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alt title(s): The Ruri; Deadpan Loli
A character type which has some measure of the Deadpan Snarker, based on the humor that comes from the mismatch of personality and body type when the body is that of a young girl. She is both smart and perceptive, capable of pointing out exactly what other characters hope to keep concealed — often their feelings for another character.
A sub-trope of Wise Beyond Their Years. Compare The Daria, which is pretty much this minus being a child.
Examples:
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Anime and Manga
- Kiri Koshiba from Beauty Pop.
- Hoshino Ruri of Martian Successor Nadesico, whose Catch Phrase is "Baka bakka" ("I'm surrounded by idiots").
- Ruri used to be both the Trope Namer and the page image for this trope, such a classic example she is. She is so saddened and disheartened that this isn't true anymore. Just look at her face.
- Yurikasa Chika from Asagiri No Miko.
- Morino Ichigo from Onegai Teacher and Onegai Twins (much more so in Onegai Twins).
- To an extent, Yue Ayase from Mahou Sensei Negima. Recent arcs 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.
- 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 Yotsuba&! has hints of this, though she's more likely to use her insights to manipulate others, rather than just snark.
- The eternal loli 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 MAR. 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.
- Haibara Ai from Detective Conan fits this trope beautifully.
- Ar from Iono The Fanatics. "Pedophilia is a crime, you know".
- Eve from Black Cat fits this trope to the "T".
- Anju from Karin, who is a near-epitome of Emotionless Girl as well.
- Coco from Basquash.
- Rika from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni 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.
- Cute Witch Bernkastel also fits this, since she sort of is Rika, almost-ish.
- Rima in Shugo Chara.
- Micchon in Eden Of The East.
- To some extent, Kuro Kagami from Kodomo No Jikan.
- 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 Kuroshitsuji 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 Seven Hundred Years Old, since she became sovereign and stopped aging when she was 12.
Comic Books
Fanfic
Film
- In Beautiful Girls a young Natalie Portman plays one of these.
- Dakota Fanning's characters in the movies Push and Uptown Girls pretty much fit this to a T.
- Drew Barrymore's character in ET The Extra Terrestrial is Gertie, Elliott's mischievous five-years-old sister. She makes several snarky remarks throughout the film that nobody remarks upon.
- Dani from Hocus Pocus.
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.
- Bridget 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.
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.
- Ginny from Harry Potter, anyone?
- 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.
Newspaper Comics
Video Games
- Vanilla H. of Galaxy Angel, though in the anime, she is a bit more nonsensical than most deadpan snarkers.
- Etna from Disgaea.
- Setsuna Kiyoura from School Days.
- 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.
- Lieselotte of Arcana Heart, especially in her story route.
- Jacqli of Ar Tonelico 2 serves this purpose. Also Really Seven Hundred Years Old, and the Big Bad of the previous game.
- Nephilim of the Xenosaga series. She died close to 4000 years before the series takes place, making her really close to four thousand years old, so she's now a ghost-type thing with the appearance of a twelve-year-old and a habit of giving cryptic messages instead of just coming out with it. She fits the Oracular Urchin trope extremely well, too.
- Anise from Tales Of The Abyss.
Western Animation
Web Original
- Marie Swanson in Erika's New Perfume, post regression. There's something to be said about the most snarky (and for that matter, arguably most clever) character in the series being three years old.
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