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* Kurz Weber from ''[[Full Metal Panic]]'' is a former fashion model, [[Lovable Sex Maniac]], and generally a sociable and talkative guy who, when temporarily assigned to cover bodyguarding Kaname in Sousuke's place, introduced himself directly to her and her friend, playing [[Funny Foreigner]] and getting the girls to take him out for karaoke. True to the trope, he's also an expert sniper who once managed to take out a [[Humongous Mecha]]'s machine gun by firing into its barrel... from the bed of a speeding pickup truck. The [[Light Novels]] eventually reveal that Kurz made a conscious choice to avoid becoming a [[Cold Sniper]] following his training with one of them.

* Quite a few [[Fanon]] portrayals of [[Axis Powers Hetalia|Finland]] peg him as one of these. Considering he's a mix of [[Badass Adorable]] and [[Boisterous Bruiser]] as well as how [[Badass]] [[Cold Sniper]] [[wikipedia:Simo H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4|Simo Häyhä]] hailed from his land, it's not hard to put two and two together...

* Nadie in ''[[El Cazador de la Bruja]]'' is a rather nice and personable girl, who is very very skilled with her pistol and will not hesitate to kill you.

* Any of the snipers from the Freedom faction from [[STALKER]]. Freedom has a much larger amount of snipers than their rival faction; Duty (who don't have any at all, preferring to wade into combat headfirst with a 25kg Exoskeleton and 9kg light machine gun), as they prefer to attack guerrilla-style, but when they aren't [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters|fighting for free access to the Zone]] they're the most easygoing and cheerful guys in the entire game series.

* The ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' Sniper is an odd case; on your team, he's this. On the other team, he's the [[Cold Sniper]], in much the same way that the Heavy is [[The Big Guy]] while on your team but [[The Brute]] while on the other team. This is exemplified by the fact that he is given the page quote both above and and on the [[Cold Sniper]] page.

* Cathari from ''[[Suikoden V]]''.

* The Dwarven Sniper from ''[[Defense of the Ancients]]'' is pretty chipper in his soundbites.

* Finn from ''[[Storm Hawks]]'' is the team sniper, and also the team clown.

* Deadpool is this in ''[[Hulk Vs]]''. His introductory scene involves him sniping Wolverine with tranquilizers, and then lightheartedly (though ironically) greeting him as Logan passes out.

* Maggie Simpson in [[The Simpsons]]. No, really!

 

 

* One of the best snipers from the United States, [[Vietnam War]] veteran Carlos "[[Red Baron|White Feather]]" Hathcock. He's credited with almost a hundred kills (as well as a ''Real Life [[Scope Snipe]]'' on an enemy sniper) before his tour was cut short when a vehicle he was riding was struck by an anti-tank mine. Despite wearing a white feather strapped to his bush hat and having a ''battalion'' of Vietnamese snipers sent with orders to find and kill him, they never succeeded--[[Moment of Awesome|and that includes having a searching Vietnamese soldier]] ''[[Moment of Awesome|nearly step on him]]'' [[Moment of Awesome|without noticing either him or his white feather]]. He often referred to his targets as "hamburger". You'd expect a guy like this to be a Cold Sniper through and through, but this is what he had to say about himself after the war:

* This is not uncommon in [[Real Life]]; many trained snipers feel the need to balance what they do on the job with friendly interaction off of it. And real armies tend to want someone with good mental health in this role.

** Snipers who are extroverts are often considered better adjusted than the traditional cold sniper though ideally a sniper is a mix: cold enough to carry out orders without hesitation or fear, yet emotional enough to not become a sociopath.