History Main / SmallAnnoyingCreature

* Cedric The Owl from KingsQuestV was infamous for being one of the first annoying videogame sidekicks. The fact he is completely useless [[spoiler: except for the very end where he becomes the ChekhovsGunman]], does nothing but overstate the obvious "Look out Graham! that bear look dangerous" "that desert that looks hot" [[MemeticMutation "Watch out Graham a POOIIISONOUS snake"]] and most locations in the game he is too afraid to follow you, or just doesn't care enough to. Not to mention his hooty owl voice is beyond annoying to most fans.

* Cedric The Owl from KingsQuestV was infamous for being one of the first annoying videogame sidekicks. The fact he is completely useless [[spoiler: except for the very end where he becomes the ChekhovsGunman]] does nothing but overstate the obvious "Look out Graham! that bear look dangerous" "that desert that looks hot" [[MemeticMutation "Watch out Graham a POOIIISONOUS snake"]] and most locations in the game he is too afraid to follow you, or just doesn't care enough to. Not to mention his hooty owl voice is beyond annoying to most fans.

*** He was brought back for one episode in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' and was still very annoying, but that was the point. The fact the show itself is a homage to the Silver Age [[note]] i.e Corny Age [[/note]] Batman era, it was fitting, and seeing as Creator/PaulDini himself wrote the episode, it wasn't that bad.

*** He was brought back for one episode in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' and was still very annoying, but that was the point. The fact the show itself is a homage to the Silver Age [[note]] i.e Corny Age [[/note]] Batman era, it was fitting, and seeing as Paul Dini himself wrote the episode, it wasn't that bad.

* Parodied in ''[[Anime/PrettySammy Magical Project S]]''. Magical Project S and the Pretty Sammy [=OVAs=] are the only installments of the franchise where [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Ryo-Okhi]] talks. After a few episodes, one quickly realizes why she doesn't talk in the other series. As ''Magical Project S'' and all of the ''Anime/PrettySammy'' series are a direct parody of ''Manga/SailorMoon'', Ryo-Okhi is supposed to be annoying.

See also WeaselMascot, TalkingAnimal, CuteButCacophonic, ExpositionFairy. If the SmallAnnoyingCreature is a dog, it's a MisterMuffykins.

* Parodied in the CharlieBrooker show ''Series/HowTVRuinedYourLife'' where he talks about the fictitious Saturday morning kids show Wo-Gan (based of the life of TerryWogan). In it he's accompanied by "JR", what appears to be a poorly drawn ghost (an expy of [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 Orko]]), who manages to annoy you despite the fact he's only on screen for around 30 seconds. See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArhJfbCMP18 here]]

* Kuroko, a lecherous imp from the hentai Anime/{{Urotsukidoji}}, is this.

[[folder: Anime ]]
* Momo, Fuu's small flying squirrel pet from ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' is the former TropeNamer.
* Nono, "[[RobotBuddy small robot you know, friend of]]" ''Anime/{{Ulysses 31}}''.
* Meowth in the ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' anime.
* The Ojama Trio in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' are ''supposed'' to irritate the hell out of people - such as [[strike: Manjoume]] Chazz, to whom they're [[ClingyMacGuffin attached]] and who is absolutely horrified about it.
* Giru from ''DragonballGT''.
* ''SoulEater'': [[MostAnnoyingSound EXCALIBUUUR! EXCALIBUUURRR!]] [[TalkingWeapon From the United Kingdom...]]
* Most people feel that Puck from the ''{{Berserk}}'' manga would fit this trope pretty well.

** [[WebVideo/BerserkAbridged "Puck is like the ''Jar-Jar'' of Berserk!!"]]

* Parodied in the ''MagicalProjectS'' installment of the ''TenchiMuyo'' multiverse. Magical Project S and the Pretty Sammy [=OVAs=] are the only installments of the franchise where [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Ryo-Okhi]] talks. After a few episodes, one quickly realizes why she doesn't talk in the other series. As ''Magical Project S'' and all of the ''PrettySammy'' series are a direct parody of ''SailorMoon'', Ryo-Okhi is supposed to be annoying.
* Emusa in ''TransformersZone''.
* The TykeBomb flying squirrel in ''ZettaiKarenChildren.'' Fortunately he's not around very much.
* Guvava, Mylene Jenius's pet in ''{{Macross 7}}''.
* Aria Pokoteng, the president cat from ''{{Manga/ARIA}}'', arguably fits here. Many fans still accept or even enjoy his role in the manga, since he has no speaking role and generally doesn't divert too much attention from the main characters. His loud and obnoxious [[ChewingTheScenery habit of chewing scenery]] in the anime puts quite a few viewers off though.

* Happosai from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''.

