And it turns out someone added an image despite the comment saying no.
~Yasmin Perry, did you mean to eliminate the entire comment section? Part of it was to inform editors not to add an image. I'll restore that part.
Also, ~Universalist, care to explain why you ignored that comment?
Part of the problem with trying to pic this trope is that there's a lot of similar tropes, and trying to capture something in a single pic that gets this one across is exceedingly difficult. How do we know, for instance, that the character isn't just The Stoic or The Comically Serious?
From what I see in the previous threads, the issue with the images not working is that it doesn't really show "not feeling emotion" instead of just "not showing emotion".
Per the definition:
Emotions are an essential part of humanity. Controlling those emotions is often a sign of maturity and rationality. This character goes beyond that and enters a disturbing, perhaps even creepy, realm of emotional numbness.
Most suggested pic show the second line, but that's not the trope.
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The trope isnt straight up emotionless, its more the breaking of the stereotype that all young girls are emotional via them being incapable of that and in turn social interaction. They can be an emotionally repressed broken bird or really anything.
The trope even says "she just stands out for lacking emotional reactions." Thats the trope. And almost always they are paired with a Genki Girl to make it stand out even more.
It is treated as disturbing, creepy if not alien. Its related to the Stoic but its always treated as a bad thing and have people attempt to 'fix' them, not so much with a male Stoic which is treated as cool and manly. Almost always will try to invoke a When She Smiles moment.
Even Yuki from Haruhi isnt completely emotionless, she just lacks the programing to express it. or Eu Hellscythe in Is This A Zombie is extremely caring and emotional just hides her emotions cause they can literally kill.
That said those pictures are on the right track but it doesn't get the point across well enough.
edited 10th Jun '17 9:38:45 PM by Memers
how about this?
Getting introduced to a class you should show some kind of emotion instead of just standing there blank faced.
There was the decontamination scene in the second Rebuild Of Evangelion, where the Children were having all sorts of reactions to this unpleasant procedure, except Rei, who was being her usual unemotive self. A collage of that could work, but it probably won't look good in wiki size.
BUPKIS
edited 1st Jul '17 7:18:45 AM by Millership
Spiral out, keep going.

This image
◊ did not get enough consensus in the Image Suggestion thread. Other ideas?
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"