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So it turns out we need to have an article about the First-Person Smartass, and now I have to tell you everything about the type of narrator who's a first-person narrator (because you obviously didn't get that from the name) and describes events in the tone of a Deadpan Snarker. He does this since he knows that, contrary to the popular misconception, narration isn't about, y’know, letting the reader in on the plot; it's about sharing with them every remotely entertaining half-of-a-train of thought you have. This guy sometimes shows up in the Private Eye Monologue sort of work, but Urban Fantasy is where you really can't turn a corner without bumping into a dozen of them. If you want to find one, just cast a fireball in some otherwise normal city and before you're halfway done, some wannabe-protagonist will jump at you from behind a corner and start throwing pithy remarks at you about how you're being cliché and violating the laws of thermodynamics or some shit like that. Well, fine, that's... hyperbole, I suppose... but you have to admit the guy is an awfully convenient proxy to have around if you're a clever author who wants to show the world how clever you are. Not to mention he can also function as an Audience Surrogate, incorporating and defusing a reader's skepticism with endless Lampshade Hanging of whatever bits of the story don't make sense. You can almost feel the enormous weight of the entire story's Willing Suspension of Disbelief crushing this poor bastard’s shoulders. You can expect this guy to be intellectual and well-acquainted with pop culture (or at least works with which the author is familiar), so he can make all the right clever references at the right time. Naturally, this won't prevent them from being described as uneducated, bad at school, or just plain Book Dumb; these traits are apparently all the fucking rage for Audience Surrogates nowadays as people can't identify with someone who might possibly be a better person than they are. Unfortunately the character may end up being too smart, because the writer is afraid of looking stupid. In the case of Fan Fiction, a character of only moderate intelligence may end up being given uncharacteristically intelligent thoughts, and leaving the readers with a sense of OOC-ness. Anyways, the Trope Namer was a review of Steven Brust's Dragaera series by The Library of Babel. And of course you're going to click that, because the "click hither and educate thyself" tone of that sentence just screams "fun." Compare Lemony Narrator. Or don’t, I don’t care how lazy you are. ... I don’t like my job. |
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Fly in Doom is a major smartass, making sarcastic and witty remarks even as things almost literally go to hell. Arlene, Albert, and Jill are all smartasses in their POV chapters as well. | |
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In Sean Bean Saves Westeros, the "real life" Sean Bean is transported into the land of Westeros of A Song of Ice and Fire. Now living as Ned Stark, not just playing him on TV, Sean Bean indulges in inner monologues as a coping mechanism. He snarks at almost everything happening in Westeros, and often disparages George for the epically screwed-up world he’s penned. | |
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The protagonist of New Reality is regularly this, and sometimes even in tough situations. | |
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Loki: When the powers that be let teen Loki narrate their own exploits (Like in the first issue of Loki: Agent of Asgard) they will do this. Their tangents on things like the nature of magic serving as exposition and underlining how nerdy they can get. Yes, the God of Mischief owns tabletop RPG rulebooks, problem? | |
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Descent's Material Defender. | |
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Aleya of Watchers of the Throne has lived mostly apart from Imperium's main society, and so whenever she has to interact with it, she frequently mocks and sneers at it in her head, as all its faults are readily apparent to her. If she wasn't sworn to silence, she would probably be doing it out loud as well. | |
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Miho is this in Innocence Need Not Apply, as a result of the author applying Alternative Character Interpretation to her experiences, resulting in her becoming jaded and bitter, but determined to save the lives of her comrades should they fall into danger, although she doesn't always express said feelings openly. | |
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MS Paint Adventures straddles this and Lemony Narrator — the adventures are told in second person and usually clearly from a certain character's point of view, but sometimes come across more of an omniscient narrator, particularly when they Break The Fourth Wall. And either way, it is inevitably very sarcastic. Due to being the longest of the stories, Homestuck in particular has perfected the Second-Person Smartass. Occasionally, though, the narration bleeds over into what they're actually saying. The Homestuck Epilogues makes this more literal in the Meat route, where it's revealed that Dirk, having become the narrator, is making all those smartass comments for everyone. |
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Harry Lockheart, narrator and protagonist of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, frequently breaks the fourth wall and pokes fun at the plot and his own narration style: | |
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Gen, the narrator of the first book in The Queen's Thief series, dips into this often. | |
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The narrator from Marie D. Suesse and the Mystery New Pirate Age!! occasionally takes breaks from narrating the story to make fun of common cliches found in fanfics and point out logical fallacies. | |
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Dexter: Dexter Morgan is just as much a smart-ass on TV as in the books, if not more so. There's even a subversion in one episode where Dex's internal monologue becomes external for a line; the only one who notices, of course, is Doakes. | |
