The Scrappy - Television Tropes & Idioms

Scrappy-Doo from Scooby Doo was hated by a lot of the show's longtime fans, with some of the hate coming from his introduction timed with major retools to the show (specifically, dumping half the original cast, switching to a Two Shorts format, and the franchise's first clumsy attempts to lose the Scooby Doo Hoax.) Many, however, would like to point out that they honestly just hate Scrappy for no reason at all.
- The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby-Doo subjected audiences to Flim-Flam, the fast-talking kid con-artist. Yes, Scrappy-Doo himself was there (though he had changed drastically over the last two shows), and Flim-Flam was still the bigger Scrappy. An Ethnic Scrappy, at that. The amazing thing about Flim-Flam was that the producers thought it would be a good idea to remove Freddie and Velma and replace those two pillars of the Scooby-Doo series with some random kid who looked like the bastard child of Geraldo Rivera.
- It should be noted that there are some fans who support Scrappy-Doo. For more info, please see The Facts on Scrappy and The Unofficial Scrappy-Doo Fan Page.
- And for those who still continue to drink the anti-Scrappy Kool-Aid (which is just about almost every Scooby-Doo fan), see these articles by writer Mark Evanier: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5. Please note that they are a work-in-progress.
- A more recent Scooby-Doo series (Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue) made a similar mistake, taking out Freddie, Velma, and Daphne and replacing them with the forgettable Uncle Albert and a bumbling, megalomaniacal cyborg.
- The 2002 movie, meanwhile, parodies this nicely: the gang are revealed to have kicked Scrappy out several years beforehand for attempting to take over Mystery Inc, going as far as leaving him in the middle of a deserted road while they drive off. And there was much rejoicing. He then is revealed to have been the diabolical villain of the piece, becomes a hulking monstrosity bent on destroying Scooby and tries to kill the main characters, even going so far as to suck the souls out of Velma, Fred and Daphne. Following his defeat, Scooby PUNCHES HIM. Is anyone else seeing a massive subtext about Scrappy's negative influence on the show here? Especially the soul-sucking part.
- In the eyes of a lot of Italians, the Scooby-Doo series has become an entire Scrappy series and is well on its way to Wesleydom: Italian networks insist in broadcasting it every half a chance they get whenever they have to fill in some voids. All at the expense of newer shows like Spider Riders or Gormiti The Lords Of Nature Return.

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Cell-phone ringtone company Jamster, for foisting the horrible creature known as "Crazy Frog" on the world. Their ads were practically all over syndicated television in the mid-2000s.
- Even worse, ruining the best thing about Beverly Hills Cop: The opening number "Axel F".
- The ire in the rock music community was even greater, as it beat Coldplay's "Speed of Sound" to number 1. This filk sums it up.
UK Tropers will probably remember adverts for Cillit Bang. HI! I'M BARRY SCOTT AND I'M BEING PAID BY THE DECIBEL!
- LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO A PENNY!
  - Even his co-host hates him, notice the contempt in her voice when she says "You love that one.... *hateful look* Barry"
The commercial with the singing waitress for School ASAP makes this troper scramble for the "mute" button every time. Seriously, it's just horrible.
The rather distinctive-looking Howard Brown used to be the face of the advertising for Halifax (a major UK bank.) He appeared in a series of commercials singing various pop hits with new lyrics about banking. The ads became wildly popular but also attracted a ton of anti-fans who became sick of Brown's face and the awful music. Brown then started taking lesser roles in the ads and the main song was performed by someone else; particular loathing was directed at an ad that featured a fat woman instead. In 2008 it was decided to drop the musical adverts because of the recession, and the Hatedom breathed a sigh of relief.
Who remembers the "EEEEEE Midget"? His schtick was bursting out of something (i.e. a trash can) with a scream of "EEEEEEEE!!!". He then delivered a hyper, stacato-delivery monologue about whatever product he was shilling. For a while in the late 90s/early turn of the century, he was in all sorts of commercials, doing guest appearances in just about everything. What might've been funny the first time quickly grew old, rendering him into a scrappy extraordinaire.
- And then he became Mini-Me.

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Chibi-Usa from Sailor Moon, and by association her English-language counterpart Rini. While she was designed to have some intentionally annoying qualities (her Fan Nickname "The Pink Spore" actually comes from an insult in the show), she was also shown to be a genuinely scared little girl away from home and caught in a convoluted plot of people trying to control or even kill her. The real trouble, however, started as she began to get much more screen time in the fourth season. Since that season was also associated with strange mood shifts and an extensive retooling of the original plot and a subsequent dip in the ratings, fans usually associate her with or even blame her for it. Ironically, by then she'd become a pretty moderate character, only to be Put On A Bus afterwards.
- In fact, one of her English voice actresses, Stephanie Beard, made a song (parodying Eminem's The Real Slim Shady) that has an interesting parallel to Chibi-Usa. Although it was meant to describe her radio show persona, the lyrics contain similarities to Chibi-Usa's character, such as the mentioning of "copycats" (Usagi), and having an arrogant and semi-bratty personality.
  - Her appearance in seasons 3 and 4 are, supposedly, after a Plot Relevant Age Up of... three or four years. This did not help.
Tokyo Mew Mew had both deserving and non-deserving Scrappies. Aoyama Masaya, Ichigo's love interest, is a victim of crazy shippers, but a generally nice guy all around. Shirayuki Berii, on the other hand, is a Mary Sue who completely stole the spotlight from all of the main characters in the Tokyo Mew Mew a la mode manga. (Unsurprisingly, a lot of Mew Mew fans want to forget that ever happened, which is easy because Yoshida Reiko, the author of the Tokyo Mew Mew manga was not involved in a la mode anyway.)
Hina Ichigo and Kanaria are easily the two least popular of the Rozen Maiden dolls, especially because they're seen as "less mature" than the others. Still, it's kinda sad (and also scary) watching Hina slowly wind down to her inevitable death with her master.
There are exactly two types of Naruto fans. The first still like Sasuke because they think he's a tragic character with an interesting backstory. The second hates Sasuke and thinks he's ruining Naruto because he takes up too much screen time (including, oddly enough, from his own team), as well as a complete dumbass who betrays his friends and country just so he can kill three people, and now he wants to destroy all of Konoha because a few of the higher ups (allegedly) planned the destruction of the Uchiha clan and the rest of the village respects the Senju clan and enjoys the peace.
- Sakura Haruno went through a similar process. First, some fans didn't like her because she wasn't powerful enough and often let her fangirling over Sasuke take away from her potential. After Shippuden, she's trained with Tsunade in medical arts and has become a competent ninja in her own right, yet now certain people think she's too powerful. Make up your minds!
- Naruto himself gets a fair amount of criticism as a Highly Visible Ninja with relatively little concept of stealth or teamwork, especially by those who don't want him to bring Sasuke back.
Inoue Orihime from Bleach, though not originally in this field, became hated by a huge percentage of the fanbase after the series entered the Hueco Mundo Saga, which has yet to end in either the anime or the manga it's based on. This has to do with several factors, including:
1. Her character turning from Genki Girl into a depressed mope due to her finally showing the emotional damage from losing her brother and realizing her love for Ichigo, who's almost constantly fighting without her,
2. Her being the necessitation of another Rescue Arc,
3. Her suddenly being declared a living Deus Ex Machina, with powers that all but assure no one can ever die in the series, a trend that was already annoying many people, and
4. Her confessing her feelings for Ichigo, invoking ire from hardcore Ichigo/Rukia shippers and Rukia fans who accuse Orihime of stealing her spotlight as the series' main heroine.
5. Being assigned to Distressed Damsel and Staff Chick for good, after poor Tsubaki ate it when Orihime tried protecting her friends.
6. The hate intensifies with every utterance of Kurosaki-kun. She a said it a truly epic number of times to the point where any chapter she is in has her saying it.
- Before Orihime, there was Hinamori Momo, Aizen's sweet and cheerful but naive and obsessive Woobie of a lieutenant. She was brainwashed into unquestioned obedience by Aizen for decades, leading her to attack her best friend/adoptive brother Hitsugaya Toushirou because Aizen said it in a letter he left for her before faking his death and she didn't even investigate further because she was too caught up in her confusion, thus incurring the wrath of rabid and possessive Hitsugaya fangirls, for he is the character they love the most (so much that he got his own movie). It became even worse when after she came back after being stabbed to almost certain death as part of Aizen's plan, Momo is in such heavy denial and so damaged that she still thinks he is partially innocent (and that Ichimaru Gin is the one actually responsible), begging him to be saved. This has attained her further hatred for fans because Gin is a Draco In Leather Pants.
  - Despite all the hatred, Hinamori still places in the top 10 in Shonen Jump popularity polls (reaching as high as sixth place at one point), for the same reason Western fans dislike her.
- The recent fandom has now put Hitsugaya Toushirou as one of the most hated character ever, in the same vein of Sasuke above due to the virtue of being the most popular character (mosty because of fangirls). Other than being perceived as a bland character, he is often accused as the main Spotlight Stealing Squad, and most of the screentime he had, he usually had it with either unimpressive fights or jobbing. You seriously won't believe how much the readers squealed on the latest chapter whereas Halibel damages him so fatally he might end up dead soon. Most popular character my foot
  - Lucky for him an Ass Pull saved his life, the fans raged oh how they raged
- From the bad guys' side, blind fighter Tousen Kaname gets heat for hypocritically promoting the path of least bloodshed, but siding with Aizen in the Shinigami-Arrancar war.
Raki from Claymore seems to be ascending to this status with astonishing speed since this series came out in the West. He's clingy, irritatingly prone to being held hostage in some manner, and utterly useless in any way conceivable. That alone would be tolerable. Unfortunately, he also has a tendency to throw himself into dangerous situations, even after Clare expressly tells him not to, leading to a number of instances where Clare is forced to go out of her way to save him. Additionally, his blatant Ascended Fanboy character type rubs many people the wrong way in a series otherwise full of kickass females, and his presence seems to be purely so male readers of the manga can put themselves in his shoes. With recent developments in the manga, this may be subject to change.
The so-called president of the Aria Company in ARIA is considered to be very annoying even by fans of the series, being a badly drawn cat in an otherwise fairly realistic setting. Of course, ARIA really isn't about much at all, but the "president" chews up a lot of the scenery without actually doing anything remotely important or funny.
Code Geass reached a point in its second season where calling any single character The Scrappy became pointless, since between Ship To Ship Combat and Magnificent Bastardry giving way to just plain old bastardry, damn near every single plot-important character was now the proud owner of an internet Hatedom. Only Lelouch's spectacular leather pants save him from the worst of it. In the end, however, most seem to agree that the character they dislike the most isn't Suzaku, or Nina, or Rolo, or Nunnally, or Kallen, or even Schneizel, but...Kaname Ougi, who lost his Darkhorse status after a certain point in the second season.
- Let's put it this way. During the summer of 2008, the airing time of Code Geass R2, this entry would change nearly every single week.
- Gino still seems to have one due to the fact that his character received no character development, and frankly makes no sense. He still wishes that the evil racist Britannia was still around while all of his friends (except Anya) are Japanese. Basically, imagine a Neo Nazi whose friends were all Jewish.
Mai-Otome's Tomoe Marguerite is widely considered the least likable, if not the most evil, character on the show by a pretty wide margin. Some fans suspect the only thing that kept her from being killed off is the director's and head writer's praise of Tanaka Rie's vocal performance.
- Major Sergey Wang gets a lot of hate in some circles, because his interaction with Arika and Nina makes him come off as a Lolicon at times, even though it's Nina who takes the initiative (and that, among other things has turned some people off to Nina), and also because he reminds some fans (visually) of Yuuichi (see below).
A sizable contingent of Mai-HiME fandom has it in for male lead character Yuuichi Tate, as the Non Action Guy Love Interest of the Red Headed Heroine. His case isn't helped much by some of the questionable actions he took to finally getting around to showing his affections, most coming at the expense of his Unlucky Childhood Friend Shiho Munakata.
- Shiho gets quite a bit of this, as well, because of her clinginess and jealous attitude and several attempts on Mai's life.
- Mai's close friend Mikoto Minagi has her share of detractors, as well, because they think she's just too weird and childlike to be an effective part of the team.
- Italian fandom tends to hate on Shizuru instead. Yes, that Shizuru. Mostly because of her "creepy" obsession with Natsuki, her near-molestation of her love interest and her killing lots of people in order to "protect" her. Shiho and Yuuichi are fairly respected instead.
Makoto Itou from School Days, who was very likely intentionally intended to be a Scrappy by his creators. Mind you, most (if not all) of the cast members tend to inspire their own varying degrees of hatedoms, what with their repeated Too Dumb To Live moments, but Makoto easily stands out due to being utterly reprehensible in addition to being a gigantic idiot.
- This was reversed in the manga version: Makoto is still a big moron, but at least there he does care for the girls. Sekai, who is now a manipulative bitch, replaces Makoto in the Scrappy Heap.
Neon Genesis Evangelion's Shinji Ikari is a very polarising figure, to say the least. Though meant to be a deconstruction of ordinary Humongous Mecha heroes, fan reaction appears to be evenly split between feeling genuinely sorry for all the crap he had to go through and wanting to put the poor bastard out of his misery to get him to stop his bitchin'.
- Asuka Langley Soryuu, his fellow pilot and possible Love Interest, also has her fair share of haters who think she's just a horrible, terrible, arrogant bitch.
Kagome Higurashi from Inuyasha is also a somewhat divisive character. While she started out as the typical Takahashi Tsundere, taking any opportunity (no matter how small or ridiculous) to berate and cause physical pain to her love interest, Character Development eventually showed her growing out of it, and almost completely stop using her ability to punish Inuyasha, as well as tending to be gentler and more understanding. But lots of people still hate her and think that, within the story itself (and sometimes in fandom itself), she's a poor Replacement Scrappy for Kikyou...which makes no sense, because Kagome is the reincarnation of Kikyou.
- As for Kikyou, she was a powerful Miko with hidden insecurities who had quite the bad death, was forcefully revived by a witch, had a highly antagonistic relationship with both villains and heroes to the point of giving a part of the Shikon Jewel to Naraku, her own murderer, to make sure he was lulled into a false sense of security before she killed him herself, slowly returned to her former gentler self and ultimately died almost happily in the manga. But she'll always be, to some, the backstabbing "clay pot bitch" who keeps Inuyasha and Kagome away from each other. Again, "reincarnation", so it makes little sense.
While it's unclear where he stands in the Japanese fandom, Naito Longchamp from Katekyo Hitman Reborn! was near-universally despised by a large percentage of overseas fans due largely to his goofy appearance and rambunctiously annoying personality. This only applies to the manga, however; the anime wound up writing him out of the plot entirely. However, this may be undergoing a reverse process — after the Adaptation Decay present in the Future Arc of the anime, fans have claimed that Longchamp appearing may be the only thing that can save the show.
Although her case is the same as Americans Hate Tingle, Misa Amane from Death Note has a pretty healthy hatedom for the fact that she sticks out like a sore thumb, either endlessly talks about how she loves Light or whines about circumstances keeping them apart, and otherwise just calls a ton of attention to herself without contributing much. Per Word Of God, Misa's entire point was to stick out like a sore thumb and feel out of place, in order to make the series even more chaotic and the situation more interesting.
Depending on which segment of the Ronin Warriors fandom you ask, this role could be taken on by any combination of Natsuti/Mia, Jun/Yulie, Lady Kayura or Suzunagi from the OAV.
Mayu Miyuki from Ai Yori Aoshi is widely regarded as the biggest Scrappy of the series, due largely in part to her clinginess to Kaoru and general cattiness with Cat Smiler Tina Foster. Behind her, Taeko Minazuki's young cousin Chika is a real hyper character with slight Mary Sue hints added for good measure. The fact her deeply tanned skin gives slight images of Ethnic Scrappydom doesn't help (undeserved, since there are dark-skinned Japanese).
Likewise, despite being all Moe Moe and a Gadgeteer Genius, Skuld from Ah My Goddess has some slight Scrappy moments, especially when her obsession with her older sister Belldandy comes into play. Unlike Urd, who was able to grow out of her tendencies to screw with Bell and Keiichi's love life, Skuld continues to be the world's biggest cock-blocker.
Being the star of one's own show doesn't necessarily offer Protection From Scrappy. Just ask any Fushigi Yuugi fan who's ever accused Miaka Yuuki of being a Mary Sue. Truth be told, she's hardly as bad as Mayo Sakaki from the Eikoden OVA.
- Which still might not be saying a lot, considering that Eikoden isn't all that well-loved itself.
Another Scrappy from his own manga is Rintarou from Wa ga na wa Umishi. Hated from day one, even within the manga, he has scarcely gotten any better.
There appears to be at least one of these in every Gundam series.
- The Yandere Nena Trinity of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 gained instant Scrappy status right around episode 18 after she opened fire at the wedding ceremony of Louise's parents and killed lots of innocent people because she could. Fan hatred softened a bit when she watched her beloved brothers Johan and Michael die at the hands of Ali Al-Saachez, since it's partially because of them doting on her endlessly that she gets to do what she wants. And although things has gotten better for her, partially, we sure know that she hasn't drawn a moral compass. Her latter death, although well-deserved, does not fix her image, and considering that she was also hit by Character Derailment, some thinks that she jumps right back to the heap.
  - Wang Liu Mei who spent the first episode being a Ms Fanservice has slowly gaining her own hatedom for being too secretive and seems like to be a Smug Snake in training, for her plan to 'destroy the world she hates, through change', but she never EVER give out any bits of reasons why she hated that current world, giving off the impression like "I'm doing it for the lulz". This piling up hatred actually ends up rescuing Nena from the heap when she helps out the Celestial Being as a Take That for helping her brothers' murderer. Not to mention she has ditched what makes her a Ms Fanservice in the first season: the ever changing wardrobe.
  - Saji Crossroad may be well on his way back here in season 2 for being selfish and practically ignorant of Celestial Being's efforts to pay for their sins, even after Tieria already told him that the world conflict cannot be resolved with simple pacifism, and to see the world through his own eyes. To be fair for the kid, though, he's gotten better.
  - But the same cannot be said for poor Louise who went from being pitiful into despicable for some people when she joins A-Laws, an organization which turns out to be doing things worse than what Nena did to her, but she doesn't seem to mind as she now views Celestial Being as Ultimate Evil, anything that opposes it (A-Laws) shall be deemed 'good', and ANYTHING remotely close to it (including her boyfriend Saji) will be deemed 'evil' by her. And even though Nena is another Scrappy and she killed her personally, it didn't even fix her image.
  - Well, until she got better, thanks to Saji and some Setsuna sparkles, proving she wasn't that 100% gone.
  - Events in episode 17 have added the name Andrei Smsirnov to the list of 00 scrappies. Killing a fan-favorite character, his father Papa Bear, outside of battle when you are not a fan favorite character is a bad idea. It doesn't help that due to his emotional damage, Andrei distanced himself from his father immediately after his mother's death, not even thinking about how Sergei felt or how worse that operation may have come out had his father acted on his emotions. Not to mention the Saji and Louise fandom that sees him as a persistent hindrance for their favourite couple.
  - The Fan Dumb seems to be now obsessed with the idea of searching for any excuses to throw Lyle Dylandy back into the Scrappy heap. It's not enough that he's not a carbon copy of his twin brother Neil and that he's supposedly a "man-slut" (GASP, people use that term negatively towards a male) for hooking up with Wrench Wench Anew Returner during the 4-month Time Skip, now he isn't allowed to be upset when Setsuna kills his Manchurian Agent girlfriend in battle? Gundam 00 fandom seem more and more similar to the Code Geass and Gundam Wing ones in their increasing venom.
  - There were already complains about Billy Katagiri's reduced role and Character Derailment, but after he apparently tried to shoot his ex-girlfriend Sumeragi Lee Noriega in episode 23, fandom has been screaming for his blood. The recent revelation that joining Ribbons was solely due to the fact that he can't say I love you hasn't helped
  - Rebellious Princess Marina is hated due to the fact that she seems to have no use other than hanging out with the orphaned Azhadistan children. Real Women Never Wear Dresses, anyone?
  - So... being complety useless to the plot isn't a bad thing anymore?
  - Because the only way a female character is useful to the plot is when she's an Ace Pilot or an Action Girl?
  - Well since how you can take out most of the Marina parts and still wouldn't change the story sure makes her useless at least Relena tried' to end the war. Tropes Are Not Bad anyone?
- Gundam SEED and its sequel Gundam SEED Destiny also have their share of Scrappies: Flay Allster because she used sex to lure Kira Yamato to his death, as punishment for failing to save her father from an horrible death in space..., Yuna Roma Seiran for being The Paolo, Shinn Asuka for being the Replacement Scrappy, Meyrin Hawke for standing in between Athrun and Cagalli, and, to a lesser degree, Lunamaria Hawke for being a Faux Action Girl, Lacus Clyne for being a Purity Sue-like Yamato Nadeshiko (but like Momo from Bleach, Japan loves her for that exact reason), and Kira Yamato for being the ultimate one-man Spotlight Stealing Squad in Destiny (but see Lacus's note). Basically, these two series are a perfect example of how completely different characters can be The Scrappy in the eyes of different segments of the fandom. Except Yuna, everybody hates him.
  - Yuna rocks and this troper loves him.
- Try finding a Gundam X fan who likes Olba, the younger of the Frost brothers. "Whiny, flamboyant male Yandere with a brother complex" doesn't even cover it.
- Going back even further to the UC era, Katz Kobayashi from Zeta Gundam is hated for being gullible and stubborn as well as obsessed with enemy pilot Sarah Zaviaroff. It is no surprise that the fandom squealed with joy when he died by his own stupidity when he crashed into an asteroid.
  - Also Reccoa Londe, for betraying the AEUG for "using her" despite the fact that they never thought of her as anything less then a great friend and ally, and that she defected over to Scirocco, a womanizer of the highest order. And also, she indirectly caused the death of fan-favorite Emma. Many fans snidely remark that if Char had just slept with her once, all this could have been avoided.
- Both Quess Paraya and Hathaway Noa from Chars Counterattack could also be considered Scrappies. Hathaway was partially Rescued From The Scrappy Heap because of how It Got Worse in the sequel novel Hathaway's Flash.
- As with Gundam SEED above, Gundam Wing has a highly polarizing character base. The most hated character, though, is probably Relena, who is seen as a Too Dumb To Live Stalker With A Crush Pink Menace by some fans - and this is before you get into the Yaoi Fangirls screaming "Die For Our Ship!"
  - A close runner up for the Scrappy throne is Wufei, an Arrogant Kung Fu Guy who is Flanderized in fanfiction as a misogynist bastard who only knows four words: "Justice", "Evil", "Nataku", and "ONNA!". Like Relena, however, most of this hate comes from those who fail of refuse to acknowledge their Character Development.
In The Prince Of Tennis, there are several characters with healthy hatedoms:
- Main character Ryoma Echizen himself, for being a borderline Marty Stu and behaving like a jerk (especially toward rival and unexpected fan favorite Keigo Atobe who, according to his fangirls, can absolutely do NO wrong),
- Tomoka Osakada, for being a loud self-appointed Echizen fangirl who can sometimes be pushy, airheaded and bitchy, nevermind that some of her bashers act very similarly in Real Life;
- Sakuno Ryuzaki, for being a klutz and a bit of an Extreme Doormat in the anime, though her less klutzy manga self is quite better regarded.
- Satoshi Horio, for being a loudmouthed Non Action Guy who brags and talks yet accomplishes nothing and is the local Chew Toy,
- Seiichi Yukimura, for being a girly-looking mixture of Ill Girl and Magnificent Bastard who will do almost anything to let his team win and gets in betwen Atobe and Sanada, and;
- Jackal Kuwahara, for being the only Rikkai guy who plays normal tennis and stealing what rabid fangirls perceived as Hiroshi Yagyuu's designated place in the finals.
Shiro Emiya from Fate/stay night shares the same problem with Miaka of 'being a Scrappy even though he's the star of the show', since he's considered an 'idiotic Martyr Without A Cause', and the fact that he embodies No Guy Wants An Amazon. Even though Saber is clearly far more powerful than him and can protect him better, he still insists that 'he must protect everyone'. Worse yet, most Fate Stay Night fans come from those who've watched the anime, which focuses on the Fate route, where Shiro refused to change his naive ideals, making it worse for him in general (on the Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel paths, he doesn't act this way).
- And in the same series, there's a bigger Scrappy: Shinji Matou. His crimes are numerous, and while Shiro who at least had an Awesome moment or two despite his Scrappyism, Shinji got none. He's a self-serving Smug Snake who treats his friends like garbage, and a weak magus but thinks himself too great and forces his way into the war... by forcing Sakura to yield Rider to him, and treats her like garbage anyway, calling her weak at times despite him actually holding back her true powers. He still scolds and abuses Sakura a lot for 'staying' with Shiro, even raping her (maybe Rider too) on a daily basis to vent his frustration.
  - Sakura herself isn't free of some hatedom due to people viewing Dark Sakura's actions more negatively than was really intended. Specifically, Dark Saber and the bad end where she inflicts her life with the Matou's on Tohsaka, while calmly noting that Tohsaka is already crying on the first day because she was a virgin.
Pokemon, being a Long Runner with a broad fandom, features many characters who receive hated by some groups. Replacement Scrappies are multiple. Characters with a particularly large hatedom include the following:
- Out of the main cast, Max gets the most hate. Certainly being an insufferable know-it-all and his apparent pointlessness qualify him as prime Scrappy material. However, strangely enough, he didn't make it to the point of being The Wesley even though he had all the potential to become one of these. Plus he did have some decently-done Moments Of Heartwarming.
- The classic Scrappy from the series is Ritchie, a clone of Ash who has no negative qualities and was introduced just to knock Ash out of his first tournament in the following episode. The writers proceeded to bring him back for a Johto mini-arc and then have two episodes in Chronicles focus on him.
- Dawn's rivals are bashed for not being as interesting as the rivals from the previous arc, but Zoey has especially gained a hatedom for her perceived nosy attitude and insistence that everyone follow her viewpoint on Gyms and Contests, which only came up twice before she changed her mind about it. So now she's being bashed for simply being blunt. Indeed. For example, Drew was to May ten times ruder than Zoey ever was, yet he's been fangirled widely.
- Butch and Cassidy get a lot of crap for their Character Derailment into the Team Rocket of the spin-off series, since their usual popularity comes from being a foil of Jessie and James. Thankfully, this was reset in their later appearances in the main series.
- Togepi is blamed for Misty losing her personality in Johto. It didn't help that it just sat in her arms and did nothing of any interest for four years. When her character was restored on leaving the regular cast, Togepi was swiftly put on a more permanent bus.
- Piplup, on the other hand, has become one to much of the fanbase for the opposite reason. It's "forced mascot" status isn't helping matters, and Everythings Better With Penguins be damned.
- And lest any of May's Pokémon be left out of the pile, her Squirtle made a bad first impression with the entire cheapness surrounding its first contest victory and the hate hasn't stopped since.
- Though he's still loved by many people, Brock is viewed this way by a segment of the fanbase, due to his girl craziness and the fact that he rarely ever does anything interesting or important.
- Tracey (and arguably the entire Orange Islands series), though a large reason for hatred of this character is due to his unsatisfying replacement of Brock, he contributes so little to the group dynamic that he's seen as pointless. Example: Pokemon 2000. The only thing he did the entire movie was pull Misty and Ash back to dry land.
- Let's not forget Ash. Like with Miaka, being the main character doesn't save one from being a Scrappy. Oh, and Pikachu.
- Paul. For every fan who worships him for being a Bad Ass, there's one who hates him for being a Jerk Ass.
- Let's just say that to some group of people any or at least one character is the scrappy.
Anzu/Tea from Yu Gi Oh, for either her excessive friendship speeches or for getting in the way of Yugi/Yami.
Kiryuu Nanami, The Libby from Revolutionary Girl Utena, has proven to be an "unfavorite" even among the writing staff, having only been given bit parts in the move and manga adaptations of the series.
Detective Conan gives us the Detective Boys. Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta are normal children who unknowingly befriend an undercover Teen Genius in a series filled with complex murder mysteries. Thus, they tend to ignore all his instructions of caution which puts their lives in danger or comes close to blowing his cover multiple times. They even view Conan as the lowest member of the group while trying to stop him taking all the credit for helping solve cases. They do get better in the manga, as they come to appreciate Conan's talent, start to develop their own abilities, and befriend another Teen Genius (Ai Haibara) who keeps them more in line, but this is generally not reflected in the anime fillers where they will remain in Scrappy status in the eyes of many fans.
Eureka Seven has Eureka's "children" (she adopted them) Link, Mayter, and Maurice, or as most fans will say "the annoying brats". Not only are their voices annoying and extremely grating whenever they open their mouths, but they serve no real purpose other than to provide "comedy" in the form of torturing Renton, and to get Holland, Eureka, and the others in trouble (see episode 40). Even worse, during The Great Wall Arc (from about episode 40 up until the end of the series) they become important semi-major characters.
May Wong from the second season of Kaleido Star, owed heavily to her initial snobbish attitude (until Leon decides to engage in a bit of painful "attitude adjustment"). Even after she does learn the lesson (and learns it quicker than Leon himself), fans simply will NOT stop raging against her.
Tokyo Majin has Aoi Misato. It's bad enough she is totally useless, and doesn't really help the other main characters. However, she constantly runs into danger trying to fight despite having no offensive powers and her friends telling to stay away. It gets worse when the characters begin to claim Aoi as courageous, despite her not really showing this trait. Also, Aoi wants to save everyone, including the enemies who have committed mass murder. Even worse, Aoi wanted to save the main villain (a person who committed a lot of murders), claiming "he didn't hurt anyone."
Perrine Closterman from Strike Witches, a blatantly lesbian Ojou who picks fights with Yoshika due to both characters' infatuation with Mio Sakamoto.
Lin Minmei from Super Dimension Fortress Macross and Robotech is widely despised, especially among haters of princess-like pop divas and rabid Misa/Hikaru fans.
- One name: Lynn Kaifun. Whereas Minmay's actions can be seen as those of a confused, emotionally needy Naive Everygirl attempting to survive in a ruthless world of adults, Kaifun comes off as less sympathetic and much more of a straight-up, abusive Jerk Ass.
7-Zark-7 is hated violently by even die-hard fans of Battle Of The Planets.
Even though Minori from the Tora Dora anime started out as a very interesting, funny and likable character, some fans think that her antics (and Ryuuji's crush on her) distract too much from Taiga and Ryuuji's relationship.
Kintarou from Otogi Zoshi looks like an example of the Bratty Half Pint variety. Most of the characters are fairly serious, and then you throw in an obnoxious, super-strong kid.
Touko (Drill-chan) from Maria-sama Ga Miteru is disliked by a fairly large part of the fandom because of her bitchy attitude, despite all the efforts of the creator to present her in a more positive light. The fact that Yumi keeps relentlessly pursuing her as her petite soeur only adds to this, since a lot of fans think that there are other, more suitable candidates— Kanako, for instance.
In the Hajime No Ippo fandom, Ichiro Miyata has a fair-sized Hatedom, mostly due to the accusation that he became a one-man Spotlight Stealing Squad during his endlessly long fight with Randy Boy Jr.
- This Troper has seen massive Manabu Itagaki bashing in some forums, since fanboys consider him irrelevant to the story and not half the strong Ippo and the others is. It doesn't help that he's the only main protagonist to be introduced partway through the series, and was noted as a prodigy within a few pages, due to his exceptional reflexes and agility.
- Surprisingly, Ippo's Yamato Nadeshiko love interest Kumi Mashiba has escaped Die For Our Ship and/or Real Women Never Wear Dresses based bashing, even from the yaoi corner...
Usopp of One Piece became the Scrappy to quite a few fans after becoming angry and leaving the crew over Luffy's decision to abandon the irreparable Going Merry, despite Luffy having struggled with the decision. The debate was essentially between those who thought he was wrong but didn't see him as being without redeeming features and those who thought he was wrong and the incident proves that he was more trouble than he was worth for the Straw Hats.
- Then he became Sogeking soon afterward, effectively taking a level in badass. He later apologizes to the crew for his behavior and begs them to let him back in the crew.
- Another Scrappy would be Nelfertari Vivi, as her pacifistic nature grated on many people as the Alabasta arc wore on. Shichibukai Boa Hancock also has a sizable Hatedom.
One really... odd (and depressing) example from Axis Powers Hetalia. After the Korean Moral Guardians raged against the series due to Values Dissonance and the series was dropped from TV to be distributed through webcast, This Troper has seen more than one member of the Fan Dumb spew not only VERY ugly anti-Korean shit, but also taking it against the Korean nation-tan, Im Yonsoo. Yeah, South Korea is often shown as the Annoying Younger Sibling, but what happened in Real Life with the series is not his fault. *facepalm*

