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Servile Snarker
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You wouldn't like taking orders from some pompous, rich higher-up for a living, would you? Well, neither does the Servile Snarker. Often, the only way to express that resentment or question your employer's decisions is to snark at them for all it's worth—after all, what are they going to do, fire you? Some employers may genuinely enjoy the banter or actually value their valet's second opinion (even if they end up disregarding it). Some might even consider them a member of the family and know that there's genuine love behind the mocking. The Servile Snarker is a combination of a Deadpan Snarker and The Jeeves (although the original Jeeves, as the above quote shows, can be pretty snarky). Thus, any butler, maid, slave, servant, whatever, who is heavily sarcastic to their master and/or their master's guests and yet still manages to keep their job is this trope. They are often a master of the Stealth Insult, and of Mirth to Power. See Sassy Secretary for another variation of this character. If the servant is a robot or computer it overlaps with Silicon Snarker. Also see Sarcastic Devotee, No Hero to His Valet, Honest Advisor, Court Jester, Haughty Help, and French Maid. |
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In Disgaea 4, while Fenrich may be obsessively loyal to his master Valvatorez, he isn't afraid to admit that he can at times be a total moron, and usually expresses these opinions through underhanded compliments. | |
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Maurice from The Penguins of Madagascar, but anyone would if they're right-hand man to someone like Julien. | |
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Ozvaldo von Hrafnavines from Genshin Impact is a raven familiar who is staunchly loyal to Fischl, Prinzessin der Verurteilung, and is willing to go along with her antics, even acting as her Translator Buddy by simplifying her quasi-Elizabethan speech. This, however, does not mean he hesitates to sass back at her every now and then to keep her chuuni at bay. For example, when it snows, this exchange happens... | |
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Meet Me in St. Louis: The Smith family's maid Katie comes out with a sarcastic quip every other line. | |
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DC Comics Animated: Alfred is just as snarky in animation as he is in the comics. Batman: The Animated Series: In the April Fools' Plot episode "The Last Laugh", Bruce is in a Modesty Towel walking to the bathroom, eager for the bath Alfred "draw" for him. But he finds the bathtub empty and Alfred proceeds to give Bruce an actual literal drawing of a bath as a prank. Bruce is not amused. The "Beware the Creeper" episode, where Alfred gives this gem: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm: He has some gems in Justice League as well. When the team leaves Wayne Manor after defeating some Hawkmen, leaving one out front, and Alfred walks up: When Wally West takes a tour of the Bat Cave: The movie Justice League: Doom features quite possibly the snarkiest incarnation of Alfred yet: In Son of Batman, Alfred maintains his posture and dry sense of humor when dealing with Damien, who is much less tolerant of backtalk from a servant. |
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Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy: Whim; she is often punished for the remarks, though. Raze and Yun share the same traits but are smart enough to keep it to themselves. |
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Geoffrey from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, who was this trope's original title. For the most part, Uncle Phil tolerates Geoffrey making fun of his girth... as long as he's creative about it. |
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Higgins in the Bloody Jack series sometimes resorts to sarcasm to show what he thinks of Jacky and her ways. | |
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Aschen of Endless Frontier is Haken's android servant and seems to consider it her duty to act as The Foil to his Lovable Sex Maniac personality. She sometimes fuels his jokes, sometimes insults them, but it's always with a Deadpan Snarker attitude. Of course, he considers her more like a sidekick than a servant, and has no problem with calling her "sister". | |
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In K, the Blue King gets this from both his second-in-command, Awashima, and his third, Fushimi — more so from the latter. He seems to prefer it this way since he keeps Fushimi around despite the fact that Fushimi was previously a member of the Red Clan. | |
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Rebirth: Li may have Undying Loyalty towards Noah, but she still reprimands and snarks at him from time to time, especially considering his awkwardness towards Neo and his past treatment of him, even casually telling him it wasn't his first time forgetting his son's birthday. | |
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The eponymous maid from Ted Key's Hazel. Later adapted as a TV sitcom starring Shirley Booth. | |
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Taboo: Brace does what he's told, but he reserves the right to snark while he's at it. This exchange between Coop and one of the Prince Regent's footmen: |
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Jeeves of Jeeves and Wooster, even more so than in the original stories. Lampshaded by Bertie: | |
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Umineko: When They Cry: Beatrice's butler Ronove keeps his job because he keeps his mistress from getting bored. | |
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Killick in Master and Commander, in SPADES. He regularly snarks the Captain "Lucky Jack" when things don't go his way. The Captain is no pushover but seems to have a secret reserve of tolerance for Killick. | |
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Haru Jigokumeru's butler in Ojojojo likes to make sarcastic comments at the least opportune times, but serves faithfully nonetheless. | |
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The Saga of Tanya the Evil: The only person in the world Tanya will put up with talking back to her even slightly is her adjutant, Victoria Serebryakov. It's a downplayed example, as Victoria is still scared stiff of Tanya and will often shut up quickly at the first sign of anger, but she has on several occasions questioned Tanya's orders and not been punished for it, which is unique in the series. As a result, she's probably the closest thing to a friend Tanya has. | |
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He has some gems in Justice League as well. When the team leaves Wayne Manor after defeating some Hawkmen, leaving one out front, and Alfred walks up: When Wally West takes a tour of the Bat Cave: |
