Tropescilloscope: Deadpan Snarker

A character prone to sarcastic remarks. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Left the Background Music On Television Movie Index Animal Motifs Victoria's Secret Compartment Aluminum Christmas Trees Bond One-Liner Light Is Not Good Adaptation Dye-Job Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Parental Neglect Married to the Job Guile Hero Plot Hole Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Sexy Discretion Shot Badass Boast Novelization It Can Think Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Laughing Mad Visual Pun Death by Irony Decoy Protagonist Death by Adaptation And the Adventure Continues Actor Allusion Call-Back Sequel Hook Blood Knight Early-Bird Cameo No-Holds-Barred Beatdown For Want of a Nail Rule of Three Dramatic Gun Cock Evil-Detecting Dog Ax-Crazy Disproportionate Retribution Romantic Comedy You Have Failed Me Hoist by His Own Petard The Ghost Genre Shift Ambiguous Ending A God Am I Ass Shove Hong Kong Films Toplessness from the Back Big Bad A Date with Rosie Palms Enemy Mine Insult Backfire Face–Heel Turn Film Noir Index Does Not Like Shoes Dumb Blonde Eyepatch of Power Guns Akimbo Wham Line Very Loosely Based on a True Story Badass in a Nice Suit Parental Abandonment In Medias Res Slasher Smile Sports Stories A.I. Is a Crapshoot "Awesome McCool" Name Anachronic Order Catapult Nightmare Femme Fatale Hero of Another Story Brainless Beauty Epic Movie Danny Peary Cult Movies List Central Theme Bavarian Fire Drill Domestic Abuse Arch-Enemy An Arm and a Leg Suddenly SHOUTING! Shipper on Deck Camera Abuse Broken Pedestal Coming-of-Age Story Mooks Crapsack World Only Sane Man Martial Arts Movie Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Morality Pet Rich Bitch Taking You with Me Never Found the Body Broken Aesop Ominous Latin Chanting Batman Gambit Calling the Old Man Out Wretched Hive Tempting Fate Paper-Thin Disguise Accidental Misnaming Slap-Slap-Kiss I Need a Freaking Drink Cool Shades Stealth Pun Dutch Angle Action Genre Not So Stoic Dirty Coward Abusive Parents Red Herring Film Noir All Just a Dream Curse Cut Short Costume Porn The Dreaded The Power of Love The Casanova Vacation Films Defiant to the End Dramatic Irony Villain with Good Publicity Fish out of Water Deliberately Monochrome The Faceless Kill 'em All Credits Gag Manic Pixie Dream Girl Red Shirt Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Nice Hat Fanservice Extra All Girls Want Bad Boys Only One Name Red Eyes, Take Warning Bound and Gagged Big Fancy House No-Sell Names to Run Away from Really Fast From Bad to Worse O.O.C. Is Serious Business Loads and Loads of Characters Shower Scene A Minor Kidroduction Bi the Way Every Car Is a Pinto My Beloved Smother Death by Sex Closed Circle Thriller French Films Sir Swears-a-Lot Take That! Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Room Full of Crazy Badass Longcoat Documentary Deconstruction Fan Disservice Adapted Out British Films Canadian Movies This Is Gonna Suck War Is Hell The Alleged Car Our Vampires Are Different Bittersweet Ending Vampire Fiction Due to the Dead The Ditz Offscreen Moment of Awesome Heel–Face Turn Improbable Aiming Skills Crucified Hero Shot Running Gag Anti-Villain Bunny-Ears Lawyer Be Careful What You Wish For Air-Vent Passageway Missing Mom Auto Erotica Ascended Extra Manchild Rule of Symbolism Historical Hero Upgrade Artistic License – Biology Skewed Priorities Hooker with a Heart of Gold Mama Bear Attempted Rape Ambiguously Gay Biopic Twist Ending Overly Long Gag No Name Given Cat Fight Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Death Glare Continuity Nod Jerk with a Heart of Gold Half the Man He Used to Be Precision F-Strike Properly Paranoid La Résistance Translation Convention Fainting One-Man Army Neck Snap The Dragon Russian Films Frame-Up Artistic License – Military Serious Business Rule of Cool Romantic False Lead Poor Communication Kills Extremely Short Timespan Foil Villain Opening Scene Butt-Monkey I'm a Humanitarian Well-Intentioned Extremist Affably Evil Improbable Weapon User May–December Romance Improvised Weapon Punch-Clock Villain Mexican Standoff You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Music Stories Training Montage Rape as Drama Yandere Aside Glance Would Hurt a Child Getting Crap Past the Radar Tap on the Head Smug Snake Evil Counterpart Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Black Best Friend Back from the Dead Deadpan Snarker All for Nothing Age Lift Politically Incorrect