Alien Scrappy: Difference between revisions

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

** ''[[Batman]]'' has Bat-Mite. [[Post-Crisis]], a [[Retcon]] suggested that he existed only in Bob Overdog's LSD hallucinations, but he was recently re-introduced as a character that may or may not be a figment of a drugged and crazed Batman's imagination.

** 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.

* The Ewoks from ''[[Star Wars]]'', in all their forms.

* 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.

** Presumably he's just there to give Simon Pegg someone to yell at. Since the "Drunk Scot" stereotype would be inappropriate, they clearly decided to go with the "Angry Scot" stereotype instead.

* Robert Heinlein would often subvert this in his sci-fi juveniles, where the annoying, bumbling alien "pet" would turn out to be a vastly more intelligent creature who regarded his "owner" as the annoying, bumbling alien pet! (To give one specific example: ''Red Planet''.)

** Basically the entire plot of ''The Star Beast'', where John Thomas Stuart XI's "pet alien", Lummox (who he inherited from one of the earlier John Thomas Stuarts) has made "the raising of John Thomasses" into a multi-century hobby.

** Iskroot. The completely nonsensical background doesn't help either.

* 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.

* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'''s Neelix. Though not quite as silly as other characters on this page, he is frequently aggravating. And a lot of his skills (especially as a "survival expert") fall squarely in the ground of [[Informed Ability]].

** YMMV on this one; some people found the Drazi hilarious.

* The entire race of Moogles in ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]''. Though tolerable, and even sometimes popular, in the rest of the series, in ''IX'' their primary role is to send the player on a long, pointless series of (thankfully optional) literal [[Fetch Quest|Fed Ex Quests]] to deliver their cutesy letters to each other. Oh, and they also run most of the [[Save Point|save points]] in the game, so you can't just avoid them for most of the game.

** It only gets really bad after you get access to intercontinental travel since up to that point most moogles will conveniently be sending letters to the next moogle on your path. After that, you'll be pissed as shit to realize that Kuppo and Kupo are two different moogles, half a continent away from one another.

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

* Orko from ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'', who went from a great (if eccentric) wizard on his homeworld of Trolla to a bumbling, annoying comic relief because his powers didn't work properly on Eternia.

** In the 2002 series, Orko became comic relief because he lost his wand while rescuing a young Prince Adam and his pet tiger from sinking into a swamp. Without his wand none of his magic works correctly.

** His name was "Bleep," which was also the only word he could say. Melody was able to translate for him.

* Let's not forget the ''other'' Gleek, from ''[[Superfriends]]''.

** Snarf's young nephew Snarfer, who is, if anything, even ''more'' annoying.

** Lion-O in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AJWRPaKHxQ blooper reel] ([[NSFW]]) says what most of us are thinking: