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17->''"... but this man, at the centre of everything, stoic in the face of chaos... he's the funniest man in the world!"''
18-->-- '''Creator/CharlieChaplin''', ''Series/MurdochMysteries'', "Murdoch and the Tramp"
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20Just because [[NoSenseOfHumor a character's as jolly as a sloth with major depression]] doesn't mean they can't be funny. A Comically Serious character's lack of reaction to [[WeirdnessMagnet embarrassing, undignified, or just plain bizarre situations]] can subvert our expectations of embarrassment, hysteria, or insanity and make for comedy gold. When they're not serving as the 'straight man' for all the wacky hijinks the universe throws their way, the character is likely to be a DeadpanSnarker, TheStoic, TheKilljoy, or TheQuietOne. Expect them to be a PerpetualFrowner.
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22The Comically Serious frequently overlaps with the StraightMan. Both maintain a serious manner, with the difference being the former tells their own punchlines while the latter helps to set up other characters' punchlines. They may also serve as an OnlySaneMan, and oftentimes become the victim of NotSoAboveItAll, especially if they have a [[RuleOfFunny quirky]] [[FearOfThunder Achilles']] [[CutenessProximity Heel]].
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24Comically Serious characters often turn up in {{Brit Com}}s.
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26Bizarrely enough, has a very similar comedic style to the certain kinds of {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, in that the [=Cloudcuckoolander=]'s comedy often comes from serious reactions to their own oddities, while The Comically Serious's comes from serious reactions to other peoples' oddities. Might also be the ButtMonkey in settings where being serious is seen as an offense.
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28A SubTrope of {{Bathos}}. A SisterTrope to SeriousBusiness, ComicalOverreacting.
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30Compare NoSenseOfHumor; SoUnfunnyItsFunny; {{Narm}}; StraightManAndWiseGuy. Contrast LaughablyEvil; DudeNotFunny.
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34[[index]]
35* TheComicallySerious/AnimeAndManga
36* [[TheComicallySerious/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
37* TheComicallySerious/LiveActionTV
38* TheComicallySerious/VideoGames
39* TheComicallySerious/WesternAnimation
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42!!Other Examples:
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46[[folder:Advertising]]
47* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0_cHCHruUg A TV commercial for the Navy Federal Credit Union]] currently making the rounds features a {{deadpan|Snarker}} [[SemperFi Marine]] who used to train IED-sniffing dogs sitting in a pickup with his wife's Pomeranian, who he "just adores." It's the way he says it without showing any emotion that both qualifies the ad for this trope and sells the moment.
48* [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader and two Stormtroopers]] celebrate the renovation of Ride/DisneyThemeParks' Star Tours with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4_dZPVg8KI a trip to Disneyland.]]
49* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZeCRexqvrM This absolutely bizarre set of ads for GMarket]] in Korea, featuring [[Music/SuperJunior Kim Heechul]] and [[Music/{{AOA}} Kim Seolhyun]] doing goofy dances and whisper-rapping random household items while completely stone-faced serious.
50* Sprint created a [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlpOblPqm51tfFZB5ACDXlhTXcpuMMOiP series of ads]] featuring Creator/MalcolmMcDowell and Creator/JamesEarlJones, in tuxedos, facing each other across a stage and giving dramatic recitations of mundane text-message, Facebook and phone exchanges.
51* MMA fighter Georges St-Pierre appeared in a commercial for an energy drink, in which the director explains all kinds of over the top things he wants to happen in order to demonstrate all the energy. In the end, GSP just stands there with a bottle, staring expressionlessly into the camera and goes:
52-->"NOS Active helps give you energy. It comes in true refreshing flavours. Buy it. With your money."
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56* ''Animation/InvestigationHeldByKolobki'' features Chief, who keeps his cool even as an orangutan attempts to use him as a basketball or he reads a case file of a rare striped elephant that loves fish oil.
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60* Creator/StevenWright's on-stage persona is a perfect example of this trope. The jokes themselves are mildly-amusing puns ("I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone."), but Wright's dead-pan delivery makes them even funnier.
61* Creator/RowanAtkinson is well known for this when he isn't busy being comically way over the top instead. He seems to pull either one off with equal levels of comfort. His old 'Schoolmaster' sketch consists of him standing alone on stage and reading out a list of silly/naughty names such as Assbandit, Myprick, and Mr. Great-Big-Hard-Cock, all whilst maintaining a schoolmasterly air of discipline. The absurdity of the names combined with the character's deadpan delivery and utter contempt for any silliness results in comedy gold.
62%%* Reginald D. Hunter is a master of this as well.
63* The stereotype of the [[GermanicDepressives Germans]] being what it is, this seems a rather inevitable result. There was even a worldwide poll that ranked Germany as the least funny country, which ''Creator/StephenColbert'' contested because they have a breakfast cheese called "Oberammergaueralpenkräuterdelikatessenfrühstückskäse."
64-->'''Colbert:''' The funny thing is, is by the time you're finished saying it they've [[ThoseWackyNazis invaded your country]]!
65* One (non-German) comedian had a bit he used to do in the 1980s at the Just For Laughs comedy festival where he pretended to be a German comedian, complete with accent, and played this for all it was worth.
66--> "Some people say that the German people are too obsessed with order and rules to make comedians. This is completely untrue, as I will show tonight. So, joke number one: take my wife, I command you." ''(audience immediately loses it)''
67* Most satirists tend to be this way. They would say something that would be really outrageous and silly while keeping a straight face about it.
68* Creator/SeanCullen does this particularly well with his songs. He uses his powerful, operatic voice, along with musical accompaniment and harmonizing from his guitarist, to sing some of the most hilariously batshit-crazy lyrics you'll ever hear. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYa_7-BeROU Here, free sample]].
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71[[folder:Comic Books]]
72* Franchise/{{Batman}} often plays the unfunny role. Anything can be made funnier by adding Batman as the straight guy. A rare exception is found in the ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'', [[spoiler:when The Joker tells him [[ActuallyPrettyFunny a joke that's so applicable to the two that it makes them both laugh]].]] More typically: In ''[[ComicBook/BatmanHush Hush]]'', when Nightwing and Batman are in the Batmobile discussing Catwoman (well, Nightwing is discussing her, Batman is glaring off into the distance ignoring him):
73-->'''Nightwing:''' If you don't want to talk with someone, why do you even have a passenger seat in the Batmobile?\
74'''Batman:''' Balance.\
75'''Nightwing:''' ...was that a joke? ...Of course not.
76* ComicBook/{{Cable}} to ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'s antics.
77* Previously, ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} would fulfill this role. As pointed out before by a few fans, personality wise, he's not unlike Batman, meaning that any situation from his perspective could become funnier, or more awesome. He once had a oneshot story a while back, that involved him fighting evil circus folk while stealing a man's bike and leaving an apologetic note afterwards. A lot of humour was derived from the situation he was in, his reaction, and the ending which turned a small number of bits into a Brick Joke. Sadly, The X-Men are being as serious as they can now, so no more comically serious adventures for Cyke.
78* ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Most of Gaston's fellow employees are serious people who just want to do their jobs. At the far end of the scale, Mr. Boulier is the dapper, persnickety accountant who resents Gaston as a massive source of unplanned expenditures.
79* Anyone who hangs around ComicBook/TheJoker for any length of time who is not named Harley Quinn and/or doesn't end up getting a whiff of laughing gas tends to become this by default. Not so much true in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}} stories, in which the [[{{Mooks}} goons]] would often laugh along with their boss, but definitely so in most stories from the 1970s onward, and ''especially'' in stories from the '90s onward. There's ''Devil's Advocate'', in which "Mister J" is tried in court for murder for the first time in his life and has his lawyer [[PsychopathicManchild sign all his legal briefs with a lavender crayon]] (which the lawyer gladly does). Especially funny in the "Death of Batman" story arc, in which the Joker shoots a SnuffFilm that's supposed to end with Batman being gunned down in a '40s-era café. Not only does an entire movie studio treat the Clown Prince like just another prima-donna filmmaker, but two stone-faced film critics who look just like Series/SiskelAndEbert stop by and [[TooDumbToLive give the Joker's film a bad review]]. [[DisproportionateRetribution He shoots them both dead]]. ("TWO THUMBS DOWN!")
80* During ComicBook/MonstersUnleashed, Karnak of ComicBook/TheInhumans saw [[spoiler: Kid Kaiju bring five made-up monsters to life and then combine with them into a huge megazord-thing]], and his only response to the sight was "The legends never spoke of this".
