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The Deadpan Snarker comes in many forms; it could be the non-action guy, the sidekick, the Weasel Mascot, and even the cat. This trope deals with snark coming from a little girl.

The humor here is that we don't usually think of an adorable little kid as being sarcastic, and this character type is both smart and perceptive, capable of pointing out exactly what other characters keep concealed — often their feelings for one another.

Expect her to be Wise Beyond Her Years and a Mouthy Kid. Compare The Snark Knight.


Examples:

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    Anime & Manga 
  • Bleach has Karin Kurosaki, our hero's younger sister. She's the sanest person in the family aside from her brother, and her dad's antics really give her a lot to snark about.
  • Case Closed: Ai Haibara, mainly towards Conan. This is largely due to her harsh past and the fact that, like Conan, she's actually a teenager who was turned into a child.
  • Castle Town Dandelion: When Shiori is not the cute baby of the siblings, she tends to speak dryly over the general wackiness of her older siblings.
  • Chobits has Kotoko, who just happens to be a super intelligent robot roughly the size of a small housecat.
  • Code Geass: C.C.'s a pretty good fit, not so much in the short or undeveloped part, but she does contrast child-like mannerisms (like playing with a stuffed animal) with being so snarky that Lelouch initially thinks of her as downright inhuman.
  • Corpse Princess: Saki has a habit of speaking aloud her contracted monk's inner thoughts.
  • Chrome Shelled Regios: Felli Loss fits this rather well. She decides to call the main character "Fon-fon". When he objects, she runs through several variations of nicknames ("Lay-kun, Lay-chan, Lay-cchi, Senko no Lay...") before he finally just accepts Fon-fon.
  • Di Gi Charat: Petit Charat, aka Puchiko, is the tiniest and youngest among the cast. In contrast with the loud and rowdy Dejiko, she doesn't talk much, but whenever she does she's pretty sharp-tongued.
  • Dragon Ball GT has Pan. It helps that Trunks is much more easily scared in this continuity, due to not having gone through the hardships Future Trunks did.
  • A Rare Male Example is Naota from FLCL. The light novel explicitly mentions that his body hasn't kept up with his mental maturity. In the anime, his pajamas don't even fit a 12-year-old girl. He overuses 'ore' to compensate.
  • Hanaukyō Maid Team. The little girl maid Grace likes to make sarcastic and snarky comments to her master Taro and the other maids.
  • High School D×D: Koneko Tojou, the smallest girl among the main cast, always speaks in a dry tone and has a witty remark. Also combines it with Cats Are Snarkers, since she's actually a Nekomata.
  • Saki Amano from Kanamemo, who, despite being in elementary school, knows when the employees at her office act out of line and isn't afraid to tell them so.
  • Akira from Lucky Star, once her Kawaiiko exterior cracks, though she quickly does away with the "Deadpan" part and starts with the shouting and physical abuse.
  • The eternal child Vita of Lyrical Nanoha, who takes the role of the prickly officer to the new recruits after she joins the Space-Time Administration Bureau.
  • Loco in MÄR. Her aloof, gloomy attitude is sort of justified because she's actually much older than she appears, a curse induced by her choice weapon keeps her adult self looking like a very coldhearted 10-year-old.
  • Hoshino Ruri of Martian Successor Nadesico, whose catchphrase is "Baka bakka" ("I'm Surrounded by Idiots"). So much so that this trope used to be named after her.
  • Chiaki from Minami-ke is the youngest of the Minami sisters, but definitely the snarkiest. It helps that her immediate older sister Kana is a bit of an idiot.
  • Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Chisame takes this role when she's turned into a 10 year old thanks to some liberal use of age changing pills. Before her abuse of age pills, she didn't fit the body type requirement.
  • Ichigo Morino in Please Teacher!, who is the shortest girl in her class and could easily be mistaken for a grade schooler. For instance, her response to Kei accidentally seeing up her skirt:
    Ichigo Morino: What a blatant way to peep. Please don't.
  • Pokémon the Series: Black & White: Iris has a habit of being snarky towards Ash, calling him a kid every time he makes a dumb mistake, despite the fact she is also a kid about his age.
  • Kana from Soul Eater Not! is a Fortune Teller who snarks with Tarot cards.
  • Played with in The Twelve Kingdoms where the local Little Miss Snarker is Shushou, a child queen who is actually Really 700 Years Old, since she became sovereign and stopped aging when she was 12.
  • Momoka from UFO Baby is a three-year-old little girl whose first scene in the series has her berating the heroine, Miyu, for aiding global warming by not recycling. From the back of a tricycle. Her snarkiness only increases as the series goes on.
  • Miura from Yotsuba&! has hints of the trope, though she's more likely to use her insights to manipulate others, rather than just snark.
  • Zombie Land Saga: Lily Hoshikawa, normally a Cheerful Child, can be quite dry. usually when somebody is being outrageous or more enthusiastic then she is.
    Lily: (during reheasal) The steps for this part are so tricky.
    Saki: Then try dancing better.
    Lily: Wow, thanks for the tip.