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Post Crisis Jason Todd was hated by quite a few readers, to the point that fans eventually voted for him to be killed by the Joker.
- They brought him back as a vengeful villain. Or a universe-hopping hero, depending which comic book you read.
- Peter David wrote a book called Mascot To the Rescue! which involves, among other things, comic fans voting to kill off an obvious Expy of Jason and an actual fan of Mascot campaigning to save him. Better Than It Sounds.
Morlun and Ezekiel. What's wrong with the classic Spider-Man characters?
Cassandra Sandsmark, the current Wonder Girl; it doesn't help that Cassie is largely pushed as a Purity Sue ala Donna Troy by writers, when in truth she comes off like "The Libby", with the bitchiness cranked up to 11.
- What makes it worse is that this is a result of Character Derailment; fans of Young Justice (and, to a lesser extent, Wonder Woman) will be familiar with a charming and intelligent heroine. They just ruined it.
Kyle Rayner, made worse by DC declaring "There can be only one and that one is Kyle!" when they made him Green Lantern, infusing into fandom a hatred that will never die.
- The hatred was from the old school Hal fans; Kyle does has many loyal fans himself. That said, this did cause a... divide in the Green Lantern fandom.
- to explain it better, they got rid of Hal in the stupidest way posible, killed off the Green Lantern Corps, and made Kyle the sole one, while every cape in DC going into full Shilling The Wesley mode. However Kyle did prove his wroth as a superhero and got his own fanbase, however many fans were still pissed that so many other Green Lanterns were remove, until Hal and the Corps were brought back.
Damian Wayne (or Damian al-Ghul) of Batman (in)fame. It doesn't help that Grant Morrison is completely in love with the little bastard.
Danny Chase. Not only did he actually look like Cousin Oliver, but everyone hated him. He mocked Jason Todd's death (in front of Dick Grayson, Jason's adopted brother) and his sole Crowning Moment of Anything was his own death.

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Imagine yourself being a PC gamer in the late 1990s. Every game is run in fullscreen and WILL crash if you Alt+Tab out of it. Back in the days, using the keys Ctrl, Alt and Shift to play was the norm, so you adapted a kind of specialised grip on the keyboard just for gaming. Now imagine a new key that sits JUST in-between Ctrl and Alt, leading to quite a few slips of the finger that result in pushing that key, and watch as your game crashes (probably at a boss or a particularly hard part of the game, because being nervous leads to you making mistakes) and after about 20 seconds of computer lock-up, pops up the Start menu, as if the computer is mocking you. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you, the Windows Key, the only key that says "press here to lose!"
- "Specialized grip" indeed. Even under DOS Box, trying to remap CTRL and ALT to Z and V to get the key distance right yet still avoid the Windows Key.
- This is so well-known that some keyboards have incorporated a "game mode" switch that has the sole effect of disabling the Windows key.
- Let alone the fact that the key was pretty much guaranteed this since it incorporates a Microsoft logo, and now appears on almost every keyboard one can buy, even though the computer they're plugged into may not have Windows on it at all. Given the existing negative feeling towards them, the key was pretty much guaranteed this status for some people.
Somewhere, the person who decided that keyboards should have 'power', 'suspend', and 'sleep' buttons waits. He waits in fear. He cannot sleep for more than two hours at a time, as he constantly shudders into alertness, knowing that the moment he lets down his guard, his head will be bashed open like a ripe melon by a user who hit these buttons one too many times.
- Almost as bad is making them into normal keys, putting them where the 'Print Screen', 'Scroll Lock' and 'Pause' keys should be, and moving all the keys below them down in order to fit.
This Troper dealt with all 4 offending keys in the appropriate fashion: pry them off the keyboard with a screwdriver.

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Clippy, the Microsoft Office animated paperclip assistant. Stop helping us.
- Only good appearance: a page of computer jokes somewhere, in which his sole dialogue is "It looks like you're writing a letter. Would you like me to a) bollocks it up for you b) just fuck off and leave you alone?"
  - Also, this video.
BonziBuddy raised this trope to an art form. Bonzi originally appeared in the form of a green parrot named Peedy but then later became the purple gorilla we know him as today, Bonzi is an interactive virtual friend who sings, tells jokes, and reads stories. He may seem harmless enough on the surface, but he is actually a form of malware. The problem is that pop-ups that look like Windows warning messages appear almost frequently, he constantly asks you to purchase add-ons and upgrades for him, and the worst part is that he's almost impossible to get rid of.
Windows Vista's excessive Copy Protection and other flaws have gotten it a reputation as The Scrappy of operating systems, especially before the release of Service Pack 1.
- Even though as of 2009 most problems regarding Vista are a thing of the past (either they don't exist anymore or are easily tweaked), there's still a sizable amount of users who refuse to upgrade from older versions, either because of the aesthetic and functional changes (which are not that big) or because "their amateur computer whiz friend told them it was bad", leaving a small percentage truly unsatisfied with said operating system.
  - Although laptop power users hate it for an entirely different reason: running hot and draining batteries. A downgrade to XP on this troper's then-bleeding-edge ultraportable on steroids boosted battery life from 4 to a whopping *8.5* hours (yes, more than double, and no, Vista's time was not tested in Aero mode). Also, the inconvenience of changing systems and finding XP drivers for sometimes-unique tech features inside the laptop alone is highly likely to make the business user that chooses to swap systems (or his company's tech/system administrator charged with the task) hate Vista with a passion.
- Before Vista, Windows ME (known as Mistake Edition) was incredibly unpopular for its tendency to flash a BSOD (and not the heroic kind) on a ~~near-~~daily basis.
- Windows in general is generally The Scrappy of operating systems, with 3.x 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, and Vista all equally hated at one point or another, XP is the only one comes off relatively well.
DRM. Among the worst offenders:
- A previous version of Starforce in the worst-case scenario could cause physical hardware failure. Somewhat effective as Copy Protection, actually, since people can't use their CD drives to copy a CD if you break their CD drive first.
  - Except under US law, at least, a legitimate user has the right to make a backup copy, So Yeah.
- SecuROM, to which the frequent piracy of Spore is often attributed, and also led to a class-action lawsuit against EA.
- The Sony rootkit scandal.

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Jar-Jar Binks from the Star Wars prequel trilogy, so much so that the German version of this wiki named the trope Der Jar Jar. This one is so (in)famous that people who have never seen any of the Star Wars films hate him anyway (including people who have seen the original films but not the more recent ones). According to many fans, he's the one character who completes the rare trifecta of being The Scrappy, an Alien Scrappy and, many would argue, an Ethnic Scrappy as well. None of them found this supposed Plucky Comic Relief character either plucky or comical. (Discuss!) It seems George Lucas got the message, giving Jar Jar Binks a smaller role in Episode II and removing him almost entirely from Episode III.
- And the worst thing is that he survives all the way throughout most of the Star Wars EU. He even gets to have kids!
- C3PO already got some flare in The Empire Strikes Back...in an interview, he said some people considered the android "the worst character ever".
- Jacen Solo from the Expanded Universe isn't thought of very highly, either, especially since his character crossed the line into unforgivable bastardry.
- Ahsoka Tano from Star Wars The Clone Wars seems to already be hated within two days her first appearance, largely for daring to be a teenage girl in a cast of twenty year old men (ignoring the fact that she's technically as old as the average Republic soldier) ...in a movie aimed at teenagers.
- Ewoks have a reputation of having plenty of people who regard them as a race of scrappys for the following two reasons:
1. Flanderization turning the Stormtroopers into the Butt Monkey of Star Wars VS debates barring Expanded Universe.
2. Preventing what would have been an awesome rebellion by Chewie's people. So much for watching them tear the arms off Stormtroopers (originally, the plan was to liberate Kashyyyk but they chose Endor and the Ewoks instead)...
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom has two of them: Ethnic Scrappy Tagalong Kid Short Round and largely useless Damsel Scrappy Willie Scott. Of course, there are also plenty of fans who actually love Shorty, especially for his funny interactions with Indy, not to mention being a brave young warrior with foul mouth but a kind heart. Mutt from Kingdom of the Crystal Skull seems to be close to this status for being Indy's son and at least partly for being played by Shia LeBeouf.
A major part of the painful experience that is watching The Wild World Of Batwoman (even with Mike, Tom and Crow) is the unfunny antics of Heathcliff.
Minya, a.k.a. the "Son Of Godzilla" is often panned by Godzilla fans of all ages due to his goofy nature and the fact that he starred in Godzilla's Revenge which is considered the worst of the Japanese Godzilla films.
- Likewise, there's Jet Jaguar ("He crimefighting cover up a basic insecurity"). Think Ultraman + Jack Nicholson - the entertainment value of both.
Abigail Whistler from Blade: Trinity.
Shia LeBeuf can pretty much be described as having this type of role as his specialty, being cast as hard to like characters or characters capable of ruining franchises.
For this troper at least, Wybie in [[Coraline]]. Far worse and unnecessary than Jar Jar.
Many fans of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire strongly dislike Harriet Hoctor in Shall We Dance.
Zeppo Marx quickly became audiences' least favorite member of The Marx Brothers, due to his failure to adopt a strongly identifiable screen personality like Groucho, Harpo, and Chico. This eventually caused him to leave the act, though the other three continued having straight romantic hero parts in their films that Zeppo clearly would have played if they'd still been together. Ironically, several of their comtemporaries stated that in real life Zeppo was the funniest of the brothers.

