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== Super Mario Bros. ==

* Ukiki in ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario 64]]''. On top of being a gigantic hindrance to the player in the Tall Tall Mountains, he steals your hats with annoyingly cute dialogue and he's near-impossible to catch. Which makes it all the more satisfying to roast him using Yoshi's fire flower in the DS version.

* Waluigi gets this, main reason seeming to be he has...nothing to do with anything really.

* Waluigi gets this, main reason seeming to be he has... nothing to do with anything really.

** Waluigi might actually be coming out of the Scrappy heap because of that Youtube video, Fangame and [[Brawl in the Family]]. It helps that he's started to develop a concrete personality besides "Hates Luigi" (Being a deranged trickster with hints of classiness.)

* A less extreme example, but Neil in ''Mario Golf Advance Tour''. From his irritating, sarcastic-sounding "whoops!" when he gets a Bogey to his hideous character design that looks like Ash Ketchum's retarded cousin, could they have made a less appealing player character? At least at the very beginning, the game gives you the option to play as the much less annoying Ella instead.

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* Starlow from ''[[Mario & Luigi]]'' is often hated because she usually gets credit for what Mario and Luigi do, she's an annoying [[Exposition Fairy]], and she is very cruel to Luigi for no real reason. Her [[Odd Friendship]] with Bowser redeems her for some... only to catapult her back into this territory in later appearances where they aren't working together.

* Baby Mario from ''[[Yoshi's Island]]'' gets a lot of hate. Not only is he gaming's biggest star reduced to a worthless, baby parody of himself, but he also irks the hell out of people with his obnoxious crying. ''And'' the whole game is a giant [[Escort Mission]]! It probably surprised nobody when [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nfigSWuh7o a glitch allowing Yoshi to eat him was discovered], [[And There Was Much Rejoicing]].

** Baby Mario is bad enough, but ''[[Yoshi's Island]] DS'' decided to add even '''more''' baby versions of famous Nintendo characters including [[Donkey Kong]], Bowser (Though he was in the original Yoshi's Island as the final boss), and Wario. However, '''none''' of them can compare to the utter mind-numbing annoyance that is Baby Princess Peach. Why? Because she is utterly useless. Her special (and that's putting it VERY loosely) ability is that she can float using the wind. Problem is that you're more likely to end up crashing headfirst into enemies or end up somehow falling to the ground because she sometimes DOESN'T catch the wind to float.

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* Starlow from ''[[Mario & Luigi]]'' is often hated because she ~~often~~ gets credit for what Mario and Luigi do, she's an annoying [[Exposition Fairy]], and she is very cruel to Luigi for no real reason.

* Bowser Jr. A [[Replacement Scrappy]] for a whole villain team, he already gets a great deal of hatedom by replacing the seven most popular non Bowser villains in the older games, but alone he's about as hated. Due to his non personality, design nearly identical to a smaller version of Bowser (or in Partners in Time, identical to Baby Bowser) and the fact he's fought as a recurring boss every single tower in [[New Super Mario Bros.]], or about ten times with just two attack patterns. Some fans did start warming up to him when he was finally shown with his siblings though.

* Baby characters in such games. Baby Mario and Luigi are usually seen as fine when not crying, Baby Peach is seen as okay outside of Mario and Luigi Partners in Time, and Baby Daisy is pretty much seen as spinoff character filler and an undeserved use of a character slot. It really doesn't help that Baby Daisy's [[Tomboy Princess|adult]] [[Genki Girl|self]] (mentioned below) isn't exactly a character held in high regard, either. You thought one Daisy was nerve-wracking? Try dealing with two of them.

** Baby Daisy is bad enough, but Baby Rosalina is a true example of hitting the bottom of the barrel. She's yet ''another'' baby character introduced solely to pad out the roster of spinoff games, and fans who aren't opposed to playing as a young Rosalina hate that they can't play as her cute, tragic child-self from ''Galaxy'''s storybook.

* [[Damsel in Distress|Princess Peach]] ~~has increasingly become~~ a very hated [[Damsel Scrappy]] due to her [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] ditzy personality and annoyingly high-pitched voice. ~~There could be some redemption for Peach, though,~~ thanks to [[Super Princess Peach~~|her own game~~]] and ~~more active roles in~~ the [[RPG]]s, ~~for~~ ~~instance~~.

