Take That Scrappy / Anime & Manga

• 91 Days: In the first half of the show, Frate tries to kill Nero, arguing that he is forced to sacrifice them for the sake of the future of their family. As a result, his older brother kills Frate himself with the technical assistance of their sister, in order to sacrifice them, really save the family.
• In The Movie of Air, Yukito punches Misuzu's dad, the one who ignored her for most of her life.
• Akame ga Kill!:
  • Wave punching Syura in Chapter 46 brought a smile to several readers.
  • Chapter 48 resulted in half of Wild Hunt getting the shit kicked out of them, including the disgusting pedophile Champ, who is burned alive by his own Imperial Arm. Not to mention Enshin running away like a coward and getting cut down for his troubles, and Cosmina getting shot through the chest.
  • Syura getting garroted by Lubbock in Chapter 52 was sweet, sweet catharsis.
    • To top it all off for Syura, after his death we're treated to a scene where Honest cries over his son's death... only to quickly get over it. As unpopular as he is, there are many people who labeled this as Honest's best moment in the manga.
  • General Budo spends a majority of his first few chapters being hyped up by just about everyone, and having an insufferably smug sense of self-righteousness. Come Chapter 53 we finally get to see him in action... only to see him get his ass knocked clean through a wall by the much more diminutive Mine, in the beginning of the fight no less.
  • Finally Honest himself. Kicked hard in the gut by Leone, disemboweled, thrown off a balcony, and finally carved up a Golden Corral/Logan's Roadhouse special.
  • If there's one thing fans agree they enjoyed about the anime, it was seeing Leone bash Prime Minister Honest's head into a bloody mess.
• Another:
  • When Kenzou Kawahori abandons the trapped Yukito, Sayuri and San in the burning Sakitani Kinenkan to save his own skin, he gets crushed by a falling pillar.
  • The only things Yu Yamada does are very loudly blaming Kouichi for Yukari's death (while she's still bleeding out on the floor) and loudly taunting the Calamity before being run over by a car. His own best friend, Yuuya, bikes off and leaves him without even checking to make sure he was really dead first. The only person who seems even remotely upset is Takako, and she gets upset whenever someone dies.
• Bakemonogatari: Senjougahara knocking Oikura out in episode 3 of Owarimonogatari. Episode 5 shows just how much damage she did: Oikura had to stay home from school for two days and her face swelled to the point where she couldn't pronounce the "ra" syllable, which might invoke a little sympathy- although, since Oikura did spend about 15 minutes talking shit to Araragi and Senjougahara and even slapped the latter, it's hard to argue she didn't get what she deserved
• Ben-To: Some fans were pleased when Ume gets soundly defeated in volume 10 in a bento brawl.
• Downplayed in Black Clover, but each of the Black Bulls have a defining quirk to their character that fans and characters in-universe have expressed dislike for: Magna being a Delinquent, Vanessa a Hard-Drinking Party Girl, Finral a Casanova Wannabe, Gauche a Reformed Criminal, etc. When Nacht first meets them, he gives them a harsh "Reason You Suck" Speech calling them all out for their defining flaws, with them only able to quietly listen.
• Blue Lock: Kuon getting yelled at, threatened, and ultimately punched by Raichi over his betrayal of Team Z is satisfying enough to have made most readers warm up to the latter despite his less than stellar first impression.
• Cross Ange:
  • After having to put up with her Knight Templar General Ripper antics far too long, Jill gets put on her ass by Ange in the finale of "Conclusive Ocean".
  • In the final episodes, Ange violently forces Sylvia to walk to give fans satisfaction and pity at the same time.
• In Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Hagakure got a lot of hatred for being a Flat Character who didn't contribute much to the story. In Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, Monokuma tells the audience during a recap that he is stuck outside the building where all of the action is taking place, and therefore being excluded from the main plot, "Because nobody likes him."
  • Ruruka Ando is disliked for, among other reasons, how poorly she treats her former childhood friend Seiko, and the DNA Comics Anthology's Ruruka and Seiko chapter mercilessly mocks Ruruka for being self-absorbed and inconsiderate of others. Ruruka complains that because Seiko does everything Ruruka asks her to, and doesn't eat Ruruka's sweets, the relationship is only beneficial to Seiko. It's also indicated that not only does Ruruka not understand that Seiko can't eat sugar, but she also doesn't know that chocolate is poisonous to cats. Naturally, Seiko is utterly bewildered by the logic behind Ruruka's complaints, and Kyoko comments on Ruruka's ignorance.
