Scooby-Doo

Scoobert "Scooby" Dooby Doo is the eponymous character and protagonist of the animated television franchise, created in 1969 by the American animation company Hanna-Barbera.[1] He is a male Great Dane and lifelong companion of amateur detective Shaggy Rogers, with whom he shares many personality traits. He features a mix of both canine and human behaviors (reminiscent of other talking animals in Hanna-Barbera's series), and is treated by his friends more or less as an equal. Scooby often speaks in a rhotacized way, substituting the first letters of many words with the letter 'r'. His catchphrase is "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!"

Why He Deserves a Scooby Snack

 * 1) He’s one of Hanna Barbera’s earliest and most unforgettable iconic characters to ever be created.
 * 2) He’s also one of the most iconic cartoon characters in general.
 * 3) The way he pronounces most words with an “R” sounding is both funny and very memorable.
 * 4) He’s probably one of the best-known cartoon dogs/animals in television history.
 * 5) He’s gotten many movies, television series, and spin-offs throughout the years.
 * 6) *In fact, he has gotten a fully animated theatrical movie that manages to be the first for the franchise to make a story and mystery that both focuses on him, rather than people in costumes. Titled: SCOOB!.
 * 7) The late Don Messick, Neil Fanning and Frank Welker do an amazing job voicing as Scooby-Doo.
 * 8) His design is well-drawn, amazing, cartoonish, and a fairly decent and great depiction of a Great Dane.
 * 9) *While his Be Cool design looks weird, it’s passable at best.
 * 10) *He also has a puppy design in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo! and, in the beginning of SCOOB! that’s very cute.
 * 11) He has shown to be a very likable and popular main character through the viewers’ eyes.
 * 12) He and his owner/best friend, Shaggy, share an amazing friendship with each other.
 * 13) He is also a great family man, such as being a good Uncle to his nephew, Scrappy-Doo, during the 70s and 80s.
 * 14) His constant running gag of how he never stops eating food is extremely funny and he’s even willing to help solve a mystery for a Scooby Snack.
 * 15) He is incredibly kind, friendly and sweet to everyone.
 * 16) The times when he and Shaggy are cowards are also very funny since their cowardly demeanor can really get a good number of laughs out of the viewers, which is one of the most memorable things about the Scooby-Doo franchise.
 * 17) He can also be forgiving, as during the rare times he does something bad, he does feel regret for what he did. For example, while Shaggy and Velma's relationship in Mystery Incorporated was weak even without Scooby's interference, he apologized to Velma for hurting her feelings and for breaking them apart. She does eventually forgive him when they were both kidnapped by the Shadow Orc, and Velma had to reroute the train or else Scooby would meet his doom. While Velma had the choice to leave Scooby so she could have Shaggy to herself again, she was against it as she shows she really does cares about Scooby and does forgive him saying "Even though you stole my boyfriend, I'd never let anyone hurt you, Scooby-Doo." This shows Scooby can learn from his mistakes and grow as a better dog.
 * 18) * Also, he can get his comeuppance for his actions, like after the Guess Who? episode "The Wedding Witch of Wainsly Hall!", in the episode "The Tao of Scoob!", show in a flashback where he and Shaggy were very sick (while gross), because they ate the entire feast, which was over 100 years old, meaning the food has really expired. And if you eat expired food, it normally makes you sick, since the food goes really bad. This satisfying karma also proves to be a good lesson as Shaggy and Scooby never eat expired food again, showing that they have learned their lesson and likely regretted what they have done to the food truck chef lady.
 * 19) In Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!, he (along with Shaggy) suffered the least flanderization and his personality is barely different.
 * 20) In Mystery Incorporated, he got really great character development as he (and Shaggy) acts brave towards his fear of monsters and actually fights against them as an act of bravery and courage, which was a great way of derivating him from his previous counterparts where he always acted cowardly towards monsters and tended to act pretty goofy at times too, which in this entry he still does, but Scooby actually acts more serious and mature with him having a grudge against a bad guy for the first time (which is Professor Pericles), which hasn't been seen in other entries in the series.
 * 21) Scooby has had some good love interests over the years, with Amber (from Alien Invaders) being his most iconic and memorable love interest.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) While his design looks good in most Scooby-Doo media, there were unfortunate times where it did not look good:
 * 2) * In Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! he looks really weird and a little uncanny. It's interesting to note that he’s supposed to represent his live-action appearance from the live-action Scooby-Doo movies.
 * 3) * Speaking of the live-action movies, He and Scrappy-Doo's designs look like nightmare fuel in live-action form because they look like normal Great Danes compared to how they were on the show, which makes them fly straight into the uncanny valley.
 * 4) * In Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!, his redesign looks weird and very little to nothing like his original counterpart, and instead looks more like a bad attempt to imitate Seth MacFarlane's art style like Family Guy, American Dad! or Brickleberry's art style. Speaking of his redesign, despite being passable at best, it is unfitting in the Scooby-Doo franchise at worst, as it fits more into an adult cartoon or parody.
 * 5) * In Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon, his face with his eyelids been downward looks creepy when he stares at the audience.
 * 6) There are times where he was unfortunately flanderized:
 * 7) * In Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!, he became horrendously flanderized and out of character, where he shows his absolute worst traits as he was portrayed as being extremely lazy and overall just demoted to a generic comic relief character for no real reason.
 * 8) * In the live-action films, he’s poorly portrayed and flanderized, where he became more dumber and mean-spirited, especially in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.
 * 9) * In Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!, he became dumber and a worshipper of only food; he even disobeyed Velma not to continue eating a food trap in one of the episodes. But he was still tolerable (along with Shaggy), as his personality was barely effected.
 * 10) He can have occasional unlikable moments outside of Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!:
 * 11) * In Mystery Incorporated, mainly in the earlier episodes, he can be occasionally mean-spirited, like when he made Shaggy choose between him and Velma. Though, he did later regret hurting Velma's feelings and apologized to her, and learned not to be so possessive of his owner and best friend.
 * 12) * In the Guess Who? episode, “The Wedding Witch of Wainsly Hall”, he (and Shaggy) ruins the ending, when he eats the entire feast despite the fact that Jeff Foxworthy allowed the food truck chef lady that she could analyze it and recreate old recipes. What makes it worst is he (and Shaggy) is unapologetic and doesn't regret what he's done to her. Fortunately, it is shown he got karma and was sick from eating that food, and he hasn’t done anything that bad ever since.
 * 13) In Mystery Incorporated, his relationship with Nova is very annoying, repetitive, stereotypical and forced. It amounts to nothing but as an attempt of trying way too hard to make it seem more dramatic. Nova, who is a normal dog who can’t talk, doesn’t really clash well with Scooby's goofy, cowardly, and hungry personality, unlike some of his other love interests.

Trivia

 * Scooby will not be included in the 2023 Scooby-Doo spinoff, Velma.

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