Alien Scrappy: Difference between revisions

* 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.

== 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.

 

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[[Category:Scrappy Index]]

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[[Category:Speculative Fiction Tropes]]

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