbp5g8?from=Main.ParallelTroubleAdventureDual Dual!]], D fits this until the final battle. She's actually frightened about showing emotion.
* Ruri from ''MartianSuccessorNadesico'' is one, arguably. Though she's far cry from being actually emotionless - just emotionally repressed, and sometimes not even that - her voice never seems to reflect her emotions, making her always sound like she just doesn't ''care''. This is a big part of why she used to be the TropeNamer for the LittleMissSnarker.
* Mai from ''{{Kanon}}''.
* Karin's little sister, Anju, in ''{{Karin}}''.
* Another Anju -- the maid Anju Rika, in ''{{Magikano}}''.
* Sai Jounouchi from ''KidouTenshiAngelicLayer''. The anime made her emotionally repressed and gave her a DeadLittleSister, the manga doesn't explore her character enough.
* Kirika from ''{{Noir}}'' spends most of the anime as just this.
** Objection! Normally she just has hard time expressing her emotions, but is clearly a big ball of angst. She ''becomes'' a true EmotionlessGirl near the end, when her "real" personality takes over, but the her emotional side eventually comes out thriumphant (and despite of being "false", is clearly morally superior of the two).
* Most of the eponymous warriors in ''{{Claymore}}'', though that makes them more like TheStoic.
* ''AngelDensetsu'''s expy to ''{{Claymore}}'' (Ikuno/Claire) is a DeadpanSnarker too.
* Ritsuko from ''KujibikiUnbalance'' hides secret feelings for Chihiro behind an emotionless exterior.
* In ''OnegaiTeacher'' and its sequel ''OnegaiTwins,'' (aka ''Please Teacher!'' and ''Please Twins!'') extreme emotion can induce the [[HeroicBSOD coma-like "standstill" state]]. Ichigo Morino, who has experienced this, forces herself to be calm, but the writers sorta didn't get it right: she gives the same lines anyone else might give, but with a HAL-like delivery. She sports MindControlEyes but makes otherwise normal facial expressions. In other words, no more the EmotionlessGirl than anyone else, but acting like one.
* Lumiere from ''KiddyGrade'' is both this and TheSpock.
** This troper disagrees; Lumiere was more calm and composed than expressionless (remember "girls should be elegant"!), so it's more of a YamatoNadeshiko.
* A very very rare male version of this trope: Mytho from ''PrincessTutu'', who is ''literally'' emotionless thanks to a spell that shattered his heart.
* Nozomu from ''{{Kanokon}}''. Her [[BigEater gluttony notwithstanding]], she is a partial subversion. While she ''acts'' emotionless, with a consistent monotone voice and blank expression, she displays an unexplained attraction to the hero. And she is able to easily keep up with Chizuru -- who is just shy of being an outright anthropomorphic personification of ''lust'' -- in flirting and [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "dirty"]] tricks. In some of the DVD-only, [[FanService nudity filled filler episodes]] she openly talks about lusting after the main character and being in love with him. [[AdaptationDistillation Due to the length of the anime]], [[AdaptationDecay and it skipping a book or three of the original series]], her character development is more or less completely nill, as well.
** She even has no qualms essentially pimping the main male lead out to Chizuru in order to try and [[spoiler: "fix" her stolen magic / breasts, ]] and in the GeckoEnding of the anime it's Nozomu who suggests [[spoiler:the TenchiSolution.]]
* Akira Takano from ''SchoolRumble''.
** Male example: Oddball Karasuma. Yeah. He [[spoiler:had been repressing his feelings from the very beginning in an attempt to distance himself from everyone]]. When he finally snaps very late in the manga, his bouts of emotion are so expressive, he becomes almost unrecognizable.
*''NowAndThenHereAndThere'' has Lala-ru, although she does start to emote more as the story progresses.
* Lutecia of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. Likely a result of [[MadScientist Jail's]] experiments. And/or of growing up without her mother.
* Lila from ''NajicaBlitzTactics'' showcases many characteristics of this trope, being an {{artificial human}}, although she can fake emotions to some degree if needed to achieve a certain goal (like seducing men). Later in the series she starts to genuinely warm up toward the protagonist though.
* Sai, of ''{{Naruto}}'' fame, [[DudeLooksLikeALady may not be a girl]], but he certainly belongs here.
* Alissa Southerncross from ''KeroroGunsou''.
