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Stiff Upper Lip
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Bullets are whistling, shells are exploding, panicked soldiers dash here and there splattered with mud and blood, the air is thick with shouted commands and the rich stench of death! And yet our hero is smoking a pipe, sipping his tea, and doing the Times Crossword Puzzle, for he is an Imperturbable Englishman. He is like The Stoic, but an Imperturbable Englishman adds style to his stoicism by his exaggerated disregard for danger and hardship. Not only does he cope with them: he cheerily dismisses them. No matter the disaster, he always keeps his rationality and composure. This is known as having a Stiff Upper Lip: "Keep a stiff upper lip, chaps!", "Buck up! Stiff upper lip and all that!", etc. Ironically, the term "stiff upper lip" is actually American in origin. In Britain today, the phrase is only used ironically to invoke the trope, but the concept is very real: witness the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster, a more laconic version of the picture on this page which adorns many British office walls. In terms of Dialogue, Understatement is key; this is why the RAF Ace Pilot is the poster child for Major Injury Underreaction. Stress is met with Dissonant Serenity, grief with Angst? What Angst?, and unbridled joy with a curt "Jolly good". Compare Gentleman Snarker, Trying Not to Cry, This Is No Time to Panic, Quintessential British Gentleman, The Jeeves and the Japanese cultural concept of "It Can't Be Helped". This is what someone who has or pretends to have Nerves of Steel would supposedly look like from the outside. Often crosses over with Brits Love Tea, as stopping everything to make a cup of tea and consider the situation when faced by danger is both Funny, Badass, and, as seen below happens surprisingly often in real life. Not to be confused with While Rome Burns, when the response is denial instead of steely resolve, or Apathetic Citizens, which replaces resolve with... well, apathy. See British Stuffiness for more negative portrayals of this British trope. Lie Back and Think of England arises when this trait gets in the way of a relationship. One of the Stock British Phrases. |
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In Sherlock, a bomb goes off just outside Sherlock and John's home, 221B Baker Street, blowing out the windows of the house, and badly damaging it. John, arriving home, sees the badly-damaged street and house, rushes inside, terrified that Sherlock might be hurt, and finds Sherlock and Mycroft calmly sitting amid the debris, drinking tea and having a conversation. When Moriarty—a highly dangerous criminal mastermind with a seething hatred of his foe—visits his arch-enemy Sherlock at the latter's flat, the two chat (read: exchange veiled threats) over tea and biscuits. |
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Heralds of Valdemar: The Eastern Empire, ruled by a Decadent Court in which any display of emotional vulnerability will be taken advantage of, adheres to this ideology. For example, the Empire commander Tremane never moves faster than a brisk walk. Even if an Eldritch Abomination's corpse has been discovered or a blizzard is hitting the camp, he does not run. Running implies panic, which will spread to the troops. The only time running is necessary is if the camp is literally being assaulted at that very moment. | |
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Colonel Windsor of the Anglo Isles of Battalion Wars 2 is like this (you'd never have guessed from the name, would you?), casually waiting until tea time is over to retaliate against or even react to a bombing run that is going on around him as he eats. | |
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Subverted in Lord of the Flies, and the naval officer who rescues the surviving boys at the end scolds them without remotely realizing the full extent of what's happened. | |
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Bleak Expectations: In a series 5 chapter set in India, the main characters find several British soldiers all passed out from the heat, save one who happens to be wearing a bathing suit. Over his normal uniform. Why? | |
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Malcolm Reed of Star Trek: Enterprise is the crew's resident British stoic. He's professional and businesslike, endures harsh conditions without complaint, and even when pinned to the hull by a mine urges Captain Archer to sacrifice him to save the ship. He might make a dry quip now and again, but that's about it. | |
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The Redwall hares are all like this, wot wot? They're based on RAF pilots during WWII. | |
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Shadowlands: Jack's book about "why bad things happen to good people" is intellectual and unemotional, saying God uses suffering to reach people and improve character. After Joy's death, he revises his story, more or less saying it's okay to grieve nonetheless. | |
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In There's More Than One Way Home, the Gaineses maintain an air of dignity and calm even as they walk behind the gurney carrying their son's bodybag. | |
