History Main / SociallyAwkwardHero

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* It is an informed aspect of Henry Townshend of ''SilentHill4''. His neighbors think of him as a shut-in, which is why it takes a while for anyone to worry that he hasn't left his apartment in days. (It's up to the player whether Henry is a brave slayer of monsters or runs away from everything he sees, so this trope can be played straight or subverted.)

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->'''Harvey Dent''': You can NOT leave me alone with these people.
->'''Rachael Dawes''': The whole mob is after you, and you're worried about these guys?
->'''Harvey Dent''': Yeah, well, compared to this the mob doesn't scare me.

* As [[LampshadeHanging indicated]] in the TheDarkKnight, Harvey Dent finds confronting the mob easier that meeting rich socialites.

->'''Rachael Dawes''': The whole mob is after you, and you're worried about these guys?\\
'''Harvey Dent''': Yeah, well, compared to this the mob doesn't scare me.
** Also seen in the Tim Burton movies with Batman himself. In his Bruce Wayne persona, he's noticeably akward and unsure how to act in social situations, contrasting with the charsimatic RichIdiotWithNoDayJob from the comics (though as noted above, this is DependingOnTheWriter). Most notable during his date with Vicki in the first film, where he effectively has to go get Alfred to help him chat her up.

* [[LampshadeHanging Also lampshaded]] in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZy-wcQIsRU#t=1m7s this trailer]] for a movie called ''The Guardian'', during a conversation at a dinner table about a particular girl.
-->'''Jake Fischer:''' You gotta make a move!
-->'''Billy Hodge:''' I can't. I get nervous.
-->'''Jake Fischer:''' You're tellin' me you can jump outta helicopters but you're afraid to go talk to a girl?
-->'''Billy Hodge:''' Uh, pretty much, [[BluntYes yeah]].

->'''Rachael Dawes''': The whole mob is after you, and you're worried about these guys?

->'''Rachael Dawes''': The whole mob is after you, and you're worried about these guys?//

->'''Rachael Dawes''': The whole mob is after you, and you're worried about these guys?
->'''Harvey Dent''': Yeah, well, compared to this the mob doesn't scare me.//

-->-- [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZy-wcQIsRU#t=1m7s This trailer]] for a movie called ''TheGuardian''.

->'''Harvey Dent''': Yeah, well, compared to this the mob doesn't scare me.

->'''Harvey Dent''': You can NOT leave me alone with these people.
->'''Rachael Dawes''': The whole mob is after you, and you're worried about these guys?
->'''Harvey Dent''': Yeah, well, compared to this the mob doesn't scare me.
-->-- Fundraiser scene, ''TheDarkKnight''

* As [[LampshadeHanging indicated]] in the trope quote, Harvey Dent in ''TheDarkKnight'' finds confronting the mob easier that meeting rich socialites.

-->'''Billy Hodge:''' Uh, pretty much, [[FlatYes yeah]].

** Also seen in the Tim Burton movies with Batman himself. In his Bruce Wayne persona, he's notably akward and unsure how to act in social situations, contrasting the charsimatic RichIdiotWithNoDayJob from the comics (though as noted above, this is DependingOnTheWriter). Most notable during his date with Vicki in the first film, where he effectively has to go get Alfred to help him chat her up.

** Also seen in the Tim Burton movies with Batman himself. In his Bruce Wayne persona, he's notably akward and unsure how to act in social situations, contrasting the charsimatic RichIdiotWithNoDayJob from the comics (though as noted above, this is DependingOnTheWriter). Most notable during his date with Vicki in the first film, where he effectively has to get Alfred to help him chat her up.

* As [[LampshadedHanging indicated]] in the trope quote, Harvey Dent in ''TheDarkKnight'' finds confronting the mob easier that meeting rich socialites.

* [[LampshadedHanging Also lampshaded]] in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZy-wcQIsRU#t=1m7s this trailer]] for a movie called ''The Guardian'', during a conversation at a dinner table about a girl.

* As indicated in the trope quote, Harvey Dent in ''TheDarkKnight'' finds confronting the mob easier that meeting rich socialites.

* Elliot from ''El Goonish Shive''.

* HarryPotter has a moment of this in book 4: After facing a fierce and dangerous Norwegian Ridgeback in the first task, he finds himself thinking that "now that he was facing the prospect of asking a girl to the ball, he thought he'd rather have another round with the dragon."
** It was a Hungarian Horntail.

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* Sousuke Sagara from ''FullMetalPanic!'' is one due to being raised by the KGB.
* [[DragonBall Goku]] is an example as well.
* Jacuzzi Splot of ''{{Baccano}}'' is prone to [[FragileFlower breaking down into tears]] [[ShrinkingViolet at the mere attempt to introduce himself to new people]]. Crippling social anxiety, however, doesn't prevent him from [[OneManArmy single-handedly raiding eighteen mafia-run speakeasies in one night]].
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* [[DoctorWho The Doctor]] is outgoing, but still awkward. He occasionally comes across as a ChasteHero -- he's MasterOfTheMixedMessage and basically goes stock-still and squeaky when kissed. When he spent a few days renting a room from an ordinary human, he [[MomentKiller ruined his landlord's attempt to have a romantic evening with a nice girl]], and he started delivering a [[KirkSummation huge lecture]] about [[TechnicalPacifist pacifism]] when encouraged to "annihilate" the other team in a football(/soccer) game, before embarrassedly realizing he was just being encouraged to defeat them.

Often a feature of the DefectiveDetective. Compare ThisLoserIsYou and WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld.

* Sousuke Sagara from ''FullMetalPanic!'' is one due to being RaisedByWolves.

* Again, arguably TruthInTelevision. People will be ''much'' more afraid of the way their peers will judge them for, say, taking a cab home after leaving a party drunk, than of the ''life thretening danger'' of driving their own cars home in that state. A teenager will go ''surfing'', one of the most lethal sports there is, and will not dare confront his father. Back in the Old Days, a man would rather risk life and limb in a duel with horribly random pistols when challenged, rather than face the ''public shame'' and the ''reputation'' for cowardice, weakness and unmanlyness that would come from doing the sensible thing, i.e. telling the challenger to go screw themselves and simply refusing the challenge.