Crossovers
- Fluttershy in Ace Combat: The Equestrian War, while fighting Razor. Until she deals the finishing blow.Fluttershy: I... I will not run! You will not hurt my friends again!
- All For Luz:
- In chapter 3, Camp Counsellor Johnson is described as one point looking like wanting to scream his face off at Antagonistic Governor Maxwell, he's able to compose himself, not wanting to continue to let the Smug Snake to get a rise out of him.
- In chapter 4, Julia is described has having eyes glimmering in anger, repulsion, and fury; yet has a ever-calm expression that did not display any of that when first meeting Governor Maxwell. Luz envies that characteristic.
- In chapter 13, upon hearing about the Wittebanes' involvement with the Death Camp from Pastor Domenico makes Luz's blood boil but she keeps a calm and collected expression.
- In chapter 17, Luz becomes this when she remarks that she can't even do a simple shopping trip without being harassed by people trying to kill her.
Luz: (Through barely Suppressed Rage) You know… I just wanted to get some shopping done. Really, that’s it! (Red Eyes, Take Warning) But, it would seem as if I’m not even allowed that. - In Amazing Fantasy, Stain pushes Peter's buttons with his insane preaching and wanton disregard for lives. But rather fly at him in a berserk rage, Peter calmly gets off the floor and dislocates Stain's jaw in one punch before subjecting him to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
- BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant:
- After Mercury makes an offhand comment to Penny during their fight about killing Tukson, she enters this state, becoming akin to the Emotionless Girl she once was back at the labs all while directing pure, murderous wrath at the assassin for killing her friend.
- When Rachel meets Relius during the Fall of Vale and learns of his role in the death of her father, though she appears completely calm, it's clear that she's seething with rage. Relius even describes her wrath as "so chilling even the climates of Solitas would seem warm by comparison."
- Child of the Storm uses this constantly. This includes most of the Avengers, as they're conscious of the kind of damage they can do if they lose control of their tempers.
- Code Prime: In Nerves of Steel, Megatron catches everyone off guard when he tells them they are dismissed, despite the fact that they failed to acquire another Cybertronian artifact and lost another energon mine, as well as a large number of slaves. He doesn’t raise his voice, nor does he punish any of them, but he makes it clear that he’s absolutely livid when Starscream tries to question him.
- Later in A United Front Facing the Dark Horizon, Megatron recaps everything he was told regarding the failed attempts to take over the EU and Chinese Federation, all while growling lowly. He eventually explodes with anger when Starscream tries to make excuses.
- This becomes Rainbow Dash's default mood after her augmentation in Deus Ex Equine Revengeance.
- Dragons and Swarm:
- Yusei is calmly furious when dueling Jack at the Fortune Cup, never raising his voice while his opening move is to summon Junk Berserker.
- The Dark Signers Arc sees Kalin pull Yusei in for a Forceful Kiss. Jack Atlas, having zero tolerance for sexual abuse, takes the duel in his brother's place and completely demolishes the Dark Signer, all in a quiet rage.
- Yusei reacts...poorly when the Dark Signer for Chacu Challhua says he's going to kill the other Signers. But hearing that the Earthbound Immortal really wants Taylor dead? That really cranks the dial up to 11.
- Emily Hastings from An Entry with a Bang! does this when a friend of hers gets killed, toying with the ASF pilot responsible and taking him out methodically weapon-by-weapon.
- In Fist of the Moon, Rei notes that Ranma never frowns, yells, or snarls while in the dojo. S/he only ever smiles or wears a serious expression. The latter means you've screwed up. Then, when Ranma is getting ready to "spar" with Mamoru after he condescends about Ranma's abilities, Ranma doesn't get serious. Instead, s/he acts very ditzy and cheerful, answering a question of his with a bright "Yeppers!", before ghosting around every one of Mamoru's attacks (Akane and Makoto are the only ones to realize that Ranma dodges them all by the exact same margin of distance) before effortlessly handing Mamoru his rear end on a platter.
- After his subordinates are wiped out, a Yakuza boss in Kyon: Big Damn Hero enters Tranquil Fury.
- It's also one interpretation of Kyon's mental state after someone nearly killed Tsuruya.
- In The Last Spartan, The Master Chief struggles to remain composed when Saren dismissively calls him by his real name.
- In Matsu's Ashikabi
, when Dumbledore arrives to "collect" Harry Potter and bring him to Hogwarts (read:kidnap him regardless of Harry's or Matsu's wishes), Matsu is described being so furious she didn't even feel upset, merely "dully polite". She also spends the entire visit plastering Dumbledore and his companions all over the International Most Wanted List, exposing the Wizarding World by streaming the conversation online, and creating plans to unleash the entire Sekirei species upon the Wizarding World in open war if necessary. - In A Midsummer Night's Dream, this is Michael's reaction in chapter 8 to learning the ponies found the wreckage of Brawler Yukon and have been suppressing the news for three months.
