History Main / AlasPoorScrappy

->"''She's going to pull through this. We need her to pull through. Each weekly sadistic mishap helped me through some tough times, and this is just another one of those sadistic mishaps. Right? The monitor on her life support system will sound an alarm, and some nurse or other will rush in and save her. Right? Wrong. No one saves PMMS. Alleged York manages to kill her with this completely expressionless look on his face. Damn you, [[Series/TwentyFour cheesy Fox suspense show]], for making me laugh so hard one minute and cry so hard the next! PMMS is dead. She's dead. I can't believe it.''"
-->--'''Gustave''', ''TelevisionWithoutPity''

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''.
** Lysa Arryn had earned a lot of hatred in a short amount of time for, among other things, being responsible for her husband's death and refusing to participate in the War of the Five Kings. Still, her death at the hands of Littlefinger was pretty cruel (especially by the Eyrie's Moon Door, her favored method of execution).
** Marillion. Not an outright Scrappy, but more of a minor annoyance who only appeared in a few chapters. He was framed for Lysa's death and eventually died in one of the Eyrie's sky cells.

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*** MOSTLY unharmed. But considering the fact that the first thing [[BrokenBird Shinji]] does after [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds waking up with her the only other human currently left]] is making an attempt to CHOKE HER TO DEATH, followed by her exclaiming sickness [[WordOfGod which, according to]] HideakiAnno [[WordOfGod was MORNING SICKNESS]], has... interesting implications)... oh, and let us not forget that the reason she's a BandageBabe at the end is due to the injuries her Evangelion suffered (again, which she felt through the neural link) - in particular, [[EyeScream her eye is covered up]] - and the last thing anyone saw of her (and, for the record, [[HeroicRROD the thing that finished setting Shinji off]]) was her Evangelion being [[NauseaFuel EATEN by the MP Evas...]]

* [[ClingyJealousGirl Meilin]] in ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' isn't a terrible example of TheScrappy, but she can be quite annoying at the beginning with her [[JerkAss attitude]] for [[BadassAdorable the loveable heroine, Sakura]]. But, later, after Meilin [[DefrostingIceQueen becomes more friendly]] and [[PutOnABus moves back to Hong Kong]], she visits Sakura and Shaoran for a couple days. When she finds out Shaoran's [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy true feelings]] for Sakura, she spends the night [[ChildhoodFriendRomance crying]] in Tomoyo's arms. The sound of her genuinely heartbroken bawling is enough to [[TearJerker send shivers up the spine.]]

* ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'': Not everyone considers her a Scrappy, but for those that do: Tohno Akiha gets two different death scenes in two different story branches, and they're both uniquely heart-rending. One, she has become a mindless monster and Shiki honors his promise with her to kill her by his own hands (a BadEnd). Two, she's fighting with SHIKI at the High School and lets herself be torn apart by him to protect Kohaku. She barely holds on to consciousness long enough to ask Shiki: what is he doing at his school at night? He yells it's not important, and they need to get her help, but she keeps insisting on an answer. Finally he replies it's his school, and it's not strange if he's there either in the day or at night. Akiha seems to accept this answer, realizes it was a pretty simple conclusion, and then dies (this is actually part of Hisui's True End).
** It doesn't help that even Akiha's good endings are pretty screwed up.

* Erika in ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi''. While she was nothing but a (intentional) CanonSue/ParodySue in [=EP5=], in [=EP6=] she was fleshed out showing how her refusal of there being two sides of a mystery was caused by a failed romantic relationship. She seems to have understood this by the end of [=EP6=] before dying after her duel with Beatrice.

*** And don't forget his tearjerking last words: "Now I'll never know if I was right..."
** Donna Noble. She was ''deliberately'' written as a Scrappy in her first appearance, but she [[CharacterDevelopment developed]], some of the fandom grew to like her and got really annoyed after she got [[DroppedABridgeOnHim a bridge dropped on her]] (death is relative).

** In-universe example with Amber: Foreman admits that House's team hated her and still would if not for her imminent death, but everyone, is still crushed when she dies.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' has Fi, who, while not universally hated, is still something of a BaseBreaker due to her tendency towards being CaptainObvious. Even if you hate her, her "death", which is a heroic sacrifice that will take centuries, and which she prefaces by admitting feelings for Link that she was incapable of admitting until the end due to programming, is still a tear-jerker.

* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', Kira Supporter Kiyomi Takada ends up getting kidnapped by Mello as a part of his BatmanGambit to reveal Light as Kira. She's stripped naked by him and then kills him with a death note scrap she hid in her bra. Genuinely frightened and trapped inside a truck, she wraps herself in a bedsheet and then takes his phone and calls Light, asking him to come rescue her. [[MoralEventHorizon Instead, he writes her name in the death note so that she commits suicide by setting herself on fire.]]

Keep in mind that this is obviously TruthInTelevision. No matter how many times that {{jerkass}} JerkJock stuffed you in a locker and gave you a wedgie, if he is hit by a drunk driver on the way to prom, your remembrances will almost certainly be favorably tinged. Unless you're just ''that'' evil or mentally/emotionally unsound. [[hottip:* :Or you didn't [[DroppedABridgeOnHim witness his death firsthand]]. [[DecapitatedArmy Or]] [[AssholeVictim he]] [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing was...]]

* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Danny. What makes it especially jarring is that he dies ''mere seconds'' after an epic AwesomeMoment that got him RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap.

* The death of Balthamos at the end of ''[[Literature/HisDarkMaterials The Amber Spyglass]]'' by PhilipPullman. So well done, it made the former Scrappy ''awesome'' upon further readings.

* An in-universe example (that is not WeWantOurJerkBack) happens in ''Manga/SetoNoHanayome''. San's OverprotectiveDad is initially overjoyed when her fiance ends up in a ShotgunWedding with another girl, only to realize that Nagasumi was actually a genuinely NiceGuy. Naturally, when things [[StatusQuoIsGod go back to normal]], he goes right back to trying to kill the guy.

** An in-universe example: Miss Evangelista in "Silence in the Library." After establishing that no one else on the expedition likes her, she winds up being the first to get chewed up by the Vashta Nerada. In her final "ghosting" moments, she asks to talk to Donna, the only person who was nice to her, instead of any of her teammates and their remorse shows on ''all'' of their faces.

* ''Series/{{House}}'': Amber, aka "Cutthroat Bitch". Most of the pathos comes from Wilson's reaction, though. Really, considering his [[TheWoobie Woobie]] quotient, it was to be expected eventually.
** Lampshaded by the team.
-->'''Thirteen:''' She didn't even like us.
-->'''Kutner:''' Well, we liked her.
-->'''Taub:''' Did we?
-->'''Foreman:''' We do now.
** Actually, while the other characters may not have liked her, many fans did, making this an InUniverse example. Not surprising given that she was in many ways a female version of the show's eponymous protagonist.
** While Season 7 was considered lackluster by many, [[Series/{{House}} Thirteen]]'s reintroduction in "The Dig", which has House taking her on a road trip after she's gotten out of prison for euthanizing her brother who was dying from Huntington's, considered one of the best episodes in that season, improved opinions of her in the eyes of many.

* In-Universe example: Kinshiro Morooka was never very well-liked among the cast of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', but he does get some amount of respect after his murder.
** ... Or more cursing. "Damn it, King Moron! Why must you torture us beyond your grave!?"
** Mooroka gets posthumous characterization that makes him super sympathetic when it's revealed that when a student was on a crash course to depression or needed career advice, he'd give it to them without hesitation, and be very calm while he did so.

** In-universe example: Ma-Ti's tragic death at the end of ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''.

* Rare in-universe example: In ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'', when an old high school football hero returned to be worshipped. After alienating the whole cast, he was killed before the second commercial break, shocking everyone.
** Subverted, though, by the fact that Daria herself was completely unaffected by his death, instead having to deal with the fact that half of the cast opted to talk to her about it due to the misconception that she's perennially depressed and morbid (as opposed to just being overly sardonic).
** In her own words: "People aren't upset because Tommy Sherman died. They're upset because ''they're'' going to die."

* Invoked, but ultimately subverted in-universe in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''. Peter had previously been humiliated, picked on, and insulted by [[AlphaBitch Sally Avril]] for her perceived belief he's "messing with the social system", in that he was a nerd who tried to ask her out, caused Liz Allen to develop a crush on him and later date her, took Mary Jane to the prom (Sally even shouts that 'guys like Peter' don't get to take 'girls like that' to the prom), tried out for the football team and actually did better than Flash and Kenny, and while everyone was cheering for him, she was pouting about his success. When they get partnered up in a police ride-along, she insults Peter more than usual, until he had to go off to "take pictures" of The New and Improved Enforcers (which was an excuse so he could turn into Spider-Man) by hiding behind a truck. When the truck is caught as collateral damage in the fight and blows up, apparently killing Peter, Sally screams and cries, [[HeelRealization realizing how horrible she was]] (and that Liz looks terrible in black). But when Peter pops up and claims he left his camera on auto so he could 'go to the little boys room', [[IgnoredEpiphany she promptly turns back into]] AlphaBitch.

