History ShrinkingViolet / Film

* In the Disney adaption of ''Disney/AliceInWonderland'', when Alice stumbles on to a talking garden, they promised her that they would sing a song to her. All the flowers wanted to sing about themselves. The violets wanted to sing about themselves, and when they brought up the suggestion, they were quiet and they slowly backed up in the shade below the other flowers.

* The title character of ''Literature/TrainMan2004'' is a rare male example. He's a cripplingly shy Otaku who's perfectly content with living in his own little world and only talking to people online. That is until he meets a kind and beautiful girl who's actually...*gasp* [[NerdsAreSexy interested in him!]] [[ThePowerOfFriendship With encouragement and advice from the members of his online community]], he pursues her and finally learns to open up a little.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'': Sunset Shimmer's normally brash, confident, and collected, but she was certainly this in Rainbow Rocks; the events of the first film destroyed her worldview, and left the whole school still hating her but no longer afraid of her. As a result she has no friends (or that we see, a social life at all) outside the Humane Five, is uncomfortable being the center of attention, and watches the Rainbooms fall apart without interjecting because she feels it isn't her place to get involved. It's telling that when she shrinks down, she gets slightly knock-kneed and starts rubbing her arm, just like Fluttershy in the last film. [[spoiler: Her CharacterDevelopment has her reverse her descent and get over her fears, stepping into the spotlight in a more positive way than before.]]

* 5, from ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'' is yet another male example (despite being a ragdoll, yes, he is male). Shy, skittish, hardly ever makes eye contact with those "above" him...The fact that he's also TheWoobie help this.

* Need Shrinking Violet personified? Well, look no further than the [[MeaningfulName appropriately-named]] Violet Parr from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', pictured above. Not only is she incredibly shy, but she also has the hair, the mumbles, and a desire to [[IJustWantToBeNormal be just another girl]], and she can't even look the school heartthrob, Tony Rydiger, in the eye. Her family are superheroes in hiding, and her powers are invisibility and forcefields--WordOfGod is that these are symbolic of her personality, respectively being her wish to hide from everyone else and her need for insulation from the rest of the world. Needless to say, she embraces her abnormalities, gets an AdrenalineMakeover, and puts her hair back in the process of helping her family save the world.
** And to top it all off, by the end of the movie, it's ''Tony'' who can't look ''Violet'' in the eye, instead of the reverse. [[{{Irony}} Think about it.]]
* In another Pixar film, ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', this is played with by Fear: despite being male (albeit representing the emotions of a girl) and a bit more outspoken in showing how he's afraid, he's still repressedly temerous, and his skin is purple.
* Prince Albert (later, King George VI) of ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' has a painful stammer, which has left him deathly afraid of public speaking and large crowds in general. The crux of the film features him attempting to rectify this in the face of the looming threat of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

* In ''Film/{{Suffragette}}'' Maud starts out as this. Ironically, her co-worker who is actually named Violet is much more outspoken, and invites Maud to a suffragist meeting. It is Violet who was to read a testimony of her experiences in the laundry where they both work, but [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Violet's husband beats her up]] so that it is decided she cannot speak in front of MPs ([[TheDeterminator Violet would]], but others think she won't be taken seriously with a black eye and all that), and Maud is persuaded to take her place. After that, Maud is still hesitant, but after the police arrests her for the first time, there's no turning back, and Maud embraces her new role as freedom fighter. Her boss at the laundry is very surprised when she pushes a hot iron on his hand after he taunts her, again, with the fact that he [[spoiler: rapes the underage laundresses with impunity, something he also did to Maud when she was younger]].

* The title character of ''[[Franchise/TrainMan Densha Otoko]]'' is a rare male example. He's a cripplingly shy Otaku who's perfectly content with living in his own little world and only talking to people online. That is until he meets a kind and beautiful girl who's actually...*gasp* [[NerdsAreSexy interested in him!]] [[ThePowerOfFriendship With encouragement and advice from the members of his online community]], he pursues her and finally learns to open up a little.

* Cadet Hooks from the first ''PoliceAcademy'' movie spends almost the entire film unable to look other characters in the eye and barely speaking above a quiet whisper, until very near the end when arresting a suspect when she screams "DON'T MOVE, DIRTBAG!". She continues to do that in every other ''PoliceAcademy'' movie she's in. (Really, if someone that quiet started yelling like that and had a gun, wouldn't you feel like doing what they said?)

* Todd from ''DeadPoetsSociety'' starts out so shy he can barely speak in front of others. He later gains confidence thanks to Neil and Keating.

* Need Shrinking Violet personified? Well, look no further than the [[MeaningfulName appropriately-named]] Violet Parr from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. Not only is she incredibly shy, but she also has the hair, the mumbles, and a desire to [[IJustWantToBeNormal be just another girl]], and she can't even look the school heartthrob, Tony Rydiger, in the eye. Her family are superheroes in hiding, and her powers are invisibility and forcefields--WordOfGod is that these are symbolic of her personality, respectively being her wish to hide from everyone else and her need for insulation from the rest of the world. Needless to say, she embraces her abnormalities, gets an AdrenalineMakeover, and puts her hair back in the process of helping her family save the world.

