Take That Scrappy / Video Games

• Animal Crossing: Wild World introduced Lyle, an insurance scammer who would appear outside of the player's house on Saturdays. If talked to, he would force the player to pay him to buy insurance from him. If the player ignored him, he would try to follow them around until they talked to him and bought insurance. This combined with his annoying personality, the fact that he would continue to harass the player even if they gave in and bought insurance from him, and that his insurance was generally worthless ^note he would occasionally "cover" players who were stung by bees or sold forged paintings, but the payout was so low that this would need to happen dozens of times just to break even on the initial payment made many players despise him. Possibly due to this, in Animal Crossing: City Folk, Lyle has lost his job as an insurance salesman and now works at the Happy Room Academy, a job he absolutely hates, and frequently talks about how his dreams have been crushed. By New Leaf he seems to be enjoying his new job, but fans weren’t too bothered considering he was Rescued from the Scrappy Heap after taking on a more helpful role and becoming a lot nicer.
• Nobody liked the minstrels in Assassin's Creed II: they got in your face and sang annoying songs until they either went away or you tossed coins, possibly blowing your cover. Assassin's Creed: Revelations has a mission where Ezio dresses up as a minstrel and sings. One of the songs is this little gem:
  I am a tactless minstrel,
  I sing off-key for coins,
  If you see me in the street,
  Please kick me in the loins.
  • Not to mention that, to get the costumes in the first place you get to beat eight of them up. The fact that they go down in one punch each is just icing.
    Ezio: Minstels from Italia? I'm going to enjoy this.
• Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear has one with Schael Corwin, the Number Two throughout the saga who never really caught on with fans. At the very end of the game, the player character is framed for murdering Skie Silvershield, and Corwin claims that she saw the player kill her, even though it's not true. Schael then tells the player, whether innocent or not, they should commit suicide to give Baldur's Gate peace. The player gives her a short and sweet "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
  Charname: I take it back, Schael, you're not a traitor. I can handle treason. You're worse: You're an idiot.
• Battlefield 4's Irish, while as good as any of your other teammates at actually killing people when you give the squad orders to shoot, story-wise seems to exist for no reason other than to complain (he particularly doesn't take well to Hannah being foisted on the squad despite the fact that they're under-manned ever since the leader's death), freak out (he continues distrusting Hannah even for a mission or two after she obviously saves the group), and be insubordinate (he makes a call on his own to take in several refugees the squad's carrier isn't equipped to handle, and Recker gets the flak for it because he did nothing to stop Irish). In the final two minutes, the game suddenly gives you the option to do something about it, when C4 placed on the side of the Big Bad's destroyer fails at the worst possible time, and you have to send one of your two remaining squadmates down to manually detonate it before it destroys your carrier. Not only is sending Irish down to his certain death rather satisfying, but the game even rewards you for it by unlocking one of the best light machine guns in the game for use in multiplayer once you do so.
• Beavis and Butt-Head: In the Super Nintendo game, Beavis and Butt-Head win a game of chicken against Todd and Earl and manage to have sent him to the hospital, while in Virtual Stupidity, he is smacked around and then crushed by a cow carcass during Butt-Head's attempt to "save him" via a slaughterhouse processing machine. In the end, the duo even got him arrested after his enemy's body is discovered in the slaughterhouse.
• In the Under Night episode of BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, Platinum makes curry alongside Noel and Yukiko, only for Hyde to show up soon after; the loser of the resulting showdown (at the System's request) has to eat the curry the girls made. Platinum is not paired with Hyde, who the player controls; do the math.
• The Season 5 Battle Pass for Call of Duty: Mobile adds Rorke, the Invincible Villain from Call of Duty: Ghosts, as a skin. Do you know what that means? Now you can kill him as many times as you want! In the game’s comic tie-ins, at one point, Rorke is properly killed and does not return. No Plot Armor for him this time!
• Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: Hifumi's dead body being found in chapter 3 is probably the closest this game gets to invoking this trope - up until that point, while not outright horrible and shown to be sincerely lonely, they had been among the less helpful and generally more obnoxious and obstructive cast members, and unless their Free-Time Events were completed, is generally unlikely to have come off as much more so far than a creepy and by-the-books Otaku stereotype. This definitely seems to be more a play when it's revealed that he had killed Kiyotaka and was willing to let everyone else but Celeste get executed by Monokuma for the sake of "revenge", but his final moments, where he is mourned and offers a dying hint, and the reveal that it took Celeste claiming the recently-aggressive Taka took advantage of her to push him into the vengeful fury that caused him to murder averts this and makes it much closer to a case of Alas, Poor Scrappy.
• Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: Hiyoko abruptly getting her throat sliced in Chapter 3. Many fans cheer at this point, especially with the reveal that Mikan is the one who killed her. That being said, it once again isn't so simple (for one, her vicious bullying turns out to have had little if anything to do with Mikan's decision to kill her, which ends up being much more senseless and rendering Hiyoko's death as a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time) and Alas, Poor Scrappy is once again at play here - even with Hiyoko's unlikeable attitude and actions, she had been showing increasing signs of genuine growth throughout the story until that point, and is genuinely mourned by the others (of which Hajime sadly acknowledges her attempts to improve when she's gone).
• Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony:
  • The Monokubs received this treatment several times.
    • First of all, for many fans, seeing the Monokuma Cubs get executed along with the killers is very satisfying.
    • In Chapter Three, Kokichi Oma stated that he finds the Monokubs to be annoying and he prefers Monokuma instead of them. He also calls them "knock-off products" and states that he doesn't want to be friends with them. Also, in Kokichi's white board in Chapter Six, he labels the Monokubs as "annoying".
    • In the final class trial, Shuichi ended up stating he has had enough with their non-sense. In addition to that, Monokuma ended up blowing them up one by one throughout that trial. Also, at the point when they beg for their lives to be spared and asked Shuichi to stop trying to figure out who the mastermind is, Shuichi coldly rebuts them by pointing out how they've actively enabled the killing game and every single senseless death that's entailed within it.
  • In Chapter 6, "Junko Enoshima the 53rd" accidentally lampshades Tsumugi's unpopularity by apologizing to all of her fans... if any even exist. The line was intended to be about how plain and unremarkable Tsumugi is and thus she wouldn't have fans, but it rings differently given real-life fan reception to Tsumugi as the Mastermind.
    • She also almost backhandedly does this to Junko herself, pointing out how "boring and repetitive" it is to have her as the mastermind yet again, almost agreeing in a way that she's become staler and staler as time went on.
  • The Talent Plan actually provides some towards Teruteru. For example, in an event between Kirumi, Celestia, and Teruteru, Celestia pretty much insults Teruteru stating he is not worthy of being a servant of hers, saying that while his cooking is A-rank, his overall rating is E, just barely above F(as she points out in the first game, she considers F ranked people so loathsome she'd pay to have them killed). In addition to that, he tries to feed Maki some drugged food if the player does one of the latter's events during the second year. However, Maki does not have any of that as she forces Teruteru to cook some new food as well as asking him if he wants to die. Teruteru also knows not to do anything perverted to Aoi "Hina" Asahina, as that will bring the wrath of her best friend Sakura down on his head. Hiyoko and Byakuya both also get some insults hurled their way by Miu, and when they try to argue back, Miu enjoys it.
  • While Miu is more divisive than outright hated, some of her detractors enjoy the part in which Kaede hits Miu for groping her breasts if you choose "My boobs are pretty big, too" in Miu's first Free Time event.
• The third and final expansion to the original Dawn of War was widely maligned for being buggy and poorly balanced. Dawn of War 2 explicitly references that campaign as an embarrassing disaster for the Blood Ravens (Relic's Chapter created specifically for the Dawn of War series and the most frequent point of view faction) that killed nearly half the Chapter. In DoW 2's first expansion, if Cyrus falls to Chaos, he reveals that it is a direct result of that campaign causing him to lose faith in the Chapter.
• Dead Space 3 has Norton who is a Jerkass that is overly protective toward Ellie, whom Isaac once dated before the events of the game. His Yandere attitude causes him to be very jealous of their behavior and this eventually has him betray Isaac so he can save Ellie. Even after Isaac saves him, he STILL tries to kill Isaac. Isaac's response? Boom, Headshot!.
  • Also, thanks to the ability to stomp and shoot his dead body, many players didn't stop at the headshot.
    • And, to top it off, in the Awakened DLC Norton reappears as the first Necromorph encounter, so you get to kill him again.
• In Donkey Kong Country Returns, the main reason Crowded Cavern was a rage-inducing That One Level was a giant Bat Out of Hell that would constantly one-hit kill the player with very hard to dodge wave attacks. Come Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, that same bat is visibly frozen in a block of ice in a lategame level - and its eyes are moving. In case that wasn't cathartic enough, it appears immediately after a checkpoint, so players who revive there get to see it over and over again.
