Did anyone else get deeply confused by the hatred for Scrappy-Doo on the internet when they were younger?
>>152999408It frankly still confuses me. Scrappy didnt start this trope either. There's plenty of analogues to Scrappy in various other shows, yet Scrappy is always the lightning rod.
>>152999408Blame James Gunn
I'm surprised there hasn't been a revival of Scrappy. He needs some love.
>>152999408The overwhelming defense for Scrappy on this board has looped around to the point where Scrappy hatred is the contrarian thing now.
>>152999509This. That preschool show they were working on would have been the perfect opportunity to repair his public image.
>>152999507He was hated long before the movie
I saw him when he first came out on TVhe was universally hated then as well
>>152999630Nah i still hate him
>>152999408I had never heard of anyone hating Scrappy Doo when I was a kid.
>>152999507>>152999556Yeah the "Scrappy is annoying and the villain" was in the movie because he already had a reputation of being annoying.Not for everybody though, plenty of kids actually liked Scrappy. >>152999750I feel like kids accepted or even liked him more often than not, and that it was mostly the older kids or adults who thought he was stupid/annoying.
>>152999529It's cyclical I imagine. Scrappy hate went so far that people started feeling sympathy for him.
>>152999408no, because everyone i knew hated scrappy
>>152999408I disliked him as a kid because he kept causing trouble with his overconfidence, and often ruined plans because he'd have to be rescued after trying to fight the villain.
>>152999509he wasnt revived in Nelma?
>>152999408No, I also hated the yappy little shit. His>Lemme at 'em! Lemme at 'em!shit gets old real fast.
>>152999408I thought he was cute, I never got the hate.
>>152999408I find it retarded when writers decides they hate a character they created as if they're real.You made the fucker, you have the power to make them not annoying.
>>152999408i think it's a pre minions and pre smurfs prophecy. small clones are jsut destined to be hated unless the writers make some character development and scooby is really not the type of plot cartoon even in mystery inc where THEY STILL made a joke that he is terrible puppy.
I remember he being a fool of himself, and mostly messing up stuff, characters will be hidding and he will come out and almost getting "killed" just so scooby or shaggy had to save him.and not really doing much most of the times, not at least intentionaly.
>>152999408Scrappy SAVED the series.
>>152999408I think Scrappy-hate was a psyop of sorts, like all the anti-Barney stuff that came out.
My exposure with Scrappy was the Red Shirt movies where he seemed helpful and fun; a weird replacement for the role that Freddy and Velma had on the traditional Scooby Doo team but endearing in his own way. Actually, I think there were points where Shaggy got to intuit the mystery too so it wasn't just Scrappy solving it either which was a nice change to see. The jokes that he was annoying was funny at first because when I watched the Scrappy series after the movies he did feel annoying but the Scrappy Hate always felt overblown to me. Scrap could easily become an endearing character with a little love from a new series given how much he idolizes Scooby and how interested he is in mysteries in general but it feels like there's a mandate that requires he's a horrible little gremlin since the Gunn movies happened.
>>152999408>>152999750Me either. The first time I heard anything negative about Scrappy was in some CN bumper.>Scrappy es el que no tiene talentohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMizlChObFA
>>153000146This. I liked him for a few weeks as a kid, but then he just started to irritate me.
If you don't hate Scrappy then you didn't watch him enough.
>>152999408Not really surprised, even as a kid I considered him an extremely annoying little cunt.
>>152999630I never bothered hate watching this show. I knew it was trash from when I saw the first preview art. Why do people hate watch shows that are obviously not going to be good? Same thing with Santa Inc
>>152999556He was hated by most kids when his original series aired. It was only a particular type of autistic faggot american that liked him.And the OP is a persistent scrappy history revisionist who posts this shit regularly. he will now claim that scrappy "saved the franchise".
>>153005156Majority of people's exposure to Velma extends to random posts like this, or YouTube reviews all hating on it. The negative attention Velma gets does nothing to help its actual performance. Much less after S1 where everyone was too exhausted by it to even discuss how bad it was. The only positive following it has are culture war people who pretend to like it to spite everyone else, and that audience vanishes the instant some other flavor of the month issue comes around.
>>152999408I get deeply confused by Scrappy Doo appreciation on the internet. Growing up there were a lot of Scooby Doo reruns on TV and i always hated episodes with Scrappy Doo. Everyone in my family and at school also hated Scrappy Doo. The only place i ever see him being liked is on the internet.
>>153006536Scrappy Doo was a hero. We just couldn't see it.
>>153007159Same. My sister would just change the channel. Nobody liked him.
>>152999408When he's "My Uncle Scooby is the greatest! Go fight that monster!" he's tolerable when he's "We have Henery Hawk at home" he's annoying.
Here’s a next level question, why didn’t you hate scooby doo as a whole? Like weren’t these kids just doing the SAME thing all the time? It’s always a person in a costume, and all their weird shirts just some pulleys or a mirror with smoke
>>152999408Is it surprising that ever since his original run Scrappy gets only treated as a villain? The movie, Velma show, that one off joke in Mystery Inc., and the spin-off comic.
>>152999408No, he was/is annoying.
>>153008031>Looks away>Looks back>Pic rel
>>153004699>If you don't hate Scrappy then you didn't watch him enough.I saw a lot of Scrappy when I was a kid and thought nothing of him.
