History ReplacementScrappy / AnimeAndManga

*** 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 Pokémon. The difference being that Gary had an arrogant, boastful personality, and Paul was more dark, serious and overly dramatic.

** [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Daisuke Motomiya]], or [[DubNameChange Davis]], is pretty much a shameless expy of Taichi (Tai) Yagami/Kamiya from [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 the sequel]] to ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''. However, he gets some CharacterDevelopment later, and he isn't as bad as...

** [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Daisuke Motomiya]], or [[DubNameChange Davis]], is pretty much a shameless expy of Taichi (Tai) Yagami/Kamiya from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''. However, he gets some CharacterDevelopment later, and he isn't as bad as...

** [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Daisuke Motomiya]], or [[DubNameChange Davis]], is pretty much a shameless expy of Taichi (Tai) from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''. However, he gets some CharacterDevelopment later, and he isn't as bad as...

** Tagiru Akashi is this for Taiki (Mikey) Kudo in [[Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersLeapingThroughTime the sequel]] to ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'', even more so than Davis. Oddly, this is in spite of the latter being a {{deuteragonst}}; Tagiru just happened to have more SpotlightStealingSquad moments than necessary.

** [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Davis]], the shameless expy of Tai from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''. However, he gets some CharacterDevelopment later, and he isn't as bad as...
** Tagiru Akashi is this for Taiki Kudo in [[Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersLeapingThroughTime the sequel]] to ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'', even more so than Davis.

* 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 a two-arcs 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 helped 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 BaseBreakingCharacter, he still never achieved Aki's popularity during the first two arcs.

* Yuna from ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'', for a fair amount of Western ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' fans. This lead to the meme, "[[MemeticMutation The Japanese hate Lilo!]]" Wang Ai Ling from the Chinese ''Animation/StitchAndAi'' also gets this to a lesser extent.

* [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Davis]], the shameless expy of Tai from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''. However, he gets some CharacterDevelopment later, and he isn't as bad as...

* Also the initial reaction to Saki and Mai of ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'', although this didn't last long.

* 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.
** In-universe, Naruto himself says at one point that he can never replace Sasuke.
** [[spoiler:Madara]] never gets the end of it from people who can't accept anyone but Orochimaru as the final villain, or who were disappointed that [[spoiler:the apparent leader of Akatsuki until then, Pain,]] was not the main villain either. And it turns out that [[spoiler:Madara]] is not the main villain either! Or at least the series is not going in that direction.
*** [[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]]
** Tsunade replacing the Third Hokage, instead of a cool, defined CoolOldGuy, we get a massive JerkWithAHeartOfGold drunkard with a huge gambling problem. Not helped in that she's a MsFanservice as well as being an excuse to retreat the GenerationXerox with Sakura so that she can get stronger.

* [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Davis]], the shamless expy of Tai from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''. However, he gets some CharacterDevelopment later, and he isn't as bad as...

* Yuna from ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'', for a fair amount of Western ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' fans. This lead to the meme, "[[MemeticMutation The Japanese hate Lilo!]]"
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
** The show gives us a weird example with Main Timeline Trunks. The Trunks introduced in the Android saga is a Badass from a dark future whose experiences has humbled him and made him serious and fans liked him. But when history changed so that the androids are defeated, the Trunks of the main timeline is allowed to grow up with both his parents and comes off like a spoiled brat. Fortunately for fans, Future Trunks was brought back as a main character in alternate timeline series ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', but ''that'' incarnation of him has [[DeusAngstMachina a variety]] [[YankTheDogsChain of problems]] [[HappyEndingOverride on its own.]]

** Naruto's son Boruto ZigAndZags this trope. When first introduced, many saw Boruto as a poor replacement for Naruto, mostly because of his selfish, rude and childish tendencies especially towards his father. Though the level of hatred has fallen after character development kicks in following the events of the movie.

** A good number of fans hated Tracey for replacing Brock, some even making up reasons like "he's a fat pervert" to justify this. (Incredibly stupid considering that Brock, himself, is a blatant pervert.)
** 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]]''. Fans [[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.]]

