 The first Scooby-Doo video game, Scooby-Doo's Maze Chase, was originally not a Scooby-Doo game at all. The game was originally called Three Blond Mice, featuring original characters developed by programmer Mark Kennedy. However, Intellivision had recently acquired the cartoon license for Scooby-Doo, so the company chose to rework Mark's concept into a Scooby-Doo game.
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 This week, we're doing both of the most unpopular shows in this poll series. Velma is disliked enough that I didn't want to waste a full week on a poll that will likely have only a small number of votes. If you care about Velma, you can vote for your favorite recurring character in the show below. Also, there are so many agents in Get a Clue that I didn't want to make people scroll forever through a dozen agents that barely have any role in the show. If you want to vote for a specific agent that isn't Agent 1 and 2, you can enter the agent number in the text box above. Let's check in on last week's results! Unlike the last two polls, this one was incredibly close. It was within just a few votes, but Gibby is our winner! He advances to the final round next month. Here are the full results for last week's poll: Who is your favorite recurring character from What's New Scooby-Doo? Gibby Norton - 17 Melbourne O'Reilly - 14 Secret Six - 13 Nancy Chang - 5 J.J. Hakimoto - 3 Mr. B - 3 Burr Batson - 2 Professor Ostwald - 2 Elliott Blender - 0 Crissie - 0  A brand new Scooby-Doo board game is coming! Resurrection Games has announced via ICv2.com that they will be releasing a social deduction game called Scooby-Doo! Mystery Mansion this June. The game's premise involves the Coolsville Diamond going missing at the Grand Masquerade Ball. The players have to help the gang search for clues by moving across the board. Throughout the game, you must gather the clues to figure out which suspect did it! The game is 3-5 players for ages 8 and up. It will be available for $37.95. We have a bit of a first here in terms of crediting, because this news was actually sent by my mom! Thanks to her for sharing this news haha. You can check out an image of the board below:   Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated is not the only instance in the franchise that Fred and Daphne have been engaged. In the Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Scholastic novelization, Fred and Daphne mention that they recently got engaged. This plot point is never established in the film. It may have been a reference to their actors, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar, having gotten married between the first and second live-action films. As a bonus fun fact for this week, I wanted to share a cool mini-zine made by Bee (who I co-wrote this past Friday's article with) for Monsters Unleashed! It features a number of different fun facts on the film. If for some reason you want to print a copy out of the project, here's a video on how to fold it! 
 Last week's poll was another landslide win! Red Herring won the poll with ease. He received nearly quadruple the amount of votes of any other option. He joins Vincent Van Ghoul in the final round. Here are last week's results:
What is your favorite recurring character in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo? Red Herring - 41 Jenkins - 11 Elizabeth and Nedley Blake - 4 Sugie - 3 Gus - 2 Mr. O'Greazy - 2 Newscaster - 2 Pop Rogers - 1 Carol Collossal - 1 Barbara Simone - 0 Since the Hex Girls appear across multiple Scooby-Doo series and films, they will appear in the final round. I feel like that makes it more interesting anyway, since I feel they'd be the default winner in any series poll they were put it in.  It’s so exciting to finally have some Scooby projects on the horizon! Of the three that have been announced, the live-action series is easily the one I’m most looking forward to. We’ve gotten five live-action films, but it will be really fun to see live-action version of the franchise that can be developed in more depth than just a 90-minute feature film. From the series description, we know that the show will be an origin story for the gang. Past origin stories have mostly shown the gang all meeting at the same time, but the live-action series will show Shaggy and Daphne being childhood friends, and meeting the gang later. The closest we’ve gotten to something like this is Daphne & Velma (and the Mystery Incorporated fan series if we’re including non-official media!). One of the aspects of this show I’m most looking forward to is seeing how it explores the gang’s dynamic with them meeting at different times! In anticipation of the live-action series, it seems like a great time to reflect on the past origin stories we’ve gotten. I haven’t done a collaborative article with a guest in quite a while, but I’m excited to be doing one again with one of the regular commenters on the blog! Bee is joining me for this article to share her thoughts on the origin stories. In this article, we’ll share an overview of each of the previous origin stories in the franchise, and then give our thoughts on them. At the end of the article, we’ll talk about how they’ve influenced our hopes for how the live-action series handles the gang’s origin story. We’re going to be switching off talking about the past origin stories, starting off with Bee (whose contributions are in red) and then moving to me (whose contributions are in purple).  