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Gentleman Snarker
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The Gentleman Snarker is a type of Deadpan Snarker that can say ungentlemanly things as only a gentleman can. This should not be considered the exclusive domain of males, because the Ladies can be just as cunning, and just as well-bred/rich. This trope is about any upper-class person who is exceptionally witty. They are always polite, except when it is appropriate to be impolite. At that moment, they can deliver their victim an insult as sharp and subtle as a rapier. They spend their time making witticisms, flirting and pulling pranks. This characteristic is well known among those with a Stiff Upper Lip and when done right can be quite awesome. Beware the Gentleman Snarker. If you want your pride punctured, they're the one to do it. This was once almost a necessary part of being a high-class person and thus political insults of the past were just as common but at least more interesting. They may apply Sophisticated as Hell, often sparingly. See also Servile Snarker — though due to Conservation of Competence, one is rarely in the employ of the other. Put two of them in a room together, and Snark-to-Snark Combat becomes almost inevitable. |
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Mycroft Holmes of Sherlock. His brother Sherlock is more the Tall, Dark, and Snarky type. | |
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Emma: Emma is very intelligent and some of her comments are quite smart ass. She especially likes friendly arguments with Mr. Knightley, who is her intellectual equal. She's also quite snarky with Mrs. Weston, her close friend and Parental Substitute, who tends to protest that "you divert me against my conscience." But when one of her witty remarks crosses the line, she deeply regrets that she insulted the lady who was on the receiving end of her sharp and unkind wit. Mr. Knightley snarks very nicely, and he always remains the perfect example of the witty British gentleman archetype. |
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Paulie in Circles likes to tease around and make quips here and there but it's all in good fun. | |
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A Knight's Tale as Inquisitor: As indicated by her moniker as "King of Knights", Arturia is very courteous, eloquent, and polite to others at all times, showing professionalism befitting for one such as her. However, this doesn't change the fact that the wit that comes out of her mouth tends to be just as sharp as her sword. This actually fits right in with the World of Snark she's landed in - which happens to be Thedas. | |
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The titular Count Cain, in every detail. Witty but self-centred and lazy? Check. Living on inherited money, with no real job but an eccentric hobby (in his case, collecting and sometimes using poisons)? Check. Flirtatious ladykiller yet Ambiguously Bi? Very check. | |
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Christopher Riley in Shadowlands is one of these, but it backfires horribly on him when he tries it on Snark Knight Joy Gresham: | |
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Jeeves from Jeeves and Wooster. Doubles as a Servile Snarker. Of course, he's played by Stephen Fry, who could himself be considered a Gentleman Snarker. | |
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Philo Vance, the hero of S.S. Van Dine's detective stories, is a brilliant polymath who habitually acts like an indolent fop. He has been described as a polymathic Psmith. | |
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O'Hara from Nurse Jackie is a female example. | |
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Lady Rebecca Gibson is a female example in Plunkett & Macleane. She is described by one observing character to be "very choice, very choosy" when it comes to her long line of unsuccessful suitors, sending one off in the same scene with a particularly barbed remark. Though unheard by the audience, the reaction of the suitor indicates the remark was particularly vicious, though probably deserved. Even with the man she likes, her initial flirting has a particularly snarky and mischievous tone. | |
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Higgins often did this to Magnum in Magnum, P.I.. He can't do it as well as some. | |
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Hannibal: Along with his exquisite taste (including friends to have for dinner) and love of refined culture, Hannibal Lecter often showcases his highly sharp wit. Sometimes his snark can be particularly vicious. | |
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In Double Homework, Amy’s mom, the queen, is shown to have a witty and pointed sense of humor. | |
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John Dickinson of 1776. He's a refined, well-dressed landowner who wins a snark-off with Benjamin Franklin thusly: | |
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Dream Machine: Ryan, Derek, and Meredith by turns. | |
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Albert James Moriarty of Moriarty the Patriot: Albert's snark primarily comes out when speaking to his old friend, Colonel Moran, but he can be quite biting when it suits him. But never in such a way that would have anyone call him out for poor manners. | |
