History Main / EthnicScrappy

* The Japanese beetle from Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises's ''Tijuana Toads'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheBlueRacer''. [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome It's not surprising why he disappeared halfway through the latter series.]]

Also, please try not to devolve into [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike mindlessly ranting about characters you don't like.]] Sure, we understand how frustrating this trope can be, but due to the touchy subject of this topic, examples like that on here are ''very'' prone to {{Natter}}, Administrivia/WordCruft, [[Administrivia/EditWar Edit wars]], or even [[FlameWar Flame Wars]] if taken too far.

Also, please try not to devolve into [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike mindlessly ranting about characters you don't like.]] Sure, we understand how frustrating this trope can be, but due to the touchy subject of this topic, examples like that on here can quickly lead to {{Natter}}, Administrivia/WordCruft, [[Administrivia/EditWar Edit wars]], or even [[FlameWar Flame Wars]] if taken too far.

* ''Series/PipoDeClown'' was never released outside the Netherlands, but the few Americans who know about it loathe Klukkluk the Native American, mainly for being played a white guy in {{brownface}}, and several of the jokes being about how he's stupid and speaks broken Dutch, because FunnyForeigner. One of his {{Character Catchphrase}}s is also "Oud Indiaans spreekwoord zegge altijd..." ("An old Native American saying is..."), before saying something made up.

* Sony, for some reason, kept running into ethnic scrappies while trying to advertise the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable:

* The ''VideoGame/{{Pico}}'' series has Nene, the [[TwoferTokenMinority Asian female]] of the TokenTrio. Pico and Darnell both have the same MonochromaticEyes, but Nene's eyes are drawn slanted, and she even featured AsianBuckTeeth in the discontinued ''Pico Roulette''. Some of her [[https://preview.redd.it/vhpi06g1gdf61.png?width=954&format=png&auto=webp&s=da2a9b400a2719aea2b8499488ec9d327ff45957 dialogue]] in the old Website/{{Newgrounds}} [[OnAScaleFromOneToTen rating system]] didn't help either.

** Later (1990s) issues of ''ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}'' show the character as a successful businessman. His "past" was retconned to be a couple of pointless jokes and he was always a valued member of the team. [[ContinuitySnarl Since this is a Hawkman comic]], the continuity of such is in doubt.

* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' was always pretty controversial when it came to its non-white characters, albeit with many chalking up to it [[ValuesDissonance being made in the 90s where cultural and racial ignorance was much more common than it is today]]. But the most nutorious has got to be [[AsianRudeness Di]] [[NouveauRiche Lung]], who is just Eustace (or [[https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/RiceGum RiceGum]], for that matter) without the redeeming qualities, embodying nearly every negative stereotype of Chinese people there is.

* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' has [[AsianRudeness Di]] [[NouveauRiche Lung]], who is just Eustace (or [[https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/RiceGum RiceGum]], for that matter) without the redeeming qualities, embodying nearly every negative stereotype of Chinese people there is.

** ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has an offensively stereotypical gay couple who harass Ryuji, [[QueerPeopleAreFunny whose scenes were meant to be humorous]], and they probably would have gotten a few laughs in the '90s or early 2000s, but by 2016, [[AllGaysArePromiscuous such jokes]] were considered unacceptable, to the point that [[TheScrappy you'd have a hard time finding anyone who doesn't hate their presence]]. The ''Royal'' UpdatedReRelease changed their scenes to be less offensive.

* The Vistani from the TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons setting TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}} are based on the [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Romani]] people. As the setting is based on old [[GothicHorror gothic horror literature]] and the [[Franchise/UniversalHorror old Universal monster movies]], the Vistani were created to fill the niche of "mysterious, mystical and morally-ambiguous wandering gypsies", [[MagicalRomani which is a rather negative stereotype of the Romani people]] [[HumanAlien not helped by the fact they're not human]] and go mad on a full moon. The fourth edition of the game somewhat rectified this by [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap making the Vistani merely a cultural group that encompassed many races and toned down the more obviously-negative aspects of the race]], however the fifth edition module/reboot of the setting [[TabletopGame/CurseOfStrahd Curse Of Strahd]] brought the Vistani back to their roots.

** Azziza got the BellyDancer gimmick, though she only made an entrance for a match that got changed last minute, and most people don't remember her.

* The Japanese beetle from [[Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises]]'s ''Tijuana Toads'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBlueRacer]]''. [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome It's not surprising why he disappeared halfway through the latter series.]]