- In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Izuku is thoroughly pissed off when he realizes that the zero-point robot at the U.A. Entrance Exam is a replica of Starro, perpetuating the cycle of Fantastic Racism that he has been trying to steer clear of for his entire life and throwing a massive hunk of concrete at it to voice his disgust. Despite his anger, he never loses his composure and methodically zips in and out of the fight to keep others out of the crossfire while he dismantles the robot and its drones with his Heat Vision and Super-Strength.Izuku: (glaring at the robot as his eyes glow red) You need to stop talking.
- The Night Unfurls:
- The Hunter is devoid of expression whenever he is swinging his heavy serrated cleaver in arcs meant to maim, sever, and kill on a daily basis.
- Hugh has one of these moments during Chapter 6 of the original, upon witnessing the sight of a group of goblins alongside several female corpses, one of them used as a Human Sacrifice. Internally declaring that the greenskins are Always Chaotic Evil, he brandishes his blade with a cold look overcoming his features, intent on tearing the shaman responsible apart.
- Olga's face does not show emotion when she suddenly appears to scorch the rebels under Mandeville's command, but she is in fact incoherently furious about Chloe being seriously wounded. Even Kyril and a few of his soldiers, all of them hard fighters, are momentarily taken aback.
- In The Shattered Soul, an amnesiac Alfred is betrayed and left to die by Neo, Roman and Mercury, found by Raven and almost murdered, captured by Tyrian and Emerald, and recalls England pointing a gun at him in the Revolution. The last betrayal sends Alfred over the edge and he calmly and silently starts burning everything down with his Semblance, never changing expression.
- Suicidal Overconfidence: After Bitsy presses Wilson Fisk's Berserk Button by insulting his dead family, he just chuckles and states rather serenely that some people would find his life story funny. He then walks in front of Bitsy and asks what kind of funeral she wants before beating her to death off-screen.
- Thousand Shinji: When Shinji learns about the true fate of his and his friends' mothers, he gets mad... at the beginning.Now he had transcended anger.
A strange calm and clarity washed over him. He would not get mad.
He would get even. - A Triangle in the Stars: Of all people, Bill Cipher enters this state when his brother cracks Steven's gem. If you ever get a usually full-on raging demon to exhibit cold fury, you've done something horribly, horribly wrong and should probably be running. Too late...
- In Weiss Reacts, Ozpin is shown to have a LOT of this under the surface despite his trolling tendencies and his reputation as an Eccentric Mentor.For a moment, as Blake studied Ozpin's expression, she was reminded not of a kindly, eccentric mentor, but of a far older, ancient warrior, his will to fight tempered by years upon years of endless battles, unintimidated by anything that would attempt to make him feel fear. This was not Ozpin the headmaster of Beacon, this was Ozpin, the Huntsman of old, feared throughout the Four Kingdoms and even amongst the Magus Association, the fighter of battles known and unknown, whose name was still whispered in hushed whispers though he had exchanged his battle armor for the robes of a scholar.
And in all her obsession with manliness, Blake realised that even her beloved Kamina paled in the calm fury Ozpin was hiding underneath the surface. - In White Devil of the Moon Vita gets an uncomfortable reminder of just why she gave Nanoha the moniker White Devil when her sister is kidnapped.
- in Rebel King, Arratra enters this state when Maul captures Ssimiss and pulls all the information about XCOM and their resources from her mind, using every technique at his disposal to smash through his defenses while retaining an icy, focused fury. Maul, who was expecting the detached dispassion of the Jedi or the Unstoppable Rage of the Sith, is completely taken off-guard. When Ezra, Kanan, and Cal notice Arratra's icy presence in the Force, their XCOM allies outright name-drop the trope.Wiz: We call that 'Tranquil Fury'. Or 'the Zen of Rage'. A level of sheer anger so great that one goes straight through wild rage… and comes out the other side.
- Breath Of Life: After Aang hears from Azula that she tortured Katara to get her to say where Aang was, after an initial moment of rage, he uses his airbending to calmly pull the air out of her lungs.
- A Grudge Not Held: Just like in canon, Gin does not get angry easily, but when he does, he stays in control and it is terrifying. In the past, when a Hollow hurt Rangiku, he spent half an hour torturing the creature before purifying it. In the present, when Luppi hurt and left scars on her, her husband tortured the Arrancar by gradually chopping off his tentacles one by one before moving to the main body, all while smiling without saying a word. Luppi, in his fear, described that smile as a bloodthirsty smile of a crocodile or a snake.
- A Protector's Pride: When Ichigo's truly pissed, he'll appear completely calm while his reiatsu drives even captain level fighters to their knees.
