Editing Scooby Doo (section)

=The Cast=
The core of the Scooby Doo franchise are "Mystery Incorporated"; four teens/young adults and one unusually smart dog. They all grew up in the town of Coolsville, but so far more traveling once they get older.

'''Fred Rogers''' is the ostensible leader of the team. He's decently smart, and something of a mechanical whiz, as he's always the one who invents the various traps they use to try and apprehend the monster while also being a bro you can have a drink with.

'''Daphne Blake''' is... uh, well, she's the chick of the group, basically. She functionally doesn't have much of a role outside of being the usual damsel in distress, though her clumsiness and weirdly high [[Luck]] stat means she often unearths vital clues to solving the mystery, usually by tripping lover them or bumping into them. Perhaps she is the reason the gang is in good hygiene despite their dirty work. Even the glutonous hippie is washed and looking presentable. Later interpretations try to  make her more compentent, often showing her as the only one with any fighting skills, to make her less "the one chick".

'''Velma Dinkley''' is the brains of the team, often being the one to deduce who the culprit was before the final unmasking and figure out their plot, though depending on the series, she may share this role with the others (typically Fred) depending on the episode. She tends to also be very clumsy, resulting in the loss of her glasses with comedic effect. 

'''Norville "Shaggy" Rogers''' is a cowardly glutton who kind of shares Daphne's spotlight as "the guy with really mixed Luck"; he's usually the one who keeps getting chased by the latest nasty, though he always manages to come out unscathed in the end. Often suspected of being a stoner because of his hippie attitude and constant munchies. Fun fact; the really bizarre food concoctions he was prone to eating in the original series came about after his vegetarian voice actor managed to get Hanna-Barbera to agree to make Shaggy a vegetarian too.

'''Scoobert “Scooby” Doo''' is Shaggy's pet Great Dane, and basically a chip off the old block. He's basically a clone of Shaggy in canine form, and the main mascot of Mystery Incorporated. Despite his cowardice and tendency to hide from danger, he is always there to catch the bad guy whenever the trap goes awry with his shaggy luck and good boy instincts.

And then... there's the Other One. The one we don't like to talk about. The one, the only, '''Scrappy Doo'''. Scooby's nephew, and widely regarded as the single ''worst'' thing to ever happen to the franchise (until the 2023 atrocity that was the Velma show, that is). He's so hated that the name that [[TVTropes]] came up with for "That character that the vast majority of the fandom seems to hate" is "The Scrappy". Introduced in 1979 in an effort to revive interest in the flagging franchise. Scrappy is the son of Scooby's sister, and is a plucky little pup who is as brave as his uncle is cowardly. He hero-worships Scooby, and is forever boasting about what a great monster hunter Scooby is, to Scooby's chagrin. Why is he so hated? Well, it's a combination of factors, but the biggest elements are probably his annoying catchphrases and his constant insistence on trying to immediately attack the episode's baddy on first sight, forcing Shaggy and Scooby to save him from his own bravery, which just makes their cowardice harder to swallow. Even Hanna-Barbera and later Warner Bros got in on the hatedom, poking fun at how much viewers disliked him - he was even the villain in the first live-action movie!

The sequel to the original run had many guest appearances of both real world celebrities and fictional characters joining the team in their mysteries; such people included Don Knotts, Sonny and Cher, the Three Stooges, the Harlem Globetrotters, [[wat| the Addams Family]], and even [[Batman]] and Robin. This started a trend of bizarre celebrity cameos that has survived to this day with the likes of John Cena, KISS, Gary Coleman, even fellow canine Courage the Cowardly Dog.