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This is pretty much a character staple in the James Bond films, more so than ever with the Sean Connery, Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig portrayals. Bond's suave style and complete coolness under pressure are parodied in Skyfall however when of all things to leave Bond completely flabbergasted is a Komodo dragon. | |
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Blackout: Even though the time travelers from the 21st century expect it, they're still amazed to witness the casual fortitude shown by common British subjects during the Blitz. This becomes one of the primary motifs of the story, that everyone who endured the war and "did their bit" was a hero. | |
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An episode of The Simpsons, which re-told the story of Joan of Arc, had her British enemies sitting on their side of the battlefield, sipping tea. | |
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In Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Chips is teaching a Latin class when a German bombing raid starts. After a quick mental assessment, he concludes that they're as safe in their basement classroom as they're likely to be if they try to reach the official bomb shelters, and that the best thing to do is keep the lesson going so the students will have something else to think about. He makes a dry remark about how you can't always judge the importance of something by how much noise it makes, and assigns his students to translate a passage from Caesar's memoirs about the warlike Germanic tribes. | |
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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall: Spike Milligan's war memoirs feature several (presumably real-life) examples of these, the most memorable being the Major addressing his men at the side of the road when a Messerschmitt flies over at rooftop level. The entire Battery dive into a convenient ditch and as they drag themselves out see the Major still standing, lighting a cigarette, and continuing his speech with the words "Now, of course, you realize in this situation that you did the right thing, and I the wrong..." | |
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Displayed in Into the Storm (2009), the Churchill biopic. None of the main cast seems particularly shocked at the prospect of the blitz, and Churchill even watches the battle unfold. | |
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Parodied/subverted in The Mummy: | |
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In The King's Speech, this is expected of royalty, so when Edward breaks down upon his father's death and is told that he would be king, everyone is shocked and embarrassed. In addition, when Queen Mary is listening to King George VI's speech, she briefly shows a glimpse of a smile, then returns to the stiff upper lip. | |
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Lane Pryce of Mad Men is completely imperturbable, even when his dad abuses him. Or when he's beating the crap out of Pete Campbell. Or when he commits suicide. When he goes and hangs himself, he first types out a letter and places it in a crisp envelope addressed to the partners. |
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In Corpse Bride, when the dead crash the Everglots' wedding party, the assembly feels the need to maintain proper face expressions while watching skeletons and corpses surround them. The silence is broken when Finis betrays his extreme surprise and terror by calmly announcing: "There's an eye in me soup". | |
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Five Weeks in a Balloon: Sir Henry displays this sometimes, such as when his plume is shot off his helmet - he reacts, without flinching, with a "Good shot sir!". This is subverted at the beginning, however, when the first thing we hear is his high-pitched screaming. | |
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Treasure Island: Most of the sympathetic characters. Captain Smollett maintains rigid discipline throughout their ordeal. Jim Hawkins maintains his dignity and poise even under threat of death. Trelawney's servants are said to react to every calamity without complaint or even much surprise. | |
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The chat from the British infantry in Napoleon: Total War is full of this kind of thing. | |
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The Flying Cloud: "They were most certainly going to die, but they were Englishmen, so he saw no need to whine about it." | |
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After the British ship HMS Coventry was hit by an Argentinian missile during the Falklands War of 1982 and was sinking, the crew awaiting rescue figured they might as well pass the time and started singing "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life". "Worse things happen at sea, you know!" |
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Carry On Up the Khyber features renowned archetypes. The British characters are constantly speaking in dry witticisms, going about their usual routines and having downplayed reactions to life-threatening situations. While having dinner during a bombardment, they discover that their "meat course" is actually a homeless Fakir's severed head. One Brit deadpans, "Well that's dashed unsporting. It's the closed season for Fakirs." The trope is specifically lampshaded then mocked when the gallant heroes are tossed into an Afghan prison, awaiting torture and execution. The captain tries to rally their spirit. | |