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Pokemon: The Unknown Continuum features a protagonist who absolutely hates being in the situation of a typical Mystery Dungeon player character. His narration in the first third of the fic is often coated in snark. | |
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Calling the mild-mannered Ao of Asteroid in Love a smartass might be a misnomer. However, since eventually she becomes the Only Sane Man of the Earth Sciences Club, the combination of that trope and her reluctance in speaking means she often points out the odd things in inner monologues. | |
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TS!Underswap: Team Switched uses the Narrator Chara theory from Undertalenote The theory that Chara's spirit is providing you/the Human Child the flavor text and checks in all routes, but keeps Chara as the narrator for the game despite switching roles with the Human Child. As in the original game, Chara can get very snarky in their narration. | |
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Fallout: Equestria is written from the first-person perspective of Littlepip, a unicorn mare from Stable 2 who has quite a lot to say about everything that comes her way. She combines this trope with regular Deadpan Snarkery on occasion. | |
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The unnamed narrator of the comic neo-noir Mr Blank and its sequel. | |
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Much of Manehattan's Lone Guardian is told from Leviathan's perspective, and as it turns out she has a lot on her mind. She inwardly comments on everything about Equestria and its inhabitants that gets her attention, and she reserves some snark for Gray Ghost and Drama Heart, two of the quirkiest individuals she's met in her life. | |
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My Little Investigations protagonist Twilight Sparkle is this as per Ace Attorney standards. | |
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The Flash: Wally West's run is rife with snarky narration. | |
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The Player in tERRORbane does not have any spoken lines, but the notes they write on their bug list is full of snark towards the results of the Developer's less-than-stellar programming. | |
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Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos in the Dragaera series, who besides being an aristocrat of a sort reflects Brust's Author Appeal in being a gourmet cook. One of the first examples of this in fantasy, along with Corwin from The Chronicles of Amber, and indirect Trope Namer. When Kiera the Thief is narrating in Orca, she's this way as well. | |
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Godmothered: While narrating, at one point Agnes says "Oh, blah, blah, blah. We all know how this bit goes." | |
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About half the fun of Lord of War is Nicholas Cage's gloriously dry snark as he narrates over events. | |
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In Peep Show, the thoughts of the main characters Mark and Jez are often narrated to the audience and both are snarky to the core, specially Mark, who is already a Deadpan Snarker externally. | |
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Bridget Jones, especially in the original script, has more snarky (even to the point of being mean to whoever is insulting her) responses in her head and diary rather than in real life. She also offers some snarky opinions of people like her mother and parents' peers. | |
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The Homestuck Epilogues makes this more literal in the Meat route, where it's revealed that Dirk, having become the narrator, is making all those smartass comments for everyone. | |
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Joe Gillis from Sunset Boulevard is a particularly cynical example, probably because he's dead. As an early example, his voiceover when the homicide squad find his corpse floating in a pool goes like so: | |
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The Makings of Team CRME: Mercury Black in The Black Hearts combines this with Stepford Snarker. His extremely dysfunctional household and Abusive Parents have broken him down to the point where he can only discuss these things with sarcasm and cracking jokes. His smart-ass nature of telling the story is a reflection of what his lifetime of abuse has done to him, growing numb to the horror around him. Roman Torchwick is naturally a Deadpan Snarker and he narrates his own story, Roman's Empire, with heavy amounts of condescending sarcasm. He's not above saying it out loud, but this leads to it seeping into his narration style. |
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The Dresden Files: Harry Dresden is a private eye in an urban fantasy verse, so of course he indulges. Expect dozens of bad jokes and pop culture references per book. A lot of it is the fact that he's also a Stepford Snarker with a heck of a lot of angst, as well as being a defense mechanism against various supernatural monsters (as he explains, you never show weakness or fear to predators unless you want them to attack you). Thomas Raith, the narrator and protagonist of the Dresdenverse story Backup, proves equal to his brother Harry in terms of interspersing action and sass. John Marcone narrates the story Even Hand, and intersperses ruthless pragmatism with very dry snark. For example, after a monster blows open his door: Molly narrates the story Bombshells and follows her mentor's example by being fairly snarky, though not as much as Dresden, Thomas or Marcone. |
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Platinum Pirate: While Lucas is pretty affable and friendly to most people, his narration to the reader is much more snarky. The first thing he thinks when he sees Sengoku is how voluminous Sengoku's afro is and stating that Flint ought to be taking notes from Sengoku's hair care routine. But everything that comes out of Lucas's mouth is comparatively professional. | |