Villain Make It Look Like an Accident Friend to All Children Madness Mantra Fat Bastard As the Good Book Says... Boom, Headshot! Mr. Exposition Villain Song Daddy's Girl Black and Gray Morality Hypocrite Kids Are Cruel Beauty Is Never Tarnished Establishing Character Moment Scenery Gorn I Just Shot Marvin in the Face 20 Minutes into the Future Dressing as the Enemy Breaking the Fourth Wall Scary Black Man It Will Never Catch On Soft Glass Anyone Can Die Your Head A-Splode Police Brutality Unspoken Plan Guarantee She Cleans Up Nicely The Hero Red Oni, Blue Oni Five-Man Band Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Random Events Plot Totally Radical He Knows Too Much Annoying Younger Sibling Bait-and-Switch Dirty Old Man Protagonist Title Dropped a Bridge on Him Reasonable Authority Figure Driven to Suicide The Musical Double Entendre Dissonant Serenity Real Life Writes the Plot Roaring Rampage of Revenge Homage Casting Gag Demoted to Extra Line-of-Sight Name Catch-Phrase Belligerent Sexual Tension Heroes Want Redheads Dark and Troubled Past Ms. Fanservice Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Silence Is Golden Your Cheating Heart Deal with the Devil Fate Worse than Death Call-Forward Screw the Rules, I Have Money! The Big Guy The Atoner Sequel Escalation Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Leave the Camera Running Cowboy Cop Retirony The '70s Same Language Dub Let's Get Dangerous! Grievous Bottley Harm One Steve Limit The Great Depression Not Using the "Z" Word Dull Surprise Ripped from the Headlines Vitriolic Best Buds Pragmatic Adaptation Handicapped Badass The Chick Villain Protagonist Break the Haughty Love at First Sight Everyone Has Standards Arc Words Show Within a Show Idiot Ball Captain Obvious Action Survivor Race Lift Scenery Porn Flipping the Bird Villain Ball Combat Pragmatist Those Two Guys Suspiciously Similar Substitute Narrator Pragmatic Villainy The Smart Guy Defrosting Ice Queen Big Eater Genre Throwback "The Reason You Suck" Speech Celebrity Paradox Male Gaze Bad "Bad Acting" Blood from the Mouth Index of Film Westerns Redshirt Army Overprotective Dad Interrupted Suicide The Smurfette Principle Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Mercy Kill Crazy-Prepared Noodle Incident Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Scare Chord Motor Mouth Jump Scare Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass The '90s Disney Death Bad Boss Shoot the Shaggy Dog Bottomless Magazines Curb-Stomp Battle Dark Reprise Major Injury Underreaction Manipulative Bastard Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Author Avatar Large Ham Car Fu Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Action Girl Daylight Horror Blatant Lies Unusual Euphemism Rated M for Manly Jerk Jock Public Domain Feature Films Corrupt Corporate Executive Gone Horribly Right Stalker with a Crush The Cameo Adaptation Expansion Humiliation Conga Ship Tease Self-Deprecation As You Know Dwindling Party Ungrateful Bastard Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Logo Joke Love Triangle Even Evil Has Loved Ones The '50s Lampshade Hanging "Well Done, Son!" Guy Say My Name Mundane Made Awesome Evil Is Petty Really Gets Around For the Evulz Blackmail Chiaroscuro Green-Eyed Monster Implacable Man Hope Spot Nothing Is Scarier Black Comedy Rape Drives Like Crazy Distracted by the Sexy Reality Ensues Bury Your Gays Hidden Depths Animal Title Index Refuge in Audacity Armor-Piercing Question Shown Their Work Disguised in Drag Dual Wielding Reckless Gun Usage Mr. Fanservice Heel Realization Shell-Shocked Veteran Babies Ever After In the Back World of Ham Horror Comedy Expository Hairstyle Change Brother–Sister Incest timeperiod Not What It Looks Like The Oner The Remake Alliterative Name Ghost Fiction Adaptation Distillation After the End Based on a True Story Exact Words Vomit Discretion Shot Fantasy Films Eureka Moment Fun with Acronyms Dying Moment of Awesome Shirtless Scene Downer Ending Henpecked Husband Red Right Hand Pretty in Mink Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Bare Your Midriff Stock Footage Damsel in Distress Historical In-Joke Evil vs. Evil Evil Laugh Fantastic Racism Amusing Injuries Revenge Freudian Excuse Beard of Evil Chase Scene Once More, with Clarity! Woman in White Evil Brit My Greatest Failure Even Evil Has Standards Bolivian Army Ending Neck Lift Not Even Bothering with the Accent Adaptational Heroism Ugly Guy, Hot Wife My God, What Have I Done? Soundtrack Dissonance Facial Horror Italian