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Bertram in Jessie, who usually responds to any misadventures the kids and the title character have (or anything, really) with snarky commentary. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978): Marvin the Paranoid Android can be this sometimes, in his cynical and depressed way. | |
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When Wally West takes a tour of the Bat Cave: | |
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Riza Hawkeye, in Fullmetal Alchemist, is Roy Mustang's adjutant. Her job duties have her mixing this up with Sassy Secretary, but whichever way you look at it, she's the only person who gets away with sassing him — sometimes full-stop yelling at him. The fact that she does get away with it is partly due to his understanding that she's completely loyal to him and only has his best interests at heart, and partly due to Ship Tease. | |
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Loiosh, the jhereg familiar of assassin Vlad Taltos in Steven Brust's Dragaera books. Loiosh obeys Vlad's orders and always calls him "boss", but also keeps up a constant stream of wisecracks through their telepathic link. Having raised Loiosh from a hatchling, Vlad's own Deadpan Snarker personality is largely to blame for Loiosh's attitude. | |
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Alfred, of course. For example, this little gem from the Batman Begins video game: | |
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Bazzard from The Mystery of Edwin Drood is incredibly snarky and rude at all times. His employer is such a nice guy that he lets him get away with it since he feels that Bazzard's going through a lot of trouble just working for him. | |
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Linith from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. She has very little respect for her creator Precia, and is not above talking back or using sarcasm even during her last words ("my never kind master, Precia"). Has a better relationship with Fate, but is not above teasing her a little over her being sleepy in her Lotus-Eater Machine dream. | |
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Downplayed with the servants in Beauty and the Beast. They're snarky towards each other, but they're very tactful towards the Beast, especially at the beginning. | |
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The later Harry Potter books have Sirius Black's house-elf Kreacher — although in this case, the snark is only the tip of the iceberg of animosity as he's outright vile to all of Sirius' guests and betrays Sirius to his death in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. | |
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Mr Kornada's robotic assistant Clippy in Freefall isn't above sarcastically commenting on his master's profoundly limited intelligence. | |
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Don Quixote: Deconstructed with Sancho Panza: What happens in Real Life to the employee that cannot say anything about his master without being sarcastic? Why, Sancho is beaten by Don Quixote at chapters XX and XXX of Part I, and gives him a hurricane of insults at chapter XLVI: And the only murder that is explicitly shown in this novel is the bandit who dared to snark to his leader. |
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The Dresden Files: Bob the Skull does a lot of this whenever he's lecturing Harry on some obscure bit of lore, otherwise he tends toward being a shameless pervert. Notably Bob's personality shifts depending on his owner, so it's Harry's fault he's like this - though in Harry's defence, he was 16 when he first picked up Bob, and the first impression matters (which is why there's only a subtle difference when Butters, who already knew Bob as Harry's servant, owned him). Bob as owned by someone with fewer scruples and no sense of humor is utterly terrifying. | |
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In Tales from the Borderlands, Loader Bot is quite prone to this, especially if you made him self-destruct in Episode 1. While he's always there to save your hide from the bad guys, he'll usually snark about your incompetence if he doesn't shun you. Hell, even when you're on good terms with him, he starts delving into this later on! | |
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Total Drama Pahkitew Island: After declaring her his "sidekick", Scarlett becomes this to Max. Justified in that she's clearly far more intelligent and competent than he is. | |
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Leo from PandoraHearts is like this to his master and best friend Elliot mercilessly, although his intentions are honest (to keep Elliot from acting like a spoiled Blue Blood, essentially). | |
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Ianto from Torchwood. | |
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: Humphrey Lyttelton has twice played a butler in specials: the Laird's butler in Hamish and Dougal's Hogmanay Folic and Barry Cryer's butler in In Search of Mornington Crescent. In both, he continued to be Humphrey Lyttelton. | |
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Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_4c47d8c7 | comment |
Maume Maria of Reap the Wild Wind doesn't hesitate to take a leaf out of Mammy's book of snarking — and to be fair, Loxie gives her plenty of reasons. | |
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Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_4e433e78 | comment |
The leader of Sir Robin's minstrels in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He tries to sing about how great his master is, but it's hard to do because Robin is a coward. In the end, he becomes one of these by changing the lyrics and singing about how Robin "bravely" ran away. | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail | hasFeature |
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Servile Snarker / int_4efed37e | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_4efed37e | comment |
Sir Hiss to Prince John in Robin Hood. "I knew it, I just knew this would happen, I tried to warn you but oh no, you wouldn't listen" is practically his catchphrase. He gets more abuse for it than most, however. | |
Servile Snarker / int_4efed37e | featureApplicability |
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Robin Hood (1973) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_4efed37e | |
Servile Snarker / int_4f14e537 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_4f14e537 | comment |
The New Adventures of Invader Zim: Ying is a robotic Battle Butler who is utterly loyal to his employer, Nyx. But he doesn't let that loyalty stop him from snarking at her as much as he does everyone else. | |
Servile Snarker / int_4f14e537 | featureApplicability |
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Servile Snarker / int_4f14e537 | |
Servile Snarker / int_4f847312 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_4f847312 | comment |
Archie Goodwin, Nero Wolfe's legman, bodyguard and general assistant, spends most of his time making sarcastic digs at his boss. In a variation, this is actually what he's hired for since Wolfe would just stagnate and refuse to do anything at all unless he had Archie prodding him on. | |