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Although A Song Of Ice And Fire has a number of characters you could call "controversial," nobody really fits this trope like Darkstar. He managed to inspire an entire hatedom based on his appearance in a single chapter. (Whether said hatedom is serious or just for laughs is up for debate.) And unlike other controversial characters, it doesn't seem like anybody actually likes the guy. A deliberate attempt at an Ensemble Darkhorse Gone Horribly Wrong.
The Wheel Of Time series has Faile as the most hated character by far. It didn't help that her introduction as a Slap Slap Kiss Rescue Romance Love Interest hardly made sense at all, or that her entire culture believes men and women in love should yell at each other in a never-ending struggle for dominance. Not that her personality is any more obnoxious than any other female character from The Wheel of Time, but that's another story...
As the series neared its ultimate conclusion, Harry Potter reached a point where calling any single character The Scrappy became pointless, as Ship To Ship Combat and Alternate Character Interpretation made damn near every single plot-important character become the proud owner of an internet Hatedom. Dolores Umbridge could count, as fans hate her more than the Big Bad Voldemort, but then again, she was written for the sole reason to be despised.
Within The Vampire Chronicles fandom few characters get as much malice as Merrick, a never-before-seen crossover from a different Anne Rice series who somehow became a titular character. Many fans consider her to be the author's personal Mary Sue (evidenced by her impossibly beautiful and talented self showing up out of nowhere and immediately becoming beloved by all other characters, including the previously gay narrator, David) and argue that the entire novel reads like bad fan fiction (people behaving out-of-character, presence of a Mary Sue, ridiculously pointless plot even for Anne Rice...you get the idea). Fans who had managed to survive past Queen of the Damned (which was simultaneously loved and reviled by fans) agreed that this novel was officially the moment the series Jumped The Shark and put all the blame squarely on Merrick's shoulders. Cue dozens of FanFics wherein the character is either ignored or killed outright, sometimes to the point of having other characters kill her for being so annoying.
- Daniel, the "interviewer" of Interview With A Vampire has his own hatedom as well. His habit of puppy-dogging behind Armand earned him the nickname "Daniel the Spaniel" from many, many writers.
Everybody hates Drizzt. Well, everyone except the everyone that loves him (they are best-selling novels).
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you, Twilight, the Scrappy of books. People read the series just for the purpose of being able to make fun of it more effectively.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation had one - Venus, the female turtle trained in the art of Shinobi who was deliberately not related to any of the boys so that a relationship wasn't out of the question. It didn't stop her being so hated that her entire existence has now been denied. Maybe one day we'll get a female turtle who doesn't need supernatural powers to fight, but it's unlikely. Thanks a lot, Venus.
Wesley Crusher from Star Trek The Next Generation. You have to feel for poor Wil Wheaton; he's actually a good actor who was stuck with a character he openly admits was terrible, and who the writers refused to change to actually make him tolerable. The rest of his career has basically been one big apology for Wesley Crusher.
Neelix from Star Trek Voyager. It's no surprise that when Tuvok is struggling with homicidal impulses, his means of testing his self control is trying, (and failing), to keep himself from strangling Neelix— sadly, it turned out to be a holodeck simulation. No jury in the world would've convicted him, either.
- Tuvok himself was a Scrappy to many fans, and when the show had a chance to be rid of both characters and replace them with the far more likeable transporter-combo Tuvix, Tuvix was instead sacrificed to the dark god of Status Quo.
- Some fans-including me, a fan of Neelix and Tuvok-would place Captain Janeway in the scrappy heap. Watch as she loses several crew cutting through hostile territory...so they can cut off a few months from a 70 year journey. Watch as she messes up every damn attempt to get home. Watch as she performs borderline psychopathic acts every other week, like murdering Tuvix, yet is never called out on it by the crew.
- Let's also not forget that she simply says "Screw you" to the temporal status quo and decides to completely change the timeline because she wants her ship to get home to earth earlier and with losing less crew members. In the process she even eradicates the Borg. And for mucking about with decades of history, she is even made vice admiral, making this something of a broken Aesop as well.
  - Of course, this is all Depending On The Writer.
Janice Battersby from [1].
Joxer from Xena Warrior Princess, at least between seasons 2 and 4 for hogging screentime. When the fans finally started to tolerate him around season 5, the writers killed him off.
Chachi from Happy Days. He was popular when Happy Days was running; this is an example of hindsight, given that Chachi used to regularly get the female audience screams upon entrance that the Fonz used to get.
Kim Bauer from 24, owed heavily to her irrelevant plotlines that only take time away from the main story than anything she actually does.
The Brady Bunch's Cousin Oliver.
Billie "Sue" Jenkins in Charmed.
Guido from My Parents Are Aliens was introduced in Series 8 (the last series, perhaps not surprisingly).
Randy Pearson in That 70's Show, for being Eric's sort of Jonas Quinn.
Justin from Power Rangers Turbo, the quintessential example of a kid's dream gone horribly, horribly wrong.
- Alpha 6, also of Turbo, could qualify. While Alpha 5 was dorky-but-lovable, Alpha 6 was an attempt to make Alpha cool by using forced-hip slang ("Yo, Rangers!"). It's ~~likely~~ no coincidence that as Turbo ended, he was damaged, and his voice chip needed to be replaced with one of Alpha 5's.
Maya, the Too Dumb To Live plague-creating "heroine" who was introduced to us in Season 2 of Heroes became The Scrappy of the show in record time. Her entire lengthy story was a Trapped By Mountain Lions plot and had fans begging for her death at the hands of Sylar even before the two characters met. Here's a hint for the writers: If a character dies and is brought back to life almost immediately afterwards, and the fandom is angry that the character is still alive... you know you've got a Scrappy on your hands.
- To a lesser degree, Mohinder fits this bill as well. While he's always been a relatively useless character - not because of his lack of powers but because of his amazing ability to consistently trust the wrong people - he truly became Too Dumb To Live in Season 2 when (he joined The Company to act as a deep-cover operative and help bring it down from the inside and then turned traitor on Noah Bennet despite having seen countless examples - both in Season 1 and Season 2 - of The Company being hopelessly corrupt and self-serving.)
  - Worse, Season 3 has paired Mohinder and Maya, which almost everyone can agree is a match made in Hell. EVEN WORSE, Mohinder suddenly gains Spider-Man like abilities and an inexplicable compulsion to steal people and encase them in cocoons. Maya missed an opportunity to pull herself out of the Scrappy heap when she found out about Mohinder's new "habit." She almost killed him with her ability but Mohinder somehow talked her out of it. What An Idiot!
Adric in Doctor Who. Apparently, the purpose was to create a character who reflected their prime fan base, so the production team came up with a snotty, pompous, whining, arrogant and almost entirely unbearable maths geek, and then gave the part to an Ascended Fanboy who had never acted in anything before ever and (to speak generously) failed to distinguish himself in the role. It doesn’t help that, despite being incredibly arrogant about his intelligence, he has a tendency to either screw up the Doctor’s plans or, as in one notable case, gets suckered into helping the bad guy’s evil scheme, despite it being very transparently evil, thus making his reported intelligence something of an Informed Ability. Adric is so widely hated that a Doctor Who fanfiction community has an ongoing Meta Fic series in which the character was repeatedly killed off in as many ways as the authors could think of (which, oddly enough, actually made him quite an endearing character, in a woobie sort of way).
- To a lesser extent (in that no one appears to have written fiction actively killing her), Mel also suffered from this, largely due to perceived miscasting, as the actress playing the character (Bonnie Langford) was known primarily from on-stage pantomime and her acting style (and character) was seen as contrary to the show's strengths. It didn't help her case that the two seasons she appeared in are generally considered the worst in the show's history, either.
- As perfect evidence of the notorious case of Unpleasable Fanbase afflicting Doctor Who fans, every single one of the new series' main female companions (Rose, Martha and Donna) have suffered hatedoms from different (or in some cases, the same) parts of the fanbase. In these cases, there is often more than a hint of Die For Our Ship involved, as most of the bad feeling towards them seems to come mainly from the increased romantic subtexts that the producers have infused the show with and debates about whether the character is an appropriate romantic foil for the Doctor. There is also an increased tendency for characters to engage in Shilling The Wesley for other characters that the production team are obviously very fond of (Rose and Donna in particular have been accused and criticised because of this), which doesn’t help. It should be noted that all three characters also have their fans, many of whom can be equally devoted to them.
  - The new series has also debuted two ‘almost-companions’ - Jenny in ‘The Doctor’s Daughter’, and River Song in ‘Silence of the Library’, both of whom have met with instant dislike from the fan-base due to the perception, for numerous reasons, that they are both instant Canon Sues.
  - Astrid, from the season 3 Christmas special, has also received 'almost-companion' hate.
- The Doctor himself hasn't escaped Scrappy-dom, either; both the Sixth Doctor (as played by Colin Baker) and the Seventh Doctor (as played by Sylvester McCoy) are considered Scrappies by certain parts of fandom. This mainly applies to their television portrayals, however, both of which are agreed to have been debuted in a particularly difficult era of the show’s history which affected the way both were introduced and presented; it’s widely agreed that the various Expanded Universe media featuring these characters has largely contributed to them being Rescued From The Scrappy Heap.
  - The Expanded Universe has produced its own Scrappy in the form of Sam, whose Holier Than Thou and overly politically correct and 'right-on' character was so disliked that her replacement, Compassion, may have been deliberately written as the exact opposite - i.e. rude, snobby, opinionated, and selfish - either to avoid this Hatedom, or to make people say "now that I think about it, Sam wasn't that bad."
Jenny Schecter in The L Word, who comes off as the living incarnation of pretentious, snotty creative-writing characters. Just click around any site either dedicated to the show or sapphic-sticated ladies in general, and you're likely to see long anthems of loathing come up. It's difficult to tell whether she's a badly conceived Author Avatar or supposed to be purposely annoying, but either way, many fans hate her guts. As the show went on, she and her hideous excuse for writing skill got more and more screen time, turning this one into a bit of The Wesley as well.
Izzie Stevens has been one right from the first episode of Grey's Anatomy, and consolidated through the second season with the whole Denny debacle, and the whole stealing Gizzie debacle in season 3. Now is exceptionally hated, so much that a lot of fans are cheering and hollering for her to die from the tumors she found out she had in the fifth season.
- Also Meredith Grey's half-sister Lexie, whose first scene involved flirting with Mc Dreamy and became a series regular right after (yet-another) Meredith/Derek breakup.
Owen from Torchwood, an apparent attempt to create a Jack-the-Lad type character that failed dismally. In the story world he's supposed to be some kind of love god, but the actor playing him is strangely froglike and charm-free. It doesn't help that when we first see him he's forcing people to sleep with him by using a serum he's nicked from Torchwood supplies. The writers seem to be acknowledging his unpopularity in the second series by constant digs.
- His popularity increased with his character arc through the second season, only for him to be killed off in a heartbreaking final episode. Go figure.
Dawn from Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Long-lost sister of Buffy (well, sort of...it's a long story), who became a regular cast member in the fifth and sixth seasons. Draw your own conclusion.
- Dawn also has elements of The Wesley, with the writers insisting on sticking her into various spin offs that take place before season 5 despite her noticeable hatedom.
- Wesley (not the Wesley, mind) started out like this on Angel, but he got better.
- Kennedy wasn't just resented because of her replacing Tara, although introducing a new love interest for Willow so soon after her death was questionable. Not only did she seem a major case of tokenism - there had to be another lesbian on the show - but she came across as bratty, egotistical and selfish (she lied to get Willow to date her, never behaved sensitively re: the Tara issue, talked about nothing other than herself and being gay, etc). Not only that, the actress was deplorable. Iyari Limon has since come out as bi and in a relationship so we can only assume her 'acting' isn't up to much.
- Riley receives a good deal of hate from Buffy fans, whether they belong to the 'Buffy and Angel 4 Eva' or Spuffy camps. It's not too surprising - Riley was introduced during a season considered to be one of the show's weakest, never had much of an identity established, was an integral part of the loathed Initiative...and was poorly acted by Marc Blucas. It's all very well having a hot bod, but a major character in a popular show is at least supposed to be convincing.
  - It doesn't help that while Buffy's mother is seriously ill with brain cancer, he's constantly whining about how Buffy is never "there for him"...uh, HELLO?!? Her mom is DYING!!! Grow a set and deal!
  - After rewatching the fifth season, the descripton of "you won't let me be there for you" would better fit Riley during the fifth season. Xander even points this out to Buffy in a What The Hell Hero speech in the episode when Riley left the show.
Nikki & Paulo from Lost were introduced in the third season because the producers of the show were often asked what some of the other survivors of the crash were doing. Viewers and TV critics wasted no time flaming them to hell and back.
- Some other Lost fans hated Ana-Lucia when she was introduced to the cast, but she had shown a slightly more likeable side right before Michael (yet another disliked character) killed her.
If you want the audience to like a character, don't have him dump Ugly Betty in the pilot episode for another girl and come crawling back to her in the next. They will never forgive him, no matter how many tricks you pull. Although judging by the same fans' forgiving attitudes toward the McDreamies and "desperate" husbands of ABC, they probably wouldn't have this problem if Walter had been a little cuter.
A Vocal Minority of The OC fans loathed Marissa Cooper passionately, mostly because she tended to be a self-destructive drama magnet (and on a soap opera, that's saying something) who became the center of attention of any scene she was in and tended to treat people like crap...but everyone around her continued to like her and put up with it. The third season ends with her finally getting Killed Off For Real.
Lizzi from Greek. The attempt was to create a sorority consultant so markedly different from the sorority she's consulting. And it worked: the super-hyper, passive-aggressive, rule-enforcing, and overall annoying Lizzi went from zero to borderline X Pac Heat in less than an episode.
Connor, during the fourth season of Angel. Apart from actually behaving remarkably like Scrappy-Doo in battle, Connor was generally despised by fans for making Angel unhappy (moreso). His personality boiled down to "hateful" and "gullible", and refused to see Angel as a good person and didn't question Cordelia's change in personality, culminating in a scene where he helps Evil Cordelia murder an innocent girl, even after his dead mother told him not to.
- Connor was not universally hated, though, and his popularity has increased significantly since the publication of the Joss-blessed "Angel: After the Fall" comic, in which he straightens up a lot.
  - To be fair, Conner was a terrible example of a full-grown [2] when he returned from the Quor-Toth all the way until the end of season 4. When he returns in season 5 he becomes a likeable character, but during season four, deep down everyone knows that they would have loved to have seen Faith beat the crap out of him non-stop for an episode or two.
Sara Sidle on CSI. So much so that when she finally left the show, people who disliked the character couldn't resist taking parting shots at the actress for "turning her back" on the rest of the cast.
Seven on Married With Children became one of these quickly, just like good old Cousin Oliver. What made it especially galling was how Peg actually tried to be a responsible mother to the little snot by giving him food, instead of the lazy, self-centered Jerkass the fans all knew and loved.
Bubbles on Trailer Park Boys. While he was initially a fairly well-liked character when he played a minor supporting role, his prominence as the series went on (and the introduction of a damned puppet), turning him into this trope.
Here's a fun exercise: Go to a Supernatural forum and casually mention that Bela may not be so bad. Hilarity Will Ensue.
- Now that Bela has taken a one-way trip to hell, Ruby is fast becoming this for a lot of fans. Think about it: She's supposedly a demon who's good, she's manipulating Sam into using his demonic powers more, there are plenty of consent issues with the bodies she possesses and, more often than not, her meatsuit is usually a crappy actress. However, Ruby's exact motives are still vague, so whether her lack of positive qualities is intentional is yet to be confirmed.
  - The end of season four cleared it up: she's really evil. Or she was, until the boys killed her, releasing waves of joy from the fangirls.
Lana Lang from Smallville. Many people who watch the show also consider her The Wesley, because the writers seem to refuse to do anything interesting with her character that contributes positively to the story.
On The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Riley has attained this status in almost record time. The fandom does not like her, especially the perception that she gets in the way of the popular John/Cameron ship.
- Proving that the writers know their audience, it turns out getting in the way of the popular John/Cameron ship is her actual, in-universe purpose, being a resistance fighter sent back from the future and all.
- Aaaaand now she's dead.
Olivia and Pam in The Cosby Show's waning years.
Detective Paul Falsone from Homicide Life On The Street gets some of this treatment, with many finding him a bit smarmy and repellent. He wasn't helped by the fact that his character arc in the first season that he becomes a regular led to fan-favourite Detective Mike Kellerman's departure from the show. A 1998 essay on TeeVee.org effectively summed up why this character was so disliked.
- Laura Ballard and Rene Sheppard also receive some of this treatment, both being seen as indicative of the production team's caving into Executive Meddling by putting two 'supermodels with guns' in the show, in contrast to the show's more down-to-earth depiction of women in the police force prior to their introductions.
Alternate Kochanski from Series VII of Red Dwarf is one of these. For starters, she replaced Rimmer, and second, while the original Kochanski seemed to be a fun, down-to-earth gal who was perfect for Lister (if still sufficiently out of his league to make his initially unrequited pining for her realistic), the new Kochanski was a cold, stuck-up snob whom it was difficult to see an easy-going slob like Lister being attracted to.
Tritter. While House was his normal assy self in the clinic, tripping up a crippled man wasn't exactly the best way to get sympathy or likeability points with the audience. And let's not even get into his behaviour after the thermometer incident...
- One could argue that this is more of a very well done Big Bad instead of a minor character which the writers liked and the fanbase didn't. A little too well, perhaps: I can't bring myself to watch reruns in that particular arc because of all the rage he induces.
- Speaking of House, Thirteen certainly fits the trope by now. She started out as a Mary Sue already but her involvement in season five's Romantic Plot Tumor pushed her right into Scrappy territory. Of course, Your Mileage May Vary.
Between the bad acting, personality void, and being the only character to have nearly so much make-up and hair care After The End, Emily Sullivan was fairly quick to become Jericho fandom's least favorite. Matters weren't helped later in the season, with her lack of caring about her fiance and being seen as a rival - in general as well as romantically - to recurring character Heather.
Stacy Hansen from Big Wolf On Campus is hated by several fans simply for being a Damsel In Distress for hero Tommy Dawkins to save at least once a week. It also doesn't help that she's essentially the Lois Lane of the series and that the ONLY time she ever finds out he's a werewolf ended up being annoyingly reset via time travel so that she ended up never finding out Tommy's secret anyway.
- On the other side of the coin, there are fans who hate Lori Baxter for stealing Tommy from Stacy (despite the fact that Stacy had left for college at the end of the first season and NEVER returned) and for being an unnecessary third-wheel in Tommy and Merton's monster-fighting duo.
Try to find an American Idol commentator who likes Kara Dio Guardi and/or doesn't blame her for everything he or she finds wrong with the show. Good luck.
Spencer Pratt from The Hills, this Troper was hoping that this fist magnet would have been bitten by some poisonous snake when he went on ''I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here''.
Evan on Royal Pains. Most of the audience was rooting for him to be fed to Boris's shark in a recent episode. Unfortunately, it didn't happen.

