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14	[[caption-width-right:320:Because nothing says "[[ManlyMan manly]]" like a phallic symbol clenched between your teeth. [[labelnote:Clockwise from top left:]][[Manga/OnePiece Vice Admiral Smoker]], [[Series/TheATeam "Hannibal" Smith]], [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Sergeant Johnson]], Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.[[/labelnote]]]]
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16	->''Here with this handsome kid, ciga-cigar\
17	Right from Cuba-Cuba, I just bite it\
18	It's for the look, I don't light it''
19	-->-- '''Creator/WillSmith''', "Gettin’ Jiggy wit It"
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21	A character who is never seen without his cigar, which is then used as a visual cue to some aspect of his personality. This is Almost AlwaysMale (except in Cuba), so most of the examples are of male characters, although female examples are also possible.
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23	This denotes that said character is a tough, aggressive, take-no-nonsense type. Because good cigars are an expensive habit, they also carry a connotation of wealth, power, and high status. Plus, having to prevent the cigar from falling out when talking makes them always speak with a sneer. Characters such as DaChief, SergeantRock, TheGeneralissimo, and your local CorruptCorporateExecutive often chomp on cigars, as will anyone in a SmokyGentlemensClub who hasn't got [[DistinguishedGentlemansPipe a pipe]]. In animated or otherwise illustrated works, the cigar is more likely to be in the character's mouth at all or nearly all times, and tends to be impractically massive (it also tends to be shaped sort of like a football, while RealLife cigars are generally straight cylinders).
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25	It's okay for heroes to smoke cigars seemingly because of the expense: average cigars are ''much'' more luxurious and expensive than the number of cigarettes of the same weight. No matter how cool the smoking of cigars is made to look, it's not a habit as easily and cheaply picked up as cigarette smoking, so it's more acceptable to show a hero smoking the occasional victory cigar. DoNotTryThisAtHome unless you absolutely know what you're doing, as tobacco smoking carries the risk of developing respiratory problems up to and including emphysema and cancer regardless of whether it's a cigarette, a cigar, a cigarillo, etc.
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27	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 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.
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29	Related to SmokingIsCool and GoodSmokingEvilSmoking. See also ItsCuban.
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32	!!Examples:
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34	[[foldercontrol]]
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36	[[folder:Advertising]]
37	* Advertising/LouieTheFly, in his third design, would be given a cigar that would float out of his mouth when he talked. This helped fit his "street smart tough guy" persona that he was given in this iteration. The next iteration would turn this cigar into a smoldering matchstick instead, better fitting his size.
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40	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
41	* Cobra of ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'' always has a cigar stuck in the corner of his mouth. Some of those cigars hide useful gadgets, though, such as a flashlight or underwater breathing apparatus.
42	* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': "Sir" Integra Hellsing is a female example, though technically she smokes cigarillos. She even forces one of Iscariot's assassins to light one of them based on sheer charisma.
43	* ''Manga/KenganAshura'''s [[TheJuggernaut Edward Wu]] is a downright comical example, frequently lighting a huge, expensive-looking cigar only to throw it away as an ImprovisedWeapon shortly after because he keeps getting attacked by Kure and Wu Clan assassins mid-smoke break. This results in him going through a half-dozen cigars in about as many minutes because [[UnderestimatingBadassery he doesn't even consider them a threat]].
44	--> ''"[[LampshadeHanging Come on man, I just lit this up."]]''
45	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
46	** [[MeaningfulName Smoker]], the guy on the top left, from is usually seen with ''multiple'' cigars (his powers are based on smoke)...[[{{Bowdlerized}} unless it's]] [[DubInducedPlotHole the]] [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4kids dub]].
47	** Sir Crocodile, Shiryu of the Rain and "Golden Lion" Shiki also smoke cigars. Also, all three are evil. (Indeed, in the series overall, [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking good guys smoke cigarettes, while bad guys prefer cigars]]. The exception so far being [[HeroAntagonist Smoker above]].)
48	** Capone Bege also has one, fitting in with his Mafioso image; going with the above, he's quite a ruthless pirate even if he's not particularly malevolent compared to some of the villains. Even his ''infant son'' has a cigar-shaped pacifier.
49	* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': Balalaika is another female example, befitting her as a fearsome [[TheMafiya Mafiya]] boss and one of the main movers and shakers in [[NotSoSafeHarbor Roanapur]].
50	* ''Anime/LupinIIIEpisode0FirstContact'' has a one-time character named Galvez, a New York mafia boss whose treasure has been targeted by Lupin.
51	%%%%* Zapp Renfro of ''Anime/BloodBlockadeBattlefront'' is rarely seen without one in his teeth.
52	* Waver Velvet, in his hat of [[Literature/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.
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55	[[folder:Comic Books]]
56	* ''Robot'' example -- Kup is portrayed as this in [[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW IDW's Transformers comics]], starting in ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersAllHailMegatron All Hail Megatron]]''. It's apparently called a "cy-gar". It's also ''medicinal,'' as it contains radiation that prevents him hallucinating zombies and turning into a panicked berserker. In short, he 'smokes' to stay sane. This was also done to turn him into a robotic {{Expy}} of SergeantRock.
57	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
58	** J. Jonah Jameson, as befits his [[DaEditor 1960s news tycoon]] type.
59	** The Kingpin originally smoked cigars.
60	* ComicBook/NickFury, who smoked [[http://www.lasertimepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/NickFury3.jpg even in an astronaut suit]].
61	* In her first appearance in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', ComicBook/SheHulk appeared in fashionable attire but smoking a corona; she's chic but badass!
62	* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Ben Grimm, a.k.a the Thing, for the first thirty years or so.
63	* Lenny Balinger, the foreman for ComicBook/DamageControl in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.
