History Main / CigarChomper

* Waver Velvet, in his hat of [[LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles Lord El-Melloi II]], smokes cigars whenever he's in a contemplative mood (that is, often), which is a rich source of comedy given that his dorky image contradicts almost all stereotypes of a usual Cigar Chomper, except being TallDarkAndSnarky and having at least ''some'' of the dignity that [[GentlemanAndAScholar his university professor position]] grants him.

* In ''Film/TheTerrorOfTinyTown'', the BigBad Bat Haines smokes cigars, and often emphasises a point by biting off the tip of a cigar and spitting it at the feet of whoever he is talking to.

* ''Film/{{Killdozer}}'': The tough-as-nails, unfazable mechanic Chub spends the entire film with a cigar clenched in his teeth.

* The Acolytes were frequently shown in their office drinking beer and smoking cigars.
* Dick the Bruiser.
* The Crusher.

%%%%%* Victor Sullivan from ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}''.

%%%%* In a divergence from the comics, the Penguin from both ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'' has shown a preference for cigars over the traditional cigarette.

%%%%* Quite a few of the Gas House Gorillas (particularly the pitcher) in the Looney Tunes cartoon "WesternAnimation/BaseballBugs".

* Comic book innovator Creator/JackKirby was a frequent cigar smoker.

[-[[caption-width-right:320:Because nothing says "[[RatedMForManly manly]]" like a phallic symbol clenched between your teeth. Clockwise from top left: [[Manga/OnePiece Vice Admiral Smoker]], [[Series/TheATeam "Hannibal" Smith]], [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Sergeant Johnson]], Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.]]-]

* UsefulNotes/FidelCastro, who certainly liked to be seen as a tough military leader. One of the CIA's attempts to kill him involved sneaking in an exploding cigar. He actually stopped smoking them on the advice of his doctors in 1985.

If the character is also supposed to be brutal and/or cruel, or extremely hardy and a PsychoKnifeNut even in their unarmed state, it's also not uncommon for them to cut the said cigar prior to smoking using a razor-sharp cigar cutter. Bonus points if said cutter is then used/threatened to be used in a [[{{Fingore}} more mutilating manner]]. They may also [[CigaretteBurns use the cigar itself as a weapon]], especially for ColdBloodedTorture.

* Legendary [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation Boston Celtics]] coach Red Auerbach was famous for lighting up a cigar when it became clear his team was going to win. One night, when the team were playing a road game against the Cincinatti Royals[[note]]now the Sacramento Kings[[/note]], Auerbach was chagrinned to find out that the Royals had given out cigars to the fans with instructions to light them all up when Cincinatti won. This prompted Aeurbach to tell his Celtics he'd kill them if they didn't win this game (which they did).

* Legendary [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation Boston Celtics]] coach Red Auerbach was famous for lighting up a cigar when it became clear his team was going to win. One night, when the team were playing a road game against the Cincinatti Royals[[note]]now the Sacramento Kings[[/note]], Auerbach was chagrinned to find out that the Royals had given out cigars to the fans with instructions to light them all up when Cincinatti won. This prompted Aeurbach to tell his Celtics he'd kill them if they didn't win the game (which they did).

* Legendary [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation Boston Celtics]] coach Red Auerbach was famous for lighting up a cigar when it became clear his team was going to win. One night, when the team were playing a road game against the Cincinatti Royals[[note]]now the Sacramento Kings[[/note]], Auerbach was chagrinned to find out that the Royals had given out cigars to the fans with instructions to light them all up when Cincinatti won. This prompted Aeurbach to tell his Celtics he'd kill them if they didn't win the game (they did).

* Legendary [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation Boston Celtics]] coach Red Auerbach was famous for lighting up a cigar when it became clear his team was going to win. One night, when the team were playing a road game against the Cincinatti Royals[[note]]now the Sacramento Kings[[/note]], Auerbach was chagrinned to find out that the team had given out cigars to the fans with instructions to light them all up when the Royals won. This prompted Aeurbach to tell his Celtics he'd kill them if they didn't win the game (they did).

* Professor Jirafales from ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' was very often smoking cigars. He could be seen smoking even when he was at school teaching the children, but, as the series is from the late '70s and early '80s, [[ValuesDissonance that was normal by the time]].

