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[[The Scrappy]] and [[Scrappy Index|his ilk]] are characters who are despised by most (if not all) of the fandom. However, occasionally there may be one moment where the despised character is the butt of a humiliating joke, or another character says what the audience is thinking to/about the despised character.

 

See also [[Discontinuity Nod]]. Contrast [[Creator's Pet]].

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* ''[[School Days]]''

** {{spoiler|Makoto's death at the hands of Sekai}}.

** Makoto getting [[Groin Attack|kneed]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|by Sekai.]]

* ''[[Girls Bravo]]'': [[Tsundere|Kirie]] haters were quite pleased how she got a few humiliation moments here and there, getting close to [[Butt Monkey]] status when [[Psycho Lesbian|Kosame]] is around.

* In the ''[[Heidi, Girl of the Alps]]'' anime series (part of the [[World Masterpiece Theater]]), Fraulein Rottenmeier treats Heidi so severely that she becomes abusive to the little girl. Then the last episodes of the series focus on Klara's visits to Heidi and her grandpa in the mountains, and Rottenmeiter is such a [[Fish Out of Water]] that she becomes [[The Chew Toy]]. It was not only hilarious, but ''cathartic''.

* Quattro, the [[Smug Snake]] from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS'' that viewers love to hate. While [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|her defeat by overkill]] from Nanoha may or may not be this, this scene from ''[[Audio Adaptation|StrikerS Sound Stage X]]'' was clearly added just so that fans could point and laugh at how much she had fallen by now.

'''Jail:''' They haven't changed at all. Quattro has even gotten a bit fat. }}

* Possible example: Chizuru Kawanami and her dream demon, Leon, of the [[Yumekui Merry]] anime adaptation. {{spoiler|When a dream demon who's possessing a person gets killed, the person loses their dreams, which seems to equate to them basically becoming depressed, unmotivated, and almost doll-like, with very little personality. Leon gets killed in the final battle after being completely ineffectual. Kawanami spends the rest of the fight sitting there with soulless eyes, and then is shown wandering aimlessly after the battle, having not recovered at all. [[Hand Wave|Its mentioned that she MIGHT recover on her own someday.]]}} Of course, [[Adaptation Decay|given the quality of writing of the final episodes]], there's a very real possibility that it might just be bad writing at work.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Used for a joke in ''[[Dork Tower]]'' when Igor plays ''[[Star Wars Battlefront]]''

'''Igor:''' "Explain to me what part of 'I'm killing Ewoks and Gungans' was, exactly, hard to understand..." }}

* [[Justice League of America/Characters|Vibe and Steel]] from the reviled ''[[Justice League of America|Justice League Detroit]]'' were killed off several years after they were created due to negative fan reaction. Decades after their deaths, the characters are almost never mentioned in-universe unless in a negative manner.

** This itself got lampshaded when [[Blackest Night|Black Lantern]] versions confronted the surviving Detroit Leaguers and basically asked why they were remembered as a joke while Gypsy and Vixen got to join the "proper" League.

* Jason Todd's no holds bar smackdown on Damian Wayne in Batman and Robin #6, which ended with Damian getting a broken back for his trouble.

 

* It's not hard to find a fanfic of any fandom in which a despised character is mercilessly bashed by its author.

** If anything, fanfiction revolves around this and [[Die for Our Ship]].

 

== [[Film]] ==

** The fact that Jar Jar is also [[Attack of the Clones|directly responsible]] for enabling Palpatine to rise to totalitarian power and form [[The Empire]] is also very likely this trope in spectacular action.

** Writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson may have even slipped in a stealth admission of his own writing screwup with Alice, in the form of what Wesker says to her while he [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|kicks her ass.]] "I'm what [[God Mode Sue|you]] used to be, [[Badass|only better]]."

* A scene from ''[[Godzilla: Final Wars]]'' features a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|truly epic]] [[Take That]] against the much maligned American Godzilla. [[Curb Stomp Battle|He's taken down in just twenty seconds; the shortest fight scene in the entire film.]] After an initial temper tantrum, the Xilian General [[We Have Reserves|doesn't care much]].

* ''[[Puma Man]]'', when Vadinho punches Tony, knocking him out.

