These character designs had no business being in a fucking scooby doo throwaway movie.Jesus christ what were the animators thinking
>>150430465>what were the animators thinking>It is the second of the first four Scooby-Doo direct-to-video films to be animated overseas by Japanese animation studio Mook Animation.>>>/a/
>>150430465Am I missing something? "Semi-real cartoon designs" have been western for a while.
>>150430633OP means they're too hot/cool looking to be one-time Scooby Doo characters
>>150430465Only Thorn is hot. The other two are just 4/10s at best. And if you really think those designs are too much, maybe you should buy some pearls to clutch.
>>150430633When did you learn you were a homosexual?
>>150430465Hey guys it's Gamo, Yoshi, and Sakura!
>>150430733>>150430589In an alternate timeline Thorn has her own anime
>>150431247hex girls kpop demon hunters i've been saying
>>150430733Stay wrong
>>150430465>NOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST HAVE ATTRACTIVE WOMEN IN CARTOONS. THAT'S OFFENSIVE TO WOMEN Kys moralfag
>>150430733Surprising realism, sad part is the other two are probably just trying too hard
>>150430733Dusk is pure lust
Didn't the Velma show tur them into frumpy dykes?
>>150431755i thirst
>>150430733>Only Thorn is hot. The other two are just 4/10s at bestThey hated him, because he spoke the truth.
>>150431755>>150431247How do I get a gf like this?
>>150430465>Jesus christ what were the animators thinkingWhere do people like you even come from that you act mystified that adult artists might draw characters that they find appealing? "Oh my God is that a traditionally attractive character I'm going INSANE" like shut the fuck up.
I can't tell if you're mad because they are (barely) provocative or because you feel no one should put effort into a home release movie.
good lord what did they do
>>150430465And you have no business being a man.
>>150433783>nose ringWHY
>>150430465People like OP genuinely come across as insane to me. Yeah they're three nominally attractive women, so what? There's nothing overtly lewd, sexual, gross, anything about them that should warrant a WHAT WERE THEY THINKING reaction.
The home release Scooby movies had decent reputation at the time though. It's not weird an animator or character designer would put soul into the projects given chance.
>>150430465>in a fucking scooby doo throwaway movie.Monster Island and the Cartoon Network reruns of the original series, along with the weird experimental bumpers they did with the characters like that Blair Witch Project parody, GREATLY revived interest in the series around this time. This was basically guaranteed to be a hit.>Jesus christ what were the animators thinking"Let's draw some hot girls for the hot girl band" I guess? The fuck about them is so shocking to you?
Wasn't this literally the movie right after Zombie Island? Revival Scooby Doo was considered cool around this time. These girls fit right in with the vibe. You're probably mixing it up with the more sterilized approach from What's New Scooby Doo and several movies after this.
>>150433783>Jennifer Hale (season 2) as Thorn, the former lead vocalist and guitarist of the eco-gothic rock band The Hex Girls, and is the mother of Amber>the non-binary goth child of ThornARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
>>150433783>5) Don't ruin cartoon goth girls
>>150433783The creator of that show just hated Scooby-doo, of course she'd deliberately try to ruin things for everyone in a way that made no sense. Wasn't Thorn YOUNGER than the gang?
Seeing Thorn as a little kid literally shaped my taste in the female aesthetic for the rest of my life. And I didn't realize it until I was much older.
>>150430465They were thinking "we want the Chippettes and/or the Powerpuff Girls but hip and edgy."
>>150433685delete system 32
>>150434383I think they were around the same age originally, at least in their intro movie and the first show they appeared in. Then I think they were a bit older in Mystery Inc, since they weren't going to school like the rest of the gang. Either way, that Velma design is dogshit.
Do you prefer Luna being white or brown?
>>150436185It's so weird how she was almost looked like an entirely different character in What's New when all of her other appearances are relatively close to her Witch's Ghost look
>>150432887All they had to do was keep their original designs. They could lez out all they want and no one would have complained.
