Take That Scrappy / Western Animation

• Adventure Time:
  • For some, it was kind of cathartic seeing Lemongrab in "Mystery Dungeon" having all of his bodily fluids profusely squeezed out of his head as he screams for his mother and almost dies. Some thought he had this coming after what he did in "You Made Me".
  • Also, Tree Trunks doing something very simple: scolding Lemongrab for being an annoying, selfish asshole and telling him, "You'd better be nice!" He lowers his head and apologizes in a much quieter tone. You go, Tree Trunks.
  • Ash getting punched out by Simon in "Betty". He didn't even know who he was. He just wanted to take his flying carpet. If he had known, he'd probably have done worse.
• The Animals of Farthing Wood: Even if you don't see Weasel as the Scrappy, every character in-universe does and virtually everyone makes their dislike of her clear (at least in season 1).
  • In season 3, Trey and Fox are the only characters to call Weasel out on being extremely annoying. This is supposed to demonstrate them being in the wrong (mainly as Weasel was the only thing stopping the army of rats from invading, not that anyone knew that), but comes across as this instead.
• The Animaniacs episode "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special" states that the Warners were created as Buddy's funnier co-stars, and he later tries to kill them for stealing his (nonexistent in real life) fame. Buddy is even voiced by Jim Cummings, with the same deep and sinister voice he used for the SatAm version of Robotnik.
  • "Lookit The Fuzzy Heads" has derided Scrappy Elmyra Duff get the Badly Battered Babysitter treatment, instead of Buttons.
  • In the reboot, the episode "Good Warner Hunting" does this to Chicken Boo as the Warner Siblings realize he was the only member of the cast not killed by the hunter who already took out the other former members, pointing out that he was the least favorite of the cast and that the series bible itself dictates that Chicken Boo shall not appear in the series. Turns out the hunter was Chicken Boo, who was upset he wasn't brought back. Don't worry, though, the other Animaniacs are fine and they want his head on a platter.
  • Not only that, but Jay-Pac, who has a rap battle with Yakko in the reboot, describes Wakko as being “less likeable than Elmyra”.
  • Loonatics Unleashed gets the exact unflattering treatment an average Looney Tunes fan would give it in "Suffragette City".
  • Pepé Le Pew being erased on "Yakko Amacko" can be seen as this, depending of your opinion on the character.
• Arthur: Literally any episode in which D.W. actually gets punished. And this includes "Arthur's Big Hit" when Arthur punches her in the arm.
• As Told by Ginger:
  • Dodie is widely disliked by fans but she does get her comeuppance numerous times - getting hit with a football, Macie accidentally punching her in the face, and usually getting called out for her worse deeds.
  • Mipsy getting hit in the eye with a pebble twice in "About Face".
  • Joann getting food poisoning from rancid shellfish. The episode also climaxes with Macie throwing a torrent of maple syrup in her face.
• Batman Beyond: Max Gibson becomes a victim of this in "Where's Terry?", courtesy of Bruce. See it here.
• Ben 10: Omniverse:
  • Ben finally gets called out for his arrogance in "Of Predators and Prey: Part 1" by Rook, who can't stand it at this point, a sentiment that many fans have felt since Omniverse began. While part 2 revealed that it was a charade, he seriously meant what he said to Ben about his arrogance.
  • And according to Word of God, he is not too fond of Fastrack, which explains the increase of the usage of XLR8.
  • Comments from Blukic and Driba indicating that Galvans are smarter than Cerebrocrustaceans might have been an attempt of this trope to those who considered Brainstorm a Replacement Scrappy to Grey Matter, but it didn't exactly work as intended; if anything, it made Blukic and Driba look like racists. Of course, given they were acting as a distraction they may have simply been hammering his Berserk Button on purpose.
  • Probably unintentional, but those amongst the fans who dislike Blukic and Driba might enjoy this part of dialogue from "Store 23":
    Azmuth: "You two are brilliant scientists."
    Blukic and Driba: "Oooooooooh!"
    Azmuth: "By Earth's standards; for a pair of Galvan, you are remarkably unintelligent."
    Blukic and Driba (disappointed): "Oooooooh...."
  • The Ship Sinking of Ben/Julie came with Ben unintentionally hurling insults at Julie while playing a video game. The fact that Julie was so unpopular with many of the fandom played a role in this. However even fans who disliked the pairing felt their break up was ridiculously contrived and made Ben look like a complete moron in the process.
