Tranquil Fury / Marvel Universe

Marvel Universe

• Captain America: Steve may be one of the nicest guys in the MCU, but get him angry, and it's scary, because there's no pyrotechnics, no shouting, no swearing. Just a very calm anger. Case in point, at the climax of "The Captain" Steve breaks into the office of the Obstructive Bureaucrat who's been after him the whole storyline, and just glares at him.
• Deadpool:
  • Taskmaster is generally pretty cold and hard to piss off, but in Deadpool, Vol. 3 issue #68, we see him let Deadpool whale on Sandi Brandenburg's abusive boyfriend but, at the behest of Sandi, leaves the guy alive. Then, after Deadpool leaves:
  Taskmaster: "Funny. I didn't promise her squat."
  • One story in Deadpool #900 has the Merc With The Mouth going to a psychiatrist. During the session Deadpool brings up his occasional "pro bono" work when something really catches his attention, and mentions a story about a therapist who took sexual advantage of a young girl who was his patient, eventually driving her to suicide. Eventually it's revealed that he's speaking to that very same therapist. Deadpool then beheads the man and quietly walks away. The kicker? Deadpool's usual wisecracking internal dialogue was notably absent from the story until after the therapist was killed, showing that Deadpool was 100% not fucking around.
• The Incredible Hulk:
  • World War Hulk has the Hulk so angry that he becomes calm.
    • "People of New York. I have come to smash." He then proceeded to tear through everyone available, growing so angry at some point his very steps were causing tectonic shifts before he was stopped. Angriest Hulk we've seen, and calmest Hulk we've seen at the same time.
  • Lyra, who is the daughter of the Hulk from a future timeline, becomes weaker as she becomes angrier, in contrast to her father. She is at her strongest when she is calm and collected.
  • One Hulk persona, "The Professor", worked on the same principle that Lyra did as a failsafe, growing weaker to the point where he'd become "The Savage Banner", a Bruce Banner with the Savage Hulk's rage and (lack of) self-control, but none of Hulk's strength or Banner's intelligence.
  • Immortal Hulk: The titular new alter is much less shouty than previous incarnations. But he's always angry, because he only shows up when someone's hurt Bruce. And he takes that personally.
• The Inhumans: What do you get when you take all the pressure of ruling a nation of paranoid, super powered xenophobes, mix it in with having to deal with a conniving, mind controlling younger brother, hostile aliens, hostile humans, the fact that you've killed your own parents and then place it in a body that could destroy everything in sight with just a whisper? You get Black Bolt. He can't ever lose control. Ever.
• The Mighty Thor: Thor and Iron Man having a nice chat◊ after Civil War (2006). Thor has just found out what Tony has been up to; first imprisoning his own friends and (albeit unintentionally and indirectly) killing the odd one or two, and then doubling down by creating a cyborg clone of Thor without his knowledge, and parading it around as Thor himself. Thor then gives Tony an epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech; never raising his voice, but letting his powers speak for him by generating a massive storm.
  • Thor in general reserves this for when he really has to go to town on someone. For a Hot-Blooded Boisterous Bruiser, charging into action with a Battle Cry is business as usual. When the shit is about to go down?
    "Ultron. We would have words with thee."
• The Punisher: The Punisher varies between this and Unstoppable Rage, depending on the situation and writer, although sometimes one hides the other. The point of the infamous Nicky Cavella incident from MAX series was to cause him to mess up, and it worked — he snapped even more than usual from his usual Unstoppable Rage to a Tranquil Fury. He just goes from Bad Guy Bar to Bad Guy Bar slaughtering unconnected criminals until the city officials rebury his family. Then he goes after Nicky.
  • After seeing the news about what Cavella did on a television in a diner, a random patron even calls it out:
    "That... that guy is gonna go fucking berserk."
    cut to close up of Frank's face in a state of utter rage and complete self-control
• Spider-Man: This is exactly the reason you do not piss off Spider-Man. You wouldn't know it considering how he loves talk, but the nanosecond you get him to stop joking (usually by doing something to threaten his family or friends), you've ensured yourself a very painful and thorough defeat.
  • Evident when he believes that his rogues gallery killed a newborn baby. He spends the next issue barely uttering a word and shows a Batman level of efficiency and ruthlessness.
  • This habit of his is played for a joke in one of the annuals. Among the stories is one where Spider-Man finds the Headmen up to no good and hangs quietly from the ceiling. When he doesn't start making his usual quips, even after prompting, they believe they've somehow stumbled into this trope and quickly give up. When S.H.I.E.L.D. arrives to arrest them, Peter reveals why he didn't say anything: he had laryngitis.
• The Ultimates: Captain America doesn't say a word while the team discusses Pym's wifebeating habits. He later tracks Pym on his own, and goes to give him a well deserved beating.
• Wolverine:
  • Wolverine is known for entering Unstoppable Rage moments. In fact, it's kinda his trademark, but also an Achilles' Heel, since he's somewhat mindless when like this, so you MAY be able survive. God help you if you piss him off SO much that he goes past this and regains control...
  • The opposite is the case for his daughter/Opposite-Sex Clone, X-23. Normally she's chillingly cold, calm and efficient while gutting you. If Laura gets visibly angry, she's either under the effects of the trigger scent, or you've done something to really, really piss her off. In both cases you should run. Fast. The one time she's ever completely lost control and entered a true berserk rage, the bloody end results disturbed Black Widow.

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