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Deadpool isn't a Deadpan Snarker. He just makes a ton of jokes.
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I think this trope's getting overused. Now it's applied to anyone who's regularly sarcastic. Problem is, there are plenty of people pegged as this trope who only fulfill the 'snarker' part of it, not the 'deadpan' part.
People who are hammy and act sarcastic (like "NOOO REALLY? You don't say!" or variants) are still being called this, when they're not deadpan at all.
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Agreed. This category has become so broad that it's basically meaningless now. Especially the Comic Book section. It seems to be a generic gather-all for any character who cracks jokes.
Hellboy and Sonic, deadpan snarkers? I'm mildly surprised that nobody has added Joker yet.
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Came in here to say that. People seem to be completely disregarding the whole "deadpan" bit.
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This post was made 8 years ago and the problem still exists. Why is there not a new trope that just describes jokey characters?
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I'm hoping to post this group to the examples, but I'm not sure where.
https://www.youtube.com/user/RedEyesTakeWarning
It's an entire series dedicated to summarizing notable history and literature in a sarcastic manner. Both hosts are entertainly snarky, and worthy of this page. But is it a Web Animation, or a Web Original?
Hell, an argument could be made for Literature. (Please note, despite the name on the link, this group has little to nothing to do with the trope of the same name.)
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Why would it be anything but Web Animation?
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Because I couldn't tell at a glance? Because I wanted a second opinion so I didn't get it wrong?
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Aw, I liked the real life examples.
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This trope seems misunderstood by many.
I see this trope mentioned around the wiki in various places, and many people seem to think it means "insulting someone". So they'd use examples of a character calling someone or something "stupid" and consider that an example of a Deadpan Snarker. What it really means is ironic commentary used to subtly verbally jab at a person or thing the snarker disagress with.
Is the "Deadpan" in the title The Artifact? Aside from the fact that tons of examples across the site just treat this as The Snarker, the description and laconic don't really make any mention of being Deadpan, just snarky.
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I actually think the deadpan should be considered a necessary requirement, even though the description has not really given weight to that aspect. Which may be part of the reason that the trope is so overused on the wiki. Current usage on the wiki is so inflationary, it's meaning has been diluted even beyond The Snarker to just Snark.
Edited by 188.110.6.133 Let's just say and leave it at that.
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A message to all tropers
If you try to be a Deadpan Snarker all the time in real life, you're an annoying person. Please, only save it for the best occasions.
Thank you.
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Well... Can someone do a "Widepan Snarker" or "Fade-out Snarke"? Since I suppose that the title is defined by the panning of the camera?
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it is definatley not defined by camera angle and i hope your kidding but i just got done fighting with a troll so at this point i honestly cant tell if you are
Snowy
Any reason why the caption on the picture keeps changing?
I've see it change a total of 5 times. We should pick something and stick with it.
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How about something like this? Although, it's not quite Deadpan, and might work better for the Live TV example section: http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/46206661/2675135
The heading at the top of the page currently reads "Dead Pan Snarker". How did that happen, and can we change it back pronto? I mean, it's equally as incorrect as writing "not able" when you mean "notable".
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I can't be the only one who thinks of this trope and thinks "Tony Snark" first.
I think this thing has been getting a little bit of a snarl recently, and that many of the examples are, and never were, deadpan. Deadpan is having almost no inflection or indication of a joke being present. It would cut the page down to almost nothing if we eliminated all the examples that weren't actually deadpan, so I propose that we simply change the name to "Snarker."
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This is a topic for the Trope Repair Forum. It would be better to zap the bad examples than to change the definition. When a definition starts chasing the examples, it is a clear sign that another trope is present.
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Can you do that for me? I'm really not too big on the whole troping thing.
My interpretation was that the term deadpan refers to either the character maintaining a straight face while s/he says a witty remark or the sarcasm of said remark. I personally agree that the definition should not be changed, but I also think that most examples fit the trope and shouldn't have another trope made just for them.
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I'm not sure where to put image picking discussion...But that image REALLY needs to go. It's just so ugly.
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Sorry, bro. Consensus chose it.
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I'm the black sheep
I'm not sure that a character having one moment of deadpan snarkiness should earn them a place on this page, but it seems like it does. Am I dreaming?
I don't want realism, I want magic!
is this where i bitch about that "checked out" message? tow makes the slow guy do the work, but tvtropes lets someone stop others' edits.
i just wanted to fix one missing bullet point :(
Is there such thing as a "Hammy" or "Boisterous" snarker, who is very lively with their sarcasm instead of just outright deadpan?