Trope-worthiness: The Poochie

The Poochie

Is this The Scrappy and/or Shilling the Wesley, with the addition of a quick removal. Is it worth a whole trope on it's own?

I think it's when, rather than Shilling the Wesley, they shoot him out of an airlock never to be heard from again.

Stats:

The Poochie found in: 79 articles, excluding discussions.

This title has brought 435 people to the wiki from non-search engine links since 20th FEB '09.

In some ways it's the direct opposite to Shilling the Wesley.

It might need cleaning up a little but I think there is definitely a trope here.

What I want to know is how this is different from Temporary Scrappy.

Edit: Nevermind, I forgot that the trope namer here wasn't an example.

edited 27th Feb '11 4:17:37 PM by nrjxll

Shiving The Wesley Sorry.

IMO it needs a rename - Poochie is not as very prominent/known as Scrappy Doo.

With 435 individual hits from outside the wiki, I'd say that's more enough to ask to see misuse before we go forward with a plan to rename this.

First 15 wicks:

• Action League Now: Correct
• Arby N The Chief: Correct
• But Now I Must Go: Potholed to the Trope Namer. Well, meh, I personally really hate when people do this because it's almost always the wrong place to put the pothole, but this character only appeared in one episode and this trope was his only purpose, so I won't make a stink about it here.
• Characters and Casting: Index, doesn't count.
• Charmed: Doesn't mention whether or not the character was disliked by the fans. Poorly-written but probably correct anyway.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Misuse. Used in the description as a related trope, but it says that the difference between the two tropes is that The Poochie has an explanation for disappearing, which is incomplete—The Poochie also disappears for a specific reason.
• Copycat Sue: Sinkhole (potholed with "They'd never do that."?), but the context of the example sounds like the trope is correctly applied here.
• Deader than Dead: Potholed to the Trope Namer again, this time in the context of Poochie being Deader than Dead after he leaves. I think it's correct here because getting killed off is part of The Poochie, so the pothole is relevant (although not worked into the example very well).
• Characters.Desperate Housewives: X Just X.
• Disgraces: X Just X but this is the Pantheon so that's okay.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: See Deader than Dead. Exactly the same, pretty much.
• Dry Docking: Potholed with no explanation.
• East Enders: X Just X
• Every Episode Ending: Potholed with no explanation, but I'm familiar with the character in question and I happen to know it's correct.
• Face–Heel Turn: Potholed without explanation.

5 correct. 3 potholed to the Trope Namer that are probably correct, but just poorly-written. 6 unsure.

edited 3rd Mar '11 9:52:44 AM by troacctid

It should probably be noted that the Chuck Cunningham Syndrome wick mirrors exactly what's written about Chuck Cunningham Syndrome in the description of The Poochie.

edited 3rd Mar '11 10:01:46 AM by SeanMurrayI

Bump.

To mack: This is a type of The Scrappy where the writers take notice of his status as unfavorite, and instead of trying to rescue it or force the audience to like it, they simply write him/her out.

edited 12th Sep '11 5:00:40 PM by drdeathray

Look over the wicks. It appears in a lot of related tropes (because the people who come across the page put it in them), but very few works. That says to me that all else aside, the trope isn't catching on under its current title, and requires a rename.

I think the problem with this trope is that it is not describing a character but the actions of the writers. It should be renamed to something like Screwing The Poochie or My Planet Needs Me.

Tee hee, Screwing The Poochie. I approve

I'm sorry but if The Wesley, The Barney, The Krillin and Spikeification required a rename then so does this. Renaming the others whilst keeping an arguably far less well known trope heading just reeks of the nonsensical to me.

Unless there's a significant connection in the names(ie, snowcloning), "we renamed X" tends not to be a very powerful argument.

Well it's a character named trope with no other context, and isn't really a distinctive name, as Poochie is a fairly common dog name. Not to mention there was also an 80s toy line called Poochie, that was basically a Follow the Leader of Hello Kitty.

Character-named trope, rather obscure character since it only appears in one episode, and fails the One Mario Limit. That's a solid reason to rename, right there.

There are also characters named Poochie in Pirates Of The Caribbean and The Peanuts, among others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poochie

I wasn't defending the name, just pointing out the argument was weak. I do like Screwie The Poochie, though I admit there are much better names.

That would be a snowclone name.

This trope basically is hastily getting rid of a new character that doesn't work out, if I'm not mistaken, so the name should make that clear.

Definitely needs a rename. I think the reason this one, IMO, is a distinct trope is because it doesn't need to be a Scrappy: He could be written out for some other reason, such as because the writers didn't like him or he didn't mesh as smoothly with the rest of the characters as anticipated.

Shoo Out the New Guy?

Made a single action crowner here.

edited 18th Dec '11 5:35:44 AM by Myra

Is this crowner ready to call?

I would say so.