* In the [[WesternAnimation/Exosquad]] series there are several notable examples, but the most Prominent was the much hated Captian Matthew Marcus. Not only was he lacking of strategic skills, had sheer arrogance, sported a hair-trigger temper, and tyrannical in that he charged the first officer to question his dangerous orders as a mutineer, but he practically single-handedly crippled the Exo-Fleet. Not only was that humanity's greatest hope in winning the war and saving their species, but did so after going to mutiny, creating a coup, and sending the best combat squad on a dangerous and meaningless mission. Despite all this, he had an incredible send off in that he refused to give up the fight, attempting to redeem his failures and actions. When a protagonist was sent in to rescue him he refused to leave, forcing him to leave at gun point and going for a heroic sacrifice, taking out a number of enemy ships and buying some time for the survivors of the fleet he destroyed to escape. His last words were to be relayed to the Admiral he betrayed: "Tell him that Matthew Marcus knew how to die!"
** Somewhat subverted that despite the impact and incredibly well done death being very memorable. He was never really missed by fans, also, that last scene as he has the Exo-Carrier self destruct in enemy lines has his face showing a less heroic expression, but more of a crazed suicidal rump of joy!

* In the [[Exosquad]] series there are several notable examples, but the most Prominent was the much hated Captian Matthew Marcus. Not only was he lacking of strategic skills, had sheer arrogance, sported a hair-trigger temper, and tyrannical in that he charged the first officer to question his dangerous orders as a mutineer, but he practically single-handedly crippled the Exo-Fleet. Not only was that humanity's greatest hope in winning the war and saving their species, but did so after going to mutiny, creating a coup, and sending the best combat squad on a dangerous and meaningless mission. Despite all this, he had an incredible send off in that he refused to give up the fight, attempting to redeem his failures and actions. When a protagonist was sent in to rescue him he refused to leave, forcing him to leave at gun point and going for a heroic sacrifice, taking out a number of enemy ships and buying some time for the survivors of the fleet he destroyed to escape. His last words were to be relayed to the Admiral he betrayed: "Tell him that Matthew Marcus knew how to die!"

* In the [[Exo-Squad]] series there are several notable examples, but the most Prominent was the much hated Captian Matthew Marcus. Not only was he lacking of strategic skills, had sheer arrogance, sported a hair-trigger temper, and tyrannical in that he charged the first officer to question his dangerous orders as a mutineer, but he practically single-handedly crippled the Exo-Fleet. Not only was that humanity's greatest hope in winning the war and saving their species, but did so after going to mutiny, creating a coup, and sending the best combat squad on a dangerous and meaningless mission. Despite all this, he had an incredible send off in that he refused to give up the fight, attempting to redeem his failures and actions. When a protagonist was sent in to rescue him he refused to leave, forcing him to leave at gun point and going for a heroic sacrifice, taking out a number of enemy ships and buying some time for the survivors of the fleet he destroyed to escape. His last words were to be relayed to the Admiral he betrayed: "Tell him that Matthew Marcus knew how to die!"

** [[EnsembleDarkhorse The only reason why Shirley didn't die in the first season was because she was unexpectedly popular with fans.]]

* The outpouring of grief that followed the sudden death of ''WrestleCrap Radio's'' robot sidekick Johnny 6 during the April 25th Podcast, after Crappers had been clamouring for his destruction for weeks.

* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': [[spoiler:Danny. What makes it especially jarring is that he dies ''mere seconds'' after an epic AwesomeMoment that got him RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap]].

