Take That Scrappy / Professional Wrestling

• In WCW, a match where the team of Sean O'Haire and Chuck Palumbo beat the team of Lex Luger and Buff Bagwell in 56 seconds.
• Mick Foley pulled one on his last night at TNA on Bubba the Love Sponge. As he was finishing saying his goodbyes to the roster, Bubba gets in Mick's face and tries to interview him. Mick brushes him off and Bubba then mocks him for getting fired. Foley proceeds to do what every TNA fan has been wanting to do for a while... knock Bubba the Love Sponge on his ass.
• Michelle McCool superkicking Hornswoggle on the October 1st 2010 episode of WWE Smackdown. This one may have been unintentional and actually an attempt for cheap heat by having Michelle attack the diminutive one. YMMV on whether it worked, given that Hornswoggle is one of the few Scrappies bigger than Michelle.
  • Prior to that was an occasion when JBL not only managed to trap Hornswoggle in a steel cage match with him but also anticipated the interference of his protector Finlay, intercepting him and handcuffing him to keep him out of the way. What followed is pretty much the only time when Hornswoggle has received a beating instead of escaping or getting help.
• The Undertaker Tombstoning John Cena after the latter tagged himself in to steal the win for their team during their three-way tag team match against their two respective title contenders (Taker and Cena were respectively the World Heavyweight and WWE champions at that time) Jeri-Show and D-Generation X (HBK and HHH].
• The Miz to Maryse at Night of Champions:
  Miz: You're not a champion, you're a tease. You had your chance with me and you butchered it, just like you butcher the English language every time you open your mouth.
  • Ironic, now that the two are married and have a daughter in Real Life.
• From one Scrappy to a bigger one:
  Maryse: Oh my God, Michael Cole, you vintage nerd.
• Pretty much any time someone takes a shot at Michael Cole. He got the mother of all of them at Over The Limit 2011. He lost a "Kiss My Foot Match" to Jerry Lawler and had the following things happen to him: he got his pants ripped off, Eve Torres came out and performed a moonsault on him, Jim Ross poured barbecue sauce all over him, Bret Hart made him tap out to the Sharpshooter, and Lawler stuck his foot in his mouth.
• Melina being the first eliminated from a #1 contender's battle royal.
• Michelle McCool losing her Divas Championship to Natalya Neidhart in spite of having help.
• At the 2011 Extreme Rules PPV, not only does Michelle McCool end up losing a "loser leaves the WWE" match, but after the match, she gets attacked by the debuting Kharma (who is better known by her TNA name, Awesome Kong).
• The Sandman beating Eugene with a kendo stick when he went to give him a hug at ECW One Night Stand 2006.
• Happened to X-Pac, trope namer for X-Pac Heat. Goldust, parodying Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, went into the New World Order locker room and got caught by X-Pac, which led to him saying this.
  It is the rare... bandanna-wearing grease rat! But be very careful— they tend to suck!
• Heels are often deliberately written to be pathetic and obnoxious. After all, you're supposed to hate them, right? It's pretty much standard procedure for faces to call them out on it and generally mock them when it comes time for promos.
• WWE had a midcarder named Orlando Jordan who management was high on, but who hadn't connected with the fans as either a face or a heel. They booked him to win the U.S. Title from John Cena, then later successfully defend the U.S. Title against Chris Benoit semi-clean, which turned apathy into intense dislike. WWE decided to throw the angry fans a bone, and had Jordan drop the title to Benoit in under a minute. They then ran a series of matches in which Benoit repeatedly beat Jordan in mere seconds.
• For a time, Roman Reigns was The Chosen One who would replace John Cena as the face of the company, meaning also effectively having Cena's character. Disregarding the fact that "SuperCena" is a massive Base-Breaking Character, it became fairly obvious that the character did not fit him and that he was nowhere near as talented as Cena. Not helping matters is the fact that he was the Replacement Scrappy for numerous Ensemble Darkhorses, including Daniel Bryan (the one everyone wanted to take Cena's place) and Dean Ambrose (the one everyone wanted to take Cena's place after Bryan was forced to retire). End result? Roman became the most hated wrestler in the company not named Eva Marie. But the company (Vince) was stubborn and kept pushing him anyway, trying to spin his negative reactions as something else, culminating in WrestleMania 32, where Reigns won the title off mega-heel Triple H while being booed by 100,000 people. And the future of the company for the fans remaining seemed darker than ever.
  
