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* TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering had Squee, the goblin [[TheCabinBoy cabin hand]] of the Skyship Weatherlight.

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* Snarf in ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats''. They later added his [[CousinOliver even smaller and more annoying nephew]], Snarfer. Humorously enough, Snarf's annoying nature is decried by a fan in the DVD extras. The fan in question is Creator/WilWheaton. Similar to He-Man's Cringer, he becomes a non-speaking creature in the series remake.

'''Link:''' Dude! Seriously! Shut! Up!

A staple of 1980s adventure cartoon shows, the Sidekick Creature Nuisance is a type of {{Sidekick}}. It is there to be cute, provide comic asides and occasionally get into trouble and need rescuing. Often a [[TheMerch "merchandising critter."]] [[note]]Especially in 1990s Disney animated films.[[/note]] Sometimes it's crossed with the NonhumanSidekick. It frequently has a VerbalTic - and truly gets on the main cast's nerves.

* Blunk, the annoying goblin thingie who speaks YouNoTakeCandle, in WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}, at his worst.

* Bunga from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' is hated by a lot of people, mainly because he seems to be the biggest source of forced "comedic" conflicts in every episode of the series. The fact that he shares [[BrattyHalfPint some of]] [[KidAppealCharacter the same traits]] as Scrappy-Doo himself does not help, nor does his two catchphrases, "Zuka Zama" and "Un-Bunga-lievable!", which many perceive as annoying.

* Sumomo from ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'' is a RobotGirl. She talks in an unbelievably grating high-pitched voice, and her CatchPhrase is "WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!"

* In ''WebVideo/AdventureIsNigh,'' Dabarella's season 3 upgrade is a {{Familiar}}, a living ginger-bread man named "Toasty Cinnamonbuns," who speaks in an obnoxious "Bizo the Clown" voice. Mortimer's immediate reaction is to propose ''[[EatTheDog eating him!]]''

* In ''WebAnimation/AdventureIsNigh,'' Dabarella's season 3 upgrade is a {{Familliar}}, a living ginger bread man named "Toasty Cinnamonbuns," who speaks in an obnoxious "Bizo the Clown" voice. Mortimer's immediate reaction is to propose ''[[EatTheDog eating him!]]''

* Dutifully parodied with "Mr. Skipperdoo" in the "Mr. Incredible and Pals" short included with ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' DVD -- ostensibly an unaired cartoon pilot [[ShowWithinAShow within the characters' universe]]. Even more hilarious than the cartoon is the commentary with Frozone and Mr. Incredible, who both hate the rabbit (particularly the former).

* WesternAnimation/Shrek1, calling out Donkey for being a MotorMouth who won't give up asking Shrek to be his friend, said it best: "YOU DENSE, IRRITATING, MINIATURE BEAST OF BURDEN!" Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2''.

* WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} said it best: "YOU DENSE, IRRITATING, MINIATURE BEAST OF BURDEN!" Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}''.

** The Porgs from ''Film/TheLastJedi'', especially when they make themselves at home on the ''Falcon''. Chewie spends at least one scene trying to get them out of his hair.

* Kon from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' devolved into this as soon as they put him in a stuffed animal. He loses this trait [[TookALevelInBadass every time he possesses Ichigo's body]]since e the intent is for him to do the fighting on Ichigo's behalf. Kon is some kind of renegade who isn't fully compliant to whatever arrangement souls like him are normally part of, which is why they keep him in a harmless stuffed toy while he's not in use (which is why he turns into this trope; he can't really fight, and thus has no meaningful contribution to anything).
%%* Angel-Gozen from ''Manga/BusoRenkin''.

%%* Giru from ''Anime/DragonballGT''.

%%* Guvava, Mylene Jenius's pet in ''Anime/{{Macross 7}}''.

%% * The TykeBomb flying squirrel in ''Manga/PsychicSquad.'' Fortunately he's not around very much.