>>153008248Scooby Doo is great because it teaches kids an important life lesson: Any time you think somethiing supernatural is happening, if you look hard enough, you'll find that somewhere behind it all is an asshole who wants to trick you to get money.
>>153008697What the fuck am I looking at?
>>153009337Shaggy and Scooby's secret family
>>152999408In my era, there was pre-Scrappy and post-Scrappy cartoons.Pre-Scrappy was generally a (for the medium, and target audience, idea recycling and stereotypical 'once per episode' things aside) intelligent mystery being solved by the Mystery Machine gang. Whatever the ghosts/monsters/aliens/etc were, they were (mostly!) actually humans in rubber-masks doing something for understandable (if criminal) reasons, and it took Those Darn Kids to work out what was really happening, up until the very literal removal of the masks. Plenty of hi-jinks, always Scooby and Shaggy (entirely taken in, for the most part) were running away from actually scary things, over a good length story with plenty of development.When Scrappy arrived, it was in shorts with (I think) just him, Scoob and Shaggy (occasionally another of the 'Doo' family, like the hick). These three (or so) were randomly encountering 'actual' ghosts, monsters, aliens, whatever, getting scared, running away, pretty much nothing special. Except the slapstick, like 'inviting the Frankenstein to lunch' or 'getting the werewolf to get a barber-shop shave' distractions, which I'm sure happened in the pre-Scrappy era too, as part of the rest of the Gang's plan to use Shaggy and Scooby to act as a distraction on the way to reveal the Reveal.Also, pre-Scrappy, there weren't really so many "talking animals". Scoob sort-of-talks, as Shaggy would understand and the rest of the gang would at least get the idea of, but any other creatures (werewolves, fish-monsters, etc) that talked or otherwise vocalised were humans-in-masks. Scrappy-era, every member of the Doo family that joined them talked (country yokel accent, high-class-glass type accent, whatever their stereotype) and it was far less "real world with extaordinary plots" and just "fantasy cartoon world". Where every conceivable myth is true, but encountered, run away from and never *ever* resolved. No 'solution', no 'gang'.
>>153010419>(summary, that didn't fit above)Obviously, since the original introduction of Scrappy, there have been far *more* versions of the Scooby Doo format, with and without Scrappy, with and without 'real mysteries', even mixing up "real ghosts remain, once the entirely human criminal caper has been identified" or other twists.But, in general, I have always prefered it without the Scrappy element. Seems aimed at a younger 'cartoon scares' audience, even as I grew old enough to perhaps not be the prime target for the original mystery-format. Maybe I'm just the wrong age to have first encountered Scrappy when he was what my head would have liked best. But, honestly, I'm happy if I can do without him entirely.
>>152999408Yes
>>153009337Scooby Doo spent a show doing missions for the Sorcerer Supreme. NBD.
>>153008697The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo kicked ass
>>153011582Scooby-Doo kicked 13 ghost's asses?
>>153011627Damn straight he did
>>153008697I cant believe they got Nasser for this.
Obligatory Scrappy-Doo Rants commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6juEOmOaYVk
>>153008031yeah after velma's season 2 finale
My understanding is that Scrappy was broadly popular to start off with, but people started to turn against him after Fred, Velma and Daphne were basically written out due to issues with their voice actors. And it didn't help that his increased prominence coincided with changes that were polarizing at best, such as introducing real monsters.
>>153014060>after Fred, Velma and Daphne were basically written out due to issues with their voice actors.Honestly I liked the Shaggy Scooby and Scrappy dynamic better than the original team
>>152999408yes, it was my blackpill that nobody liked and actively hated manlets.
>>153014060I dunno about your timeline, it doesn't feel like it took very long. I just remember being hyped for a new season of Scooby Doo stuff, and in the next few weeks being completely sick of this annoying little dog, and me and my sister going "what else is on?"
>>152999408It came as a bit of a surprise, yes.
More like Crappy Poo
>>153014142What did Fred bring to the group? What does he do other than saying "let's split" and "traps"?
>>153015751Chad big-swingin'-dick energy
>>153015773The evidence is right there
>>152999408I didn't start using internet regularly until I was in middle school, and by then I no longer gave a shit about Scooby Doo. That was around 2008 or 9. When I was a kid I never even really registered any Scooby characters other than the monsters. Charlie the robot, the Space Kook, the Zombie Island catpeople, the girls that turned into aliens in the alien movie, the tar monster, that creepy episode of Daphne's uncle hypnotized and turning into an old man, Dracula and the annoying dwarves in the werewolf movie, all those characters were way more entertaining than Shaggy, Scooby, Scrappy and the rest of the gang.
>>152999408There was no internet when I was younger. I did not like Scrappy Doo because he was annoying. I always preferred the original series run over the follow up shows as a kid
>>152999408smug lil shit
I was just confused that nothing I saw with Scrappy in it had any mysteries.
>>152999408i hate this dog
>>152999408 I LOVE this dog! <3
>>152999408Yeah I loved that little guy. If I never went on Tvtropes, I'd never know he was a deeply hated character
>>153020229>going onto TV Tropes >ever
>>152999408I can understand not liking Scrappy. I don't understand when you get an opportunity to use him again and just write "man, he was annoying, eh audience?" Over and over. Like don't use him if he pisses you off so much.
