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There are popular characters that have fandoms. But sometimes, there is a character who instead has a hatedom. We call this guy The Scrappy: a character that the audience hates to see. It's not enough that the character be hated, however. For any character to truly solidify themselves as a Scrappy in the eyes of the audience, all of the following criteria have to be met. A Scrappy has to be: Unintentionally hated by the audience: If this character is supposed to be hated due to being a villain or Jerkass, and their cruel actions are treated as such by the narrative, that's a Hate Sink. They can be well-received by adding to the enjoyability of the work, if only for the satisfaction of them getting karma.ExamplesVillains such as Ramsay Bolton, Dolores Umbridge and Micah Bell are not generally thought of as detracting from the works in which they appear, and were supposed to be horribly loathsome people that the audience would despise. Thus they do not qualify as Scrappies. Similarly, Chica's Magic Rainbow is an extremely obnoxious jerk that did detract from her work, but as she's written to be annoying and mean on purpose, she doesn’t qualify either. While such characters can overlap with The Scrappy, they have to be hated for different reasons than intended that detract from the work's enjoyability.ExampleBendy was meant to be a Hate Sink due to his obnoxious actions. However, due to becoming a Karma Houdini, he ended up being hated for reasons other than the creators intended, to the point they publicly apologized for it and wrote Bendy out of the show afterwards. A character's story should be concluded, seeing if they were supposed to be hated or get due karma, before judging them as a Scrappy or not. Hated by the majority of the audience: If they have about as many fans as detractors, even if the latter are more obvious, that's a Base-Breaking Character.ExampleMuffin Heeler has a few haters due to being a Bratty Half-Pint, but she has just as many fans due to her famous quotes, so she doesn't count. Examples of Americans Hate Tingle and Germans Love David Hasselhoff similarly don't count, as they have fans somewhere. ExampleHiyoko Saionji is incredibly hated by English-speaking fans due to being a cruel bully whose actions are too mean-spirited to be entertaining, to the point that someone only familiar with that part of the fandom could easily assume she's an example, but she's well-liked in the franchise's native Japan, which disqualifies her. Someone not personally liking a character is not this (unless it's a Show Within a Show example). For a character to truly be considered a Scrappy, even the Silent Majority has to dislike this character. A single hated character: The Scrappy, as an Audience Reaction, only applies to individual characters. Hated works, products, or real people do not count. Groups don't count either as they are not characters, and each character could vary in individual popularity (unless said group is small enough that all of its members can feasibly be judged Scrappies on their own). Example The Minions seem to be quite hated for being annoying comic relief characters who are constantly shoehorned into everything related to Illumination, but since they are an entire race of beings, they cannot be considered Scrappies because it isn’t fair to judge every single one of them. Things like vehicles, weapons, or locations aren't characters either, so they cannot be Scrappies unless they're portrayed as sentient and have some characterization.ExampleNeopia Central has a reputation for being boring among players, due to having neither a theme like the other places nor many games. However, it is a place, not a character, and therefore doesn't count.[[/note]] Hated for narrative reasons: They're hated for the perception of being poorly written or detracting from the narrative. If the character is hated for gameplay reasons as opposed to narrative or character writing, that's a High-Tier Scrappy or Low-Tier Letdown (if they're a playable character), That One Boss or Goddamned Boss (if they're an enemy), or other Audience Reactions such as Scrappy Mechanic or That One Sidequest. [[labelnote:Example]] Canary Mary is widely reviled by the fandom, but most of the hate is due to the unfair difficulty of her races rather than how she is written, so she doesn't qualify as a Scrappy. However, if the character is hated for story and gameplay reasons, then they’re still fair game.ExampleAlthough Lorithia is hated for being That One Boss, players also hate her for being a bland and ineffective villain, so she still counts. If the character is hated because people hate the actor portraying the character, that's X-Pac Heat. Hated by the fans of the work: They have to be hated by people who unironically enjoy the work otherwise. Characters hated by those who dislike the work to begin with, or whom the work wasn't meant to appeal to don't count.ExamplesBarney and Caillou are definitely still hated, but the works they hail from are clearly meant for a different audience, and aren't hated by those young enough to enjoy those works; thus, they cannot be considered Scrappies. Hi-5 is widely hated for being The Millstone and having selfish motivations, but the movie he's from is generally considered horrible