  • Possibly as an answer to fans complaining about him being a Karma Houdini in Ultimate Alien, Will Harrangue essentially gets everything in the face: Ben "accidentally" sprays him as Water Hazard in Frogs of War, he starts losing viewers after siding with the Incurseans during their invasion, and a vengeful Jury Rigg mutates him into a tentacled alien.
  • Many fans disliked the Ultimate Alien episode "Couples Retreat" due to Darkstar taking advantage of Charmcaster immediately after she'd already suffered from crossing the Despair Event Horizon. The ending to "Mystery Incorporeal", in which Charmcaster appears to have some fun torturing Darkstar for messing with her realm, pleased these fans greatly.
• Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
  • In the episode "Solitary Alignment", Ben turns into Fasttrack to fight Sir George and is easily knocked away. Kevin has this to say in response:
    Kevin: No, it's good. He loses way faster than XLR8.
  • This is also the reason Fasttrack is excluded entirely from Ben 10: Omniverse.
  • Likewise, Humungousaur's overuse is jabbed at when Ben tries to turn into the alien frequently in the first arc of Omniverse ... and gets the wrong alien every time until the finale of that arc.
• Ben 10 (2016): In Alien-X-tinction, the Omniverse-Era Ben is last seen being kicked in the rear back to his timeline by Gwen 10.
• Big Mouth:
  • Devin getting told off by her own lick-spittle Lola was seen as well-deserved for her general nastiness towards every other girl.
  • Mr. Lizer is publicly humiliated when his inappropriate relationship with Lola is revealed. Then after trying to make himself somehow seem like the victim, he suffers grievous injuries to his legs and genitals.
  • For anyone who finds Nick and Jessi over-rated, their self-pitying duet in "Rankings" is a satisfying way to acknowledge that they're not too popular in-universe either.
• Bob's Burgers:
  • Whenever something bad happens to Jimmy Pesto, like the time he was accidentally hit in the crotch in "Are You There, Bob? It's Me, Birthday", something Bob (and no doubt the audience) was grateful for.
  • In "What About Blob?", the other Belchers get tired of Gene's constant noise making and admit he's being annoying. The name of the preview on YouTube this scene was featured in is even called "Gene is Super Annoying".
  • Linda admits that she "isn't sold" on Jimmy Jr in "Just One Of The Boyz 4 Now", hinting she hasn't forgotten his actions in "V for Valentine-Detta".
• Bobby's World has a scene in "Suspects, Lies, and Videotape" where Howard punishes Derek. Even if it was for something he didn't do ^note Bobby lied to Howard that Derek was going to the mall so he (Howard) wouldn't suspect that he (Bobby) had accidentally broke Martha's Elvis bust and then tried to fix it with his (Howard's) tools, considering the way Derek treats Bobby most of the time, those who hate Derek find it so satisfying to see him get punished. As proof, it's the most replayed part of Kabillion's upload of the episode on YouTube.
• The Boondocks: When Ruckus' dad gives him a scathing speech about his origins, his personality, and his entire being, many fans cheered. Ruckus later returns the favor to his dad in the climax.
• The Brak Show: Clarence gets victimized quite a bit. His final scene in the series has him spontaneously combusting.
• Cartoon Network had a habit of mocking Scrappy Doo:
  • One of the very first games on Cartoon Network's official website was "Scrappy Stinks", a shooting gallery Flash game where players got to throw tomatoes and rotten eggs at Scrappy Doo.
  • In their Big Game between Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, two jokes were made at Scrappy's expense:
    • It is said by the pregame show hosts that Scrappy barely lasted in the playoffs.^note  This is actually a lot less nasty than they clearly intended: In football, which they are clearly parodying, making it to the playoffs at all is quite an impressive achievement. Unless one of the actual football experts ad-libbed that bit, in which case they would have known exactly what they were doing, which would make this a form of Backhanded Compliment.
    • During the game itself, Pat Summerall listed adding Scrappy to Scooby-Doo as one of the worst business decisions ever made.
  • In a promo in "The Best Place for Cartoons" series, Scrappy was ranting on how the Cartoon Cartoons characters are more popular than him, despite his being there longer than them.^note (Ironically, YouTube posts of this clip have comments from people saying they agree with what Scrappy is saying.) And while Scrappy is talking, Shaggy comes by, sees Scrappy, and slowly backs away before he's noticed by Scrappy.
  • In The Scooby-Doo Project (a mashup of Scooby-Doo and The Blair Witch Project), the rest of the gang literally run away screaming when they hear Scrappy coming.
  • One Cartoon Network 20th Birthday promo closes with everybody taking a picture. Before it's taken, Jake pushes Scrappy out of the frame.
