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* ''[[CSI]]'':
** Sara Sidle. So much so that when she finally left the show, people who disliked the character couldn't resist taking parting shots at the actress for "turning her back" on the rest of the cast.
** Langston sadly has become this to many fans. He was actually a fair character, but the writers overused him, making him the [[
** Actually, Sara probably qualifies more along the lines of love or hate or a [[Base Breaker]]. She has a rather large fandom that probably eclipses her hatedom.
* ''[[CSI New York]]'':
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** Mac's girlfriends, almost certainly ship-related. Peyton was extremely disliked, Audrey didn't fare well, and now Christine is already starting to get disliked by a portion of the fans. Most likely, it's due to the three most popular Mac ships: Fans want him to hook up with Jo, go off to New Orleans and marry Stella, or stay forever alone because Claire was his soul mate and no one can be like her.
* ''[[Degrassi]]''. There are so many...
** At first it was Emma, for being [[
** As sesaon 3 came around, a large section of the fandom decided Manny was a slut because she slept with one guy, who just happened to have a girlfriend.
** In season 4, Craig became [[The Scrappy]] for [[
** In season 5, Peter, whose motto appears to be [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]. In the very first episode, a two-parter, he films drunk!Manny stripping (Yes, some said this was because she was a slut.) and when she won't date him because Emma wants to, he sends everyone this video. As season 6 rolls around, he gets Darcy to do this as well. And he puts pot in Sean's locker because Sean's interested in Emma.
** Speaking of Darcy, Darcy! The fundamentalist Christian talk tended to turn people off and made people say "This isn't ''[[Seventh Heaven]]''!"; and the Christian motif made Spinner seem less Spinner and more self-righteous. Other fans saw her and Spinner as [[The Fundamentalist]].
** Sean, but only in season 6. [[Fanon]] is that this Sean is straight out of the [[Uncanny Valley]], with the [[Detractor Name]] "Seanborg" or "Seandroid". Bad enough that the [[Double Standard]] is in full force: Manny's a slut, but Sean helps Emma cheat on Peter and is being subversive and heroic.
** Mia [[
** Just write that you think Jenna from is not so bad, or even goodness forbid that you like her and see what happens.
** Leia was also despised by many for [[Satellite Character|being useless]]. Thankfully the writers finally [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome|took the hint.]] Oddly enough, Blue was even more useless than Leia, but didn't garner such hate, thanks to being eye candy.
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* [[Cousin Oliver|April]] from ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' is despised for being a [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] for Rory, and essentially a brainy know-it-all. The only reason she existed was to get on the nerves of [[Grumpy Bear|Luke]] and depict how bad he is with children. [[Seasonal Rot|By this point in the show]], of course, things may have been beyond repair anyway.
* ''[[Glee]]'':
** While many of the characters are pretty much [[Love It or Hate It|love them or hate them]], there are ''very'' few fans who like Will, and even most of those who do seem to agree with the general consensus that he is clueless, naive and generally a pretty [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|bad teacher,]] yet the characters (and by extension, the writers) often treat him [[
** The same can be said of Post-[[Flanderization]] [[Jerkass|Finn]], especially with his actions toward Santana in "Mash-Off" and his relationship with Rachel turning into a [[Romantic Plot Tumor]].
** Rory is also headed in this direction, mostly due to, again, being completely unnecessary and a bit of an [[Ethnic Scrappy]].
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* ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'':
** Maya, the [[Too Dumb to Live]] plague-creating "heroine" who was introduced to us in Season 2 became [[The Scrappy]] of the show in record time. Her entire lengthy story was a [[Trapped By Mountain Lions]] plot and had fans begging for her death at the hands of Sylar even before the two characters met. Here's a hint for the writers: If a character dies and is [[Death Is Cheap|brought back to life almost immediately afterwards]], and the fandom is ''angry'' that the character is still alive... you know you've got a Scrappy on your hands.
