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Tranquil Fury in animated movies.


  • During the climax of Beauty and the Beast, the Beast faces off against Gaston with a fairly composed stance, not showing any signs of being angry, other than using his animalistic vocalizations to taunt his adversary. Unlike Gaston, he never raises his voice during this confrontation. When he speaks, he very firmly and coldly tells the arrogant hunter to get the hell out of Dodge before the latter changes his mind about sparing him.
  • Big Hero 6: Hiro's order to Baymax to destroy Callaghan is eerily calm, just to show how far he's going in his revenge for Tadashi's death.
  • Queen Elinor of Brave when she breaks up the fight between the heads of the clans where she remains very, very calm (certainly calmer than anyone in the room). This is also the skill she's trying to teach Merida, how to be the voice of reason in a roomful of Violent Glaswegians with short fuses. She breaks up said fight by calmly walking through the brawl, letting it part before her and dragging out her husband by his ear.
  • A Bug's Life:
    • P.T. Flea after being burned during the "Flaming Death" act. His line, "You're all fired" is said without him raising his voice, but you can tell by his voice just how pissed off he is.
    • Princess Atta does this twice: first, on the trial against Flik and second, when banishing Flik once the colony finds out about his mistake.
  • The Rivera family in Coco when they confront Ernesto for his crimes.
  • Gru in Despicable Me when in his Papa Wolf mode. Culminated with him offhandedly punching out a shark.
  • Anna in Frozen (2013), when she gives Hans "The Reason You Suck" Speech about his metaphorically "frozen" heart, and how selfish and manipulative he is.
    Anna: [to Hans] The only frozen heart around here is yours. [turns away with dignity... then turns back and punches Hans smack in the nose hard enough to knock him over the edge of the ship, with just as much dignity]
  • In The Great Mouse Detective, Ratigan spends most of the movie like this whenever his lackeys mess up, reining in his anger enough to threaten and kill them in a polite sort of way. During the climax with Basil, however, his patience finally gives out.
  • Goofy, of all people, has this reaction in A Goofy Movie after Max tells his dad to take the turn leading to Los Angeles rather than Lake Destiny. He does not say a word afterward until after he pulls over by the Grand Canyon and gets out of the car.
  • In The Incredibles, there's Bob after he believed his family was killed by Syndrome. After Mirage frees him, Bob grabs her by the neck and comes dangerously close to entering a Heroic BSoD and crushing her head into a bloody mess, but he remains perfectly and frighteningly calm throughout the whole thing. And just like Syndrome knew he can't bring himself to do it. Letting Mirage be almost crushed however bites him in the ass later.
    Bob: It'll be easy. Like breaking a toothpick.
  • Simba from The Lion King (1994) is filled with barely contained rage when he confronts his evil uncle Scar, who killed his father and made a royal mess of the Pride Lands.
    • His father, Mufasa, also demonstrates this when he confronts Scar about his absence from Simba's presentation (he only snaps when Scar repeatedly pushes his buttons) and when he scolds Simba for going to the Elephant Graveyard and almost getting himself killed by hyenas.
  • King Triton from The Little Mermaid (1989) is initially like this when he confronts his daughter Ariel about falling in love with a human.
    Triton: I consider myself a reasonable merman. I set certain rules, and I expect those rules to be obeyed.
  • Dean Hardscrabble in Monsters University enters this when Mike and Sulley destroy her record-breaking scream canister.
    Mike: You're taking this remarkably well.
  • The title character in Peter Pan certainly qualifies, especially during the climax. Oh, he's still happy and playful during the whole ordeal, but he just got back to the ship after Tinker Bell almost died in an explosion —- meant for Peter himself, no less — and he had also arrived just in time to save Wendy from falling into the water after walking the plank.
    Hook: [threateningly] Who's next?
    Peter Pan: You're next, Hook — this time, you've gone too far!!
  • The Super Mario Bros. Movie:
    • Mario has an even but clearly angry reaction to Foreman Spike calling Luigi an idiot. Mario is clearly ready to start a fight with the much bigger Spike all for the honor of his little brother.
      Mario: Say that again about my brother, and you're gonna regret it.
    • Bowser also has a moment of this himself when Kamek tells him that a human (Mario) has landed in the Mushroom Kingdom and is traveling with Princess Peach. Bowser, keeping calm, tells Kamek to sit and play piano with him. He asks if Peach would be interested in this new human, insists that he doesn't feel threatened...and then proceeds to slam the piano cover on his wizard's hands before exploding in rage.
  • Superman/Batman: Public Enemies: Lex Luthor is punting Superman around like a whiffle ball using kryptonite while wearing Powered Armor. He also destroys Toyman's console, ruining his ability to program a rocket to autopilot itself into space and destroy an incoming meteor. When Batman takes off in the rocket himself in a Heroic Sacrifice, Superman starts no-selling the Kryptonite and calmly tells Luthor what he just did. Oh, Crap! does not even begin to describe Luthor's expression.
    Superman: That was my best friend. And you just killed him.
  • Bonnie's mother pulls this off near the end of Toy Story of Terror when she discovers what the Big Bad has been doing, describing precisely how she's going to report the motel's manager to the police for attempting to steal her daughter's toys and selling them on the internet for a quick buck. As shown in The Stinger, she followed through on those threats.


Alternative Title(s): Animated Film

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