The Thing Who Would Be King!

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The Thing Who Would Be King! is the single story in Scooby Apocalypse #34, by DC Comics.

Premise

The gang have to trust in Fred if they are to defeat the Nanite King.

Synopsis

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Characters

Main characters:

• Dr. Velma Dinkley (main story and flashback)
• Daphne Blake
• Shaggy Rogers

Supporting characters:

• Quentin Dinkley (main story and flashback)
• Daisy Dinkley
• Rufus T. Dinkley (main story and flashback)

Villains:

• Fred Jones (nanite zombie) (possessed corpse)(main story and flashback)
• Monsters (no lines)
• Nanite King (first full appearance)

Other characters:

• Angie Dinkley (no lines)(flashback only)
• Dale Dinkley (no lines)(flashback only)
• The Four (flashback only)
  • Hugo Dinkley (no lines)(flashback only)
  • Cheeves Dinkley (no lines)(flashback only)
• Scrappy-Doo (main story and flashback)
• Scooby-Doo
• Cliffy (no lines)
• Cassie
• Kumar

Locations

• United States
  • Hospital (flashback only)
  • Nelvana (flashback only)
    • Complex Alpha (flashback only)
  • Albany, New York
    • Henry Hudson Mall (destroyed)
• Paris, France (flashback only)
  • Eiffel Tower (flashback only)
• London, England (flashback only)
  • Big Ben
• India (flashback only)
• The Moon

Objects

• Velma's googles (main story and flashback)
• Emotigoggles

Vehicles

• None

Full credits

The following credits try to match how they are displayed in the comic as much as possible:

• J.M. DeMatteis: writer
• Pat Olliffe: pencils
• Tom Palmer: inks
• Hi-Fi: colors
• Travis Lanham: letters
• Liz Erickson: assistant editor
• Harvey Richards: pondering the big questions
• Jim Chadwick: pondering retirement
• Cover by: Olliffe & Palmer with Hi-Fi
• Variant cover by: Dan Mora

Continuity

• The panels of first page are lifted from events in Velma's life in The Secret Life of Velma Dinkley.
• Velma released nanites in Paris in Waiting for the End of the World.
• The Nanite King appeared at the end of the previous story.

Notes/trivia

• It's revealed that certain people survived being transformed because they had a unique immunity, which others didn't.

Miscellaneous

• "Ruh-roh" count: 0.
• "Zoinks" count: 0.
• "Jeepers" count: 0.
• "Jinkies" count: 0.

Coloring mistakes

• On page 7, panel 1, Cliffy's t-shirt is blue instead of gray, which it returns to in the further panels in the comic.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

• None known.

Quotes

External links

• Buy from DC Comics