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Description[]
Scooby-Doo vs. Courage the Cowardly Dog. These dogs may run from anything, but they'll stay for their loved ones.
Introduction[]
Wiz: President Roosevelt once said that courage is not the absence of fear, it is acting in spite of it.
Boomstick: It helps to thusly act when your best friends with an entire species. I'm talking of course about our beloved canine companions.
Wiz: Like Scooby-Doo, the mascot of Mystery Inc.
Boomstick: And Courage, the Cowardly Dog. He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.
Scooby[]
Wiz: Mystery Incorporated, a freelance group of armature mystery solvers, can be characterized by its five tightly knitted members. Trap master Fred, bookworm Velma...
Boomstick:...bombshell Daphne and Shaggy, who could take on all the threats they ever came across should he access 0.00000001% of his power. But of course, we can't forget their mascot, although often times he's also their top performer.
Wiz: Everyone's favorite Great Dane, Scooby-Doo.
- Background
- Age: 7
- Height: 4'2
- Species: Great Dane
- Mascot of Mystery Incorporated
- Best friend of Shaggy Rogers
- Likes all sorts of food except haggis
Boomstick: So which one are we going with here? What's New? The one who Gets a Clue? The one who's Cool? Apocalyptic?
Wiz: Well, like most of our combatants we're going to go composite here, although I personally enjoy the incarnation of what I'm sure many people consider the finest Scooby-Doo cartoon there is; the one with an overarching story. Especially since it's the only one I can think of that actually explains why Scooby can talk.
Boomstick: Turns out, he's the descendant of animals who were possessed by alien deities in order to interact with earthlings. I just wonder other people aren't surprised that dog can talk in the first place, although I suppose his 'R' based speech impediment can come across as simple doggy noises.
Wiz: Regardless of the many specific origins that Scooby has gone through, he always ends up in the company of Mystery Incorporated, especially with his best friend Shaggy, who's as much of a big eater as he is. Get's kind of weird when Shaggy partakes in Scooby's favorite treat, Scooby Snacks and what's more, I'm pretty sure that it's their sole efforts that enable an entire factory producing the treats they love so much.
Boomstick: Eh, different people have different palates, and the Scooby-Snacks are a necessary tool for the Mystery Inc. crew to utilize, since they're often the only thing that they can use to coerce Scooby into helping out. And no wonder, considering his abilities.
- Skills and Abilities
- Strength and speed of a Great Dane
- Digging
- Tracking
- Toon Force
- Stealth Skills
- Voice Throwing
- Swordsmanship
- Fire breath
Wiz: A normal Great Dane is able to run at over 13 miles a second and possesses a bite force of 670 PSI, with one source saying this gives the Great Dane the 12th most powerful biting force amongst dogs in the world. And befitting his status as, you know, a dog, he's a skilled tracker with that old sniffer of his and is pretty efficient at digging long tunnels in a pinch. Oh, and rather unorthodoxly, he can use his tail like a propeller.
Boomstick: Oh but Scooby has far more to him than a Dane's standard skillset. Thanks to being in a comedy-centered cartoon, he has himself the ability of Toon Force. This means he can shrug off most forms of punishment, run out of a door he was nowhere near and even did what could only be described as reverse time around himself to get back to a prior position.
Wiz: Trust us, that's cartoon logic. And for a massive dog, he's also fairly adept at sneaking around those who are actively looking for him, blending into the background, disguising himself as others or hiding in any hollow object. He also knows how to throw his voice to misdirect others.
Boomstick: And his various adventurers, especially the movies, gave him some more skills. His time with Kiss taught him how to breath fire and when he went to Japan, he learned how to fight like a god-damned samurai.
Wiz: And you remember the Scooby-Snacks? Well, Shaggy's uncle, a brilliant scientist, infused several with nanotechnology, meaning that whenever Scooby eats one, he gains a temporary new ability.
- Scooby-Snacks
- Primary motivator
- Nanite-Scooby-Snacks
- Invisibility
- Duplication
- Superhuman attributes
- Flight
- Shield
- Dolphin
- Elasticity
- Hyper speed
- Hyper intelligence
- Mega-Scooby
Boomstick: He can get super strength, super speed, hyper speed, shapeshifting, flight, invisibility or straight up turn into a giant super strong robot. Do bad they're as hard as a, well, stale dog biscuit, but wolfing one down is always worth it for whatever power-up he gets. There's even one that turns him into a dolphin! A Great Dane-phin if you will.
