Characters who turn out to be Not So Above It All in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron: Kallen asks Coran and Allura if they can throw Viletta in the castle's dungeon to interrogate her the old-fashioned way since they can't use Lelouch's Geass.
- In Earth-27 story "Roy Harper" Voxbox, Barbara finds Roy and Jason both drunk, wanting to see the Batmobile. She says that Oliver and Helena would be disappointed in both of them... when the later two enter, equally drunk.
- Fantasy of Utter Ridiculousness: Patchouli may dislike Coop and outright hate Megas, but even she's not immune to the lure of a pizza wrapped around a ham. A scene right before the credits suggests that she's given in to that particular temptation.
- In the Soulsborne (Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Dark Souls II and Bloodborne) fanfic Hotspring Souls!, there's Maiden Astraea. Despite being a saint, she isn't above getting a kick out of playing Cards Against Humanity. Garl is horrified when he finds out about this.
- Hugo Strange in Justice Matrix
admits he's honestly intrigued at the idea of a romance novel featuring a transgender robot and a vampire with cancer. - Metagaming?: Elune is the ancient patron goddess of the Night Elves, but she finds it absolutely hilarious that Harry and Luna used to use her likeness (and Tyrande's, Jaina's, Alexstrasza's, and more) for kinky sex games. Any time the topic comes up, Luna, who's one of Elune's priestesses, comments that the goddess is laughing again.
- My Huntsman Academia:
- Izuku tries his best to be a responsible, professional leader for his team. But even with his nerdy fanboyism accounted for, he can still be rather goofy in his downtime. He excitedly calls shotgun when Sun offers to take him for a joyride, intentionally gets on Katsuki's nerves against his better judgment (albeit while he was feeling tipsy), and decides he's so exhausted that no one would care if he pees in the shower after the fight with the White Fang at Vale's docks.
- Pyrrha also presents herself as a calming influence on Izuku as part of her prestige as an invincible fighter. But she can't help herself when Yang and Nora ask her to raid Izuku's room and start snapping pictures of his old Toshinori onesie.
- Weiss is the image of a stoic, cool princess... until she sees Lulu Bell, which makes her start to Baby Talk due to the Cuteness Proximity.
- On the Back of the Turtle:
- Hippolyta might be a millennia old queen but she's still joins in with Xander's antics, such as declaring that leaving a ship half-buried on their beach is ridiculous... because it doesn't have a mast and thus can't have a flag flapping in the wind. She also becomes near addicted to slushees.
- Sasuke discovers his interest in women after seeing Hippolyta wearing nothing but bike shorts and gets Kakashi to teach him a wind jutsu so he can blow open Raven's cloak.
- Raven herself spends some time screwing with Sasuke by deliberately interfering with his attempts to mess with her cloak for no other reason than enjoying his frustration.
- Shadows over Meridian:
- Tracker, the feared and taciturn hunter, takes a liking to sweet rolls and fights with Frost over them following their escape from the Infinite City. When Frost accuses Tracker of hogging all the sweet rolls, Tracker says they're not all for him while giving his dog Sniffer one, which Frost calls cheating.
- The Ninja Khan that Tyrian challenges to a dance duel somehow gets into it as much as he does.
- In A Special Kind of Magic, once Naofumi gets the hang of his shield's weapon copying function, what is one of the shields he chooses to copy? Captain America's! And then he makes a sword version of Mjolnir!
- The Ultimate Big Brother: Just like in canon, Charlotte Katakuri is this. He usually comes off as a stoic, no-nonsense individual, but he is more than capable of being playful (his introduction is basically a massive, childish prank he drags Makoto into, and gets more than a little satisfaction in frightening Shuichi's group, particularly Kaito), and his gluttonous love of donuts hasn't ceased in the slightest, bonding with the similarly donut-obsessed Aoi Asahina.
- In Ultimate Fairy, the Strongest Team have to travel through Ben's mind to remove a Mind Rape-inducing curse that is killing him. While watching one of his memories, Natsu and Gray get into an argument over which of his aliens is the best (choosing Heatblast and Big Chill respectively) with Happy chiming in that it's Rath. Erza quickly reminds them they are in the middle of a serious mission and they need to focus.... before stating that Upgrade is the best alien to Lucy's chagrin.Erza: Silence! ([She] commented, making the trio flinch.) You need to focus and cease this banter! And for the record, all three of you are wrong. Upgrade is obviously his most awesome form.
- Universe Falls: Pearl and Garnet are against Amethyst's pranks, unless those pranks have the Northwests as targets. This is more evident with Pearl, given Pearl and Amethyst's dynamic.