64	* The Comedian in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''.
65	* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} fit this until the mid-'90s or so, and it fit with his hardboiled, take-no-shit attitude. When he temporarily lost his HealingFactor, the first cigar he lit up without it was enough to convince him it was time to quit that particular habit.
66	* Perry White in ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' ... sometimes. (In one story he gave up after a lung cancer scare. That seems to be getting ignored now.) Like J. Jonah Jameson above, it fits his [[DaEditor tough-as-nails newspaper editor]] character.
67	* Detective Casey in ComicBook/{{Mickey Mouse Comic\|Universe}}s subverts this trope. He ''thinks'' he's tough and respected by both colleagues and crooks...
68	* ComicBook/{{Lobo}}. He was once known to destroy an entire planet for not finding the cigar of his liking!
69	* ComicBook/JonahHex, as befits his status as a badass BountyHunter.
70	* Julius Furst, BFG-toting BadassNormal of ''ComicBook/AstroCity''.
71	* Sam Hagen, Ryder's boss from the old ''ComicBook/TheCreeper'' comics.
72	* Comicbook/HowardTheDuck used to smoke before ''Comicbook/{{Civil War\|2006}}'', where he had an aside telling someone told him to quit smoking.
73	* Professor Venture of the ''ComicBook/AtariForce'' second series is a female example. Captain Hunter is a straight male example.
74	* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', 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.
75	* Harry Matthews, down-to-earth, no-nonsense MuggleBestFriend of Jason Blood a.k.a. [[ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} Etrigan the Demon]] constantly smokes cigars, even when knocked out cold.
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78	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
79	* Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks illustrated his role in ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie'' as THE wealthiest man in the strips with his tux, his diamond stickpin, and his ever-present cigars.
80	* Badass but soft-hearted gunslinger Hipshot Percussion is a habitual cigar man in the Rick O'Shay strip.
81	* The King from ''ComicStrip/{{Conchy}}'' is never seen without a cigar clenched in his teeth. He is gruff and blunt, but undeniably in charge, and no one ever argues. He once turns back an entire invasion fleet armed with nothing but a sign.
82	* ComicStrip/DickTracy's tech provider, Diet Smith, is rarely seen without cigar in mouth. This is another marker of him being a stereotypical wealthy capitalist.
83	%%%%* Steve Roper's friend Mike Nomad occasionally enjoys one.
84	%%%%* Conrad, the self-proclaimed frog prince, is a cigar connoisseur.
85	%%%%* Flip from ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo''.
86	%%%%%%* Sgt. Snorkle in ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'', although he stopped around the mid-'80s as readers became more health-conscious.
87	%%%%* Mr. O'Malley from ''ComicStrip/{{Barnaby}}''.
88	%%%%* Albert Alligator from ''ComicStrip/{{Pogo}}''.
89	%%%%* Crabby news editor (and anthropomorphic bird) P. Martin Shoemaker aka Shoe.
90	%%%%%* Broom Hilda was one of these initially, but like ''Beetle Bailey'' above, this was eventually phased out due to concerns about promoting smoking to young readers.
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93	[[folder:Fan Works]]
94	* Muffet is one in the ''Undertale'' fanfic ''Fanfic/MuffetTheMom''. Her cigar is huge, purple, and made of spiders and webbing.
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97	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
98	%%* Warren T. Rat, the villain from ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail''.
99	%%* Carface from ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven''.
100	%% * Sykes from ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany ''.
101	* The figure smoking a cigar in the "Eleanor Rigby" segment of ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' is [[CreatorCameo Al Brodax, the film's producer.]] He was quite known for smoking cigars.
102	%%* Swackhammer from ''Film/SpaceJam''
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105	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
106	* The Man With No Name from ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'', ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'' and ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', even using one to ignite a cannon in the last one. Creator/ClintEastwood, a method actor, has publicly said that he ''hated'' the smell of the things (tellingly, ''Film/HeartbreakRidge'' is the only movie of his afterwards where he smokes).
107	* Invoking the above, ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead'' has Creator/SharonStone as a cigar-smoking female gunslinger.
108	%%%%* ''Film/MiracleOnThirtyFourthStreet'': Charlie Halloran (played by William Frawley, Fred of ''Series/ILoveLucy'') as the Judge's campaign manager. He even chomps on it in court, although it's not lit.
109	* ''Film/{{Hellboy\|2004}}'': Hellboy is a huge fan of cigars (a change caused by aficionado Creator/RonPerlman, given in the comics, he smokes cigarettes instead) 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.
110	* GeneralRipper from ''Film/DoctorStrangelove'' is a parodically Freudian example. His cigar is meant to be a metaphor for him compensating for his impotence which he blames on the Russians, thus launching a nuclear attack on Russia (which he claims is due to them striking Washington first).
111	%%%%%* The Mayor in ''Film/SuckerPunch''.
112	* Tough and capable Sgt. Dede Rake in ''Starship Troopers 2'' (played by Brenda Strong) is overjoyed to find a container of cigars in a way station's food supplies. She wastes no time in lighting one up and hoards the rest.
113	* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': When Baby Herman's off the set and shows his real personality, he's gladly smoking a big one, crying as, well, a baby, when Eddie grabs it and throws it away.
114	* Sgt. Apone in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' likes his cigar so much he takes it into his spaceship-hibernation pod with him and pops it in his mouth the moment he revives. However, in a nice nod to realism, since he is on board the aforementioned ship, he never actually lights the thing.
115	%%%%%* Joe Patrone in the ''Film/{{Airport}}'' series of films.
116	* Mr. Hyde in ''Film/VanHelsing'' takes it literally prior to fighting Van Helsing when he actually ''eats'' his cigar.
