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The Other Wiki defines small talk, or phatic communication, as "conversation for its own sake", versus conversation to transmit useful information. In many societies, it serves as a useful social function, but this guy doesn't enjoy taking part in it. Maybe he's The Quiet One or the Aloof Ally, maybe he has a laser focus on a single goal, maybe he's completely stressed out, or maybe he's German. Whatever the case, he'd rather talk about something meaningful or nothing at all, than Talk About the Weather. Also commonly comes up with people who have certain mental disorders, Emotionless Girls, Sugar-and-Ice Personality, and, well, anything to do with introversion. Truth in Television for many people, seeing it as annoyingly repetitive, highly insincere and lacking in anything interesting. Sister trope of Dispense with the Pleasantries. Compare Being Personal Isn't Professional, which may be one justification, or No Social Skills, which may be another. |
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Lemongrab of Adventure Time tends to be like this thanks to his almost total lack of social skills. He prefers sending people to the dungeon without a peep to actually discussing problems. | |
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Bitch of Worm isn't fond of conversation in general, and particularly dislikes small talk. | |
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Dragon Age: Sten in Dragon Age: Origins. It's almost expected, considering that he's a Proud Warrior Race Guy. Another example, when the player is asking questions... Dragon Age II confirms that this applies to Qunari soldiers in general, either out of stoicism or discomfort with a foreign language. They can be extremely eloquent when discussing philosophy but have no concept of talk for its own sake. The Arishok has little to say but "begone" to anyone besides Hawke. Averted, however, with Iron Bull in Dragon Age: Inquisition, despite him also being Qunari — possibly because he's a spy/secret policeman rather than a soldier. Far from the taciturn and stoic Sten or the Arishok, Bull would talk under wet cement, leading to him being an endless font of party banter. |
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Jess from Gilmore Girls hates small talk mostly because he'd rather be in a quiet corner somewhere reading and because everyone in Stars Hollow likes to be in each other's business. This is apparently a negative with some folks, especially Lorelai. | |
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In Bones, one of the regularly repeating crew of interns is constantly frustrated by the amount of time the main characters spend discussing their personal lives and dramas, so much so that "Can we talk about the job, please" is basically his catchphrase. Of course, on the rare occasions when he talks about his personal life, everyone else expresses shock at how unprofessional he's being. | |
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One of the reasons the characters Hettar and Eriond get along well in The Belgariad is their mutual lack of need to fill gaps of silence while travelling together with random conversation. They don't hate small talk per se but neither sees the point of it. | |
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Sam Puckett from iCarly, especially when it comes to guys and dating. She'd rather they not talk to her and pay for dinner... or even just give her the money and stay out of her life. | |
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The Night Unfurls: The task-oriented Kyril Sutherland isn't a conversationalist. He dislikes small talk, parties, or wasteful diffidence that have nothing to do with the current task at hand (though he would do it if the task requires him to). In the later parts of the original version, Character Development kicks in as he gets a bit more comfortable doing small talk with his employer Celestine and his retainer Grace after working together with them throughout the story. | |
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Having been raised by Vulcans, Michael Burnham from Star Trek: Discovery is not at all good with small talk. This becomes a slight problem when she and Ash Tyler (the guy she likes) are at a party together. | |
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In Volume 1, Chapter 3 of RWBY, Blake Belladonna is clearly agitated when Ruby and Yang attempt to start a conversation with her. Only when Ruby asks Blake about the book she's reading does Blake seem interested in talking to her. | |
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In The Speed of Dark, Lou and his autistic coworkers enjoy each other's company partly because they only have to talk when they have something to say. | |
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Averted, however, with Iron Bull in Dragon Age: Inquisition, despite him also being Qunari — possibly because he's a spy/secret policeman rather than a soldier. Far from the taciturn and stoic Sten or the Arishok, Bull would talk under wet cement, leading to him being an endless font of party banter. | |
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Aya of Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note hates small talk and couldn't do it either. This is the reason for her Friendless Background. | |
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A Frozen Heart: Prince Hans' father, the King of the Southern Isles, hated idle banter and oftentimes got annoyed at Hans' attempts to make conversation with him, frequently rebuking him for not "getting straight to the point" any time he deemed his youngest son had overstayed too long in his presence and ordered him to get out. It's done deliberately by the king so he can focus on more important things than Hans pointlessly ranting about his brothers bullying him, and so, he contemptuously dismissed Hans as a weakling for not fighting back. | |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Captain Holt hates small talk, but he volunteers himself to greet people at a fake funeral because the squad are looking for a suspect. Played for Laughs. In the early seasons, Rosa Diaz not only doesn't like small talk, she doesn't like revealing any details about her life whatsoever. |
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Yumi's Cells: Yumi gets the impression that Assistant Manager Shin doesn't talk much because all her attempts to break the Uncomfortable Elevator Moment had led to him responding either tersely or not at all. After quietly observing him on the bus ride home, she remarks that he must be thrilled to go back home, which finally gets him talking for real. | |
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Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory. It's not that he hates small talk; it's that his idea of small talk consists of advanced physics theory, comic book and Star Trek canon, and obscure factoids he finds fascinating (even if no one else does). Things such as gossip, sports or personal relationships, he couldn't care less about. | |