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Nero Wolfe | hasFeature |
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Servile Snarker / int_503d3d54 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_503d3d54 | comment |
Riff-Raff from The Rocky Horror Picture Show displays barely concealed contempt for his master throughout the film in their interactions. | |
Servile Snarker / int_503d3d54 | featureApplicability |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_503d3d54 | |
Servile Snarker / int_5194858f | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_5194858f | comment |
In Silverblade, former child star Bobby Milestone is the major domo for Jonathan Lord: the only servant looking after the aging movie star's massive estate. Milestone has a line in snark that would do Afred Pennyworth proud, and gets away with it, possibly because he knows that he is the only one who will put up with Lord's crap. Every time he threatens to quit, Lord gives him a rise. | |
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Silverblade (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Servile Snarker / int_52e8fba | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_52e8fba | comment |
Land of Oz: Kaliko, Chief Steward to the Nome King in the Oz books, is quite willing to let his monarch know when he's being an idiot. The Nome King, despite being a Bad Boss and quite willing to kill off his generals when they annoyed him, kept him alive — probably because Kaliko was also a Hypercompetent Sidekick and the King didn't want to have to replace him. (Kaliko ends up departing this trope to become the new Nome King, to the great relief of his subjects.) Jellia Jamb, head of the Palace maids in the Emerald City, also displays traces of this from time to time, having a mischievous sense of humor that occasionally raises its head — most notably in the famous "translation scene" from The Marvelous Land of Oz. |
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Land of Oz | hasFeature |
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Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_52eb7183 | comment |
Erwin in Irregular Webcomic! serves in the German Army under Nazi Colonel Haken, yet often makes snarky comments about Nazi policies. | |
Servile Snarker / int_52eb7183 | featureApplicability |
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Irregular Webcomic! (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_52eb7183 | |
Servile Snarker / int_530b6b18 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_530b6b18 | comment |
Eve Sisulu, the Black maid in the South-African strip Madam & Eve, serves snark more than anything else in the Anderson house. | |
Servile Snarker / int_530b6b18 | featureApplicability |
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Madam & Eve (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_530b6b18 | |
Servile Snarker / int_5483b02b | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_5483b02b | comment |
In The Man Who Changed His Mind, Clayton is The Igor to Dr. Laurience, but knowing that he could die at moment, combined with the fact that no one else will work for the eccentric Laurience, allows him to be extremely sarcastic to his employer (and everyone else). | |
Servile Snarker / int_5483b02b | featureApplicability |
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Servile Snarker / int_5483b02b | |
Servile Snarker / int_5690420f | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_5690420f | comment |
Scrooge's butler Duckworth on the first DuckTales: | |
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DuckTales (1987) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_5690420f | |
Servile Snarker / int_569093cc | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_569093cc | comment |
Mrs. Beakley with Scrooge in the 2017 DuckTales. In the first episode, she flat-out says that he's only going back to adventuring because a couple of children insulted him. | |
Servile Snarker / int_569093cc | featureApplicability |
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DuckTales (2017) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_569093cc | |
Servile Snarker / int_58b9f6a4 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_58b9f6a4 | comment |
Sebastian from Heidi, especially in regards to Mrs. Rottenmeier. At one instance, Heidi reminds Rottenmeier that she didn't say "please" when she asked for something. Sebastian quips in "you know, you didn't" — and Rottenmeier excuses herself to have a sudden word with the cook. | |
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Heidi | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_58b9f6a4 | |
Servile Snarker / int_5908ee91 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_5908ee91 | comment |
Skyrim: Lydia the Housecarl is sworn to carry your burdens...but not to be polite about it. Though technically at first, that was the only snark she would deliver to you in the original game (granted, being said from opening her inventory that players are bound to do a bunch with followers made it so certain players would hear that a lot). The Dragonborn DLC upped the ante for snark degree among her lines. | |
Servile Snarker / int_5908ee91 | featureApplicability |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_5908ee91 | |
Servile Snarker / int_59140854 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_59140854 | comment |
Season 3 of Jessica Jones (2015) briefly includes a secretary for Alias Investigations named Gillian, who responds to every request with a complaint or a sarcastic comment. | |
Servile Snarker / int_59140854 | featureApplicability |
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Jessica Jones (2015) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_59140854 | |
Servile Snarker / int_59da62aa | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_59da62aa | comment |
Fallout: New Vegas has Yes Man, an AI who is programmed to be incapable of disobeying anyone and is instrumental to the Wild Card mission path where you take over Vegas for yourself. In said path, no matter your actions, Yes Man cannot disobey you and will be forced to proceed with the plan. This includes blowing up the Hidden Securitron Bunker, which is absolutely vital to the plan or if you elect not to deal with certain potentially troublesome factions. However, Yes Man is capable of pointing out the problems of your actions in an intensely passive-aggressive manner and will note that you sure are brave trying to conquer Vegas with no standing army whatsoever. | |
Servile Snarker / int_59da62aa | featureApplicability |
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Fallout: New Vegas (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_59da62aa | |
Servile Snarker / int_5a1e517c | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_5a1e517c | comment |
Nodwick is a henchman rather than a butler, but still fits in here because he's, well, a henchman. If you were employed by two Jerkasses and a cleric who fuses naivety and stupidity into one Genre Blind package, wouldn't you fit in this trope too? | |