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': Lana Lang might be much hated by fans, but it is still sad to see {{Brainiac}} trap her in a catatonic state.
* ''Series/TrueBlood'': The fandom had a massive load of hate for Sam Merlotte's [[LongLostRelative troubled younger brother Tommy]], an illiterate, dumb, well-intended DesignatedVillain who was generally thought of as annoying, a nuisance, and a filler character. In the end, though, he sacrificed himself, transforming into Sam and settling a debt with the ex-husband of Sam's girlfriend, which ended up with him being bludgeoned to death. Not before he could deliver the following line, which had tons of fans that hated him crying desperately:
-->'''Tommy''': (''to Sam'') [[TearJerker There ain't no heaven, and hell's a dog fight. I’m gonna disappear like I never was, that's what I want.]]
* ''UglyBetty'': May have problems with annoying characters taking over the plotlines, but it has a knack for a good MontageOut, thus giving us the following examples:
** It's been said that nobody cared about Bradford Meade until he was killed off.
** Even the infamous Walter, though he didn't die, got a respectful and melancholy send off when he was PutOnABus. The fact that viewers were able to feel anything but joy at that moment is a testament to this trope.
** Daniel's love interest of the 3rd season, Molly, was generally considered pretty boring even when we knew she was terminally ill but the actual moment of her death ''was'' beautiful.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': Tracey from the episode "The Message" qualifies because he tries to trick the crew into smuggling him across the solar system while he's carrying (and [[OrganTheft biologically supporting]]) genetically enhanced organs ''inside'' his body. Tracey gets shot by [[TheCaptain Mal]] while trying to kidnap Kaylee and escape in one of ''Serenity'''s shuttles, which Tracey only did because he panicked when Shepherd Book [[PoorCommunicationKills talked about handing Tracey over to the corrupt cop who was chasing them for the organs]], which was only a ruse to get everyone to safety, including Tracey.
* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': The extremely despised Nora went out with a bang. Even though it was expected and hoped for, the episode managed to make it a tragic and shocking.
** Throughout the series, Edie Britt was a [[LoveItOrHateIt Love Her Or Hate Her]] character--you either thought she was witty and not used enough, or catty and hung around the show for way too long. Yet when she actually ''was'' KilledOffForReal in season five, the people who despised her ended up mourning her death just as much as the people who loved her, especially after her tribute episode.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Believe it or not, there is a portion of the fandom that cried over Adric getting blown to bits.
** It wasn't so much the actual death scene in that case, but the SilentCredits over a picture of his broken star. Beautifully touching.
*** And don't forget his tearjerking last words: "Now I'll never know if I was right..."
** Donna Noble. She was ''deliberately'' written as a Scrappy in her first appearance, but she [[CharacterDevelopment developed]], some of the fandom grew to like her and got really annoyed after she got [[DroppedABridgeOnHim a bridge dropped on her]] (death is relative).
** An in-universe example: Miss Evangelista in "Silence in the Library." After establishing that no one else on the expedition likes her, she winds up being the first to get chewed up by the Vashta Nerada. In her final "ghosting" moments, she asks to talk to Donna, the only person who was nice to her, instead of any of her teammates and their remorse shows on ''all'' of their faces.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': Agent Jeffrey Spender, shot at point-blank range at the end of the first episode in which he developed any character beyond that of being an annoying, weasely foil to Mulder and Scully. He was eventually revealed to be NotQuiteDead, but at the time, some people were stunned he'd gone into a two-parter practically chanting "Kill the Twerp" and came out of it really upset that they'd killed the noble Spender.
* ''Series/{{ER}}'': TelevisionWithoutPity frequenters are often split on the death of Lucy Knight, who, though annoying, got an incredibly good sendoff. Some were ecstatic that she was gone, under any circumstances. This story arc also had John Carter almost killed, and, since many fans were on the fence with him at that point, he garnered huge sympathy points.
* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': Owen's death (deaths?). That was largely helped by Tosh's own exit - well-acted and really quite heartbreaking.

** Niki. As much as the character was hated, her death was still sad, being that she couldn't even use her power at the time. Then Tracy showed up and all that went out the window.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': A lot of the fans couldn't stand Bela,1 yet many of them felt a staggering amount of sympathy for her in the episode where the hellhounds come to get her. It might have helped that the actress got better and less annoying in her absence.
** And then there's Jo and Ellen Harvelle, the former of whom was positively reviled during her S2 days and the latter of whom was perceived to overstep her boundaries with the boys later on, and they were given one of the [[SenselessSacrifice saddest send-offs in the show]].

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Kendra in Season 2. Sure she was an annoying character with more than a little shade of the EthnicScrappy, but it was still a bit of a shock to see Drusilla take her out so ''easily''.