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Discworld: Havelock Vetinari. The most magnificent Magnificent Bastard ever, he has a title, and if you actually read what he's saying carefully, he's unbelievably snarky. His lines in the council of war in Jingo are quite possibly the best examples. Vetinari occasionally says "Please don't let me detain you." Those to whom he says it usually consider exactly what that detention might involve, and then leave immediately. This has become a major point of fear for those forced to frequently tell him things he's not going to like: Besides Vetinari, the Jingo novel has some great examples of this from the Klatchian (fantasy Arabs) nobility, especially prominent with Prince Cadram. Note that Cadram is very familiar with Morporkian culture and almost certainly knew it is a racial slur. He is just "innocently" bringing it up to embarrass the Morporkian nobles: |
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The eponymous Inspector Lynley. | |
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Ianto Jones from Torchwood develops into something of this in later series. | |
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Charles Xavier has shades of this in X-Men: First Class. He's from an extremely wealthy family, attends Oxford and possesses an absolutely brilliant mind — but he prefers to use his mind-reading abilities and genius knowledge of genetics to seduce women, and seems more interested in drinking than helping mankind. Even when he starts the team, he still possesses a keen wit and sense of fun (which is not to say he is in any way flippant about his beliefs). Only towards the end, when his friendship with Erik is destroyed and he is left paralyzed, does he truly become the mentor and leader we would come to know and love. | |
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From Eroica with Love presents Dorian Red Gloria, Earl of Gloria. A Gentleman Thief who plays cat-and-mouse with German Major "Iron" Klaus Heinz von dem Eberbach, the asexual guy who declared that he would capture Dorian. | |
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The Man Who Was Thursday: Sunday is constantly making fun of his comrades, which oddly doesn't detract at all from his being a scary-ass dude. Here's an example from just one conversation: | |
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In My Favorite Year, the actor Alan Swann tends to speak in quips and with exaggerated nonchalance, just like the Swashbuckler characters he used to play on the silver screen. His mode of speech becomes more normal as he gets to know Benjy, a comedy show writer. | |
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Besides Vetinari, the Jingo novel has some great examples of this from the Klatchian (fantasy Arabs) nobility, especially prominent with Prince Cadram. Note that Cadram is very familiar with Morporkian culture and almost certainly knew it is a racial slur. He is just "innocently" bringing it up to embarrass the Morporkian nobles: | |
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Death the Kid from Soul Eater pulls this gem (among many others) in his first duel with Soul and BlackStar after he shoots them in the most refined way possible: | |
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Alfred Pennyworth is a master of this trope. Particularly evident in The Dark Knight. | |
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Vorkosigan Saga: Byerly Vorrutyer from A Civil Campaign. He's Vor-class, "is notoriously without visible means of support", makes sarcastic quips at everyone else's expense, and is very interested in what his newly male cousin looks like without clothes. However, he's actually a high ranking civilian Imp Sec agent. Ivan Vorpatril is another example of this trope, though he tends to act like an Upper-Class Twit to the degree that it was years before his cousin Miles Vorkosigan realized his first name wasn't "That Idiot." |
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Dragon Age: Origins: Leliana is by far one of the nicest of your party member, so she doesn't snark as much as Alistair, Zevran or Morrigan, but when pushed, she manages to outsnark the latter during a Snark-to-Snark Combat. | |
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Star Wars: Lineage has Master Dooku, born into an upper-class family and a Gentleman Wizard through and through. The only thing faster and sharper than his repartee is his lightsaber. | |
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The Earl of Rule in The Convenient Marriage. | |
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In Spirit Hunter: NG, Seiji's polite demeanor lends itself well to the scathing insults he likes to throw Akira's way, though Akira's not afraid to fling back. | |
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BlazBlue's Rachel Alucard is a rare female example and quite a funny one at that. | |
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Felix Harrowgate, of Doctrine of Labyrinths, is notorious in the court for his nasty barbs— in fact, sarcasm is his default manner of speech, which interferes with his serious relationships. | |
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The Swan Princess has Lord Rogers, Prince Derek's good but sarcastic advisor. For example, after an epic foot-in-mouth scene from Prince Derek: | |
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The iconic cleric of Dungeons & Dragons 3.5, Jozan, has this trope down to a fine art. He doesn't preach or sermonize at people whose behavior he disapproves of so much as he snarks at them. At one point he Stealth Insults an entire town so well that they actually have to collectively pause to decide whether he was cheering them on or rebuking them. | |
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Treasure Planet: Captain Amelia, a female version, owes her best lines to this trope. And later during the same conversation with Doctor Doppler: |
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In The Moon is Blue, the Idle Rich David Slater talks like this, though he freely admits that much of his behavior is not worthy of a gentleman. | |