    Comic Books 

    Comic Strips 
  • Mafalda is a prime example. Most of the comic strips run on her snarkiness about politics and ironies of the humanity.
  • Right from her very first appearance, Lucy van Pelt in Peanuts may well be considered the queen of Little Misses Snarkers. Of course, sarcasm was far from the only thing that made her what she was.

    Fan Works 
  • The fanfic, Bridge to Terabithia 2: The Last Time which is set five years after the original story, turns 12-year-old Maybelle into one of these. Its hilarious everytime she opens her mouth.
    Maybelle: (responding to 7-year-old Joyce's enquiry on whether their only brother, Jess, is leaving to further his studies in California) California's like 2000 miles from here (Lark Creek, Virginia). Jess can easily get there in like 30 minutes if he stays here. Yes, he's definitely not leaving town, Joyce.
  • Doctor Whooves – The Series has several Mouthy Kid characters, and all of them fillies, but the mouthiest of all is filly Zecora in "Along Came a Spider". Scootaloo in "A Hearth's Warming Tale" also snarks a bit, but more defensively.
    Filly Zecora: ...Do something worth respect and maybe I will start showing it.
  • In Lamarckian, Kanna's sassy nature actually works against her at U.A.: when she's annoyed at Present Mic for trying to teach her English when she can already speak it fluently and at Midnight for being a Shameless Fanservice Girl, she disparages and insults them in front of the whole class, claiming she can teach English better than Mic and Slut-Shaming Midnight. This gets her chewed out by Principal Nedzu, Aizawa, and Midnight: while the academy welcomes their students to speak freely, disrespecting her teachers in public instead of approaching them privately with her concerns crosses the line into unacceptability.
  • Lana becomes one in The Loud House fanfiction A Load of Bulk as a result of drinking a strength potion that makes her mean as a side effect. She says things like "Get used to it, scrawny!" to Lynn, for instance.
  • In Ma Fille, when Claire reaches her tween years, she becomes very snarky and enjoys provoking others more.
  • Pokémon's Send Your Original Characters fanfic, Pokemon Take Two, gives us Raion, a snarky ten-year-old. She's also our narrator.
    Ry: He's my new friend!
    Raion: Being the same gender as someone doesn't make you friends.
  • Once she gets her voice, Su in This Bites!, Conis's cloud-fox proves to be this, in addition to having a particularly rough vocabulary. Much to Conis's chagrin.
  • The Story of Apollo, Daphne and Luca: An Italian Tragedy: For such a young girl, Bianca tends to be quite serious, sharp-tongued an dry-witted.
  • ToyHammer's shrunk-down, Fun Size-ified Gender Flipped God Emperor of Mankind is a deadpan little girl.
    Michael: Can we all behave like adults here?
    Emma: No, I'm still ten years old, remember?