- In "The Golf War", after Preston and Priscilla mock them and the Mystery Kids (Dipper, Mabel, Steven and Connie), Pearl and Garnet decide to help Stan and Amethyst with a Revenge Trip, which involved writing insults with graffiti on the Northwest Manor's walls. Pearl's message in particular was a cluster of insults.Pearl's message: “Snobbish, self-entitled, greedy, supercilious, upper crust, corrupted, coldhearted, thoughtless, rude, arrogant elitists!”
- Later, in "Northwest Mansion Nightmare", the three Gems trash the Northwest Manor.
- In "The Golf War", after Preston and Priscilla mock them and the Mystery Kids (Dipper, Mabel, Steven and Connie), Pearl and Garnet decide to help Stan and Amethyst with a Revenge Trip, which involved writing insults with graffiti on the Northwest Manor's walls. Pearl's message in particular was a cluster of insults.
- Weiss Reacts: Weiss' behaviour is normally as the Only Sane Man, looking down at everyone else's antics, but at times, including the Great Antic War, she shows that she can just as easily prank others as the likes of Yang can.
- Lucina Reacts: Lucina, despite her attempts at being the Only Sane Man, is constantly undermined by her being easy to fluster, her blatant crush on Robin, and her lack of experience with social situations.
- Laurent, Nah and Kjelle attempt to form a group of Only Sane Men against the Justice Cabal. The former two are easily manipulated due to their being Twice Shy for each other and them being outmanoeuvered by the likes of Reflet and Ren.
- Captain Chaser Kiyoshi, a Marine officer in Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse, immediately accepts the Kamikaze Pirates' offer to let her have an equal share in the treasure they just looted from a Religion of Evil they defeated with her help. This leads to her bickering with her little sister Akasuki, who protests that this isn't respectable behavior from a Navy Captain, then declares she'd have more money if she stopped buying new coats to replace the ones she loses with her dramatic disrobe stunts.
- Living in a Frog World: Frank is more level-headed than Anne, but he still isn't above stunts like taking Hop Pop's keys. He also makes frog related puns at Hop Pop's expense.
- In Repairs, Retrofits and Upgrades, Lin Beifong of all people appears extremely entertained by how Korra and Asami's relationship is developing. The fact that she won quite a bit of money thanks to them probably helps.
- Andy, the Only Sane Man of the Calvinverse, develops a crush on a girl in the Calvin & Hobbes: The Series episode "Insanity Is In The Air" and ends up going insane with envy when she ends up liking Calvin (who has no interest in her and was forced to compete for her love by Andy) more. Hilarity Ensues, to say the least.
- The Bolt Chronicles: Mittens gives up her Comic Trio role of Only Sane Man a few times.
- In "The Cakes," Mittens initially tries to keep Bolt and Rhino from eating the title pastries until she is pushed into one of them and gets covered in frosting. She responds to Bolt's continued angry insistence for cake by dropping one on his head, initiating an all-out Foodfight! with the dog.
- In "The Ski Trip," Mittens repeatedly tries and fails to stop Bolt and Rhino from hopping a chair lift, snitching a pair of skis, and slaloming down a mountain trail. When the three pets end up crashed into a snowbank, the cat starts a Snowball Fight out of exasperated anger.
- Solas is by far the most serious of the teachers at Skyhold Academy. This does not, however, stop him from participating in things like bachelor parties and talent shows, or from fully enjoying his internet Secret Identity as the popular Lets Player "The Dread Wolf."
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Vivienne Graham is revealed to have been this among Monarch when she was human. In the MonsterVerse movies, she's largely presented as something of a Satellite Character to Dr. Serizawa, but this fic reveals she wasn't above being a little bit of a jokester with some of her Monarch colleagues once in a while.
- In part 11 of Sister Floriana, Sister Diana catches the novices trying to recover various confiscated items they've lost over the course of the series. She lets them go on the condition they help her get something of her own that got confiscated — a rather cheesy French romance novel.
- Queen of All Oni:
- At one point, Blankman joins the Enforcers and Right in a poker game, and openly admits to cheating (while pointing out that everyone else is doing so as well).
- In the previous chapter, he carves a Z into Jackie's shirt during their battle.Blankman: Pardon, but I simply could not resist.
- I Ain't a Doll, This Ain't a Dollhouse: After the heroes arrive to the Joestar Mansion in 1889 and help Johanna Joestar defeat her ex-fiance Dio and his Alternate Self Diego Brando, Polnareff suggests finding Dio's old room and take a dump in it as revenge for what DIO has done to them. Jotaro tells him to wait.... because he wants to be the first to trash Dio's stuff.