  • In an episode of Wacky Races (2017), Scrappy ranked number one on the "Bad Cartoon Characters" bulletin board until someone (implied to be Scrappy himself) swaps his spot with the number two rank, Dick Dastardly.
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: In "Le Purrfect Crime", there is a beatnik mouse whose rambling gets on the main characters' nerves. He ends up getting thrown off the Eiffel Tower by Maltese de Sade.
• Clarence: Detractors love it when Belson gets his comeuppance for his bad behavior. Special mention goes to Clarence punching him in the face in "Lil Buddy". Even the kids for a while weren't that upset when Belson was hurt.
• Codename: Kids Next Door: Lizzie can get this on rare occasions.
  • "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-T.W.O." Unlike her debut episode, Numbuh 1 is angry at Lizzie for helping the Delightful Children just for cake and furiously calls her out on it.
  • "Operation: S.N.O.W.I.N.G." President Jimmy forces a Boyfriend Helmet on Lizzie just to get her to be his girlfriend. Considering that she did the same thing to Numbuh 1 in her first appearance, it comes off as Catharsis Factor and her getting punished for her actions.
• DC Super Hero Girls (2019): "#GothamCon" has Robin constantly hunted by Harley Quinn for humiliating Barbara, but in the end Harley manages to get Barbara an autographed photo of Robin. How does she do this? By cornering him in a dark alley and threatening his life.
  • The show's depiction of the (Tween) Titans is clearly a jab at Teen Titans Go!.
• Danny Phantom:
  • Despite being the comic relief, Tucker Foley isn't that liked by several fans, finding him unfunny and never shutting up about technology or girls. In the episode "Double Cross My Heart", Sam has a new crush who seems like a decent guy, but then he finally snaps and yells at Tucker, which causes Sam to realize he's a jerk and breaks up with him. Even though he's the bad guy in this conversation, many actually agree with what he had to say about Tucker.
    Gregor: Dude! Do you ever stop talking?! Do you even know how obnoxious you are with your stupid jokes and your lame-o technology? IDIOT!
  • In "Girl's Night Out", Jazz calls out Sam for her bossy behavior and failed planning, as her refusal to hear Jazz's plan and insistence on her own got them nothing except humiliation. It was a welcome thing to hear.
• Daria: In "Is It College Yet?" Daria breaks up with Tom and the ending montage shows him to have become a Howard Hughes-esque recluse.
• During season 3 of Drawn Together, in a parody of Hostel, they show a gag of Scrappy being tortured, his intestines being ripped out and put on a scale, much to the delight of many fans who hated said character. This of course, as the character giving exposition about their torture business, is explaining how hated cartoon characters fetch higher prices.
• DuckTales (2017):
  • Although the character was Rescued from the Scrappy Heap, they still had one towards Webby from the original series' run, as her Quacky Patch Doll (which was based on Webby's design) is seen pinned to the wall with an arrow in the premiere episode.
  • In the episode "Let's Get Dangerous", one of the police officers dealing with the recently arrived (four out of the) Fearsome Five is Bonkers D. Bobcat, who is manhandled by all four villains.
  • Those who don't like Mark Beaks probably appreciated Ma Beagle questioning how someone like him could ever be a nemesis of Scrooge in "McMystery at McDuck McManor!".
    • While he became a Not-So-Harmless Villain, Beaks maintained his obnoxious personality. Fittingly, his final appearance portrays him as a pathetic flash in the pan that everyone has moved on from, forcing him to desperate measures to prove that he's still relevant.
  • This is the reasoning for turning Doofus into a villain for this show, as according to Frank Angones, he was the one character on the original show that he and Matt Youngberg never liked when they were kids.
  • In "The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck", Lena's nightmare has Webby turned into a doll version of her widely maligned original 1987 incarnation... which ends up getting completely torn apart.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy: Kevin gets mocked by Ed and Eddy in "A Case of Ed" but is unable to do anything about it due to being grounded, with many fans finding it cathartic after all the mean stunts he pulled on them. Unfortunately for the Eds (minus Double D who had a beef with the other two for faking that he's diseased), it didn't last long, as Kevin was ungrounded early for good behavior and proceeded to get back at the two.
• Family Guy:
  • When Quagmire's hatred for Brian got aggressive Flanderization, the show started playing the middle road, with Brian hating Quagmire back and both characters being called out for being petty, self-righteous egotists with neither being any better than the other (either by each other or third parties). In particular, Quagmire's "The Reason You Suck" Speech against Brian includes many of the complaints fans had about Brian.
  • "Tiegs For Two" in particular escalates into an incredibly childish war where both pull equal punches (both verbally and physically) until their girlfriends lay them a "The Reason You Suck" Speech and dump them.
