The characters of Scooby-Doo Abridged have rather interesting personas, as the heroes aren't the same as their cartoon counterparts and the villains, even more so!
The Scooby Gang
The Scooby Gang is not your typical group of meddling kids, being much more jerkassery, narcissistic and even nightmarish than their original series counterparts.
Fred
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: In Episode 2.
- Damsel in Distress: In Episode 5. Claims he at least did stuff as the damsel, compared to Daphne.
- Drunk Driver: A boat early on in Episode 2.
- Jerkass: Good God!!
- TV Never Lies: Often gets the ideas behind his traps from various shows and comics, such as The Simpsons, Futurama, The Venture Bros. and Cyanide and Happiness.
Shaggy
- Ax-Crazy: Can go psycho and kill people if he needs to.
- Butt-Monkey: Is constantly picked on by Fred and looked upon as an idiot by Velma. Is also the subject of being the bait by the rest of the Scooby Gang.
- Classical Music Is Boring: Walks past a room at the museum yelling "Boring".
- Hidden Depths: Does, however, show an interest in the arts by quoting Shakespeare.
- Gun Nut: His preferred choice of weapon.
Scooby Doo
- Demoted to Extra: Played with. While he's still very much present in the show, he's nowhere near as involved in the humour as Fred and Shaggy are.
- Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism: Cannot communicate with the other characters. They only hear barking sounds.
- Straight Man: To Shaggy and, to a lesser extent, Fred.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Well, mostly Fred and Shaggy.
Daphne
- Damsel in Distress: In Episode 2, when she falls into one of the traps set up in the haunted house.
- Throughout Episodes 2 and 5, she is constantly referred to as such, even though it is otherwise an informed attribute
- Informed Attribute: See Damsel in Distress above.
- Southern Belle
- Token Good Teammate: Is the only of the three remaining members to offer Shaggy and Scooby a reward for serving as their bate for Daniel Day-Lewis in Episode 5, the reward being her cooking. (Shaggy turns it down due to Daphne being terrible at cooking while Scooby tells himself that he'd only eat the dish if it were to be dropped on the ground.)
Velma
- Larynx Dissonance: Is voiced by a male and sounds less feminine than Daphne.
- Ship Tease: Episode 5 references the ship between her and Shaggy
- Subverted as Velma asks Shaggy what he's talking about
- Straight Man: To Shaggy and Fred. Even more so than Scooby, mostly due to Scooby's inability to talk
The “Villains”
The characters that the gang encounter in their misadventures. They aren’t as antagonistic as their cartoon counterparts, but there is some conflict between them and the gang.
The Dark Knight
The obstacle in episode 1. The Dark Knight guards the museum and doesn't take kindly to the gang's interference. Is revealed to have been the guy introducing the gang to the museum earlier.
- Expy of Batman from The Dark Knight
The Ghost
The guy in the ghost costume in episode 2, who tries to scare the gang for his new reality show "Spook'd".
- Karma Houdini: As Scooby says, Fred's bumbling detective skills led to the case being overturned in court.
- Red Herring: The gang, mostly a then intoxicated Fred, assumes the guy in the ghost costume is Ashton Kutcher, only to realize, when revealing his face, that it was a completely different person this entire time.
- Shout-Out: "Spook'd is one to "Punk'd"
The Robot
The robot that "terrorizes" the gang at the amusement park in episode 3.
- Adaptational Heroism: Is actually just wanting to help Shaggy and Scooby. They, however, are too scared of him to listen.
- Expy: Of Baymax from Big Hero 6.
The Air Flight Teacher
The air flight teacher the gang learns how to fly from. Is actually a fraud.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: Punishes Fred by hanging him from a crane and frequently gets after Shaggy and Scooby.
- Evil Teacher: He's actually a fraud.
- Punny Name: Corporal Majors
Daniel Day-Lewis
The actor playing the gorilla in episode 5, the gang must try to get Daniel Day-Lewis to break character.
- Bald of Evil: Played With. He's not evil, but he is the main antagonist of the episode, due to him failing to break character.
- Killed Off for Real: Courtesy of Shaggy.
- Large Ham: Quoting Shakespeare whilst wearing a gorilla suit.
- Took the Bad Film Seriously: In universe. The film he's in is described by Fred as just being a rehash of King Kong (2005). Despite this, he's quoting dramatic Shakespeare lines, despite the film not requiring that from him.
The Two Ghosts
- Brains and Brawn: Ghost 1 is brains, Ghost 2 is brawns.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Ghost 2.
- Knight of Cerebus: Subverted. They're the first villains to be straight up villains, to the point of murder, but are no more silly than earlier bad guys.
- Obviously Evil: The creators figure out that the man presenting the contest is one of the villains before the ghosts are even shown.
- Villain Ball: Ghost 2.
Captain Redbeard
- Demoted to Extra: Barely factors into the plot at all.
Captain Cutler
- The Cameo: Appears briefly when the gang captures him by accident
- Sequel Hook: The gang leave him behind for a later episode.
Stillwall
- Good All Along: only looks headless because of his buttoning his collar before putting his shirt on.
- Southern Gentleman
The Neighbour
- Unexplained Accent: Has an Irish accent, despite being in Louisiana.
- Unknown Rival: is Stillwall's neighbour, yet the latter has no idea who the former is.
Zen Tuo
- Disproportionate Retribution: Kidnaps Daphne because she bought a mask he was after.
- Large Ham: Lampshaded by his minionsMinion: Does he have to do these theatrics every time?
Henchmen
- Unexplained Accent: One of them has a Canadian accent, despite apparently coming from Minnesota. Handwaved as his dad was apparently an Anime fan.
Wendell
- Cast as a Mask: the creeper is voiced by the guy voicing Fred, while Wendell is voiced by the guy doing Shaggy.
- Composite Character: is a cross of Doctor Frog from A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and the Creeper from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!.
- The Unintelligible: as the Creeper.
