History ReplacementScrappy / AnimeAndManga

* And also to the new versions of the Knight Sabers in ''BubblegumCrisis: Tokyo 2040''.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': The [[spoiler: Fullbringers]]. Not only do they [[SatelliteCharacter exist to just give Ichigo his powers back]] after [[spoiler:he loses them after defeating Aizen]] and have unpleasant characteristics and hardly any backstory [[WildCard unlike the Vizards]], [[spoiler:but they turn out to be SmugSnake enemies that act way too confident for their own good]].

* Crow in ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' starts out like this in season 3 for replacing DarkMagicalGirl Aki's status as the third-billed hero while she was DemotedToExtra after 64 episodes long CharacterDevelopment. He became outright [[TheScrappy disliked]] after accusation of being a [[SpotlightStealingSquad spotlight hog]], a MartyStu ''and'' a CreatorsPet in later episodes. This is not help by the fact that to the majority of the audience, Aki is an [[BadPowersGoodPeople interesting]], [[TheWoobie sympathetic]], [[ActionGirl badass]] and [[PsychicPower plot-relevant]] female human character who has a rather large fanbase, especially given the ''[[Franchise/YuGiOh YGO]]'' franchise poor [[FauxActionGirl track]] [[TheScrappy record]]. Even after being [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap rescued]] into a BaseBreaker, he still never achieved Aki's popularity during the first two arcs.

* Crow in ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' starts out like this in season 3 for replacing DarkMagicalGirl Aki's status as the third-billed hero while the former was DemotedToExtra after 64 episodes long CharacterDevelopment. He became outright [[TheScrappy disliked]] after accusation of being a [[SpotlightStealingSquad spotlight hog]], a MartyStu ''and'' a CreatorsPet in later episodes. This is not help by the fact that to the majority of the audience, Aki is an [[BadPowersGoodPeople interesting]], [[TheWoobie sympathetic]], [[ActionGirl badass]] and [[PsychicPower plot-relevant]] female human character who has a rather large fanbase, especially given the ''[[Franchise/YuGiOh YGO]]'' franchise poor [[FauxActionGirl track]] [[TheScrappy record]]. Even after being [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap rescued]] into a BaseBreaker, he still never achieved Aki's popularity during the first two arcs.

*** [[spoiler: though since Sasuke has just [[DeathIsCheap revived Orochimaru without batting an eyelid]], the people who dislike the idea of Tobi as the final villain can be happy once more]]

* Sai, who replaced [[TheRival Sasuke Uchiha]] on ''Team 7'' in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', was hated by two groups of fans. Sasuke fans that hated the idea of someone replacing him. And Sasuke haters who didn't take to the character and even saw him as worse than the guy he replaced. However, Sai proves to be quite different. Sasuke has always been portrayed as the non-smiling stoic and so most fans probably assumed Sai would play the same role. Instead we have someone who always smiles, cracks jokes about Naruto and expresses how he feels from the get-go as opposed to staying silent and generally is shown to be less and less like Sasuke.

* Also the initial reaction to Saki and Mai of ''FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'', although this didn't last long.
** Aguri/Cure Ace of Anime/DokiDokiPrecure for replacing the well liked Regina, who the show was leading up to her making a HeelFaceTurn and becoming a Cure. Made worse by the fact that she breaks tradition of a previously established character becoing a Cure by being a new character that we've never seen before.

* ''DragonBallZ'' gives us a weird example when Main Timeline Trunks. The Trunks introduced in the Android saga was a Badass from a dark future whose experiences had humbled him and made him serious and fans liked him. But when history changed so that the androids were defeated the Trunks of the main timeline was allowed to grow up with both his parents and came off like a spoiled brat.

* Davis from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''.
** Tagiru for the sequel to ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars''.

** Aguri/Cure Ace of Anime/DokiDokiPrecure for replacing the well liked Regina, who the show was leading up to her making a HeelFaceTurn and becoming a Cure. Made worse by the fact that she breaks new Cure tradition of being a previously established character by being a new character that we've never seen before.

** Iris originally suffered this before ''Best Wishes'' came out, not because she was replacing Dawn but because she wasn't the [[{{Tomboy}} female protagonist]] of ''[[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Black and White]]''. FanDumb [[FanWank wanked]] her as being a racist character but the tides eventually settled almost immediately when [[spoiler: she was revealed to be the last Gym Leader of Pokémon White who could use powerful dragon Pokémon.]] So, unlike Dawn who was seen as a ReplacementScrappy from the very beginning, it disappeared concerning Iris [[BrokenBase for the most part.]]
** Finally, [[DracoinLeatherPants Paul]] fans see Ash's new rival [[SugarAndIcePersonality Trip]] as one because in the words of the FanDumb, "He's not Paul." The creators are obviously not aiming for another Paul type of character and Trip is seen to be completely different as he's nicer to his Pokémon, does try to help Ash and Iris out on occasion and is not a [[RageQuit poor sport]] like Paul demonstrated himself to be at the beginning. [[HateDumb Paul's fans don't care.]]

