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* 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. Then again, just about all of the Gung Ho Guns could be seen as examples.
** While some of the other Guns occasionally display emotions, Kain doesn't - [[The Voiceless|he doesn't even speak]]. When he is found by Vash, he {{spoiler|calmly draws his backup piece, and shoots himself.}}
* The ''[[Full Metal Panic]]'' [[Light Novels]] introduce a
* Limelda Jorg in ''[[Madlax]]'' starts off as this but gradually descends into a bordeline mix of this and [[Depraved Bisexual]] due to her bitter rivalry with the show's eponymous lead (who is also a formidable sniper but [[Friendly Sniper|in no way a cold one]]). {{Spoiler|She becomes a little calmer and friendlier in the [[Grand Finale]], having made peace with Madlax.}}
* ''[[Golgo 13]]''. So cold, the temperature of the room goes down when he walks in.
* Van Auger, a member from Blackbeard's crew in ''[[One Piece]]'', is extremely cold and obsessed with fate, armed with a sniper rifle, and is able to pick off seagulls from a distance that the island isn't even visible from.
** And ''completely'' inverted with the main sniper of the series, Usopp, who is a loud, [[Cowardly Lion]] fighting with a slingshot and usually a hammer. His secret identity, Sogeking, however, is portrayed as a cool-headed hero who officially declared war on the world government without so much as split second of hesitation... But in battle he's usually just as cowardly.
* Averted ''and'' played straight in ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]''. When Nina asks for advice from a sniper he tells her that in order to kill someone she had to "forget the taste of sugar": The man in question retired specifically because he found himself empathizing with one of his targets (namely he started wondering how the man's coffee must be tasting because he'd poured so much sugar in it) and found that he couldn't be a
* Mana Tatsumiya of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is a slightly lighter version of this; she never actually kills anyone ([[Child Soldiers|maybe]]), but she's entirely unapologetic about using ammo that paralyzes people for days, even if it's the guy that she has a crush on.
* Saito of ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'', although he's more 'professional' than 'psychotic' and appears to be no less mentally healthy than [[Black and Grey Morality|the rest of Section 9]]. He also doubles as [[The Quiet One]], though he is occasionally sarcastic and openly breaks out in laughter in one of the novels. Granted, he's laughing at how pathetic someone is, so it doesn't really earn him any points towards [[Friendly Sniper]].
* Erwin König in ''[[Enemy at the Gates]]'' the ruthless sniper who duels Russian hero Vasily Zaytsev. The film was based on the real-life Zaytsev's memoirs, which are now considered apocryphal.
* The sniper from the film ''[[The Caller]]'' is a sadistically cold example of this trope.
* The resident sniper of the Wild Seven in ''[[Battle Royale]] II'' never speaks a word and is shown as mostly blank. His character's expanded on a bit more in the movie's
* ''[[Phone Booth (film)|Phone Booth]]'''s sniper does have feelings - but not exactly the expected ones. He has no problems {{spoiler|killing a random pimp to provoke his target and a perfectly innocent pizza guy to avoid suspicion}}.
* Ex-colonel Sebastian Moran is this in [[Sherlock Holmes|Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows]].
* Gerald Seymour's novel ''Holding the Zero'' is about a civilian target shooter who goes to (pre-invasion) Iraq to help the Kurds. The book goes into detail on the history of sniping and the mentality needed.
* Inverted completely in [[Tom Clancy]]'s early novels, most particularly ''The Cardinal of the Kremlin'', which features the rescue of a kidnapped Army scientist from Russian spies by an FBI Hostage Rescue Team. The training and mentality of the FBI snipers is thoroughly explored, up to and including the emotional trauma that results from shooting another human being in cold blood. In a [[Continuity Nod]], the same team shows up in ''The Sum of All Fears''.
** Clancy plays the
* ''[[1632]]'' has Julie Sims: Cheerleader, county champion shooter, and aspiring biathlon candidate turned sniper. She has piled up kill totals well into three figures without any apparent emotional effect. By comparison, she cried like a baby when she shot her first deer. But as she says, "That deer hadn't done anything to anyone". Near the end of ''1632'', some of Gustav's Finnish troopers run into her at the end of a long sniping streak, and believe she is an incarnation of the goddess Loviatar "Maiden of Pain" (they give her a WIDE berth).
** Mentioned in the training by Dr. James Nichols, who trained as <s>an army</s> a Marine sniper. When asked it about it, there is a whole conversation Julie has with her spotter where they discuss the reasons why they are so cold. Basically, if these guys win they'll rape us, so we kill them.
** Also, while he sniped three people out of the blue in his sniping career, he felt uneasy about not giving his enemies a fair fight or any warning, so he transferred to the starfighter corps and did well enough to be put in charge of a brand-new squadron. When they died he [[It's All My Fault|blamed himself]] and [[Heroic BSOD|became cold]] - so he was a poor Cold Sniper when he was a ''sniper'', a better one as a pilot-sniper, and then he [[Defrosting Ice Queen|defrosted]].
{{quote| '''Donos''': "Did I ever shoot someone in cold blood? Without giving him a chance? Yes. Three times I did that. I didn't much care for it; if I did, I'd probably still be doing it. But better to have dead enemies than dead innocents."}}
** Most of the time, given his reputation and his behavior, you would think Wes Janson is a [[Friendly Sniper]]. But when he's killing people, whether in the cockpit or with his sidearm (it's not
* Aleksander Hemon's short story "A Coin" describes the brutal reality of surviving in a war-torn Sarajevo, and features a bit about snipers who shoot at people trying to cross the street because they're bored.
