History Main / EthnicScrappy

* UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|Of Comic Books}} ComicBook/GreenLantern, Hal Jordan, had an Inuk sidekick called Pieface who served as his mechanic. Today, he is strictly called by his real name, Tom Kalmaku, and depicted with respect as an engineer. In a retelling of Hal's origin, the "Pieface" nickname is used by a {{Jerkass}} rival pilot. Tom gets his in ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'', Darwyn Cooke's (there he is again!) reimagining of the dawn of DC's [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]: Hal Jordan calls him Pieface when they first meet. Tom responds by calling Hal "whitebread" and threatening him with a wrench, and that's the last time Hal uses that nickname. While the nickname is very unfortunate, as such things go, [[FairForItsDay Tom is really treated pretty decently in the old Gardner Fox Silver Age GL comics]]. While he has some pretty stereotypical elements (most notably his "great fishhooks!" catchphrase), he's drawn like a real Inuk man and not some weird caricature, avoids having a bizarre accent, doesn't speak in YouNoTakeCandle-style broken English, and to top it all off he is clearly a good and intelligent man whom Hal respects. He also deserves credit for being a favorable portrayal of a character of color most readers at that time would only be vaguely familiar with.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDickTracyShow'' from 1961/1962 has "Joe Jitsu", a Japanese detective, and "Go-Go Gomez", a LazyMexican who solves crimes from his hammock. Both are drawn as stereotypically as you might imagine. Gomez can move very fast, although he does so with lots of "Arriba! Arriba! Yeeha! Yeeha!" yells that turn him into a human Speedy Gonzales.

* The Vistani from the TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons setting TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}} are based on the [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Romani]] people. As the setting is based on old [[GothicHorror gothic horror literature]] and the [[Franchise/UniversalHorror old Universal monster movies]], the Vistani were created to fill the niche of "mysterious, mystical and morally-ambiguous wandering Romani", [[MagicalRomani which is a rather negative stereotype of the Romani people]] [[HumanAlien not helped by the fact they're not human]] and go mad on a full moon. The fourth edition of the game somewhat rectified this by [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap making the Vistani merely a cultural group that encompassed many races and toned down the more obviously-negative aspects of the race]], however the fifth edition module/reboot of the setting [[TabletopGame/CurseOfStrahd Curse Of Strahd]] brought the Vistani back to their roots.

* UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|Of Comic Books}} ComicBook/GreenLantern, Hal Jordan, had an Inuit sidekick called Pieface who served as his mechanic. Today, he is strictly called by his real name, Tom Kalmaku, and depicted with respect as an engineer. In a retelling of Hal's origin, the "Pieface" nickname is used by a {{Jerkass}} rival pilot. Tom gets his in ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'', Darwyn Cooke's (there he is again!) reimagining of the dawn of DC's [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]: Hal Jordan calls him Pieface when they first meet. Tom responds by calling Hal "whitebread" and threatening him with a wrench, and that's the last time Hal uses that nickname. While the nickname is very unfortunate, as such things go, [[FairForItsDay Tom is really treated pretty decently in the old Gardner Fox Silver Age GL comics]]. While he has some pretty stereotypical elements (most notably his "great fishhooks!" catchphrase), he's drawn like a real Inuit man and not some weird caricature, avoids having a bizarre accent, doesn't speak in YouNoTakeCandle-style broken English, and to top it all off he is clearly a good and intelligent man whom Hal respects. He also deserves credit for being a favorable portrayal of a character of color most readers at that time would only be vaguely familiar with.

* Virtually every character in ''Film/{{North}}'' is an example of this trope, an actor or actress whose talents are being ''badly'' squandered, or both at once. One example that really stands out is the Eskimo village who put their elderly out on ice floes to die, something real Eskimos only did as a last resort in times of great hunger and have long since ''stopped'' doing thanks to greater contact with the outside world giving them access to reliable alternate sources of food. Not helping matters is that two of the most prominent Eskimos are played by white actors Creator/KathyBates and Creator/AbeVigoda.