• In Isolde's second appearance in Dragon Age: Origins, she is repeatedly insulted by her demon-possessed son, including calling her stupid and possibly claiming that she's jealous of the younger, prettier Warden.
• Anders and Carver of Dragon Age II were both divisive characters among the fandom. Party banter of the game's DLC made the two the butt of many jokes from other characters. During the Legacy DLC, Carver underwent character development and maturity no matter whether he ended up to the Templars or to the Grey Wardens (for best results, choose the latter) and thus finally gained respect that he wanted in his own way, while Anders did not and nearby the finale, almost everyone in the party loathed him. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, Varric and potentially Hawke are quite bitter when the subject of Anders comes up.
• Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition/Plutonia Pack features Scrappy "Due". In a cage. In the basement of a burger joint staffed by Beavis and Butt-Head. Surrounded by his own excrement. About to be made into hamburger. You can do the humane thing and blow him to bloody ribbons. (A scrappy meal?)
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind features Cliff Racers, Goddamned Bats to end all Goddamned Bats. They tend to attack you in flocks of 3-5, inflict pitiful damage but cause you to flinch when they hit you, have a major case of Hit Box Dissonance, drop crappy loot, are capable of inflicting the player with diseases, and once you've gained a few levels, are all over the damned island. Bethesda took notice of the player outrage and, in Oblivion, added news that Ensemble Dark Horse Jiub (who started the game along with the Player Character aboard the prison ship) had since been canonized as a saint for driving all of the Cliff Racers in Morrowind to extinction. He is now known as "St. Jiub the Eradicator." Later, he makes an appearance as a spirit in the Dawnguard DLC for Skyrim with a sidequest to gather the lost pages of his "Opus" so that his tale may live on. He even has the same voice actor as in Morrowind.
• Fable II mentions a rumor that Weaver the Guildmaster was found dead with the words "Your health is Low!" carved onto his forehead. Also, you can optionally kill him as part of a quest in The Lost Chapters edition of the first game. The rumor could be referring to that.
• Fallen London: The Starving Artist is hated by many players for cluttering up your Opportunity Cards with his constant interventions trying to get more help out of you, while never cleaning up his honey-addicted act. The card is useless and constant even by the midgame, and the only way to get rid of it is to employ him in your laboratory, which opens up a hard but profitable Honey grind but uses up valuable space with his otherwise useless self if you actually want to get a research proyect done. Failbetter Games later added an option to longer proyects: If you have an Unwise Idea during research, you can use him as a test subject for an experiment that outright kills him, no matter what your experiment is. And while Death Is Cheap and he'll soon be back to cluttering your deck, it's at least cathartic (and a better use of Unwise Ideas than usual).
• Fallout 4: The Contraptions Workshop DLC allows the Sole Survivor to construct pillories at player settlements so as to "punish those who deserve it" (according to the in-game settlement HUD about this object). This means that if the Sole Survivor ever gets tired of Preston Garvey giving them too many radiant quests at once or of Marcy Long's endless complaining, then they can assigned to a pillory and be treated as a pariah by the rest of the community.
  • A patch also removed Marcy and Jun Long's "essential" status after completing the first mission to set up Sanctuary as a working settlement, for those who are seeking a rather more... permanent method of addressing Marcy's bitchiness.
  • Bethesda themselves acknowledged Preston's reputation among the community in the E3 2018 gameplay trailer for Fallout 76 where one of the characters that is killed in a brutal fashion is called PGARVEY.
• The PSP remake of Final Fantasy Tactics features a new battle which brings its resident Scrappy Argath Back from the Dead just so you get the pleasure of killing him again. Years later Square Enix did a Tactics-themed tie-in with Final Fantasy XIV, where the player gets to kick Argath's butt yet again, even when he transforms into a Lucavi Demon.
• In Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist, Freddy may stumble across a "lost and out-of-place" Cedric the Owl, who later gets eaten by vultures.
• The Frontier: The Trochili became a great source of scorn upon release for feeling massively out of place in Fallout, and the heavily fetishistic writing behind them naturally left many players uncomfortable. One of the very first submods released for The Frontier was one that allows the player to just bypass the whole section and every quest part related to it, by blowing up the sewer with a set of mininukes before the snake creatures are ever encountered. The reason why the Courier does this is only explained in the mod as them getting a sudden vague, but very foreboding feeling that whatever is in the sewer simply shouldn't be allowed to exist.
  • The violent and unceremonious death of General Blackthorne in the NCR Exile ending can be seen as this by the mod's detractors, especially those who hate that overall faction, as is when you can kill him yourself in the mod's other endings.
