Take That, Scrappy!: Difference between revisions

[[File:Jar_Jar_in_carbonite_cropped_60.png|link=Star Wars the Phantom Menace|frame|Let's face it, you would freeze [[Alien Scrappy|Jar-Jar Binks]] in [[Taken for Granite|Carbonite, too.]]]]

 

'''Dr. Crusher:''' ''"Shut up, Wesley!"''|''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''}}

 

* 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. }}

* ''[[Mega Man NT Warrior]]'' had the episode titled "The Purloined Princess" which brought back [[Rich Bitch|Yai]] in the show, only for the main cast to show that they are just as sick of her as the fandom.

* In ''[[World War Hulk]] - Frontline'', Sally Floyd (y'know, the one who made ''that'' speech to [[Captain America]]) gets roaring drunk and wanders into the middle of a mugging. She's rescued by [[Moon Knight]], who then tells her that if he'd realised who she was beforehand, he wouldn't have bothered saving her.

* 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.

* 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}}.

* ''[[Lost]]'': Widmore's henchman, Zoe, in season 6, is widely hated for being a pointless, annoying character, eating up valuable screen time...and also for the actress claiming that she's the key to all the show's themes and is on "every page" of the series finale <ref>Apparently the "every page" referred to [http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/03/losts_zoe_explains_herself.html the watermark on her script].</ref>. {{spoiler|In the penultimate episode, The Man in Black violently slits her throat, killing her and pleasing everyone who hated her.}}

** 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.

** 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.

* [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]] certainly has some choice words for Adric and his dubious behavior in "Four to Doomsday:"

** 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.

* 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]].

* In [[WCW]], a match where The Perfect Event (Sean O'Haire and Chuck Palumbo) beat the team of Lex Luger and Buff Bagwell in 56 seconds.

== [[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.

* 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.

* Nobody liked the minstrels in ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'': they got in your face and sang annoying songs until they either went away or you tossed coins, possibly blowing your cover. ''[[Assassin's Creed Revelations]]'' has a mission where Ezio dresses up as a minstrel and sings. One of the songs is this little gem:

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.

** 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.

* Rodimus Prime in ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', in his first appearance he ends up getting afflicted with cosmic rust. This has satisfied some fans who don't like Rody.