Alas, Poor Scrappy: Difference between revisions

{{quote|"''She's going to pull through this. We need her to pull through. Each weekly sadistic mishap helped me through some tough times, and this is just another one of those sadistic mishaps. Right? The monitor on her life support system will sound an alarm, and some nurse or other will rush in and save her. Right? Wrong. No one saves PMMS. Alleged York manages to kill her with this completely expressionless look on his face. Damn you, [[Twenty Four24|cheesy Fox suspense show]], for making me laugh so hard one minute and cry so hard the next! PMMS is dead. She's dead. I can't believe it.''"|'''Gustave''', ''[[Television Without Pity]]''}}

Keep in mind that this is obviously [[Truth in Television]]. No matter how many times that [[Jerkass]] [[Jerk Jock]] stuffed you in a locker and gave you a wedgie, if he is hit by a drunk driver on the way to prom, your remembrances will almost certainly be favorably tinged. Unless you're just ''that'' evil or mentally/emotionally unsound. [[hottip:* :<ref>Or you didn't [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him|witness his death firsthand]].</ref> [[Decapitated Army|Or he was...]]

Contrast [[And There Was Much Rejoicing]]. See Also: [[Never Speak Ill of the Dead]]; [[A Death in Thethe Limelight]]:.

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* From the ''[[Gundam (Anime)|Gundam]]'' series:

** Not a lot of people liked [[Ordinary High School Student|Louise Halevy]] from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' until her entire family was murdered in front of her and her arm was lost. And [[It Got Worse|it only got worse from there.]]

*** Andrei Smirnov drew ire for killing [[Cool Old Guy|his father]]; [[The Movie]] goes on to give him a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] [[Tear Jerker]] [[Heroic Sacrifice]] that mixed this with [[Rescued Fromfrom the Scrappy Heap]] for a good number of his detractors.

** Flay Allster in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam SEED]]''. Oh, she went all [[Yandere]] for a while, but [[Character Development|she got better]], and her death was so utterly [[Moral Event Horizon|mean spirited]] and [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him|pointless...]]

** Yuna Roma Seiran in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny]]''. Yeah, he suffered [[Villain Decay]] after a ''very'' promising start as a [[Manipulative Bastard]], but [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him|getting a GOUF literally dropped on him?]]. That's just ''mean''.

** On the subject of Gundam Scrappies, Hathaway Noah's situation [[It Got Worse|got worse]] as time went on after Quess bit it in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: CharsChar's Counterattack (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam Chars Counterattack]]''. In the novel ''Hathaway's Flash'', he joins a terror organization called Mafty, becomes their leader, and smashes stuff up in his badass Xi Gundam. In the end he was captured and executed on orders ''[[Offing the Offspring|from his own father]]'', Bright Noah ([[Diabolus Ex Machina|who apparently didn't know his son was the terrorist until after he had signed the death warrant]]) which had... let's just say, [[Heroic BSOD|a devastating effect on him]]. You'd have to be ''heartless'' to not feel at least a bit sorry for ''the whole Noah family'' after this. Yes, including Hathaway himself.

*** It should be noted that ''Hathaway's Flash'' plays off of the ''Char's Counterattack'' novelization "Beltorchika's Children" rather than the anime movie.<ref>The main difference being that in the novel, Hathaway kills Quess; in the movie, Hathaway goes nuts and kills Chein after she kills Quess</ref>. And just to twist the knife further, after his death, Hathaway speaks to Quess's spirit, and she says she never loved him. So he fought and died for nothing. That's just cruel.

** For some, Ghinias Saharin from [[Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team]]. [[Base Breaker|It REALLY depends on who you're talking to, however.]]

* Envy's death in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Mangamanga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. He was a [[Jerkass]] and a [[Complete Monster]] who killed and tortured people [[For the Evulz]], including beloved [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] Maes Hughes. What did it take to have people identify with him? A sad and horribly ironic death. He was brutally tortured by Roy Mustang and reduced to his pitiful true form before the good guys took pity on him. Edward even delivers an [[Alas, Poor Villain]] speech to his face, which disgusts him so much that he takes his own life.

