doomquokka
Since: Mar, 2017
Jan 10th 2020 at 12:11:50 PM
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So, to be clear, this is just any Con Man who is happy about his job? Is that sufficient distinction to warrant its own trope?
God is God of truth, and thus of current webcomic example links. See also: Grammar Nazi Hedge Trimmer
MorganWick
(Elder Troper)
Aug 24th 2010 at 7:06:18 PM
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It seems like quite a few people are having trouble distinguishing this trope from Card-Carrying Villain.
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Deboss
Since: Aug, 2009
Sep 15th 2010 at 8:09:25 AM
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X Just X examples. If somebody knows the work and can write something more relevant to actually being on the page, do so.
- The characters played by Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman in Wag The Dog.
- Reacher Gilt, the villain of Going Postal.
- Sylvester McMonkey McBean from the Dr Seuss story "The Sneetches."
- Ostap Bender from the Russian novels The Twelve Chairs and The Little Golden Calf by Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov. If there ever was a Russian TV Tropes, this trope would be called "The Ostap" there.
- Or rather "Great Combinator" ("Velikiy Kombinator"), after his in-universe nickname
- Arthur Daley from Minder.
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MostAll of the ad executives in Mad Men. - Kingfish from Amos N Andy.
- By The Zeroth Law Of Trope Examples, we have two Shakespearean examples: Sir John Falstaff from Henry IV, and Autolycus from The Winter's Tale. There may be more, but those two leap to mind right away.
- How can you forget Iago from Othello?
- Kevin Harnisch from O'Grady.
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