  • For Lois:
    • Getting a harsh verbal beatdown by her daughter in "Seashore Seashell Party".
    • Getting beat up by a mob of children in "You Can't Do That on Television, Peter" due to the fact that Peter made a Hate Sink parody of her on an in-universe children's show that he created.
    • Joe punching her in "Breaking Out is Hard to Do".
    • Plus, in the episode "And I'm Joyce Kinney", Joyce seeks revenge on Lois for a Carrie-style prank pulled on her by airing Lois' dirty laundry on national TV about her doing porn.
  • The Asian Trix gag where the rabbit goes gung-ho on the kids that wouldn't give him Trix.
  • Brian had to be outside at night and noted afterward that his nephew, Scrappy Brian didn't make it. Cut to a recolor of Scrappy-Doo being mauled to death by a dinosaur.
  • Vern and Johnny, two running gag characters in the early seasons, are shot to death by Stewie in "Save Private Brian" and tells the audience that they're gone for good. Seth Mc Farlane even addressed that fans were getting sick of the characters and decided to kill them off.
• G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Serpentor's transformation into an iguana in the DiC Entertainment series' "Operation: Dragonfire" arc can be seen as a satisfying comeuppance by those who see him as a Replacement Scrappy for Cobra Commander.
• God, the Devil and Bob: Megan, Bob's Bratty Teenage Daughter, gets her comeuppance several times; in "There's Too Much Sex on TV", she makes a sick Donna take her and her friends to a concert and Andy puts a sign on her back that reads "First Concert", in "Bob's Father", she brings home a dog which doesn't listen to her and is very unruly, much to Donna's amusement, and in "God's Girlfriend", she gets a severe sunburn.
• Hazbin Hotel": An example with a song rather than a character; "It Starts with 'Sorry'" isn't hated, per se, but many see it as the weakest song in an otherwise excellent soundtrack, or even a song that's mediocre on its own. The series creators may have known "It Starts with 'Sorry'" wouldn't be their most popular song, since it's immediately followed by a pouting Niffty complaining that she hated the song (though she disliked it mostly because it showed her Pentious isn't "a bad boy"); if you found the song underwhelming, Niffty's negative reaction should get a chuckle out of you.
• Hey Arnold!:
  • In "Gerald's Game", Iggy is put in stockades during the big card game, and actually gets a speaking part (same VA as in "Arnold Betrays Iggy", in fact) shouting at Arnold "No, Arnold! Don't do it! You'll become a dungeon pawn!", at which point Big Gino tells him to shut up and throws a cloth over the stocks, completely covering Iggy's face.
  • Anytime Big Bob is put through a Humiliation Conga: such as in "Roughin' It", "Parents Day" and "Summer Love".
  • Stinky being told by Arnold to shut up in "Weird Cousin".
• Horrid Henry: Really, whenever Henry manages to attack or humiliate any one of his enemies in some way or another, but especially Margaret in light of "Horrid Henry's Unhappy Day".
• Hotel Transylvania: The Series gives this treatment to Mavis' obnoxious braggart cousin Klaus in the episode "Drop the Needle", which ends with him stuck in his bat form and being forced by Aunt Lydia to replace the missing needle on her record player.
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law has the "Shaggy Busted" episode ends with Scrappy showing up for a brief cameo only to be taken away to be eaten by Avenger (in later episodes, he is depicted as a corpse). And the cast laughs about it.
• Kaeloo:
  • In Episode 82, Pretty the Alpha Bitch finally gets her comeuppance when Kaeloo and Mr. Cat team up to get her publicly humiliated on the news.
  • In Episode 131, Pretty enters a contest, and the judge turns out to be Kaeloo, who promptly fails her (as revenge for something she did earlier in the episode).
• The King of the Hill episodes "Bobby Goes Nuts" and "Trans-Fascism" are both very cathartic episodes for those who are not fans of Chane and Ted Wassonasong, respectively. The former being when Bobby kicked Chane in the crotch and the latter for Ted getting beaten up by Rooster's cronies to dissuade people from going to Sugarfoot's Express.
  • Any episode where Peggy gets herself into a serious conflict and is usually called out on her stupidity or arrogance. Examples include "Peggy's Fan Fair", "The Substitute Spanish Prisoner"^note though she did end up tricking the man who scammed her, so she didn't exactly lose in the end, and especially "Peggy Goes to Pots"^note the episode where Peggy works for a multi-level marketing kitchen company and thinks the first box of inventory she received were free samples.
