Take That Scrappy / Other Media

Advertising

• The redhead girl in the At&T ad points out what is on everyone's mind: How her older brother is being an ungrateful brat completely insensitive to those who don't have U-verse...and many other things.
• Gio Compario, the Italian singer in the Go Compare adverts has to be one of the most annoying and generally unpopular characters in commercials. Hence many were pretty pleased when he got given quite the nutshot in this video, or sent on a one way trip in another, or shot with a rocket launcher by Sue Barker in one official commercial and as of late, hit in the gut with a football kicked at him by Stuart Pierce.
  • He's been caught in a net trap set by Ray Mears, as seen here. He's also been tortured by Louie Spence and sucked into a black hole by Stephen Hawking. Given that ads on web pages have him being attacked by LOL Cats and the ad tagline now seems to be 'saving the nation', it seems the producers made the commercials all about the take that aspect.
  • They've now made him a pathetic loser who fails desperately at trying to 'find a replacement advertising method' for the company, with things like (ridiculously over the top in a positive way) action figures and him singing with autotune. Karma? Or enough to make someone just want to end this damn thing already?
  • That said, he's back...
• Microsoft Office 97 and 2000 were plagued by Clippy The Paperclip, an "assistant" who tries to help you whether you want it or not. As advertisement for Office XP, a series of three videos (in which the paperclip was voiced by Gilbert Gottfried) were released by Microsoft, in which Clippy gets turned into a Butt-Monkey hated by office employees everywhere and even his own family. It also features the line "Next to Microsoft Bob, you are the most annoying thing in computer history!"
• An Alabama personal injury attorneys ad has Progressive's mascot, Flo being trapped in jail along with two people and Flo haters said that she deserved it.
  • If you're watching the full version, Geico's Gecko also this to his haters.
    • In another Progressive ad, Flo attempts to advertise insurance in other time periods- all of which land her in situations where death is just around the corner.
  • Progressive's other mascot, the incredibly smug and narcissistic Auto Insurance Box, gets his in one ad when he gets detained by the TSA. Too bad he didn't stay detained.
    • Later, the box would be completely retired, in large part due to his arrogance. No one misses him.
• Warner Home Video, starting with minimizing Scrappy's presence in clips in the trailer for The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show and not mentioning him at all on the descriptions for the DVDs of the late-'80s Scooby movies. Seeing as only Scooby and Shaggy appear on the cover of the The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo set, one can imagine that this trend is going to continue. This is presumably due to the fact that Warner Bros. is aware of the backlash Scrappy-Doo had received.

Comic Strips

• Dick Tracy:
  • The "Mr. Crime" storyline that ran in 2011-2012 revealed early on that there was a mole inside the police department. This turned out to be Lt. Teevo, the one recurring character that had been introduced by Dick Locher, and at the conclusion of the storyline he ended up being fed to a giant, carnivorous plant.
  • Hey, you know those moon people? Yeah, they moved or something, never to be seen again.