In the 70’s, Hanna Barbera started creating TV specials for many of their popular shows. You may have heard of a few of these specials such as A Flintstone Christmas, Yogi’s First Christmas, The Harlem Globetrotters Meet Snow White, and Casper’s First Christmas. These specials seem to follow quite the festive theme but the one I’m really interested in for this article is the (ironically aired on December 23rd) 1979, Scooby Goes Hollywood! Scooby Goes Hollywood came out at the time of the previously mentioned Scrappy era yet didn’t include Scrappy or Marla Frumkin as Velma instead retaining Velma’s voice from The Scooby-Doo Show, Pat Stevens. The origin story included in Scooby Goes Hollywood is relatively short, the gang was working on making a TV show together until Scooby announces he’ll be leaving the show with Shaggy encouraging Scooby the whole way, insisting that he’ll become famous. After more than a few failed attempts of gaining stardom, the gang are reminiscing about the first time they met Scooby. Picking up “Scooby’s Baby Book”, Velma recalls the gang visiting “Grillo’s Pets” checking out all of the dogs when a pup named Scooby-Doo wins them over. An interesting aside is that young Scooby-Doo is the first time Frank Welker voiced Scooby! The gang goes on to recall more memories of Scooby and express how much they miss him. I really struggle with Scooby Goes Hollywood, Shaggy feels totally out of character and we don’t really see much of the whole gang throughout the special. The origin story included doesn’t establish how the rest of the gang met but overall I think it’s a cute story of how the gang met a young Scooby and the little moments they shared with each other as he grew. I personally prefer the Pup named Scooby-Doo style with the gang being kids that grew up alongside Scooby rather than being teenagers when they first got him but the origin story and ending of Scooby Goes Hollywood established one thing we all know is true, everyone loves Scooby-Doo! While I also prefer A Pup Named Scooby-Doo’s origin story, I have a soft spot for this one. Scooby Goes Hollywood has a lot of appeal for me as a novelty film. The origin story of the gang buying Scooby from a pet shop is very sweet and wholesome. The explanation fits well with the established vibe of the classic era. I think Pup will always be my preferred origin story, but this is a nice alternate origin story for Scooby.  In 1988, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo completely rebooted the franchise after the nearly decade-long Scrappy era. This series shows us that the gang has known each other since they were little kids. It’s never confirmed exactly what age they are, but from the couple episodes where they’re shown at school (“Now Museum, Now You Don’t” and “The Computer Walks Among Us”), it can be presumed that they’re in elementary school. The series doesn’t show the gang meeting for the first time; just that they’ve established a detective agency together where they regularly solve cases in their free-time. I think A Pup Named Scooby-Doo will always be my favorite of the origin stories. I love the idea of the gang being best friends since they were little! While I’ve enjoyed many of the other origin stories, this series feels much more natural to be the standard continuity than the gang meeting each other in high school and solving a random mystery. I didn’t grow up with A Pup Named Scooby-Doo but I recently watched it last year and… I completely agree! It’s an absolutely adorable take on Scooby-Doo, especially Velma and puppy Scooby, the origin story feels like a natural progression from the gang as kids to young adults in shows like What’s New, Scooby-Doo? and Mystery Incorporated (let’s not debate the timeline for Mystery Inc hehe).  When we think about live action Scooby movies with all of the gang, we immediately jump to Scooby-Doo (2002) and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed but there was another duology of live-action films created for Cartoon Network, Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins & Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster. We’re going to be focusing on the origin story of the duology, Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins. The film starts out showing us all of the gang on their school bus but it’s clear that they have no idea who each other are at least for now, I really love that Mystery Begins decided to set the story during high school showing us how this eclectic bunch of friends came together, it makes complete sense that people with such different personalities and interests would meet in high school. How could I forget about how Scoobert Doo is introduced to the gang! Scooby has been put up for adoption at a pet fair, a little girl really wants to adopt Scooby but it all goes wrong when Scooby gets too excited and scares her dad with his enthusiastic behaviour. Scooby is being driven away from the pet fair in the back of a pickup when his cage goes flying onto the road after hitting a pothole, leaving poor Scooby all on his own. Seeking shelter from an incoming storm, Scooby walks into a graveyard only to see two ghosts! While panicking he hightails it out of there and ends up crashing through the window into his soon to be best friend, Shaggy’s bedroom. The gang all end up in detention together, finding they have a shared interest in mysteries and all things spooky. Ghosts suddenly appear, chasing the gang to a pep rally which absolutely ruins the event! Determined to clear their names, the gang team up to find out who was behind these ghostly apparitions! I absolutely love Mystery Begins, I would play it constantly when I was little, thoroughly enjoying seeing the gang become friends over the course of the movie, getting a little origin story of how the gang got their Mystery Machine, and being so excited for how they were going to solve this mystery! Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins serves as a fun and goofy origin story of how all of the gang got together including their trusty Mystery Machine. The casting was excellent for this duology and the characters felt very faithful to the original Where Are You? Series. I am most definitely biased because of my love for this film but if you have a spare hour and a bit then I highly recommend you check out Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins! Hot take, Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins is my favorite of the main four live-action films. What I love most about the film is that it feels much more down to Earth than any of the other three, including Curse of the Lake Monster. The gang meeting each other in high school fits well within the franchise’s aesthetic. The movie does a great job making the progression of the gang’s relationship feel natural. Something about the first two live-action movies has always felt a little out-of-place with the franchise’s usual tone to me. I’d rank Pup and Scooby Goes Hollywood above this, but this is still a great origin story that feels right at home with the franchise’s vibe.  Daphne & Velma presents us with the most unique origin story in the franchise’s canon. The film shows Daphne as a content creator who makes supernatural videos. At the beginning of the film, Velma and Daphne are Internet friends who have never met each other in person. It’s not shown in the film, but it’s implied that Velma became friends with Daphne through being a fan of her videos. A few minutes into the film, Daphne shares the exciting news that her parents are moving to Ridge Valley where Velma lives. However, when Daphne arrives, Velma acts surprisingly cold to her. It’s later learned that this is to protect Daphne from a chilling mystery involving kids disappearing at their school. After the initial coldness, Velma and Daphne’s friendship resumes, and they form a camaraderie to solve the mystery that Velma is so afraid of. Over the course of the film, Daphne and Velma become closer as a result of solving the mystery together. The film doesn’t show how they meet Fred, Shaggy or Scooby. As an aside, it’s worth noting that the Daphne & Velma young adult book series does feature Shaggy, Scooby and Fred. However, Shaggy and Fred are just depicted as kids at school that Daphne and Velma know. The books don’t show how they become friends. In my interview with the film’s director, Suzi Yoonessi confirmed that the books are not directly connected to the continuity of the movie. Longtime readers of the blog will know that I have a soft spot for Daphne & Velma. Certain aspects of it have worn on me a bit over the years, but I still really like it as an origin story. The film’s strongest point is arguably how character-driven this origin story is. The film shows us that Daphne is extremely sheltered by her parents, which provides an explanation for her being thought of as a “damsel in distress” in the classic era. Whether or not being a “damsel” is a defining character trait for Daphne is up to interpretation (and is explored in much further depth in a previous article, Is Daphne Danger-Prone?). However, the film does pull in the “sheltered rich girl” trope from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? and A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and provides a backstory for it, which no other canon piece of media has done. What really stands out to me about this one is it builds part of the story around Daphne’s personality traits. The plot evolves to show her eventually overcoming her shelteredness, as a result of her friendship with Velma. The film also shows Velma coming out of her shell, and becoming more confident because of her relationship with Daphne. Admittedly, I think Velma’s character arc could have been developed in more depth (which is one of the reasons the film has worn on me), but Daphne’s personal growth was excellently woven into the origin story. This isn’t a knock on other origin stories not doing that, but I really liked how this origin story was approached from the angle of the characters becoming better people because of their relationships with each other. I might not have the same soft spot for Daphne & Velma that WildwindVampire has but I still think it’s a fun movie! There are aspects of the film I’m still confused by such as how can it be a prequel to the other live-action Scooby movies when the technology is clearly more advanced than the flip phones and clunky laptops of the early 2000s but overall it has that strong relationship and character growth that WildwindVampire spoke of. Daphne & Velma serves for a strong origin story for Daphne & Velma (who would’ve guessed) but I feel like any Scooby origin story has to include all of the gang to be fully complete!  