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"He basically good-hearted but he'd kind of like to smash that kid against a rock." MST3K on Jet Jaguar and his "sidekick"
Snarky self-important kid (usually a boy) who's usually the youngest in the party. May be a youngest sibling or simply act like one. Talks a good game but often falls into trouble and needs to be rescued when that isn't the job of The Chick. Hates being called a kid but lacks real maturity. Doesn't always seem to get along with everyone except the hero(ine) off whom he or she hangs.
If overdone and excessively obnoxious, can become The Scrappy (and to the other characters usually is). Often the party's attack magician if there isn't a Black Magician Girl. They may also use a slingshot.
See: Mouthy Kid, Tag Along Kid, and The Bumblebee.
Examples
Anime
- Bat in Fist Of The North Star.
- Chibiusa of Sailor Moon, at least in her early days.
- Shippo in InuYasha is a partial subversion: he's bratty indeed, but sometimes he's way more mature than Inuyasha.
- Uzumaki Naruto in Naruto: played with and deconstructed, if due to his main character status.
- Konohamaru, the Third Hokage's grandson, is a more straightforward example. Although later on, we see him Take A Level In Badass and give a Pain body a Rasengan.
- Ten from Urusei Yatsura
- One translation of his full name, Jariten, literally means "Bratty Ten". His insistence on "Ten" is for much the same reason Sakuramboo, the ugly little Buddhist priest, usually calls himself "Cherry"- Sakuramboo can mean "Cherry" (as in the fruit- Sakura refers to Cherry Blossoms), but also "Deranged Priest".
- Taruto of Tokyo Mew Mew. He ends up in a Dating Catwoman relationship with the Token Loli.
- Yuuri of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch is a brat who continually insists that she isn't a child and stomps off to go do her own thing, always failing miserably. After she leaves the cast (for the most part), Seira is introduced on the good side; she does mature, and was only selfish because she had yet to gather the facets of love (which was the original intent of the quest for her to be born; having her heart stolen complicated things).
- Komachi from Samurai 7; she does get along with most of the others, but dislikes Kyuzo. But then, no one gets along with him. It is notable that Komachi almost literally hangs off Kikuchiyo.
- Skuld of Ah My Goddess.
- Hiro from Fruits Basket, differing from the archetype in that he's especially bratty towards the heroine. In the manga, at least, he grows up a lot, though he never does come to like Tohru
- Anita King of ROD The TV, at least partially (especially prominent in the anime's early episodes).
- Tomoka from Girls Bravo is an example. She is also The Scrappy incarnate, in fact the only justification for her terribly annoying attitude and disposition is that...she is a little girl.
- Hiyori from Bleach, although the trope doesn't apply completely.
- Tomoka, Horio, and to some extent Ryoma in The Prince Of Tennis.
- Kurumi, Yusaku and Hikaru from Kimagure Orange Road.
- Marion from Kaleido Star, in her first episode.
- Edward Elric from FullmetalAlchemist. Just don't say that to his face.
- Edward doesn't really fit the trope, since he doesn't fall into trouble or (if you consider the his whole situation as "troublesome") doesn't really need to be saved (most time he saves others from dangerous situations, he's the protagonist and he's just a step away from being the Hero), he's never called a kid, just short (which is his Berserk Button though), and he's generally considered mature by everyone else (but he's able to retain his innocence, as pointed in chapter 76, and it isn't considered a "bad" thing).
- Renge from Air Master.
- Anya in Mahou Sensei Negima occasionally falls into this, with many hints at simply behaving that way with a hidden sentimentality (likely since she appears to have a crush on The Hero).
- Yahiko from Rurouni Kenshin
- Pan... just Pan
- Satoko Houjou
- Mannen in Pretear, the self-proclaimed leader of the younger half of the Leafe Knights. He tends to get the group in trouble by demanding to be treated as equals with the older knights, but he seems to genuinely mean well.
Comic Books
- The Modern Age Superboy (Kon-El) often played this role early on.
- Abdullah in the Tintin adventures.
- Kitty Pryde falls victim to this trope in the Ultimate X-men continuity.
- But she manages to be much better once Bendis snatched her out of the X-Men and into Ultimate Spider-Man. And you can't tell me that Iceman isn't irritating either.
Literature
- Gavroche of Les Miserables is a serious version of this who, tragically, doesn't get rescued.
- Major plot point in the Mercedes Lackey's 'Arrows of the Queen' with Princess Elspeth, who was being raised to be this by her nurse. She gets better.
- Todd Lyons from The Clique
Live Action TV
- Dawn, Buffy's sister in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. She gets in trouble so frequently that it gets a Lampshade Hanging, and gets all huffy whenever someone calls her a kid. Or, at points in the sixth season, for saying practically anything at all.
- Max from Power Rangers Wild Force who is
in love best friends with Danny and thus hangs off him most of the time. While he doesn't suffer from needing rescues very often (he is a Power Ranger), it doesn't help that one of the two girls on the team is ex-Air Force and second-in-command, while The Chick is a responsible college student that was trained from childhood in martial arts by her sensei father, and thus both are far more capable in battle than he'll ever be.
