Times where someone asks "Did You Think I Can't Feel?" in Western Animation.
- Adventure Time: In "Burning Low", Finn gives this to Princess Bubblegum; he had long had a Precocious Crush on her, only to have her now seem to reciprocate when he's instead interested in Flame Princess. Subverted because in this case, Finn doesn't understand what PB is really trying to tell him.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender:
- For most of the series, Mai appears as a cold, sarcastic girl that happens to be childhood friends with Zuko and Azula. She gets much more character development in the third season, especially in "The Beach". Later that season, she even gets an even more awesome line showcasing how she can feel:"You miscalculated. I love Zuko more than I fear you."
- Zhu Li from The Legend of Korra is the devoted assistant of Varrick and will do pretty much whatever he asks her to do, from cleaning up the messes that are the inevitable results of his experiments to cleaning his feet... at least until she finally snaps, tells off Varrick for mistreating her and being a total idiot half the time, and joins Kuvira... or at least, this is what Zhu Li wants Kuvira to think. She did in fact feel this way as to how Varrick treated her, but she just needed an excuse to make her defection look convincing.
- For most of the series, Mai appears as a cold, sarcastic girl that happens to be childhood friends with Zuko and Azula. She gets much more character development in the third season, especially in "The Beach". Later that season, she even gets an even more awesome line showcasing how she can feel:
- Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown: Subverted. Charlie Brown is desperate to get a Valentine since he never has before, but when the cards are handed out at school, absolutely nobody gets him one. The next day, some of the girls come by and Violet offers him one that somebody else gave her. In a way, it's even more depressing that Schroeder has to be offended on Charlie Brown's behalf, and that Charlie Brown's self-esteem is so poor that he takes it anyway.Schroeder: You and your friends are the most thoughtless bunch I've ever known. You don't care anything about Charlie Brown! You just hate to feel guilty! And now you have the nerve to come around one day later and offer him a used Valentine just to ease your conscience! Well let me tell you something: Charlie Brown doesn't need your—
Charlie Brown: Don't listen to him! I'll take it! - Ed, Edd n Eddy: Edd and Eddy both get one of these in the same scene towards one another in The Movie. Edd spends the entire course of the show suffering the torturous alienation that comes with Eddy's friendship, but when Ed and Eddy fake their deaths for a cheap laugh at Edd, Edd blows up at them for being oblivious to his feelings and leaves for the first time in the entire series... prompting Eddy to blow up and unearth his own Hidden Depths right back.
- Goof Troop: In "O, R-V, I N-V U," Max, who is working on an RV project with Pete, doesn't realize that PJ feels inferior and lonely as a result of Pete favoring Max over him and Max ignoring him (the audience does because it's PJ's point of view), and expects him to run errands and do favors for them. About two-thirds through the episode, Max asks PJ to take his picture, PJ snaps at him and explains exactly why he's upset with him. However, instead of picking up on PJ's feelings, Max asks, "Hey, can I help it if your dad thinks I'm bright?"
- My Little Pony 'n Friends: Wind Whistler is extremely logical and clinical in her thought and behavior. However, she does have the same feelings as anyone else and doesn't like being thought of as a machine just because she doesn't wear them on her sleeve (and finds that the Fridge Logic kills the romance of a Romance Novel that had the others captivated, which is what started the debate that time). She says something along the lines of the trope name in "Crunch the Rockdog", only she's muttering it to herself when she's out of earshot of the other Ponies who insulted her. Megan is shown scolding the insulting Ponies, telling them that they just proved that Wind Whistler has feelings, by hurting them.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The rest of the Mane Six are put off by Pinkie Pie's expectation that they'll become good friends with her older sister Maud, being thrown off by her being The Stoic on the level of Mr. Spock in addition to having odd rock-related interests. By the end of the episode, the group are perfectly polite and friendly to Maud, all parties accepting that they at least share a love of Pinkie as a bonding factor, although they are taken aback when Pinkie reveals that Maud has been uncharacteristically excited through the whole episode.Maud: (stoically, as Pinkie Pie does cartwheels in the background) I don't know if you noticed, but I don't show my enthusiasm in quite the same way that my sister does.
- Pound Puppies (2010): "Lucky the Dunce" centers on this trope. The big, friendly Niblet, who is clearly The Ditz of the pound, inadvertently messes up the group's latest plan to get a group of puppies adopted, which results in Lucky being hit with an intelligence-reducing ray that makes him just as simple-minded and happy-go-lucky as Niblet himself. The other dogs panic and try to restore Lucky to normal, remarking that there's already one dunce too many—Niblet—on the team. Niblet overhears this and decides to run away with Lucky so they can be friends forever; when the others track them down, Niblet snaps that he actually does have feelings and was deeply hurt by their cruel words. The group apologizes and promises to treat Niblet better, and he reluctantly leads Lucky back to be restored to normal.