    Films — Animation 
  • Peter Pan: Wendy Darling's daughter Jane in the sequel Return to Neverland, contrasting with Wendy's Team Mom. She got Peter so good at one point, he actually fell out of the air.
    Jane: Or... maybe you're full of hot air.
  • In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, despite Snow White's motherly and gentle nature, not having a mean bone in her body, she does possess a sense of sassiness and sarcasm, such as when she recognises Grumpy and announces it mockingly, "Oooh, you must be Grumpy" in a deep voice. Not buying the dwarfs' bluffs upon being asked whether they washed their hands for dinner, she sarcastically responds "Oh, recently". And after Grumpy bumps into a wall, Snow snarkily asks him, "Did you hurt yourself?"
    • A deleted scene of the dwarfs' bedroom argument scene has Snow intervene during a fight that ensues, later blackmailing the dwarfs into letting her stay much to Grumpy's chagrin.
  • Vanellope von Schweetz from Wreck-It Ralph. Among other things, she gets endless humor out of how the name Hero's Duty (the game where Ralph got his medal), sounds a lot like "Hero's Doodie."

    Films — Live-Action 
  • Drew Barrymore's character in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is Gertie, Elliott's mischievous five-years-old sister. She makes several snarky remarks throughout the film that nobody remarks upon.
    Elliot: Because, uh, grown ups can't see him. Only little kids can see him.
    Gertie: Give me a break!
  • Penny Pingleton in the movie musical Hairspray develops tendencies toward this as part of her Character Development. Notably in this exchange with her black boyfriend's mother:
    Motormouth Maybelle: Oh, so this is love? Well, love is a gift, not a lot of people remember that. So you'd better brace yourself for a whole lotta ugly comin' at you from a never-endin' parade of stupid.
    Penny: So you met my mom.
  • Dani from Hocus Pocus. To begin with, the eight-year-old little sister of Max, the protagonist, comments on Max's crush on Allison and lack of sex-life in general. After Max lights the black-flame candle and all manner of visuals and sound effects occur:
    Max: What happened?
    Dani: A virgin (adjusts her witch's hat) lit the candle.
  • 10-year-old Devon from Lawn Dogs. Snark is by far the most wholesome of her methods for dealing with the artificial, stuck-up, pretentious world she inhabits.
  • Ironically, Shirley Temple becomes a bit of a Little Miss Snarker in the film Little Miss Marker, after hanging around the gangsters who've unofficially taken her in, after she was left with them by her suicidal father.
  • The Meg: Suyin's daughter Meiying provides a few moments of levity with her constant wisecracks. For instance, when first meeting Taylor, she starts off by calling him "crazy guy", and when asked where her Disappeared Dad is, she replies that he's "in Taipei with a pilates instructor".
  • Rachel plays this role a few times in War of the Worlds (2005), especially when she informs her father that using the bathroom "where he can see her" counts as "looking", and after he discovers that she's allergic to peanut butter:
    Ray: Yeah? Since when?
    Rachel: Birth.

    Literature 
  • While her childish curiosity or perceived psychological instability are the character traits usually played up in adaptations, Alice could be surprisingly sarcastic and was never one to suffer fools gladly.
  • Eight-year-old Sophie from The BFG; sometimes in her dialogue with him, and occasionally in the narrative.
    (Soon after the BFG has told her she will have to stay with him for the rest of her life)
    Sophie: I won't tell a soul, I swear it. How could I, anyway? I am stuck here for the rest of my life.
  • The littlest Whistlers don't show this, but twelve-year-old Blush has a very sardonic remark about seventeen-year-old Corelle in A Brother's Price.
  • Skeeter Traps from Chronicles of Magic is a ten year-old girl whose sarcasm is rivaled only by her love of violence.
  • Ishmael's younger sister Prudence in Don't Call Me Ishmael!. She is very intelligent ("nearly a genius") and often comments on the main characters' crazy antics, particularly Razza's. After Razza spectacularly botches a debate out of spite she sweetly comments that it was hard to tell which side he was arguing for.
  • In Dragon Bones, Ciarra manages to come a across as this despite being mute. When asked about her brother by another woman, she rolls her eyes in a way that the other woman interprets as snarky remark about him - correctly, according to Ward, who is the one they're "talking" about.
  • Ivy aka The Archive from The Dresden Files makes an attempt to snark on behalf of the incapacitated protagonist. He notes that she's not very good at it yet, but he gets choked up nonetheless.
  • Harry Potter.
    • Ginny Weasley, probably not surprisingly, with her six older brothers.
      Ginny: I wouldn't go in the kitchen just now, there's a lot of Phlegmnote  around.
      Harry: I'll be careful not to slip in it.
    • Hermione gets her moments: with her intelligence, it is easy for her to think of snarks.
      Ron: (on trying to Apparate) I think I felt a tingling in my feet.
      Hermione: I expect your shoes are too small, Won-Won.note 
  • The Master Key: Rob's little sister, who openly insults his claim to have a flying machine, in front of their parents, and gets away with it. In 1901!
  • Jenny Wren in Dickens' Our Mutual Friend. She has a good reason for being so jaded, since her father's irresponsibility and severe alcoholism leave her, at the age of about thirteen, to be the responsible adult of the household.
  • Pippi Longstocking combines snarkiness with being a Genki Girl and Cloudcuckoolander. Her snarky moments are most frequent in the original books, but she has her moments in most of the adaptations as well.
  • Rachel from the Sword of Truth series. Has no problem calling out Chase when he complains about the poultice he's forced to apply by telling him that if he'd just listened to her in the first place, he probably wouldn't have been hurt by the Eldritch Abomination he was surprised by and he wouldn't have to take the burning medicine.

