History Webcomic / ScoobAndShag

%% * AbortedArc: Due to a year long hiatus, the 4th part of the Emergency abruptly cuts to Mijo sitting huddled up after moving forward in time, implying that he escaped and was traumatized by what he saw. After this, the heroes show up to defeat Eddy and it's unknown if he was actually behind the attack on the subway train or it was originally intended for the arc to be longer, and the culprit to be a different toon altogether.

** In "Deal", [[spoiler:we see a flashback of Shag and Scoob making a deal with Mick to join the Toones. Mick mentions that they can longer waste resources on petty disputes, implying a crisis of some sorts. And also, that there are much bigger threats and that the people need to rally behind a common enemy.]]
** During "Emergency Part 1", we see a picture of Javi's family in the first panel, with his sister's hair resembling Mickey Mouse's ears. [[spoiler:Later, we see a strange man ranting about aliens and a "mouse in the white house", implying that the main characters weren't the only ones who avoided Velm's Format at the end of Mick's speech. When the subway carriage opens up, there's a familiar symbol, the same one associated with The Coward King arc. The image appears again when Javi is checking his phone before it's revealed that the train conductor is dead.]]
** "Emergency Part 2" has a blink and you'll miss it moment during the panel where Javi [[spoiler:is trying to reassure the little girl that people are already on their way to help. Right behind Javi are some pin-prick eyes, implying that ''it'' might be controlling the train.]]

Updates used to be weekly, but the comic is currently on hiatus. The creator also has a tumblr where they have previously posted comics and answered questions, which can be found [[http://scoobandshagtalk.tumblr.com/ here]].

** [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/scoob-and-shag/one/viewer?title_no=210827&episode_no=74 Chapter 74]] is a MASSIVE one, revealing [[spoiler:both the identity of a newly-freed Commander One, that being Mickey Mouse himself (who has [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes and]] eye streamers ''[[SplashOfColor in a black-and-white comic)]]'', and the fake "Mick" who's been working to free him this whole time, who turns out to be ''another Shag.'']]

* AbandonedLaboratory: Sort of. One location definitely plays into this trope, complete with sliding airlocks, blood-covered metal hatches, and [[BodyHorror abominations]] creeping about, [[spoiler: but it's actually a spaceship.]]

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Chase and Kel, two human beings seen in "Regrets" only have 4 fingers visible despite looking completely human in contrast to [[spoiler: the toon that kills them.]]

** The one on Scooby's dog tag. It's the shape of [[spoiler:the ship on which the {{Toon}}e characters escaped, and the insignia associated with Scooby's underlings while he was a commander]]. [[spoiler: It is later revealed that the presumably original Shag, back when he was the Desert King, picked out the insignia when he and Scoob first joined up with Mick. [[{{Troll}} Turns out he intentionally made it look like a dick as a joke]]]].

* BadassCrew: As shown in #81, [[spoiler: Mystery Inc. was this in the past. Fred's "Freeze Frame" and Daphne's "Burn In" together were even enough to quickly and decisively beat the Martian Queen.]]
* BodyHorror: Any toon affected by Antihoo (the opposite power to Ballyhoo) becomes a twisted mockery of what they once were. Examples included [[spoiler: Barney Rubble]] becoming a massive slug-like creature with a gaping maw, [[spoiler: Goofy]] gaining an oversized, realistic dog head and [[spoiler: JFK's]] body twisting around itself with his ribcage exploding outward.
** After [[spoiler: Mick takes over the Earth, Toones start going on murderous rampages. During "Regrets", Chase and Kels end up murdered by Ed; Chase has been torn in half with his legs jammed into a wall who Kels had his clothes wrapped so tightly that he suffocated to death. "Emergency" has the train conductor's head blown up with his eye on a wall and his jaw on the train window.]]
* BossCorridor: Non-video game example. The corridor leading to one of the labs is ''covered'' with blood. [[spoiler: Once inside, Scoob has his first major battle.]] The ominousness is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Kermit when he's told to walk down the hall.

** Inverted during "Deal" where it's revealed that the Toone national emblem [[spoiler: really is a dick, with the original Shag having told the higher ups it was a bone with both him and Scoob laughing about the in-joke.]]