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Lord Peter Wimsey keeps up a running stream of babble that makes the uneducated believe him to be an Upper-Class Twit, but which references disparate subjects from the classical canon to campanology. | |
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The Duke of Avon from These Old Shades (also appearing in Devil's Cub) is one of the best, as well as his prototype, the Duke of Andover from The Black Moth. | |
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Marvel: Avengers Alliance has Doctor Strange, who is also often The Comically Serious with a healthy dose of Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, but occasionally holds his own against even Tony Stark and the other snarkers that abound. | |
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The Four Gospels: Frequently, Jesus Christ (yes, that one), of all people. Then again: although it's surprising at first take — one wouldn't expect someone who's called the Word of God to be at a loss for words, would one? | |
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Blood and Honor: Sanguis is usually polite and well-mannered, even to her opponents, but she has a wry sense of humor which becomes more evident the longer she spends with Vette. She enjoys flirting with and flustering Quinn and throws out an occasional bit of verbal wordplay. | |
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Batman Alfred Pennyworth. Particularly beautiful in Injustice: Gods Among Us. | |
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Midshipman Alexis Carew is a daughter of landed gentry who produces many zingers. Her first night aboard Merlin, an older midshipman, Roland, makes a "gay sailor" Double Entendre about Alexis' bunkmate Philip Easley, wondering if she took the top bunk or the bottom bunk. | |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Tharan Cedrax certainly seems to see himself his way, tossing off dryly sarcastic commentary about the situations he finds himself in while tagging along with the Jedi Consular. One of the best ways to gain affection with Dr. Cedrax is to engage in sarcasm yourself, often by pointing out just how stupidly some Drunk on the Dark Side Sith or Imperial is behaving. | |
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Defenders of the Earth: Mandrake is evidently one of the wealthiest inhabitants of Central City, though how he came by his wealth is never revealed. What is clear, however, is that on more than one occasion throughout the series, he is heard to make the kind of wry, occasionally sarcastic, comments associated with snarkers. | |
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The Mrs. Hawking play series: Clara Hawking, though she is a lady, and Justin Hawking as well. Their scenes together are a complete battle of well-bred wits. Nathaniel also becomes more so as the stories go on. | |
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Book of Psalms: Several instances. As the psalms are poems, this is snark in poetry, no less: | |
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Compared to the thuggish characters that populate his world, Philip Marlowe has a lot of tact and wit to his snarks. | |
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In Brave10, samurai lord Naoe Kanetsugu is extremely sharp-tongued toward everyone equally, offering backhanded compliments and politely-veiled insults indiscriminately. | |
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The Wizard Howl from Howl's Moving Castle. | |
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Most of the civil servants in Yes, Minister. Sir Humphrey frequently combines this with Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. | |
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In The Patriot (2000), General Cornwallis is holding 18 of Benjamin Martin's men prisoner, including his son. Martin meets with Cornwallis under a flag of truce and informs him that if his men aren't released, 18 of Cornwallis' officers will have to dienote 19, if he hangs Martin with his men. | |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Willy Wonka has a gift for elegant snarking, with put-downs that whiz right over his targets' heads at times. When Veruca Salt asks him "Who wants a beard, for heaven's sake?" when he's explaining the purpose of Hair Toffee, he replies "It would suit you very well, but unfortunately the mixture is not quite right yet." (Though he is much more direct when arguing with her mother at one point: "My dear old fish, go and boil your head!") The 1971 film and 2013 stage takes on the character follow suit. (The Wonka of the 2005 film has No Social Skills and is more awkward and childish in his snarking.) | |
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Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth Bennet loves absurdities and making fun of silly people and their faults, and she very often exaggerates or twists her opinions to be witty. She's described as pairing her arch comments with a sweet and friendly demeanor, so much so that Darcy finds her remarks attractive without ever realizing that she is deliberately trying to irritate him into going away. Mr. Darcy is very haughty and proud and he snarks a lot, but he rarely doesn't behave like a gentleman. However, sometimes he can come off as insulting. For example, his sneering remark about Elizabeth's beauty (he calls her "tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me" and later "I would soon call [her a beauty as] her mother a wit") and his aloof behaviour make him very unpopular among Meryton folks. |
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Dick Stuart-Clark from Doctor in the House and its sequels comes from old money (as his double-barrelled surname hints), with his medical studies funded on a per year basis by a wealthy relative's will (he coasts along doing as little work as possible so that "per year" lasts as many years as possible). He would much rather spend his time drinking and pursuing women than practising medicine. He is intelligent and savvy but is far more likely to use that to engage in scams and schemes than in doing well at his job. | |