as a whole, so he's just another reason to hate it rather than a low point in an otherwise good movie, disqualifying him from Scrappy status. Velma is infamously hated for being a Designated Hero, but those who hate her hate the entire show to begin with, disqualifying her and the others from being a Scrappy. Consistently hated: If an otherwise well-received character does something objectionable that's temporary or minor compared to their liked portrayals, or is likable depending on who's writing them, they normally have enough fans not to count as Scrappies. Example Patrick Star has been incredibly hated due to his stupidity and/or Jerkass behaviours being the causes of several of the show's most hated episodes, but there have been plenty of moments that make people think that he’s the show’s best character. Thus, he cannot be considered a Scrappy. Not all Scrappies are doomed to their status. If the writers notice what's happening, they may change the character in order to make sure they are no longer hated, give them a tragic death scene, simply send them away, turn them into a villain in a reboot or adaptation and have the more popular characters beat them up, or at the very least show that the other characters are as annoyed by them as the fans are. In a few rare cases, a Scrappy will be replaced with a Replacement Scrappy; in this case, fans may be so irritated by the new character that they will retroactively find virtues to the old Scrappy. This is an Audience Reaction, more based on the fandom than the character itself. The visceral response to The Scrappy can baffle other fans who don't take the character as seriously, or even sympathize with him or her. As a result, dear reader, tread carefully: fans aren't necessarily always right. The catharsis from violently cutting into a character with a grating voice or an irritating tic may be cathartic for some, and extremely disturbing for others. This is a place to document a phenomenon, not to argue a character's merits, lack thereof, or vent. Please only post examples of the fandom hating a character; posting Personal Scrappies could get messy, especially if the Scrappy is in at the center of a Fandom Rivalry. Die for Our Ship entries should also be placed on that page only, though someone could be a Scrappy because of that reason. If the majority of the characters are scrappies (especially the main characters) then expect the audience to utter the Eight Deadly Words. Contrast Ensemble Dark Horse (an unexpectedly popular (usually minor or secondary) character) and Unpopular Popular Character (a character hated or disliked In-Universe but loved by the fandom), compare Creator's Pet (a character loved In-Universe but hated or disliked by the fandom), and compare and contrast Base-Breaking Character (where one part of the fandom thinks a character is the Scrappy but at least a sizable chunk like them). A protagonist who becomes unpopular despite the author's intentions is Ron the Death Eater, which is an example of Misaimed Fandom. If the Scrappy dies or suffers in some painful way where the audience actually starts to sympathize with the character, then it becomes Alas, Poor Scrappy. Not to be confused with Cute Bruiser which is the original meaning of the word scrappy. No Real Life Examples, Please! The real world isn’t a story with characters that could potentially make it worse. We also ask that you wait 6 months after a character is introduced or becomes hated before adding a character as an entry, to cut down on kneejerk reactions. As this trope applies to the character, not the performer, Reality Show contestants are a special case. Many of these shows deliberately mix reality with fiction, creating a narrative and presenting contestants as characters. However, as the contestants have a real life outside the show, audience reactions are also influenced by factors outside the work, such as social media and news stories. As a consequence, contestants must only be listed as a Scrappy if that status is acknowledged within the work itself - and even then, they still need to meet all of the criteria mentioned above. Although this applies to individual characters, as a YMMV item, it should not be listed on character pages. This seems counterintuitive, but character pages are meant to list tropes audience members can see in the work in question, not fan opinion expressed outside of the work. noreallife |
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While many of the NPC characters from Gaia Online will always have Scrappy status among some users because of Ship-to-Ship Combat, one of the universally loathed characters is Diedrich, a sapient, talking grunny. Apart from his rather annoying and Sickeningly Sweet personality, he's disliked for being a Creator's Pet and Spotlight-Stealing Squad that appears far too frequently in big roles during events. Many haters agree he would be a likable enough character if he came in smaller doses, though. | |
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Samuel Haight from Old World of Darkness. His original concept (kinfolk who wanted to kill werewolves to become one himself) wasn't too bad, but then more adventures were written with him and he ended up getting powers from all the major gamelines (Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Changeling) with Paradox immunity and the ability to Villain: Exit, Stage Left. GMs were encouraged to always let him escape at the end. Eventually, the writers caught on and he was killed by a Paradox blast, and his soul was forged into an ashtray in the Underworld. | |
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BC from Eiga Sentai Scanranger, for being painfully unfunny and making multiple bad situations much worse. | |
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Barry from Curtis. The author clearly intended his antics to just be normal kid-brother grade asshattery, but they're usually incredibly mean-spirited and deliberately designed to provoke Curtis, so that Barry can then sob to his mother that big mean ol' Curtis is trying to hit him for no reason at all, whereupon she will give Curtis chores to do for trying to hit his sweet, innocent brother, and Barry ice cream for being a Manipulative Bastard. Diane lacks the pattern recognition to notice that Curtis always has a very detailed description of the transgressions she doesn't believe Barry committed. | |
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Productions of The Merchant of Venice have to be very careful when it comes to how they present Portia due to the Values Dissonance making a lot of her actions age horribly. Modern interpretations view her as something of an Alpha Bitch - especially with her unfortunate line about not wanting to marry the Prince of Morocco because of his skin colour. And once she does marry Bassanio, she tricks him into giving up his ring and tries to paint it as him being unfaithful. | |
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For Better or for Worse: Anthony back together with Elizabeth after years of him mooning after her while married to another woman and his outrageously inappropriate behavior during the Going After, and then ending the strip with their wedding. Words cannot describe how much these things (among other aspects of his character) made the comic's readerbase despise him even more than they did before then. How bad is the hate for Anthony, you might ask: Eric blatantly cheated on Elizabeth multiple times while they were living together and was completely smarmy and unapologetic after they broke up; when she went to pick up the last of her things from his place, he acted like he should be forgiving her for the failed relationship. And even still, it seems most of the fans would have rather seen her get back with Eric than with Anthony. | |
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Baby Blues: Of the five main family members, Zoe is the most disliked for her bullying Hammie (and sometimes teaching Wren to do the same), and for frequently acting like a whiny tattletale. | |
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The "Decommissioned" objects of the SCP Foundation, most of which were blatant Self Inserts and Wish-Fulfillment fantasies right out of a bad Fan Fic. They were so reviled by Foundation staff that most of them had their own Decommissioning log, where they were destroyed in the most over-the-top way just to rub it in. Sadly replaced by the Deletion thread in the forum, which isn't nearly so funny; some writers started deliberately aiming for bottom-tier trash SCP objects for the Trolling value and get more Decomissioning stories, defeating the entire point of quality control. | |
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Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: Of all the characters in the story who were meant to be hated or accidentally became unlikeable, no one is as hated as Parker Cerise. While he started as a fairly typically divisive character who had his defenders and detractors, he truly fell into the pool of the hated during the Cyan Desert Arc and especially afterwards where his act of villainy and especially how he was handled after that left him a character that many saw as lacking remorse, subject to needless soft-handedness and shilling, and otherwise the one villainous character in the story to not get proper punishment for their actions. Even after he was written out, any mention of Parker draws in anger from the readership who request a desire to see him hurt and his focus chapter in Branching Paths got far fewer responses than Chloe's, Ash's, or Goh's. | |
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The Assassination of Twilight Sparkle: Amadeus Blueblood, while very much supposed to be hated, was disliked as the source of the Happy Ending Override and Genre Shift that made the later stories so unpopular they had only 1/10th the likes. He's seen as only having been successful due to the heroes being inept and the setting having so much corruption fans saw things as hopeless. Even karma catching up to him was undercut by the heroes mistakes allowing him to posthumously set up the conflict that would further darken things and completely move the story away from what made the original fic well received. | |
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In the Exalted fandom, the Scarlet Empress is often viewed as somebody who is given too many victories for too little effort, and who makes other characters look stupid for having failed to get rid of or otherwise deal with her (alternatively, there are those who view her as portrayed as having displayed too many incompetencies and having too many failures for her extended centrality to make sense). | |