>>150436279Overseas animators probably misread the character sheetsAnd American team probably didn’t see an issue with it since the character isn’t exactly the most notable character in scooby doo
If the hex girls were real they'd all be BPD turbosluts with multiple tattoos and triple digit body counts
>>150437799youre mind poisoned
>>150436185Dusk was improved at least
>>150430465That drummer is just my type
>>150436185Was she ever white? Even as a kid I knew she was supposed to be black, she's basically just goth Tina Turner
>>150430733drink lead paint
>>150439844Can't, they don't sell lead paint in stores anymore :(
>>150436185I prefer her olive skin from the original, everything else is either too dark or too light
>>150430465hmmmm...
You just know someone working on this show noticed this and thought:>hey these characters are extremely popular>maybe they should have a spinoff that focuses on themAnd some retard in management said no to the idea when it was brought up. There is no way this didn't happen.
>>150436185I guess originally she was just a girl in a tan but they end up raceswapping her
>>150433783same energy
>>150430465faux outrage thread?faux outrage thread.
>>150441116How did you guess
>>150430465Scooby Doo is the height of the medium.
>>150433783>>150440882ultra KEK
>>150437750Suppose that could be it, though a bit of a weird oversight when the character still pretty new at the time and had an easily notable source to be found in. While Witch's Ghost wasn't as big as Zombie Island, it still had a decent following of its own.
Man, it is really obvious now that the studio doing these films are based out of Japan.
OP clearly wanted a Hex Girls thread, but knew that only drama can keep a thread active. Shame he had to stoop to that.
>>150440385There was one in development.It got canned in favor of Velma.
The What's New Scooby-Doo era was definitely their worst.>pale white Luna>purple dress Thorn with no red highlights/lighting in hair or dress>somehow Dusk is consistentBut hey, nothing's perfect.
>>150440613Aren't the Hex Girls just Josie and the Pussy Cats expies? If so than she was always black.
>>150444788Yea, of the three, she was pretty much 1:1, just lacking the highlights that really helped make her and the other girls feel like gothic beauties. Thorn at times felt like a chick in a wig, and the less said about that version of "Luna", the better.
I really dont think OP was complaining, even as a troll. They just wrote "what were they thinking" because catchphrase in OP = more replies for some reason
>>150444810I mean, not really? Themed bands have been a thing for roughly a century now. Not to mention Josie the Pussy Cats were a pop group, while the Hex Girls are goth rock. And while they're played up as sexy, they're dressed more conservatively compared to Josie and her band.That said, apparently there have been on/off plans to try and spin the Hex Girls off into their own show, as Jennifer Hale (Thorn) has said she'd love to see that, and I think Luna's VA even mentioned how it would be fun to make more songs for the band.
God, they're ethereal...https://youtu.be/1P_BlUY2eF4
>>150430465Thorn mogs
>>150444991Would kill to get a full album of them. If things like Gorillaz and the Old Gods of Asgard can have loads of albums, don't see why the Hex Girls can't.
>>150445207closest thing is the soundtrack album for Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost movie
>>150444991That little thing she does with her hands during the "cobweb potion" line is horribly suggestive...
>>150445407Aren't the songs the same cut as in the movie though?
why aren't the hex girls eco-goths anymore, that was their whole point and it was removed pretty much instantly
>>150445707Pretty sure they still were, it just wasn't brought up as much in most of the other shows
>>150430465>These character designs>the powerpuff girls grew up and turned into generic le heckin goth girl gferinosTruly the pinnacle of character design. Wasted, I say, WASTED on scooby doo
>>150433783I don't think the velma design is that bad as an aged former rockstar in her fourties. i'd scrap the nose ring and give back the original colour scheme, though.
>>150445096Would still Dusk
>>150430465Zoinks!
>>150430465Yeah
Why is there no good r34?
>>150430465>Jesus christ what were the animators thinkingSex. That's what.
>>150433783Jesus....
>>150430465The dog is keyed so the women are too. Remove the dog, remove the attractive women.
I feel like I'm the only one that prefers Dusk over the others.
>>150437799In the 2025 yeah, when this came out goth girls were mostly nice girls acting edgy to keep normies away because they secretly just wanted to write vampire romance stories or whatever, these days they're just crazy normies who dress that way because of fetish memes and wanting to be BBC sluts
>>150446239Like, zoinks Scooby, my pants are feeling tight!
