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* ''[[Angel]]'':
** Wesley started out like this on , but [[Character Development|he got better]]. Part of it was his replacing of Doyle, who was popular for the Irish accent and likable personality, only to be kill in the 9th episode "Hero" to ensure the show has an [[Anyone Can Die]] reputation.
*** That was actually Real Life Writes The Plot -- the actor who portrayed Doyle was revealed to have a drug addiction problem, and had to be let go. Wesley was an improvised replacement, and his catching on and becoming a mainstay of the show was in nobody's plan.
*** Ironically, Wesley's ''continued existence'' is an aversion of this trope -- he was originally planned to die several episodes into his tenure on season 3 of Buffy, but fans actually liked seeing him be the {{Chew Toy}} so the show writers kept him around to pratfall some more. So he only lived long enough to become a Scrappy because he wasn't originally a Scrappy, and then he grew out of being a Scrappy again in the exact opposite direction.
** Connor, during the fourth season of ''[[Angel]]''. Apart from actually behaving remarkably like Scrappy-Doo in battle, Connor was generally despised by fans for making Angel unhappy ([[Wangst|moreso]]). His personality boiled down to "hateful" and "gullible", and refused to see Angel as a good person and didn't question Cordelia's change in personality, culminating in a scene where he {{spoiler|helps Evil Cordelia murder an innocent girl, even after his dead mother told him not to.}} Connor was not universally hated, though, and his popularity has increased significantly since the publication of the Joss-blessed "Angel: After the Fall" comic, in which he [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|straightens up a lot.]]
* Any replacement for Mr. Grainger in ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'', although fan opinions differ as to exactly when the replacement characters became intolerable. Few would argue that the wooden and taciturn Mr. Grossman was anything but horrible. There's no question over Old Mr. Grace, though.
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