• Genshin Impact: Dori is an extremely contentious character who despite being the wealthiest woman in all of Sumeru frequently scams and money grubs to the detriment of others, usually receiving the Karma Houdini treatment while others pay the price. Not only is she arrested in Cyno's character quest after trying to scam the Matra out of money, but in the "Receiver of Friends From Afar" event, the Traveler shames her for trying to get away with underpaying Faruzan and Layla and tricks her into spending far more Mora than she intended to on their meal, effectively giving her a dose of her own medicine.
• Spartan Jameson Locke, the Deuteragonist of Halo 5: Guardians has been somewhat controversial among fans, and apparently also to the developers of Halo Infinite, where he gets this treatment. It's implied he was beaten by one of the easiest bosses in the game, who integrated Locke's helmet into his armour, and he is further ridiculed in one of the game's audio logs.
• The second Hatoful Boyfriend has a new character in Nishikikouji Tohri, notable for being a shallow, absurd Card-Carrying Villain who's never shown to be anything more than what he seems, in a pair of games where every character seems to fit some kind of stereotype initially but turns out to have labyrinthine Hidden Depths. In the manga he keeps barging in to advertise the drama CDs, and the other characters, Breaking the Fourth Wall, angrily protest that the fans don't like him and him getting this much attention will stir their hatred. Most fans do not in fact hate him, except apparently in-universe.
• Carter Blake from Heavy Rain is a complete asshole from the moment he appears, and in one optional chapter he goads you to hit him. You can.
• Hiveswap Friendsim's resident Hate Sink Zebruh Codakk was revealed in a later installment to be regularly cheated out of money by Remele. Remele quickly became a fan favourite.
  • Volume 16 takes it up to eleven when Zebruh and the player's plan to pretend to assassinate Marvus fails, which results in Marvus's audience tearing Zebruh limb from limb.
• Hollow Knight: Tiso dying again in the Pantheon of Hallownest, when he already died near the Colosseum of Fools. Talk about dying in both the physical and the dream worlds.
• Nobody in Injustice 2 gives Damian Wayne any respect during their pre-fight banters and instead call him out for his failings as a "hero", mock him as a snotty whiny brat, or just generally make fun of him, which is very cathartic for fans of the comic who hate (or even hated) him. If you think Batman doesn't kill his opponents, get a load of this brutal Pre Ass Kicking One Liner:
  Batman: I don't have time for this, Damian.
  Damian: A good father would make time!
  Batman: A better son would deserve it.
• Invoked in killer7. Iwazaru is generally disliked for talking for far too long even by Remnant Psyche standards and not maintaining the calmness of Travis, the other main Remnant Psyche. Furthermore, Remnant Psyches automatically talk at a fixed rate, and you can either sit through it or skip the whole thing. So naturally, the Post Final Boss is wearing Iwazaru's outfit and might actually be Iwazaru. All he does is run down a narrow hallway and stand around so he can be shot five times.
• In King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones, the Fan Remake of King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne, there's a sequence where Graham must answer These Questions Three... to get a MacGuffin. If the player chooses the right answers for the first two questions, the third has an Easter Egg answer where Graham asks Connor to save Daventry from the foulest of beasts...Cedric the Owl, who enters the scene and promptly gets chased off by a sword-wielding Graham. They even got Cedric's original voice actor to reprise his role.
  • This scene is actually a two-fer: While the previous questions had obvious right and wrong answers^note For example, the first has Child Graham accidentally break a window, and the wrong answer is to try and pin the blame on his friend, the third involves choosing whether or not to knight Connor, protagonist of the Franchise Killer King's Quest: Mask of Eternity, which means he'd become king once Graham dies. Choosing not to knight Connor crushes his spirits and sends him back to life as a peasant, but it's still considered a "right" answer because (as Graham points out) Connor has other duties and Daventry needs a king who can give it his full attention.
• In episode 3 of the Kings Quest remake, there's a puzzle in which you must save baby Cedric from getting eaten by a badger. If you let Cedric get eaten multiple times, Narrator!Graham notes that you must really enjoy seeing that owl suffer. If you try to walk away from the puzzle multiple times however, Graham will go into a sarcastic rant about about how what you really wanted to hear was that he was glad to see that owl dead and wanted to chase off the badger so he could eat the thing himself.
• The original La-Mulana is infamous for its Goddamned Bats, which seem to have a fetish for knocking Lemeza all over the place and off of platforms. In the remake, there are references to a curry dish with a bat as an ingredient and the Scripture item renders the player invincible to bats.