* Prince Albert (later, King George VI) of ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' has a painful stammer, which has left him deathly afraid of public speaking and large crowds in general. The crux of the film features him attempting to rectify this in the face of the looming threat of WorldWarII.

* Need Shrinking Violet personified? Well, look no further than the [[MeaningfulName appropriately-named]] Violet Parr from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', who illustrates the main page. Not only is she incredibly shy, but she also has the hair, the mumbles, and a desire to [[IJustWantToBeNormal be just another girl]], and she can't even look the school heartthrob, Tony Rydiger, in the eye. Her family are superheroes in hiding, and her powers are invisibility and forcefields--WordOfGod is that these are symbolic of her personality, respectively being her wish to hide from everyone else and her need for insulation from the rest of the world. Needless to say, she embraces her abnormalities, gets an AdrenalineMakeover, and puts her hair back in the process of helping her family save the world.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'': Not quite on Fluttershy levels, but the human Twilight is quite timid. Even when the rest of the students of Crystal Prep are cheering, she's timidly off to the side, looking away.

* Need Shrinking Violet personified? Well, look no further than the [[MeaningfulName appropriately-named]] Violet Parr from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', who illustrates the main page. Not only is she incredibly shy, but she also has the hair, the mumble, and a desire to [[IJustWantToBeNormal be just another girl]], and she can't even look the school heartthrob, Tony Rydiger, in the eye. Her family are superheroes in hiding, and her powers are invisibility and forcefields--WordOfGod is that these are symbolic of her personality, respectively being her wish to hide from everyone else and her need for insulation from the rest of the world. Needless to say, she embraces her abnormalities, gets an AdrenalineMakeover, and puts her hair back in the process of helping her family save the world.

* The protagonist in the movie Coyote Ugly is one of these. As a bonus, her name is actually Violet.

* Need Shrinking Violet personified? Well, look no further than the [[MeaningfulName appropriately-named]] Violet Parr from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. Not only is she incredibly shy, but she also has the hair, the mumble, and a desire to [[IJustWantToBeNormal be just another girl]], and she can't even look the school heartthrob, Tony Rydiger, in the eye. Her family are superheroes in hiding, and her powers are invisibility and forcefields--WordOfGod is that these are symbolic of her personality, respectively being her wish to hide from everyone else and her need for insulation from the rest of the world. Needless to say, she embraces her abnormalities, gets an AdrenalineMakeover, and puts her hair back in the process of helping her family save the world.

* The title character of Creator/StephenKing's ''{{Carrie}}'' starts out as a normal Shrinking Violet and is pushed over the edge into [[BewareTheNiceOnes supernaturally psycho territory]] by a malicious prank pulled by the popular girls.

* MishimaALifeInFourChapters: Both Kimitake and Mizoguchi have stammers and are painfully shy and awkward. By the time they get over it real and fictional Japan are in for a shock or two.

* Mui, the female lead of ''ShaolinSoccer''. Hair in the face, mumbling, acne, withdrawn, eventually pulling out of life in public to become a nun. Until the final showdown.
* Need Shrinking Violet personified? Well, look no further than the [[MeaningfulName appropriately-named]] Violet Parr from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. Not only is she [[IncrediblyLamePun incredibly]] shy, but she also has the hair, the mumble, and a desire to [[IJustWantToBeNormal be just another girl]], and she can't even look the school heartthrob, Tony Rydiger, in the eye. Her family are superheroes in hiding, and her powers are invisibility and forcefields--WordOfGod is that these are symbolic of her personality, respectively being her wish to hide from everyone else and her need for insulation from the rest of the world. Needless to say, she embraces her abnormalities, gets an AdrenalineMakeover, and puts her hair back in the process of helping her family save the world.

* Prince Albert (later, King George VI) of ''TheKingsSpeech'' has a painful stammer, which has left him deathly afraid of public speaking and large crowds in general. The crux of the film features him attempting to rectify this in the face of the looming threat of WorldWarII.

* PJ from ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' is a rare male variation: He's way too shy to make friends with anyone [[HeterosexualLifePartners other than Max]] (who opened up to him first), and Bobby (who seemed to meet him ''through'' Max). He's highly timid around everyone else, including (or perhaps especially) his own father. When he got a crush on a girl in his class they were TwiceShy. This is played entirely sympathetically, and often seems to be [[IntendedAudienceReaction trying]] to [[TheWoobie make him pathetic enough]] that the audience doesn't think of [[AbusiveParents Pete]] as a DesignatedMonkey. In the second movie, he gets a LoveInterest... because ''she'' asks ''him'' out. Then [[CharacterDevelopment this trope disappears.]]

* Princess Aurora/Briar Rose of ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'' stutters and can hardly get out a word when a stranger stumbles across her singing.

