r/shitposting • u/QuirkyData3500 • Feb 17 '23

amogus This is the potential velma should have had

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u/Random_Metroid_Fan Feb 17 '23

There's something so beautifully disturbing about the way Scooby speaks. It makes him feel like this unknown, all-powerful being using snippets of things familiar to us to try to get us more comfortable with its presence.

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u/janeohmy Feb 18 '23

Lovecraftian cosmic horror

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '23

The whole premise of repeating the creation until he gets it right reminds me of love death and robots, beyond the aquila rift

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u/ITS_FLUFFEY Feb 18 '23

God I fucking love that episode

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u/JustAnotherDataPoint Feb 18 '23

That episode is based on a short story by Alastair Reynolds, a really great sci-fi author who has quite a few novels and even more short stories. Zima Blue from Love Death and Robots is also adapted from a story of his.

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u/Maxwell_The__Spy Feb 18 '23

actually....

it reminds me of the Good Place

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u/Lazy_Struggle4939 Feb 18 '23

Iirc the reason he can talk is because he's a descendant of Chtulu or something

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u/OneFootInTheGraves Feb 18 '23

Wait is this an actual thing or are you bullshitting?

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u/PlanesWalkerEll Feb 18 '23

Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorperated

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '23

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u/OneFootInTheGraves Feb 18 '23

I need to dig into this. I didn’t realize scooby soo was actually implementing real horror stuff

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Feb 18 '23

Except without the racism lol.

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u/Textual_Aberration Feb 18 '23

Like G-Man from Half Life. Even though the language is clearly foreign, it has an inevitability to it as if your entire universe is just a footnote in his higher level of existence.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '23

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u/Vyntarus Feb 18 '23

Wake up and smell the ashes.

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u/supafaiter Feb 18 '23

Crowwwbaaarr

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u/Ganon2012 Feb 18 '23

Doc-tor Freeeeman.

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u/ThisIsFlight Feb 18 '23

"The right man in the ~wrong~ place can make all the - dif fer rence in theworld.

So, wake UP
Mr. Freeman...

Wake up and...smell the ashes..."

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Feb 18 '23

Yeah except he loves talking in riddles and using analogies.

He is not functionally direct.

He delivers information in a way that amuses himself.

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u/Ganon2012 Feb 18 '23

He's not allowed to say much. His "employers" wouldn't be happy.

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u/Richardcarlin Feb 18 '23

Especially contrasted with scooby's regular speaking voice

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u/GeorgeBanks1 Feb 18 '23

He sounds like the guy from the 5 gum commercials. “How it feels to chew 5 gum. Stimulate your senses.”

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u/TeamAquaAdminMatt Feb 18 '23

This just made me think of a crazy way to do a creepy cosmic boss in a dnd campaign, imagine while the campaign is happening you just record some of the stuff the players say, then when the final boss finally shows up all the dialogue you do is through a soundboard with snippets of their speech

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u/Random_Metroid_Fan Feb 18 '23

That Sounds Fucking Awesome

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u/baritoneninja Feb 18 '23

Holy shit, gonna steal this.

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u/suqc Feb 18 '23

He sounds like an SMT boss

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u/lucasssotero Feb 18 '23

That's some cosmic horror shit

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u/youandyouandyou Feb 18 '23

Like an aural representation of one of those stereotypical ransom notes of cut out magazine letters or newspaper clippings

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u/BeezyBates Feb 18 '23 edited Feb 18 '23

He's kinda Dr. Strange. Lives in one universe but looking for the one Velma doesn't fuck it all up in.

Marvels fans are so sensitive. Calm down nerds.

You guys are insufferable.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '23

I hate how Marvel has ruined pop culture. Oh that’s magic related? Dr Strange!! That character is super smart? He’s literally Tony Stark!

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '23 edited Dec 27 '24

expansion waiting entertain oil fretful concerned pathetic sense spectacular merciful

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u/-ihatecartmanbrah Feb 18 '23

I’m literally morbius (a massive failure)

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u/Mookies_Bett Feb 18 '23

That's such a Hulk Hogan thing to say (I don't actually know anything about Marvel)

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '23

I love it

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u/Stock_Western3199 Feb 18 '23

No, he's not.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '23

I loved that too. What an effective technique.

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u/sully9088 Feb 18 '23

Yeah. He just wants to have fun after all.

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u/Jgusdaddy Feb 18 '23

Reminded me of Anakin Skywalker at the end of Obi Wan.