History Main / SmallAnnoyingCreature

* 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.

*** 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.

* Creator/{{Filmation}} was for some unholy reason addicted to this trope:

A staple of 1980s adventure cartoon shows, the Small Annoying Creature 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."]] [[note]]Especially in 1990s Disney animated films.[[/note]] Sometimes it's crossed with the NonhumanSidekick. It frequently has a VerbalTic - and truly obnoxious nails-on-blackboard voice talent.

* Angel-Gozen from ''Manga/BusouRenkin''.

* Gurgi in Disney's adaptation of ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron''. Although so we're all clear on this, the character was also in the books, and his portrayal was actually pretty faithful.

* ''Manga/SoulEater'': [[DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound EXCALIBUUUR! EXCALIBUUURRR!]] [[TalkingWeapon From the United Kingdom...]]

* Gabby from Max Fleischer's ''WesternAnimation/GulliversTravels''. No bigger than a pin, has an [[DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound obnoxiously shrill voice]], and a personality as [[TheScrappy lovable as a mosquito]], he has permanently etched the word '''[[BrokenRecord "THERE'S 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.

** Salacious Crumb (the [[DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound cackling]] thing that hangs out with Jabba the Hutt) is another deliberately annoying character from ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. Thankfully for fans, he's not in the film for long.

* ''Manga/SoulEater'': [[MostAnnoyingSound EXCALIBUUUR! EXCALIBUUURRR!]] [[TalkingWeapon From the United Kingdom...]]

* 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 "THERE'S 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.

** Salacious Crumb (the [[MostAnnoyingSound cackling]] thing that hangs out with Jabba the Hutt) is another deliberately annoying character from ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. Thankfully for fans, he's not in the film for long.

** Montblanc from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' has bad stats, says "kupo" all the time and looks more cartoonish than his friend Marche.

** Then there's its ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'' counterpart, Riki the Heropon, although at least he's useful as a party member and serves as a deconstruction 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 threathen other Nopon or die trying".]]

* Parodied and Invoked in ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'' with the aptly-named "Annoy-O-Tron". In-universe, this robot is so annoying that it has the "Taunt" ability, which forces other minions to attack it first.

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

* The 'Worms' in the MIB animated series ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries''. They were just an occasional nuisance in the first season, but as the show wore on and seasonal rot set in, they started to tag along with almost every episode, and more or less signaled the death knell of the show.

* Daxter fits much of this in the ''VideoGame/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.

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': Scrappy-Doo, [[TheScrappy of course!]]

* Twiki in ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury''. But only during the [[SeasonalRot second season]] when he wasn't being voiced by MelBlanc. Otherwise his lines were [[DeadpanSnarker often entertaining]], and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar sometimes radar-dodging]].

->'''Navi:''' Hey! Listen! Get up! Get up! Get up getupgetupgetupgetup--
->'''*Wack!*'''
->'''Link:''' Dude! Seriously! Shut! Up!
-->-- '''''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime The Legend of]] [[WebAnimation/AwesomeSeries Awesome]]'''''

** Strangely, he looses this trait [[TookALevelInBadass every time he possesses Ichigo's body]].

** Jar Jar Binks fits this trope in Episode I. His antics get him into trouble, after which someone smarter needs to save him. Their method of solving this in Episodes [[Film/AttackOfTheClones II]] and [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith III]] was to make him a representative in the Galactic Senate and greatly reduce his screen time without [[PutOnABus writing him out completely.]]
** [=C-3PO=] also fits this trope in that he is annoys the other good guys with his constant complaining. Especially during tense situations. Chewbacca even turned him off once, to the delight of Leia.
*** Um, no. ''Leia'' turned him off, not Chewie.

* Pip the mouse in ''WesternAnimation/DogtanianAndTheThreeMuskehounds'' and Tico the...hamster? in ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog'', though the latter had a bigger role and more developed character than most.

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

* WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} said it best: "You DENSE, IRRITATING, MINIATURE BEAST OF BURDEN!"

* WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} said it best: "You SMALL, IRRITATING, MINIATURE BEAST OF BURDEN!"

* Murugu from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''. She's even considered an annoyance InUniverse.