It still makes me so mad that the only reason why people younger than 30 hate Scrappy-Doo is essentially just because they were told to.
Scrappy’s only appearances in the past 30 years have been in situations where he has been mocked for being annoying. But if you actually go back and watch his earlier appearances, he isn’t annoying.
Do you wanna know what he is? He’s a little kid. He’s just a little kid who loves his uncle with all his heart and doesn’t want him to think he’s scared of the monsters, so he goes out and does his best to fight them to make his uncle Scooby proud.
The only reason why people over 30 think he’s annoying is because they think kids are annoying, so they made their own interpretations of Scrappy just to make sure that kids nowadays also think of him as annoying whilst never actually showing them what Scrappy was actually like.
This is one of the reasons why Velma fails as a Scooby show, it thinks it’s too good to actually indulge in the actual show and instead just bases the characters off of what boring elder millennials think of the characters.
If he was actually given a chance to be brought back, not as a joke or a villain, but as an actual member of the gang then I guarantee that more people would come around to him.
Hell, they already brought back an even more annoying character with Flim Flam in Scooby-Doo and the curse of the 13th ghost. If they can bring back Flim flam without irony, why not Scrappy?
This is all James Gunn’s fault, especially when it’s literally been said that Scrappy’s inclusion in the first live action film was a last minute addition. If he hadn’t done this, then we wouldn’t be in this scrappy hating society we find ourselves in today.