Tranquil Fury in comic books.
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- Diabolik has trained himself into this. Why? Because this way he can reap his bloody vengeance without risking doing something stupid due to his anger.
- Eva Kant, his lover and accomplice, is more emotive and will express her anger, but takes care to calm down before she actually acts on it. Diabolik, the King of Terror, has once commented on one of her acts of vengeance by stating he wouldn't have gone so far, and she calmly replied that women are always crueler than men.
- East of West: Death is confronted by his fellow Horsemen, who accuse him of betraying them and tell him they’ve killed his wife. They toss her severed arm on the ground in front of him as proof. Death’s response is to stare at it for a long moment, then look back at them with an expression of pure, unceasing rage. He very calmly and quietly tells them that he’s going to kill them all now. He proceeds to effortlessly destroy all of their current bodies, each in a more brutal and horrific manner then the last.
- Empowered is mostly prone to Unstoppable Rage when her friends are threatened or the bad guys push her too far, but her most spectacular display by far was one where she totally zoned out and just disintegrated a small army of ninjas who were threatening Ninjette. Afterward, she had no memory of the incident. Though it's heavily hinted that that was her suit taking control.
- Gold Digger: When Julia Diggers went Mama Bear on the assassin Zero, who was waiting in ambush near her first student Gar's body mortally wounded and no longer breathing. He was counting on Julia to lose her cool, since Zero needed only the slightest opening to gain the edge. He was badly mistaken.
- Paperinik New Adventures has Xadhoom. It doesn't look that way, as you usually see her killing Evrons in the most painful way she could think of, but at the end of her introductory story she revealed that if she ever lost control she'd become a nova, and that's when you realize she's in full Tranquil Fury. A later story reveals that Xadhoom is unable to go into Unstoppable Rage mode (in the occasion she was mad beyond reason and tried to let her control slip, but she survived and produced a relatively small explosion), and another showed she's able to weaponize her hate when she killed an Evron cyborg capable to absorb emotions by letting her control slip just a little for a single moment, killing the cyborg by indigestion.
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Sonic is very well known for being a happy chatterbox with rare moments of true anger. One if these moments happens when the Babylon Rouges destroy New Mobotropolis to reach the Babylon Garden, and Sonic was already having a really bad day. Not once does he make any sort of snarky wisecrack throughout the arc, and is shown to be deadly serious with nothing to stop him. Afterward, he warns the Rouges that his friends better be unharmed, they'd better hope they can run faster than him.
- Transformers:
- The Transformers (Marvel):
- During the events of "Primal Hunt", Megatron sics the Predacons on Optimus Prime before engaging the Autobot leader himself, but then is forced into desperate retreat by the fighting mad Optimus Prime.
- In the prose story "Trigger-Happy", the Autobot Override confesses that the reason the Triggerbot Backstreet went rogue and fled, even attacking humans in his state of terrified panic, is because he'd claimed that Optimus was so furious about a failed ambush that Backstreet would probably be court martialed or even executed. Optimus is described as pinning Override in place with a baleful stare, having to take a moment to calm himself, and is finally completely silent by the time Override finishes his wretched story. Upon learning Backstreet's location, he orders the Autobots to stay behind and goes on his own.
- IDW Publishing:
- Turns out Soundwave is like this so much only he's immune to Frenzy's infrasonic manipulation (which doubles as turning everyone Axe-Crazy).
- In "Spotlight: Shockwave", Shockwave is being trashed by the combined force of the Dinobots, his mind failing to make sense of things... until he turns off all higher functions. In a primal fury, Shockwave walks out of the fire unharmed, uses Sludge as a flail, and forces the Dinobots into stasis by blasting them with everything his alt-form has.
Shockwave: I... evolve.
- The Transformers (Marvel):
- V of V for Vendetta serves his vengeance cold, not once raising his voice to his targets (unless you count Madam Justice). His kills are usually done quietly and made to look like unrelated accidents, but by the time we see him in the comic, he's elevated killing to high theater. Sometimes he slaughters men while reciting Shakespeare or Bible verses, sometimes he abducts them and puts on little plays, or manipulates an Innocent Bystander into doing the killing for him, and in the "Vertigo" episode simply stands motionless in complete silence and compels his victim to kill himself. The fact that at all times he's wearing a mask with the most cheerful smile imaginable makes him all the more terrifying to those who wronged him.
- X-Wing Rogue Squadron: Wedge Antilles, in an arc where he confronts the man who killed his parents when he was younger, naturally flashes back to their deaths
. When they were in the midst of their Heroic Sacrifice he was almost uncontrollable, understandably, but later he's scary calm. It slips a little, but he was still cold. Outside of the flashback and having to deal with the man, he's rigidly polite... until the guy has him locked up and goads◊ him.
The novels mention a few times that the Wedge in starfighter combat is very unlike the usual Wedge - much, much more focused. It may not just be in combat, but when he has a purpose in mind and can't let himself fail - Iella remarks on this. One of his pilots, Wes Janson, is a snarky prankster, but similarly becomes extremely focused and controlled in combat.