* Mikaila's death in ''[[Count Cain (Manga)|Count Cain: God Child]]'' qualifies. Also a case of [[Redemption Equals Death]].

* Shirley Fennette in ''[[Code Geass (Anime)|Code Geass]]''. [[Naive Everygirl|"Whiny", "stupid"]], "[[Distressed Damsel in Distress|powerless]]" and "[[Die for Our Ship|in love with the main character]]", she quickly earned her [[The Scrappy|Scrappydom]] in the first season. Yet the reaction from the fanbase following [[Tear Jerker|her heartwrenching and VERY well-done death scene]] in the second was one of sheer and absolute ''outrage'' towards her murderer. Who would have thought?

* Makoto Isshki of ''[[Rah XephonRahXephon]]'' is an unlikeable [[Jerkass]] when first introduced and [[Manipulative Bastard|sinks to new lows]] [[Smug Snake|as the series progresses]]. Only until the mid point of the series do we see his [[Freudian Excuse|heart-wrenching]] [[Start of Darkness|upbringing]]. During the last episode, his [[Villainous Breakdown|undignified mental breakdown]] and [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him|unceremonious death]] come like a slap in the face when his best friend tearfully runs to his side, to hear his last words.

* In ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'', Kira Supporter Kiyomi Takada ends up getting kidnapped by Mello as a part of his [[Batman Gambit]] to reveal Light as Kira. She's stripped naked by him and then kills him with a death note scrap she hid in her bra. Genuinely frightened and trapped inside a truck, she wraps herself in a bedsheet and then takes his phone and calls Light, asking him to come rescue her. [[Moral Event Horizon|Instead, he writes her name in the death note so that she commits suicide by setting herself on fire.]]

** In ''End of Evangelion'', she's still in a [[Dude, She's Like, in Aa Coma|coma]] and Shinji comes to her hospital room and [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms|wanks]] [[Despair Event Horizon|over her]] in that state. Then she comes [[Hope Spot|back into action]] after realizing her mother's soul is in her Eva, protecting her. She [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|defeats]] nine Mass Produced Evas, each with the best weapon of the series and unlimited power, only [[Nausea Fuel|to have her Eva]] [[Impaled Withwith Extreme Prejudice|stabbed]] [[Eye Scream|in the eye]], [[Curb Stomp Battle|utterly mangled, eaten alive,]] and its organs ripped out. She [[Grasp the Sun|somehow survives]] [[Gorn|and]] makes [[Dying Moment of Awesome|one last attempt]] to fight back. She fails, and dies by being [[Cruel and Unusual Death|impaled about 12 times]]. This tended to make the fans more sympathetic. Did I forget to mention that she felt all of this happen because of the neural link?

* Kaname Tousen from ''[[Bleach]]'' betrays the Soul Society for a hypocritical reason (going the path with least bloodshed by joining the [[Big Bad]]). After being beaten by his vice captain and being reminded of his error by his best friend, Tousen seems to repent and wants to have one tender moment with his vice captain...then Aizen blows him up.

* Not a straight-up death example, but it happens in ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]''. At the end of the Hoenn [[Story Arc]], after Ash announces he's going to the Sinnoh League, May announces she's going to explore Kanto and compete in the various Pokémon Contests. ''Alone''. Her little brother, Max, [[The Scrappy]] [[Insufferable Genius]], is really put off by this, feeling like his sister is abandoning him. Sure, Max might have been irritating, but the way May told him to go home came off as a ''real'' dick move, and it's hard not to feel sorry for the kid.

