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  • 24:
    • Kim Bauer, for being Jack's Bratty Teenage Daughter who frequently blames him for the problems in their relationship even when they aren't his fault, for being in irrelevant subplots that only take time away from the main story and for constantly needing to be rescued. However, these problems are all addressed in Season 7, which got her Rescued from the Scrappy Heap.
    • Season 4:
      • Behrooz Araz due to his whiny personality and the fact that his subplot took up huge chunks of the season, yet ultimately went nowhere. Even the writers later coined the term "Behrooz'd" for when they abruptly wrote out a character who wasn't working and/or was proving unpopular with the viewers.
      • Habib Marwan; despite being second-only to Charles Logan in terms of on-screen appearances for a season's primary villain, he's written with zero depth and very little personality, has no backstory that might explain the completely absurd amounts of Offscreen Villain Dark Matter he has access to (other than an extremely vague Hand Wave that he's been planning the day's events for years) or why he has so many American allies, and his constant escapes are more down to dumb luck than anything that might make Marwan a worthy rival to Jack. As a result, he's widely considered a strong contender with Alan Wilson for the title of the show's most unpopular Big Bad.
    • Season 5:
      • Kim's new boyfriend Dr. Barry Landes, for being a condescending jerk to Jack, having a creepy Age-Gap Romance with Kim, not helped by the major ethical problems around them having met when he was Kim's therapist, and killing the popular Kim/Chase ship just by existing.
      • Although Miles Papazian was clearly intended to be a Hate Sink for being an Obstructive Bureaucrat and betraying CTU to Logan, many fans disliked that he ended up as a Karma Houdini for these actions.
    • Season 6:
      • Wayne Palmer, who had been a very popular character in his earlier appearances. Some fans didn't like that he wasn't the shady, albeit caring Anti-Hero from Season 3 who was willing to bend a few rules and cross a few lines in order to get things done. Others felt that he suffered from Badass Decay when compared to Season 5, where he not only Took a Level in Badass and helped Jack on his quest to uncover the conspiracy, but also figured out that Evelyn Martin knew who the true Big Bad was. Wayne's actor shared the same sentiments as the fans.
      • Sandra Palmer is by far the least popular member of her family for being a preachy Soapbox Sadie.
      • Jack's entire family ended up being widely disliked for one reason or another. Jack's father Phillip was hated for being a bland villain with baffling motives and a phoned-in performance from James Cromwell (who admitted he didn't get the character at all), his brother Graem was hated for the Ass Pull of his being revealed to be related to Jack after this wasn't even hinted at during his appearance in Season 5 (not to mention that he suffered significant Villain Decay from said appearance, where he was fairly well-liked for being The Chessmaster leader of the Omniscient Council of Vagueness), and his nephew Josh and sister-in-law Marilyn were most hated of all for being an even worse pair of Damsel Scrappies than Kim. Marilyn was especially disliked for her and Jack's romance subplot that many found gross and unconvincing, not to mention her constant whining.
      • Rita Brady. She spent all of her screentime whining and bickering with Darren McCarthy. She almost got herself rescued when she decided to kill Darren and was about to free Morris, but then put the final nail in her coffin when she kidnapped Morris herself all so she could have the money Fayed intended on giving to Darren.
    • Season 7:
      • Larry Moss, for being an Obstructive Bureaucrat on par with George Mason and Ryan Chappelle when the fans had long since grown sick of that kind of character. He did manage to win over many with his Character Development later in the season.
      • Janis was what Chloe would have been if she hadn't received the necessary dose of Character Development after Season 3, and a lot of her snarkiness came off as irritating rather than funny. Most fans were glad she wasn't back for the final season.
      • Sean and Erika are two of the show's most unpopular Moles for being a Smug Snake Jerkass and a bitchy complainer respectively, and for their affair subplot being given an unnecessary level of attention.
      • Olivia Taylor quickly earned herself a hatedom after mending bridges with her mother for more or less being an ungrateful brat only to quickly reveal her real colors as a complete Manipulative Bitch. Her Genre Blindness when dealing with the Jonas Hodges affair at the end of the season just cemented things.
      • Alan Wilson is easily the show's least popular Big Bad. Within Season 7 itself, he was seen as a Replacement Scrappy to the very well-received Jonas Hodges, with his Dull Surprise being compared unfavorably to Jon Voight's Evil Is Hammy performance. Then he was revealed to be the ultimate mastermind behind Day 5's events, which was both confusing, since the previous season had pretty definitively stated that Phillip Bauer was the mastermind, and underwhelming, because this revelation came out of nowhere and Wilson was widely seen as less interesting than the villains who were now being stated to be his pawns. Though the season ends with the implication that he would be a Karma Houdini and return in the final season, his unpopularity meant that his storyline was abruptly dropped with only a few mentions of what happened to him, with Word of God confirming he eventually faced justice, and the more popular Logan instead returned to be the show's final villain.
    • Mark Boudreau from Live Another Day started off tolerable as the typical Hero Antagonist who in this case had some very good reasons to think Jack was up to no good. But then he continued working against Jack after the real situation became clear for a quite astoundingly petty reason (he assumed Jack's presence would send Audrey running back to him), and quickly became insufferable.
  • 3rd Rock from the Sun: If YouTube comments are anything to go by, Tommy's first girlfriend August is really, really hated by the fans. Basically, it's because she is shallow and manipulative while acting like she is so far above that kind of thing. This is played for Hypocritical Humor and Comedic Sociopathy, but it still makes her The Obstructive Love Interest.
  • All My Children: Babe Carey Chandler. She started as the slutty gold digger playing two brothers, then the writers decided to make her a heroine, without actually changing her in any way. One of the worst things was when she knowingly kept Miranda, Bianca's daughter, away from her, letting everybody believe Miranda was dead. Oh, but she wasn't totally heartless, she let Bianca be Miranda's godmother! And she told Bianca at least once that Bianca was lucky to not be a mother because she had all this time for herself, while Bianca was grieving her daughter's death. And then, after Bianca got her daughter back, not thanks to Babe, and gave her a very deserving slap, the writers actual had Bianca say that everything Babe did was out of love, for others, with total sincerity... Yeah.
  • The Amazing Race: In-series example in season 20. At one point, there were 5 teams left. Three of the other four teams hate Brendon & Rachel, and the other one (Bopper & Mark) seems to be apathetic. It mostly seems to be directed at Rachel, who alternates between being snide and hostile towards the other teams and crying over every little inconvenience (and playing the victim if another team is involved), and manages to switch between the two modes more frequently than Peach on PMS with manic depression. (Even Phil Keoghan himself tweeted "It just wouldn’t feel right if Rachel didn’t throw a fit".)
  • American Housewife: Lonnie, a dumbass YouTube star that Greg is forced to partner with due to a massive Contrived Coincidence. He comes off as a parody of what people think YouTube stars act like, and his entire character is pretty much playing stupid pranks and nicknaming Greg "Professor Badonkadonk." The few attempts the show makes to make it seem like he's helpful seem either forced or Ass Pulls. Fortunately, the most recent season had him appear only in the premiere, severing his connection to Greg, and he hasn't appeared since and no one cares.
  • Angel:
    • Connor, during the fourth season. Apart from actually behaving remarkably like Scrappy-Doo in battle, Connor was generally despised by fans for making Angel unhappy (moreso), blaming Angel for being pure evil yet doing several terrible things himself (and still blaming Angel for that rather than take any responsibility himself) and for kind of being the show's Chachi. Connor was not universally hated, though, his popularity has increased significantly since the much-welcomed attitude adjustment in his few season 5 appearances (where his backstory was changed), The publication of the Joss-blessed "Angel: After the Fall" comic, in which he straightens up a lot just builds off it.
    • Eve, who was a poor replacement for Lilah. To the producers credit, they realized this and promptly had several Take That, Scrappy! moments inserted.
  • Are You Being Served?: Any replacement for Mr. Grainger, fan opinions differ as to exactly when the replacement characters became intolerable. Few would argue that the wooden and taciturn Mr. Grossman was anything but horrible. There's no question over Old Mr. Grace, though.
  • Arrow:
    • Early seasons had Thea and Laurel, who were both Damsel Scrappies, Jerkasses, and in the case of Laurel was also responsible for the series' original Romantic Plot Tumor. They both got Rescued from the Scrappy Heap over the course of seasons three and four once they started taking badass levels and had their negative traits ironed out with meaningful Character Development inserted in.
    • The entirety of the New Recruits. Despite the problems, Team Arrow had finally found a decent chemistry with one another, but by introducing not one, not two but five new whiny and stubborn recruits, the writers have essentially tried to reset the show instead of addressing the many notable flaws that permeated the previous seasons. The level of Scrappy varied between them. Rory was never one. Rene started as one but some development managed to push him out. Curtis started popular but gradually started to slip in and out of Scrappy status. Evelyn, however, firmly cemented herself as this for her utterly non-sensical betrayal and for being a Smug Snake. Tina Boland aka "Dinah Drake" was constantly shilled upon introduction and unlike the other four, is largely irrelevant to the show's arc.
    • Oliver's son, William Clayton. His introduction was slowly built up over two seasons and finally the writers finally decided to introduce him, they made him a Plot Device to create unnecessary drama between Oliver and Felicity and as a distraction to keep Oliver from being the Green Arrow for a few episodes in Season 6. The writers made it clear that he will not take up his father's mantle, that honor goes to his half sister, Mia Queen-Smoak. However, Adult!William appears way less scrappy and more built-up in the Season 7 flashforwards.

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  • Babylon 5: Introduced in the 5th season, which many fans consider to be inferior to the other four, Byron is a Fabio-haired rogue telepath and former Psi-Cop who dreams of founding a colony of telepaths. He's broody, introspective, a devout pacifist to the point of looking Christ-like, and managed to rub the fans in entirely the wrong way. He and his telepaths are just plain creepy, the way they dress like Anne Rice characters and never speak (one character lampshades this by saying they look like a flock of crows). Most fans prefer to pretend that his brief character arc never occurred. Fortunately, his messianic fiery death cheered up viewers immensely.
  • Battlestar Galactica (2003): While every other character on this series can qualify for Base-Breaking Character status to some extent, Cally Henderson is easily the most universally disliked of the main recurring characters for her whiny, judgmental attitude, killing Boomer's original body and never facing any real consequences for it (though this was at least somewhat acknowledged in-universe), and often treating her husband Galen poorly. The fact that Cally's actress, Nicki Clyne, later turned out to be a high-ranking member of the notorious NXIVM cult has only caused fan feeling towards the character to grow exponentially worse in the years since the show went off the air.
  • Beetleborgs: Little Ghoul is abrasive and troublesome, but for some, the episode "Who's That Ghoul" really pushes her into Scrappy territory. She has done nothing for the protagonists but gotten them chased by the house monsters, but when a bounty hunter comes looking for her — for a crime she definitely committed — Flabber and the Borgs go to great lengths to defend her.
  • The Big Bang Theory: Priya Koothrapali, Raj's sister, is hated by most fans. This was due to her dating Leonard and starting to treat him horribly (she was mean and bossed him around, and when they were in a long distance relationship, she cheated on him).
  • Big Wolf on Campus:
  • The Bold and the Beautiful: Liam Spencer, despite being a selfish, spoiled, self-righteous, two timing Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Manchild, everyone on the show can never stop singing his praises on "What a nice guy..." he is.
  • Bones:
    • Brennan's graduate assistant Daisy Wick. A rare example of a Scrappy that even other characters on the show don't like. Loud, clumsy, prone to spouting New Age nonsense, and fond of sex in public places. Motherhood mellowed her somewhat, thank God. She also made a surprisingly sympathetic widow.
    • Dr. Sweets. Which made it all the more infuriating when the spares were paired... Dr Sweets was disliked because he replaced Zach, but after some character development, specifically giving him the backstory of being a foster kid whose real father used to whip him, he is seen by some as more of The Woobie. Dr. Sweets is a bit hard to like when the writers use his spectacular lack of professional ethics (he's constantly manipulating his patients to achieve his desired outcome for their personal lives to fulfill his own emotional needs) as the main mechanism for keeping Booth and Brennan apart. Bizarrely, it just makes everybody love him more, and Dr. Gordon Gordon, himself an FBI psychiatrist, actually suggests to Booth and Brennan that Sweets' emotional instability is a reason for them to keep the kid around. Although given the explosion of outrage that happened when Sweets is killed off at beginning of Season 10, it's safe to say that Sweets was Rescued from the Scrappy Heap.
    • Hannah Burley, Booth's girlfriend that he brought back from Afghanistan. For obvious reasons, she's quite possibly the most hated character ever created on the show.
    • Agent Sullivan. So much so that after he sailed off on his boat, fans kept coming up with cruel and painful deaths for him. In that case, it was totally a shipper thing; they were Booth/Brennan shippers who saw him as getting in the way.
    • Christopher Pelant, for being capable of ludicrous feats of Hollywood Hacking. The Karma Houdini routine wore very, very thin with the fans. Even worse, he started to show Creator's Pet symptoms at one point. So when he was finally done in by Booth, there was much rejoicing, needless to say.
  • The Brady Bunch: Cousin Oliver, trope namer for when a show inexplicably adds a young character to the cast, often upsetting the dynamic.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
    • Scrappy is not a strong enough word to describe the burning hatred fans have for Kennedy. First off, her personality was off-putting to a lot of viewers, with fans considering her bratty, egotistical, hypocritical, and selfish, as she lies to get Willow to date her (and hit on her in such an aggressive way that she came across looking like a predator), had no sensitivity or tact, helped cause the suicide of one of the Potentials with her Drill Sergeant Nasty act, talked about nothing other than herself and being gay, and arrogantly questioned those with more experience than her. She also was a Replacement Scrappy as well, being introduced as a new Love Interest for Willow after the much beloved Tara suddenly died, and the relationship wasn't well-received either, as the two were practically polar opposites personality-wise in every conceivable way. In the Season 8 comics, the writers finally wised up and had Willow break up with her, though not without putting the heels to her character further, and even the motion comics adding lines to make her look like an utter bitch, as well as portraying the other characters generally disliking her too. She was actually voted the most annoying TV character of 2002-2003 in a couple of polls and was included on the list of most annoying TV characters ever by Entertainment Weekly and no matter what the writers tried with Kennedy, she may well be regarded as one of, if not the most hated TV character ever. In this ranking of the major and recurring characters in the Buffyverse, she comes dead last. That's right, fans hated her more than the villains (she was ranked a place behind the Anointed One). However, despite her very committed hatedom, you don't have to look that far to find contemporary reviews and guide books and even retrospectives that say positive or at least sympathetic things about the character.