  And then, not even three months into his reign, Roman violated the Wellness Policy, forcing the company to take the belt off him as soon as possible and suspend him.
  
  It wouldn't become as obvious until later, but Vince, or someone else high up the ladder, was pissed at him. A lot. Roman lost his next title defense to Seth Rollins at Money in the Bank 2016, who was then cashed in on by the aforementioned Ambrose to become the new WWE Champion. And he did so clean— Roman hadn't lost clean in four years by that point, and that was in developmental. After setting up The Shield triple threat on RAW the following night, he was suspended (to the shock and delight of fans), and proceeded to go under a gradually more obvious Humiliation Conga. First, Rollins constantly referenced to Roman's suspension during the build and took numerous shots at him. The company started to fully acknowledge the negative reactions he was getting. He came back for the triple threat at Battleground, and went under a lot of punishment, including a patented Shield powerbomb from Ambrose and Rollins. He was pinned clean by Ambrose, who was then lifted up on the shoulders of The Usos, Roman's cousins, during his win. The next night on RAW, he was verbally eviscerated by Stephanie McMahon for losing the title to SmackDown, in front of the entire RAW roster. Then, just when it seems he'll get out of his funk by becoming the #1 Contender to the new Universal Title, he gets pinned clean again, this time by Finn Bálor, who had just debuted on the main roster. Roman's taken such a beating that even people who hate him seem to start feeling sorry for him, though that's still in the minority.
  • At the previous Wrestlemania, Wrestlemania 31, Roman Reigns was facing Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship and the fans weren't going to be massively happy whoever won. Suddenly, Seth Rollins cashed in his Money In The Bank Briefcase to turn the match into a Triple Threat part way though, managed to get Lesnar out of the ring and pin Roman Reigns. While Rollins was a heel, he got a heroes welcome and the way the whole thing booked was read as an admission by WWE that the fans weren't warming to Roman and wanted to send them home happy.
• John "Bradshaw" Layfield got an unscripted one in a revenge match against The Blue Meanie (who he had legitimately beaten up during a match, leaving him heavily bloodied). While the chair shot he was supposed to get from Stevie Richards was scripted, the latter practically swinging to kill and giving him a heavy concussion was not. Richards would later confirm he stiffed the hell out of him, thinking he deserved it.
• As a subtrope of Unexpected Character: CHIKARA JoshiMania Night III was supposed to have started with the Throwbacks (Dasher Hatfield and Sugar Dunkerton) vs. Los Ice Creams (Ice Cream Jr. and El Hijo del Ice Cream), but Sugar was not there for some unannounced reason. Names were drawn from a hat for a replacement partner for Dasher. Kwang (Savio Vega's masked ninja gimmick from 1994-1995 WWE. References to Kwang and Max Moon [Paul Diamond] are Running Gags in CHIKARA.) was drawn and he was not there. Then they drew Kelly Kelly, who was not there. The third name drawn was Saturyne, who was there, making her surprise CHIKARA debut in only her second match, though someone in the crowd asked, "Perry Saturn?" The crowd booed when Kelly Kelly's name was drawn.
• Towards the end of Jinder Mahal’s only WWE Championship run, where he had lost virtually all his good will towards the fans by constantly winning by cheating and being racist, Paul Heyman cut a promo deriding Jinder and his henchmen, the Singhs, as wrestlers and threats towards Brock Lesnar, whom Jinder was due to face in a Champion vs Champion match. (As opposed to Heyman's usual spiel of "(opponent) is a great wrestler but Lesnar is still much greater".) Tellingly, shortly after the promo, Jinder’s run finally came to an end when AJ Styles defeated him and got the belt off him.
• While initial promising thanks to R-Truth's antics with the belt, the 24/7 Championship quickly overstayed its welcome with many just hoping it would be retired. Come 2022 fans would get their wish when Nikki Cross would win the belt off of Dana Brooke, only for her to just dump the belt in a bin backstage (or at least try to as it slid off the side and onto the floor). Fans however would interpret this as the belt not even being on the level of trash thus being a more fitting end to its "legacy".

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