Discussion History Main / TheScrappy

It\\\'s certainly wrong to assume that, just because a character has a huge hatedom, EVERYONE dislikes them, or even necessarily the significant majority of the fanbase. Scrappy Doo, it must be said, has garnered a big enough backlash for even the franchise to turn against him (Scrappy Doo seldom shows up in any contemporary Scooby Doo productions, but when he does, it\\\'s to be the object of ridicule - see the live action \\\"Scooby Doo\\\" film for the most extreme example), so he seems an appropriate enough trope namer. Which is not to suggest that the character doesn\\\'t have his fans, or people who feel ambivalent about him (this troper personally falls into the latter camp). In my view, Scrappy just happens to be a fashionable character to bash right now, irrespective of whether or not one even considers themselves to be a fan of Scooby Doo - people like to forget that, when he was first introduced, the show\\\'s waning ratings suddenly picked up. In the years that followed, HB definitely went overkill with the character, to the point where they even dropped the mystery solving element of Scooby Doo in favour of a cartoon consisting of nothing but chase scenes with Scooby and Scrappy (and actual ghosts, to boot), which I suspect accounts for a lot of the resentment. Perhaps it\\\'s unfair that Scrappy has been the object of so much hatred while the Great Gazoo, deemed as being the Flinstone\\\'s equivilent character, is all but forgotten (and, unlike Scrappy, Gazoo wasn\\\'t even all that popular to begin with - the Flinstones was cancelled soon after his arrival). Mark Evanier, who played a role in developing Scrappy has stated his belief that Scrappy haters are \\\"few in number but loud in voice\\\". But, regardless of whether or not Scrappy haters truly respresent the majority of the fanbase, and whether a lot of these haters actually despise him as much as they claim or are just following the fashion, Scrappy hatred has become a big enough phenomenon for even Scooby Doo itself to feel the need to take pot shots at him.

Even though I\\\'m not a fan of Scrappy Doo, I have seen one or two other characters listed under this trope who I personally am rather fond of, and furthermore am covinced that, just because one troper and a few of their online friends might have had a grudge against them, they do not represent how the majority of the fanbase feels. Which goes back to what I said about this being subjective.

It\\\'s certainly wrong to assume that, just because a character has a huge hatedom, EVERYONE dislikes them, or even necessarily the significant majority of the fanbase. Scrappy Doo, it must be said, has garnered a big enough backlash for even the franchise to turn against him (Scrappy Doo seldom shows up in any contemporary Scooby Doo productions, but when he does, it\\\'s to be the object of ridicule - see the live action \\\"Scooby Doo\\\" film for the most extreme example), so he seems an appropriate enough trope namer. Which is not to suggest that the character doesn\\\'t have his fans, or people who feel ambivalent about him (this troper personally falls into the latter camp). In my view, Scrappy just happens to be a fashionable character to bash right now, irrespective of whether or not one even considers themselves to be a fan of Scooby Doo - people like to forget that, when he was first introduced, the show\\\'s waning ratings suddenly picked up. In the years that followed, HB definitely went overkill with the character, to the point where they even dropped the mystery solving element of Scooby Doo in favour of a cartoon consisting of nothing but chase scenes with Scooby and Scrappy (and actual ghosts, to boot), which I suspect accounts for a lot of the resentment. Perhaps it\\\'s unfair that Scrappy has been the object of so much hatred while the Great Gazoo, deemed as being the Flinstone\\\'s equivilent character, is all but forgotten (and, unlike Scrappy, Gazoo wasn\\\'t even all that popular to begin with - the Flinstones was cancelled soon after his arrival). Mark Evanier, who played a role in developing Scrappy has stated his belief that Scrappy haters are \\\"few in number but loud in voice\\\". But, regardless of whether or not Scrappy haters truly respresent the majority of the fanbase, and whether a lot of these haters actually despise him or are just following the fashion, Scrappy hatred has become a big enough phenomenon for even Scooby Doo itself to feel the need to take pot shots at him.

Even though I\\\'m not a fan of Scrappy Doo, I have seen one or two other characters listed under this trope who I personally am rather fond of, and furthermore am covinced that, just because one troper and a few of their online friends might have had a grudge against them, they do not represent how the majority of the fanbase feels. Which goes back to what I said about this being subjective.

It\\\'s certainly wrong to assume that, just because a character has a huge hatedom, EVERYONE dislikes them, or even necessarily the significant majority of the fanbase. Scrappy Doo, on the other hand, has garnered a big enough backlash for even the franchise to turn against him (Scrappy Doo seldom shows up in any contemporary Scooby Doo productions, but when he does, it\\\'s to be the object of ridicule - see the live action \\\"Scooby Doo\\\" film for the most extreme example), so he seems an appropriate enough trope namer. Which is not to suggest that the character doesn\\\'t have his fans, or people who feel ambivalent about him (this troper personally falls into the latter camp). In my view, Scrappy just happens to be a fashionable character to bash right now, irrespective of whether or not one even considers themselves to be a fan of Scooby Doo - people like to forget that, when he was first introduced, the show\\\'s waning ratings suddenly picked up. In the years that followed, HB definitely went overkill with the character, to the point where they even dropped the mystery solving element of Scooby Doo in favour of a cartoon consisting of nothing but chase scenes with Scooby and Scrappy (and actual ghosts, to boot), which I suspect accounts for a lot of the resentment. Perhaps it\\\'s unfair that Scrappy has been the object of so much hatred while the Great Gazoo, deemed as being the Flinstone\\\'s equivilent character, is all but forgotten (and, unlike Scrappy, Gazoo wasn\\\'t even all that popular to begin with - the Flinstones was cancelled soon after his arrival). Mark Evanier, who played a role in developing Scrappy has stated his belief that Scrappy haters are \\\"few in number but loud in voice\\\". But, regardless of whether or not Scrappy haters truly respresent the majority of the fanbase, and whether a lot of these haters actually despise him or are just following the fashion, Scrappy hatred has become a big enough phenomenon for even Scooby Doo itself to feel the need to take pot shots at him.

Even though I\\\'m not a fan of Scrappy Doo, I have seen one or two other characters listed under this trope who I personally am rather fond of, and furthermore am covinced that, just because one troper and a few of their online friends might have had a grudge against them, they do not represent how the majority of the fanbase feels. Which goes back to what I said about this being subjective.