* ''JoanOfArcadia'': Judith Montgomery. Everybody hates this CousinOliver who broke up the already established group dynamic, but her death was done in such a powerfully dramatic way that some fans began to wonder why they hated her in the first place.
* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'': Joxer made a HeroicSacrifice for the woman he loved, which made many fans rethink their hatred of him. However, [[SenselessSacrifice his sacrifice was in vain and achieved nothing]]. And Gabrielle, the woman he '''died''' for, didn't even seem that upset!

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': [[EthnicScrappy Alexandra Borgia]], due mostly to the ''extremely'' brutal [[DroppedABridgeOnHim bridge dropping]] she received.
* ''Series/HarpersIsland'': Fat guy Malcom Ross. Buried his best friend's, nice-guy nerd Booth, body in the woods after he accidentally shot himself, taking the bag of money into his room and not telling anyone about it. His panicky nothings wrong attitude and sobbing when the truth comes out made him a hated character in many circles. But everyone cried when, with Roy Orbison's Running Scared playing in the background, he burns the money and is subsequently chopped, beaten and thrown in a furnace.
** From the same show, violent townie Shane was probably the least likable character on the entire series. So how does he go out? Mortally wounded, single-handedly taking on the serial killer to give the heroes enough time to escape.
* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'': The ending scene, "Goodbyeee!", where Captain Darling, supercilious little toad that he has been, suddenly becomes very human and likable. And he dies 5 minutes later.
* ''Series/TheChasersWarOnEverything'': The October 17, 2007 episode featured "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLVsIpejFgM The Eulogy Song]]" sung by Andrew Hansen. It controversially cataloged a list of dead celebrities renown as "top blokes after death", embodying this trope perfectly.
* ''Series/TheMentalist'': Bosco was ''not'' popular, mainly because he kept calling Jane out on his crap and was in love with Lisbon, which pissed off the Jisbon shippers. His death, though? Genuinely moving. Made so by Lisbon.

* ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'': Arguably, Agent Steve Jinks of the team fits this trope. While not a particularly disliked character, he did - before CharacterDevelopment - feel like an extremely token New Guy, not helped by being background-to-absent in many episodes of his introductory season. When it's finally revealed that he's been callously killed after being discovered as an Undercover Good Guy, it's an incredibly powerful and affecting scene. Truly, nothing in his screen life became him as much as how he left it. He got better, though.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': Lori's death. Before bleeding out, she asks Maggie to perform a cesarean on her, without taking any morphine, so that her child can live. It gets worse as her own son, Carl, has to shoot her corpse, so she doesn't reanimate.
* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'': Lady Sybil; she just seemed to be the "modern audience appeal" character, the typical RebelliousPrincess that you'd find in any animated film from the '90s. However, her death after giving birth to a daughter was genuinely shocking and tragic.
* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': Angelina Lasser. Many fans groaned and pulled their hair at the news she, instead of Roddy, Holly, or Ariel, was going to make a return during Season Two. However, she is shot and killed while saving fan favorite, Monroe, and essentially gave her blessing for him to move on and continue his romance with Rosalee. It also gets worse when the final scene of the episode has Monroe partaking in a Blutbad burial ritual for her and once done, gives out a long and sad howl into the wilderness.
* ''Series/BurnNotice'': Nate Westen. When Nate showed up in an episode, it was a given that by simply being Nate he'd completely screw things up for Mike and the gang. Then he manages to single-handedly collar the {{Big Bad}} of the series at that point - and the first time he's ever done something right, a single gunshot rings out. Even the fans who hated Nate were in tears at his last words to his big brother.

* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', Lana Lang might be much hated by fans, but it is still sad to see {{Brainiac}} trap her in a catatonic state.
* The ''Series/TrueBlood'' fandom had a massive load of hate for Sam Merlotte's [[LongLostRelative troubled younger brother Tommy]], an illiterate, dumb, well-intended DesignatedVillain who was generally thought of as annoying, a nuisance, and a filler character. In the end, though, he sacrificed himself, transforming into Sam and settling a debt with the ex-husband of Sam's girlfriend, which ended up with him being bludgeoned to death. Not before he could deliver the following line, which had tons of fans that hated him crying desperately:

* ''UglyBetty'' may have problems with annoying characters taking over the plotlines, but it has a knack for a good MontageOut, thus giving us the following examples:

* Tracey from the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "The Message" qualifies because he tries to trick the crew into smuggling him across the solar system while he's carrying (and [[OrganTheft biologically supporting]]) genetically enhanced organs ''inside'' his body. Tracey gets shot by [[TheCaptain Mal]] while trying to kidnap Kaylee and escape in one of ''Serenity'''s shuttles, which Tracey only did because he panicked when Shepherd Book [[PoorCommunicationKills talked about handing Tracey over to the corrupt cop who was chasing them for the organs]], which was only a ruse to get everyone to safety, including Tracey.
* The extremely despised Nora went out with a bang on ''Series/DesperateHousewives''. Even though it was expected and hoped for, the episode managed to make it a tragic and shocking.

* In ''Series/TwentyFour'', Season 3, Ryan Chapelle. He shows up in 23 episodes across the first three seasons, and in 20 of them he's a SmugSnake ''and'' an ObstructiveBureaucrat. He softens up in the 21st, just in time to find out he has to die: the villain made a deal that the heroes needed, and one of the conditions was that Chapelle be executed. Suddenly he becomes incredibly sympathetic and human (The 23rd is just his body being recovered by said villains).

* Believe it or not, there is a portion of ''Series/DoctorWho'' fandom that cried over Adric getting blown to bits.

* Agent Jeffrey Spender from ''Series/TheXFiles'', shot at point-blank range at the end of the first episode in which he developed any character beyond that of being an annoying, weasely foil to Mulder and Scully. He was eventually revealed to be NotQuiteDead, but at the time, some people were stunned he'd gone into a two-parter practically chanting "Kill the Twerp" and came out of it really upset that they'd killed the noble Spender.
* TelevisionWithoutPity frequenters are often split on the death of Lucy Knight on ''Series/{{ER}}'', who, though annoying, got an incredibly good sendoff. Some were ecstatic that she was gone, under any circumstances. This story arc also had John Carter almost killed, and, since many fans were on the fence with him at that point, he garnered huge sympathy points.
* Owen's death (deaths?) in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''. That was largely helped by Tosh's own exit - well-acted and really quite heartbreaking.
* Cally's death on new ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}''. She had her fans, but more than her share of detractors, as well. It was so affecting that Jacob, the TelevisionWithoutPity recapper who made a regular running gag of her, devoted most of his recap of that episode to a deep psychological analysis of her (then again, Jacob writes deep psychological treatises about his breakfast muffin, so take this with a grain of salt). A good summary of the fan reaction would be [[http://frakkingtoasters.com//index.cgi?date=20080421 this]].

* Happens in Season 2 of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' with the immolation and framing of James Doakes, especially given a few little touches to the character that fans were quite fond of (such as the voice mail message).

* Isaac of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' had been stagnating as a character for quite a while before Sylar killed him, but his death and the scenes leading up to it were handled well enough that many viewers who had been complaining about Isaac were touched by his exit.

* A lot of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' fans couldn't stand Bela,l yet many of them felt a staggering amount of sympathy for her in the episode where the hellhounds come to get her. It might have helped that the actress got better and less annoying in her absence.

* Amber, aka "Cutthroat Bitch," in ''Series/{{House}}''. Most of the pathos comes from Wilson's reaction, though. Really, considering his [[TheWoobie Woobie]] quotient, it was to be expected eventually.

* Kendra in Season 2 of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Sure she was an annoying character with more than a little shade of the EthnicScrappy, but it was still a bit of a shock to see Drusilla take her out so ''easily''.
* Just when it looked like she was about to be RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap, Ana-Lucia went out rather shockingly with a bang on ''Series/{{Lost}}''.

* Judith Montgomery on ''JoanOfArcadia''. Everybody hates this CousinOliver who broke up the already established group dynamic, but her death was done in such a powerfully dramatic way that some fans began to wonder why they hated her in the first place.
* Joxer from ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' made a HeroicSacrifice for the woman he loved, which made many fans rethink their hatred of him. However, [[SenselessSacrifice his sacrifice was in vain and achieved nothing]]. And Gabrielle, the woman he '''died''' for, didn't even seem that upset!
* Jessica Wallace on ''Series/{{Neighbours}}'', hated by many viewers and most of the other characters for breaking up Ringo and Rachel, had such a realistic and tragic death scene that producers deemed it "too convincing" and had to edit some of the most upsetting parts out.

