10 Plot Holes In The Scooby-Doo Franchise
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Scooby-Doo helms one of the most well-known cartoon franchises, but the series has long contained a decent amount of plot holes and inconsistencies.
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The Scooby-Doo franchise has been loved by every generation in a different form for over fifty years. There are endless TV series (from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, to What’s New Scooby-Doo?, to Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated), a long string of animated films, and even two blockbuster live-action remakes.
Sure, Scooby-Doo himself is a talking dog, but we’ll let that slide for now. Other than this overarching problem, there are a fair amount of plot holes that make the franchise pretty difficult to follow at times. Here are ten.
10 Sibella Changes Her Mind
In Scooby-Doo And The Ghoul School, we are introduced to a multitude of child-monsters. It is a pretty unique approach that allows us to see these well-known monsters before they turn into the inimitable evil of their parents (who, saying that, actually seem really nice).
However, when Sibella (the daughter of Count Dracula) needs to transform into her bat form and carry her friends, she says she can only carry one at a time, despite the fact that we saw her carrying three people at once earlier on.
9 Phantasma Shouldn’t Have Been Brainwashed
Phantasma is the only actual ghost in the entire school. An erratic pianist, she is particularly headstrong and unique, but gets brainwashed just as easily as everyone else. However, the brainwashing in this film comes via some sort of purple earmuff which shouldn’t be able to balance on her head like it does everyone else. In fact, it should have just fallen right through her.
8 Baxter Has A Twin?
The school directly next to the Ghoul School is a military academy. Despite seeing real-life monsters doing real-life monster things (such as breathing fire, transforming into a bat, or being a ghost), they play the entire thing off as ‘weird’.
The smallest of the cadets, Baxter, wanders off with the colonel as they walk through the Barren Bog. However, when the rest of the gang end up in quicksand, Baxter is right there with them. In the next scene, he is back with the colonel. Which one actually happened? Does he have a twin?
7 Problematic El Chupacabra
The use of El Chupacabra as the main villain in Scooby-Doo And The Monster Of Mexico was a bold move that could (and did) lead to a few claims of racial profiling and stereotyping. The creators of this particular film also got a few of their facts wrong. Velma calls it a Mexican myth, despite it having its origins in Puerto Rico, while their claim that he is the “Mexican version of Bigfoot” isn’t built on fact because the only real similarity is that they are both large, mythical monsters.
6 Sarah Ravencroft’s Flawed Existence
Scooby-Doo And The Witches Ghost is often considered one of the best Scooby-Doo animated films. The incredible voice work of Tim Curry brings Ben Ravencroft to life, and the massive twist ending and brilliant music of The Hex Girls turn this into a brilliant tale. However, Ben’s distant relative Sarah Ravencroft doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
Firstly, there is no suggestion that she ever had children, making Ben’s existence completely flawed. Beyond this, she wrote her book in order for it to be used to bring her back to life; she certainly shouldn’t have built-in a system that could force her back into the book.
5 Giant Chicken
After the evens of the final fight in The Witches Ghost, everything that was impacted by Ravencroft’s powerful magic was returned to its normal size. However, there was one magical chicken who didn’t shrink. Why is he able to feel the impacts of such strange magic but has the ability to withstand its reversal? I wonder what he got up to as he lived out the rest of his life as a massive mutant chicken…
4 Why Are Shaggy And Scooby Still Scared?
In the fifty years they’ve been running away from, investigating and unmasking bad guys pretending to be monsters, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo’s fear never seems to have subsided. They must have seen hundreds of monsters (despite having never aged) being unmasked, yet every single time they encounter a new enemy, they assume this is the real deal and jump straight to fight or flight. Why have they not just learned that these monsters aren’t to be trusted and that all they really need to do is grab a hold of them and rip their heads off?
3 Real Or Not?
The problem with the question posed above is that a lot of the time, they absolutely have a reason to be scared; the ‘man in a mask’ thing isn’t always the case.
Most of the TV shows stuck to that particular trope, but a lot of the films diverged massively. In Scooby-Doo On Zombie Island, for example, they encounter real zombies. The Witches Ghost shows us a real which, The Boo Brothers and The Ghoul School are focused around real, but nice, monsters. In The Reluctant Werewolf, Shaggy even becomes a monster himself.
2 Selective Memory
If there have been so many times in which the gang has encountered real monsters, why do they seem to forget this so often? Which encounters actually stick in their memories and which don’t. For example, at the of The Cyber Chase, the gang are reintroduced from monsters from their past who all ended up being people in masks. They remember these but don’t seem to remember any of the many, many times that the existence of monsters and ghosts have been proven to them. Surely Shaggy would talk about that time he became a werewolf a little more often?
1 Endless Running
The fact that the gang run so much is probably how we can explain why Shaggy and Scooby don’t put on any weight from the endless food they consume. However, it doesn’t really explain how any of them (particularly the always-full-of-food Scooby and Shaggy) can run almost endlessly. They sprint for miles, then stop without being out of breath or having any moments of slowness, and can take off again without a moment to recuperate.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/scooby-doo-franchise-plot-holes/