Talk:Flutter Brutter/@comment-24245960-20160428183736/@comment-27161581-20160502153739

You are blatantly incorrect. Any unliked character can be many different things, such as a hate sink, a character who is designed to be hated, but still does beneficial things for story, such as good villain.

Also due to the subjective nature of likability, the thing that separates such characters from scrappies is their ability to not detract from the story. A character who is a Scrappy ends up contributing little to the overarching goals of storytelling, while a heat sink still services the narrative in a positive manner.

Here you can read about the two terms as they are commonly defined.

Hate Sink / Scrappy