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The ur-example of wrestling would be Sean (X-Pac/Syxx/1-2-3 Kid) Waltman. Best known for naming the trope X Pac Heat. To explain this a bit - Waltman had been part of the mega-popular Degeneration X, and gotten very popular as part of it. His star faded though, but his gimmick didn't evolve. He took up plenty of TV time and rarely lost despite not really getting a push or doing anything interesting. Pretty soon the fans just didn't want to watch him. There were actually a few incidents where Waltman pulled himself out of the Scrappy Heap briefly, such as teaming with Jeff Hardy and doing the Hardy Boyz trademark double team moves with him, or a very good television match against Eddie Guererro. But since his gimmick still wouldn't evolve.
- Of course these days he's not all that hated. Partly because he's spent a lot of time in Mexico and time heals all wounds, and partly because he's working on cleaning up the bad attitude that contributed to his Scrappydom.
John Cena has been The Scrappy at periods of his career. As a heel, he worked a Pretty Fly For A White Guy gimmick and was extremely popular... then suddenly he turned face and the fans were expected to take the formerly phony hip-hop posturing seriously. Then the WWE bookers started marketing him specifically for younger fans, turning him into The Barney. Nowadays, fans mainly like Cena - he regularly gets awards in wrestling magazines - but they continue to boo him mainly because the WWE bookers try so hard to get the fans to cheer for him. Scrappy By Proxy? X Pac Heat Once Removed? It's weird.
Jeff Hardy during the early part of the 21st century. He was mainly Estrogen Brigade Bait, and the male fanbase resented him for this. Also he was demotivated and drugged up. Things bottomed out when he made an appearance at Ring Of Honor. High pitched squeals of female fans who'd gone to the show just to see Jeff, mixed with the roughly 1000 ROH regulars chanting "We Want Matt" and "Don't Come Back" at him.
- When Konnan went to Ro H, he got the same treatment. For that matter, so did Matt Hardy, although he stuck around for a few more matches and put some of the Ro H regulars over, redeeming himself in their eyes.
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One of the most hated professions out there are bill collectors. They have a (often justified) reputation for being lazy (does not require any form of high education), rude, thuggish and for attracting the criminal element of society. They make their money by preying upon the suffering of families going through tough times. Considering these are exceptionally harsh economic times, this has become their little golden age.
- Unfortunate, because they're just doing their job, and have families too. Their scrappy status goes even all the way back to the days of The Bible, where every mention of "tax collector" could be replaced with "society's Scrappy" and still make sense.
- Matter of fact, Most Bill collectors are actually quite nice.

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Keenan Caine of Bliss Stage is a Jerk Ass. His Kick The Dog moment in the continuing examples in the rules and being a Carefree Hedonist in game terms probably doesn't help much.
Kender. Maybe it's the way they're ~~usually~~ always played as Chaotic Imbecilic. Maybe it's because they seem rather out of place in a world as crapsacky as Dragonlance.
Marneus Calgar from Warhammer40000. Even most Space Marine fans hate him these days, possibly owing to him being a Mary Sue.
- The Ultramarines as a whole. While they still have their fans the majority of players can't stand them. They were alright when they were kept more in the background, but then Games Workshop fell in love with them and started promoting them out the wazoo.

