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Fanfic
Rhymey from My Little Unicorn, whom most of the readers detest with a passion. It doesn't help that he ends up paired with Fluttershy.
Food and Snacks
Fritos Chips. At almost every party when people select bags of chips, the chips that are never selected are the Fritos.
Unless they're Scoops
Any banana flavored candy.
Except for banana Runts, which are popular enough for candy fans to petition for an all-banana bag.
Some healthy food. People only eat them in order to lose weight and some are either too expensive or do not help.
Breadcrust, especially the ends of a loaf of bread. There will be people who avoid these two slices like the plague, while there are people who love them.
The makers of Revels are so profoundly aware that everyone hates their coffee flavour that they even made an advert spoofing the Deerhunter to lampshade it.
Manhwa
Tower of God: Parakewl, who is one dirty, cowardly motherfucker. He betrays his team with a idiotic strategy and when one of his team members follows through with it, he turns his back at him because he doesn't trust him or his strategy at a crucial moment. He calls everybody trash and means it, sucks up to those more powerful when he immediately needs them, acts like he is in charge and has no sense of dignity whatsoever.
Person Man in They Might Be Giants' song "Particle Man" is clearly intended to be the scrappy of the comic book the song is about.
Back when rapper Chingy (yes, that's really his name) was in the group Disturbing Tha Peace, he was known as the black sheep of the group, though for good reason. The DTP single "We Got Them Guns" makes this fact painfully evident. At best, Chingy's a more derivative Nelly, which doesn't help, considering his beef against the rapper (both of them hail from St. Louis). And then Chingy got so arrogant, he wanted out of DTP, because he thought he could reproduce the triple platinum success that he received from his one-hit wonder "Right Thurr". Chingy was the only person who seemed surprised that abandoning DTP was almost certain doom to his career...
Geoff Tate of Queensrÿche was at one time widely considered one of the best singers in metal, but has recently become this to a large portion of the band's fanbase. In the 2000s, Tate effectively took over the band, during which time his voice began to degrade, their new albums met with overwhelmingly negative response and they started dropping a number of older fan-favorite songs from their live sets. Then came the cabaret tour, Dedicated to Chaos (generally considered their worst album to date), and Geoff saying in interviews that he didn't like metal or metal fans. Then, after a series of incidents including him spitting on his bandmates at one show and telling the crowd they sucked at another, the rest of the band fired him, at which point he started up his own version of the band. Since then, pretty much everything he's done (such as announcing, just hours after his former bandmates set a release date for their new album, that he'd release his own Queensrÿche album before theirs came out and the cover would be a giant fist with "FU" on it) has seemed to be an almost calculated effort to make the fans who sided with the rest of the band hate him more.
Newspaper Comics
Luann features Elwood, a short, unappealing midget of a young man who appears to be wealthy (but bought a cubic zirconia ring for a girl), but comes across as selfish, stalker-ish and rude. Interjecting himself into the various Love Triangle storylines has made him very unpopular, as well as his having few good qualities. It remains to be seen if this was intentional or not, but Greg Evans has essentially not used him in months, so maybe he's aware of it.
The kids from Family Circus. They are the reason the strip has a Periphery Hatedom. Pearls Before Swine writer Stephan Pastis often uses his strip to point out the fact that its a relic from the early sixties and doesn't really endear the comics section to any reader under the age of fifty.
Barry from Curtis. The author clearly intended his antics to just be normal kid-brother grade asshattery, but they're usually incredibly mean-spirited and deliberately designed to provoke Curtis, so that Barry can then sob to his mother that big mean ol' Curtis is trying to hit him for no reason at all, whereupon she will give Curtis chores to do for trying to hit his sweet, innocent brother, and Barry ice cream for being a manipulative sack of shit. Diane lacks the pattern recognition to notice that Curtis always has a very detailed description of the transgressions she doesn't believe Barry committed.