* Riley from ''Series/TheSarahConnorChronicles'' went from becoming TheScrappy in record time to getting RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap when we found out she was from the future (and thus actually served a purpose on the show besides giving John someone to suck face with); much of the fanbase mourned her death after discovering just how much her supposed savior screwed her over. Going out in a brutal fight to finally take control of her life, all in less than one season, probably helped.
* [[EthnicScrappy Alexandra Borgia]] of ''Series/LawAndOrder'', due mostly to the ''extremely'' brutal [[DroppedABridgeOnHim bridge dropping]] she received.
* Fat guy Malcom Ross of ''Series/HarpersIsland''. Buried his best friend's, nice-guy nerd Booth, body in the woods after he accidentally shot himself, taking the bag of money into his room and not telling anyone about it. His panicky nothings wrong attitude and sobbing when the truth comes out made him a hated character in many circles. But everyone cried when, with Roy Orbison's Running Scared playing in the background, he burns the money and is subsequently chopped, beaten and thrown in a furnace.

* The ending scene of ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'', "Goodbyeee!", where Captain Darling, supercilious little toad that he has been, suddenly becomes very human and likable. And he dies 5 minutes later.
* The October 17, 2007 episode of ''Series/TheChasersWarOnEverything'' featured "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLVsIpejFgM The Eulogy Song]]" sung by Andrew Hansen. It controversially cataloged a list of dead celebrities renown as "top blokes after death", embodying this trope perfectly.
* Bosco of ''Series/TheMentalist'' was ''not'' popular, mainly because he kept calling Jane out on his crap and was in love with Lisbon, which pissed off the Jisbon shippers. His death, though? Genuinely moving. Made so by Lisbon.
* The death of Norton Drake during the second season of ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds''. For the first season, Norton was a near-insufferable genius whose main job was to roll around a lab in his wheelchair and provide scientific technobabble to the main characters - and this was ''after'' the actor who played him stopped using a ridiculous Jamaican accent for the first few episodes of the series (the character did get one episode of much-needed character development in the latter half of the first season, though). In the second-season premiere, however, just as it looked like he might take on more of an active role with the Blackwood Project, Norton gets shot by a clone version of one of the main characters, gets enough strength to crawl over to a panic button and press it, then gets shot again off-screen... and then his body is blown to smithereens when the house he worked in explodes, and almost all of the characters promptly forgot about him. Norton's death is one of the main reasons why the second season is FanonDiscontinuity in the eyes of many fans.
* Arguably, Agent Steve Jinks of the Series/{{Warehouse 13}} team fits this trope. While not a particularly disliked character, he did - before CharacterDevelopment - feel like an extremely token New Guy, not helped by being background-to-absent in many episodes of his introductory season. When it's finally revealed that he's been callously killed after being discovered as an Undercover Good Guy, it's an incredibly powerful and affecting scene. Truly, nothing in his screen life became him as much as how he left it. He got better, though.
* Lori's death on ''Series/TheWalkingDead''. Before bleeding out, she asks Maggie to perform a cesarean on her, without taking any morphine, so that her child can live. It gets worse as her own son, Carl, has to shoot her corpse, so she doesn't reanimate.
* Lady Sybil from ''Series/DowntonAbbey''; she just seemed to be the "modern audience appeal" character, the typical RebelliousPrincess that you'd find in any animated film from the '90s. However, her death after giving birth to a daughter was genuinely shocking and tragic.
* Angelina Lasser from ''Series/{{Grimm}}''. Many fans groaned and pulled their hair at the news she, instead of Roddy, Holly, or Ariel, was going to make a return during Season Two. However, she is shot and killed while saving fan favorite, Monroe, and essentially gave her blessing for him to move on and continue his romance with Rosalee. It also gets worse when the final scene of the episode has Monroe partaking in a Blutbad burial ritual for her and once done, gives out a long and sad howl into the wilderness.
* Nate Westen from ''Series/BurnNotice''. When Nate showed up in an episode, it was a given that by simply being Nate he'd completely screw things up for Mike and the gang. Then he manages to single-handedly collar the {{Big Bad}} of the series at that point - and the first time he's ever done something right, a single gunshot rings out. Even the fans who hated Nate were in tears at his last words to his big brother.

** Marillion. Not an outright Scrappy, but more of a minor annoyance who only appeared in a few chapters. He was framed for Lysa's death and eventually died in one of the Eyrie's sky cells.