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Red Dwarf's Ace Rimmer upon being shot in the chest, looks simply annoyed, stating "This is my best top, damn it!" What a guy. |
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Definitely used with Lieutenant Archie Hicox in Inglourious Basterds. Even when he's about to die: he prefers to "go out speaking the King's". | |
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A stiff upper lip is expected at Greyfriars School. For example, after Vernon-Smith goes into an aggressive, surly temper upon receiving troubling news from home, the narration informs us: | |
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Bear Grylls in Man vs. Wild. A former SAS Reserve trooper who has made a career of casually surviving inhospitable locations. In one particular episode, he gives himself an enema to prevent potential poisoning from dirty water whilst amusingly and stoically proclaiming he would Lie Back and Think of England. | |
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The midwives of Call the Midwife have gotten very good at this, mainly because of the strange situations they find themselves in while delivering children. Chummy seems to be the master of it. In the first season, she: delivered a breech birth, while keeping calm and explaining everything so the mother didn't panic; Quickly agreed to help deliver a piglet born to the handyman's pig, even though it meant ruining her nice outfit and she was expecting her boyfriend for a date; Delivered a child (which turn out to be triplets) to a woman, in an apartment with no electricity, while using the light on her bicycle to see by. When she has no more cloth to wrap the last baby in, she uses her own nurse's uniform, without batting an eye. This is Sister Julienne's modus operandi. It doesn't matter what gets thrown at her, she keeps calm and carries on while barely blinking an eye. Upon encountering a day which consists of a prenatal clinic, a community tuberculosis X-ray screening, a Birth-Death Juxtaposition, and her own Sister Bernadette being diagnosed with tuberculosis, while she's visibly fraying at the edges, she holds it together, manages with cool competence, and merely has this to say: |
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Ultra Fast Pony's version of Gilda. She has a posh British accent, and does her best to maintain composure while she's suffering from severe burns and a malfunctioning pacemaker. | |
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Jakob from Fire Emblem Fates actually says this exact phrase when providing support to another unit during battle. Since he's a Battle Butler and he's given a British accent in the English localization, it fits. | |
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In the Battleblock Theater intro video when the friends are on a ship struck by a powerful storm. | |
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When Top Gear (UK) went to South America, James May managed to be cool and collected despite being terrified of heights and driving on the deadliest mountain road in the world. So much so that the other presenters didn't realize just how tired he was of them bumping into his car until he expressed himself rather less delicately with the help of a machete. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005): You can see Douglas Adams' mother sitting outside a cafe reading a paper even as the world ends. This was not in the script; she simply had not been told what to do, and chose that. Arthur Dent is also an example. "I'm British; I know how to queue." | |
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The British characters in The Great Muppet Caper, who acknowledge the movie's weirdness but refuse to make a big deal out of it, such as Robert Morley being unflappable as a frog falls from the sky and asks for directions, or John Cleese being only mildly perplexed by finding a pig in his closet who wants the name of a restaurant. Lady Holiday herself only slips slightly when she learns her brother is the villain. | |
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In An American Werewolf in London, Sister Hobbes describes a werewolf going on a rampage, causing a car accident, and killing several people as "some sort of disturbance in Piccadilly Circus". | |
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In the musical Crazy for You, the British tourists, Eugene and Patricia Fodor, sing a song titled Stiff Upper Lip to the depressed residents of Deadrock, imploring them to continue their efforts to save the theater. The Fodors fail, but everyone eventually comes around after the real Bela Zangler takes over the show. | |
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Major Coats from Mass Effect 3, a member of the Resistance and apparent second-in-command to Anderson during the Reaper invasion of Earth. As shown in the teaser trailer, at one point he spent several days holed up in Big Ben, scopin'-and-droppin' husks, all the while grumbling that Shepard had better show up with The Cavalry soon. An asari in the Citadel DLC tries to apply this to humans as a whole, only to completely botch it, forcing Shepard to correct the phrase. |
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In The Nanny, Fran encouraged Jocelyn to call off her upcoming wedding to an upper-class gentleman in favour of her poor but loving chauffeur. When the groom finds out and barely reacts, Fran comments on how well he's taking it, to which he responds in a slightly raised voice: "What's the matter with you? Can't you see I'm heartbroken?" | |