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The main protagonist of Zero Sight. His running commentaries is source of much of the series humour. | |
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Whateley Universe: Phase is a superpowered mutant rather than a PI, but in the stories in which he is the narrator, he is a snarky commentator, very intellectual, well read, even for a teenager who has been to all the 'right' private schools, far too knowledgeable about food (even if he's spent his life as the heir to billions eating the finest food anywhere), and still associates with the other rich kids at the Super Hero School Whateley Academy. Chaka has a snarky (and sassy)) observation for many a situation. She's a lot more easy-going than Phase, though, although that's not a high bar to clear. |
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The narrator of Kung Pow! Enter the Fist is lemony throughout the film, and we later find out he is actually one of the characters in the movie. | |
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Every viewpoint character in Of Fear and Faith has shades of this, August and Aiden especially. | |
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Kyle Hyde from Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is a quite a smartass - and it even seeps into his dialogue with other characters, but he's also arguably the Only Sane Man in the titular Hotel. | |
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In Risk It All, Ren is quite polite when speaking to others. His narration to the reader is much more charged, cussing up a storm when things go wrong, snarking at a crook for making his phone password "boob", and comparing the processing power of a library's computer to a potato. | |
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Nero Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin is both the hardboiled gumshoe to Wolfe's rarified Great Detective and the narrator of all the mysteries the two find themselves involved in. This means that the reader is treated to generous helpings of dry, deadpan sarcasm and quips about almost everything that happens and everyone that Goodwin comes across. To paraphrase their Friendly Enemy Inspector Cramer, Goodwin would cheerfully joke around at his own execution if given half a chance. | |
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Due to being the longest of the stories, Homestuck in particular has perfected the Second-Person Smartass. Occasionally, though, the narration bleeds over into what they're actually saying. | |
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The titular character of the Max Payne trilogy is this combined with a bunch of metaphors. | |
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In My Huntsman Academia, Izuku is normally a really nice guy. But his internal dialogue can come across as extremely snarky at the antics surrounding him. Case in point, his response to Ozpin explaining how Initiation works: | |
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I, Jedi was the first Star Wars novel and only Star Wars Legends novel to use First-Person Perspective, and Corran Horn, being something of a Cowboy Cop, is a massive wiseass. See the opening scene, where he snarks that the basic TIE/LN starfighter is second only to hydrogen and stupidity as the most common thing in the galaxy. | |
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Yukito in Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni alternates between normal narration and some distinctly blasé inner comments towards the members of his family - including his stepsister. | |
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R from Warm Bodies. Justified, as he has trouble actually making legible words with his mouth (he is a zombie, after all), so most of the snarky dialogue we get from him is simply his train of thought. | |
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Title Pending: The first and third episodes occasionally cut to Cameron sarcastically monologuing about how long it took for Bayden to realize what's happening or general comments. | |
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Wade from Ready Player One, as you would expect from a teenager. | |
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Lizzie McGuire's inner thoughts are much snarkier and outspoken than the protagonist in her real life. | |
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Turnabout Storm: True to Ace Attorney form, both point of view characters, Phoenix Wright and Twilight Sparkle, partake in this to cope with the fact that they are the Only Sane Man/Mare in a world of crazies. Even then, neither is shy about pulling some regular snarking occasionally. | |
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Heather Stone, protagonist/narrator of Newshound, is a bit more subdued in her snark than some of the other examples on this page, but still regularly offers up the occasional witticism on the people and events in her life. | |
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David Wong, of John Dies at the End, deadpans, lies, and occasionally half-heartedly mocks the weird shit that confronts him and his goofball friend. He occasionally veers into nihilistic author tracts... that are actually attempts by the Shadow Men to get him to commit suicide and stopping his heroics. | |
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Starlight Over Detrot has Detective Hard Boiled do this, as part of its Noir styling. | |
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The player character of Havenfall Is for Lovers uses snark at least in part as a coping mechanism to deal with her dissatisfaction with her circumstances and with being out of her depth. Since she's very frequently out of her depth once the supernatural side of her Hated Hometown starts intruding into her life, her narration and inner monologue provide a steady stream of snark and self-deprecation. | |