** Another Scrappy on the show would not so much be a character but multiple characters played by the same actress. These would be the multitude of Ali Larter clone characters. Once the first character ran her course fans were happy to see her character's storyline come to a close and Ali Larter to be done on ''Heroes'', but WAIT ''Heroes'' fans were introduced to a concept that no matter how many characters played by Ali Larter die, there could always be another one in hiding. In the promos for season 4 it is shown that Ali Larter's many characters have become a [[
** To a lesser degree, Mohinder fits this bill as well. While he's always been a relatively useless character - not because of his lack of powers but because of his amazing ability to consistently trust the wrong people - he truly became [[Too Dumb to Live]] in Season 2 when ({{spoiler|he joined The Company to act as a deep-cover operative and help bring it down from the inside and ''then'' turned traitor on Noah Bennet despite having seen countless examples - both in Season 1 and Season 2 - of The Company being hopelessly corrupt and self-serving.}})Worse, Season 3 has paired Mohinder and Maya, which almost everyone can agree is a match made in Hell. EVEN WORSE, Mohinder suddenly gains Spider-Man like abilities and an inexplicable compulsion to steal people and encase them in cocoons. Maya missed an opportunity to [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|pull herself out of the Scrappy heap]] when she found out about Mohinder's new "habit." She almost killed him with her ability but Mohinder ''somehow'' talked her out of it. [[What an Idiot!]]!
** Monica Dawson who appeared in the show's second season. Micah's cousin who was a Katrina victim with the power to imitate any movement she saw. Her storylines were considered some of the worst in the show's history and people are also upset that she lived while more popular characters died. She was written out after the season.
** Claire's flying boyfriend West was also not well liked.
** Basically Season 2 only introduced 2 well-liked characters: Adam and Elle who are both sympathetic characters who are both potential [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] characters. Of course both characters were killed but Heroes had a thing for killing well liked characters and keeping the Scrappys
** You be hard pressed to find anyone who likes Bob Bishop. What he did to Elle before the series alone is enough reason to hate him.
* Both Richie and Tessa got this treatment from a portion of the ''[[Highlander (TV)|Highlander]]'' fandom. It was a sort of [[Broken Base]] situation, with some fans liking them, but just as many giving them the Scrappy treatment.
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** Tritter. While House was his normal assy self in the clinic, tripping up a crippled man wasn't exactly the best way to get sympathy or likeability points with the audience. And let's not even get into his behaviour after the thermometer incident...
** Speaking of House, Thirteen certainly fits this by now. She started out as a [[Mary Sue]] already but her involvement in season five's [[Romantic Plot Tumor]] pushed her right into Scrappy territory.
** House himself to some. His [[Jerkass|jerkassness]] and [[Karma Houdini|karmic immunity]] [[Flanderization|gradually grew]] less [[Dude, Not Funny|amusing and more reprehensible]]. The writers seem aware of this and trying to correct this by highlighting his dependency issues and mental instability.
** Cameron. She was supposed to be a sort of [[Morality Pet]] for House, but instead she comes across merely as a whiny, stuck up, holier than thou hypocrite.
* ''[[Human Target]]'''s Ames. Basically, she's supposed to be a thief that can steal anything. Or at least that's what they introduced her as, oh, and she has no concept of fighting or weapons while working for a team that has two assassins and a retired cop. The most useful thing she did in season 2 was translate for Guerrero. The dumbest thing she's done was sneak a kid out to a party whose house was just attacked a few hours previous. And while that's stupid enough on it's own, she can't even protect him when he's nearly kidnapped. Had she been used sparingly, then it might've been okay. However, the writer's attempts to shoehorn her into most episodes without serving a real purpose only served to highlight how useless she really was.
