Kim Cressly is one of the characters from the Big Nate series in both the books and comics alike. She is an obsessive girl who constantly hits on the protagonist, Nate Wright and tries to make him date her despite him not being into her.
What Makes Her a Scrappy?[]
- Kim Cressly hardly serves any purpose in the stories other than being a bland female bully towards other students, especially Nate and she constantly beats them up simply for insulting her or when he refuses to do whatever she says. While other characters like Randy Betancourt is also a bully, he has interesting aspects, such as dealing with parental divorce and improving later on, and traits that make him a compelling opponent to the protagonists and gets his just desserts. Kim has none of these qualities and hardly changed as a character.
- She is disliked for her design, which is especially ugly, plain, and unappealing to the Big Nate fans.
- She is extremely notorious for trying to force romance on Nate all while being insensitive and disrespectful of his personal space when they are in the same strip, and the fact that these two are eleven-year-old six graders make it even worse since they are too young to go on dates anyway. Even when it tries to be funny, it fails due to these scenarios hitting too close to home for many people.
- Kim is at her worst when she threatened a girl who has a crush on Nate and ruining her chances at being in a relationship with him which Nate groans that he is going to die alone, which makes one feel sorry for him.
- Just the fact alone that she never gets any actual comeuppance for her abusive actions makes the fans hate her even more and wish someone would successfully put her in her place enough to be satisfying. Her increase of appearances in recent years make the hatred towards her even worse.
- Her "love" for Nate is far from genuine, as she came across as a child version of a female domestic abuser who makes Nate's life miserable, even more so than any of the jerk students.
- What is especially insulting is that one of the scenes has a very strong dissonance in moral values when Nate's dad, instead of reporting the incident to the school board and possibly the police, just stands by and somehow considers such a relationship lovable while doing nothing to protect his own son, which is extremely offensive, especially to survivors of domestic abuse of all types, since their relationship is toxic and abusive.