• DEVILMAN crybaby: Babu and Hie getting incinerated by Akira for their gleeful treachery is very satisfying considering what they had done to their friends.
• Durarara!!:
  • People who are not fans of Mikado cheered when Chikage gave him a verbal beatdown during season 2.
  • For the viewers that hated him, Mikado stabbing Aoba in the hand with a pen was pretty satisfying.
  • Anytime karma comes Namie's way.
• Eureka Seven fans cheered when Talho (ironically, a fellow Scrappy) gave Holland a good smack across the face when he was ready to abuse Renton again. They also cheered when Renton gave Holland a Badass Boast on how he came back to the Gekkostate for Eureka.
• Fairy Tail:
  • Laxus curbstomps all of Raven Tail, after they cheated at the games to make Fairy Tail lose (negating Lucy's Moment of Awesome by stopping her from using Urano Metoria against Flare and attacking Laxus all at once while using an illusion to make it look like he was suffering a Curb-Stomp Battle from his official opponent) and were being insufferably smug about it.
  • Sting blasting a hole in Ziemma for seemingly killing Lector(Sting's Exceed companion) for the crime of being "an animal" that dared wear the guild mark. As he lies there, Minerva, his own daughter, smugly tells him that according to his own rules, he's no longer worthy of being part of Saber Tooth.
  • Even with the controversy involving how it happened, Erza beating Minerva still counts, especially with the latter begging for mercy by the end.
  • Natsu knocking out the former Council member Michello after he showed obnoxious cowardice and selfishness by abandoning his granddaughter to Jackal, trying to impose authority over the townspeople while demanding help, and insisting that he's far more important to save than a pregnant woman when Jackal puts Lucy in a Sadistic Choice over picking one not to blow up.
• In the Fate/Grand Order anime adaptation First Order, Shinji Matou has a cameo as one of Medusa's many stone victims. Then she shatters him.
• Girls Bravo: Kirie haters were quite pleased how she got a few humiliation moments here and there, getting close to Butt-Monkey status when Kosame is around.
• Green Green: In episode 9, Tadatomo of the Baka Trio is raped by a bear.
• Episode 8 of Gundam Build Fighters opens with a Continuity Cameo from the reviled G-Saviour, only for it to be quickly and unceremoniously sliced in half by Nils Nielsen's Hyaku Shiki.
  • Of course, many Western fans were actually delighted to see the G-Savior pop up, even if it got destroyed; in recent years the film earned a Narm Charm So Bad, It's Good reputation among the fandom, and its appearance in Build Fighters was the first time Sunrise had acknowledged it (Word of God was that they generally preferred to pretend the movie never existed).
• A mid-series episode of HappinessCharge Pretty Cure! had Phantom beating up an International Cure who resembled Cure Echo. However, some fans' reactions more bordered on Alas, Poor Scrappy as Dragon is seriously overpowered.
• Hunterx Hunter: People who are disappointed with Ging's terrible parenting find it glad to see Leorio punching him. It also counts as an In-Universe example as well since the punch in-action became a viral video within the Hunter Association.
• Isabelle of Paris: Many fans were put off by Jean's stalkerish behaviour towards Isabelle and his inability to take "no" for an answer. Thus, they didn't feel bad when he died.
• Junk Boy: Seeing ace journalist Aki completely tear Ryohei's ego to shreds with her soapland report is one of the few high points in the anime. It's just a shame that it gets somewhat mitigated by her slowly falling for him later on anyway.
• KanColle's Animated Adaptation gets one in episode 9: Ooi's Clingy Jealous Girl behavior reaches a head when she whines about a photo of her and Kitakami getting destroyed while ignoring the fact that the entire Naval District — the fleet girls' home — was bombed into splinters by the Abyssal Fleet. Kitakami herself says "Ooi, this isn't the time for that" while calmly trying to clean things up.
• Kill la Kill: Nui Harime gets this when she finally snaps and loses her obnoxious cool when Ryūko slices both her arms off, spraying loads of blood. Her Villainous Breakdown is just utterly satisfying. Even better, when Nui was actually kidding that her arms will recover, they don’t even recover, thus, Ryūko stepping on her decapitated arms, making Nui’s resulting Freak Out even more satisfying.