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One of the many interpretations and theories around Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men is that he despises small talk because it's, essentially, purposeless. In one scene of the book and film, he bullies and almost kills a man for trying to make conversation with him, only stopping because he won a coin toss. | |
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Eorlund Gray-Mane from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim absolutely loathes small talk, and would rather work his forge and smith weapons than sit around swapping war stories with the other Companions. Should you choose to avoid conversation and immediately ask to buy something from him, he'll be quite grateful. It comes to the fullest when he converses with his family. | |
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Kilgrave in Jessica Jones (2015). He looks like he'd rather pass a kidney stone than try to have a conversation without his powers. | |
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Drea from Harmonic Feedback. | |
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The awkward, filled-with-this date The Nostalgia Critic has with the The Nostalgia Chick drives him to breaking point. | |
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Sten in Dragon Age: Origins. It's almost expected, considering that he's a Proud Warrior Race Guy. | |
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Both Rinkah and Beruka from Fire Emblem Fates firmly believe in this trope. In Rinkah's case, it's because of a rule of her tribe, while Beruka is this way due to being an Emotionless Girl. | |
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The Best Page in the Universe: Maddox wishes he could kick people who make small talk in the crotch. Seriously. | |
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Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon added some mild characterization by allowing you to get to know your Force members by speaking to them in headquarters. Zylo the werewolf absolutely abhors this, though, and every conversation with him is either Visible Silence or him (re)stating that his favorite color is black. | |
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Old Longfellow from the Far Harbor expansion in Fallout 4 is a salty, cranky seadog who is pleasant enough as far as salty, cranky seadogs go, but doesn't care much for chit-chatting. Keep bothering him with unnecessary conversation and it'll actually cause his approval of you to go down. | |
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One NPC in Ooblets sometimes says that they hate talking about the weather because it feels like both them and the person they're talking to have failed at being interesting. | |
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Both Worf and Odo hate small talk. Inevitably this leads to a conversation in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine where they make small talk... about how they hate small talk. | |
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In Blindsight, an alien civilization cannot comprehend the concept of communication that isn't intended to transmit useful data, They're technically not even sentient, and they assume sentience is a disease and attempt to "contain" it. | |
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Addie from A Kind of Spark likes the librarian because he never asks boring questions about how her holidays were or how her sisters are doing, he just gets straight to talking about books. | |
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Mia Wallace from Pulp Fiction despises it. | |
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David King, the plumber in the Resident Evil: Outbreak games. His strong aversion to small talk lessens in his ending in File #2. | |
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Scritti Politti's "Small Talk": | |
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In Bayonetta, the titular protagonist has no time for the constant, winding chatter of the Affably Evil archangels. Her responses to their enigmatic prattle and over-formality is invariably some mixture of innuendo, snark, and/or gunfire. | |
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In Fairy Fencer F, Ryushin, a fairy with a robot-like appearance and mannerisms, really doesn't see the point of talking unless he has important information to relate and is slow to warm up to Eryn's attempts to get him to talk in the Vile God route in the Advent Dark Force remake. | |
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Star Trek: Both Worf and Odo hate small talk. Inevitably this leads to a conversation in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine where they make small talk... about how they hate small talk. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Picard is not a big fan of small talk. In fact, when Data attempts to make small talk with him in "Starship Mine", he directs the android to keep an eye on someone who is notorious for being big on small talk. Data follows that order, and the rest of the crew look in amazement as the resulting conversation rapidly shrinks to microscopic proportions. In Star Trek: Voyager, Tuvok once remarks that "Vulcans do not make small talk". However, under orders, he does briefly make small talk with a hologram of Leonardo da Vinci in "Concerning Flight". Similarly, in Voyager, when Captain Janeway first activates the Doctor and comments on his lack of personality, he states that he's programmed to perform medicine as efficiently as possible, and small talk would only compromise his performance. Later, however, as part of his growth to exceed his programming, he learns the art of small talk in order to better relate to his patients and tries to teach it to Seven of Nine, a former Borg drone, as well. In the Voyager episode "Someone to Watch Over Me", the Doctor tries to teach Seven of Nine about romance and dating, with this exchange occurring: Having been raised by Vulcans, Michael Burnham from Star Trek: Discovery is not at all good with small talk. This becomes a slight problem when she and Ash Tyler (the guy she likes) are at a party together. |
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Veronica from Daughter for Dessert speaks mainly in a "businesslike" manner when the protagonist first meets her (including when and if she propositions him. The protagonist figures that small talk must not be her thing. | |
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Villainess Level 99: Due to having No Social Skills, Yumiella cannot handle small talk that does not interest her. She only gets through small-talk sessions by using scripted responses which allow the person she's talking with to talk even more. | |