It felt like a bit of a fever dream when it was released especially during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown where the idea of going to a cinema was the furthest thing from most folks minds! Scoob! launched as a big budget, CGI film with casting that definitely upset some fans when we found out our usual gang was being replaced by high profile stars like Zac Efron, Amanda Seyfried, Gina Rodriquez, and Will Forte. My personal opinion of Scoob! is that it’s a cute movie, has a ton of Hanna Barbera easter eggs, and has good looking animation! But we’re not here for my opinion on if the film was cute or not, we’re here to talk about the way Scoob! presents the gang's origin story. A sad looking, lonely Shaggy is nearly clobbered by our loveable goofball Scooby-Doo after Scoob steals enough meat to feed both of them (for exactly 2 minutes). After coming to a stop they do exactly that and share a meal of Scoobs' stolen meat, when an officer confronts both of them Shaggy frantically comes up with a name for his new companion, Scooby (Snacks) Dooby Doo! Heading out on Halloween as Blue Falcon and Dynomutt, Shaggy and Scooby happen upon a spooky house only to have their precious candy stolen by a bunch of (strangely capitalist hating for children) bullies, the rest of the gang come to their rescue to help our goofy duo. The gang head into the spooky house to retrieve Shaggy and Scoobs candy only to be ambushed by a ghost, working together they take down the ghost and solve their very first mystery! From this point, the film reveals that the gang has been solving mysteries together for years as “Mystery Inc” and for some reason Simon Cowell shows up, I don’t know either. Of all the things that Scoob! does right, the origin story is the best part of the film to me. It’s really cute and endearing, the animation looks beautiful, and it’s so much fun to see the gang as kids just like in A Pup named Scooby-Doo! I really would have loved to see the prequel movie Scoob! Holiday Haunt but it was not to be, I think it could have really amplified one of the strongest parts of Scoob! by approaching the Scooby gang from the perspective of their early years and see how they built their close bonds with each other. I also found SCOOB! to be a really cute origin story! The movie gets a lot of hate, but I’ve always found it to be quite fun for what it is. That said, as an origin story, it feels a bit repetitive of the story we already got in Mystery Begins. Both films use pretty much the same template of Shaggy feeling lonely, but finding companionship in Scooby, who is also lost and unwanted. However, I do like Fred, Daphne and Velma’s role in the origin story. It’s an interesting angle to have Shaggy and Scooby meet the others through defending them from bullies. Given Shaggy and Scooby are usually the scaredy cats, having them step up to get the others’ candy back provides a surprising contrast from what we’re used to. I’m usually the person to defend SCOOB!, but I’m a little less quick to do so when it comes to the origin story. The Shaggy and Scooby aspect feels a bit “been there, done that” imo in how it’s essentially a repeat of Mystery Begins. I liked how they met Fred, Daphne and Velma. However, I think that part of the story could have been a little more developed. While cute, the origin story doesn’t feel all that memorable compared to the others. Like Bee, I would have been really interested to see how Scoob! Holiday Haunt would have expanded the gang’s origin story! Since the film took place when they were kids, I’m sure the film would have built upon what was established in the first.  I debated whether or not to even include Velma. The series never shows the gang becoming a tight-knit group, but it does depict an alternate explanation for how the gang knows each other. In the show, Velma, Shaggy, Daphne and Fred all know each other from high school. They aren’t shown as being particularly close, but Velma is friends with Daphne and Norville separately. Velma is also shown in love with both Norville and Daphne at different points in the series, but by the end, none of the relationships work out. Fred is just kinda off doing his own thing for most of this series lol. He’s shown to cross paths with the others, but isn’t ever shown to be friends with them. Much like the series, this origin story is terrible lol. My issues with the origin story are inseparable from one of my major issues with this series, which is that the characters are consistently portrayed to be selfish and awful people. They all behave so terribly that it’s very hard for me to care about their relationship, because none of them treat each other well. I don’t want the live-action series to replicate any aspect of what this series tried to do with the gang’s origin story lol. Unlike the other entries in this article, I can’t really comment on Velma as I have avoided it ever since it came out. From what I’ve heard from the wider community and from WildwindVampire’s analysis, I don’t feel like I’m missing out at all from that particular origin story.  Whenever we talk about the gang, I always feel like one of the members is always left out (no, it’s not Scrappy). I’m talking of course about the Mystery Machine! The Mystery Machine is such an important part of the gang’s dynamic, they spend almost all of their time either travelling, sleeping, or just hanging out in the Mystery Machine and I feel like it’s just as important as any of the other members of Mystery Incorporated! But where did the Mystery Machine come from? What’s New, Scooby-Doo? attempted to answer that very question in the episode “It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine”. The episode starts with Shaggy and Scooby walking to meet the gang from the cinema after watching Astro Mutt (which they watched twice!), the Mystery Machine slowly crawls up behind them and as Shaggy thinks that Fred has come to pick them up, they realise that there’s no driver! The Mystery Machine appears to be haunted, the gang don’t believe Shaggy at all after inspecting the Mystery Machine and