- Vow of the King: Aizen informs Uryu's parents that one of his Espada killed their son, resulting in incredible rage from Ryuken, but Kanae's expression and voice become completely flat as she promises to kill him.
- In Hurt Me after Joyce walks in on Xander and Buffy engaging in some post-sex cuddling, she walks into the kitchen and starts making pancakes while being "so calm it was a certainty she was furious". Though it's shown in their conversation that what truly angers Joyce is that 1) Buffy was having her boyfriend over while she's grounded, and 2) They weren't using protection.
- In Living History, while being interviewed by a news reporter from the future, Xander learns that Faith had previously told her the two of them were having sex with everyone of age to "Boost morale".Xander: (Getting out of his chair) Excuse me. I have to go commit cold-blooded murder.
- An interesting variation shows up in Touched. Xander and Cordelia are cursed so that they're forced to remain in physical contact with one another. Furthermore if one feels despair, the other embraces them, and if one feels anger, both feel pleasure. When Cordelia accuses Xander of deliberately depressing himself so she'll snuggle up against him, he doesn't say anything but both are suddenly wracked by a massive orgasm. Cordelia becomes rather scared of him when she realizes just how furious he had to be for that to happen.
- Turning Point: While Dracula makes his wrath loud and public, Adrien prefers to be quick and efficient.Adrien/Alucard: I will go, Father. I will go. I will watch, and I will listen, and I will find the people who plotted to do this to us... and I will kill them, that they may do it to no one else. No one but they will know it was the House of Țepeș that brought their deaths.The One-Winged Demoness: This isn’t a great day for the angels. Either Diablo kills them all or Benamin wrecks the entirety of their home.
- In The Fire of Futures Past, Stitch gives a Death Glare to Leroy} when the latter acts out CEO!626 and Angel making out in his story. He then walks up to the doppelganger experiment ready to chew him out for the act, silencing all the others' laughter in the process, until Leroy stops laughing and begins coughing and rolling around in pain. Stitch quickly calms down at that point and helps Leroy back up.
- Return to Krocodile Isle: In the post-credits scene, K. Rool briefly sinks into his rage-induced mental distortion before calmly and affably threatening Klump after he realizes that Klump not knowing his full name has led to him missing out on years of Smash Bros. invitations.K. Rool: (gently) Klump, my dearly dauntless Klump. Remind me, if I ever were to kill myself, I could scale to the heights of your blind devotion (suddenly furious) and leap down towards your IQ!
Klump: (realizing who the letters are for) You know, it's a very handsome name. (rolls back to dodge as K. Rool shoots at him) Well, I'll just be, I'll be... welcome home, sir!
- Walking in Circles: Solas after he found Evelyn has been made Tranquil. When Ser Clacher found them, the elf just silently walked forward and gave him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown with a sword instead of just using his magic, finally killed him after confirmed that the man didn’t force himself on Evelyn.
- It was so terrifying that later, when Evelyn realizes that he's pointing the same look at Cassandra who demands Evelyn to hand herself over, she immediately begs him to calm down before anything bad can happen.
- He has that look again in the Bad Future when he talks about how he got Alexius's amulet.
- Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
- Vegeta himself has arrived at a moment of tranquil fury upon having his tail cut off. It's particularly notable since not much earlier he was in full-blown Unstoppable Rage mode, complete with screaming about how he was going to kill everyone. When his tail gets cut off, instead of raging again, Vegeta speaks in almost a chipper tone as he prepares to kill them all.Vegeta: (calmly) You know... I thought I'd be angrier, what with the utter humiliation and loss of my tail... Or maybe I'm just so unbelievably enraged that I've come full circle. Oh well! Either way, it's time to put an end to this.
- Android 18 has this against Vegeta during their fight. Even before the fight Vegeta has been throwing misogynistic insults at her, which she steadily ignores as she first toys with him, and later starts getting the upper hand against him. A frustrated Vegeta responds by calling her a "Smug cunt." 18 sighs, and without ever visibly emoting, turns the fight into a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown where she batters Vegeta into submission and breaks both his arms.
- Vegeta himself has arrived at a moment of tranquil fury upon having his tail cut off. It's particularly notable since not much earlier he was in full-blown Unstoppable Rage mode, complete with screaming about how he was going to kill everyone. When his tail gets cut off, instead of raging again, Vegeta speaks in almost a chipper tone as he prepares to kill them all.
- Never Had a Friend Like Me: Norm slips into this after the Anti-Fairies and Pixies threaten to kill his current master (a little girl) in a plot to kill Timmy and out of sheer spite. He speaks in the same sarcastic tone, and becomes stone-faced when silent, but everyone can see the anger in his eyes, feel great magical energy in him building and waiting to be released, and it's terrifying to those present.