* ''[[Tsukihime (Visual Novel)|Tsukihime]]'': Not everyone considers her a Scrappy, but for those that do: Tohno Akiha gets two different death scenes in two different story branches, and they're both uniquely heart-rending. One, she has become a mindless monster and Shiki honors his promise with her to kill her by his own hands (a [[Bad End]]). Two, she's fighting with SHIKI at the High School and lets herself be torn apart by him to protect Kohaku. She barely holds on to consciousness long enough to ask Shiki: what is he doing at his school at night? He yells it's not important, and they need to get her help, but she keeps insisting on an answer. Finally he replies it's his school, and it's not strange if he's there either in the day or at night. Akiha seems to accept this answer, realizes it was a pretty simple conclusion, and then dies (this is actually part of Hisui's True End).

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl|Meilin]] in ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' isn't a terrible example of [[The Scrappy]], but she can be quite annoying at the beginning with her [[Jerkass|attitude]] for [[Badass Adorable|the loveable heroine, Sakura]]. But, later, after Meilin [[Defrosting Ice Queen|becomes more friendly]] and [[Put Onon a Bus|moves back to Hong Kong]], she visits Sakura and Shaoran for a couple days. When she finds out Shaoran's [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|true feelings]] for Sakura, she spends the night [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|crying]] in Tomoyo's arms. The sound of her genuinely heartbroken bawling is enough to [[Tear Jerker|send shivers up the spine.]]

* Doug Ramsey, a.k.a. Cypher, from the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' family comic ''New Mutants'' was considered to be [[The Scrappy]] (due to his fact that his mutant power was the ability to speak every language, which sort of paled next to eye-beams and weather-control and the like), and fans repeatedly demanded he be killed off. Once he died, everyone missed him and wanted him back.

*** Cypher was also a perfect example of [[Idiot Ball]] . Not him - everyone else in the X-Men and New Mutants. Because he had a non-combat power, he wasn't given NEARLY''nearly'' as much training as the rest of the New Mutants in combat skilsskills. If he was going to be going along with his teammates into dangerous situations, two things should have been factored in: 1 ) Give him MORE''more'' combat training, probably from Wolverine himself, to turn him into a [[Badass Normal]] , and 2 ) ARMOR''armor'', not spandex. Those few of us who actually liked the character were utterly enraged at his death.

* ''[[Runaways (Comic Book)|Runaways]]:'' Xavin's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save Karolina from the rest of her race seeking revenge against her for her parents actions. Got this reader who always hated that smug asshat.

* The fate of Marvin and Wendy from ''[[Super FriendsSuperfriends]]'' in ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' #62. Yes, they were annoying. No, they did '''not''' deserve to be ''brutalized'' by Wonder Dog, who kills Marvin and leaves Wendy comatose.

* In [[Archie Comics]]' ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Comic Bookcomics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', occasional character Tommy Turtle was finally [[Killed Off for Real|put out of his misery]] (for the second [[Word of God|and final]] time) in issue #169, when he was blasted to dust by Dr. Eggman's latest weapon. They ended up erecting a tombstone (even though there was nothing left to bury; his ashes got lost in the wind), and even naming a hospital after him.

* Rachel Dawes from ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|Batman Begins]]'' and ''[[Dark Knight Trilogy|The Dark Knight]]'' was a bit annoying in some respects (though with [[Maggie Gyllenhaal|the new actress]] well on the path to being [[Rescued Fromfrom the Scrappy Heap|pulled out of the Scrappy heap]] in ''TDK''). The death scene is about as traumatic for [[Batman]], Harvey Dent and, by extension, the audience as [[The Joker]] could possibly make it.

{{quote| '''Joker:''' When I say that you and your girlfriend was [[Nothing Personal]], you know that I'm telling the truth.}}

* The death of Snails in ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons (Filmfilm)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'' largely [[Averted Trope|averts this trope.]] Many viewers ''love'' it that he finally gets offed.