Popup: Whilst Scooby got a Yellow Lantern ring in one story, it's never been a consistent part of his arsenal. Furthermore, scaling Scooby to guest DC characters may not be a concrete approach as they are unlikely be comparable to their mainstream counterparts.
Wiz: Having been around far longer than any dog could chronologically be, Scooby and the gang have travelled around practically the whole known world in search of mysteries of solve, wittingly or otherwise, with Scooby himself taking center stage for most of them.
- Feats
- Pushed a massive boulder
- Tracked down 13 ghosts
- Survived a fireball blowing up a house
- Served as bait for numerous traps
- Like Shaggy, can smash through walls
- Served as a motor for a boat full of people
- Defeated the Amazing Krudsky, Black Samurai, Ancient Entity
Boomstick: Especially when it comes to eating. With Winston from Feast, he's capable of eating an entire buffet in a matter of moments and not get fat from it, although I believe that he burns a lot of calories from running away from monsters or luring them into traps.
Wiz: Even if he is somehow caught by any monsters, he'd unlikely be in any real trouble, since he's tough enough to be in the middle of a blast that blew up an island house, and also pretty strong. Once, whilst in a video game that's pretty accurate to real life logic, Scooby was able to push a massive boulder to free a baby dinosaur.
Boomstick: Aw, he's all heart.
Wiz: This boulder is likely ignimbrite, a rock that's formed by magma flow, giving how it was found on a volcano's mountainside and the general coloration of such, and comparing it to Scooby's height, then it would have weighed 1.7 tons.
Boomstick: And he pushed it off all by himself. And in spite of his cowardice, he's manage to rise to the occasion when traps aren't effective, and it's almost always been against genuine monsters, like the Black Samurai or a literal entity of pure evil. But speaking of real monsters, it's often remarkable he's continuously terrified of them when 99.9% of the time, they're just people in suits.
Wiz: Or maybe those people, costume or otherwise, truly are monsters.
Boomstick: ...you just blew my mind.
Wiz: Scooby-Doo has been through thick and thin but if there's one other thing that motivates him beyond Scooby-Snacks, it's the care he has for his friends and the desire to see the right thing done.
Courage[]
Wiz: In the middle of Nowhere, which is both a location and a general term, there lived married couple Eustace and Muriel, who couldn't be more unmatched as such.
Boomstick: And out in the middle of Nowhere, strange things are always happening, and it falls to one person to save them from whatever terrors rears it's ugly head.
Wiz: Or at least when it isn't Eustace being the terror himself and whilst we say it's the duty of a person, it's actually that of a faithful animal companion, Courage the Cowardly Dog.
- Background
- Height: 1'4 (average height of a beagle)
- Species: Beagle
- Adopted by Muriel
- Lives in Kansas, Nowhere
- Scared of his own shadow
- Likes bones and dumplings
Boomstick: Who was probably named with irony in mind.
Wiz: Well, irony is another form of comedy but even then don't you remember our opening quote?
Boomstick: Give me a break Wiz, that was a whole other analysis section ago.
Wiz: Well, when abridged it's basically that courage is acting even when you feel fear, which fits Courage to a T considering what he goes up against when trying to get his beloved owner Muriel out of danger.
Boomstick: Yeah, he loves that old woman, because she did the kindest thing of all and took him home when he was a stray. Dogs and humans...what a lovely bond we share! Although I still don't think Courage deserves half the crap that he goes through to protect her. She's grand and all, but it all does seem a bit much.
Wiz: Fortunately for her and Eustace, in spite of how little he deserves his aid, Courage is fully capable of jumping to their rescue to save them from the latest monster of the week. Normal beagles, which are Courage's dog species, can bite with a force of over 220 psi, run at 20 miles per hour and have the highest number of smell receptors out of any other dog species, making him an expert at sniffing out others. But of course he has a lot more on his side due to being in a cartoon.
- Abilities and Skills
- Strength and speed of a Beagle
- Strong sense of smell
- Toon Force
- Hypnosis
- High pain tolerance
- Stealth skills
- Powerful scream
- Karate skills
Boomstick: He's a Toon Force user, meaning he can pull any number of objects from nowhere.
Wiz: Things like chainsaws, explosives, mallets, marbles, a plunger gun, equipment to survive in other environments and even the means to create a chemical formula that's explosive to any surface.
Boomstick: Plus, even though he can truck on even after being beaten and bruised, his Toon Force means he can remove from being reduce to a pile of ash no problem, or even when he was reduce to a puddle. Shrinking is also a benefit of Toon Force, as he can go small enough to enter someone's bloodstream.