    Live-Action TV 
  • On The Addams Family, Wednesday Addams, usually in Black Comedy way, although adaptations tend to vary as to how snarky and how dark her humor is.
  • Boy Meets World: Cory's little sister Morgan was just The Cutie in season 1, when played by Lily Nicksay. But when she returns in season 3, played by Lindsay Ridgeway, she becomes a sarcastic character who often makes fun of her brothers, especially Cory.
  • Doctor Who: Young Amelia Pond has her moments, both when she meets the Doctor as a child, and when we see flashbacks of her and Rory and Mels growing up.
  • Megan on Drake & Josh is as snarky as she is evil.
  • The little girl on Friends (played by Dakota Fanning) that lived in the house that Monica & Chandler were going to buy. She has an attitude about her parents moving out, and she snarks at thirty-something Joey who is more child-like and way less mature than her.
  • Full House:
    • Stephanie Tanner is the snarkiest one in the family. She and Kimmy are frequently making off-handed jabs toward one another throughout most of the series.
    • Baby Michelle and her sassy one-liners, especially when she grew up in later seasons.
  • Game of Thrones:
    • Arya Stark often has witty and snarky one-liners.
    • Lyanna Mormont the head of House Mormont at only ten years old and full of sass. For example, when Sansa and Jon implore her to join the Stark cause to overthrow the Boltons, she quips "Lady Sansa is a Bolton...or is she a Lannister?", referring to Sansa's numerous marriages.
  • House of the Dragon: Teen Rhaenyra has quite some snark in store.
    Rhaenyra: And how do you serve the realm, Lady Redwyne? By eating cake?
  • Zuri Ross from Jessie. She's known for her sassy and sometimes sarcastic comments, made especially funny by the fact that she's only a 7-year-old girl.
    Mrs. Chesterfield: (upon seeing Mr. Kipling) You people have a vicious, cold-blooded reptile living in this building?
    Zuri: Why not? You live here.
    Jessie: Zuri, that's not nice.
    Zuri: Hey, we were all thinking it.
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Poppy Proudfellow is a teenage Harfoot girl whose only ways to communicate with others are sarcasm and roast.
  • mixed•ish: Santamonica fits this entirely. Not only is she the youngest child, but almost everything out of her mouth is a snarky comment.
  • Modern Family: In episode "Fulgencio", Cameron and Mitchell wonder if Lilly is becoming sarcastic as a result of overhearing their snide remarks to each other. At the end it turns out she's picking it up from Claire, who drives her to dance classes.
    • Alex must have also picked it up from Claire.
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi: Even at ten years old, Princess Leia is full of snarky lines.
    Obi-Wan: If anyone asks, we're farmers from Tawl and you're my daughter.
    Leia: (under her breath) Granddaughter, maybe.
    Obi-Wan: What?
    Leia: (smiling innocently) Nothing!
  • Odd Squad:
    • Agent Olive has a habit of handing out snark on a consistent basis, especially where ever-popular boy band Soundcheck is concerned.
      Danny T: Aight, here's the 411. The rest of Soundcheck is missing!
      Otto: What?!
      Olive: Ohh, that's too bad.
    • Oprah/Ms. O also delves into being snarky in Season 2.
      Oprah: We're getting reports of "Happy Birthday" being sung at the park by large, confused groups of people.
      Olympia: What? But that doesn't make any sense.
      Oprah: That's why it's called oddness, Olympia. And it's your job to solve it. Please, and thank you.
    • Due to her Brutal Honesty, Orla has a tendency to snark a lot. In "Odd in 60 Seconds", her reaction to Wheelie Dan attempting to skate through marbles littering the floor is to dryly remark that he looks ridiculous.
  • Stargate Atlantis episode "Harmony", the heroine fulfills this trope because she is a Royal Brat.
  • Stranger Things: Max Mayfield and Erica Sinclair are both among the series' snarkiest characters. Max can be either withering or playful with her snark, whereas Erica more typically goes for the former type.

