Board Thread:In the News/@comment-252417-20181107162554/@comment-932174-20190131031325

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote:Nope, the book explicitly said "5 (in human years)", while making the Doo Quintuplets (Scooby, Ruby, Skippy, Howdy and Yabba) all 7 (in human years). Which makes sense, because merch has been saying Scooby's 7 for decades now. Which is really creepy when you think about it. If Ruby is 7, she had Scrappy when she was 2. If Scrappy is still a puppy at 5, then Ruby at 2 should've been a baby.

Also, Scrappy in Apocalypse is Scrappy, just a different version of Scrappy. Same goes for Hipster Shaggy, Daphne the Vampire Slayer, and Velmastein the Queen of the Apocalypse. (I think Fred's the only one who stays consistent with his cartoon counterpart, specifically Mother Hen/Action Man Fred from What's New Scooby Doo.) Does it matter if he's not "the" Scrappy, as long as that depiction of Scrappy is garnering more fans for the character? ... Huh... not sure how to feel about that. I reject pretty ALL of the character traits brought on by the live action movie, as it was an over the top paordy of the franchise as a whole, as welll as the fact that whole gang in it seem to suffer Family Guy syndrome: Where most of their best/unique character traits are overshadowed by how horrible jerks they are (like Shaggy living his friends to die, Scooby punching Fred in the face, and Freddy finding it awesome to see himself naked in Daphne's body... with Daphne being in the room with him.) The "gland problem" brought up in the movie was an a throw away line to allow themselves to be as cruel as they want with Scrappy without depciting him a puppy that he is known to be.

And true, with Scooby Apocalypse, it is a unique take of the characters... but in that line of thinking, would you say the Batman from the "All Star Batman and Robin" is the ideal Batman. You know, the one were Batman trains Robin by having him eat rats in the Batcave.... and by Frank Miller's word, it is takes place in the same universe where Robin was experimented on to become an immortal verison of the Joker, and who Batman just dumps his severed head into a valcanno right after he said he never cared for him.

Apocalypse Scrappy isn't a bad character, he is an idle concept of what an great anti-hero would be in a setting like this... but in an adaption like this, I hope they try to go the same route as they did with animated Batman movies based on the Adam West Show, silly and campy but still a respectible homage to show that everyone watched and enjoyed as a kid... Heck, the "Return of the Cape Crusaders" was throwing shade to the "adult" and "edgey" Batman material.

Basically, all I want is to see the real Scrappy being depicted as close as he known to be in this, being older like with Flimflam. And the Scrappy I know is someone who loves the whole Gang, especially his Uncles Shaggy and Scooby, who isn't afraid to just go on the offense when some guy in a costume chases them. He would never hate his friends, let alone plot to kill or hurt them in anway.

Thats the Scrappy that was part of the gang, as well as being the Scrappy being mocked by EVERYONE in the last few decades, and the Scrappy who needs to appear to get at least one last time to get a decent farewell from the franchise, which has taken it own jabs at his expense. Or... at least that what I hope they will do...