#scooby-doo mystery incorporated

[elijones94]

🐾 Daphne hugging Scooby 💜

[gaiash]

Mystery Inc Allies

There have been a few addition main characters in Scooby-Doo media and it only made sense to draw them too.

Marcie Fleach (Hot Dog Water) My main influence was her outfit from Menace of the Manticore. Like Velma I gave her a Hex Girls badge.

Flim-Flam Curse of the 13th Ghost was my main influence for his outfit but unlike that movie I didn't make him suddenly older.

Vincent Van Ghoul I took elements from his classic and Mystery Incorporated designs and threw in some Doctor Strange influence.

Scooby-Dum Since I already went with a round tag for Scrappy I went with a similar tag to Scooby's but at a different angle.

Angel Dynamite (Cassidy Williams) I mixed her season 1 and 2 designs together for this look.

Robi The only real change I made to this design was making him shorter and making the visible buttons on his "shirt" rather than his "jacket".

And like with Mystery Inc I drew their classic designs.

If you haven’t seen it already here’s a link to my designs for Mystery Inc, including Scrappy.

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

there really needs to be a name for the trope where a piece of media makes a very obvious fantasy stand-in for an irl marginalized group--or just straight up people from an irl marginalized group--so they can conflate them with their oppressors, whether directly or with sly innuendo and imagery to evoke it. this is never used as an opportunity to explore lateral violence, let alone done so with sensitivity; it's bait dangled in front of an audience who's just aware enough of political movements, structures, and ideologies to go Ideology Very Bad and instantly shut off any examination of the messaging behind it.

(which is, often as not, either shifting the blame to marginalized people so the audience can hate demographics they're already comfortable with hating instead of grappling with the discomfort of real privilege being called out or held accountable, 'so the horrific and violent bigotry leveled at that group irl is totally justified and we should Do More of That Actually,' or both.)

like. i keep seeing this over and over and over. don't get me started on how SF/F media in particular seems completely unable to restrain itself from having at least one black character in a setting that breathes anywhere near fantasy racism say and do just the most ungodly racist shit ever. every time, jesus fuck, it's awful.

this trope is not at all limited to racism or antisemitism--it shows up for pretty much any marginalized group you can think of, BOY i have rants in me about a lot of portrayals of abuse survivors in various media i'm into--but it seems to pop up most blatantly and obviously for those. and fascism in general, which, i HIGHLY recommend these excellent essays for a more articulate and in-depth analysis of than i could give in a paragraph of one post. they're fantastic go read them and come back. especially the second one.

more specifically, it's a special favorite of these fucking people to evoke this with nazism. so the closest term i've got to what i'm describing is naziwashing, which i think is still useful as a descriptor of a subset of that phenomenon but again does not nearly cover all of it. so i'm a bit stumped.

[dontbesuchascaredykai]

happy 10th birthday to cobra larvae in his spine 🥳

[incessantscreech2000]

Mystery Incorporated will always be the best Scooby-Doo incarnation.

[wishmaker1028]

Realized Something

You know as I just finished that fanfiction, I realized something that Mayor Jones said. He said, “He [Pericles] was sentenced to spend the rest of his miserable parrot life where he belonged - in a cage.” Was this foreshadowing to the end of the series? Cause after Nibru, that’s where Pericles stayed for the rest of his miserable parrot life. The freaking irony!

[disney15ish]

Be-Cool Scooby-Doo is the most entertaining 2010′s series in the franchise

I’ve been on a Scooby-Doo mood recently because of the newest DTV coming out, and have watched episodes of the last 3 shows. For some reason, Mystery Incorporated has now gathered a resurgence on some reaction channels on Youtube. I had stopped watching Be Cool because I had no idea which episodes I had seen and hadn’t and wanted to refresh my memory. Guess Who, I hadn’t seen much of other than one off episodes since it premiered so I wanted to check it out.

Watching episodes of these iterations back to back, Be Cool was the one of them that I most wanted to keep watching

First, Mystery Incorporated, there is a lot to say about this that’s unpopular 

It’s hard for me to get into because there’s way too much romance focus for the gang that takes away from the interesting overarching story. Knowing that story culminates in any bad thing that anyone did was because of an evil entity controlling everything makes the story feel pointless. Since the universe completely reset, nothing that happened in the show matters. It tried too hard to be an edgy-teen romance show that it stopped being a Scooby-Doo show. All the drama at the beginning makes you wonder how exactly they even became a team in the first place at all.  

People say it gave them personality, Fred loving traps to a basically romantic level is not a personality, Daphne being head over heels and overfocused on Fred is not a personality. The Velma/Shaggy stuff is horribly written and I’m not gonna excuse it because of an instagram comment made a decade after the show aired. Velma is completely controlling and toxic towards Shaggy asking him to choose her or Scooby. When Shaggy does choose Scooby, the show frames it as if you should be feeling sad for Velma. Any tension between them in the season frames Shaggy in the wrong for breaking it up. And instead of referencing how Velma acted was wrong...they just never mention it again in S2

Then for Guess Who?

