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  • And You Thought It Would Fail: The premise of "Mystery Gang fighting monsters on an apocalyptic Earth" was viewed with skepticism at best from most Scooby-Doo fans, who thought the idea was ridiculous and that it (and the rest of the Hanna-Barbera Beyond initiative, for that matter) would die a quick death. However, it would go on to be positively received as a surprisingly engrossing, dramatic take on the characters, and is viewed fondly as one of the better attempts at drastically experimenting with the franchise's formula. At its peak, the series consistently sold well over triple of the concurrent Scooby-Doo! Team-Up comics, and continued to outsell it by at least 2:1 by the time it and the Beyond initiative as a whole ended due to executive mandate.
  • Bizarro Episode: Issue 10, in which we seemingly Time Skip several months to Velma ruling over the monsters, capturing survivors, and killing the gang. Also, Scooby speaks in complete sentences. The story ends by revealing that this was all a fever dream that Velma is having a day after the events of the previous issue.
  • Base-Breaking Character: While Daphne's characterization in this comic gained a lot fans who like her rough, gritty attitude and combat abilities, her detractors view her as just plain meanspirited and unlikable. Adding on to that: Is Daphne's treatment of Velma after learning of her role in the apocalypse understandable, or disproportionate? It's to be noted that Daphne began acting this way immediately after Velma saved their lives and made her intentions to undo the damage quite clear.
  • Broken Base: Scooby's speech praising the incarnation of Scrappy is either seen as a Heartwarming Moment or painfully transparent Character Shilling.
  • Funny Moments: In Issue 30, Scooby-Doo gets an intelligence boost and the ability to talk in full sentences after a freak electrical accident. Scrappy is the last of the group to learn about this, smack talking him like normal only to have a Delayed Reaction of stunned silence, punctuated by Scooby giving him a smug grin in return.
    Scrappy-Doo: Just when I thought this crap couldn't get any weirder.
  • Magnificent Bastard: Scrappy-Doo is a mutated mutt determined to survive the apocalypse through any means necessary. Transformed into a cyborg dog by the Dinkleys, Scrappy amasses a group of fellow experimented-upon pups and begins taking advantage of wounded or ambushed humans to attack and devour them for sustenance. On the hunt for Velma and Scooby-Doo for revenge, Scrappy traps the Scooby gang and nearly finishes them all off, but ultimately decides to ally with them to take on the worse enemy of the Nanites. After becoming a spy on the group for the rest of the Dinkleys, Scrappy ends up developing a close bond with the Scooby gang, using his brute strength and tactical mind to save them plenty times over and protect the world with their help.
  • Tear Jerker: Issue 18 and 19 introduces a Town with a Dark Secret; a town that is actually an illusion caused by Carrie, a little girl who became infected with the virus, and who Cliffy befriends. The town used to be full of people until it was revealed that they all died from the virus, including Carrie's famlily. In the end, Carrie was killed by the gang, despite Cliffy's crying plea to spare her. Made even worse when she told him it was okay right before she was shot... Damn.
  • Unintentionally Sympathetic: Cliffy. He's supposed to be seen as a naive little kid "terrified of reality" for turning down the raw meat that SA Scrappy catches, except for the teeny detail that it's, you know, raw meat, the stuff that can kill humans because all of the nasty germs wriggling inside of it because it's uncooked. Cliffy's not just being squeamish when he says "It'll make me sick!" He's absolutely correct. Adding the fact that it's the carnage of one of the creatures, so there is no guarantee that it would be safe for human consumption even if it were cooked, and SA Scrappy comes across as the naive one instead, since it's almost a certainty that if Cliffy had listened to him and dug in, he would have died of food poisoning.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Apocalypse Scrappy. We're clearly supposed to pity him for his experience at the complex and sympathize with is jaded view. The problem is that we never get any details about his experience at the complex, except that he was a pretty awful bully to Scooby, which doesn't scream "childhood trauma"...at least not for SA Scrappy. Making matters worse, he spends the first ten issues or so being incredibly callous and self-centered, doing absolutely nothing heroic or even basically decent on screen, with the writers just banking on the hope that the readers will put up with him because he's "tragic" and therefore lovable.
    • Another with Scooby Apocalypse Scrappy. We learn that the reason he's going to sic a bunch of attack dogs and himself upon the gang to rip them to shreds is that Velma used to give him dog treats and belly scratches but then stopped at some point in the training. Oh, and Scooby's a "softhearted" weakling. So he's essentially trying to murder four innocent people and their equally innocent dog because A) Velma stopped giving him special treatment and B) Scooby wasn't manly enough for him. And even after his supposed Heel–Face Turn, he never, ever, apologizes.


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