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Literalist Snarking
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This is the technique of putting a sarcastic twist on the more plain meaning of something. Though literal-mindedness is often associated with not understanding sarcasm, in some cases snarking and literal-mindedness can go hand-in-hand. Be warned that this tactic has a tendency to backfire, as the recepient might shoot back with calling you dumb for "not understanding figures of speech" or what-have-you — which, in turn, makes them "guilty" of not understanding what you meant. Often involves a Mathematician's Answer. See also Grammar Nazi, whose more snarky varieties are prone to responding to misspoken statements as if they were what the speaker meant to say. If one acts on the sarcastic twist, it's a Jerkass Genie. If the snarky twist is the intended meaning, it may be a form of Literal Metaphor. |
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The show Sherlock has a rather terrifying example. Sherlock has to prove a painting is a fake so Moriarty won't kill his hostage. Sherlock shouts, "Okay, I'll prove it. Just give me time." Moriarty's answer? Making his hostage, a CHILD, count down to his own fiery death. "Ten, nine, eight...." | |
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The Penguins of Madagascar: In "Sting Operation", Skipper has Kowalski analyze an unknown object (which turns out to be a wasp's nest) hanging from the zoo's clock tower. When Kowalski tells him "It could be anything," Skipper sarcastically asks if it could be the state of Alaska. | |
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From The Empire Strikes Back: | |
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From the first episode of The Cosby Show: | |
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The insults and responses in The Secret of Monkey Island draw on this. | |
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On Reddit such jokes are known as "The Ol' Reddit Switcheroo", and will often be replied to with a link to the previous iteration of the joke, creating a long chain across the website's history. This started as a way to show how old and tired the joke was. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: | |
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One of the clash quotes from Injustice: Gods Among Us: | |
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The protagonist of With This Ring is fond of trolling people who are sloppy with their words. For example, when Klarion the Witch Boy realises that Paul has no soul and thus no resistance to magic: | |
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Harry Potter, when he decides to get his snark on, tends toward this variety of snark. | |
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Shooter McGavin sets himself up for a pretty good one in Happy Gilmore: | |
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Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!: While trying to seduce Yamato in a forest, Kokoro demands that he "show her his manliness". He proceeds to flash her. | |
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Vetinari in Discworld is infamous for this. Terry Pratchett's work is made of this: "Don't let me detain you"; "Throw the book at him"; "I would rather die than betray the emperor", etc. Though the second one was accidental as Sam Vimes remembered too late that Carrot was very literal minded, the book was around several thousand pages and about thirty pounds, and they were on a tower. This example from Going Postal: Combined with the Narrative Profanity Filter in Mort: From Wyrd Sisters In Jingo, Carrot goes to fight some Klatchians (though Angua convinces him not to), and says "My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure!" Angua responds with "Well, there's eleven of them." (This isn't the only thing that convinces him; sending Angua on board their ship in wolf shape is a better plan anyway.) Jingo also has a moment where the Klatchian leader is informed that the Morporkians think Klatchians will run away after "tasting cold steel". He licks his blade and wonders why they say that, and if that's as cold as steel gets. Glenda has some moments with this in Unseen Academicals, like when Nutt tells her "I am alive" (meaning not The Undead) and she says "A live what?" And when a waiter at the banquet says "Vetinari has ears everywhere" she says she only sees two ears. In The Wee Free Men, when one of the travelling teachers condescendingly compliments Tiffany on knowing a big word like "zoology", she replies that "zoology" is actually quite short compared to, say, "patronizing". |
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Leon S. Kennedy, from Resident Evil, sometimes likes to respond to villains' dramatic statements by pretending to take them literally. | |
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In Jingo, Carrot goes to fight some Klatchians (though Angua convinces him not to), and says "My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure!" Angua responds with "Well, there's eleven of them." (This isn't the only thing that convinces him; sending Angua on board their ship in wolf shape is a better plan anyway.) Jingo also has a moment where the Klatchian leader is informed that the Morporkians think Klatchians will run away after "tasting cold steel". He licks his blade and wonders why they say that, and if that's as cold as steel gets. |
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In Persona 3, after Takaya gives a Motive Rant about "shining a light upon this darkened world", Junpei yells back: | |
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The Lost Metal: There is a character whose codename is Codenames are Stupid, or Codenames for short, implying that an exchange like this took place. | |
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In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Nail tells Freeza to call "1-800-EAT-A-D*CK". Lord Guru responds thusly... | |
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Glenda has some moments with this in Unseen Academicals, like when Nutt tells her "I am alive" (meaning not The Undead) and she says "A live what?" And when a waiter at the banquet says "Vetinari has ears everywhere" she says she only sees two ears. | |
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In the Big Finish Doctor Who story The Innocent, the Doctor's conversation with a young woman on an alien planet is interrupted by the bleeping of her communicator. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has plenty of this, with the kings of the trope being Garak and Odo who can snark anything. When a Klingon throws a rabidly insulting curse towards Odo in the Klingon language that's never translated in the episode ("Your mother has a smooth forehead"). It's clearly an insult about Odo's origins in what's probably a "son of a bitch" kind of way (except more insulting), and equally clearly meant to be rhetorical and a winning moment for the Klingon who says it, especially since the Klingon is clearly not expecting anyone around to be able to understand his language. Garak blandly responds with "Actually, I'm not sure Constable Odo has a mother", which completely takes the wind out of the Klingon's sails. Bashir has his moments, too. Including bonus points for being able to pull this trope once on Garak. Ziyal, of all people, as is clear when she gets fed up with Quark complaining about his business suffering under the Dominion. |
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This example from Going Postal: | |
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In The Nanny, Niles will occasionally use this as a way to mess with C.C.. In "Personal Business", when Maxwell goes to tell Fran she can't have her boyfriend in her room, Niles tells C.C. that he is "Upstairs with Miss Fine. Discussing the possibility of having sex in her room". In "Take Back Your Mink", he tells her that "Miss Fine" is pregnant and "Mr. Sheffield" is the father, neglecting to mention that those are the names of Grace's hamsters. In "The Bank Robber": |
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Pulp Fiction: Mia Wallace's first word upon being revived after an accidental heroin overdose and an adrenaline shot to the heart: | |
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Phineas and Ferb: In "Nerdy Dancin'", fellow mad scientist "Rodney" Von Roddenstein tells Dr. Doofenshmirtz to Talk to the Hand. Doof responds by directing his taunts towards Rodney's hand. | |
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Charlie from Mr & Mrs Murder is fond of these (being played by Shaun Micallef). | |
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Bugs Bunny falls on the receiving end of this trope in the Looney Tunes cartoon "Knighty Knight Bugs", where he plays a jester in King Arthur's court. He uses an insulting word but fails to consider that his occuppation includes this very word in the title and that it could influence the king: | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: In the "Squirm" episode, when the title of the movie appears, Mike says "Well, I don't know why, but OK." Then he, Crow and Tom all squirm in their seats. In the "Cry Wilderness" episode, when the title of the movie appears on screen Crow riffs "Well, if you insist." Then he, Tom, and Jonah all shout "WILDERNESS!" together. |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Jaime combines this with some grisly Black Humor when he gets a fancy new necklace with his own hand as the pendant. | |
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From the Futurama episode "The Deep South", when the Planet Express gang goes fishing. | |
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Beyond the Borders: Rachel relates that, after she came out as trans, her father said I Have No Son! — which she thought was hilarious even at the time, since the whole point of it was that she wasn't any kind of "son" at all. | |
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Mimpi Metropolitan: In episode 35, Akbar rejects Mami Bibir's suggestion of giving Juna a leading role in Ada Azab Dalam Cerita because Juna is a no-name. Mami Bibir proceeds to snark that Akbar is wrong as Juna actually has two names. | |
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Don Lockwood does this to himself in Singin' in the Rain to prove a point: | |
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In Sonic Frontiers, Sage asks Sonic what his end goal is. Sonic responds "Eh, it varies; sometimes it's a spinning sign, sometimes it's a big ol' ring!" | |
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My World… and Welcome to It: When Ruth Jensen snidely describes her husband Phil as being pig-headed in "The War Between Men and Women," he angrily shouts "Oink! Oink! Oink!" at her. | |
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The Monkees used this as a common gag. Paraphrased from one episode: | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Captain Cortez of the 4th Company of the Crimson Fists, the single toughest Space Marine in the Imperium, who only has two bones in his entire body that haven't broken at least once, tends to react to minor things like getting entire limbs lopped off somewhat differently than normal people. | |
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In The Wee Free Men, when one of the travelling teachers condescendingly compliments Tiffany on knowing a big word like "zoology", she replies that "zoology" is actually quite short compared to, say, "patronizing". | |
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Awsten Knight from Waterparks's response to guilt-tripping fans: | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In addition to Pinkie Pie's Literal-Minded-ness, she can also be like this from time to time. Pinkie Pie's older sister Maud Pie shows some signs of this, as seen in "Rock Solid Friendship": |
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Blake's 7. In "The Harvest of Kairos", Servalan captures the Liberator, but its Master Computer is still a problem. | |
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In The Curse of Monkey Island, you can have Guybrush do this to Wally/Bloodnose. When he warns you "One more peep out of you, and I'll do ya in!", one of the dialogue options is a deadpan "Peep". Guybrush can follow it up by responding to Wally's threat of "One more word, and I'll let you have it!" with "Word". | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: In "Home-Cooked Eds", Eddy struggles to get the Kanker Sisters' trailer off his front law, and asks Ed to "give me a hand". Ed can't resist making the obvious joke as he shoves Edd's hand in Eddy's face. | |
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Leave for Mendeleiev provides a nonverbal example. After his classmate Mylene is transformed into the akuma Horrificator, Adrien is more interested in exploiting the situation to try and determine Ladybug's Secret Identity. Plagg tries in vain to convince him to become Chat Noir and protect his friends, but Adrien refuses, eventually telling the kwami "Oh, bite me." Plagg does so. | |
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Dr. Thorndyke series: In "The Stranger's Latchkey", Jervis is telling a group of acquaintances about his work with the genius detective/doctor/lawyer Dr. Thorndyke when one of them implies that she thinks Thorndyke is all brain and no heart, and asks if he's "at all human". Jervis responds by listing the anatomical features, such as an opposed thumb and an upright bipedal gait, that mark Thorndyke as an example of the species homo sapiens. When she attempts to clarify that she wants to know if Thorndyke is "human in things that matter", Jervis replies that clearly an upright bipedal gait does matter because Thorndyke's legal career would be seriously impeded if he went around on all fours. | |
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Strong Bad from Homestar Runner shows signs of this, such as in the second episode of Strong Bad Email, where a typo from a sender's email results in him trying to kill "Homsar": | |
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Sherlock Holmes: Lestrade is complaining that Holmes is making a big deal of some slightly contradictory evidence: | |
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