81* ''ComicBook/MoonKnight'': The title character is something of a CaptainErsatz of Batman, and usually takes this role when played against ComicBook/SpiderMan. Moon Knight is also insane, DependingOnTheWriter (and universe). For example, during a super-hero rooftop meeting in ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' #107:
82-->'''Spider-Man:''' Don't mind me, I'm just here for the chicken wings.\
83'''Moon Knight:''' ''[confused]'' There... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint There are no chicken wings.]]
84* ''ComicBook/PlasticMan'': In his Golden Age comics, Jack Cole was the straight man surrounded by lunatics. Back then Plastic Man was a former criminal and was guilty of some rather serious crimes.
85* Similarly, ComicBook/ThePunisher to... anyone he teams up with, really (you don't get much more serious than a man who shoots crime in the face). Deadpool is a common target, mostly because he can recover from Frank putting a bullet in his brain just to ''shut him up''.
86* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': Dream / Morpheus, either through being the straight man to the likes of Delirium or ImmortalImmaturity. When his latest affair ends badly at the beginning of "Brief Lives", he starts brooding on the balcony like a teenager -- and [[FisherKing causes downpours]] throughout the Dreaming just to complete the pose.
87* ''ComicBook/SecretSix'': Out of the lot of the villainous protagonists, the role of comically serious goes to Bane. It says something when you try to act fatherly to a grown woman by treating her like a ten year old.
88* In ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''/''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' crossover "ComicBook/FromEterniaWithDeath", Man-At-Arms is a serious, circumspect and responsible man who gets endlessly exasperated by Prince Adam's clownish antics. When Adam suggests he should have some fun, Man-At-Arms replies he likes having a little fun, but there is nothing funny whatsoever about Adam's buffonery.
89* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'':
90** The comic takes great glee in turning Ultra Magnus into an Exaggerated version of this trope. Getting him to smile is a literal life-and-death matter in one story. ([[TheUnSmile And said smile is the creepiest thing you ever saw.]]) In another he literally cannot say the word "fun". He doesn't know the word "relax", either. And it's milked for all it's worth as regards showing how much his anal nature differs from the rest of the crew and placing him in silly situations and/or paired with silly characters. Sometimes he even manages to serve as the StraightMan to other characters who are usually the Straight Men themselves.
91** Megatron is less extreme, but still fills a similar role: apart from a bit of snark every now and then, he's too naturally grim and serious to be a traditional comedic mainstay. It reaches its apex when he and Ultra Magnus, in the same scene, come to the conclusion that they aren't cut out for comedy:
92--->'''Ultra Magnus:''' When I said that, I didn't... I was attempting to make a joke.\
93'''Megatron:''' Yes, I know -- I was running with it. There's a lot of banter on this ship; I thought I was ready to take the plunge.\
94'''Ultra Magnus:''' I think we've both learned something from this.
95* ''ComicBook/UltimateGalactusTrilogy'': Carol Danvers and Hawkeye turn into this when they can't stand all the crazy stuff going on around them, as opposed to Nick Fury, who takes it all in sarcastic enthusiasm.
96-->'''Nick Fury:''' Isn't this fun?\
97'''Danvers:''' I'll be outside, shooting myself in the head, general.\
98'''Fury:''' Try not to make a mess.
99* To a lesser extent, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} tends to be this. Whenever he teams up with young girls (which happens more often than you might think, though an exception can be made for X-23 who is pretty much as hardened as he is).
100* ComicBook/{{X 23}} herself, possibly even moreso. She's TheStoic in the extreme (and her NotSoStoic moments generally involve {{Heroic BSOD}}s and bouts of suicidal depression), only rarely cracks a full smile, and has never truly been shown laughing in the ''ten years'' since she was first introduced in the books. She does have a subtle sense of humor, but generally a black one, and is a bit of a DeadpanSnarker (emphasizing the ''deadpan''). Much humor is derived from Laura's completely serious reactions to the craziness that often surrounds the X-Men. Even during a day spent playing hooky from school with her cousin Megan (involving amusement parks, a ComicBook/{{Dazzler}} concert, and being buried in a pile of puppies and kittens), Laura's face ''never changes'' from her usual neutral expression.
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104* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': In this ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' Franchise/MonsterVerse fanfiction, [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonHumans Ren Serizawa]] is this; with his stern and aloof demeanor comparative to Monarch and the Russells' grins, cheers or JawDrop when the FinalBattle is going in the heroic Titans' favor, and with his SheIsNotMyGirlfriend.
105* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3582975/1/Out-to-Lunch Out to Lunch]]'' expands on Jadis and Uncle Andrew's... travels... in London in ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew''. Jadis' egotism is in full force, and it's hilarious!
106* In ''Fanfic/AWildBadficAppearedCommentaries'', this is [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Lucina's]] gimmick; as shown below in the Video Game folder, she is like that in canon. What the others are able to laugh or [[DeadpanSnarker snark]] off, she takes deadly seriously at face value, causing her to get provoked easily.
107* Batman (of course) in ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC''. And he's occasionally the OnlySaneMan, to boot.
108* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'':
109** Lampshaded when Team Four Star did ''Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged'', which covered the entire first season in ''2 minutes''. Tien's only line in this is "I'm the only serious character in this show. That's the joke."
110** Vegeta can be this as well, when he isn't ChewingTheScenery.
111* ''Webcomic/NaruHinaChronicles'': Gaara has a pretty serious personality and speaks in a monotone way. This makes him a great candidate to make a situation funnier. Exhibit A: [[https://www.deviantart.com/mattwilson83/art/Naruto-NaruHina-CH88-PG1709-163957615 Gaara with a moustache]].
112* ''Fanfic/{{Outsiders}}'': Saito's starter, an Oshawatt named Ronin, acts as though he were an actual samurai. The other Pokémon like to poke fun at this.
113* ''WebVideo/PotterPuppetPals'': Snape, Snape, Sev-erus Snape... Everything he says is ridiculously serious, regardless of how silly it is.
114* The ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' and ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'' crossover fanfiction, ''Fanfic/TradeWinds'', is narrated by Desmond Miles, and through his flippant narration, William Laurence's constant grave seriousness in the midst of all of the ridiculousness Desmond brings with him ends up taking on a rather amusing bend.
115* Felix in ''Fanfic/SpellboundLilafly'' comes with a generous helping of OnlySaneMan toward the entire (non-magical) world, but especially his much more excitable brother.
116-->'''Marinette:''' You're Adrien's brother.\
117'''Felix:''' Unfortunately, yes.\
118...\
119It is for my own wellbeing too when I say that you should give him a chance. Listening to his endless rambles of how you apparently hate him and how he can make it up to you, robs me of more sleep than I'd like to admit.\
120'''Adrien:''' Felix, you have to see this!\
121'''Felix:''' I would, if your behind wasn't blocking the entrance.
122* ''Fanfic/ArsGoetia'': [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Byleth]] is portrayed as one. She takes everything at face value and responds to others with complete and utter seriousness. In one example, when she and the house leaders fall into Yggdrasil, after hearing that Claude's butt "has a crack in it", she orders him to take off his pants to heal him.
123* Shoto Todoroki in ''Fanfic/WhenReasonFails''. Due to his use of magic, he's TheStoic and unable to fully express his feelings. His habit of making deadpan comments and [[PassThePopcorn pulling out soda cans or popcorn bags whenever something entertaining happens]] makes him one of the fanfic's most hilarious characters.
124%%* Cao Ren in ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms.''
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128* In the ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' series, Tigress struggles mightily to maintain her dignity at all times. She's the only one who takes her career as seriously as she does, probably even more than Shifu (who [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee has his own moments that he tries to hide]]). Tigress is a natural at martial arts, but is utterly clueless when it comes to humor, children, or even partying, to the point that she refuses to try any of them and gets irritated when anyone tries to goad her into it. [[{{Foil}} Po often tries]] [[WhenSheSmiles to get her to lighten up]], but getting a good smile out of her is mostly impossible, [[spoiler:at least earlier in the series, though she's still pretty reserved later on]]. She hasn't exactly had the easiest life, though, so she sort of has an excuse.
129* Parodied to heck and back in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'', especially when Batman ends up in CloudCuckooLand:
130-->'''Batman:''' ''[as a clown and a man in a dinosaur suit dance around him]'' I hate this place.
131* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart'': In one of the first scenes of the movie, Lucy watches over a destroyed Bricksburg and delivers an ominous monologue about the alien invasion... only to be interrupted by Emmet, who's still as cheerful as ever.