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Caliban Leandros, oh so very much. His brother Niko has his moments as well, though he's much more restrained. | |
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Flint Perez from Outliers fits the trope well, generally giving his own smartass commentary on whatever's going on and going off on random asides. Hannah, the other narrator, tends more towards the deadpan than the snarker, but still has her moments. | |
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Odd Thomas definitely counts, though he's usually more humble about his smartass remarks. Being a Dean Koontz character, though, he also often goes on philosophical tangents, which is pleasant. | |
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Spenser is somewhat a Poor Man's Substitute of this trope and is often brought up as the direct inspiration for fantasy novels using this character-type (Jim Butcher has openly named him as the literary ancestor of Harry Dresden). | |
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Ditto for the Kane siblings in The Kane Chronicles spin-off series, where not only do they snark at what's happening around them, but they also snark at each other as well as they switch taking turns as the narrator of a chapter. | |
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The narration of The First Law is third-person, but characters' thoughts are stated so often that there's a definite impression of First-Person Smartass. Especially in any viewpoint chapter of Glokta's. | |
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The Victors Project and the companion stories have revolving first-person narrators, whenever the narration is first person but most of the non-Capitol ones apply. Case in point, Jason Mellark narrating in The Lumberjack and the Tree Elf: | |
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Persuasion (2022): Unlike the novel, which utilized a third-person narrator, this film has Anne herself narrate the film to audiences, and she'll often do so with cheeky quips and eyerolls. | |
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Tomoya from CLANNAD, as you'd expect when the narrator is The Gadfly. | |
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Will from The Inbetweeners who is both the main protagonist and the voice-over narrator. Already a Deadpan Snarker of dimensions in the series itself, he manages to take it up a notch when he narrates. In reviews, even people who don't like the series and/or movie in general will usually admit to have gotten a few laughs out of Will's narration. The appeal (especially to grown-up viewers) probably comes from how he criticizes phenomena in everyday life that seem completely normal or even cool to most teenagers, but when you grow up, you realize how stupid or awkward they were. | |
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Kinji Tohyama of Aria the Scarlet Ammo, especially in the light novels. Dude always has a quip for each weird thing he encounters in his life. | |
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Minotaur Hotel: During the Hinterlands, P takes care of most of the narration and you get to see how much of a "cunt" he is, with how he plainly tells his opinion towards certain events and how much he hates himself. | |
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In The Black Company, the various Annalists tend to snark at most everything. | |
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Kyon, the viewpoint character of Haruhi Suzumiya; a variation of the character type, as even though he's very intelligent, sarcastic and literate, he's Book Dumb and rarely gets anything more than a B+. | |
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Felix Castor in Mike Carey's series is another urban fantasy example, like a much, much darker Harry Dresden. | |
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The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. runs almost entirely on this trope, with all the wackiness of the cast acting as a backdrop for Saiki's constant snark. | |
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Georgia Nicolson in the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson books. Much of the series' humor derives from her exasperated sarcastic remarks, given that she's Surrounded by Idiots — though she's frequently shown to be Not So Above It All. Georgia actually manages to combine this trope with Drama Queen, being a sarcastic but still very emotional teenage girl, leading to such gems as: | |
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The eponymous Percy Jackson of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. It's probably common amongst Half-Bloods, as a coping mechanism extension of their diagnosed-as-ADHD battle instincts. After all, if you find yourself standing before Hades, God of the Dead, who's cloaked in a robe sewn together from souls of the damned, then wondering what some poor saps must've done to get themselves assigned to being his boxer shorts has got to be better than having your mind lock up in fear. | |
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Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: As pointed by many fans of Riordan's work, Riordan somehow manages to make Magnus's narration even snarkier than Percy's. | |
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Ichika Orimura from Infinite Stratos when it comes to his sister. | |
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In The Lay of Paul Twister, the titular character narrates his stories in this style. | |
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Ghost Trick was made by the same people behind Ace Attorney, so of course its protagonist is like this. The only difference is that everyone can actually hear him being a smartass because he's a ghost and ghosts communicate through telepathy, a fact that he keeps forgetting. | |
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Daniel Lawson in the Glee fanfic series The Harmon Verse takes this trope and has his babies—one of the best things about Daniel is how he snarks about anything in front of him. | |