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In Forgotten Realms, one of the knight orders of Raven's Bluff is the Golden Roosters. They are usually viewed as a stepping stone to other orders for adventurers without titles, though many prefer the Roosters' more relaxed attitude. One of their knightly honors is The Golden Cane; it's given for "refusing to let the danger get in the way of traditions". An example is "having tea at the usual time even if the goblins are preparing to attack". | |
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The Day After Tomorrow: Dennis Quaid begs his kindly professor friend (Ian Holm) to gather his team and get to safety while they still have a chance to avoid the icy apocalypse. Holm gives a sad little smile and without the slightest hint of fear or self-pity replies, "I'm afraid that time has come and gone, my friend." He then indignantly forbids his colleagues from using a bottle of single malt to keep the generator going, and the three of them raise a glass as the superstorm descends and the power goes out. It also manages to be funny, because while the first two toast to things one would expect from a man about to die, the third toasts Manchester United; NEVER question a proper Englishman's devotion to his club. | |
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A Droopy cartoon built around fox hunting features an English fox who never loses his composure while being pursued — even sipping tea while running. He breaks character with an excited take for just a moment when Droopy tells him a steak dinner is a reward for a fox — which he shares with all his relatives and Droopy at the cartoon's end. | |
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The character modeled after Major Allison Digby Tatham-Warter in A Bridge Too Far always carries an umbrella because, as Tatham-Warter said after the war, he "could never remember the bally password and had to think of some way to let everyone know I was English!" While the real man refused to show fear in front of his men, including never running between cover, Anthony Hopkins couldn't force himself to walk while fake explosions were all around him and couldn't fathom how the real man could do so in the face of real bombs. | |
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In the Phineas and Ferb episode "A Hard Day's Knight", the British news anchor announces the fight between Perry and Dr. Doofenshmirtz (who are piloting giant robots in the form of Queen Elizabeth the First and a dragon, respectively) as if it was the most normal thing in the world. | |
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In the Lucky Luke album The Tenderfoot, British gentleman Waldo Badminton inherits a Western farm. Keeping a Stiff Upper Lip through the various tribulations the locals put him through, the story ends with a duel. The Big Bad shoots first... but seems to miss, and when Waldo calmly stands still, not so much as reacting to being shot at, he gives up in terror. Then it is revealed Waldo was hit in the arm, and is in not only in great pain but also unable to lift his weapon. He just didn't want to show it and make a fuss. | |
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In The Lord of the Rings invoked twice; once when Bilbo, to hide his emotion that Frodo is going off on a dangerous quest, bracingly slaps Frodo on the back; another when Sam almost drowns following Frodo, and Frodo, on rescuing him, covers up his feelings by remarking "Sam! You are a confounded nuisance." Both scenes in the movie, by contrast, result in hugs and tears. | |
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An episode of Garfield and Friends features the hyper-British scientist Doctor Jekyll, who has to flee his laboratory after accidentally turning a mouse into a huge monster. | |
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In Are You Being Served?, when told of the Spanish revolutionaries' uprising beginning, the Grace Brothers staff initially try to remain at the Don Bernado Palace Hotel and finish their breakfast. Of course, they change their tune once the bullets start flying. | |
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In the Green Lantern: The Animated Series episode "Steam Lantern", the heroes of an alternate universe's world seem doomed and resolve simply to help Green Lantern Hal Jordan escape while they face their deaths. However, Hal tells him to stop the stiff upper lip attitude and vows to save everyone and does. | |
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In It Came!, an alien robot named Grurk invades England to harvest the very Britishness of its inhabitants, made clear when Grurk takes the stiffness out of his victims' upper lips aboard its spaceship. Its weakness also turns out to be tea. | |
