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An oft-recurring trope in comedy. The Straight Man and Wise Guy are an inseparable Odd Couple duo who play off each other for comedy. The Straight Man approaches everything seriously (even things that are patently ludicrous) and presents a straightforward, sane, conventional point of view. The Wise Guy is a jokester who answers the Straight Man's stodgy pronouncements with puns, wisecracks, and wackiness. Oftentimes, this will involve one bringing up a topic of discussion, only to have the other interrupt, correct, or otherwise play foil to him. Traditionally the Straight Man brings up a serious topic and the Wise Guy riffs on it, but sometimes the Wise Guy brings up a loony topic, the Straight Man objects to its lunacy, and the Wise Guy riffs on that. Though often misunderstood, the point is for the Straight Man to "set up" a situation which the Wise Guy can joke about. The Straight Man typically isn't much of a Deadpan Snarker, though he may have his moments. Note that “wise guy� in this case doesn’t mean those kind of wiseguys. Although the wise guy could also be an actual wiseguy. See also Boke and Tsukkomi Routine, where a foolish character sets up the jokes for a straight man to correct, often violently, and Bathos, where mundane and wacky elements, and not just characters, are contrasted with each other for comedic effect. Compare Smart Jerk and Nice Moron, a similar comic contrast pair where no one character is the straight man, and Hammy Villain, Serious Hero, where such a pair is between a hero and villain. Often paired with Fat and Skinny; usually, the skinny one's the straight man but not always. Sister trope to Ham and Deadpan Duo and Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing. |
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Chip 'n Dale, respectively, in most of their iterations, but especially so in the Rescue Rangers continuity. Averted, though, in Park Life, which depicts both chipmunks as somewhat dimwitted goof-offs. | |
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Dragon Ball DC, similar to the above mentioned Dragon Ball, it's version Son Goku (called Kakarot Kent in this series) acts as the Wise Guy while whoever he plays off is the Straight Man, except for Larfleeze who is a lunatic obsessed with hoarding anything of value. In the side story "The JENNY And LARFLEEZE Show" featuring a podcast with Jenny Olson and Larfleeze. Jenny is normal person, who is largely conditioned to the outlandish happenings of the DC Universe, serves as the Straight Man. Larfleeze is still the Wise Guy with his continued desire to hoard anything of value, even immaterial things like views, comments, likes and subscriptions for the podcast. |
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Dragon Age: Everyone and everyone else at various points in Origins. That the entire cast is composed of sarcastic people doesn't help. The Warden and Alistair is probably the most notable example. In Awakening, Anders, Sigrun, and Oghren are generally the wise guys who bounce off of Nathaniel, Velanna and Justice. Nathaniel gets a little snarkier around Velanna... Dragon Age II gives us Merrill or Anders (how times change) as the Straight Man when placed opposite Silly!Hawke. Aveline and Fenris tend to act as the straight men to Isabela / Varric / Silly! Hawke (again). Especially Silly!Hawke and Aveline: |
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DEATH BATTLE!: Wiz and Boomstick are almost the epitome of this trope, Wiz is a genius Mad Scientist who often does the hard maths and deductions, while Boomstick is a crude Weapon Nut who makes all the jokes and one-liners. | |
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Fire Emblem: Most of these games have at least one pair: Mystery of the Emblem: Julian and Ricardo (a redeemed thief out for love and an energetic chronic kleptomaniac). Genealogy of the Holy War: Jamke and Dew (The Wise Prince and a Lovable Rogue). The Blazing Blade: Kent and Sain (a Knight in Shining Armor and a Chivalrous Pervert), Dorcas and Bartre (The Quiet One and a Hot-Blooded fighter). The Sacred Stones: Kyle and Forde (another Knight in Shining Armor and The Slacker). |
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Psych: Gus and Shawn! Or Juliet and Shawn. Or Lassiter and Shawn. Or Shawn's father Henry and Shawn. Or pretty much any other character is the Straight Man to Shawn's Wise Guy. | |
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Burnistoun: Recurring characters Paul and Walter have this dynamic. Walter is extremely childish and constantly causing trouble for Paul by doing things such as splashing water on him, calling him gay, and in general, indulging in all sorts of whimsical and antisocial fantasies. Meanwhile, Paul is just trying to run the ice cream stand and is constantly exasperated by Walter, trying to keep him under control. | |
