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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-Crisis]], a [[Retcon]] suggested that he existed only in Bob Overdog's LSD hallucinations, but he was recently re-introduced as a character that may or may not be a figment of a drugged and crazed Batman's imagination.
** 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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** Not to mention that the scene where the protagonists decide to adopt it is a real [[Wall Banger]]: they met a completely unknown lifeform, which could have been venomous or dangerous in plenty of ways for all they knew, yet they deem it perfectly harmless ''because it is cute'', not noticing its extremely [[Cute Little Fangs|sharp teeth]].
* Dropo from ''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]''. The Odious Comic Relief, now in extraterrestrial form!
* To some extent, Scottie's companion in ''[[Star Trek (Filmfilm)|Star Trek]]'' (2009) is getting flack. He doesn't do much besides get in the way, and we have to wonder why he's even there.
** Presumably he's just there to give Simon Pegg someone to yell at. Since the "Drunk Scot" stereotype would be inappropriate, they clearly decided to go with the "Angry Scot" stereotype instead.
 
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* This also happens in one of Robert Asprin's later ''Myth'' books, where a chapter narrated by {{spoiler|Skeeve's pet dragon, Gleep}} reveals it to be {{spoiler|highly intelligent, and often considering ''incinerating'' some of Skeeve's friends it thinks might be a bad influence.}} Eventually {{spoiler|Skeeve learns the truth, and Gleep evidently accepts Skeeve's choice of friends.}}
* ''[[Sword of Truth]]'': "Gratch luuuug Raaach Arrrrg!"
* ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'': <s> [[The Napoleon]]</s> The Helmacrons, sorry.
** As one troper put in on the Animorphs main page, "''Fuck off Drode, no one wants to hear your shit.''"
** Iskroot. The completely nonsensical background doesn't help either.
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== 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.
* ''[[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.
* As noted on the ''[[Babylon 5]]'' page, the Drazi were annoying because they became a dumping ground for every idiotic alien custom imaginable.
** YMMV on this one; some people found the Drazi hilarious.
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** In ''Half-Life 2: Episode Two'', {{spoiler|she ends up getting unintentionally launched into space}}...with a Garden Gnome if you choose to...
*** 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 (Video Game)|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.
** [[Narm/Video Game|At least she got crucified, eh?]]
** Chu-Chu's race is native to the Xenogears planet, so technically, she's not an ''alien'' scrappy.
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== Western Animation ==
* Orko from ''[[He-Man and Thethe Masters of Thethe Universe]]'', who went from a great (if eccentric) wizard on his homeworld of Trolla to a bumbling, annoying comic relief because his powers didn't work properly on Eternia.
** In the 2002 series, Orko became comic relief because he lost his wand while rescuing a young Prince Adam and his pet tiger from sinking into a swamp. Without his wand none of his magic works correctly.
*** It was the same in the '80s series, save for it being a medallion rather than a wand.
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* That Gleek... thing... on ''[[Recycled in Space|Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space]]''. It looked like a prehensile bundle of cotton balls and seemed to exist solely to annoy the cat (and make [[The Ditz|Melody]] even more obnoxious than she already was).
** His name was "Bleep," which was also the only word he could say. Melody was able to translate for him.
* Let's not forget the ''other'' Gleek, from ''[[Super FriendsSuperfriends]]''.
* The unforgivably awful Snarf from ''[[Thunder CatsThundercats]]''. Has there ever been a more aggravating "cute" character in a cartoon?
** Snarf's young nephew Snarfer, who is, if anything, even ''more'' annoying.
** Lion-O in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AJWRPaKHxQ blooper reel] ([[NSFW]]) says what most of us are thinking:
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* Parodied once on ''[[Sealab 2021]]'', when Dr. Quinn's character is changed from an [[Ethnic Scrappy]] into an [[Alien Scrappy]].
{{quote| '''Quinn:''' Why am I a friggin' Martian?<br />
'''Director:''' Hey, sweet! Wardrobe got you set up, and listen, you are not a Martian. [[Stargate SG -1|You're from a super-race of symbiotes. Little snake lives in your belly]].<br />
'''Quinn:''' Since when?<br />
'''Director:''' Well, the writers were, you know, having trouble writing for, uh, ''urban'' characters.<br />
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'''Quinn:''' This show sucks. }}
* Gloop and Gleep from ''The Herculoids'' sometimes got a bit annoying, thanks to that headache-inducing gibbidygook "talking" of theirs. And their schmoo-like simplicity was rather jarring, when compared to the visual styling of the other Herculoid critters.
* Roger from ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' is one of these to Stan and his family in-universe.
* Parodied relentlessly on ''[[Invader Zim]]'' -- not by GIR, but by Shloonktapooxis, that weird cone-looking guy on the Resisty Flagship. Just sort of stands around screaming "adorable" things. Weird.
 
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