* The same applies in ''Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell'' when Deathstalker is repeatedly knocked out. In the [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] version Mike and bots cheer loud and repeatedly. Crow says it best when the guy has barely spoken two lines and asks, "Is it too early to hate this guy?"

* ''[[Saw]]'' - A lot of people did not like Detective Hoffman [[Replacement Scrappy|replacing Jigsaw]] late in the series, so {{spoiler|having him chained to a wall with no means of escape by Dr. Gordon made it oh so sweet for some of the fans}}.

== [[Literature]] ==

* In the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'', both Mara and Corran go into rants about [[Jedi Academy Trilogy|Kyp Durron]] and how he [[Karma Houdini|literally got away with planetcide]]. ...Actually, the whole of the EU to feature him after that trilogy counts. He can [[Never Live It Down]].

* In ''Breaking Dawn'', the final ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' novel, there's one brief, shining moment when Leah chews Bella out for leading Jacob on like she has been. It happens offscreen and the reader is supposed to hate Leah for it, but it's still something.

* [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] loves creating unlikable characters and then invoking this trope. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxLOXUGmRKI Joffrey getting slapped by Tyrion several times when he goes to backtalk], Viserys humiliation and abuse, etc.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* In ''[[Coronation Street]]'', after surviving a Minor Car Crash, Janice Battersby acts like even more of a [[Spoiled Brat]] than ever, and goes about ruining Sally Webster's work. Sally finally snaps and punches her in the nose. Not only that but it went further by Danny Baldwin firing Janice (again), and not one person sprang to her defense.

* ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' had almost nothing ''but'' these for Dale Stuckey during his run.

** Perhaps the ultimate example of this towards him was in "Zebras" where he (having already screwed up an open-and-shut case) made a comment that provoked Stabler into angrily shoving him. When he complained about it, Cragen simply blew him off.

** There's also the season 1 episode where Cameron forces House to go on a date with her. During the date, House goes on a rant about how she has a complex requiring her to fall in love with "broken" guys (her ex-husband, who was dying when they got married, and House himself) and try to fix them. It's heavily implied she cried herself to sleep that night.

* ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]''

** In the [[Grand Finale]] of the show, Robin discovers {{spoiler|that he's been fatally poisoned}}. Kate attempts to give him a [[Last Kiss]], but he deliberately turns his face away, and a few moments later {{spoiler|is [[Together in Death|reunited with Marian]]}}. Kate has to settle for a one-armed hug, and when Robin leaves to {{spoiler|[[Dying Alone|die alone]]}}, he ''doesn't even look back''.

** Earlier, in season 3:

'''Sawyer:''' Who the hell is Nikki? }}

::[[Word of God]] is that Paolo and Nikki's manner of death was a direct response to their Scrappy status.

* Vanessa of ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' gets a lot of this from Blair, who hates her.

** Dan used to get his share of this too, mainly from Chuck and Blair. By season five he's become too much of a Mary Sue for this to happen more than rarely.

** And earlier in the same story, ''Nyssa'' tells him to shut up.

** In an extra on the DVD version of "Earthshock", Adric ''survives'' the spaceship crash, lands on prehistoric Earth... and is promptly eaten by a Tyrannosaurus. A detatched Cyberman head remarks, "Excellent".

* A 1975 ''[[Happy Days]]'' episode has Fonzie in police gear just long enough to stem a possible gang war. When a gang member takes notice of Ralph, Potsie and Richie:

'''Fonzie:''' (''to Potsie'') Shut up, nerd! }}

* ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'': When exploring ruins, [[The Dragon|Tenaya7]] finds a battered ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive|Operation Overdrive]]'' Red Ranger helmet and, without too much thought, tosses it aside. Now, this can be seen as a [[Continuity Nod]], showing what happened to other Rangers who tried to stop [[Big Bad|Venjix]]. But you gotta wonder if this was deliberate: out of all the 15 previous ''[[Power Rangers]]'' teams available, the one they explicitly showed to have died was the one from the most reviled season of the franchise.

* On an episode of ''[[So Random]],'' there is a ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' skit that ends with Vanna hitting [[Fred]] (Who is one of the contestants) in the head with a piece of the set before [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|looking towards the camera and says "You're welcome, America."]]

 

== Professional Wrestling ==

* Michelle McCool losing her Divas Championship to Natalya.

* The Sandman beating Eugene with a kendo stick when he went to give him a hug at [[ECW]] One Night Stand.

* Melina being the first eliminated from a #1 contender's battle royal after weeks of being a [[God Mode Sue]].

* [[The Miz]] to Maryse at ''Night of Champions'':

* At the 2011 Extreme Rules PPV, not only does Michelle McCool end up losing a "loser leaves the WWE" match, but after the match, she gets attacked by the debuting Kharma (who is better known by her TNA name, Awesome Kong).

* From one Scrappy to another:

* Speaking of Michael Cole he got the mother of all of them at ''Over The Limit'' 2011. He lost a "Kiss My Foot Match" to [[Jerry Lawler]] and had the following things happen to him: [[Humiliation Conga|he got his pants ripped off, Eve Torres came out and performed a moonsault on him,]] [[Jim Ross]] [[Humiliation Conga|poured barbecue sauce all over him,]] [[Bret Hart]] [[Humiliation Conga|made him tap out to the Sharpshooter, and Lawler stuck his foot in his mouth]].

* [[The Undertaker]] chokeslamming [[John Cena]] after the latter tagged himself in to steal the win for their team during their 6-man tag team match against their two respective title contenders (Taker and Cena were respectively the World Heavyweight and WWE champions at that time) [[Chris Jericho|Jeri]]-[[The Big Show|Show]] and [[D Generation X]] ([[Shawn Michaels|HBK]] and [[Triple H|HHH]]].

 

 

== Software ==

** It also features the line "Next to Microsoft Bob, you are the most annoying thing in computer history!"

 

== Theater ==

 

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* In ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'', the Onslaught set's version of Shock depicts a Psychatog being shocked by lightning, both in reference to the creature's time as a [[Tier-Induced Scrappy]]. Also, Deep Analysis has art depicting a decapitated Masticore, with some great flavor text:

** To a lesser extent, Magic R&Ds primary strategy for weakening dominant strategies, rather than banning cards which people put effort into acquiring, is to print cards in the next set that are very niche in their practicality, but usually devastating against the top deck. For example:

*** When the best card in the format was [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=174917 Blightning], they printed [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=205075 Obstinate Baloth] that could be pitched to Blightning to give you a big creature and offset the life loss.

*** When Ravager Affinity, a powerful artifact strategy, was the king of the hill, they printed [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=46012 Oxidize], one of the cheapest artifact destruction spells every printed. (It wasn't enough, but it's the thought that counts.)

* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh Card Game]]'', the "Legacy of Yata-Garasu" card features [[Tier-Induced Scrappy|Yata-Garasu]] lying dead on the ground. The effect even counters his own special ability.

* In the [[Old World of Darkness]], the eventual fate of the much-hated ghoul-werewolf-mage [[God Mode Sue|God Mode Stu]] Samuel Haight was...to have his spirit crafted into an ashtray.

 

 

** In the casual MMO ''Clone Wars Adventures'', one of the minigames is punting him for distance (all in the name of practicing Force Push, of course).

** In ''Bounty Hunter'' he's a holographic target on the firing range in the first level.

* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]''

** ''[[Sonic Rush Series|Sonic Rush Adventure]]'' introduced a character called Marine the Raccoon, whose [[Motor Mouth]] [[Reckless Sidekick]] tendencies and delusion that she's the real hero brushed a number of fans the wrong way. Sonic, Tails, and Blaze [[Lampshade Hanging]] how annoying she can be, ultimately leading up to a scene before the final level where Blaze finally blows up and yells at her: "You're a nuisance!"

** Well, technically, he was only hated by American fans. Apparently in Japan, Raiden's fanbase potentially rivals that of even Solid Snake. Also, apparently, the player is also given the option to either kill or knock out Raikov, depending on what the player feels like, and the player doesn't even get a [[Time Paradox]] if he does the former.

