Board Thread:Movie discussions/@comment-252417-20190205141753/@comment-932174-20190207144750

Sigh... no matter how you took away from it: the "orginal" Scrappy does NOT exist anymore in any Scooby Doo medium... or at least, outside of the first movie where they based the coaster on, or the Appocalypse comics.

Rememer: In Mystery Incorperated. Daphne and Fred acknowledge FLim-Flam, willing to talk about him with some level of affection (even if he was serving prison time according Daph, but when they see Scrappy, they turned away and wish to never speak of him ever again...

And then again, in the OK KO episode with the Ghoul School girls... the girls refrenced "that weird guy with the Great Dane." Great Dane. As in singular... and we all know they didn't mean Scrappy. So you can take it that he was earse in that "timeline" too.

And with THIS movie, with the "entire" gang back, they did away Scrappy pretty much completely, save for Flim-Flam asking about him, to which Velma seem to have no idea of what he was talking about. The movie took effort to bring back this series back for an ending, dispite how it was a "so bad it is good" kinda of show and give Flim-Flam a 2nd chance dispite him being more hated than Scrappy, only less infamous than the pup himself.

This movie was pretty much THE last chance they would be OBILGATED to have Scrappy make a return... but they didn't. In fact, the one line where he is mention can easily be edited out if they want to... which is more disheartening... they only left it in to ensure the people who DO remember Scrappy is that he doesn't exist in the modern stuff now...

Yeah... WBs may tolerate Scrappy's image nowadays, even willing to at least acknowledge the fact that he existed in the past, but that doesn't mean that they will actually USE him again. We MIGHT get to see him appear in the mainstream comics... though DC have request the fans to stop asking about him and stated he will not appear in their runs of Scooby Doo...

Remember, Devolpment and Production Wise: Scrappy Doo was added in to boost ratings, and he started out as a great hit with the younger crowds, and was popular and help the show trend at the time. And since that can be debated to be Scrappy's one "REAL contribution" to the gang, now that he is no longer selling... whats the point to having him again?

Yes, I know there is more to him, and dispite his faults that fanboys have hammered in about him, he does have the potential to be great assest to the show and gang... but like with this movie, they prove that they would rather NOT have him around anymore than try to make him work...

So yeah... I know everyone here have their pick of "timelines" and whats "canon", but the writing is on the wall: Scrappy Doo will not come back into the franchise properly....