- Recess: School's Out: Principal Prickley, after enduring an entire series' worth of scorn and mockery from T.J and his friends, finally stands up and tells him point blank that, as distant and abstract as it may seem to him, Prickley and every other adult "villain" TJ has ever tormented were kids at one point, and knows exactly what it feels like to be one. Prickley may seem like an uncaring, spiteful old man to him, but the principal was once a kid too, who lived for summer vacation, so never tell him that he doesn't care about it.
- The Ren & Stimpy Show: The general message is used in the beginning of "Ren Seeks Help" of Ren and Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon. Apparently, Ren had said something so insulting, it broke down even Stimpy, who was always immune to nearly all of his offensive behaviour. Stimpy shouts at Ren for being horrible and disrespectful towards him.
- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: In "Launch", Season 5, Entrapta gives a very humble one to Mermista, Perfuma, and Frosta after they call her out for having built machines for the Horde and accuse her of not caring about anything but techs. (Interestingly enough, the only reason they tolerate Entrapta is BECAUSE of her knowledge in techs, and it never occurred to any of them that it was their condescending treatment that caused her to switch sides.)Entrapta: I'm not good with people. But I'm good with tech. I thought, maybe, if I could use tech to help, you'd like me. But I messed that, too.
- Star Trek: Lower Decks: "An Embarrassment of Dooplers": Despite Mariner claiming that she has forgiven Boimler for abandoning her for the Titan, she finally tells him that she's still mad at him and has been waiting for an apology from him, but Boimler calls her out for not bringing it up beforehand and not being honest with him. When they reunite at a bar, Boimler finally apologizes to her and tells her that he didn't mean to hurt her feelings, jokingly claiming that he didn't know that she had any. Mariner admits that she doesn't show her feelings to everyone and she's not sure why she makes an exception for him.
- Star vs. the Forces of Evil: In "Jannanigans", when the other characters are convinced that Janna is refusing to take a universe-threatening problem seriously, they all start yelling at her to divulge the information they've been asking for. She angrily tells them once again that she hasn't been lying about her lack of memory about what occurred that day, before admitting that the memory gap absolutely terrifies her and that the random tasks they've been doing really are her trying to recall this information. The others apologize, with her usual prank target Marco jokingly adding on that he wasn't aware she could feel human emotions.
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Tech, the Bad Batch's resident pilot, strategist, and technical expert, falls into this. While he's genuinely a Nice Guy, his social skills are more or less non-existent, making him blunt and straight-forward with his thoughts at best, and Innocently Insensitive at worst. In The Crossing, this side of him is highlighted when he unintentionally hurts Omega's feelings over Echo's departure. When the two of them finally have a heart-to-heart together, Tech admits that while he may process emotion and feelings differently than she and most others, it doesn't mean he isn't upset about it.
- Steven Universe:
- This happens when Garnet splits into Ruby and Sapphire after arguing over how to deal with their anger at Pearl, with Sapphire opting to keep her cool (literally) and be rational about it, which Ruby misinterprets as her not caring at all. She eventually admonishes Ruby for thinking she doesn't feel upset, but unlike most examples, Sapphire realizes her own stoicism is partially to blame for Ruby's inconsiderate behavior—since Sapphire can see the future when the two have already made up and therefore views reconciliation as inevitable, she fails to consider how Ruby is feeling in the present and thus dismisses her valid emotions.
- Happens again in That Will Be All, where Yellow Diamond, the brutal commander of Homeworlds' military that is seeking to have the Earth destroyed completely to erase the stain of their defeat from Imperial records confides to Blue Diamond that though she is brusque, it's used to mask her own sadness over the Shattering of their younger sister Pink Diamond in her Villain Song.
Yes, of course we still love her
And we're always thinking of her
Don't you know I miss her too?- Steven later uses this against Blue Diamond in the "Change Your Mind" arc when he takes her to task for the countless times she threw Pink Diamond into solitary confinement. He asks a single question—"How many times did you make her cry?"—which forces Blue to realize that she and her sister Yellow (along with Evil Matriarch White) never bothered to listen to how Pink was feeling, which in turn led to her assuming the guise of Rose Quartz and rebelling against the Diamond Authority.
- Undergrads: Jessie gives Nitz one of these in the finale.