* Lasko from John Ringo's ''[[Paladin of Shadows]]'' series is one of these. In one book, his response to having his spotter shot in the face right next to him is to target the enemy sniper and shoot him while mentally considering the time and effort it will take to train another spotter. He is also [[Improbable Aiming Skills|rediculously skilled at his job]].
* Averted in ''[[Generation Kill]]'': after one of the company's snipers scores (rather bloody) headshots on a couple of targets, he is seen looking visibly disturbed.
* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' had Philip Dowd, a sniper also called a "Long Distance Serial Killer". He started off in the military, but was discharged dishonorably, then kicked out of the police, and finally became a doctor who sniped people and then saved them later. He used an M-4 with .223 caliber rounds (which fragment on impact), shooting from the back of his van equipped with a retractable license plate.
* ''[[Super Sentai]]'' has a monopoly on this trope. The Blue Rangers, either [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]] or [[The Lancer]], is often the
** None of the above are particularly emotionless or sociopathic, though. The best Sentai example is [[Cyber Cyclops|Cyclops]], one of the Ten Infershia Gods, who spends two episodes shooting at the team from the comfort of a pocket dimension. Once Tsubasa finds his own way there, the two have a very satisfying snipe-off, with [[Super Mode|Legend MagiYellow]] one-shotting him. Unlike most examples, Cyclops has a nasty temper, but whenever it really flares up his eye starts flashing in warning and he composes himself again.
* All three main characters on ''[[Burn Notice]]'' are capable of this, with either [[Obfuscating Stupidity|Sam]] or [[Ax Crazy|Fiona]] usually taking on the role while [[The Chessmaster|Michael]] shows off his hand-to-hand or undercover skills.
** Not only does he provide the page quote in game the phrase is used in four of his achievements named "Be Polite," "Be Efficient," "Have a plan," and "Kill Everyone You Meet."
** It's quite likley that he switches between this and [[Friendly Sniper]] depending on wheather he's [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Sniper_responses currentlty sniping,] judging how being scoped makes him use colder, gruffer voice clips for the same lines.
* Gage/Trak from ''[[Advance Wars]]: Days of Ruin''. Although technically an army commander he is an artillery specialist and is commonly depicted with a sniper rifle. His Japanese/European leitmotiv is even called "Ice Warrior". While he is a prime example of [[The Stoic]], he appears otherwise
* Latooni Subota ([[Fan Nickname|aka]] [[Little Miss Badass|Sniperloli]]), however, is a straight example in ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]''. She goes through a lot of [[Character Development]] to become better-adjusted and more outgoing, so naturally, in the sequel, she's lost all her sniping-specific skills (though she's still pretty good at it) and gets a melee-focused [[Super Prototype|Ace Custom]].
* Sev from ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Republic Commando]]''. This cloned special-ops soldier revels in this trope, making such remarks as "nothing better than a jungle hunt...hiding in the bush, putting a plasma bolt through a hostile's cranium...makes me feel alive."
** [[Epileptic Trees|Are they?]] [[Mind Screw|Are they really?]]
*** Strictly speaking, three specific Nobodies gain hearts of their own accord.
* The sniper trio from ''[[Dead Rising]]'' subvert this, as Roger comes across as a
* The ''[[Jagged Alliance]]'' series has several, ranging from [[Deadpan Snarker]] Raven (a former police sniper) to [[Sociopathic Soldier]] Reaper (who actually gets a marksmanship bonus for being on rooftops). There's also Lynx, who likes to spend his spare time finishing off endangered species, and former SAS sniper Scope, who remains [[British Reserve|reserved]] and yet cheerful even as she guns down her enemies. However, probably the most classic example is Shadow, who never speaks above a whisper, never shows any sign of emotion beyond quiet satisfaction at a kill, and is always perfectly camouflaged.
* Thane Krios from ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' was trained to be a
** Renegade!Infiltrator!Shepard, generally. Paragon!Infiltrator!Shepard would be a [[Friendly Sniper]]. Ashely in the first game is the only other squadmate who can use sniper rifles, but character-wise she prefers assault rifles so she can't be categorized here.
* Clive and Elza in ''[[Suikoden]]''.
== Real Life ==
* Real-life example ''and'' subversion: [[wikipedia:Simo Häyhä|Simo]] [[Simo Hayha|Häyhä]] (pictured at the top), the deadliest (and to be excessively literal, coldest) sniper in history, who killed more than five ''hundred'' Soviet soldiers in the [[wikipedia:Winter War|Winter War]] between the Soviet Union and Finland, and then bagged another ''two hundred'' more with his submachine gun, all over a war that lasted only a hundred and five days. He aptly earned the nickname "[[Red Baron|White Death]]" thanks to
* The ''Shooter'' quote is taken from a false (but humorous) exchange between a sniper and a reporter. The reporter, understandably trying to get the sniper's insights into the emotional state needed to do the job, asked him, "When you see your target and pull the trigger, what do you ''feel?''" The sniper shrugged and said, "Recoil."
** This is also referenced in ''[[Secret Warriors]]'' issue No. 4 where {{spoiler|Nick Fury is asked what he'll feel about killing former SHIELD agents who transferred to HAMMER in part because they have to take care of their families. As he pulls back the bolt on a sniper rifle he says "Recoil."}}
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