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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })You'd be amazed at what being small and cute will let you get away with. He may be a sassy little beast with a heart of gold who gripes about the dangers of accompanying the hero, but ultimately follows him or her out of loyalty. Or he may be a sociopath who mocks the idealistic rest of the cast and the villains alike, always getting the last word. His popularity ranges from The Scrappy to fan favourite in the same fandom. Every second webcomic has one because nothing screams nerd-humor quite like having a token little mascot that swears like a sailor and/or brings hookers to your place when you're absent for the night. For some reason, it's often a "he," even when it's hard to understand what about his physique qualifies him as male. Cuteness is common, not a certainty. Cats and/or vaguely cat-like things are common, as are toasters, for some reason. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })If their style of snarkiness involves a lot of puns, they may well be Pun Fursonified. See also The Imp, Weasel Mascot, Non-Human Sidekick, and Sidekick Creature Nuisance. Contrast with The Snark Knight, the close human equivalent. Examples: |
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Surface Detail has a particularly snarky and sociopathic ship's Avatar — it says something that, given the propensity of Minds to fit this trope, that even his fellows consider him nuts. | |
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Artie from Narbonic (a superintelligent talking gerbil) was originally presented as this, but became more developed as the story went on. He's also the most idealistic, kind, and trusting member of the cast, the rest of which is explicitly evil. |
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Paimon from Genshin Impact acts as the Voice for the Voiceless when the Traveler interacts with other characters, sometimes making snarky observations about the quest at hand or, in a few cases, giving the character an unflattering nickname. | |
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The Polity has a definite debt to The Culture, as is seen in its own snarky artificial intelligences. The Skinner also has a snarky Hive Mind of sapient wasps. | |
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Spark, a cat, from Dominic Deegan. One of the least snarky examples on this page. Mostly he's here for the puns. | |
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While the entire cast of Primordia consists of robots rather than humans, Crispin fits this trope, being a floating armless 'bot who follows around the humanoid protagonist Horatio. His snarkiness comes from being a homage to Morte. The game hangs a lampshade on the trope on a few occasions, most notably when the duo meets Armstrong the bartender: |
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Nall and Ruby from Lunar are adorable baby dragons that could get very snarky, especially in the localizations. Nall favors sarcastic quips while Ruby is a bit harsher and more direct with her remarks. | |
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Gouto-douji from Shin Megami Tensei : Devil Summoner. | |
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Loiosh, Vlad's familiar in Steven Brust's Dragaera novels, although Vlad's equally snarky. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: Diana's robot plane is generally quite respectful to her, but after she directs it to follow Steve Trevor's orders as well he is shocked that not only does the thing have a talkative A.I. it has a very sarcastic A.I. The plane claims it is a new development after being partially dismantled by gremlins, but Diana's reaction indicates that's just the thing's personality. | |
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In Sadie Sparks, Sadie is being trained in magic by a grumpy 700-year-old rabbit named Gilbert. Much snarking ensues. | |
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Rose, the cat familiar in Riviera: The Promised Land serves as a resident Deadpan Snarker and a Butt-Monkey of the team. | |
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Rick from Rick and Morty created a female-voiced A.I. who resides in his garage and his car-spaceship. While she is a case of Benevolent A.I., she's still Rick's creation, and as a result, she's as sarcastic as you would expect. She occasionally engages in Snark-to-Snark Combat with Rick, and pretty much all of her dialogue to any other character who isn't Rick consists of snark. | |
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Forest Kingdom: Book 1 (Blue Moon Rising) features Prince Rupert's talking unicorn. | |
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Bob the Skull from The Dresden Files. He's not really a skull, he's just anchored to it. He's actually a supernatural library of the laws of magic that constantly evolves as the laws of reality do. He's also a complete lech, a Deadpan Snarker to rival Harry, and something of a Lovable Coward. He also has a conscience under there, on occasion. Of course, other times, he's less so. As of Changes, it seems Mouse is as well — and though Mister can't (or at least has yet to be able to) talk, he managed to snark pretty well himself, too. He must have taught Mouse about the virtues of threatening to 'literally tear (character's) ass off'. | |
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Nick Zerhakker from Skin Horse. He does have a human brain, but two out of three ain't bad. As a military combat helicopter (albeit unarmed) he is also the biggest member of the cast until Gavotte starts swarming. His snark is somewhat hampered by the speech synth censoring his swearing. | |
