The Scrappy/Video Games: Difference between revisions

* Raiden from ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2''. He was introduced as [[And Now for Someone Completely Different|Someone Completely Different]] and a strange, awkward, somewhat clumsy, [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|confusingly androgynous]] dork. In the serious cutscenes he's more talented, but replaces the cluelessness with lots of angst ([[Narm|some not written too well]]) and the nagging implication that he has less emotions and guilt about killing than he likes to portray. Whatever it is, the overall theme is that Raiden could have been the absolute ideal character of every single fanboy playing the game at the same time, and he would still have been immensely unpopular for the sole reason that he's [[Replacement Scrappy|not Snake]]. [[Hideo Kojima]] got the point and gleefully used an identical character named Raikov as a self-parody and hapless victim in the next game (and a series of comedy shorts for the re-release), and then made Raiden do some [[Level Grinding]] In [[Took a Level in Badass|Badass]] in MGS 4. Of course it didn't'[[Metal helpGear thatRising: Revengeance]]''Sons offully Liberty''[[Rescued wasFrom athe notoriousScrappy [[MindHeap|rescued Screwhim]] withby amaking Doozy ofhim a [[GainaxCrazy EndingAwesome]] that[[Sociopathic theHero]], fansfinally [[Brokenquelling Base|stillcomplaints argueof abouthim tobeing thisnothing verymore day]]than a poor Snake substitute.

* And then there's Raiden's girlfriend Rosemary, who's received hatred largely for her relationship drama with Raiden (some of which [[Narm|wasn't written well]]), as well as a mixture of [[Die for Our Ship]] and [[Stop Helping Me!]] feelings. The fourth game [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|tones down her scrappyness]], though not as much as her husband.

* Naomi is despised by many due to being a total back-stabbing bitch, and for getting in the way of the Snake/Otacon pairing during MGS4. Snake/Otacon shippers '''cheered''' when {{spoiler|1=she died in MGS4}}.