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild includes a Tingle outfit in its first DLC pack; wearing it around the various Non Player Characters will cause them to react to it either by drawing their weapons or freaking out◊.
• The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games: Ricky can't stand to be around Tingle. The kangaroo will leave Link if they go anywhere near him.
• From the Mass Effect series:
  • Mass Effect has Ambassador Udina, a brown-nosing politician who later in the game impounds the Normandy when your dire warnings aren't heeded and you become politically inconvenient. Your good friend Captain Anderson hatches a plan to rectify that and send you on your way to save the galaxy and take the heat for it himself. One option involves Anderson storming into Udina's office, downing the ambassador in one punch, and then freeing the Normandy from her dock. You can later do one on him yourself by endorsing Anderson for the Council seat instead of Udina. The third game takes this even further with a Renegade interrupt that lets you kill him.
  • There's also Khalisah al-Jilani, the reporter, who tries to make Shepard look bad in pursuit of ratings. In Mass Effect, you can crack her jaw. In Mass Effect 2 Shepard can crack her jaw again, or s/he can give her an an equally awesome verbal beatdown. Lair of the Shadow Broker also includes videos of her getting punched out by a krogan... and kicked in the shin by a volus^note an entire species of Chew Toys. If you try to punch her again in the third game, she's finally wised up enough to dodge...but then another interrupt appears that lets you headbutt her.
  • In a case of the scrappy being a vehicle/game mechanic rather than a person, James and Steve can be heard bickering over the flaws/merits of the Mako and Hammerhead. Steve thinks the Mako handles like a drunk rhino, James thinks the Hammerhead's made of tissue paper.
  • You can invoke this in the Citadel DLC where near the end of the main story where by picking your last two party members, the one who has been picked the least will complain that they never get picked to go on missions at all.
• The entire character of Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov in Metal Gear Solid 3 is this: He looks exactly like Raiden, the last game's widely-hated protagonist, and appears in the game as the sadomasochistic colonel Volgin's homosexual love interest (even his name is a Japanese double entendre: 'Raidenovitch' can be read in Japanese as 'Raiden no bitch', which itself translates to 'Thunderbolt's bitch', hinting at his and Volgin's relationship). The player is given the option to either kill or knock out Raikov, depending on what the player feels like, and the player doesn't even get a Time Paradox if they do the former.
  • The player also has a mask of Raikov's likeness that's used late in the game to impersonate him, and there's a lot of fun to be had with the mask: Calling your Mission Control while wearing the mask will lead Snake's superior Zero to comment on how just wearing the mask is already making Snake seem more annoying, while Snake himself insists that wearing the mask is bound to make him more popular. The two other assistants will instead comment how they like the mask.
  • The Secret Theatre FMVs also poke fun of Raiden: One FMV involves Raiden and Snake fighting over who gets to be the protagonist in Metal Gear Solid 4, with Snake winning in the end. In another FMV, Raiden goes back in time to eliminate Big Boss during Operation Snake Eater so he can be the main character, but can't bring himself to it when he finally meets the man face-to-face... and came to regret that when he decided to kill Solid Snake before he could be the main character of the Solid series, only for Big Boss to shamelessly kill him while hunting for Solid Snake in the final battle of Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. However, as Rose consoles him, there's always going to be a fifth MGS game... (Which still wasn't the actual fifth MGS game.)
• Metroid: Other M has quite the Broken Base, but a lot of people dislike Adam due to him spending most of the game in a comm booth and locking off the majority of your equipment for no good reason. Having quite a few comments and moments that are perceived as sexist or abusive by many fans doesn't help. So the moment when Samus says 'screw this' and activates an upgrade by herself, complete with Dialogue Reversal("Any objections, Adam?") is extremely cathartic. Sadly, it's defied when Adam shows up near Sector 0 and shoots her in the back before blowing up the sector himself in an ultimately Senseless Sacrifice, being hailed in Samus's eyes as a hero despite everything he's done.
  • Thankfully, a more thorough version of this trope befalls him in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate where he's a spirit character in World of Light that you can beat up, preferably with either version of Samus. He's a Novice spirit, meaning he requires little to no effort to beat, and to add insult to injury, Young Samus from the same game, herself a divisive character for her Chickification, is an Advanced spirit which actually requires some strategic planning. Giving Adam payback for the things he did in Other M is a massive Catharsis Factor, and one a lot of players adamantly appreciated.
