First-Person Smartass: Difference between revisions

** In the last book of the trilogy, he even manages to snark chapters ''another character narrates'' {{spoiler|because he and Nathaniel are sharing a body.}}

* [[Warren Ellis]]'s ''[[Crooked Little Vein]]'' features a main character who tells the story from the first person and is most ''definitely'' a smartass, but subverts the rest of the trope by... well, being a typical Ellis protagonist, really.

* Dennis St. Michel from ''[http://menacinghouse.blogspot.com The Luck of Dennis St. Michel, Viscount Stokington]'' is one of these, usually insulting or mocking the other characters in his narration while being polite or deferential in his dialogue.

* Justified in [[Matt Stover|Matthew Stover's]] ''[[The Acts of Caine|Heroes Die]]'', where the protagonist is having his experiences as a particularly violent sort of adventurer in a fantasy world recorded for the entertainment of the masses on a dystopian future Earth.

* R from ''[[Warm Bodies]]''. Justified, as he has trouble actually making legible words with his mouth (he is a zombie, after all), so most of the snarky dialogue we get from him is simply his train of thought.

* While generally the opposite of this trope, [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]]'s [[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Bertie Wooster]] has his moments.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[Burn Notice]]'' has Jeffrey Donovan's character Michael Westen consistently snarking about his situation and environment, though he walks the line between [[First-Person Smartass]] and [[Deadpan Snarker]] with stylish aplomb.

** Upon rigging a club with C4, Michael walks in on the club owner/drug distributor with a business proposal, drinks his alcohol and acts pretty much like he owns the place... while holding a dead man's switch. If he is injured and lets go, the place will explode. As this happens, he narrates:

* George of the [[Mundane Afterlife]] [[Dramedy]] ''[[Dead Like Me]]''.

 

 

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