* ''[[Jeopardy (TV)|Jeopardy]]'''s "Clue Crew", first introduced in 2001, has been this trope and a [[
* Kyosuke Kiriya from ''[[Kamen Rider Hibiki]]''. He was part of an unpopular [[Retool]] of the show and seemed to exist primarily to pursue a tiresome and one-sided rivalry with the likeable Asumu. His fate in fandom was sealed forever when, in the show's finale, {{spoiler|Kiriya becomes an Oni and Asumu does not - the production team later confirmed that they were both supposed to have become Oni, but it was ultimately decided that Asumu would not, and his suit was scrapped for parts to enhance Kiriya's.}} His actor, Yuichi Nakamura, later redeemed himself by going on to play the more popular Yuto in ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]''.
** ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze (TV)|Kamen Rider Fourze]]'' has three in the form of minor characters Yukina Takamura, Ran Kuroki and Misa Toriizaki. Yukina is disliked for being a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] who tries to stop Gentaro being a Kamen Rider and is not his previous love interest, the well-liked Nadeshiko from ''Movie Wars Megamax'' (with Yukina going as far as to ''steal'' the Fourze Driver and not give it back when Libra Zodiarts was about to kill her), Ran is unpopular because she was hostile and violent to almost everyone (''including'' Ohsugi-sensei, and even he didn't even deserve being flipped into the air), and so pushy towards her supposed best friend that he was driven to become a Zodiarts, to the point that some consider her [[Catch Phrase]] being, "I'll protect you Haru!". Lastly, Misa was pretty much hated for being a complete bitch to another character Norio Eguchi (who was also Cygnus Zodiarts, aka the reason Rumi created her special Ugly Ducklings Cult) and went as far as to ''force'' poor Norio to activate his switch while the other members of the Ugly Ducklings trap him down. Made even ''worse'' because Norio created a [[Split Personality]] when he activated the switch for the first time but Misa didn't care at all; once Cygnus was revealed, she got on her knees and acted like Cygnus's high priestess.
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** 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. {{spoiler|In the penultimate episode, Flocke kills her by slitting her throat quite violently, pleasing everyone who hated her.}}
** Kate could also qualify. Her constant swapping between Jack and Sawyer did her no favours whatsoever.
* Jenny Schecter in ''[[The L Word]]'', who comes off as the living incarnation of pretentious, snotty creative-writing characters. Just click around any site either dedicated to the show or sapphic-sticated ladies in general, and you're likely to see long anthems of loathing come up. It's difficult to tell whether she's a badly conceived [[Author Avatar]] or supposed to be purposely annoying, but either way, many fans hate her guts. As the show went on, she and her hideous excuse for writing skill got more and more screen time, turning this one into a bit of a [[
* Michael Ginsberg of [[Mad Men]].
* Seven on ''[[Married With Children]]'' became one of these quickly, just like good old [[Cousin Oliver]]. What made it especially galling was how Peg actually tried to be a responsible mother to the little snot by giving him food, instead of the lazy, self-centered [[Jerkass]] the fans all knew and loved.
* ''[[Merlin (TV)|Merlin]]'':
** Agravaine ended up being this, especially as he was already something of a [[Replacement Scrappy]] to King Uther ''and'' a [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] to Morgana (being the smirky new [[The Mole|Mole]] within Camelot's walls). It didn't start out that way; he was initially presented as a cunning, enigmatic villain, and the audience took it on faith that the writers would eventually explain his motivation and his long-term plans for Morgana and Arthur (his quasi-niece and nephew, respectively). Except...they didn't. Although a '''huge''' [[Character Focus|amount of screen-time]] was spent on this character, there was [[Hidden Agenda Villain|never any clear understanding of who he was or why he allied himself with Morgana]]<ref>A deleted scene suggested that he was in love with Morgana, though this was never clarified in the actual show, and the fact that there was no background on how they met or why he was so devoted to a woman that treated him like dirt (over his own nephew who accorded him respect and a powerful position in Camelot) only opened up more questions concerning what the heck he was trying to achieve</ref> and he was [[Dropped a Bridge On Him|unceremoniously killed off]] without really achieving anything or affecting the long-term [[Story Arc]] in any way.
