History Main / MemeticTroll

* The Wendy's mascot, mainly due to the DeadpanSnarker tendencies of the official Twitter account. It eventually paved way for anime fan-art of the mascot categorized as "[[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/smug-wendys Smug Wendy's]]".

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}''

* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}''

* Russian singer Eduard Khil[[note]]Pronounced somewhat like "hill"[[/note]]. sang "I'm Very Glad Because I'm Finally Coming Home" in the 1970s. The wordless tune was supposed to be a "rambling cowboy" ballad. Once it hit the internet, however, Khil's oddly disturbing smile and the vocalizations making it sound as though he was laughing mockingly fit the trolling ideal all too well. (It doesn't help that at least one line comes across as him saying "Trol-lol-lol-lol-lol".) To this day Khil is considered the greatest troll of all time. (In RealLife, the man appreciated the resurge in popularity but didn't really understand it.)

** Congala, who treats nature as their [[{{Fartillery}} toi]][[DungFu let]].

** Bazelgeuse joins Deviljho in being a constant fight-interruptor, seemingly actively seeking out monsters already fighting with players. "The best way to track Bazelgeuse is to get into a fight with another monster, he'll come running."

* ComicBook/BlackManta is just as petty as Professor Zoom and goes out of his way to screw with ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} as much as he can. The moment that cemented this status is when he got Aquaman to cure his HollywoodAutism under the belief that it was his FreudianExcuse for being evil, only to later backstab him and clarify that it wasn't the case and that was always evil no matter what, even implying that he was ''faking'' autism all just so he can screw with Aquaman.

* [[Franchise/TheFlash The Reverse-Flash]] is known for being incredibly [[EvilIsPetty petty]], coupled with his abuse of time travel powers and tendency to [[ItsPersonal personally cause traumatic events in Flash's life]]. This has caused him to gain a half-joking reputation amongst fans as a petty troll who goes out of his way to be responsible for every bad thing that has ever happened to Flash, no matter how insignificant or harmless said bad thing is. This became even more extreme after [[Series/TheFlash2014 the 2014 Flash series]], so now the Reverse-Flash is slowly becoming synonymous with "villain who only cares about tormenting the protagonist".

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Professor Ozpin can be the target of this, oftentime to RonTheDeathEater levels. He certainly was something of TheGadfly early on, though it's a trait he largely (though not completely) drops after CerebusSyndrome kicks in after Volume 3. Note that even the ''creators'' get in on this in ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'', which gives ''everyone'' a healthy dose of Flanderization for the sake of comedy, including turning Ozpin into a full-on {{Troll}}.

* Tatsuta of ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' is known for trolling and teasing her fellow ''kanmusu'', especially her "sister" Tenryuu. On Danbooru, there's an image pool dedicated to her trollish (and sometimes MemeticMolester) tendencies, called "God Damn It Tatsuta!"

* Alucard from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''; in the original works, he is a SociopathicHero bordering on VillainProtagonist and a ShowyInvincibleHero, and definitely has a fondness for messing with his opponents before killing them and laughing at their dismay. ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'' turns all those characteristics plays UpToEleven and plays them for comedy, making him a PsychopathicManchild who takes every opportunity to annoy his boss Integra (from blackmailing her into giving him a plasma screen TV, to doing exactly the opposite of what she asks him to do, to tilting every painting he found walking to her and crashing her father's car, covered in ''goat blood'' into the first British Dairy Queen) and everyone else (he's sent over four hundred absurd death threats to the Pope via carrier pigeon). Even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaLTPTTgAaM his laugh]] has become a MemeticMutation.

* Russian singer Eduard Khil[[note]]Pronounced like "hill"[[/note]]. sang "I'm Very Glad Because I'm Finally Coming Home" in the 1970s. The wordless tune was supposed to a "rambling cowboy" ballad. Once it hit the internet, however, Khil's oddly disturbing smile and the vocalizations making it sound as though he was laughing mockingly fit the trolling ideal all too well. (It doesn't help that at least one line comes across as him saying "Trol-lol-lol-lol-lol".) To this day Khil is considered the greatest troll of all time. (In RealLife, the man appreciated the resurge in popularity but didn't really understand it.)

* Russian singer Eduard Khil[[note]]Pronounced like "hill"[[/note]]. sang "I'm Very Glad Because I'm Finally Coming Home" in the 1970s. The wordless tune was supposed to a "rambling cowboy" ballad. Once it hit the internet, however, Khil's oddly disturbing smile and the vocalizations making it sound as though he was laughing mockingly fit the trolling ideal all too well. To this day Khil is considered the greatest troll of all time. (In RealLife, the man appreciated the resurge in popularity but didn't really understand it.)

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* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': Reverse-Flash carried on his reputation for trolling from the comics, but season 3 saw him get joined by [[AGodAmI Savitar]]. His [[AwesomeEgo constant declarations of godhood]], tendency to needlessly brutalize opponents and than leave, and the scene where he uses his powers to predict [[spoiler: Flash's friends all dying or betraying him]] - for the sole purpose of fucking with Flash - have combined to make fans see him as {{Jerkass}} TricksterGod who gets off on trolling people.

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* Alucard from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''; in the original works, he is a SociopathicHero bordering on VillainProtagonist and a ShowyInvincibleHero, and definitely has a fondness for messing with his opponents before killing them and laughing at their dismay. ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'' turns all those characteristics plays UpToEleven and plays them for comedy, making him a PsychopathicManchild who takes every opportunity to annoy his boss Integra (from blackmailing her into giving him a plasma screen TV, to doing exactly the opposite of what she asks him to do, to tilting her paintings and crashing her father's car) and everyone else (he's sent over four hundred absurd death threats to the Pope via carrier pigeon). Even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaLTPTTgAaM his laugh]] has become a MemeticMutation.

* ''Film/{{Downfall}}'': Hermann Fegelein is generally depicted in WebVideo/HitlerRants videos as annoying Hitler and the other occupants of the bunker with cartoon antics. That one really has no basis in the actual film (or real life), where he gets very little characterization before he's simply shot as a deserter.

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' has Kea, a species of bird known for this in real life. Somehow these things are able to steal items several times their size/weight and fly away before anyone can react -- they are known to steal anvils, axes and other important items. As mentioned earlier this is TruthInTelevision, as real Kea are known for their tendency to breaking into cars, stealing items and keeping people awake at night by rolling down items from steel roofs.

* ''Film/{{Downfall}}'': Hermann Fegelein is generally depicted in WebVideo/HitlerRants as annoying Hitler and the other occupants of the bunker with cartoon antics. That one really has no basis in the actual film (or real life), where he gets very little characterization before he's simply shot as a deserter.

* ''Film/{{Downfall}}'': Fegelein is generally depicted in WebAnimation/{{YouTube Poop}}s as annoying Hitler and the other occupants of the bunker with cartoon antics. That one really has no basis in the actual film (or real life), where he gets very little characterization before he's simply shot as a deserter.

* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona''

* [[WebVideo/GuruLarryAndWez Larry "Guru Larry" Bundy, Jr.]] became this during [=#ChangeTheChannel=] debacle (which in the majority of the producers for [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Channel Awesome]] left amid [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WZFkR__B3Mk9EYQglvislMUx9HWvWhOaBP820UBa4dA/preview# revelations]] of mismanagement, misogyny, favoritism, hypocrisy, ignoring producers' concerns, and unsafe filming conditions by Mike Michaud and the Walker Brothers, as well as sexual misconduct by Mike Ellis and [[WebVideo/YouCanPlayThis the late Justin Carmical]], and the management's poor responses to the whole thing), for openly {{troll}}ing the management by sticking around as [[TheDogBitesBack a final "screw you" to them for being ignored by them for years]] and to [[WhileRomeBurns watch the site go down in flames]].

* The marketing team for the ''Shen Yun'' theater performance gets a reputation for advertising ''everywhere'', much to the ire of motorists throughout the United States especially on the coasts. From the way people react to their constant presence, you'd swear that they'd probably advertise on the moon or to extraterrestrial civilizations if they could.

* The marketing team for the ''Shen Yun'' theater performance gets a reputation for advertising ''everywhere''. From the way people react to their constant presence, you'd swear that they'd probably advertise on the moon or to extraterrestrial civilizations if they could.

* ''Franchise/TheMuppets'': JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf are considered by many fans and others to be the original trolls (in fact, one popular meme names them as, "Trolling before there was trolling." Given that their main schtick on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' was sitting up in the balcony and heckling almost everyone in the show (they're especially merciless with Fozzie), which is a characteristic that continually follows them from medium to medium, helps validate this opinion. Their ScrewPolitenessIAmASenior personalities also help. For a short while circa 2005, Statler and Waldorf actually had their own webcast where they would review (or rip apart) the latest movie releases. They even got their own JustForFun page on this site.