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A Girl and Her Fed gives us Speedy, resident genius sex-obsessed koala, whose whole purpose in life seems to be populating the world with his koala descendants and delivering snarky insults. | |
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Use of Weapons: At least one of them seems to get waaaaay too much satisfaction when he gets an excuse to chop up some bandits into Ludicrous Gibs. | |
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Centurion Tenebie Tenebrae from Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, an ancient guardian spirit of darkness that...kind of looks like a doggie, at least according to Colette. | |
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Donald Duck has his moments in the Kingdom Hearts series. One example is when the party enter Agrabah in Kingdom Hearts II, with Sora and Goofy hoping King Mickey is with Aladdin; Donald responds with "Keep dreaming, you two". | |
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Knights of the Old Republic: HK-47 can be understood, unlike R2-D2, and fulfills the snarkmeister role far superiorly to any meatbag. | |
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Captain Smiley from Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley has a talking star on his costume named, well...Star, who spends most of his time making cracks about just about anything...Smiley, Gerda, Smiley's enemies, himself, Smiley again. The only character safe from Star's sharp tongue is Smiley's muscle-headed nemesis Brad. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Belkar, being a halfling, is small and snarky. He's also Chaotic Evil. The ever-present Demon-Roaches also do a pretty good job, on Xykon's side of things. Blackwing, Vaarsuvius' raven familiar. After the events of "Don't Split The Party", the bird becomes a more active member in the Order and more often acts as V' sounding board in this manner. Of course, Vaarsuvius can be just as snarky. |
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Schlock Mercenary: Ennesby. He's always ready for a snark or joke -one of his biggest disappointments when housing Tagii was her removal of his dictionary of puns from several thousand languages. Eponymous sociopathic (and sometimes humanitarian) amorph Schlock himself. At one point he reminds them that he tastes and smells with his whole self, including his butt, then points out he's naked on the cab seat and it's not pleasant. Cue the other three people riding with him being thoroughly freaked out by the implications |
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Fuzzy from Sam & Fuzzy started out as this, until eventually evolving into a more dramatic figure with equal billing with Sam as Cerebus Syndrome took hold. | |
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TRON, Bits (and their upgraded counterparts in the video game canon, Bytes) are LivingPolyhedrons kept as pets by the Programs and tend to be astonishingly sarcastic. Bit from the first film manages to get plenty of snarky mileage out of "YES" and "NO," Byte has a full vocabulary to insult anything in range. | |
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Banjo-Kazooie: Banjo might be a bear, but he's much more anthropomorphic than his snarky bird companion, Kazooie. She is a rare female example. | |
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Reynardine from Gunnerkrigg Court is a dangerous demon, possessing a cuddle toy and kept in check by Antimony. It is worth noting that Reynardine can shift into a large, dignified-looking white wolf form, and is not nearly as snarky or foul-mouthed. His snark is apparently dependent on his mascot status, and there is some serious confusion regarding what he actually thinks about others (at least, anyone he doesn't regard with snarky apathy). | |
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Girl Genius has Krosp, Agatha's cat(king!). "Is this one of those situations that involves 'ethics'? 'Cause I'm a cat, you know. I've never been very good at those." Despite this, being surrounded by Sparks, at times he can come off as the Morality Pet by comparison. | |
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Mao from Darker Than Black seems to fit. He's a human trapped in a cat's body and is snarky toward both Hei and Huang. He's also at least technically a sociopath (since Contractors are all supposed to suffer from Lack of Empathy). He becomes an even better example later on when he ends up in the body of a Ridiculously Cute Critter in the second season, which increases the contrast between his body and his personality. | |
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The Lion King (1994): Zazu, who is definitely snarky to Simba although respectful to King Mufasa (in both terms of duty and friendship). Although the entire cast of the film is non-human, Zazu qualifies by virtue of being a different species from the other characters. | |
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The Bots from Mystery Science Theater 3000 are definitely both non-human and snarky. They're programmed to keep their resident human from going mad from the isolation, which they frequently do by deliberately antagonizing him. The show's creators have said that edgy lines like "I want to decide who lives and who dies" are much more acceptable coming from a cute, dorky robot. | |
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The Black Hole: V.I.N.CENT, but lampshaded: | |
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Futurama: Bender is a robotic sidekick who indulges in vices from gambling to strippers and often remarks upon "his" desire to kill his friends. Kif Kroker vents his frustrated annoyance with his superior Zapp Brannigan with a steady stream of sarcasm. |
