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== Anime and Manga ==

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Cromartie High School]]'' had an episode about a gang leader that administrates a web forum and is incredibly polite. After running into a Troll, he restrains himself. However, the troll later bumps into him in person, and [[Laser-Guided Karma|is punched to the ground by the gang leader without either knowing who the other really is.]]

* ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' has Meru Otonashi, who ([[Meaningful Name|true to her name]]) is extremely shy around others, and only communicates through text messages... pretty much all of which consist entirely of outrageous slander of the recipient. And don't even think about taking her phone away, because she has extras. And don't bother waiting for the battery to die. She has extras. ''[[Hyperspace Arsenal|Many]]'' extras.

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* ''[[Durarara!!]]'''s Izaya Orihara not only trolls the internet (his favorite tactic appears to be {{spoiler|[[GIRL|posing as a girl]] in chatrooms}}) but also real life on a near-constant basis

== ~~Film~~ ==

== [[Fan Works]] ==

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* Parodied in episode 48 of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'', where Internet trolls abduct Téa and prepare to cook her to death with their flames ("ONE STAR! DOWN THUMB!").

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'', the plot is kicked off by the duo's reaction to trolls on a movie review site. The movie also ends with them {{spoiler|flying to each troll's house and beating the ever loving hell out of them.}}

* In ''[[Borat]]'', Sacha Baron Cohen goes around America as a [[Funny Foreigner]] trolling people in the name of Kazakhstan to show how big of dicks some people can be. Same thing with his other film, Bruno. Just replace Kazakhstan with fashion.

== Literature ==

== [[Literature]] ==

* In ''[[Ender's Game]]'', Peter and Valentine troll message boards in order to learn from the angry responses. Step 1: Troll message boards. [[Step Three: Profit|Step 2: ???]] Step 3: {{spoiler|World domination!}}

* Pretty much the entirety of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s only full-length novel, ''[[The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket]]'', is a long, mean-spirited practical joke at the expense of readers. In an age where exploration narratives were one of the most popular forms of literature, he published it without a label indicating it as fiction, made it completely unbelievable, and turned most of the plot into a series of anticlimactic moments, and the ending is infamously abrupt. First editions tend to have marginalia along the lines of "I don't believe a word of this!" and "Damned liar!"

* Referred to in the introduction to David Hume's ''Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals'', in which he calls people who are "entirely disingenuous, and really do not believe the opinions they defend, but engage in the controversy from affectation, from a spirit of opposition, or from a desire of showing wit and ingenuity superior to the rest of mankind" the most irksome of all types of people. Hume goes on to state that "the only way, therefore, of converting an antagonist of this kind, is to leave him to himself. For, finding that no body keeps up the controversy with him, it is probable he will, at last, of himself, from mere weariness, come over to the side of common sense and reason."

== Live-Action TV ==

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Andy Kaufman]]''

* Kaitou from ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'' is a mild example in that he only purposely trolls one particular person, but everytime he's onscreen with Tsukasa, he takes the opportunity to mess with him and try to ruin his plans, complete with a grin on his face. As the show continues, he eventually becomes a bit more friendly, {{spoiler|but then in the finale, after tearful confessions of camaraderie, he beautifully comes full circle when he unexpectedly shoots Tsukasa in the face for a season-ending cliffhanger.}}

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* The ''[[Top Gear]]'' America Used Car Challenge special essentially required them to troll Alabama by writing slogans on each other's cars.

== ~~Mythology~~ ==

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

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* Proving that this concept is [[Older Than They Think]], Ratatotskr the Wold Tree Squirrel from [[Norse Mythology]] fit the bill. On the surface, he was a simple and efficient messenger boy for the gods, but his favorite clients were the wise eagle that perched atop the Tree, and the vile serpent Nidhoggr who coiled around its roots. Ratatotskr would loyally relay threats and insults between the two enemies, all the while chuckling at the rage from them and stirring the animosity between the mighty beasts, which was ''never'' directed at him. Some versions make Ratatotskr more malevolent, relaying the messages hoping the two foes will actually destroy the Tree to get at each other, which actually happens during Ragnarok.

== Newspaper Comic ==

* From ''[[Dilber]]'', recurring character [https://dilbert.com/strip/2015-04-02 Dick from the Internet]. ''Everybody'' knows him.

== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==

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* Proving that this concept is [[Older Than They Think]], Ratatotskr the Wold Tree Squirrel from [[Norse Mythology]] fit the bill. On the surface, he was a simple and efficient messenger boy for the gods, but his favorite clients were the wise eagle that perched atop the Tree, and the vile serpent Nidhoggr who coiled around its roots. Ratatotskr would loyally relay threats and insults between the two enemies, all the while chuckling at the rage from them and stirring the animosity between the mighty beasts, which was ''never'' directed at him. Some versions make Ratatotskr more malevolent, relaying the messages hoping the two foes will actually destroy the Tree to get at each other, which actually happens during Ragnarok.

== Software ==

* Akita Neru is a [[Vocaloid]] character created during a troll attack in the Japanese 2ch message board accusing the characters of being pointless moeblobs, and calling everybody who used the program a misogynistic freak who wanted the illusion of controlling women. She is now considered an [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of trolls.