• The Legend of Korra:
  • Mike, Bryan, and even David Faustino himself spend a lot of time in the DVD commentary mentioning how they're aware that people hate Mako.
  David F: And I play the universally loved Mako.
  *Everyone bursts out laughing*
  Mike: Loved by ALL ages, genders, races...
  • In the show's equivalent of "The Ember Island Players", Wu and even Mako's own family constantly chastise him for the mess he made of his Love Triangle. Quoth cousin Tu, "It seems like you're so afraid of disappointing anyone that you end up disappointing everyone." As for the antagonists, the other Big Bads don't want Unalaq in their Legion of Doom, with Varrick calling him "incredibly boring and unpopular."
  • Toph refers to the Water Tribe civil war in Book 2(generally regarded as the weakest season overall) as "nonsense."
• In the LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales mini-series, Jar Jar is shot and blown up at the very beginning of the Phantom Menace adaptation despite having a huge role in the original film. Artoo simply chuckles after seeing this. He miraculously survives this, and then shows up several more times throughout the series just to somehow get injured immediately after appearing each time.
  • Even in one of the LEGO Star Wars shorts, Jar Jar only appears on camera for a few seconds to be shot into many Lego pieces.
• Bunga from The Lion Guard has been disliked for being annoying and being quite a bully to Ushari the cobra. Karma bites him in the butt (the first time literally) by the same cobra, and the baby animals playing the Lion Guard said that whoever is the slowest to choose who to play gets to play Bunga. The honey badger is not amused.
• The Looney Tunes Show:
  • Porky going berserk and curb-stomping Daffy in "The Float".
  • Granny punching Daffy in "You Got Hate Mail".
• Metalocalypse: Melmord Fjordslorn gets killed by Offdensen for attempting to take over management of Dethklok.
• Mighty Mightor: "Oh no, it's Little Rock again!"
• Miraculous Ladybug: Many people were happy that Chloé shut down André's ice cream stand considering the latter was a creep focused on love especially towards teens, his Unintentionally Unsympathetic nature, and operating a stand without a license.
• My Life as a Teenage Robot has the popular kids of Tremorton, the Crust Cousins, and their friend Pteresa, who generally make the lives of the main characters miserable as suffering from the Future Loser trope and having aged badly.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In the episode "Too Many Pinkie Pies", one of the Pinkie Pie clones turns her face into a G3 pony's face only to get zapped by Twilight Sparkle.
    • This is even more noticeable in an ad for Season 3 in which Rarity and Fluttershy react to the face with disgust.
  • In "Just For Sidekicks", all of the pets share the fandom's dislike of Angel Bunny, including Gummy, who normally doesn't show emotion.
    • Owlowiscious even gives Angel an Implied Death Threat at one point.
  • Angel gets even more in "Keep Calm and Flutter On". Although Discord gets one or two good shots in at each of the ponies, he gets about a dozen on Angel mostly in the background. It's never noticed by the characters, Angel never gets a shot back, and fans everywhere cheered.
  • Snips and Snails get their just desserts in "Magic Duel" when they are abused by Trixie, whose cart they ended up wrecking through their own stupidity in her first appearance.
    • Their Equestria Girls counterparts are even more hated, which led to much rejoicing when fan-favorite Bulk Biceps blasts them out of the Battle of the Bands competition (figuratively and literally) in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks.
  • Angel appearing to get crushed in "Castle Mane-ia" with Applejack jumping on the pile of rocks doubling as an In-Universe example. We know the whole time it's not him, but it's hard to imagine a similar gag being done with the likes of Gummy or Winona.
  • Angel gets it again in "Castle Sweet Castle" when Twilight kicks him into a mud puddle.
  • Fans who didn't like Featherweight getting off scot-free for his actions in "Ponyville Confidential" found long-awaited justice when he got squirted with ink in "Slice of Life".
• Mysticons: Following "Gems of the Past", Gawayne's girlfriend, Lateensia, breaks up with him, simply because he's Gawayne. He spends the next episode broken by the break-up.
• The Oblongs: Scottie grossing out the Debbies by defecating on the Klimers' lawn in "Narcoleptic Scottie", is a bit cathartic due to how horrible they are.
• The Patrick Star Show:
  • In "The Patrick Show Sells Out", Plankton takes control of Pat-Tron and proceeds to blast Quasar with a laser and beat him into the ground.
  • Lady Upturn gets a Humiliation Conga in "Neptune's Ball": she gets exploded into the air by Patrick's show, he steals her invitation to a ball, and she is forced to hide in a toilet to get in. Later on, in "Now Museum, Now You Don't", Cecil throws her from the top of a tall flight of stairs.