  • Adam returns in the AI form in Metroid Dread, where he's once again blunt and overbearing to Samus, giving her orders and talking down to her, especially in the latter half of the game... except for almost all of the game it's not him but Raven Beak, The Man Behind the Man and villain of the series, impersonating him, potentially a response to the previous portrayal.
• The Monster Hunter series has the Plesioth, a fish-based large monster notorious for its disjointed-hitbox hipcheck. In Monster Hunter 4 and 4 Ultimate, a smaller Plesioth and a Green Plesioth can be caught as part of a net fishing minigame; catching one causes it to die instantly as it hits the wharf.
• Erron Black's intro in Mortal Kombat 11 has him dropping the severed head of Hsu Hao, an incredibly unpopular character from Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, onto the ground.
• Neverwinter Nights 2: The Mask Of The Betrayer expansion does a bit of Cutting Off the Branches, the most notable being establishing which party members survived or died in the final battle of the base game. The thing is, the party members who canonically survived (Khelgar, Neeshka, Sand, Ammon, etc.) are the ones people like, while most of the ones who died (Grobnar, Qara, Elanee, Casavir, etc.) are Scrappies that people either didn't care about or wanted dead. In terms of number of Scrappies, its arguably the biggest, most thorough Take That, Scrappy! in gaming history.
• When Evil Mojo revealed the Salt skin for Io in Paladins, a lot of detractors predictably voiced their dislike for it, since it's a sexualized furry with an overly high-pitched voice. Fortunately, a week later they released this trailer, where the narrator is confused by her presence (since all the other skins added in the update are themed after sea creatures), and she immediately drowns.
• Persona 2: According to the game, Tadashi is absent from Eternal Punishment because he's being chased by assassins, but more practically he's gone because the fans didn't want him to come back.
• Persona 5: While more of a Base-Breaking Character than a full-on scrappy, Mishima gets a lot of these moments. With the exceptions of Kasumi and Akechi (who both never get any significant interaction with him), the Phantom Thieves treat Mishima as The Friend Nobody Likes. His Confidant is one of the few that will always rank up regardless of how you treat him, and the game gives you several dialogue choices to express irritation towards him. Mishima even gets brought in during Rank 5 of Futaba's Confidant, and she mocks him via Accidental Misnaming(which may or may not be accidental as she refers to him by his proper name when a new tier of Mementos opens) and Brutal Honesty.
  Futaba: Ah, I've got it! This overwhelming forgettable appearance, generic speech style, and total lack of sex appeal... Nishima... Are you an NPC!?
• In Pokémon Colosseum Pyrite Caves are considered That One Level due to being a maze of tunnels and bridges and caverns that all look alike and filled with random trainers. In Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness the caves have been sealed off.
• The app Rayman Adventures, as part of limited time events, allows Rayman fans to do what they always wanted to do- beat up the Rabbids.
  • And for those who haven't gotten their fill of Rabbid harassment, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle gives Mario and his pals no shortage of the critters to shoot down. It may be dulled by the fact that Mario's team is supported by Rabbids dressed up as them (and that the team has to have at least one Rabbid on it), but the consensus of the E3 crowd is that it can't be by much.
• In Resident Evil: REVisited, the first zombie you encounter is a towel-clad version of Alice, a notorious Black Hole Sue, whom you can kill at your discretion.
• The season 2 finale of Sam & Max: Freelance Police does this to the Soda Poppers, combined with a Brick Joke. They become the rulers of hell and, long story short, Sam and Max drop them into a small island in a pit of lava. The Stinger of the episode/season shows them doing the 'we'll be back' monologue...then, the purple Bermuda Triangle from the end of Moai Better Blues appears. Last we saw, a volcano had been erupting into it...the Poppers get vaporized.
  • This was completely intentional from the very beginning - The Soda Poppers are hated both in-and-out-of-universe. Only two characters like or care about them in any capacity aside from how they can be exploited to further Sam & Max's goals, and one of them is Max (who you may recognize as someone who regularly exploits the Soda Poppers to further Sam & Max's goals).
• Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Omochao, introduced in Sonic Adventure 2, rose to infamy for constantly providing gameplay tips. And he can be used as a weapon. You can pick Omochao up and throw him, killing robots hitting them with Omochao or tossing him off cliffs, which briefly sets him on fire. And if a player manages to finish a stage while carrying him (which is rarely possible), he comments on it; several of his end-of-stage lines sound very dismayed ("All I can see is water! Where is my home?!"). The fact that he's programmed in such a way suggests that even the developers found him annoying.
    • Additionally, Shadow the Hedgehog contains the Omochao gun, which fires Omochao as ammunition.
