Little Miss Snarker: Difference between revisions

'''Calvin''': I don't know, [[Lampshade Hanging|it seems you'd rather be making smart remarks.]]|''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''}}

 

 

The humor here is that we don't usually think of an adorable little kid as being sarcastic, and this character type is both smart and perceptive, capable of pointing out exactly what other characters keep concealed - often their feelings for one another.

== Anime and Manga ==

 

* Kiri Koshiba from ''[[Beauty Pop]]''.

* Yurikasa Chika from ''[[Asagiri no Miko]]''.

* Kisaka Rui in ''[[Jinki Extend]]''.

* Imai Hotaru in ''[[Gakuen Alice]]''.

* Guu from ''[[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu|Haré+Guu]]'' is this trope taken to its ([[Gag Series|il]])logical extreme.

* Chiaki from ''[[Minami-ke]]''.

* Rio in ''[[Spiral]]'' and its prequel.

* The [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|eternal]] Vita of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', who takes the role of the prickly officer to the new recruits after she joins the [[Heroes-R-Us|Space-Time Administration Bureau]].

* Anya Alstreim from ''[[Code Geass]]''. C.C.'s also a pretty good fit, not so much in the short or undeveloped part, but she does contrast child-like mannerisms (like playing with a stuffed animal) with being so snarky that ''Lelouch'' initially thinks of her as downright inhuman.

* A [[Rare Male Example]] is Naota from ''[[FLCL]]''. The light novel explicitly mentions that his body hasn't kept up with his mental maturity. In the anime, his pajamas don't even fit a 12-year-old girl. He overuses '[[Japanese Pronouns|ore]]' to compensate.

* Likewise, Jin in ''[[Kannagi]]'' has...let's call them 'body issues'. He acts older than he is, and a lot older than he looks.

* Ai Haibara from ''[[Detective Conan]]'' fits this trope beautifully.

* Ar from ''[[Iono the Fanatics]]''. "[[Lolicon|Pedophilia]] is a crime, you know."

* Coco from ''[[Basquash]]''.

* Rima in ''[[Shugo Chara]]''.

* Micchon in ''[[Eden of the East]]''.

* Saki Amano from ''[[Kanamemo]]'', who, despite being in elementary school, knows when the employees at her office act out of line and isn't afraid to tell them so.

* Played with in ''[[The Twelve Kingdoms]]'' where the local [[Little Miss Snarker]] is Shushou, a child queen who is actually [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]], since she became sovereign ''and'' stopped aging when she was 12.

* Shokatsuryou Koumei from ''[[Ikki Tousen]]'' lives and breathes this trope, which is to be expected from an eight year old reincarnation of [[The Strategist|Zhuge Liang]].

* Pan in ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]''.

* Saori from ''[[Wandering Son]]'' became this around volume 4 of the manga.

* Kana from ''[[Soul Eater Not]]'' is a [[Fortune Teller]] who snarks with Tarot cards.

* Rokujo Miharu from ''[[Nabari no Ou]]'' fits this one, at least in the beginning of the series.

* Chibiusa from ''[[Sailor Moon]]''

 

== Comic Books ==

 

== Fanfic ==

* ''[[Toy Hammer (Fanfic)|Toy Hammer]]'''s shrunk-down, [[Fun Size]] -ified {{spoiler|[[Gender Flip|Gender Flipped]] God Emperor of Mankind}} is a deadpan loli. [[Better Than It Sounds]] and [[It Makes Sense in Context]] here.

{{quote| Michael: "Can we all behave like adults here?"<br />

* In ''[[Beautiful Girls]]'' a young [[Natalie Portman]] plays one of these.

* Dakota Fanning's characters in the movies ''[[Push]]'' and ''[[Uptown Girls]]'' pretty much fit this to a T.

* 10-year-old Devon from ''[[Lawn Dogs]]''. Snark is [[Troubling Unchildlike Behavior|by far the most wholesome of her methods]] for dealing with the artificial, stuck-up, pretentious world she inhabits.

* Dani from ''[[Hocus Pocus]]''.

