A character's story should be concluded, seeing if they were supposed to be hated or get due karma, before judging them as a Scrappy or not. However, due to becoming a Karma Houdini, he ended up being hated for reasons other than the creators intended, to the point they publicly apologized for it and wrote Bendy out of the show afterwards. Example Bendy was meant to be a Hate Sink due to his obnoxious actions. While such characters can overlap with The Scrappy, they have to be hated for different reasons than intended that detract from the work's enjoyability. Similarly, Chica's Magic Rainbow is an extremely obnoxious jerk that did detract from her work, but as she's written to be annoying and mean on purpose, she doesn’t qualify either. ![]() Examples Villains such as Ramsay Bolton, Dolores Umbridge and Micah Bell are not generally thought of as detracting from the works in which they appear, and were supposed to be horribly loathsome people that the audience would despise. They can be well-received by adding to the enjoyability of the work, if only for the satisfaction of them getting karma. Unintentionally hated by the audience: If this character is supposed to be hated due to being a villain or Jerkass, and their cruel actions are treated as such by the narrative, that's a Hate Sink.For any character to truly solidify themselves as a Scrappy in the eyes of the audience, all of the following criteria have to be met. It's not enough that the character be hated, however. We call this guy The Scrappy: a character that the audience hates to see. But sometimes, there is a character who instead has a hatedom. There are popular characters that have fandoms. ![]() Lore Fitzgerald Sjoberg, The Book of Ratings
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