    • Riley receives a good deal of hate from the fanbase, whether they belong to the Buffy/Angel or Buffy/Spike camps. It's not too surprising: Riley was introduced during a season considered to be one of the show's weakest, never had much of an identity established and was an integral part of the loathed Initiative. He also managed to enrage fans in Season 5, when he becomes insecure over Buffy's attraction to darkness and resents her for "not spending enough time with him" when Buffy had to look after her mother (who was suffering from a life-threatening, and ultimately fatal, brain aneurysm). When she gets upset about it he tries to blame Buffy for how he feels, and we're supposed to side with Riley. That and the ridiculous amount of Character Shilling he received from Xander in his last episode helps cement him as one of the most annoying Buffyverse characters. Doesn't help that his return in S6 could be seen as telling Buffy what she had missed (now he has a great marriage), despite him demanding her help while she's working at the Doublemeat Palace to support her sister and herself.
    • Dawn, thanks to her constant whining and ungrateful attitude, as well as how useless and even detrimental she is to the Scoobies. It doesn't help that Buffy sacrifices herself for her in the Season 5 finale, something quite a few fans felt was unearned on Dawn's behalf. She also has a teenage-ry selfish attitude and often lacks empathy. She matures in the final season, so that by the end of the series, while still disliked by many, she has gained a certain level of respect from the fandom, becoming a full Scooby gang member, no longer relegated to just being rescued and giving Buffy unconditional love. Well, that, and the fact Kennedy turns up in that season, who is generally even more despised than Dawn, makes Dawn look much better in comparison.
    • Many find the Potentials in the final season as a whole pretty annoying, due to them either being bland cyphers who faded into the background or being insufferable. Plus, they take away precious screen-time from the characters that we actually care about and introducing this many characters in the final season means that they're not going to be explored properly. If Kennedy is the most loathed of the bunch, then Rona is a close second (and maybe even a first for some peopple, since Kennedy was at least occasionally useful while Rona was pure Damsel Scrappy) due to her ungrateful, bitchy attitude, generally being an asshole to everyone and being no fun to watch due to her constant complaining. It speaks volumes that Dawn tells her to shut up. The only Potentials that actually were likeable were Amanda and Violet.
  • Canada's Worst Driver: Krystal from season 12 is unquestionably the most universally disliked contestant on the show, period. Her self-centered arrogance, whiny demeanor and stubborn entitlement would be grating if she was, for example, a customer at a retail store. But in the context of the show itself, she's an outright danger to be around. One of her most infamous moments was throwing a massive temper tantrum and storming off in the middle of shooting...because her brother told her that she shouldn't text while driving. After multiple instances where she acted like she was exempt from basic rules of the road and throwing Cluster F Bombs at anyone who tried to tell her otherwise, the judges outright changed the rules for the "Worst Driver Trophy" for that season alone just so she wouldn't be rewarded for her behaviour.
  • Charmed:
    • An especially obvious example in its eighth and last season with Billie Jenkins, the main reason why the large majority of fans dislike the last season of the show.
    • Phoebe also was hated after her treatment with Cole. Many fans called post-Season Five Phoebe 'PhoeMe'
    • Billie's sister Christy was this for a while, though she was somewhat Rescued from the Scrappy Heap via Alas, Poor Scrappy.
    • Inspector Sheridan rapidly became this. Aside from her endangering the Masquerade and the sisters both, thus showing the problems with bringing law enforcement into the supernatural realm, her Arbitrary Skepticism and fanatical pursuit of 'justice' because she believed the sisters were criminals and killers made less and less sense as the series went on. At least the FBI agent pursuing the sisters in the first season had a good excuse (he was a demon). Granted, Sheridan did get put in mortal danger (though it was her own fault) and get her memory wiped for a long time, but by the time she remembered everything and could be said to have a valid reason for disliking the sisters, she was so detestable it was bordering on Laser-Guided Karma when she walked in on Zankou and got herself vaporized. Self Disposing Scrappy?
  • El Chavo del ocho:
    • Doña Florinda, for being an arrogant and obnoxious woman that frequently punished Don Ramón unfairly to the point of giving him brutal beatings and mistreated the characters save for his spoiled son Quico and his Love Interest Professor Jirafales.
    • A case of Replacement Scrappy was Jaimito el Cartero, the Suspiciously Similar Substitute of Don Ramon, never very popular among fans as he was a very poor substitute for the very talented and loved Ramón Valdez.
    • And Chilindrina's breve replacement Malicha (Don Ramon's goddaughter), was so unpopular that she disappears with no explanation.
  • Coronation Street:
  • The Cosby Show: Olivia was introduced in the 6th season, just so they could have a new "cute child" and she was a Creator's Pet and Spotlight-Stealing Squad, and she often acted as if she was much older than she was.
  • Criminal Minds:
    • While the rotating cast can provide mixed feelings among the fandom, Ashley Seaver is undeniably the most hated main character in the entire show's history. She prompted a mixed reception in her debut episode (some liked her, some didn't, with a leaning toward the negative), but after her 3-episode arc was complete, the hatred solidified. When the news came out that Seaver would become a regular cast member, the fans were not happy. It didn't help matters that Seaver was brought in place of TWO fan favorite characters that were supposedly let go because the show couldn't afford their salaries anymore. How much did the fanbase hate Seaver? During "Lauren" when Prentiss was forced between choosing Rossi or Seaver for Doyle's sniper to kill, the fans watching the episode wanted Prentiss to choose Seaver (which didn't happen). She was quickly Put on a Bus with none of the fanfare usually granted to any other BAU member.
    • You'll be hard-pressed to find anyone who liked Linda Barnes in her brief tenure. A pale imitation of Erin Strauss at best, and a bewilderingly stupid and petty tyrant and worst.
  • CSI: Langston was actually a fair character, but the writers overused him, making him the Creator's Pet.
  • CSI: NY:
    • Many fans felt this way about Reed; an annoying, Too Dumb to Live internet journalist who was the son of Mac's dead wife. And to play this character, they decided to hire an actor with one facial expression - that of bored petulance - and an acting range that went from A to not quite B. A collective cheer went up when he was kidnapped by the Cabbie Killer at the end of season 4. A collective groan went out when he was rescued the next episode.
    • Lindsay Monroe/Messer gets a lot of this treatment as well from a portion of the fandom. There's a big Base-Breaking Character element, but she gets a lot of hate for pairing up with Danny, altering his character too much and restricting his development as his own character. Unfortunately, it often extends to the actress and her abilities as well.
    • Mac's girlfriends, almost certainly ship-related. Peyton was extremely disliked, Aubrey didn't fare well, and now Christine was already starting to get disliked by a portion of the fans. Most likely, it's due to the three most popular Mac ships: Fans want him either to hook up with Jo, go off to New Orleans and marry Stella, or stay forever alone because Claire was his soulmate and no one can be like her.

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  • Daredevil (2015):
    • For some viewers, Foggy Nelson started season 1 feeling like boring and pointless character who exists as a geek/nice guy trying to woo the hot girl in the office (Karen). Fortunately, he underwent some character development once he found out Matt's secret in the worst way possible, and "Nelson v. Murdock" gave viewers a full episode adding depth to Foggy's character and his relationship with Matt. Most of the critics were won over.
    • Karen Page also has a habit of this. A number of people call her subplots boring filler and cite her reckless decisions in her relentless pursuit of justice against Wilson Fisk, particularly her indirect role in Ben Urich's death. Some of this hatred is also because she is the one who kills James Wesley, who is considered one of the more popular characters.
  • Degrassi Junior High: Liz. Her list of crimes consist of, but not limited to: her body language and possessiveness of Spike when Spike is around men, her inability to smile (save for a few occasions), her flippant reaction to Caitlin's epilepsy because her medicine was tested on animals, and the best for last, staging a hate campaign against Erica Farrell for having an abortion, writing attacks on her locker and telling her face-to-face: "You murdered a baby." Despite becoming a Jerkass Woobie because of her sexual assault as a child, fans still aren't moved.
  • Degrassi: The Next Generation:
    • At first it was Emma, for being the creators' favorite character and always putting her opinions in everything and nobody called her on it. In season 2, she was found as being not only harsh, but even quite selfish, practically begging for all her mother's attention when she was dating Mr. Simpson. In season 3, she meets another slight personality change, where she becomes less rude and more ridiculous, as though she looks for any reason there is to protest something. But her biggest, most hated change was in season 4. She not only dropped her protesting habit (thank god!), but completely lost touch of her moral gain, going against everything she originally disliked in previous seasons. She goes on a quest to become popular, which is against her actions in season 1. She bullies Rick, becomes his friend, then crashes his hopes of having a crush on her by telling him she only felt sorry for him, all of which completely goes against her character. She then gives Jay a blowjob, knowing he is going out with Alex, when just the previous season, she feuds with Manny for doing the same thing with Craig and Ashley. Later, she comes down with gonorrhea, and is so self-centered that she almost transmits it to another student, failing to do so only because the other student had learned of her STD.
    • In season 4, Craig became The Scrappy for Spotlight-Stealing Squad reasons, though this had been going on since he first came on the show.
    • In season 5, Peter, whose motto appears to be Screw the Rules, I Have Money!. In the very first episode, a two-parter, he films drunk!Manny stripping (Yes, some said this was because she was a slut.) and when she won't date him because Emma wants to, he sends everyone this video. As season 6 rolls around, he gets Darcy to do this as well. And he puts pot in Sean's locker because Sean's interested in Emma.
    • Speaking of Darcy, Darcy! The fundamentalist Christian talk tended to turn people off and made people say "This isn't 7th Heaven!"; and the Christian motif made Spinner seem less Spinner and more self-righteous. Other fans saw her and Spinner as The Fundamentalist.
    • Sean, but only in season 6. Fanon is that this Sean is straight out of the Uncanny Valley, with the Detractor Name "Seanborg" or "Seandroid". Bad enough that the Double Standard is in full force: Manny's a slut, but Sean helps Emma cheat on Peter and is being subversive and heroic.
    • Mia for quite a few reasons. She embodies all these tropes: Creator's Pet, Spotlight-Stealing Squad, and Die for Our Ship.
    • Just write that you think Jenna is not so bad, or even goodness forbid that you like her and see what happens.
    • Leia was also despised by many for being useless. Thankfully the writers finally took the hint. Oddly enough, Blue was even more useless than Leia, but didn't garner such hate, thanks to being eye candy.
    • Imogen Moreno is shaping up to be this way for Season 11. Most of the hate coming from Eclare fan girls, the fact that she's been shoved down our throats before she was even introduced formally on the show, and just generally annoying.
    • KC, once he left Clare for Jenna the writers seemed to forget he was ever in the school’s gifted program, then when Jenna gets pregnant he abandons her, then they get back together but after Tyson is born he leaves her at home with the full burden of raising the baby while he has at least an emotional affair with Marisol (coincidentally this made Jenna more sympathetic to some fans), then when Jenna realizes she can’t handle being a teen mom KC nearly sabotages Tyson’s adoption, not because he gives a crap about his son, but as a last ditch effort to stay with Jenna.
    • Marisol for flirting with KC, betraying a personal secret of her best friend Katie, just because Katie was dating the boy Marisol liked,and never faced much consequences for it. Then to humiliate Imogen and later Fiona, who both vow revenge yet conveniently forgive and forget in a very hard to read and easily unnoticed way.
    • Clare Edwards, for being self-righteous, and increasingly judgmental.
    • Derek Haig and Bruce the Moose were disliked because they were bullies and immature, they brutally beat up Jane when she entered the boy's football team. People weren't said to see the back of either.
    • Very few fans of the show will admit to liking Tristan. This is due to a combination of factors, including his overly hammy Camp Gay personality, tendency to Wangst his way through storylines, and extreme It's All About Me mentality, the most infamous example being when he turned his back on Maya after she outed his relationship with Mr. Yates (a much older man and their teacher to boot, making it inappropriate no matter which angle you look at it from) to Simpson, and then refusing to admit he was wrong when another character confirms Yates was a sexual predator, instead still insisting that she betrayed him. It also didn't help that he never seemed to suffer any lasting consequences for his actions. It says a lot that many viewers agree he only became tolerable after spending half a season in a coma.
  • Designing Women: The sixth season brought along Allison Sugarbaker and Carlene Dobber (played by Julia Duffy and Jan Hooks respectively) to fill the voids left by Suzanne Sugarbaker (Delta Burke) and Charlene Stillfield (Jean Smart). Among the two replacements, only Hooks was brought back for the following season. The fundamental problem with Allison right from the start was that she was written poorly as a one-dimensional "outsider". They already started her character off on the wrong note, by having her storm in being a complete shrew. They introduced such a nasty character and in the process, made some of the existing characters nasty (especially Mary Jo), since they were always getting in the mud with Allison. Plus, the one-note joke about Allison and Anthony battling over Suzanne's house went on far too long. It bordered on being racist. Whereas, Suzanne could also say and do terrible things she unlike Allison, had a sweetness and an innocence about her. To make matters worse, by this time, Dixie Carter's Julia had to be right about everything, and Duffy's character was written simply to show how superior Julia was. In reality, Julia Sugarbaker was getting insufferable and preachy and she needed a strongly written foil. Ultimately, they also never softened Allison's character up a bit. And with all due respect to Julia Duffy, she was a very low-key actress. She couldn't display a way over-the-top persona very well. Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Annie Potts, and Delta Burke all just seemed larger than life in contrast. The lower-key Duffy never really registered and as a result, it offset the dynamic of the show. Duffy was in essence, again playing her snobby character from Newhart but without Stephanie's flakiness.
  • Desperate Housewives:
    • Susan Mayer is the Creator's Pet, as Marc Cherry has confirmed she is his favourite character and it really shows. Susan is always in the middle of every major story plotline because of her constant sticking her nose in other people's business. She's also presented as kind-hearted and sweet when really she's very selfish and immature: she constantly brags to Edie about how Mike picked her over Edie, sabotages Julie's performance at the church just because she was jealous Edie was performing alongside her, constantly discusses her sex life with her teenaged daughter but then completely overreacts when Julie starts dating Zach, (all this is just from the first two seasons and she only gets worse), gets Easily Forgiven for doing awful things and her ridiculous clumsiness gets tedious after a while, especially as it's constantly used to further the plot.
    • Renee Perry (introduced in Season 6) for Edie Britt, who had been a main character from seasons 1-5. She was placed at the front of all publicity materials but it was felt that her character was neither as well fleshed out nor as entertaining as Edie, being a much more one-dimensional Rich Bitch.