* Chakotay from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' is sometimes seen like this. Despite being in a role of authority and a chief officer of ''Voyager'', he's seen as a mishmash of all the worst traits of white people writing about Native Americans, including his [[MagicalNativeAmerican mystical insight powers]] and mastery of survival and tracking. That he's based on information from a {{con man}} pretending to be an expert on Native American culture might have something to do with it. Robert Beltran (who played him) was rather vocal about hating the character and the show's writing in general.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'', the way Uderzo draws black characters (the most notable one being the crows' nest pirate) and the occasional Chinese background character is very upsetting, but they're usually written like any other character and so fail to qualify for this trope. (It should be noted that in the original French editions of the comic, as well as some early English translations, the aforementioned crows' nest pirate spoke in a broken EyeDialect that was, for obvious reasons, dropped from both later on.) The only -- and how! -- true Ethnic Scrappy in the series is the [[SignificantAnagram Nagma]] in ''Asterix and the Falling Sky'', which was written in 2005. He is an alien who is supposed to represent the influence of manga on FrancoBelgianComics -- unfortunately, he's also drawn like a yellowface caricature, the other characters hate him on sight before he's even done anything bad, and he speaks in stilted YouNoTakeCandle speech which is supposed to represent Engrish. Much noise is made over how all his technology was ripped off from the American FantasyCounterpartCulture, and Obelix, who usually is good-natured and doesn't particularly care about gender roles, angrily declares he hates him for being unmanly (and the audience is meant to side with him). Uderzo had to issue a public apology for how poor the story was, in which it became apparent that his hatred of manga -- and by extension the Japanese -- was based on a very limited understanding of Japanese culture. At this point, Uderzo was a very old man, his brother had recently died, and he was losing his ability to draw, and the drop in writing and art quality is so enormous that it has all the hallmarks of CreatorBreakdown.

* The [[FunnyAnimal Vulpine]] and their FantasyCounterpartCulture from ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers'', whose portrayal draws cues from every stereotypical portrayal of [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]], [[TheSavageIndian savage Indians]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TwelveOunceMouse'' has Woman Mouse, who isn't well-liked for being a rather derogatory female stereotype; having [[SatelliteLoveInterest barely any characterization outside of being the main character's wife]] [[DisposableWoman before being casually killed off for the sake of his backstory]].

%% * Maya and Alejandro from ''Series/{{Heroes}}''
* Julio Fuentes from ''Series/SanfordAndSon''. The man ''[[FunnyForeigner owns a goat]]'', for Pete's sake. He remains unrelentingly pleasant in the face of Fred's unrelenting racism, which may have been intended as a type of StealthInsult a la [[Series/AllInTheFamily Lionel Jefferson]], but it really comes off... [[ModernMinstrelsy badly]].
%% * In the TV show ''Series/{{Sliders}}'', Rembrandt Brown starts out with at least one foot in this territory, but fortunately the character displays drastic improvement as the series progresses.
* Chakotay from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' is sometimes seen like this. Despite being in a role of authority and a chief officer of ''Voyager'', he's seen as a mishmash of all the worst traits of white people writing about Native Americans, including his [[MagicalNativeAmerican mystical insight powers]] and mastery of survival and tracking. That he's based on information from a {{con man}} pretending to be an expert on Native American culture might have something to do with it. Robert Beltran (who played him) was rather vocal about hating the character and the show's writing in general.

* Similar to Chin-Kee in the original graphic novel, the series ''Series/AmericanBornChinese2023'' invokes this trope with Freddy Wong, a Chinese stereotype on a cheesy in-universe 90s sitcom called ''Beyond Repair''. The character’s portrayal spawns a racist meme in the modern day that is eventually applied to the protagonist.

* The ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'' episode "A Night In Terror Tower" has some rather mean-spirited portrayals of English people. They're either snobby and pompous {{Upper Class Twit}}s who speak with [[IAmVeryBritish ridiculously posh accents]], or else rude Cockneys who play the "[[BritishTeeth British people have bad teeth]]" stereotype painfully straight.

* Chop-Chop from ''ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}}''. All the Caucasian characters are tall and normal-looking. The Chinese man is three feet tall, as wide as he is high with lemon-yellow skin, huge chimpanzee-like ears, teeth like a radiator grille, tiny, slitted eyes, and a silly accent. They all wear uniforms and caps, he wears a multi-coloured Qing dynasty outfit and a ribbon in his pigtail. However, later issues, as early as UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, make him look like a normal Chinese guy, take away his stupid accent, and give him a uniform. In the 1980s continuation by Creator/MarkEvanier, set in World War II again, Chop Chop (now Wu Cheng for a real name) is drawn much more realistically while still wearing his usual clothes and eventually becomes dissatisfied with how he is treated in the team. The other Blackhawks realize to their embarrassment how [[JerkassRealization they were wrong in how they were treating Wu Cheng that way]] and start to make up for it, beginning with giving him a standard Blackhawk uniform and his own plane with great ceremony. Creator/HowardChaykin's 1988 [[{{Deconstruction}} reworking]] of ''Blackhawk'', which also gives him a real name, shows him to be insulted and angered by his teammates' use of the derogatory nickname. In fact, the miniseries [[DeliberateValuesDissonance doesn't shy away from depicting any of the racism and sexism of the World War II era]].

** Black people tend to come in two varieties: regularly sized, relatively slender fellows who are particularly civilized, and big, muscular men who are easy to anger. An album taking place in New York City includes both varieties. Filemón and Mortadelo's attempts to investigate Harlem and locate a suspected terrorist continuously end with them beaten by various locals who seem dislike having white people around. When the two agents finally get their suspect, he turns out to be a leader of the community. Their information about a bomb was wrong. His "bomb" was evidence of political corruption, and how money supposedly going into urban development ended up in the wrong hands.

* ''Film/ShallowHal'' has a minor character called Li'Boy, who fulfills the fat Hawaiian stereotype (when Hal's hypnosis wears off; when he's bewitched to see inner beauty, Li'Boy is seen as in-shape and attractive). Hal even takes the time to make weird small talk by saying he knew a Hawaiian boy in school who was terrible at sports.

* Chakotay from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' is sometimes seen like this. Despite being in a role of authority and a chief officer of ''Voyager'', he's seen as a mishmash of all the worst traits of white people writing about Native Americans, including his [[MagicalNativeAmerican mystical insight powers]] and mastery of survival of tracking. That he's based on information from a con man pretending to be an expert on Native American culture might have something to do with it. Robert Beltran (who played him) was rather vocal about hating the character and the show's writing in general.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', despite being a show about a modernized Stone Age, somehow saw fit to introduce the Great Gazoo, a generic little green alien that would probably seem a lot more at home in ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons''. Or rather, generic except for the fact that his personality is modeled after every offensive stereotype of the British (despite [[FakeBrit being voiced by an American actor]]). Gazoo is [[StuffyBrit stuffy, smug, and arrogant]] (although he ''is'' an alien, after all) and enjoys making jokes and pranks at the expense of Fred and Barney.

* UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|Of Comic Books}} ComicBook/GreenLantern, Hal Jordan, had an Inuk sidekick called Pieface who served as his mechanic. Today, he is strictly called by his real name, Tom Kalmaku, and depicted with respect as an engineer. In a retelling of Hal's origin, the "Pieface" nickname is used by a {{Jerkass}} rival pilot. Tom gets his in ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'', Darwyn Cooke's (there he is again!) reimagining of the dawn of DC's [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]: Hal Jordan calls him Pieface when they first meet. Tom responds by calling Hal "whitebread" and threatening him with a wrench, and that's the last time Hal uses that nickname. While the nickname is very unfortunate, as such things go, [[FairForItsDay Tom is really treated pretty decently in the old Gardner Fox Silver Age GL comics]]. While he has some pretty stereotypical elements (most notably his "great fishhooks!" catchphrase), he's drawn like a real Inuk man and not some weird caricature, avoids having a bizarre accent, doesn't speak in YouNoTakeCandle-style broken English, and to top it all off he is clearly a good and intelligent man whom Hal respects. He also deserves credit for being a favorable portrayal of a member of a group most readers at that time would only be vaguely familiar with.

* UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|Of Comic Books}} ComicBook/GreenLantern, Hal Jordan, had an Inuk sidekick called Pieface who served as his mechanic. Today, he is strictly called by his real name, Tom Kalmaku, and depicted with respect as an engineer. In a retelling of Hal's origin, the "Pieface" nickname is used by a {{Jerkass}} rival pilot. Tom gets his in ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'', Darwyn Cooke's (there he is again!) reimagining of the dawn of DC's [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]: Hal Jordan calls him Pieface when they first meet. Tom responds by calling Hal "whitebread" and threatening him with a wrench, and that's the last time Hal uses that nickname. While the nickname is very unfortunate, as such things go, [[FairForItsDay Tom is really treated pretty decently in the old Gardner Fox Silver Age GL comics]]. While he has some pretty stereotypical elements (most notably his "great fishhooks!" catchphrase), he's drawn like a real Inuk man and not some weird caricature, avoids having a bizarre accent, doesn't speak in YouNoTakeCandle-style broken English, and to top it all off he is clearly a good and intelligent man whom Hal respects. He also deserves credit for being a favorable portrayal of a member of a population most readers at that time would only be vaguely familiar with.

* UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|Of Comic Books}} ComicBook/GreenLantern, Hal Jordan, had an Inuk sidekick called Pieface who served as his mechanic. Today, he is strictly called by his real name, Tom Kalmaku, and depicted with respect as an engineer. In a retelling of Hal's origin, the "Pieface" nickname is used by a {{Jerkass}} rival pilot. Tom gets his in ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'', Darwyn Cooke's (there he is again!) reimagining of the dawn of DC's [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]: Hal Jordan calls him Pieface when they first meet. Tom responds by calling Hal "whitebread" and threatening him with a wrench, and that's the last time Hal uses that nickname. While the nickname is very unfortunate, as such things go, [[FairForItsDay Tom is really treated pretty decently in the old Gardner Fox Silver Age GL comics]]. While he has some pretty stereotypical elements (most notably his "great fishhooks!" catchphrase), he's drawn like a real Inuk man and not some weird caricature, avoids having a bizarre accent, doesn't speak in YouNoTakeCandle-style broken English, and to top it all off he is clearly a good and intelligent man whom Hal respects. He also deserves credit for being a favorable portrayal of a member of an ethnic group most readers at that time would only be vaguely familiar with.