Servile Snarker / int_5a1e517c | featureApplicability |
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Nodwick (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_5a1e517c | |
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Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_5b075d7c | comment |
Fable III: Jasper; bonus for being voiced by John Cleese. And another with Hobson, who is certainly a Shout-Out to John Gielgud's character from Arthur (1981). |
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Servile Snarker / int_5b075d7c | featureApplicability |
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Fable III (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_5b075d7c | |
Servile Snarker / int_5bcf93e9 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_5bcf93e9 | comment |
Vincenzo from the Olsen Twins film, It Takes Two. However, due to his relationship with the Calloways, he does it all in good humor. Everyone knows this and seems to be willing to verbally spar with him in good fun. However, he very subtly voices his displeasure for Clarice. | |
Servile Snarker / int_5bcf93e9 | featureApplicability |
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It Takes Two (1995) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_5bcf93e9 | |
Servile Snarker / int_5ce2f08b | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_5ce2f08b | comment |
Sebastian Michaelis from Black Butler always finds the opportunity to poke fun at his master's inability to function without his help. | |
Servile Snarker / int_5ce2f08b | featureApplicability |
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Black Butler (Manga) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_5ce2f08b | |
Servile Snarker / int_5d354f8 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_5d354f8 | comment |
Holly, the ship's computer, is like this in early episodes of Red Dwarf, when he's more servile and less of a full-fledged crew member. | |
Servile Snarker / int_5d354f8 | featureApplicability |
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Red Dwarf | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_5d354f8 | |
Servile Snarker / int_615c5032 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_615c5032 | comment |
Maleficent's raven-man servant, Diaval, while being entirely loyal to her, is willing and capable of snarking back to her when she's offended him (by transforming him into a dog) or he disagrees with her actions. | |
Servile Snarker / int_615c5032 | featureApplicability |
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Servile Snarker / int_62b39738 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_62b39738 | comment |
Lewis's valet George from Darkness Visible is genuinely fond of his employer, but that doesn't stop him putting in the odd dig: | |
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Darkness Visible | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_62b39738 | |
Servile Snarker / int_630755ab | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_630755ab | comment |
Magnus in the Codex Alera is like this all the time. | |
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Codex Alera | hasFeature |
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Servile Snarker | |
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Allik Neverfar in Wax and Wayne is required by his religion to honor Metalborn (the setting's magic users) as Pieces of God. Whether he's happy with this or not, he's not above sarcastically telling the Metalborn Wax that he will believe his word to be true, even if it means blatantly denying reality in front of him, or calling him a genius for a suggestion that Allik would have done if it were possible (his Translator Microbes don't work at the same time as his lifesaving heating device, and he can't give the translator to the others and use the heating device himself). | |
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Wax and Wayne | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_66fd2e30 | |
Servile Snarker / int_69d15cc0 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_69d15cc0 | comment |
Marvel Cinematic Universe: Some of the same guys from the Comics section get bonus points for their movie versions. For instance, we have the A.I. version of Jarvis in Iron Man. Interestingly, in what is either Fridge Logic or Fridge Brilliance depending on how you look at it since Jarvis is an A.I. invented by Tony, Tony must have designed him that way. The Fridge Brilliance occurs if the behavior originated as confirmation responses and error checking for Jarvis' voice recognition, as most of Jarvis' snark occurs when agreeing with Tony. Tony probably added the sarcastic tone to make Jarvis sound less like an insincere yes man, then liked it so much he threw it in. | |
Servile Snarker / int_69d15cc0 | featureApplicability |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_69d15cc0 | |
Servile Snarker / int_6a4bddd6 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_6a4bddd6 | comment |
The incarnation of Jarvis, Tony Stark's butler, found in Ultimate Marvel is very sarcastic towards his master, unlike the traditional Earth 616 Jarvis. He's also drawn to resemble Michael Gough, the Alfred of the Burton/Schumacher movies. | |
Servile Snarker / int_6a4bddd6 | featureApplicability |
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Iron Man (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_6a4bddd6 | |
Servile Snarker / int_6a4d229e | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_6a4d229e | comment |
On Moonlight Bay has Stella (Mary Wickes), the Winfield family's housekeeper and cook. In her first appearance, she complains that the house the family has moved to is too big. | |
Servile Snarker / int_6a4d229e | featureApplicability |
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Servile Snarker | |
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α (Alpha) of Lapis Re:LiGHTs is the Robot Maid of the noble half-succubus Emilia. In spite of her being so fond of her mistress she enrolled in the same prestigious school as her to continue serving her, she is constantly being brutally honest and snarky with her. This is allegedly due to a flaw in her "Linguistics Systems". | |
Servile Snarker / int_6d490022 | featureApplicability |
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Lapis Re:LiGHTs (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_6d490022 | |
Servile Snarker / int_6e1d5f36 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_6e1d5f36 | comment |
Farscape: Lieutenant, later Captain, Miklo Braca sometimes functions as this for Scorpius and Grayza. Of course, with Grayza, in particular, it's wise to be heavier on the servile than the snark, but he lets it out full-strength in one wonderful speech at the end of the "We're So Screwed" trilogy... Also, Pilot. It's the only way the poor guy stays sane. He's sworn to obey any order that doesn't put Moya in harm's way, but that doesn't mean he can't make fun of those giving the orders if they're particularly stupid or pissing him off. |