** Furthermore, his presence turned Arthur into [[What an Idiot!|an idiot]] who took his advice despite his [[Obviously Evil|obvious role as a villain]], basing his trust on the fact that Agravaine was his uncle that he had known all his life, even though he'd [[Remember the New Guy|never been seen or mentioned before series four]]. It was grating to see Arthur take consistently bad advice from an obvious creep over that of Merlin and Guinevere, his best friend and future wife.
** Tristan and Isolde weren't very popular either, on account of the former being a [[Jerkass]], the latter being a [[Faux Action Girl]], and the both of them being fairly pointless. They had nothing whatsoever to do with the legendary [[Tristan and Iseult]] and took up valuable screentime in the series four finale that could have been better spent on characters the audience actually ''knew''. However, since they were only around for two episodes, they were gone before they could rile the audience into anything beyond mild apathy.
* Guido from ''[[My Parents Are Aliens]]'' who was introduced in Series 8 (the last series, perhaps not surprisingly).
* Marley And Lindsay on ''[[The New Adventures of Old Christine]]'' they're [[Rich Bitches]] who seemingly have no purpose other then to make jokes about how ignorant and "poor" Christine is, they're not the least bit funny, they're just incredibly irritating.
* Kirk DeVane on ''[[Newhart]]'' was a painfully unfunny [[Jerkass]] for the show's first 2 seasons. Midway through the second season, the writers desperately tried to [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|save him]] by giving him a sweet, likeable girlfriiend. It only worked part way. She herself was quite likeable and appealing, but it was impossible to understand [[What Does She See in Him?|what the Hell she saw in Kirk.]] Fortunately, around the same time, a new, hilarious [[Jerkass]], Michael Harris, made his debut on the show. At the start of the third season, Kirk and his new wife were [[Put On a Bus]], Michael [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|took his place on the show]], and ''Newhart'' [[Growing the Beard|grew the beard.]]
* Gina Russo from ''[[Nip Tuck]]''. She started as a minor foil for [[Chick Magnet|Christian Troy]] when he began attending [[Tropaholics Anonymous|SA Meetings]], but she quickly became a semi-regular, showing up at the most inopportune times to cause Christian and Sean grief, such as forcing Christian to wait on her hand and foot as she prepared to give birth to a baby she thought was his ([[Chocolate Baby|It wasn't]])). She was annoying, verbally abusive ("asshole" being her favorite insult,) mildly psychotic, and manipulative, and thanks to Ryan Murphy's inability to let plots die, she [[Yo Yo Plot Point|kept coming back.]]
* Nikki from ''[[Numb3rs]]''. She's got a 4 year degree from the streets of Compton, yo!
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* ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]'':
** It had even less popular Rangers (save for Mack, Ronny, and Tyzonn). Of all the rangers, Dax seems to sit on top of the list.
** Will has become a Scrappy these days, mostly due to his actor being seen as an [[Small Name, Big Ego|egotistical]] [[Jerkass]] in the eyes of a significant portion of the fandom. And for stealing a banner in the first Power Morphicon -- which was supposed to be auctioned off for charity!
** Norg is also seen as a Scrappy by the majority of the fanbase, but for a [[Periphery Hatedom|different reason]].
* ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'' has Sam, the Omega Ranger, because he was just a ball of light and we really don't know anything about him. And when he finally appeared out of costume for all of three seconds -- in the ''finale'', no less -- it was seen as a huge insult to the fanbase.
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** Justin, the quintessential example of a [[Ascended Fanboy|kid's dream]] gone horribly, horribly wrong.
