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* DenserAndWackier: While it's also pretty dark, the series does have some more absurd moments compared to recent incarnations of Scooby-Doo.
* DontSneakUpOnMeLikeThat: When Velma arrives via a well hidden entrance [[spoiler: in an attempt to expose Project Elysium]] Fred mistakes her for an attacker and knocks herout. out.
* DrivenToSuicide: Revealed to be the fate of [[spoiler: Hugo, who is shown to have shot himself in issue 12.]]
* DontSneakUpOnMeLikeThat: When Velma arrives via a well hidden entrance [[spoiler: in an attempt to expose Project Elysium]] Fred mistakes her for an attacker and knocks her
* DrivenToSuicide: Revealed to be the fate of [[spoiler: Hugo, who is shown to have shot himself in issue 12.]]
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''Scooby Apocalypse'' is a comic adaptation of ''[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo ScoobyDoo]]'', ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', published by [[Comicbook/DCComics DC Comics]] as part of their ''ComicBook/HannaBarberaBeyond'' initiative. In this comic book series, the gang will have to survive in an apocalyptic world full of monsters who are hungry for human meat. This time, the monsters are real, and very dangerous!
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''Scooby Apocalypse'' is a comic adaptation of [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo the cartoon of the same name]], ''[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo ScoobyDoo]]'', published by [[Comicbook/DCComics DC Comics]] as part of their ''ComicBook/HannaBarberaBeyond'' initiative. In this comic book series, the gang will have to survive in an apocalyptic world full of monsters who are hungry for human meat. This time, the monsters are real, and very dangerous!
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* BodyOfBodies: The WhamShot of Issue 15 shows that [[spoiler: the migrating herd of monsters are fusing together into one giant monster-shaped pile.]]
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* BodyOfBodies: The WhamShot of Issue 15 shows that [[spoiler: the migrating herd of monsters are fusing together into one giant monster-shaped pile.]]]] The following issue reveals this is being organized by a psychic monster called the Amaglamind.
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* AssimilationPlot: In Issue 16, the monster known as the Amalgamind intends to absorb all creatures (monsters and otherwise) into a HiveMind it controls.
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* HiddenDepths: Daisy, Rufus' wife, is introduced as a vapid airhead, but this turns out to just be because he's keeping her drugged. Once her head clears, she turns out to be very insightful.
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* TheResenter: The reason [[spoiler: Scrappy]] hates Scooby so much -- they both suffered the Complex's experiments, but while [[spoiler: Scrappy]] was turned into a monster, Scooby came through relatively unscathed.
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* AFatherToHisMen: [[spoiler: Scrappy to his pack; he's genuinely upset when they're killed by the monsters.]]
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* HiveMind: The explanation that Velma ultimately comes up with for how the monsters are managing to organize and work together is that they've somehow developed one of these.
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** [[spoiler: Rufus]]'s death in Issue 13 is very much right out of ''Film/TheWickerMan1973''.''Film/TheWickerMan1973''.
** In Issue 14, Shaggy compares Velma's sudden apparent badassitude to [[Film/TheTerminator Sarah Conner]].
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: In Issue 14, [[spoiler: Scrappy]] finally tracks down the gang, and has his pack attack Scooby while he goes after Velma, but tells them not to kill him, as he wants the pleasure himself.
** In Issue 14, Shaggy compares Velma's sudden apparent badassitude to [[Film/TheTerminator Sarah Conner]].
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: In Issue 14, [[spoiler: Scrappy]] finally tracks down the gang, and has his pack attack Scooby while he goes after Velma, but tells them not to kill him, as he wants the pleasure himself.
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* EliteFour: Velma's brothers are the four most powerful people in the world.
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* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: The intelligent, technology-enabled dogs that Scrappy-Doo leads start to lose their intelligence not long after leaving their compound, since their technology is defective. Scrappy is aware that eventually he will lose his intelligence too.
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* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: The intelligent, technology-enabled dogs that Scrappy-Doo [[spoiler: Scrappy-Doo]] leads start to lose their intelligence not long after leaving their compound, since their technology is defective. Scrappy [[spoiler: Scrappy]] is aware that eventually he will lose his intelligence too.
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* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: The intelligent, technology-enabled dogs that Scrappy-Doo leads start to lose their intelligence not long after leaving their compound, since their technology is defective. Scrappy is aware that eventually he will lose his intelligence too.
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* ShootTheDog: Played very straight: [[spoiler:Scrappy-Doo finds a dog nearly starved to death in a cage, and decides to kill it since even if he fed it there would be no way it could survive in the harsh new world.]]
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* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Just like in the live action movie, Scrappy Doo is an antagonist.]]
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* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: The Four altered the nanites to remove free will, so that they could take over the world. But that just caused the nanites to mutate and cause the monster transformations instead.
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* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: The Four altered the nanites to remove free will, so that they could take over the world.world (as Rufus puts it, people are animals who need leadership). But that just caused the nanites to mutate and cause the monster transformations instead.
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* GroinAttack: Velma delivers one to Rufus for his part in unleashing the monsters.
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Rufus lets the monsters, who he's deluded himself into believing are loyal to him, into his tower to kill the gang. Instead, they grab him and burn him alive in a giant effigy of himself.]]
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Rufus sees himself as above everyone, but is especially demeaning to women.
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* YoureInsane: After Rufus expresses his belief that the monsters are loyal to him and he can use them to control the world, Velma tells him he's crazy.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Oh you better believe it, even surpassing the last darker forerunner in the franchise, ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated''.
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'''''Scooby Apocalypse''''' is a comic adaptation of [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo the cartoon of the same name]], published by [[Comicbook/DCComics DC Comics]] as part of their ''ComicBook/HannaBarberaBeyond'' initiative. In this comic book series, the gang will have to survive in an apocalyptic world full of monsters who are hungry for human meat. This time, the monsters are real, and very dangerous!
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* PantyShot: Twice with Velma in an issue.
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* AteHisGun: [[spoiler: Hugo, one of the Four, is revealed in Issue 12 to have done this after the apocalypse began.]]
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* TheSociopath: Rufus is utterly self-absorbed, beats around his wife for speaking out of turn, kills people for disobeying him (and it doesn't even seem to register with him), has a serious case of IRejectYourReality (he states that he's always right even when he's wrong), and has a [[AGodAmI God complex]] (as evidenced by how he's convinced himself that the monsters rampaging outside his building ''obviously'' are there to worship him). Plus, there's the fact that [[spoiler: his first reaction to his sister showing up is to try and shoot her]].
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* TheAtoner: Velma is this, for her part in the experiment that led to the monsters being unleashed. [[spoiler: Doubly so, when we find out that the whole thing was actually her idea.]]
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* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: The Four are Velma's brothers, and twisted her experiments for their own ends.]]
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* TheConspiracy: The Four have all the trappings of one, using their powerful ranks in society (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, a popular Senator, a chief member of the intelligence community, and a giant in the business world) to build the Complex and set up Project Elysium.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Rufus, one of the Four, is a top-tier businessman, who financed the experiments at the Complex. Post-apocalypse, he's holing himself up in his penthouse, forcing the scientists he's holding captive to work non-stop to find a way to not reverse the monster transformations, but to control the monsters. And he's shown killing the ones who complain about the pressure he's putting on them.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Rufus, one of the Four, is a top-tier businessman, who financed the experiments at the Complex. Post-apocalypse, he's holing himself up in his penthouse, forcing the scientists he's holding captive to work non-stop to find a way to not reverse the monster transformations, but to control the monsters. And he's shown killing the ones who complain about the pressure he's putting on them.
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* GoneHorriblyWrong: The nanites that Velma and the other scientists involved in Project Elysium spread around the world were meant to, upon activation, remove all negative human emotions, bringing about world peace. But then the Four tampered with the nanites for their own purposes, leading to them transforming most people into monsters.