    Puppet Shows 
  • Lamb Chop combines a classic ventriloquist dummy's snark with the personality of an adorable feisty little girl. Her "brother" Charlie Horse is a male example.

    Radio 

    Theatre 
  • Little Red in Into the Woods, although whether she's a little girl or a teenager depends on the production.
    Little Red: Ahahaha, you can talk to birds?!
  • Little Mary in The Women has a fine time mocking the deceitful social conventions ladies like her mother are bound by.

    Video Games 
  • EXTRAPOWER: Attack of Darkforce: Ri=ko is the resident snarker and never misses an opportunity to give a not-so-quiet aside. It doesn't work as well when done at Fei's expense, who's all too willing to give her a smack on the head in reply.
  • Etna from Disgaea. Despite being Really 700 Years Old, she appears and acts much younger than she is, as with most demons and angels. In her case, she has the look and personality of a fourteen-year old, and a lot of snarkiness to match, helped by the fact that her upbringing has made her Wise Beyond Her Years.
  • Shantotto is this in Dissidia Final Fantasy. Technically she isn't a little girl, she's 35, but as a Tarutaru she's diminutive. And almost all of her battle quotes are insults, specially her greetings to the other characters:
    Shantotto: (to Exdeath) Inside your head is the Void!
    Shantotto: (to Cloud) Your hair is a distraction!
    Shantotto: (to Kuja) Narcissists are so last Windsday!
  • Nah from Fire Emblem: Awakening. She's Older Than She Looks, but appears as a little girl due to being a Manakete, and is very snarky thanks to her mother's behavior and the fact that she comes from a Bad Future. Especially prominent in her supports with Cynthia:
    Cynthia: So are you ready to transform for me yet or what?
    Nah: Let me check... Nope. Still not going to do it.
  • Viridi from Kid Icarus: Uprising. Sure, she's Really 700 Years Old due to being a goddess, but she has the mind and body of a little girl, and tons of quips at the ready.
  • The Legend of Zelda:
  • Super Mario Bros.: Kersti from Paper Mario: Sticker Star is like this, as is Starlow from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, especially when she returns in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team. Neither character's ages are known, but they look young, and are diminutive. Both of them use snark to put up with some of the weird crap they see. Starlow in particular is snarky towards Luigi in Dream Team, though she mellows out slightly as the game goes.
  • The Tales Series is rather fond of this trope in several of its entries:
    • Anise from Tales of the Abyss. She's usually money grubby yet upbeat, but when she feels a need to be a snarker (prime examples appear in the direction of Luke just after the Wham Episode ), she does it in spades, being cruel every step of the way.
    • Presea fills this role in Tales of Symphonia as well, when the situation requires it. Initially, she is just an Emotionless Girl , but after she gets better, she has a very distinct habit of dropping into a completely emotionless tone just to snark at whatever situation is calling for it.
    • Tales of Zestiria brings us Edna, the Earth Seraph (spirits, basically) who, while being Really 700 Years Old , is by appearance alone the youngest member of the party... yet she's capable of guilt tripping Sorey within mere scenes of joining, briefly throws Alisha into an infinite loop, and other such things that give even the series king of snark Jade Curtiss a run for his money in snarky prowess.
  • Clementine in The Walking Dead has her moments in Season 1. Season 2, however, has her being a good bit more witty, probably as a result of her experiences.
  • The Mists of Pandaria expansion to World of Warcraft brings us Li Li, the young and very snarky companion to her uncle Chen Stormstout.