132* Principal Celestia shows signs of this in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks''. While everyone else (except [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Pinkie Pie and Sonata Dusk]]) is cringing at Snips and Snails' PissTakeRap, she and Vice-Principal Luna just stare with completely deadpan looks on their faces. Then, after a dreadful feedback-inducing MicDrop, Celestia flatly says "Please do not drop the microphones."
133* ''WesternAnimation/RobinRobin'': Magpie acts very dignified, but his [[ThievingMagpie obsession with little trinkets]] is comical to us human viewers. For example, Magpie thinks Robin is silly for wishing for crumbs or a sandwich, but to us, the objects he wants are just as insignificant, if not moreso.
134* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': [[Characters/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse Spider-Man Noir]]. His HardBoiledDetective characterization matched against the humor and silliness of the other Spiders and the universe the movie's mainly set in does a lot to make him very humorous.
135** ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'': [[ComicBook/Spiderman2099 Miguel O'Hara's]] grim and serious demeanor is often at odds with ocassion wackiness that happens in the Spider-Society. Peter B. Parker even says he's the one Spider-Man with NoSenseOfHumor.
136* The Penguin King from ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' is dead serious about leading his troops to victory and talks big to Bowser... even after his SnowballFight has zero effect on him and his Koopas.
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140* A lot of the fun in ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'' comes from Creator/AlexHorne, the resident ButtMonkey and BeleagueredAssistant to Creator/GregDavies. While he's not ''entirely'' stone-faced and actually does grin and laugh quite a bit during the on-stage segments, he tends to react this way during the tasks. Whatever ludicrous thing the contestant is forced to do, and their [[RulesLawyer inane interpretations of the wording of the task]], he tends to stand by and watch with scorn, bemusement, or completely expressionless, following their requests to the letter and answering their questions with [[MathematiciansAnswer matter-of-fact straightforward honesty]].
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144* Ax of ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' is an [[AlienAmongUs alien]] who doesn't quite understand human humor, but his weird mannerisms among other things make him into a very funny character.
145** Marco was convinced that the [[BigBad Yeerks]] did have a sense of humor because nobody as comically serious as them could do it unintentionally. Such gems of humor from the Yeerks include making an entrance to their secret lair under a UsefulNotes/McDonalds and then having the password be "I'd like a Happy Meal with extra happy" and having the audio for the self-destruct system announce "Base will Self-Destruct in 15 minutes. Have a nice day."
146* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
147** Most of the characters in the universe, but [[DeadpanSnarker Vetinari]] and [[DaChief Vimes]] particularly stick out.
148** Also [[NeverMessWithGranny Granny Weatherwax]]. Just look at her experience with theater in ''Literature/WyrdSisters''. To drive the home point about Granny:
149--->'''Granny Weatherwax:''' Get me an alligator sandwich... and make it quick!\
150\
151'''[[WordOfGod Terry Pratchett]]:''' Granny Weatherwax has absolutely no sense of humour but she has, as it were, heard about it. She has no grasp of how or why jokes work -- she's one of those people who say "And then what happened?" after you've told them the punchline. She can vaguely remember the one-liner "Give me an alligator sandwich -- and make it snappy!" but since she's got no idea of why it's even mildly amusing she gets confused... all that she can remember is that apparently the man wants it quickly.
152** Captain Carrot. Who will track down Death if he must, on the grounds that he's the only witness to a murder. It comes from his Dwarven upbringing (they think "irony" means "something like iron").
153** For that matter, Death himself.
154** A TakeOurWordForIt example is Bouncy Normo, mentioned in ''The Fools Guild Diary''. A man with NoSenseOfHumor whatsoever, he was, somehow, the funniest person on the Disc and never understood why. His CharacterCatchphrase was "What's everyone laughing about?" Eventually he was DrivenToSuicide, and everyone who saw him do it had to be hospitalised because they were laughing so much.
155* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Amongst the Weasley family, [[Characters/HarryPotterMinistryOfMagic Percy]] is the token ambitious and humorless child who tries to be above it all, which makes him suffering his brothers' antics all the more amusing.
156* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': Katniss Everdeen, who starts stoic and gets even worse once life mistreats her some more, and thus is forced to endure some hilarious stuff. Best example being [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/618d08d462dbd297d6f2b7c51638e59c/tumblr_mwuushzl0d1qgl39lo1_250.gif during an]] UncomfortableElevatorMoment with [[NakedPeopleAreFunny a stripping woman]].
157* The eternally unflappable [[TheJeeves Jeeves]] of ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster''. [[TheStoic His expressions and intonations never change]] as he responds rationally and politely to the ridiculous things that go on around him and the ramblings of his {{Cloudcuckoolander}} boss.
158-->'''Bertie:''' I suppose it bowled the poor blighter over absolutely?\
159'''Jeeves:''' Mr. Bickersteth appeared somewhat taken aback, sir.
160* Literature/{{Psmith}}, frequently, swinging wildly between this and ComicalOverreacting (typical example: he is [[DissonantSerenity blissfully serene]] as an AngryMob attempts to pound him into hash, but loses his cool a few seconds later at the indignity of having to make his getaway on the public transport instead of in his usual secluded cab).
161* The narrator of ''Literature/TheRemainsOfTheDay'' is a butler who's trying very hard to develop a sense of humor late in life, because he thinks his new employer would appreciate it. His SpockSpeak WallOfText musings on the subject are very funny, [[DownerEnding until they reappear in the last scene]].
162* ''Literature/TheRosieProject'' has Don Tillman, whose mental disorder (he appears to be in the autism spectrum) often results in him taking certain situations or conversations more seriously than he needs to.
163* In ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' [[TheSnarkKnight Daylen]], [[PungeonMaster Ahrek]], [[NotSoAboveItAll Lyrah]], and [[FunnyForeigner Cueseg]] all consider themselves to have [[DeadpanSnarker the best sense of humor]], but they play this role to ''each other,'' as their senses of humor are so incompatible. Whenever one is joking, the others suddenly have NoSenseOfHumor. In the few occasions when they aren't giving each other the LamePunReaction or saying DudeNotFunny, it becomes SnarkToSnarkCombat, instead.
164* ''Literature/TheSpiritThief'': Nico tries hard to invoke EmotionlessGirl, leaving her defenceless in face of Eli's jokes and the WorldOfSnark she lives in.
165* In the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series, Nicci, after her HeelFaceTurn, [[TheStoic very]] [[DeadpanSnarker much]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments so]].
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169* Steve Bender, one of the two German members of the 80's multi-national band Music/DschinghisKhan. Lampshaded in several Website/YouTube comments which mention how utterly ''serious'' he is, when compared with his more cheerful bandmates.
170* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/davidchoimusic David Choi]] is so serious a video on Website/YouTube is dedicated to making him laugh.
171* Just watch the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANazeJodro unofficial video]] for "Whipped Cream" by Music/{{Ludo}} and try to keep a straight face as long as the band does.
172* As an AprilFoolsDay joke in 2007, Music/AlanisMorissette recorded [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLBS3pz_Ez0 a sad piano ballad cover]] of "My Humps" by Music/TheBlackEyedPeas.
173* German singer Max Raabe performs even the goofiest songs with [[GermanicDepressives teutonic]] stoicism.
174* [[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=big+marvel Big Marvel]], a Korean youtuber who does covers of popular songs. He's known for having a blank, unchanging expression even as he plays pop songs on plastic toy instruments, squeaky toys, and most famously, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlGRhK-R1VM rubber chicken.]]
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178* Creator/RogerEbert always found this style of comedy better than Creator/AdamSandler style clowning. See the middle of his [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990711/REVIEWS08/907110301/1023 Great Movie review]] of ''Film/DrStrangelove'', where he says merely wearing a funny hat is not funny, but not ''knowing'' your hat is funny ''is'' funny.
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182* Madame Director Lucretia from ''Podcast/TheAdventureZone'' falls into this on a regular basis. She's the most professional and serious of all the members of the Bureau of Balance, but this isn't saying a whole lot when the organisation contains people like [[FearlessFool Magnus]], [[TheMissionary Merle]] and [[BunnyEarsLawyer Taako]]. She's perfectly willing to go along with their inanity if they keep getting results.
183* The ''Podcast/TheThrillingAdventureHour's'' Phillip Fathom, Deep Sea Detective, is an {{Expy}} of ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' Batman in the decidedly Silver Age world of "The Adventures of Captain Laserbeam." Everything he says is spoken with serious intensity and in what other cast members describe as "screaming a hoarse whisper," even when all he's doing is getting ice cream.