{{quote| "I'd say the two of them killed the fuck out of this room before someone took a lucky shot."<br />

"Let's hear it for the Disposables."<br />

"I've got to say, I'm sort of proud."<br />

"I've got to say, I'm sort of sad."<br />

* Christopher Drawlight, the obnoxious, lying, mooching gentleman idiot, gets a sad death in ''[[Jonathan Strange and& Mr. Norrell]]''

* Quite a bit of the ''[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|Harry Potter]]'' fandom was indifferent to Dobby, if they didn't find him extremely annoying. He was considered to have a low probability of dying, and nobody was expecting to be heartbroken if he did. Then ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' came out...and it was a Tearjerker if there ever was one.

* Some fans never liked Ozzie from ''[[Avalon: Web of Magic]]'', because he was just the useless cute mascot comic relief. And then in ''Dark Mage'', he acknowledges his uselessness, becomes less useless, and is the [[Only Sane Man]]. And then he's killed by his best friend while trying to save her.

{{quote| Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame. Mrs. Churchill, after being disliked at least twenty-five years, was now spoken of with compassionate allowances.}}

== Live -Action TV ==

{{quote| '''Tommy''': (''to Sam'') [[Tear Jerker|There aintain't no heaven, and hellshell's a dog fight. I’m gonna disappear like I never was, that's what I want.]]}}

** Even the infamous Walter, though he didn't die, got a respectful and melancholy send off when he was [[Put Onon a Bus]]. The fact that viewers were able to feel anything but joy at that moment is a testament to this trope.

* Tracey from the ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' episode "The Message" qualifies because he basically tries to trick the crew into smuggling him across the solar system while he's carrying (and [[Organ Theft|biologically supporting]]) genetically enhanced organs ''inside'' his body. Of course, Tracey gets shot by [[The Captain|Mal]] while trying to kidnap Kaylee and escape in one of ''Serenity''{{'}}s shuttles, which Tracey only did because he panicked when Shepherd Book [[Poor Communication Kills|talked about handing Tracey over to the corrupt cop who was chasing them for the organs]], which was only a ruse to get everyone to safety, including Tracey.

** Throughout the series, Edie Britt was a [[Love It or Hate It|Love Her Or Hate Her]] character--youcharacter—you either thought she was witty and not used enough, or catty and hung around the show for way too long. Yet when she actually ''was'' [[Killed Off for Real|Killed Off For Real]] in season five, the people who despised her ended up mourning her death just as much as the people who loved her, especially after her tribute episode.

* In ''[[Twenty Four|24]]'', Season 3, Ryan Chapelle. He shows up in 23 episodes across the first three seasons, and in 20 of them he's a [[Smug Snake]] ''and'' an [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]. He softens up in the 21st, just in time to find out he has to die: the villain made a deal that the heroes needed, and one of the conditions was that Chapelle be executed. Suddenly he becomes incredibly sympathetic and human (The 23rd is just his body being recovered by said villains).

** Lynn McGill in Season 5. Starts out as a douche, but after his sister is killed, he has a change of heart, and you can't help but feel sad for his [[Heroic Sacrifice]] (the fact that he's played by [[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|Samwise Gamgee]] doesn't hurt).

** Donna Noble. She was ''deliberately'' written as a Scrappy in her first appearance, but she [[Character Development|developed]], some of the fandom grew to like her and got really annoyed after she got [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him|a bridge dropped on her]] (death is relative).

* ''[[Television Without Pity]]'' frequenters are often split on the death of Lucy Knight on ''[[ER]]'', who, though annoying, got an incredibly good sendoff. Some were ecstatic that she was gone, under any circumstances. This story arc also had John Carter almost killed, and, since many fans were on the fence with him at that point, he garnered huge sympathy points.

* Owen's death (deaths?) in ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]''. That was largely helped by Tosh's own exit - well-acted and really quite heartbreaking.

* Cally's death on new ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]''. She had her fans, but more than her share of detractors, as well. It was so affecting that Jacob, the ''[[Television Without Pity]]'' recapper who made a regular running gag of her, devoted most of his recap of that episode to a deep psychological analysis of her (then again, Jacob writes deep psychological treatises about his breakfast muffin, so take this with a grain of salt). A good summary of the fan reaction would be [https://web.archive.org/web/20110711022501/http://frakkingtoasters.com//index.cgi?date=20080421 this].