** Alpha 6, also of ''Turbo'', could qualify. While Alpha 5 was dorky-but-lovable, Alpha 6 was an attempt to make Alpha cool by using [[Jive Turkey|forced-hip slang]] ("Yo, Rangers!"). It's <s>likely</s> no coincidence that as ''Turbo'' ended, he was damaged, and his voice chip needed to be [[The Other Darrin|replaced with one of Alpha 5's]].
** Dimitria completed the trifecta for the series. Her insistence on asking questions really grinded on fans' nerves. Plus, [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|she's just no Zordon]].
** Divatox is this due to the fact she replaced The Machine Empire and whining all the time when she loses. She also likes to set explosions all over the place and ALWAYS setting them for an hour, enough time for the Rangers to get rid of them! She is also seen as Rita-lite most of the time!
** Tommy Oliver has a bit of a hatedom. This appears to be in hindsight, though, since if you ask anybody who grew up in [[The Nineties]] their favorite Power Ranger, only those who still watch the show will most likely not say Tommy. Those who insist he is [[The Scrappy]] say so for all the usual reasons: [[
* ''[[Power Rangers Wild Force]]'':
** Cole, the [[Rookie Red Ranger]] who stole the team from Taylor, and became instantly the leader for no reason. He would constantly talk about how he could read a beings "heart," which didn't help the fact that many fans think ''Wild Force'' was too preachy.
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* Alternate Kochanski from Series VII of ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' is one of these. For starters, she [[Replacement Scrappy|replaced Rimmer]], second, she [[The Other Darrin|was played by a different actress]] than the original Kochanski, and third, while the original Kochanski seemed to be a fun, down-to-earth gal who was perfect for Lister (if still sufficiently out of his league to make his initially unrequited pining for her realistic), the new Kochanski was a cold, stuck-up snob whom it was difficult to see an easy-going slob like Lister being attracted to.
* ''BBC's'' ''[[Robin Hood (TV)|Robin Hood]]'':
** Kate was brought into the show in order to replace Maid Marian {{spoiler|(killed at the end of season two)}}. It's astonishing that nobody on the writing staff realized that trying to replace an iconic [[Love Interest]] with an [[Original Character]] was a ''terrible'' idea, and that it would have taken a screenwriting ''miracle'' to pull it off. Already pegged as a [[Replacement Scrappy]] to a beloved central character, [[It Got Worse]] when Kate was introduced as a [[Clingy Jealous Girl|Clingy Jealous]] [[Jerkass Sue|Jerkass]], [[Faux Action Girl|Faux Action]] [[The Load|Load]] and [[Too Dumb to Live]] [[Damsel Scrappy|Damsel]]. Not only an egregious [[Canon Foreigner]] into the mythos of [[Robin Hood]], [[Trapped By Mountain Lions|completely irrelevant]] to the [[Story Arc]], and the [[Designated Victim]] that [[Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like|complained every time someone rescued her from her own stupidity]], the real problem stemmed from the fact that she was ''completely and utterly'' '''useless'''. Her pre-outlaw occupation was to sell hideous pots to a village that was undoubtedly more concerned about where their next meal was coming from, her attempts to “save” her brother from enforced conscription [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|lead directly to his death]], and she never did anything to justify her place amongst the outlaws (at best she stood and watched, [[The Millstone|at worst she got captured and criticised them on how they handled her rescue]]). Everything that could go wrong, ''did'' go wrong with the writing of this character, to the point where you wonder if it was done on purpose.