* While ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' is mostly very good about avoiding this with its characters of color, there are three examples that stick out, those being the Amazon natives from #11, Derek the Inuit from #25 and Yami the Aboriginal boy from #44. All have little characterization beyond their respective ethnic stereotypes and also seem to accept the sight of the protagonists morphing as if it were normal due to their religious beliefs, even if they would logically have never actually seen such a thing. ''WebVideo/ThePopArena'' goes into the UnfortunateImplications of this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7H4f6cPOMQ here]].

* The Vistani from the TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons setting TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}} are based on the [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Romani]] people. As the setting is based on old [[GothicHorror gothic horror literature]] and the [[Franchise/UniversalHorror old Universal monster movies]], the Vistani were created to fill the niche of "mysterious, mystical and morally-ambiguous wandering gypsies", [[MagicalRomani which is a rather negative stereotype of the Romani people]] [[HumanAlien not helped by the fact they're not human]] and go mad on a full moon. The fourth edition of the game somewhat rectified this by [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap making the Vistani merely a cultural group that encompassed many races and toned down the more obviously-negative aspects of the race]], however the fifth edition module/reboot of the setting [[TabletopGame/CurseOfStrahd Curse Of Strahd]] brought the Vistani back to their roots.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDickTracyShow'' from 1961/1962 has Joe Jitsu and Go-Go Gomez, who are Japanese and Mexican stereotypes. Hemlock Holmes and Heap O'Calorie are are ethnic stereotypes, but are stereotypes of Europeans and are less heavily caricatured; hence why they were practically spared of the controversies the other two faced when the show re-aired in 1990.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' has Shun Gon, a Siamese cat in Scat Cat's gang, who is a Chinese stereotype similar to the Siamese cats from ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp''. He isn't a villain and neither are the other Alley Cats, but he still has the buck teeth and exaggerated accent. While Scat Cat and the rest of his gang are also strong ethnic stereotypes, Shun Gon is objectively more heavily caricatured than the rest of the bunch. He is also voiced by a white actor (Creator/PaulWinchell), so he tends to be singled out more.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDickTracyShow'' from 1961/1962 has Joe Jitsu and Go-Go Gomez, who are Japanese and Mexican stereotypes. Hemlock Holmes and Heap O'Calorie are are ethnic stereotypes, but are stereotypes of Europeans and are objectively less heavily caricatured; hence why they were practically spared of the controversies the other two faced when the show re-aired in 1990.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDickTracyShow'' from 1961/1962 has Joe Jitsu and Go-Go Gomez, who are Japanese and Mexican, respectively. Hemlock Holmes and Heap O'Calorie are are ethnic stereotypes, but are objectively less heavily caricatured.

* UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|Of Comic Books}} ComicBook/GreenLantern, Hal Jordan, had an Inuit sidekick called Pieface who served as his mechanic. Today, he is strictly called by his real name, Tom Kalmaku, and depicted with respect as an engineer. In a retelling of Hal's origin, the "Pieface" nickname is used by a {{Jerkass}} rival pilot. Tom gets his in ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'', Darwyn Cooke's (there he is again!) reimagining of the dawn of DC's [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]: Hal Jordan calls him Pieface when they first meet. Tom responds by calling Hal "whitebread" and threatening him with a wrench, and that's the last time Hal uses that nickname. While the nickname is very unfortunate, as such things go, [[FairForItsDay Tom is really treated pretty decently in the old Gardner Fox Silver Age GL comics]]. While he has some pretty stereotypical elements (most notably his "great fishhooks!" catchphrase), he's drawn like a real Inuit man and not some weird caricature, avoids having a bizarre accent, doesn't speak in YouNoTakeCandle-style broken English, and to top it all off he is clearly a good and intelligent man whom Hal respects. He also deserves credit for being a favorable portrayal of a minority most readers at that time would only be vaguely familiar with.

