History Main / EthnicScrappy

* This is one of the reasons why Antoine from ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAm'' gets a lot of hate. The whole entire joke of the character is that he is a [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys French guy who is useless in any action-related situation]]. He also gets flak for [[FrenchJerk being rude to Sonic]], even though [[NotSoDifferent Sonic is more or less equally rude to him]]. Even [[TookALevelInBadass taking a level in badass]] in the comics didn't stop some of the hate since many felt it reduced him to a GenericGuy.

* ''Disney/{{Dumbo}}'''s crows, whom the protagonist meets after his infamous BigLippedAlligatorMoment nightmare. Though [[SpaceJews stereotypically "black"]] and led by a [[UnfortunateImplications crow named Jim]], [[FairForItsDay they're glad to take a fellow outcast]] [[{{Pun}} under their wing]] [[FairForItsDay and help him to get back at his oppressors]]... after a stern talking to by the [[MightyWhitey Mighty Mousey]] Timothy. It's just a mess.

* [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1263:is-the-spirits-sidekick-a-clown-or-did-people-actually-dress-that-way&catid=29:confounding-comic-covers-index&Itemid=32 Ebony White]] in ''TheSpirit''. Yes, he got better lines and a more serious role as the story went on, but to have a comedy black character half the white guy's height with big, red, rubber lips and huge, wide staring eyes was not the finest idea in WillEisner's great career as a cartoonist.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f69GdiSZ-NA&feature=related Stepin Fetchit]].

* [[TylerPerry Madea]].

* Prissy from ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. Mammy is a lighter example - though she is a Mammy archetype character, [[FairForItsDay she is portrayed as fairly intelligent]] despite having no education.

*** Even Butterfly [=McQueen=] herself said that she disliked the role.

* Even as a face, Santino Marella is a stereotypical tongue-tied Italian whose speech consists of [[{{Malaproper}} malapropisms]] and BuffySpeak. (In actuality, he ''is'' of Italian heritage, but was born in Canada and can speak without an accent.) Just imagine an Italian ''Film/{{Borat}}'', since he came in shortly after the film's release and used a lot of the same schtick.

* Some players have a great deal of hatred for Oilman of ''MegaManPoweredUp'', even after the character got a bit of a rework to accommodate the more racially-sensitive Western world. Complete with a black face with thick, pink lips[[hottip:*: the US version changed it to dark blue and yellow lips--which still doesn't help that much]], dancing reminiscent of black minstrels, and obnoxious engrishy [[GratuitousEnglish "Yo, yo, yo!" before each sentence,]] [[hottip:*: Again, the English translation blunted this stereotype, replacing it instead with a streetwise, urban way of speaking]] Oil Man brings an unwelcome dose of this trope to the series.

** Probably the most famous was Short Round, Indy's sidekick in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''. He ''just possibly'' escaped being a Scrappy by virtue of being somewhat of a son figure to Indy (though he's never referenced in any other movie), and [[RuleOfCool driving Indy's car]] with bricks on his feet. And the fact that anyone looks sympathetic next to Willie Scott.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' Kyle has a cousin who's name is also Kyle, the other Kyle is an annoying wuss who never stops complaining over minor stuffs, like dust or even snow.

** A hated figure in America. [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Mexico loved the Bandito.]]

* Some people feel TheBlockbusterBuster is the ethnic scrappy of ThatGuyWithTheGlasses[[/folder]]

* The [[FunnyAnimal Vulp]][[FantasyCounterpartCulture ine]] from ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers''. Full stop. The fans ''loathe'' the fact that their portrayal draws cues from every stereotypical portrayal of [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] [[TheSavageIndian savage Indians]].[[/folder]]

* ''GForce'' has a black guinea pig who seems incapable of saying something without sounding like a rap star.
** To be fair, that's [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Tracy]] [[TropesAreNotBad Morgan]] doing Tracy Morgan.

* Letitia from ''DeusExHumanRevolution''. She is poor and black, and is first seen digging in the trash. She talks in a very stereotypical black accent ("WELL SHEEYIT!") and the subtitles for her dialogue contain various misspelled and abbreviated words. [[UnfortunateImplications Virtually all of the other characters are not black, and Letitia is the only one with a stereotypical voice]].

* Chop-Chop from ''{{Blackhawk}}''. All the Caucasian characters are tall and good-looking. The Chinese is three feet tall, as wide as he is high with lemon-yellow skin, teeth like a radiator grille, tiny, slitted eyes behind milk-bottle glasses and a silly accent. They all wore uniforms and caps, he wears a multi-coloured Qing dynasty outfit and a ribbon in his pigtail.

[[ValuesDissonance An awful relic from less enlightened times]], or a sign that the attitudes from those times have not gone away completely. Comic relief characters in the SmallAnnoyingCreature or TheScrappy mold whose strangeness in appearance and behavior is put down to their being of a different race or ethnicity to the heroes. Often highlighted by their being extreme {{gonk}}s in an [[{{Mukokuseki}} otherwise normal]] cast.