%% * Emusa in ''Manga/TransformersZone''.
%% * Nono, "[[RobotBuddy small robot you know, friend of]]" ''Anime/{{Ulysses 31}}''.

* Stwingers, teeny-tiny fairies in the ''TabletopGame/AdvancedDungeonsAndDragonsSecondEdition''. Described as "nauseatingly cute", they aren't truly dangerous, but very annoying, especially for dwarves, seeing as stwingers saw long beards as playground swings. Even if seen, these creatures have some sort of euphoria power that makes it hard to shoo them away.

* This was a favored trope of Creator/DonBluth in general -- so much to the point one briefly appeared in his last movie, ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'', and immediately gets shot by a laser.

* MagicTheGathering had Squee, the goblin CabinBoy of the Skyship Weatherlight.

* Mort the mouse lemur in ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''. PlayedWith in that he's meant to be this, is seen as such InUniverse (Julien explicitly refers to him as this), and usually winds up as the ButtMonkey. He doesn't seem to mind.

** Some people like Ewoks, others find them to be quite irritating, despite their cuddly teddy-bear likeness.

** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'' has Riki's {{Expy}} Tatsu, who plays the trope painfully straight in that he offers absolutely nothing useful in gameplay and just tags along making comments whenever Lin is in the party (which is 90% of the story quests). Whereas Riki was at least a decent and useful party member, Tatsu contributes nothing at all yet still takes credit for all the team's victories.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda'':

* ''Franchise/XenobladeChronicles'':

* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'':

-->'''Actual Poshul quote:''' Me will use my Pwetty-Miwacle-Power-X! Me will do it, Sergeipoo!

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' has [[ExpositionFairy Navi]]. She starts off being helpful, but she becomes quite a nuisance with her constant buzzing around and yelling, "Hey! Listen!". Really, she's the most helpful when she's quiet; she's your L-targeting system, after all.
* Teddie from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', as he is a living ''{{Hurricane of Puns}}''.

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'':
** Mieu from ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' -- as {{lampshaded}} ''repeatedly'' by Luke, who constantly abuses the poor thing by stepping on it, kicking it or using it as an impromptu club, all because it pisses him off. And it's all played for comedy. And referring to him as "Thing", because he can't figure out what sort of animal he is. Admittedly, Luke is the only one who does this, and after [[spoiler:his ImportantHaircut wherein he ceases to be Ambassador Asshat, he takes more kindly to Meiu and only goes back to his {{Jerkass}} ways when Meiu embarrasses him in front of Tear]]
** In the Japanese version, Luke calls him "butasaru," which means "pig monkey."
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has dozens of "non-combat" pets you can buy or find. Most of them are innocuous, but you can shut off the audio for the ones that are annoying. However, when [[http://www.wowwiki.com/Lil%27_XT Lil' XT]] was first introduced it shared a sound file with the full-sized XT-002 Deconstructor from Ulduar; therefore the pet sounds cutoff didn't work. The week after its introduction there were dozens of them running around Dalaran screaming "I guess it doesn't bend that way!" and "I'm ready to play!" and you COULD NOT MAKE IT STOP. It was eventually hotfixed, but the scars remain...
** There was also this floating voodoo mask that played a short "tribal" drum beat when you summoned it. [[NightmareFuel The problem was, the beat looped forever and didn't go away once you "heard" it even if the pet was dismissed. What's even worse, you could summon and dismiss the pet multiple times to end up with dozens of layers of drum loops, not in sync at all!]]
* Chu Chu from ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', a mostly-serious giant robot RPG that inexplicably had a cute pink animal that enlarged to enormous size.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' has Chu Chu's counterpart, Riki the Heropon, although at least he's useful as a party member and serves as a {{deconstruct|edCharacterArchetype}}ion of the usual trope in that [[spoiler:he's actually 40 years old, has a huge litter of children he's struggling to feed and being named "Heropon" is Nopon shorthand for "title given out to Nopon who find themselves deep in debt and must work it off by slaying monsters that threaten other Nopon or die trying".]]

