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Post by jonathanmuddlemore on Apr 6, 2020 12:21:47 GMT -5
Don't know if anyone noticed but Gunn revealed the plot of the unmade Scooby-Doo 3 on Twitter:
"The Mystery Ink gang are hired by a town in Scotland who complain they’re being plagued by monsters but we discover throughout the film the monsters are actually the victims & Scooby & Shaggy have to come to terms with their own prejudices & narrow belief systems. (Yes, Really!)"
Everyone is making this out to be a weird subversive twist but it seems to be a standard plot for spooky stuff aimed at children ("What if the monster is the real victim?"). It's interesting that Scooby has never really fully done this plot. There's undercurrents of this message in Ghoul School and The Addams Family crossover though.
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Post by 24994j on Apr 6, 2020 18:45:57 GMT -5
Everyone is making this out to be a weird subversive twist but it seems to be a standard plot for spooky stuff aimed at children ("What if the monster is the real victim?"). It's interesting that Scooby has never really fully done this plot. There's undercurrents of this message in Ghoul School and The Addams Family crossover though. Don't forgot the idea of this in Zombie Island, that the titular zombies were also victims, and possibly even trying to protect/warn the gang.
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Post by barneynedward on Apr 7, 2020 20:48:57 GMT -5
Everyone is making this out to be a weird subversive twist but it seems to be a standard plot for spooky stuff aimed at children ("What if the monster is the real victim?"). It's interesting that Scooby has never really fully done this plot. There's undercurrents of this message in Ghoul School and The Addams Family crossover though. Don't forgot the idea of this in Zombie Island, that the titular zombies were also victims, and possibly even trying to protect/warn the gang.[/quote] Well true but making shaggy and Scooby turn out to be the villains is extremely subversive. Don't you remember in alien Invaders when shaggy and Scooby were heartbroken at the end not because Crystal and Amber turned out to be aliens but because they had to leave Earth and returne to their home planet, meaning they would likely never see each other again?
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Post by jonathanmuddlemore on Apr 7, 2020 21:07:32 GMT -5
Unless I'm missing something, Gunn's pitch didn't depict Shaggy & Scooby as villains. They were just people who needed to overcome their prejudiced view of the world. That's basically what happens in Ghoul School.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2020 9:26:15 GMT -5
Now this sounds like an interesting idea for a special...where it's just Shaggy, Daphne, Fred and Scooby. I can't really see Velma going along with this plot anymore...given the way they treat her.
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