Alien Scrappy: Difference between revisions

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[[File:jarjar.jpg|link=Star Wars|frame|"Wesa gonna DIE!"]]

 

{{quote|"Dropo, you're the laziest man on Mars!"|''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]''}}

How can you tell if it's an Alien Scrappy? Well, if you're not one of those people that despises all things cute and chirpy, in fact, you'll even squeal at a baby animal once in a while... and you ''still'' think the annoying little character should die? That's a pretty good hint.

 

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== Comics ==

* [[The DCU]] has a bunch of these, mostly spawned from Mr. Mxyzptlk from ''[[Superman]]''. They're very often The [[Great Gazoo]] as well.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' comic strip that ran in ''Doctor Who Magazine'', the Doctor was, for a time, accompanied by Frobisher, an alien shapeshifter who chose to spend most of him time looking like a penguin. Frobisher later appeared in some of the original audio adventures.

** There's a chunk of 80s ''Who'' fandom who grew up on DWM who think Frobisher is awesome.

* The Green Lantern G'nort, who is perceived (and rightly so) as [[The Scrappy]] within DC's continuity as well.

** G'nort was retooled significantly after the pre-Emerald Twilight re-building of the Green Lantern Corps in the early '90s; in JLI he was a [[Deadpan Snarker]] and a hideous brown humanoid with Cyrano de Bergerac's nose; after Guy Gardner (occasionally a Scrappy in his own right) was re-named Green Lantern of Earth, he was saddled with G'nort as his sidekick, only now he was cute and naive and ended the story with a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. He gradually lapsed back into being the Scrappy.

* Even more so, Jar-Jar Binks from the ''Star Wars'' prequel trilogy (pictured). Some further complain that Jar-Jar resembles a Stepin Fetchitt-type "coon" caricature of a black man. He could therefore be said to overlap with the [[Ethnic Scrappy]] trope. It should be noted that even his own people consider him annoying: he was exiled from his homeland due to his clumsiness.

** Conversely, the computer game ''LEGO Star Wars'' made Jar-Jar actually useful, with a helpful skillset and a decent gun. More importantly, he stayed quiet... one of [[Broken Base|many improvements]] the game made over the prequel trilogy.

* The pointless little chameleon-like alien from [[The Movie]] based on ''[[Lost in Space]]''. In the original script, there was actually a plot-related reason (albeit a fairly weak one) for finding it, but in the final cut, it's just a waste of special effects budget.

** Not to mention that the scene where the protagonists decide to adopt it is a real [[Wall Banger]]: they met a completely unknown lifeform, which could have been venomous or dangerous in plenty of ways for all they knew, yet they deem it perfectly harmless ''because it is cute'', not noticing its extremely [[Cute Little Fangs|sharp teeth]].

== Live Action TV ==

* Chewbacca's father and son, Itchy and Lumpy from ''[[The Star Wars Holiday Special]]''. It doesn't help that the viewer is subjected to about 15 minutes of Wookie dialog ''without'' subtitles.

** The sad thing being that, in [[Star Trek: Voyager|the pilot episode]], Neelix was comic relief, but he was ''competent'' comic relief. He owned his own starship, was a combat-hardened veteran, was a successful businessman, and had the stones to manipulate the ''Voyager'' crew into being weapons against his enemies. Next episode, he suddenly becomes the Alien Scrappy.

* As noted on the ''[[Babylon 5]]'' page, the Drazi were annoying because they became a dumping ground for every idiotic alien custom imaginable.

*** Quina Quen seems to get a lot more flak for being extremely unfunny and annoying.

* Lamarr, Dr. Kleiner's debeaked pet headcrab in ''[[Half Life|Half-Life 2]]''. While she is clearly harmless and affectionate towards Kleiner, most of the time her purpose seems to be to annoy Barney and break things.

*** To be fair, though, if it hadn't messed up the teleporter the game would've been about ten minutes long (although if that happened in real life it'd just be annoying).

* Chu-Chu and all her race in ''[[Xenogears]]''. She's so grotesquely cute that Bart, a hardened desert pirate and captain of a massively powerful battleship, was too disgusted to pick her up and put her aside when she was blocking the way to his own bridge. To add insult to injury, she's the only Gear-sized character who doesn't consume fuel and whose character stats actually matter in Gear battles.

** Chu-Chu's race is native to the Xenogears planet, so technically, she's not an ''alien'' scrappy.

* Blasted [[The Greys|Elvis]]/Elphais from ''Perfect Dark''.

* Parodied once on ''[[Sealab 2021]]'', when Dr. Quinn's character is changed from an [[Ethnic Scrappy]] into an [[Alien Scrappy]].

{{quote|'''Quinn:''' Why am I a friggin' Martian?

'''Quinn:''' This show sucks. }}

* Gloop and Gleep from ''The Herculoids'' sometimes got a bit annoying, thanks to that headache-inducing gibbidygook "talking" of theirs. And their schmoo-like simplicity was rather jarring, when compared to the visual styling of the other Herculoid critters.

 

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