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Sadly, the [[Mary Sue]]'s aura of awesome does not extend out of the pages she's written on, and that "sympathetic" [[Creator's Pet|teen genius Wesley]] and "adorable" [[The Scrappy|feisty pup Scrappy]] aren't exceptions either. Even the "cool" plot twist can go awry. What's an author to do? There's always the option of [[Put on a Bus|Putting Them on a Bus]], or hoping to succeed with an [[Author's Saving Throw]], but this character, for various reasons, just can't be done away with like that.
Well, there's only one thing left to do...get them '''[[Title Drop|Rescued From The Scrappy Heap]]'''. An unwritten rule of comic book writers is, "there no such thing as a bad character, just bad writing", so all it really takes to rescue a Scrappy is a ''good'' writer.
In a nutshell, this is a reinterpretation of the character or idea, be it in the form of [[Character Development]], a [[Retool]], a [[Time Skip]] making the character mature a bit, or giving the actor acting lessons. In any event, they get fleshed out in a way that wins over bitter fans and breathes new life into the series.
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