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Little Miss Snarker

Calvin: War is a manly art!
Susie: I suppose anything so idiotic would have to be. Can I play in your game or not?

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. Compare The Snark Knight.


Examples:

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    Anime and Manga 
  • Iris from Pokémon.
  • Kiri Koshiba from Beauty Pop.
  • Hoshino Ruri of Martian Successor Nadesico, whose Catch Phrase is "Baka bakka" ("I'm surrounded by idiots"). So much so that this trope used to be named after her.
  • Yurikasa Chika from Asagiri No Miko.
  • Morino Ichigo from Please Teacher! and Onegai Twins (much more so in Onegai Twins). She's actually quite a bit older than she appears, though.
  • Evangeline and to an extent, Yue Ayase from Mahou Sensei Negima!. Later, Chisame takes this role, thanks to some liberal use of age changing pills so she's a bespectacled (or not) 10 year old. Before her abuse of age pills she didn't fit the body type requirement.
  • Kisaka Rui in Jinki Extend.
  • Imai Hotaru in Gakuen Alice.
  • Karin Kurosaki from Bleach, despite being older than Yuzu (but she's still way younger than Ichigo).
    • Rukia could count, being petite and shorter than nearly everyone (except for the kids).
  • Guu from Haré+Guu is this trope taken to its (il)logical extreme.
  • Kirino from Ai Kora.
  • Akira from Lucky Star, once her Kawaiiko exterior cracks, though she quickly does away with the "Deadpan" part and starts with the shouting and physically abuse.
  • Hinata from Amaenaideyo. It says something about her that her pet is a miniature fire-breathing demon.
  • Kotoko in Chobits, who's actually a super-intelligent robot about the size of a guinea pig.
  • Chiaki from Minami-ke.
  • Rio in Spiral and its prequel.
  • Miura from Yotsubato has hints of this, though she's more likely to use her insights to manipulate others, rather than just snark.
  • The eternal Vita of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, who takes the role of the prickly officer to the new recruits after she joins the Space-Time Administration Bureau.
  • Anya Alstreim from Code Geass. C.C.'s also 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.
  • Momoka from Daa! Daa! Daa! 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.
  • 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.
  • Likewise, Jin in Kannagi has...let's call them 'body issues'. He acts older than he is, and a lot older than he looks.
  • Saki in Shikabane Hime. She has a habit of speaking aloud her contracted monk's inner thoughts.
  • Another Rare Male Example: Ryoma Echizen from The Prince of Tennis.
  • 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.
  • Felli Loss from Chrome Shelled Regios fits this rather well, with a bit of Emotionless Girl mixed in, which is promptly subverted in her introduction, where she is seen her screaming and shouting insults down one of the city's ventilation shafts to relieve some frustration.
  • Mayuko from Sola.
  • Ai Haibara from Detective Conan fits this trope beautifully.
  • Ar from Iono the Fanatics. "Pedophilia is a crime, you know."
  • Eve from Black Cat, once she joins Train's group and learns more about the outside world.
  • Anju from Karin, who is a near-epitome of Emotionless Girl as well.
  • Coco from Basquash!.
  • Rima in Shugo Chara!.
  • Micchon in Eden Of The East.
  • 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.
  • Ciel Phantomhive of Black Butler is another male example.
  • 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.
  • Shokatsuryou Koumei from Ikki Tousen lives and breathes this trope, which is to be expected from an eight year old reincarnation of Zhuge Liang.
  • Pan in Dragon Ball GT.
  • Luna/Luka from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds fits this to an extent, especially when it comes to her Half-Identical twin brother's schemes.
  • Kotori Makino from Koe de Oshigoto!, with a good amount of Emotionless Girl thrown in.
  • Saori from Wandering Son became this around volume 4 of the manga.
  • Kana from Soul Eater Not! is a Fortune Teller who snarks with Tarot cards.
  • Rokujo Miharu from Nabarino Ou fits this one, at least in the beginning of the series.
  • Hanaukyo Maid Tai. The maid Grace does this a lot.
  • Chibiusa from Sailor Moon
  • Wy from Axis Powers Hetalia is this as the Only Sane Woman of the micronations.
  • Ako from Suite Pretty Cure♪.

