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-->--'''Azula,''' summing up her friend Mai on '''''AvatarTheLastAirbender'''''

* ''{{Equilibrium}}'' takes place in a society where everyone uses a drug called Prozium to suppress their emotions. Refusal to administer it is [[{{Dystopia}} punishable by death]].

->"''Well, that's it, then -- you had a [[FreudianExcuse controlling mother]] who had certain expectations, and [[LonelyRichKid if you strayed from them, you were shut down]]. That's why you're afraid to care about anything -- and why you can't express yourself.''

-->--'''Azula,''' summing up her friend Mai on ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''

-->'''Azula,''' summing up her friend Mai on ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''

* ''[[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft World of Warcraft]]'' has an odd case where a character does this to himself. According to legend, Emperor Shaohao expelled his negative emotions from his body (thus creating the Sha) in order to save Pandaria from the Shattering.

* In Patrick Rothfuss's ''KingkillerChronicles'', Kvothe learns a mental exercise called "Heart of Stone" which places the practitioner in a state of dispassionate calm where all other emotions are temporarily shunted aside.

* In Max Barry's ''Machine Man'', Dr. Charles Neumann is not very emotional to begin with. However, after [[spoiler: mapping his emotional responses with an MRI, he suppresses any traces of guilt or regret. Chemically.]]

* In ''Doctor Who'' The Cybermen have no emotions because they have them removed when they get changed; in the past series, this was due to being subsumed by the Cyberman HiveMind system practiced by Cyber-Controllers and Cyber-Planners, and in the new, it is done through emotion-nulling firmware. Breaking them out of this ends with the Cyberman writhing in horrific pain as ''everything'' they've ever denied rushes into them.

* TeenTitans: Raven has to constantly suppress her emotions lest she lose control of her powers completely. Hence the meditation.

Sometimes it is portrayed as a bad thing. In that case the character in question [[StealthPun can at best hope]] to be an [[LonersAreFreaks a loner]] or an EmotionlessGirl not knowing ThisThingYouCallLove. At worst, the character will be put in a sort of UncannyValley, being human in appearance but [[CompleteMonster not human]] in behaviour. Any sort of permanent Emotion Suppression will probably turn out this way, BonusPoints if it is not voluntary.

* ''CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''The Asylum and Other Tales'', adventure "The Asylum". One of the drugs Doctor Freygan has developed is called Mood Flattener. It temporarily suppresses all emotion in the recipient, whether positive or negative.

* TeenTitans: Raven has to constantly suppress her emotions lest she lose control of her powers completely. Hence the meditation.

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* The [[StarTrek Vulcan]] culture has EmotionSuppression at its core.

* "Dissociation" in ''{{Strata}}'' is a type of meditation with this effect.
* In Patrick Rothfuss's ''{{Kingkiller Chronicles}}'', Kvothe learns a mental exercise called "Heart of Stone" which places the practitioner in a state of dispassionate calm where all other emotions are temporarily shunted aside.

* ''DigitalDevilSaga'' has Gale, who stubbornly tries to remain an [[EmotionlessGirl Emotionless Guy]] even though he keeps having intense hallucinations he can't explain. [[BewareTheNiceOnes When he finally explodes, the results are not pretty]].

* In ''Doctor Who'' The Cybermen have no emotions because they have them removed when they get changed.

* * ''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]'': Cyrus, leader of the Team Galactic, is trying to create a universe with no emotions so that there would be no conflicts.

* ''[[PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]'': Cyrus, leader of the Team Galactic, is trying to create a universe with no emotions so that there would be no conflicts.