Literature

• Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley hits Greg with his book after the latter insults him.
• Divergent:
  • If Peter, Molly, and Drew do something to irritate you, just breathe a sigh of relief that they'll be humiliated for it later by Tris' hands.
  • Marcus gets one in Insurgent when Tobias gets laughed at for fearing him. So, to prove that he's no coward, he gives Marcus a well-deserved beat-down.
• Annoying Younger Sibling characters in Goosebumps more often than not get the Scrappy treatment from fans, mostly because they tend to get Karma Houdini status. Which is why many cheered when Tara Webster from The Cuckoo Clock of Doom–arguably the worst of the lot–ends the book erased from existence thanks to her birth year being absent from the titular clock, with the implication that the main character isn't going to try and save her.
• In Nevermore. Maya has her throat torn out by a cloned Ari, and Dylan goes berserk, terrorizes a city and tries to strangle Fang.
• Rebuild World: All the verbal broadsides aimed at Viola later in the web novels, and her support role largely being taken over by Shirou, makes it seem like a case of this.
• Roll Over and Die: During Volume 04/Episode 05, Maria gives Cyrill a massive "The Reason You Suck" Speech which includes calling her out on betraying Flum and indirectly being responsible for getting Flum sold into slavery. Unlike most examples, Cyrill accepts it and gives her own "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Maria, and this is a step Cyrill takes to rescue herself from the Scrappy pit.
• Star Trek: Federation makes Wesley Crusher its Butt-Monkey. First, he got sent on a Snipe Hunt by Geordi offscreen (the conversation that reveals this gives us a "Shut up, Wesley," though not in those exact words, from Riker), then he suffers lung injuries in an Explosive Decompression, then Adrik Thorsen threatens to kill him to get the rest of the crew to comply.
  • Another Trek novel, Strike Zone, goes after Dr Pulaski (while, admittedly, shilling Wesley; can't win 'em all), by allowing Data to finally fire back. When Wesley tells Data what he just said was an insult, Data can only reply "Good".
    Pulaski: Why, thank you, Data. I certainly hope you'll be able to store it away somewhere.
    Data: And I hope you will as well, Doctor.
    Pulaski: Well, Data, not being a machine, I wouldn't know where.
    Data: I think, Doctor, you know where you can store it.
• In the Star Wars Expanded Universe, both Mara and Corran go into rants about Kyp Durron and how he literally got away with planetcide. ...Actually, the whole of the EU to feature him after that trilogy counts. He can Never Live It Down.
  • And then Callista dies in Fate of the Jedi.
  • The Ewoks also get one in the guidebook The Essential Guide to Warfare, from an Imperial soldier (Hume Tarl). From the way he was talking about them from his experiences of the Battle of Endor, he made it seem as though they relished in massacring people, and was deeply angered at the fact that the Rebels did not condemn the Ewoks for this savagery, referring to them as hypocrites. However, according to Word of God he was somewhat of an Unreliable Narrator.
  • In Aftermath: Empire's End, it's revealed that Jar Jar Binks was blamed by many for Darth Sidious' rise to power and was made an outcast on his homeworld, reduced to being a street performer for children.
• In Breaking Dawn, the final Twilight novel, there's one brief, shining moment when Leah chews Bella out for leading Jacob on like she has been. It happens offscreen and the reader is supposed to hate Leah for it, but it's still something.
• The author of Warrior Cats confirmed that she killed off Ferncloud in The Last Hope because of said character being unpopular among the fanbase.
  • Interesting fact: the character died doing the opposite of what she was hated for. she was hated for staying in the nursery and not fighting, but died in the biggest battle the Clans have ever faced.
• What Were They Thinking? The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History lists Scrappy Doo at #7, putting him higher than the "Heidi game", My Mother the Car, Supertrain, and Pink Lady and Jeff, but apparently less bad than the 1950s quiz show scandals, Jerry Springer, the infamous All Just a Dream retcon from Dallas and The Star Wars Holiday Special.

Roleplay

• In the Darwin's Soldiers Expanded Universe story, Ground One, Dragore gets a particularly horrendous Fate Worse than Death: eaten alive by carnivorous atmosphere but prevented from dying by his nanobots. The endless pain drives him insane.

Software

• One of the example help questions suggested in Microsoft Office 2003 is "How do I get rid of Clippy?"
• The Final Fantasy IV Free Enterprise Randomizer can potentially have the final boss turn into Clippy, leading to a very cathartic beatdown from the player.