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Harold & Kumar: The eponymous pair, Harold (straight man) and Kumar (wise guy). | |
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The Simpsons: Early episodes had Lisa and Bart as a classic Straight Man And Wise Guy pair, especially when they investigated mysteries together. Usually, Lisa would compare the situation to some historic moment or classical literature, and Bart would make a joke about it: | |
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MythBusters: Adam, the gleeful, prank-loving Wise Guy and Jamie, the no-nonsense, Comically Serious Straight Man. Turns out to be an Invoked Trope: the show was originally going to star Jamie as its only host, but he asked Adam to be his co-host since Jamie thought he was too boring to host it on his own. |
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Cable & Deadpool: This is the main focus of this comic book series. Deadpool is a crazy, No Fourth Wall character who loves pop-culture references and extreme violence. Cable is a serious leader who barely tolerates Deadpool's antics. | |
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Looney Tunes: This dynamic is a common setup, with a designated victim like Elmer Fudd or Yosemite Sam set up as the Straight Man to Bugs Bunny's Wise Guy tomfoolery. Occasionally, Porky Pig will play a humbler, more unassuming Straight Man to Daffy Duck's even kookier Wise Guy antics. Bugs Bunny, of all people will occasionally play the Straight Man to Daffy's Wise Guy, while the latter lets his inner demons get the best of him and gets himself into hot water almost all the time, Bugs keeps his cool and just tries to relax or get to somewhere he can relax until Daffy's antics become his problem. |
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Most of The Courier's companions in Courier's Mind: Rise of New Vegas are straight man compared to him to some degree, but Boone is easily the Straight Man to his Wise Guy. Nowhere is there a bigger contrast in personalities than between the No-Nonsense veteran Cold Sniper and the loud, boisterous, and cheerfully bloodthirsty mailman. | |
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The Joker invariably plays the Wise Guy to Batman's Straight Man... a psychotic, murderous, twisted genius of a Wise Guy, and an obsessive, violent, angst-ridden Straight Man. Mental health is not the strong point of the Batman oeuvre. Given that Batman is the The Comically Serious of the entire DC universe, he plays the straight man to the more flamboyant of his Rogues Gallery, and often other superheroes such as the wisecracking The Flash as well. | |
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Shrek has Shrek & Donkey, with Shrek as the cynical and pragmatic Straight Man to Donkey's Cloud Cuckoo Lander Wise Guy. | |
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Dragon Ball: The Idiot Hero Son Goku primarily acts as the Wise Guy while anybody who plays off him acts at the Straight Man. In most of her appearances, Bulma acts as the Straight Man to the wackier characters. When Bulma isn't around, Vegeta tends to act as The Comically Serious Straight Man to Goku's Wise Guy. Beerus alternates between acting as the Straight Man and the Wise Guy. When he's around Goku he's the Straight Man, trying to serve as the Cloudcuckoolander's Minder. When he's not around Goku, his childish tendencies leave him as the Wise Guy and whoever he is playing off acts as the Straight Man, ussually the above mentioned Bulma, or Beerus' Servile Snarker servant Whis, who is the Cloudcuckoolander's Minder to Beerus. During the Namek Saga, Frieza acted as The Comically Serious Straight Man to his Quirky Mini Boss Squad the Ginyu Force's Wise Guy. Occessionally he also acts in this role towards Goku. Mr. Satan initially acted as the Wise Guy in the Cell Saga, but during the Buu Saga he took up the role of the Straight Man to Majin Buu's Wise Guy. Mr. Satan isn't the brightest person in the series, but Majin Buu is even dumber than Goku, to the point where he didn't even understand right from wrong until Mr. Satan taught him. |
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The Merchant of Venice: Lorenzo (Straight Man) and Launcelot (Wise Guy). | |
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Stairwell: This webcomic is a little on the odd side as it has Norman as the Straight Man AND the Wise Guy (which is represented by a manifestation of Norman's brain) | |
