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** Daimyo Kubota is an always plotting, [[Genre Savvy]] [[Aristocrats Are Evil|aristocrat]]. Almost everything he does to try to usurp Hinjo's position is just plain hateful, culminating in him {{spoiler|ordering the assassination of a pair of former commoners who were promoted to nobility. The wife is pregnant}}. When the plan fails, he {{spoiler|murders his own number two with poison just to give himself time to escape}}. When {{spoiler|he's captured, he plans to use his [[Villain with Good Publicity|good publicity]] to avoid justice and humiliate Hinjo}}. Fortunately, {{spoiler|right after he outlines the above plan, Vaarsuvius, not wanting any more distractions from the main plot, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|disintegrates him]].}} His status as a Smug Snake is cemented by the fact that he [[Big Bad Wannabe|just doesn't stack up]] against [[Big Bad]] and [[Complete Monster]] Xykon and his long-term planning henchman Redcloak. He's also horribly naive, and thinks taking the city back from Xykon will be a trivial matter.

** Likewise, [[Card-Carrying Villain|Nale]], leader of the Linear Guild and Elan's [[Evil Twin]], isn't nearly the [[Magnificent Bastard]] and evil mastermind he likes to think he is; Vaarsuvius points out that most of his plans, which he likes to think of as works of genius, are in fact rather trite and cliched (if nevertheless somewhat effective), and he has the tendency to come off as being rather smug rather than magnificent. {{spoiler|Elan and Nale's father, General Tarquin, a genuine [[Magnificent Bastard]], more or less confirms this when he is insulted by being compared to Nale:}}

** Tsukiko is an incredibly vain sorceress who [[Thinks Like a Romance Novel|believes she's the heroine of]] some ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''-esque novel with Xykon as the dashing undead love interest. Worst, she actually believes she can treat Redcloak like dirt and constantly get away with it, up to the point of replacing him as Xykon's [[The Dragon|Dragon]]. {{spoiler|Redcloak ultimately demonstrates that she's very, very mistaken on every count, and way over her head.}}

* The [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|slimy, manipulative businessman]] Serk Brakkis in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]: Oracle For Hire'' is a walking embodiment of this trope. He uses his power to utterly ruin people's lives, [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|takes their money and then hides behind Byzantine laws]]. In the end, however, he is trampled under a ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|very]]'' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|satisfying]] [[Humiliation Conga]], beginning with a fencer flicking his wig off ("''Toupee!''"). Much later, when it looks like he's going to [[Karma Houdini|beat the rap]] after another foiled scheme, {{spoiler|Celesto shows up and turns him inside out.}}

* Faz in ''[[Walkyverse|Shortpacked]]'' is a toadying, [[Ambition Is Evil|nakedly ambitious]] sycophant with a permanent smug expression and a tendency to openly plot against and undermine the people he works with. Absolutely no one in the store, including his boss, particularly gives a damn about his continuing existence or welfare.

** If you need ''even more'' evidence of his Smug Snake status, just read his entry on the cast page: "Shortpacked!'s most annoying recruit has an infuriatingly smug grin you'd love to remove with a grenade launcher."

*** It doesn't help that he also comes off as a slimier [[Casanova Wannabe]] when trying to convince [[Meganekko|Amber]] to sleep with him, including pulling out the Kinsey Graph when Amber said she was a lesbian (Long story)