• Kirby: Right Back at Ya!:
  • Viewers can't help but smile when they see a different monster torturing Tokkori in different ways, such as the mini-monsters clutching him and plucking several feathers from him in "Monster Management" and a Scarfy eating him up and then spitting him back out in "Dedede's Pet Threat". Considering he's a Hate Sink, this may have been intentional, as even his proper debut ends with his tree getting blown up by Dedede after sabotaging Kirby's attempts to get a job.
  • Given how most of the Cappies all treat Kirby, even they can fall under this after after a while. As they're always quick to blame Kirby for a monster causing trouble in the village, instead of Dedede himself, it's not hard to find it cathartic after a while when a given monster makes them all suffer.
• In Komi Can't Communicate, Yamai is quite probably the most unpopular character because of her Yandere behavior being seen as disgusting and despicable rather than funny. Her haters enjoyed seeing her get told off by Komi when Yamai escalates her antics to actually threatening Tadano's life.
• In Kotoura-san, Hiyori was at first seen as The Scrappy after MindRaping and then bullying Haruka and also sending four adults to attack her Childhood Friend Manabe, all because Manabe dated Haruka, not her. After her Heel–Face Turn, Hiyori changes from antagonistic bully to group Butt-Monkey. The poster Haruka gets from Manabe in episode 5 (which Haruka used for laughing material) says it all. Likewise, Manabe, for a short time at least, treats Hiyori with hilarious contempt once her friendship with Haruka is solidified.
• In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1999), there's a mini-story that includes Navi getting chased around with a fly swatter, being hit numerous times. "Shut Up [Navi]!" indeed.
• Naru Narusegawa from Love Hina is a Tsundere towards Keitarou, and more than once reaches Domestic Abuser and Jerkass levels (and especially in the anime). Well, at some point Keitarou's Yandere adopted sister Kanako gets fed up and punches Naru across a hot spring because of that...and a good part of the (mostly) American fandom cheered because she was FINALLY getting called out on her bullshit.
• Magic Knight Rayearth: Whenever Primera tries to get between Hikaru and Lantis, Mokona intervenes by doing things like chasing her away or chewing her up and spitting her out.
• Quattro, the Smug Snake from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS that viewers love to hate. While her defeat by overkill from Nanoha may or may not be this, this scene from StrikerS Sound Stage X was clearly added just so that fans could point and laugh at how much she had fallen by now.
  Jail: I've been keeping myself healthy. This transparent prison is unexpectedly comfortable.
  Cinque: Uno and Tre are healthy as well.
  Jail: They haven't changed at all. Quattro has even gotten a bit fat.
• Magical Girl Site: Many readers cheered when Nana killed Sarina, only to groan in annoyance when Alice undid her death.
• MÄR: Rapunzel's antics eventually got on Phantom's nerves and he has Ian kill her to replace her amongst the Knight Ranks.
• March Comes in Like a Lion: Hina's homeroom teacher has a psychotic breakdown from all the stress of having to glance over all of her class's problems and gets hospitalized.
• MegaMan NT Warrior had the episode titled "The Purloined Princess" which brought back Yai in the show, only for the main cast to show that they are just as sick of her as the fandom.
  • Similarly, we have Slur in Stream that is considered part of the reason for the series Seasonal Rot at the point due to her poor status (her and Duo were supposed be Above Good and Evil, fans felt otherwise with her), and the fact that she NEVER LOST, EVER, even to Bass. The writers seem to eventually pick on this and after the events of the movie where Bass absorbed the powers of Nebula Grey, he brutally murders Slur by punching her through the chest.
• Gundam:
  • Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: The death of Katz Kobayashi. The kid suffers a humiliating death trying to take on Yazan Gable, fails miserably, and crashes into an asteroid. Fans consider it the high part of Zeta's gut-wrenching Bittersweet Ending.
  • In Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, we see a return appearance of Wong Lee, one of the AEUG's higher-ups. Wong was widely disliked by fans due to beating the crap out of Kamille in his first scene (Kamille arguably had it coming, but Wong really went over-the-top), and then generally being whiny and useless for the rest of the series. When he tries to administer a similar "correction" to Judau, however, Judau knees him in the gut and takes off, much to the amusement of the fanbase.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Freedom: Those who don't like Kira (a Base-Breaking Character in the Gundam SEED entries) enjoyed seeing him get punched in the face by Athrun or his MS getting bodied by the Shi-ve.A and Cal-re.A. Those who still don't like Shinn (equally a Base-Breaking Character in Destiny), enjoyed seeing him get punched by both Kira and Athrun in the face at the same time.