184-->'''Ice Cream Teddy:''' Which one of you had toasted almonds?\
185''[a ''Batman''-style {{Leitmotif}} begins to play]''\
186'''Phillip Fathom:''' ''I'M ALLERGIC TO NUTS!''\
187'''Ice Cream Teddy:''' Okay...
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191* Wrestling/{{WWE}}
192** Wrestler Wrestling/SteveBlackman often served as the Unfunny in a TagTeam with one of the federation's wackier wrestlers, including {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Wrestling/AlSnow and white-boy wannabe rapper Grandmaster Sexay.
193** "If I can be serious for a minute..." Wrestling/{{ECW}}[=/=]Wrestling/{{WCW}}[=/=]Wrestling/{{WWE}} alumnus Wrestling/LanceStorm also used a (fairly humorous) Unfunny gimmick ("Your days of unabashed hijinks are about to end."). The Wrestling/{{WWE}} [[{{Flanderisation}} Flanderised]] him into a robot-like [[TheStoic Stoic]] who would later [[BadassDecay learn how to have "fun" and dance his way down to the ring]]. It's a far cry from his Wrestling/{{WCW}} and Wrestling/{{ECW}} days, where he was both Comically Serious ''and'' badass.
194** Wrestling/{{Kane}}, who for years had been the most serious of performers, had a point for about two or three years where he could be relied on for some of the best comedy moments -- because no matter how many times he did it, you didn't ''expect'' Kane to crack jokes, except deadpan.
195*** So there's a backstage spot with Wrestling/BookerT, Wrestling/{{Goldust}} and Wrestling/{{Kane}}, with Kane ominously looming over Goldust who had just been doing a (bad) impression of him. Suddenly Bradshaw comes in and says he's going to party after his big victory just now by going to see some [[GirlOnGirlIsHot hot lesbian action]], and asks who wants to come along. ''Kane is the only one who raises his hand''. The inversion of OOCIsSeriousBusiness only made his normally stoic persona all the better suited for the role.
196*** The promo with Wrestling/HulkHogan and [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson the Rock]].
197*** Kane on an August 2012 edition of Raw was being forced to attend anger management classes: when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsSkEWHVSug#t=3m50s asked to describe some of the issues that made him angry]], Kane, in a completely deadpan voice, described his ridiculous backstory and the most ridiculous plotlines he's been in ("I had a girlfriend named Katie Vick. That didn't end well.") which made his segment utterly hysterical compared to the more obviously comic [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] part of the sketch.
198*** The fact that it was riffing on [[Film/AustinPowers Dr. Evil's]] Parent-child counseling likely helped.
199* Wrestling/SaraDelRey was the so unfunny she was the funny opponent to the much more experienced Wrestling/ManamiToyota, who toyed with her, the super hero Leva Bates, the HardDrinkingPartyGirl ODB and the [[SmallNameBigEgo nowhere near as big and strong as they thought they were]] Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew among others. She was the serious minded tag team partner to hyper active Courtney Rush, [[ChewingTheScenery arena devouring]] Wrestling/ChrisHero and BigFun Bobby Dempsey, among others. A more experienced Del Rey would later have the opportunity for revenge against Toyota in Wrestling/MikeQuackenbush's Fun Filled Lucha Show, Wrestling/{{Chikara}}, where she yet again an example.
200* Wrestling/BethPhoenix comes off as unfunny since she plays [[StraightMan straight woman]] to the goofy tag team "All Knighters", her boyfriend Wrestling/SantinoMarella, her intern Wrestling/RosaMendes, frequent tag team partner Wrestling/JillianHall and the crazy characters they tend to attract.
201* "Hey Tomko, [[Wrestling/{{Christian}} gimme a beat]]." "[[LittleNo No]]."
202** Further examples of this would shine during Tomko's term in Wrestling/{{TNA}}, specifically in 2007, with him shaking his head at moments such as Wrestling/ScottSteiner's fail-heavy mid-promo history lesson during a Team Cage celebration backstage and Wrestling/ChristianCage's claim in an at-home scene that he and his wife had "three kids" and "twins on the way" as he tried to inspire Tomko and Wrestling/AJStyles to get revenge on Wrestling/SamoaJoe for him.
203* Wrestling/WilliamRegal always did his best to maintain his dignity but would always get paired up with people like [[Wrestling/YoshihiroTajiri Tajiri]], [[Wrestling/NickDinsmore Eugene]] or Wrestling/{{Hornswoggle}} who would frustrate the hell out of him.
204* TNA had a segment where wrestlers were given the challenge of making Wrestling/LowKi laugh. There were a half dozen failures before someone finally did it.
205** Before that, Low Ki played the trope ''VERY'' straight during Season Two of [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT's]] original incarnation under the ring name Kaval as he had Wrestling/LayCool as his Pros. His main interaction with them was standing there, silent, holding both copies of the WWE Women's title belts, while Wrestling/MichelleMcCool and Wrestling/{{Layla}} cranked up the [[TheDitz bubbly airhead factor]].
206* Silas Young manages to consistently be the most serious man in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, a promotion that bills itself as being more serious than TNA. The least serious thing he's done is prove he was in fact capable of having friends by introducing The Beer City Bruiser, a big fat man in the tiniest trunks the television deal will allow who is the much more laid back of their resulting tag team.
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210* Sam the Eagle from ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' frequently comments on his own program in a condescending tone, usually tripping up over his own hypocrisy (he once follows up a complaint about how uncultured the show is with a comment that the guest of the week, ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, is his "favorite opera singer") or not being aware how silly things actually are (his favorite skit on the show is the "classy" duets by Wayne and Wanda, which always end in some slapstick disaster).
211-->'''Sam:''' ''[to the audience]'' I wish to announce I am officially disassociating myself from this whole ''weird,'' '''sick''' show. Thank you.
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215* ''Radio/BobAndRay'' had a number of interview sketches that used this -- with one (usually Bob) as himself, trying to make sense out of the other as the increasingly loopy subject.
216* In ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry'' the newsreader Bryan Martin will report the most ridiculous things caused by One and Two's bunglings with utter seriousness, no matter how much of an insane chaos London is in.
217* ''Wiretap'': Jonathan Goldstein as portrayed in most of the "conversations" on his radio show.
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221* For all the potential darkness of the character, Leonardo de Montreal from ''TabletopGame/ChuubosMarvelousWishGrantingEngine'' can be comedy gold because of his deeply serious approach to the goofiness he is likely to be exposed to, especially if [[TheTrickster Rinley]] or [[BewareTheSillyOnes Chuubo]] is also present.
222* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' was originally meant to be an over-the-top parody of the DarkerAndEdgier direction a lot of games were taking when it was released. A good deal of the humor was meant to come from the seriousness of the Imperium of Man, especially contrasted with da Orkz. Unfortunately (''and'' fortunately, in some cases) this was dropped for a more serious setting that started to go in the extreme direction it used to parody. Thus the game itself has become Comically Serious to many of its fans.
223** The lore has occasional incidents where {{Space Marine}}s - biologically enhanced {{Super Soldier}}s whose entire lives consist of war and preparing for war, for whom an hour of relaxation time in a day is considered borderline decadent - have to interact with ordinary civilians in relative peacetime. Outside of [[TokenGoodTeammate the Salamanders]], they are almost always tremendously unprepared for this, because the average Space Marine typically only interacts with other Space Marines, military officers in other branches, and on very rare occasions the Inquisition; to the normal Space Marine mindset, civilians are a thing to stand in front of so they don't get shot at by Orks. This, in turn, leads to things like very serious, very powerful and very, ''very'' large genetic supermen in giant suits of PoweredArmour [[CaptainObvious telling babies that they are very small]].
224* The game [[https://gshowitt.itch.io/nice-marines Nice Marines]], an AffectionateParody of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'''s {{Space Marine}}s, is entirely about very serious soldiers who haven't spoken to a civilian in 200 years having to carry out relatively mundane tasks like looking after children because the people who are actually supposed to be doing it are running late.
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228* Malvolio from Creator/WilliamShakespeare's play ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' is often played this way.
229* Holofernes in ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost'' treats every single conversation as a matter of huge acadmeic import--in one scene, his reaction to being mistakenly delivered a love letter is to ''proofread'' it. Along with his friend Sir Nathaniel, their pompous and pretentions of intellectulism quickly render them completely absurd.
230* ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'' is a WordOfGod. Creator/OscarWilde wrote acting instructions in the original text of the play, calling for the entire cast to perform as gravely as possible; he felt (perhaps rightly so) if they treated the subject matter too lightly the satire would be lost. Essentially, there is a note about the importance of being earnest in ''The Importance of Being Earnest''.
231* In performances by Creator/LesBalletsTrockaderoDeMonteCarlo, female roles are taken by male dancers, but it's performed, as it were, entirely straight.
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235* Just before releasing a revamped Star Tours ride, Disney released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4_dZPVg8KI this.]] [[TheDragon Darth Vader]] having fun on the rides at Disneyland is a sight to behold.
236* The [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/angry-splash-mountain-lady Angry Splash Mountain Lady]] meme. It's basically [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like,]] a picture of people having fun riding Disney World's Splash Mountain ride, but with one lady looking utterly deadpan and angry.
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240* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series:
241** Miles Edgeworth. He tries ''so'' hard to be stoic and professional no matter the circumstances that you can practically ''see'' the target painted on him. Wendy Oldbag and Larry Butz are his main tormentors, but just about the entire cast has taken a turn pushing him off balance for the sake of humor.
242** And, to a lesser extent, Phoenix. His finger-pointing antics pale in comparison to the quirks of the {{Bunny Ears Lawyer}}s he has to deal with on a daily basis.
243** Shelly de Killer, gentleman assassin and ice cream eater.
244** Also Edgeworth's mentor Manfred von Karma. The man demands that his ATM PIN (0001) be entered as evidence proving his perfection. And he does it with a straight face.
245** For all his own BunnyEarsLawyer qualities, Apollo Justice fits into this as well. He tries his damnedest to act professional, but it's made hard when his assistant is a quirky magician who uses magic panties and a large, wooden puppet for tricks, the [[TheRival prosecutor he usually faces]] is a rock star on the side and air guitars in court, the detective he teams up with is generally apathetic and likes to throw snacks at his head, and his mentor is spacey and rather condescending. That's not even getting into his attempts to be serious around the usual insanity of the witnesses. And just imagine him screaming "I'M FINE!" as a pep talk in a courthouse waiting room.
246* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': Korekiyo Shinguji, the normally stoic and aloof Ultimate Anthropologist, veers into this trope at times, though the standout example is when he first enters his research lab and he drops the stoicism entirely, darting around like a kid on Christmas and gushing over ''everything'' that catches his eye.
247* ''VisualNovel/TheFruitOfGrisaia'': Not only does Sachi do whatever she’s asked completely seriously, but she also has a surprisingly wicked tongue on her.
248* A lot of the comedy from ''VisualNovel/FullMetalDaemonMuramasa'' comes from the fact that the main character, Kageaki Minato, remains stone-faced when he is put in awkward or unusual situations and is able to say the stupidest things without a hint of irony.
249* In more lighthearted contexts, Shuu from ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' is often this. A somewhat stoic, logically-minded, and murderous villain, sillier scenes in the games and manga use him as a [[OnlySaneMan contrast to the wacky antics going on around him]], and do things such as depicting him surfing in an ImagineSpot (with the protagonist musing that it doesn't suit him), and subjecting him to a pair of Christmas-obssessed gag characters who insist on decorating his office and making him wear a Santa hat.
250* Mai Kawasumi in ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', due to her uniqueness in ''not'' rising to all of Yuichi's jokes and kidding. Just watch her at lunch or when Yuichi considers groping her just to get some kind of a reaction... and nearly getting beheaded before even starting to move.
251* ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger'':
252** Jumin. His EstablishingCharacterMoment is him revealing that his cat's name is Elizabeth the 3rd and ordering the other RFA members to not disrespect her, all with complete seriousness.
253** Jaehee, Jumin's assistant, is almost as serious as he is (except when she's fangirling over Zen) and frequently sighs in exasperation at the other characters' zany antics. One of the game's funniest moments comes when she types up a serious and thoughtful response to a joking comment from Zen that's so long that Zen ''logs out'' before she can finish it.
254* Ace from ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'', especially around Santa. [[spoiler:Until you get the safe ending. Then he's just plain terrifying.]]
255* Miku in ''VisualNovel/AProfile''. Be careful what you tell very serious people to do, Masayuki. They might do as you ask... and then you'll have them saying 'I love you' with a deadpan face during every pause in the conversation.
256* In a particularly MoodWhiplash-inducing example, Deathstroke is turned into this at the end of Chapter 9 of ''VideoGame/RakenzarnTales''. Then again, that kinda happens to anyone when they're up against Deadpool.
257* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'': Even in humorous scenes, [[VideoGame/ShinSuperRobotWars Raidese F. Branstein]] keeps up his stoic disposition.
258* Though it isn't often, Nero Chaos of ''{{VisualNovel/Tsukihime}}'', thousand year-old uber-vampire with a body comprised of 666 demon beasts composed of pure chaos, is sometimes called into this role during side stories. His crowning moment? Participating in an involved game of ''tag''.
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262* Many {{Non Player Character}}s in ''WebVideo/CouriersMindRiseOfNewVegas'' come across as this when dealing with [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas The Courier]], who has [[AxCrazy many]] [[AwesomeEgo quirks]] [[DeadpanSnarker typical]] of "Mind" type protagonists.
263* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': Keela's sullen and stoic attitude really makes her stand out among her more expressive and upbeat comrades.
264* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Killer's brooding, serious attitude is in sharp contrast to the more expressive members of the cast.
265* Benrey from ''WebVideo/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware'' reacts to everything with apathetic boredom and never shows any kind of emotion, even when he's harassing people about their passports, behaving like a bratty toddler, or seeing any of the truly ridiculous antics the rest of the cast get up to.
266* ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice:''
267** The show interprets [[spoiler:Rogal Dorn]] as one of these types. He's permanently serious and straight-faced, never considers saying anything other than the bluntest truth, and takes absolutely everything at face value no matter how sarcastic the other characters get. He can't even be offended properly; at best you'll get polite disagreement. When the Custodian has to summon Kaldor Draigo to stop Magnus's uncontrollable rampage through the Palace, Draigo promptly does so, [[CurbstompBattle so quickly that the Custodian doesn't even see it happen]]. Unfortunately, this is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Kaldor Draigo]], and his [[SanitySlippage grip on reality is... questionable]], and the entire conversation is filled with [[TalkativeLoon Drago spouting babbling nonsense]] and the Custodian being utterly confused. When Draigo finally leaves, floating up into the sky and vanishing, [[{{Beat}} everything goes silent, followed by:]]
268--->'''[[spoiler: Rogal Dorn]]:''' ''[utterly deadpan]'' I suspect that he was high on narcotics.
269** [[spoiler:Corvus Corax]], albeit in a different direction: His seriousness is of the angsty type, being as emo as they come when he's allowed to and just annoyed by the world when it won't let him wax poetical about whatever misery's happening at the moment. The universe doesn't hesitate to make him the butt of a joke, and he's usually blindsided every time, adding yet another thing to be miserable or irritated about. [[spoiler:Vulkan]]'s cheery, overly-affectionate presence doesn't help either.
270* In ''WebAnimation/{{Lackadaisy}},'' as rival gangmember Rocky begins a ConstructionVehicleRampage, strait-laced, stone-serious ConsummateProfessional Mordecai is forced into a series of escalating {{Eye Take}}s while Rocky's dynamite tosses repeatedly defeat his attempts to line up [[ColdSniper sniper shots]]. His dignity is further pierced when Rocky blows up a water tower, and Mordecai [[FurryReminder reacts]] to the flooding in the manner of a domestic [[CatsHateWater cat]] crossed with a NeatFreak, all bulging eyes and hissing. TheStinger has his boss {{lampshade}} his misery for his own amusement.
271--> '''Mordecai''': *in a phone booth, removing his shoe to dump out water* It seems we have a more considerable problem at hand.\
272'''Asa Sweet''': What? Someone mussed your hair? You got some dirt on ya? *cackles*\
273'''Mordecai''': *deadpan* As a matter of fact, yes.
274* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'':
275** Agent Washington from ''Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction'' behaves like an actual agent from a secret military in the future. Contrasts well with the wacky mishaps of the main cast. He eventually shows himself to be NotSoAboveItAll.
276** Earlier in the series, Tex also qualifies. Though to a lesser degree. Her toughness was played for action and being a badass, rather than humor.
277** Then comes an amalgalm of both, Carolina, an ActionGirl with a serious agenda... which forces her to team up with the bickering idiots of the main cast. She, much like Washington, [[NotSoAboveItAll eventually assimilates]].
