If you're badass, you smoke. No, really. For some reason, smoking is used as a shorthand in fiction to say that someone is a badass. It probably has its roots in Fifties rebel flicks, or '40s Film Noir, or maybe the somewhat deeper idea that someone who cares nothing about their health will willingly expose themselves to pain on a regular basis, or maybe the play of smoke on the screen around a character in slow-mo is just that damn cool -- but whatever it is, there's no denying that nine times out of ten a fictional smoker is a Badass. No childlike or upbeat characters smoke. The smoker is the Anti-Hero, the Badass Normal, or the Deadpan Snarker, whereas the non-smoker is the Genki Girl, The Messiah, the Kid Hero.