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M*A*S*H An episode has the 4077th treat a group of wounded British soldiers. Hawkeye is offended by their commanding officer's callous attitude towards their injuries and his seeming eagerness to send them back off into battle. He later learns that the officer does care for them and he only acts that way to not let them know how bad off they are and to keep their morale up. This is further evidenced that when Hawkeye tells him that his unit's custom of providing tea to troops with abdominal wounds is causing dangerous medical complications, he is deeply troubled at the mistake and immediately agrees to follow the doctor's advice (although he does comment that it would be a lot easier with anything other than tea). An earlier episode had the doctors collecting an artery for an experimental transplant from a British unit; the British commander expressed no surprise at the request and cracked a joke about it. |
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The RP-accented General Doyle from Red vs. Blue tries to keep calm in the face of adversity by the New Republic rebellion, against his forces with the Federation of Chorus, and later while working together with the former rebels, against Charon Industries' attempt to lay waste to their world, but tends to have a difficult time of it. He has no military history, having been thrust into the position after the death of the Federation's previous general, and, by his own admission, considers himself a coward. He does make efforts to redeem himself, however, and was ultimately calm in his self-sacrifice to eliminate many of Charon's troops in the end. | |
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Sergeant Wells in Dog Soldiers is a modern sweary version. | |
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The rabbits of Watership Down are made of this, largely maintaining their composure in a world where practically everyone and everything wants to kill them. Arguably even more pronounced in the movie, which of course includes British accents for all the characters. | |
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This trope forms the central conflict of The Queen, featuring Queen Elizabeth II. After the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the press stirs up a furor because the Queen is insistent upon mourning in a dignified and private manner as opposed to publicly displaying the grief. The resolution of the film is all about finding an appropriate balance between the two and, on a larger scale, about the modernization of the monarchy. | |
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Savaged by Harold Steptoe in one episode of Steptoe and Son, where he says he's fed up of being "a cheerful, chirpy, Cockney sparrow" and is "as entitled to be miserable and depressed as anyone else". | |
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, parodying the British Empire, has plenty of this, naturally: The redcoats are in fierce hand-to-hand combat with Zulus, while inside a tent their officers drinking tea and having a gentlemanly discussion, oblivious to the chaos. They go on to walk straight through the battle, still oblivious. A spear does hit the mirror of the officer who was John Cleese while he was shaving, but he uses a broken part of the mirror to finish up with no complaint. Subverted when another officer is lounging in his tent and does not seem the slightest bit upset that his leg has been eaten by a tiger. It turns out that he expects that it will grow back. In another scene, British soldiers in the trenches of World War One insist on giving their commanding officer several presents, including a large clock and a cake, and become very offended when he suggests that perhaps this isn't the time. |
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In the documentary They Shall Not Grow Old, British veterans of World War One describe their wartime experiences in remarkably frank and unsentimental terms. | |
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen deconstructs this; at one point during the Martian invasion Nemo comments that he has to admire the stoic bravery of the British in the face of invasion. Quatermain contemptuously counters that it's nothing of the sort, it's just everyone is denying the gravity of the situation until it's too late. | |
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When the Wind Blows and its animated adaptation heavily deconstructs this (as well as being a serious criticism of the leaflets handed out at the time by the British government on precautions to surviving a nuclear bombing), in that being they were basically useless because ''there's no way to survive), although it's partly because the elderly British couple is very naive to the nature of the nuclear holocaust. They try to remain calm and continue their normal activities, believing it to not be any different from the Blitzkriegs of World War II, and that eventually, help will come. However, it's abundantly clear to viewers that no help will ever come, as everyone else is dead, but the couple remains optimistic even as the radioactive fallout is killing them. | |
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Spiked milk causes Danger Mouse to lose his strength in "Beware Of Mexicans Delivering Milk", leaving him limp and weak and forcing the usually-cowardly Penfold to take the initiative. When Colonel K notices this: | |
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All of the surviving crew trapped in the crippled sub in Morning Departure display admirable British pluck, apart from the Dirty Coward Snipe. The film ends with an extraordinary Face Death with Dignity scene. | |
