History Main / EmotionSuppression

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', Fixer is a drug co-produced by the Citizens Alliance Research Institute and the Association of Victims of Avarice Crimes that suppresses a person's emotions and desires, making them numb to everything going on around them, even danger or the government's own crimes. It's mixed into rain so that the whole population can be Fixed at once, and AVAC bans umbrellas to force it on them. Stabilizers hunt down Floaties, or people who haven't been Fixed, and enforce Emotion Mitigation Treatment upon them, [[MortonsFork but if they can't afford it, they're labeled as an Avarice Criminal and are arrested and Fixed.]] Emotion suppression was enforced by the government during the Rainy Period (2076 onwards) because they believe it cuts on the costs for curing mental illnesses and removes emotional conflict. When AVAC officers arrest people for "Avarice Crimes", they force them to pay the fine to "prove their Apathy", otherwise they get Fixed.

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', Fixer is a drug produced by the Citizens Alliance Research Institute and funded by the Association of Victims of Avarice Crimes that suppresses a person's emotions and desires, making them numb to everything going on around them, even danger or the government's own crimes. It's mixed into rain so that the whole population can be Fixed at once, and AVAC bans umbrellas to force it on them. Stabilizers hunt down Floaties, or people who haven't been Fixed, and enforce Emotion Mitigation Treatment upon them, [[MortonsFork but if they can't afford it, they're labeled as an Avarice Criminal and are arrested and Fixed.]] Emotion suppression was enforced by the government during the Rainy Period (2076 onwards) because they believe it cuts on the costs for curing mental illnesses and removes emotional conflict.

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', Fixer is a drug produced by AVAC that suppresses a person's emotions and desires, making them numb to everything going on around them, even danger or the government's own crimes. It's mixed into rain so that the whole population can be Fixed at once, and AVAC bans umbrellas to force it on them. Stabilizers hunt down Floaties, or people who haven't been Fixed, and enforce Emotion Mitigation Treatment upon them, [[MortonsFork but if they can't afford it, they're labeled as an Avarice Criminal and are arrested and Fixed.]]

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', Fixer is a drug produced by AVAC that suppresses a person's emotions and desires, making them numb to everything going on around them, even danger. It's mixed into rain so that the whole population can be Fixed at once, and AVAC bans umbrellas to force it on them. Emotion Mitigation Treatment lets a patient suppress their emotions by choice, but it's so expensive, people would rather get Fixed by AVAC than go with the procedure.

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', Emotion Mitigation Treatment suppresses the patient's emotions, but it's so expensive, people would rather get Fixed by AVAC than go with the procedure.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei initially tries to suppress her emotions in order to suppress her red panda transformations. [[spoiler: Her mother, Ming, has also been doing this ever since she was a teenager. By the time, her animal spirit is released, the emotions she kept within her mind after all these years has turned it into an angry, rampaging giant.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei initially tries to suppress her emotions in order to suppress her red panda transformations.

* ''Series/TillTheEndOfTheMoon'': Played with for Tantai Jin. While both he and other characters often claim he was born without a proper understanding of emotions, it's fairly obvious from his behaviour―crying, sarcasm, getting back at people who hurt him―that he does still feel at least some of them. And how much of his detachment is due to his demonic nature versus the circumstances he grew up in is anyone's guess.

* In the film adaptation of ''Literature/GenocidalOrgan'', the {{Super Soldier}}s have B.E.A.R (Battle Emotion Adaptive Regulation) enabling them to stay calm in combat conditions and kill without remorse. The plot involves the soldiers hunting a linguistic expert who's developed a [[LanguageEqualsThought language of genocide]] that he claims works in a similar manner to B.E.A.R by repressing the conscience, [[HatePlague enabling ordinary people to commit atrocities]].

* In Creator/SergeyLukyanenko's ''Literature/{{Genome}}'' the specs (specialists who are [[BioAugmentation genetically augmented]] for certain jobs) have certain emotions suppressed and others modified as part of their specialization.