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Supernatural: In the early seasons, Sam often played straight man to Dean's wise guy. This happened less and less often as the show fleshed out their relationship. Castiel and Dean also have this dynamic, with Castiel as the straight man...Played with in that Castiel's "straightforward, sane, conventional point of view" is that of an angel and frequently quite bizarre from a human point of view, while Dean's joking represents a more typical human perspective. |
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Homicide: Life on the Street's Plucky Comic Relief Detectives Lewis and Crosetti form this duo. Crosetti is an rambling Cloudcuckoolander obsessed with the Lincoln assassination and constantly goes on tangents about his numerous bizarre conspiracy theories about it, while Lewis is a comparatively more strait-laced and competent wisecracker who frequently snarks at his partner's antics though he's just as prone to getting up to his own shenanigans. | |
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Most of Kevin Smith's films have Jay and Silent Bob, with Silent Bob being the Straight Man. | |
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Sesame Street: The other Muppet show has Bert being the Straight Man to Ernie's Wise Guy. In the original season, a non-muppet sketch series starred Buddy, (Wise Guy) and Jim (Straight Man). |
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The Muppet Show: Statler and Waldorf unintentionally play the Wise Guy to Fozzie's Straight Man. It's the only reason that Fozzie's act is funny. And Kermit was the Straight Man to the rest of the cast's general zaniness, although he was often the Deadpan Snarker too. |
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The Andy Griffith Show: Andy Griffith and Don Knotts were like this. Andy's Andy Taylor was the straight man and Knotts' Barney was the wise guy. Although it was originally to be the other way around. | |
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Tiger & Bunny: Barnaby serves as the Straight Man to Kotetsu's Wise Guy. | |
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Kamen Rider Build: The quirky Comically Serious snarker Sento tends to poke the more grounded Dumb Muscle Ryuga to get a reaction out of him, usually to a great succes. Their conversations often have the dynamic resembling Boke and Tsukkomi Routine as a result. | |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Jerkish, calm-to-apathetic Taiga is stuck with the bratty, overly cheerful Nico. His attempt at acting like proper brooding Token Evil Teammate are followed either by her trolling him or trying to act tough herself. Both ways usually ruin his efforts, much to his dismay. | |
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Penny Arcade: The straightlaced Tycho and The Ditz Gabe. | |
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Mystery of the Emblem: Julian and Ricardo (a redeemed thief out for love and an energetic chronic kleptomaniac). | |
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Kamen Rider Saber usually has easily annoyed Consummate Professional Tetsuo Daishinji get teased by rambuctious, fun loving Ryo Ogami. | |
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Quantum and Woody is built entirely on this trope. The Crazy-Prepared straight-laced serious Quantum is paired with the irreverent street-smart Deadpan Snarker Woody. And they're forced to stay paired up to prevent discorporating into pure energy, no matter how much they get on each other's nerves. | |
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Men in Black: Agents Kay (straight man) and Jay (wise guy). | |
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W.I.T.C.H.: Has Cornelia as the Straight Girl to Irma's Wise Girl. They're also each other's Sitcom Arch-Nemesis. | |
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Everyone and everyone else at various points in Origins. That the entire cast is composed of sarcastic people doesn't help. The Warden and Alistair is probably the most notable example. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Son Goku acts as the Wise Guy and whoever he is playing off is the Straight Man (even if the character would normally be the Wise Guy), barring some moments where he's right. Either way he has a knock for driving the unlucky Straight Man insane, something that he is hinted to be doing on purpose. Unless he's playing off Goku, season 3's Big Bad Cell typically acts as the Laughably Evil Wise Guy and whoever he's playing off serves as the Straight Man. |
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Balthazar Cavendish and Vinnie Dakota from Milo Murphy's Law. The former embodies British Stuffiness and is serious about his job, the latter is a fun-loving Big Eater who is Brilliant, but Lazy. | |
