History Main / SmugSmiler

* Joshua from ''TheWorldEndsWithYou''.

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* Ciel from Black Butler, especially in the manga. Always a smug expression, always a snarky remark.

* Seto Kaiba of {{Yu-Gi-Oh}} practically owns this trope. Heck, with only one exception, this is the only type of smile he's known for.

* Kevin in SinCity. Even [[spoiler: getting his head hacksawed off]] doesn't wipe it off.
* In the first {{Blacksad}}, he mentions [[spoiler: he couldn't have shot the CompleteMonster if it hadn't been for that smug smile]].

* Nikita Dragovich and Lev Kravchenko, two of the main antagonists in {{Call Of Duty Black Ops}}.

* Leland Monroe in [[LANoire L.A. Noire]]. There are billboards of him grinning at you all over LosAngeles. One character even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it.

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* [[{{Bleach}} Aizen]] mixes this trope and DullSurprise for [[MemeticMutation Memetic]] results.
* [[SmugSnake Quattro]] from [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha the Nanoha series]], when she shows her true colors.
** Cypha crosses this with either SlasherSmile and PsychoticSmirk, depending on her mood.
* [[CodeGeass Lelouch vi Brittannia]] (pictured above) loves this trope to the extreme. Only that just as often, given his bad luck, he ends up with an OhCrap expression on his face moments later.
* Seto Kaiba of {{Yu-Gi-Oh}} practically owns this trope. Heck, with only one exception, this is the only type of smile he's known for.
* Fujiwara (or [[SmugSnake "That Sneering Bastard"]]), from ''HaruhiSuzumiya'', is described as looking like an "evil version of [[PerpetualSmiler Koizumi]]" due to the fact that he constantly wears this expression.
* Count on [[DeathNote Light Yagami]], too.

* [[CodeGeass Lelouch vi Brittannia]] (pictured above) loves this trope to the extreme. Only that just as often, given his bad luck, he ends up with an OhCrap expression on his face.

** Cypha crosses this with SlasherSmile and PsychoticSmirk.

* [[{{CodeGeass}} Lelouch vi Brittannia]] (pictured above) loves this trope to the extreme.

See Also SmugSnake and SmugSuper, for more villainous/heroic versions.

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-->"''Os quoque parce Erigit''[[hottip:*.:"Uplifts her face with moderated cheer" (a quotation from the ''Psychomachia'' of Prudentius)]] -- nothing could suggest more vividly the smirk of a persevering governess who has finally succeeded in getting a small boy in trouble with his father."
-->-- [[CSLewis C.S. Lewis]], ''The Allegory of Love''

* Zaphod, of ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy, meets a man with a smile he wants to hit with a brick. [[spoiler: He eventually does so.]]

* in DeepSpaceNine this was Bashir's default expression for most of the first three seasons.

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* Faz from {{Shortpacked}}
* Zaphod, of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, meets a man with a smile he wants to hit with a brick. [[spoiler: He eventually does so.]]
* The Onion's [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/who-needs-a-good-cockpunching,7234/ Who Needs a Good Cock Punching?]].
* King Of The Hill: Hank's dad, Cotton.

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