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': The Africans in ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo Tintin in the Congo]]'' are best left unmentioned. However, the later ''[[Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus Blue Lotus]]'' was written with input by an actual Chinese person and worked hard to remove some of the YellowPeril stereotypes. This did not, however, apply to the Japanese villains who are mostly depicted with protruding teeth and thick glasses, reflecting the anti-Japanese colonialism theme that is central to the storyline. Hergé expressed great regret later on for the racism in his early work and actually requested ''Tintin in the Congo'' not be republished. The last few Tintin adventures are still prone to Ethnic Scrappy but tend to have fairly realistic minority characters.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' has Shun Gon, a Siamese cat in Scat Cat's gang, who is a Chinese stereotype similar to the Siamese cats from ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp''. Just like the other Alley Cats, he is not a villain. However, he has the buck teeth and exaggerated accent. While Scat Cat and the rest of his gang are also strong ethnic stereotypes, Shun Gon is objectively more heavily caricatured than the rest of the bunch. He is also voiced by a white actor (Creator/PaulWinchell), so he tends to be singled out more.

* While ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' is mostly very good about avoiding this with its minority characters, there are three examples that stick out, those being the Amazon natives from #11, Derek the Inuit from #25 and Yami the Aboriginal boy from #44. All have little characterization beyond their respective ethnic stereotypes and also seem to accept the sight of the protagonists morphing as if it were normal due to their religious beliefs, even if they would logically have never actually seen such a thing. ''WebVideo/ThePopArena'' goes into the UnfortunateImplications of this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7H4f6cPOMQ here]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' has Shun Gon, a Siamese cat in Scat Cat's gang, who is a Chinese stereotype similar to the cats from ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp''. He's not a villain like them but he has the buck teeth and exaggerated accent. While the other cats in Scat Cat's gang are also strong ethnic stereotypes, Shun is objectively more heavily caricatured than the rest of the bunch and is voiced by a white actor (Creator/PaulWinchell), so he tends to be singled out more.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDickTracyShow'' from 1961/1962 has "Joe Jitsu", an Asian kung-fu master/detective, and "Go-Go Gomez", a LazyMexican who solves crimes from his hammock. Both are drawn as stereotypically as you might imagine. Gomez can move very fast, although he does so with lots of "Arriba! Arriba! Yeeha! Yeeha!" yells that turn him into a human Speedy Gonzales.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' has Shun Gon, a Siamese cat in Scat Cat's gang, who is a Chinese stereotype similar to the cats from ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp''. He's not a villain like them but he has the buck teeth and exaggerated accent. While the other cats in Scat Cat's gang are also strong ethnic stereotypes, Shun is the only non-white caricature of the bunch and is voiced by a white actor (Creator/PaulWinchell), so he tends to be singled out more.

* Although it's becoming less so over time, this is still disturbingly present in some anime (especially older anime) due to most people in Japan having little experience with people of other ethnicities. Portrayals of black folk tend to be especially caricatured. Creator/OsamuTezuka fell prey to this due to his habit of portraying blacks, to the point that he was accused of being racist, a perception that conflicts with the fact that he also spent a lifetime writing humanist fiction against racism.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': Carl's Swedish pen pal Elke Ekeberg. She has a horribly fake accent, speaks in broken English, and she's a complete ditz who lets Carl abuse Jimmy and completely ignores the fact he almost got her killed. Thank God she only appears once. Oddly, recurring character Bolbi Stroganovski is ''not'' considered an Ethnic Scrappy by most fans despite being a blatant Eastern European/Slavic stereotype.

* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' has [[AsianRudeness Di]] [[NouveauRiche Lung]], who is just Eustace (or [[https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/RiceGum RiceGum]], for that matter) without the redeeming qualities, embodying nearly every negative stereotype of Chinese people there is.