- Upon learning that her classmates lodged a formal inquiry that she's been replaced with a changeling in Mana Based System, Louise is utterly enraged and filled with hatred that they think so little of her that they believe it genuinely impossible for her to ever perform magic. She keeps it bottled inside until she's alone, then practices her magic tirelessly in a fit of rage.
- Soldier of Zero: Upon learning that Louise has been drugged with a love potion, Saito asks Guiche what's going on, noted as sounding more annoyed and tired than anything. Guiche still feels like someone is holding a knife to his throat. Furthermore, Saito gets his and Montmorency's attention by throwing a butter knife hard enough for it to sink hilt deep into a stone wall.
- In the last installment of the Elemental Chess Trilogy, Roy Mustang is on trial for the murder of Fuhrer Grumman. As the Amoral Attorney prosecutor continues to badger him about everything under the sun, he gets progressively more and more agitated. Then the prosecutor is pushing the idea that Roy committed the crime to further his ambitions, and Roy points out that even setting aside the other reasons he wouldn't have done it, he could never hurt his wife by committing such an act."Well," says the prosecutor, "maybe you love your ambition more than you love your wife."
If Ed were blind, he would still be able to see that this is the Wrongest Thing anyone has ever said to Mustang. He fully expects him to light the prosecutor on fire, although this wouldn't exactly help his case. At the very least, he expects Mustang to explode.
He doesn't. His black eyes are burning a hole through the prosecutor's head, but he remains seated, clutching the arms of the chair in a furious grip. And when he speaks, his voice is dangerously low and hissing, and fully informing the prosecutor that he has crossed the uncrossable line.
"I don't love anything more than my wife."
- Abraxas:
- Discussed in Chapter 9. It's made clear that Godzilla relies on controlled and calculated fury to fuel his actions when fighting.
- Monster X puts this kind of rage to good use when giving MaNi/Elder Brother a Curb-Stomp Battle in Chapter 17. MaNi/Elder Brother mentally compares the quietness and calm belying Monster X's sheer ferocity to the calm within the eye of a raging superstorm.
- In a non-canon crossover by Abraxas author Hrodvitnon on her Tumblr, San is a lot quieter than his sister half Vivienne when they learn from the "Graham Lives" Vivienne that Monarch in the latter's universe are keeping Ghidorah's severed left head intact, calmly saying at the end: "Where is the head being stored? I'm feeling peckish."
- In another such non-canon crossover where the fic's Mark Russell meets his canon self from Godzilla vs. Kong; the Mark's argue with each-other over Abraxas!Mark being a less smothering and controlling father to Madison than Canon!Mark is out of fear of losing her, and when Canon!Mark accuses Abraxas!Mark of not caring if Godzilla kills his Madison after they originally lost their other child to a Titan battle, Abraxas!Mark's response isn't to raise his voice and counter-argue at all. It's to breathe deeply, then tell Canon!Mark in a calm tone; it's a shame that he (Abraxas!Mark) can't go back in time and warn Canon!Mark's Vivienne off of saving his life in Antarctica, because if he could, it would save Canon!Vivienne from being eaten by Ghidorah and would ensure that Canon!Mark's Madison would have a more competent and comforting guardian than either of her biological parents turned out to be.
- In another
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed
- In Best of My Love, Lan Xichen is completely composed as he attacks Jin Zixun after Zixun publicly humiliated Meng Yao.
- In Love Song in Reverse, when Hanguang-jun truly loses his temper, he will look at you without raising his voice — and that's terrifying as shit.
- Anyway, I've Been There: When Pacifica runs away from home and the twins take her in, Pacifica's mom arrives to talk to Mrs. Pines. The kids don't hear the conversation, but at the end of it Pacifica is allowed to stay. Mrs. Pines, meanwhile, is trembling with rage when she reveals the bell that Pacifica's mom gave her. Pacifica has been conditioned to obey a ringing bell, and Mrs. Pines is clearly not happy about it. She tells Dipper to get rid of it, and Dipper and Pacifica cut it up with a cutting torch.
- Enemy of My Enemy: Vtan 'Arume goes into this after his old friend Rukth is killed. Vtan's human friend Perry states that this is the first time he's ever been truly scared of Vtan. Torikus also had a moment during which he acted like a "calculating murderer".
- Harry enters this in Old Soldiers Never Die when, during a raid on a Death Eater hideout, he finds a woman they kept as "entertainment".Harry: Did we take any of them alive?
McLain: A few sir.
Harry: What was that? I'm afraid I didn't hear you.
McLain: I said no sir. They died to the last.