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Daxter from Jak and Daxter, an "ottsel" who is ridiculously snarky, as well as a very, very Large Ham. History's smallest, fuzziest large ham, but in a good way. In actuality, he was once human (or the closest equivalent to humans within the setting) but was mutated by Dark Eco into his current form. | |
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Despite being a normal non-speaking animal, due to clever scripts, good comic-acting, and cinematography tricks, Fraser's pet wolf in Due South manages to be one of these. That sarcasm comes across so naturally from a silent animal is indeed a triumph. | |
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Gromit of Wallace & Gromit is a loyal dog and exemplary Silent Snarker. Through body language and Disapproving Looks he communicates an exasperation and devotion toward Bungling Inventor Wallace. | |
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While he never turned this trait towards his boss, Imp from She-Ra: Princess of Power tended to be this when he felt sufficiently protected. One of his favorite targets was Shadow Weaver. | |
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Iago from Aladdin serves as a snarky sidekick to Jafar, then Aladdin, and finally Cassim. He shifts alliances because Jafar is too mean and Aladdin too nice, Cassim is in-between. | |
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If you thought Superman Returns was bad, you obviously have not heard Kevin Smith's story about the proposed Superman Reborn/Superman Lives film that was in development hell for decades and eventually became Superman Returns. Quite aside from ideas like Sean Penn as Clark, Superman fighting a giant spider, and Superman not flying and not wearing the suit, producer Jon Peters wanted to give Brainiac, the coldhearted AI, a snarky robotic sidekick — a "little gay R2-D2". Said robot was actually the Snarky Non-Human Sidekick of Lord Manga Khan in Justice League International, who went on to have a Heel–Face Turn and become a member of the League. At least it wasn't Koko the Space Monkey. | |
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The Ruby Red Trilogy: Xemerius is the ghost of a gargoyle, who can only be seen and heard by Gwen. Much of his dialog is spent complaining about the tears, angst, and/or sappiness arising from teenage romance, providing sarcastic "narration" of Gwen's interactions with her love interest, or providing highly embellished reporting about events he spied on for Gwen. | |
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Falina from The Amazing Feats of Young Hercules is a wisecracking sable who accompanies Hercules on his journey. Although she was originally a human princess who was transformed as punishment by the vindictive goddess Hera; by the end, she is changed back. | |
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Custard becomes one of these to Strawberry Shortcake in the 2003 series. | |
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The Cheat from Homestar Runner. Also The Unintelligible, so usually incapable of verbal snark. That's okay, Strong Bad has more than enough snark to go around. Somewhat ironic when you consider that physically Strong Bad is probably the most humanoid character in the cast. | |
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Dust: An Elysian Tail has no humans to start with, but Fidget is less humanoid than the other characters and Fun Size to boot. She's the source of most of the game's humor, though she tends to be the subject of snark almost as often as not. | |
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Grimoire Weiss, a magical talking book from NieR always has something to snark about during battle. It doesn't help that it's never really clear just whose side he's on. In the English dub, this is compounded as he is played by Liam O'Brien in full Lezard Valeth mode. If you didn't expect to have to fight Weiss at some point, you weren't paying attention. However, this never happens, and Nier and Weiss become something more like Vitriolic Best Buds. |
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Brian from Family Guy, although he's often paired up with Stewie (as mutual sidekicks sort of), who together are the snarkiest characters on the show, in their own ways. But in terms of being Peter's dog, he'll ruthlessly snark on his "owner". | |
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Manatee Girl: The Movie has Baby Manatee, a Deadpan Snarker manatee Hand Puppet fond of making fun of the absurdity around him. | |
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Porkchop, Doug's dog from Doug. While Porkchop can't speak, his expressions and body movements can show his snarkiness at times. Especially when his owner starts drifting into Cloudcuckoolander territory. | |
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Bartimaeus from The Bartimaeus Trilogy could be called this. He does take over from the main character a lot of the time (Nathaniel would've died in the first book without him) but he is, technically, the sidekick and he has the snarky part down pat. | |
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Earthsearch 2 has cleaning robot Tidy and agricultural robot George. Unlike the Angels they are loyal and obedient but never happy about all the tasks they're constantly being forced to do that are outside their programming. Tidy has a Running Gag of complaining about all the mess he has to clean up, while George always gripes that Robots Are Just Better but it's no use expecting miracles from them. | |
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch has Salem, a powerful warlock who was turned into a cat as punishment and by far the funniest character on the show. | |
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