History ComicBook / ScoobyApocalypse

* TalkingToHimself: [[spoiler: The Nanite King]], being a representation of a HiveMind, manifests a second head so it can have conversations with itself.

* 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.

** It ultimately turns out that the nanites are operating like this.

* {{Expy}}: The Nanite King looks like a regal version of the Phantom Virus (the main antagonist of Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase).

The series is ongoing. It also contains a ''WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel'' backup story in each issue, until Issue #29. After that, it was replaced with a new one based on ''WesternAnimation/AtomAnt''.

* Expy: The Nanite King looks like a regal version of the Phantom Virus (the main antagonist of Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase).

* EasilyForgiven: An unusual two-way variant.

* 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.]]

The series is ongoing. It also contains a ''WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel'' backup story in each issue.

* AbandonedHospital: The gang comes across one in Issue 8 [[spoiler: which [[MindScrew may or may not]] be [[GeniusLoci alive]]]].

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: Issue 10]] is revealed at the end to primarily have been a fever dream.

* AssimilationPlot: In Issue 16, the monster known as the Amalgamind intends to absorb all creatures (monsters and otherwise) into a HiveMind it controls.

** [[spoiler: Hugo, one of the Four, is revealed in Issue 12 to have done this after the apocalypse began.]]
** A post-DespairEventHorizon Daphne almost does this in Issue 30, before being interrupted by [[spoiler: Monster!Fred]].

* BodyOfBodies: The WhamShot of Issue 15 shows that [[spoiler: the migrating herd of monsters is fusing together into one giant monster-shaped pile.]] The following issue reveals this is being organized by a psychic monster called the Amaglamind.

* ChainmailBikini: [[spoiler: Velma]] wears one in Issue 10.

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In Issue 21, Shaggy is worried about [[spoiler: homeless people living in the sewers who have been turned into monsters]]. Velma tells him that's ridiculous, but he turns out to be right.

* DeadPersonConversation: In Issue 25, [[spoiler: Daphne spends the whole episode talking to Fred, who at the end of the issue is revealed to have killed while fighting the monsters inside one of the mall stores. It appears to be a hallucination, but the last panel suggests it was actually his ghost.]]

* 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 out.
* DrivenToSuicide: Revealed to be the fate of [[spoiler: Hugo, who is shown to have shot himself in issue 12.]]

* GilliganCut: In Issue 17, Fred mentions to Daisy that he and Daphne dated exactly once. When Daisy asks how it went, we get a panel showing the two of them in bed, with Daphne screaming about how it was a mistake. Then it cuts back to Fred, who changes the subject.

* HowWeGotHere: Issue 18 uses a series of flashbacks to fill in the gap between Issue 17's cliffhanger ending and this issue's start.

** [[spoiler:Scrappy isn't actually shown dying during his HeroicSacrifice in Issue 18, and no body is ever found. The end of Issue 26 reveals that he's still alive.]]

* 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.

* OriginsEpisode: Issue 17 fleshes out Daphne and Fred's backstories.
* PantyShot: Velma in Issue 3.

* PrecisionFStrike: Cliffy calls a monster a "son of a bitch" before killing it in Issue 23.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Shaggy and Velma hook up during the six month TimeSkip between Issues 25 and 26.

** Issue 30 ends with the revelation that [[spoiler: Scrappy]] is working with a mysterious figure in a lab.
** Issue 31 expands on this by revealing that this figure is [[spoiler: Velma's brother Quentin, who saved Scrappy's life when he was left for dead. And he's also in possession of Rufus (who's not only alive, but now a monster).]]

** Shaggy mentions ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' several times in Issue 8.

** A monster version of Magilla Gorilla appears in Issue 10.
** [[spoiler: Rufus]]'s death in Issue 13 is very much right out of ''Film/TheWickerMan1973''.
** In Issue 14, Shaggy compares Velma's sudden apparent badassitude to [[Film/TheTerminator Sarah Conner]].
** Issue 18 and 19 feature a girl named [[spoiler:Literature/{{Carrie}} with psychic powers]].
** Scrappy hasn't seen his friend ''[[WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow Huck]]'' "since the power went down". Scrappy describes Huck as a "decent conversationalist" but says he'll "never understand where he got that southern drawl from".

* SuddenlyVoiced: Scooby could already talk, in his usual slurred and clipped form, but in Issue 30 a power surge through his cybernetic implants allow him to talk normally. And he also apparently gets an intelligence boost as well.

** While most issues follow closer after the one before them, Issue 21 jumps two months from the end of Issue 20.
** Issue 26 starts six months after the end of Issue 25.

* VerbThis: Issue 23 has this exchange:

* WhamLine: From Issue 31, when Velma explains to Shaggy why she's been so temperamental lately:

* GroinAttack: Velma delivers one to Rufus for his part in unleashing the monsters.

* 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.

* WeCanRuleTogether: Rufus tries to convince Velma to join him into controlling the monsters and ruling the world. She responds by kicking his ass.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: [[spoiler:Rufus' only reason to work with his siblings in Project Elysium]].

* 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.

* HypocriticalHumor: Shaggy wondering what kinda name "Rufus" is. As Velma points out, "An odd question coming from you, '''Norville'''".

* AteHisGun: [[spoiler: Hugo, one of the Four, is revealed in Issue 12 to have done this after the apocalypse began.]]

** [[spoiler: Scrappy's new transformation form]] can bring the live action [[Film/ScoobyDoo Scooby Doo film]] to mind.
** Daphne is still working in the news industry.

** In Issue #9, [[spoiler: Scrappy stands next to a sign reading "Puppy Power". That's his catchphrase in the Scooby-Doo cartoons.]]
** Issue #12 has Rufus T. Dinkley mentioning a Dr. ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Cassidy Williams]]''.

** [[spoiler: Scrappy isn't actually shown dying during his HeroicSacrifice in Issue 18, and no body is ever found. The end of Issue 26 reveals that he's still alive.]]
** [[spoiler: Fred's body disappears after he's killed by one of the mall monsters. Daphne thinks that it was eaten, but it's later revealed that he actually somehow became a monster himself and wandered off.]]

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: Scrappy]] says this of him and Daphne, noting that they're both hardened fighters who'll do anything to survive.

* 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.

** [[spoiler: Fred's body disappears after he's killed by one of the mall monsters. Daphne thinks that it was eaten, but it's unclear if this is really the case.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Just like in the live action movie, Scrappy-Doo is an antagonist. However, more recent issues place him firmly into AntiHero territory, and in issue 18 he makes a HeroicSacrifice to save the gang.]]