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Horatio Hornblower makes a great show of having one for the benefit of his crew, and in fact he does have one—when a bomb fell at his feet, he grimaced, plucked out the fuse, and looked up to see that everyone else on deck had dived behind something heavy. However, he considers the pose to be an act because before and after the danger he's imagining the horrific consequences of getting shot or blown up or otherwise mutilated in battle. Bush plays the trope completely straight since he can carry on an academic debate on the enemy ship's gunnery while they're firing on his ship. | |
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The Colour Sergeant in the film Zulu was a serious version, rigidly doing his duty and sticking to the regulation way of doing things at all times, tempered with good leadership, in an admirable display of professionalism. His response to one young private nearly breaking down at why it had to be them in the upcoming fight was a stoic and matter of fact 'Because we're here, lad. No one else'. | |
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Good Omens: We are in England (for the most part) after all: R.P Tyler embodies this spirit when gives Crowley direction...despite Crowley sitting calmly in a car thast is currently on fire. God makes it clear that Tyler has actually noticed this, and isn't saying exactly what he would like to say. One interpretation of Aziraphale's "So sorry to hear it" when Crowley quietly tells him that he lost his best friend is that Aziraphale knows that Crowley means him, but he doesn't want to upset Crowley further (or make it awkward) by fully acknowledging it. The other interpretation is that Aziraphale is just that oblivious. |
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Elinor from Sense and Sensibility may be one of the oldest examples. After having the home of her childhood taken away due to English inheritance laws of the time, and learning that the man she loves is secretly engaged to another woman, a promise he will of course keep, she keeps her composure, to the point that her mother and sister (both of whom are much more prone to displays of emotion) don't even notice she is unhappy. | |
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In Warhammer 40,000, we have the Death Korps of Krieg, who have an absolute disregard for their own lives and are born and raised for the sole purpose of repenting for the sins of their ancestors, who engaged in a terrible rebellion thousands of years ago. They march into battle proudly, fighting the most terrible foes without flinching or having the slightest sense of fear (in fact, where other regiments' commissars are there to be scarier than the enemy, the Krieger commissars are there to prevent their soldiers from making a Senseless Sacrifice). However, it's not like you're going to see their faces; they all wear gas masks, their appearance being a homage to the soldiers of World War I (in-universe, it's likely that they use forbidden techniques like cloning to keep their population high, and the masks protect against the envronment and people realizing there's only one Krieger face). | |
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General Allenby in Lawrence of Arabia qualifies, especially when Damascus dissolves into chaos late in the film: Then again, Jack Hawkins in pretty much any movie (The Cruel Sea, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Guns At Batasi even as a Roman in Ben-Hur) probably qualifies. |
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Played very darkly in Children of Men. There's a sterility plague, humanity is a Dying Race, and basically every country apart from Britain (which has become a totalitarian hellhole) has fallen into anarchy. | |
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In the Judge Dredd storyline "Judgement Day", when the various megacities around the world are being overrun with zombies, the British judges report in as "surrounded but defiant". The Irish chief judge, upon hearing this states, "Typical Brit. They're having the bejesus knocked out of them like the rest of us." | |
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Doctor Who: How many times has the Doctor responded to universal apocalypse by offering the bad guys a jelly baby?? And of course The Brigadier, and his classic line: "Chap with wings, there — Five Rounds Rapid." "The Unicorn and the Wasp": |
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Captain "We run when I bloody say we run!" Price from the Call of Duty series. | |
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Deconstructed in Shaun of the Dead, where the English tendency to not make a fuss in times of suffering and tragedy is put through its paces when people start hiding their zombie bites. Tragically, Barbara is bitten on the wrist by a zombie sometime in the halfway-point of the film and only in the finale do we find out, because she "didn't want Shaun to be upset". | |
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The Britons in Asterix album "Asterix in Britain" would stop fighting for five o'clock tea and for two days every five days. Except tea hadn't been introduced yet, so they just sipped hot water. And their reaction to Caesar applying his tactical genius and attacking at five o'clock every day and all day for two days every five days? "I say. They really aren't gentlemen!" Anticlimax even asks Asterix to "Be brave and keep a stiff upper lip" when the Romans capture Obelix. The only time in the comic the Britons collectively (and Anticlimax specifically) lose their cool in excitement is when the rugby game is on. |