• Popeye:
  • The creative team seemed aware how obnoxious Shorty was, since he usually got his comeuppance in every short he was in. "Happy Birthdaze" is one of the darkest, with it very heavily implying Popeye took his gun and blew his brains out.
  • Earlier shorts with the nephews seemed similarly aware of how annoying they were. In "A Jolly Good Furlough", after being the victim of the nephews' pranks for the whole cartoon, Popeye gives up shore leave early and reports back to the Navy, preferring an active war zone to the bratty mischief of his nephews.
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In "Child Fearing", The Mayor is seen playing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time when Professor Utonium calls him, and is so bad at the game that he manages to kill Navi.
• Regular Show
  • Muscle Man's failed attempt at standup in "Under the Hood": he makes a 'my mom' joke. No one in the crowd laughs and some even get hostile towards him, to the point where he has to leave the stage. This is exactly the reaction a lot of viewers have to him and his jokes.
  • Also "Rage Against the TV" in which he gets knocked out by The Hammer.
  • For those who still hate him, Benson getting intense food poisoning from eating Mordecai and Rigby's sandwich in "Sandwich of Death" gives him a rather karmic punishment for the ending of "Best Burgers in the World" where he eats both Mordecai and Rigby's burgers (that comes once every 100 years) for not finishing cleaning the garage.
    • He gets another one from Mother Duck who points out Mordecai and Rigby saved the park AND the world despite the damage. That Benson yelling at babies is just plain wrong. AND that he was the person who ordered Mordecai and Rigby to stop the Geese in the first place.
    • He gets yet another one in "Gold Watch" when the test pilots call him out for blaming Mordecai and Rigby for getting him stranded in the desert when he ate the hot wings on his own accord.
  • Muscle Man gets a rather hilarious one in "The White Elephant Gift Exchange". Fed up with prank gifts being given to them each year, the gang decides to get back at him with their own gifts.
• Rick and Morty: Revolio "Gearhead" Clockberg Jr. In "Edge Of Tommorty: Rick, Die, Rickpeat", an alternate version of him is kidnapped by Fascist Morty into going on an adventure with him and our Rick, and is accidentally killed when Fascist Morty's gun goes off and shoots him in the head. Then in "Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort", it's revealed that he's the younger brother of someone who fought and died with Rick and Bird Person, and they only hang out with him out of respect for his deceased brother.
• Robotboy: Brainy Yak getting captured and taken away at the end of "The Old Switcharobot", (his final appearance) didn't have many people upset, especially Protoboy fans.
  • One can also consider the many times Gus gets his comeuppance as this trope. To a lesser extent, Dwight too.
• Robot Chicken
  • "Ban on the Fun"
    • One sketch had the Scooby Doobies team planning retribution for the Really Rottens' attack on Laff-A-Munich. The Blue Falcon wanted to partner with a "more subtle talking dog" and had the choice between Dynomutt and Scrappy-Doo (although Scrappy hadn't been created until after Laff-A-Lympics). He immediately kicks out the latter (literally).
    • Scooby-Dum blew up for literally no reason.
  • Another sketch portrays what would happen if Jar Jar met Anakin after becoming Darth Vader. The short answer is, he would be thrown out of a Star Destroyer's airlock. He comes back as a Force Ghost to pester Vader some more. A later sketch involving Jar Jar strongly indicates that his status may not have been unjustified.
  • Another sketch about the Great Gazoo, in which Fred and Barney think he's a god, give him their wives and children, kill Dino as a sacrifice and finally get tired of their "god" and kill Gazoo.
• Sabrina: The Animated Series: As despised as Sabrina herself became in Sabrina's Secret Life, there were moments of levity.
  • "Just a Rumour" - Cassandra makes up a rumour about her hair being synthetic, everyone at school believes it, and she's bombarded by people begging to touch her hair. Especially satisfying that Harvey believes it after how cruelly Sabrina believed the one about him cheating on tests.
  • "At the Hop" - Harvey tries to be nice to Sabrina when he and Maritza arrive at the dance (which is extremely big of him, since he thought Sabrina turned him down with an angry "no!" over the phone). Sabrina ignores him and Salem chews her out with "could you be any snootier?", and he likewise calls her out for laughing at Cassandra's mean prank on Maritza.
• In Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, one episode shows off a statue of Scrappy in a museum. Daphne was about to make a comment about him, but Fred reminds her that they'd never speak of him. Not ever again.
  • They also come across a statue of Flim-Flam, which prompts Daphne to reveal that his juvenile Con Artist antics have gotten him a 25 to life sentence.