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Ukiki in Super Mario 64. On top of being a gigantic hinderance to the player in the Tall Tall Mountains, he steals your hats with annoyingly cute dialogue and he's near-impossible to catch. Which makes it all the more satisfying to roast him using Yoshi's fire flower in the DS version.
In King's Quest V, Cedric was massively hated for his annoying voice and uselessness. So much in Space Quest 4, hitting him in an arcade game earns you points, and the narrator spoofs him in Space Quest VI.
The Soda Poppers from Sam And Max became hugely hated in the fanbase. In a Crowning Moment Of Awesome, Telltale Games made it turn out in the second season finale that they were really evil, and that they were trying to use their Scrappy-like annoyingness to take over Hell and cause The End Of The World As We Know It. And then killed them off by dumping gallons of molten lava on them in the final scene. Now that's how you please your fans.
Raiden from Metal Gear Solid 2. He was introduced as Someone Completely Different and a strange, awkward, somewhat clumsy, confusingly androgynous dork. In the serious cutscenes he's more talented, but replaces the cluelessness with lots of angst (some not written too well) and the nagging implication that he has less emotions and guilt about killing than he likes to portray. Whatever it is, the overall theme is that Raiden could have been the absolute ideal character of every single fanboy playing the game at the same time, and he would still have been immensely unpopular for the sole reason that he's not Snake. Hideo Kojima got the point and gleefully used an identical character as a hapless victim in the sequel (and a series of comedy shorts for the re-release), and then made him do some Level Grinding In Badass in MGS 4. Of course it didn't help that Sons of Liberty was a notorious Mind Screw with a Doozy of a Gainax Ending that the fans still argue about to this very day.
- And then there's Raiden's girlfriend Rosemary, who's received hatred largely for her relationship drama with Raiden (some of which wasn't written well), as well as a mixture of Die For Our Ship and Stop Helping Me feelings.
A less extreme example, but Neil in Mario Golf Advance Tour. From his irritating, sarcastic-sounding "whoops!" when he gets a Bogey to his hideous character design that looks like Ash Ketchum's retarded cousin, could they have made a less appealing player character? At least at the very beginning, the game gives you the option to play as the much less annoying Ella instead.
Tingle from The Legend Of Zelda is disliked immensely by American fans, but has a huge fanbase in Japan (so huge, in fact, that he was given his own game there and Europe).
- Not the worst of it, that game is getting a SEQUEL! Tingle has become a bonafide FRANCHISE!
- While we're on the topic of Zelda, let's not forget Navi, the ever-annoying Exposition Fairy from Ocarina of Time.
  - Weirdly, some versions of the game have her shout more than others. This means she's also some weird software quirk Wesley for some. Luckily, the sequel had the sense to replace her rather annoying voice with less a overpowering bell chime.
Final Fantasy IX has two characters regularly dismissed as Scrappies: Quina, who was supposed to be the comic relief but came off as useless and repulsive, and Eiko, who was much more useful but even more annoying due to her clingy personality.
- On the villains' side, Zorn and Thorn, Queen Brahne's Monster Clown Creepy Twins henchmen, also annoy a lot of players for their bizarre mannerisms and their tendency to repeat each other constantly. On the plus side, you get to kill them in a Boss Battle. On the downside, thanks to a status effect they hit you with at the start, you get jack for doing so.
Carl "CJ" Johnson from Grand Theft Auto San Andreas is a Scrappy, despite being the main protagonist of the game, according to some fans. These fans tend to criticise the fact that CJ is whiny at times and isn't as badass as his predecessors, Claude Speed (GTA III) and Tommy Vercetti (Vice City). Most fans like him though.
- Some consider Zero to be, partly because of his missions, and partly because of his Serious Business attitude. And let's face it, because he was voiced by David Cross.
Aerith (Aeris for the oldschool) from Final Fantasy VII has been known to be worshipped by some players and attract the most acidic of bile from others. Whether it's the allegations of Canon Sue-dom, the timeless Love Triangle bitterness, or just the gamer's ache from having a free healer ripped from you at an unexpected moment, those who hate Aerith hate her hard.
- How can you talk about loathed characters from Final Fantasy VII and not mention Cait Sith? Or Yuffie for that matter?
Shadow from Sonic The Hedgehog either falls squarely into this trope or is one of the most more interesting characters in the series depending on who you ask. Silver is probably more widely hated, possibly because he was introduced in the greatly loathed 2006 Sonic game.
- Big the Cat, too, since his start in Sonic Adventure meant having to sit through horrible fishing missions in order to make progress. That, and he's kinda lacking in the cranial department.
  - He is petty funny in Sonic Chronicles
- Additionally, some original characters from TV shows get the same treatment. Half the people who watched Sonic X just wanted to throw Chris Thorndyke in a wood chipper simply for being in the show at all. His detractors argue that he's got lots of money and friends, but constantly plays the Lonely Rich Kid card because he'd rather hang out with Sonic and his anthro brigade. He became less annoying near the end of the series during the Metarex Story Arc, but that hasn't changed many minds. Then again, not much ever does...
- Omochao gets a lot of anti-fan heat for the same reasons Navi does. At least with Omochao, you can abuse him to your heart's content in the Adventure games.
- Pretty much any new character in a Sonic game will be hated upon until proven otherwise (case in point, the initial reaction to Chip in Sonic Unleashed). The exception to this rule is Blaze the Cat from Sonic Rush, who was neither hated upon initial reaction nor upon being proven to be a decently decent character.
- Elise is another character that suffers from being a [[Damsel Scrappy]] and suffers from [[Die For Our Ship]] in the fanbase.
Axl in Mega Man X7 and X8, mostly for replacing X as the lead character.
- You are not the only one that hate him due to his personality.
- If you play as Grey in Mega Man ZX Advent, Model A has a cocky attitude and a voice that sounds suspiciously like Axl, which can be construed as a thinly veiled Take That (or Dis Continuity Nod) on the part of the creators, acknowledging the negative fan reaction. However, the "A" really stands for Albert. Ashe's version of Model A, though using much of the same dialogue, has a female voice.
- There was a time that Zero was The Scrappy of the Mega Man X series, being a relatively minor character who was brought back from the dead (more than once), given a Mysterious Past involving Dr. Wily & constantly stealing the title character's thunder. Still, his own Megaman Zero series was pulled off so well that you can't help but love the guy, and Capcom seems to have dialed back his spotlight hogging in the more recent games.
  - Uh, no, I think you got it in reverse. Zero's become quite the opposite, popular with the fans and even possibly his designer (he originally planned for Zero to be the "real" Mega Man X). It was because of that popularity, and Inafune's decision not to turn his back on Zero, that he made the Zero series in the first place.
Bao from The King Of Fighters; his case was only made worse by how he was in what is often considered one of the worst games in the series (KOF 2001).
- More recently, Ash Crimson has been hovering somewhere between this and The Wesley for a large part of the fandom. Although he does have his own following, and some fans seem to be slowly warming up to him.
- In a whole-company scale, SNK Playmore seems to HATE Eolith very much, which results them going out of their way to Ret Con K9999 and replace him with Nameless, since K9999 is made into such a Tetsuo Expy by Eolith's own decision and this does not sit well on SNK Playmore. If that's not enough, during the creation of Neo Geo Battle Coliseum, it is rumored that Goodman is modeled after Igniz, the SNK Boss created by Eolith, and his WAREZ company is said to represent 'SNK under Eolith's control'. Taking Take That a bit too much, I wonder? To be fair, though, Eolith's games are REALLY lackluster.
Todd "Maniac" Marshall from the various Wing Commander games. He's the lowest-ranked pilot in the squad, but always likes to brag about how he's hot stuff. You're not supposed to shoot down your wingmen, but we doubt the COs would mind if someone "accidentally" fired a few "warning shots" in Maniac's direction just to get him to shut up. In the first mission you fly with him in the original game, during the mission briefing, Col. Halcyon gives specific permission to the player character to blow Maniac out of space if he causes any trouble, and advises the PC to use guns to do it, and save missiles for important targets (The look on Maniac's face at this part is priceless).
- Despite the fact that he was unbelievably obnoxious, almost universally hated by fans, and even the other characters almost universally loathed him, Origin either hates players, or never quite got the message, as he manages to survive all the way until the last game. And it's not that they don't kill off major characters - it's an Anyone Can Die series, where significant and beloved characters die frequently, often in particularly meaningless ways.
- His status as a Scrappy is softened somewhat in the third game, as the actor playing Maniac is none other than Biff freakin' Tannen himself, Thomas F. Wilson. Still, in a game where you can take damage from friendly fire, Maniac was the one most likely to do it, usually at the worst possible time in a dogfight.
- Reversed in Prophecy. After a certain and rather ironic turn of events, Maniac becomes an extremely hammy Boisterous Bruiser and one of the Midway's elite circle of pilots (led by the player). He survives, while Christopher Blair aka Maverick aka YOU from the preceeding games who was worshiped by the Kilrathi as a minor god doesn't!
Rosh Pennin from Jedi Academy is considered The Scrappy among the fan base. It is possible that this was intended, given his annoying personality and that the path to the Dark side is to kill him.
- Thereby making The Dark Side that much more appealing.
- This troper, who is a dedicated light-sider in every Star Wars game, must admit that even he does derive immense satisfaction out of killing the loathsome twit when the opportunity arises.
Several NP Cs of the Baldur's Gate series have minor hatedoms. Anomen, however, has a fairly major one, not only because he's a major jerkass and a hypocrite but for being the only canonical female love interest on top of that. It really doesn't help that initially, he really has pretty average Wisdom scores - something Clerics needed plenty of in order to cast quite a few high-level spells.
- Anomen gets much more tolerable if you navigate a certain sidequest properly, but considering the structure of the game during Chapter 2, it's easily missed, so it doesn't really matter anyway. Even those that find him annoying will take him on and do the quest since even with the shift to Lawful Good and the increase of WIS scores to good levels, he still has the Neutral Character's spell list (meaning he can cast both good and evil spells).
- Aerie is another character that gets a fair amount of Hate-on. She's a winged elf (an actual race in the Forgotten Realms, but for Christ's sake Greenwood...) who is almost a literal Broken Bird because in her past, she was captured by slavers, and had her wings amputated when they got infected during her captivity. Almost all of her dialogue with others, and your own romance with her consists of her crying about how she'll never fly again and never get to go home. And when there's a romance conflict, she takes the low blow first, and accuses Jaheira of callously forgetting her dead husband so easily - and implying that Khalid must have been a loser if she was going after the PC. And we're suppose to think Aerie is the wide-eyed good-two-shoes after hearing her say that? Even Viconia, the resident sharp-tongued bitch, didn't attack Jaheira's deceased husband. That said, Aerie is much more tolerable in the expansion, having taken a level in badass in the interlude.
- If the series' character sheet is to be believed, Nalia gets some of this too. She's accused of being an Imoen clone - red hair, mage/thief dual class specializing in short swords and bows - but an inferior one due to her skill distribution making it tough for her to handle even the most basic thief duties the game throws at you. Her incessant harping on helping the poor nixes the idea that you might bring her along for her personality. When Throne of Bhaal came around and changed her outlook on life, Black Isle missed the mark and replaced her unbearable Samaritan complex with an equally unbearable "I'm a super-wizard and the rest of you are fools" superiority complex.
  - It's entirely possible that Nalia was created as an Imoen replacement, as Imoen originally wasn't supposed to make it out of Spellhold alive. Character popularity polls convinced Black Isle to change their minds.
Argath Thadalfus from Final Fantasy Tactics, basically for being a greater Jerkass than Anomen could ever hope to be, so much that he is almost guaranteed to appear in any "Most hated video game characters" poll, especially since he is from a Final Fantasy title. It looks like Square Enix saw the reaction and brought him Back From The Dead for an extra stage added in the PSP version, so the player can kill him again. His Freudian Excuse doesn't help erase the stains of his rampant classism (especially against the characters who saved his ass).
- The Rafa/Malak sibling duo is so absolutely useless in battle, they've earned nothing but scorn from game players. This is exacerbated by the presence of game-breaking characters like T.G. Cid, Agrias, and Meliadoul, as well as Rafa's suicidal rush towards Assassin-type foes in the missions where the player is supposed to protect her from getting killed.
Slippy from Star Fox, especially in Star Fox 64, where his English VA was a female, but there is also his general tendency to get into trouble when he's trying to help you. Even the other characters acknowledge that Slippy can be quite a "headache". His saving grace is the invention of the Landmaster and Blue Marine, but he doesn't really have any business flying an Arwing.
- His brief appearance in Super Smash Bros Brawl alongside (of all people) Solid Snake, who got on with him great, seems to have made him a little more loved. (Why this didn't work for Raiden, the other Scrappy he got on with great, is explained above.)
- Ironically, Slippy is one of the most loved characters in Japan, and is even a lot more popular than Wolf prior to Assault.
- Krystal from the same series has also received quite some flak, mostly because her game was shoehorned so badly into the series, but her wardrobe choices didn't help matters. And then there is all the drama in Command...
The most literal incarnation of The Scrappy in video game history has got to be the dog from Duck Hunt, who laughs at you whenever you completely miss your shots. It was probably the first time in the history of videogaming that a computer mocked your failure instead of encouraging you to try again. "A dog is a man's best friend", huh? With Friends Like These and all that... The dog appears to love it so much that so many gamers have been playing Duck Hunt to mercilessly and literally Shoot The Dog (even though it has no effect). The damn dog's developers also read this and made the dog appearing in several cameos... to be shot down.
- This video probably sums up all how hateable that dog is, and ironically... made him somewhat wanted for Super Smash Bros Brawl, so he could be beaten to a pulp like the Sandbag. Unfortunately, he didn't appear.
- There is even a Nintendo commercial where the dog appears alongside Bowser and other villains to mock the viewer. Interestingly enough, in the arcade game Vs. Duck Hunt, it is possible to shoot the dog in a bonus round.
Fargoth, Gaenor, Glarthir, the Adoring Fan...the list of hated Bosmer in The Elder Scrolls goes on and on and on.
Gothic had Mud, a pest who latched onto the hero if you walked by him. He'd constantly pester you by initiating pointless dialog, but should any enemies get near, he'd run away... until you defeated them. Then he came back. The only way to get rid of him was to beat him up. Very cathartic, actually.
Bubsy the Bobcat is The Scrappy in feline form. Aside from the fact that his games were hardly very good, Bubsy himself was loud, brash, annoying, and otherwise utterly devoid of any positive character traits whatsoever.
- Only in the cartoon. He wasn't really obnoxious in the games, but was still kinda annoying.
Deekin Scalesinger from Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide is a Scrappy to some fans. He shows up in Hordes of the Underdark, where he's the only character who can accompany the character for the entire game, and even has a cameo appearance in Neverwinter Nights 2 as a shopkeeper, despite the fact that, thanks to his epic-level adventures in Hordes, he's now powerful enough to level most of the city.
- This was even referenced in Hordes of the Underdark where the innkeeper Durnan thinks Deekin is annoying and will be surprised if you say that you like him.
Princess "Hi I'm" Daisy of Mario fame gets a lot of hate from old-school purists, rabid fangirls of Luigi and Waluigi, and Luigi/Peach rabidshippers. Her catchphrase doesn't exactly help matters.
- Waluigi tends to get this because of his lack of involvement in any of the Mario games other than the spinoffs, and a reason to give Luigi an Evil Counterpart (a la Wario).
- Of course both characters also have their own fanbases so this case seems to be subjective.
Beowulf from Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu was a Scrappy to fans of Lachesis and the Finn/Lachesis pairing. Then the Beowulf defenders stepped in and then their Double Standard is revealed. Now, Lachesis has become something of a Scrappy in her own right, while Beowulf is partially Rescued From The Scrappy Heap. The only things that prevent them to be completely rescued from/pushed to the Scrappy Heap is that Beowulf still comes off as a smug bastard and still has somewhat mediocre stats, whereas Lachesis has Magikarp Power and isn't actually a bitch so much as she is stubborn and conflicted.
- Renault from Fire Emblem gets heaps of shit thrown at him by stat whores for his mediocre growth rates and latecomer status, and overprotective Lucius fangirls for having killed Lucius's father in the past. Nevermind that Renault shows genuine guilt over that murder and Lucius says he forgives him in their A support.
- And then there's Zealot from The Binding Blade who gets all the flak of being a sucky unit that manages to be actually worse than Marcus since he has a stats of a Jeigan, but comes up later, when players start retiring their Jeigan. Not to mention that before being persuaded, he can be a bit suicidal. Personality-wise, however, he is a nice guy and is a far cry from Scrappy-ism; It's his gameplay stats that is considered Scrappy.
- Makalov from Po R/RD. Compulsive gambler, sleezy, good-for-nothing paladin with few redeeming qualities. Forces his sister to quit her position because he had racked up too much debt, tries to gamble away the medallion given to his by Astrid, his betrothed because he claimed that ...Ugh. This troper's head hurt just thinking about him. Anyone who's played Po R/RD should know, though.
- Rena's older brother Marchis in Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light/Mystery of the Emblem is bashed by a lot of FAQ and guide writers for his stats, personality and appearance. One person even says "he totally defiles the game" by existing.
Kairi from Kingdom Hearts has the dual misfortune of being seen in the fangirls' eyes as a proto-Shallow Love Interest and Distressed Damsel, and being the main love interest in a fandom that's been pretty much owned by yaoi fangirls since 2005.
- Xion is this for the majority of the Axel/Roxas fandom.
  - Namine meanwhile, usually can avoid being this......unless she's shipped with a certain thirteenth member. Then all Hell breaks loose.
Dragon Quest is usually devoid of this character type, but Dirty Coward Prince Charmles from Dragon Quest VIII is the least popular character in the game (and possibly, the entire franchise) by a very wide margin. You can spell his name with an extra "S" on the end, and it would sum up his personality perfectly.
- He's also seen in-world as The Scrappy too - while his name is generally pronounced "SHARM-uls" in his presence, pretty much everyone calls him "Charmless" behind his back.
Zip and Alister from Tomb Raider: Legend gained this status among a large portion of the fanbase, and many others for that matter, very soon after the game's release with their constant non-optional, hint-giving, atmosphere-breaking waffling.
In the .hack// series, there's a few Scrappies, but generally at the top of the list is Piros III in the first set of games: An over the top Lord Error Prone twit with a grating voice and is one of the slowest characters to have in the party, and the tendency to call the main character "He Of Fair Eyes", and other Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe doesn't help to endear him to the party. Nor does his tendency to fall for Mia's tricks at least three times. Some think his GU verison is a case of Rescued From The Scrappy Heap with his awesome theme music, and thankfully much more amusing antics.
- Saku of the Sakubo duo is another one, a condescending Tsundere that borders on Yandere that is obsessed with the resident pretty-boy, and is nothing but a jerkass to Haseo over an imagined rivalry - especially after Endrance declares his love for Haseo, and was one of the hardest characters to boost relationship values, and that at first she seems to bully the much sweeter Bo. The fact it turns out she is Bo's second personality and her genuine concern when he gets in trouble softens the impact.
Omitsu from Ganbare Goemon is loathed by the majority of the Japanese fandom despite being a Yamato Nadeshiko-type Distressed Damsel and supporting character with occasional bouts of being a Clingy Jealous Girl in the anime. While a good amount of the hatred is for shipping reasons, rabid fans of Action Girl Yae firmly believe she doesn't deserve to be called the series heroine. Hiroshi Obi's deliberate transformation of Omitsu into a dumpy, frumpy, status-seeking harpy in his manga adaptations of the games doesn't help matters any, either.
Not that much of a huge hatedom, but Anise Tatlin from Tales Of The Abyss gets a lot of flak for making a lot of snide comments to Luke after his haircut and realization of his jerkassness, which is pretty close to 'You can die for all I care'. Then it got worse when she caused Ion's death when she could've stopped it, then gets Easily Forgiven. The last straw would be her resolve to kill Arietta, by... not telling her the truth about Ion, and kills her in cold blood, dooming her to a tragic death without knowing the truth.
- Tear Grants deserves a mention too. A Defrosting Ice Queen gone horribly wrong, she was supposed to follow the trope to a T. Unfortunately her Dub VA butchered her sensitive moments making her look like a cold, uncaring bitch that couldn't go more than two or three scenes without being a huge hypocrite. By the end of the game, many people just wanted Luke to regrow a spine and knock some of her teeth out.
- And there's Luke himself, who is commonly hated for being an arrogant, abrasive Jerk Ass prior to his Important Haircut, and/or often Wangsting and lacking self confidence in the later game.
- Princess Natalia Luzu Kimlalsca Lanvadear is not too popular with the fans either. She is a Dumb Blonde at moments, arrogant when you first meet her, teases poor gynophobic Guy, nags her fiance Luke, and even blackmails him to let her join. She does apologize for her actions later on in the game, but the development becomes overshadowed when she gets even gloomier than Luke when she finds out she isn't a true princess and distresses over fighting her father Largo. and almost immediately fawns over Asch when she finds out he is the true Luke who proposed to her as a kid and pretty much ignores replica-Luke . She really is just a sentimental and emotional young woman with love problems, but things aren't always great for the princesses of video games. This troper does think she has one of the most tragic backstories out of all of the main party.
Mack and Cooke from Lost Odyssey are seen as annoying little brats who take away game time from much more interesting or better-developed characters. And the cherry on top is that they were almost useless in battle aside from teaching skills to other (better) characters.
- Mack and Cooke act just like real children would, which may be the reason why some players hate them.
Several characters in the Ace Attorney series:
- Lotta Hart, a tabloid photographer with a Southern accent who appears in three cases in the series, much to the dismay of her haters.
- Pretty much every case-exclusive character in Justice For All Case 3 has a hate following, from the flamboyant Maximillion Galactica to the so-not-funny clown "Moe" Curls.
- Spark Brushel in Apollo Justice.
- Not to mention Wendy Oldbag.
Marumaro in Blue Dragon. He's got an annoying, grating voice, and is a particularly dumb character in an Idiot Plot, which is no small feat.
Sister Miriam Godwinsson in Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri. As an annoying bible-thumper with a crippling research deficiency who is incredibly warlike and inevitably ends up stepping on the toes of every other faction by complaining that you're not being a religious fundamentalist, most players of Alpha Centauri tend to be immediately alienated by her fluff alone and make it a point to eradicate her some point down the line with their inevitably technical superiority.
- This troper thinks she has the best quotes in the game.
- That's if she just isn't the first to attack you outright anyway. Prepare quickly for your first war if she turns out to be a neighbor at the start of the game. To this day her faction is the only one on another AI-controlled faction uses Planet Busters against. The faction that nuked her, Brother Lal's UN Peacekeepers.
Montblanc the moogle in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. While lots of people hate him, only a few of them actually hate him for his lack of character. Everyone else hates him just because statistically, he is a very poor magic user and he starts off as a Black Mage. You can't boot him since the game won't let you, so most people just kill him off in a Jagd.
Among the characters in Xenogears that don't die soon after introduction, Hammer the Supplier seems like a very divisive character. From the moment he's introduced, a player either hates him or adores him. Hammer has his lowest point with the audience when he shoots and kills Medena, Elly's adoptive mother, and runs off with Krelian and Miang. Later, he is encountered cybernetically integrated into a gear, and Fei's group are forced to eliminate him. But after this, Hammer's character becomes deeply humanized and woobified by Elly and Rico, an example of Rescued From The Scrappy Heap. Neither could hate Hammer for the things he did, and Rico in particular was adamantly convinced that none of it was Hammer's fault, strongly implying a belief that Hammer was not to blame for his actions. For the rest of the story, Rico occasionally comments on memories with Hammer with transparent fondness.
Farleen from Star Ocean 3, both for having an annoying voice and being borderline unnecessary. At least she's just an NPC.
- There's also Sophia, the main character's childhood friend, who's something of a Distressed Damsel and is generally considered the weakest character in the game due to her Squishy Wizard status (though if used properly, she shouldn't even be getting hit). She's also often accused of being a Canon Sue and subjected to bashing from shippers - even though she doesn't really get in the way of any pairings, given that Fayt can end up with anyone in the party with the right Relationship Values.
- Don't forget Roger... oh wait, there's probably a reason many fans would prefer to forget him.
Barlow in Vanguard Bandits, who quickly earns his in-game status as the Butt Monkey.
Some Street Fighter fans have developed a burning, bile-spewing hatred for Ryu, making him out to be a Mary Sue who never loses. Since when?!
- Ironically, That is interpretation is pure fanon as canonically he is practically the poster child for Every Year They Fizzle Out as the toughest opponent he beat cleanly was Adon and we do not even know if he was able to beat Hugo.
- How long until Rufus from Street Fighter IV shows up on this page? ... whoops, nevermind.
- Don't forget El Fuerte, who fans say is too "stereotypical" (he's a Mexican luchador who loves cooking) and a Joke Character, even though this one guy over here thought that he looked quite cool to use.
- Also, Sagat from Street Fighter II qualifies thanks to being That One Boss compared to everyone else. "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger Knee! Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! Tiger UPPERCUT!" Even as a playable character he's still cheap.
- Street Fighter is, unfortunately, loaded down with this trope. T. Hawk, Rainbow Mika, and Twelve all stick out as characters within the main games who are despised - going further out to SF spinoffs, Ingrid is pretty widely disliked, and most everyone hates the entirety of the Street Fighter EX cast (with Area and Vulcano Rosso getting it exceptionally bad). Akuma practically falls into this if you're looking at hardcore players, since he often gets dismissed as being the scrub go-to.
Somewhat like Code Geass, the Scrappy of Persona 3 seems to depend largely on personal taste.
- Ken haters maintain that his only purpose in the game was to enable the death of fan favourite Bad Ass Shinjiro Aragaki, then proceed to have absolutely no effect on the rest of the plot (including The Answer) while his lines could have been given to other party members with minimal changes made.
- Yukari's status as the "the most popular girl in school," along with her suffering a number of personal neuroses, her constant needling of Junpei, and occasionally downright bitchy personality make it easy for her to be interpreted as your party's own personal Libby. The one time she must be in your party, it's against a boss whose attacks she's weak to. And in The Answer, her jealousy toward Aigis for receiving the deceased main character's Wild Card ability leads directly to her precipitating the dissolution of SEES in order to fight for, essentially, the opportunity to see the MC again while completely ignoring the fact that it would likely end the world.
- Aigis' obsession with the Main Character, while actually caused by her involvement with the incident ten years ago that sealed Nyx within him, initially appears to be a clumsy attempt at forming an OfficialCouple. The fact that she doesn't learn any useful skills (no healing, no magic, only physical attacks and weak single-target buffs) until Ryoji (the human form of Nyx) nearly kills her, causing her Persona to evolve and her (accurately) monotonous robotic voice doesn't help her case. And then there's the part where she is controlled by Ikutsuki to literally crucify the other members of SEES - not to mention the fact that she steals the main character's powers in the sequel and ends up fighting and defeating everyone else in the party to get her way, which involves leaving the main character to seal away Nyx and Erebus - forever.
  - Because allowing the other party members to undo the MC's sealing of Nyx, and thus doom the world, would've been so much better.
  - Unsurprisingly, the presence of two eligible females both in love with the Main Character results in major pairing wars between MC/Yukari and MC/Aigis fans, sometimes resulting in DieForOurShip. Atlus doesn't help, since different points of view make it possible to justify the actions of either of them.
- Junpei's lechery is not found particularly endearing by some fans, in addition to the fact that he is eventually outclassed in everything he does by at least one character who ISN'T the Main. Further, his romantic subplot with Chidori is either seen by fans as a decent means to allow Character Development on his part, or is a ludicrous distraction that's painful to watch.
- Fuuka's voice is freakin' annoying, as your support character she can never be switched out (meaning you will hear everything she has to say multiple times, long after you've grown tired of it), and her Oracle special ability can easily lead to disaster.
  - And then there's her scenes with Natsuki, who has the most annoying voice in the game.
  - The trend continues in Persona 4 with Teddy, who thankfully is replaced by the much better voiced Rise 1/3 the way through the game. Here's a tip dubbers: if you're going to be forced to listen to someone talk in every single turn of every single battle, make sure their voice acting is up to snuff, and don't try to match the Japanese voice.
  - Rise doesn't get off easy either. That squealing of hers has made several gamers cringe in annoyance. There are also some who preferred her when she was subdued and easygoing instead of childish and ditzy.
While the Silent Hill series is full of polarising characters, none attract such utter loathing as Laura from the second game. In every one of her scenes with James she regularly insults him, goes out of her way to be unhelpful, and at one point locks him in a room filled with incredibly suggestive monsters. While entirely justified, her final scene where she rages at James at the worst possible time is the metaphorical final straw for many.
Miranda in Legend of Dragoon unfortunately became the Scrappy of the game due to her abraisive perosnality. Sadly she also got screwed over and never really had a chance to become more than a Filler party member.
- She came out of nowhere. Yes characters who come out of nowhere can develop well, but...
- She also joined when most of the game was already done. Late joiners again can be developed, but it was another unfortunate nail in her coffin that made this a bad thing.
- The other characters just didn't really give her a chance due to their roles constricting her breathing space. So she remained annoying throughout the game.
- And some players of the game also felt that the light Dragoon Spirit was worthless anyhow. Sure she didn't throw off anyone's strategies, but due to Shana and Miranda not having any real combos, some saw them as a gimmick and preferred using Meru or healing items over her.
World Of Warcraft has two characters reviled above all:
- The first, Varian Wynn, is a...polarizing figure. Widely blamed for the Horde/Alliance conflict's renewal, he's a hotheaded, belligerent king whose major in-game actions since his miraculous (offscreen) return have been to embroil the Alliance in war with the Horde. Though Varian's reasons for hating Orcs are understandable, they're also mostly historical...and from the player's perspective, it becomes increasingly apparent just how mistaken he is. Interestingly, his portrayal in the game may be a case of Character Derailment from within the comics that tell his story, where he's presented as essentially reasonable.
- Secondly, we present Garrosh Hellscream, perhaps the single most reviled character in the Horde. First introduced as the mopey, whining son of Grom Hellscream, depressed over his father's legacy of evil, players underwent a long quest chain to bring him to his senses including a pep talk from none other than Thrall himself. Garrosh's way of repaying Thrall's generosity consisted of a direct challenge to his leadership, open desire to reignite war with the Alliance for essentially no good reason, and ominous hints throughout the expansion that Garrosh is gathering factions of the Horde loyal to him rather than Thrall. Singularly bloodthirsty, crude, and brutal, Garrosh embodies all the worst traits of orcish culture, and as of the recent patch was responsible for defusing another attempted peace conference in Dalaran. Garrosh has essentially no fans, and both Horde and Alliance players consider him at best a spoiled child grossly unfit for his power.
- Before them was Fandral Staghelm, an unrepentant Jerk Ass Night Elf druid. The only thing preventing from being included with the previous two entries is that he lives in Darnassass, away from everything else in the game. Hatred for him is such that Alliance players (for the faction he represents) will often allow Horde players to kill him unmolested.
Final Fantasy IV has Edward, a bard (the original Spoony Bard) that constantly whines about losing Anna and Edward, and is nearly useless in combat. He does happen to be very useful at one point playing the Twin Harp to enable you to use metal weapons against the Dark Elf, but that's not enough for the fanbase.
Players of The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion almost uniformly loathe the Adoring Fan, a pointy-haired elf who latches onto the player at the end of the Arena quest arc. He does not fight, usually runs from combat, and is quite annoying in conversation. There are quite a few clips out there of him being shoved off Dive Rock and killed in various and sundry other inventive ways.
Neverwinter Nights 2 have several characters that could be hated, but generally Qara is often cited as the most hated. She's a pyromaniac sorceress who has a severely overinflated sense of importance due to the fact she can spontaneously cast spells and refuses to study anything or refuse to take responsibility for her actions (believing she had a right to set fire to a stable because someone verbally mocked her. Any attempt to reign in her Pyromania or her tendency to want to do the most destructive action possible only nets negative influence. There's VERY little attempts for the player to get her off the high horse and mature. It also doesn't help she has a rivalry with the much more popular Sand who she belittles needlessly because he's a Wizard.
Rico from Killzone, who's a loudmouthed, annoying Jerkass who does a nice job breaking things and is generally disliked by the fandom. Of course this could be intentional - to offset Sev's measured approach, and ultimately show the futility of aggression for aggression's sake.
Bidoof is the Scrappy of Pokemon, along with many other Com Mons.
Many Tales Of Vesperia fans look down on Karol and Estelle, claiming that they're a textboot idiotic Kid Hero and a textbook Naive Everygirl with less than stellar AI, respectively.
Sabrina, Mary and Luna from the Harvest Moon series are Scrappies due to rabid Die For Our Ship Vaughn/Chelsea, Gray/Claire and Gill/Angela fans. Also, any rival of a popular bishie in that series will become an instant scrappy due to fangirls.
Shoutaro of Flower Sun And Rain is intended to evoke this reaction. He actually outright states he's trying for that, because he wouldn't want to be liked by anyone who would play a game like this.

