it is pretty annoying how the fandom erases shaggys flaws to make him into a uwu precious scoobie snack babie…like hes a coward that when push comes to shove isnt there to help out his friends lmao
alright, lemme school your dumbass because obviously you’ve never watched scooby doo before
shaggy rogers is a hero
yes, he canonically has anxiety issues, but when it comes down to it, he is there for his friends no matter how scared he is. he cares very deeply for his friends and he would absolutely not hesitate to put himself in danger to keep them safe
in ‘music of the vampire’ when the vampire threatens his friends, shaggy’s first response is to grab a bunch of wooden stakes to attack the vampire with
later in this same movie when he (albeit falsely) believes he’s fallen victim to the vampire curse, he runs away and gets as far away from his friends as possible so there would be no chance of him harming them or inflicting the curse on them as well
and in ‘camp scare’ when the fish monster they’re dealing with hurts scooby, shaggy’s first response was to shatter a two-by-four across its face.watch it go down here, skip to about 1:30
during the climax of ‘legend of the phantosaur’ after struggling with his anxiety for the whole movie, shaggy overcomes it for the sake of saving the lives of his friends and the villains who put them in danger in the first place
in ‘ghoul school’, without any help from fred, daphne, or velma, shaggy saves the lives of several monster kids, and in ‘reluctant werewolf’ when he’s cursed to become a werewolf, he wins back his humanity in just under two days, again without help from fred, daphne, or velma
hell, the whole plot of ‘goblin king’ was about shaggy and scooby travelling into the realm of monsters, the very things he’s afraid of mos, so he can save his friends from being turned into monsters themselves. and he does save them
and those are just the examples i could think of off the top of my head!
shaggy is as essential to the gang as everyone else is. he’s the one who repeatedly throws himself headfirst into the path of the monster of the week to lead it into fred’s traps, despite his anxiety issues, because he’s the only one fast enough not to get caught. fun fact! he’s won multiple awards in high school for gymnastics and athletics. he isn’t just all about fear and food. he’s a friendly, caring person who would do anything for his friends, and on top of all this?
he’s only seventeen. of course he’s scared, he’s just a kid.
tl;dr, shaggy rogers is more than his anxiety
canonically, shaggy and scoob have dealt with more real monsters than the entire gang.
the mystery gang tends to unmask humans. The exceptions (authentic monsters, zombies, witches, ghosts, etc) are in certain movies. some of which (Zombie Island, the Witch’s Ghost) involve the full gang. Others (Ghoul School, Reluctant Werewolf, the Boo Brothers) have Shaggy and Scoob (and Scrappy) on their own adventures.
oh hey and in ghoul school, looking for some peace and quiet, they get hired as gym teachers at a school for girls, that turns out to be a school for ghouls. Despite being terrified,
they stay, become fantastic teachers, inspire their students and lead them to victory in the volleyball champion, and then risk their lives saving the students from an evil witch and spider minions.
oh and they befriend an adult mummy, vampire, wolfman, and phantom along the way
not to mention whenever they hang with the rest of the gang, they invariably get used trap bait against their expressed wishes. but still they stick around
oh, and despite their reluctance, scoob and shaggy regularly play some of the most vital roles in the gang’s adventures, to the point the movie posters regularly feature them as the most prominent members. the rest of the gang may provide the motivation, but shaggy and scooby are the lifeblood of the show:
conclusion: Shaggy Rogers and Scoobert Doo have enormous hearts that lead them to face their greatest fears on an almost daily basis for the sake of protecting those they care about.
PROTECT AND APPRECIATE SHAGGY ROGERS
Also, THEY ARE ALWAYS RUNNING AROUND LIKE CRAZY AND DOING SUPER DANGEROUS STUFF. THEY ARE BURNING MORE CALORIES THAN THEY HAVE IN THEIR BODIES. OF COURSE THEY’RE GONNA EAT LIKE CRAZY. IF THEY DON’T EAT CONSTANTLY THEY’LL DIE.
im currently kinning jared 19
Also the mystery machine was originally Shaggy’s but he gave it to Fred because he’s too anxious to drive more often than not. Miss me with this fake as shit about my favorite guy.
Listen my dudes Ancient Egypt existed for a really fuckass long time. Literally just Pharaonic civilization lasted 3,000 years. That’s not even including predynastic civilization and Roman rule. If you lump that in you’re looking at more like… 5,000 years.