** Tuck wasn't that popular either. Though he had least had the advantage over Kate of actually ''being'' in the legends upon which the show was based, it was abundantly clear that the writers introduced him without really knowing what they planned to do with him. After the first episode of the third series (in which he convinces Robin to return to the fight against injustice) he really doesn't do anything substantial. It might not have been so bad except that the writers would often focus on Kate and Tuck at the expense of the other outlaws (Much, Allan, John) who had been around since the beginning of the show and were now being [[
* [[Fat Bastard|Alberto]] [[Jerkass|Vermicelli]] from the Belgian kiddie show ''[[Series/Samson And Gert|Samson And Gert]]'', a very popular show in Belgium (and the Netherlands partially). The blame is on the creators themselves for actually Flanderizing the character. In the very first seasons (1990-1993), Alberto was simply a [[Small Name, Big Ego|Ted Baxter]]-looking barber-opera singer who only liked to [[Big Eater|eat very much]], yet he never hurt anyone with it. In fact, he even helped the others many times. But then came the Flanderization in 1994, which ran all the way until the series' end in 2005. He became an very dumb (if not retarded) [[Adult Child]] Eric Cartman-like [[Jerkass]] with almost no respect for his friends, or other civilians from the same fictional town. His [[Small Name, Big Ego]] became over the top and now he thinks he is God, demanding everything he wants, and then rants like a child if the others refuse to do it. His Big Eating also became exgarrating, he constantly talks about food, even during a discussion to help one of the characters who has problems (a typical plot in the show). Many episodes shows him plotting jerkish schemes to snatch food from others. Some episodes even portrays him as a complete Jerkass who delights in causing misschief and madness and bullying people; and on top of that [[Karma Houdini|he gets away with most of it]], mostly because the others just stupidly let him go. It's very hard to think of why the titular characters and the other friends are still friends of him while he's abusing them, or the creators/writers didn't put him on a bus yet, or at least have the main cast break up with him and demote him to a recurring villain, so he still would be in the show.
** From the same show: [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|The Minister's]] [[No Name Given|Assistant/Delegate]] (in original Dutch he's called "de afgevaardigde van de minister"), an goverment inspector checking out status in the fictional town. He used to be a normal, neutral recurring character, but after too many actors left the show, the writers (rather than creating new characters or hiring other Darrins) Flanderized into a main character for the last five seasons. He also became the [[
** Unlike the two above example (who got to stick around), Frieda, a character so despised, the writers had to write her out after only three seasons.
* On ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', Riley has attained this status in almost ''record'' time. The fandom does ''not'' like her, especially the perception that she [[Die for Our Ship|gets in the way]] of the popular John/Cameron [[Shipping|ship]].
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** Also Abby Cadabby the Fairy, mainly for replacing Prairie Dawn as the main female.
** Interestingly, Zoe is seen as this ''by the people who made the show'', as she was almost engineered to be marketable to young girls in a way that the other characters were not. Even Abby was created more organically (like the other characters on the show), and so is generally more liked by the crew.
* Lana Lang from ''[[Smallville]]''. Many people who watch the show also consider her a [[
* ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' had Ezri Dax, the seventh season's [[Replacement Scrappy]], who filled in after Jadzia was killed.
* ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'': Dr. Pulaski:
** She replaced Wesley's mother as the ship's doctor for a single season before fan outcry got them to bring Dr. Crusher back. Not only was she a [[Replacement Scrappy]], but the writers made a major miscalculation in their attempt to make her a [[Distaff Counterpart]] of [[The McCoy|Dr. McCoy]] from the original series. Since McCoy's arguments with Spock were such a fan favorite aspect of the character, the writers tried to duplicate it by having Pulaski take a dislike to [[The Spock|Data]] and toss him similar insults about being so logical all the time. Unfortunately, unlike Spock, Data couldn't even really understand that he was being insulted and never responded in kind, so Pulaski came off as a bully who kept picking on Data because he couldn't fight back.
** Further, it's okay for McCoy to insult Spock because Vulcans have a high amount of political power and nobody would cite Spock's being a Vulcan as a reason to remove him from command. Data on the other hand goes through ''genuine'' prejudice over his status as an android, with officers questioning if Data can do things like make command decisions or care for small children. At the time in which Pulaski was on the ship, Data wasn't even being recognized as a sentient being, and thus had none of the rights that would entail. Keeping all this in mind, Pulaski's slamming of Data's cold logic making him inferior to humans just makes her look like a bigot.