• The last episode of the Monster Musume anime has the unnamed couple of racist assholes apparently killed in a car crash caused by Centorea. It's probably karmic punishment because the man of the couple tried to rape Centorea, together with other thugs, in an earlier episode.
• My Hero Academia:
  • Those that still dislike Bakugo due to his horrible Establishing Character Moment consider his humiliating defeat by the Sludge Villain as this; it's even brought up by certain people in-universe who best know him as "that one hero-in-training who got embarrassed by that one villain". His haters also enjoy seeing how he was one of the only two Class 1-A students who failed the provisional hero license exam.
  • The Scrappy Mineta may be, but a Karma Houdini he is not. Nearly all of Mineta's perverted antics end with him on the receiving end of some sweet justice:
    • During the USJ incident, Mineta takes advantage of being rescued by Tsuyu to grope her breasts. She responds by violently dropping him into the boat, instead of putting him down gently like she did to Midoriya. And when he does it again while they are in the water after taking out the villains surrounding them, her response is to hold him underwater.
    • Mineta notices a peephole in the locker room, which would allow him to spy on the girls while they're changing. It turns out to be a trap set by Jiro, who uses her headphone jack to poke him in the eye.
    • One particular moment where Mineta gets punished for trying to peep on the girls in the hot springs helped propel Kota to minor Ensemble Dark Horse status. Even better, it turns out that Mandalay had Kota stand guard on the wall because she'd gotten a tip from Aizawa that one of his students was a pervert, meaning that Mineta's reputation is catching up to him.
      Kota: Before you become a hero, you should learn how to be a good human. [shoves Mineta off the dividing wall]
    • During the final fight of the joint training exercise, Mineta comes up with a strategy that has him bounce around using his sticky balls as springboards. He specifically calculated the trajectory so he would also end up bouncing into Ashido's breasts. Not only does she call him out for this, accusing him of being the worst member on the team, she is also later seen subjecting him to the Ludovico Procedure. After this, Mineta pretty much stops his perverted antics and keeps them to minimum.
• One Piece usually prefers to rescue its Scrappies and is good at doing so, but even Eiichiro Oda couldn’t salvage Absalom, a lecherous creep who’s only notable act as a villain is trying to forcibly marry Nami after drugging her. So not only did Absalom rarely appear again after his introductory arc, but his only post-Time Skip appearance was getting unceremoniously Killed Offscreen by Blackbeard and his crew so they can steal his power. Just to add insult to injury, Blackbeard doesn’t even bother taking his power for himself; it’s given to one of his henchmen. The only thing that might be legitimately sad about it is Gecko Moria's reaction to it, considering the fact that Absalom was one of the few living beings he actually gave a damn about and his trauma concerning his crew dying on him in the past (plus the fact he made a mad dash to Blackbeard's location to save Absalom).
• Persona 5: The Animation:
  • A minor case with the Camp Gay NPC duo, who take their harassment with Ryuji a little further, which seems to portray them as being even more unlikable than they already were in the game. They also don't show up in the Beach Episode.
  • Also in a minor case, Sugimura does not appear to harass Haru further during the scene where Haru watches the live broadcast of Joker's 'suicide'.
• Pokémon: The Series:
  • Trip from the Best Wishes series is one of Ash's least popular rivals for his randomly placed prejudice against Kanto and for constantly defeating Ash despite being a rookie, being one of the most irritating reminders that Ash had been reset in this region. By the end of the series, the writers didn't seem to care about him much more than the audience — rather than the usual epic final battle against the main rival, Trip is written off in a massive Anti-Climax, eliminated in a 1v1 match in the first round (in a single hit, no less).
  • After a very poor performance throughout the region (particularly in the Unova League, where she fails to get even a single hit on Cameron's Riolu), Ash's Unfezant was unceremoniously written off the show, replaced by Charizard for the final few arcs.
  • If you’re still bitter about Ash's loss at the Kalos League to Alain (and who wouldn't be?), you’ll find some catharsis in seeing Alain return in the Masters 8 arc only to be destroyed by Leon. Doubly so for his seemingly invincible Charizard, who is defeated by Leon's own Charizard without having to even Dynamax.
• The Prince of Tennis: For those who hated Ryoma, Tezuka bitchslapping him in the anime filler so he wouldn't play against Kevin is definitely this.