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In Awakening, Anders, Sigrun, and Oghren are generally the wise guys who bounce off of Nathaniel, Velanna and Justice. Nathaniel gets a little snarkier around Velanna... | |
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Kovac & Liska: Sam Kovac is a gruff and mostly serious police detective with some soft spots. Nikki Liska is a big mouth detective in a small package. | |
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Watch Dogs: SIN-surrection: Hachiman Hikigaya and Ayame Kajo respectively fit into these roles rather well. In the story, Hachiman is a cynical, snarky Playful Hacker who throws shade at the public moral laws and how they affect Japan. Ayame, on the other hand, is a perverted, profanity-spewing terrorist/freedom fighter who can't go one full minute without cracking a dirty joke. Despite the above quirks, their goals more or less align and agree to work together to take down the oppressive and counterproductive laws. | |
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The Strange Calls: Officer Toby Banks and his sidekick Gregor have this dynamic. Banks is an earnest, hapless, and mildly dorky By-the-Book Cop who takes everything about his job very seriously, and is always skeptical of any supernatural explanation by things. Gregor meanwhile is an old man with lots of weird fetishes and eccentricities, who constantly makes fun of Banks and ropes him into wacky adventures relating to his expertise on the town's supernatural doings. | |
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Ren and Stimpy are a subversion, with Ren as the straight man, and Stimpy as the "eediot".note Some (repeat: SOME) episodes DO have Stimpy acting as though he were a wise guy, but that's the joke since he's anything BUT wise... | |
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Llamas with Hats: Paul and Carl. Paul is the Straight Man by virtue of being the even-tempered and normal Only Sane Man and is stuck reacting to the Bloody Hilarious antics of Carl, the Affably Evil (and Ax-Crazy) Wise Guy. | |
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Wipeout (2008) has the hosts John Anderson and John Henson. There will usually be a few scenes in between rounds or commercials where Anderson is trying to seriously discuss the game, and Henson goes off in the weeds. | |
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Pinky and the Brain: With Pinky as the Wise Guy and The Brain as the Straight Man. | |
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The Blazing Blade: Kent and Sain (a Knight in Shining Armor and a Chivalrous Pervert), Dorcas and Bartre (The Quiet One and a Hot-Blooded fighter). | |
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In Phineas and Ferb, Perry plays straight man to Dr. Doofenshmirtz's wise guy. Keep in mind, Perry's a platypus. | |
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Epithet Erased: Played with in the Western arc, where personality-wise Ramsey is the wise guy and Percy the straight man (despite being an ace woman), but Ramsey is also the Only Sane Man and responds with bewilderment to the constant bizarre things that happen in Epithet Erased while Percy is a deeply absurd character who keeps presenting, dead seriously, a wildly unhinged perspective on the world. | |
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No Straight Roads has the leads, the laid-back Zuke and spunky rapscallion Mayday, though they take turns being the voice of reason and goofy one depending on the situation. | |
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Crash Tag Team Racing has the news reporters Chick Gizzard Lips (Straight man who does the actual reporting) and Stew (Wise Guy who typically says things that are unrelated to the issue at hand, much to his partner's chagrin). This characterization carries over into Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, both in the Grand Prix introductions and in their racer dialogue. | |
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The show's version of Batman acts as the Straight Man to its Jim Gordon. Years of acting as a cop in Gotham City have taken their toll Gordon's mental health, making him a nervous wreck with a drinking problem. During the show's second season Batman is injured so Batgirl takes the role instead, acting as one of the show's few normal characters. | |
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The hosts of KaBlam! — Henry is the Straight Man while June is the Wise Girl. | |
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The Fourth Wall: Foul-mouthed, perpetually disgruntled snarker Ric plays the Wise Guy to Greg's Straight Man. | |
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Bugs Bunny, of all people will occasionally play the Straight Man to Daffy's Wise Guy, while the latter lets his inner demons get the best of him and gets himself into hot water almost all the time, Bugs keeps his cool and just tries to relax or get to somewhere he can relax until Daffy's antics become his problem. | |
