History Main / FirstPersonSmartass

* Jericho, the narrator of ''Fanfic/{{Jericho}}'', is this. It overlaps occasionally with TalkingToThemself because his internal monologue sometimes argues with itself. This trope is actually justified because Jericho is a SociopathicHero, so it makes a creepy sort of sense that he would view the world like this. He is known for often ThinkingOutLoud, which makes heavy use of this trope and MoodWhiplash.

* Garret from the ''{{Thief}}'' series is at least an FPS smart ass.

* Vern, the main character of the "Dragon Eye, PI" series by Karina Fabian. He's a dragon who was shrunken down in size and power by St. George (the magically super-powered pain in the tail) who is from a parallel world of magic but now living in ours since The Gap (the name which scientists gave it which, Vern assures us, made a certain company leap for joy) opened to allow traffic between worlds, and currently deals with crimes where Mundane and Magical cross. Need confirmation, check out his introduction to himself, his partner (Sister Grace), and the 'verse.

--> '''Alex''': That very same evening I was dragged down [[SarcasmMode nice and gentle]] by [[PoliceBrutality brutal tolchoking chassos]] to viddy the Governer in his [[RedundancyDepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment holy of holies holy]] office...

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* ''Everyone'' is this to some degree, from their own points of view. Admit it, every now and then, ''you've'' come up with some sort of snide or sarcastic comment in your head.
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This guy sometimes shows up in the PrivateEyeMonologue sort of work, but UrbanFantasy is where you really can't turn a corner without bumping into a dozen of them. Seriously, just dare to cast a fireball in some otherwise normal city and before you're halfway done, some wannabe-protagonist will jump at you from behind a corner and start throwing pithy remarks at you about how you're being cliché and violating the laws of thermodynamics.

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* ''Machinima/FreemansMind'' turns the SilentProtagonist of ''HalfLife'' into a snarky, sarcastic sociopath.

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* ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'': True to ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' form, both point of view characters, Phoenix Wright and [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]], partake in this. Also true to form, both play as a sort of [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Man/Mare]] in a world of crazies, and are quite the [[DeadpanSnarker snarkers]] while they're at it.

** Oh, and she seemingly reads TVTropes. "Xanatos Gambit?" "Xanatos Gambit." And has an intelligence network that the CIA would envy.

* In recent years, this has been a fairly common practice in ''SpiderMan'' comic books.

* Daniel Lawson in the Glee fanfic series TheHarmonverse takes this trope and has his babies- one of the best things about Daniel is how he snarks about anything in front of him.

* The narrator of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Jericho}}'', whose name happens to be Jericho, is so this. It overlaps occasionally with HearingVoices because his internal monologue sometimes argues with itself. This trope is actually justified because Jericho is a SociopathicHero, so it makes a creepy sort of sense that he would view the world like this. He is known for often ThinkingOutLoud, which makes heavy use of this trope and MoodWhiplash.
** Said immediately after shoving a person out of a skyscraper window, which was a really hardcore dramatic scene:
--> “[[BondOneLiner Goodbye]],” I laughed as I watched his body shrink almost out of sight and hit the pavement. My toothy grin was still on my face as I said to nopony in particular, “Oh, damn! [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat I’ve always wanted to do that]], spout a badass one-liner and then [[DestinationDefenestration push somebody out of a tall window]]. It’s, like, always been a personal dream of mine. Plus, the one-liner reaffirmed my heroic status.” I looked at the window, more just of a giant hole now. “Wow. Equestrian windows are really poorly made. I mean, do they not yet have safety glass? [[DangerousWindows The window just shattered into giant spears of glassy murder]]. If there had been a room on the other side of this glass, that guy would have just been [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice horribly impaled to death]].”
* Link is very much this in [[http://www.mediaminer.org/fanfic/view_st.php/19769 The Legend of Link: Lucky Number 13]]. [[spoiler:Turns out that in the first person sections he's conversing with a shadow demon that's sharing his body, so it makes sense he'd describe things less than objectively.]]
* Of all people [[ShrinkingViolet Hinata]] in ''A Demon In The Hyuuga Clan''.
--> "Naturally I thought that it would [[{{Catchphrase}} fly like a lead balloon.]]"

* Louis in ''KindHeartsAndCoronets.''

* The narrator of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Jericho}}'' has this to the point where his own thoughts could easily be mistaken for an {{MST}}.

The TropeNamer was a review of Steven Brust's {{Dragaera}} series by [[http://www.steelypips.org/library/AuthorArchive.html ''The Library of Babel'']]. And of course you're going to click that, because the "click hither and educate thyself" tone of that sentence just ''screams'' "fun."

* VideoGame/{{Descent}}'s [[PlayerCharacter Material Defender]].

* True to ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' form, everyone with the point of view in ''FanFic/TurnaboutStorm'' is this. These are Phoenix Wright and [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]], both being quite the [[DeadpanSnarker snarkers]] while they're at it.

* True to ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' form, everyone with the point of view in ''FanFic/TurnaboutStorm'' will be this. This includes Phoenix Wright and [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]], the later being much more of a [[DeadpanSnarker snarker]] while she's at it.
** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]] is this in ''VideoGame/MyLittleInvestigations'' as per VisualNovel/AceAttorney standards.

* Harry Dresden of the ''DresdenFiles'' is a private eye in an urban fantasy verse, so of course he indulges. Expect at least two bad jokes or pop culture references per page, though he isn't as much of a DeadpanSnarker as most examples.