  • Dexter:
    • LaGuerta is easily the most hated character in the main cast, and it's hard to find fans who actually like her. She has little to no redeeming qualities and only gets worse over the years, even losing her few likable traits from the early seasons. She manages to combine a willingness to screw over her own colleagues for the sake of her career with an absolute refusal to take responsibility for her own actions, while not even being particularly competent at her job to make up for it. Even if she's portrayed as a Hero Antagonist in her last season and Debra killing her is considered Debra's Moral Event Horizon, many see LaGuerta's death as a Take That, Scrappy!.
    • Hannah, due to Dexter inexplicably falling in love with her and his love being so strong for her that he contemplates quitting killing. It's not so evident in season 7, during which she was fairly popular, however she suffers from Badass Decay when she returns in season 8 and her hints of Creator's Pet are intensified considerably, making her this in a large portion of the fanbase.
  • Doctor Who has several. All of these characters have received a certain amount of Rescued from the Scrappy Heap in Expanded Universe material:
    • Dodo Chaplet from Season 3 has a pretty poor standing among the fandom as she lacked any real personality other than being rather naive and dull. Her character lasted only four full stories before getting unceremoniously dropped from the show midway through her fifth in a throwaway line.
    • Adric was a failed attempt at the producers creating an audience surrogate for the prime fan base. Instead, he came off as a snotty, pompous, whining, arrogant and almost entirely unbearable maths geek. And despite being incredibly arrogant about his intelligence, he has a tendency to either screw up the Doctor's plans or, as in one notable case, gets suckered into helping the bad guy's Evil Scheme, despite it being very transparently evil, thus making his reported intelligence something of an Informed Ability. His role in plots was also limited by the last-minute addition of Nyssa - another naive alien super-genius - to the TARDIS crew, causing severe Cast Speciation and Trapped by Mountain Lions problems that meant he never got enough in a story to do to redeem himself. He was played by an inexperienced and extremely wooden actor cast mostly because he looked really good on screen next to Tom Baker, and so when Baker left the role and was replaced by a less contrasting character in Peter Davison's Doctor, he had little else left.
    • The Sixth Doctor (at least his television incarnation) was found to be obnoxious, abrasive, and an empty attempt by the producers to make the show Darker and Edgier. Expanded Universe media have largely contributed to this character being Rescued from the Scrappy Heap.
    • Peri has also got this. Some of that stems from her being an American, played by a British actress with one of the worst American accents ever. Some of it stems from her being a desperate attempt at a Hotter and Sexier Ms. Fanservice companion to draw ratings, which, in addition to the sexism, demonstrated that the showrunners had no intention of fixing the underlying problems with the show that led to ratings dropping in the first place. Sometimes the fanservice even ended up upstaging otherwise good material, such as the famous time that the camera was more interested in her cleavage during a scene in which the Doctor was dying. This might have been forgiveable had Peri not also been a Damsel Scrappy who continually got harassed or threatened with rape by villains, which most viewers found upsetting rather than titillating (and, being a sexless children's show, Doctor Who absolutely could not be honest enough with itself about what it was doing to handle Romanticized Abuse well). Rescued from the Scrappy Heap at the same time as the Sixth Doctor thanks to the superior Expanded Universe material actress Nicola Bryant got to work with later.
    • Her successor Mel, as well, is not well liked. At a time when the show was being criticised by fans and laypeople alike by being too much like Panto, John Nathan-Turner Stunt Cast Bonnie Langford, whose difficult real-life personality made her a controversial figure amongst the British public, let alone with SFF geeks. Wearing Impossibly Tacky Clothes and possessing a grating high-pitched voice, she was considered by her own production team to have no potential and written as a Screaming Woman, famously being asked to shriek at the same pitch as the 'Radiophonic scream' Cliffhanger sting. She was introduced in a nonsensical Timey-Wimey Ball arc that was badly botched up due to production apathy. Viewers famously said in an audience appreciation report that they wished the monster had just eaten Mel, the series continuity advisor quit in protest over her casting, and the Creative Differences between the producer (who loved her) and the script editor (who didn't) flared up. Especially sad, since the idea of introducing a non-sexualised companion who enjoys time travel was going right back to basics and an attempt to fix some serious tone problems - her successor, Ace, would attempt the same thing and be a lot more successful at it. Yet another companion Rescued from the Scrappy Heap thanks to the Expanded Universe.
    • Averted several times in the 2005 revival series. Both Mickey Smith and Rory Williams started out as "Scrappys in waiting" (boyfriends left behind while their girls went on adventures with the Doctor), but once both actually became full-fledged travelling companions they both managed to avert the trope. Nardole, a comic relief character introduced in "The Husbands of River Song" was very much seen as this initially, to the point where when it was announced that he was not only returning for the next Christmas special, "The Return of Doctor Mysterio", but as a regular companion in Series 10, many fans groaned. But his personality was nicely rounded out in that season, and he had an excellent dynamic with both the Twelfth Doctor and Bill Potts; it helped that actor Matt Lucas became popular with fans who have recognized him as One of Us.
    • The New Paradigm Daleks from Series 5 became this thanks to their bright multi-colored designs. Cue the perception that they did not look threatening, multiple comparisons to skittles, Teletubbies and Power Rangers, and accusations that they had been created just to start a new collectible toyline. After this reception later series returned to the old design and, if the Paradigm design appeared at all, it would be as a background figure. (It has also been reported that their proportions made them an ergonomic nightmare for the operators, which also contributed to their sidelining.)
    • Angie and Artie Mitland, the kids Clara Oswald was a nanny to in Series 7B, became this after "Nightmare in Silver", in which they were written as poor teenage stereotypes and played by horrible actors. Luckily they had only one more story afterward (the next) in which they barely appear; Clara got a Coal Hill School teaching position in "The Day of the Doctor" and they were never spoken of again.
    • Third time wasn't the charm for "boyfriends left behind". Ex-soldier/maths teacher Danny Pink, Clara Oswald's love interest in Series 8, not only brought back bad memories of both Mickey and Rory's early tenures but became part of a Romantic Plot Tumor that not only wasn't well-written but also performed so poorly that Clara and the Twelfth Doctor had significantly more romantic chemistry in the Love Triangle that was established, even though that relationship was almost all subtext. And Rescued from the Scrappy Heap was virtually ruled out by design — he never became a companion and his and the Doctor's relationship hardly thawed by the end of Danny's one season, which ended with him dying, becoming a Cyberman, and making a Heroic Sacrifice. Also, it became clear midway through Series 8 that showrunner Steven Moffat had in fact pivoted from plans to move the Doctor and Clara into Just Friends, resulting in Danny being swiftly downgraded to Romantic Runner-Up.
    • Cass, from "The Night of the Doctor", is loathed by a significant portion of the fanbase — especially of the Eighth Doctor — for having precious little personality beyond her nasty attitude and unintentional lack of sympathy for her hatred of Time Lords, and being directly responsible for the Eighth Doctor's death in a particularly cruel manner. She refuses to listen to the Eighth Doctor despite him trying to rescue her from her crashing spaceship — despite it being clear as day that he's The Doctor instead of literally any other Time Lord — and Eight refusing to leave without her. Cass takes full advantage of his willingness to stay and talk things out to ensure he dies with her in the crash, and outright calls said circumstances "The best news I've heard all day". Given that Cass only appeared for about five minutes in one episode and perished before she got any chance at Character Development beyond that, it can be said that the sole reason for her existence was so she could throw her own life away to send the Eighth Doctor through the Despair Event Horizon, get him killed, and set up his Regeneration into the War Doctor.
  • Downton Abbey: Lady Rose, in addition to being a rare adult Cousin Oliver, becomes a main character out of nowhere in Series 3. Rose is an upper crust flapper and often functions as a sexier and edgier Sybil, whom she replaced. Despite being given several storylines, she remains unpopular with fans and her romance with an African-American jazz musician had him wading into Ethnic Scrappy territory.
  • Drake & Josh: Megan is hated by many. She's a villain in a show without any heroes, so all her schemes target her two brothers, the titular Drake and Josh. Megan never gets caught, never gets punished, and there are quite a few examples of her benefiting from her schemes, just plain coming out on top in an episode she's barely in. The writers tried to balance this out by giving Drake and Josh a few Kick the Dog moments towards her, making her schemes more Disproportionate Retribution than anything, but by then Drake and Josh's pranks were seen as justified revenge for everything she had done to them so far. Luckily for Miranda Cosgrove who played Megan, her very next role after Drake & Josh was on the hit teen comedy iCarly where she played the titular protagonist Carly, a far more beloved (and nicer) character, which proved it wasn't the actress' fault for Megan's low popularity but poor writing.
  • The Dukes of Hazzard:
    • Coy and Vance Duke, introduced after Bo and Luke left Hazzard County (temporarily) to pursue NASCAR racing. This was the result of John Schneider and Tom Wopat walking out of the show due to a well-publicized contract dispute and – CBS not wanting to lose ratings and the producers refusing to negotiate – "substitute" Dukes (Byron Cherry and Christoper Mayer, playing Coy and Vance, respectively) being brought in. While the "new Dukes" certainly had a few fans, most viewers hated Coy and Vance and tuned out in droves, and when ratings went south, the producers were forced to concede to Schneider and Wopat's demands. When Bo and Luke returned, they shared one 10-minute scene with Coy and Vance before the latter Dukes were gone for good, never to be heard from again.
    • Earlier, James Best also walked off the set due to his own contract disputes, with his Rosco character being replaced by various Scrappys, most notably Grady Byrd (played by Dick Sergeant). Ben Jones was also absent for a few shows, too, for similar reasons, with "replacement" character B.B. Davenport having similar reception as Byrd.
  • Entourage:
    • Ashley has only been in four episodes so far, and she's already this. Being crazy, creepy and annoying will do that to you.
    • The character of Dom, introduced in the third season of Entourage, was intended to become a main cast member. But he was so hated by fans of the show that his character was quickly written out.
  • Faking It:
    • Liam, for obvious Die for Our Ship reasons
    • Karma has been descending into this territory by a vocal part of the fanbase by season 2, as possible Character Exaggeration went into overdrive and made her even more self-centered and melodramatic than before, and the 'rival' shippers of Reagan and Amy have noticed she seems to be undermining their canon relationship solely cause she's no longer the sole focal point of Amy's world, despite Amy doing the opposite and supporting her own quite baggage-filled relationship with Liam. To counter, Karma supporters would argue that Amy's increasingly aloofness towards Karma since getting together with Reagan explains the somewhat non-romantic clingy-ness she's showed towards Amy recently, and she did get more sympathy after Amy and Liam's secret was revealed.
    • Reagan herself would get this in the second half of season 2, as she kept pressuring Amy into being a full-on lesbian and then broke up with her when she wouldn't commit, reinforcing some rather...bad stereotypes about how the LGBT community treats the Bs, especially bisexual women.
  • The Flash (2014):
  • Frasier:
    • When Daphne's brother Simon and her mother Gertrude started appearing quite frequently, the terms 'annoying', 'obnoxious' and, most critically, 'not very funny' began to be heard applied to them very quickly. For some reason, the writers insisted on keeping Gertrude long after Simon had gone.
    • Also, Lana's son Kirby was introduced as a young, everyman character and totally upset the show's character dynamic. He basically starts off as a Lazy Bum... and then for the most part just embodies the stereotypical "teen slob".
  • Friends:
    • Many of the Romantic False Leads on the show, but Emily and Paolo are easily the biggest ones.
    • Also Janine, Joey's temporary roommate/girlfriend from season 6.
    • Susan, the lesbian love of Ross' ex-wife Carol, receives a lot of hate for her cruel and cold attitude towards Ross. The fact that Carol and Susan slept together while Carol was still married to Ross didn't help.
    • Many feel that Janice became this after breaking up with Chandler in Season Three.
    • Also, Marcel. Ross's pet monkey in Season One. A character who was so hated that, in a S6 episode, Ross himself wonders what he was thinking by getting him.
    • Some fans actually disliked Richard... because they felt he was too much of a Nice Guy, in a meta case that he was boring. May be just a case of Die for Our Ship for die-hard Mondler fans.
  • The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air:
    • Nicky, who was a complete annoying idiot, even for a kid.
    • Aunt Vivian, for being generally boring and unfunny compared to the other characters. This is especially true for the second Vivian played by Daphne Reid.

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  • Game Show Network: The "Kidz Zone" block of the late 1990s and early 2000s, "hosted" by a CGI Spinner Ball and a live-action host (either kids and/or an actor playing a live-action version of the Ball); shows aired were usually Joker! Joker! Joker!, child-parent episodes of The $20,000 Pyramid, Juvenile Jury, Quiz Kids Challenge and others. As was the case with a predecessor program, Faux Pause (a knockoff of Mystery Science Theater 3000), the show would be stopped at random times for the hosts to comment, usually after a "funny" or "didja notice" moment. While the idea was likely to attempt to engage the (intended) youth audience, viewers – more often than not adults who remembered the shows as coming from their youth – found these annoying and unfunny, and the idea was abandoned when GSN scrapped the Kidz Zone in 2002. The live-action Spinner Ball mascot also starred in bumper inserts, primarily to promote original programming and upcoming marathon blocks. Also seen as irritating (at best) to many viewers, mainly due to poor writing and execution, the character was eventually dropped by 2004.
  • General Hospital:
    • Winnifred Leed was generally hated either by Spixie fans for coming between Spinelli and Maxie, or by others for being a Creator's Pet who was way too much like Spinelli.
    • Maya Ward wasn't popular either, due to being somewhat boring and flat.
    • Dr Britt Westbourne. Most Scrub fans hate her for trying to replace Robin, and also hated because she is snotty, rude to Sabrina, [two faced. After having had enough of her attitude, Elizabeth told her off and told her she was transparent.
    • Nathan West has gathered some ire, much like Maya, has been seen as a piss poor replacement for legendary character Lucky Spencer as Dante's new partner. Worst still, the writers really think that after the popular pairing of Maxie and Spinneli was beginning to gain some new steam, that pairing her with some generic pretty boy was what the viewers wanted. Even worst, the fact that Nathan began bullying Spinneli pushed many fans over the edge, and led a few to applaud, when the character was shot, non-fatally, in the chest.
  • Gilmore Girls:
    • April is despised for being a Suspiciously Similar Substitute for Rory, and essentially a brainy know-it-all. The only reason she existed was to get on the nerves of Luke and depict how bad he is with children.
    • Olivia and Lucy were Expys for the earlier Madeline and Louise and few understood why the latter weren't just brought back for characters that seemed to be shoehorned in by executives of The CW to catch in a few more teen viewers in the derided seventh season.