* Mr. Rude from ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow'' certainly applies. A walking French stereotype (though he's given a different accent in the French dub of the show), his entire persona is to simply walk around being a... well, rude {{Jerkass}} towards everyone else. To make matters worse, he's also a major {{Gasshole}}, making him a cartoonish "Smelly French" stereotype.
* Lupe the toucan in ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'' is a Latina caricature who is loud, easily angered, and sounds like Creator/SofiaVergara combined with Creator/FranDrescher, smoking three packs a day.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Recess}}'': In the episode "Yope from Norway", the titular character has been known to provoke offense from Norwegians, as his accent is extremely stereotypical, he is portrayed as naive and ignorant, and [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign his name is a nonsense word instead of a real Norwegian name]].
* Apu Nahasapeemapetilon of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' fame offended many over his depiction of Indian-Americans, who see him as the embodiment of every offensive Indian stereotype, and the show's handling of the criticism. There's also annoyance at the fact that he's voiced by the white Creator/HankAzaria. This controversy came to a head with 2017 documentary called ''The Problem with Apu'' in which Indian-American comedian Hari Kondubolu interviewed many Americans of South Asian descent for their perspective; most notably, Creator/KalPenn admitted to Kondubolu that he hates Apu, claiming that the character's ethnic caricature made it increasingly hard for actors of South Asian descent to find non-stereotypical roles. On the other hand, he also has a [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales very large Indian fanbase]] who defend him because, while he is stereotypical, he's also one of the kindest, most successful, hardest working, and intelligent people in a town filled with stereotypes. [[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/01/apu-simpsons-hero Many]] [[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-44027613 Indian]] [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/04/25/to-many-indian-americans-apu-is-offensive-to-me-hes-my-dad/?utm_term=.90e0d2e85809 fans]] were absolutely outraged when it was hinted he might be being removed from the show.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' has [[MiddleEasternTerrorists Abdul Fakkadi]], the ruler of the [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny Socialist Democratic Federated Republic of Carbombya]]. He is blatantly stereotyped as a power-hungry Arabian terroristic and militaristic tyrant who would even team up with the Decepticons just to get what he wants. Notably, his depiction was so offensive it resulted in Creator/CaseyKasem (who was Lebanese-American) ''quitting the show in disgust'', consequently leading to Cliffjumper, Teletraan-I, and other characters he had voiced [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome disappearing from the show]]. Some of the showrunners have tried to defend his portrayal by saying he was intended as a parody of infamous Libyan dictator UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi rather than an attack on Arabs in general, but the fact that his final scene involves him swearing on the lives of his relatives' livestock undermines this claim significantly.

* /BeckyLynch hit this trope hard when she debuted on NXT in 2014, with dyed red hair, green and gold ring gear, Ceili-themed entrance music, and doing a jig in the ring, playing up every {{Oireland}} stereotype there was. Due to the backlash, these tropes were phased out until she became a mosh pit girl. Years later she revealed she was on the verge of being let go, so the character was a last-ditch attempt to get her on TV.

** Oddly, cropped up in a mild form in the 2007 ''{{Film/Transformers}}'' movie, with the Qutar kid who exists mostly as a walking PetTheDog for the US soldier characters. Also, his dad's cell phone saves the day.

* ''VideoGame/Minecraft'' has Villagers, who have many traits that are stereotyped of Jews such as big noses and collecting gemstones as a currency.

* Chada from ''Anime/NieaUnder7'' at first appears to be a walking, talking stereotype of an Indian convenience store owner, complete with broken English. [[InvokedTrope However,]] [[{{Fauxreigner}} he's actually an alien who adopted this stereotype as his appearance and identity.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' has the infamous Siamese Cat duo. On top of being villains, their Ethnic Scrappy status manifests itself in their buck teeth and the annoyingly terrible grammar during their song.
* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'''s depiction of Native Americans is another OldShame for Disney. Besides having literal red skin (which their song "What Made the Red Man Red?" attributes to a white boy blushing after getting kissed by a girl he liked), they have [[TipisAndTotemPoles a mishmash of different tribes' cultures]], and most are drawn cartoonishly compared to the white characters. Only Tiger Lily is drawn differently, and unsurprisingly she's the most popular Indian character by far. The Indians notably don't appear in ''WesternAnimation/ReturnToNeverland'', and the DVD does not give the option to skip to "What Made the Red Man Red?" They do appear in the 2002 game, though but without the stereotypical red skin color.