* Isaac of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' had been stagnating as a character for quite a while before Sylar killed him, but his death and the scenes leading up to it were handled well enough that many viewers who had been complaining about Isaac were touched by his exit.

*** Elle was never hated and still remains part of the big 4 of Heroes Fanfiction (Along with Sylar, Claire, and Peter). Sure the writing was bad but she couldn't be classified as [[The Scrappy]] especially considering the high number [[Fix Fic|Fix Fics]]s for her

* A lot of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' fans who couldn't stand Bela. Many of them felt a staggering amount of sympathy for her in the episode where the hellhounds come to get her. It might have helped that the actress got better and less annoying in her absence.

* Amber, aka "Cutthroat Bitch," in ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. Most of the pathos comes from Wilson's reaction, though. Really, considering his [[The Woobie|Woobie]] quotient, it was to be expected eventually.

{{quote| '''Thirteen:''' She didn't even like us.<br />

'''Kutner:''' Well, we liked her.<br />

'''Taub:''' Did we?<br />

** Actually, while the other characters may not have liked her, many fans did. Not surprising given that she was in many ways a female version of the show's eponymous protagonist.

** As an example of when this ''doesn't'' work, [[House (TV series)|Thirteen]] is considered the [[Creator's Pet]] by most of the fandom. She also has Huntington's Disease. This means that in addition to the time she spends on-screen as a doctor, she's also appearing as a patient, [[Sympathetic Sue|slowly dying with nothing that can be done about it]]. This has so far failed to gain her much sympathy.

* Just when it looked like she was about to be [[Rescued Fromfrom the Scrappy Heap]], Ana-Lucia went out rather shockingly with a bang on ''[[Lost]]''.

** Moody rich girl Serena Bishop suffered through attempted-rape, finding out her boyfriend was really her half-brother and a plane crash. She was eventually lost at sea.

** Bridget Parker received much negative backlash from both the public and the media when she first joined the show, and many viewers called for her death. Ironically, just as fans had warmed up to her character, she was killed off in a freak car accident.

* Riley from ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' went from becoming [[The Scrappy]] in record time to getting [[Rescued Fromfrom the Scrappy Heap]] when we found out she was from the future (and thus actually served a purpose on the show besides giving John someone to suck face with); much of the fanbase mourned her death after discovering just how much her supposed savior screwed her over. Going out in a brutal fight to finally take control of her life, all in less than one season, probably helped.

* [[Ethnic Scrappy|Alexandra Borgia]] of ''[[Law and& Order (TV)|Law and Order]]'', due mostly to the ''extremely'' brutal [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him|bridge dropping]] she received.

* Fat guy Malcom Ross of ''[[HarpersHarper's Island]]''. Buried his best friend's, nice-guy nerd Booth, body in the woods after he accidentally shot himself, taking the bag of money into his room and not telling anyone about it. His panicky nothings wrong attitude and sobbing when the truth comes out made him a hated character in many circles. But everyone cried when, with Roy Orbison's Running Scared playing in the background, he burns the money and is subsequently chopped, beaten and thrown in a furnace.

* The ending scene of ''[[Black AdderBlackadder]]'', "Goodbyeee!", where Captain Darling, supercilious little toad that he has been, suddenly becomes very human and even likable. And he dies five minutes later.

* The October 17, 2007 episode of ''[[The ChasersChaser's War Onon Everything]]'' featured "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLVsIpejFgM The Eulogy Song]" sung by Andrew Hansen. It controversially cataloged a list of dead celebrities renown as "top blokes after death", embodying this trope perfectly.