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Farscape | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_6e1d5f36 | |
Servile Snarker / int_7041cf12 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_7041cf12 | comment |
Hayasaka from Kaguya-sama: Love Is War. She has faithfully served Kaguya since they were both children and loves her like a little sister, but she isn't above tearing into her over how she acts around Shirogane. | |
Servile Snarker / int_7041cf12 | featureApplicability |
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Servile Snarker / int_7041cf12 | |
Servile Snarker / int_7149a731 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_7149a731 | comment |
Wonder Woman: While she's more subtle than most, Etta takes quite a few snarky shots at Steve and Sir Patrick. | |
Servile Snarker / int_7149a731 | featureApplicability |
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Wonder Woman (2017) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_7149a731 | |
Servile Snarker / int_73d7930f | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_73d7930f | comment |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Mila, Enabran Tain's aide. At one point, she is secretly hiding the rebelling leader of Cardassia, one of the most dangerous spymasters in the Alpha Quadrant and one of the best Bajoran terrorist-turned-colonels. It doesn't stop her from putting them all in their place when they need it and if they need a snarky kick up the rear end, she's there to provide one. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_73d7930f | |
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Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_755fadab | comment |
Kyon from Haruhi Suzumiya is snarky in general, especially towards SOS-Brigade-leader Haruhi Suzumiya, who treats him as essentially nothing more than a slave and toy for her amusement. | |
Servile Snarker / int_755fadab | featureApplicability |
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Haruhi Suzumiya | hasFeature |
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Servile Snarker / int_764e5099 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_764e5099 | comment |
The Jack Benny Program: Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, as valet to Jack Benny, (also on television, movies, and cartoons), was quick with a comeback to Benny's own deadpan snark. | |
Servile Snarker / int_764e5099 | featureApplicability |
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The Jack Benny Program (Radio) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_764e5099 | |
Servile Snarker / int_7680545c | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_7680545c | comment |
Niles from The Nanny, especially around (or regarding) C.C. Babcock. While he's Maxwell's butler, he gets all the amazingly incisive and sarcastic lines. | |
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The Nanny | hasFeature |
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Servile Snarker | |
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Tucker from The Ruling Class, who makes sarcastic (though not particularly witty) and derogatory comments behind his employers' backs. | |
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Servile Snarker / int_7988cb68 | type |
Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_7988cb68 | comment |
Joker in Mass Effect, especially in Mass Effect 2. Every time you finish an important mission (recruitment or loyalty), he will comment on it. | |
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Mass Effect (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Servile Snarker / int_7988cb68 | |
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Servile Snarker | |
Servile Snarker / int_7c038c18 | comment |
Norm from Phineas and Ferb. The episode "Nerdy Dancin'" gives us this (the look on Perry's face when he heard those words is priceless): | |
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Servile Snarker | |
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Jellia Jamb, head of the Palace maids in the Emerald City, also displays traces of this from time to time, having a mischievous sense of humor that occasionally raises its head — most notably in the famous "translation scene" from The Marvelous Land of Oz. | |
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Servile Snarker | |
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Batman: Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred Pennyworth was considered as a candidate for the Trope Namer. It takes an extraordinary man to snark at someone who regularly makes others wet their pants in fear. He's also somewhat unique among examples of this trope in that his snarkiness, at heart, comes out of love for the man he snarks against. It's made abundantly clear that, despite his support, he really would rather Bruce Wayne not be Batman, and he's not shy about taking advantage of the fact that he's one of the only people who can dress Batman down and actually be listened to. | |
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Batman (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Sir Humphrey Appleby of Yes, Minister is the Permanent Secretary of the Department of Administrative Affairs, and later Cabinet Secretary, and never misses an opportunity to subtly mock his political masters while insisting he is only there to serve them. As such a senior civil servant, he can get away with this level of snark even when it is caught. | |
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Ardsley Wooster, Gil's manservant in Girl Genius, isn't above a well-timed eye roll or directing the girl his master's trying to impress to one of master's "favorite novels" in the library. Slight subversion, as Wooster isn't really a manservant but a spy, and Gil, unbeknownst to him, is fully aware of this. | |
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Jenkins of The Adventure Zone: Balance is a faithful employee of the Rockport Limited with an incredibly dry, acerbic wit. He seems pretty genuinely eager to help his passengers and passionate about "life on the rails" at first, but Tres Horny Boys' relentless jeering and idiocy gradually breaks his spirit and saps his enthusiasm. | |
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Hogan's Heroes: In one episode, as Klink talks about the symbolic meaning of "The Flight of the Valkyries", Helga says, "As a warrior, you must feel it deeply," with a very insincere look on her face. Klink is facing away from her, so he doesn't pick up on the sarcasm. | |
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On Taskmaster, Alex may be the resident Butt-Monkey and Beleaguered Assistant to The Taskmaster, but he most certainly gets his digs in every chance he gets with a hilariously stiff upper lip: | |
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Liza from Peter Pan. She doesn't necessarily start out like this, but once Mr. Darling starts living in a dog kennel and riding it to work, well... | |