Films Wicked Cultured Bring My Brown Pants Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Accidental Murder Children Are Innocent Determinator Slasher Movie Peek-a-Boo Corpse The '80s Flashback Only Known by Their Nickname Moment Killer folderlabel Black Dude Dies First Pay Evil unto Evil Heroic BSoD Gilligan Cut Ironic Echo Humans Are Bastards The Stoic Stealth Hi/Bye Stepford Smiler Didn't Think This Through All Men Are Perverts Badass Normal Intergenerational Friendship Plucky Comic Relief B-Movie Pre-Mortem One-Liner Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Important Haircut Antagonist Title Cool Old Lady It's All About Me Insane Troll Logic Authority Equals Asskicking Naked People Are Funny Rule of Funny Amoral Attorney Drugs Are Bad Deus ex Machina Fiery Redhead Leitmotif The Voiceless Adult Fear Crazy Jealous Guy Off-into-the-Distance Ending The End... Or Is It? Super Strength Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Mafia Australian Movies A Father to His Men Actually Pretty Funny Villainous Breakdown Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Brick Joke Karmic Death Eye Scream Parental Substitute Dogged Nice Guy Affectionate Parody Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Drill Sergeant Nasty Brutal Honesty Exactly What It Says on the Tin Arranged Marriage Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Meaningful Name One-Word Title Hollywood Law All There in the Script "Shaggy Dog" Story Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Fatal Family Photo Pet the Dog The Quiet One Took a Level in Jerkass Oh, Crap! Maybe Ever After Mind Screw Off with His Head! Unusually Uninteresting Sight Intrepid Reporter Deliberate Values Dissonance Laser-Guided Karma Empathic Environment Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Offscreen Teleportation Good Is Not Nice Developing Doomed Characters Animated Credits Opening Obviously Evil Canon Foreigner From Nobody to Nightmare Vomit Indiscretion Shot Kick the Son of a Bitch Mad Scientist I Have Your Wife Advertised Extra Department of Redundancy Department Made of Explodium Cool Old Guy Nice Guy Beta Couple And Starring Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Dramedy Mistaken for Gay Knight Templar Earn Your Happy Ending Dark Is Not Evil Lighter and Softer Heterosexual Life-Partners Berserk Button Chekhov's Gunman Works Set in World War II Ambiguous Disorder Gender Flip Title Drop Killed Mid-Sentence Jerkass Has a Point German Films Hypocritical Humor Fire-Forged Friends Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Fanservice Our Zombies Are Different Famous Last Words Big "NO!" Pimped-Out Dress Body Horror Grey and Gray Morality She's Got Legs Superhero Stylistic Suck Match Cut Market-Based Title Sadistic Choice Corpsing Evil Is Hammy No Ending Artistic License – History Historical Villain Upgrade Not So Different Faux Affably Evil Psychological Thriller Japanese Films The Bad Guy Wins Adorkable Riddle for the Ages Hate Sink Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Artistic License – Geography Disappeared Dad Would Hit a Girl The Stinger Irony Took a Level in Badass Tagline Malevolent Masked Men Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Anachronism Stew Dirty Cop Obfuscating Stupidity Undying Loyalty Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Does This Remind You of Anything? Disney Villain Death Asshole Victim MacGuffin Death Seeker Bald of Evil Reality Has No Subtitles Punny Name More Dakka Smoking Is Cool Faking the Dead No OSHA Compliance Sealed Evil in a Can Military and Warfare Films Wrong Genre Savvy Spiritual Successor Loophole Abuse Failed a Spot Check Fingore The Lost Lenore BFG Country Matters Rasputinian Death Small Name, Big Ego Framing Device Retcon Whole Plot Reference Star-Crossed Lovers The Load Rousing Speech Christmas Movies Index Big Damn Heroes Knife Nut Unreliable Narrator No Celebrities Were Harmed Fake Shemp Informed Ability Camp Gay The Reveal Non-Indicative Name The Ace Awesome, but Impractical Sassy Black Woman Diabolus ex Machina What You Are in the Dark Pretty Little Headshots Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" How We Got Here Bland-Name Product Determinator aka: The Determinator Have a Gay Old Time Papa Wolf Kill It with Fire Death of a Child An Aesop Stuff Blowing Up Recycled IN SPACE! Hollywood Darkness Character Development Instant Death Bullet Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Dark Action Girl Too Dumb to Live Spiteful Spit The Film of the Book