* The ''Literature/TomSwift'' novels have Eradicate Sampson, the, er, "eccentric colored man".

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** Quagmire's transgender mother Ida gets a lot of hate for being a "trans scrappy". The supposedly liberal and accepting Brian vomits [[OverlyLongGag for a minute straight]] after finding out that the woman he slept with is trans, she tends to get called things like "a monster" and "some drag queen", and she has no real personality of her own outside of being trans. Both Ida and Brian's gay cousin Jasper are allegedly written to be sympathetic, but it's hard to imagine anyone in the LGBT community wanting to idolize them with the treatment they get in-show.

** The original series is extremely embarrassing at times due to this. Supposedly, the Zulus throwing spears at the Quest Jet in the closing credits are from an episode that never aired, but that image is crazy enough. The worst that DID air is "The Sea Haunt", where the team are stranded on a ship when the MonsterOfTheWeek smashes their plane. They find the only survivor of the ship's crew -- a Chinese cook named Charlie who has a horrible accent, dresses stereotypically (how did they miss giving him a pigtail?), and continually references his "honorable ancestors".[[FairForItsDay To be fair]], Charlie at least gets a big part in helping stop the [[MonsterOfTheWeek monster]]. They are eventually spotted by ''Dutch'' search parties from Batavia-- despite Jakarta (and Indonesia) having been independent for years already. Oy...

** Cookie Kwan is often seen as this. With her shrill attitude, stereotypical Asian rudeness, and thick generic "Asian" accent, you'd be hard-pressed to find any fans of her.

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' gradually phased out the character of Mammy Two-Shoes, the original human who had to put up with Tom and Jerry's antics. She is a heavyset African-American maid with a stereotypical SassyBlackWoman drawl, although by all accounts it's ''her'' house they're terrorizing. When the cartoons appeared on Amazon, they were attached with a warning that they contain "some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American society...they were wrong then and are wrong now."

* Creator/DCComics had an entire ''team'' of these in TheEighties, called ''ComicBook/TheNewGuardians''. It was an ''[[CluelessAesop attempt]]'' at being progressive that fell flat due to the only characterization the members had being stereotypes, such as the Japanese member being a TheSmartGuy {{cyborg}} obsessed with honor or [[CrossesTheLineTwice the gay and black members contracting AIDS]]. The comic bombed hard as a result of this and other poor writing, with it being cancelled after 12 issues and only remembered today for its outlandish villains like Snowflame who got powers from cocaine.

* Quite a few characters in ''Fanfic/BornToBeWilde'' with the various sectors of WesternAnimation/Zootopia representing real world ethnicities, leading to NationalStereotypes abound. Somewhat justified in the tourist trap Outback Island, which markets itself off Australian stereotypes. Less so in the case of Sandcat Sanchez, an overtly Mexican crime lord who wears a sombrero, rigs luchadore matches, sprinkles his sentence with GratuitousSpanish, and routinely bursts into flamenco song at the drop of a hat.

%% * ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'': The Super Friends have four such tokens. Samurai is the least stereotypical, only because you can't recognize him as Japanese until he slips into GratuitousJapanese with an American accent. Several other works such as ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' and ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' [[ReimaginingTheArtifact try to fix their faults]] when they reference them.

* ''WesternAnimation/TwelveOunceMouse'' has Woman Mouse, who is a gender stereotype.

* ''WesternnAnimation/TwelveOunceMouse'' has Woman Mouse, who is a gender stereotype.