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{{quote|"Dropo, you're the laziest man on Mars!"|''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]''}}
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
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
** 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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