- Birthday Breakfast has Lola, normally a snob and a Neat Freak, apparently having worn the same undies for a week in the past.
- Irrational Fear has Lisa laugh when Lincoln reveals Lori's fear of puppets and suck her thumb in her sleep despite usually being a no-nonsense stoic.
- Through most of It's not a game!?, Leah Kazuno has been playing the Straight Man for her older sister Sarah's blatant crush and stanning over Chika Takami, the leader of Aquors. Then Leah makes eye contact with Ruby Kurosawa, who she has just a big a crush on as Sarah does for Chika.
- In the Guardians of the Galaxy story Mission Report Impossible, Nova Prime doesn't want anyone to tell the Guardians how to write a mission report so she can keep getting comedy gold like their last one.
- BURN THE WITCH: Lila develops a terrible skin rash after being thrown into the polluted Seine. When Marinette remarks on how the Miraculous Cure should have fixed that, Tikki remarks that "The Cure sometimes acts in mysterious ways." Her reaction when Marinette presses the point heavily implies she deliberately ensured the Cure wouldn't heal Lila.
- In POWER!!: An origin story, Mirio and friends poke fun at a mortified Izuku for almost dying of a Marshmallow Hell, courtesy of his girlfriend Nejire, which his whole class witnessed. Izuku is only able to get over his embarrassment when Recovery Girl makes a joke about the situation too, prompting everyone present (including Izuku) to laugh.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- In Ask King Sombra, between her and Sombra, Coffee Talk is generally the far more sane and focused of the two, but she does have her moments.
- The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: Rex tries to stay calm and dignified most of the time, but he's not above having a little fun every now and then, like teasing Vix-Lei with his reaction to the idea of setting her on fire.
- Pony POV Series:
- A major recurring theme is that the Princesses — despite being immortal Physical Goddesses — are not perfect, and are just as capable of making mistakes as their subjects.
- Grogar is Discord's opposite on the Order vs. Chaos dynamic (despite being just as bad as he is), and is normally presented as a dead serious Darkseid Expy and a Hero Killer whose one actual appearance saw him leave a major character with third-degree burns and a permanent limp. And yet, according to Word of God, the following exchange presented in Dark World!Discord's parody play of their war with one another "Modern Major Evil Overlord" actually happened:Grogar: 'I will not grow a goatee. In the old days they made you look diabolic. Now they just make you look like a disaffected member of Generation X?' Who wrote this one?
Minion: (raises hand)
Discord: (bursting through the wall) I just heard! Who wrote that?!
Narration: Both titans of evil vaporized said minion together and declared a one-day truce to celebrate.
- RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse:
- Corona, fits of mad ham-ery aside, tries to present herself as the True, Regal Queen of Equestria. It turns out she has a massive sweet tooth, which she considers her one weakness.
- Midnight, who initially appears to be a sarcastic ice queen, and agent of a mysterious conspiracy, who can't crack a joke to save her life. When Ponyville is attacked by random weirdoes, she reacts to Trixie's comment that this happens all the time with what sounds like envy.
- The Tears of Gaia: Star Swirl admonishes the Mane Six for starting up a snowball fight in the middle of their quest... until he gets hit with one, and immediately joins in on the fun.
- The Twilight Child frequently has scenes where Princess Celestia, Luna, and Cadence are doing something strange, like treating going out to fetch coffee like an epic quest, having snowball fights where the snowballs are the size of boulders, or lightly tormenting Shining Armor.
- Apparently Spitfire, the no-nonsense leader of the Wonderbolts, knows no less than one hundred and twelve separate butt-related jokes.
- Naru-Hina Chronicles:
- Kei is a rather serious and stoic character. However, when Yuko offers her an apology ice cream, Kei has this comedic expression where she looks like she's trying to resist the urge of taking the dessert. It doesn't take long before she gives up resisting and grabs the ice cream.
- In one of the Mini-sodes, Kiba explains to Naruto that quiet girls are into freaky stuff i.e. kinky stuff. He then comments that Hinata will one day make Naruto her toy. This makes Shino comment, while smirking behind his hood, that it explains a lot about the 'accidents' Kiba had with his girlfriend Mina and that the latter won't be the 'bitch' in this relationship, much to Kiba's embarrassment.
- In another Mini-sode, Naruto is invited to a Hyuga picnic and he expects it to be so boring given how stoic and serious members of the Hyuga Clan can be. Much to his surprise, said picnic includes a barbecue, bikinis, and fun activities like volleyball. Even Hiashi himself is shown to be not only in charge of the barbecue, but also wearing an apron with "Cook be smokin'" written on it.
