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{{trope}}
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The replaced character is likely torn between sadness and resignation about the other characters finding someone better than himself, and resentment of the annoying new character who has replaced him. Fortunately, however, the [[Replacement Scrappy]] will always do [[Kick the Dog|something to show that he is actually bad]], and it will then be okay for the replaced character to do something to get rid of the [[Replacement Scrappy]] (perhaps by proving to the other characters that he really is as bad as the replaced character had believed all along).
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Contrast [[Shoo Out the New Guy]], who is also [[The Scrappy]] and quickly removed, but that wasn't the original plan.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* When [[Batman]] had his back broken in the 90's, his temporary replacement was [[Azrael|Jean-Paul Valley]]. This portrayal of Batman was an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Darker and Edgier]] [[Nineties Anti
** The whole storyline was a response to fans complaining that Batman wasn't "hardcore" enough for the [[Grimdark]] 90's because he didn't kill or brutalize his enemies. So DC called the readers' bluff by giving them exactly what they wanted. As the writers expected, fans hated it. The storyline ended with the real Batman beating down his replacement and taking back the mantle, which had been planned from the start... Please note though, that had Azbats proved lucrative, they totally would have stuck with him.
* This also happened when [[Captain America (comics)]] was replaced by his [[Anti
* This is often done in ''[[The Beano]]'', with the
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* An episode of ''[[Lost in Space]]'' had The Robotoid, played by Robby the Robot, being better than the Robinsons' own Robot at nearly everything. It was, of course, evil, and The Robot had to save the day.
** Interestingly, Robby the Robot was used in a similar manner on ''[[
* Donna came across to many as a Scrappy in her first appearance on the new ''[[
** Adam Mitchell joins the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler at the end of 'Dalek.' He is promptly ejected from the TARDIS at the end of the next episode, 'The Long Game,' after trying to bring future technology to himself in the past (which is, y'know, really bad, according to the meddlesome, time-travelling alien whose sum total of instructions to you about time travel were "run around and do crazy, stupid stuff."). Russell T. Davies explained in an interview that he "always wanted to do a show with someone who was a rubbish companion."
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Wesley Windham Pryce was intended to be a
* Seems to the the purpose of Deangelo Vickers on ''[[The Office]]''. Introduced as the first replacement for Michael, he is inconsistently written to be a horrible person in general with apparently no experience in business. Many fans cried [[Replacement Scrappy]], but he was only intended to last one episode past Michael's exit anyway.
* Lady Vivian on ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' was introduced in one episode as a snotty [[Spoiled Brat]] who Arthur fell for whilst under the influence of a love spell, and then ushered out again once he snapped out of it.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Joshua, from ''[[
* Garnet briefly flirts with this trope in disk 3 of ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' when certain events in the plot send her into a [[Heroic BSOD]]. This has the gameplay effect of giving all her spells a chance to simply ''not work'' about 50% of the time, though eventually she gets over it and the effect goes away.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* On ''[[Family Guy]]'', there's a dog known only as "New Brian." Guess who feels jealous of him. Brian and Stewie both dislike New Brian, but all the other characters think he's great. Near the end of the episode, New Brian admits to Stewie that he violated Stewie's teddy bear (Rupert). The next scene has Stewie giving Peter, Lois, and the other characters a quite suspicious story about how New Brian [[Never Suicide|committed suicide]].
* On ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'', Jake's normal [[Non
* In an episode of ''[[Teen Titans (
* On ''[[The Simpsons]]'', the [[Show Within a Show]] Itchy & Scratchy had a dog named [[Shoo Out the New Guy|Poochie]], who was hated by the audience of characters on the show proper. There was also another character added to the episode who was a parody of Scrappys everywhere: a teenager named Roy who was inexplicably shown to be living with the Simpson family; however, all Roy did was [[Lampshade Hanging|hang lampshades]] on the concept of a Scrappy.
* In one U.S. Acres segment in ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', an overly-charismatic new rooster shows up and proves to be far more likable to the characters (especially the hens) than Roy. Orson starts to doubt him when he proves a little less effective at his job than Roy, but what takes the cake is when the weasel tries to capture the hens... and the rooster runs and hides. By the time Roy rescues the hens, the only character who will even give the
* In ''[[The Avengers: United They Stand]]'', [[Captain America (comics)]] himself follows the trope for Ant-Man's leadership role. However, Cap is still written way more sympathetically than most examples of the trope, and at the end Cap and Hank shake hands. (Well, he's Captain America.)
== Multiple media ==
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
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