117	* Parodied in ''Film/TopSecret''. Badass French resistance member Chocolate Mousse is introduced with a cigar in his mouth... which he then ''eats''.
118	* Ojo in ''Film/TheCrimsonPirate'', to the point where he even has it when he's supposed to be disguised as a nobleman and then a flower girl (since the rest of the movie runs on RuleOfFunny, it doesn't matter too much).
119	* 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. While Bond stopped smoking in the 80s, when he visits Cuba in ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' he just has to pick up some cigars.
120	* Captain Steven Hiller in ''Film/IndependenceDay''. As a tradition for his squadron, he flies with a cigar in his pocket so that he can light up after a successful mission. David's father, Julius, is also shown smoking cigars throughout the film. Just before the big mission to the mothership Steven panics when he realises he doesn't have a cigar on hand so Julius offers them his last two.
121	%%%%%* Samant is seen with a cigar in his mouth throughout ''Film/{{Deewaar}}''.
122	* In ''Film/TheTournament'', AxeCrazy ProfessionalKiller Miles Slade completes his image as a boorish American by smoking huge cigars. Joshua later exploits his habit by using a BoozeFlamethrower to turn him into a ManOnFire.
123	* In ''Film/BankShot'', the pugnacious 'Bulldog' Streiger (the InspectorJavert of the film) has a cigar clenched in his teeth for most of the movie. This fits with his role as the super-stubborn InspectorJavert.
124	* Max Fairbanks in ''Film/WhatsTheWorstThatCouldHappen'' continually smokes cigars, playing the big tycoon to the hilt.
125	* In ''Film/TheTerrorOfTinyTown'', the BigBad Bat Haines smokes cigars, and often emphasizes a point by biting off the tip of a cigar and spitting it at the feet of whoever he is talking to.
126	* In ''Film/{{Dobermann}}'', RabidCop Chistini spends most of the film with a cigar clenched in his teeth. In one scene, he makes a point by grinding out his cigar on Dobermann's photo.
127	* ''Film/{{Killdozer}}'': The tough-as-nails, unflappable mechanic Chub spends the entire film with a cigar clenched in his teeth.
128	* In ''Film/{{Starkweather}}'', tough as nails and cunning as a fox country lawman Sheriff Merle Karnopp always has--an often unlit--cigar clenched in his teeth.
129	* In ''Film/WeirdScience'', {{Jerkass}} older brother Chet smokes cigars.
130	* ''Film/LolaMontes'': A very rare female example in the person of Lola Montes, 19th-century dancer, courtesan, and mistress of Franz Liszt and King Ludwig I of Bavaria. Lola Montes's fondness for cigars marks her as an iconoclast and free spirit, in an era when women were not supposed to smoke cigars.
131	* In ''Film/OutlawWomen'', Iron Mae's bouncer/enforcer Dora smokes cigars to demonstrate her toughness, and she lights them by striking a match ''on her teeth''
132	* ''Film/OlsenBanden'': The titular character Egon Olsen (a no-nonsense criminal gang leader) is rarely seen without a cigar on his person - although since his actor did not actually smoke, this is usually depicted by him chewing on a stump. Egon's counterpart in the Swedish ForeignRemake did not have this distinction, alternating between growling his lines through a full cigar (almost always lit by someone else, as fitting his bossy behaviour) and simply holding it in his hand in a gentlemanly manner. This seems to hint at an OralFixation in general, as he once drops the cigar out of his mouth while speaking, pauses, and only finishes the sentence once he has found something else to bite down on.
133	* ''Film/SantaClausTheMovie'': B.Z., the CorruptCorporateExecutive BigBad of the movie, is rarely seen without a cigar, even the adverts for his toy company show him with one between his lips. He's so obnoxious about it that Patch the elf coughs his way through one of their meetings because the smoke from B.Z.'s cigar is getting in his face.
134	* ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'': The infamous hitman Il Duce continues to smoke his cigar during his firefight against the [=McManus=] brothers. Apparently Creator/BillyConnolly was enjoying the scene so much he couldn't stop smiling, the crew gave him the cigar so he'd be forced to keep his mouth shut.
135	* ''Film/NoNameOnTheBullet'': Shady saloon owner Henry Reeger is a pretty heavy smoker and usually has a cigar clenched in his teeth. The more worried he becomes that he his Gant's target, the more he smokes.
136	* In ''Film/TheyLiveByNight'', veteran bank robber Chicamaw smokes cigars, and lights one up whenever celebrating or stressed. When Keechie arrives home and sees a cigar in the ashtray and knows Chicamaw has been there to visit Bowie.
137	* In ''Film/TheLostWorld1998'', macho EgomaniacHunter John Roxton almost always has a fat stogie clenched in his teeth.
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140	[[folder:Literature]]
141	%%%%%* Uncle Cyrus from ''Literature/{{Anthill}}''
142	* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': LEP Commander Julius Root is fond of "fungal cigars" which others find irritating due to their fumes, but it certainly adds to his stern and commanding DaChief image.
143	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Commander Vimes, [[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.
144	* ''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 Creator/TomReese) is almost never seen without a cigar in his mouth.
145	* ''Literature/ForestKingdom'': In book 1 (''Blue Moon Rising''), the goblin leader is seen with a cigar during his first appearance, when he and his band attempt to attack Rupert as he's on his way back home with Princess Julia.
146	* ''Literature/{{FUDGE}}'': Mr. Hatcher’s boss at the advertising firm, Mr. Vincent, comes across as this in ''Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing''.
147	* ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington Honor Among Enemies]]'': Invoked by [[InsistentTerminology Citizen Rear Admiral]] Lester Tourville. 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.]]
148	* ''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.
149	* ''Literature/NeroWolfe'': Inspector Cramer, 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''.
150	* ''Literature/RallyRoundTheFlagBoys'': Oscar Hoffa smokes furiously on Upmann Monarch cigars.
151	* ''[[Literature/JetlagTravelGuides San Sombrèro]]'': The ''bollivquar'' indigenous people smoke so many cigars a day that they wear sombreros which double as ashtrays.
152	%%%%%* Texas John Slaughter from the novels of Creator/JTEdson usually has an unlit cigar clenched in his teeth.
153	* ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'': Judge Taylor 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.
154	* ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'': Ex-USMC infantry officer Captain John Rumford is this. 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]].
155	* ''[[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.
156	* ''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.
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159	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
160	* Gomez in ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' spends a lot of scenes smoking cigars, even when he's on his head practicing his Zen Yogi poses. While the expensiveness of the habit does reflect the Addamses' absurdly large amount of money, the aggressiveness usually implied by the trope usually doesn't come into play, as [[PerkyGoth Gomez]] is one of the more genial and less intimidating members of the family.
161	* ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' (and continuing through ''Series/ArchieBunkersPlace''): Archie Bunker.
162	* Hannibal from ''Series/TheATeam'', as seen in the page picture, is rarely without a cigar clutched between his teeth. Most episodes have him shooting off his catchphrase before dramatically taking a puff of his cigar.
163	* Sgt. Randelman, from ''Series/BandOfBrothers'', is shown with a cigar throughout the series, most notably in ''Replacements''.
164	* Starbuck from ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|1978}}'' loves this trope -- the Starbuck from the [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 reimagined series]] is one of the rare female examples. Many of the pilots are shown smoking cigars in celebration of missions, which is common among present-day pilots as well.
165	* 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]].
166	* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', though having a timid, [[ObfuscatingStupidity obfuscatingly stupid]] thing going on, is never seen without a smelly cigar in his mouth.
167	* ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'': Boss Hogg.
168	* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Tom Anderson is frequently seen smoking a cigar, which denotes his status as an affluent, but sleazy businessman who later becomes a politician who accepts bribes.
169	* ''Series/{{JAG}}'':
170	** Harmon Rabb occasionally smoked cigars, until third season episode "The Return of Jimmy Blackhorse" when he had decided to quit. Many minor characters; particularly senior military officers, intelligence officers, and businessmen; are often seen chomping cigars. In review panning the series in its first season, TV Guide even characterized it as:
171	--->''... macho swaggering, muscle-flexing, cigar-chomping military men who can't stop whining about having to share their Navy with sailors in skirts.''
172	** The first season episode "Desert Son" features one such cigar chomper, Captain Reed, an abrasive artillery officer who climbed through the ranks starting as an enlisted man, and who entirely fails to get along with Lieutenant Rabb, while [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold privately giving support and career advice to a young lieutenant under his command.]] Bonus points for [[LetsGetDangerous lighting up his cigar]] just before ordering his artillery battery to fire.
173	* ''Series/JakeAndTheFatman'': In keeping with his LargeAndInCharge personality, J.L. [=McCabe=] (a.k.a. 'the Fatman') smokes cigars.
174	* ''Series/MagicCity'': Ben Diamond, Bel Jaffe, and Ike Evans. Diamond lives in a luxurious mansion with a trophy wife and lounges around his pool. Bel Jaffe is a bookie. Ike Evans runs a luxury hotel.
175	* Al Bundy from ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' is occasionally seen with a cigar, paricularly during or after a rare genuinely successful or happy moment for him.
176	* Colonel Potter of ''Series/{{MASH}}'' smoked 5 cigars for 45 years and "[[BlatantLies never got the habit.]]"
177	** Klinger was also a regular cigar smoker.
178	* Del Boy Trotter from ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' regularly smokes cigars that fit with his brash, wheeler-dealer personality, whereas his brother Rodney always smokes cigarettes.
179	** Used car salesman Boycie also smokes cigars.
180	* ''Series/MiamiVice'':
181	** The original head of the [=OCB=], Lt. Lou Rodriguez, even through his [[WeHardlyKnewYe limited appearances,]] often smoked cigars (and there are promotional shots of Creator/GregorySierra holding a cigar as Rodriguez).
182	** Detective Larry Zito was also a fan of cigars, occasionally smoking one both on and off of the job (particularly in "Made For Each Other"), a trait shared with his actor Creator/JohnDiehl.
183	* Al from ''Series/QuantumLeap''.
184	* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': Cristóbal Rios enjoys smoking cigars, which adds to his "rough-around-the-edges" image.
185	* Jake Cutter from ''Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey'' tends to smoke a cigarillo fairly often. Judging that this theme runs through Quantum Leap, Battlestar, JAG, and this show as well; Creator/DonaldPBellisario seems to be a fan of this trope.
186	* ''Series/VanDerValk'': The title character is rarely seen without them - even at the dinner table with his wife.
187	* Toby Ziegler of ''Series/TheWestWing'' occasionally smokes one, although it's not allowed inside the building itself.
188	* Bunk Moreland from ''Series/TheWire''.
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191	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
192	* [[Wrestling/RonSimmons The]] [[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield Acolytes]] were frequently shown in their office drinking beer and smoking cigars.
193	* Wrestling/DickTheBruiser and his cousin Wrestling/TheCrusher were the first to smoke cigars to establish that they were tough guys in wrestling.
194	* "Luscious" Johnny Valiant. As a manager, he helped Wrestling/GregValentine and Wrestling/BrutusBeefcake win the WWF tag team titles by rubbing his cigar in Wrestling/BarryWindham's face.
195	* A rare female example was [[Wrestling/TerriRunnels Marlena]], who would sit there puffing on a cigar while Wrestling/{{Goldust}} was in the ring in the 1990s.
196	* Wrestling/NewWorldOrder members would light up cigars as a way to show that not only were they bad ass, but were also quite extravagant.
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199	[[folder:Radio]]
200	* ''Radio/TheBurnsAndAllenShow'': Creator/GeorgeBurns, who for most of his adult life was a cigar smoker.
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203	%%[[folder:Roleplay]]
204	%%%%%* Clint Wayne in ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG''. Creator/ClintEastwood was a major inspiration.
205	%%[[/folder]]
206
207	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
208	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
209	** Orks use them, especially Burna Boyz, the flamethrower-equipped pyromaniacs. There's even one head in the standard kit for a Burna Boy who's cut a hole in his faceplate so he can raise and lower it without needing to take out his cigar.
210	** SpacePirate Kaptin Badrukk is notable for having to retreat when badly wounded and out of cigars.
211	** Lord Castellan Creed of Cadia and Col. Schaeffer of the Last Chancers are two of the few human characters who are known for their love of cigars, to the point that their models include them.
212	%%%%%** In the ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novels, Colonel Corbec favors cigars over the lho sticks[[note]]sort of like a narcotic cigarette[[/note]] used by many other troopers.
213	* A rare HumongousMecha example from ''TabletopGame/BattleTech:'' the [[http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Hauptmann Hauptmann]] 'Mech has a laser mounted in its head. This is a particularly UnusualWeaponMounting, as the laser is set low in the 'Mech's 'face,' giving it the appearance of a scowling, wide-shouldered thug gnawing on a cigar. For bonus points, the mouth is the laser's traverse slot--this means that the Hauptmann can roll its cigar back and forth in a stereotypically brutish fashion.
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216	[[folder:Theater]]
217	* ''Theatre/SomeLikeItHot': Murderous gangster Spats Colombo is introduced with a cigar in his mouth; a slightly later scene has his office be filled with smoke.
218	[[/folder]]
219
220	[[folder:Video Games]]
221	* ''VideoGame/AgentsOfMayhem'' has Braddock, a ButchLesbian ex-DrillSergeantNasty who's constantly smoking a cigar. Basically a female Sergeant Rock. She also uses the cigar as a targeting designator for her KillSat super-move by lighting it before throwing it at an opponent.
222	* In a divergence from the comics, the Penguin from both ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'' has shown a preference for cigars as opposed to the traditional cigarette (thus his iconic cigarette holder is absent) Both series shows as much more thuggish and brutal than he is normally. However, in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', the Penguin ''does'' have the cigarette holder in his bio picture, mostly due to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.
223	* VideoGame/DukeNukem, as a send-up to the ActionHero, including in the cover of ''Videogame/DukeNukemForever'' (where smoking a cigar is one of the things that boosts his ego and gives health).
224	* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': Canonically, the Soldier has a cigar as a cosmetic item, and is seen with one in the Mann vs. Machine trailer.
225	* In ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft\|I}}'', the [[KillItWithFire Firebats]] can always be seen smoking a cigar inside their armor.
226	* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' features [[NewOldWest Jesse McCree]], a former outlaw turned hero who constantly smokes cigars, even in battle.
227	* Tychus from ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft II}}'' has a few notable moments with cigars, although it's not ''constant''. The still image of him used in all the promotional materials features one. His hero unit in the "Belly of the Beast" mission has a flare coming from his helmet, indicating that he is smoking on that mission.
228	** After [[spoiler:exposing Mengsk's role in the Fall of Tarsonis]], Raynor and Matt Horner celebrate by enjoying some cigars. There's even an extended sequence of them selecting, sniffing, and lighting the cigars.
229	** Continuing the theme, in the final cutscene of ''VideoGame/HeartOfTheSwarm'', Mengsk selects an ornate box and removes a cigar with an equal ornate light; seemingly preparing to have OneLastSmoke as Kerriggan comes for him. But as he goes to light it, [[spoiler:it turns out the lighter is the control mechanism for the Xel'Naga artifact.]]
230	* The ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' games give us Muggshot from [[VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus the first game]] and El Jeffe from [[VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime the fourth]], who both are seen with a stogie locked in their jaws in their debut appearances.
231	* Pyro from ''VideoGame/{{Sacrifice}}'' has a cigar as part of his character portrait and is thus never seen without it. He's more of a CorruptCorporateExecutive, however.
232	* ''VideoGame/SugarySpire'': This ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'' fangame contains a rare heroic example with Ice Pop, the MrExposition who tells you tutorials. He's constantly casually smoking a cigar, and only exists to help you.
233	* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
234	** [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Naked Snake]], aka [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Big Boss]] from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' smokes cigars. He's so badass, he can use them to burn leeches off of his body without worrying about getting an infection.
235	** [[spoiler:Senator Armstrong]] from ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' feels the need to light up a good ol' cigar right after delivering a stomping Raiden wouldn't forget any time soon, and [[spoiler:outlining his ideals in a speech that, batshit insanity aside, was actually an engaging one for politician standards]].
236	* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': A minor character on Omega is an [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Elcor elcor]] merchant who constantly smokes a cigar, somehow. He's a disreputable businessman who's trying to drive a competitor out of business, but his tough-guy attitude is really an act: if Shepard threatens him he backs down instantly.
237	%%%%%* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'': Bill is an interesting case, being a ''cigarette'' chomper. He doesn't really smoke it, despite its constantly being lit, just kind of keeps it there all day. It even stays lit after he dies. [[spoiler:The only time it's unlit in-game is after he's been KilledOffForReal.]]
238	* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': Sgt. Major Avery Junior Johnson. The tough-as-nails smartass Johnson is hardly ever seen without his cigar.
239	* Peacock from ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}''. Notable in that Peacock is a ''[[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior 13 year old girl]]''.
240	%%%%* Jinx from ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander''.
241	%%%* In the ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' intro cinematic, an ork Burna Boy is seen with a huge cigar.
242	%%%%** Ork meks in the sequel use a giant screw, but the effect is the same, down to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS_eVbE_kTg#t=19s switch-to-other-side-of-mouth gesture.]]
243	* In ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', Conker's military uniform during the war against [[BearsAreBadNews the Tediz]] includes a cigar that stays permanently in his mouth. The Xbox remake even has him doing this on the front cover.
244	%%%%%* [[BigBad Taiga]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Gigayama]] in ''VideoGame/ArmedPoliceBatrider''.
245	%%%%* Michael Barrick from ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar''
246	* Victor Sullivan from ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}'' is rarely seen without one, and it's old age rather than health concerns that keeps him from doing the same insane stunts as Nathan.
247	%%%%%* In ''VideoGame/KanColle'', one of Teruzuki's Chou-10cm-Hou-chan has a bullet clenched in its teeth in a manner that looks very much like it's chomping a cigar.
248	* In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', the champion Graves is known for chomping his cigar in his splash art, while he's known as a tough, daring, closer-than-normal ranged marksman. All of the sudden, Riot suddenly removed the cigar to not offend some certain group of people. Thus a meme was born: "[X] can happen, but Graves can't have his cigar."
249	** This also happened to Tychus (see above) when he was added to ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'', with similar memetic results. However, in Tychus' case, it's subverted. [[StopPokingMe Click him enough]] and it implies that he still smokes his cigar, and even gets a hilarious quote when said cigar fell off and got inside his Marine suit...
250	%%%%* ''VideoGames/RatchetDeadlocked'' has Shellshock.
251	* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/LuckyAndWild'', whose name is literally "Big Cigar". He's shown smoking a gigantic stogie in his cutscenes and the final boss battle, and his cigar stays on even in the cutscene after you defeat and arrest him.
252	* "Smilin'" Jack from ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' smokes cigars. Considering the act of lighting a fire in [[OurVampiresAreDifferent most Kindred's faces]] causes [[UnstoppableRage/TabletopGames Rötschreck]], this just indicates how badass he is.
253	* Played with in ''VideoGame/FullThrottle'': The quintessential BadassBiker Ben is introduced chomping on a cigar--which he throws away before the intro cutscene is over and is never seen smoking for the rest of the game.
254	* [[HuskyRusskie Antonov]], the [[Fiction500 insanely wealthy]] sub-boss of ''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters The King of Fighters XIV]]'', takes this 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.
255	* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Ann Tamaki's AntiHero FightingSpirit, Carmen, can always be seen with a cigar in her mouth, as a ShownTheirWork reference to [[Theatre/{{Carmen}} the play she comes from]].
256	* Jack Cayman from ''VideoGame/AnarchyReigns'' is a subversion. He used to smoke cigars, and will sometimes pull one out without lighting it, but he's recently quit smoking after [[spoiler:his daughter's death]].
257	* The Devil in ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' casually smokes a cigar while counting the earnings from his personal casino.
258	** Werner Werman also always has a cigar in his mouth.
259	* The spider soldiers in ''Battle Bugs'', possibly invoking SergeantRock.
260	%%%%%%%* [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]] in ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' series' artwork: an eponymous worm is sometimes seen chomping a ''dynamite stick''.
261	* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', RetiredBadass Jackson "Jax" Briggs has acquired a habit of smoking cigars, including having two of them holstered in his outfit, as well as prominently smoking one in his intros and victory screen. In fact, in one of his [[FinishingMove Fatalities]], after crushing the enemy's arms into their torso and splitting their head in half by the mouth, he puts the cherry on top by putting out his cigar using the tongue of the poor dead sap.
262	-->'''Takeda:''' You smoke a lot of cigars.\
263	'''Jax:''' [[BadassBoast Well, I win a lot]].
264	* Captain Price from the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' series is this. He smokes cigars all the time, and even [[spoiler:lights one in satisfaction after killing Makarov, the BigBad of the series]].
265	* Sarge from ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena'' is never without one. The game intro has him gunning down a horde of mooks while smoking a cigar. Heck, even his in-game model has one.
266	* ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016'', being for kids of all ages, follows the NoSmoking rule, but, garage owner Grimroth Razz has tusks, the right one of which is broken into a very cigar-like shape and sticks out at a very cigar-like angle. His Brother Felton's tusks do the same thing in the [[IdenticalTwinIDTag opposite direction]].
267	* The adult BaraGenre game ''Strange Flesh'' has you play as the Bartender, in which the game manual blatantly describes him as a cigar aficionado; he can use his smoke to corrupt enemies, hypnotize unsuspecting men, and his VideoGameLives are even represented as cigars themselves!
268	* In ''VideoGame/NeonWhite'', Mikey, the gruff, no-nonsense, New York-accent-toting DaChief of Heaven Central Authority, is never seen without a cigar.
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271	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
272	* In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'', Inga Karkhuul Khura'in has a large stamp that he puts in his mouth to give off the appearance of smoking a cigar. As Minister of Justice of Khura'in, he uses it primarily to stamp piles of execution orders.
273	* PlayedForLaughs in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'' with [[HardboiledDetective Detective Badd]]: his "cigarette" turns out to actually be a lollipop.
274	[[/folder]]
275
276	[[folder:Web Animation]]
277	* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The villainous crime lord Roman Torchwick loves to smoke cigars, even during armed robberies or mass terrorist attacks.
278	[[/folder]]
279
280	[[folder:Webcomics]]
281	* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'': Bentley Kindle, Kevin's father. A regular criminal, he's proven his toughness and intelligence by surviving clashes with other crooks ''and'' years in jail, and is rarely seen without a cigar in his mouth (the few times when it's absent, he's usually either in the hospital or in prison).