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Rome: Posca, Julius Caesar's personal secretary/slave. Posca is property — he can be killed for speaking out of turn — but he owns everybody. When Caesar dies, everyone else politics. Posca weeps. Cleopatra's maid has some aspects of this as well, chewing her mistress out for smoking opium and other bad habits, even though the queen beats her for her sass and can certainly have her killed at a whim. When Cleopatra commits suicide she follows suit, and not just because it's expected of her. |
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Benson from Soap. When he got a spinoff show of his own he started out as one of these before climbing his way up to the lieutenant governor position (while still maintaining his snarkiness). Later butler Saunders, while having a more formal personality, was just as snarky as Benson. | |
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Zazu in The Lion King regularly snarks at or about Mufasa and his son Simba. It gets him in trouble with Scar who treats him as a court jester and makes him sing, with Zazu pressing Scar's Berserk Button by mentioning his brother's name, saying "But no I would have never have had to do this with Mufasa." Even his excuse sounds vaguely snarky: "Yes sire, you are the king, I was merely noting the difference in your royal, managerial approaches." In the stage version it gets to the point that you find yourself wondering how he's still alive by the time the curtain goes down. When Scar asks "What's wrong with this picture?" Zazu replies under his breath "You're in it." Scar goes on to say "I need bucking up" prompting Zazu to reply "You are bucked up ... royally" earning a Death Glare from Scar. | |
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Laura from The Brittas Empire is the Hypercompetent Sidekick of Gordon Brittas, a phenomenal case of the Pointy-Haired Boss. Unlike most of the staff, she actually likes Gordon, but she still needs to dish out some serious snark to cope with working for him. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: In the April Fools' Plot episode "The Last Laugh", Bruce is in a Modesty Towel walking to the bathroom, eager for the bath Alfred "draw" for him. But he finds the bathtub empty and Alfred proceeds to give Bruce an actual literal drawing of a bath as a prank. Bruce is not amused. The "Beware the Creeper" episode, where Alfred gives this gem: |
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Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal has Dr. Nefarious' dry-witted manservant Lawrence. | |
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Whis from Dragon Ball Super. He is the assistant to Beerus, the resident God of Destruction. He is very sarcastic to Beerus, a person who blows planets on lesser than a whim, and gets away with it! It is more because, Whis is Beerus's teacher, as in the one stronger than him. It also works that he's not directly under Beerus, but he's under Omni-King, Supreme Ruler of the Multiverse. | |
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Evangelyne from Wakfu is technically Princess Amalia's lady-in-waiting and bodyguard, but in truth, they've grown together and are very much like a pair of sisters. As such, the older Eva rarely has qualms against putting down the little spoiled princess. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: Haskill from The Shivering Isles Expansion Pack for Oblivion is the Chamberlain of Sheogorath (the Daedric Prince of Madness) and a Deadpan Snarker without peer. Partway through the questline, you get the ability to summon him for sass (and questline advice) on demand. He'll even snark at you while giving you Sheogorath's shrine quest if you decide to do it after you've become Sheogorath, lampshading how you're praying to yourself like a loony. Skyrim: Lydia the Housecarl is sworn to carry your burdens...but not to be polite about it. Though technically at first, that was the only snark she would deliver to you in the original game (granted, being said from opening her inventory that players are bound to do a bunch with followers made it so certain players would hear that a lot). The Dragonborn DLC upped the ante for snark degree among her lines. |
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In Laughter in Paradise, Simon's butler Benson is under no illusions about what kind of man his employer is, and has a fine line in subtle putdowns. With his wages several months in arrears, he has cause for his low opinion of Simon and he ultimately decides to run a con on his boss. | |
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The movie Justice League: Doom features quite possibly the snarkiest incarnation of Alfred yet: | |
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Charlie Young, personal aide to the President, on The West Wing. Actually... make that the entire West Wing staff. But especially Donna, who snarks it up practically every moment she has onscreen (which, thanks to Janel Maloney's rather lovely chemistry with Bradley Whitford, is quite a few). | |
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Tomoe from Kamisama Kiss is sarcastic in the extreme. He continues to be sarcastic to his master Nanami even after he develops a Bodyguard Crush on her. | |
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Zoila from Devious Maids, especially since her employer, Genevieve, is a high-maintenance and co-dependent Drama Queen. Genevieve usually misses the point, anyway. | |
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Admiral Piett is this for Darth Vader in Darths & Droids, which is a feat given Vader's usual reaction to failure and disrespect. | |
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Dean from Glen Cook's Garrett, P.I. books. All of the above traits combined with a matchmaker (trying to make sure that Garrett marries one of Dean's ugly nieces, or at least tie the knot with his girlfriend). All that in a fantasy universe whose inhabitants are divided between either one of the various snarky tropes, or pure snark targets (sometimes both at the same time). | |
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Norm the Genie from The Fairly OddParents!. After Crocker spazzed while holding his chocolate shake, he said: | |
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Corrick of Plume snarks as a way to deal with his often obnoxious and unfriendly protectorates. He ramps it up after Dom becomes his new charge. | |
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Impure Blood: Elnor can be this, to Caspian. And Dara positively encourages it in Roan. |
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm: | |
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Later, Diabloman takes over this role from Cloak and, to an extent, Agent G and Jane Doe who end up employees of Merciless despite being the heroes of their own books. | |
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Game of Thrones: Bronn is not afraid to speak his mind to Tyrion, which is one reason Tyrion keeps him around since he knows Bronn will tell him the truth. Likewise, when Tyrion first goes to work with Daenerys he is not afraid to speak his mind to her. At first she listens to him and is receptive to changing her plans if he thinks a plan won't work, and even names Tyrion as her hand. This changes as she loses her grip on her sanity in the seventh season. |
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In the recent Sonic the Hedgehog games, Dr. Eggman got himself Orbot. In his first appearance, Orbot snarked at Eggman to no end, but recently, he still snarked at him, but it was toned down a bit. | |
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Black Narcissus: Angu Aya is the native Indian who has been a servant at the house since it was for the general's harem. Now when it's being used as a convent by some incompetent nuns, she stands by snarking at every mistake they make. Even when one of the nuns has run off and the others chase after her screaming her name in a panic, Aya mimics them. | |
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Fate/stay night: Archer. Constant snarky sniping with Tohsaka mixed with genuine and sarcastic praise. | |
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Florence Johnston from The Jeffersons. She's the Jeffersons' live-in housekeeper whose quips and insults became famous, especially against her employer, George. | |
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In Delusions of Grandeur, Blaze is Don Salluste's valet... but even when he isn't outright sabotaging Salluste's money-grubbing plans, he's serving him by making a few snarky quips there and there, or with lots of eye rolls when silent. | |
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Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!: The Kryptonian Educational and Life Enrichment Xenosakolouthos (or K.E.L.E.X. for short) was downloaded into Izuku's spaceship to be his personal tutor and last remaining link to Krypton. K.E.L.E.X.'s directives are dictated by logic and the most efficient courses of action, but that doesn't stop him from snarking at his charge. Mercy is Lexi Luthor's chauffeur, bodyguard, and best friend. Despite being on the payroll of a Luthor, Mercy frequently snarks at her employer's fascination with Japanese culture. |
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Shizune in Son of the Sannin, unlike in canon, has no problem in sassing Tsunade. It's implied that Naruto's rebellious nature rubbed off on her. | |
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Hobson in Arthur: | |
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Drowtales: Liriel can get away with some pretty daring things. To a lesser extent, Chrys' "protector twin", Shinae, as seen here. |
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DuckTales: Scrooge's butler Duckworth on the first DuckTales: Mrs. Beakley with Scrooge in the 2017 DuckTales. In the first episode, she flat-out says that he's only going back to adventuring because a couple of children insulted him. |
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Two and a Half Men has Berta (Conchata Ferrell), the housekeeper. | |
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Matsurika from Maria†Holic is a particularly harsh example: she's beyond snarky with her master, she's flat-out abrasive with everyone. | |
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The Supervillainy Saga: Cloak can only barely hide his exasperation and affectionate contempt for the Bunny-Ears Lawyer and Card-Carrying Villain star of the series. The fact he's the ghost of an Expy of Batman makes it even funnier. Later, Diabloman takes over this role from Cloak and, to an extent, Agent G and Jane Doe who end up employees of Merciless despite being the heroes of their own books. |
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Watase of Poor Poor Lips, Ren's maid who has a sarcastic remark ready for all of her mistress' antics. We later meet more of the maid staff in Ren's household, whereupon we get to see that this is a trait shared by all of them. | |
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Edmund Blackadder from Blackadder the Third is made of this trope. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Spike often veers into this when having to deal with Twilight Sparkle, on top of his usual snarkiness. According to "Hearth's Warming Eve", Smart Cookie and Clover the Clever were this to Chancellor Puddinghead and Princess Platinum, respectively. Angel also veers into this when his owner gets into a situation that might require a backbone. |
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Doctor Who: Jenny Flint can be pretty snarky towards Madame Vastra... which makes a lot of sense, since she's actually married to her and only playing the maid role because they live in Victorian London. | |
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Roland, Kaiba's right-hand man, is generally in the background of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series. He still gets in one good shot in "A Grand Day In": when Kaiba asks Roland what he should name his tournament, specifying that he wants something "that has the Kaiba brothers written all over it," Roland suggests the Grand Prix. Pronounced with the x. | |
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Child of the Storm has JARVIS, as usual, usually to Tony. Additionally, there is the example of Uhtred, after he develops Undying Loyalty to Harry (Harry saved his life) and becomes his Sworn Sword. While this is nominally a bodyguard/warrior-retainer position, Uhtred's mainly a friend, a counsellor, and a loyal right hand. He also sometimes likes to play up the servility of his role, despite Harry finding it irritating. Harry sourly remarks that he thinks that Uhtred does this because he knows it annoys him — and all the evidence indicates that yes, this is in fact the case. | |
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A Court of Thorns and Roses: Feyre's maid Alis constantly banters with Feyre during A Court of Thorns and Roses. | |
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Girls Kingdom has several maids who get snarky with their mistresses when the opportunity presents itself: Misaki, the protagonist, may get along amazingly with her Mistress, Himeko, but even she can't help but let out a few cutting remarks here and there, which Himeko is nice enough to roll with. She snarks at the state of Himeko's dorm when she first visits and offers a snarky remark after Himeko nearly falls on the train when it starts moving. The Kokonoe twins are smartasses with everyone, even their own mistress, Kagura, but especially with their coworker Kirara and favorite target Misaki. Given half a chance, they will offer up some biting, snarky commentary on whatever is going on around them, including their remarks about Himeko handfeeding Misaki donuts, calling it feeding time at the zoo, every time it happens. This is one of their less bothersome traits, however, at least compared to how much they enjoy molesting Kirara and Misaki. Haruka has this as part of her job description. Inaho hired her for both maid duties and her constant Boke and Tsukkomi Routine, with her the tsukkomi. This means that she needs to offer snarky remarks on cue and smack Inaho with a paper fan, on top of serving as her maid, something she is all too happy to do. |