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Major Charles Emerson Winchester III of M*A*S*H. A distinguished member of the American Proud Elite who has sarcasm for everybody. | |
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Ben Stone, of Law & Order, is very much a WASP. God help you if he calls you "sir". | |
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Mr Feeny in Boy Meets World. | |
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Red vs. Blue has Delta, an A.I. which is supposed to be the pure embodiment of logic, and who typically has a very blandly friendly and overly formal and polite personality. He's also the Bond Creature to a very, very snarky soldier. The end result personality mix is rather entertaining, especially when the two Vitriolic Best Buds are snarking at each other. | |
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Henry Tilney of Northanger Abbey is similar to Elizabeth Bennet—he's never without a sarcastic aside or a witty reinterpretation of someone's remark, but he's so good-natured and charming that Catherine just finds him that much cuter (even when most of his humor flies over her head). | |
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Anna and Claire of Boston Marriage are female examples and written by David Mamet no less. | |
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This is particularly common in A Song of Ice and Fire: most of the Lannisters are good at producing zingers, but Lady Olenna Tyrell makes it into an art form. | |
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Bernard Thatch of the White House Visitor's Office in The West Wing: | |
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The Bible: The Four Gospels: Frequently, Jesus Christ (yes, that one), of all people. Then again: although it's surprising at first take — one wouldn't expect someone who's called the Word of God to be at a loss for words, would one? Book of Psalms: Several instances. As the psalms are poems, this is snark in poetry, no less: Some of the prophets, from time to time; quite a few of the people writing the books of the Bible, occasionally — and (as far as anyone can tell) God. |
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Tommy Lascelles of The Crown, who holds nearly everyone in mild contempt — not even the royal family is exempt from his withering stare and wit. | |
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Jeffery Pelt in The Hunt for Red October: Also: |
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Eli from Lapse is a genuine one, considering from what time period he's from. | |
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Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music. This characterization of the Captain is largely thanks to Christopher Plummer, who campaigned heavily for more plot development for his character. Apparently, he thought the original stage Captain was a milquetoast. He and costar Julie Andrews later said that they wanted to give the movie some strength and keep it from devolving into all sweetness and light. It worked — stage revivals largely follow the movie's script and not that of the original stage version. | |
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Both Holmes and Watson in Murder by Decree. It's about the only way Watson can cope living with Holmes. | |
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Horatio Hornblower: Horatio Hornblower on one or two occasions when he got older. | |
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Fran, from Reborn! (2004), can piss off the whole Varia squad (or everyone) just by opening his mouth. | |
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Fawlty Towers: Basil has a moment of this in "The Builders", when he telephones O'Reilly to ask him to put right the shambolic building work, which sounds even funnier after Basil's earlier hysterical reaction. | |
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Rumpole of the Bailey is very much this. | |
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Sherlock Holmes is highly effective at delivering gentlemanly snarks. | |
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Hobson in the film Arthur (1981). So many snarky lines it is hard to pick one. | |
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Child of the Storm has Doctor Strange live and breathe this trope. He's a perfect gentleman (most of the time), and his every other word is sarcastic. Loki, as royalty with refined manners and one of the sharpest wits in the story, also qualifies. Charles Xavier is from an old money Anglo-American family, has excellent manners, dresses in fine suits, and a generally benevolent demeanour. He also has a dry enough wit to keep up with his godson, Tony Stark. The author may also qualify, given his strong similarity in tone to Strange (who, he has admitted, is not quite an Author Avatar but the closest to one he's willing to write) and his allusions to an upper-middle class British background. |
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Lord John Grey in the Outlander series is one of these, though generally managing to keep his words to himself. Claire Fraser has her own moments of Gentlewoman Snarkerishness. | |
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Harold Finch of Person of Interest. | |
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In the Horatio Hornblower mini-series, his Lordship Major Edrington is a Gentleman Snarker par excellence, which contributes greatly to his fan popularity. He's always cool and he always utters snide remarks while smirking. He also makes sure everybody knows he's better than them, yet he remains a perfect British aristocrat and gentleman. | |