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Achewood fans have found their Scrappy in Showbiz, Roast Beef's scuzzy, trailer-trash twin brother. Before, he was simply a thickheaded, vulgar Jerkass in way too much debt, but he then degraded into a man who was not above plotting to force his brother into sex with a stripper, only to photograph the affair and then show the resulting photos to Molly at their wedding ceremony. Thankfully, his plans were derailed when Beef lured him into a trap that would have him serve jail time for the duration of the wedding, and he hasn't been seen since.
PVP has two available for your choosing, both of which having been noted by Scott Kurtz as having a strong hatedom: Scratch Fury, destroyer of worlds, and Shecky, Skull's annoying cousin. There are some who would argue that the comic's cast is made up entirely of Scrappies.
Something Positive parodies this character type with a bizarre blue creature named Fuzzmodeus. It was first introduced in a set of self-contained strips centered around the author, his girlfriend, and "Rippy the Razor", where it annoyed Rippy to the point of running away in terror (and the author already considered Rippy the most annoying thing ever). The caption of the comic threatened to introduce the character into the strip. It eventually did get introduced into the main comic, but as the manifestation of Kharisma's mental breakdown (maybe... even the author isn't sure) that was self-aware of how utterly obnoxious it was.
Zillion from Starslip Crisis. The main point of the character was to serve as a parody/Take That to Firefly, in particular the show's use of Future Slang, the strip's author's main peeve with the show. He accomplished this by having Zillion speak almost entirely in "Deep Slang", a dialect that, amongst other things, replaces words with bizarre synonyms and dropping the ending off sentences. Unfortunately, said slang became increasingly heavy, making Zillion borderline Unintelligible...even to the other characters in the strip. The fact that he had virtually zero personality also contributed to people tiring of him very quickly. Eventually, he suffered an apparent Bridge Drop along with another minor character in this strip (in a storyline called "The Fate Of Zillion" no less) only to eventually return and suffer yet another apparent (and hilarious) demise, hinting at future plans of making him The Chew Toy (though the strip's revamp seems to have shifted this role to Officer Quine).
No Miko Miyazaki yet? So polarizing a character that she split the fandom into three camps: "pro-Miko, anti-Miko, and anti-anti-Miko" within the first five minutes of her introduction as a character. So incredibly Lawful Stupid that she allows her enemies to heal, rest, and feast before she challenges them, as long as they are not Evil-aligned (or if she thinks you are). If you happen to belong to the latter two categories, then may the Twelve Gods have mercy upon your soul, because she will never stop hunting you down, and only you down. According to Word Of God, she is the worst way to play a paladin, contrasted with the heir to the throne, Hinjo of the Sapphire guard. She is convinced that the Order are criminals, who her boss the Chessmaster Shojo ordered her to arrest and bring to Azure City. it is revealed that Shojo wanted the Order to hunt down the rest of the gates and lock them. When she hears Shojo discussing these plans with the Order, she flies into "righteous" Berserker Rage and cuts him in half. She gets thrown in jail, gets out during Xykon's attack, breaks open the gate that Xykon wanted broken in the first place, then is bisected during the fall of Azure city.
- For some fans, Celia is becoming one, mostly due to her persistent pacifism and a single event where she agreed to have Haley pay off half of what she stole to the Thieves' Guild in order to stop a violent bloodbath, not realizing that Haley was saving the money to rescue her father.