* In the film adaptation of ''Anime/GenocidalOrgan'', the {{Super Soldier}}s have B.E.A.R (Battle Emotion Adaptive Regulation) enabling them to stay calm in combat conditions and kill without remorse. The plot involves the soldiers hunting a linguistic expert who's developed a [[LanguageEqualsThought language of genocide]] that he claims works in a similar manner to B.E.A.R by repressing the conscience, [[HatePlague enabling ordinary people to commit atrocities]].

* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. The 'conditioning' the cyborg children undergo includes this, though the effects vary as it's up to TheHandler how much conditioning they receive.

* ''Anime/GenocidalOrgan''. The {{Super Soldier}}s have B.E.A.R (Battle Emotion Adaptive Regulation) enabling them to stay calm in combat conditions and kill without remorse. The plot involves the soldiers hunting a linguistic expert who's developed a [[LanguageEqualsThought language of genocide]] that he claims works in a similar manner to B.E.A.R by repressing the conscience, [[HatePlague enabling ordinary people to commit atrocities]].

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. Alternately, when a character has been emotionally hurt previously, or seen someone close to them be hurt, they may decide to seek SafetyInIndifference, and often need time before they [[PowerOfTrust feel comfortable letting down their guard again]]. At worst, the character will be put in a sort of UncannyValley, being human in appearance but not human in behaviour -- arguably the worst form being the StepfordSmiler. Any sort of permanent Emotion Suppression will probably turn out this way, especially if it is not voluntary.

* This forcefully happens to Satoru Suzuki in ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'' when he becomes Momonga, his {{lich}} video game character, as the undead cannot feel emotions. This is both a good and a bad thing. While he does not feel emotions like fear, disgust or rage which could cloud his mind, he also [[LackOfEmpathy loses his empathy]] and becomes completely inhuman.

* The BigBad from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' claims to be unable to experience any emotions at all, but it’s clear that he’s somehow trained himself to suppress them. The plus side of this is that he can call up genuine emotions at will, though he struggles to tie them to an appropriate external reaction. The downside is that is ability to suppress them isn’t 100% perfect, which the heroes are able to exploit.

* In ''Borderline'' by Mishell Baker, one magic-practicing character casts a spell to create a temporary familiar made up of all her cast-off emotions, that usually takes the form of a small, ghostly dragon-shaped spirit. When she does so, she becomes an EmotionlessGirl, but all her feelings return when the spell ends. This makes it easier to do her job and cope with a variety of stressful situations, since she has PTSD from some very bad things that happened in her childhood, but the spell is very draining and makes it difficult for her to perform any other kind of magic while it is active. Nearly everyone in this book would benefit from it, since all the main characters have some kind of mental illness and a history of traumatic events in their pasts, and the protagonist, who has borderline personality disorder, is both awed and deeply envious when she sees the other character cast a spell to temporarily split off her emotions from the reasoning part of her mind.
* Nezumi in ''Broken Gate'' has done a ''very'' extreme version of this, as she disregarded anything not related to guarding the gate, in which case, she cut off her own thoughts and feelings, emotions included, turning her into an EmotionlessGirl who could no longer feel nor express them.
* ''The Chronicles of Grimm Dragonblaster'': The titular character has to repress his emotions using dangerous addictive drugs in order to confront a demon mage who draws magic from negative emotions, rendering him emotionless and logical.
* ''Literature/DocSavage'': The primary weapon of the villain in ''The Men Who Smiled No More'' is a drug that prevents its victims from feeling emotion. This makes the victim's very suggestible, and also capable of committing casual murder as they cannot see anything wrong with the act.

* ''LightNovel/SkeletonKnightInAnotherWorld'':

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* The BigBad from ''AceAttorney:DualDestinies'' claims to be unable to experience any emotions at all, but it’s clear that he’s somehow trained himself to suppress them. The plus side of this is that he can call up genuine emotions at will, though he struggles to tie them to an appropriate external reaction. The downside is that is ability to suppress them isn’t 100% perfect, which the heroes are able to exploit.

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