• Rave Master: If you had any sort of dislike towards Lucia for his actions then Haru's early No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on him will bring you a smile.
• School Days:
  • Makoto's death at the hands of Sekai.
  • And before that, Makoto getting kneed by Sekai.
• School-Live!: Chapter 54 is basically one long instance of this trope against Takahito, as the zombies he let inside end up killing nobody, he's stabbed, betrayed and threatened by his best former ally Shino, and he ends up limping away in sheer defeat before suffering a very brutal death at Ayaka's hands while also being proven wrong on his claims that he was "Chosen" to survive and lead.
• A Silent Voice has several:
  • Takeuchi-sensei, Shouko and Shouya's elementary school teacher and the shining example of Adults Are Useless, shows up when Shouya and Mashiba visit the school and he's just as shallow as ever. Fans were very satisfied to watch Mashiba - who had just been present to request that he and his friends be permitted to shoot their film at Takeuchi's school - splash the contents of his water bottle in the remorseless jackass's face.
  • Shouya, during his fight with his friends after the dropping of the Drama Bomb, delivers the following statement to Kawai, the person responsible for the dropping of said Drama Bomb:
    Shouya: Kawai, you disgust me to the very bottom of my heart. Please don't say anything else.
  • Shouko and Yuzuru's mother, a bit of a Scrappy herself, delivers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Ueno, an even bigger Scrappy after the latter had just done the same to her injured and more or less utterly defenseless daughter, Shouko. This at least partially contributed to Nishimama's being Rescued from the Scrappy Heap.
  • Early on in the story, Shouya gets an overdose of his own medicine after Nishimiya is forced to leave. This ends up leading to his becoming The Atoner, which, in turn, leads to his being Rescued from the Scrappy Heap...for most people. For those who can't bring themselves to view him sympathetically after all he had done when he was in elementary school, the entire series is pretty much this to him.
• Sonic X:
  • The anime had quite a good one when Dr. Eggman gives Chris a verbal smackdown on how he's acting like a whiny brat because if Sonic goes away his life will go back to normal.
  • A subverted example: Some fans find an earlier scene in which Chris is thrown about by Shadow a lot less entertaining than Eggman's quite understandable verbal smackdown. This seems to be due to the fact that, like Chris or loathe him, Shadow is essentially beating up a twelve year old child who cannot fight back.
• Tantei Opera Milky Holmes: In the first episode of TD, Milky Holmes arrests Kazumi. Actually wrongfully, but enough by itself.
• Tenkai Knights: In the final episode of Hostile Show Take Over Filler Arc, the Knights and Villius get fed up with it and decide to just beat Orangor and Scorpidon up.
• Transformers: Energon: A very subtle example, but Team Ironhide don't take kindly to Kicker abusing their idol. His Running Gag of kicking him in the shin ends after receiving a lengthy Death Glare (though Ironhide calls them off before anything else can be made of it).
  • One episode had him targeted by the Decepticons for his Energon-sensing abilities. Some people probably wished they succeeded or kept that plan going.
• Valvrave the Liberator has Q-Vier, the only actually evil member of the Dorssian elite team, who was otherwise composed of Anti Villains. Lacking any kind of Hidden Depths, as well as A-Drei's high-minded ideals, X-Eins' strategic prowess and even H-Neun's friendliness, Q-Vier only cared about killing people and was responsible, either directly or indirectly, for the deaths of several more sympathetic (or even just more popular) characters (the names Figaro, Aina, Lieselotte and Yamada come to mind). Therefore, when he was killed (though unintentionally) by A-Drei during the last episode, it is safe to say that nobody felt sad for him. The writers wanted it to be an Alas, Poor Villain moment, as Q-Vier died praising A-Drei for being strong and went out with a smile... but Q-Vier was just too widely hated for it to work.
• Yes! Pretty Cure 5: Milk was hated for her arrogance and her nature of causing trouble. While she started to become a bit more bearable, you can't help but feel satisfyied when she gets two "Reason You Suck" Speech from Papaya and Syrup in GoGo.
• Yu Gi Oh ARCV:
  • Futoshi seems to get this a lot from the other members of the You Show kid trio.
  • Yuya's Superpowered Evil Side biting Teppei's hand and then uppercutting him in Episode 46. Him being treated as the resident Butt-Monkey during the whole episode certainly pleased most of the fanbase at that point.

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