== Video Games ==

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[The Sims]] 3,'' Sims with certain traits, evil most notably, can troll forums, and derive fun from doing so.

* Hazama / Terumi from ''[[BlazBlue]]'' practically revels in trolling and taunting everyone he comes across, as shown heavily on Ragna and Rachel. By Continuum Shift, he has practically trolled the entire cast {{spoiler|because no matter what you do, even if you Astral Finish him, he ''always'' wins}}.

* ''[[Forum Warz]]'' is an RPG where you play a troll - an [[Emo Teen|Emo Kid]], a [[Attention Whore|Camwhore]], a [[The Cracker|Hacker]] or a Perma-[[Noob]]. People contact you to bring down forums by "fighting" forum threads, derailing them and posting nonsense until you "pwn" the entire forum.

* Palutena from ''[[Kid Icarus: ~~Uprising|Kid Icarus~~ Uprising]]'' messes with Pit almost non-stop. Her pranks range from not warning Pit when she's going to speed his wings up to deliberately ''using him as bait'' to lure out one of the Hewdraw heads. All that, and she's his [[Mission Control]].

* Palutena from ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising]]'' messes with Pit almost non-stop. Her pranks range from not warning Pit when she's going to speed his wings up to deliberately ''using him as bait'' to lure out one of the Hewdraw heads. All that, and she's his [[Mission Control]].

* The [[Knight Templar]]s of some online video games are the ones who design strategies specifically to defeat players who use the Top Tier ones (often loaded with [[Tier-Induced Scrappy]]s. The procedure goes like this: They choose one type of player who uses the "offending" Scrappies that other players hate, design a strategy much easier to put together (more-or-less) but specifically designed to defeat the "offender". Players who defeat Top Tier players like this can often expose them as terrible [[Sore Loser]]s. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMe7Cat6LhY An example.]

* GLaDOS from ''[[Portal]]'' cruelly taunts Chell with childish insults while goading her with chances to escape that she yanks away when they're in arm's reach. Fortunately, Chell, being a [[Heroic Mime]], never gives her a reaction.

** GLaDOS also acts like this in ''[[Poker Night At the Inventory]]'' when she makes an appearance; obviously she sees the opportunity to troll a lot more characters than Chell by doing so. She doesn't actually play (having no hands would make playing cards difficult) but she might (to give one example) look at an opponent's cards and then turn to the player and say ''"I know something you don't know!"'' in a snarky tone. This ''might'' be a cue that it's a good idea to fold, but since any fan of ''Portal'' knows GLaDOS is a liar, it could mean just the opposite.

== Web Comics ==

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Referenced by ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' [http://www.kevinandkell.com/1997/kk0826.html here.]

* Also parodied by ''[[xkcd]]'' [http://xkcd.com/591/ here]. Then some fans put together the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104134920/http://echochamber.me/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=40054&hilit=Troll+Slayer&start=40#p1597846 extended version].

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* In ''[[Unwinder's Tall Comics]]'', the title character is an oddly-dedicated troll both [http://tallcomics.com/?id=21 on the internet] and in real life. [http://tallcomics.com/?id=13 "The real music is the jeers of the angry crowd!"]

== Web Original ==

== [[Web Original]] ==

* [[Retsupurae]] tried to riff on a usual [[Let's Play]], but about six minutes and thirty seconds in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVGFkA5zjso "The Marios"], they discover it was intentionally made to be Retsupurae'd and it actually [[Crowning Moment of Funny|derails their commentary.]]

* Parodied in a ''College Humor'' sketch featuring an Internet troll living under a bridge. He blocks the road and shouts racist, sexist, homophobic or just plain inflammatory comments at people until they lose their temper, at which point they get sent flying ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|Monty Python]]'' style. The only way to defeat them is to agree with everything they say until you can get them to unironically and genuinely admit vulnerability and the need for friendship, which imposes the same fate on them as their victims.

* Parodied in a ''[[College Humor]]'' sketch featuring an Internet troll living under a bridge. He blocks the road and shouts racist, sexist, homophobic or just plain inflammatory comments at people until they lose their temper, at which point they get sent flying ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|Monty Python]]'' style. The only way to defeat them is to agree with everything they say until you can get them to unironically and genuinely admit vulnerability and the need for friendship, which imposes the same fate on them as their victims.

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* Parodied in episode 48 of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'', where Internet trolls abduct Téa and prepare to cook her to death with their flames ("ONE STAR! DOWN THUMB!").

== Western Animation ==

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In the [[Netflix]] version of ''[[Carmen Sandiego]]'', V.I.L.E. employs [[The Cracker| a Cracker]] who literally [[At Least I Admit It| calls himself the Troll]] (and [[Insistent Terminology| don't forget to add a "the"]]) and he clearly ''is'' one.

* In the [[Netflix]] version of ''[[Carmen Sandiego]]'', V.I.L.E. employs [[The Cracker|a Cracker]] who literally [[At Least I Admit It|calls himself "the Troll"]] (and [[Insistent Terminology|don't forget to add a "the"]]) and he clearly ''is'' one.