Scrappy mildly annoys me, he doesn't really add anything to the show, and I find his villainy in the SD movie hilarious. With all that said I vote yes.
The thing is that Scrappy in himself isn't really a bad character. He unfortunately became the figurehead for an era of Scooby Doo where there were a lot of questionable changes. He was shoe-horned in to gain new viewers and Fred and Velma (And at times Daphne) got pushed out. Real monsters were introduced. Different formats for the show were tried. The fact is that Scrappy represents an era where the writers were desperate and trying everything to gain viewership. So I think because of that everyone associates their bad memories of the era with him since the writer were pushing him heavily. And eventually with the plot of SD the movie it eventually just became cool to hate on him and diverged into what his image is now.
Truthfully I think it's kind of unfair. Scrappy is the product of bad writing and a company so desperately trying to keep a franchise afloat that they'll do just about anything. And really he as a character wasn't doing anything that should have gained him the infamy he has now, he was annoying, but not to the extremes the general public seems to think. I think with proper and dynamic writing, less gimmicky characteristics (No more catchphrases and toned down kid power junk) and a slight character redesign (His head is abnormal and rather than being cute is just weird) they could turn him into a real character instead of a soulless gimmick.
However in order to build him into a better character they should mainly just use him as a guest star for the time being. Giving him too much importance too quickly set him up for disaster the first time around. Using him only when he can actually contribute to the story at hand may be a better way to introduce him back into the franchise without sickening everyone. In time Scrappy could become a great character, but only if he's used properly.
I disagree. I think Scrappy was a great character, and many fans of that time agreed. Scrappy saved the series from being cancelled. That's a fact.
The problem is that later fans who had never actually seen Scrappy episodes arrived at the baseless notion that Scooby-Doo was cancelled because of Scrappy-Doo. They erroneously blamed him and via herd mentality all believed him to be an annoying character. CN didn't help matters, with their first online flash game being "Scrappy Stinks".
With all that out of the way, I would still have to conclude that Scrappy should NOT be brought back simply because I don't trust Warner Bros. to get his character right. They will probably make fun of him or turn him into a bad character again.
I read reviews that stated that a lot of kids were upset at how Scrappy was portrayed in the live-action and didn't understand why he was acting that way. The cartoons they were used to showed him as loving of his uncle Scooby and always willing to help out.
Strangely gave a fair view of Scrappy and how others may or may not judge him. We are all entitled to our own opinion, but do we really need the counter-arguement of the almost automated response of "In fact, Scrappy's and saved the series from cancellation." We know all that, we don't need to hear it over and over again because this time it isn't necessary.
He was kept for a respectable amount of time but in the end he was just a gimmick no matter how much he saved the franchise from an impending doom. The fact is that's why you introduce a gimmick to save something. It's a major coincidence to say he just happened to be introduced when they needed something new, not that they needed to do that anyway (nothing against him), but the network thought differently.
He was introduced as a gimmick and simply was popular enough to keep around. The reasons why he wasn't kept around is possibly because there wasn't interest in doing teen Mystery Inc. (or whatever) and a pre-teen Scooby-Doo Detective Agency and was simply forgotten. Although not entirely since he was in the Archie comics.
Maybe there could've even been negativity on Scrappy from when APNSD was being developed since Scooby wasn't based on Scrappy and had his own unique design. Perhaps it was simply due to the latter, but when they did Tom & Jerry Kids, Tom was based on the kittens of the theatrical shorts.
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Scrappy mildly annoys me, he doesn't really add anything to the show, and I find his villainy in the SD movie hilarious. With all that said I vote yes.
The thing is that Scrappy in himself isn't really a bad character. He unfortunately became the figurehead for an era of Scooby Doo where there were a lot of questionable changes. He was shoe-horned in to gain new viewers and Fred and Velma (And at times Daphne) got pushed out. Real monsters were introduced. Different formats for the show were tried. The fact is that Scrappy represents an era where the writers were desperate and trying everything to gain viewership. So I think because of that everyone associates their bad memories of the era with him since the writer were pushing him heavily. And eventually with the plot of SD the movie it eventually just became cool to hate on him and diverged into what his image is now.
Truthfully I think it's kind of unfair. Scrappy is the product of bad writing and a company so desperately trying to keep a franchise afloat that they'll do just about anything. And really he as a character wasn't doing anything that should have gained him the infamy he has now, he was annoying, but not to the extremes the general public seems to think. I think with proper and dynamic writing, less gimmicky characteristics (No more catchphrases and toned down kid power junk) and a slight character redesign (His head is abnormal and rather than being cute is just weird) they could turn him into a real character instead of a soulless gimmick.
However in order to build him into a better character they should mainly just use him as a guest star for the time being. Giving him too much importance too quickly set him up for disaster the first time around. Using him only when he can actually contribute to the story at hand may be a better way to introduce him back into the franchise without sickening everyone. In time Scrappy could become a great character, but only if he's used properly.
I disagree. I think Scrappy was a great character, and many fans of that time agreed. Scrappy saved the series from being cancelled. That's a fact.
The problem is that later fans who had never actually seen Scrappy episodes arrived at the baseless notion that Scooby-Doo was cancelled because of Scrappy-Doo. They erroneously blamed him and via herd mentality all believed him to be an annoying character. CN didn't help matters, with their first online flash game being "Scrappy Stinks".
With all that out of the way, I would still have to conclude that Scrappy should NOT be brought back simply because I don't trust Warner Bros. to get his character right. They will probably make fun of him or turn him into a bad character again.
I read reviews that stated that a lot of kids were upset at how Scrappy was portrayed in the live-action and didn't understand why he was acting that way. The cartoons they were used to showed him as loving of his uncle Scooby and always willing to help out.
Strangely gave a fair view of Scrappy and how others may or may not judge him. We are all entitled to our own opinion, but do we really need the counter-arguement of the almost automated response of "In fact, Scrappy's and saved the series from cancellation." We know all that, we don't need to hear it over and over again because this time it isn't necessary.
He was kept for a respectable amount of time but in the end he was just a gimmick no matter how much he saved the franchise from an impending doom. The fact is that's why you introduce a gimmick to save something. It's a major coincidence to say he just happened to be introduced when they needed something new, not that they needed to do that anyway (nothing against him), but the network thought differently.
He was introduced as a gimmick and simply was popular enough to keep around. The reasons why he wasn't kept around is possibly because there wasn't interest in doing teen Mystery Inc. (or whatever) and a pre-teen Scooby-Doo Detective Agency and was simply forgotten. Although not entirely since he was in the Archie comics.
Maybe there could've even been negativity on Scrappy from when APNSD was being developed since Scooby wasn't based on Scrappy and had his own unique design. Perhaps it was simply due to the latter, but when they did Tom & Jerry Kids, Tom was based on the kittens of the theatrical shorts.