* ConspiracyTheorist: This is briefly alluded to in "Emergency" where a strange man in a black hoodie mentions [[spoiler: aliens being in the government and a "mouse in the white house", events that did happen, but nobody else remembers due to Velm's Format erasing everyone else's memories of the speech Mick made.]]

** The trope is then played straight during "News" with [[spoiler: Mick's speech, in which it's implied that Mick's speech has been broadcasted above the planet.]]

* ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: Meet a new guy and they'll be glad to talk about what their Ballyhoo does and the ways they can use it. This isn't always the case with every toon in the series, with [[spoiler: Ms Bellum being an example of someone who can't even if they wanted to.]]

** During "Emergency Part 1", we see a picture of Javi's family in the first panel, with his sister's hair resembling Mickey Mouse's ears. [[spoiler: Later, we see a strange man ranting about aliens and a "mouse in the white house", implying that the main characters weren't the only ones who avoided Velm's Format at the end of Mick's speech. When the subway carriage opens up, there's a familiar symbol, the same one associated with The Coward King arc. The image appears again when Javi is checking his phone before it's revealed that the train conductor is dead.]]
** "Emergency Part 2" has a blink and you'll miss it moment during the panel where Javi [[spoiler: is trying to reassure the little girl that people are already on their way to help. Right behind Javi are some pin-prick eyes, implying that ''it'' might be controlling the train.]]

* HomeworldEvacuation: After [[spoiler:Toone is devastated after the war with the Martians]], the surviving toons are forced to flee the planet and relocate to Earth.

* OnePersonOnePower: Each character's Ballyhoo works like this, granting them a highly individualized power. [[spoiler: Shaggy ''should'' have a Ballyhoo, but recent comics imply and later confirm that as he's the latest in a line of clones, with an earlier clone of the original Shag already has what should be his, the Ballyhoo "Jump Cut", and that the power won't pass on to ''our'' Shag until the older clone dies.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: A number of characters -- such as [[spoiler: [[WesternAnimation/YogiBear Boo Boo]], [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Arnold]] and [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget Penny]]]] -- are dead as of the present day.

** [[spoiler: The original Norville "Shaggy"/"Shag" Rogers]] is apparently called the Desert King, due to once being in charge of a desert biker gang before working for Toone.

* SplashOfColor: The comic is almost entirely black-and-white, but certain characters with high amounts of Ballyhoo will have colored Ballyhoo energy, [[PaintingTheMedium which the other characters can see]]. [[spoiler:Mickey's color is red, Scoob's color is cyan, and Bugs's color is magenta, with Dee sharing the color later on]]. The ending of "The Coward King" shows that Scoob and Shag's house is surrounded by light blue flowers. [[spoiler: Scoob's Channel turns light blue when it evolves, with the same applying to the evolved forms of Dee's Closed Caption and Bugs's Dead Air, as well as Shag's Channeled form.]]
** [[spoiler: The reason for this is because said characters are empowered by certain god-like aliens, with the magenta Twilight blessing Bugs and Dee with the aptly named "Blessing of Twilight", while the cyan Illapa blesses Scoob (and Shag by proxy, due to him being a conduit for Channel) with the "Blessing of the Storm". Mick also presumably derives his immense power from a red-colored "God", though this specific deity has not been named yet, and was only seen very briefly in one of Mick's own flashbacks thus far.]]

** Chapter 128 has [[spoiler: Mick announce that he now [[TyrantTakesTheHelm controls all the world's governments and militaries]] with his speech ending with footage of a tortured Velm using Format to erase everyone's memories. It's revealed that ''8,068,792,641'' people (unless people watched it multiple times due to forgetting they'd already seen it) had watched the speech with the implications disturbing Swiper enough that Ger snaps him out of it. It's then implied that Dex has died, with Ger crying over his death.]]

--> '''Commander One''': ''(Speaking directly to [[spoiler: Shaggy]]'': In due time...''commander''.

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "The Coward King" details pretty much the entire story regarding [[spoiler: Scoob, Shag and Mick]] leading up to the beginning of the main story.

** An early running gag was Shag constantly using increasingly nonsensical variations of his trademark "Zoinks" CatchPhrase. This element was dropped early in, and in later strips he never uses the catchphrase at all.

