Episodes with the most simple costumes?

[Ark]

After reading a few posts about simple costumes, I got to thinking about making a thread for the topic. Some that come to mind include:

-Bluestone The Great
-Asa Shanks
-Hank the Miner

[Doo]

An odd one, but I'd add the Spectre of Sports Cars from "The Scooby Coupe" (The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show) as his glove fell off like instantly and as a result, he didn't look scary for the rest of the episode haha.

[Ark]

I was considering including the graveyard keeper from MI. The costume was okay, but Shaggy knew he was the villain the whole episode.

[cometcrystal]

The Ape Man is pretty low-effort. It's probably just something he picked up from a costume shop on his way to work; there's a lot of gorilla suits out there!

30 foot Shaggy as well. Not even bothering to put the costume on himself. What laziness

[Ark]

Oh wow... the ape man's costume probably was just another suit on the studio set or something. The guy did acting for a living and obviously had connections. He didn't make the suit himself.

[matt]

I've got a few:

Hooded "man" and the Joker and Penguin's skeleton costumes- Dynamic Scooby Doo Affair
More hooded men- Weird Winds of Winona
Redbeard and the pirates- Ghostly Creep from the Deep (They literally just stole the exact same idea and legend from CL Magnus in Go Away Ghost Ship)

[matt]

A relatively unknown one would be the dude from Scoobsie. He put on a hat and cape and his face and hair at points were still visible and it made it completely obvious who it was. They honestly shouldn't have even needed that ring clue or whatever. That one has to go down with episodes like The Lochness Mess, Caped Crusader Caper and Phantom of Country Music Hall where it literally shows you who the villains are as the most obvious episodes of all time

[wileyk209]

Mar 20, 2021 18:56:42 GMT -5 Ark said:

Oh wow... the ape man's costume probably was just another suit on the studio set or something. The guy did acting for a living and obviously had connections. He didn't make the suit himself.

Well, Carl WAS supposed to be the stuntman for the movie's Ape Man and just used their costume, but showed surprisingly great acting skills to fool everyone. It's different from how in "The No-Face Zombie Chase Case" the villain just used a gorilla suit to hide his own appearance (a gorilla suit that looked very similar to the Ape Man, I might add!) But in both cases, a gorilla/ape suit can be somewhat plain compared to the franchise's other ghosts and monsters, but it's still a full-body disguise. Especially when the Ape Man wore a rubber Scooby-Doo mask over his ape suit for pulling that "mirror" routine; since he had only covered his head with the mask, it's no wonder Scooby suspected something was phony with his "reflection." (And regarding the connections Ark mentioned, it's possible that Carl had known about Mystery Inc. beforehand (after all, director John Maxwell is Daphne's uncle!) and when he heard they would be hired as extras and might foil his plans, he had one of the special-effects make-up artists with the movie company create a latex mask of Scooby, presumably using newspaper photo clippings as a reference, with the intent to cause mischief with the gang. Or am I overthinking this?)

And since I also brought up the topic of impersonating Scooby-Doo, when the Chameleon disguised as Scooby in "Scooby's Gold Medal Gambit," unlike the Ape Man he went the full-body approach. The problem was, while the latex mask was very good, the rest of the costume wasn't so great, particularly with the floppy seal-like "paws" and the lack of spots on the body.

Is it any wonder why Scrappy-Doo was the only one who noticed something was suspicious with his "uncle" there?
In a way, rather than a perfect impersonation suit, it reminds me more of my own Scooby-Doo cosplay, but at least MY suit has the spots and somewhat decently-shaped paws, and while it's not totally spot-on, it's still a pretty good costume to wear for conventions and parties and whatnot!

I'd also like to add that the Black Knight may have possibly been an example, as it was just a suit of armor. But the way he acted very scary and threatening was enough to frighten people, so at least there was that.

But yeah, I think one of the cheapest and simplest villain costume I've seen in the franchise would have to be Asa Shanks's ghost sheet, how it only covered his head and torso, making it blatantly obvious who the "ghost" really was! At least when Bluestone the Great used a similar ghost sheet disguise for passing himself off as a phantom, he made sure the sheet entirely covered his body, and he also wore green gloves to go with the sheet, and he'd also make his disguise far more believable by suspending himself with wires and projecting his image everywhere throughout the castle with the illusion he can walk through walls! Of course, Bluestone was a magician and master illusionist, so he would go all out with the classic "bedsheet ghost" approach to make it more believable than Asa Shanks did (which was more or less like a stereotypical kids' Halloween costume, like in "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!")

[Ark]

The Chameleon-Scooby costume definitely looks more like a cosplay. Good one!