Wiz: He's also fairly agile, able to perform several consecutive backflips and dodge projectiles, and has been able to sneak into secure locations pretty much on a dime. And far from the dumb dog stereotype, Courage is an outright genius, able to construct several different inventions and come up with winning schemes for whatever threat shows up.
Boomstick: There's one method I'm actually surprised he doesn't use more often, as it's pretty much an easy win strategy.
Wiz: Using a yo-yo or pocket watch, Courage is able to hypnotize others so efficiently, they take on entirely new personas, such as how he reduced a powerful dolphin swimmer into a measly mackerel.
Boomstick: Shockingly, he's also rather good at fighting, having beaten up two massive guards all by himself and even against the Evil Empress of China. But when all else fails and he finds himself backed into a corner, he harnesses his pure fear into one terrifying technique; the Scream.
Wiz: With his frankly astounding lung capacity, Courage is able to scream bloody murder so potent, he can induce earthquakes.
Boomstick: Holy hell! That little girl from Kid VS Kat might as well put a lid on her pot because Courage can one up her with volume alone. Guess he's gotten lots of practice screaming with all the frightening horrors he deals with. Like an evil school matron, a realistic floating head and the man in gauze, Ramses.
- Feats
- Lifted trees, trucks and a whale
- Survived numerous beatings
- Rescued Muriel and Eustace from all manner of trouble
- Dug through thousands of years worth of dirt
- Was shot across the plant, crashed and got back up
- Held a small star in his paws
- Defeated Katz, Le Quack, the Black Puddle Queen
Wiz: For such a small dog, Courage is remarkably strong. He's been able to lift a truck above himself with casual ease, and they can weigh just little over a ton. And whilst beagles are already pretty fast dogs, Courage steps it up by a lot by running from the surface of the sun to its core.
Boomstick: And, obviously, that means he can survive being on the surface of the freaking sun!
Wiz: Incredibly persistent, Courage dug through all the dirt that had accumulated for over 1000 years and wasn't even out of breath after doing so, and ran across the world from Kansas to Tibet, then to India, then to India, then to Paris and back to Kansas in a matter of seconds.
Boomstick: Getting himself back to Kansas was one thing, but he also created a giant vacuum to suck the Statue of Liberty over to his home country. At this point, is there anything he isn't capable of?
Wiz: Well, completely conquering his fears isn't exactly one of them. Whilst he has come into contact with horrors that should have since long dulled any sense of surprise he would logically have, Courage continuously gets jitters and bouts of panic that can affect his skills. Skills that haven't dulled one bit, however, in spite of everything Courage has gone through.
Boomstick: All of the terrifying, horrible quests to protect his owners. Man, the things he does for love.
Interlude[]
Wiz: Alright the combatants are set, time to end this debate once and for all.
Boomstick: It's time for a Death Battle!
The Battle[]
Setting: Dark old mansion, in the main living room
In the dimly lit room, Scooby and Courage entered from different doors, looking around so nervously they didn't see each other.
Scooby: Raunted ransion...raunted by a...
Courage:...evil h-h-hellhound who p-p-p-preys on the souls of others...
Scooby/Courage: That's what the rumors say.
At that shared line, they both turned their heads and found themselves staring at each other. In unison they blinked before letting out yells of terror.
Scooby/Courage: Hellhound!
FIGHT!
They kept on screaming in each others faces in terror before Courage, on reflex, slapped his paw across Scooby's face. Their screaming stopped as they both blinked in surprise at Courage's action, before Scooby looked back at him.
Scooby: You ron of a...
He smacked Courage back, who shook his head to free himself of the dizziness before smacking Scooby a second time. Their slapping of one another evolved into the two of them slap fighting that producing a smoke cloud around each other, which hide the tussle they both got into. When it subsided, Courage was on Scooby's head, pulling on his ears and stomping on his head. Scooby yowled in pain before steadying himself and shaking his head vigorously until Courage was sent flying off. As he sailed through the air, Scooby focused on him and imagined him as a Scooby-Snack. With a determined look, he jumped after Courage liked he would a Frisbee, his mouth opened wide. When he landed, he had Courage in his jaws, but not in the way as he had hoped, as the beagle was using his tiny limbs to stop them from closing fully around himself. Acting quickly, Courage pulled out his plunger gun and fired it, securing a position on the wall and using the gun's pulley to pull himself free from Scooby's mouth, which clamped together jarringly as a result. Mid-course, Courage pulled the tethered plunger from the wall and aimed it back at Scooby, firing it so that it attached over Scooby's mouth and as he pulled himself back towards the Great Dane, he pulled out a baseball bat and swung it, striking Scooby in the side of the head. He went flying back and crashed against the wall, from which a hanging katana fell loose and landed point first in front of him. Scooby saw it, thought about his samurai training, and yanked it out of the ground, coming after Courage with a war-yell. The sword cut through Courage's baseball bat with ease, much to his dismay and he then had to focus on dodging the numerous slashes Scooby came at him with.
