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11	* 5, from ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'' is yet another male example (despite being a rag-doll, yes, he is male). Shy, skittish, hardly ever makes eye contact with those "above" him...The fact that he's also TheWoobie help this.
12	* In the Disney adaption of ''WesternAnimation/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.
13	* ''Film/{{Amelie}}'': Amelie and [[BirdsOfAFeather Nino, the fragile guy she meets.]] They're both shy, quiet and friendly, but have a hard time making friends.
14	* ''Film/AnAngelAtMyTable'': Janet is an intensely shy person who loves solitude and also experiences difficulty in socializing with others. She is perceived by her peers as socially awkward.
15	* In ''Film/ArtOfTheDead'', Donna is a shy and awkward teen, with both her family and her school life. This starts to change after she becomes affected by the [[GreenEyedMonster Envy]] painting.
16	* The title character of Creator/StephenKing's ''Film/{{Carrie\|1976}}'' (and [[Film/Carrie2002 2002]] and [[Film/Carrie2013 2013]] remakes) 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.
17	* The protagonist in the movie ''Film/CoyoteUgly'' is one of these. As a bonus, her name is actually Violet.
18	* Todd from ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'' starts out so shy he can barely speak in front of others. He later gains confidence thanks to Neil and Keating.
19	* The nurse with false eyelashes from ''Film/DoctorInClover'' is one, barely able to raise her voice or make eye contact when Matron chews her out for wearing "artificial aids to so-called beauty".
20	* ''Film/EmbraceOfTheVampire2013'': Charlotte is a shy, virginal young woman starting out who's a FishOutOfWater in the co-ed environment of the college she's attending, having been in all-girl Catholic schools before, facing the uninhibited students who have a lot of casual sex and drink often.
21	* Need Shrinking Violet personified? Well, look no further than the [[MeaningfulName appropriately named]] Violet Parr from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'', 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 Rydinger, 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 holds her hair back with a headband 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]].
22	* In another Pixar film, ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', this is played with by Fear: despite being a bit more outspoken in showing how he's afraid, he's still repressed, timid, and his skin is purple.
23	* The female main character in ''Film/InTheCompanyOfMen'' is handpicked by her {{Jerkass}} coworker exactly for this reason. His plan involves emotionally destroying a random woman in alleged revenge against the female gender. Thus, he chooses Christine, the most beautiful girl in the company but very self-conscious about her [[SpeechImpediment strong deaf accent]] and her [[TragicallyDisabledLoveInterest hearing impairment]] to the point of willingly avoiding to interact with anyone. Justified: the very moment she [[SheCleansUpNicely gets out of her shell]], she ends up viciously bullied and emotionally scarred for life.
24	* ''Film/JackTheReaper'': Jessie (who is implied to be being abused at home) is shy and reserved, and given to hiding behind her bangs.
25	* Prince Albert (later, King George VI) in ''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.
26	* ''Film/KissMe2011'': Mia is a shy, reserved woman, as she admits.
27	* The title character of ''Film/LittleVoice'' is quite shy. She afraids of people and spends hers time in hers room listening the records and singing.
28	* 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.
29	** Funnily enough the actress that portrays May (Creator/AngelaBettis) also played Carrie in the [=NBC TV=] remake in 2002.
30	* ''Film/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.
31	* ''Film/MouthToMouth:'' Blade is a {{Moe}} male version.
32	* ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'': While not portrayed as a ButtMonkey, Sherman (another male example) definitively has some traits of this, being SociallyAwkwardHero 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.
33	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'':
34	** 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.
35	** Sunset Shimmer meanwhile has completely regained her confidence, even briefly displaying the temper she had from the first film.
36	* ''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.]]
37	* ''Film/NoKidding'': Lionel's parents think him only to be painfully shy when in reality he is a CreepyChild.
38	* Cadet Hooks from the first ''Film/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 ''Police Academy'' 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?)
39	* Barry from ''Film/PunchDrunkLove'' is another male example, though he deals with his shyness and frustration through aggressiveness.
40	* Mui, the female lead of ''Film/ShaolinSoccer''. Hair in the face, mumbling, acne, withdrawn, eventually pulling out of life in public to become a nun. Until the final showdown.
41	* 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]].
42	* 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.
43	* ''Film/TheWhiteOrchid'': Claire starts out as a quiet, bookish young woman but becomes the opposite after taking on The White Orchid's style to solve a murder.

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