** The player also has a mask of Raikov's likeness that's used late in the game to impersonate him, and there's a lot of fun to be had with the mask: Calling your [[Mission Control]] while wearing the mask will lead Snake's superiors to comment on how just wearing the mask is already making Snake seem more annoying, while Snake himself insists that wearing the mask is bound to make him more popular.

* Eric Sparrow, the antagonist of ''[[Tony Hawk Pro Skater|Tony Hawk's Underground]]'' and something of a memetic [[Jerkass]], spent the entirety of ''THUG 2'' pissing himself, squealing like a girl and getting the crap beat out of him.

* The season 2 finale of ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' does this to the Soda Poppers, combined with a [[Brick Joke]]. {{spoiler|They become the rulers of hell and, long story short, Sam and Max drop them into a small island in a pit of lava. [[The Stinger]] of the episode/season shows them doing the 'we'll be back' monologue...then, the [[Brick Joke|purple Bermuda Triangle from the end of Moai Better Blues]] appears. Last we saw, a volcano had been erupting into it...the Poppers get vaporized.}}

* From the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' series:

** In ''[[Mass Effect (video game)|Mass Effect 1]]'', we have Ambassador Udina, a brown-nosing politician who later in the game {{spoiler|impounds the ''[[Cool Starship|Normandy]]'' when your [[Apocalypse How|dire warnings]] aren't heeded and you become [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|politically inconvenient]].}} Your good friend [[Big Good|Captain Anderson]] hatches a plan to {{spoiler|rectify that and send you on your way to save the galaxy and take the heat for it himself. One option involves Anderson storming into Udina's office, downing the ambassador in one punch, and then freeing the ''Normandy'' from her dock.}} You can later do one on him yourself by {{spoiler|[[Awesome Moment of Crowning|endorsing Anderson for the Council seat]] instead of Udina.}} [[Mass Effect 3|The third game]] takes this even further with a Renegade interrupt that lets you {{spoiler|kill him}}.

* ''[[Fable II]]'' mentions a rumor that Weaver the Guildmaster was found dead with the words [[Stop Helping Me!|"Your health is Low!"]] carved onto his forehead.

** Not to mention that you can {{spoiler|optionally kill him as part of a quest in ''[[Fable (video game series)|The Lost Chapters]]'' edition of the first game.}} The rumor could be referring to that.

* ''[[Duke Nukem 3D]]: Atomic Edition/Plutonia Pack'' features Scrappy "Due". In a cage. In the basement of a burger joint staffed by [[Beavis and Butthead]]. Surrounded by his own excrement. About to be made into hamburger. You can do the humane thing and blow him to bloody ribbons.

** A...[[Incredibly Lame Pun|scrappy meal?]]

* [[Rabid Cop|Carter Blake]] from ''[[Heavy Rain]]'' is a complete asshole from the moment he appears, and in one optional chapter he goads you to hit him. {{spoiler|''You can.''}}

* In the [[Fan Remake]] of ''[[King's Quest II Romancing the Throne]]'', during the Cloud Spirit test, if you pass the first two questions you can choose an optional answer where Graham asks Connor to free the kingdom from a dreaded beast... revealed to be [[King's Quest V|Cedric the Owl]], and then he draw his blade [[Crowning Moment of Funny|and chase the damned owl himself]].

* A recently introduced quest chain in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has the player delving into Thrall's inner emotional struggles in an effort to bring him back after he's killed by the Twilight Hammer. When the player gets to his inner rage, there are hints that he's... less than pleased with [[Replacement Scrappy|Garrosh's]] run as Warchief. For those who see Varian Wrynn as [[The Scrappy]], Thrall ain't happy with him either.

* Anders and Carver of ''[[Dragon Age 2]]'' were both [[Base Breaker|divisive characters]] among the fandom. Of party banter of the game's DLC made the two the butt of many jokes from other characters.

Please kick me in the loins. }}

** Not to mention that, to get the costumes in the first place you get to beat eight of them up. The fact that they go down in one punch each is just icing.

* In ''[[Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist]]'', Freddy may stumble across a "lost and out-of-place" [[King's Quest V|Cedric the Owl]], who later gets eaten by vultures.