Like. If you want a comparison of how long that is: THE YEAR IS CURRENTLY 2018. TWO THOUSAND. TWO-THIRDS OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PHARAONIC CIVILIZATION HAVE HAPPENED SINCE THE ‘BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST’
We comparatively just entered the Third Intermediate Period. The Greeks will not take over for another 700~ years. Cleopatra will not be born until the year 2931.
It’s a really long time guys.
To emphasise Lex’s point, I’ll add the Pre-Dynastic/Early Dynastic/Roman time into this, because I’m a nerd and enjoy doing this.
If we take Egyptian civilisation beginning with ‘year one’ of AD time, and the Naqada period I (a-b-c) begins around 4000 BC; to get to the Early Dynastic period, and the start of a unified Egypt, we have to move forward 1000 years.
Moving 1000 years from year 1 we get to around 1000 AD and in British history, which is what I know best after Egypt (sorry guys), that’s around the time of the coronation of King Cnut (1016 AD) or in Scottish history the death of Malcolm II/Accession of Duncan I (1034 AD).
To get to the time of the building of the Great Pyramid in the Old Kingdom we move forward to around 500 years to 2586 BC. Moving 500 years on in British history gets you to 1500 AD which is about the time of the coronation of Henry VIII.
To get to the Middle Kingdom we move on 450 years to 2050 BC. Moving 450 years on from Henry VIII is 1950 AD. 1950′s Britain has a 2 year old NHS service and is at the start of the Windrush Generation of immigrants from Caribbean countries.
To get to 2018 we move forward 68 years and the NHS is dying and the Windrush Generation are both being poorly treated by the British Government. In Ancient Egypt we’ve only had 4 kings in the Middle Kingdom (up to Amenemhat I), and @rudjedet is still 20 years off being able to date Senwosret I.
So in equivalent time terms 2018 is basically only at the very beginning of the second of Egypt’s great periods.
The New Kingdom is another 500 years on from that at 1550 BC
Do that from now it’s 2518 AD
To get to the death of Tutankhamun at 1324 BC add another 226 years. That’s 2744 AD.
The Late Period starts at 664 BC, which is 660 years after the death of Tutankhamun. Add 600 years to our timeline and we’re at 3404 AD.
If we kept going like this, Alexander the Great will conquer us in 3736 AD. That’s 1718 years from now.
Cleopatra rules from 50 BC to 30 BC, which is 302 years after Alexander and therefore 2020 years away from 2018 in 4038 AD.
So I guess to reinforce that Egyptian history is a REALLY FUCKING LONG TIME is that if 2018 is only equivalent to the beginning of the Middle Kingdom we’re still over 2000 years away from the death of Cleopatra. To reach the equivalent time away from these events we have now (i.e. 2018 AD is 2012 years on from the death of Cleopatra and in the timeline I was reconstructing Cleo’s death is in 4038 AD) we have to add 2012 years to 4038 AD which takes us to the equivalent of our 2018 AD being 6050 AD.
Now you can sit there and think about how if we start at year 1 and run Ancient Egypt from its beginning to where we are now it’s 6050 years. And that’s a really really long time.
I seriously cannot emphasise how long that is
Okay, but what were they dooooing for 5000 years?
‘Modern era’ civilization has existed for only 500 years or so and we have monster trucks, nuclear cruise missiles, and internet.
Why wasn’t Egypt zipping around in FTL starships around 0 AD?
Well let’s look at this objectively shall we?
a) They started with stone tools and the modern era started with the culmination of every other invention and technological advancement made since humans discovered fire.
b) Their civilisation did not require stuff like electricity because metal tools were only developed 1000 years into their history and thus they hadn’t even created decent metal tools let alone machines. There’s no need for machines in their civilisation because there’s no need to mass produce anything that they can’t wait a month or so. It’s not like Karen in the Siwa Oasis is gonna flip her shit if that hand crafted pot takes two weeks to make. That’s just how long one of those takes to make. Create a machine for it? Why? They’ve got 15 men making these in the local workshop and demand isn’t that high for them. No need to have a mass production line.
c) No concept of time. Sure they had water clocks, but only priests had those and regular people just worked until it was done. It’s not like someone was going to leave them a 1 star review.
d) They’ve got horses? Why would they need mass transit? They’re not going anywhere in a hurry.
e) Capitalism hasn’t been invented yet
I’ve said this once, and I’ll say it again until I’m blue in the face: Do not apply modern bias and ways of thinking onto the Ancient record or you will distort it. Everything we are now as people is built on the work of the people who came before us and we cannot separate ourselves from it.
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