The shifting view of stoicism in United States popular culture over the last several decades, at times lauding and admiring and envying it and at others times condemning it as dehumanizing or, at best, as a naive idealism that fails in the execution, has had interesting impacts on long-time franchises and series which had taken one side or the other in the past.
For example, in Star Trek, the original series demonstrated clear admiration bordering on adulation for Spock's Vulcan stoicism, often but not always giving him the upper hand in debates with a McCoy who frequently bordered on Strawman Emotional in those exchanges and with Kirk often coming out on top because when at this best, he was to syncretize stoicism and emotions into a single ethical view.
However, as stoicism has lost the approval of mainstream U.S. pop culture, more and more times Vulcans have been re-interpreted as overbearing, intolerant, and often clueless and naive, going to far as to lose an Emotions vs. Stoicism debate with a Ferengi in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine about the best way to achieve peace.
Similarly, in Green Lantern back in the mid-20th century, the comic book series depicted the Oan's emotionless wisdom as admirable, and their lack of personal bias and emotional reactions were shown as the proof they were worthy of creating the universe's guardian force. However, as with Star Trek Vulcans, the Oans have been re-interpreted in the modern era as overbearing, intolerant, and often clueless and naive, and Strawman Vulcan flaws have been retconned into their history in an effort to ensure they never again return to the positive depiction they once had held.
In the same way, the serenity advocated by Obiwan and Yoda in the original trilogy, in which Darth Vader's fall was clearly described as the result of Strawman Emotional failure to live up to Jedi stoicism, has been re-interpreted as overbearing, intolerant, and often clueless and naive in the most recent trilogy, depicting the original trilogy's primary hero Luke Skywalker as victim to a Heroic BSoD (or Villainous Breakdown) specifically because of his quietism idealism as though not even Luke Skywalker could survive choosing the serene side of the Emotions vs. Stoicism debate instead of choosing the emotional path chosen by Rei and later given its blessing by Leia.
It remains to be seen whether the pendulum will swing the other way soon and this time all the emotional passionate heroes find themselves iconoclastically re-interpreted into Strawman Emotional fools.
