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* Creator/WilliamShakespeare's:
** Sir John Falstaff is known popularly as this. However, it is subverted in that he is canonically a strangely likeable SmugSnake, who goes around ''pretending'' to be a Boisterous Bruiser.
** Gratiano in ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice''. Even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Bassanio.
* Rooster Johnny Byron of ''Theatre/{{Jerusalem}}'': a larger-than-life raconteur who lives alone in the forest, [[FriendToAllChildren shelters kids who want to get away from their parents and have a little fun]], and regales them with stories about meeting honest-to-goodness giants. Arguably deconstructed, as the reckless, daredevil attitude that makes him so entertaining is shown to have a habit of pissing off everybody, even those closest to him.
* The Pirate King from ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance''.
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** Sir John Falstaff is known popularly as this. However, it is subverted in that he is canonically a strangely likeable SmugSnake, who goes around ''pretending'' to be a Boisterous Bruiser.
** Gratiano in ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice''. Even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Bassanio.
* Rooster Johnny Byron of ''Theatre/{{Jerusalem}}'': a larger-than-life raconteur who lives alone in the forest, [[FriendToAllChildren shelters kids who want to get away from their parents and have a little fun]], and regales them with stories about meeting honest-to-goodness giants. Arguably deconstructed, as the reckless, daredevil attitude that makes him so entertaining is shown to have a habit of pissing off everybody, even those closest to him.
* The Pirate King from ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance''.
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** Sir John Falstaff is known popularly as this. However, it is subverted in that he is canonically a strangely likeable SmugSnake, who goes around ''pretending'' to be a Boisterous Bruiser.
** Gratiano in ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice''. Even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Bassanio.
* Rooster Johnny Byron of ''Theatre/{{Jerusalem}}'': a larger-than-life raconteur who lives alone in the forest, [[FriendToAllChildren shelters kids who want to get away from their parents and have a little fun]], and regales them with stories about meeting honest-to-goodness giants. Arguably deconstructed, as the reckless, daredevil attitude that makes him so entertaining is shown to have a habit of pissing off everybody, even those closest to him.
* The Pirate King from ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance''.
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* Creator/WilliamShakespeare's Sir John Falstaff.
** That's more how people remember him than as he's actually written. In the plays, Falstaff is more of a strangely likeable SmugSnake, who goes around pretending to be a Boisterous Bruiser.
** Also from Shakespeare, Gratiano in ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice''. Even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Bassanio.
** That's more how people remember him than as he's actually written. In the plays, Falstaff is more of a strangely likeable SmugSnake, who goes around pretending to be a Boisterous Bruiser.
** Also from Shakespeare, Gratiano in ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice''. Even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Bassanio.
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* Creator/WilliamShakespeare's Creator/WilliamShakespeare's:
** Sir JohnFalstaff.
** That's more how people remember him than as he's actually written. In the plays,Falstaff is more of known popularly as this. However, it is subverted in that he is canonically a strangely likeable SmugSnake, who goes around pretending ''pretending'' to be a Boisterous Bruiser.
**Also from Shakespeare, Gratiano in ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice''. Even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Bassanio.
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** That's more how people remember him than as he's actually written. In the plays,
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* Rooster Johnny Byron of ''Theatre/{{Jerusalem}}'': a larger-than-life raconteur who lives alone in the forest, [[FriendToAllChildren shelters kids who want to get away from their parents and have a little fun]], and regales them with stories about meeting honest-to-goodness giants. Arguably deconstructed, as the reckless, daredevil attitude that makes him so entertaining is shown to have a habit of pissing off everybody, even those closest to him.
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* Rooster Johnny Byron of ''Theatre/{{Jerusalem}}'': a larger-than-life raconteur who lives alone in the forest, [[FriendToAllChildren shelters kids who want to get away from their parents and have a little fun]], and regales them with stories about meeting honest-to-goodness giants. Arguably deconstructed, as the reckless, daredevil attitude that makes him so entertaining is shown to have a habit of pissing off everybody, even those closest to him.
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* Creator/WilliamShakespeare's Sir John Falstaff.
** That's more how people remember him than as he's actually written. In the plays, Falstaff is more of a strangely likeable SmugSnake, who goes around pretending to be a Boisterous Bruiser.
** Also from Shakespeare, Gratiano in ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice''. Even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Bassanio.
* The Pirate King from ''ThePiratesOfPenzance''.
* Rooster Johnny Byron of ''Theatre/{{Jerusalem}}'': a larger-than-life raconteur who lives alone in the forest, [[FriendToAllChildren shelters kids who want to get away from their parents and have a little fun]], and regales them with stories about meeting honest-to-goodness giants. Arguably deconstructed, as the reckless, daredevil attitude that makes him so entertaining is shown to have a habit of pissing off everybody, even those closest to him.
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** That's more how people remember him than as he's actually written. In the plays, Falstaff is more of a strangely likeable SmugSnake, who goes around pretending to be a Boisterous Bruiser.
** Also from Shakespeare, Gratiano in ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice''. Even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Bassanio.
* The Pirate King from ''ThePiratesOfPenzance''.
* Rooster Johnny Byron of ''Theatre/{{Jerusalem}}'': a larger-than-life raconteur who lives alone in the forest, [[FriendToAllChildren shelters kids who want to get away from their parents and have a little fun]], and regales them with stories about meeting honest-to-goodness giants. Arguably deconstructed, as the reckless, daredevil attitude that makes him so entertaining is shown to have a habit of pissing off everybody, even those closest to him.
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