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{{quote|''Humour is tolerant, tender; its ridicule caresses. Wit stabs, begs pardon - and turns the weapon in the wound.''|Taken from one of Bierce's late essays.}}
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== Appearances in fiction ==▼
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Not really abusive, per se, but Bierce clearly had no use or positive feelings for his mother, and very little of either for his father. And he didn't see too much to write home about in his own kids, either.▼
* ''Old Gringo'' by Carlos Fuentes▼
* [[Alliterative Family]]: His father gave all the children names starting with "A". ▼
* In [[Robert Bloch]]'s story "I Like Blondes" (originally published in ''Playboy'', 1956), the alien tells Shirley that "the body I'm using right now. Its name was Ambrose Beers, I believe. [Ril] picked it up in Mexico a long time ago..."▼
** That was a [[Genius Bonus]] reference, for sure.▼
* [[Jasper Fforde]]'s ''[[Thursday Next|The Well of Lost Plots]]'' claims that he became a book-jumping agent of Jurisfiction.▼
* [[Phil Foglio]]'s ''[[Stanley and His Monster]]'' miniseries claims that his horror stories were based on truth, and he staged his own disappearance to avoid an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that was coming to complain about his depiction of it. Oddly enough, it also used him as an [[Expy]] of [[Hellblazer|John Constantine]].▼
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Lost Legacy]]'' has him going underground and working for a benevolent [[Ancient Tradition]].▼
* [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''Roadmarks'' concerns a Road that stretches from the past into the future, and the people who travel along it; Bierce is mentioned in passing as one of those who, having found the Road, settled farther along it and never returned to his own time.▼
* Shows up as an old fangless vampire who aids the protagonist in ''[[Dance in the Vampire Bund]]''.▼
* ''[[From Dusk till Dawn]] 3: The Hangman's Daughter''. Oddly, the vampires don't get him in the end.▼
* [[And I Must Scream]]
* [[Badass]]: Bierce enlisted in the Union Army as a private and left it as a major. And he certainly didn't earn his promotions by kissing ass.▼
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Heavy on the deadpan and the snark, and usually in very mean-spirited(but funny) ways.▼
* [[Darker and Edgier]]
* [[Dying Dream]]: {{spoiler|"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"}}▼
* [[Exact Words]]▼
* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]
* [[Mercy Kill]]▼
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]] (''overwhelmingly'' on the cynical side)
* [[Stealth Insult]]: Bierce was especially fond of these; when a former employer reneged on an offer to rehire him, Bierce wrote the following after the man's death: "Here lies Frank Pixley, as usual."▼
* [[Theme Initials]]▼
* [[War Is Hell]]: Bierce was 19 when he enlisted in the Union Army, and this certainly explains some of the more nightmarish images in his stories.▼
== Anime and Manga ==
▲* Shows up as an old fangless vampire who aids the protagonist in ''[[Dance in the Vampire Bund]]''.
== Comic Books ==
▲* [[Phil Foglio]]'s ''[[Stanley and His Monster]]'' miniseries claims that his horror stories were based on truth, and he staged his own disappearance to avoid an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that was coming to complain about his depiction of it. Oddly enough, it also used him as an [[Expy]] of [[Hellblazer|John Constantine]].
== Film ==
▲* [[Dying Dream]]: {{spoiler|"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"}}
▲* ''[[From Dusk till Dawn]] 3: The Hangman's Daughter''. Oddly, the vampires don't get him in the end.
▲* [[Exact Words]]
▲* [[Mercy Kill]]
▲* [[Theme Initials]]
== Literature ==
▲* In [[Robert Bloch]]'s story "I Like Blondes" (originally published in ''Playboy'', 1956), the alien tells Shirley that "the body I'm using right now. Its name was Ambrose Beers, I believe. [Ril] picked it up in Mexico a long time ago..."
▲** That was a [[Genius Bonus]] reference, for sure.
▲* [[Alliterative Family]]: His father gave all the children names starting with "A".
▲* [[Jasper Fforde]]'s ''[[Thursday Next|The Well of Lost Plots]]'' claims that he became a book-jumping agent of Jurisfiction.
▲* [[Abusive Parents]]: Not really abusive, per se, but Bierce clearly had no use or positive feelings for his mother, and very little of either for his father. And he didn't see too much to write home about in his own kids, either.
▲* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Lost Legacy]]'' has him going underground and working for a benevolent [[Ancient Tradition]].
▲* [[Badass]]: Bierce enlisted in the Union Army as a private and left it as a major. And he certainly didn't earn his promotions by kissing ass.
▲* [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''Roadmarks'' concerns a Road that stretches from the past into the future, and the people who travel along it; Bierce is mentioned in passing as one of those who, having found the Road, settled farther along it and never returned to his own time.
▲* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Heavy on the deadpan and the snark, and usually in very mean-spirited(but funny) ways.
▲* [[Stealth Insult]]: Bierce was especially fond of these; when a former employer reneged on an offer to rehire him, Bierce wrote the following after the man's death: "Here lies Frank Pixley, as usual."
▲* [[War Is Hell]]: Bierce was 19 when he enlisted in the Union Army, and this certainly explains some of the more nightmarish images in his stories.
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