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== Comic Books ==

* [[Secret Wars|The Beyonder]], of Secret Wars fame.

* [[Superman]]'s enemy the Prankster. Seriously, how can you not love a guy with no super powers, whose only real goal is to pull the biggest practical jokes on the largest number of people possible, and whose favorite target is the most powerful being on Earth?

{{quote| '''Budd Foxx''': Why do you need to wreck this company?<br />

'''Gordon Gekko''': Because it's ''wreckable'', alright? }}

{{quote| This caused the 1977 New York blackout. A practical joke by the great attractor. He thought it was funny as hell. }}

* From ''[[Gremlins|Gremlins 2]]'', the Brain Gremlin after he shoots one of his fellows in the face with a pistol:

** Odin, though somewhat less obvious than Loki, also falls under this. He acts very similar to Loki, to the point one theory is that Loki and Odin were originally the same god, but the more well-known myths tend to downplay his role as a [[Trickster Archetype]].

* And [[Greek Mythology|Hermes/Mercury]].

* [[The Fair Folk]]: The cheif differance between the Seelie and Unseelie courts in some stories seems to be in what they find funny and how much harm they consider acceptable, and that's if you're lucky.

* There're a couple of myths ''invented'' for this purpose in Australia. Because apparently [[Australian Wildlife|the real wildlife]] [[Everything Trying to Kill You|wasn't scary enough already]], they decided to tell tourists that the trees were infested with [[Drop Bear|carnivorous koalas]] and the only way to ward them off was to put Vegemite behind your ears. This is one of the only forms of [[Troll|trolling]] that the internet has actually ''dis''couraged.

* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', Uncle Time is an [[Odd Job Gods|Odd Job God]] with this attitude.

** Bun-bun can veer into this too if he's in a good mood, especially with his "friends", whom he has come to grudgingly care about a tiny little bit. [[For the Evulz]] is a better characterisation for many of the things he does, though.

* Donovan in ''[[Dominic Deegan (Webcomic)|Dominic Deegan]]'' reveals that his [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels|comically poor grasp of the Orcish language]] was just a front; he knew how to speak the language perfectly for roughly twenty years, but insisted on the mangled version because he thought it was funny (and that he was a bard, as being funny is the reason bards do ''anything'').

* Coyote from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. Comes with being a [[Trickster God]], as mentioned above under Mythology.

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