    Visual Novels 
  • Shiori Momono in 11eyes, a returnee from Italy who spends most of her time reading. The other part of her time is spent berating Tadashi. Everyone berates Tadashi, but she does it in a manner that hits him where it hurts.
  • Rika from Higurashi: When They Cry fits the trope since she's actually centuries old if you count the years she was stuck in the time loop. She also fits into the Oracular Urchin category.

    Web Animation 
  • Ripley from Chadam may be a cute little 8-year old, but she can also be rather sarcastic, especially when around Chadam.
    Chadam: (using a paper-bag puppet) Hey, Manda, puppet mom called and said you can't hang out with babies anymore.
    Ripley: (speaking as her puppet, Amanda) Well, then I can't hang out with you!
  • DSBT InsaniT: Duck is a male example. He is by far the most sarcastic of the four "kids". For example:
    Duck: Snake, why couldn't you have gotten a hamster or a goldfish or something that CAN'T talk from that pet store instead of HIM? [Perry]

    Web Comics 
  • Homestuck has Rose Lalonde, whose every word is dripping with sarcasm, despite being just 13 years old. Her trollish counterpart, Kanaya Maryam, who is the same age, also becomes a massive snarker after getting to know her... despite being Sarcasm-Blind initially.
  • Indx from L's Empire snarks a lot. Enough that her brother sent her a message from the future, telling her to cut down on it. It's probably a side effect of spending 1500 years in solitary.
  • Tycho's little niece Anne from Penny Arcade is a snarker.
    Galahad: You're breaking up with me?
    Anne: I just have a lot going on right now. With school, and, you know, zombies.

    Web Videos 
  • Neuro-sama: Neuro is an A.I. Virtual Youtuber who's personality is designed around this, infamous for her gaslighting tendencies and bullying her own creator Vedel.
  • Resident Evil Abridged: At 18 years old, Rebecca is the youngest S.T.A.R.S. member and their only field medic. RE Abridged portrays her as being meek and soft-spoken, but she's got razor wit and an equally sharp tongue. Best seen during her interactions with Chris, which quickly leads to Snark-to-Snark Combat.
    Chris: But won't blowing the place to smithereens release the T-Virus into the air?
    Rebecca: (bluntly) Okay, between the two of us, who has the medical degree?
    Chris: That doesn't automatically make you an expert in toxicology!
  • In Sword Art Online Abridged, this is what makes Kirito and Asuna start to view Yui as more than a pawn in their dysfunctional relationship. They only adopt her in hopes of spooking the other into breaking off their marriage, but they're both deeply impressed when Yui schools Yulier on the proper use of irony by pointing out that her boyfriend/guild leader falling into an obvious trap is less "ironic" and more "completely expected," and then suggests that the true irony of the situation is that his name is Thinker, "yet he appears to be something of a dullard."
    Yulier: How dare you defile the good name of Thinker! He is the greatest, most intelligent man I have ever known!
    Yui: Statistically speaking, that says more about you than it does about him.