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Turtles: The student council, especially Kawashima. Most reviewers who express an opinion on them dislike them and virtually no one is defending them, despite the author pointing out that they aren't meant to be hated. Part of the reason is that as of this writing, the fic is at the point in the story in which the student council is almost completely unlikeable(i.e. before the semifinals match with Pravda roughly two thirds of the way through). It doesn't help that the fic going into more detail about the effort needed to get the tankery team up and running again makes the student council, which started up the tankery team without much of a plan in mind, come off as less competent than in canon. Kawashima gets the worst of it, as while her terrible aim was regarded as an amusing Running Gag in the anime, people are hoping Koume will replace her with a gunner who can actually hit what she's shooting at. | |
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Knights of the Dinner Table: Some readers of the magazine hated Noah Antwiler's column "A Gamer's Rant on the Movies". It drew a number of complaints, largely from readers who seemed to be taking the column seriously. For a while, its page was printed with a dotted line down the side, with instructions to readers on how to cut out the page if they did not like it. Despite the support of Jolly Blackburn, who thought Noah's rants about bad sci-fi and fantasy movies were funny, the column was canceled after an on-line poll on the Kenzerco forums declared it the most hated part of the magazine. The replacement column, Gaming The Movies, qualifies as well. Ignoring the fans of Noah Antwiler's original column who are still petitioning for his return, there is a vocal portion of the fan base who claim that the column is little more than an instruction manual on how to rip-off things you saw in a movie and use them in your game. |
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New Hope University: Major In Murder: JP Laettner, the Ultimate Fraternity Brother, received several dislikes and no likes in a poll conducted in Chapter 5. Possible reasons for this include having a weak motive for murder as the culprit of the second case, since his desire to have sex with Juliet ended up resulting in her luring him in and manipulating him into committing murder for her, as well as the fact that his victim was Emily. | |
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While not the case in other versions of Les Misérables, Cosette is not very liked in the musical. This is due to many perceiving her as underdeveloped despite her pivotal role, as most of her original characterization is cut out of the stage adaptation. Making matters worse is the musical made her romantic rival Eponine far more popular than she ever was before, thus causing many of Eponine's fans to say that Cosette doesn't deserve Marius. | |
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Jace Beleran in Magic: The Gathering, in part because in the flavor text of cards he comes off as condescending and arrogant, in part because he is printed on many different cards (many of which are powerful, and a couple of which have been Game Breakers) over and above other blue planeswalkers who are arguably more interesting (he is the only mono-blue planeswalker to regularly get depicted in cards), and because of a perceived story bias. This despite attempts to rehabilitate the character which were actually working...until a new creative team came in, tossed out his new characterization, and torpedoed a generally well-received ship, among various other highly disliked changes and overall atrocious writing occuring around the same time. |
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Most Foxtrot readers tend to point towards Andrea when asked who their least favorite character in the strip is. Most of this is due to how overbearing she often is towards her kids (going into Moral Guardian freak mode over the slightest things), her being very hypocritical at times and falling into the same pitfalls she criticizes everyone else for, and seldom acknowledging her own personal flaws, which wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that she is almost always treated as though she is right about everything (even when she is clearly not) and always getting the last word/laugh. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Ultramarines Second Company Captain, Cato Sicarus, is disliked as the most shilled member of the faction already contentious for being shilled as greatest Space Marines in the entire galaxy. In the codex, he had no characterization whatsoever outside of being The Best Captain Evarrr, with him being described defeating technologically-equal armies that outnumbered his own a hundred (or even a thousand) to one. Fanon turned him into a conceited, smug glory-hound with a likely-fabricated list of victories. He's so disliked that, while Games Workshop has made a deliberate effort to Rescue Ultramarines like Marneus Calgar and Roboute Guilliman, when Sicarus started making proper appearances, they bordered on Ascended Fanon. The Grey Knights Supreme Grand Master Kaldor Draigo, in particular during and after 5th edition. The Grey Knights were already divisive because of their Holier Than Thou attitude, vast arsenal of rare and exotic weapons, and psychic powers. But Draigo was so full of Incorruptible Pure Pureness that he could waltz around the Warp for centuries without being subjected to Mind Rape and single-handedly beat down Daemon Primarchs (in previous fluff, one Primarch required an entire crusade and one hundred Grey Knights to stop, and he killed them all to a man before falling). |