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M*A*S*H: Early episodes were mainly multiple wise guys (Hawkeye and Trapper, with occasionally Col. Blake or Radar) against straight men (Frank and Margaret). Later on, though, Hawkeye and BJ comprised one of these duos, with clean-cut BJ as the straight man (most of the time). | |
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Game Grumps: When doing Game Grumps, Egoraptor is the Straight Man, while JonTron (or Danny as of June 25th, 2013) is the Wise Guy. | |
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Existential Comics: Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, where the former is shown as being a superbly cool, laid-back womanizer who effortlessly picks up women, while Sartre is a stuffy intellectual, mostly the foil to Camus's barbs. This may some-what reflect their real-life relationship. Also Zeno of Citium and Zeno of Elea, depicted as roommates in the mode of The Odd Couple, the latter mostly getting on the former's nerves when he used his paradoxes as excuses. | |
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ChalkZone: Rudy is the Straight Man and Snap is the Wise Guy. | |
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Dot's Home: Amos describes his dynamic with his friend Hank this way. According to him, he's the "funny guy" while Hank's the Straight Man, and the latter is "the Abbott to [Amos'] Costello". Whenever the two are on third shift, they riff off each other as they drive to work. | |
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Goof Troop: Max and PJ though which one is which depends on the episode. As a pattern, PJ is more likely to be the straight man and Max the wise guy, but there are some episodes where the roles are reversed and others where they can switch roles in the span of a single scene. It helps that they're both in the Competence Zone and naturally snarky. | |
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Animorphs Jake is the team's natural leader as he is brave, responsible, cool under pressure, and able to take charge during a crisis. His best friend is Marco who throughout the war always maintains a sense of humor, able to crack jokes and make sarcastic remarks in the midst of battle. On some occasions, Jake cracks a joke... and no one laughs. Ax ends up being the Straight Man more often than not due to being The Spock. On one occasion it's mentioned that if Marco ended up in the Hork-Bajir refuge for a day he'd end up screaming for someone, anyone, who'd understand one of his jokes. |
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My Hero Academia: Endeavor plays the serious and stoic — if hot-headed — Straight Man to Hawks eccentric and pun-making Wise Guy. | |
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Spock plays straight man to Q in Spock Vs Q. | |
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Nitro Game Injection: KyleJCrb is the Straight Man to Liontamer's Wise Guy in this video game music podcast. | |
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Danisnotonfire often plays Straight Man to AmazingPhil's Wise Guy in their collabs. | |
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Genealogy of the Holy War: Jamke and Dew (The Wise Prince and a Lovable Rogue). | |
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Jak and Daxter fit into their respective roles quite nicely when on missions. Although, even when Daxter is the one making snide remarks about doing someone's dirty work, Jak's not above throwing some shade of his own. | |
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Many Plush Gaming episodes of Vester And Friends have different characters be the Straight Man and Wise Guy. With Link, Mario, Yellow Yoshi, Isabelle and Bowser Junior being examples of the Straight Man and Bowser, Woody, Toad, Wario and Eggman being examples of the Wise Guy. | |
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In the PTA episodes of The Most Popular Girls in School, we have the no-nonsense wife-of-a-senator Pamela Darabond & Cloudcuckoolander Trish Cappelletti. | |