    Comic Books 

    Fanfic 

    Film 

    Live Action TV 
  • Dr. K in Power Rangers RPM. A little old at nineteen or so, but the trope fits like a glove.
  • Stephanie Tanner, and Michelle as well in later seasons, in Full House.
  • Julie Mayer when she was young.
  • Shannon Clemens from Rita Rocks.
  • Alex from Modern Family.
  • Bridgette DuBois from Medium.
  • Iris, the little girl in the Dollhouse episodes "Epitaph One" and "Epitaph Two" once she's been imprinted with Caroline's personality.
  • The little girl on Friends (played by Dakota Fanning) that lived in the house that Monica & Chandler were going to buy.
    • There was a little girl, but she died 20 years ago. (spooky music)
  • Raj's little sister Dee on What's Happening!!.
  • Stargate Atlantis episode "Harmony", the eponymous heroine fulfills this trope because she is a Royal Brat.
  • Katie Knight from Big Time Rush can occasionally fit this trope.
  • Megan on Drake & Josh.
  • Morgan Matthews from Boy Meets World.
  • Zuri Ross is a little girl version from Jessie.
  • Shania on The New Normal.
  • Deconstructed in the Modern Family episode "Fulgencio", when Cameron and Mitchell wonder if Lilly is becoming this as a result of overhearing their snarky remarks to each other. At the end it turns out she's picking it up from Claire, who drives her to dance classes.
  • 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.

    Literature 
  • Elva from the Inheritance Cycle.
  • Adah in The Poisonwood Bible.
  • Jenny Wren in Dickens' Our Mutual Friend. She has a good reason for being so jaded, since her father's irresponsibility and severe alcholism leave her, at the age of about thirteen, to be the responsible adult of the household.
  • Elani from Broken Sky.
  • Several child characters in Dean Koontz's works would definitely qualify. Lelani Klonk from One Door Away From Heaven and Regina from Hideaway, to name a couple.
  • Ginny Weasley from Harry Potter.
    • Hermione also gets her moments.
  • Ivy aka The Archive from The Dresden Files makes an attempt at this on behalf of the incapacitated protagonist. He notes that she's not very good at it yet, but he gets choked up nonetheless.
  • While her childish curiousity 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.
  • Artemis, Zoë Nightshade and Thalia in the Percy Jackson series. Also subverted, since Artemis and Zoë turned out to be Really 700 Years Old.
  • 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.
  • The Cadpig from "The Hundred and One Dalmations" and "The Starlight Barking" by Dodie Smith. Okay, so she's a puppy, but that just adds to the cuteness.
  • Pippi Longstocking combines this 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.
  • In Young Wizards Dairine Callahan could be this trope's poster child.
  • 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.

    Newspaper Comics 

    Radio 

    Theatre 
  • Little Mary in The Women has a fine time mocking the deceitful social conventions ladies like her mother are bound by.
  • Little Red in Into the Woods.
    "Ahahaha, you can talk to birds?!"

    Video Games 

    Visual Novels 

    Web Comics 
  • Rose from Homestuck has this as a major part of her personality.
  • Tycho's niece Anne from Penny Arcade has her moments.
    Galahad: You're breaking up with me?
    Anne: I just have a lot going on right now. With school, and, you know, zombies.
  • Schlock Mercenary got Para Ventura, from her first page and on.

    Web Original 
  • In Worm, the fourteen-year-old supervillain Imp comes off this way.

    Western Animation 

Jerk with a Heart of GoldFanFic/Sugar Rush StoriesSugar Bowl
Little Miss Con ArtistYoungstersLittle Sister Heroine
Cute WitchUsefulNotes/KawaisaDojikko
Literalist SnarkingOh Great, a Snark IndexLopsided Dichotomy
Little Dead Riding HoodJust for PunA Load of Bull

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