  • Glee:
    • While many of the characters are pretty much love them or hate them, there are very few fans who like Will, and even most of those who do seem to agree with the general consensus that he is clueless, naive and generally a pretty bad teacher, yet the characters (and by extension, the writers) often treat him as if he can do no wrong.
    • Terri was this when she was on the show. Granted, she was intended by the writers as a jerk and villain, but more of the Love to Hate type. Instead, she was just hated all-around, and viewers seemed to like episodes more the less she was in them. Oddly after she left this reversed and she was quite well liked by the fandom. Possibly because Jessalyn Gilsig is actually a very good actress and it was sad to see her go.
  • Good Luck Charlie: In this Disney show, Amy Duncan gets this from a lot of people (which is ironic since her name means "beloved" in Latin) because she acts very selfish and egotistical ("What's the matter? Don't you want to be on TV with me... er, us?"). While the other characters are somewhat relatable and draw humor for their quirks, Amy's 'quirk' is being 'crazy' and 'wanting to be famous', but there's a little TOO much emphasis on the "crazy" part (way too many examples to list, but replacing her entire family (except Charlie) with ringers in "The Singin' Dancin' Duncans" just so she can perform is one of the stronger ones).
  • Gossip Girl:
    • Vanessa Abrams was/is thoroughly despised by a vast, and vocal, majority of the show's viewers. Although just as shallow, manipulative and self-serving as Blair Waldorf, she kept putting herself up on high horses, lecturing and mastering others, in addition to being the Distaff Counterpart to Dan and thus serving no real purpose on her own. The showrunners seemed to be quite aware of how unpopular she was - despite being credited as a main character Vanessa was missing from several episodes each season (including the season three finale), and hardly ever got any storylines of her own - and she was eventually Put on a Bus in the season four finale (called, ironically for Vanessa haters, "The Wrong Goodbye").
    • Dan Humphrey is slipping into Scrappy territory as well. It can't have helped that he basically got off scot-free for being Gossip Girl.
  • Greek: Lizzi. The attempt was to create a sorority consultant so markedly different from the sorority she's consulting. And it worked: the super-hyper, passive-aggressive, rule-enforcing, and overall annoying Lizzi went from zero to borderline X-Pac Heat-like in less than an episode.
  • Green Wing: Holly definitely has some Scrappy elements, mostly by deliberately splitting up Mac and Caroline by lying and saying her four-year-old son Mackenzie was the child she had previously told Mac she aborted - he wasn't - plus making subtly undermining remarks to Caroline and then being totally unapologetic about it when found out.
  • Grey's Anatomy: Meredith Grey's half-sister Lexie, whose first scene involved flirting with McDreamy and became a series regular right after (yet-another) Meredith/Derek breakup. However, her super-popular relationship with Dr. Mark McSteamy Sloan, seemed to have earned her some fans as well as the forming of a legitimate sisterly relationship with Meredith over time.
  • Happy Days:
    • Chachi. He was popular when Happy Days was running; this is an example of hindsight, given that Chachi used to regularly get the female audience screams upon entrance that the Fonz used to get.
    • From the same show, Roger, as played by Ted McGinley, who is a recognised symptom of Shark-Jumping.
  • Heroes:
    • Maya, the Too Dumb to Live plague-creating "heroine" who was introduced to us in Season 2 became The Scrappy of the show in record time. Her entire lengthy story was a Trapped by Mountain Lions plot and had fans begging for her death at the hands of Sylar even before the two characters met. Here's a hint for the writers: If a character dies and is brought back to life almost immediately afterwards, and the fandom is angry that the character is still alive... you know you've got a Scrappy on your hands.
    • Another Scrappy on the show would not so much be a character but multiple characters played by the same actress. These would be the multitude of Ali Larter clone characters. Once the first character ran her course fans were happy to see her character's storyline come to a close and her to be done, but WAIT fans were introduced to a concept that no matter how many characters played by Ali Larter die, there could always be another one in hiding. In the promos for season 4 it is shown that Ali Larter's many characters have become a Creator's Pet as the next season centers around her. The only good thing about this Scrappy is you actually get to watch her die multiple times on the show and though each one is exciting for the fans, it is bittersweet because the fans know she'll always return as Gina, or Brenda, or Cookie, or Lanora, or any other name and random power you can put on her.
    • To a lesser degree, Mohinder fits this bill as well. While he's always been a relatively useless character - not because of his lack of powers but because of his amazing ability to consistently trust the wrong people - he truly became Too Dumb to Live in Season 2 when he joined The Company to act as a deep-cover operative and help bring it down from the inside and then turned traitor on Noah Bennet despite having seen countless examples - both in Season 1 and Season 2 - of The Company being hopelessly corrupt and self-serving. Worse, Season 3 has paired Mohinder and Maya, which almost everyone can agree is a match made in Hell. EVEN WORSE, Mohinder suddenly gains Spider-Man like abilities and an inexplicable compulsion to steal people and encase them in cocoons. Maya missed an opportunity to pull herself out of the Scrappy heap when she found out about Mohinder's new "habit." She almost killed him with her ability but Mohinder somehow talked her out of it.
    • Monica Dawson who appeared in the show's second season. Micah's cousin who was a Katrina victim with the power to imitate any movement she saw. Her storylines were considered some of the worst in the show's history and people are also upset that she lived while more popular characters died. She was written out after the season. There were several fans who were very upset to see her go, and thought she was one of the best things about the season.
    • Claire's flying boyfriend West was also not well liked.
    • Basically Season 2 only introduced 2 well-liked characters: Adam and Elle who are both sympathetic characters who are both potential Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds characters. Of course both characters were killed but Heroes had a thing for killing well liked characters and keeping the Scrappys.
    • You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who likes Bob Bishop. What he did to Elle before the series alone is enough reason to hate him.
  • Homicide: Life on the Street:
    • Detective Paul Falsone gets some of this treatment, with many finding him a bit smarmy and repellent. He wasn't helped by the fact that his character arc in the first season that he becomes a regular led to fan-favourite Detective Mike Kellerman's departure from the show. A 1998 essay on TeeVee.org effectively summed up why this character was so disliked.
    • Laura Ballard and Rene Sheppard also receive some of this treatment, both being seen as indicative of the production team's caving into Executive Meddling by putting two 'supermodels with guns' in the show, in contrast to the show's more down-to-earth depiction of women in the police force prior to their introductions.
  • Horatio Hornblower: Mariette, Horatio's shallow Satellite Love Interest from "The Frogs and the Lobsters" (aka "The Wrong War") is a universally disliked character among the show's fans. Both the writers who didn't bother to make her interesting enough (rare and strange because even minor characters like lower-deck sailors were well-defined) and the poor performance of her actress who couldn't match the rest of the excellent cast are blamed equally. The nicest thing fans would say about her is that she was really pretty and rare female eye candy, as there was a lack of women anyway, given that Hornblower is an example of Wooden Ships and Iron Men genre.
  • House:
    • Martha Masters, for having almost no real-world experience and creepy naivete. Her supposed brilliance being entirely an Informed Attribute didn't help.
    • Lucas Douglas, for never shutting the hell up and displacing fan-favorite Wilson as House's sidekick. Even those who didn't mind that probably thought he crossed the Moral Event Horizon when he "pranked" House and Wilson with malicious, destructive (he releases an opossum in their bathroom; loosens House's bathroom grab bar, causing him to fall painfully and dangerously; and sets off the fire sprinklers in their home; all told, it's at least several thousand dollars worth of damage, not to mention potentially, you know, killing a man by causing him to fall backwards into a bathtub) "practical jokes" in season 7. He then intentionally trips House in the cafeteria before gloating that it was him (House and Wilson were blaming the events on each other) and that they don't dare do anything about it or he'll tell Cuddy they sniped the home she wanted. At the end of the episode it's revealed she already knows this (and isn't even terribly upset about it), making him an even bigger douchebag.
    • Vogler, who was forced onto the show as a villain by the network. He was taken off the show when he became unpopular with the audience and caused ratings to drop.
    • Stacy Warner, House's ex, was meant to be his ex-girlfriend who was still madly in love with him, but their relationship was dysfunctional and she came across as extremely self-righteous, especially when it came to crippling his leg.
    • Rachel Taub's entire reason for existing as a character was the single least engaging Romantic Plot Tumor in the series.
  • House of Anubis: There aren't many fans fond of Sophia, Erin, or Cassie from The Touchstone of Ra. Sophia is hated for flirting with Eddie (despite being a freshman) and then turning out as the Big Bad, while Cassie and Erin were just seen as annoying and pointless characters by fans. Dexter, the other new character in the movie, avoids this by having an actual role in the plot and being seen as a mixture of all the boys in the House, making him a bit of an Ensemble Dark Horse.
  • How I Met Your Mother:
    • Zoey manipulated Ted, lied to him, tried to ruin his career and when he said "no" to saving the Arcadian, she revealed she kept the recording of Ted praising said building and used it to humiliate him in public. Even the other characters hated her, as shown by Lily revealing to Ted that when the rest of them ranked Ted's former girlfriends, they had Zoey at the bottom of the list.
    • Don, though he fortunately ended up a Scrapped Scrappy. A sleazy idiot with a ton of informed ability, he was the product of incredibly sloppy writing (in one episode's time, he's supposed to go from a sleazy jerk to the single most perfect man in the world, and said episode begins with Marshall shilling him after an offscreen hangout).
    • Stella became this after "Shelter Island", although some would argue that her dumping Ted at the altar was a direct consequence of Ted's own actions note . While the events of "As Fast As She Can" allowed some fans to forgive her, "The Wedding Bride" threw her right back into Scrappy territory. While her husband wrote the film, many of the details could have only come from Stella. So she dumped Ted at the altar and then helped the man she went on to marry to slander Ted as the villain in a hit movie. That's stone cold.
    • Quinn became this to two groups of shippers — those for Barney/Robin and Barney/Nora.
  • How to Get Away with Murder:
    • Wes, the main character gets to be this, as his self-righteous attitude annoys several fans. It does not help he becomes more and more of a jerk as time goes on, he hogs unholy amounts of screentime from far more well liked characters such as Connor and Asher. His obsession with Rebecca is creepy enough on it's own, but it's worsened by the fact he barely interacts with the Keating 5 outside of helping her. By season 3, all characters even acknowledge the fact that he is to blame by how messed up their lives have become, since he just had to go and guilt trip everybody into helping a shady girl he barely knew.
    • As season 3, Nate. He was never well liked, but his continuous unimportance to the plot halfway through season 2, being reduced to sheerly a Mr. Fanservice that doesn't even get as much time to be an eye-candy as Connor, who is both a Mr. Fanservice and an interesting complex character.
    • Laurel over the course of season 3, as she gets flanderized into an annoying griefing Jerkass.
  • Human Target: Ames. Basically, she's supposed to be a thief that can steal anything. Or at least that's what they introduced her as, oh, and she has no concept of fighting or weapons while working for a team that has two assassins and a retired cop. The most useful thing she did in season 2 was translate for Guerrero. The dumbest thing she's done was sneak a kid out to a party whose house was just attacked a few hours previous. And while that's stupid enough on its own, she can't even protect him when he's nearly kidnapped. Had she been used sparingly, then it might've been okay. However, the writer's attempts to shoehorn her into most episodes without serving a real purpose only served to highlight how useless she really was.

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  • Jeopardy!: Since the 2001-02 season, the "Clue Crew", who present even more video clues. Many dislike the fact that their video clues tend to be overlong and distracting, causing them to become so long-winded that the contestants and viewers both lose track of the clue, or simply because they chew up so much airtime, leaving more potential for clues going unrevealed at the end of the round.
  • Jessica Jones (2015): Robyn, who spends much of her scenes being a shrill, rude, and selfish Jerkass who is way more protective of her brother than should be allowed, as well as demonstrating very abusive tendencies towards him. Her petty and irrational hatred of Jessica doesn't help matters, especially since it leads her to idiotically rally the Kilgrave victims support group into attacking Jessica, allowing Kilgrave to escape and causing Hope's suicide.
  • Kamen Rider:
    • Kamen Rider Blade: Amane Kurihara was an unpopular character, due to being a Clingy Jealous Girl for Hajime, to the point that she absolutely cannot function without him around, making her attachment to him just creepy. There's also the fact that she's incredibly disrespectful to adults, including her own mother, and especially to her uncle. This bites her in the end when she returns and turned into Another Blade in Kamen Rider Zi-O.
    • Kamen Rider Hibiki: Kyosuke Kiriya was part of an unpopular Retool of the show and seemed to exist primarily to pursue a tiresome and one-sided rivalry with the series' Supporting Protagonist Asumu Adachi. His fate in fandom was sealed forever when, in the show's finale, Kiriya becomes an Oni and Asumu does not - the production team later confirmed that they were both supposed to have become Oni, but it was ultimately decided that Asumu would not, and his suit was scrapped for parts to enhance Kiriya's. His actor, Yuichi Nakamura, later redeemed himself by going on to play the more popular Yuto in Kamen Rider Den-O.
    • Kamen Rider Kiva: Ryo Itoya, the Spider Fangire - partly for being a creep who stalks and sexually harasses Yuri (then comes back 22 years later to do the same to her daughter) but mostly for being so campy, zany and over the top that it's impossible to take anything seriously when he is on the screen.
    • Kamen Rider Fourze: Has three in the form of minor characters Yukina Takamura, Ran Kuroki and Misa Toriizaki. Yukina is disliked for being a Clingy Jealous Girl who tries to stop Gentaro being a Kamen Rider and is not his previous love interest, the well-liked Nadeshiko from Movie Wars Megamax (with Yukina going as far as to steal the Fourze Driver and not give it back when Libra Zodiarts was about to kill her), Ran is unpopular because she was hostile and violent to almost everyone (including Ohsugi-sensei, and even he didn't even deserve being flipped into the air), and so pushy towards her supposed best friend that he was driven to become a Zodiarts, to the point that some consider her Catchphrase being, "I'll protect you Haru!". Lastly, Misa was pretty much hated for being a complete bitch to another character Norio Eguchi (who was also Cygnus Zodiarts, aka the reason Rumi created her special Ugly Ducklings Cult) and went as far as to force poor Norio to activate his switch while the other members of the Ugly Ducklings trap him down. Made even worse because Norio created a Split Personality when he activated the switch for the first time but Misa didn't care at all; once Cygnus was revealed, she got on her knees and acted like Cygnus's high priestess.
    • Kamen Rider Wizard: Shunpei Nara is often criticized for taking his Kid-Appeal Character traits way over the top, like an overly-flanderized Gai Ikari.
    • Kamen Rider Ghost: Kanon Fukami is seen as the Damsel Scrappy of the show, due to constantly needing to be rescued, and her personality being little more than "help the heroes". Not helping things is that she's the reason the show went on as long as it did, since Takeru used his wish on hernote , thus prolonging Takeru's quest to be revived.
    • Kamen Rider Revice: Giff, the Big Bad of the series, is hated by viewers for being a Generic Doomsday Villain who does very little in the story. His servants do everything and have more presence, while he, due to being an obelisk for most of the show, literally just sits there. When he finally gets something to do, it's just as a big wall for the heroes to crash against, and his sudden focus on demons and humans co-existing comes out of nowhere for him and is underdeveloped, before he's swiftly defeated.
    • Kamen Rider Geats: Daichi Isuzu was initially intended as a smug character who you're supposed to hate, but the fact that he's given a hasty redemption late into the show despite being consistently shown to be a self-centered and smug psychopath led to a lot of fans reviling him as a character as opposed to just as a villain.
  • Kindred: The Embraced: This show is a rare example of a lead scrappy. The poor writing for main character Frank Kohanek, combined with C. Thomas Howell's less than stellar acting, resulted in him being intensely disliked by both fans and critics, the latter describing him as "something out of a bad cop show". His character was due to be written out in season 2, and the lead role given to supporting character Julian Luna... but Mark Frankel's untimely death resulted in the show being cancelled after 1 season.
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
    • Dale Stuckey was written to be one in-universe, which made him obnoxious to the viewer, too. Unusually for the trope, the rest of the squad and CSU were just as annoyed by him as anyone would be, leading to his psychotic breakdown.
    • Kim Greylek was set up to be the new politically motivated ADA, but her most notable quality ended up being her habit of smugly stating her good points as her introduction.
  • Lost:
    • Michael is hated in Season 2 for his constant shouting about Walt's kidnapping and his lack of concern for anyone else, which was worsened by his betrayal of the survivors and killing Ana Lucia and Libby as part of a deal with the Others.
    • Nikki and Paulo were introduced in the third season because the producers of the show were often asked what some of the other survivors of the crash were doing. Viewers and TV critics wasted no time flaming them to hell and back.
    • Some other fans hated Ana-Lucia when she was introduced to the cast due to her harsh and abrasive attitude. Killing off Shannon didn't help either, even though it was an accident. And then, as soon as she was given more backstory to expand on her character, making her harsh personality a bit more understandable, Michael (yet another disliked character) killed her.
    • Widmore's henchman, Zoe, in season 6, is widely hated for being a pointless, annoying character, eating up valuable screen time... and also for the actress claiming that she's the key to all the show's themes and is on "every page" of the series finale. In the penultimate episode, Flocke kills her by slitting her throat quite violently, pleasing everyone who hated her.

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  • Mad Men:
    • Betty Draper, especially in Season 4 onward (after her divorce with Don). In 2011-2012 she made it onto several lists of most hated TV characters, with a few even suggesting she be killed off.
    • Glen was okay when he was just a weird Creepy Child. But then he just keeps showing up and we're supposed to see him as just a normal kid, and root for him to hook up with Sally. He's also played by the producer's son.
  • Major Crimes: Pretty much anyone who didn't come over from The Closer can qualify. Amy Sykes is a Twofer Token Minority and engages in absurd levels of sucking up, and Emma Rios is a combination of the martinet and a bitchy coward. Rusty Beck started off as The Load, whose utter self-centeredness and demands quickly grew tiresome. Rusty and Amy got Rescued from the Scrappy Heap rather magnificently due to getting whacked with a dose of maturity and altruism and taking multiple levels in badass, respectively. Rios was not so lucky.
  • Married... with Children: Seven became one of these quickly, just like good old Cousin Oliver. What made it especially galling was how Peg actually tried to be a responsible mother to the little snot by giving him food, instead of the lazy, self-centered Jerkass the fans all knew and loved.
  • Masked Rider: Ferbus is widely considered the weakest element of the show. From his high-pitched voice to him constantly putting Dex's cover at risk despite the Stewarts' constant reminders, its a wonder why Lexian bothered to let him go to Earth after his grandson (provided Ferbus didn't sneak away while Lexian wasn't looking).
  • Merlin (2008):
    • Agravaine ended up being this, especially as he was already something of a Replacement Scrappy to King Uther and a Suspiciously Similar Substitute to Morgana (being the smirky new Mole within Camelot's walls). It didn't start out that way; he was initially presented as a cunning, enigmatic villain, and the audience took it on faith that the writers would eventually explain his motivation and his long-term plans for Morgana and Arthur (his quasi-niece and nephew, respectively). Except... they didn't. Although a huge amount of screen-time was spent on this character, there was never any clear understanding of who he was or why he allied himself with Morgananote  and he was unceremoniously killed off without really achieving anything or affecting the long-term Story Arc in any way. His sister died giving birth to Arthur and his brother was killed by Uther when they tried to exact revenge, giving him some off-screen motivation, but the writers never got into if that was what was going on.
    • Furthermore, his presence turned Arthur into an idiot who took his advice despite his obvious role as a villain, basing his trust on the fact that Agravaine was his uncle that he had known all his life, even though he'd never been seen or mentioned before series four. It was grating to see Arthur take consistently bad advice from an obvious creep over that of Merlin and Guinevere, his best friend and future wife who didn't trust Agravaine an inch.
    • Tristan and Isolde weren't very popular either, on account of the former being a Jerkass, the latter being a Faux Action Girl, and the both of them being fairly pointless. They had nothing whatsoever to do with the legendary Tristan and Iseult and took up valuable screentime in the series four finale that could have been better spent on characters the audience actually knew. However, since they were only around for two episodes, they were gone before they could rile the audience into anything beyond mild apathy.
  • Inverted in a Mitchell and Webb sketch in which party planners dread that Shaggy and Scooby will tag along if they invite Fred, Daphne and Velma. In contrast they admire Scrappy for his courage and good diction, feeling that his slight impetuosity is to be forgiven in a talking dog.
  • Modern Family: Dylan was somewhat liked when first introduced, but after his shtick of him being literally the dumbest person on the show, that includes Haley and Luke, became his only character trait, got old fast. Even worst, the fact that Haley ended up with him as her husband, and father of her children, in the end felt like backtracking on her entire series worth of character development, believing she had just reverted to the shallow, dimwitted, immature teen she was in the beginning of the series. This is especially a swat in the face of the beloved and well developed love story between her and fan favorite Andy, whom many still agree she should have ended up with all along.
  • The Muppets:
    • Bean Bunny is an interesting case. He first appeared as the protagonist in The Tale of the Bunny Picnic and began showing up in various Muppet projects through the late 80's/early 90's (most prominently, Muppet Babies). What's interesting is that the cast and crew didn't seem to like him either, finding him more obnoxious than cute. He was eventually Demoted to Extra when his puppeteer, Steve Whitmire, took over duties as Kermit after Jim Henson's passing.
    • Perhaps the most frequently cited "worst Muppet" among the fandom, however, is not Bean Bunny (who has become more of a Base-Breaking Character in current times) but the obscure Mr. Poodlepants, who made most of his few appearances on some sketches from Muppets Tonight. Common points of contention are his weird and slightly disturbing name and design, his clownish antics and Ed Wynn-esque voice being widely seen as obnoxious, and the fact that he never really got his own shtick to stand out from the rest outside of his weird and annoying nature.
    • The Muppets Mayhem: In a show where the human characters have caused plenty of Broken Base between those who dislike them on default for being humans in a Muppet production and those who admit they are, for the most part, actually quite likable this time around, JJ stands out as having practically no fans. He is widely considered a Jerkass Karma Houdini that the story seems to be unable to decide whether he is supposed to be likable or an antagonist, and he also is heavily associated with the show's widely panned Romantic Plot Tumor Love Triangle between Nora, Moog, and JJ as unlike the other two, he has very few scenes outside of it.
  • My Parents Are Aliens: Guido, who was introduced in Series 8 (the last series, perhaps not surprisingly). Also, CJ and Harri.
  • Nashville:
    • Rayna's husband Teddy has this status among fans; Naïve Newcomer Scarlett also gets her share. Neither, however, are as hated as Dante (Jolene's therapist), due to his apparent belief that Juliette basically has to apologise for her mother being a drug-addicted unfit mess of a parent... although you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who likes Peggy right up to when she was shot and killed. And considering Dante turned out to be a fraud, stole 450 grand from Juliette and tried to extort more cash via a sex tape to boot before Jolene killed him - and herself - this may have been the response the writers were going for all along. In his case, anyway.
    • A number of viewers find Scarlett's been Rescued from the Scrappy Heap in season 2 thanks to her drug use and her proving to have the mama from hell. The presence of Zoey, her black friend and Replacement Scrappy, can't have hurt; ditto Luke Wheeler in the latter capacity with a side order of Die for Our Ship (Both Zoey got Put on a Bus (due to the Channel Hop in the case of the latter). Unfortunately, Maddie started to develop Bratty Teenage Daughter tendencies in season two, and pretty much never stopped. Juliette's distaste for Layla Grant is shared by many viewers, thanks to a combination of her character, the writing and Aubrey Peeples' acting being less impressive than her singing - so not many were sorry when like Will Chase, it was decided that she would not be making the trip to CMT as part of the new showrunners' Win Back the Crowd strategy (in spite of a shamelessly obvious planted article in The Hollywood Reporter decrying the departure of Layla/Aubrey).
  • The New Adventures of Old Christine: Marley and Lindsay. They're Rich Bitches who seemingly have no purpose other then to make jokes about how ignorant and "poor" Christine is, they're not the least bit funny, they're just incredibly irritating.
  • New Girl: Coach. Kind of an Inverted Replacement Scrappy. He appeared in the pilot, then Damon Wayans Jr. got renewed for another season so Coach ended up moving out of the loft sometime between episode 1 and 2. When his series was cancelled, Coach mysteriously moved back. Only problem, there was no real role for Coach anymore, having been replaced by Winston. The fans felt that instead of adding to the show, Coach was messing with the casts impressive chemistry. The writers realized this as well, and Coach left once again by the end of season 4, moving to New York. The show itself wasn't above playing off this, as when the gang takes a trip to NYC, they run into Coach on the street, incensed that none of them took the time to visit him. They in turn all avoid eye contact and walk away from him.
  • Newhart: Kirk DeVane was a painfully unfunny Jerkass for the show's first 2 seasons. Midway through the second season, the writers desperately tried to save him by giving him a sweet, likeable girlfriend. It only worked part way. She herself was quite likeable and appealing, but it was impossible to understand what the Hell she saw in Kirk. Fortunately, around the same time, a new, hilarious Jerkass, Michael Harris, made his debut on the show. At the start of the third season, Kirk and his new wife were Put on a Bus, Michael took his place on the show, and Newhart grew the beard.
  • Night Court: Lisette Hocheiser. The final two seasons introduced this ditzy, bubbly court stenographer. While the show desperately wanted her quirky and naïve character to be a jovially fresh presence in almost the same vein as Georgette Baxter was on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lisette simply wasn't endearing enough to be shoehorned into a series this late into its run. Not only that, but Lisette as a character, was only crafted around the kind of humor she'll bring instead of anything well-built or honest. Everything about Lisette was annoying, from her grating voice to the way she gasped every time she started talking. Ultimately, such a dumb, vacuous, and pointless character like her did nothing for the show other than distract from the arguably more atrocious storytelling that was going on.
  • Nip/Tuck: Gina Russo. She started as a minor foil for Christian Troy when he began attending SA Meetings, but she quickly became a semi-regular, showing up at the most inopportune times to cause Christian and Sean grief, such as forcing Christian to wait on her hand and foot as she prepared to give birth to a baby she thought was his (It wasn't). She was annoying, verbally abusive ("asshole" being her favorite insult,) mildly psychotic, and manipulative, and thanks to Ryan Murphy's inability to let plots die, she kept coming back.
  • NUMB3RS: Nikki. She's got a 4 year degree from the streets of Compton, yo! She improves significantly in her second (and the show's final) season.

    O-P 
  • The O.C.:
    • A Vocal Minority of fans loathed Marissa Cooper passionately, mostly because she tended to be a self-destructive drama magnet (and on a soap opera, that's saying something) who became the center of attention of any scene she was in and tended to treat people like crap... but everyone around her continued to like her and put up with it. The third season ends with her finally getting Killed Off for Real.
    • On the flipside, Malex fans hate her mother and Ryan for getting in the way of the two girls relationship.
  • The Office (US):
    Jim: I liked you better when you were just the temp.
    Ryan: Yeah, so did I.
  • Once Upon a Time:
    • Greg and Tamara from Season 2. Tamara had almost no backstory or Character Development, manipulated and exploited Neal, and lied about having cancer so that she could kill a magical healer. Greg was a little more well-developed and had a Freudian Excuse, but many fans found him to be annoying. Both characters are disliked for their bizarre anti-magic tech, and it doesn't hurt that they were trying to destroy Storybrooke, or that they replaced Cora as the new Arc Villains. They were so widely despised they were literally killed off in the first episode of the next season.
    • The Blue Fairy who some fans took a disliking to when she prevented Dreamy/Grumpy and Nova from getting together. The hatred continued when she separated Rumple from his son and ended up telling Rumple about the Dark Curse (indirectly yes but still that set him on his villainous path) and doing nothing about it. Her statement that there where no magic beans in the land turning out to be Exact Words did not help as it turned out that it was the last in the Enchanted Forest but not in the other places in the realm. Finally she refused to help Regina when she was on the cusp of turning evil ((not after fully turning evil) and punished the one person who tried to help her.
    • Milah became the scrappy when she abandoned Rumple and her son because Rumple was a coward. Her repeated mocking of him did not help.
    • David Nolan (but not Charming) ended up being hated by fans when he started having an affair with one woman and beginning a string of lies to protect himself. This ended up hurting both women he was in a relationship with.
  • Only Fools and Horses: The 2001-03 revival gave us Damien, Del and Raquel's teenage son who had grown from an Enfant Terrible (but only as far as his uncle Rodney was concerned) into a combination of Spoiled Brat, Mouthy Kid and Tagalong Kid who spoke like Ali G, spied on his aunt when she was in the shower and openly wished that his father would be sent to prison because he wanted to fit in with the fatherless yobs on the estate.
  • Orange Is the New Black
    • Larry is this to incredibly memetic levels, despite Jason Biggs doing a rather good acting job. The reasons for the dislike seems to be both how boring and disconnected from the prison his scenes can be, how he begins to act like a complete Jerkass to Piper, and keeping Alex and Piper apart (for fans that prefer that couple).
    • Vee is a tad too close to being a Villain Sue in many fans' eyes and in contrast to literally every other antagonist, she doesn't have a single sympathetic or humanizing trait. Again, the actress is doing a good job, but the character is so despised that running Vee over with a van instantly elevated Rosa to a fan favorite.
    • Polly wasn't much liked either by viewers during the first season although she gained a lot of detractors when the second season arrived with a storyline of her getting together with Larry, who is also disliked. This likely contributed to her lack of an appearance in season 3.
    • Stella is viewed as this for many fans, who believe her character is poorly written and overly fanservicey. Also some viewers have uncharitable opinions on Ruby Rose's acting.
    • The white supremacist prisoners are heavily disliked by the fandom despite the attempts to make them somewhat less two-dimensional.
    • Maureen Kukudio was already hated for her creepy and abusive relationship with Suzanne, but things took a turn for the worse in Season 5 when she abruptly murders a guard by giving him a stroke, an act that Daya ends up taking the blame for. This ends up being a big factor in Daya's Face–Heel Turn in Seasons 6 and 7. Maureen meanwhile gets off completely scot-free for this because nobody but Suzanne has any idea that it was her, and then pretty randomly dies of her injuries offscreen before her backstory was ever revealed, making the entire character feel like a pointless waste of time.
    • Daddy became this due her to her toxic nature and abusive relationship with inmate Daya in Season 6.
    • In its last season, the series introduced a mean, chubby blonde girl inmate named Madison "Badison" Murphy. Presumably, OITNB was attempting to cash-in on the recent success of Amy Schumer, who showed how hilarious it was to hear from a loudmouthed fat blonde girl, full of uncensored feminisms. Unfortunately, Badison as a character was almost completely hateful and not charming or compelling in any way. To make matters worse, her actress Amanda Fuller also spoke with a really overcooked Boston accent. Other female characters on that show had been felonious, rough and mean, sure, but always retained an air of being somehow sympathetic… or at least funny. Badison's scenes consequently proved to be tedious.
  • Oz:
    • Clayton Hughes and his rapid slide into insanity was poorly received, mainly because of how rushed his character arc was.
    • Omar White. While it's clear we were meant to have some kind of affection for him at times, his habit of always getting himself into trouble (despite given numerous "last chances" by Mc Manus and Said to get his act together), blaming others for his own messes and generally spending a lot of time being an ungrateful jerk to those trying to help him meant that an awful lot of people end up glad to see him go by Season 6.
  • Parks and Recreation: While he isn't exactly bashed or outright despised, Mark Brendanawicz is definitely not going to top anyone's list of favorite characters. He was meant to be the Straight Man and Only Sane Man, but the fans overwhelmingly found Mark boring, bland, and uninteresting in comparison to the other more colorful characters and consequently, he was written off as a badly done Jim Halpert expy. And then other fans simply found him an underwhelming love interest character for Leslie (whom he didn't always treat with respect) and Ann (who's also had her fair share of detractors who found her boring and thus, found the Ann/Mark relationship a slog to get through). It's quite telling that the fans didn't really care when he was Put on a Bus in the second season finale, nor did they really clamor for his return when it became a Long Bus Trip as the series went on. In fact, some fans even admit they forgot he even existed at all and found his presence in the first two seasons a jarring reminder.
  • Play School: Even a mere children's toy can be a scrappy. Play School featured five toys: Big Ted and Little Ted (two classic-style cuddly teddy bears), Humpty (a lovable big furry green egg), Jemima (a soft rag doll with a friendly face) and Hamble (a hideous cheap-looking plastic doll with a very unfriendly face). Hamble was, for many Britons of a certain age, their first-ever hate figure. Even the cast hated her because of her inability to sit without falling over, which was resolved by the painful-sounding insertion of a knitting needle. She even got used as a football between takes. Small wonder she was eventually dropped in favour of the only slightly less unpopular Poppy.
  • Power Rangers:
    • Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue: Vypra, due to Jennifer Yen's bad acting, that is pretty bad for the typical Power Rangers fare.
    • Power Rangers Operation Overdrive: Dax. The show tried to give him quirks like Bridge from SPD, but he came across as more annoying than funny. He's also supposed to seem like he's underappreciated due to being just the stuntman, but he doesn't give any reasons to make himself endearing or anything to appreciate. While episodes that highlight him as The Everyman rather than a Plucky Comic Relief make him more sympathetic and likeable, they are few and in between compared to his more annoying behavior.
      Linkara: "Shut up, Dax!"
    • Power Rangers S.P.D.: Sam, specifically Future-Sam a.k.a The Omega Ranger, mainly because we don't know a damn thing about him. That he does appear in the finale, for all of three seconds, without his costume, was seen as an insult by the fanbase, and he rivals Cole and Justin for Most Hated Ranger Ever — those two win because they have personality quirks and flaws that make them unlikeable — Sam is hated because he lacks any of this, due to the writers bypassing him as often as possible. Bruce Kalish has acknowledged that Sam could have been handled better.
    • Power Rangers Turbo:
      • Justin, who had shades of the Creator's Pet. But a lot of it comes mostly from concept rather than execution. He was a young kid compared to the older Rangers and no matter how hard Blake Foster tried he always stuck out among the group. But as a character he was fairly well rounded: skilled and observant but with moments of jealousy, pride and short-sightedness. It doesn't help that Justin's actor Blake Foster recently went on social media to attack Abraham Rodriguez (Power Rangers Beast Morphers' Nate). Foster has subsequently received a lot of backlash from fans and fellow PR actors alike.
      • Alpha 6, also of Turbo, could qualify. While Alpha 5 was dorky-but-lovable, Alpha 6 was an attempt to make Alpha cool by using forced-hip slang ("Yo, Rangers!"). It's no coincidence that as Turbo ended, he was damaged, and his voice chip needed to be replaced with one of Alpha 5's.
      • Dimitria, both for replacing Zordon and being limited to interrogative statements for the first half of the series.
      • Elgar too. While his Sentai counterpart, Zelmoda, is a comedic buffoon, he's still a capable combatant and has a much better voice courtesy of Kyousei Tsukui. As for Elgar, he's widely despised for obnoxious and not remotely threatening, face and voice included.
    • Power Rangers Samurai: Mentor Ji, for being a crappy teacher, his blatant favoritism towards Jayden, his self-righteous attitude, his redundant name, and his tendency to put down Antonio for not being born into a Samurai lineage. Being the Power Rangers equivalent of Tanba instead of Kusakabe as well as his actor turning out to be a sexual predator didn't help matters.
    • Power Rangers Megaforce:
      • Troy has so far gone down as one of the worst Red Rangers of all time due to him having absolutely no personality. (Ironically, his similarly-disliked Goseiger counterpart Alata was hated for having too much personality. Marvelous came off as not having much of a personality most of the time too, but he was written to be generally reserved in his emotions, plus had the badass credentials to make up for it and an actor who did more than just stood there stoically when the scene wasn't focused on him, while Troy is the result of a first time nonunion actor combined with poor scripts and, most likely, mediocre direction.) This wasn't helped when, in "Spirit of the Tiger," he became a massive jackass out of nowhere for insisting that "A ranger must never let go of his weapons". (That wasn't even in the Gokaiger episode either. Marvelous was more of the type of leader to, more often than not, let his teammates figure their problems out on their own, only helping when needed. Maybe it's a result of the writers injecting some personality into him, as some of the actors wanted, but not understanding what kind of personality was required and where.) The other four Rangers are exempt for at least having more personality and development than Troy (especially Emma and Noah), and Robo Knight and Orion seem to be avoiding it altogether.
        Linkara: "Here's a little game. Which of these two characters is the robot?" (In a scene between Troy and Roboknight)
      • Gosei as well, compared to his Sentai counterpart Master Head, since he's a Flat Character who only exists to tell the Rangers when they have a new power up.
  • Pretty Little Liars:
    • You'll be hard-pressed to find a fan of the show who likes Nathan. Even before the reveal that he was Maya's psycho Ax-Crazy killer, he was still hated because he was teased to be a love interest for resident Lipstick Lesbian Emily, and he did try a move on her, even after she explains that she's not into guys. The fanbase was not pleased.
    • Byron Montgomery was never liked by the fanbase for being a hypocrite and possibly involved in Alison's murder.
    • Pam is hated because she freaks out when Emily comes out as a lesbian. Pam, however, does redeem herself in the eyes of the fans when she stands up for her daughter to Paige's father and defends her, finally embracing her sexuality. She later tells Emily that she accepts her how she is and is accepting of Emily/Maya and later Emily/Paige.
    • Good luck finding a single fan of Sara Harvey. From her poorly-written romance plot with Emily to Dre Davis' terrible acting, the fanbase absolutely hates Sara. That's not even getting into her widely hated involvement in the story with so many plot holes it resembles Swiss cheese.
  • Prison Break: Brad Bellick was this in season one, but then he got much better later on. However, pick any of the new characters introduced in season 3 (except maybe Whistler) and you've got this trope taken. Particularly Lechero. No one cried when T-Bag kills him in the finale.

    Q-R 
  • Quantico: This series has quite a list, especially among the NATs who keep turning on Alex every five minutes (and blaming Simon for getting a crooked FBI agent/instructor fired):
    • Special mention goes to Shelby, who blamed Alex for her affair with Caleb's father coming out when Alex was trying to find out who was really behind the attacks, even though it was her own fault for having the affair to begin with. She also lied to Caleb's parents so that they would miss his graduation from the academy and to hurt him for not telling her how bad her parents really were.
    • Ryan is also one after he turned on Alex in the midseason premiere, and kept on treating her like the enemy to the point where he nearly killed her in hand-to-hand combat.
    • Nimah can be seen as one, considering her extreme hatred of Simon for his relationship with her sister and getting said crooked instructor fired. She only knew the instructor for about five minutes, yet she acted like Simon got rid of her favorite teacher and even tried to get him expelled from the academy.
  • Raven's Home:
    • Booker's two friends, Curtis and the Guntz, as well as Nia's friend Sienna, are viewed as not only annoying, but with far fewer good characteristics when compared to the primary cast. Curtis and the Guntz are frequently seen as bullies, while Sienna is simply seen as having an annoying voice. This is so bad that the Guntz suddenly vanished after Season 2 and has not been seen or mentioned since, while Curtis made only two appearances in Season 3 and Sienna made only one appearance plus two mentions.
    • Ramon is not particularly well-liked, mostly due to being a Flat Character and Satellite Love Interest for Tess - not to mention the hate he gets from Booker/Tess shippers for standing in the way of their One True Pairing.
  • Red Dwarf: Alternate Kochanski from Series VII is one of these. For starters, she replaced Rimmer, second, she was played by a different actress than the original Kochanski, and third, while the original Kochanski seemed to be a fun, down-to-earth gal who was perfect for Lister (if still sufficiently out of his league to make his initially unrequited pining for her realistic), the new Kochanski was a cold, stuck-up snob whom it was difficult to see an easy-going slob like Lister being attracted to. She was dropped from the cast after a couple seasons, with a final cameo appearance in a Back To Earth/Series IX Dream Sequence.
  • Robin Hood from BBC:
    • Kate was brought into the show in order to replace Maid Marian (killed at the end of season two). It's astonishing that nobody on the writing staff realized that trying to replace an iconic Love Interest with an Original Character was a terrible idea, and that it would have taken a screenwriting miracle to pull it off. Already pegged as a Replacement Scrappy to a beloved central character, things went downhill when Kate was introduced as a Clingy Jealous Jerkass, Faux Action Load and Ditzy Damsel. Not only an egregious Canon Foreigner into the mythos of Robin Hood, completely irrelevant to the Story Arc, and the Designated Victim that complained every time someone rescued her from her own stupidity, the real problem stemmed from the fact that she was completely and utterly useless. Her pre-outlaw occupation was to sell hideous pots to a village that was undoubtedly more concerned about where their next meal was coming from, her attempts to “save” her brother from enforced conscription lead directly to his death, and she never did anything to justify her place amongst the outlaws (at best she stood and watched, at worst she got captured and criticised them on how they handled her rescue), and yet still the other outlaws shilled her to the skies. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong with the writing of this character, to the point where you wonder if it was done on purpose. Luckily for Joanna Frogett who played Kate, her very next role after Robin Hood was on the hit period drama Downton Abbey where she played Anna the maid, a far more beloved (and competent) character, which proved it wasn't the actress' fault for Kate's low popularity but poor writing.
    • Tuck wasn't that popular either. Though he had least had the advantage over Kate of actually being in the legends upon which the show was based, it was abundantly clear that the writers introduced him without really knowing what they planned to do with him. After the first episode of the third series (in which he convinces Robin to return to the fight against injustice) he really doesn't do anything substantial. It might not have been so bad except that the writers would often focus on Kate and Tuck at the expense of the other outlaws (Much, Allan, John) who had been around since the beginning of the show and were now being shoved aside in order to accommodate the newcomers. Thus Kate and Tuck not only got two character-centric episodes revolving around them, but were made out to be the two most important and trusted members of Robin's gang (Tuck taking John's place as The Lancer, and Kate nudging out Much as Robin's Sidekick, as well as his new Love Interest) with no justification whatsoever.

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  • Samson En Gert:
    • Alberto Vermicelli from this Belgian kiddie show, a very popular show in Belgium (and the Netherlands partially). The blame is on the creators themselves for actually Flanderizing the character. In the very first seasons (1990-1993), Alberto was simply a Ted Baxter-looking barber-opera singer who only liked to eat very much, yet he never hurt anyone with it. In fact, he even helped the others many times. But then came the Flanderization in 1994, which ran all the way until the series' end in 2005. He became an very dumb Manchild Eric Cartman-like Jerkass with almost no respect for his friends, or other civilians from the same fictional town. His Small Name, Big Ego became over the top and now he thinks he is God, demanding everything he wants, and then rants like a child if the others refuse to do it. His Big Eating also became exaggerating, he constantly talks about food, even during a discussion to help one of the characters who has problems (a typical plot in the show). Many episodes shows him plotting jerkish schemes to snatch food from others. Some episodes even portrays him as a complete Jerkass who delights in causing mischief and madness and bullying people; and on top of that he gets away with most of it, mostly because the others just stupidly let him go. It's very hard to think of why the titular characters and the other friends are still friends of him while he's abusing them, or the creators/writers didn't put him on a bus yet, or at least have the main cast break up with him and demote him to a recurring villain, so he still would be in the show.
    • The Minister's Assistant/Delegate (in original Dutch he's called "de afgevaardigde van de minister"), a government inspector checking out status in the fictional town. He used to be a normal, neutral recurring character, but after too many actors left the show, the writers (rather than creating new characters or hiring other Darrins) Flanderized into a main character for the last five seasons. He also became the Creator's Pet, since many of these season's episodes went directly about him. And the man has almost never contact with the other characters, or screen-time. His only appearance is to snarl at the main cast for not doing his job properly. And keep in mind that only two of the cast (excluding the Minister's Assistant) are government workers (The Mayor and his assistant Eugene), so this guy comes off as a dictator to his people.
    • Unlike the two above example (who got to stick around), Frieda, a character so despised, the writers had to write her out after only three seasons.
  • Saved by the Bell: Tori Scott, for not just replacing Kelly and Jessie after their actresses left the show, but for being a Composite Character of the two who was better than everyone else at everything, loved by everyone, had the popular girl Lisa begging to be her friend, and was Zack's new Love Interest all in very little time after her introduction.
  • Scandal: Quinn Perkins is considered this, due to her being the Naïve Newcomer and sticking out like a sore thumb. Season 2 seems to have her Rescued from the Scrappy Heap though.
  • Sesame Street:
    • Some people saw Rodeo Rosie as this back in The '70s, due to her being loud, overbearing, and bossy.
    • Deena and Pearl, especially the former, due to their sketches being nothing more than than a cheap attempt to copy the formula of the much more memorable Ernie and Bert sketches, at least in the eyes of the show's Periphery Demographic. Many of their sketches have become lost media.
    • All of the Monster Clubhouse characters (Mooba/Googel, Mel, Narf, and Groogle/Phoebe), and the segment as a whole were disliked by the series' adult fanbase, as well as the target demographic of children due to the segment's frenetic pace. This segment was dropped from the show after Season 34.
    • Horatio the Elephant is also not very well-liked, mainly due to his annoying voice as well as the fact that when he gets overly excited, he forgets he's an elephant and jumps up and down, causing small earthquakes as a result. However, the fanbase seems to like Hortatio's puppet when it is utilized as a generic, unnamed elephant.
    • Several parents on Reddit seem to dislike Charlie, a human child of a military family, who was introduced in Season 50 and became a regular character instead of a one-off like the other kids. She shows up everyone and knows everything, and her affinity for counting once caused The Count to undergo a Heroic BSoD.
    • Some parents find Rudy to be annoying in the Abby's Amazing Adventures segments due to his formulaic tendency to just give up on whatever they’re doing when it gets hard before Abby pushes him to carry on.
  • Shameless (US)
    • Karen Jackson gained this reputation over time for being overall nasty, manipulative and selfish.
    • Sammi Slott. While she was more or less enjoyable during Season 4, in Season 5, she crosses into this. She shoots Frank, tries to act like she's so above everyone else, and manages to get Carl and Ian arrested for her son Chuckie getting arrested after he was uncovered as a drug mule. With Carl, it's understandable since he was the one who planted the drugs on Chuckie, but Ian had nothing to do with this, so calling the Army police on him was completely uncalled for on her end. While Frank is a horrible parent, he can occasionally make up for it by still being caring at times. Sammi is shown to be one horrible woman who doesn't care who she screws over to get what she wants.
    • Debbie's popularity took a dive after she hit puberty in Season 4 and became a Bratty Teenage Daughter while losing the qualities that had made her Wise Beyond Her Years in the process, but the real drop-off happens in Season 6. She deliberately gets pregnant in a misguided attempt to keep her boyfriend with her, decides to keep it even after he's ditched her, ignores Fiona's warnings that she's making a really bad decision, and refuses to accept the consequences of her actions or even accept help from Fiona (who was proven right about Debbie not being ready to take care of a baby) when she does offer it. And even after Franny is born, she succeeds on pure luck and is handed almost as many opportunities to succeed by the writers as Frank does. By Season 7, she consistently rates as being the least-liked character on the show.
  • Sherlock: Eurus Holmes is consistently disliked for being an accumulation of criticisms people had with the series. She is an Unknown Relative and Psychopathic Womanchild who hijacks the final episode, the plot twists regarding her increasingly creep into fantastic and unbelievable territories — including that she made Sherlock remember his childhood best friend, Victor, as his pet dog — and required both Sherlock and Mycroft to be severely underpowered and helpless, and her intelligence being an Informed Attribute (her ability is more like a Compelling Voice power). Furthermore, despite having committed several murdersnote , Sherlock forgives her because she just wanted to be loved — despite her showing no remorse for her actions, all of which she did with sickeningly sadistic glee — and she ultimately ends up being punished with hugs, visitation rights, and being treated nicely because she's family. Tellingly, Eurus is commonly cited as the reason reviewers disliked Season 4 and consider "The Final Problem" such a contentious episode.
  • Six Feet Under: Lisa. The Clingy Jealous Granola Girl Housewife and tedious Romantic False Lead. A waste of perfectly good Lili Taylor.
  • Smallville:
    • Lana Lang. Many fans also consider her a Creator's Pet, because the writers seem to refuse to do anything interesting with her character that contributes positively to the story. The fact that she is a troublemaking Satellite Love Interest that Clark never gets over, the whole thing a Romantic Plot Tumor that drags on and on and on until you scream in frustration doesn't help. Although some of it seemed to finally get into the producers' heads in Season 8, when they acknowledged that it is Lana who holds Clark back from his destiny and actually had a Take That, Scrappy! speech delivered to her by a minor character calling her out for her constant whining and self-pitying all her life ("Power").
    • Davis Bloom. In season 8, he was the Big Bad, Doomsday. Fans hated his look, but they hated his relationship with Chloe even more. Killing Jimmy Olsen didn't help either.
  • Smash:
    • Leo Houston, Julia's whiney, snot nosed teenage son. He even kept complaining to her mother's writing partner Tom, convinces his boyfriend to help get a drug charge swept under the rug, and kept it from Julia.
    • Michael Swift, he begins an affair with Julia. Sure affairs happen, except he has a loving wife and newborn son. Where Julia is trying to rebuild her marriage he simply doesn't give a damn about his wife.
    • Daisy Parker, sure at first you feel sorry for her, losing her job because Derek slept with her. Then after exploiting her lawsuit to get Ana fired, she immediately goes full on Diva mode, becoming a pain in the ass to the entire cast and crew of Hit List.
    • All of these however can't hold a candle to Jimmy Collins. A talented composer yes, but his attitude and constant whining and demands, who treats his friends like dirt. Even after the many times he gets called out, and half-assedly apologizes, it can be well assumed that he has conveniently forgotten the lesson. Only Ellis can claim to be more hated than him, and Ellis was outright intended to be hated, where as it's clear the audience is meant to applaud Jimmy's unearned Divaish personality. Many fans blame him for being the final nail in the coffin that eventually led to the show's cancellation.
  • Sons of Anarchy: Gemma Teller-Morrow gradually became the scrappy of the show. While she initially was more of a Base-Breaking Character, she started to take up more focus in plotlines that didn't even center around her. Too many times she got away with her actions and barely suffered consequences for it. It all culminated when she killed her daughter-in-law and put the blame on someone else which instigated the main conflict of the final season where she also barely suffered the consequences herself, which was very frustrating to watch. Not only that but her eventual death was very obviously played for sympathy which came off as completely unearned. It certainly doesn't help that she got away with the murder of her former husband, her son's biological father, but she show completely ignores it.
  • Stargate Universe: Chloe. All the negative aspects of The Load, Too Dumb to Live and Ms. Fanservice all rolled into one neat little package... in season one. In season two the writers apparently noticed this and bestowed her with alien knowledge which eventually allowed her to become a valuable asset to the ship. She pretty much becomes an Iron Woobie and a badass.
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine:
    • The show had Ezri Dax, the seventh season's Replacement Scrappy, who filled in after Jadzia was killed. Animosity eventually cooled, though, and the character soon developed a fanbase of her own as people became willing to view her apart from her "replacing-a-well-loved-character" status—a curious case of Hindsight leading to Rescued from the Scrappy Heap.
    • Vic Fontaine gathered significant haters, not because he was a terrible character in his own right, but because he showed up in the back half of the final season and took up a lot of screentime right when a lot of the ongoing plot arcs that viewers were heavily invested in were wrapping up and everything was revving up for the big finale, making any time spent fooling around in the holosuite feel wasted. (Many fans had the same objection to "Take Me Out to the Holosuite," a non-Vic-related holosuite episode.)
    • Quark's mother Ishka. Now at the end of the day, it's obvious why they don't have a happy relationship: He is a misogynist who treats women like property and she is a staunch advocate for women's rights on a planet where women are treated like dirt. However not only does she very blatantly favour Rom (with some Unfortunate Implications that it is solely because he in no way acts like a Ferengi male) but she doesn't seem to give any concern whatsoever that her actions may completely ruin Quark's life from the literal loss of his livelihood and assets to their government threatening to kill him. Even after Quark rescues her from the largest and most dangerous power in the galaxy while nearly getting killed in the process she still hates him in her next appearance "Profit and Lace" seeing absolutely no problem in the world using him against his will and forcing him to undergo a sex change. There is a difference between destroying your son's life in a Needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few kind of way and just outright not giving a crap.
      • The worst part: Ishka's first episode has her as much more sympathetic, complex and likable—and even ends with the implication that she and Quark are on their way to repairing their past animosity. Her very next episode, however, arguably began the Flanderization process. It doesn't help that she's played by a different actress from that point on.
      • It certainly didn't help matters when, in "Ferengi Love Songs," Ishka casually told Quark that he was wrong to break a contract with another Ferengi, even though fulfilling that contract (with Brunt in the earlier episode "Body Parts") would have required Quark to kill himself.
  • Star Trek: Enterprise:
    • T'Pol could have been an interesting character; after all we have never had a female Vulcan main character before and the prequel format opened a whole tree of possibilities for the Human-Vulcan dynamic. The problem was that they made her instantly dislikeable by not only making her a racist who tried to pick at just about every facet of human culture and society she could but did it in an extraordinarily bitchy way that usually amounted to little more than easily refuted straw man arguments, such as the time when she tried to claim that humans were carnivores while sitting there watching Archer eat a bread stick. The final nail in the coffin was when they decided to give her some of the most shamelessly juvenile fanservice of the franchise including multiple scenes where they stripped her down to tight skimpy underwear. Like most things on the show she improved immensely by season four but the overall damage was irreparable by this point.
    • When it comes to fan polls, Archer is almost universally the least-liked captain of the five. The most quoted reasons nearly always include the fact that he committed willing genocide (Dear Doctor), that he has a hypocritical do as I say not as I do view of right and wrong (Fortunate Son), that he is a borderline racist who is willing to put lives at risk instead of asking the Vulcans for help (Breaking the Ice) and that he is willing to jeopardize the lives of his whole crew due to problems caused solely by his ego (A Night In Sickbay). Like T'Pol, he is generally regarded as being Rescued from the Scrappy Heap by season four, but unfortunately it was far too late for him.
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation:
    • Dr. Pulaski. Pulaski replaced Dr. Crusher as the ship's doctor for a single season before fan outcry got them to bring Dr. Crusher back. As often happens in life, first impressions are everything. Not only was she a Replacement Scrappy, but the writers made a major miscalculation in their attempt to make her a Distaff Counterpart of Dr. McCoy from the original series. Since McCoy's arguments with Spock were such a fan favorite aspect of the character, the writers tried to duplicate it by having Pulaski take a dislike to Data and toss him similar insults about being so logical all the time. Unfortunately, unlike Spock, Data couldn't even really understand that he was being insulted and could not respond in kind — they missed that at least half of what made the Bones/Spock relationship so great was that Spock would zing McCoy right back, Vulcan-style. Also, Data is very rarely wrong, so Pulaski's mockery of Data's aping of human traits makes her seem like a bigot bullying a mentally disabled person. Other than Pulaski, every TNG character who has expressed doubt in Data's sentience has been labeled a villain. Ironically, the real McCoy had already met Data in the first episode of the series and was nicer to him than Pulaski! Worse, Pulaski behaved boorishly to Captain Picard in her very first scene. If an incoming department head tried that in a Naval ship, she'd probably be tossed overboard. The character mellowed out by her second episode, but the damage was done. Diana Muldaur left the show on less-than-harmonious terms; a mess all around. However, some fans at least acknowledge that she was a competent and intelligent doctor. (And a good actress, as her two parts in classic Trek show.)
    • Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher. A classic case of a (and former Trope Namer of) Creator's Pet. He could have been a fun character, embodying a dream of many a fan. A geeky teen genius who's allowed to be a part of the crew and explore the universe. He could have provided insights and solve some problems, but no. He had to meddle in everything, he had to be shamelessly praised by everybody and he solved virtually every major problem or crisis. Of course, everyone around him had to take a sharp drop in IQ for this to work, which did not help his popularity with viewers. As with Pulaski, Wesley's reputation as a Scrappy can be traced back to his first appearances: As early as Season Two, Wesley was portrayed as fallible and prone to self-doubt, and in later seasons, he was written out of the main cast and reduced to a guest character, whom even gets a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Picard himself. Referenced in The Big Bang Theory when Sheldon referred to actor Wil Wheaton as "the Jar-Jar Binks of the Star Trek fandom".note  Wil Wheaton himself wrote in his Next Generation episode reviews that he frequently yells "Shut up Wesley!" at his younger self. His initial demotion to a guest character was eventually met with a more permanent Put on a Bus when he joined the Travelers in the final season, and he disappeared from the franchise for a long time until a surprise guest appearance on Star Trek: Picard where he shows none of the negative qualities he possessed as a kid.
    • Alexander, Worf’s son on paper could’ve been an intriguing addition to the series but in practice he simply took up Wesley’s reins of being the insufferable progeny. Telling the only time fans truly liked Alexander was in regard to his Future Badass self.
  • Star Trek: Voyager:
    • Neelix. (Die, hedgehog!) His sometimes overbearing cheer (especially when he's trying to get Tuvok to act less like what he is, viz, a Vulcan), the condescending and jealous way he treated Kes during their relationship, his bumbling occasionally being an outright danger to the lives of the crew (in one episode he almost destroyed the ship in an attempt to make cheese), and the fact that missions he was brought on as a local expert tended to end horribly, did not endear him to fans. Although he admittedly had an interesting and tragic backstory, it was not usually brought up, and while the show gave many Take That, Scrappy! moments to him later on, he didn't change that much.
    • Chakotay has this among American Indian Trekkies (as well as the actor himself!) for Ethnic Scrappy reasons.