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Reign of the Seven Spellblades: Vera Miligan's tournament match in volume 10 pits a very conventional dueling team led by Gwenaël Deschamps against 1) our friendly neighborhood Mad Scientist Miligan who deliberately gets her own hand cut off again to smuggle Milihand into the arena, 2) Lynette Cornwallis, who prefers spells to swordplay and conjures what amounts to a magical Attack Drone to split the other team's attention, and 3) Zoe Colonna, a girl on the verge of being consumed by the spell who fights by submerging herself in the ground like a Land Shark. Between Miligan and Lynette playing a Shell Game with Milihand and its basilisk eye so the other team can't keep track of it and doesn't realize that Miligan had Katie move her OTHER basilisk eye to her back, Death from Above from Lynette's drone, and Zoe literally breaking chunks off the arena floor to reduce the maneuvering room and cause a Ring Out, the whole match ends up resembling a screwball physical comedy routine with Deschamps's team as the Straight Man. | |
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Alex Trebek and Sean Connery form such a duo in the Saturday Night Live "Celebrity Jeopardy" sketches. Trebek wants to conduct a normal game show, while Connery would rather make jokes about Trebek's mother. | |
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Home Improvement: Al and Tim usually seem to pull off this dynamic in Tool Time, with Tim as the bumbling-but-wisecracking Wise Guy and Al as his competent-but-long-suffering Straight Man sidekick, but at one point they switch roles accidentally and have Tim play the straight man when they do a cooking show. | |
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In a meta sense, This Very Wiki is the Wise Guy to the Straight Man that is The Other Wiki. They present the facts in a matter-of-fact manner, while we provide sarcasm and humorous commentary to go with those same facts. | |
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Spider-Man is the wise guy to most of his villains, much to their annoyance, and almost any hero when they team up. The exceptions are the Human Torch, where they basically take turns annoying each other, and Deadpool, who's so out there it gives even Spidey a headache. | |
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When Mark retired from radio, Brian also left their radio station and joined with longtime friend Jill Whelan to produce The Brian & Jill Show. However, as self-described "Comedy Soul Mates", Brian & Jill are often both wise guys and rely on staff members Donnie and Kathy to provide the Straight Men. | |
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Darksiders Genesis features Sibling Team of War and Strife as protagonists. War is completely humorless, prone to overdramatic speech, and takes everything far too seriously. Strife is a Deadpan Snarker who loves teasing his brother and always has something funny to say. Their interactions are an endless source of comedy for the player. | |
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Harley Quinn (2019). The title character is as expected, an Ax-Crazy Cloud Cuckoolander. Her best friend Poison Ivy acts as the most common Straight Man. Poison Ivy is a murderous eco terrorist, but compared to most of the criminals in the show she's the Only Sane Man. The show's version of Batman acts as the Straight Man to its Jim Gordon. Years of acting as a cop in Gotham City have taken their toll Gordon's mental health, making him a nervous wreck with a drinking problem. During the show's second season Batman is injured so Batgirl takes the role instead, acting as one of the show's few normal characters. Alfred acts as this to Batman. Batman as turns out only comes off as normal compared to everyone else in the crazy city. Beneath the Mask he's a total Manchild, albiet one trying to do good. Alfred is the Deadpan Snarker foil. Batman's attempts to return to fighting crime despite his injuries in his A Day in the Limelight has play out like a Fantasy-Forbidding Father arguing with his stubborn teenage son. |
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Most Extreme Elimination Challenge has Kenny Blankenship play Wise Guy to the snarky Vic Romano. | |
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Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: the titular stoic human protagonist Koboyashi is the Straight Man to Tohru, a dragon from another world whose lack of familiarity with the human world leaves her a Cloudcuckoolander when living among humans. She is also in love Koboyashi ever since she saved her life, even though Tohru doesn't even like humans, something Koboyashi is oddly indifferent to. | |
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In Disco Elysium, this is mostly likely the form the relationship between the Detective and his partner, Kim, will take. No matter what, Kim is always a Consummate Professional Straight Man who tries his damnest to keep the investigation on track, while the player will mostly likely be living it up as an extremely eccentric and snarky Defective Detective. The game's loading screens even encourages the player to play into this dynamic. The player is, however, also free to subvert this, by playing as a By-the-Book Cop. | |