    Western Animation 
  • 101 Dalmatians: The Series: Ivy De Vil.
  • The Amazing World of Gumball: Anais, being wise beyond her years, naturally has a pretty dry sense of humor.
  • Animaniacs: Dot Warner is both a Deliberately Cute Child and almost as snarky as her big brother Yakko. The fact that she's really 65 years old enhances her wit. The reboot acknowledges her status as the snarkiest of the Warners by changing the line in the opening lyrics from "Dot is cute" to "Dot has wit."
  • Atomic Puppet gives us Joey's sassy, clever best friend Pauline.
    AP: Let us handle this!
    (Joey and AP move off-screen and are almost immediately blasted back in by their enemy)
    Pauline: Way to 'handle it', Puppet.
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender: Sokka was originally the team's resident Deadpan Snarker, but twelve-year-old Toph took over as soon as she was introduced, snarking away in almost every episode. The fact that her friends keep forgetting she's blind helps a bunch. Fourteen-year-old Katara also has her moments, thanks to her brother's antics.
  • Ben 10: Gwen Tennyson in the original series snarks about all the failures and hangups of her cousin Ben, and also doesn't spare her grandfather. Especially since the latter's cooking skills are a welcome target.
  • Louise Belcher from Bob's Burgers is the youngest of the Belcher children, but also The Gadfly and prone to sarcasm and wise-cracks.
    Peter: Your dad rules!
    Louise: Hey! I don't appreciate your lack of sarcasm.
  • Blinky Bill: Marcia (Marsupial) Mouse absolutely counts; she's the snarkiest character in a show that's already set in a World of Snark.
  • "Bubble Guppies": For a preschool show, Deema can get quite sassy.
  • Darkwing Duck: Gosalyn. It helps that she's a tomboy, and that the titular hero is a total show-off with a massive ego.
  • Doug: Beebe Bluff is an 11/12-year-old snarker of the Rich Bitch variety.
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Mandy.
    Mandy: Power tools in the dark? Darwin should be paying you two goons royalties.
  • Grojband's Laney Penn certainly qualifies, usually having a sarcastic remark ready for her Cloud Cuckoolander bandmates' antics.
  • Hey Arnold!: Helga, a nine-year-old girl with the dry wit of someone thrice her age.
  • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Yumi, a teenage girl who isn't above snarking about everything.
  • Invader Zim: Gaz, Dib's cynical, humorlessly sarcastic younger sister.
  • Jackie Chan Adventures: There are a lot of Deadpan Snarkers, with one of the most frequent perpetrators being Jade Chan, the Street Smart preteen master user of loopholes.
    Jade: [after Jackie accidentally causes their transport (a giant glider plane) to fly away] See? This is why we can't buy you anything nice.
  • Kaeloo: Season 5 introduces Stumpy's little sister Cramoisie, who is stated to be under 6 years old and replies to everything with either an insult or a snide remark.
  • The Legend of Korra: Jinora has shown shades of this trope. Case in point: Tenzin demands that his children promise that they won't be as rebellious or annoying as Korra when they become teens. Jinora calmly looks over her book, point-blank says "I will make no such promises," and then goes back to reading.
  • Jimmy Two-Shoes: Heloise most certainly qualifies.
    Jimmy: Woah! You read my mind like a book!
    Heloise: A quick read, at best.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Scootaloo. This is purely out of cynicism rather than Only Sane Man status, though; of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, she's easily the least level-headed.
  • The Powerpuff Girls: Buttercup has some funny snarky oneliners and sass along with it. For a kindergartner she's pretty snarky.
  • Mindy from Ready Jet Go! is four (later five) years old and delivers snarky one-liners on the regular. Example:
    Sean: Do you know why that happened?
    Mindy: Because you can't catch?
  • Recess: Spinelli is the snarkiest out of the group, and she's a nine year old girl.
  • Rugrats: Kimi Finster would eventually become Snarker in All Grown Up!, contradictory to her lovable self in the original series (with the exception of the newspaper comic strips), more less towards her brother, Chuckie Finster (and sometimes the other "Rats") on separate occasions.
  • Daphne Blake was quite a bit more sarcastic and deadpan when she was younger.
  • The Simpsons: Lisa Simpson. Her snark is her defence mechanism amidst her dysfunctional family. She's the smart one and educated one among the uncultured and the others are boorish or stupid (though her mother alternates between being like the others or a sophisticated, artistic woman).
  • Gwen Stacy on Marvel's Spider-Man is no-nonsense yet awkward when she's less composed. She even snarked at the Hulk in the Halloween episode.
  • Ming-Ming from Wonder Pets! has been known to dip into this from time to time. "Save the Honey Bears" and "Here's Ollie" are two notable examples.
  • Work It Out Wombats!: Louisa, a four-year-old girl, will gladly make her opinions known by any means necessary. Her catchphrase is "Did you not know?" which demonstrates how she thinks she knows it all and wants everyone to know too.

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