In the Garfield fandom, there is a fairly vocal hatedom for Nermal since all he ever does is annoy the crap out of Garfield.
Hey Lynn Johnston, if you wanted to make your readers happy, you could've set Anthony on fire. Or run him over with a tank. Or have him mauled by a moose. Or really, anything but what you did do: Getting him back together with Elizabeth after years of him mooning after her while married to another woman and his outrageously inappropriate behavior during the Going After, and then ending the strip with their wedding. Seriously, you couldn't have mauled him with a moose?
This is how bad the hate for Anthony is: Eric blatantly cheated on Elizabeth multiple times while they were living together and was completely smarmy and unapologetic after they broke up; when she went to pick up the last of her things from his place, he acted like he should be forgiving her for the failed relationship. And even still, it seem most of the fans would have rather seen her get back with Eric than with Anthony.
Professional Wrestling
The ur-example of wrestling would be Sean (X-Pac/Syxx/1-2-3 Kid) Waltman. Best known for naming the trope X-Pac Heat. To explain this a bit - Waltman had been part of the mega-popular DGenerationX, and gotten very popular as part of it. His star faded though, but his gimmick didn't evolve. He took up plenty of TV time and rarely lost despite not really getting a push or doing anything interesting. Pretty soon the fans just didn't want to watch him. There were actually a few incidents where Waltman pulled himself out of the Scrappy Heap briefly, such as teaming with Jeff Hardy and doing the Hardy Boyz trademark double team moves with him, or a very good television match against Eddie Guerrero. But since his gimmick still wouldn't evolve.
These days he's not all that hated. Partly because he's spent a lot of time in Mexico and time heals all wounds, and partly because he's working on cleaning up the bad attitude that contributed to his Scrappydom.
John Cena has been The Scrappy at periods of his career. As a heel, he worked a Pretty Fly For A White Guy gimmick and was extremely popular... then suddenly he turned face and the fans were expected to take the formerly phony hip-hop posturing seriously. Then the WWE bookers started pushing him specifically to appeal to younger fans, giving him a Periphery Hatedom. Nowadays, fans mainly like Cena - he regularly gets awards in wrestling magazines - but they continue to boo him mainly because the WWE bookers try so hard to get the fans to cheer for him. Scrappy By Proxy? X Pac Heat Once Removed? It's weird.
This whole attitude towards Cena may be best exemplified by ECW country
Well John Cena did state in a promo before One Night Stand that he knew he wouldn't be welcomed in any ECW arena and would probably spark a riot if he won. Then said he was going to win. Maybe that reaction was wanted.
Along the same lines as the above example, Lince Dorado of CHIKARA is often given the nickname "Cena Dorado" because of the way Chikara pushes him; despite the bookers fluctuating between booking him like Cena and booking him like any other wrestler, Dorado's considered to be The Scrappy of the promotion. This attitude was in full effect at King of Trios 2009, when Lince's team (The Future is Now) was defeated by the eventual winners of the tournament (Friends in Similar Tights, aka Team FIST); despite being the heels, FIST got cheered for taking out TFiN. Seems that the bookers got the message though, as Lince has been stuck in the undercard for a while lately.
A string of generally improved performances in-ring combined with a de-push, followed by a well executed Face Heel Turn is leading to much of the CHIKARMY ruling Lince as having been Rescued from the Scrappy Heap.
Jeff Hardy during the early part of the 21st century. He was mainly Mr. Fanservice, and the male fanbase resented him for this. Also he was demotivated and drugged up. Things bottomed out when he made an appearance at Ring Of Honor. High pitched squeals of female fans who'd gone to the show just to see Jeff, mixed with the roughly 1000 ROH regulars chanting "We Want Matt" and "Don't Come Back" at him.
Despite all this Jeff remained relatively popular with other promotions, although still somewhat of a Base Breaker. This is until the Epic Fail that was the Victory Road PPV, where Jeff came out to wrestle for TNA's title completely destroyed on drugs. After that, people have started to migrate away from Jeff.
Brian Adams as Crush of Demolition, as the three-man team era marked the beginning of the end of the team, as Ax would soon leave and Crush and Smash jobbed out.
Although the promotion Dragon Gate is popular with fans, it is something of a Scrappy to many other pro wrestlers. Dragon Gate's matches generally end with flat out barrages of finishing moves rather than a finisher. Many other Japanese wrestlers see this particular style as flat out disrespectful to the business itself.
Michael Cole serves as a non-wrestler Scrappy for his bland commentary and tendency to declare something as "the first time ever..." regardless of accuracy. He'll also make boneheaded comments like Bret Hart breaking his leg as the worst night of his life (why, yes, this was years after his brother Owen's fatal accident) and referring to Vickie Guerrero's tribute to her late husband at Wrestlemania XXVI as a "hog splash." Despite all this, Cole has maintained a unbroken commentary position with the WWE since 1999, something none of the other current commentators can say. Thus whenever anyone puts a beating on him, be it Bryan Danielson or Jim Ross, expect cheers. Lots and lots of cheers.
Before it's mentioned, yes, we know his fanboying of The Miz is kayfabe. This does not make it any less annoying. He is madly and unapologetically in love with The Miz for some reason, unambiguously favoring him in matches by on at least one occasion, standing up and loudly cheering for him, and whenever anything bad happens to him, he spends the match night bitching about how unfairly The Miz was being treated, making him come off as extremely, and disgustingly whiny. At one point, he cost the WWE Champion at the time, Randy Orton, a win, and claimed that since he had won the Money In The Bank, The Miz was completely justified in doing this because "he can do whatever he wants." In all fairness to The Miz and Cole, that is the same way every MITB winner except for Rob Van Dam had cashed it in. Even CM Punk mentioned it was smart of The Miz. Nevertheless, Cole does this for nearly everything Miz does to the point that he had to become a Jerk Ass against long-time commentating partner Jerry Lawler when Jerry began feuding with Miz. Again, it's Kayfabe but it's very annoying. I don't want to see him punched. I want to see him go away.
On the opposite end, there's his constant trolling of any and all internet favorites which has only become more shrill and annoying as the months go on.
He may be about to be Rescued from the Scrappy Heap given the fan reaction to how he handled the 9/10/12 episode of Raw and Jerry Lawler's Real Life heart attack on the air. Stay tuned...
TNA's Dixie Carter. The woman has no charisma or business sense. The worst part is, she never plays the heel, even though every one of TNA's fans and haters despise her. She had Tommy Dreamer beg on national TV for one last chance to show the world about ECW (something that did not happen for WWE's One Night Stand, because if it did, the Mutants would have destroyed Vince McMahon). Oh, and as pointed out by Spoony, she has only one facial expression, which is now known as "Dixie Carter Face".
Lacey Von Erich is regarded as one of the worst wrestlers in all of history to step into the ring. She's arguably even more incompetent in the ring than the WWE Divas, botches moves as often as she connects with them, and a failure at selling even the most basic of moves. The only person ever to display less in-ring talent than her in TNA history is Jenna Morasca. The worst part? She's got enough natural athleticism that there's no reason she couldn't pull a Trish Stratus and become good, but because of her wrestling pedigree (being part of the Von Erich family), she has never actually gone through wrestling training.
Vickie Guerrero, at least as a character. An untalented, shrill and downright ugly woman that had multiple segments of a SINGLE Smackdown! dedicated to her and whatever she was doing at the time. As "GM" of the Smackdown! brand, Guerrero hogged the spotlight on a show that was mainly know for featuring a lot of up-and-coming stars and giving them shots at the big time. Her inability to act and properly play a crowd, besides some of the cheapest-brand Heat you could find, turned many off to the Smackdown! brand during her tenure as its GM.
As Rocky Maivia, The Rock had a huge hatedom. After his Face Heel Turn, he became the guy we all know and love.
John Laurinaitis is the most recent example. In Real Life he was already disliked for being an incompetent stooge of Vince McMahon who primarily only has a job because he's such a suck-up. But it wasn't until 2011 that Laurinaitis made his WWE television debut, and currently most people wish he had just stayed behind-the-scenes. Initially it seemed like he was going to play Vince's right-hand evil minion similar to Brisco and Patterson back in the AE in order to mirror his Real Life role. However Vince went on another hiatus from television yet Laurinaitis remained behind. It quicly became clear that he was a terrible onscreen performer due to his lack of mic ability, poor acting skills, and having zero charisma. Despite this he stayed on TV and was played up as the person behind the conspiracy against Vince's son-in-law, Triple H. This arc was scrapped, but Vince still came back and appointed Laurinaitis as the new GM of RAW. He INSTANTLY became a one-dimensional and bland heel general manager, and finally ended up feuding with CM Punk. It didn't last long as the feud was a flop, and they teased Laurinaitis being fired, only for him to not only keep his job, but become permanent GM of RAW. Things went donwhill when he feuded with Smackdown GM Teddy Long for control of both shows, which obviously Laurinaitis won, making him GM of both shows. After this Laurinaitis became the center of attention for the show. It's finally reached the point where now he's headlining a PPV against John Cena and winning. He's a blatant Mr. McMahonwannabe, but is really just an Expy of Vickie Guerrero, as in an annoying and untalented performer is pushed to the moon and made the center of attention and focus of the program simply and only manages to get X-Pac Heat due to them being a terrible performer, though WWE pretends it's heel heat and uses it as an excuse to push them.
Elmo of Sesame Street. A lot of adults who grew up with Sesame Street dislike the fact that Elmo has gotten so popular that the last fifteen minutes of every show is devoted to him (at the old Jump the Shark website, reviewers almost unanimously agreed that his introduction caused the show to Jump the Shark).
His high-pitched voice and annoying laughter doesn't help him that much either.
Radio
Ralph Cirella on The Howard Stern Show. Howard once responded that Ralph gets more hate mail than a Ku Klux Klansman who is a frequent caller to the show.
Role-Playing Games
Dino Attack RPG... oh boy. For every well-loved and popular character there was also and equally despised individual:
Duke... just Duke. Where to begin? Given the entire drive of his character was the complete and total destruction of anyone with even the slightest idealistic beliefs. Even the people that weren't at that point writing under the assumption that all realists were evil and idealists were good despised him. It got to the point where, despite being a player's primary character, nobody wanted to let him escape when he was finally locked up in a maximum security prison, where we can probably assume he is due for a life sentence if not the electric chair.
Cam O'Cozy: If it weren't for this guy, Duke might not have been quite so bad. After all, he was the one who ascended the idealist-realist feud to a whole new level of violence. He just wouldn't stay defeated, either, and when he escaped a maximum security prison - much like Duke - players' reaction was so negative that he was immediately defeated, and in his next appearance he was finally killed off following a Robotic Reveal.
Atton Rand's infamous attempt to create a group of characters based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer wasn't exactly well-received (though in fairness it was largely to do with the fact that they were introduced half-way through the final battle and took the focus away from his more popular characters). Fortunately they were written out once the players started voicing their concerns.
French Fries is a somewhat interesting case. Originally conceived as being a Reasonable Authority Figure, he quickly became unpopular due to his unwittingly elevating the realist-idealist debates to a whole new level of violence (the fact that he initially got away with it and never took responsibility didn't help). However, as a result, he was eventually turned from a straight uptight official into a clueless looney who is completely oblivious to the consequences of his actions, making him a Scrappy in-universe as well. Also, to make up for the trouble he put everyone through, Atton Rand would later bring him back near the end specifically to allow his fellow players to give him his comeuppance for all the crap he put them through, but even Atton Rand was shocked by the brutality with which players punished French Fries.
After the attack on the XERRD Fortress, Rotor quickly became The Scrappy due to his mistreatment of Kate Bishop, trial and near-execution of an entire T-1 Typhoon squad, and his torture of Jenny Strangebrick and Tom for what may have been simply for sick enjoyment. He was only considered to be Rescued from the Scrappy Heap after he cleaned up his act starting with the Maelstrom Temple battle, and because he actually started to look not all that bad in comparison to two newly-introduced characters, Trigger and Snake - to the point where most players wanted Rotor to be Atton Rand's primary character instead of Trigger!
Baldrick, who is little more than a walking Big Lipped Alligator Moment and yet another Captain Ersatz to add to the list. In addition to having no important impact on the plot, only slowing it down long enough for him to talk about his so-called "ingenious plans", he sticks out like a sore thumb and often interrupts the mood of the current scene, making him seem like an out-of-place forced attempt at comic relief.
Pharisee's Knight Templar-esque actions and Black and White Insanity have turned off some players who would normally root for him. However, others might also consider him Rescued from the Scrappy Heap following his psychiatric session with Dr. Saran, which delved into his psyche and backstory in a beautiful way.
Firecracker's botched Taking You with Me attempt, which was not long after he nearly detonated enough explosives to take out a chunk of a fully-populated Dino Attack Headquarters, really took a toll on his popularity, to the point where most players wanted to see him either arrested or put in an asylum after the war. It did not help that Atton Rand had no intention of making Firecracker anything other than a Karma Houdini in the end, going so far as to add Misaimed Realism in an attempt to enforce it.
The owner of the hotel. He was supposed to be a parody of an earlier Deus ex Machina but there was quite a bit of controversy that sprung from the resulting individual, to the point where how much of his appearance is canon is deliberately left unclear.
Software
Clippy, the Microsoft Office animated paperclip assistant. Stop helping us.
Only good appearance: a page of computer jokes somewhere, in which his sole dialogue is "It looks like you're writing a letter. Would you like me to a) bollocks it up for you b) just fuck off and leave you alone?"
Irregular Webcomic! once had Mercutio confused that the absence of Clippy was supposed to be a software fault, rather than, say, a reward from the Omnissiah.
Microsoft were in on the joke, apparently: There was a Flash-animated short promoting Windows XP, where Clippy laments that he might be out of a job at long last. And he's voiced by Gilbert Gottfried, for Christ's sake.
BonziBuddy raised this trope to an art form. Bonzi originally appeared in the form of a green parrot named Peedy but then later became the purple gorilla we know him as today, Bonzi is an interactive virtual friend who sings, tells jokes, and reads stories. He may seem harmless enough on the surface, but he is actually a form of malware. The problem is that pop-ups that look like Windows warning messages appear almost frequently, he constantly asks you to purchase add-ons and upgrades for him, and the worst part is that he's almost impossible to get rid of.
Windows Vista. When a company pours millions into an ad campaign claiming "These are real individuals and not paid actors" to try and make a program look halfway decent, there's a problem. Doubly so if the campaign is a resounding failure (as "Mojave" quite clearly was).
Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld show up at ordinary people's homes to promote Vista, without actually ever mentioning it by name. To this day, nobody has any idea what this was about.
Windows 95 had this too, for using up too much memory. Windows 98 would crash when you did complicated tasks like booting. Windows has a long history of being The Scrappy among operating systems.
Windows 7. It can cause your mouse to jam up at random, necessitating total reboot, it can fail to save documents entirely, even when it shows the saved document in the list, it can screw up the mouse so that it always wants to stick to one side of the page, and it sometimes make the downward-scrolling arrow disappear. Despite this, 7 is considered a vast improvement on Vista, and may be the OS that singlehandedly got Microsoft Rescued from the Scrappy Heap.
As a general rule, all Microsoft OS systems will have scrappy status somewhere to someone. The number of users is simply so great that it is guaranteed.
There is always a domain on Usenet that is The Scrappy. At first it was AOL. Then it became WebTV.
The Apple Newton. If Apple had a Dork Age, this was its poster child. The uselessness of it was even referenced on The Simpsons.
Apple has quite a large hatedom among both casual users and tech-savvy people. Its image of slick, streamlined, user-friendly products for the artsy/hipster crowd which are overhyped and overpriced has led to many hardcore programmers and hackers shunning them outright.
Comic Sans is easily the most hated font of all time. Designed in 1994 by Vincent Cannare, the font looks very cartoonish and informal as it was originally intended to be used in comics where such a look would be appropriate; unfortunately, the font quickly became widespread and has been overused, abused and misused, appearing in the most inappropriate of places such as "DO NOT ENTER!" signs and by CERN, and such has generated a larger hatedom than any other font in the world. Even some gravestones are cursed with the font; see one here!
The font is so widely despised that by 2002 a website called bancomicsans.com was set up dedicated to banning it forever.
Papyrus has gained a similar reputation, thanks to being used in virtually every situation where a pseudo-ancient-looking font is desired. Like Comic Sans, it's recognizable enough and overused enough to be pretty irritating, if that sort of thing bothers you.
Sports
Kickers in American football are usually despised by fans and media for being smaller and doing nothing but kicking the ball instead of running all over the field or plowing into other players. And it really irks those people how many times a game is decided because of the kickers.
Likewise, the MLS and the NHL are not that popular compared to the otherthreeleagues. Due to obvious reasons for the former, and that much of the U.S. is too warm for the latter. Though some cities, like Los Angeles and San Jose are exceptions for soccer, and Detroit, Chicago and Minneapolis/St.Paul are exceptions for ice hockey (plus places where the team managed to get a Stanley Cup, such as Dallas, Anaheim, Tampa and Raleigh).
Go on. Mention to non-Glasgow Celtic fans how much you love and admire Neil Lennon. I dare ya.
Umpires, referees, and other officials are the universal Scrappy of all sports, especially when they make a bad call.
Commissioners also tend to get a lot of hate. One of the best examples is Bud Selig. His refusal to add expanded replay and change the incorrect call so Armando Galarraga would have a perfect game has baseball fans praying he retires.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has since eclipsed Selig in the hate column, as his attempts to bring the sport into non-traditional sport markets (such as Atlanta, GA and Columbus, OH) and his role in three labor stoppages, including the lockout that destroyed the 2004-05 season, have made him very unpopular among NHL fans.
Izzy of the 1996 Olympic Games is considered one of the least popular Olympics mascots ever. His design is obnoxious and baffling; most people simply passed him off as a "giant blue sperm with legs." His video game wasn't even any good and played like a bad Sonic clone.
Chicago White Sox commentator Ken "Hawk" Harrelson. Between his over the top homerism and loud catchphrase "YOU CAN P-PUT IT ON THE BOARD Y-YES!!", he is easily the most despised team commentator in all of baseball to the point where his own team's fans hate him
Citation seriously needed here, because many White Sox fans DO love Hawk. Most of the hate comes from Cubs fans, who actually have a good reason to hate him.
In Brazil, while teams from Rio and São Paulo (the country's largest cities... and HQ of the biggest media conglomerates) get some bile for overexposure, Corinthians takes the cake. Onslaught of news, winning many games\tournaments by controversial ref decision, being the team of ex-president Lula - who even had a suspicious friendship with the team manager - and unpleasant fans lead to basically anyone who's not a corintiano hating the team. Even sponsor Nike decided to publish an open letter◊ to the "biggest support team in Brazil" - Corinthians' Hatedom!
Tabletop Games
Many gamers resent board games in general, as Moral Guardians who protest against Video Games often cite them as an alternative for children, often calling it an example of the kind of game that children should be playing, or as an example of something "productive" or something they can do while having fun with their families rather than sitting alone in the room interacting with nothing but a machine.
Kender. Maybe it's the way they're almost always played as Chaotic Stupid — which is based on the fact that's basically exactlyhow they are described in-setting. Maybe it's because they seem rather out of place in a world as crapsacky as Dragonlance. Whatever the case, they are usually the element most named as loathsome about the setting, despite the fact they are the official Comic Relief of the setting.
Gully Dwarves catch a fair amount of flak, too, and have even been accused of being created to make fun of the mentally impaired, as they're an entire race of what can basically be described as dirty, smelly, ugly, mentally retarded creatures that are supposed to be Comic Relief.
The Tinker Gnomes, with their racial hat of Bungling Inventor, fixation on Rube Goldberg Machine type inventions, annoyingly literal minded nature, rapid-fire speech and super-long, complicated names are yet another Comic Relief race that instead many people strongly detest.
Marneus Calgar from Warhammer 40000. Even most Space Marine fans hate him these days, possibly owing to him being a Mary Sue.
The Ultramarines as a whole. While they still have their fans, the majority of players can't stand them. They were alright when they were kept more in the background, but then Games Workshop fell in love with them and started promoting them out the wazoo.
For a lot of people Mat Ward has become a scrappy fluff writer due in large part to writing the background for the above mentioned Ultramarines and for the 5th Edition Blood Angels Codex.
This has been taken to truly staggering levels with the release of the new Grey Knights code; quite a few players are furious at Ward's new fluff, which among other things has one of the Grey Knights become the Grand Master of the chapter at the exact same time he's stranded in the Warp for several centuries, as well as making some Knights slaughter a convent of Sisters of Battle who have managed to remain pure despite their world falling to Chaos, and following that up with using their blood to anoint weapons and armor to protect against Chaos. The exact same wargear that's already been blessed and specifically made to fight Chaos in the first place.
For Ravenloft players, other then Strahd and Azalin Rex, all the other Darklords/Domains have detractors and defenders, but Death and the Necropolis is almost universally despised. For those who do not know the setting: picture a city in the middle of a populated Kingdom. Now everyone in this city is undead - sounds like a guilt-free monster bashing fest, right? Wrong. This city is surrounded by The Shroud - which immediately kills everyone who crosses it, and animates them into undead, no exceptions, no saves (sure there is a plant that prevents this, but it's a hard-to-find supplement). The Ruler Death also fails to leave a lasting impression. For most DMs, they found the obvious danger to PCs and the setting's aversion of Death Is Cheap trope renders Necropolis nigh-unplayable without some serious railroading, and often found it easier just to excise it.
The Tier Induced Scrappy colors are blue (for being too broken) and green (for being too weak). Red also gets some hate, because all the good red cards are at common, so many fans think you can always tell a n00b by the fact that it's turn 5 and all he's played are mountains.
The Scrappy Mechanic is countering. It just seems unfair that all your hard work will be removed. If it's a permanent, it can be removed anyway once in play...
Even with the prevalence of removal spells, countering is still considered far, far more of a Scrappy Mechanic. For one, there are only a tiny handful of cards that can't be countered. Anything else, even Progenitus, whose whole schtick is that nothing short of a board-wiping nuke can touch it, can get countered, usually meaning critical or game-ending spells can be thwarted for a measly two mana. This tends to have devastating consequences in more serious play, since the havoc counterspells wreak on tempo means even a soft counter like Remand can be devastating for the mana it makes you waste. Combine this with the fact that one of the single best equipment cards in the game, Sword of Feast And Famine, means any deck that runs counterspells has a way to always have land open during enemy turns while also giving one of their creatures a sizable power boost and four bonus abilities, and you can start to see why people dread playing against decks that pack a lot of counterspells.
This is exactly the reason why formats exist (apart from keeping up the income from the franchise). An old card becoming powerful way beyond intention due to new, stronger cards being printed, is not supposed to ruin the game. As it is these old cards (Wrath of God, Counterspell etc.) can only be used outside of vintage when the recent edition contained a reprint of said card. Most of these cards were made back when a powerful card cost 7 mana, was a 7/7 monster and had no effect at all.