* ''[[Animal Crossing]]: Wild World'' introduced Lyle, an insurance scammer who would appear outside of the player's house on Saturdays. If talked to, he would force the player to pay him to buy insurance from him. If the player ignored him, he would try to follow them around until they talked to him and bought insurance. This combined with his [[Honest John's Dealership|annoying personality]], the fact that he would continue to harass the player even if they gave in and bought insurance from him, and that his insurance was generally worthless (he would occasionally "cover" players who were stung by bees or sold forged paintings, but only in pitiful amounts that generally did not come close to what the player paid for his insurance in the first place) made many players despise him. Possibly due to this, in ''[[Animal Crossing]]: City Folk'', Lyle has lost his job as an insurance salesman and now works at the Happy Room Academy, a job he absolutely hates, and frequently talks about how his dreams have been crushed.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

 

 

* One sketch of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' had the Scooby Doobies team planning retribution for the Really Rottens attack on Laff-A-Munich. The Blue Falcon wanted to partner with a "more subtle talking dog" and had the choice between [[Dynomutt Dog Wonder]] and Scrappy-Doo. Guess who he immediately kicks out (literally).

** The very same sketch also has terrorists blow Booboo Bear's head off with a shotgun, and blows up Scooby-Dum for [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|literally no reason.]] It's almost a masterpiece made for killing off [[Hanna-Barbera]] Scrappies.

*** A later [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ovO7lmFYCc sketch] involving Jar Jar strongly indicates that his status may [[Batman Gambit|not have been]] [[Bigger Bad|unjustified.]]

** It should be mentioned that the fact that it was Quagmire speaking, combined with how cemented Brian's status as a [[Gary Stu]] [[Author Avatar]] had become, led some viewers to [[Alternate Character Interpretation|see the rant as]] one big, long [[Take That, Critics!]] with Quagmire as a [[Straw Critic]].

*** The secondary mouthpiece, Stewie, has barely two appearances on the episode mostly to say that Brian shouldn't obsess over being liked by everybody as long as he likes himself, and that he (Stewie) likes him no matter what.

*** In that episode, and a few others, Lois has taken to saying things like "Oh God, what ''now''?" when she senses Brian is on another crusade, mirroring the audience's reaction quite well.

*** Which is sad, considering that for once [[Unfortunate Implications|he may have a point]].

** Even in the Lego Star Wars short, Jar Jar only appears on camera for a few seconds to be [[Ludicrous Gibs|shot into many lego pieces.]]

* The ''[[Animaniacs]]'' episode "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special" states that the Warners were created as [[Looney Tunes|Buddy]]'s [[Ensemble Darkhorse|funnier co-stars]], and he later tries to kill them for stealing his (nonexistent in real life) fame.

* Irving is treated with contempt by the rest of the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' cast, except for the title characters. But then again, who ''doesn't'' Phineas tolerate?

** And even then, Ferb is the only one who doesn't seem to mind... mainly because he's fairly [[The Stoic|stoic]] and [[The Voiceless|nonverbal]]. Phineaas, however, has several times shown to be less than enthused at his presense.

** After all the abuse and isolation, Bart builds makes a wicker statue of Lisa - who takes it as a symbol of love and respect. In actuality, Bart was planning to burn it as an effigy. {{spoiler|Ironically it was Lisa who sets it on fire.}}

** In "Bart Star" Lisa signs up for the school's football team to be a very annoying [[Granola Girl]] only to realize they have already done the "progressive" things she was going to complain about in the first place. She leaves in tears.

* Miko of ''[[Transformers Prime]]'', who is derided by the fanbase for being [[The Load]], and often [[Too Dumb to Live]], finally gets called out by Jack during "One Shall Rise, part 1".

** Given that Jack gave her [[Aesop Amnesia|the exact same speech]] in ''the pilot'', fans are cynical about whether this will stick.

* Princess Bubblegum, after being called various names from "Mad Scientist" to "Heartless Bitch" to "Terrible Parent," got a surprising Take That in the ''[[Adventure Time]]'' episode "Five Short Graybles." After spending hours exhausting herself by making the most perfect sandwich that has ever existed or ever will exist, she gives it to Cinnamon Bun... who shits it out all over her without even tasting it.

 

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