** There was a little girl, but she died 20 years ago. (spooky music)

* Raj's little sister Dee on ''[[What's Happening]]''.

* Megan on [[Drake and Josh]].

* Morgan Matthews from ''[[Boy Meets World]]''.

* Elva from the ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]''.

* Adah in ''[[The Poisonwood Bible]]''.

* Elani from ''[[Broken Sky]]''.

* Several child characters in Dean Koontz's works would definitely qualify. Lelani Klonk from One Door Away From Heaven and Regina from Hideaway, to name a couple.

** Hermione also gets her moments.

* Ivy aka The Archive from ''The Dresden Files'' makes an attempt at this on behalf of the incapacitated protagonist. He notes that she's not very good at it yet, but he gets choked up nonetheless.

* [[Percy Jackson|Artemis, Zoë Nightshade and Thalia.]] Also subverted, since Artemis and Zoë turned out to be [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]].

* Rachel from the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series. Has no problem calling out [[Badass|Chase]] when he complains about the poultice he's forced to apply by telling him that if he'd just listened to her in the first place, he probably wouldn't have been hurt by the [[Eldritch Abomination]] he was surprised by and he wouldn't have to take the burning medicine.

* The Cadpig from "The Hundred and One Dalmations" and "The Starlight Barking" by Dodie Smith. Okay, so she's a [[Precious Puppies|puppy]], but that just adds to the cuteness.

* [[Young Wizards|Dairine Callahan]] is practically this trope's poster child.

 

== Radio ==

 

 

== Theatre ==

== Video Games ==

 

{{quote| '''[[Idiot Hero|Heart:]]''' Hey-o! Miss Kidnapper-Person! [[Big Damn Heroes|Are you ready for an awesome rescue]]~? ♪ <br />

'''Lieselotte:''' [[Funetik Aksent|(...zat girl is very odd...)]] }}

* Jacqli of ''[[Ar Tonelico]] 2'' serves this purpose. {{spoiler|Also [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]], and the [[Big Bad]] of the previous game}}.

* Oh, [[The Legend of Zelda|Tetra]], how sensible of you to put Link down for being a [[Knight Templar Big Brother]] with [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]] on every given oportunity. {{spoiler|Probably also the only Princess Zelda to ever point out to Ganondorf that an [[Evil Laugh]] doesn't exactly make you seem sane. }}

** [[Twilight Princess|Midna]] is also this.

{{quote| '''To Exdeath:''' Inside your head is the Void!<br />

'''To Cloud:''' Your hair is a distraction!<br />

'''To Kuja:''' Narcissists are so last Windsday! }}

* Dinah from ''[[Summon Night]]: Swordcraft Story 2'' is both this and a [[Noble Demon]]. She makes a good foil to the sensitive and kinda ditzy [[Player Character]].

* [[Blaz Blue|Rachel]] is this in spades. And when she sees a spade, she simply calls it as such.

 

== Web Comics ==

* Tycho's niece Anne from [[Penny Arcade]] has her moments.

{{quote| '''Galahad:''' You're breaking up with me?<br />

== Western Animation ==

 

* Fang from ''[[Dave the Barbarian]]''.

* Gosalyn from [[Darkwing Duck]]

** Arguably Maggie as well, though Maggie is more so of the [[Silent Snarker]] variety.

* Kimi Finster from [[Rugrats]] would eventually become this in [[All Grown Up]], contradictory to her lovable self in the original series (with the exception of the newspaper comic strips), more less towards her brother, Chuckie Finster (and sometimes the other "Rats") on separate occasions.

* Tanya Mousekewitz in the direct-to-video sequels of ''[[An American Tail]]''.

{{quote| "Power tools in the dark? Darwin should be paying you two goons royalties."}}

* Heloise of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''

* Helga from ''[[Hey Arnold]]!''.

* Upon being virtualized into the real world, Aelita developed into this in ''[[Code Lyoko]]''.

** Also, [[Lovable Alpha Bitch|Sissi.]]

* Beebe Bluff from ''[[Doug]]'', of the [[Rich Bitch]] variety.

* Anais from ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]''.