* In ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', Azrael had the misfortune of being assigned the one Watcher In The Dark who has high-pitched voice, can't keep a secret and ''never stops talking''. Of course, Azrael being who he is, he ends up kicking the shit out of it. Perhaps as a nod to some of the other examples in the page, the credits state this watcher's name is Snurko.

* Nine years before Navi debuted, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda's'' animated series included the fairy princess Spryte, who liked to hang around (and sometimes help) Link and Zelda. Some may argue that of the two fairies, Spryte is the more annoying. It didn't help that she's constantly flirting with (a mostly dismissive) Link. Spryte's voice was also high and squeaky, with a slightly nasal Canadian accent, which many (but not all) audience members found irritating.
** However, unlike Navi, Spryte openly and genuinely cared about Link (which, it can be argued, the frequently belligerent Zelda did not). In several episodes, Spryte was both helpful to the duo, and instrumental in their defeating Ganon. This character development kept her from becoming TheLoad.
** With a couple of notable exceptions, Spryte was almost completely absent from the Valiant comics based on the series. The role of token fairy was instead taken by Miff, a temperamental DeadpanSnarker who ''hated'' Link and repeatedly insulted him. The artists never seemed to agree how to draw her, though; [[DependingOnTheArtist in some stories she'd be this rather sexy, if tiny, woman, and in others she looked like a pudgy eight-year-old.]]

* Slimer in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'', on the surface, is a textbook case. However, behind the scenes, he's a little bit more complex; in the earlier era of the show helmed by Creator/JMichaelStraczynski, the man specifically clarified in his writer's guide for the series to not overuse Slimer so that he ''doesn't'' fall under this trope (or at least, isn't hit by it too hard). However, once the network [[ExecutiveMeddling started interfering with the show]] one of their many controversial decisions was to shoehorn Slimer into every scene, soon embodying this trope's worst aspects. This culminated in the show being retooled to "Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters," with each episode divided into two 10 minute episodes- one devoted to the Ghostbusters (and Slimer) and the other devoted to Slimer without the Ghostbusters. The latter even had a new character added, Max, an anthropromorphic alley cat who served as an antagonist to Slimer and managed to be even more annoying.
** He was toned down for ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters''.
* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' when the creators of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' decide to create an even worse character than [[CreatorsPet Wesley Crusher]] to make him look better. Turns out, the more annoying character becomes loved and people still want the writers to kill off Wesley.
** ''Robot Chicken'' also parodied the Filmation examples as Snarf and Orko are in an elevator together [[InnerMonologue thinking about]] [[EveryoneHasStandards how they can't stand each other.]] Then Gleek walks in and they both get annoyed by him. Gleek leaves the elevator only to get stuck in line with the most irritating sidekick of all: [[spoiler:Andy Richter.]]

* Parodied in ''Crognard the Barbarian'', a show-within-a-show in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012''. The show, a pastiche of 80's Filmation/Hanna-Barbera-styled action-fantasy cartoons, features an annoying ghost-like creature named Spooch who pretty much ticks every box associated with this trope. He is also frequently abused by the title character.

* Slimer in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'', on the surface, is a textbook case. However, behind the scenes, he's a little bit more complex; in the earlier era of the show helmed by Creator/JMichaelStraczynski, the man specifically clarified in his writer's guide for the series to not overuse Slimer so that he ''doesn't'' fall under this trope (or at least, isn't hit by it too hard). However, once the network [[ExecutiveMeddling started interfering with the show]] one of their many controversial decisions was to shoehorn Slimer into every scene, soon embodying this trope's worst aspects. This culminated in the show being retooled to "Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters," with each episode divided into two 10 minute episodes- one devoted to the Ghostbusters (and Slimer) and the other devoted to Slimer without the Ghostbusters. The latter even had a new character added, Max, an alley cat who served as an atagonist to Slimer and managed to be even more annoying.