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[[File:noblewomans-laugh_6978.jpg|link=Sailor Moon|frame|OHHHHHHH-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-hoooo!!!]]
[[File:noblewomans-laugh 6978.jpg|link=Sailor Moon|frame|OHHHHHHH-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-hoooo!!!]]




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These characters are most likely to exhibit this laugh in moments of arrogance or when contemplating how they'll humiliate their enemies. They frequently will pose holding a straightened palm vertically to the side of or below their mouth, or holding a fan over their mouths. This comes from the custom that refined Japanese women don't expose their mouths while laughing.
These characters are most likely to exhibit this laugh in moments of arrogance or when contemplating how they'll humiliate their enemies. They frequently will pose holding a straightened palm vertically to the side of or below their mouth, or holding a fan over their mouths. This comes from the custom that refined Japanese women don't expose their mouths while laughing.


No matter what, the [[Noblewoman's Laugh]] is almost always the mark of a bitch.
No matter what, the '''Noblewoman's Laugh''' is almost always the mark of a bitch.


Male villains may also laugh this way, particularly if they're similarly prim or aristocratic or if they're effeminate (so expect to hear it from the [[Wicked Cultured]] man or the [[Sissy Villain]]).
Male villains may also laugh this way, particularly if they're similarly prim or aristocratic or if they're effeminate (so expect to hear it from the [[Wicked Cultured]] man or the [[Sissy Villain]]).
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* Nanami from ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]''.
* Nanami from ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]''.
* Renge from ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' ([http://youtube.com/watch?v=0AuFgZT4O-I Here's the Japanese version], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjeIUARpuUE and the English version].)
* Renge from ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' ([http://youtube.com/watch?v=0AuFgZT4O-I Here's the Japanese version], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjeIUARpuUE and the English version].)
* Naga from ''[[The Slayers]]'' [[OVA|OVAs]] and movies is likely the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffiiYPg5qSc most powerful example] of this, perhaps because of the sheer [[Cute but Cacophonic|volume]] of it; her '''Noblewoman's Laugh''' has been known to scare small animals and old ladies. When she was cloned, the simultaneous laughter of a dozen Nagas was all it took to destroy the villain of the piece.
* Naga from ''[[The Slayers]]'' [[OVA]]s and movies is likely the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffiiYPg5qSc most powerful example] of this, perhaps because of the sheer [[Cute but Cacophonic|volume]] of it; her '''Noblewoman's Laugh''' has been known to scare small animals and old ladies. When she was cloned, the simultaneous laughter of a dozen Nagas was all it took to destroy the villain of the piece.
** Naga's laugh is apparently so destructive that it's used as her ultimate attack in the ''[[Magical Battle Arena]]'' doujin game. That's right, it's on the same level as Dragon Slave and [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Starlight Breaker]].
** Naga's laugh is apparently so destructive that it's used as her ultimate attack in the ''[[Magical Battle Arena]]'' doujin game. That's right, it's on the same level as Dragon Slave and [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Starlight Breaker]].
*** [[Brown Note]] power to the max!
*** [[Brown Note]] power to the max!
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** A one-shot opponent of Ash's in the Pokémon League tournament - Jeanette Fisher, a girl rich enough to have an entire cheer section also had this laugh while thrashing Ash with a [[Waif Fu|Bellsprout]].
** A one-shot opponent of Ash's in the Pokémon League tournament - Jeanette Fisher, a girl rich enough to have an entire cheer section also had this laugh while thrashing Ash with a [[Waif Fu|Bellsprout]].
** [[Pokémon Special|Blue]] exhibits one whenever Green makes his "noisy woman" comment.
** [[Pokémon Special|Blue]] exhibits one whenever Green makes his "noisy woman" comment.
* Bizarrely enough, [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Mamori]] [[Team Mom|Anezaki]] of ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' does this during the field day mini-arc--although, she was deliberately acting as deviant as possible in order to facilitate one of [[Trickster Archetype|Hiruma's]] notorious plots.
* Bizarrely enough, [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Mamori]] [[Team Mom|Anezaki]] of ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' does this during the field day mini-arc—although, she was deliberately acting as deviant as possible in order to facilitate one of [[Trickster Archetype|Hiruma's]] notorious plots.
** Yukimitsu also dreads the day his mother lets one of these loose.
** Yukimitsu also dreads the day his mother lets one of these loose.
* Mayune from ''[[Prétear]]'', occasionally.
* Mayune from ''[[Prétear]]'', occasionally.
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* This is performed with surprising skill by Tatsukichi of [[MM!]]!, despite the fact that Tatsukichi is a crossdresser.
* This is performed with surprising skill by Tatsukichi of [[MM!]]!, despite the fact that Tatsukichi is a crossdresser.
* In ''[[Orphen]] Revenge'', in the dancing contest episode, there's a whats-her-name female character prone to Noblewoman's Laughing.
* In ''[[Orphen]] Revenge'', in the dancing contest episode, there's a whats-her-name female character prone to Noblewoman's Laughing.
* [[media:To_Love-RU_laugh_1215.jpg|Saki]] in ''[[To Love Ru]]''
* [[media:To Love-RU laugh 1215.jpg|Saki]] in ''[[To Love Ru]]''
* Pinako from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' apparently used to do this as a young woman.
* Pinako from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' apparently used to do this as a young woman.
* Greta from ''[[A Little Snow Fairy Sugar]]''.
* Greta from ''[[A Little Snow Fairy Sugar]]''.
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=== Live Action TV ===
=== Live Action TV ===
* In ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'', Shizuka briefly goes through a [[Yandere]] period, marked by pseudo-[[Imagine Spot|Imagine Spots]] where she has devil horns, a pitchfork, and does the laugh as she attempts to break up Wataru and Mio.
* In ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'', Shizuka briefly goes through a [[Yandere]] period, marked by pseudo-[[Imagine Spot]]s where she has devil horns, a pitchfork, and does the laugh as she attempts to break up Wataru and Mio.
** It gets weirder (and [[Crowning Moment of Funny|funnier]]) later on when she realizes that Mio does honestly love Wataru and tries to patch them up. Afterwards she muses that maybe her true role is to be Wataru's surrogate mother, followed by an [[Imagine Spot]] of her as an angel...''still'' doing the laugh.
** It gets weirder (and [[Crowning Moment of Funny|funnier]]) later on when she realizes that Mio does honestly love Wataru and tries to patch them up. Afterwards she muses that maybe her true role is to be Wataru's surrogate mother, followed by an [[Imagine Spot]] of her as an angel...''still'' doing the laugh.


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