** [[
** Not even getting into the political status/power argument, Vulcans are ''capable'' of emotions, though they control/suppress them, and can be a bit haughty about it. ''Data,'' however, was ''physically incapable of feeling emotion'', and not only didn't have any issue with others feeling emotion, often wished that he ''could'' experience it himself. So Pulaski was basically ''tormenting a disabled person for her own amusement.'' Maybe she should have been on [[Villain Protagonist|Voyager]].
** And that's just her treatment of Data; she constantly interrupted everyone else, ''including'' the captain of the ship, threw her opinions out without thinking of the consequences, practically bullies the crew into doing what she wants, even at the risk to herself, them, and/or the ship...let's just say that if she isn't related to Janeway, in some capacity, it would be a profound shock.
** A major problem with her portrayal was that the writers seemed to think that all you needed to make a TNG version of Dr. McCoy was to make the character abrasive. They missed the fact that Bones was also a very close friend of Kirk and Spock, was loved and respected by the entire crew, and had served with them for years. In other words, he'd ''earned'' the right to occasionally act like a jerk. No one would ever question his loyalty or respect for the crew, even if he was curt with them much of the time. Whereas Pulaski, as the newest member of the TNG crew, came off as an arrogant newcomer who had never proven herself yet expected others to instantly think the world of her.
** And, of course, there's Wesley Crusher. See the [[
* ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]'':
** Neelix.
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** Seven of Nine, for the usual [[Die for Our Ship]] reasons and for being [[Ms. Fanservice]].
** Chakotay has this among American Indian Trekkies for [[Ethnic Scrappy]] [[Magical Native American|reasons]].
** The entire Kazon species basically constituted one of these on the first two seasons of ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]''; while nearly every other alien species on [[Star Trek]] gets some measure of character development, the Kazon were ''never'' depicted as anything other than [[Card
* ''[[Supernatural]]'':
** Here's a fun exercise: Go to a forum and casually mention that [[Rich Bitch|Bela]] may not be so bad. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity Will Ensue]].
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* Mandy in ''[[The West Wing]]''. [[Brother Chuck|She disappeared without a trace from Season 2 onward]]. A lot of Mandy's Scrappiness was her inability to fit in with the compassionate, quirky, slightly bumbling, bleeding-heart, idealistic senior staff. In her first appearance, she ran a red light while talking on a cellphone, then continued to talk on the cell phone as a cop pulled her over and tried to ask her questions. Unlike most TV shows, every single main character on The West Wing was a member of one single [[Nakama|unified, close-knit team]], and Mandy, being the only exception and not a very important one at that, was left floating.
* Joxer from ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', at least between seasons 2 and 4 for hogging screentime. When the fans finally started to tolerate him around season 5, the writers killed him off.
* Despite being the main reviwers on the show, [[X Play|Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb]] could qualify. Post-[[Seasonal Rot]], they suffered from massive [[Flanderization]] that made them seem to worship Microsoft, no matter how bad their games are, as well as massive backlash from the [[He Panned It, Now He Sucks]] train of thought (though to be fair, many of these are fueled by the fact that they have massive [[Bias Steamroller]] going in regards to certain genres of games, and in some cases, [[Did Not Do the Research]]).
** Ever since the G4/Tech TV merger, '''everyone''' seems to have become a scrappy. The exceptions seem to be Kevin Pereira (who [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|saved himself]] by becoming a bit of a [[Large Ham]] and [[Shown Their Work|actually knowing his stuff]]), [[Genki Girl|Alison]] [[The Cutie|Haislip]], Blair Butler (who has shown that she really is [[One of Us]]) and [[Foreign Fanservice|Leyla Kayleigh]].
** No discussion of G4 TV scrappies is complete without Olivia Munn, who was clearly hired as [[Ms. Fanservice|eye-candy]] all the while she had little to no geeky knowledge.
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