282	* ''Webcomic/MKsTheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'': In this webcomic adaptation, Mr. Hyde smokes cigars.
283	* The Mayor in ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' is generally shown chewing a cigar. She's pretty tough and no-nonsense, which poses a bit of a problem for her given that she's sharing a planet with living force of chaos Sam Starfall. At one point he takes it as a personal challenge to slip her a substitute that explodes harmlessly.
284	* ''Webcomic/{{Avania}}'': Captain Eraclare (...except when she drops it mid-sentence). Major [=MacIntyre=], though his cigar is usually seen in his hand.
285	%%%%%% What is the lampshade? Web Links Are Not Examples
286	%%%* ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' hangs a very nice lampshade on it in [[http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/712 this strip]].
287	%%%%%* The [[TabletopGame/DeltaGreen Beta Red]] manager in ''Webcomic/TheUnspeakableVaultOfDoom''.
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289
290	[[folder:Western Animation]]
291	* Westernanimation/{{Pete}} from the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts. In the one illustrating his page, ''WesternAnimation/MovingDay'', Pete lights his stogie by scratching his match on Donald Duck's beak!
292	%%%%%* [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] with Private Detective Shamus H. Goldcrow from ''WesternAnimation/TheTwistedTalesOfFelixTheCat''. He has a lollipop instead of a cigar on hand, even though his office is clearly filled with cigar smoke.
293	%%%%%* [[WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros Jose Carioca]] in all of his pre-''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' appearances.
294	%%%%%* Jim Crow the leader crow from ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}''.
295	* Rock Bottom from [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatJoeOriolo Joe Oriolo]] ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' has a cigar in his mouth.
296	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes:
297	** Quite a few of the Gas House Gorillas (particularly the pitcher) in the Looney Tunes cartoon "WesternAnimation/BaseballBugs".
298	** In "WesternAnimation/RacketeerRabbit", gangster and Creator/EdwardGRobinson [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed look-a-like]] Rocky always has a cigar in his mouth, even while he's sleeping.
299	* Krusty the Clown from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', likely to show-off his wealth and upscale and famous lifestyle. Also lampshaded in "The Mansion Family". When the family is housesitting for Mr. Burns, Marge snatches a cigar from Bart, saying how they're only for legendary comedians and known cigar lovers such as [[Creator/BillCosby Bill "Crosby"]] and [[Creator/DavidLetterman David "Letterson"]].
300	* Bender from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. Unlike the beer, [[EatingMachine that fuels him]], the cigars are only to make him look cool.
301	* In the Australian satire ''Go to Hell!!'', [[AncientAstronauts G.D.]] is shown with a cigar even when he's pulling a GodGuise on the primitives of Earth, probably to show how he's really a CorruptCorporateExecutive.
302	%%%%%* Mr. Boss from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''. In fact, it's almost impossible for him to lose it, not even in a fight scene where he falls down a flight of stairs, an example of RuleOfFunny.
303	%%%%* Rock Bottom from the ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' TV series.
304	%%%%* Pitts the bulldog in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' episode "Dog Day [=AfterToon=]."
305	%%%%%* Mr. Toad (a non-anthropomorphic toad) from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' chews on [[FrothyMugsOfWater an old hot dog in a similar manner to a cigar.]]
306	%%%%* Mr. Smitty from ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife''.
307	%%%%* Detective Q.T. Hush has a barely capable partner in Quincy, who resembles a cigar-smoking shadow in coat and hat.
308	%%%%* Technical Fairy First Class from the ''WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu'' cartoons.
309	%%%%%%* Cyril Sneer from ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons''.
310	%%%%* "Wholly Smoke" sees Porky, on his way to church, encountering a tough kid who's never without a stogie. Porky is pressured into becoming one himself but ends up failing miserably.
311	* On the first season of ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'', Spacely's business rival Cogswell often has a cigar.
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313
314	[[folder:Real Life]]
315	* Anything featuring UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill. That famous [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Churchill_picture.jpg scowly photo?]] The photographer took away his cigar.
316	** Another famous photo has [[http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/churchill-and-tommy-gun/ Churchill inspecting a Thompson Submachine Gun,]] complete with a drum magazine, while wearing a pinstripe suit, bowler hat, and smoking his cigar. The Germans attempted to use the photo to drum up an image of him as a [[TheMafia mafioso]] but gave up when they realized it wasn't doing anything to hinder his MemeticBadass status.
317	* Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger in RealLife. Note that Arnold is so devoted to his cigars that when he was Governor of California, it being illegal to smoke inside office buildings, he had a tent with his desk placed on the grounds outside the Governor's Mansion so he could smoke while conducting business.
318	* Creator/GeorgeBurns never did a routine without one. Tough? Depended on your point of view and the type of movie he was in, but the guy was a LivingLegend of his time.
319	* Creator/SamuelFuller picked up a cigar habit to appear older some time into when he was a crime reporter (the job of which he started at the age of 17) and maintained the image throughout his life.
320	* Radio/RushLimbaugh. Aggressive? Hell yes. Tough? Well, that depends on where on the political spectrum you fall. In a real-life case of SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome, though, Limbaugh's love of cigars resulted in him developing the cancer that would kill him in 2021.
321	%%%%%* [[Series/LaterWithJoolsHolland Jools Holland]] regularly played with a cigar in his mouth while a member of Music/{{Squeeze\|Band}}.
322	* British TV executive Lew Grade. A producer working for him once allegedly complained that his salary was less than Grade's cigar budget. Grade replied that the producer didn't give him as much satisfaction as his cigars. Creator/RogerMoore (himself an example of this trope and the only ''Film/JamesBond'' incarnation that did so) once quipped that you should never wear a brown suit around Grade, as he might try to smoke you.
323	* Notorious outlaw Bonnie Parker was a rare female example. Newspapers called her a "cigar-smoking gun moll", and she was often photographed with one.
324	** [[AvertedTrope Despite which]], she and Clyde once released a police chief they'd kidnapped (unusual since they [[CopKiller hated cops]]), with instructions to go tell the world she did not smoke cigars.
325	* UsefulNotes/FidelCastro, who certainly liked to be seen as a tough military leader. One of the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}}'s assassination attempts against him involved sneaking in an [[ExplosiveCigar exploding cigar]]. He actually stopped smoking them on the advice of his doctors in 1985 but the image remained and any portrayal of him in media will still have him smoking them.
326	* UsefulNotes/CheGuevara is quoted as saying, "A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier." Unfortunately for him, he also had terrible asthma, which became a liability during his disastrous Bolivian campaign.
327	* UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy. [[https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/great-moments-kennedy-cuba-and-cigars-7840 Kennedy sent his Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger, to acquire 1,200 Cuban-made H. Upmann cigars for himself]], prior to signing off on the US embargo against Cuba-- which made it illegal for US citizens to purchase Cuban cigars.
328	** As for being a tough leader, this gets a bit tricky. On one hand, it was under Kennedy's administration that the disastrous Bay of Pigs Invasion took place. On the other hand, he also had to deal with the Cuban Missile Crisis, and his generals' push for an airstrike on Cuban territory - which would have quite possibly plunged the world into nuclear war. It takes nerves of steel to sit through that tension with a cool enough head to not pull the trigger.
329	* Creator/CliveBarker's cigars got bigger as he got more rich and famous.
330	* Usefulnotes/SigmundFreud, [[https://www.freud.org.uk/2020/04/22/freud-and-his-cigars/ enough for a whole article.]] However, [[BeamMeUpScotty there is no evidence he responded to]] [[FreudWasRight the phallic comparison]] with "Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar" .
331	* [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho Marx]]. Not physically tough, but woe betide anyone who dared spar with him verbally.
332	* Fidel V. Ramos, a Filipino general and later the President of the Philippines. While he no longer smokes, he remains known by the nickname "Tabako," and occasionally chomps on a cigar for photo ops.
333	* General Israel 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]]
334	* General UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant usually smoked a clay pipe until newspapermen caught him smoking a victory cigar handed to him by another officer after his 1862 capture of Fort Donelson, and he was subsequently flooded with boxes of them as presents for the rest of his life. He later died of throat cancer-- probably brought about by his cigar habit.
335	* King [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor Edward VII of the United Kingdom]] smoked twelve cigars a day, plus a full pack's worth (20) of cigarettes. Such was his love of cigars that he once lit up from a candle during a church service. The habit got him in the end; he died of COPD.
336	** His grandson George VI also smoked like a chimney and died from the heart attack brought in by the lung cancer being only 56.
337	* General Jean Victor Moreau, one of Napoleon's most serious Republican opponents, was not particularly aggressive, either as a man or as a commander, but he did seem to smoke cigars in all circumstances. Case in point: during the battle of Novi, he had one horse killed under him; as General Thiébault puts it, "he kept smoking as his soldiers helped him back on his feet, without a single disruption in the smoke puffs’ pattern". Fourteen years later, at Dresden, where a cannonball shattered both his legs and he had to be amputated, he smoked a cigar during the operation, which he bore without so much as a wince.
338	* Quite unexpectedly, UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat is another female example who smokes cigars and in fact, is often credited with introducing cigar smoking to Russia. 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.
339	* Creator/RonWhite smokes cigars while he's performing on stage, occasionally pausing performances to relight his cigar if it goes out. He previously smoked cigarettes on stage but switched because cigars don't affect his respiration as much.
340	* In his later years, Creator/JimmySavile was hardly ever seen without a cigar in his mouth, be it on his shows, during interviews at home, or out in public. He claimed to have started smoking cigars at the age of seven, saying "My dad gave me a drag on one at Christmas, thinking [[RadishCure it would put me off them forever]], but it had the opposite effect."
341	* Comic book innovator Creator/JackKirby was a frequent cigar smoker. This is probably why so many of his characters also were, most famously Ben Grimm.
342	* Creator/JohnLarroquette, as seen in many of his roles, particularly ''Series/NightCourt''.
343	* Creator/SethMacFarlane is a well-known cigar aficionado (even having a picture of himself blowing smoke from one on his very TV Tropes page!)
344	* Creator/DeathRowRecords executive Suge Knight is known for his love of cigars. He takes the "aggressive" stereotype of cigar smokers further than most and is notorious for his violent tendencies.
345	* UsefulNotes/AlCapone was rarely seen without a cigar in his hand or mouth. His infamy may have helped to codify the stereotype of the tough, cigar-loving mobster.
346	* Notorious SerialKiller John Wayne Gacy was known for smoking cigars, even on death row.
347	* [[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/23/man-rescues-puppy-from-alligator-without-dropping-cigar Man fights alligator to save his puppy, all without dropping his cigar.]]
348	* Former president UsefulNotes/BillClinton. Early into his presidency, some of his best known hobbies or loves were for cigars, [[BigEater food]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} playing the sax.]]
349	* Music/KidRock. In a somewhat infamous moment (depending on how you view it), he and [[Music/MotleyCrue Tommy Lee]] got into a fistfight at the 2007 MTV [=VMAs=] where Kid not only won the fight, but did so without even dropping the cigar from his mouth.
350	* 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 Auerbach to tell his Celtics he'd kill them if they didn't win this game (which they did).
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