The Scrappy/Live-Action TV: Difference between revisions

*** 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.

* While there are probably several characters in ''[[Babylon 5]]'' that are considered a Scrappy by some, the one who almost certainly falls into this trope is Byron. Introduced in the 5th season, which many fans consider]] to be [[Dork Age|inferior to the other four]], Byron is a rogue telepath {{spoiler|and former Psi-Cop}} who dreams of founding a colony of telepaths. He's broody, introspective, a devout pacifist, and managed to rub the fans in entirely the wrong way. He and his telepaths are just plain creepy, the way they dress like Anne Rice characters and never speak (one character [[Lampshades]] this by saying they look like a flock of crows). He also comes dangerously close at times to being a [[Mary Sue|Marty Stu]]. Most fans prefer to pretend that his brief character arc never occurred.