278* ''Webanimation/{{RWBY}}'' has Lie Ren, mostly when calm demeanor provides a huge contrast to his GenkiGirl partner Nora Valkyrie. Special mention comes from such a stoic guy [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/rwby/images/9/99/V3_08_00023.png/revision/latest?cb=20160110160047 suddenly bearing a pink chef apron]].
279** Comedic spin-off ''Webanimation/{{RWBY Chibi}}'' adds CharacterExaggeration to all the cast, and this not only enhances Ren's unintentional comedy (both for taking everything he does extremely seriously, and being level-headed no matter how ridiculous the situation around him is), but adds two more cases of this trope. Blake, already a quiet and stoic person, becomes a downright EmotionlessGirl often used for deadpan and under-reaction punchlines. And Neo becomes a serious foil to her [[EvilIsHammy cartoonish villain partner]] Roman, even if due to her lack of voice she talks [[TalkingWithSigns with signs straight out of a Looney Tunes cartoon]].
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283* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' is this trope applied to an entire webcomic. The main character is an Irish Ninja Doctor, who's friends with a cloned Benjamin Franklin, has a gorilla for a secretary, and has a sidekick in the form of a kid bandito with a gloriously huge mustache and his velociraptor. And it only gets weirder from there. However, the comic never seems to realize how utterly insane it is.
284* ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'': Marth. Considering that he has to share a house with the characters from the [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Smash-verse]] ''doesn't'' help. The artist has noted with some worry that canon Marth is significantly more genki than her interpretation. That's what you get from making up a personality from scratch.
285* ''Webcomic/BatmanAndSons'' plays up on the trope's application to Bats (and as much of the rest of the Batfamily/DC Universe as possible) for all its worth.
286* ''Webcomic/ClownCorps'': Agent Binky is a straight-laced, no nonsense special agent working for an organization of crimefighting clowns.
287* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Susan occasionally fills this role, due to her serious attitude towards pretty much everything. Due to this, she is, among other things, a favorite cuddling perch for Tedd's cat-hedgehog Jeremy. In addition, a early running gag established that, whenever she did anything overly cheerful, it was so alien to her usual personality that it couldn't be anything but hilarious (to us).
288* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Referenced when an actor in the travelling Heterodyne show [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050914 explains his character:]] "Klaus keeps his ''dignity'', or '''tries''' to. ''That's'' what makes him ''funny''."
289* ''Webcomic/GuildedAge'': '' '''GRAVEDUST''' ''. Seriously. Keynes herself states that she finds his serious facial expressions hilarious. Case in point: [[http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-7/chapter-7-page-11/ The People's Eyebrow]]
290* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'':
291** Jones has never so much as smiled in the entire run of the comic. [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=790 Giving her a party hat]] is comedy gold. Topped only by her non-reaction to [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=841 a pigeon dancing across her head]]. What makes it even better is that ''[[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=478 sometimes]]'' she clearly [[DeadpanSnarker pokes fun with straight face]], so with her perfect poker face [[PoesLaw it's impossible to tell]] where this ends.
292** Sir Eglamore is too serious sometimes. So [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=665 "Jolly Elfsberry"]] made the knight play an overprotective dad just to pull his leg. Note that Annie was less than amused by his prancing until the moment she saw what's going on (the next page), but then immediately joined this game, barely holding laughter.
293* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
294** Equius is stubbornly serious and uptight and tries to maintain an aura of dignity that he feels befitting his noble birth. As a result, he often ends up playing the straight man to his much more eccentric fellows.
295** Scene: [[spoiler: Andrew Hussie]] is about to be killed by [[BigBad Lord English]], an invincible, omnicidal, time-traveling demon. Problem: Lord English has an expressionless SkullForAHead, and doesn't say a single word while his victim (who is currently dressed up as a space alien, mind you) compares his demise to a herd of horses, tries to kill him with ''magic'', or throws a pistol at his head. Cue the embarrassingly long animated gif of a gun sliding down English's unharmed, unemotive face.
296* ''Webcomic/IDontWantThisKindOfHero'': Orca is very serious and down-to-earth. Unfortunately for him, the rest of the cast isn't, making him perfect for punchlines.
297* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'': Bob could hardly be called grim (more like "extremely mellow"), but he lives this trope. At one point he casually asks Jerry the [[TheMenInBlack MIB]] whether he should put up some kind of screens to keep spaceships from constantly crashing into his roof, and asks how Jerry deals with the problem at his house.
298* ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'': [[PsychoForHire Mordecai Heller]] is the poster child (or would that be [[{{Pun}} poster cat?]]) for this trope, as lampshaded [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=346 in this comic.]]
299* Worf unsurprisingly takes on this role in ''Webcomic/LarpTrek''. Picard has his moments, too.
300* ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' tends to employ [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins Sten]] in this role.
301-->'''Sten:''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext Cyndi Lauper is banned by the Qun.]]
302* ''Webcomic/{{morphE}}'' features Asia, an emotionally stunted reporter who treats every situation as serious. During the second chapter her captor is attempting to charm her and approaches from many different angles, asking probing questions, playing to her talents. When all attempts are met with flat and bland replies he [[http://morphe.thewebcomic.com/comics/1851374/chapter-2-page-61-quiet-girls/ attempts humor]] and fails miserably.
303* ''Raizel'' from ''Webcomic/{{Noblesse}}'' is an absolutely quite personification of TheStoic. Yet his unfamiliarity with modern technology is the primary source of humor early in the series.
304* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
305** Roy is the realistic DeadpanSnarker and StraightMan to the rest of his party's wacky hijinks. [[spoiler:His death]] led to the rest of the party having various breakdowns both comedically and mentally. [[spoiler:Fortunately, he got better.]]
306** Vaarsuvius has had their moments, too.
307--->'''V:''' Fascinating. Durkon, I have just now formulated a theory that encompasses both Nale's most likely method of engagement and the most suitable response on our part.\
308'''Durkon:''' THE TREES BE ATTACKIN'!! RUN FER YER LIVES!!!\
309'''V:''' Ah, I see you have already grasped the core principles of my theory.
310** Strips featuring the Lawyers, Mr. Jones and Mr. Rodriguez, that don't center on {{Evil Lawyer Joke}}s tend to instead focus on Mr. Jones' status as this. A never-smiling, serious man with a [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} nutty]], [[TheDitz scatter-brained]] partner, Mr. Jones serves as the StraightMan to his partner's antics and the ridiculous situations they often find themselves in.
311* ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'': A lot of Mr Garcia's comedy comes about from his turning up in absurd situations with a deadpan expression (such as floating down a stream fully dressed) or having to deal with his LargeHam boyfriend, [[spoiler:Mr Spender]].
312* From ''Webcomic/PeterAndCompany'', we have Korgar, an [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orc]] with NoIndoorVoice...who happens to [[ItMakesSenseInContext be a teacher at the title character's school]].
313* ''Webcomic/PixieAndBrutus'': A large part of the comic's humor comes from Brutus continuing to act like a military dog in the much friendlier setting of a normal house, especially when contrasted with Pixie's innocence and enthusiasm.
314* ''Webcomic/PrincessChroma'' has Spiders, June's stern, upright mentor... whose convictions are somewhat undermined by the fact that he's a bunny rabbit.
315* Bubbles in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' is very precise and restrained, and ''extremely'' intense beneath this, and while her TragicBackstory isn't played for laughs, her resulting seriousness frequently is, especially in contrast with Faye. However, as she's developed more, she's displayed a very dry sense of humour on occasion. There are some moments when it's not clear if she's missed the joke, or gets it better than anyone else.
316* In ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'', [[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Erik]], [[Theatre/LesMiserables Javert]], and [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean James]] all tend to fill this role, especially when they generally remain in-character and are pitted against the magical antics of [[Film/{{Labyrinth}} Jareth]].
317* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'':
318** As shown in our page image, the comic has put forward the notion that Batman is comedy gold, based solely on the fact that combining him with anything mundane produces instant laughter as his Batman's grim demeanor makes him the ultimate straight-man.
319** On Twitter, the author suggested the same was true of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendo Ikari]], which was followed up with [[https://shortpacked.com/comic/you-can-advance-not this strip.]]
320** Gardening, beekeeping, [[https://shortpacked.com/comic/thanks houseworking,]] and [[https://shortpacked.com/comic/batman-is-good-at-everything dancing.]]