* ''KoihimeMusou'' has Ryoufu, a [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]] version of Lu Bu (yes, [[Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms ''that'']] [[BloodKnight Lu Bu]]) who -- while being MadeOfIron and flinging other "badass generals turned {{Moe}} girls" around without breaking a sweat -- is also so unexpressive that she maintains a total deadpan while [[TheGlomp Glomping]] a minister who took in her and her canine companions.
** From another RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms gender flip, IkkiTousen, there's Zhuge Liang's reincarnation Shokatsuryou Koumei who mixes this with LittleMissSnarker and CreepyChild...
* Akira Okochi in ''MahouSenseiNegima'' has her emotions, but is usually so quiet, her DayInTheLimelight chapter was told entirely without dialogue.
** [[spoiler: Asuna]] was also emotionless in the backtory. She was still emotionless upon arrival, but ten years of being bugged by Ayaka taught her emotions, albeit mostly emotions regarding irritation.
** Yue also fits this for the first section of the manga. She hides her emotion so well that [[spoiler: her total breakdown upon finally accepting that she has a crush on Negi seems even more shocking.]]
*** She's more [[{{Kuudere}} cool-minded]] rather than emotionless, since she's philosophical girl usually ruled by reason over emotion.
** With a possible exception for the ending fight in the first "season", Zazie Rainyday is completely deadpan. It's worth noting that even in the retelling of Negima!?, nearly all of her lines are puns or wordplay, and naturally are all spoken in a monotone.
** Chachamaru is a justified EmotionlessGirl, being a robot. Even so, she's a very caring person whose main fault is MyMasterRightOrWrong.
* Shizuku, the {{Token Loli}} {{Cute Monster Girl}} from ''{{Omamori Himari}}''.
* Otome from ''KoiKoi7''. It probably comes from being the oldest of the group, but stuck at a young age, since she was the first to become a cyborg.
* Ayuki of {{Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl}} seems to be one of these in the [[AdaptationDecay anime]]. However, in the manga, she just seems [[{{TheStoic}} quiet and calm]]. However, even then she nevers shows much emotion other then some casual comedy moments. [[spoiler: Except in a later chapter, where she cries and screams at Hitoshi when she learns that Hazumu will die in 29 days. This only fuels the theory that she is in love with Hazumu, which was never really hinted at in the anime (instead, it was hinted she likes ''Tomari'')]]
* Anthy Himemiya from ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' is a variant on the Emotionally Repressed Girl, in that she is effectively anaesthetized by the circumstances of her... ''very complicated'' connection to her brother.
* Tomoe Yukishiro from ''RurouniKenshin'' plays this for tragedy, since [[spoiler: she couldn't show her fiancé Akira how happy she was when they got engaged, so he thought he wasn't good enough for her and went to search for his fortune to Kyoto... where he got killed]].
* Zefiris from ''ScrappedPrincess''. Also a RobotGirl - kind of.
* Momo from ''Shinigami no Ballad'' is a subversion. She appears emotionless, but allegedly feels more strongly than normal humans do. The other shinigami plays this straight though.
* Primula in ''[[{{Shuffle}} SHUFFLE!]]'' is an excellent example of the repressed type.
* Sara Werec of ''SoukouNoStrain'' is an example of an EmotionlessGirl main character.
* Latune Subbota from ''SuperRobotWars: Original Generation''. Then she gets a crush on the HotBlooded [[AscendedFanboy Ascended]] SuperRobot [[AscendedFanboy Fanboy]], and clears all that right up.
* Yami from ''ToLoveRu'', although she has shown the barest hint of emotions other than "I hate ecchi people" on occasion.
* Michiru from ''UtaKata''.
* Echo from ''{{Pandora Hearts}}'' although later on in the manga she changes to more of a{{Kuudere}}
* Laila from ''VenusVersusVirus'', in contrast with her somewhat livelier twin sister, Lola.
* Tabitha of ''ZeroNoTsukaima'', of the repressed variety.
* Miyabi "Professor" Oomichi of ''GAGeijutsukaArtDesignClass''.
* Marie Kagura of TonaGura. Subverted somewhat in that this state hides a desire that [[spoiler: her older brother Yuuji revert to his pre-puberty self and pay attention only to her]].
* Vera Linus, in the {{manhwa}} ''{{Veritas}}'', generally shows no emotion except when dealing with something that has to do with Lightning Tiger, the guy who taught her the meaning of "fear".
* Aki Izayoi from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.

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* ''[[Comicbook/XMen X-Men]]'' has Sage, a mutant whose brain works much like a computer, and as such, approaches Rei Ayanami level emotionlessness at times, though occasionally shifting to TheStoic level when really, ''really'' worked up. (Naturally, she's such an expert at PerpSweating that her gaze alone accomplishes what Wolverine's famed "claw on either side of neck; dare me to pop the middle?" approach cannot.) Surprisingly, "computer brain" simply describes her brain works. Despite the functions of her mind often being described in computer terms, it, and the rest of her, are a hundred percent organic.
**She can still say her name in [[BoldInflation gigantic, colorful letters]], though. ([[DoWeHaveThisOne Is there a trope for that?]])
* Raven from ''ComicBook/TeenTitans''. This based out of necessity because if she ever let her emotions go, her demonic father, Trigon would seize control of her and take over Earth's dimension. Her learning to accept and express emotions after the defeat of her father is a major piece of CharacterDevelopment.

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[[folder: Film ]]

* Wednesday forcing a smile in ''[[TheAddamsFamily Addams Family Values]]'' evokes horror in onlookers.
* Lydia in ''{{Beetlejuice}}''. In the [[AnimatedAdaptation animated series]], she becomes a PerkyGoth.
* Subverted and {{lampshade}}d mercilessly in [[TheMovie the]] RockyAndBullwinkle [[TheMovie movie]] with agent [[PunnyName Karen Sympathy]]. She tries relentlessly to be an EmotionlessGirl [[AgentScully Scully]], but she's just too sentimental.
* Miette starts off like this in ''TheCityOfLostChildren''.

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* Susan Calvin from IsaacAsimov's many robot short stories.
* Susan Sto Helit of ''Discworld/SoulMusic'', ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' and ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'' shows no outward emotion on hearing of the deaths of her parents, and otherwise fits the "cool in a crisis" model. She does occasionally get angry. Don't get in her way at this point.
** Adora Belle Dearheart in the "Moist Von Lipwig" novels also comes across as emotionless, when she's actually repressing a mountain of rage.
*** [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Alternatively]], she comes across as a woman burying her issues under [[DeadpanSnarker a mountain of bitter sarcasm]].
* In the StarWars ExpandedUniverse novels, Winter Celchu (an aide and childhood friend of Leia's), an Intelligence agent with a [[PhotographicMemory holographic memory]], has lost her composure perhaps once in the entirety of her appearances--when she thought her boyfriend had been killed ''and'' his fellow pilots ''didn't seem to care'' (because, of course, he was still alive).
* [[TheSwordOfTruth Kahlan]] has this as a public persona. A voice to freeze water.
* Actually ''subverted'' in ''TheDresdenFiles''. Ivy appears to be totally emotionless for quite a while after we meet her, [[spoiler:but it turns out that this is actually one of the Archive's defense mechanisms. Ivy herself is lonely and has to cope with the fact that she has almost no personal identity; even her name is just [[TheNicknamer a nickname Harry gave her]]. She's also cursed with the Archive's perfect recall, so she knows ''exactly'' how her mother felt about her. (Hint: It wasn't real positive)]]

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* ''StarTrek'' sports a couple examples, such as:
** Seven of Nine from ''[[StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' is a former Borg drone, so underplays emotions while focusing on efficiently completing tasks. However, she does annoyance really well.
** T'Pol from ''[[StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' is a Vulcan whose frustration with humans isn't veiled as well as it could be, but otherwise fits this trope.
** T'Pring and T'Pau from the ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Amok Time".
** The first officer of Captain Pike, known only as NumberOne, was one of these.
* Cameron, the female {{Terminator}} of ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'' fits this quite accurately, though she is quite capable of ''simulating'' human emotions when she needs to. The rather sudden shift from emotionless blankness to a laughing, smiling teenage girl is....[[CreepyChild creepy.]]
**Cameron's creepy stoicism gets played brilliantly in the premiere for the second season, when John is trying to remove her processor chip after it gets damaged and she goes berserk. She slowly switches from an emotionless, [[ImplacableMan implacable]] killer to begging and pleading with John to not remove the chip, even going as far as to cry out that she loves him. The simulated emotion is ''disturbingly'' real, and even more so because the audience and John ''know'' it's simulated yet real.
**This is further pronounced in the same season's eighth episode. Before Cameron enters John's room to discourage him from seeing Riley, she removes her jacket. She then lies on his bed next to him. The audience and John know that neither of these actions is casual, but a calculated decision by Cameron's internal logic. It is this knowledge that creates the tension in the ensuing exchange.
**Prior to this, there are a very few but very deliberate moments where Cameron shows inexplicable emotion - for example, when she hits Charley with a DeathGlare for calling her a "very scary robot" in "Dungeons & Dragons", and a momentary tightening of her lips and nervous flicker of her eyes in "Vick's Chip" when John is removing her processor.
**Then it gets completely inverted in "Allison from Palmdale," where Cameron adopts the personality and memories of Allison, a girl her personality was based around. Seeing Cameron suddenly acting like a ''normal'' person, showing honest emotions, just amplifies the creepy factor.
* Aeryn Sun of ''FarScape'' isn't quite emotionless, but she rarely lets her emotions show and ''never'' lets them control her... except in one instance when an outside force actually took that self-control from her, which Chiana noticed when Aeryn [[FreakOut freaked out]].
* The [[BlankSlate Actives]] in ''{{Dollhouse}}'', when in their wiped state. Although they seem happy in a non-thinking way most of the time.
** Although this is deliberately encouraged by keeping them in a calm and peaceful place. If exposed to more dramatic stimulus they gain emotions quite quickly - terrified and freaked out.