** And then [[Anime/PokemonGenesectAndTheLegendAwakened the 16th movie]] brought back [[BreakoutVillain fan favourite 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 AntiVillain, 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. Even [[OneOfUs her English voice actress]] [[https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=676840695674582&id=109462092412448 braced herself for a fandom backlash]].

* An in-universe example from ''Manga/FairyTail'': This trope is reason for Aquarius' JerkassFacade attitude towards Lucy.

* 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 a two-arcs 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 BaseBreakingCharacter, he still never achieved Aki's popularity during the first two arcs.

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

** Though not as extreme as some previous examples, some Serena fans sees Lillie as one of her.

* Davis, the shamless expy of Tai from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''. However, he gets some CharacterDevelopment later, and he isn't as bad as...
** Tagiru for Taiki for the sequel to ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars''.
** Davis' example gets very strange in the English dub. The head writer openly admitted to hating him, so gave him deliberately awful lines. But in the show itself, Davis was the only person willing to [[spoiler:forgive fan-favorite [[EnsembleDarkhorse Ken]] after the whole Digital Emperor thing]], causing his popularity to skyrocket. It caused a [[BrokenBase Broken Base]] between fans who [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap thought this redeemed his character]], and fan who [[TheScrappy still hated him.]]

** Naruto's son Boruto is a double subversion. When first introduced, many saw Boruto as a poor replacement for Naruto, mostly because of his selfish and childish tendencies especially towards his father. Though the level of hatred has fallen after character development kicks in following the events of the movie.

* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' fans were generally drawn to the series for the following reasons: ActionGirl [[ImprobablyFemaleCast Nanoha and cast]] who manage to simultaneously be [[{{Moe}} adorable]] and badass, and the large amount of LesYay instigated mostly by Nanoha. So, you can just imagine the massive uproar that occurred when it was announced that the very ''male'' Touma will replace Nanoha as the main character in the fourth season. Poor Touma, when the fandom wants you to either [[DeathByOriginStory die from the get-go]] or [[UnsettlingGenderReveal turn out to be female all along]], and there are betting pools on how long he'll last before he gets DemotedToExtra, you know you have a tough road ahead of you.

* One of many, many reasons that Berry Shirayuki from ''TokyoMewMew A La Mode'' is so [[TheScrappy unlikeable]]. What's more, ExecutiveMeddling took it all the way - Ichigo's powers mysteriously mutated, so she functions as Berry's powerup item and nothing more.

** Davis' example gets very strange in the English dub. The head writer openly admitted to hating him, so gave him deliberately awful lines. But in the show itself, Davis was the only person willing to [[spoiler:forgive [[EnsembleDarkhorse Ken]] after the whole Digital Emperor thing]], causing his popularity to skyrocket. It caused a [[BrokenBase Broken Base]] between fans who [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap thought this redeemed his character]], and fan who [[TheScrappy still hated him.]]

** Davis' example gets very strange in the English dub. The head writer openly admitted to hating him, so gave him deliberately awful lines. But in the show itself, Davis was the only person willing to [[spoiler:forgive [[EnsembleDarkhorse Ken]] after the whole Digital Emperor thing]], causing his popularity to skyrocket. It caused a [[BrokenBase]] between fans who [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeat thought this redeemed his character]], and fan who [[TheScrappy still hated him.]]

* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, some people disliked May because she replaced Misty. Although in the previous arc, Misty's character was largely changed by the introduction of Togepi, who is a [[TheScrappy major Scrappy]] in his own right for this reason; fans mainly remember Misty at her peak for being a strong and dedicated female character, whereas May was portrayed as more of a stereotypical girl. (It didn't help that most of her Pokémon were arguably feminine and she was drawn with an [[MsFanservice oversized chest]].) However, May eventually [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap gained a large fanbase of her own]], and come next arc, some people disliked Dawn because she replaced May and/or Misty.

** This has reduced with fans realizing the [[CreatorsPet sheer bias of director Mitsuo Fukuda and head writer Chiaki Morosawa]], as well as more sympathetic renditions in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' games.