• In The Simpsons episode "Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment", Lisa tries to defend the law when she and Marge finds out about Homer's speakeasy scheme when the rest of the family were against the law, leading to Homer, Marge and Bart telling Lisa to go to her room.
  • The "Treehouse of Horror" segment "Easy-Bake Coven" ends with the townspeople about to burn Lisa as a witch.
  • "TOH XXXI" has a segment that's about Lisa dying over and over again, sometimes alone sometimes not.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): Sonic lampshades Antoine's obnoxiousness and uselessness quite often. Given his own obnoxious ego and reckless decisions don't always get him fans, Sally in turn mercilessly calls him out.
• South Park:
  • By "The Problem With A Poo", the writers seem to be aware of how hated Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo is so they decided to make him just as hated In-Universe, and is forced to leave town.
  • The Member Berries' story abruptly ended after the 2016 presidential election, and will likely stay that way. Their status as scrappies was briefly lampshaded in the Season 21 episode "Doubling Down," when Garrison tells them to shut up.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Truth of Square", Patchy is dissed by Triumph, the Insult Dog.
  Patchy: This is Patchy the Pirate, President of The SpongeBob SquarePants fanclub!
  Triumph: Ooooh, your mother must be so proud! Maybe you should consider wearing two eyepatches. That way, you wouldn't be able to see what's become of your life!
  Patchy: What?!
• It's obvious that the characters - especially the Clone Troopers - in Star Wars: The Clone Wars find Jar Jar Binks just as annoying as the audience. Oddly, this seems to make his character much more bearable.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil:
  • While Brittney is having an emotional crisis about her fears of having already reached her peak in "Mr. Candle Cares", her guidance counselor session gets interrupted thanks to said counselor working for Tom and leaves her alone and confused.
  • Alfonzo and Ferguson weren't popular among either fans or even the creator herself, leading to them being Demoted to Extra in season 2 and onwards, which was lampshaded in "Collateral Damage":
    Star:: Ferguson! Alfonzo! I haven't talked to you guys all year, but you're always there in the background doing your thing!
    Alfonzo and Ferguson: [raise their hands from the background]
  • Pony Head gets this a lot, from Meteora ripping off her horn in "Skooled", getting her soul sucked out in "Divide", and getting her new horn broken off by a Solarian Warrior in "The Right Way". "The Ponyhead Show" is all about this trope, showing her making an incredibly unpopular show turning her into The Scrappy in-universe.
  • Janna directly calling Glossaryk out for being unhelpful in "The Right Way".
• Steven Universe:
  • A few in "Say Uncle". Pizza Steve, one of the biggest Base-Breaking Characters on Uncle Grandpa, gets eaten by Amethyst. And despite the Take That, Audience! undertones of the crossover, it's worth noting that the Crystal Gems (arguably the stand-ins for Uncle Grandpa's hatedom) beat up Uncle Grandpa before the end of the episode.
  • In "Keep Beach City Weird", the Crystal Gems beating Ronaldo is satisfying for those who don't like him.
    • In "Garnet's Universe", the character of Ringo is made in Ronaldo's likeness, is cast as the villain of Steven's story, gets the crud beat out of him by Garnet and is left imprisoned in his own dimension forever. Many wished they could see this happen with the real Ronaldo.
    • Yet again in "Rocknaldo", when Steven finally calls Ronaldo out on his self-important behavior and gives him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech. Afterwards, Ronaldo loses energy due to lack of sleep and passes out on the floor, with Amethyst remarking that Steven "truthed him so hard he died".
  • "The New Lars" was basically one big Humiliation Conga for Lars. One in particular is when it's revealed that the Cool Kids actually find him annoying and prefer him when Steven accidentally possesses him. Unfortunately, this didn't stop people who hated the episode (most of whom already don't like Lars to begin with) from despising it.
  • Onion being visibly freaked out by Steven in Lars' body from the same above episode can be seen as this.
• Superjail!
  • The Mistress being berated to tears and pushed around in "Stingstress" was this for fans who hated her and preferred Lord Stingray as the Warden's archenemy.
• Tangled: The Series: In "Race to the Spire", Calliope becomes a physical punching bag and tool for Cassandra and Zhan Tiri.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003): Torbin Zixx gets his in "The Zixxth Sense" when the Turtles pay him back by switching his matter transmitter with a coffee machine, ending with him running out of excuses before the alien crime lord opens fire on him.