- In This Bites!, when Cross decides to act like Phoenix Wright, Robin plays along as the judge, finding the whole thing rather amusing.
- Later during the G-8 arc, she sits down for a game of chess against Vice-Admiral Jonathan.Robin: The middle of a life-or-death situation, and I find myself playing a friendly game of chess with the person responsible for every bit of danger in that situation. I can't deny it anymore. I love being a Straw Hat Pirate.
- Hina desperately tries to remain professional while her crew has a dance party behind her while listening to music playing during the SBS broadcast, until she finds herself joining in.
- Later during the G-8 arc, she sits down for a game of chess against Vice-Admiral Jonathan.
- In A Night of Debauchery, Jaune wonders how much more crazed Nora will get now that she's drunk, and comforts himself with the thought that Ren will take care of her. Then he notices Ren onstage with the strippers.
- Pyrrha goes through several bottles of alcohol, gets very flirty, and later "[destroys] half the club" in a jealous rage.
- Robb Returns: When Baelish demands to be judged in front of his peers, Stannis Baratheon tells him that weasels cannot speak and, therefore, cannot attend trials.
- Darth Vader: Hero of Naboo:
- As the others on the crew escorting Padme from Naboo to Coruscant get roped into a card game, Obi-Wan initially disapproves before admitting he's rather fond of the particular game.
- Vader admits that having to explain to everyone in the early years of the Empire that his name is not, in fact, "Darth," was one of the few times that he actually felt awkward after his transformation.
- Imperium of Vader: Flashbacks show that when Tarkin and a squad of Stormtroopers arrived on the scene of Palpatine and Vader's final duel, the Stormtroopers were unnerved by Vader's post-victory demeanor, with one nervously asking Tarkin if they all had to share a shuttle ride with him away from the site. It's noted that Tarkin didn't reprimand the Stormtrooper for the unprofessional comment because he was worried about that same thing.
- In An Open Secret, not only does it seem that most of the Jedi are aware of Anakin's relationship with Padme, but they all want to be a godparent of their unborn child. At one point Aayla and Shaak-Ti get into a lightsaber duel over it.
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- Just like in the cartoon, Antauri is this in The Truth of Fatherhood. When he proposes to the other monkeys that Chiro stop hanging out with his new friend Isomer, he tries to spin his intentions as concern for his adopted son's well-being, but it's made very clear that he's lying, and in truth, he's just as jealous as the other monkeys that Chiro is spending time with someone who isn't them.
- In Riding a Sunset, the Autobots and Sector 7 are building the Autobot base while listening to the song "Back to Life (80s remix)" by Hailee Steinfeld. Ratchet, when he thinks he's alone, starts dancing and singing along to the music...and is caught by Brawn and Wheeljack. He chases them away with a wrench.
- In Viral (part of the Botosphere), Soundwave monitors the Internet activity of the Autobots and their various human friends for surveillance and intelligence-gathering... but also has holdings in the human stock market (because the Autobots also do), is interested in Simmons's preferred reality TV series, and plays with Sharksy in World of Warcraft.
- Mauling Snarks:
- The PRT and Protectorate's think tank is so alarmed at the potential of Taylor's new powers (detecting capes, influencing powers) that they build a literal brick wall in Washington D.C. and dedicate it to her. As her potential grows, they even consider a yellow fountain, but discard it as it would be too crude.
- Armsmaster is the one uttering "Bullshit!" after Taylor and Amy end up sharing powers with each other and gain a Tinker power each to boot, since neither Clockblocker nor Assault are around to say it.
- When Carol and Mark find out about Amy pranking Victoria with some hidden Bluetooth speakers, instead of telling her to stop, they ask for their phones to be paired to the speakers as well, deciding to try and teach Victoria to become more observant, even in her own home.
- In Mother's Wish, Emma Frost learns that two of the teens that suddenly appeared at the X-Mansion are genetically her children with Scott. Emma calmly leaves the room for a moment then everyone hears her yelling:Emma: YES! TAKE THAT YOU RED HEADED BITCH! NOT IN EVERY FUCKING FUTURE!
- Chief Bogo in Evidence spends the entire story listening to people debate whether Nick and Judy are a couple (apparently, the entire city is debating it) and thinking to himself how pointless and ridiculous it is. The last couple of paragraphs reveal he only thinks it's ridiculous because he already knows they are.
- The AI-created Coveralls has Scully talking like she's the voice of reason, but still doing bizarre things like enthusing about poison and writing on Mulder's face.