Bloody Hilarious Foregone Conclusion Science Fiction Films Token Minority Gainax Ending Last-Name Basis Cruel and Unusual Death Those Two Bad Guys Eiffel Tower Effect Big-Bad Ensemble Contrived Coincidence The Cavalry Drowning My Sorrows Film Series Never My Fault The Bully Word of God Race Against the Clock Immune to Bullets The Alcoholic Playing Gertrude Sci-Fi Horror Foreshadowing The Lancer Woman Scorned Adaptational Villainy '80s Hair Cain and Abel Did Not Get the Girl Cold-Blooded Torture Up to Eleven Depraved Bisexual Comically Missing the Point The Place Freeze-Frame Bonus Unresolved Sexual Tension Those Wacky Nazis Time Skip Monumental Damage Book-Ends Police are Useless Award-Bait Song Creator Cameo Psychopathic Manchild The Chessmaster Sole Survivor True Companions Adaptational Attractiveness Bowdlerise Artistic License – Gun Safety Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Imagine Spot Kubrick Stare Card-Carrying Villain What the Hell, Hero? Cool Car Hell Is That Noise Sinister Minister Pyrrhic Victory Big Applesauce Despair Event Horizon Cluster F-Bomb Hair-Trigger Temper Eagleland Storming the Castle The Starscream Redemption Equals Death Not So Above It All Double-Meaning Title NO INDOOR VOICE Bloodless Carnage Happily Married Black Comedy Composite Character Sanity Slippage Not Quite Dead All There in the Manual Adaptational Badass Sacrificial Lion Easily Forgiven Together in Death Chekhov's Skill Dies Wide Open Re-Cut Trailers Always Spoil Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Meaningful Echo Break the Cutie Greater-Scope Villain Cloudcuckoolander Apocalypse How Setting Update Spanner in the Works Big Bad Duumvirate Face Death with Dignity Anti-Hero Gratuitous English Adaptation Name Change Becoming the Mask Evil Sounds Deep Real Life Leaning on the Fourth Wall Spell My Name with an "S" Almost Kiss Wham Shot Better to Die than Be Killed Cassandra Truth Bilingual Bonus The Mole Bond Villain Stupidity Video Credits Bloodier and Gorier Honor Before Reason Slashed Throat N-Word Privileges Mighty Whitey Creative Closing Credits Older Than They Look Reality Is Unrealistic The Hero Dies Adults Are Useless Bar Brawl The '60s Here We Go Again! Spared by the Adaptation Badass Bookworm Historical-Domain Character Tranquil Fury As Himself Insistent Terminology Shut Up, Hannibal! Mystery and Detective Films The Un-Reveal Needs Wiki Magic Love Shout-Out Betty and Veronica Truth in Television The Dog Bites Back Darkest Hour Heroic Sacrifice Straight Gay It's Personal Retired Badass Final Girl The Brute Kick the Dog Demonic Possession Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Covers Always Lie Male Frontal Nudity Agony of the Feet Beware the Nice Ones Zombie Stories Outrun the Fireball Alpha Bitch Funny Foreigner Cat Scare You Killed My Father Karma Houdini Only in It for the Money Four-Temperament Ensemble Anguished Declaration of Love Worthy Opponent Evil Plan The X of Y Author Appeal Conspicuous CG I Did What I Had to Do Gold Digger The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Serial Killer Throwing Your Sword Always Works Mugging the Monster Fatal Flaw Mood Whiplash In Name Only Suspiciously Specific Denial Chekhov's Gun Posthumous Character Get Out! He Who Fights Monsters Captain Ersatz Expy Manly Tears Funny Background Event Badass Grandpa Big Brother Instinct Gorn Obstructive Bureaucrat Eldritch Abomination Take a Third Option Hero Antagonist Naïve Newcomer Made of Iron "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Abhorrent Admirer Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Action Prologue An Axe to Grind Artistic License – Physics Early Installment Weirdness Artistic License – Law The Stoner Horror Films The Sociopath Cool Guns Jitter Cam I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Only a Flesh Wound Extreme Doormat Silent Movie Gory Discretion Shot Genre Savvy Bullying a Dragon Jerkass There Is No Kill Like Overkill Broken Bird Man on Fire Groin Attack Mythology Gag As Long as It Sounds Foreign Darker and Edgier Put on a Bus Epic Fail Never Trust a Trailer The Vamp Psycho for Hire Wounded Gazelle Gambit What Happened to the Mouse? Parental Incest Destination Defenestration No Antagonist Men Are the Expendable Gender Alas, Poor Villain Unwitting Instigator of Doom Meaningful Background Event Rewatch Bonus Meet Cute Chewing the Scenery Lock and Load Montage Creepy Child Product Placement Taking the Bullet And I Must Scream Fourth Date Marriage Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds