Alien Scrappy: Difference between revisions

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** 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]].

** Weirdly enough, all the sprites -- even Mopee! -- appeared in an issue of the new ''Super Friends'' comic book. And it was actually pretty amusing.

** Proty, Chameleon Boy's shape-shifting pet from the ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]''.

*** The post-Zero Hour reboot of the ''Legion'' has not only Proty but also Lori Morning, who, [[Fish Out of Temporal Water|as a modern-day Earth]] [[Tagalong Kid|pre-teen amidst the 30th-century and mostly non-Terran Legion]], is a rare example of a human [[Alien Scrappy]].

* ''[[Supreme]]'', [[Alan Moore]]'s homage to [[Silver Age]] Superman has Szazs, the Sprite Supreme. Who comes from the same dimension as Nite-Mite (Professor Night's Bat-Mite analogue) and Qyrk (Roy Roman's Qwisp analogue).

** There's a chunk of 80s ''Who'' fandom who grew up on DWM who think Frobisher is awesome.

** Frobisher was most definitely awesome in [http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_bf14.htm The Holy Terror]. This may be a case of [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]], though.

* ''[[Star Trek Voyager (TV)|Star Trek Voyager]]'''s Neelix. Though not quite as silly as other characters on this page, he is frequently aggravating. And a lot of his skills (especially as a "survival expert") fall squarely in the ground of [[Informed Ability]].

** The sad thing being that, in [[Star Trek Voyager (TV)|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.

** YMMV on this one; some people found the Drazi hilarious.