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* A plot point in the ''{{Darkstalkers}}'' series of fighting games. Donovan, a half-vampire monk meets Anita, a young girl who is also a half-vampire, who has lost the ability to feel emotions. He decides to try to slay the world's supply of monsters to cure her. He succeeds in restoring her emotions and humanity, but becomes a full vampire himself. This leads to a climactic flash forward cliffhanger showdown between her as the messiah of the human race and him as her main opposition. Especially notable because the creators of the series were sometimes criticized in interviews for using this trope, which was in its peak at the time.
* ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' had Lana Skye, who had shut herself off to the outside world. Her control cracks when [[spoiler: it appears her sister Ema is being accused of murder; she throws herself on the witness stand in a desperate panic. At the very end, when everything is settled and she finally smiles, several of this wiki's editors teared up.]]
** Vera Misham in Apollo Justice is of the repressed type. She never changes her facial expression, instead drawing smilies on a notebook she always has. [[spoiler: In the good ending, she gives a proper smile at last.]]
* Presea Combatir of ''TalesOfSymphonia'' was, among other side-effects, robbed of her emotions when implanted with an Exsphere without a Key Crest. She became so robotically narrow-minded that she didn't even notice her father had died in his bed years ago, though his body lay there decaying the whole time. She gets better when she joins the heroes, who give her a Key Crest, but then she has to deal with the pain of everything that's happened while she was like that.
* In {{Suikoden}} V, which has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters (OneHundredAndEight, to be precise), Sagiri nonetheless manages to stand out due to this trope. Rather than having a perfectly straight face, her expression is frozen in a permanent [[StepfordSmiler creepy smile]], no matter how she feels. Combined with the way she speaks, she comes across as rather spooky, even BEFORE you learn her backstory: [[spoiler:She's a former member of the Nether Gate, a clan of fanatical assassins who don't ''recruit'' new members - they ''raise'' them. Trained from infancy to be an assassin, she was taught to put on a childish, innocent smile to help her approach her unwitting targets... even though she's a grown woman now, and even though she escaped from the cult more than 8 years ago, her face remains set in that same smile.]]
* Ashley from the ''WarioWare'' series. The most emotion she shows outside of her theme tune is a tiny smile at successfully turning a plant into a giant monster.
* Amoretta from ''GrimGrimoire'', a recently made homunculus with an angel for a soul. She has emotions, but she's quiet, composed, and probably very depressed by the emptiness of her existence up to that point, so it's understandable that she's less lively than the ''ghosts'' who show up.
* Latooni Subota from ''SuperRobotWars: Original Generation'' starts out like this due to her BreakTheCutie past.
** ''Alpha 3'' feature male variant as Ace Gozzo whose consider himself as machine. When he's dying and taunt if he finally feel anything? Ace ask back why he has to feel anything? He fail his purpose and his life function going to cease soon, nothing wrong with that.
* Pandora from ''MegaManZX'': She's in every way opposite to her berserker comrade, Prometheus.
* Marisa from ''FireEmblem: The Sacred Stones'' is an emotionally repressed version. She at first seems to be a stoic, emotionless BloodKnight. Turns out she just doesn't know how to act around people. She opens up to whoever you pair her off with in [[RelationshipValues support conversations]].
** Sue of ''FireEmblem: The Binding Blade'' also fits the trope perfectly. Seeing as she's the daughter of TheStoic nomad Rath from ''FireEmblem'', this should come as no surprise.
** And it's not only Sue there. [[spoiler: Idoun the Dark Dragon]] and Thite the Pegasus Knight also count. The first simply doesn't know what emotions are like, the second is the emotionally repressed type with some dashes of DefrostingIceQueen.
** Don't forget Limstella, the DarkActionGirl from ''FireEmblem''. [[spoiler: Though to be fair, she can also be seen as a sort-of RobotGirl, since she's one of the morphs created by Nergal.]]
*** Sonia of the same series could be seen as a subversion, instead being an [[spoiler:"emotionless" doll who believes herself to be a perfect human. Limstella puts and end to such illusions, however.]]
*In ''{{Grandia}} II'', Tio is an Automata, a humanoid robot built to fight in ancient wars. After the group defeats her and removes the claws of Valmar (read: Devil), Mareg takes the emotionless machine under his wing, believing that she does in fact have emotions. In the end it turns out he was right, but she only really starts to display these [[spoiler:after Mareg dies saving the group ]].
* Hisui from ''{{Tsukihime}}'' seems to follow this trope at first, though it becomes apparent fairly quickly that she just suppresses her emotions very well. [[spoiler:The real emotionless girl is actually the [[{{Stepford Smiler}} ever-smiling Kohaku]]]].
* Shanoa in ''{{Castlevania}}: Order of Ecclesia''. Justified in that her emotions (and memories) were blown away at the beginning of the game. In fact, when told by a villager that she should smile more often...
--> '''Shanoa:''' "I do not smile."
* Somewhere in between this and a fully fledged RobotGirl is Aki Zeta-Five, leader of the Cybernetic Consciousness in the expansion pack to ''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'', who would pretty much count as a [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Nagato]] {{expy}} if the game wasn't 8 years older. She's fully human, but possessed by an artificial intelligence like the rest of her faction.
* Princess Katrina of ''[[WildArmsXF Wild ARMs XF]]''. Although she's said to only not understand the concept of fear, she doesn't seem to feel much in the way of anything else, either.
*Vasilios Cosmos(A guy) of SpaceColony, withdrawn and doen't consider himself human.