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Detective Murdoch from Murdoch Mysteries is a downplayed example, as he doesn't especially despise it, but he prefers useful conversation or talking about science. | |
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Used in Weregeek during a LARP. "Cragg hate small talk." | |
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NCIS: Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Tony DiNozzo describes him as a "functional mute". | |
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Animorphs: Inverted at Marco's dad's (re)marriage, where Ax making awkward, stilted small talk is treated with amusement, because he rehearsed it. | |
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Rita Vrataski in Edge of Tomorrow, ostensibly because she prefers to remain focused on the job, but actually because getting to know someone is a step towards liking them, making their inevitable death all the more painful. And as she used to be stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, this meant being Forced to Watch their death over and over. This makes her a Foil to William Cage who as a former PR man knows the importance of getting to know people, despite the fact that he's now experiencing the same time loop. At the midpoint of the film, Cage discovers that every single time she told him anything personal in previous loops was misinformation just to make him shut up. | |
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The Venture Bros.: In the episode with the Mr. Alt Disney character Mr. Brisbee, Brock at first tries to get along with Brisbee's bodyguard, but the other is completely silent and rude. Later on, Brock is bored and tries to light a cigarette but can't, at which point the other bodyguard produces a lighter, prompting Brock to say "You're all right." Of course, it's all a trick to knock him out. | |
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Solid Snake mentions in Metal Gear Solid that he and his old partner Gray Fox never spoke about anything personal, preferring to discuss such things as rations and rifle clips. He comments that it was "sort of an unwritten rule". | |
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Played with in Horatio Hornblower. Hornblower, though shy, is inclined to be chatty to the point he doesn't trust himself to allow himself any unnecessary conversation with his officers. Instead, he maintains a strict reserve and generally confines his remarks to an ambiguous "Ha, h'm," which certainly gives him the reputation for hating small talk. | |
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Game of Thrones: Both Cersei Lannister and Lyanna Mormont get extremely annoyed at folks who don't get to the point. Lyanna quickly shuts down the admittedly poor attempts at small talk and flattery during her meeting with Sansa and Jon. Even her initial greeting ends so abruptly that it catches her guests unaware. When being welcomed back to King's Landing by the Queen Regent, Gregor Clegane doesn't bother with chit-chat and plainly asks who he gets to kill this time. |
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Mitchell from Modern Family hates making small talk with strangers. In one episode, this is his justification for not attending a wedding with his partner Cam. | |
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In The Pajama Game, there's a song called "Small Talk" | |
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Tenet: When Barbara meets the Protagonist, she says they should avoid small talk so they'll know as little as possible about each other for security reasons. | |
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The "Vocational Guidance Counsellor" sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus has this exchange between Palin and Cleese (no prizes for guessing who plays what): | |
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Over the years, Judge Judy has had quite a few litigants try to ingratiate themselves to her with bits of friendly conversation, and she's made it clear that this cuts zero ice with her. | |
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"Small Talk" by Genesis: | |
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Anita Blake repeatedly mentions how little she likes small talk, and how much she appreciates those characters who don't indulge in it either, like Dolph and Edward. | |
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Test of Metal contains this exchange: | |
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Dragon Age II confirms that this applies to Qunari soldiers in general, either out of stoicism or discomfort with a foreign language. They can be extremely eloquent when discussing philosophy but have no concept of talk for its own sake. The Arishok has little to say but "begone" to anyone besides Hawke. | |
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Mare from RPG Shooter: Starwish initially appears to be The Voiceless, answering all your attempts to strike up a conversation with an ellipsis. When finally starting to talk, Mare still doesn't say much, because "You never said anything important." And yes, those occasions when Mare is willing to talk, is when you bring up important stuff, like 'the continued survival of Life, the Universe and Everything', more or less. | |
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Squall Leonhart from Final Fantasy VIII. When badgered by his companions to speak you can visually see his whole body sigh before he stands upright to make as short a statement as possible. He makes prolific use of the "..." Visible Silence and seems to have a ready stock of responses to deter people from making small talk with him. | |
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In Star Trek: Voyager, Tuvok once remarks that "Vulcans do not make small talk". However, under orders, he does briefly make small talk with a hologram of Leonardo da Vinci in "Concerning Flight". | |
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RCN: Adlele Mundy has no patience for conversation that does not convey data, and prefers to get her data electronically without any conversation at all. | |
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From Sabrina the Teenage Witch, when Sabrina meets Aaron's parents: | |
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In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Picard is not a big fan of small talk. In fact, when Data attempts to make small talk with him in "Starship Mine", he directs the android to keep an eye on someone who is notorious for being big on small talk. Data follows that order, and the rest of the crew look in amazement as the resulting conversation rapidly shrinks to microscopic proportions. | |
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