• Thomas & Friends:
  • Of the first two listed under The Scrappy: "Not Now, Charlie" has Charlie get called out by all the other characters for his constant joking around; although the Misty Island tunnel is still clearly visible, the Logging Locos haven't been directly acknowledged (outside interstitials) in the Brenner era, but in "The Way She Does It", Daisy wants Thomas to guess what her special job is, and when Thomas asks her is if she's going to Misty Island, Daisy tells him, "No!" in a somewhat negative tone.
  • "Duck and the Slip Coaches" has a running gag in which Emily is unintentionally shut out of Tidmouth Sheds, which is where Duck happens to be at the time in both instances. This was confirmed by Word of God to be a nod to fans who accused Emily of replacing Duck on the Steam Team, which was indeed the original plan, until some accused it as coming across as sexist.
  • For those who hated Emily for her bossy persona in seasons 8-16, "Emily's Adventure" has Thomas straightforwardly telling Emily the reason Elizabeth won't do what she says is because she's a bossy boiler.
• ThunderCats (1985): Lion-O in the blooper reel (NSFW) says what most of us are thinking:

  Snarf: You—you've got to snap out of it, Lion-O! Call the ThunderCats before—
  Lion-O: Shut up, you fuck.

• ThunderCats Roar delighted in making the insufferable Ro-bear Berbils into frequent punching bags.
• Tiny Toon Adventures:
  • Elmyra getting chased by zombies in "Night of the Living Pets" and then getting a taste of her own medicine after she gives the monster part of her own brain, causing the monster to become like her and make her into a pet in "Night Ghoulery".
  • Little Beeper ends up being chased off by Fifi at the end of "Love Stinks", and Calamity actually wins at the end.
  • The ending to "Pit Bullied" (part of "Strange Tales of Weird Science") is one for Sweetie Bird. Sweetie programs Furrball to crave pit bulls so that Arnold will beat him up, but when Arnold asks Furrball why he would want to eat a pit bull, Furrball takes him to the ACME Schtick Center and programs him to crave birds, resulting in Sweetie getting a taste of her own medicine.
• Rodimus Prime in Transformers: Animated, in his first appearance ends up getting afflicted with cosmic rust. This has satisfied some fans who don't like Roddy.
• Transformers: Prime: This exchange from "Orion Pax, Part 1":
  Miko: "Whoa, that's a pretty good idea!"
  Arcee: "Oh, well, if Miko thinks it's a good idea..."
  • Also in "Legacy" and "Chain of Command", where she becomes a literal chew toy in the latter episode.
• Ultimate Spider-Man (2012):
  • Nova finally gets this when Spider-Man discovers in "Nightmares" that he is afraid of rabbits and uses it against him. And is not immediately punished for it.
  • Nova gets it again in "Damage" where he accidentally gets hit by a shrink ray and spends the episode being pint-sized. The team have a lot of fun with him in this state, and Spidey even flicks him away when he gets too irritating.
  • Also, seeing Logan in Peter's body beating the crap out of Flash for attempting to bully him was possibly one of the most satisfying scenes.
• Velma: Many viewers rejoiced after Velma was, ironically, killed by the Trope Namer himself.
• The Venture Brothers
  • In the Season 5 finale, Gary and a group of other Monarch henchmen kill off the Murderous Moppets for their role in Henchman 24's death.
  • In the Season 6 premiere "All This and Gargantua-2", Jonas Venture Jr. not only reveals himself to be dying of cancer but ends up dying in a Heroic Sacrifice as well. Due to the more noble way in which he died this may have been an attempt to redeem his character rather than simply get him out of the way.
  • "Bot Meets Bot" has Augustus St. Cloud hassled by the bouncers to a Bad Guy Bar for no apparent reason. The Season 7 episode "The Bellicose Proxy" is essentially a 22-minute-long Humiliation Conga for him, as the other villains treat him like a joke the entire time and he even gets a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Billy's elderly mother.
• Xiaolin Chronicles: Hannibal Roy Bean, the least popular villain of the original series, is the only major villain who doesn't appear and Chase Young's backstory was retconned as a result.
• Young Justice (2010): Disliked Teen Titans member, Danny Chase, is adapted in Season 4 and receives a gruesome fate when it's revealed that he was a victim of the Metahuman Trafficking of Season 3. After being trafficked, he ended up on Apokolips where the New God, DeSaad, surgically removed his brain and put it into a piece of technology called the Kaiser-Thrall. The Kaiser-Thrall has similar technological abilities as the Fatherboxes and Motherboxes, except for the fact that every use of said abilities causes Danny excruciating pain. Despite this, he eventually ends up in the hands of the heroes and willingly chooses to help them prevent General Zod and the other Kryptonian criminals from escaping the Phantom Zone.

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