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Joey Wheeler narrates Being Dead Ain't Easy. It's so full of snark that your internal voice may be replaced with his after reading it. | |
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She's Not So Famous has Blaineley, then known as Millie, narrating her quest to get candid photographs of the Boy Band Famestreet. She spends a lot of time complaining about her unsavory job and the odd people she meets during her quest, such as Loony Fan Annie and Chris's hot-tempered Stage Mom. | |
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Alcatraz Smedry is a First Person Smartass narrator for the Alcatraz Series. | |
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Stranger Than Fiction features an in-universe example in the form of author Karen Eiffel, who is the author (and, therefore, narrator) of the book starring Harold Crick. Unusually, it's a female instead of a male, although the British accent is still there. | |
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Gemma from A Great and Terrible Beauty does this. It frequently gets her in trouble, as what she's thinking is pretty damn funny, so she cracks a smile, usually at the worst time possible. | |
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Animorphs does this with all of the humans to some extent, but mostly Marco. | |
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Hollow Kingdom (2019): S.T. the crow's internal monologue is bursting with crass language and his opinions on everything he comes across, aided by his general disdain for any form of life that isn't human. The snark gets dialed back a few notches after he finds himself in charge of rescuing domestic animals and his broken wing necessitates him working with others to travel swiftly. | |
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Subverted by Betsy Taylor, the heroine and narrator of the Betsy the Vampire Queen series. She's got the tone right, but she takes the "smart" out of "smartass". | |
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Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa of Case Closed snarks in his head more than Once an Episode. | |
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The Spellmonger Series's narrator Minalan the Spellmonger is all about snark, whether he's mouthing off to kings, colleagues, gods, or the reader. | |
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Scarlett Undercover: Scarlett often makes snarky asides in her narration. | |
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Freeman's Mind turns the Silent Protagonist of Half-Life into a snarky, sarcastic sociopath. | |
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Servant × Service: Local Shrinking Violet Saya, surprisingly and sporadically, but very fitting with her Brutal Honesty. Kanon also tends to snark a lot in her head regarding some weird situations she gets into, such as Miyoshi's Brutal Honesty, Hasebe's slacking habits, Chihaya's strange personality, and Lucy's tight control of her salary, as well as the Ichimiya siblings' shared obliviousness (Taishi to the true reason Touko visits his place, and Touko to the fact that the bunny in the office is her father's avatar and the true nature of her brother and Chihaya's relationship). |
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Ky�tar� Ichikawa from The Dangers in My Heart. A Shrinking Violet on the outside and ultimately a Nice Guy to his core. And in his head? A sour smart-aleck towards nearly every other character. From his teasing and dorkish sister, his ditzy Love Interest, and especially to the sex-crazed boys in his class. | |
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Garrett, P.I., being a fantasy Noir work, features this. | |
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Mercury Black in The Black Hearts combines this with Stepford Snarker. His extremely dysfunctional household and Abusive Parents have broken him down to the point where he can only discuss these things with sarcasm and cracking jokes. His smart-ass nature of telling the story is a reflection of what his lifetime of abuse has done to him, growing numb to the horror around him. | |
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Witkacy in Shaman Blues gets quite some mileage from being able to talk directly to the reader. | |
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Game of Thrones: In the box sets, there is in-character discussion and lectures about various bits of Weserosi history, places, and events. Most characters do so simply in an informational manner, (although there are occasional hints of Unreliable Narrator, half-truths, exaggerating the glories of minor victories or sly hints at things that history is too polite to talk about) but the sections done by Stannis Baratheon are peppered with smart ass comments. (Which, considering the personality Stannis has, is rather ironic.) A few examples: Sandor Clegane gets one or two in his own segment. |
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The Heroes of Olympus Sequel Series is the only exception. The books are instead narrated in third-person through the point of view of multiple demigods, but the narration still reeks of snark, making them Lemony Narrators. | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog fanfic My Time Of Dying. Despite the story being about his struggle with depression, narrator and Snarker Scourge pulls this off a lot in the Present Tense, often thinking directly at the reader. The best part of this is that it feels entirely In Character for him to do this. | |
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Spider-Man: This has become a fairly common practice in the series. | |
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Shelena, the narrator of Loyal Enemies, just can't let anything slide, and when she can't speak out loud, the amount of snark in her inner monologue increases. Her most common targets are Rest and Veres, but everyone gets his or her share of it. | |
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As a dark example, Dexter somewhat fits this type, being a surprisingly charming and cheerful Serial Killer. | |