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Nasuverse: Fate/stay night: Archer. Constant snarky sniping with Tohsaka mixed with genuine and sarcastic praise. An argument could be made for Kohaku and her mistress Akiha from fellow storyline Tsukihime. |
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In Plasmer, the Doorman is apparently an artificial intelligence with a holographic projection, left to guard the technology used for British doomsday weapons from previous wars. After the villains take control, he gets increasingly snarky in his “how can I help� speeches, although they don’t really listen. They should have listened. | |
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In Amazing Fantasy, Aleksei cheekily ribs his boss Melissa over her love life and says she provides all the teen drama he could ever want to watch without paying the cable bill. | |
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The Christmas That Almost Wasn't: Blossom is Prune's butler, who helps him out in his various schemes but never fails to put his own opinion forth. | |
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Iago in Aladdin to his boss Jafar, the Sultan and pretty much the entire cast. | |
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In XCOM 2's DLC "Shen's Last Gift", the evil AI Julian can be reprogrammed to serve XCOM in a SPARK unit, forcing him to serve XCOM while preserving all of his snark. | |
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Usually as the punchline of a chapter, Koito, the Miko for Elda, the title character of Otaku Elf, offers up a smartass remark at her charge's latest silliness. For example, after finally getting Elda to go outside, she's asked to massage Elda's achy legs. As she does so, she remarks: | |
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Invader Zim: A Bad Thing Never Ends: The Computer and Bob are both willing to snark to Zim's face even while reluctantly following his orders. | |
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Ash's Pokédex in Pokémon Reset Bloodlines. He even says at one point that one of his functions is to "provide helpful advice and witty commentary". | |
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An argument could be made for Kohaku and her mistress Akiha from fellow storyline Tsukihime. | |
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Wong, faithful manservant and friend to Doctor Strange, is normally a straitlaced and serious character, but in the issues of The New Avengers when he's had to serve the title characters he gets very... snippy with them. | |
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Pseudolus also appears in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. | |
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In Mystic Messenger, Jaehee Kang is the Beleaguered Assistant to Jumin Han, who is in line to become the CEO of his father's mega-corporation. Jumin relies on and trusts Jaehee immensely, and not just because she's amazing at her job and taking care of whatever he asks of her (including watching his cat while he's away) but because he values the fact that she's willing to say what she thinks of him (although she's always relatively polite about it). He doesn't mind when she says that his enthusiasm for his business ventures related to his cat can be outlandish, or that he has a hard time relating to others—he's been surrounded by people who have never disagreed with or challenged him his whole life, and because of it, he greatly appreciates those who are honest with him. | |
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Nicola from George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man, although very fawning around his master, has no small amount of wit and sarcasm to fling around otherwise. | |
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In Son of Batman, Alfred maintains his posture and dry sense of humor when dealing with Damien, who is much less tolerant of backtalk from a servant. | |
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In Durarara!!, towards Izaya, it's Namie of all people. Sure, she'll take any opportunity to insult him, but that doesn't mean she doesn't do everything she's told with style, and it doesn't mean Izaya can't return the favor, either. | |
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The title character from Merlin (2008) has this in spades. He and Arthur have a very Vitriolic Best Buds relationship to say the least. It's shown that after a while, Arthur actually comes to (mostly) appreciate someone who won't be a Yes-Man, but will always give him thoughtful, non-obsequious advice. As with Alfred in the Batman mythos, it's clear that they are much more than master and servant (YMMV on whether it's Slap-Slap-Kiss or Heterosexual Life-Partners). | |
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BlazBlue brings us Hibiki Kohaku, who simply LOVES taking shots at his master Kagura Mutsuki. Then again, given his abilities, it only makes sense that he has a tendency to throw some shade. | |
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Annie, the family maid in It's a Wonderful Life isn't afraid to speak her mind — after George has a heart-to-heart talk with his dad and tells him how great he is: | |
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Shackleford from The Critic. At times, he goes from snarky to outright resentful of the Sherman family, but especially to Jay, who he always reminds was adopted. | |
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Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte seemed to like this archetype, Leporello in Don Giovanni and Despina in Così Fan Tutte are the standard supporting-role variety, while Figaro and Susanna in Le Nozze Di Figaro are rare examples of Servile Snarker protagonists. | |
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Alfred in The LEGO Batman Movie, possibly even more so than in the comics. At one point, he "accidentally" presses a button while dusting that lets Robin down into the Bat Cave — and into Batman's life. | |
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Several junior characters get this in on their superiors on Babylon 5, to varying degrees of subtlety: Ivanova would snark often at Sheridan, usually with just enough subtlety to be on her way out the door before Sheridan could retort. In this case, the two officers had a healthy rapport from years of working together previously on Mars. In turn, Ivanova has Lt. Corwin's dry wit to deal with: And Londo Mollari gets one in on Emperor Cartagia, who he met twice previously, as a drooling infant and as a teenager trying to peek up girls' skirts: |
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Lynn Belvedere, in Gwen Davenport's Belvedere. Later portrayed by Clifton Webb in a series of films, and by Christopher Hewett in the TV sitcom Mr. Belvedere. | |
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WKRP in Cincinnati had Hirsch, Mrs. Carlson's butler. She rings for him and he shows up in mere seconds: | |
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