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Dick Tracy: Susie Zonn, more well known as Wingy Plenty is a particularly disliked character. While she started out sympathetic as the daughter of Odds Zonn, her traits of "glows in the dark under stress" and "has worse baby talk than characters much younger than her" both didn't really mesh well into any storyline, and came off as more annoying than anything. The fact that she was always with at least one of the popular Plenty family at any given time resulted in her being overshadowed at every given moment and she was eventually Put on a Bus. Moon Maid is the biggest example this for most people who despise the space era. Her father, even for people who don't. He constantly shifts back and forth from shaking hands with Tracy to trying to wage war on mankind (In fact, he does exactly that in his very first appearance). He's a Karma Houdini thanks to his position of literal and political power (in a comic that usually kills off people as corrupt as he). He has a Humans Are Bastards vendetta at all the most inopportune times. He essentially kidnaps his daughter in a moment of weakness on her part and sneers at Tracy's "violent nature" when they object. Later when his daughter starts having a baby on a trip to Earth, he tries to force the controls to take them back to the moon (against the wishes of everyone) and ends up stranding them in space. His reaction to the aforementioned event is pure horror at his granddaughter not being born on the moon, until he realizes it happens to be a pretty baby, and is also the first baby to ever be born in space. All in all he's the least enjoyable part of anything he appears in. Pig E. Bank for being an utter Karma Houdini in a strip that notoriously adverts Joker Immunity. 3D Magee, for utterly lacking any personality outside of "evil", and having a storyline that dragged on for SEVEN MONTHS. Throw in that he's super creepy around both his hired maid and the Plenty children, and we have a character more hated than the rest of 'em. The 3D glasses also seem a bit random. And then there's Morin Plenty. Suffice it to say that this is generally regarded as Gould's absolute worst attempt to create a "funny" character. Among the many "quirks" we are supposed to find funny about this guy include the fact that despite being 80, his wife is 20. Among creators, Dick Locher is generally regarded as the worst, due to his art errors, out-of-character cast, ludicrous plots and horrifically slow storylines. |
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Ralph Cirella on The Howard Stern Show. Howard once responded that Ralph gets more hate mail than a Ku Klux Klansman who is a frequent caller to the show. | |
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The vast majority of the Transformers fanbase seems to loathe Bumblebee for his Spotlight-Stealing Squad tendencies in the toyline. It's more likely these days for a line to have at least two Bumblebees than to have any kind of Megatron, and they're often shipped as the majority of a case assortment. At first this was acceptable because he was popular enough among the kids that 'Bee toys vanished from shelves quickly, but sometime around 2010, Bumblebees became so saturated that every kid who wanted one owned one, leaving countless Bumblebees sitting on shelves and leaving no space for later waves that might carry more interesting figures. Of the bunch, the movieverse Bumblebee gets the most hate. He's the mascot of the base-breaking films, he's a pretty Flat Character, he receives nearly as many toys as the venerable G1 Optimus, and most of those toys just 'Bee with a slightly different pattern of yellow and black paint. Worst of all, he also pretty much forever locked in Bumblebee's design as "yellow and black muscle car" and ensured that Bumblebee toys from other lines now have to look the same as the dozens of Movie 'Bee toys already out there. Even the Masterpiece release of G1 Bumblebee got some scoffs. Hasbro appears to have eventually noticed this, and the Generations toyline, which is aimed mostly at adult fans of G1, has been entirely devoid of Bumblebee figures for years. |
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Hope Harcourt from Anything Goes has often been criticized as a major wet blanket. In a show where every other main character gets to indulge in quite a bit of comedic hijinks, Hope's role is almost entirely devoid of humor, barely even qualifying as The Straight Man. Making matters that, Hope is a huge source of Wangst. Even worse, her whining is horribly indecisive, with her frequently alternating between crying about how she wants to marry Billy and crying about how she doesn't want to see Billy again. | |
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