Harry: Good. - Trolling the Toad: Professor Sprout reacts this way to the revelation of Umbridge being a child abuser through "the Hogwarts Voice" newsletter in Chapter 45:"If these allegations are true, you really do have some nerve sitting amongst us, you know." Professor Sprout spoke with the false kind of cheerfulness that one usually heard from someone when they were doing their very best not to punch someone in the face.
- Owl's Hell That Ends Well: When Stolas finally learns that his long-lost daughter Octavia has been with Blitzo all this time and Blitzo withheld this information from him, he's absolutely furious, but he controls himself long enough to send Loona home so that she doesn't have to see this side of him, and long enough to see Blitzo's reaction with his own eyes when he calmly lays the accusation at Blitzo's feet.
- Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità: Do not insult food in front of Japan, especially food from his land. Japan nearly provoked a fight with Germany when he insulted hijiki and dried shiitake mushroom spaghetti.
- Dimensional Links: At the end of Chapter 8, Dusk (the Twilight incarnation) gets a bit of this after Midna throws him through the portal. Very calm, very murderous, but completely Played for Laughs:Dusk: ...I'm going to strangle her. I'm going to strangle her within an inch of her life. And then I'm going to tie her to a boulder and torture her with all the people she could be making fun of but can't because of the spell I'm going to have Zelda cast on her mouth to prevent her from talking until I extract an ironclad promise from her to never do this to me ever again.
(black pouch drops out of the void and lands between his eyes before falling onto the ground)
Dusk: On second thought, I'm going to kill her. I'm going to kill her, then bring her back to life and kill her again just to make sure she's got the point, and then I'm going to bring her back to life a second time so I can chain her to a Cucco for the rest of her existence.
- Lincoln in Finding A Loud goes this way when dealing with rowdy children. Scaring Lola in behaving, as she's used to people getting....well, Louder when angry. Not quieter.
- Long Lost Loud: While most NSL fics have Lincoln yell and get into a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown with Lynn or gives a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to them or worst of all, think his family hates him, not this time. Here Lincoln NEARLY loses his temper but instead holds it in and just allows them to go on their day out.
- When Motoko spills the beans on her sister searching for Keitaro's alter ego in Art Pamphlet, Tsuruko initially merely thanks her for the drinks she brought. After Motoko doesn't take the hint to leave, Tsuruko literally drags her out of the room and suggests they "go practice".
- In MSLN Test Dummies, Roland goes into this when he learns about the screwed-up training battle Crash has gotten into.
- Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail: Bucky Barnes enters this state while slaughtering HYDRA agents.The clench of anger in Barnes’s chest has released. Inside, he is chill and silence. He is eyes connected to hands connected to triggers. His metal arm windmills, deflecting bullets. Like Rogers’s shield. He plows through these assholes like retribution.
- In Mega Man Reawakened, Wily has this with Break Man and Bass in Arc 5, chapter 5.
- best (fake) smile: When Adrien talks with Marinette and learns more about the extent of Lila's campaign of bullying against her, he is livid — internally. But he doesn't show it to Marinette, he just tries to be supportive and then, once he's home, talks with Plagg and makes plans. By the time he's done, Lila's reputation has been torn down, ripped into confetti, set on fire, and scattered to the four winds, while Adrien continues to smile politely at her and act like a perfect gentleman."We're not doing this for fun, Plagg. We're doing this for justice."
"But we're still gonna crush her like a soda can, right? Good. Great. Glad we're on the same page." - Feralnette AU: Played With during the Lady Clarity incident. The akuma's power manifests the inner thoughts of her victims as phantoms; Lila's phantom exposes her true nature by gleefully bragging about helping 'Hawkie' target Marinette and 'Ladybrat'. Felix goes into a cold fury, but his phantom has a positively nightmarish expression as they both declare "...I think I'm going to murder you."
- Cain: Toshinori tries to keep his temper in check while dealing with Katsuki, but ultimately winds up zigzagging. A perfect illustration of this comes when he confronts Katsuki over his attempting to break into the Midoriya's home: while he's icily calm as he forces him away, and mostly keeps his temper in check while laying out the boy's issues, he spikes into Suddenly Shouting when it becomes clear that Katsuki still sees HIMSELF as the victim, regaining his cold composure by the end of their conversation.
- Whispered Tribulation: Principal Nedzu trends towards this. Even when faced with the utterly nightmarish scenario of three of his staff members going behind his back to kidnap one of U.A.'s students with the intention of brutally securing a 'confession' of their supposed crimes based on the flimsiest of 'evidence', he holds onto his temper and focuses on defusing the situation however he can. His control only slips twice — once when Katsuki makes it clear he doesn't regret attacking Izuku, and again when Aizawa is about to assault Izuku right after he's been officially cleared. Both times, raising his voice and using the offender's full name is enough to spur an Oh, Crap! reaction from everyone present.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- A Brief History of Equestria: Hurricane upon finding out that the father of Pansy's child is an Earth Pony.