** Unlike the other characters, [[spoiler:Mick]] is the only one whose eyes have [[RedEyesTakeWarning any colour to them.]] During the timeskip, Bugs Bunny has magenta eyes which doesn't seem to mean much until later on when [[spoiler:Twilight]] first reveals herself to Dee. [[spoiler:Twilight]] is coloured magenta, mentions having siblings and that they have agents in Dee's realm. During the fight with Antihoo Ms Bellum, Bugs Bunny uses an attack called Dead Air~Twilight Eulogy, effectively revealing her alignment.

* FourthWallObserver: In a meta sort of InUniverse example, some characters with high power can actually hear the beings that empower them. Since their power [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve is derived from an audience]], those beings are the viewers themselves.

* ThePowerOfHate: It turns out the [[spoiler:toones turning into monsters isn't a disease, but rather them under the influence of the opposite side of Ballyhoo, the ''hatred'' of viewers who aren't so keen on the characters. It's essentially TheScrappy ''PlayedForDrama''.]]

** [[spoiler: Shag]] is apparently called the Desert King, due to once being in charge of a desert biker gang before working for Toone.

* {{Toon}}: The main characters are cartoon characters from real life, which in this universe are alien AnimatedActors. For the most part they're from American cartoons, though the author has suggested characters from ''any'' media (like anime or puppets) exists, even if we don't see them. [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit]] shows up, as does Mario (or perhaps Luigi - it's a black and white comic and rather than a letter, the hat has the first ArcSymbol but turned sidewise.

** [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/scoob-and-shag/one/viewer?title_no=210827&episode_no=74 Chapter 74]] is a MASSIVE one, revealing [[spoiler: both the identity of a newly-freed Commander One, that being Mickey Mouse himself (who has [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes and]] EyeStreamers ''[[SplashOfColor in a black and white comic)]]'', and the fake "Mick" who's been working to free him this whole time, who turns out to be ''another Shag.'']]

** Chapter 128 has [[spoiler: Mick announce that he now [[TyrantTakesTheHelm controls all the world's governments and militaries]] with his speech ending with footage of a tortured Velm using Format to erase everyone's memories. It's revealed that ''8,068,792,641'' people had watched the speech with the implications disturbing Swiper enough that Ger snaps him out of it. It's then implied that Dex has died, with Ger crying over his death.]]

** Three circles in a triangular formation is representative of the Coward King arc and [[spoiler:Mick. By the Emergency Arc, it's started to crop up on Earth, emblematic of how Mick now rules Earth and the Toones are free to do as they wish without any consequence.]]

** As the comic has shifted away from the gag-per-strip format into serious storytelling, the art quality has taken a massive leap. That's not to say that earlier art is ''bad,'' but the action and horror panels later in the story use a truly incredible amount of detail. Though the serious storytelling begins in #13 (though that strip's plot seems like a gag) and the art is pretty crude, a convenient way to see the evolution is reading strips 15 and 16 back-to-back. there's a noticeable difference in quality, but 16's quality isn't as good as in part 2.

* DeliberateInjuryGambit: After seeing the power of Yoge's Simulcast ballyhoo and its limitations (it can only work on attacks he sees coming), Shag runs straight at him and strikes hard enough that the double's punch to his nose blinds Yoge with the blood spray, giving him the opportunity to make a devastating uppercut. Pop later mentions that Yoge was impressed enough to vouch for him joining the team after the fight.

* {{Toon}}: The main characters are cartoon characters from real life, which in this universe are alien AnimatedActors. For the most part they're from American cartoons, though the author has suggested characters from ''any'' media (like anime or puppets) exists, even if we don't see them.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Cartoon characters with a lot of ballyhoo in them hear the "voices", but each character deals with them in different ways. It appears to have broken Bugs Bunny, and [[spoiler:Mickey seems to have gotten it even worse]].

** As the comic has shifted away from the gag-per-strip format into serious storytelling, the art quality has taken a massive leap. That's not to say that earlier art is ''bad,'' but the action and horror panels later in the story use a truly incredible amount of detail.

Updates are currently weekly. The creator also has a tumblr where they post comics and answer questions, which can be found [[http://scoobandshagtalk.tumblr.com/ here]].

* SurpriseCreepy: The strip initially just seems like a webcomic parodying'' WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'', but as the comic goes on, it gets darker and shows examples of violence and BodyHorror.