Tabletop Games

• In Magic: The Gathering, the Onslaught set's version of Shock depicts a Psychatog being shocked by lightning, both in reference to the creature's time as a High-Tier Scrappy. Also, Deep Analysis has art depicting a decapitated Masticore, with some great flavor text:
  The specimen seems to be broken.
  • To a lesser extent, Magic R&Ds primary strategy for weakening dominant strategies, rather than banning cards which people put effort into acquiring, is to print cards in the next set that are very niche in their practicality, but usually devastating against the top deck. For example:
    • When the best card in the format was Blightning, they printed Obstinate Baloth that could be pitched to Blightning to give you a big creature and offset the life loss.
    • When Faeries was the best deck, Conflux released a lot of cheaply-costed or hard to counter spells that wreaked havoc on hordes of small, flying creatures.
• In the Old World of Darkness, the eventual fate of the much-hated ghoul-werewolf-mage Samuel Haight was...to have his spirit crafted into an ashtray.
• The Star Trek: The Next Generation CCG had a card with a picture of Wesley getting stabbed in the chest titled "Wesley Gets the Point." The card's effect was to kill Wesley Crusher if he was on a planet, even if he was on the other side of the spaceline. The player controlling him scores one point.
• Warhammer 40,000:
  • An odd case: the Squats were retconned out of existence in the third edition, and the creators got so fed up with fans asking about their return that they began to consider the Squats as the in-universe Scrappies. The official explanation now is that all of the Squat homeworlds were eaten by Tyranids. Occasionally one or two survivors turn up in the fiction, usually played for laughs. Eventually, they were Rescued from the Scrappy Heap and officially brought back into canon with the explanation that they are abhumans, meaning they actually can never be eliminated since they're human mutants that can be born as such randomly.
  • Tyranid Pyrovores originally had such poorly written Taking You with Me rules that they were literally more dangerous to their own army than to the enemy. Their only significant appearance in the fiction was in a Ciaphas Cain novel where the title character won a major battle by exploiting the flaw and making them blow up their own leader.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! card game examples:,
  • The Legacy of Yata-Garasu card features Yata-Garasu lying dead on the ground. The effect even counters his own special ability.
  • Deep Dark Trap Hole features Goyo Guardian, who had been put on the Forbidden List when this card was released, being sucked into a bottomless pit.
  • After Sangan was put on the Forbidden List, no less than five cards were released showing it missing a bus and being shipped to the Forbidden Realm along with other monsters on the list. Though he at least made a friend on the way, they weren't done picking on him, yet. Graceful Charity stood with him for a while, but as of now, they've been separated, and one can only guess where it goes from here.
• The tinker gnomes of Dragonlance became widely disliked for irritating mannerisms, poorly-done comic relief, and taking Bungling Inventor and turning it into the defining feature of the entire species. Spelljammer famously noted that gnomes of other settings will actively band together to hunt down tinker gnomes and wreck their Rube Goldberg Machines for making other gnomes look bad, and that other races tend to be fairly permissive of this, as the tinker gnomes are a danger to themselves and everything else.
  • Even more hated than the tinker gnomes were the kender, a race of carefree kleptomaniacs with no concept of fear that seemed specifically designed to bring out the worst in a certain kind of player. Fifth Age had the entire race conquered by a particularly vile dragon, resulting in species-wide post-traumatic stress disorder. Of course, the new "afflicted" kender were now bait for another common roleplayer's disease.
• The Baldur's Gate franchise was made Forgotten Realms Broad Strokes canon through a series of novels that were altogether less-than-stellar, starring a character called Abdel Adrian as the protagonist who similarly was not very well received as a character. D&D NEXT, the build-up to Dungeons & Dragons' 5th edition, would feature Adrian as an NPC in a module called Murder in Baldur's Gate, in which he turns out to be the victim. His death also allows Bhaal to resurrect, setting in motion the events of the module.

Web Animation

• Happy Tree Friends:
  • Prehistoric Ants actually being eaten by Sniffles and his prehistoric counterpart in "Blast From the Past" is viewed as this.
  • Nearly anytime Lumpy dies can be this to some fans.
  • Similarly, Splendid dying in "Class Act" and "Gems the Breaks" is this for those who hate him.
• If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: Shortly before smashing it to pieces, Skarbrand comments on the infamous Dreadknight from Warhammer 40,000 thusly:
  Skarbrand: SILLY DESIGN!!
• My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Digital Series: Timber Spruce in "Unsolved Selfie Mysteries" Screams Like a Little Girl at the idea of a sea monster coming onshore, and hides behind Twilight despite being the lifeguard on duty. Then when it turns out there is no monster he just whistles in embarrassment while Twilight gives him an unamused look for using her as a Human Shield.
• RWBY: After spending Jaune's arc bullying and forcing Jaune to take part in his vicious schemes, Jaune stands up to Cardin at the end of "Forever Fall". When an Ursa interrupts them, Cardin's team abandons them, leaving Cardin's life to be saved by the very boy he's been bullying. His team is later demolished in a sparring match when Pyrrha single-handedly defeats them.
• RWBY Chibi: Cardin is already a widely disliked Jerkass in his home series, so many find it satisfying that he has been turned into a Butt-Monkey in this series.

Webcomics

• Achewood: Showbiz forced 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.
• Las Lindas:
  • Tiare going all in on Miles' flaws.
  • Whoever on the Katbox Krew allowed Miles to get pounded by Rachael for about two pages clearly noticed how much he's hated outside of his devoted fans. From the sheer vitriol that Miles attracts, it's clear that many readers would've liked a dozen more pages of that.
• Savestate takes a pot shot at the actual Scrappy.
  Nicole: What's taking so long?
  Kade: We're probably waiting for Cousin Scrappy.
  Nicole: Ugh. I hate that guy.
  Kade: Who doesn't?
• Shortpacked!: Lucy doesn't take Malaya's shit.
• Satan turning resident Jerkass Holier Than Thou Knight Templar fundamentalist Seymore into a demon at the end of the Bomf series of Sinfest. Also an example of Kick the Dog.
• The Way to Your Heart: Much of the fandom rejoiced when Akito, out of all people, gives Yayoi a Shut Up, Hannibal! over the phone, coupled with "The Reason You Suck" Speech.

