History Main / SuppressedRage

* A ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode featured two of these, when a DaddysLittleVillain blackmailed Robin into taking her on a date. Robin's face is frozen in a twitching manic grin, while Starfire occasionally bursts into flame or has her mouth melt away and her head turn into a nightmarish VenusFlyTrap-esque maw.

This may be because the person annoying them is their boss, or if they are trying to appear professional in, say, a law court to avoid CourtroomAntics. Alternately, our hero could be taunted by a villain who would gain from his anger, such as a certain Mr. [[Film/StarWars Palpatine]]

* The protagonist of ''Anime/AggressiveRetsuko'' is a cute OfficeLady who secretly sings DeathMetal to deal with her rage at her annoying coworkers and [[BadBoss Bad Bosses]] and anything else that upsets her.

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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Throughout the episode "Ted," Joyce ends up in a relationship with the eponymous Ted, who acts like a nice guy in front of Joyce and Buffy's friends, but is an ass to Buffy herself and threatens her when they're not around. Even before this, Buffy takes an instant dislike to him and spends her time [[PercussiveTherapy taking her anger out on vampires]]. When Ted reads her diary and slaps her, Buffy unleashes all of that suppressed rage, happy that Ted [[GiveMeAReason finally gave her an excuse to hit him]].

* A long-term one early in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Roy and Elan are fighting Thog and Nale (Elan's EvilTwin) respectively, before Nale ends up switching targets and sending Thog after Elan. Roy points out this was not a good move: Roy now has to kill someone who looks ''exactly'' like the insufferably ChaoticStupid Elan. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0064.html Cue Nale running like hell, with Roy in hot pursuit with a very big sword and an even bigger grin.]]

** The abrupt and rude manner in which Loras storms away from the wedding feast in "Second Sons" is merely the tip of the iceberg in terms of the true depths of his anger over his current situation ([[spoiler:i.e. his forced betrothal to Queen Cersei, his inability to mourn for his lover Renly Baratheon in public,]] etc.).

* A long-term one early in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Roy and Elan are fighting Thog and Nale (Elan's EvilTwin) respectively, before Nale ends up switching targets and sending Thog after Elan. Roy points out this what not a good move: Roy now has to kill someone who looks ''exactly'' like the insufferably ChaoticStupid Elan. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0064.html Cue Nale running like hell, with Roy in hot pursuit with a very big sword and an even bigger grin.]]

* A long-term one early in ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick'': Roy and Elan are fighting Thog and Nale (Elan's EvilTwin) respectively, before Nale ends up switching targets and sending Thog after Elan. Roy points out this what not a good move: Roy now has to kill someone who looks ''exactly'' like the insufferably ChaoticStupid Elan. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0064.html Cue Nale running like hell, with Roy in hot pursuit with a very big sword and an even bigger grin.]]

-->-- '''Missy''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Doctor Falls"

!!Examples

[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]

* You wouldn't recognize the homonculus Wrath in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' by any open displays of anger. Instead, he keeps his fury tightly controlled. [[spoiler:This is what enables him to blend in as the BunnyEarsLawyer, Fuhrer King Bradley. When his hands shook at Hughes' funeral, it wasn't with sympathy but ''rage'' that Hughes' young daughter was being "noisy" while crying.]]

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--> Your [[TwitchyEye eye twitches]] like that when you're happy, right?

[[folder: Film ]]

* ''Film/MySuperExGirlfriend'': When Matt first mentions "needing space", his girlfriend's OK with it... until he mentions dating other people, when she slams the knife she is chopping carrots with into the board.

* ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'': PlayedForDrama. Franchise/{{Batman}} harbors resentment and cynicism after 20+ years of fighting criminals and having nothing to show for it. Some characters even comment on the fact Batman is more violent than usual and his conflict with Franchise/{{Superman}} only makes it worse, something Lex [[ExploitedTrope exploits]] to his advantage. For all his talk about saving the world from a potential dictator, it's clear Batman just sees Superman as a convenient target for his own shortcomings.

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

** Ser Loras Tyrell's body language cannot disguise the utter disgust and frustration that he feels at having to bend the knee to King Joffrey in "Valar Morghulis."

* The Australian comedy series ''Full Frontal'', in a spoof of a popular cooking show, had the female host mutilating various phallic-shaped vegetables while ranting about her cheating husband.

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. The Twelfth Doctor has a lot of this, either due to all the trauma he's been through or because he's Scottish. On one occasion he uses his psychic paper for phony ID as usual...
-->'''Chang:''' Another government inspection? So soon? Why is there all this swearing?
-->'''The Doctor:''' Oh, I've got a lot of internalised anger.
* During one episode of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', Malcolm swallows so much criticism and frustration at being SurroundedByIdiots that he starts coughing up blood and forms an ulcer in his intestinal tract. After being hospitalized for the ulcer, he resumes ranting about everything around him.

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* In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt,'' Antimony did this the first time she heard [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=106 a disparaging remark]] about her father (it's a [[BerserkButton very]] sore spot for her) from his ex-friend and ex-rival. A little girl perfectly controlled her fury and instantly devised a pretty awesome comeback. Her mother [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=110 is said to be like this too]]. When Annie failed to rein in her fiery nature, it was not so well. She wildly overreacted, snapped at her friends and felt bad later.

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer Simpson pulled a funny one once. Bart was stuck across the country after renting a car without permission and Lisa had to tell Homer, but first she makes him promise not to get mad. After she explains, Homer manages to say "My, that is quite a pickle" calmly, as a LuminescentBlush formed on his face... until he excuses himself, puts on the mask of his hazmat suit, and starts ranting and raving incoherently until the mask is all fogged up. Then, when he's finished he says ([[TranquilFury completely deadpan]]);
-->'''Homer:''' Okay, I've thought this through. I will send Bart the money to fly home. Then I will murder him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'': The Superman Expy is frequently angry with The Tick while in his Clark Kentish disguise, constantly quietly crushing typewriters in annoyance.

* This is eventually revealed to be the ''real'' reason for the plot of ''Film/AngerManagement'' - the main character represses his anger so often that his loved ones worry that one day [[RageBreakingPoint he'll snap]] and do something ''really'' awful.

-->'''Homer:''' Okay, I've thought this through. I will send Bart the money to fly home. Then I will ''murder him''.

* This is how Match the Gourmet Yakuza from ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' fuels his Iaido attacks: he slowly "charges" his attack by suppressing all his feelings and his rage and then, when he's ready, he unleashes all that rage in an istant along with his sword.

--> Your eye twitches like that when you're happy, right?

* The ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' film:
--> '''Greg''': *writing in the diary* So what if Rowley has a new friend, it's not like I can't make new friends, as if I even ca-*his pencil breaks*.

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. The Twelfth Doctor has a lot of this, either due to the trauma he's been through or because he's Scottish. On one occasion he uses his psychic paper for phony ID as usual, only it has a lot of swearing.