![]() He produces one again in The Wake, presumably in recognition of the formality of the occasion and his evening wear. In The Sandman (1989), Mervyn usually lights up a cigarette on the job (as part of his blue-collar image), but in The Kindly Ones he breaks out a stogie to go along with his army uniform and drill sergeant schtick.Captain Hunter is a straight male example. Professor Venture of the Atari Force second series is a female example.Sam Hagen, Ryder's boss from the old The Creeper comics.Julius Furst, BFG-toting Badass Normal of Astro City.Jonah Hex, as befits his status as a badass Bounty Hunter.He thinks he's tough and respected by both colleagues and crooks. Detective Casey in Mickey Mouse Comics subverts this trope.Jonah Jameson above, it fits his tough-as-nails newspaper editor character. That seems to be getting ignored now.) Like J. (In one story he gave up after a lung cancer scare. When he temporarily lost his Healing Factor, the first cigar he lit up without it was enough to convince him it was time to quit that particular habit. Wolverine fit this until the mid-'90s or so, and it fit with his hardboiled, take-no-shit attitude.Lenny Balinger, the foreman for Damage Control in the Marvel Universe.Fantastic Four: Ben Grimm, a.k.a the Thing, for the first thirty years or so.In her first appearance in The Avengers, She-Hulk appeared in fashionable attire but smoking a corona she's chic but badass!. ![]() Jonah Jameson, as befits his 1960s news tycoon type. This was also done to turn him into a robotic Expy of Sergeant Rock. It's also medicinal, as it contains radiation that prevents him hallucinating zombies and turning into a panicked berserker. Robot example - Kup is portrayed as this in IDW's Transformers comics, starting in All Hail Megatron.Waver Velvet, in his hat of Lord El-Melloi II, smokes cigars whenever he's in a contemplative mood (that is, often), which is a rich source of comedy given that his dorky image contradicts almost all stereotypes of a usual Cigar Chomper, except being Tall, Dark, and Snarky and having at least some of the dignity that his university professor position grants him.Lupin III: Episode 0: First Contact has a one-time character named Galvez, a New York mafia boss whose treasure has been targeted by Lupin.Black Lagoon: Balalaika is another female example, befitting her as a fearsome Mafiya boss and one of the main movers and shakers in Roanapur. ![]() Even his infant son has a cigar-shaped pacifier.
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