History DeadpanSnarker / Literature

* Kata in ''Literature/ProjectTau'' does this a lot.

* The yankee in Creator/MarkTwain's ''Literature/AConnecticutYankeeInKingArthursCourt'' gets off digs at everyone, but especially the nobility. It usually goes right over their heads.

* Blake Thorburn, from ''Literature/{{Pact}}'', ''would'' be one, but magicians in the Pact setting aren't allowed to lie, so he has to keep his snark mental. He's very bitter about this.

** Mook snarks about Scarlett's tendency to do this.

** Nuala also has this trait.

* 'mLiterature/{{Doglands}}'': Pace snarks for his entire [[OneSceneWonder two scenes.]] Dervla has her moments, Skyver being her favorite target.

* Literature/{{Doglands}}: Pace snarks for his entire[[OneSceneWonder two scenes.]] Dervla has her moments, Skyver being her favorite target.

--> '''Twitchtip:''' (when Photos-glow-glow "can't understand" boots): Allow me to translate. She said If you don't stop you incessant bable that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip you head off.

* [[Franchise/BerniceSummerfield Professor Bernice Surprise Summerfield]] in the Literature/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse. In ''No Future'', for instance, she dismisses the Vardans based on their only TV appearance.

* Most characters in Jim Butcher's ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' do this at least occasionally. Michael and Mab are probably the only two recurring characters who do not regularly indulge (even Nicodemus has his moments). Harry himself is such a memetic snarker that when he accidentally mouths off to ''Odin's'' secretaries, he claims that to not insult them to would be to impugn their reputation of incomprehensible badassery, because it's well know that Harry makes fun of all of ''them''.

** Bob and Thomas both seem to rather enjoy the snark.

* Butcher seems to love snark in general; though there's much less of it than in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', there's still quite a bit of it flying around in the ''Literature/CodexAlera'' series. Most characters get their moment to shine, but the most persistent example is [[CoolOldGuy Doroga]].

* There [[WorldOfSnark literally is no character]] in the ''Literature/HIVESeries'' who appears more than once has this. Every. Single. One. The only characters who don't, Block and Tackle, give an honest effort and come up with comments that are only moderately witty, to highlight their stupidity.

* Taken to near epic-levels by the cast of the ''Literature/RedRoom'' series. It seems being a magical secret agent turns you into a smartass.

* In Erin Bow's novel ''Sorrow's Knot'', Kestrel is this.
* A common way of coping with the hell of war in ''Literature/OldMansWar''. The protagonist, John Perry, is like this even before military service.
* While the ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' books tend to be dark, there are still a few of these - especially in the early stages, before hell quite literally breaks loose. They're particularly common among the Sons of Horus - Tarik Torgaddon would be a hugely valuable battlefield resource if snarky commentary could be used as bolter ammunition, and while Loken is more serious, he does pick things up quickly.
-->'''Abaddon:''' Do this right, Garviel.\\
'''Loken:''' I'm glad you told me that, I'd been considering making a mess of it.

** The first time we hear [[spoiler:Mouse]] talk, it turns out [[CrowningMomentOfFunny he sounds exactly like Harry]].

* Sun Tzu from ''Literature/TheArtOfWar'': "To lift an autumn hair is no sign of great strength; to see sun and moon is no sign of sharp sight; to hear the noise of thunder is no sign of a quick ear."

* From George R. R. Martin's ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. The [[WorldOfSnark number of snarkers is almost as over the top as the number of overall characters]] in the series is. However, flip a coin at House Lannister's table, and you're almost guaranteed to hit a snarker.

* From George R. R. Martin's ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. The [[WorldOfSnark number of snarkers is almost as over the top as the number of overall characters]].

** And his non-canonical protégée and later [[MarySue wife, Mary Russell]], in the ''Literature/MaryRussell'' books is just as deadpan a snarker as Holmes.

-> '''Daenerys Targaryen:''' Viserys says he could sweep the Seven Kingdoms with ten thousand Dothraki screamers.\\

** Shallan seems to have a compulsion to make witty remarks at almost any opportunity, though with less emphasis on the ''deadpan''.