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Vagabond: Ueda. His trademark attitude is smoking his pipe and ponder. He is introduced this way when Musashi first comes to the Yoshioka dojo and is killing many disciples. But this attitude becomes truly evident during the Battle of Ichij�ji, when he is seriously wounded with half of his face cut and he rests under a tree, calmly smoking his trademark pipe while ravens flock to eat his flesh. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus has the sketch about "The Dull Life of a City Stockbroker", where a man is apparently oblivious to the weird things that happen during his morning commute to work. | |
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In The Cinder Spires The majority of the Albion characters try to maintain this, which is unsurprising given that it's a Fantasy Counterpart Culture (or possibly After the End reconstruction) of Britain, right down to the traditionally very powerful fleet, whose captains live and breathe this trope. People from other Spires find this a little bit exasperating and mock them for not really emoting, though at the very least, Spire Aurora's military officers maintain a similar tradition to keep their men calm and focused. The clearest example, however, is Captain Grimm of Predator, a privateer and wrongfully cashiered ex-Naval officer of prodigious skill, who maintains this attitude to keep his men calm no matter the circumstance. His internal POV sections show that at times he is absolutely terrified or in utter agony, but he never once lets it slip. Given that he is directly inspired by the above-mentioned Hornblower, this is not a surprise. |
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Sharpe: Lord Wellington has this to a tee (Truth in Television, see Real Life below). At one point, he and another man are calmly assessing the defences of a town, when the French begin firing at them: He gets dazed in Sharpe's Triumph and has to be rescued but the Maharattas had hit him on the head, which was dashed unsporting of them. |
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At the beginning of Last Specter, Layton receives a letter from an old acquaintance named Clark, who speaks properly of a mysterious giant that has been destroying his village and earnestly seeks the professor's help. The first puzzle of the game is to find the secret message in the letter, found in the initial letters of each line: "HELP SOS". A bit more matter-of-fact, wouldn't you say? | |
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In Unwound Future, this collapses spectacularly—we see him get angry and weep. | |
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In Star Wars: Clone Wars, Chancellor Palpatine is a Brit (IN SPACE!) who insists on drinking tea in his office while Coruscant is under attack and whose response to General Grievous' entry is "How dare you barge into my office!" This was all show; Palpatine had arranged for Grievous to kidnap him. | |
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William Adama of Battlestar Galactica (2003) isn't British, but when his ship is under fire from multiple Cylon basestars and almost certain to go down with all hands, his only comment to his crew in the CIC is that "it's been an honor". This isn't the only time in the series that Adama says it: in Season 4's "The Oath", he tells Saul Tigh the same thing right before their execution by firing squad. |
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In Sonny, one of the passive abilities for the second game's Hydraulic class is titled "Stiff Upper Lip". This improves health and healing received. | |
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There is a voice scheme that you can select for your team called literally this verbatim in Worms Armageddon/Worms World Party. | |
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Nightingale and Grant frequently display this quality in Rivers of London thus demonstrating the distinction between the Upper Class and Working Class versions of this trope. Well, distinct if you're British, anyway. | |
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Browser-based RPG Fallen London has the premise of Victorian London having been dragged Beneath the Earth by bats and restructured to hold the Echo Bazaar, ruled by strange, cloaked, humanoid beings known as the Masters. Devils, Clay Men and tentacle-faced "Rubbery Men" are commonplace. You may well be eaten if you take the wrong way home. Most of the population aren't too bothered by the situation. "Londoners can get used to anything." | |
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Casino Royale (1967) features a scene were the Cosmopolitan Council believes that bombs are being dropped. The American representative rushes to the phone yelling "Get me the President!" while the British representative merely calls his wife and calmly explains that he won't be home for dinner because "it seems a war has broken out." | |
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John Steed of The Avengers (1960s). When he's facing a Firing Squad in "The Living Dead", he actually lights a cigarette for the man who's about to shoot him, stating, "It's important to do these things well." Emma Peel is equally unruffled no matter how bizarre or dangerous the situation. | |
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Barry Lyndon: The film revolves around the fact that the aristocracy in 18th Century Britian Barry is obsessed with joining must maintain one regardless of pathos, and his very human reactions to the tragedies in his life are the major societal sin that prevents him from doing so. | |
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Inverted in Nanbaka. Uno is rather excitable and jumpy in the face of danger, unlike what one would believe of his British compatriots. | |
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A British soldier in the film Sergeant York was this to a tee. While Alvin is on his nerves' edge trying to keep cool, this Brit is calmly explaining that you can tell where an artillery — [duck] — shell will hit because — [duck] — the varying pitch indicates—don't worry 'bout that one — whether it will miss you. Even when one of his partners is killed by shrapnel from a nearby blast, he calmly assesses the situation. Alvin appears a bit alarmed by this, naturally. | |
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In Which We Serve: Both the navy and the people at the home front keep calm at all times, despite what tragedies occur. | |
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There's a GURPS Advantage called Unfazeable that fits this trope exactly. | |
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In Ace Attorney, Simon Blackquill- the only character who uses British slang- is notable for never ever panicking. Even when he discovered his mentor's dead body, he remained calm enough to remove her young child from the scene, stage a coverup so extensive that authorities are still investigating it years after the fact, and condemn himself to imprisonment on death row just because he thought it was the right thing to do. Multiple Living Lie Detectors have to work together to debunk what he says, because he's that good at concealing his true feelings. | |
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Played for laughs on an episode of Family Guy, in which a British commander is informing his men that only two and a half of every ten pilots will return from combat alive. Cue a pilot who has had his entire lower half blown off chiming in | |
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One action that players in Twilight Struggle have is to launch coups against countries with the opposing player's influence in them. They are resolved by (ops value of card + 6-sided die roll - 2 * stability of country = change in influence). The UK is the only country on the board whose stability rating is 5. This means that coup attempts in the UK are completely pointless, as they will never have an effect—four is the highest ops value in the decknote The 4-ops China Card allows a 5th op only if everything is spent in Asia, and "Vietnam Revolts" gives +1 ops to the Soviets only if all the points spent are in Southeast Asia. | |
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Breaking the Code (1996). Alan Turing is called before Dilly Knox, manager of Bletchley Park because his overt homosexuality is upsetting his co-workers. Knox tries to convince Turing that discretion is not only appropriate but kinder to his friends. | |
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Helen Magnus of Sanctuary. In season 3, her helicopter is hit by an EM pulse and takes a nosedive into the ocean. Her response? "Oh, dear." John Druitt displays his own Stiff Upper Lip in "End of Nights, Part 2" when he delivers a stoic pre-battle speech to Nikola Tesla. Tesla angrily replies that he's not British, therefore "that tally-ho crap" doesn't work on him. Declan MacRae was the acting head of the UK Sanctuary during the super-Abnormal attack at the beginning of Season 2, and thus the primary human target. Does he give any indication that he is at all bothered by this? Not in the slightest. |
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Haytham Kenway in Assassin's Creed III. For the most part, he's cool, calm, witty and badass — a James Bond figure in a mid-1700's setting. Also a notable contrast to his Hot-Blooded father Edward and his highly sensitive son, Connor; as the tight-laced, straight-edge Templar Black Sheep of an Assassin family, he'd have to be in control to uphold the cause he adopts. On top of that, in the German version, he has the same voice actor as Daniel Craig's Bond. | |
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Both Cathy and Robert in the film, Vacation from Marriage. | |
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Professor Layton seems to have a bit of this going on, given how many things seem to go pear-shaped unexpectedly. In Unwound Future, this collapses spectacularly—we see him get angry and weep. At the beginning of Last Specter, Layton receives a letter from an old acquaintance named Clark, who speaks properly of a mysterious giant that has been destroying his village and earnestly seeks the professor's help. The first puzzle of the game is to find the secret message in the letter, found in the initial letters of each line: "HELP SOS". A bit more matter-of-fact, wouldn't you say? |
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The noble Grantham family of Downton Abbey are kings of this. However, many of the servants are just as good at it (Messrs Bates and Carson and Mrs. Hughes being particular exemplars). | |
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