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Shirou of Fate/stay night. He's more famous for not dying when he is killed in the anime adaptation, but in the game, his narration is remarkably sarcastic. This is made more obvious when you realize that despite the narrative shift from Rin in the prologue to Shirou in the actual game, the actual observations don't change at all. The only major change is the motivations of the narrator. Rin actually likes him because she senses this side of him, which is why she spends so much time making fun of him. Archer is what Shirou would be like if he stopped being polite. | |
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Captain Kanril Eleya of Bait and Switch and related fics. Not all the time, but the story is told from her point of view and she's not afraid to crack jokes in the narration. She's even snarked at herself on occasion, such as when she caught herself gawking at her ops officer when he was lifting weights. It really comes out when she's annoyed at the universe in general, as in the side story Reality Is Fluid: | |
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Cecil from Welcome to Night Vale tends to pull this off when talking about Strexcorp. | |
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ATL: Stories from the Retrofuture: It's pretty safe to say Morgan Harding is a bit of a smartass narrator. | |
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The Narrator of the 1996 sections of Redaction of the Golden Witch is one of these. He doesn't exactly have the highest opinion of his three companions, and doesn't hold back in his thoughts. Since he doesn't use quotation marks when actually speaking, it seems like he doesn't hold back during conversations, either… | |
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Issei in High School D×D has shades of this, however it's Azazel who's a lot more of a smart ass narrator whenever he discusses things in his point of view. | |
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And, to pull off the trifecta, Hard Reset and its sequels feature Twilight's perspective. While not overloaded, she still has her moments. | |
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Goodfellas milks the fun of the narrator's snarkery when he describes events. | |
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The anonymous narrator of Red Harvest. "I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker called Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. I didn’t think anything of what he’d done to the city’s name. Later I’d heard men who could pronounce their r’s give it the same pronunciation. I still didn’t see anything in it but the meaningless sort of humor used to make richardsnary the thieves’ word for dictionary. A few years later, I went to Personville and learned better." | |
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Child of the Storm is primarily written in the third person, but sections from Harry Dresden's point of view are written in his signature style. | |
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Colt Regan does this quite a bit in between strange tangents on such subjects as the political leanings of baked goods. | |
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In The Stainless Steel Rat, narrator James Bolivar "Slippery Jim" diGriz is constantly snarking at just about everything around him. On the rare occasions when he stops snarking, it indicates that things have gotten really serious. | |
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Crocodile Hunter split the narration between Steve Irwin and his wife Terri. While Steve's narration was typically... Steve Irwin, Terri could get quite snarky. Case in point: in "Wild in the USA", she remarks, "Congratulations, Steve! We only circled the Sheraton [Grand Hotel] for one hour." | |
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In Amazing Fantasy, Izuku is still a sweet, polite guy, keeping whatever acrid snark he has for the people around him in his head most of the time. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg frequently makes snarky comments about the events that befall him. | |
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Live A Live: The Near Future chapter in the remake has its loading screen tips and item descriptions written from the perspective of the chapter's protagonist, Akira Tadokoro, usually with snarky commentary on his part. | |
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Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games isn't just a snarker in her dialogue with others, but in her narration as well, which establishes her cynicism, trust issues, and Broken Bird status. | |
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Luigi's Mansion: Even Mario's bro Luigi gets in on this when you examine objects with the Game Boy Horror. | |
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Garret from the Thief series is at least an FPS smartass. | |
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The protagonist of the mega-multi-cross fanfic Sleeping with the Girls, mainly as a device to keep the protagonist deliberately unnamed as an Affectionate Parody of the ISO Standard self-insert fic. | |
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Riki of Little Busters!, another Key/Visual Arts game, is also kind of snarky, though much less so than Tomoya, and he tends to keep his inner misgivings to himself unless he's talking to someone he knows can take it such as Masato or Kurugaya. | |
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Rivers of London, told from the ever so slightly sarcastic and opinionated POV of Detective Constable Peter Grant. | |
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Mark Watney in The Martian is frequently a smartass in the log he keeps while stranded on Mars. His communications with NASA also tend towards smartassery. | |
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Apollo's narration in The Trials of Apollo is also plenty snarky. | |
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Jazz Overstreet of Songs and Flowers is amazingly snarky in her narration, often mixed with her intricately-crafted swears such as "unfucktunately" and "fucksy-daisy-oopsy-maisie." Some of them have to be seen to believed. | |
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Jericho, the narrator of Jericho (MLP), whose narration style is founded upon snark. Without breaking the fourth wall, he is constantly making fun of the story he's in and the world and characters therein, kind of like a demented Douglas Adams. | |
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Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: Hobbes narrating like this in "The Time Pauser". Calvin gets his turn for the first half of "The Transmitter Conspiracy Part 1". |
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The Demesne Of The Reluctant Twilight Sparkle is told entirely through Twilight's stream-of-consciousness POV, so this crops up quite a bit, at least as much at her own expense as at anypony else's. | |
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Catch Your Breath: Kei, all the way through. A quarter of the story’s length is composed of Kei’s exposition about her thoughts at a given time and speculation on the story’s universe, while another fourth is color commentary. The remaining half is the plot. | |
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Phoenix Wright of the Ace Attorney series fits the description as well. In fact, any playable character in any of the Ace Attorney games is this trope, because it's probably the best way of handling their Only Sane Man status. In Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, Phoenix mostly drops the inner part of his snark and sets it loose openly. Because he's no longer an attorney at that point, Phoenix doesn't have to keep his thoughts to himself. | |
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Jaume of The Dinosaur Lords has a lot to say about unwashed religious bigots who's been put under his command, but can't because it would be unpolitical, so he resigns himself to snarking in his head. | |
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The End of the World and it's sequels give quite a bit of this from Haymitch (albeit sometimes as a coping mechanism) whenever he snarks about the Capitol, the victors he has issues with or just the nature of their Crapsack World. Two examples (both from "The Last Tribute" when Katniss and Peeta or Cato and Clove being allowed to both win is brought up); | |
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Gaven Morren of The Tale of the Exile is this, being partially based on Garret from the Thief series mentioned above. | |
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The Unabridged Memoirs of Darth Plagueis the Wise is, as the title suggests, narrated by Darth Plagueis. And he tends to get his mental Deadpan Snarker on quite often, especially when dealing with Senators or Jedi. | |
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All About Eve is partially narrated by Addison DeWitt, a Deadpan Snarker who has a rather low opinion of the other principal characters, and of humanity in general. | |
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Squall Leonhart in Final Fantasy VIII isn't much of a talker, but he keeps up a running Inner Monologue throughout the game and spares nobody from his sardonic mental commentary. This was retained for his appearances in the Dissidia Final Fantasy games - for instance, when approached by the Warrior of Light: | |
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Bartimaeus of The Bartimaeus Trilogy in the chapters he narrates, and even more so in the footnotes. In the last book of the trilogy, he even manages to snark chapters another character narrates because he and Nathaniel are sharing a body. | |
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Cyberpunk 2077: After V gets the Relic chip slotted into their head and starts to be able to converse with Johnny Silverhand, the mission descriptions in the questlog become written by him, with all of Johnny's usual sass, snark and irony. | |
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When Miron gets to narrate part of Dora Wilk Series, he turns out to be harbouring deep layers of snarkiness in his mind, most of which never get to leave it. | |
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Your character in Kingdom of Loathing often acts this way, as part of the game's general style and sense of humor. | |
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Burn Notice has Jeffrey Donovan's character Michael Westen consistently snarking about his situation and environment, though he walks the line between First Person Smartass and Deadpan Snarker with stylish aplomb. Upon rigging a club with C4, Michael walks in on the club owner/drug distributor with a business proposal, drinks his alcohol and acts pretty much like he owns the place... while holding a dead man's switch. If he is injured and lets go, the place will explode. As this happens, he narrates: | |
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Valhalla's Angel: If Hajime isn't snarking out loud, he's doing it in his head. | |
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Hisao Nakai of Katawa Shoujo is quite snarky in his narration. | |
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Shaun Hastings from the Assassin's Creed series has a strong tendency to enter his entries into the Animus database in this manner. Expect him to painfully show you how obviously inferior you are to him. What else would you expect if you have a professional Deadpan Snarker maintain a digital encyclopedia? | |
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How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis Colin leads his party through surreal obscene situations that comedians would kill for. He runs a funny if pessimistic commentary on his life. | |
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Fiona van Dahl is a fan of this trope, as the entirety of Eden Green and a large section of New Night are in this form. | |
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