** The voice actors for the Creator/ADVFilms dubs of the movies, ''especially'' Cynthia Martinez as Lina, are widely disliked. Also, when Creator/CrispinFreeman replaced Daniel Cronin in the first season, he was disliked because of his more "vibrant" voice, but now the opposite (dislike of Cronin's voice) is true. When VeronicaTaylor began voicing Amelia, however, she was considered to be a huge improvement.

* This happened to the {{Retool}}ed versions of Kei and Yuri in ''LightNovel/DirtyPair Flash''.

* Manga/{{Bleach}}: The [[spoiler: Fullbringers]]. Not only do they [[SatelliteCharacter exist to just give Ichigo his powers back]] after [[spoiler:he loses them after defeating Aizen]] and have unpleasant characteristics and hardly any backstory [[WildCard unlike the Vizards]], [[spoiler:but they turn out to be SmugSnake enemies that act way too confident for their own good]].
* Yuuna from {{Stitch}}, for a fair amount of western fans. This lead to the meme, "[[MemeticMutation The Japanese hate Lilo!]]"
* DragonBallZ gives us a weird example when Main Timeline Trunks. The Trunks introduced in the Android saga was a Badass from a dark future whose experiences had humbled him and made him serious and fans liked him. But when history changed so that the androids were defeated the Trunks of the main timeline was allowed to grow up with both his parents and came off like a spoiled brat.

*** To give a better example, at the start, everyone complained that he was [[BoringInvincibleVillain too invincible for a rookie trainer]] due to beating Ash twice (the first battle shouldn't count though), but currently, now that he's suffering some losses, they complain that he's not a worthy, interesting rival for Ash at all because he's too ''weak!'' At this point, it's more likely that these fans just [[ReplacementScrappy hate Trip for replacing Paul]], and will complain no matter ''what'' he does and given Paul's fanbase, it's not going to go away.

*** An unusual outlook, seeing as how Paul is often considered a total ReplacementScrappy of Gary Oak. Both were skilled trainers who focused on strong, rare pokemon. The difference being that Gary had an arrogant, boastful personality, and Paul was more dark, serious and overly dramatic.

*** To give a better example, at the start, everyone complained that he was [[BoringInvincibleVillain too invincible for a rookie trainer]] due to beating Ash twice (the first battle shouldn't count though), but currently, now that he's suffering some losses, they complain that he's not a worty, interesting rival for Ash at all because he's too ''weak!'' At this point, it's more likely that these fans just [[ReplacementScrappy hate Trip for replacing Paul]], and will complain no matter ''what'' he does and given Paul's fanbase, it's not going to go away.

** And then [[Anime/PokemonExtremespeedGenesectMewtwoAwakens the 16th movie]] brought back [[EnsembleDarkhorse fan favourite]] [[{{Badass}} Mewtwo]]... except no, it's a different Mewtwo with no relation to the old one, and with more of a kind, motherly, feminine voice and personality rather than the {{Badass}}, AntiHero, manly voice and personality of the old one. Needless to say, fans are NOT happy at this New Mewtwo [[UniquenessDecay reducing a one-of-a-kind character into just another Pokémon species]], let alone the implications for the fourth ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' game.

** And then [[Anime/PokemonExtremespeedGenesectMewtwoAwakens the 16th movie]] brought back [[EnsembleDarkhorse fan favourite]] [[{{Badass}} Mewtwo]]... except no, it's a different Mewtwo with no relation to the old one. Needless to say, fans are NOT happy at this New Mewtwo [[UniquenessDecay reducing a one-of-a-kind character into just another Pokémon species]].

* Probably the biggest reason many ''GundamSEEDDestiny'' fans hate Shinn Asuka is that '''he's not Kira.''' The fact that Kira is still a member of the cast does not help, and a few fans don't even consider the HostileShowTakeover to be enough, stating that the series needed to focus on Kira from the earliest possible moment.
** It should be noted that a fair portion of the fanbase simply dislike him based on his JerkAss attitude, his [[ItsAllAboutMe blaming others for everything]] and that he never admits to his own mistakes. Not exactly the most endearing of protagonists, even in a franchise that includes similar whiny jerks [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Amuro Ray]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Kamille Biden]].
** This has reduced with fans realizing the sheer bias of the producer and writer as well as more sympathetic renditions in Super Robot Wars games.

** Finally, [[DracoinLeatherPants Paul]] fans see Ash's new rival [[{{Kuudere}} Trip]] as one because in the words of the FanDumb, "He's not Paul." The creators are obviously not aiming for another Paul type of character and Trip is seen to be completely different as he's nicer to his Pokémon, does try to help Ash and Iris out on occasion and is not a [[RageQuit poor sport]] like Paul demonstrated himself to be at the beginning. [[HateDumb Paul's fans don't care.]]

** Mileina has received a little bit of this as well for replacing the lovable Christina Sierra.