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* Antimony from ''GunnerkriggCourt'' is both [[TheStoic stoic]] due to [[ParentalAbandonment a recent tragedy]] and unflappable in the face of weirdness due to [[RaisedByWolves a very unusual childhood]]. [[spoiler:She soon begins opening up to her best friend, but her calm demeanor shows no sign of abating.]]
**Recent events suggest that the appearance of emotions on Antimony's face is directly related to her friendship with [[GadgeteerGenius Kat]]. [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=460 Because she gets ''really creepy'' when Kat is in trouble.]]
**Then there's Jones, who is even more of a blank slate. Whether she's [[{{exposition}} expositing]], flirting, [[TricksterMentor intentionally ticking her student off]], or even affirming that something was "hilarious", her expression ''does not change''. Antimony herself has speculated that Jones might be a robot masquerading as a human.
* For an example of an EmotionlessGirl who ''doesn't'' overlap with the ShrinkingViolet in romantic situations, see the [[http://www.tsunamichannel.com/archive.php?comic=LovSit 'Su Cool' LovSit story]] from the TsunamiChannel. Saki dearly loves the protagonist, but doesn't see why being embarrassed about it - or indeed, why calmly confessing in the middle of the classroom when everyone is having lunch - is likely to give Kei a heart attack.
* Sara Amraphel from ErrantStory, often lampshaded.
** And made disturbing in a recent sequence where for the purposes of subterfuge, she assumes an appearance and attitude that are very OOC.
* Ditto for Wanda Firebaugh from ''{{Erfworld}}'', who also [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0023.html lampshades]] her status.
-->'''Wanda''': "I ''don't'' laugh."

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* Raven from ''TeenTitans'' (emotionally repressed out of necessity more than choice). She becomes more and more open as the series progresses.
** Though Raven can actually be ''intensely'' emotional- you do ''not'' want to see her angry. She needs to stay repressed in order to avoid losing control of her powers and/or unleashing her SuperpoweredEvilSide.
* [[http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep23/ep23-187.png Mai]] from ''AvatarTheLastAirbender,'' who finds everything in life [[EmoTeen boring and "unbearably bleak"]]... everything except [[MinionShipping Prince Zuko]].
* Mandy in ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' seems to have only three major emotions: indifference, disgust, and anger. She's only smiled twice in the entire series: in "A Dumb Wish", she gave a sinister smirk after accidentally wishing everyone on the planet would "go away", and in "My Fair Mandy", her attempt at a ''cheerful'' smile ended up destroying the universe.
** Giving a look of genuine sadness is even rarer; she's only done it once.
** But what about the pilot? She smiles there too.

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* Pathologist Madeline Frost in [[http://www.shadowunit.org Shadow Unit]] is the adult version of this trope; no one knows if she's autistic, sociopathic, deeply PTSD, or what, but the hospital where she works has a standing rule about letting her talk to actual living people. (Another character calls her "Cthulhu's Dream Date.")

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