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Everyone gets their moment at some point, though some characters stand out more than others:

  • Captain America is kind of a snarky bastard—which is fitting for a guy who spent the first twenty-odd years of his life as a pipsqueak whose only real weapon was his mouth.
  • Naturally, Iron Man has its titular armored hero Tony Stark, which then gets taken to the next level in The Avengers, and even moreso in Iron Man 3. Said film is even directed by the already-mentioned Shane Black.
    • Some of his better ones are as follows:
      Brandt: Really? That's all you've got? A cheap trick and a cheesy one-liner?
      Tony: Sweetheart, that could be the name of my autobiography.
      Christine Everheart: Mr. Stark, you've been called the Da Vinci of our time. What do you say to that?
      Tony: Absolutely ridiculous, I don't paint.
      Captain America: Wait, Stark! We need a plan of attack!
      Tony: I do have a plan. Attack.
    • And so on.
  • It doesn't stop there. He programmed JARVIS to be this for Snark-to-Snark Combat.
  • Thor:
    • Clint Barton, when a group of S.H.I.E.L.D agents unsuccessfully tries to stop Thor from entering the facility:
      Clint: Do you want me to take him down or would you rather send in more guys for him to beat up?
      Clint: You better call it Coulson, cause I'm starting to root for this guy.
    • Then, in The Avengers, "Clint" turns out to be Hawkeye and joins a whole Team of Snarkers.
    • Loki, who seems to become snarkier with each film.
      Loki: [in a casual tone of voice] It's good to have you back. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to destroy Jotunheim.
    • Sif, who mostly snarks good-naturedly at her friends.
  • Thor gets his own good-natured snark moment at Sif in Thor: The Dark World:
    Sif: I've got this completely under control.
    Thor: [looks around at the destruction] Is that why everything's on fire?
    He ramps up the snark considerably in Thor: Ragnarok.
    Loki: I can't see into the future, I'm not a witch!
    Thor: [looks at Loki's all black suit] No? Then why do your dress like one?
  • Everyone in Avengers: Age of Ultron, as par the course for a Whedon script. Even Ultron gets in on it.
  • Nick Fury. Full stop.
    World Security Council: Director Fury, the council has made a decision.
    Nick Fury: I recognize that the council has made a decision, but given that it’s a stupid-ass decision, I’ve elected to ignore it.
  • Scott Lang has many moments too. Sometimes lampshading tropes about the franchise itself, like the characters often using Paper-Thin Disguise to blend in.
    Scott Lang: These aren’t disguises. We look like ourselves at a baseball game.
  • And of course, Spider-Man eventually joined the universe.
    [A gang of thugs are robbing a bank wearing cartoonish Avengers masks]
    Spider-Man: [in trailers] Wait a minute, you guys aren’t the real Avengers! I can tell! The Hulk gives it away.
    • His eventual girlfriend, MJ is even snarkier than him.
    • When the other two cinematic incarnations of Spider-Man arrive in the MCU in Spider-Man: No Way Home, they both prove to be as snarky as the average Marvel lead.
    • Even the Raimi-Verse Spider-Man is shown to have his moments of snark, despite not being very snarky in his own movies.
      Peter 3: Max was like... the sweetest guy ever. Before he fell into a pool of electric eels.
      Peter 2: That'll do it.
    • The Webb-Verse Spider-Man is also as snarky as he was in his films.
      Peter-3: So are you [Peter 2] gonna go into battle dressed like a cool youth pastor or do you have a suit?
  • Wanda Maximoff, while less so than other characters, has her moments too. Justified, as she used to watch old American sitcoms with her family as a child.
    Dr. Strange: Your children aren't real. You created them with magic.
    Wanda: [eyes wide with faux-innocence] That's what every mother does.
  • Doctor Strange as played by Benedict Cumberbatch is very snarky. He even manages to give Tony Stark a run for his money in Avengers: Infinity War when they converse.
    Strange:He could destroy life on a scale hitherto undreamt of.
    Tony: [leaning on a large cauldron and stretching his legs] Did you seriously just say "hitherto undreamt of"?
    Strange: Are you seriously leaning on the Cauldron of the Cosmos?
    • He doesn't stop snarking even when he is in a different universe (Earth-838, to be precise), while handcuffed and being introduced to the Illuminati.
      838-Mordo: …The Smartest man alive, Reed Richards, of the Fantastic Four.
      838-Reed Richards: Hello Stephen.
      Dr. Strange: Fantastic Four? [smirking] Didn’t you guys chart in the '60s?
      [Reed smiles]
      838-Captain Marvel: I’m sorry, is this a joke to you?
      Dr. Strange: Well, there’s a guy over there with a fork on his head so, yeah. Little bit.
    • He also gets in a lot of Snark-to-Snark Combat with Wong, who is as much of a snarker as Strange himself.
  • Thanos also lets out a fair share of snide quips.
    Loki: If I might interject… If you're going to Earth, you might want a guide. I do have a bit of experience in that arena.
    Thanos: If you consider failure "experience."
  • What makes Thanos's successor as the MCU's Big Bad Kang an effective Knight of Cerebus is the fact that he lacks any snark in his first appearance.
  • With Deadpool finally arriving in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Wade Wilson continues his extremely snarky trend from his comic book and previous live-action film appearances.
    Deadpool: Your little Cinematic Universe is about to change forever.

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