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Jules in lonelygirl15, due both to poor acting and her behaviour resulting in the capture of Bree. In fairness, the entire arc had to be hastily rewritten when the actress playing original "new girl", Sam, dropped out at the last minute, and Jules' actress was brought in in a desperate attempt to salvage the arc.
- Mallory also comes in for a fair bit of hatred, due to getting between Daniel and Sarah, then not being seen to actually help the team in any way, then being seen kissing her teacher. When fans voted her off the show, she didn't exactly go quietly either, becoming alarmingly stalkerish in her behaviour.
Between the 'review comedy' circle, The Irate Gamer, a blatant ripoff of The Angry Video Game Nerd is mostly treated as The Scrappy of the circle.
From That Guy with the Glasses, Melvin, the brother of the Joker received a decidedly lukewarm reception compared to Doug's five previous characters. Thankfully Doug quickly caught on and joined the people mocking him.

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Game Boy from Captain N The Game Master. Sure, he blips and beeps like R2D2, but can he do anything useful?
The Super Friends animated series originally had three Scrappies in the mascot/Sidekick characters of Marvin, Wendy and 'Wonderdog', two ordinary teenagers and their pet who dressed in superhero drag and whose roles in the series (especially Marvin's) were to do stupid but plot-enabling things. The characters were so annoying to even the pre-teens who were the primary audience of the show that they were replaced by the only marginally more acceptable "Wonder Twins", a pair of teenaged alien superheroes and their pet space monkey Gleek, who filled the "get captured by the Monster Of The Week" and "cause trouble through abject stupidity" roles until the series finally dumped them too and redid the format into a more traditional superhero show.
- In the "Power Hour" of Superfriends, there are three Scrappies: El Dorado, a one-Spanish-word-a-sentence hero with vaguely defined powers; Samurai - a one-Japanese-word-a-sentence fellow who had a horribly stereotyped personality; and Firestorm, who is considered a Scrappy thanks mainly to his Marty Stu status of always being the fellow to yank the Big Damn Heroes moment from everyone (especially from a badly Chickified Wonder Woman.
- Wind Dragon, Downpour and Shifter in Justice League are less annoying versions of Samurai, Zan and Jayna. Also, Samurai, Zam and Jayna have been added to the DC Universe (Samurai also has a cameo in "Infinite Crisis").
Buttons from Eon Kid has all the trappings of Scrappydom, being an annoying talking robot dog intended for comic relief, and does very little to help the heroes whatsoever.
Jade Chan in Jackie Chan Adventures acts before she thinks, is selectively deaf to the word 'no' and variants thereof, arguably directly causes the problems more than a few episodes revolve around her, and she tends to steal the spotlight from the rest of the cast (in other words, she's ten). Still, she has her legion of fans who like her regardless...
- ...including this one. While it's true that from the second season onward, Jackie Chan Adventures pretty much became The Jade Show, her influence on the action is hardly ever negative; she acts kindly toward all of the good guys and shows an unexpectedly high level of ingenuity in dangerous situations without being a superkid, which this troper always found appealing in a youthful character. Besides her admiration for her uncle Jackie makes her a very endearing little girl, but it must be said that this is all a matter of opinion (shrug).
Zuffy from Defenders Of The Earth.
The Transformers fandom has several different Scrappies to choose from, both humanoid and robot.
- The most disliked of the robots appear to be Wheelie from the original series (though not the version in the comics), Nightscream from Beast Machines, and the twins from Revenge of the Fallen (that the Internet medias is accusing those two of being Uncles Toomfoolery is not helping at all.).
- Those Puny Earthlings don't get off much easier, either... especially Kicker from Energon, those three kids from Armada, and just about anyone whose last name is Witwicky. Sari of Animated, on the other hand, seems to have beaten the odds and been accepted by the fanbase (or at least a lot more than usual). And amazingly, she managed this even before we found out she turned out to be a robot. The kids from Cybertron were a bit better too, mostly because they replaced Kicker.
- The IDW comics original character Drift has also taken a lot of flak from the fans, considering that not only is he a Canon Sue (or more accurately, a Gary Stu who's become canon by virtue of his creator working on the comic), he's so Weeaboo it isn't even funny. What makes it particularily egregious is that his creator claims he was made to fill in a role that no previous character could, when Transformers is known for having Loads And Loads Of Characters, and Drift is basically just a young Star Saber with Getaway's vehicle mode.
Lucky on King Of The Hill is seen as a Scrappy by a large segment of the show's fandom. Also Peggy Hill.
Godzuki from Hanna Barbera's Godzilla Power Hour.
In The Simpsons Show Within A Show Itchy And Scratchy, Poochie is viewed as such by the characters in the show. Is it any wonder he becomes The Poochie?
- Sideshow Mel is venturing into Scrappy territory. He's relatively inoffensive compared to some Scrappys mentioned in this entry, but a lot of fans miss the days when a shot of the citizens of Springfield could be shown without Mel belting out some random comment.
Pearl from SpongeBob SquarePants, she's incredibly annoying, loud... and generally disliked.
Spyke in X Men Evolution was an example of the crew's attempts to bring in a brand new X-Men character for the series who would be the "epitome of cool." This failed so badly (with ~~most of~~ almost all of the fans being irritated by his "cool lingo" and overall skater persona) that he was Put On A Bus halfway through Season 3, having experienced further growth of his "spikes" to the point where he looked more like an armadillo than a kid, he ran away to live with the Morlocks in the underground sewer system. It didn't really help matters that he had basically the same powers as a relatively well-known Morlock from the comics, Marrow, although Word Of God says this was a complete accident.
- Scott also tends to get this treatment from a lot of the fanbase, but some people actually do like him. The same cannot be said for Spyke.
- See as well Boom-Boom. Aside from a rather ridiculous codename (which seems to be par for the course anyway), her character was supposed to hit a "fun bad-girl" vibe but came off as irritating to many in the fandom.
The Murderous Moppets from The Venture Brothers, who the creators plan to keep on the show solely because they're so universally despised by the fans.
- The Moppets are hated by the characters themselves. Only Dr. Girlfriend can stand them (which is why they stick around).
- Dermott, too, has become something of a scrappy. He was almost universally hated by fans, and many have called for his non-return.
Despite having not done much of anything, good or bad, Julie from Ben 10 Alien Force has become the fandom's Scrappy surprisingly fast.
- It's not so surprising really. She's the Scrappy because by many she's seen as a barrier in the path of the fan perferred Gwen/Ben, or for the Ho Yay fans, Kevin/Ben.
Animaniacs has several candidates: Katie Ka-Boom, the Hip Hippos, Slappy the Squirrel; Your Milage May Vary. Chicken Boo could count, though that's more of an Overly Long Gag than a character.
Even Inspector Gadget has its own character singled out for hate: Corporal Capeman, who was added in the second season as part of an attempt to make it more completely different from the first season, as well as an obviously shameless attempt to boost low ratings. He was an extremely idiotic superhero wanna-be that looked like a nerd (complete with oversized eyeglasses) and idolized Inspector Gadget (to which Gadget referred to Capeman as "Capman.") As a result, Gadget soon became Capeman's mentor. But Capeman, unfortunately, was stupider than Gadget, whom himself was also an idiot. Capeman didn't appear in all the episodes during this season though, which lead to some rather confusing continuity.
Though Delgo as a whole is a Scrappy Movie, the annoying comic relief is generally the most hated character, being seen as an even more annoying Jar Jar. Allow You Tube to demonstrate.
The general majority of Danny Phantom fans hate Danielle "Dani" Phantom for being essentially a canon Copy Cat Sue of the main character. It doesn't help that she also has 'bout as much personality as a shoelace.
- Likewise, the one-shot villains of the much maligned Season Three of the series are met with general fan distaste. This is mostly due to the fact they have little depth to them, all want pretty much the same goals (WORLD DOMINATION!), and that the main differences between them are essentially their respective powers (IE: Undergrowth controls plants, Vortex controls the weather, etc.)
  - Several fans hate Vortex in particular simply because his voice is so. Damn. Annoying.
While Scrappy spends much of his time being annoying, there are some times when he actually is helpful: Such as when it comes time to capture the ghost-of-the-week, and can be tolerable as long as his puppy power isn't set off by said ghost. Babu, from the cartoon version of I Dream of Jeannie, has no such momments. A man-boy of the first order, his magic ALWAYS causes disaster and in one particularly cringe-worthy episode, he runs away after getting chewed out by the other characters for messing things up. This isn't some sulk on a park bench, he literally grabs a teddy bear, raids the fridge and scampers off somewhere until the other characters aplogise.

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