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Wallace & Gromit: Notable in that the Straight Man (Gromit) is completely mute and only expresses himself through pantomime. Their exchanges are usually along the lines of: | |
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In El Goonish Shive, while doing their review show, Elliot plays the Wise Guy to Susan's Straight Man. | |
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Splatoon: Idol singers Callie and Marie play the parts of wise guy and straight man (respectively), both when they served as newscasters in the first game, and in their more casual conversations and radio chatter in the various story modes. Notably, they invert the usual of set-up and response format seen with this trope: jokester Callie often opens conversations with a bad joke or something ditzy, which straight woman Marie replies to with a snarky comment playing off it. Pearl and Marina (introduced in the second game), use the same set-up and response format, which is likewise seen both in their newscaster roles and personal lives. Pearl serves as the wise gal who says something absurd or surprising, while Marina is the straight woman who follows it up with a teasing remark. Downplayed in that the duo have a more lighthearted dynamic that occasionally allows them to swap roles depending on what's been discussed, thanks to Pearl being Book Dumb, while Marina is a Fish out of Water. |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Twilight Sparkle is the Straight Mare and Pinkie Pie is the Wise Filly. Pinkie is so bizarre that any interaction with her tends to convert characters who would normally serve as the Wise Guy into the Straight Man, most obviously her seemingly unlikely friendship with Boisterous Bruiser Rainbow Dash. In fanfiction, Lyra and Bon Bon usually end up like this, with Bon Bon having to put up with Lyra's crazy antics. |
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The Sacred Stones: Kyle and Forde (another Knight in Shining Armor and The Slacker). | |
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In the Star Wars: Darth Vader comics, this is basically the dynamic between Vader and Dr. Aphra. She's a snarky, adaptable archaeologist/thief, he's a 7" impassive Black Knight. | |
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Psmith: P. G. Wodehouse's original wise-guy Psmith has Mike Jackson as his straight man. | |
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In the side story "The JENNY And LARFLEEZE Show" featuring a podcast with Jenny Olson and Larfleeze. Jenny is normal person, who is largely conditioned to the outlandish happenings of the DC Universe, serves as the Straight Man. Larfleeze is still the Wise Guy with his continued desire to hoard anything of value, even immaterial things like views, comments, likes and subscriptions for the podcast. | |
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In I'm Not Rappaport, when Nat Moyer introduces Midge Walters to the comedy routine that's the subject of the film's title, he explains it this way, telling Midge that he should be the straight man who no matter what he says replies with "I'm not Rappaport." More generally, within the film itself, this is for the most part the two's dynamic. Boht are old men past their prime, but Nat likes to play things fast and wild, but Midge is a straight-shooter who has rarely risked anything until meeting Nat. | |
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Yukari and Yuyuko are these respectively in Fantasy of Utter Ridiculousness. The former's a Chessmaster par excellence who never stops thinking about Gensokyo's safety, and the latter is her ghost princess best friend who trolls her even during completely serious moments. | |
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Kill la Kill: The entire series is set in a bizarre Cloudcuckooland city ruled by a Absurdly Powerful Student Council, and the main character Ryoko Matoi is the Straight Man the only person who thinks any of it is weird. Her best friend Mako Mankanshoku is someone who is considered a loony even by the standards of the series who manages to baffle everyone with her Insane Troll Logic. The result is that she not only acts the Wise Guy to Ryoko's Straight Man, but also anybody else. | |
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Part of Stewart's reformulation of the show from the Kilborn years is that, instead of the correspondents playing the Straight Man part to the antics of the subject, who are cast as oblivious Wise Guys, Stewart himself plays the Straight Man to the correspondents' antics. Most often, the correspondents take on the role of a Straw Man version of whatever (usually conservative) political ideology or position the segment is meant to skewer. Stephen Colbert was successful enough at this that his conservative-pundit-Wise-Guy persona was spun off onto its own show. | |