- Friendship Is Magic: The Adventures of Spike: After recovering from Chrysalis' attack, Celestia tracks her down amongst the chaos of the invasion for a rematch in order to punish her for threatening her subjects (especially Spike). When she finds her, she doesn't even raise her voice as she threatens her.
- In Her Inner Demons, Sci-Twilight's default mode had become this as a result of the horrific bullying she endured. Outwardly, she was a quiet Shrinking Violet, but her internal thoughts were a thunderstorm of rage.Sci-Twilight: (after an Alpha Bitch bumps into her) Pardon me!
Sci-Twilight: (thinking) Arrogant, self-centered, obnoxious bitch! Trotting around here like she owns the place, flaunting the riches of her family when she herself has done nothing! Money-for-brains, that one; I'd like to see how you'd scream if your family business went bankrupt tomorrow! - In Progress, Princess Luna goes into tranquil fury mode when Prince Blueblood makes hurtful and lewd comments towards Sundance. She maintains a perfectly calm facade while sending him for a gut-wrenching test ride that leaves him thoroughly shaken, and he makes a hasty exit.
- Luna is unnervingly calm when she turns Discord to stone in the dreamworld, even showing no reaction at all when he begs her to stop. Whether this counts as a Moral Event Horizon for Luna has sparked some debate among fans.
- Sitting On A Rock, Sunset tells Maud that she's going to keep tormenting Trixie to get back at Maud for bruising her arm. How does Maud respond? She punches a hole into her locker, shrugs off the fact that her arm is bleeding profusely, and asks Sunset politely not to bother Trixie. All the while maintaining her stoic facade. Sunset (reluctantly) backs off and fearfully runs away from Maud.
- In Death Dancer Ino, upon learning Orochimaru ordered the attack that killed Sakura, Naruto remains outwardly calm while tapping into the Kyuubi's chakra and saying, "He dies."
- In Dreaming of Sunshine, Sasuke enters this state after Kimimaro nearly kills Naruto.
- In A Month as Naruto Uzumaki, Sarutobi spends a month as Naruto to see how bad the village really treats him. In less than 3 weeks he decides he's seen enough and recalls something the First Hokage told him, "A Hokage must never give into rage. But, should your anger be too much to contain, you must make sure that your anger be three things. Your rage must be cold. Your rage must be reasoned. And your rage must be legendary." In the end, Naruto owns roughly 30% of Konoha, the Uchiha clan is down to six children, and the entire main branch of the Hyuuga clan has been wiped out except for Hinata (Hiashi had told Hanabi about Sarutobi's law).
- Naruto and Hinata learn they've taken this too far in People Lie when they realize that Sasuke doesn't believe their very serious threats to kill him because they've learned to unconsciously suppress their killing intent.
- These lines from Team 8 after Neji demolishes Hinata in the Chuunin Exam preliminaries demonstrate that Naruto will not take this lightly.Shino: What variety of flowers would be appropriate?
Tenten: What?
Shino: For your teammate's funeral.
- In Advice and Trust, Ritsuko notes during a test that Shinji looks calm and talks softly, but he is downright furious. She thinks that it's very enervating.
- The Child of Love: When Rei gets pissed off, she does not yell or threaten. Not at all. She states her intentions quietly before crushing you.
- HERZ: When Asuka is angry but she is acting quiet and self-controlled she is actually more dangerous:"Kensuke..." said Asuka dangerously. That meant quietly.
- Once More With Feeling (Crazy-88): Asuka of all people slips into this when she sees Rei's atrocious living conditions, and finds out the whole thing was arranged by Gendo.
- Rise of the Minisukas: When Shiki calls Asuka idiot, Asuka asks her to tell that again in a cool, level tone which is belied by her utterly enraged expression."You wanna say that to me again you little shit?" Asuka had a deceptively calm tone despite looking like rage made manifest.
- In The Second Try, when Gendo says he questioned Asuka about her daughter Aki, Shinji gets furious, but he doesn't it show outwardly because he knows that his father wants to provoke him. So he decides to hold back, wait, and then make his father pay.
- In Junior Officers, Captain Barnacles is quite masterful at hiding anger behind stoicism. However, "Even the Best Fall Down Sometimes" gives him to opportunity to break down and unleash a mighty rage against Deborah.
- Ripples, Waves, Tsunamis:
- After an occurrence of Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking, Zoro and Sanji express the crew's discontent at Luffy prioritizing meat over the crew's healing wounds.
- After Zoro suggests cutting off Raijax’s limbs and then having Chopper sew them back on to stop his berserk rampage, Nami serenely states that if any of them maim him, she'll crush their testicles in their sleep for the rest of their lives. Even Brook is terrified, and he doesn’t even have testicles anymore.