* The trope is frequently subverted in the work of Creator/RudyardKipling, where Indian characters at times will put this on as an act, e. g. Hurree Babu towards the Russian secret agents in ''Kim''. It is also sometimes shown as a false surface impression when a character switches from broken or accented English to Hindi, which is represented as accent-free and somewhat formal English. This applies not just to Indians, but also e. g. to Muller in "In the Rukh", who speaks with a comical German accent.

* A rare, rare, ''rare, rare'', '''''rare''''' example of a white one of this trope is Tony from ''{{Persona 2}}'', a {{Gonk}} drawn with massive drooping eyelids, huge oval eyes that point in different directions, splayed eyelashes, a face-devouring, lumpen nose, a sticking-out chin, very high eyebrows, and stringy yellow hair, and speaks in stereotypically broken Japanese. He is also apparently a creeper who takes filthy photographs of unknowing Japanese women. It's worth pointing out the ugly Japanese characters, like Gin, are not drawn anywhere near as distorted as Tony, and Tony's ugly features are exaggerations of white facial features, making him this trope.

* The unspeakably awful TabletopGames ''[=FATAL=]'' had actual, equippable items which literally turned the wearer into Ethnic Scrappies - of Jews, black people, Asians and Greeks. The RPG was not played for laughs, and would probably have been even ''more'' offensive if it had been. Particularly offensive sample:

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* In ''StarWarsThePhantomMenace'', Jar Jar Binks' speech patterns and [[TheLoad laid-back-to-a-fault]] mannerisms fell into [[SpaceJews stereotypes of Jamaicans]].

** According to ThePowersThatBe, The Twins were supposed to be ''caricatures'' of Wiggers, white youths who act stereotypically black to look badass. Unfortunately, since they're ''orange and green robot cars'', this concept is kind of lost in translation, and most people think it's an excuse, especially since they ''could'' have had holograms (like Arcee had a female hologram).

*** Even Butterfly McQueen herself said that she disliked the role.

* In Floyd Gotfredson's 1930's comic strips, MickeyMouse had several encounters with (usually cannibalistic) African savages.

* ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'' Somehow subverted this trope: Chongara looks like the worst caricature of a greedy Arabic merchant, and the English translation has him speaking YouNoTakeCandle. He is also the guy who can [[GameBreaker summon]] [[LittleMissBadass Choko]] to the battlefield, and during the second game, we see that he has become [[ChessMaster the brain]] behind the [[GuileHero good guys]] operation. The [[FunnyAneurysmMoment funny thing]] is that, since the translated version came out after 9/11, western players could not see the character without thinking about OsamaBinLaden (Chongara is an arabic looking guy with a beard who left a wealthy background to follow religiously motivated internationnaly wanted terrorists...)... A scaringly competent expy of Bin Laden who managed to make [[TheEmpire the world's only uncontested superpower]] bite the dust after a few years of carefully planed terrorists attacks. Well, at least, the real Bin Laden does not have [[BadassCrew two dozens]] of [[MagicKnight magic wielding]] [[OneManArmy overpowered warriors]] and summoned monsters... [[ParanoiaFuel We hope...]]

* VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption has three characters who are so heavily defined by this trope that their ethnicity is also their name: Irish, Welsh, and French. There is a character named Dutch late in the game, but he does not display any of that ethnicity's stereotypes. For his part, French lacks an accent, and while he is a bit of a jerk, he doesn't really display any French stereotypes.
* Rico of {{Killzone}}, who is Hispanic, foul-mouthed, and hot headed. He's one of the most hated characters, not to mention the fact that he guarantees the defeat of the ISA in ''Killzone 2'' by killing Visari.

* Letitia from ''DeusExHumanRevolution''. She is poor and black, and is first seen digging in the trass. She talks in a very stereotypical black accent ("WELL SHEEYIT!") and the subtitles for her dialogue contain various misspelled and abbreviated words. [[UnfortunateImplications Virtually all of the other characters are not black, and Letitia is the only one with a stereotypical voice]].

* The Hatta' from NeuroticallyYours is seen by many fans as this. Episodes featuring him are frequently disliked by the fans. Even the characters themselves can't stand The Hatta' spewing racist comments.
* The [[FunnyAnimal Vulp]][[FantasyCounterpartCulture ine]] from ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers''. Full stop. The fans ''loathe'' the fact that their portrayal draws cues from every stereotypical portrayal of [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] [[TheSavageIndian savage Indians]]..[[/folder]]

* Mr. Rude from TheMrMenShow certainly applies. A walking French stereotype (Though he's given a different accent in the French dub of the show, naturally), his entire persona is to simply walk around being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a rude]] JerkAss towards everyone else. To make matters worse, he's also a major {{Gasshole}}, making him a cartoonish "Smelly French" stereotype.