* From ''{{Inuyasha}}'', there's Shippou. He's small and he's annoying. However, he seems to be the OnlySaneMan sometimes.
* In the TV adaptation of ''Manga/NurseAngelRirikaSOS'', Maruru the "fairy advisor" plays this trope very, very straight. She/he/it has a grating voice and comes with a VerbalTic: appending "maru" to the ends of sentences.

[[folder: Comics ]]
* [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Kitty Pryde]]'s tiny pet dragon Lockheed.
* Any of the [[{{Superman}} Super Pets]], really.
* Any of the Preservers from ''ElfQuest'', but especially Petalwing.

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* The small alien creature in the film ''LostInSpace'' that Penny finds. It's whole role in the film was to be cute and provide some slapstick.

[[folder: LiveActionTV ]]
* Parodied in the CharlieBrooker show ''HowTVRuinedYourLife'' where he talks about the fictitious Saturday morning kids show Wo-Gan (based of the life of TerryWogan). In it he's accompanied by "JR", what appears to be a poorly drawn ghost (an expy of Orko from ''HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse''), who manages to annoy you dispite the fact he's only on screen for around 30 seconds. See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArhJfbCMP18 here]]

[[folder: Video Games ]]
* Most Moogles in general from the ''FinalFantasy'' games, when they become anything more than fluffy balls of cute:
** Montblanc from ''FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' has bad stats, says "kupo" all the time and looks more cartoonish than his friend Marche.
** Mog from ''[[FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles]]'' is supposed to be carrying the chalice, and yet he complains about being tired only seconds before you get surrounded by some 20-odd monsters.
** Mog from ''[[ChocobosDungeon Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon]]'' being a fully-voiced Moogle, [[StopHelpingMe is notorious]].
** Hurdy from ''FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' averts this by actually being useful as far as Bards go.
** Cait Sith from ''FinalFantasyVII'' is not a Moogle, but rides on a stuffed one. He has only two Limit Breaks, neither of which are very useful, and sticks out like a sore thumb in what is one of the darkest games in the series.
* Leonard's pact-partner the malicious fairy in ''{{Drakengard}}''.
* Mieu from ''VideoGame/{{Tales of the Abyss}}'' -- 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.
** In the Japanese version, Luke calls him "butasaru," which means "pig monkey."
** 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]]
* Murfy from Rayman 2/3
* 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!]]
* Daxter fits much of this in the ''JakAndDaxter'' series. He spends the majority of the franchise complaining, insulting, getting [[ButtMonkey abused]], and uselessly resting on his partner's shoulder. He's obviously the comic relief, though as the franchise progresses, he gets more and more chance to actively help out his friends.
* Bumble from ''{{Kinectimals}}'', possibly.
* Chu Chu from ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', a mostly-serious giant robot RPG that inexplicably had a cute pink animal that enlarged to enormous size.
** Then there's its ''XenoBlade'' counterpart, Rikki the Heropon.
* Teddie from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', as he is a living ''{{Hurricane of Puns}}''.

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* Sette from ''{{Unsounded}}''. Unfortunately for the protagonist, her dad knows his dark secret.

[[folder: Western Animation ]]
* Gabby from Max Fleischer's ''WesternAnimation/GulliversTravels''. No bigger than a pin, has an [[MostAnnoyingSound obnoxiously shrill voice]], and a personality as [[TheScrappy lovable as a mosquito]], he has permanently etched the word '''[[BrokenRecord "THERES A GIANT ON THE BEACH!"]]''' into the minds of many animation fans forever. Its certainly a surprise that he was popular enough to warrant a SpinOff series to him, short lived as it was.
* {{Filmation}} was for some unholy reason addicted to this trope:
** Ping and Pong the Pandas in ''TheBradyKids''
** Ptolemy and Tut-Tut on ''MissionMagic''
** Batmite in the ''TheNewAdventuresOfBatman''
** Mo in ''SpaceSentinels''
** The "Trobbits" in ''{{Blackstar}}''
** Orko in ''WesternAnimation/{{He-Man and the Masters of the Universe}}'' Also Cringer, although in the 2002 remake he lost the ability to talk and with it most of his ability to annoy viewers.
** Cowl in ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower''
** Belfry and Brat-A-Rat in ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters''
** Deputy Fuzz in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}''
* 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.
* Snarf in ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' [[TheUnintelligible loses his voice]] [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter and gains about 10,000 adorableness points.]]

* Oon in ''WesternAnimation/JayceAndTheWheeledWarriors''.
* Twiki in ''[[BuckRogers Buck Rogers in the Twenty-Fifth Century]]''. But only during the [[SeasonalRot crappy second season]] when he wasn't being voiced by MelBlanc. Otherwise his lines were [[DeadpanSnarker often entertaining]], and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar sometimes radar-dodging]].