- And at the end of that scene, when for lack of any better ideas to stop Raijax they're about ready to consider Zoro's idea, Luffy speaks up and says he has an idea. And when they look in his eyes? Everyone gets scared.
- This Bites!:
- In Chapter 2, Cross displays this to Luffy shortly after joining his crew, his face expressionless as he issues a very cold speech threatening to maim him if he steals his meat. To everyone's awe, it works.
- In Chapter 17, let's just say Vivi's not happy when she finds out that Cross lied to her about where the Rebel Army was in Alabasta.
- In Chapter 30, Captain T-Bone displays this when talking about the person who sold out his men to Akainu. It's Vergo.
- In Chapter 32, Jessica finding out that her husband has been throwing out the food she's made leaves her speaking in a tone described as the eye of a hurricane.
- Three, very notable examples in Chapter 39, all from the SBS broadcasting the Ohara incident, and Spandam taunting Robin afterwards:
- Tashigi goes past horrified and disgusted, and reaches the point that she can't feel anything but cold rage.
- Luffy reaches a whole new level of calmness...which, for him and in this case, is downright scary.
- Lassoo's reaction is a very steady, "I'm going to eat him."
- In Chapter 44, Sengoku makes very clear to Akainu that the only reason he's not in the middle of an Unstoppable Rage is that he's too old to do so without heart problems. Nonetheless, he is furious and all but begging Akainu to give him a reason to lock the admiral away.
- In Chapter 57, almost all of the Straw Hats have this when strolling Shiki's throne room for the final confrontation, and Smoker and Tashigi are unsettled at how merciless Cross in particular looks.
- In Chapter 60, Cross is very calm at the start of his argument with Kuroobi and Chew after the former calls him a Hypocrite for associating with the Marines despite all his talk on the SBS.
- And Koala, who they still consider a friend and who knows full well of what they did on Conomi Island, goes full-on Ice Queen when finally talking directly to them.
- Beginning in Chapter 79, Cross and Soundbite are locked into this so deeply that not even Conqueror's Haki fazes them, the former's voice barely above a whisper as they preside remotely over the Marineford War. Though while the emotion is 100% genuine, there's another reason for Cross keeping quiet: not only would talking too loudly aggravate the stab wound in his stomach, it could attract hostile predators to his hiding place.
- In the Denoument, after he returns to Marineford, Admiral Aokiji, who previously had pretty much Stopped Caring about - pretty much everything - is clearly seething in fury, directed both at the Government for its sheer corruption, and himself for Just Following Orders for twenty years despite knowing of said corruption. His scowl almost made Akainu flinch when he did a Face-Revealing Turn after ringing the Ox Bell. Despite this, he never raises his voice beyond a normal level even as he challenges Akainu to the same Duel to the Death they fought in canon, making his intention to kill Akainu utterly explicit by saying that "-the winner will succeed Sengoku. The loser will die."
- Blasting Off!: After Cam remembers who Professor Oak is to him and what he did, the man's appearance and belittling of Blue garners no visible reaction except Cam clenching his fist so tightly that he breaks one of his fingers.
- Better For Loving You: When a member of his club starts casting aspersions on Elizabeth's virtue, Mr Darcy sticks to a cutting but restrained verbal riposte. Mr Bingley quietly wonders afterward at how he can stay so calm."Bingley," Darcy bit out, his expression still impassive though his tone was livid. "I could happily strangle the bastard."
- The Unseen Hunt: Ruby is furious at Weiss after the latter sends two people to their deaths by Grimm!Blake and Grimm!Adam, but she doesn't raise her voice in the slightest while she's verbally tearing into Weiss, and even when she's leaving she doesn't slam the door so much as close it very gently.
- White Sheep: When in his Grimm form, Jaune is affected by the negative emotions of those around him, and thus prone to falling into an Unstoppable Rage. However, when Adam cuts off Yang's arm, Jaune starts thinking like a Grimm while remaining perfectly rational—meaning he is completely dedicated to killing the person who offended him, while intelligent enough to use all his abilities and resources to do so.The burning hatred was there, as was the desire to rip and tear for the sake of the joy such would bring him, but it was muted, concealed, buried under something far worse. This... This thing had done something unforgivable. It would die for that. No "he was going to kill it," but the simple fact that it would die. It was already dead. Reality just hadn't had a chance to catch up with it yet.
- Concerning Us: Main character Janine reaches the point after a while where she doesn't care about upholding any sort of illusion and freely expresses her emotions, up to and including shouting anyone's head off. Then she's faced with the man whose actions caused the deaths of her brother and her aunt...Janine: I understand. Mistakes happen. Let me tell you what was your last one... You were afraid of the wrong sibling. (she stabs him in the neck)
- According to Word of God in The Boy with the Magic Notebook, Coil used his power multiple times during the meeting with other villains and the Protectorate when Maxwell arrives with them due to how much his aid to the city has set back his plans.