Eventually, he was back up against a grandfather clock, with Scooby holding the sword above his head.
Scooby: Revenly Rike!
Before the sword could come down, Courage slammed his elbow into the side of the clock and a cuckoo came out of the clock face and poked Scooby in the eye. He yowled in pain. Holding onto his throbbing eye, he lashed out widely with the sword and eventually it embedded into something. With his vision back, Scooby looked at what he had hit and his hopeful grin faded into a dropped jaw when he was it was a stack of lit dynamite that he had stabbed.
Scooby: Ruh-roh...
The blast sent Scooby flying backwards to crash through one of the room's doors and out into the corridor, where they were numerous other doors lining it. Courage's yell made him turn around and he saw the beagle coming at him with a massive mallet. Scooby scrambled away to avoid the downwards swing of the wooden hammer and he ran through one of the doors. Courage ran after him and wrenched the door open, his hammer at the ready only to see Scooby nowhere in sight. He frowned before Scooby came out from the door behind him and smacked him in the back of the head. Courage turned around to watch him vanish through the door and ran after him to open it back up, Scooby once again out of sight. Courage retreated to the middle of the hallway, his mallet at the ready but was unable to catch Scooby as he ran out of and into different doors, ramming into Courage in the process. After several of these impacts, Courage steadied himself and sniffed, picking up Scooby's scent behind one of the doors, but instead of heading straight towards him, Courage waited until Scooby had pounced from the door towards him. Courage spun around and swung the mallet to nail Scooby in the face, causing him to land on his back with a crumbled muzzle. He groaned and looked up as Courage raised the hammer above his head for another strike. Just before he could swing it down, Scooby's Toon Force kicked in and he "rewinded" backwards into a mid-pounce, so that he could re-perform it and this time successfully tackling Courage.
They went tumbling further down the corridor, fighting in a new cloud of dust. It dispersed when the two pulled away from each other, Courage in particular entering a fighting stance. Scooby punched out a paw at him and Courage grabbed the limb, flipping Scooby over himself so that the Dane crashed face-first into the ground. Courage then tossed him away from himself before grabbing his tail and swinging him round and around before letting him fly down to the very end of the corridor and crash against the wall. Scooby got back up with a simple shake of his head.
Courage: Man, this dog's tough or my name's not Ernestine Chow. And it's not.
However, his brief personal monologue had allowed Scooby to get away.
Courage: Hey!
Scooby: Ris ray rucker!
Courage pulled out a chainsaw and charged down the left splitting corridor, slashing the figure that he saw. Only once it had fell apart did he realize it was a statue of a dog. A shark whistle drew his attention and Courage turned around, instantly screaming when he saw Scooby with KISS style facial makeup open his mouth and unleash a blast of fire at him. The beagle was engulfed by the fire and turned into a pile of ash in an instant mid scream. Scooby giggled and turned around, quite proud of himself and not noticing Courage quietly reform. He pulled marbles out of nowhere and rolled them towards Scooby, who stepped on a couple. He wailed in shock as he was sent skidding down the hallway to crash against a dresser, the vase flying through the air to smash over his head. He shook his head to rid himself of the fragments and in the process his nose caught a whiff of something.
His eyes lit up and his body going on autopilot, he dug into the ground, tunneling to some other location. Courage frowned and dug a tunnel himself after him. Following Scooby's smell, he popped up in a new room; the kitchen. There, he saw Scooby shaking an entire box of Scooby-Snacks into his mouth, mumbling happily as he did. His eyes widened suddenly and he put the box down.
Scooby: Huh...Ranite one.
Courage: Pardon?
Scooby suddenly underwent a transformation and in front of the petrified Courage was a giant robot Scooby, transformed by a Nanite Scooby Snack, who looked down menacingly at the other dog.
Courage: Oh...boy.