* Al from ''Series/QuantumLeap''.
* ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'': Boss Hogg.
* ''Series/TheBurnsAndAllenShow'': George Burns, who for most of his adult life was a cigar smoker.
* ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' (and continuing through ''Series/ArchieBunkersPlace''): Archie Bunker.
* Colonel Potter of ''Series/{{MASH}}'' smoked 5 cigars for 45 years and "[[BlatantLies never got the habit.]]"
** Klinger was also a regular cigar smoker.
* Del Boy Trotter from ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' regularly smokes cigars that fit with his brash, wheeler-dealer personality, whereas his brother Rodney always smokes cigarettes.
** Used car salesman Boycie also smokes cigars.
* Al Bundy from ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' is occasionally seen with a cigar, paricularly during or after a rare genuinely successful or happy moment for him.

%%%%%* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': one sight gag in Omega is an [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Elcor elcor]] merchant who constantly smokes a cigar, somehow.

%%* ComicBook/NickFury.

%%* ComicBook/{{Lobo}}.

%%%%%* ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} is fond of cigars.

%%%%%* The Man With No Name from ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'', ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'' and ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''. Creator/ClintEastwood, a method actor, has publicly said that he ''hated'' the smell of the things. Eastwood's ClintSquint was allegedly a result of his allergy to horses, but one imagines the cigars didn't help.

* ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'': Hellboy is a huge fan of cigars as a tough and gritty ActionHero and monster hunter, and due to being a fireproof demon they don't bother him at all. His boss, Tom Manning, while a bit of a cross between BeleagueredBureaucrat and ObstructiveBureaucrat (postFlanderization in the second film) is also a cigar smoker, though more of an ActionSurvivor and a bit of a BadassBureaucrat. At the end of the first movie the two bond when Manning shows Hellboy the proper way to light a cigar, with a wooden match, instead of Hellboy's preferred Lighter, to preserve the flavor.

%%%%* Baby Herman in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' (when he's off the set and shows his real personality, that is).

%%%%%* In his [[Film/LiveAndLetDie first]] [[Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun two]] films, Creator/RogerMoore's incarnation of Film/JamesBond distinguished himself from Creator/SeanConnery's Bond by smoking cigars, whereas Connery's Bond would smoke cigarettes.

%%* VideoGame/DukeNukem.

%%%%%* Pete from the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts.

%%%%* Bender from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''.

* General Isreal Putnam of the American Revolutionary War may be the UrExample of this trope. He discovered cigars in Cuba and introduced badass cigar-chomping to the Colonies. [[note]]Cigars had been popular in the Colonies for generations, particularly since Virginia was a tobacco-growing colony. General Putnam made it badass to chomp cigars.[[/note]]

* Quite unexpectedly, UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat is another female example. While she's more famous for her (alleged) love life, and wasn't known to be particularly aggressive, during her reign Russia grew at least twice in territory, and she's recorded to have said that without her knowledge no gun fired in Europe.

-->--'''Creator/WillSmith''', "Gettin’ Jiggy wit It"

If the character is also supposed to be brutal and/or cruel, or extremely hardy and a PsychoKnifeNut even in their unarmed state, it's also not uncommon for them to cut the said cigar prior to smoking using a razor-sharp cigar cutter. Bonus points if said cutter is then used/threatened to be used in a [[{{Fingore}} more mutilating manner]].

* ''Creator/ElleryQueen'': Sgt. Veelie, Inspector Queen's offsider, usually has a stogie in his mouth. Veelie is a classic example of BookDumb but street-smart tough cop. Especially apparent in the [[Series/ElleryQueen 1970s TV series]] where Veelie (played by Tom Reese) is almost never seen without a cigar in his mouth.

* [[HuskyRusskie Antonov]], the [[Fiction500 insanely wealthy]] sub-boss of ''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters The King of Fighters XIV]]'', takes this [[UpToEleven a step further]] than most examples of this trope. Not only he is almost always seen with a cigar in cutscenes, he has one permanently lodged between his teeth ''in gameplay'', too. He only spits it out when performing his [[LimitBreak Climax super move]], and even then he just pulls out a spare from [[MundaneUtility inside his champion's belt]] afterwards.