* Jool on ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]''- Intensely haughty and annoying for most of her first season, she even had a literally ear-splitting voice at times. But by the time she decided to stay on Arnessk in Season 4, she had grown to be at least tolerable. And by the time she gets exploded with the rest of the Eidolons near the end of "Peacekeeper Wars", the writers and Tammy Mackintosh managed to make this convinced Jool-hater cry for her.

* The death of Norton Drake during the second season of ''[[War of the Worlds (TV series)|War of the Worlds]]''. For the first season, Norton was a near-insufferable genius whose main job was to roll around a lab in his wheelchair and provide scientific technobabble to the main characters - and this was ''after'' the actor who played him stopped using a ridiculous Jamaican accent for the first few episodes of the series (the character did get one episode of much-needed character development in the latter half of the first season, though). In the second-season premiere, however, just as it looked like he might take on more of an active role with the Blackwood Project, Norton gets shot by a clone version of one of the main characters, gets enough strength to crawl over to a panic button and press it, then gets shot again off-screen...and then his body is blown to smithereens when the house he worked in explodes, and almost all of the characters promptly forgot about him. Norton's death is one of the main reasons why the second season is [[Fanon Discontinuity]] in the eyes of many fans.

* [[Subverted Trope]] in ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'' when Cait Sith dies. A somewhat touching death for who most people consider [[The Scrappy]]. Until Cait Sith #2 comes in to replace #1.

* Raiden in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', as his death scene is played ''very well'', with the noble [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and the revelation that he's not lost his humanity as he claims. And then ''he comes back anyway''. Nuh?

* Liane's death in ''[[Jeanne D 'Arc]]''. She was whiny, annoying, and undeveloped, and you are forced to use her in a certain point of the game when she replaces Jeanne, which is, by the way, when she becomes an incredibly crazy (and whiny) general... but still, when she is executed by burning for crimes of 'heresy' she had nothing to do with, screaming that it wasn't her fault and thinking she was hated by her friends, you can't help but feel sorry for her.

* In-Universe example: Kinshiro Morooka was never very well-liked among the cast of ''[[Persona 4 (Video Game)|Persona 4]]'', but he does get some amount of respect after his murder.

* ''[[Duke Nukem Forever (Video Game)|Duke Nukem Forever]]'' used to be the butt of every joke out there. After it was officially canceled and gameplay footage was released, most people commenting on the video claimed it looked fun.

** [[Tainted Byby the Preview|Then it]] [[It Got Worse|got released.]]

* Xion from ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' can fit this. Not only is she [[The Scrappy]] second to even the likes of [[Die for Our Ship|Kairi]] (or maybe even [[Broken Base|MORE hated]]), but her actual [[Alas, Poor Scrappy]] death moved some successfully.

* In ''[[Xenogears (Video Game)|Xenogears]]'', Hammer the Supplier was reviled by many a fan as annoying and [[Heel Face Turn|backstabbing]], but most of that could be forgiven not only because he's gone, but because it's so obvious just how much other characters [[Tear Jerker|miss him]], especially Rico and Elly.

* In ''[[Super Paper Mario (Video Game)|Super Paper Mario]]'', it's revealed that Luvbi is the last [[MacGuffin Girl|Pure Heart]]. Nobody was really fond of her before this, but the scene is still very moving and the characters are sorry to see her go.

* Adi and Cort in ''[[The Reconstruction (Video Game)|The Reconstruction]]'', who are minor members of the [[Goldfish Poop Gang]] that most players probably wouldn't bat an eye at...up until the final battle, anyway, where they defend the [[Big Bad]] to the death. Made worse by the fact that [[Violence Is the Only Option|you have to kill them yourself]].

* Chatot from ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers (Video Game)|Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky]]'' initially comes off as a [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]] whose [[Poor Communication Kills|outright refusal to listen to you]] repeatedly annoys the player. Then a moment on his part robs the player of the chance to fight [[The Unfought]] -- and—and his ''next'' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|awesome moment]] involves taking an attack meant for the hero and being seriously wounded, to the point where the cheery Guildmaster turns [[Let's Get Dangerous|serious]] and mournful, worrying that he might not pull through ''this'' time. It's a bit... jarring.