A powerful strike sent him smashing through the kitchen wall, back out into the main hallway and the robot Scooby came after him, raining down strikes onto Courage as soon as he had crashed onto the floor. Soon, a small crater had been formed by the onslaught, with a bruised and battered Courage at the bottom. Scooby picked him up and started to squeeze him until Courage's eye bulged. He struggled but not to fully break free; instead to wrench a single arm free and hold what he held in his paw before Scooby's eyes.
Scooby instantly trained on the ticking wrist watch, and he slowly began to fall under the hypnotism.
Courage: When I snap my fingers, you will be a normal sleepy dog.
With a thusly snapping of his fingers, Courage was dropped from Scooby's grasp as his robotic persona ripped away from him, revealing him in his normal sleeping self. Upon landing, Courage took in a deep breath and unleashed a massive scream that shook the very house and startled Scooby from his sleep, who looked around in confusion as cracks spread throughout the structure until it started crashing down around them. Including a massive chunk of the ceiling with a shadow that fell over Scooby as it plummeted down towards him.
Scooby: Roh-no.
The slab crushed Scooby at the same time the rest of the house collapsed. Courage finally stopped screaming once he realized he had destroyed the entire house.
Courage: D'oh. The things I do for love.
KO!
Outcome[]
Boomstick: I just realized that dog fights usually need more braver mutts but this worked out a treat.
Wiz: Both canines may have been able to rise to various occasions in spite of their obvious aversions to danger but between them Courage had the more reliable skills and abilities. For one thing, his hypnotism presented itself as a perfect opportunity to end the battle at basically any point, as Scooby and others have shown themselves to be susceptible to its effects and his superior sense of smell could let him seek out wherever Scooby decided to hide.
Boomstick: So long as Courage could take whatever Scooby could throw at him that is. Fortunately for him, he could.
Wiz: At one point, Scooby-Doo used a Ninite Scooby Snack to run around the planet in about 5 seconds, which means he could ram into someone with a kinetic energy of 400 kilotons(Foxthefox100). Impressive, but Courage could handle being in the sun's very core, which outputs energy worth 1.3 teratons of TNT and that's not even regarding how he can recover from being reduced to essentially vapor.
Boomstick: And the thing about those Nanite Scooby Snacks is that they are only temporary power-ups. And whilst they could give Scooby super-intelligence and the sort, Courage has that kind of expertise with him already, already having a pretty smart head on his shoulders. Speaking of which, that hyper-speed Scooby Snack gives him speeds of Mach 20,000 or 0.02 times the speed of light.
Popup: There was a time when Scooby, as part of a ballerina trio, appeared to produce a light blinding enough to destroy the universe but given the presentation of the entire scene it was likely nothing more but a gag.
Wiz: In comparison, Courage was able to run to the sun's core at 0.29 times the speed of light (TakaHakai). A pretty clear speed comparison and not all that surprising considering how much faster beagles are compared to Great Danes.
Boomstick: But you know what wasn't rooted in real life parallels? Their strength, although technically it's not biting strength which he mentioned before, as Scooby was able to push a boulder weighing just short of two tons. But Courage was able to lift a blue whale clear over his head, which can weigh 165 tons.
Wiz: But of course, we can't forget how Courage can scream loud enough to literally break the sun and the moon apart. Something Scooby ultimately had no odds of surviving.
Boomstick: The Cowardly Dog just had too much strength, speed, toughness and skill for the Great Dane for him to Incorporate any new of winning against.
Wiz: The winner is Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Next Time[]
Season 9's conclusion
Embraces the idea
Of strength equaling survival
Trivia[]
- Connections: Both are cartoon dogs known for their extreme phobias and loyalty to their masters.
- Animation Style: 2D.
- OST Idea: 'Courageous Canines', referring to Courage's name and how both are dogs.
Description[]
Intro[]
Scooby-Doo Sniffs Around DEATH BATTLE! for Clues[]
Courage Cowers in Fear at DEATH BATTLE![]
Intermission/Bets[]
Death Battle[]
Results[]
Next Time[]
Trivia[]
- The connections between Scooby-Doo and Courage are that they are iconic cartoon dogs with extremely high cowardice, thus making them very easy to frighten (with Courage even being scared of his own shadow). However, they always end up facing their fears for the sake of their loved ones so they can protect them from monsters and other supernatural forces. When it comes to conquering said threats, they usually defeat them through sheer wit as opposed to brute force. Both characters would also meet in the 2021 animated film Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog.
- The battle would be animated in hand-drawn animation.
- The track title would be Cowardly Canines.