>>150447938Always preferred Luna, but for some reason I keep thinking about being the target of playful teasing from Dusk. I think that one scene from Witch's Ghost kinda rubbed off on me.
>>150447938Nah, I've liked her more than Thorn and Luna too
>>150430465EARTHWINDFIRE AND AIR
>>150430733yea the black eyebrows and lips with blonde hair look godawful, dusk would look better with a preppie's style
>>150434383>Wasn't Thorn YOUNGER than the gang?how the hell is that even possible? she doesn't look younger than 20isn't the gang all 18?
>>150433783Is she suppose to be older on the right, like 20 years older?
>>150430975Fuck, now I can’t unsee it
>>150450920In the new movies, starting with Zombie Movies, they were somewhere in their 20s, since Daphne had a television show and Velma was running her own book store. Of course, that only last until about maybe 2007-2010, give or take. Then they seem to have shift the gang back into being "meddling kids" (15-17) for the next several years of movies, only sometimes jumping around with the ages. Scoob I think had them being close to adults since they were driving all over the country, and those horrid "sequel" movies seems to put the gang in their late teens, since they're set far enough ahead of the previous stuff that characters like Flim Flam are young men
>>150450882You look godawful
>>150433783you know they did this to reactionbait right
>>150441116I was in agreement, then>>150444741Now I am genuinely displeased.
>>150451190Making a show intentionally bad is pretty retarded, even if it's meant to "farm rage", that's literally the same thing as spending thousands of your own dollars just to pull a prank on a few people.
>>150437799>Let me complain about women, also I have never been kissed and they owe me sexKill yourself
>>150451162your mom didn't think so
>>150444868Dusk is perfect in her original configuration
>>150447938You are NOT
>>150451327She was pretty cute in MI
>>150451307>implying he's wrong about how a lot of modern women areProject harder
>>150451380>Cheerleader Fuck ALL the way off
Thorn is so cuteDusk just looks like the shizo vamp from VtMBThe redheaded girl is forgettable
>>150451392>disagreement is projectionYou must be 18+ and not ESL to use this site
>>150451380the latinx definitely got an upgrade in MI
>>150451307>Let me complain about womenYes>also I have never been kissedYes>they owe me sexYes
>>150443773it being new is probably why it was an oversightmost of the team probably wasn't familiar with the character since its more likely they didn't even see the movie despite a writer wanting to push this ideawhen the mistake happened no one who would have cared wouldn't have noticed or they did but since the character was still so new and not really notable the team decided to ignore it so they wouldn't have to use budget on corrections for a cameo appearance anyways
>>150436107Alright. Now what?
>>150451403Those are just pigtails you fucking moron, she's not even wearing a cheerleader outfit
>>150451424Didn't say a single thing that was ESL, newfag
>>150451508Disarm your armadillos
>>150451433Pretty sure Luna's just ambiguous brown, much like Alex was in Totally Spies
They weren't too bad in Guess Who, the show definitely had fun making all of the girls pretty curvy besides just Daphne and Velma
>>150431247This is just goth mary jane.
>>150452226Fucking garbo
>>150431247>>150452300That is why it is kino of the highest order with Jennifer Hale's sultry/macabre/sexy/cute voice belting out some lyrics while Thorn's deep and dark scarlet hair sways to the music. Later in the movie she's also cute when she is flustered/surprised by her actual connection to witches. I'm sad unlimited was the only time she played MJ.Also goth MJ just works like PB&J. A perfect alt look for her just as Peter's black suit is a perfect alt to bust out once in a while.I like the final song too even if it is not as a high point as cast a spell on you. Also them being ecogoths helps them be justified for showing up more in a highschool setting or at multiple places where the gang investigates somewhere. Just have the person behind the MOTW mask be enviornmentally polluting stuff too.An arc where they split up to do different things could also be done in a mystery inc type show.
>>150452226They look like Mike Tyson Mysteries background characters.Also I watched the episode they were in and it was so boring. Like unsettlingly boring. I forgot scenes as they were happening, they were so boring. I thought I fell asleep towards the end. I can't even remember if it was 11 minutes or 22. I remember the commercials that aired more than anything in that ep. The whole of Guess Who was like this, all except the Christian Slater episode.Also, who was that lesbian (?) with the tumblr sidecut that they kept shilling? Some OC?