321* The Dragon in ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' is constantly amused by the whole God vs. Devil enmity and regards their squabbles as [[PassThePopcorn the popcorn time]]. When nothing of this sort already goes on, he(?) can do it himself:
322-->'''[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-02-28 Dragon]]:''' Great Buddha. The time has come...
323* Sakido from ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'' spends most of her time brooding, a pastime which is considerably hampered by living in the same ''dimension'' as her goofy, affectionate brother Buwaro.
324* ''Tag'', a warship A.I. for Tagon's mercenaries in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', tends to react to any situation with absolute, deadpan seriousness, while still producing a punchline. The two weeks following [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-11-07 this strip]] are a good demonstration.
325* ''Webcomic/TwoGuysAndGuy'' has Frank, who probably best epitomized the trope [[http://www.twogag.com/archives/997 here]].
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329* The ಠ_ಠ emoticon. Failing that, sometimes the classic :/ qualifies too.
330* This is the entire point of ''[[http://averagecats.com Average Cats]]'' -- it's hilarious precisely because the captions are matter-of-fact and serious. The captions also sometimes venture into SuspiciouslySpecificDenial. They never stop being mock-serious.
331* Their SpiritualSuccessor is [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/grumpy-cat Grumpy Cat.]] Tard's catchphrase, in many images, is "No."
332* The ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'' universe is ruled by the Laws of Comedy, which require that any character who thinks they have dignity immediately loses it.
333* ImageBoards such as /tg/ have humourous mockery of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' po-faced dark and serious tone. For example, the homebrew SpaceMarine chapter Lazy Marines (they have Rocket-Couches) and the Silly/Clown Marines ([[ClownCar who can fit up to three times the normal number of units inside a single vehicle]]).
334** [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Angry_Marines As well as THE ANGRY MARINES!!!]] [[MemeticMutation always angry, all the time!]] The only chapter that has a tank that they use to fire their marines directly into the heat of battle, and power feet, for kicking the enemies of the Emprah in the balls.
335** [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Pretty_Marines And the Pretty Marines.]] This is what TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} would be like in Japan, gentlemen. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
336* The ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' has several such characters.
337** Sometimes, it's Stormwolf, the leader of the Wild Pack, and the most serious, unamused, straight arrow since the invention of arrows. This plays off well against DeadpanSnarker Phase, comedian Chaka, and the rest of the protagonists in Team Kimba.
338** Within Team Kimba, there's Ayla, who while not lacking a sense of humor, is not exactly the type of person who takes jokes well when he is the punchline. Ayla's status as The Comically Serious was eventually {{lampshaded}}. See the [[Quotes/TheComicallySerious quotes page]]
339* Thanks to a combination of attempted clinical tone and strange or even downright silly subjects, Website/TheOtherWiki occasionally dabbles in this trope.
340** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butte_County_High_School Butte County High School,]] home of the Butte Pirates.
341** The 'plot' section for The Lonely Island song [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizz_In_My_Pants#Plot "Jizz in My Pants"]].
342** Their entry on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_%28aesthetic%29 "cool."]]
343** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_paradox "The Raven Paradox"]] page takes advantage of this, captioning a picture of apples as "non-black, non-ravens" to aid in illustrating the paradox.
344** Also observe their article on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_insult "Maternal Insults"]], also known to normal people as "[[YourMom yo mamma]]" jokes.
345** Their article on YouTubePoop is... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Poop interesting.]]
346** Their page on [[ComicBook/{{Nextwave}} Dirk Anger]], in which they attempt to summarize his ([[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} numerous]]) mental disorders and other faults in complete seriousness.
347** Not to mention serious subjects with funny names, like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_Batman The Division of Batman,]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman%27s_Hill Batman's Hill.]]
348** The classic is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park the article about New Jersey's infamous]] Ride/ActionPark, which has often been described as the funniest on the site. The combination of the outrageous-yet-true (and sourced) facts about this dangerous yet fun amusement park and their necessarily dry house style yields such gems as:
349--->Also, nonswimmers would jump off the cliffs, not fully appreciating how deep the water below was, and have to be rescued. Former employee Tom Fergus says the bottom of the pool was eventually painted white to make it easier to spot any bodies on the bottom.
350** The description of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics#Marathon the equally outrageous 1904 Olympic marathon.]]
351** Their entry on Anime/GarzeysWing manages this, especially [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garzey%27s_Wing#Characters the Characters section,]] which gives us such gems as Chris's description:
352--->He is easy-going, and his sword is unbelievably dull.
353** The article on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_(film) The Room]].
354** Their article on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter,_banana_and_bacon_sandwich Peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich.]], which ''starts'' with this:
355--->This article is about the Elvis Sandwich. For a similar sandwich Elvis enjoyed, see [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool%27s_Gold_Loaf Fool's Gold Loaf]].
356** Wikipedia's [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bro_(subculture) article on bros]] is also quite funny.
357** Their article on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_(people) "Kiwi" as a term for New Zealanders]] has a picture of a man with a certain bird, captioned simply, "A Kiwi holding a kiwi".
358** Then there's Wikipedia's list of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shoe-throwing_incidents "shoe-throwing incidents"]].
359** Their article about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease) kuru]] advises people to "Avoid practices of cannibalism".
360** Take a gawk at their article on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_five High Five]]. You could sell tickets to a showing of their explanation of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_five#Too_slow "Too Slow"]] (with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_gun Finger Guns]]).
361** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Vetinari The article]] about [[MagnificentBastard Lord Vetinari]] from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' seems to be channeling Creator/TerryPratchett fittingly enough: it points out that thanks to the patrician legalizing the Thieves' guild, crime in [[WretchedHive Anhk Morpork]] "was not so much 'eliminated' as ''organized''" (emphasis theirs).
362** The article on the "NoTrueScotsman" fallacy includes this disambiguation note:
363---> ''For the practice of wearing a kilt without undergarments, see [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Scotsman True Scotsman.]]''
364** The article on the Austrian village of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria#Popularity_and_notoriety Fugging (previously called Fucking)]] and its unfortunate problem with English-speaking tourists:
365---> Lindlbauer, the manager of an area guesthouse, said that the area had [[SceneryPorn lakes, forests, and vistas worth visiting]], but there was an "obsession with Fucking", and she had to explain to a British tourist "that there were no Fucking postcards". \
366...the local police chief emphasised that "we will not stand for the Fucking signs being removed. It may be very amusing for you British, but Fucking is simply Fucking to us. What is this big Fucking joke?"
367* [[Franchise/StarWars StarWars.com's]] Encylopedia, Wookieepedia:
368** In response to a glaring mistake and [[BunnyEarsLawyer priding itself on being a source for anything and everything in Star Wars canon]], created [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kamino_(unit) this deleted article.]] Before the Expanded Universe relaunch, "Kamino" being a unit describing the constant height of clone troopers was technically canonical. An administrator archived this and altered the template for denoting that something was mentioned in the Encyclopedia (allowing the archival link) to facilitate the article. Brief, jocular consideration was given to creating an article on 1.87 meters ''the planet'', but it was decided that that would have been ridiculous. Even after this was rectified, a snippet on the error appeared in the [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jesse/Legends legacy continuity version of the clone trooper's article.]]
369** Unidentified Rodian With Jacket. While the article has since ''finally'' been deleted in response to the vandalism and non-notoriety with its only legacy being a [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Wookieepedia:Trash_compactor/Unidentified_Rodian_with_jacket Trash Compactor]] entry, there was a time this page was a goldmine of laughs owing to someone's attempt to write an article about a background character who was only on screen for about a second, and could only be described as "He was walking through the streets of Coruscant during the Clone Wars, sporting a jacket at the time" and their desperate attempts to prevent trolls from adding "tidbits" like "possibly Jar Jar Binks", "some might argue 'who gives a fuck'", writing a rambling manifesto of text describing him in ludicrous detail down to the number of visible stripes on his jacket, and "HIM NAME AM LOUIE HE IS VERY IMPORTANT CHARACHTER TO STAR WRS."
370* Creator/HarrisonFord went on {{Website/Reddit}} to do an [[http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/22xh4j/i_am_harrison_harrison_ford_ama/ Ask Me Anything.]] [[http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comments/22xrnn/table_iama_i_am_harrison_harrison_ford_ama/ With few words,]] some GrumpyOldMan tendencies, contempt for nerdy questions and at times even ThrowTheDogABone ("I love you." [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack "I know"]]), it's this trope on full force.
371-->Hello Harrison! Who would win in a celebrity boxing match: [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]] or Franchise/IndianaJones?\
372The promoter would win.