starting to drive home only for the brakes to fail, requiring the deployment of the Mystery Machine parachute (there are more gadgets than Batman’s belt)! The gang try to get the Mystery Machine only for it to go missing by itself, leading them to the formerly famous Mystery Kids and their mother. The Mystery Kid’s mother explains that the van was used as their tour van, belonging to their keyboard player Flash Flannigan who painted the van to match the flowers in his garden thus giving us the iconic flower power paintjob! I think that “It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine” is a really fun episode of What’s New, there are some interesting animation moments and I’m really unsure why it’s strange for the Mystery Kids to be visiting their friend Flash’s grave to put flowers down but overall it provides a fun little origin story for how the Mystery Machine became one of the gang! I do find it a little bit sad that the paintjob wasn’t Fred or Shaggy’s idea, I always attributed the paintjob to Shaggy being based on the imagery of a beatnik but we’re all free to interpret how the Mystery Machine joined up with our intrepid team of teen sleuths! “It’s Mean, It’s Green, It’s the Mystery Machine” is one of the best episodes of What’s New Scooby-Doo! Having the origin story be the mystery is such a unique angle that no other Scooby-Doo project has done to date. I really like how it starts off with an illusion to “What a Night for a Knight.” It feels like the perfect way to introduce this origin story! I also enjoyed the mystery’s subtle nod to the original premise of Scooby, which was a mystery-solving band. Despite a very familiar villain, the episode still does an incredible job with creating a spooky atmosphere and compelling mystery. As far as I’m concerned, they knocked it out of the park with this origin story! Although it’s not official media, I wanted to give a shout-out to the live-action Mystery Incorporated fan series! If you haven’t seen it, you can check out the first episode above. This is a fan-made series funded by an Indiegogo campaign. The series was made with an ambitious budget of at least several hundred-thousand dollars, and the production quality rivals that of what a small studio could make. Unfortunately, last year, Warner Brothers’ legal team intervened and forced them to stop making the series. Only the pilot episode was released, and the origin story was not able to be fully developed.
The pilot establishes that the gang members are all students at the same high school. Fred is a buff jock, who is traumatized when his parents are murdered. He teams up with Velma, a nerdy, quiet girl, to solve the mystery. They are the only two to meet in the pilot. There is a brief scene where Fred looks at Daphne (who is a pretty, popular cheerleader), and there seems to be a spark between them. However, they had not met each other before the series was cancelled. In this series, Scooby is already Shaggy’s dog at the beginning. Scooby is not able to talk in this iteration, because he was played by a real dog. Following in the footsteps of Mystery Begins and SCOOB!, Shaggy is portrayed as a loner. The first episode’s plot centers around Shaggy getting asked to get “Joy Juice” by a drug dealer named Flim-Flam, who bullies Shaggy into doing what he wants. Although it was never fully developed, I love this origin story for the gang! I liked the realistic and down-to-Earth approach. What they were setting up seemed really interesting, and I wish the series would have been allowed to continue. I absolutely adore the live-action Mystery Incorporated fan pilot! The darker, supernatural storyline was so enticing and it felt like we were going to see a lot of deep character development if the show had continued past the pilot. Fred & Velma already seemed to be building a friendship with each other, stemming from their relatable traumas and their time spent starting to investigate the mystery of who murdered Fred’s parents! As an origin story, I could see where they wanted to go but unfortunately the story never had a chance to be fully fleshed out, as it stands it’s a great start but I would’ve really loved to see how the gang’s relationship developed. All of the Hanna Barbera references and callbacks to Scooby media was such a delight, it was clearly made by a team who had nothing but love for Scooby and I hope we can see something like it from the new live-action series! As an aside, while writing my opinion on the Mystery Incorporated fan pilot, I was reminded of one of my other favourite web series that I feel has excellent character development. Video Game High School is set in a world where e-sports have become a dominant force in the world, special high schools have been set up to train the best players, and the show just has a lot of comedic drama. The first season is relatively short and can be viewed here and my favourite song from the series can be found here! Having gone through all of the origin stories, I like elements of all of them besides Velma! The series premise has already been released, and it will involve the gang meeting at camp as teenagers. Getting something along the lines of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo is ruled out. The premise reads like this series will be a bit darker, so I also don’t envision us getting a “pet store” scene like Scooby Goes Hollywood. I’d guess Scooby will probably be a witness to the mystery, and/or will be Shaggy’s dog. The premise also reveals that Shaggy and Daphne already know each other at the start of the series. We’ve