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A [[Plucky Comic Relief]] character in a sci-fi, fantasy or [[Superhero]] story, with a supposedly "cute" appearance and actions, who comes from another planet or dimension, or is a member of some kind of magical race. Such characters are often the [[Non -Human Sidekick]], [[Small Annoying Creature]] and/or [[The Scrappy]] of the story. Occasionally one of them is a villain, but it's hard to take such a stupid-looking villain seriously. In fact, it's hard to take any story seriously once one of these little buggers is introduced. Really, the trope is sort of a [[Hand Wave]] to allow for bloody ridiculous characters. The viewer asks, "Why the hell is that character so stupid and unrealistic, don't they realize he spoils the show?" and the unsatisfactory answer comes back, "Ah, but he's an ''alien'', you see. Everyone's like him where he comes from."
 
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.
 
[[Cute Kids And Robots]] suffer the same fate a lot of the time. Also see [[Amusing Alien]], the source of many Alien Scrappys.
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== Comics ==
* [[The DCU]] has a bunch of these, mostly spawned from Mr. Mxyzptlk from ''[[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]]''. They're very often The [[Great Gazoo]] as well.
** ''[[Batman (Comic Book)|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.
** Even Aquaman got into the act, with Quisp, the sea sprite. (A later [[Retcon]] made him a villainous being from Mxy's dimension called Qwsp.)
** Possibly the worst of these was Zook, the Martian Manhuter's tiny friend. Unlike most of the above, who only appeared every so often, Zook was in ''all'' of the original [[Silver Age]] Martian Manhunter stories -- until they were [[Retool|Retooled]] into a [[Spy Drama]].
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