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JAG: Clayton Webb is often a sarcastic gentleman. The Sudanese people’s poet Professor Dobotu in the fourth season episode "Embassy" who is a Gandhi-like pacifist. |
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King's Quest's Prince Alexander is usually more The Comically Serious towards the absurd situations he ends up in than anything, but every so often he shows a very dry, subtly snarky sense of humor delivered with the same quiet poise he says everything else. This is especially true in The Kings Quest Companion, where it gets combined with Sophisticated as Hell and Expospeak Gag. | |
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Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner is very much this. His first line in the play is, "I may vomit," while his second line is "Thank you. I am suing you for $150,000." | |
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Huey Laforet of Baccano! may be unfailingly polite and well-spoken, but he doesn't let that get in the way of mocking or trolling someone. | |
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Zagreus of Hades is exceptionally soft-spoken and deferential for a rebellious hellion, and often expresses even his most violent anger in polite (if very flippant or passive aggressive) terms. | |
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Jem Carstairs from the The Infernal Devices. | |
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Harry Hart in Kingsman: The Secret Service. As a Kingsman he is gentlemanly in all things, including his snarking, whether it be directed towards the Big Bad or against an asshole attendant at a hate-mongering church. | |
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The titular Richard Ranasinghe de Vulpian from The Case Files of Jeweler Richard is polite, well-spoken, sarcastic as hell when he's annoyed, and very, very petty. | |
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Firefly: Simon Tam is the stand-out example of the show. In "Safe", Simon feels his father is too worried about the family's social status and not worried enough about River's well-being. In "Objects in Space", he's held hostage by Jubal Early who's trying to capture River for the bounty on her head. Even though he knows Simon is biding his time and waiting for a chance to try and turn the tables on him, Jubal is still astonished by Simon's laid back attitude to being held at gunpoint while a mentally unhinged bounty hunter takes over the ship. ("Doesn't anybody care that I'm holding a gun to this boy's head?!") In "Shindig", much of the episode occurs during a high society party where wit and snark abound. A distinguished old man comes to Kaylee's aid when she is being mocked by an Alpha Bitch for the store-bought dress that she wore: His Lordship Sir Warrick Harrow has great fun bringing his hated peer, Atherton, down a peg or two: |
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In Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues, Irene's refined but polite personality serves itself well to her occasionally droll remarks. | |
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Tales of Destiny 2: While Leon was a bit too hot-headed for this, by the second game, Judas has matured into this trope. Tales of the Abyss: Jade Curtiss is always very calm and polite in his speech, and he always delivers an elegant amount of sarcasm when he feels like it. He sometimes engages in Snark-to-Snark Combat with Guy. |
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Tales of the Abyss: Jade Curtiss is always very calm and polite in his speech, and he always delivers an elegant amount of sarcasm when he feels like it. He sometimes engages in Snark-to-Snark Combat with Guy. | |
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Artemis from Artemis Fowl is a prominent example. "Shall I walk? Or will you beam me up?" Classic. | |
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Cyrano de Bergerac's wit is as sharp as his rapier, which is saying something. | |
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Frasier and Niles Crane are the masters of this trope. In fact, the more viciously snarky they are, the politer and more refined their language becomes. And since most of their remarks are aimed at each other, the show has some amazing Snark-to-Snark Combat. In Taking Liberties, both Crane brothers find themselves outsnarked by Ferguson, a consummately professional English butler played to the hilt by Victor Garber. |
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Babylon 5: Mr. Morden is something of a villainous version of this. Mr. Bester is an even better example. After Mr. Garibaldi states he'd like to "Play pinata" with him: |
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Raylan Givens in Justified. Boyd Crowder is no slouch either. | |
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Richard Hannay, protagonist of John Buchan's thriller novels, may be something of an idealist, but like all Britons he is perfectly capable of a few zingers. Of his opponent in Greenmantle, he says: "He was a man of remarkable qualities, which would have brought him to the highest distinction in the Stone Age." | |
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Walter "Doc" Hartford from Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers definitely came from money, judging from his extensive education (including charm school) and mannerisms. And while the other three Rangers indulge in sarcasm from time to time, Doc can probably license his as a deadly weapon. | |
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Bilbo Baggins has a few Gentleman Snarks in The Hobbit. | |
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