* Inspector Cramer in the ''Literature/NeroWolfe'' novels, who almost never actually lights his cigar and just gnaws on it. He does, however, smoke a [[DistinguishedGentlemansPipe pipe]] in his first appearance in ''The League of Frightened Men''.
* Commander Vimes in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', [[AddictionDisplacement after]] he quits [[TheAlcoholic drinking]]. In ''Literature/TheFifthElephant'' he uses his cigar to ruin his opponents' night vision and in ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'', the cigar case his wife gave him is his tether to his own time. He has a tendency to light them with Lady Sybil's dragons, which she disapproves of.
* Invoked by [[InsistentTerminology Citizen Rear Admiral]] Lester Tourville in ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington Honor Among Enemies]]''. He smokes cigars as part of a general strategy of looking like a [[FearlessFool hard-charging cowboy]] and less like the sort of responsible officer who tends to get promoted to a high enough position in the Peoples' Navy to either be seen as a potential threat to the Committee Of Public Safety or to warrant their preferred punishment for Citizen Admirals who [[YouHaveFailedMe have failed in important missions.]]
* Invoked in ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga The Warrior's Apprentice]]''. Baz apparently once served under a tough, cigar-smoking engineering officer. Miles successfully gets him to intimidate the Oseran engineers by giving him a cigar as a prop.
* Sgt. Veelie, Inspector Queen's offsider in the ''Creator/ElleryQueen'' novels usually has a stogie in his mouth. Veelie is a classic example of BookDumb but street-smart tough cop. Especially apparent in the [[Series/ElleryQueen 1970s TV series]] where Veelie (played by Tom Reese) is almost never seen without a cigar in his mouth.
%%%%%* Uncle Cyrus from ''Literature/{{Anthill}}''
%%%%%* Texas John Slaughter from the novels of Creator/JTEdson usually has an unlit cigar clenched in his teeth.
* ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'', at least in the earlier novels. In ''The Happy Return'', he is almost unable to hide his joy when El Supremo offers to supply him with several ''hundred'' cigars, rolled in his "domain" in Nicaragua from Havana tobacco, and reflects to himself that the last cigar he had was a rather mild Virginian in the West Indies. In ''The Commodore'', Lady Barbara, now his wife, gives him several boxes of Jamaican cigars for his mission in the Baltic, which he smokes after most breakfasts, and mentions how he loathes tossing the butts overboard when he's done.
* The ''bollivquar'' indigenous people of ''[[Literature/JetlagTravelGuides San Sombrèro]]'' smoke so many cigars a day that they wear sombreros which double as ashtrays.
%%%%%* In ''Literature/RallyRoundTheFlagBoys'', Oscar Hoffa smokes furiously on Upmann Monarch cigars.
* Judge Taylor from ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' was known around town for absent-mindedly chewing on an unlit cigar during trials. Scout and Jem would often go to court with Atticus simply to watch the cigar get smaller and smaller until Judge Taylor would dramatically regurgitate the cigar and loudly spit it into a nearby spittoon.
* Ex-USMC infantry officer Captain John Rumford is this in military thriller ''Literature/{{Victoria}}''. He even goes so far as to go out of his way to deliberately emphasize it, as a show to the well-meaning but annoying anti-smoking advocates who long since wore out his patience that [[JerkAss he doesn't give a damn what they think]].
* ''Literature/TheWitches'': The protagonist's grandmother is a CoolOldLady who constantly smokes large, black cigars, even when recovering from pneumonia. In one scene, she finishes one, only to immediately pull out and light another.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': J. Jonah Jameson, as befits his [[DaEditor 1960s news tycoon]] type.

* In her first appearance in the Avengers, She-Hulk appeared in fashionable attire but smoking a corona; she's chic but badass!
* ComicBook/FantasticFour's Ben Grimm, a.k.a the Thing, for the first thirty years or so.

* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', Mervyn usually lights up a cigarette on the job (as part of his blue-collar image), but in ''The Kindly Ones'' he breaks out a stogie to go along with his army uniform and drill sergeant schtick. He produces one again in ''The Wake'', presumably in recognition of the formality of the occasion and his evening wear.

* Frequent archenemy of ComicBook/SpiderMan and ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}, the Kingpin originally smoked cigars.

If the character is also supposed to be brutal and/or cruel, or extremely hardy and a KnifeNut even in their unarmed state, it's also not uncommon for them to cut the said cigar prior to smoking using a razor-sharp cigar cutter. Bonus points if said cutter is then used/threatened to be used in a [[{{Fingore}} more mutilating manner]].