never gotten an origin story where we see the gang meeting at different times, so it will be really interesting to see how they approach this! Something along the lines of The Mystery Begins or the Mystery Incorporated fan series seems very much within the realm of possibility. I’d prefer they lean away from repeating what The Mystery Begins did like SCOOB! somewhat does. The origin story works very well for that film, but I’d like to see them explore something new. We’ve gotten a lot of origin stories for Scooby at this point. To me, it defeats the purpose of doing another one if they’re just going to repeat something similar to what’s already been done. With Pup (my favorite origin story) out of the picture, the Mystery Incorporated fan series is my favorite approach to an origin story. I loved how it was approached in a way that felt consistent to each of the gang’s characters. If I had to briefly sum up my hopes for the live-action series’ approach to the origin story, it would be something that feels consistent with each character, and feels true to the general vibe and formula of the franchise. I’m excited to see what the live-action series does with the origin story, but after this, I’d like to see them take a break from origin stories for a while. I’ve enjoyed the ones that have been done (other than Velma), but it’s starting to feel like too much of a go-to for any Scooby project outside of standard continuity. There are lots of other angles that projects like that can be approached from, so I’d like to see future projects like this explore the franchise from other angles. That said, I’m not opposed to ever getting them again after this. I feel similarly about it to how I felt about the crossovers after Guess Who and the recent DTVs. It’s fun to have alternate origin stories explored, but I’d like a break from them at the moment. I’m really happy with them casting Mckenna Grace as Daphne! The choice seems to have near universal acclaim from the fandom, and I definitely share in everyone’s happiness that they went with her. Them picking somebody with prior experience in the Scooby franchise gives me a lot of hope that the writers will be creating a series that’s faithful to the heart of the Scooby franchise. Going forward I am enthusiastic about the new live-action show! I agree with WildwindVampire and I’d love to see a show that combines elements from The Mystery Begins and the Mystery Incorporated fan series. As it’s Netflix and they have experience adapting properties to live-action like Sabrina the Teenage Witch and The Addams Family’s Wednesday, I would also love to see elements from those shows incorporated into the new live-action show, adding a supernatural spookiness to Scooby is exactly what I’ve been wanting for the last few years (from the animated side but nevertheless) so I’m hopeful it will finally satisfy that desire. With the recent announcement of Mckenna Grace as Daphne, I feel that we’re getting a vague idea of how the finished product's tone will be and I’m glad that we’re getting actors that are already associated with Scooby! I’m looking forward to the future of Scooby. We're getting the live-action series, a short series in a cute animation style, and Go-Go Mystery Machine which could provide an interesting new take on Scooby! A big thank you to Bee for collabing with me on this article! It’s been forever since I’ve done a collab article, so this was really fun to do again. These past two months, I’ve posted articles about what I’d like to see in both Scooby-Doo! Gokko and the live-action series. For the next article, I’m going to be writing about a topic loosely related to an aspect of Go-Go Mystery Machine. In the meantime, we’d be interested to see others’ opinions on how they’d like to see the live-action show approach the origin story. We look forward to seeing all your thoughts in the comments!  The first issue of Scooby's DC Comics run from 1997 features a shockingly dark plot. The comic's plot involves the gang solving a mystery in a mental hospital. This mystery is set up by Daphne's aunt believing the gang is crazy for believing in a talking dog and supernatural mysteries. Daphne's aunt admits the gang into the hospital, which is how they discover the mystery and eventually prove they aren't hallucinating.
 This week's poll features a number of the gang's relatives! There are a few relatives who are recurring characters in more than one series. So that they don't have an unfair chance over the other options, I'm only including them in the round for first series they were recurring in. Since so many of the characters were different, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated is the one exception to this rule. All of the gang's parents will appear again in that round. However, for this round, Mumsy and Dada Doo won't be eligible since they were just in the last round. If people feel they still should be included, I'm happy to discuss it in the comments!
Recurring characters that had their two appearances spread over more than one series will automatically advance to the last round. This means Ruby-Doo, who returns from The Richie Rich / Scooby-Doo Hour in "Curse of the Collar," will appear in the final round. As expected, Vincent Van Ghoul wins last week's poll in a landslide! Here are the results for last week's round: What is your favorite recurring character from The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo? Vincent Van Ghoul - 54 Flim Flam - 16 Weerd - 3 Mumsy and Dada Doo - 2 Bogel - 1 |
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