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== [[Music]] ==

* While it's rather hard to tell whether or not they actually were like this, [[The Sex Pistols]] certainly presented themselves this way, much to the horror of [[Moral Guardians]] and awe of fans.

* Murdoc Niccals from the band [[Gorillaz]]

* Bertram, Count of Rousillon, in ''[[Shakespeare|All's Well That Ends Well]]''. Because he is married to a peasant girl (in the [[Distaff Counterpart]] of the [[Standard Hero Reward]]), he rebuffs her, saying he will only bed her when she can prove he has gotten her pregnant. Then he goes off to fight in one of the wars between Italian states.

* Oh, '''''Henry Higgins''''' from ''[[Pygmalion]]!'' So very, very much! To wit: when he first meets [[The Hero|the heroine]] Eliza he insults her accent even as she's trying to scrape enough money just to pay her rent; and he's endlessly patronizing and insulting to her when she comes to him for speech lessons. He makes no bones about the fact that other people annoy and bore him; and most of his interactions with other characters involve him insulting them, bullying them, challenging them, complaining about how bored with them he is, or else just bluntly identifying their accents. What's satisfying, though, is that the characters ''do'' notice this, and every single one of them [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshades]] it when they remind him to have better manners.

* Stanley in ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''.