![]() ![]() ![]() When Kimblee taunts her with the intent of getting her to admit to loving the moment of killing, she can't admit that, and is horrified. ![]() However, it's shown that her stoicism is pretty much a reaction against the horror of war. When her old friend Roy Mustang is reunited with her after she saves his life during the war, Mustang notices that she has the eyes of a killer. She's the resident stoic, and expert sniper. Simultaneously Justified and Subverted by Riza Hawkeye in the manga Fullmetal Alchemist.She's introduced as a sniper as emotionless as some of her cyborg sisters, but she's later revealed to be not as cold as she appeared, having second thoughts about their goals when she sees the six-year old Vivio in pain from being used to activate the Saint's Cradle, and showing hesitation when shooting down Nanoha as she arrives to rescue her daughter. Subverted by Dieci of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha.Both sides of his characters are best shown in The Movie Episode Zero: First Contact: Jigen spent half of the movie being a cold sniper and trying to kill Lupin, then, when both are prisoners of the main villain, Lupin's latest way to humiliate their captor force Jigen to try and stifle a laugh before cracking down.Outside of battle, however, he's a sardonic Deadpan Snarker - no-one can be completely serious around Lupin, after all. So cold, the temperature of the room goes down when he walks in. Limelda Jorg in Madlax starts off as a professionally Cold Sniper but gradually descends into the Psycho Lesbian zone due to her bitter rivalry with the show's eponymous lead (who is also a formidable sniper but in no way a cold one).The ending of Approaching Nick of Time reveals that after Casper chose to take a kill-shot which also critically injured an uninvolved eight-year-old girl, Kurz made up his mind that he didn't want to be a "real sniper" if it meant becoming a monster like Casper, and thereafter seems to have exerted himself to be a Friendly Sniper instead. The Full Metal Panic! Light Novels introduce a Cold Sniper in the person of Wilhelm Casper, who trained Kurz and is now a member of the villain organization called Amalgam.When he is found by Vash, he calmly draws his backup piece, and shoots himself. While some of the other Guns occasionally display emotions, Kain doesn't - he doesn't even speak.Then again, just about all of the Gung Ho Guns could be seen as examples. Kain the Longshot from Trigun is a prime example of this trope, having without a doubt, the longest sniper rifle ever conceived by anyone's imagination.Examples of Cold Sniper include: Anime and Manga ![]()
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