* [[Damsel in Distress|Princess Peach]] became a very hated [[Damsel Scrappy]] during the early 2000's due to her [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] ditzy personality and annoyingly high-pitched voice. But thanks to games like [[Super Princess Peach]] and the [[RPG]]s giving her more of an involved role, she was eventually [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]].

** There's even an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8os04ijHETY entire song about how annoying she can be.]

** [[The Runaway Guys]] believe Peach is "evil" due to her tendency to steal/hog coins in the [[Mario Party]] games to the point where they almost always team up against her.

* [[You Go, Girl!|Princess Daisy]] is rather divisive, but the part of the fanbase that hates her hates her hard, due to having a voice that's equally as obnoxious as Peach's, and her Flanderization of the [[Genki Girl]] trope that turns her into a nerve-grating twit. Also similar to the above princess, Daisy has had two equally jarring past portrayals: the generic [[Damsel in Distress]] in ''[[Super Mario Land]]'', and the tomboyish yet coy and klutzy woman in the original ''Mario Tennis''. Unlike the Princess Peach example above, however, Daisy has had no notable scrappy-rescuing appearances (or even a reference) outside of the series' party, racing and sports titles. Because of this, any defining character (if any) Daisy has is [[Satellite Character|hanging around with other characters]] like Peach and Luigi. Daisy is perhaps the closest we'll ever get to a female Waluigi.

** Anyone who played ''[[Mario Kart|Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]]'' will cringe and want to wring Daisy's neck by this simple [[Memetic Mutation]]: HI, I'M DAISY!

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* TEC is this for people who were [[Squick|disgusted]] by [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?|the subplot]] he had with Peach in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''.

* How is [[Super Paper Mario|Luvbi]] not mentioned here? She's practically a Scrappy-type. The Japanese version has her even speaking in a childish tone!

* Kersti from ''[[Paper Mario Sticker Star]]'' is a rude and obnoxious little sticker fairy who introduces herself by yelling at Mario and bossing him around, blaming him for the destruction Bowser caused and refusing to hear his side of the story. That led to her getting off on the wrong foot with players right out the gate, and her utter ''uselessness'' as an [[Exposition Fairy]] didn't exactly improve their perception of her.

** Luvbi was probably more of a Scrappy in-universe than out of it. {{spoiler|Her [[Alas, Poor Scrappy|heart-wrenching fate]]}} also seems to save her from further hate.

* ''[[Mario Kart 8]]'' has a very divisive roster. Partly because it's bloated with Koopas and babies that crowd out old fan favorites, but also because of these characters:

* Twink in [[Paper Mario]] is hated for being pretty annoying, and interrupting the game at inconvenient points.

** Pink Gold Peach. Like with Baby Rosalina and Baby Daisy, she's pointless roster filler. But she's ''even lazier'' than those two because she's a metallic [[Palette Swap]] of Peach instead of a baby with a character model that required ''some'' effort to be put into it. Her name also gets plenty of mockery because it's incredibly awkward and the embodiment of laziness on Nintendo's part, leading to jokes about potential new characters in the series such as Yellow Bronze Baby Donkey Kong and Green Platinum Fire Dr. Luigi.

* Flurrie in [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]] is universally disliked, due to her odd and creepy design.

** Tanooki Mario and Cat Peach. They're DLC characters who are responsible for the roster having ''four'' Marios and Peaches, and a slap in the face to fans who hate that they have to spend money on ''these'' characters to get access to Link and the new cups.

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** TEC is ~~also~~ this for people who were [[Squick|disgusted]] [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?|by the subplot he had with Peach in ~~that~~ ~~game.~~]]

** Gold Mario. He gets this a bit less since he's an alternate skin to Metal Mario who lacks his own slot, but it doesn't change the fact that as of ''Deluxe'', ''Mario Kart 8'' now has ''five'' playable Marios. He's also the only secret character, making him feel like an underwhelming reward for those who put in the time and effort to unlock him.

* The spirit of the Dream Stone from ''[[Mario and Luigi Dream Team]]'' is an obnoxious, abrasive asshole that does everything in its power to be as unhelpful as possible when Mario, Luigi, and Prince Dreambert try to consult it. Even though Bowser and Antasma plan to use its physical form to cause trouble, it jeers at and insults the heroes while forcing them to chase it all around Dreamy Dozing Sands. And when it's cornered, it decides to ''kill'' them by turning into a massive robot. Thankfully, [[Catharsis Factor|you get to beat the tar out of it during the boss battle that follows]].

== Tales Series ==