Web Original

• The Agony Booth did a review of Star Trek: The Next Generation - A XXX Parody. Since Wesley isn't in the movie, cue a Imagine Spot version with dolls, where Picard, Riker and Kirk rape Wesley.
• Neopets: For a long time, the 'down for maintenance' error message was accompanied by an image of a generic crying red Pteri. Because users began to associate the Pteri with being unable to access the site, TNT eventually made him a one-player Battledome challenger for the express purpose of allowing your pets to beat him up. For bonus points: he's portrayed in a much more sinister light, complete with red eyes, an Evil Laugh, and a Psychotic Smirk.
  Random event that unlocks him: An ominous looking Red Pteri strolls up to you and cackles, "I hope you didn't want to actually do anything in Neopia today." *BRAAWWKK*

Web Videos

• Dark Simpsons: Ms. Hoover gets shot by Ralph, with assistance from his dad, after she humiliated him in front of his class. No tears were shed for her.
• Dead Meat: During the 30-person Horror Royal Rumble, one of the contestants happens to be Norman Bates...specifically, the more divisive 1998 reboot version. Whoever didn't like that reboot are given a treat as Reboot Norman is booed relentlessly by the crowd and is immedeatly ringed out by Brenda Meeks as soon as he gets in. A similar event happens later in the rumble with Halloween Ends's Corey Cunningham, who is made a heel, and while he does last longer than Reboot Norman, the moment The Grabber enters the ring, Samara quickly rings him out too.
• Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv): Take That Misa:
  Takada: I hope you're not mad but I think my bodyguard crippled your fake girlfriend today.
  Light: Oh no, that's terrible! Is she paralyzed?
  Takada: I don't know I'm not a doctor.
  Light: Will she be able to talk?
  Takada: At the rate she was blabbing I doubt that death itself would shut her up.
  Light: Dammit! You should fire your bodyguards!
• Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
  • It's no secret that TFS hates the original Broly, to the point where in the first Broly movie all the characters start to say that they would rather fight any other of the past movie villains (and Vegeta doesn't want to hear him say "Kakarot" again). Vegeta even suffers a Heroic BSoD over the fact that Broly has a cool concept that's ruined by HOW DUMB his motivations are.
  • Piiza, Caroni and Pirozhki, who are disliked for being pointless filler characters during the Cell Games, get unceremoniously killed by Cell before the games even start. They're also changed from being Mr. Satan's students to spokespeople for a competing station to ZTV, for some reason.
  • TFS has also been vocal about their distaste for Dragon Ball Super's Jiren, calling him a completely boring non-character who only exists to be an obstacle for Goku, with Lanipator in particular nicknaming him "Superman Uchiha". In the Season 3 epilogue, Future Cell says that he considered naming himself Jiren, but decided against it because of how boring it sounds.
• Friendship is Witchcraft: Angel is brutally killed off the moment the opportunity presented itself.
• Sailor Moon Abridged: Rini is abused a lot in the unofficial Sailor Moon R sequel, to those that found annoying in the original series.
• After negative fan reaction to his Chester A. Bum knock-off, a concept which was becoming a Running Gag amongst Channel Awesome reviewers, Spoony had Spencer D. Bum brutally murdered by Black Lantern Spoony at the start of the finale to his Final Fantasy X review, by getting his heart ripped out of his chest.
• Stuart Ashen gives many Star Wars fans their greatest wish in his Dancing Jar Jar Binks review, which consists of him turning the toy on for a few seconds, smashing it with two hammers and then using a blowtorch on whatever remains un-smashed.
• SuperMarioLogan has so many examples that it has its own page.
• In this Tool-Assisted Speed Run of Star Wars Episode 1: Jedi Power Battles, the runner takes advantage of a Good Bad Bug and dies to force Jar Jar Binks to disappear. Despite the run being slower because of it, it was considered acceptable by the site's verifiers.
• In a rare Funny Moment in the grimdark There Will Be Brawl, Link finally says five words to Navi that many Ocarina of Time players have echoed:
  SHUT THE FUCK UP NAVI!
• Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Miho's appearance in Season 0 Abridged has her being routinely ignored by the main cast, she has a grating voice and is possibly mentally disabled. Considering how she was originally depicted as shallow and a tease who took advantage of Honda/Tristan, this bastardisation of her character was well received by the fans.

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