The Scrappy sets include Homelands (too weak), Fallen Empires (all the good cards at common, a print run being six times the core set of the time), and The Dark (too weak, and had Sorrow's Path, long considered the worst card in Magic.). The Kamigawa block also got a huge hatedom.
The Eldrazi Titans are Scrappies as well, either for being extremely powerful (In Vintage, it's possible to get them in play as soon as you have certain cards in play.) or for being too weak. (Emrakul costs 15 mana!)
Nicol Bolas has a huge hatedom, mainly due to his Villain Sue characterization.
In the Exalted fandom, there are large sections who view the Solar Exalted in general as this, for anything from their significant power (they're supposed to be the mightiest of the Exalted), their perceived lack of interesting features (their powers are more human-based than the other Exalted, and part of the jump-off point is based around them being uninvolved in the world's history for more than a thousand years), their setting centrality, or ideas of them being entitled (the Solars having been tyrannical rulers in the distant past and some portrayed as expecting such authority to be handed to them by right).
The Green Sun Princes are also subjected to some of it by people who think their introduction throws off too much of the setting, that they're allowed to make a Deal with the Devil and encouraged to not suffer any consequences for it, and the perception of their powers being expansive enough to "make all other Exalted redundant".
In terms of individual characters, the Scarlet Empress gets the most of this, often viewed as somebody who is given too many victories for too little effort, and who makes other characters look stupid for having failed to get rid of or otherwise deal with her (alternatively, there are those who view her as portrayed as having displayed too many incompetencies and having too many failures for her extended centrality to make sense).
Samuel Haight from World of Darkness. He was a Werewolf/Vampire/Mage/Changeling. Ads made him out to be the Ultimate Badass but in practice it was just silly.
eventually the writers realized this and created an entire adventure devoted to killing him, and then had his soul forged into an ashtray.
Kiina, but only her portrayal in The Legend Reborn movie. The Genki Girl persona (which clashed heavily with how other story material depicted her), coupled with her "Yahoo"s (which have been exaggerated by the fandom to the point that's the only thing they remember her saying) and shrill voice, made her one of the biggest and most hated Scrappies the fandom has ever known. Which is a shame, since those that read the books and comics know her true personality isn't like that at all.
Vanity Plates
Relativity Media. Whenever you see the logo, which is a quasar, accompanying a movie trailer, expect the movie to be So Bad, It's Good, complete with really obnoxious scenery chewing in random scenes.
The exceptions to Relativity's list would probably be their kids' films, as they contain very, very little to none of the scenery-chewing, for starters.
Another possible reason is that they've co-financed most of Sony and Universal's product since 2006 as well as their own product. However, there are a few exceptions to the rule (such as The Fighter, The Social Network and Fast Five).
Columbia-Tristar Television. The editing habits of Sony during the late '90s meant that older, more beloved (and sometimes scary) logos such as Screen Gems and Columbia Pictures Television which originally aired on older programs were replaced by this during reruns. Their ubiquity and the loss of the popular idents resulted in a rabid Hatedom decrying the logo as the "Boxes of Boredom". May have been Rescued from the Scrappy Heap now that the logo has faded away, having been replaced by...
Sony Pictures Television, known as the "Bars of Boredom". This is seen on maybe half of all reruns of popular television programs and, like its predecessor, plasters everyone's favorite obscure Columbia or Screen Gems logo. It has inherited much of the previous logo's Hatedom, to the point of becoming a Creator's Pet.
The "Are you going to talk during the movie?" vanity plate has this.
Now replaced by the "Turn your cell phones off" vanity plate in its various guises.
The Wonderful World of Dic logo that replaced the ever popular "Kid in Bed" logo.
Which has now been replaced with the Cookie Jar logo since that company bought up the Dic properties.