>>150452333wrong
>>150452616and that's bad how? MTM had some pretty great girls, not to mention that was literally aping the HB style, not unlike how Venture Bros aped Johnny Quest early on
>>150452864I didn't say it was a bad thing. I like the style. Ben 10 omniverse, the Looney Tunes Show, and Mystery Incorporated kind of gave me those vibes too.
>>150452501We *did* have an alt-MJ at one point.The show died pretty quick from what I remember though
>>150433783Welp.They do look like they've aged 25 years.
>>150433783NuThorn is hot. 100% would.
>>150453758Oh yes I know. But it isn't emo/goth enough aesthetically. But it is still a kino design.
>>150455523Yea, that was more of (then) modern chic fashion, which probably has a lot of intersection with other fashion styles at the time. It was definitely a pretty nice design, not tying itself wholly to the look MJ had in the Raimi film, even though that was meant to be part of the canon, at least to some extent.
>>150453758That design was hot.
>>150455643Kind of reminds me of TMNT2k3 April, just with a different do and style
The hex girls are purpose made for bbc
They're too good for Scooby slop
>>150431358Fuck me, that's brilliant. Touring the country or world as muscians, while solving mysteries or fighting actual monsters on the side.
Thorn owes me sex.
>>150457837Thorn is pure she doesn't even know what sex is.
>>150458575No woman who exposes her shoulders is ignorant of sex.
What's the closest thing we have to a real Thorn? Cristina Scabbia? She's kind of old now, like really old.
>>150430465Suppose you can take some comfort that they're a part of the meta mythology of Scooby Doo. They as much of a part of it as Scrappy, Johnny Bravo, and Batman.
>>150458716i think they were loosely based off siouxsie sioux
>>150459049Thorn looks nothing like Siouxsie, though. If anything, she looks more like a 90s-ified Vampira or one of those other 50s/60s proto-Goth girls.
>>150459049After skimming her Wikipedia, is she basically the first well-known woman to take all the goth fashion and use it? Like to make it known to people? I also saw her cat eye make up was a signature so was that something she made up and was she the first goth or punk person to wear a swastika arm band? I only have seen that image of Sonic wearing one in a fan art piece in a old british gaming magazine so I always found punk and goths wearing nazi shit weird if they wanted to shock people only. If so, damn, that's a lot of shit that originates with her. Gaiman's death falls under that as well to some extent. Also any /mu/ anons know her music? Must be pretty good?>>150455608Yeah MJ does benefit from a lot of civilian fashion designs/costumes/outfits. Too bad the hex girls doesn't get more civvie stuff. Her in pj's like Daphne and Velma in that one movie...hoo...mama.>>150452501Also forgot to say but at the risk of sounding like a cringey femdom fag, Thorn alongside Misty and probably some others like Martian Queen, Jenny, and Raven were like my first cartoon crushes like everybody else, but Thorn specifically I think was when I saw a sexy woman and I was intimidated by her. Like intimidated by her beauty and all the other qualities like singing and sweetness. I think part of that stemmed from desiring her but knowing that it's a cartoon and that an IRL equivalent wouldn't like me as much. And I was like elementary school age. Already I was kinda down on myself. But eh, I guess I was realistic in some sense.Either way, Jennifer Hale saying "cast" in that breathy voice and then going deep and low on the rest of the lyric is peak sex. The quick movement of the blonde one in the background being pushed aside and Thorn coming to focus while her hand elegantly points at you all in one motion is actually the literal definition of the words kinography/cinematography/framing/pacing/blocking.
>>150460432>Also any /mu/ anons know her music? Must be pretty good?I like Siouxsie's music, but it changes wildly between albums (and even within albums, really)If you're expecting recognizably goth stuff a la the Smiths or Type O or Sisters of Mercy you're not really going to find it. The album Juju is pretty gothic but most of them are more like post-punk or weird, artsy pop-adjacent stuff
>>150445707Yeah they were wiccans, eco-conscious witches. All that Mother Gaia kinda stuff.
>>150460432They did get some decent outfit changes the few times they showed up in Mystery Incorporated, which was pretty fun to see and fits with them being a popular band that probably change their style day by day to excite the fans.