* ''[[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|The King of Fighters XIII]]'': [[Creator's Pet|Ash Crimson]] [[Ret-Gone|deletes himself from reality]] via [[Heroic Sacrifice]], and [[The Rival|Elizabeth]] surely wasn't the only one who was truly sad after his death.

** This overlaps with [[Rescued Fromfrom the Scrappy Heap]]. Now that we know Ash's motives (the fact that this arc was one big [[Jerkass Facade]] [[Batman Gambit]] to protect Elizabeth, the one person in the world that meant anything to him), not to the mention the fact that SNK ''[[Cosmic Retcon|erased a character from existence]]'' in a series where few people die outside of the villains, the [[Player Punch]] makes Ash (who [[Go Out with a Smile|went out with a bittersweet smile on his face]]) look like a frontrunner for the biggest [[The Woobie|Woobie]] in the series. No one saw it coming. ''No one''.

* Erika in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]''. While she was nothing but a [[Canon Sue]] in EP5, in EP6, a bit more is revealed about her. At one point, she's thinking about an ex-boyfriend she had, and asks Dlanor to help her re-enact their final fight using the Blue and Red Truths. Erika had found some circumstantial, rather weak evidence that he had been cheating on her. Dlanor(acting in the ex's place) cannot refute the evidence, but can give a different interpretation of it, where he wasn't cheating. Because only "one truth" can exist for Erika, she denied that Blue Truth theory. Dlanor came up with one Blue Truth response Erika couldn't deny: "I still love you." Later on, Erika sees through one of Beato's logic tricks, and realizes that either way she played, she was doomed. It was a double-check. She realized how unfair... and yet beautiful the game layout was, and came to the realization that two truths CAN exist simultaneously. She tells Beato, "I never thought it would be a witch who shows me the true nature of this world." She wonders how many things in her life were messed up because she couldn't see that. However, she doesn't back down on her arguement, and loses the ensuing argument against Beato. She's mortally wounded, about to be erased, and Dlanor's trying to find Bernkastel to authorize a resurrection. Erika refuses, thankful that she won't have to be admonished by her master in her final moments. Instead, she chooses to take one last stand against Beato, with her final Red Truth, and her self-introduction. "Nice to meet you! I'm Furudo Erika, the detective! I may be an uninvited guest, but please, welcome me! I am the 18th person on Rokkenjima!" Even this bit of Red Truth that establishes her gets denied as Beato and Battler reply in Red together, "Sorry, but, even if you join us, there are 17 people."

* In ''[[Mass Effect 1 (Videovideo Gamegame)|Mass Effect 1]]'', Kaidan and Ashley, your two party members, are both Scrappies for various reasons; Kaidan for his [[Master of None]] tendencies, and Ashley for her bitchy tendencies. But, [[Sadistic Choice|Virmire]], [[Tear Jerker|damn]]...

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]'' has Fi, who, while not universally hated, is still something of a [[Base Breaker]] due to her tendency towards being [[Captain Obvious]]. Even if you hate her, her "death", which is basically a heroic sacrifice that will take centuries, and which she prefaces by admitting feelings for Link that she was incapable of admitting until the end due to programming, is still a tear-jerker.

* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0464.html Miko's] death in ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]''. It's ''still'' debated on the forums whether or not she deserved it. Two prevailing opinions are:

## She deserved to die because she capped off her role as [[The Scrappy]] by [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]], killing the [[Cool Old Guy]], weakening the fabric of the universe, and ensuring that the villains won the battle for Azure City, all while thinking she was still doing the right thing.

