History Main / ThousandYardStare

* In particular, ChrisBenoit was described as having this for much of the last year of his life.

See also HeroicBSOD, for what usually goes hand-in-hand with this. Not related to the '[[FlashbackBackBack Thousand Yard Stare of Impending Flashbacks]]', an affliction near universally shared by the characters of {{Lost}}.

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* In ''{{Naruto}}'' victims of the [[ColdBloodedTorture Tsukkuyomi]] generally end up like this.

"Thousand-yard-stare" is believed to have originated in WorldWarOne, and was coined for the faces of battle-weary soldiers. Named for the perception that such stares really do seem to be able to see very far ahead.

* ''KarakuridoujiUltimo'': This is Yamato's reaction to the painting Rune made of him in Chapter 21.

* In an episode of ''SpongebobSquarepants'' the eponymous sponge blanks out after receiving an improbable order. Mr. Krabs explains it as the thousand yard stare to Squidward, that he had seen it during the war.

* RurouniKenshin starts doing this when his angst level picks up late in the manga, though his first uses are after taking absurdly heavy damage in the Shishio arc. Maxes out during his especially persistent HeroicBSOD and TenMinuteRetirement to the slum of despair. Scares the hell out of everyone in its first major appearance right after Enishi formally declares his Jinchuu. A less pitiful-looking version was also employed back when he was Hitokiri Battousai, aka Teenage Kenshin, and attempting to put off his moral crisis and shellshock for as long as possible so as to fulfill his duty.

* RurouniKenshin starts doing this when his angst level picks up late in the manga, though his first uses are after taking absurdly heavy damage in the Shishio arc. Maxes out during his especially persistent HeroicBSOD and TenMinuteRetirement to the slum of despair. Scares the hell out of everyone in its first major appearance right after Enishi formally declares his Jinchuu. A less pitiful-looking version was also employed back when he was Hitokiri Battousai, aka Teenage Kenshin.

See also HeroicBSOD, for what usually goes hand-in-hand with this. Not related to the '[[FlashbackEffects Thousand Yard Stare of Impending Flashbacks]]', an affliction near universally shared by the characters of {{Lost}}.

See also HeroicBSOD, for what usually goes hand-in-hand with this. Not related to the 'Thousand Yard Stare of Impending Flashbacks', an affliction near universally shared by the characters of {{Lost}}.

A character who has just gone through some sort of trauma, learned something they probably didn't need to know, or seen something they really shouldn't have had to, will often have an unfocused, vacant stare into a vast abyss of nothingness, slipping into a [[ShellShockedVeteran shock and weariness]] from which it is very hard to shake.

A character who has just gone through some sort of trauma, learned something they probably didn't need to know, or seen something they really shouldn't have had to, will often have an unfocused, vacant stare into a vast abyss of nothingness, slipping into a [[ShellShockedSenior shock and weariness]] from which it is very hard to shake.