    • He makes a grand reappearance in LEGO Dimensions in the Sonic Dimensions level, where he claims to have been trapped for some time and can resume giving hints again. Said hints are even more painfully obvious and Sonic himself gets annoyed with him. Shortly afterwards, Omochao gets smashed by a spring.
    • Another instance occurs in The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, which has Omochao appear on a "Wanted!" Poster in the saloon car. His crime is stated to be medical malpractice.
  • Also in Sonic Adventure 2, Big the Cat makes several cameos throughout the game. In his cameo in City Escape, he shows up along the path of the giant G.U.N. truck.
  • Sonic Rush Adventure introduced Marine the Raccoon, whose Motor Mouth Reckless Sidekick tendencies and delusion that she is the real hero brushed a number of fans the wrong way... and her fellow protagonists have similar reactions to her behavior. Sonic, Tails, and Blaze lampshade how annoying she can be, ultimately leading up to a scene before the final level where Blaze finally blows up and yells at her: "You're a nuisance!"
  • A lot of people dislike Silver from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) for being wangsty, or for the boss fight against him in said game being particularly unpleasant, and even those who like him think his story could have been handled a lot better. So the cutscene following the Silver vs. Shadow boss fight, where Shadow gives Silver a solid roundhouse kick to the back of his head, was remarkably cathartic.
    • Many fans agree that Silver was Rescued from the Scrappy Heap as a result of his boss fight in Sonic Generations. But regardless of the player's opinion of him, that fight ends in him being run over by a massive Katamari-esque ball of doom (which he created to run over Sonic). Makes that kick to the head look pleasant.
    • If you talk to one of the kids in Soleanna, he'll tell you that he wishes the guards would stop standing around doing nothing and actually try to do their jobs.
    • For a more meta example, the fact that the game ends with a Cosmic Retcon that erases the whole thing from the main timeline.
  • The Deadly Six from Sonic Lost World are hated by a lot of people for being shallow villains and lackluster bosses, and for the general mediocrity of that game. Zavok's boss fight in Sonic Forces ends with Sonic physically punching him multiple times in an epic beatdown, which is very cathartic for said people to see.
• For South Park fans that have no love for Randy Marsh and Stephen Stotch, or are still sour towards Sheila Broflovski after the movie, The Fractured But Whole makes all three of them boss fights for your catharsis pleasure.
• South Park: The Stick of Truth: Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo appeared in a side-quest that showed he's living in the sewer with a shitty alcoholic wife and three little shits, one retarded. Still, the quest is fairly optional; you don't have to hurry to do it. And he does have a pretty shitty life now.
• Moneybags from the Spyro the Dragon series forces the player to pay large amounts of money to open multiple locks on doors to go to other parts of the game. Being annoying in the eyes of the fans, Spyro: Year of the Dragon had a bonus mission where you can attack Moneybags because he stole a dragon egg. The icing on the cake? While you're roasting that ursine's behind, you're also taking back ALL the gems he swindled from you during the course of the game. At the end of the sweet revenge, Moneybags is penniless. In fact, you even get an achievement for doing this in the remake just to make doing this even more satisfying!
  • Said game also had several cutscenes where each of the other playable characters provide various Amusing Injuries in each of their introductions: Sheila kicks him into a rock (or a good distance in the Reignited Trilogy), Sgt. Byrd fires a missile at him, Bentley whacks him a few times with his club, and Agent 9 fires his laser at him. It also helps that he actively assists the Sorceress in this game as opposed to his more neutral appearance in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, which even then had a cutscene of Hunter tackling him so Spyro can have all his gems back.
• The various Star Wars licensed games love to do this to Jar Jar Binks:
  • The Force Unleashed presents the beautiful sight of Jar Jar frozen in carbonite. This would be done again in Disney Infinity, where, in the Rise Against the Empire playset, you can see Jar Jar frozen in carbonite in Jabba's palace.
  • LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga has an achievement called "Crowd Pleaser", earned by killing Jar Jar 20 times.
    • Meanwhile, The Skywalker Saga makes Jar Jar a Butt-Monkey, with him usually getting comically hurt in scenes where he appears.
  • Star Wars: Battlefront has a level where you invade Naboo and fight lots of Gungans, all of whom act a lot like Jar Jar and fight poorly. Needless to say, it's a very popular level. Even more, it's the first level in the series.
  • He's crushed by a falling N64 logo in Star Wars: Battle for Naboo.
  • In the casual MMO Clone Wars Adventures, one of the minigames is punting him for distance (all in the name of practicing Force Push, of course).