373* From ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/14-photographs-that-shatter-your-image-famous-people/ 14 Photographs That Shatter Your Image of Famous People]], there's one with UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler [[AdolfHitlarious on a children's snow sled.]]
374* Some of the [=ESRB=]'s detailed writeups about game ratings are simply absurd, especially since they're coming from an organization devised to objectively rate games.
375** They have been known to highlight features like [[VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}} the ability to "attach steaks to babies to attract a lion"]].
376** Most of the unfunny comes from ESRB descriptions of sexual content, such as [[VideoGame/HeavyRain shower cutscenes that show "a male character's bare butt,"]] [[Franchise/StreetFighter flexed gluteus]], "[[VideoGame/MassEffect2 unzipping a future-blouse]]", and [[VideoGame/DantesInferno demon bosses with "its penis visible during the flying and fire-spewing"]].
377** The descriptors of violence can fall into this too. [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle An assassin "does not recover" from being chopped in half]].
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380[[folder:Web Videos]]
381* This is the main joke of the dubbed version of ''WebVideo/BackstrokeOfTheWest'': the script is a TranslationTrainWreck of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', meaning that the main reason to listen to it is to hear people say lines like "He is in my behind!" or "The general space can always succeed to succeed" as if it was regular dramatic dialogue.
382* WebVideo/CinemaSins: On this website/[=YouTube=] channel, a narrator shows clips from movies while "judging" them for their (perceived) (Cinema)sins. Because of his pedanticness and sometimes getting really worked up about minor things, this comes across as funny. However it is downplayed by the fact that he isn't ''really'' serious, just assuming that role, and everything is meant to be tongue in cheek.[[note]]-- Some [=YouTube=] comments however indicate that that completely goes over some people's heads, seeing the occasional "You're way too harsh on this film!" "Stop complaining!" comments towards the creator. --[[/note]]
383* ''WebVideo/CityNerd'': A huge part of the appeal and humor of the channel comes from Ray's deadpan dry delivery of utterly ridiculous and sharp cutting lines mixed in with the factoids and research. He maintains the dry delivery even when "celebrating" subscription milestones with confetti.
384* Fredrik Knudsen's ''WebVideo/DownTheRabbitHole'' series combines utterly serious, deadpan narration with some of the most absurd topics imaginable. A frequent occurrence is Fredrik reading internet postings out loud ''exactly'' as they are written, pronouncing all of the spelling and grammar mistakes, while still remaining as deadpan as ever.
385* Tien in ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged. As he says in ''Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged'' Episode 1:
386-->'''Tien:''' I am the only serious character in the show. [[LampshadeHanging That's the joke]].
387* In ''WebVideo/EdgarAllanPoesMurderMysteryDinnerParty'', the famous writers gathered for the murder mystery game refuse to take the very ''real'' murders that start happening seriously. Except for the two gothic writers, Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley, who seem incapable of ''not'' taking anything seriously, no matter how trivial.
388-->'''Edgar:''' Parties aren't the place for jokes, Lenore.
389* ''WebAnimation/EpithetErased'': Percy treats everything that happens with intense seriousness, which is ''very'' funny in the context of the absurdity of the Western Arc. Notably, her own character is still pretty absurd - her breakfast every day is bread and water, but on special occasions she butters the ''water'' - and she's very serious about that, too.
390--->''When the barman starts [[EdibleAmmunition firing alphabet soup from a shotgun]]''\
391'''Percy:''' My God! The letters in that soup could be rearranged to form any number of messages! And sometimes knowledge is the most dangerous weapon of all!
392%%* Vork in ''WebVideo/TheGuild''.
393* One of the WebVideo/HydraulicPressChannel's claims to fame is its host's commentary, which sounds ridiculously deadpan and serious to most viewers. The host himself isn't really TheStoic very often, as he often smiles and laughs when on camera.
394* In the WebVideo/MLPAnalysis community, whenever you have several analysts interacting, Dr. Wolf generally ends up in this role. The others can get pretty nuts and easily overreact, but he always stay grounded and serious, creating a hilarious contrast. Just look at the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCHQZea5fr8 Analyst Bronies React to Season 6 Finale]]" video for a very good example. Or most of ''WebAnimation/TF2Analysis'' for that matter.
395* This drives much of the humor behind ''WebVideo/InternetHistorian's'' videos. He has a sophisticated accent and speaks in a calm, cool, and erudite way much like a university professor would be expected to speak. This makes the utterly ''ludicrous'' nature of the things he covers, like the abysmal launches of ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout76'', [[Website/FourChan /pol/]] "playing" international "capture the flag" with Creator/ShiaLaBeouf against his will, comically-failed conventions, and {{Troll}}s rigging online contests so Mountain Dew would name their new softdrink "[[CrossingTheLineTwice Hitler Did Nothing Wrong]]" outright ''hilarious'' to listen to. He rarely cracks, only occasionally {{Corpsing}} and has audibly been angry once, maybe twice across all his videos, which is made even funnier by his constant use of [[MemeticMutation Hide The Pain Harold]] for his avatar.
396* Ninja Brian comfortably fills this role whenever he joins in on ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'', ''WebVideo/SteamTrain'', and the like. Being a theoretical physicist with a pHD, he is ''very'' well-spoken and says everything with complete deadpan matter-of-fact sincerity, making his arrogant boasting about how good he is at games while losing said games or his descriptions of ludicrous gameplay mechanics we normally take for granted utterly hilarious.
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399[[folder:Real Life]]
400* From the animal kingdom:
401** Part of the reason why animals like chickens are so funny. They lack facial expressions, which make them look serious all the time. The illusion is heightened by their prim and proper stance and mannerisms, and thus they look silly when they freak out about something.
402** [[CatsAreSnarkers Cats]], too. It helps a lot that cats have such humanlike faces that people subconsciously ''think'' cats can [[CheshireCatGrin smile]], heightening the disconnect. Cats hold themselves in such a dignified manner and are often quite fastidious and neurotic, which makes their (actually quite common) clumsy or goofy moments even funnier.
403** Frogs and toads too. They tend to look like they're pondering or judging something, and because they are ectothermic, they can remain completely stoic and still for quite some time. This makes it all the more funny when they're casually sitting in a toilet bowl, croaking for a mate or making a high-pitched screech that sounds like a deflating balloon.
404** Thanks to their fluffy faces and squinty eyes, tibetan sand foxes appear to have a sullen, judgmental expression.
405* BritishRoyalGuards are often seen as this, especially by foreigners. This results in the occasional ignorant traveler believing said guards absolutely have to stand still no matter what you do to them, and instead end up crapping their pants when the guard shoves the barrel of his rifle in their face and hollers "[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness BACK AWAY FROM THE GUARD!!!]]"
406* Museum exhibits try to be stoic and serious about everything, and in some cases can result in this trope. To quote from the National Infantry Museum in Georgia, regarding [[IndestructibleEdible a piece of hardtack]] from the UsefulNotes/SpanishAmericanWar:
407-->''A staple of the soldier's diet was this hard-baked bread. [[EvenTheRatsWontTouchIt Note that a soldier chose to memorialize his service on this item rather than eat it.]]''
408* [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick]] is legendary for his downbeat and curmudgeonly public personality, a visible contrast from [[HotBlooded most of his peers]]. Despite, or because of his "grumpy old man" image, he's viewed as a potent source of MemeticMutation and a wellspring of dry humor. Behind the scenes, his sense of humor is more apparent. For example, when WR Randy Moss suggested that the players throw a Halloween party, he not only allowed it, but showed up dressed as a pirate.
409* TabletopGame/{{Chess}} grandmaster and world champion Magnus Carlsen is known among chess fans for his bone-dry sense of humor and ability to crack subtle jokes without a single change in tone or expression. A particularly notable instance was when fellow grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura played the Bongcloud Attack (one of the worst openings in chess, in which you use your king to block two of your own pieces on the second move) in a tournament game and Carlsen was called on to analyze the move. He proceeded to provide a joke lesson on terrible chess openings while remaining entirely deadpan the whole time.
410** And then he reduced Nakamura (and most of the commentators) to fits of laughter by playing the Bongcloud Attack ''against him''.
411* During the 2023 SAG Awards, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99MTbR4bKA one category was presented by]] Creator/AubreyPlaza, who is {{typecast|ing}} as an EmotionlessGirl, and Creator/JennaOrtega, who just played one of the textbook cases of that on ''Series/{{Wednesday}}''. Hilarity caused by this trope ensued.
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