- Deliver Us from Evil Series: Watson enters this in Mortality, when interrogating a criminal on his friend's whereabouts. It's pretty scary."If your master's actions destroy him whom I regard as-as the best and wisest man I have ever known, make no mistake that I shall hunt down, to a man, everyone who played a part in his destruction."
- It ends badly for said criminal, since Watson calmly, coldly murders the guy.
- He's still in this when he coldly kills Smith. Nice job, Smith. You had to piss off a likeable doctor by torturing his friend, AND GLOATING over the guy while he's dying. Now this mild-mannered doctor is going to actually calmly, coldly KILL YOU.
- Oblivion: The Gorgon sisters' mother gets this when five-year-old Shaula tells her how her older sisters have been bullying her and telling her she's too weak to live. She doesn't yell at them, but young!Arachne and young!Medusa are apparently scared to be punished by her.
- Insontis: In chapter 25, Spock becomes coldly furious when a visitor performs a shirt lift on the eight-year-old Kirk.Spock was utterly expressionless, eyes devoid of anything but pure ice. That in itself was scary, because [the security team] knew that no one was as pure cool Vulcan as their Vulcan when he was restraining the urge to kill someone.
- In the first chapter of Safe and Sound, Winona Kirk goes into a tranquil fury when she comes face to face with Khan. It's very awesome, and describing it here could not do the scene justice.
- In Back From the Future, Luke Skywalker stops a clone trooper from killing the slaver who started detonating the explosive implants in freed slaves, until said slaver starts talking about fulfilling Hutt justice. Luke calmly agrees that they should follow Hutt justice, for him and every other slaver on the planet. Every slaver is fed to the Sarlaac, much like runaway slaves used to be.
- In Hellsister Trilogy, Darkseid informs Supergirl in a very calm, cool fashion that he is aware that her interference ruined his plans and he's going to kill her now.
- In Kara of Rokyn, rival wrestler Jasmine gives the main character the choice of sleeping with her or getting brutalized during their upcoming match. When Kara tells her to get out, Jasmine states in a scarily quiet, matter-of-factly tone that Kara'll regret her choice before leaving.The woman looked at Kara with the air of a butcher wondering which part of a carcass to start on. Then she turned, stooped, and picked her robe off the floor tiles. She slid it back on, did up the sash, and then looked up.
"You will regret this day," said Jasmine, without due emphasis.
Kara found that the scariest part of their encounter.
- In Nightblade, Rythin usually goes into this when his Berserk Button is pressed, shutting off all emotions and removing whatever pressed the button. One notable example was when it was hammered:Nick: I am so angry right now that I am beyond anger. If Sugou was in this room right now, I would kill him in a heartbeat with my bare hands and I wouldn't give a damn about the consequences. I would crush his throat with my bare hands and watch him die in satisfaction. That's how angry I am.
- This Fan Dub of a speech from IDW's Transformers, in contrast to the issue, in which Orion Pax is visibly enraged, the Voice Actor reads the speech in the steady tone commonly associated with Optimus Prime, to great effect.
- The Accidental Warlord And His Pack: Eskel goes cold and silent with with fury after Lytta betrays Geralt and nearly kills him. "Eskel has no words left, nothing but the growl rumbling deep in his chest, nothing but the glacier-cold anger filling his thoughts."
- Taylor Is DOOMed: Being trapped in a facility full of monsters and constantly fighting for her life gives Taylor some serious anger issues, but as she continues to die and respawn, over and over, the anger becomes cold rather than hot, which makes her even more lethally efficient. By the time of her 104th death:She was also so far beyond fury that she couldn't even think of a word for it, and had ended up in an almost zenlike state of eerie calm underlaid by a rage that would destroy a star.
She settled for destroying absolutely everything else, not having a star handy to take out her peevishness on.
- In X-Men: The Early Years, Scott Summers informs a guy who has just gotten Jean plastered that he's going to confess what he's done or Scott will kill him. His delivery is so absolutely cold and matter-of-factly the guy hightails it right away.I'm going to tell you what you're going to do, Jose;, and you're going to listen very carefully. If you don't, you're going to be dealing with me. You really don't want to do that. You are going to march right into camp and tell Carol what happened."
"What if I don't do it?" Jose; demanded.
Scott gave him a very chilling smile. "You're going to make me very angry. There's a difference between Warren and me. Warren will rip your arms off and feel guilty about it later. I, on the other hand, will simply hold your head under the water until you stop struggling and I won't feel anything. It would be in your own best interest not to irritate me. Do I make myself perfectly clear?"
