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So we all agree Fred Jones is autistic right? (And has a hyper-fixation on traps)

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scooby doo art dump

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Oh no, not a link where you can watch the entirety of What’s New Scooby Doo! Who on earth would post something like this???

And one for 46 different Scooby Doo movies including the beloved live action one from 2002 and it’s sequel, Monsters Unleashed??? For shame of me!

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Daphne is quite literally the most resourceful member of the gang she is the female macgyver

"What does daphne even do?" She literally looks for clues. Go fuck yourself

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There’s so many options for an adult scooby doo show though

More deeply criticizing rich people who often end up being the monsters

Same tone and goofiness as the kids’ shows but in adult situations like murders or strip clubs

Gang is college age and trying to still solve mysteries while growing up and living young adult lives

The gang embraces it’s Summer of ‘69 roots and is a period piece that shows how a hippie, a nerd, a rich girl, and some random white dude would be so close in divisive times. While fighting ghosts.

A Clue-like parody of the mystery genre

An openly ACAB show

An adaptation of the zombie comic

Mockumentary series where the gang has a ghost hunting yt channel

A generally more serious tone but still has jokes and a talking dog

Exactly the same as one of the kids’ shows but Shaggy smokes weed on screen and Scooby swears

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Okay, you can’t use Fred as the one to represent “awful, misogynistic, privileged white men” when that man was always a golden retriever of a human being.

In Mystery Incorporated, he cried because of how emotional he himself always is, he got instant PTSD in an episode where Daphne got kidnapped and for majority of the series, Daphne was just BEGGING for him to fuck her but he was oblivious and respected their friendship.

Shut up, Fred is a good boy.

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the addams family 🤝 scooby doo : being adapted into mean spirited versions of themselves by writers that don’t understand the characters

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Thinking about how I would write an adult Scooby-Doo series, because I think it can be done.

The first thing I’d do is make the characters actually be adults.  Still young, but adults, in the mid to late 20s range.  Mystery Inc. is a private detective type business that they run together.  In this universe, the supernatural/ghosts/etc are real, but not necessarily common, so when they take on a case, the culprit might be a person disguised as a monster, or it might actually be a real ghost.  The stakes can be higher; sometimes a bad guy is legitimately trying to kill them.  Sometimes the mystery they’re trying to solve is a murder.  Sometimes they actually get hurt on their cases.

Fred: the core of Fred’s character should be that he’s incredibly kind.  Like, give a stranger the shirt off his back kind.  The “Fred can’t talk to potential clients because he might take a case for free and we need to eat” kind.  He’s an honest and good person and sometimes gets himself into trouble because he assumes other people are too.  While he’s not very good at reading people or noticing ulterior motives, he’s brilliant when it comes to mechanical or engineering type stuff, so he’s the one who keeps the mystery machine running, builds their gadgets, and of course, designs the traps.

Daphne: she comes from old money, and her parents absolutely despise her life choices, to the point where they haven’t officially disowned her, but they have basically cut her off, so she doesn’t actually have access to any family money.  Growing up wealthy has granted her a variety of skills, including speaking multiple languages, horseback riding, and fencing.  She’s very into fashion and jewelry (even if she can’t afford it anymore) and has extensive knowledge of both that can occasionally provide a vital clue in a case. And even though her parents have cut her off, Daphne still has a wide network of contacts she can ask for favors sometimes, because she’s personable, and people tend to like her.  Daphne is also very emotionally intelligent, and is usually the one who can spot when someone is lying to them.

Side note - I ship Fred and Daphne, so I think I would start them off as an established couple for this universe.  Dating, engaged, married, I don’t care.  They are stupidly in love, ride or die for each other.  There’s no will they, won’t they, no worries about cheating.  They are in a healthy, happy, loving relationship, and no one (not even Daphne’s disapproving parents) are going to mess that up for them.

Velma: she is the forensics nerd who sometimes gets super excited about the wrong thing at the wrong time (”He was mummified in seconds? That’s so cool!” “Velma!  His wife is standing right there!” “Oh.  Sorry.”).  She’s not purposely insensitive, she just gets laser focused on her work and forgets to filter herself sometimes.  She’s also the one who can get so fixated on solving whatever mystery they’re working on, she’s willing to bend or maybe break laws.  Is breaking and entering really so bad?  Not if it gets them answers.

Shaggy: he is still the comic relief, but he’s the comic relief by being the only person in the group that actually has common sense.  He manages the business’s finances, he’s the only one who knows how to cook, and the others tease him for being a coward sometimes, but Shaggy maintains that if a ghost with an axe is coming for you, running is the only sensible option.  He should also have a range of random knowledge that sounds useless, but sometimes saves the day (ex ventriloquism, origami, the history of spoons, etc).

Scooby: as this is a universe where supernatural creatures exist, Scooby is an ancient eldritch type being that took a shine to Shaggy when he was a kid, and took the form of a talking dog to befriend and hang out with him.  Aside from the talking dog bit and not aging, he never uses his powers in a way that anyone notices.  The audience is not told upfront that Scooby is an ancient eldritch being; it should slowly be hinted at throughout the series so the audience put it together, but the characters never realize it.  Scooby genuinely considers Shaggy to be his best friend, and cares about the rest of the gang too.

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a scooby doo series set in community college where the gang is in a criminology class and end up in a huge debate on the first day of class that leads to them starting a podcast talking about local urban legends, only to realize things aren’t quite adding up and they go to investigate for ~journalistic authenticity~ and end up solving a real-life crime disguised as supernatural occurrences. this happens every week and they’re frequently featured on the school newspaper. they only have twenty listeners

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"During the 1960s economic collapse of the United States, a roving vigilante group with revolutionary ideals became infamous for using their investigative skills to seek out corruption at its source… (zoinks!)"

from: u/marx_is_secret_santa on reddit

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Some of Fred Jones' best moments:

Totally not a subtweet about how he is portrayed in the Velma series.

No not at all about that new show.

Totally not actually about his complete mischaracterization that has absolutely no basis on any of the previous incarnations of the character.

That it reduces him to a stereotype he never fit in the first place.

And erases a fun, kind, silly and caring male character for another fill in stereotype we have seen a million times for no reason other than its easy.

NoPe. Not about that at all.

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They hated him for his autistic swag

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Anyone looking to make a proper Scooby-Doo adaptation please remember:

Fred is the charismatic face of the group and the strategizer. Later adaptations made him a massive himbo who chugs respect for women juice and those have become necessary parts of his character.

Shaggy is cowardly but also incredibly resourceful; let us not forget his skill at ventriloquism. Make Shaggy the skill monkey, who every episode mentions some weird skill he has that's previously unmentioned; that'd be an amazing running gag. Also, bring back the dry humor Casey Kasem injected into the og character.

Scooby is Shaggy's best friend, the other half to his two-man comedy routine. Independently of Shaggy, Scooby is also prone to be a bit mischievous and just kind of a little scamp. Play up both of those things.

Velma is the smart nerdy one, who also had a really dry sense of humor. I don't know why she was turned into the "I'm surrounded by idiots" character because, while as I stated, she always had a dry sense of humor, she was never mean to her friends and never talked down to them, or anyone else. Bring back the chipper Velma from like Witch's Ghost or Zombie Island. Let Velma be a little cutie pie. Also keep her as a lebian

Daphne was... originally really just "The Girly One" but later adaptations have fleshed her out, like making her essentially the muscle of the group, which is just amazing and should continue. She's also been cast as the oddly resourceful one. Shaggy is the skill monkey, Daphne is the one who has a tool for literally any job. Human Swiss Army Knife, which again, would be an amazing running gag.

Have Shaggy and Daphne bounce off-the-wall ideas for a plan together, Fred steps in to ground them, while still using their ideas, and incorporating Velma's theories about the case.

Make references to Flim Flam and Hot Dog Water

A Scooby-Doo adaptation should not be difficult, and must be done with love.

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autistic headcanons - fred jones

happy autism acceptance month!

[image id: a 9 image gifset of fred jones from scooby doo. the subject of the gifset is an autistic interpretation of his character, and each gif lists a trait of autism while showing examples of fred having that trait across many scooby doo movies and tv shows.

gif 1: the caption reads: meltdown. fred is digging frantically in the sand, and he is visibly distraught.

gif 2: the caption reads: face blindness. part 1: fred doesn’t recognize velma without her glasses. part 2: fred doesn’t recognize scooby when he’s in a low-effort disguise.

gif 3: the caption reads: fixation on things to the point of self-neglect. part 1: fred is walking down a street during a mission he’s fixated on, and he is very dirty and hasn’t shaved in a long time. part 2: a man has fred’s arm around his shoulder and is helping him walk because he’s so tired.

gif 4: the caption reads: special interest in traps/engineering/cars. fred is looking at a selection of nets and deciding which one to use.

gif 5: the caption reads: happy stimming. fred points at something off-screen, and then hand flaps. the autism infinity symbol is overlaid on this gif.

gif 6: the caption reads: awkward social interactions. fred is talking to a girl. he appears confident. she is annoyed at something he says, and he then appears uncomfortable.

gif 7: the caption reads: attachment to/personification of inanimate comfort object. part 1: fred is hugging the mystery machine and talking to it. part 2: fred is holding the now-wrecked mystery machine’s spare tire cover, and he has a sad expression on his face.

gif 8: the caption reads: difficulty reading social cues/taking things literally. part 1: daphne suggests that she needs CPR to fred (she is really hinting that she wants to kiss), and he gives her actual CPR by pressing on her stomach. part 2: fred is talking to velma, and she walks away looking uncomfortable. he is surprised and seems a bit annoyed.

gif 9: the caption reads: infodumping. part 1: fred and daphne are looking through a scrapbook of his traps, and he’s pointing at things and talking about them. part 2: fred is looking at a magazine and happily talking about something. / end ID]

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It's 2024 let Fred say fuck-

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what producers of more “mature” versions of scooby doo fail to understand is that all four of them are loser nerds