    • The entire Kazon species basically constituted one of these on the first two seasons of Star Trek: Voyager. In spite of the fact that the entire species seemed to be rock-stupid and technologically backwards, Voyager somehow managed not only to keep running into them, but to keep running into the same ones. Later in the series, the writers themselves took shots at the Kazon by revealing that the Borg took a pass on assimilating them on the grounds that doing so would undermine their perfection. Their role as a major power in the Delta quadrant seems an Ass Pull as well. On the first episode they are shown, they are depicted as a small nomadic slave-trading tribe always on the move to find vital water supplies... but the minute Neelix pisses them off, out comes the armada of Voyager-level warships always on Voyager's tail. It's almost like refusing change to a bum on the subway only to find you pissed off Don Corleone.
      • They were given a minimal amount of Character Development, namely how they were once slaves of the Trabe, whom they overthrew and looted their technology. This was probably meant as a Hand Wave as to why people that rock-stupid could have functioning starships.
      • It doesn't help that this attempt to create "Klingons for the Delta Quadrant" came off less the Klingons' "Space Vikings" hat and more "Space Gangbangers".
      • Water is also the second most common molecule in the universe (after H2), so the notion of them having warp-capable spaceships while struggling to find enough water was particularly hilarious.
  • Stranger Things: Powell and Callahan during the Season 1, due to their Lack of Empathy and incredible tasteless jokeless from Callahan. It seemed that the writers noted of this too, as their roles were reduced in the second and third seasons.
  • Supernatural:
    • Ruby was hated before she even debuted, thanks to inflammatory press releases claiming that she was a new hunter being introduced who was better than Sam and Dean. Fan-hate only grew when she started to come between the brothers and seemed to be encouraging Sam's dark side, which made the brothers have their first real rift in their relationship (and made fans take sides with their preferred brother, breaking the fanbase for the first—but not last—time).
    • Fans liked Metatron well enough... until it was revealed that he was manipulating Castiel for his own ends and he cast all the angels out of Heaven after killing Naomi for the sake of (misplaced) vengeance. In the space of one episode, he went from loved to hated. Don't be surprised if fans now say he's worse than Lucifer. This got even worse in season 9, where the writers can't seem to decide whether they want him to be a smart and dangerous Magnificent Bastard or an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain who just wants people to like him, resulting in him constantly switching between the two rather contradictory personalities, sometimes within the span of a single episode. Also not helping is his tendency for his schemes to rely more on giving other characters the Idiot Ball than actually doing something clever himself.
    • Amelia brought in as a love interest for Sam in the first half of Season 8. She was received so badly by the fandom that not only did the writers acknowledge it, she received only a single scene in the Season Finale Recap despite being in a third of the season's episodes. Part of why she's so hated is that the writers intended for her to be the reason why Sam quit hunting and didn't look for Dean.
  • Super Sentai:
    • Toshizo Tanba from Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, who has no respect for Takeru or his vassals, and dismisses Genta for not having been born a samurai even though Genta has fought bravely with the others for most of the series. Even after Takeru is appointed as rightful leader of the clan, Tanba continues to be loud, arrogant and overbearing, only shutting up when Kaoru hits him with her fan. It would seem that he wises up in the end and delivers a crucial item to eventually score the ultimate victory, looking more humble that way. However, when he returned with Kaoru in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, he reverted to his old Jerkass ways, thus possibly annulling all the good thing he did in the Shinkenger finale.
    • Gosei Sentai Dairanger's Kou/Kiba Ranger prior to his Character Development, for hogging the spotlight, sexually harassing Rin and bringing too much goofiness to scenes that should be serious. His case isn't helped by his being the first child Ranger, when a lot of fandom dislikes child characters on principle.
    • A large number of fans have mixed opinions for the so-called "screaming Reds": a group of Red Rangers from the mid to late 2000s who were loud, zany, hyperactive and so exaggerated they could have been cartoon characters. Yousuke, Ban, Kai, Jan and Sosuke tend to be lumped into this category.
      • While he's not a "screaming Red", Alata also catches a lot of flack from certain fans due to being "too emotional" and "not manly enough" — despite the fact that he's the series' biggest Determinator. Though he gets saved in the 199 Hero Great Battle movie along with the other Goseigers for their aggressive behavior and taking one more step beyond being Badass.
      • Tokumei Sentai Go Busters has Hiromu Sakurada, who unfortunately gets a lot of hate for being "not cool" unlike Takeru Shiba as well for his Wangst. He's also the reason for the unpopularity of Go-Busters.
      • Daigo Kiryu from Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger is a Base-Breaking Character example. While he has a sizable number fans (due to being an awesome Memetic Badass), is also labelled by his detractors as one of the most disliked Red Rangers, if not the widely despised Red Ranger of recent times, thanks to a combination of Spotlight-Stealing Squad and factors of ridiculous levels that pretty much outshades the entire team, despite the fact that he always says "We're a Sentai!" to his own teammates.
      • Also from the same series we got Souji Rippukan, to a lesser extent, who doesn't get much characterization, since the main writer Riku Sanjo has no idea what's going with him.
      • Takaharu Igasaki from Shuriken Sentai Ninninger shares the same case with Daigo. When he first debuted, he's... an extremely obnoxious Idiot Hero, prone to yell "I'M GETTING FIRED UUUUPPP!!!" nearly Once per Episode, and many sees his acting as rather bad, made worse that he's getting a lot of attention, even for Red standards. As the show goes on, however, his actor gradually improved his acting, his Catchphrase is slowly being phased out and when he did say that, it comes more naturally as being Hot-Blooded, and not only he developed some good logical thinking and insight while keeping his Idiot Hero status (which by the way, often being made fun of by the cast), he gets less and less focus episodes, letting others have their own spotlight. However, by that time, it was like the fandom went silent on the show, so the jury is still not yet out about whether he has been completely Rescued from the Scrappy Heap or not.
    • Princess Ial from Hikari Sentai Maskman holds Scrappy status among fans in Indonesia and the Philippines, where the show is very popular due to official dubs that aired there. Tends to be for Die for Our Ship reasons and because she's seen as a Flat Character and Satellite Love Interest.
    • By normal standards, if there's a recurring group that fans to dislike, it's the little children who got to the spotlight just so the Sentai can save them. Sure, the rescue would look awesome, but it gets irritating to hear the kid screaming for help near 24/7. Thankfully, though, it seems to mostly exist in old school series, new series doesn't use 'kids screaming for help' too often. And then there's Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger where Bandora makes it her modus operandi to target this kind of kids, because she hates them. Some fans understand this and thinks this all makes sense so they'll excuse these kids for these shows, some thinks that it decreases Zyuranger's quality because of those kids. At the very least, these kids were usually lasting only for one episode. But God help any children characters who became a recurring supporting cast. It's not just Rangers (like the aforementioned Kou), just a recurring cast member who's a kid can also earn ire (including Yuta, Mai, Natsume, Nozomu). Strangely, this will never happen to villainous kids like either Tran or Akomaru.

    T-V 
  • Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Riley attained this status in almost record time. The fandom does not like her, especially the perception that she gets in the way of the popular John/Cameron ship. Was rescued somewhat by the revelation she was from the future and there explicitly to turn John and Cameron against each other.
  • That '70s Show: Randy Pearson, for being Eric's Suspiciously Similar Substitute and a Replacement Scrappy while trying to replace Kelso at the same time.
  • The final three episodes of Three's Company basically served as a means to set up its spin-off Three's a Crowd, in which the entire cast save for John Ritter's Jack Tripper would be cast aside. These episodes introduced Jack's love interest for Three's a Crowd, Vicky Bradford (played by Mary Cadorette) and her father James (played by Robert Mandan). The fundamental problems with Vicky was due to how she was both written and how she was played. On Three's Company, the audience had spent all of these years watching Jack date all of these sexually mature women with decent heads on their shoulders. But by the very end of the series, he all of a sudden, hooks up with this drip of a woman who almost seems like a little girl. Vicky is still relying on her parents and acting like she's never been in a relationship before. Meanwhile, it simply wasn't fun nor funny to see a nice guy like Jack constantly have to put up with and grovel for the approval of a jerk like James. You never really understood getting why the friction between Jack and James was warranted since Jack never really gave James a justifiable reason for him to be angry with him in the first place.
  • Tic-Tac-Dough: The rapping dragon which was introduced in the middle of the short-lived 1990 run has often been condemned as the single most cringeworthy element of a generally ill-conceived and badly hosted revival.
  • Torchwood Owen, an apparent attempt to create a Jack-the-Lad type character that failed dismally. In the story world he's supposed to be some kind of love god, but Burn Gorman is strangely froglike and charm-free. It doesn't help that when we first see him he's getting women to sleep with him by using a special spray he nicked from Torchwood supplies that made him irresistible (which more than a few fans saw as essentially Owen raping unwilling sexual partners). However, in the second series, the writers acknowledged all of this and early on took constant digs at him. His popularity increased with his character arc through the second season, only for him to be killed off in a heartbreaking final episode.
  • Veronica Mars:
    • Piz. Everyone in the fandom hates Piz, apparently even the actor because he planned to leave after the season if the show hadn't been cancelled.
    • In a strange case, Dick, was universally reviled by everyone as well, including the cast, the crew, and even his Creator Rob Thomas despised him, but was kept around because everybody loved his actor Ryan Hansen and wanted to keep working with him.
  • V (2009): Tyler. Even allowing for the fact he's a teenage boy, he's stupid and blinded by hormones. Doesn't help that he's dating Lisa. The feeling is largely based on his "oh, shiny sexy aliens" expression mixed with the whiny "The Vs are awesome, you just don't understand me" thing he's got going. It certainly doesn't help that he's so much of an Unwitting Pawn that he's falling for plans that didn't even have him in mind, despite his own V girlfriend secretly trying to save him from what is surely an unpleasant death. When he does get killed by those same aliens in a particularly gruesome manner, the general reaction was a resounding "Finally!".

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  • The West Wing: Mandy. She disappeared without a trace from Season 2 onward. A lot of Mandy's Scrappiness was her inability to fit in with the compassionate, quirky, slightly bumbling, bleeding-heart, idealistic senior staff. As the public relations person, a lot of her interactions with the cast would be her trying to talk them out of doing the right thing in favor of the more photogenic thing (e.g. wanting the SCOTUS nominee who was Ivy League educated but had disquieting beliefs about right-to-privacy over the retired Latino cop who went to night school to pass the bar but has a solidly liberal judicial record). Unlike most TV shows, every single main character on The West Wing was a member of one single unified, close-knit team, and Mandy, being the only exception and not a very important one at that, was left floating.
  • Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Every female guest performer in the US version (with the exception of Josie Lawrence who was quite popular in the UK version) seems to get negative reception from most fans, except for one. Whoopi Goldberg managed to become an Ensemble Dark Horse and she's quite popular with the fans. If we're going by YouTube comments, then she's considered the best female performer of the entire series. She only performed in one taping! Even fans who like much of the female performers didn't warm to Kathy Greenwood, who seemed out of place among the more outspoken other cast members, didn't have many funny lines to speak of, and once went an entire episode without saying anything.
  • The Wonder Years: Winnie Cooper draws the ire of many fans of the show. For one, she is a main character, but is particularly bland, with no discernible character traits that made her shine. And this on a show where she was surrounded by distinct personalities in virtually every character, even minor characters. She's essentially a "Jane Everywoman" who could be replaced if it weren't for the "Girl Next Door" arc. Two, she is often seen as a major Jerkass to Kevin throughout the show, yet he continues to pine for her. However, it must be noted that the show is about adolescence, and Kevin is plenty a jerkass himself. Thus, teenagers will be jerkasses who will hurt the ones they love. However, several minor characters introduced either for one episode, or over a several-episode arc, have been more well received by fans as love interests for Kevin. In particular, Madeline Adams, who is often a fan favorite. Madeline is in turn made out to be a jerkass by Kevin. Although fans debate whether her behavior was actual jerkass behavior, or just behavior of someone who was sick of seeing Kevin wrapped around Winnie's finger. Especially given Winnie's disinterest in Kevin during that story arc.
  • Xena: Warrior Princess: Joxer, at least between seasons 2 and 4 for hogging screentime. When the fans finally started to tolerate him around season 5, the writers killed him off.
  • The X-Files: Special Agent Diana Fowley was loathed by a vast majority of X-Philes. She was not meant to be likeable, but fans hated her even more than the writers anticipated. She was assigned to the X-Files cases when Mulder and Scully were Reassigned to Antarctica and she soon revealed herself as a rat collaborating with The Conspiracy. Moreover, she was forced as a Romantic False Lead and Old Flame to Mulder, so naturally especially fans invested in shipping Mulder and Scully hated her. Her final deeds and death redeemed her a little, but there was hardly a fan who shed a tear for her. Despite often savagely skewering all involved, the notorious parody fanfiction (and the Scullysland website) of fan DFowley became and remains very popular with the show's producers and cast, as well as other fans, including Shippers. Somewhat ironically, DFowley is male.
  • X-Play:
    • Despite being the main reviewers on the show, Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb could qualify. Post-Seasonal Rot, they suffered from massive Flanderization that made them seem to worship Microsoft, no matter how bad their games are, as well as massive backlash from the He Panned It, Now He Sucks! train of thought.
    • Ever since the G4/Tech TV merger, everyone seems to have become a scrappy. The exceptions seem to be Kevin Pereira (who saved himself by becoming a bit of a Large Ham and actually knowing his stuff), Alison Haislip, Blair Butler (who has shown that she really is One of Us) and Leyla Kayleigh.
    • Tommy Tallarico and Victor Lucas of Reviews on the Run and Judgment Day deserve special mention as the former's credibility in being involved in game music was shot by basically being a frat boy, nixing ratings darlings like Psychonauts in favor of DOA games and the like, Lucas never pronouncing Japanese game titles and characters' names right, a general knack for not doing their research, using the 10 point rating scale X-Play is specifically against and shilling a game they previous deemed a failure. X-Play hung on for a few more years while Judgemnet Day cancelled a short time later, though Reviews on the Run outlasted X-Play by several years.
    • Victor and Tommy may have parted ways, but Victor Lucas continued reviewing games on Reviews On The Run with an entire ensemble of crew members. Jose "FUBAR" Sanchez could be considered The Scrappy of the team, as he is the least vocal during his reviews and appears to not be taken seriously by other cast members.
  • You're the Worst: Becca Cottumaccio-Barbara. While all the other characters are heavily flawed people that veer into straight-up jerkassery on many occasions, they all still get some humanizing moments that show the kinder sides underneath their rough exteriors and at least some bits of backstory to explain their current personalities/actions. Becca, however, is a self-absorbed and egotistical Stepford Smiler obsessed with keeping up appearances who acts like she's so above everyone else but is really just as petty and immature as the others, if not more.
  • Zoey 101: James, the Replacement Scrappy for Chase. In the first episode he gets intoduced he becomes part of the group, Zoey's love interest and every girl instantly falls in love with him.

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