History Main / ReplacementScrappy

* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: InUniverse example. As shown in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEvFZ8B1M2M they made a good Mario Party game]]", Nick and Sophist ''hate'' Tumble for replacing Toad in ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'':

* One of the most famous examples is Wrestling/LexLuger's {{face}} run in Wrestling/{{WW|E}}F, where he was essentially Wrestling/HulkHogan's Replacement Scrappy. Despite (or perhaps because of) him playing the AllAmericanFace to an even greater hilt than Hogan himself, the fans still saw him as a cheap imitation and hated him. [[CreatorsPet But the bookers kept trying, and trying, and trying to get him over...]] It didn't help that Luger's "Narcissist" gimmick was rather well-liked and was getting pretty over when it was just inexplicably dumped for the "Made in the USA" gimmick. Thankfully, the booking team eventually got the message and aborted his planned title run, giving it to Wrestling/BretHart instead.

* The UK's Admiral Insurance has received a lot of criticism for replacing their original mascot the Admiral with a female version. She was intended to be a strong and independent business woman, but ended up coming off as annoyingly obnoxious. Out of all the videos on their Website/YouTube channel, the ones featuring her tend to get the lowest ratings. In 2019 she was replaced by a more appealing animated version.

** ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' introduces ''Spinosaurus'' as a new dinosaur antagonist... and does so by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7tNqjsclhs having it]] {{Curb Stomp|Battle}} the long-established fan favourite, the ''Tyrannosaurus Rex''. Arguably one of the most infamous examples in film - for many years after the release of the film, documentary clips on Website/YouTube featuring ''Spinosaurus'' were full of negative comments left by angry fans of the series. ''Film/JurassicWorld'' contains a big TakeThat to ''Spinosaurus'' by [[spoiler:having Rexie smash through a specimen's skeleton when she gets introduced in the film's climax]].

* The Latin American Exchange suddenly had a lot more fans when Mexican America formed in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' has [[NiceGuy Zoé Lee]] to [[AlphaBitch Chloé Bourgeois]]. While the verdict is out on whether Zoé is a better or worse hero than Chloé, many agree that as a civilian she is [[FlatCharacter lacking in depth]] and seems to only exist to replace Chloé, [[spoiler: which seemingly comes true near the end of Season 5]]. It also doesn't help that the majority of her episodes seem to focus on [[CreatorsPest heavily slandering Chloé]] while Zoé is constantly [[CharacterShilling placed on a pedestal]]. As such she is of little relevance outside of her hero status as well as her relationship with Chloé.
** Another example is Master Fu, while he was a massive BaseBreakingCharacter, many agree that Su-Han is a mediocre replacement at best due to his arguably even greater ineptitude regarding the Miracle Box as well as being absent when he is needed most.

* Thoroughly discussed in the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' fanfiction ''Voices of the Forgotten,'' which, as the title suggests, is about all the characters who've come or gone unceremoniously over the years.

* A ''deliberate'' invocation of the Replacement Scrappy trope was the [[Wrestling/{{Kane}} fake Diesel]] and fake Razor Ramon (Rick "Big Titan" Bogner, best known for his work in Wrestling/{{FMW}}), three months after Wrestling/ScottHall and Wrestling/KevinNash left for Wrestling/{{WCW}}. These two were introduced by a freshly {{Face Heel Turn}}ed Jim Ross specifically to embarrass Wrestling/VinceMcMahon and the Wrestling/{{WW|E}}F (there were legal issues involved as well). WWF was suing WCW at the time over Hall and Nash's appearance, claiming they were passing them off as Ramon and Diesel (the two were unnamed "invaders" at the time, and weren't named until their first [=PPV=] match, at ''WCW Bash at the Beach 96,'' where Wrestling/HulkHogan turned heel to launch the [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder nWo]]). New characters with the same names (intentional Replacement Scrappy or not) was a clear sign that WWF intended to use and enforce the trademarked names.

** Nine years later, in 2004, Kasem took his second (and final) bow from the program (which had been UnCanceled in 1998), to be replaced by the current host, ''Series/AmericanIdol'''s Ryan Seacrest. There was a lot less said about the changeover this time around, probably because Kasem retired instead of leaving over a contract dispute; still, many longtime fans still don't hold Seacrest (or the current iteration of the show, for that matter) in nearly as high a regard.

* ''Toys/HeroFactory'' used to be this for many ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' fans, particularly those who were in it for the story rather than the toys. As for the toys, the "CCBS" building system introduced in ''Hero Factory'', which completely replaced ''BIONICLE'''s older style, is more divisive with a fair share of supporters, despite what many haters say.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' (similar to Star Wars's SequelSeries) had its cast be considered this by certain fans compared to their adored predecessors. Korra's hot headed immaturity and shallow behaviour as the Avatar in Book 1 made her disliked to a section of fans in comparison to Aang, though to the show's credit this formed part of Korra's CharacterDevelopment afterwards with her growing as a person and moving out of Aang's shadow. Similarly Bolin was considered inferior to Sokka and Toph whose shoes he was filling as the comic relief and the group's Earthbender (though Toph herself would come back) but he managed to become one of the show's most liked characters over time. Probably the one that plays this straight is Mako, whom despite being a clear substitute for fellow brooding pretty boy Zuko, is nowhere near as liked by the fans.

* ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'''s "Mighty Pups" saga brought along a new villain named Ladybird, whose shtick is that she steals whatever she can get her hands on. Ladybird was already a BaseBreakingCharacter for her annoying voice, but something else fans derided her for was being too similar to Sid Swashbuckle, the villain of the "Sea Patrol" saga and one of the series' [[EnsembleDarkhorse fan favourites]], who had been missing from the series for quite some time when Ladybird made her debut. The producers seemed to have taken the hint, as Ladybird was later retired while Swashbuckle returned to the series.

** Also parodied in the infamous episode "The Principal and the Pauper," in which Principal Skinner is revealed to be an impostor named Armin Tamzarian who assumed Skinner's identity when the latter was assumed dead. The real Skinner (voiced by Creator/MartinSheen) takes Armin's place as principal while Armin leaves town. However, despite the real Skinner being a nice and reasonable fellow, the other Springfield citizens decide to kick him out of town (even his ''mother,'' who preferred the doormat Armin to the independent Seymour) and get a judge to order everyone never speak of this again under penalty of torture because... they prefer the old Skinner. There's a reason most fans (and some writers) follow suit and pretend this episode never happened.

** Parodied when Kenny died "permanently" (he came back after one season), the three remaining boys took a previously minor character, Butters, as his replacement. They then proceeded to [[ButtMonkey manipulate and torture him]], [[WoundedGazelleGambit constantly comparing him to their sadly missed Kenny to try to force him to do things their way]]. After a few episodes they "fired" him for not being good enough, and replaced him with ''another'' minor character, Tweek. Interestingly, the boys warm up to him a lot quicker (aside from [[JerkAss Cartman]]), even though he also vanished after a few episodes. Meanwhile Butters, despite being officially "demoted," actually wound up being a {{subver|tedTrope}}sion both in and out universe – even after Kenny's resurrection he continues to be a major character on par with the others, as well as quite the EnsembleDarkHorse, his relationship with the other boys is also developed somewhat (only a season later it is made clear the others at least like him a lot more than Cartman).

* ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' is seen as this for ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' by many. Even though ''Spectacular'''s [[ScrewedByTheLawyers fate was sealed]], ''Ultimate'' gets a lot of flak for being DenserAndWackier, with the [[SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness drama and dark tone replaced with slapstick]] and [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth wall jokes]], and not being faithful to any existing version of Franchise/SpiderMan.