If you told me that the entire team behind “Velma” had never seen any Scooby Doo media besides the first 10 minutes of the 2002 live action film I would believe you
My idea for a scooby do reboot would be the gang attempting to stage their own fake supernatural horror in a Halloween mask because people have stopped doing it and they feel the new group of 15 year old mystery solvers need it for their constitution.
“Supernatural was not a real show and you can’t convince me otherwise.”
This is from the lasted episode of the fabulous and talented Mike’s Mic. This is a tiny joke from a video where he is reviewing Scooby Doo (2002) so don’t come for him. I just screamed at this part and had to share😂😂😂
Accidentally deleted my response but basically in 2002 James Gunn made the highly popular 1st live action Scooby Doo movie, and decided to make Scrappy Doo the villain due to a personal hatred of the character. At this point Scrappy hadn't been in a Scooby series or movie in almost 15 years. Scrappy, a fiercely loyal, brave, and curious puppy is made into an unrepentant monster in the film, and I mean that literally as Gunn includes a scene where Scrappy channels the spirit of a demon to give himself a monster form in an attempt to murder his family. This is AFTER Gunn has him literally steal their souls and possess their bodies by demon ghosts btw. Gunn did pretty much everything he possibly could to make Scrappy seem as disgusting and repugnant as possible for NO reason other than personal satisfaction and popularizing his hate of the character to nuclear levels in the popular culture. To this day, the mere mention of Scrappy either online or in person prompts "jokes" about him, which are oftentimes just highly graphic descriptions of his death/murder. (Again this character is like 7 or smth) This is all for the crime of being kind of annoying in an 80s children's cartoon btw (and pissing off a powerful director)
Propaganda:
Scrappy Doo fans have almost no chance to see their character in a positive portrayal even when writers are on their sides, due to an executive mandate against using the character. This was seen in the recent movie "Scooby-Doo and the Curse of the 13th Ghost" (a follow up movie to the series where he was a core main character) where writers wanted to use him but weren't allowed. The only mention of him came from his best friend asking where he was, only for his family to respond "What's a Scrappy", not even knowing of his existence. (This is the most positive Scrappy mention since the early 80s)