  • In Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, he's a holographic target on the firing range in the first level.
• For those who hate Wufei, Super Robot Wars Z Saisei-hen has a particular stage where players can easily farm kills by killing Wufei over and over again till the pilots attain their ace status. Considering this happens early in the game, this qualifies as a Disk One Nuke.
• The inclusion of the Duck Hunt dog in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U is partially for this reason. For the longest time, the dog taunts at the player's failure with an irritating laugh and can't be shot. Any time he's able to be shot (such as the bonus stages in Vs. Duck Hunt), you get a penalty or reprimanding. In his inclusion, the players are finally given the chance to beat the ever-loving crap out of it without penalty. The other part? Because this is essentially an answer of a long overdue fair play, this instead did the nearly impossible: It rescues the dog from being one of the most infamous video game Scrappies.
  • On the subject of Vs. Duck Hunt, there were bonus rounds where players could shoot the dog. Sure, doing so ended the round, with the dog telling you to "Shoot the ducks, not me!", but many players expressed that they felt it was worth it.
• Tales of Xillia 2 has a late-game scene of Alternate Milla, once again, talking about how Ludger is destroying worlds by doing his job and mentioning in an off-handishly, snippish way how she's 'not the real Milla, anyway'. Gaius immediately calls her out on this and tells her that she clearly is nothing like the real Milla, who was ready to sacrifice her life for other people. It is reminiscent of the shilling Milla tended to get in the previous game, but also finally a character telling Alternate Milla to shut up about her whine-fest of wallowing in her misery. The fact that Alternate Milla became more annoying shortly after and then died, to bring the real Milla back, was just icing on top of the cake.
• Terraria: For players who hate the Guide for allowing nighttime enemies into their houses, it can be satisfying that the procedure to summon the Wall of Flesh involves destroying the Guide via a voodoo doll rather than a Player Punch.
• Eric Sparrow, the antagonist of Tony Hawk's Underground and something of a memetic Jerkass, spent the entirety of THUG 2 pissing himself, squealing like a girl and getting the crap beat out of him, culminating in him being left behind in Australia without a way to get home. Oh, and just to rub it in Nigel Beaverhausen falls on top of him.
  • He also got what he deserved in Neversoft's Logo Joke from the first Underground. A sewer monster comes out from a manhole, drags him down, and presumably eats him, then various bones of his are thrown out of the manhole.
  • If you've beaten the first Underground more than once, the game lets you skip the final mission on your second playthrough by having your character knock out Eric with an elbow to the face to take the tape back. For most people, it's definitely worth playing the game twice just to see that cutscene.
• Ultimate Spider-Man has one in the Venom tutorial, when it's telling you that you need to eat people to survive, your first target is...a child who loses his balloon, a jab at the extremely annoying lost balloon missions in the Spider-Man 2 movie game. The child even says "I lost my balloon!" using the exact same vocal clip from that game.
• In Episode 3 of Telltale's The Walking Dead (Telltale), Duck offers to give you a high-five. You can respond, or simply walk past and leave the dumb kid hanging. He looks quite pissed off for the rest of that section of the chapter.
  • Sarah from season 2 can be left as Walker chow with zero repercussions — and dies regardless of player choices as a result of this.
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine has Leandros. A new brother initiated into the Ultramarines, he quickly shows the type of person he is when he's busy butchering a helpless greenskin while the others are in a hurry to rescue people. Something Leandros is rather half-hearted about as he feels the mundane humans aren't worth the effort. But where fandom really came to hate him, is that he called the Inquisition down to arrest and hopefully execute Captain Titus despite Titus never being anything less than noble.
• Wipeout Fusion was was heavily different from the rest of the series and divisive among the fanbase. Wipeout Pure returned to the style of the original series and the backstory indicated that Fusion's F9000 league was corrupt and riddled with scandal, and almost killed anti-gravity racing as a legitimate sport.
• World of Warcraft:
  • A quest chain in Cataclysm has the player delving into Thrall's inner emotional struggles in an effort to bring him back after he's killed by the Twilight's Hammer. When the player gets to his inner rage, there are hints that he's... less than pleased with Garrosh's run as Warchief. For those who see Varian Wrynn as The Scrappy, Thrall ain't happy with him either.
  • Med'an is without a doubt the most disliked character in the entire Warcraft universe, despite never making a canon appearance outside of the comics. It wouldn't be until Chronicles Volume 3 where he'd get some official recognition... in the form an index entry, listing him on the non-existent page 404.

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