It has the opposite issue of being too safe. It has some fun moments but it’s basically just The New Scooby-Doo Movies with modern stars and in half the timeframe. When only one character is talking, the rest of the characters just stand in poses almost creepily still. Most of the designs are fine, but for some reason Daphne’s model seems weird to me. In those pose moments, Daphne will either look like she has a very wide smile or for some reason agitated.

One big issue is that this show focuses so heavily on the guest star and chase sequences that it doesn’t have time for the actual mysteries. One thing I do appreciate about this show is the unique takes on the Scooby-Doo Doors trope. They do it every episode and you can tell it’s the part the crew had the most fun doing

I will say I did enjoy the meta episode of them meeting their voice actors. You can tell the cast had a realy fun time with that one and the last line of Scooby thanking Frank Welker for everything is a really sweet note to end on. 

Finally, Be Cool

This show does a really good job of keeping the episodic formulaic nature of the franchise, but keeping it fresh and funny for the modern day. Having a more wacky humor fits the very different art style it has. For me, it’s impossible to have come out of watching one of these episodes and not having enjoyed it in some way.

They do the Fred idea way better in this one, where instead of being obsessed with traps he’s obsessed with mysteries in general and the obsession doesn’t go to the weird romantic level MI does with Fred. But besides the obsession, he isn’t stupid and is the leader of the team Daphne being the wild card in the group is a lot more entertaining to watch then her MI counterpart. Scooby is kept to saying like 4 or 5 words for one-liners and it really works in his favor.

Shaggy and Scooby are at their best in this show as well, especially with the moments where they trick the creature. You can tell the writers had a really fun time with that trope.  

To me this iteration feels like a real group of friends that care about each other even if they get annoyed at each other. 

You can tell the crew of this show the franchise and is important to them to stay true to the original roots while still being able to be poke fun at the conventions of it, but it’s never done in a demeaning way.

The art style does take a little getting used to it, but everything else about the show makes up for it and you might even like the style. Also compared to Guess Who stock poses, the other characters actually react to people speaking instead of just standing there still. There’s always something you didn’t notice the first time around when watching these episodes. 

All 3 of these shows had 2 seasons and 52 episodes, but Be Cool, Scooby-Doo is the one that I personally think deserved a longer run. 

[hime1993]

I just started Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated today. I’m almost done with season 1 (on season 1, episode 20 right now) and I really love it! There’s so much I love about the show, but I won’t get into it now. Just wanted to share that this is really good, even being 13 years old.

[jr-verse]

Puppet Combo... feast your eyes on this!

[torturedpoetemotions]

The Scooby Gang are really awful to each other in season 1 and that gets talked about a lot, but what doesn’t get talked about nearly enough is how much they grow in season 2. Velma becomes kinder and more understanding, and also more sure of herself, less worried about being the smartest in the room and more concerned with helping people. Shaggy becomes more supportive of and present for his friends, less likely to run from a fight. Fred becomes more open and emotionally intelligent, less closed off and oblivious to his friends’ feelings. And Daphne grows beyond the box she’d put herself in of “Freddy’s girl,” stops comparing herself to everyone else, stops waiting for Fred to be who she thinks he should be and accepts him for who he is.

Overall, they just get way better about being gentle with each other and caring for each other and actually acting like friends. And it really stands out as the people of Crystal Cove seem to get progressively worse around them for the most part.

[elijones94]

👻 ZOINKS!!! 👻

[gaiash]

Mystery Inc

I've been wanting to draw my own take on the Scooby-Doo designs for a while and I was recently inspired to get around to finally drawing them.

Shaggy My main influences were the Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue design and the red shirt design from The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo and the first three movies.

Scooby-Doo Not much you can do differently about Scooby's design. I did consider giving him a darker snout like many Great Danes with brown fur have in real life but it didn't look right.

Scrappy-Doo My big updates for Scrappy were to give him a longer tail like puppy Scooby designs and make the tag of his collar more like King's in The Owl House.

Velma I made the sweater yellow as a nod to her A Pup Named Scooby-Doo design while the darker hoodie is influenced by the one image we've seen of the upcoming Velma series on HBO Max. The alien on her sweater is because of my idea of making Velma an Occult Otaku.

Daphne My main influence was one of her The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo designs. Originally I had a darker colour for her jacket like in Curse of the 13th Ghost but realized a lighter colour looked better with the darker dress.

Fred Fred's design is mostly influenced by the hoodie he wore in Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster with the bulkier proportions from his Mystery Incorporated and Be Cool Scooby-Doo designs.

Think my design choices were too different? Here they are in their classic outfits.

And since I was making alternate outfits I also decided to go with the A Pup Named Scooby-Doo designs.

Some extra alternate costumes. Red shirt Shaggy, Cyber Chase Scooby, Mystery Incorporated Velma and Get a Clue Shaggy.

[nefarious-wallflower]

I listen to this unironically

[secretmemespixardean]

[lavender-0-menace]

“daphne has no real character-“ shut up shut up she’s the muscle she’s the rich one paying for everything using her shitty parents money she’s a music lover shes a sports prodigy she’s a girly girl she loves to meet new people she’s the nicest out of all the mystery inc she’s a feminist she’s treats mystery inc like her sibling she’s an animal lover she loves fashion she’s daphne fucking blake and you will put some respect on her name

[littlemisstfc]

The entire Internet towards Velma (2023):