History DeadpanSnarker / Literature

* In the older MaxAndRuby books by Creator/RosemaryWells, Ruby was more of a DeadpanSnarker and sometimes strict with her brother Max. Which can be seen in "Max's Chocolate Chicken" and "Max's Christmas". She even said to Max "Max, you'd have trouble finding your own ears if they weren't attached to your head." in Max's Chocolate Chicken since Max didn't gather eggs and was busy gathering acorns and making an Acorn Pancake. This was also present in the AnimatedAdaptation for [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1m050e_max-s-chocolate-chicken_shortfilms "Max's Chocolate Chicken"]] and [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1m050e_max-s-chocolate-chicken_shortfilms "Max's Christmas"]] which was released on VHS in the early 90's. Ruby became more nicer and kind around Max in later books of the series.

* The title character of ''Literature/ArtemisFowl''

* Halt from ''Literature/RangersApprentice'' is a DeadpanSnarker - if he's suddenly serious, you ''know'' something's very, very wrong.

* Literature/SisterhoodSeries by Creator/FernMichaels: Jack Emery can do this like nobody else can. More than one character calls him a wiseass.

::In the films (played by Creator/EddieIzzard):

* In the older MaxAndRuby books by RosemaryWells, Ruby was more of a DeadpanSnarker and sometimes strict with her brother Max. Which can be seen in "Max's Chocolate Chicken" and "Max's Christmas". She even said to Max "Max, you'd have trouble finding your own ears if they weren't attached to your head." in Max's Chocolate Chicken since Max didn't gather eggs and was busy gathering acorns and making an Acorn Pancake. This was also present in the AnimatedAdaptation for [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1m050e_max-s-chocolate-chicken_shortfilms "Max's Chocolate Chicken"]] and [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1m050e_max-s-chocolate-chicken_shortfilms "Max's Christmas"]] which was released on VHS in the early 90's. Ruby became more nicer and kind around Max in later books of the series.

** Many other characters also fall into this, for example Foaly, Holly, and Mulch (and occasionally Juliet) enjoy trading sarcastic statements. Mulch [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it in the narration of the fifth book:

* In ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'', this is literally the ''job'' of the Alethi King's Wit. Essentially, the King's Wit exists to insult people whom the king wants insulted, since it would be beneath the king's dignity to insult them himself.
** The current holder of the post, a serial cameo by the name of Hoid, takes to the job with gusto and aplomb.
-->''Every man has his place[, Brightlord Sadeas]. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.''

* In ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' Udinaas, Samar Dev, Bugg and Fiddler are all snarkers to some degree.

-> '''Danaerys Targaryen:''' Viserys says he could sweep the Seven Kingdoms with ten thousand Dothraki screamers.\\

* Vlad, Kragar, and Loiosh from Steven Brust's ''[[Literature/{{Dragaera}} Taltos]]'' series all fit this one. Pel in the ''Khaavren Romances'', too.

-> '''Danaerys Targaryen:''' Viserys says he could sweep the Seven Kingdoms with ten thousand [[ProudWarriorRace Dothraki screamers.\\

** Samuel Vimes and Esmerelda Weatherwax, both of which are particularly GenreSavvy (and hate having to be). They are both aware of the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality, though with Vimes it's more of an instinctive understanding.

** Rincewind also has his moments; having long given up trying to use his Genre Savviness to stay out of dangerous situations, he occasionally uses it to be sarcastic about them.

-> '''[[LadyOfWar Danaerys Targaryen]]:''' [[RoyalBrat Viserys]] says [[MilesGloriosus he could sweep the Seven Kingdoms]] with ten thousand [[ProudWarriorRace Dothraki screamers.]]\\
'''[[FailureKnight Ser Jorah Mormont]]:''' Viserys couldn't sweep a stable with ten thousand brooms.

* ''HowToSurviveAZombieApocalypse'' has a main cast full of them, presumably because there is a reason to be snarky most of the time as everything going on is so [[GagSeries utterly ridiculous]]. OnlySaneMan Butch takes the trophy, with the pseudo-[[TsunDere tsundere]] protagonist as a runner up.

* Pretty much all the cast in Literature/HowToSurviveAZombieApocalypse.
->'''April:''' If you join us, we'll promote you for USA president!
->'''Duff:''' Really?
->'''April:''' Yes!
->'''Duff:''' No.

* [[StarWarsExpandedUniverse Mara Jade and Ben Skywalker]] are prone to this, but where Mara will start snarking just for the hell of it, Ben tends to save particularly nasty comments for moments when he's genuinely unhappy (although as we see in ''Outcast'', he's not immune to random outbursts, either). And yes, both of them share the same irreverent sense of humor. [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like mother, like son, really.]]
-->'''Ben:''' ''(after hearing about one of Luke's earlier failures, specifically the cave section in [=ESB=])'' You know, it gives me hope that you screwed up so badly and so consistently as a kid, Dad.
:: Deadpan humor seems to be by far the most prevalent kind in the EU; nearly all named characters (and there are [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters plenty]]) will throw out a snarky line at least once.
** Han has a very memorable one in ''Destiny's Way'':
-->'''Han''': What the Empire would have done is build a supercolossal Yuuzhan Vong-killing Battle Machine. They would have called it the Nova Colossus or the Galaxy Destructor or the [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Nostril of Palpatine]] or something equally grandiose. They would have spent billions of credits, employed thousands of contractors and subcontractors, and equipped it with the latest in death-dealing technology. And you know what would have happened? It wouldn't have worked. They'd forget to bolt down a metal plate over an access hatch leading to the main reactors, or some other mistake, and a hotshot enemy pilot would drop a bomb down there and blow the whole thing up. Now ''that's'' what the Empire would have done.
** ''Darth Vader'' of all people in the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse novel ''Patterns of Horse''. Here's the set-up: Vader has just captured protagonist Jax Pavan and his friends with the assistance of [[spoiler:Dejah Duare]]. Jax and [[spoiler:Duare]] have a back-and-forth about the betrayal and how much Jax has figured out about before Darth interrupts them thusly:
--> '''Darth Vader''': This is all vaguely interesting and amusing, Pavan. But it has gone on long enough.
** Vader is also quite the snarker in the films. When Han Solo, Leia and Chewbacca walk into an ambush on Cloud City, Vader greets them with a simple "Care to join us?"
** It would basically just be shorter to list the characters who ''aren't''. Bonus points for the ComicBook/XWingSeries, in which 95% of the pilots are snarkers, and ''many'' lines of dialogue are just sarcasm from one pilot to another.
*** The characters of Creator/AaronAllston's parts of the ''ComicBook/XWingSeries'' especially tend towards this trope. Most of the not-inconsiderable amount of humor in his books is of this variety.
---->'''Wedge:''' Phanan, Face, still Seven and Eight. I'd hate to break up the best comedy team this side of the janitor's closet.\\