* ''Film/{{Amelie}}'': Amelie and [[BirdsOfAFeather Nino, the fragile guy she meets.]] They're both shy, quiet, and friendy but have a hard time making friends.
* The title character of ''Film/{{May}}'' is a similar example, minus the telekinesis. Poor May's only comfortable social interactions are with the doll she calls her best friend. She's so shy that she can barely talk in the presence of other people at all, even when they're clearly interested in getting to know her. Although once she's decided to kill them all, she becomes much more confident.
** Funnily enough the actress that portrays May (Creator/AngelaBettis) also played Carrie in the [=NBC TV=] remake in 2002.

* Cadet Hooks from the first ''PoliceAcademy'' movie spends almost the entire film unable to look other characters in the eye and barely speaking above a quiet whisper, until very near the end when arresting a suspect when she screams "DON'T MOVE, DIRTBAG!". She continues to do that in every other ''PoliceAcademy'' movie she's in. (Really, if someone that quiet started yelling like that and had a gun, wouldn't you feel like doing what they said?)
* Need Shrinking Violet personified? Well, look no further than the [[MeaningfulName appropriately-named]] Violet Parr from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. Not only is she [[IncrediblyLamePun incredibly]] shy, but she also has the hair, the mumble, and a desire to [[IJustWantToBeNormal be just another girl]], and she can't even look the school heartthrob, Tony Rydiger, in the eye. Her family are superheroes in hiding, and her powers are invisibility and forcefields--WordOfGod is that these are symbolic of her personality, respectively being her wish to hide from everyone else and her need for insulation from the rest of the world. Needless to say, she embraces her abnormalities, gets an AdrenalineMakeover, and puts her hair back in the process of helping her family save the world.
** And to top it all off, by the end of the movie, it's ''Tony'' who can't look ''Violet'' in the eye, instead of the reverse. [[{{Irony}} Think about it.]]
** She also discovers the ability to levitate in the center of her force field when forced to save her brother. Both seem equally surprised.
* Prince Albert (later, King George VI) of ''TheKingsSpeech'' has a painful stammer, which has left him deathly afraid of public speaking and large crowds in general. The crux of the film features him attempting to rectify this in the face of the looming threat of WorldWarII.
* Mui, the female lead of ''ShaolinSoccer''. Hair in the face, mumbling, acne, withdrawn, eventually pulling out of life in public to become a nun. Until the final showdown.

* Barry from ''Film/PunchDrunkLove'' is another male example, though he deals with his shyness and frustration through aggressiveness.
* 5, from ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'' is yet another male example (despite being a ragdoll, yes, he is male). Shy, skittish, hardly ever makes eye contact with those "above" him...The fact that he's also TheWoobie help this.

* Todd from ''DeadPoetsSociety'' starts out so shy he can barely speak in front of others. He later gains confidence thanks to Neil and Keating.
* PJ from ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' is a rare male variation: He's way too shy to make friends with anyone [[HeterosexualLifePartners other than Max]] (who opened up to him first), and Bobby (who seemed to meet him ''through'' Max). He's highly timid around everyone else, including (or perhaps especially) his own father. When he got a crush on a girl in his class they were TwiceShy. This is played entirely sympathetically, and often seems to be [[IntendedAudienceReaction trying]] to [[TheWoobie make him pathetic enough]] that the audience doesn't think of [[AbusiveParents Pete]] as a DesignatedMonkey. In the second movie, he gets a LoveInterest... because ''she'' asks ''him'' out. Then [[CharacterDevelopment this trope disappears.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'': While not portrayed as a ButtMonkey, Sherman (another male example) definitively has some traits of this, being {{socially-awkward|hero}} to the point of biting Penny as his only escape to her abuse. However, he eventually gets somewhat out of his shell and even gets a LoveInterest.

* Barry from ''PunchDrunkLove'' is another male example, though he deals with his shyness and frustration through aggressiveness.

* The title character of ''{{May}}'' is a similar example, minus the telekinesis. Poor May's only comfortable social interactions are with the doll she calls her best friend. She's so shy that she can barely talk in the presence of other people at all, even when they're clearly interested in getting to know her. Although once she's decided to kill them all, she becomes much more confident.

* ''Film/{{Amelie}}'': Amelie and [[BirdsOfAFeather Nino, the fragile guy she meets.]]

* ''Film/{{Amelie}}'': Amelie and [[BirdsOfAFeather the fragile guy she meets.]]

* ''Film/{{Amelie}}: Amelie and [[BirdsOfAFeather the fragile guy she meets.]]

* [[MeaningfulName Violet]] Parr from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''.

* The title character of ''DenshaOtoko'' is a rare male example. He's a cripplingly shy Otaku who's perfectly content with living in his own little world and only talking to people online. That is until he meets a kind and beautiful girl who's actually...*gasp* [[NerdsAreSexy interested in him!]] [[ThePowerOfFriendship With encouragement and advice from the members of his online community]], he pursues her and finally learns to open up a little.

** Funnily enough the actress that portrays May (AngelaBettis) also played Carrie in the [=NBC TV=] remake in 2002.