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== [[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 ''[[The Addams Family (TV)|The Addams Family]]'', where he was doing the same thing to Lurch.
* Donna came across to many as a Scrappy in her first appearance on the new ''[[Doctor Who]]''. She improved; to some fans she was better than Rose or Martha.
** 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 [[Temporary Scrappy]] (he was even named [[Creator's Pet|Wesley]]) and killed off in the Graduation episode. However, he accidentally became popular, joined the cast of spin-off ''[[Angel]]'', [[Took a Level In Badass]], and stayed on the show until the final episode.
* 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 ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]'', starts out with the survival skills of a brick, replaces fan-popular Shiki as Neku's partner, and is a complete and utter asshole. Neku has as low of an opinion of Joshua as the player (their first Fusion attack has Joshua shout "Follow my lead!"... to which Neku answers ''"Screw that!"''). As the week goes on, however, it becomes clear that Joshua is ''supposed'' to be hated, even as his attitude lightens. From a gameplay perspective, once you get his Hover sticker, he becomes a killing machine. The revelation that {{spoiler|he's the actual villain}} turns this into full-out [[They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste]], though the fact that {{spoiler|once he is outed as the real villain, you can do absolutely nothing but meekly let him do whatever he wants -- which, among other things, means shooting you in the head ''for the second time'' -- makes him a ''real'' [[Creator's Pet]] to some.}}
* 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-Human Sidekick]] is a dog named Fu. And in one episode, he's replaced by a [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys|monkey]] named Bananas. Bananas acts excessively cool and has many useful skills, thus making Jake and most of the other characters like him. However, in the fight against a [[Monster of the Week]] evil dragon, Bananas [[Face Heel Turn|surrenders and goes over to her side]]. Jake appreciates his more loyal friend Fu once more, and Bananas' only other appearance is when his new dragon mistress reappears in a later episode.
* In an episode of ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'', Starfire's sister, Blackfire, appears to visit, and all of the other Titans, including the usually skeptical Raven, take an immediate liking to her, even eventually offering to make her a part of the team. Starfire spends most of the episode feeling rejected, and even tries to leave the Titans until Robin convinces her not to. [[The Untwist|And then Blackfire turns out to have been]] [[Evil All Along]]...
* 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 [[Temporary Scrappy]] rooster the time of day is [[Cowardly Lion|Cowardly Duck]] Wade... and only because he enjoys having someone more cowardly than himself around.
* In ''[[The Avengers: United They Stand]]'', [[Captain America]] 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 Nini]]'''s {{spoiler|Erika}}, from EP5 and 6. Said character [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|seems like a nice person]], until [[The Reveal]]. {{spoiler|As Bern's gamepiece, she [[Replacement Scrappy|supplants Battler]], frames [[The Woobie|Natsuhi]], makes a blatantly impossible plan, denies the use of Red Text just so she can win, and comes close to breaking Battler's brain. She describes herself as [[Mind Rape|an intellectual rapist]].}} You really [[Complete Monster|can't get much worse]]; since she's effectively {{spoiler|Bernkastel}}'s [[Self Insert]], she may be the darkest [[Parody Sue]] in history.
 
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