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Catra, prior to her Villainous Breakdown, acts the Straight Man to Scopia's Wise Guy. Catra is a dangerous, competent villain. Scorpia is a formidable fighter, but she's a complete idiot who is hopelessly in love with Catra, who clearly doesn't share her feelings. | |
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Thalia's Musings: Apollo often ends up playing the Straight Man to Thalia's Wise Guy. Though, strictly speaking, he's not a straight man. | |
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Battlestar Galactica (1978): Boomer is often stuck in the Straight Man role to Starbuck's (and sometimes Apollo's) risky antics. | |
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Dubious Company: Walter is the Wise Guy to Tiren's Straight Man. Also occasionally, Mary and Leeroy are the wise guys to Sue and Sal respectively: | |
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The Legend of Korra: In Book Four, straight-laced detective Mako gets assigned as the bodyguard to the foppish, hedonistic Casanova Wannabe Prince Wu. Mako doesn't make a secret of how annoying this is and takes some getting used to the whole idea. Bolin, usually something of a wise guy himself, ends up playing the straight man to the eccentric Varrick when the two of them are on the run from Kuvira. |
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Mutant Football League features Grim Blitzro as the sportscaster and "Brickhead" Mulligan providing color commentary. Grim is the straight man who knows the ins and outs of the game of football and usually initiates most of the commentary. "Brickhead" Mulligan is a retired MFL player who has very clearly lost a lot of intelligence from taking a few too many hits to the head. | |
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Dragon Age II gives us Merrill or Anders (how times change) as the Straight Man when placed opposite Silly!Hawke. Aveline and Fenris tend to act as the straight men to Isabela / Varric / Silly! Hawke (again). Especially Silly!Hawke and Aveline: | |
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Sunnyville Stories: Samantha plays the straight role to Rusty; essentially, Rusty says or does something funny and Sam reacts. | |
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DSBT InsaniT: Andy is the wise guy and Martha is the straight man. Andy makes a dumb joke, and Martha sarcastically reacts. | |
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The V film in ABCs of Death 2 is a Deconstruction of this trope; a man is on a Skype call with his girlfriend while on vacation with his best friend. Said sleazy best friend, however, starts to show and tell her what they had been doing that night, including sleeping with two prostitutes, with the Straight Man trying to stop him throughout. | |
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AI: The Somnium Files: Zig-Zagged; the first game of the series stars the duo of Kaname Date—a distractable and childish Bunny-Ears Lawyer with a massive porn addiction—and his partner Aiba—a highly advanced Artificial Intelligence with a coolheaded and sarcastic attitude. While solving high-profile crimes, the two will snark, insult, and make terrible puns at each other to no end, Aiba's cold computer logic balancing out Date's impulsiveness and immaturity. While it's usually Date as the wise guy and Aiba as the straight man (not a man though), the two can switch the dynamic up depending on context (i.e. Aiba making terrible jokes and squeeing like a fangirl at insects, Date being laser focused on public safety and showing his detective chops). | |
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In The Story of Apollo, Daphne and Luca: An Italian Tragedy we have a platonic example with Bianca and Carlos. Bianca is calm, cool-headed and reserved, while Carlos is mischievous, cheeky and outgoing. | |
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The LEGO Batman Movie reimagines Batman as a Manchild Emo Teen (despite not even being a teenager) who acts the Wise Guy of the movie, while Alfred instead acts as the Straight Man and the Cloudcuckoolander's Minder. | |
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Unpaid Programming: Lawrence and John are the Straight Men to Jeff and Tim's Wise Guys. | |
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Civil Protection: The only two main characters of Ross Scott's Accursed Farms machinima are the Civil Protection cops Mike and Dave. The former is level headed and just wants a stable life, and the latter is an oddball daredevil who constantly stirs up trouble. | |
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