* Dutifully parodied with "Mr. Skipperdoo" in the "Mr. Incredible and Pals" short included with ''TheIncredibles'' DVD -- ostensibly [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis an unaired cartoon pilot within the characters' universe]].

* 7-Zark-7, introduced to pad out the gaps left by censorship in ''BattleOfThePlanets''. Then he gets 1-Rover-1, a robot's robotic pet! Who eats nuts and bolts, yet!
* Mr Cool, Fonzie's dog in ''TheFonzAndTheHappyDaysGang''.
* When ''TheJetsons'' was brought back in syndication, the major change was the addition of one of these, in the form of Orbity, that little spring-legged unintelligible alien who changed colors depending on his mood. Granted, in a futuristic sitcom, a cute fuzzy alien pet wasn't ''entirely'' out of place.
* Zuffy from ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth''.

* Parodied in ''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.
** RobotChicken 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.]]
* Godzooky from the series ''TheGodzillaPowerHour''. It doesn't help that he's an {{Expy}} of [[TheScrappy Minya]] either.
* Poof on ''TheFairlyOddparents''.
* Gurgi in {{Disney}}'s adaptation of ''TheBlackCauldron''. Although so we're all clear on this, the character was also in the books, and his portrayal was actually pretty faithful.
* Bladebeak in ''QuestForCamelot''.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'': Scrappy-Doo, [[TheScrappy of course!]]
* Bleep, the alien cotton ball with legs, on ''JosieAndThePussycats [[RecycledINSPACE in Outer Space]]''.
* The sandmurks, in ''TheFlightOfDragons'', whose screechy noises will literally drive the listener mad. (Note that in this case, the small creature is ''meant'' to be annoying.)
* Mort the mouse lemur in ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''.
* {{Shrek}} said it best: "You SMALL, IRRITATING, MINIATURE BEAST OF BURDEN!"
** Lampshaded in ''{{Shrek}} 2''.
-->'''Donkey''': "I'm sorry, the position of Annoying Talking Animal has already been taken!"
* Many years before Navi came about, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda's'' animated series occasionally had the fairy Spryte tag along with Link, and it can be argued that of the two fairies, Spryte is the more annoying. It doesn't help that she's constantly hitting on Link.
** 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.]]
*** The big difference is that Spryte had a voice that was ran though a helium filter, making her '''extremely''' grating to hear, no matter what she was doing.
* Slimer in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters''. He was toned down for ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters''.
* Nibbler in ''{{Futurama}}''. He at first appears to be a small annoying brainless pet with a voracious appetite, but it eventually turns out he's a member of the ancient race of Nibblonians, who (somehow) predate the universe itself by 20 minutes or so. When Nibbler actually speaks, he turns out to have a deep, resonant (if somewhat overdramatic) voice and to be smarter than the rest of the cast put together. He fits the trope because the other characters don't know he's intelligent for quite a while, and most of them find him quite annoying, especially Bender.

* Mort the mouse lemur in ''{{Madagascar}}'' and ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''.

* Parodied in the CharlieBrooker show ''HowTVRuinedYourLife'' where he talks about the fictitious Saturday morning kids show Wo-Gan (based of the life of TerryWogan). In it he's accompanied by "JR", what appears to be a poorly draw ghost, who manages to annoy you dispite the fact he's only on screen for around 30 seconds. See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArhJfbCMP18 here]]

* Snarf in ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats}} [=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.
*** Snarf in ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats 2011}} [=ThunderCats (2011)=]]]'' [[TheUnintelligible loses his voice]] [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter and gains about 10,000 adorableness points.]]

* [[SoulEater EXCALIBUUUR!]] [[MostAnnoyingSound EXCALIBUUURRR!]] [[TalkingWeapon From the United Kingdom...]]

* Momo, Fuu's small flying squirrel pet from ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' is the former trope namer

* Happosai from ''{{Ranma OneHalf}}''.
* Angel-Gozen from ''{{Busou Renkin}}''.

A staple of 1980s adventure cartoon shows, the SmallAnnoyingCreature is a type of {{Sidekick}}. The Small Annoying Creature is there to be cute, provide comic asides and occasionally get into trouble and need rescuing. Often a [[TheMerch "merchandising critter"]] [[hottip:*:especially in 1990s Disney animated films]]. Sometimes it's crossed with the NonhumanSidekick. It frequently has a VerbalTic - and truly obnoxious nails-on-blackboard voice talent.

* [[TheScrappy Scrappy-Doo]], of course!

** [[BerserkAbridged "Puck is like the ''Jar-Jar'' of Berserk!!"]]