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* OperationBlank: Project Elysium, which was meant to pacify the human race but instead turned them into monsters.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Project Elysium was originally conceived [[spoiler: by Velma]] as a means to bring about world peace. No one anticipated it turning the majority of humans into monsters.
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* AbandonedHospital: The gang comes across one in Issue 8 [[spoiler: which [[MindScrew may or may not]] be [[GeniusLoci alive]]]].
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* BigBadEnsemble: On the one hand, there's the Four, whose experiments led to the monster apocalypse. On the other, there's [[spoiler: Scrappy Doo]], who's after Velma for his own reasons.
* ChainmailBikini: [[spoiler: Velma]] wears one in Issue 10.
* CrapsackWorld: After all the humans sans Mystery Inc. (and a lucky few others) begin to mutate due to a top secret project GoneHorriblyWrong.
* ChainmailBikini: [[spoiler: Velma]] wears one in Issue 10.
* CrapsackWorld: After all the humans sans Mystery Inc. (and a lucky few others) begin to mutate due to a top secret project GoneHorriblyWrong.
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* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Scrappy]] does this to a starving puppy he finds in an abandoned pet store, since even if he nurses it back to health, it'd have to become a monster to survive, and he sees that as a FateWorseThanDeath.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Scrappy]] does this to a starving puppy he finds in an abandoned pet store, since even if he nurses it back to health, it'd have to become a monster to survive, and he sees that as a FateWorseThanDeath.
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** Shaggy mentions ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' several times in Issue 8.
** A monster version of Magilla Gorilla appears in Issue 10.
* TheSiege: The gang spends several issues trapped in a "[[SerialNumbersFiledOff Mall-Mart]]" surrounded by monsters.
** Shaggy mentions ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' several times in Issue 8.
** A monster version of Magilla Gorilla appears in Issue 10.
* TheSiege: The gang spends several issues trapped in a "[[SerialNumbersFiledOff Mall-Mart]]" surrounded by monsters.
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Scooby Apocalypse is a comic adaptation of [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo the cartoon of the same name]], published by [[Comicbook/DCComics DC Comics Comics]] as part of their Hanna-[[ComicBook/HannaBarberaBeyond Barbera [[ComicBook/HannaBarberaBeyond Hanna-Barbera Beyond initiative]]. In this comic book series, the gang will have to survive in an apocalyptic world full of monsters who are hungry for human meat. This time, the monsters are real, and very dangerous!
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!!The ''Scooby Apocalypse'' comic provides examples of:
* ActionSurvivor: Everyone qualifies for this.
* AdaptationalBadass: EVERYONE. Even Scooby, Shaggy and [[spoiler: Scrappy Doo]] gain many levels as they try to survive this apocalypse.
* AfterTheEnd: Not technically after, but during the end, as the gang find themselves at the beginning of everything.
* CrapsackWorld
* MadScientist
* MythologyGag:
** [[spoiler: Scrappy's transformation new form]] can bring the live action [[Film/ScoobyDoo Scooby Doo film]] to mind.
* PostApocalypticDog: There's various examples. Scooby Doo, [[spoiler: Scrappy Doo and another bunch of dogs that escaped the secret laboratory.]]
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!!The ''Scooby Apocalypse'' comic provides examples of:
* ActionSurvivor: Everyone qualifies for this.
* AdaptationalBadass: EVERYONE. Even Scooby, Shaggy and [[spoiler: Scrappy Doo]] gain many levels as they try to survive this apocalypse.
* AfterTheEnd: Not technically after, but during the end, as the gang find themselves at the beginning of everything.
* CrapsackWorld
* MadScientist
* MythologyGag:
** [[spoiler: Scrappy's transformation new form]] can bring the live action [[Film/ScoobyDoo Scooby Doo film]] to mind.
* PostApocalypticDog: There's various examples. Scooby Doo, [[spoiler: Scrappy Doo and another bunch of dogs that escaped the secret laboratory.]]
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