- A few Disney Channel sit-coms have one of these as a main or recurring character. That's So Raven had Corey and later Stanley, the Spin Off of the same show Corey in the House has Sophie, and Hannah Montana has Rico.
- Drake and Josh has Megan, who is a young evil genius that frequently gets the boys in trouble.
Video Games
- Leon in Star Ocean: The Second Story.
- Roger in Star Ocean: Till The End Of Time.
- Lymle in Star Ocean: The Last Hope. The voice actress might be the real culprit on this one, not the script/characterization ... it's hard to tell.
- She talks slow because she's catatonic, but is otherwise played up as a Tsundere, so it's more the latter.
- Chelsea in Tales Of Destiny.
- Genis in Tales of Symphonia was bratty at times, but was actually smarter than the main character (and pretty much every character in the game for that matter).
- Mission Vao in Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic. Subverted when Zaalbar, her Wookiee companion, is the one who ends up getting kidnapped and in need of rescuing.
- Palom from Final Fantasy IV.
- Relm from Final Fantasy VI is a female example.
- Nash from Lunar falls into this despite being one of a party of young teens...
- Eiko from Final Fantasy IX is another female example, and one often accused of being The Scrappy.
- Arguably, Soren from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. Normally, his mouthiness is restricted to disapproving arguments. However, there is one notable scene where he nearly gets himself killed by hurling derogatory terms at a man who can turn into a frickin' tiger.
- This is subverted later after we learn on his past and his hatred of sub-hum...sorry laguz.
- Roan in Grandia II is a subversion. He's introduced as being a whiny brat who demands that the party go get his mommy's pendant, but when he decides to go do it himself and you run after him to rescue him, it turns out he doesn't need rescuing, though could still use more capable fighters' assistance. After he joins the party he's shown to actually be shockingly mature and Wise Beyond His Years. And to top it off, he turns out to be a prince, and subsequently a good king.
- And even the pendant was of vital importance
- Cody Hackins in Phoenix Wright is a snotty 7 year old fanboy who disprespects Phoenix, Edgeworth, Wendy Oldbag, and even The Judge, simply because they're "dumb adults" (Cody calls Phoenix this several times when Phoenix doesn't know the difference between the rarity of the Steel Samurai trading cards). However, if Mia talks to Cody, he'll suddenly become nice and do what she says. It probably has something to do with her obvious physical features.
- Mercedes from Odin Sphere, but she got better.
- Chrono Cross's Loads And Loads Of Characters obviously have a few of these, including Korcha and his sister Mel.
- This, combined with Breaking The Fourth Wall pretty well sum up Shoutaro from Flower Sun And Rain. His Dad is an adult version — it's as annoying as it sounds.
- If ya ordah now, I'll throw in a second beatin' absolutely free!
- Ronny Dobbs of Backyard Sports.
Web Original
Western Animation
- Scrappy-Doo. Although he never actually gets captured, the gang always has to grab him away before he is. (Although one has to wonder why they bother.)
- In the first movie, Scrappy-Doo demands that he be made the leader of the team, or he'll leave the team. No words are exchanged, but you can actually see the exact same thought running through everyone else's minds. They almost instantly stop, and leave Scrappy on the side of the road. Considering exactly how annoying he is, they went 'very' light on him.
- Though a robot instead of an actual child, XR from Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command gets into this territory.
- The titular character of Ben10 fits this bill; if only there wasn't this damn Aesop Amnesia.
- His cousin Gwen was like this before Alien Force, where she got a lot less irritating.
- Jose From Cybersix. In his case, he managed to avoid being The Scrappy by being one of the major villains.
- Bloo. OH, BLOO! The problem with him is, that he's swinging around between this trope and the Jerkass trope. Sometimes he's this trope incarnate with a starwberry made of selfishness on the top, other times this strawberry weights 20 pounds and crushes the trope down to pure Jerkass.
- Enzo from ReBoot is one of the better depictions of this. Part of the reason is that while he frequently gets kidnapped and bites off more then he can chew, the awesomeness of The Hero Bob is seen through his eyes. And Character Development has him rising up to the occasion to be a hero himself when Bob is stranded in the web.
- Gorgonzola from Chowder
- Gorgonzola, unlike most other characters on the list, actually has a Freudian Excuse (or maybe it's not exactly Freudian, but...). Namely, he's stuck learning a job he hates (as far as I can tell it consists entirely of carrying a candle on his head and not allowing it to go out, so I can't say I blame him), while his peers all seem happy with the paths their lives have set before them. Not really a surprise, then, that he's so intent on making their lives as hard as possible. He's not so much 'bratty' as he is just a jerkass.
- Truman X from the canceled Nickelodeon series "The X's." http://www.nicksplat.com/tvshows/shows/Nicktoons/The_xs/truman_x.html Is meant to be a combination of Bart Simpson and Dexter from "Dexter's Laboratory."
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