## She becomes sympathetic in the eyes of the audience because her last actions were made under the belief that she was saving everyone instead of dooming her side to exile, and then after being mortally wounded as a result, the spirit of the founder of her order explains to her just how she screwed up and tells her that she won't get a chance at true redemption, but that her celestial horse will still get to visit her in the afterlife. [[Tear Jerker|* Sniff* ]] And in a 'verse where it has been proven that [[Death Is Cheap]], she was decided by the author to be so unworthy of resurrection and redemption that any chance of it happening is rendered moot in a throwaway gag.

**** Also the fact that the party magnificent bastard (Belkar) was deliberately pushing all her buttons the moment she arrested the entire party.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120808082013/http://blipcomic.com/752/ Terry's death] in ''[[Blip]]''. Up until then, most of the fans had hated her for breaking up K and Bishop, but when she died, they lost it. It helps that her death scene was a straight-up [[Tear Jerker]].

* ''[[College Roomies From HellCRFH]]'' had this coming from Dave. It failed spectacularly, because no one realised that Dave was meant to be [[The Scrappy]]. Quite the contrary, he became one of the most popular characters, so the author had no choice but to bring him back and actually make him a protagonist.

* [[Pokémon Red and Blue (Video Game)|Red]] in ''[[There Will Be Brawl]]'' was disliked by some fans due to his naive and cheerful personality in a [[World Half Empty]], and suspected by many to be the butcher (especially in regards to that Jigglypuff he was subtly hiding from Luigi). Then... "''So, uh... was I any good?''" Turns out he was training the Jigglypuff to sing for Luigi. Thankfully, Leaf uses it to finish off Wario, who killed him.

* Spencer D. Bum in ''[[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|The Spoony Experiment]]'' was considered a Scrappy by some of the fans, even though he only appeared a grand total of two times. Then his ''heart was ripped out of his chest onscreen by Black Lantern Spoony''.

** Some fans reacted this way to the death of [[That Guy With theThe Glasses|Melvin, Brother of the Joker]], at the 2009 charity drive.

* The Magus in the ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'' three-parter "Avalon". It helps that he just [[Took a Level Inin Badass]].

*** He overcame his racism years ago since he spent his life raising the gargoyle children.

* In ''[[Total Drama Island (Animation)|Total Drama Island]]'', [[Creator's Pet|Owen]] who is hated by almost all of the shows more mature fanbase, gets sympathy from some viewers when he sings "[[Tear Jerker|Oh My Izzy]]."

* Played with in an episode of ''[[Project Gee Ke G.e.e.K.e.R.]]'' . When [[Cloudcuckoolander|Geeker]] [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrifices himself]] to avert the [[Earthshattering Kaboom|destruction of a sizable chunk of the planet]], his ever-begrudging caretaker Lady Macbeth (who had treated him more as stolen goods than a...er, [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|sort-of-humanoid companion]]) actually breaks down and cries at his [[No One Could Survive That|obvious and horrible destruction]]...only to have Geeker pop up behind her and ask why she's crying.

* Invoked, but ultimately subverted in-universe in ''[[The Spectacular Spider -Man]]''. Peter had previously been humiliated, picked on, and insulted by [[Alpha Bitch|Sally Avril]] for her percieved belief he's "messing with the social system", in that he was a nerd who tried to ask her out, caused Liz Allen to develop a crush on him an later date her, took Mary Jane to the prom (Sally even shouts that 'guys like Peter' don't get to take 'girls like that' to the prom), tried out for the football team and actually did better then Flash and Kenny, and while everyone was cheering for him, she was pouting about his success. When they get partnered up in a police ride-along, she insults Peter more then usual, until he had to go off to "take pictures" of The New and Improved Enforcers (which was an excuse so he could turn into Spider-Man) by hiding behind a truck. When the truck is caught as colateral damage in the fight and blows up, apparently killing Peter, Sally screams and cries, [[Heel Realization|realizing how horrible she was]] (and that Liz looks terrible in black). But when Peter pops up and claim he left his camera on auto so he could 'go to the little boys room', [[Ignored Epiphany|she promptly turns back into]] [[Alpha Bitch]].

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