Film Theory: What is Ultra Shaggy's TRUE Power Level? (Scooby Doo x Dragon Ball Z meme)

Vegeta,

what

does the scouter say about his

power

level

? There are more than 9000! That? 9000? There's no way that's right! I'm serious, that CANNOT be right. Let me show you. Hello Internet, welcome to Film Theory, the Velma of YouTube channels. I'll let you decide exactly

what

that means. Today we're taking our first look at the series that taught us that monsters are actually greedy people with access to extremely convincing rubber masks. Scooby Doo! A show that remained a staple of children's cartoon programming since the late '60s; I mean, think about a show your grandparents watched when they were kids and it's still relevant today.

Next thing you know, we'll be seeing a Flintstones reboot complete with bamm-bamm dabbing and wearing the ultimate Yabba Dabba Doo. *dabs* Hopefully not, but where Scooby, Fred, Velma, Shaggy and Daphne have found their home lately has been in the

meme

averse joining the hallowed ranks of SpongeBob Shrek and Elon Musk. And of those

meme

s, one in particular has impressed us with its

level

of

power

. Literally

ultra

Instinct

shaggy

now in case you have better things to do with your time than search the internet for the meme of the week. Damn, that's an overly generous meme of the day if you're lucky, one pops up that started late last year and really took off in January.

It comes from a somewhat unusual scene in the made-for-TV movie Scooby-Doo. Record those beautiful bean images. Just your typical cartoon fight scene, right? weeeeell Sort of, but Shaggy's calm demeanor and ability to predict his opponents' moves caused YouTubermedia to remix the scene with some super Dragon Ball music, opening the floodgates to dozens of spin-off memes and with that, a new Z warrior entered the fray. Ultra furry instinct. Fight Goku, the furry

ultra

instinct stands firm! Ultra Instinct, by the way, is a reference to Goku's latest and strongest transformation in the Dragon Ball series. Basically, some intergalactic jelly beans decide to hold a tournament of power because no season of Dragon Ball is complete without one of those, in multiple universes with all the losers being erased.

So, to save his universe, Deus ex Goku needs to reach his new level, which unlocks all the powers you ever had access to before, as well as any potential powers you still have dormant. It is difficult to unlock. It's even harder to master and comes complete with a new hair color for our favorite Saiyan: white! Everyone here made fun of me with my purple hair. Simply put,

true

to Dragon

ball

lore, Shaggy becoming a Z Warrior sparked all sorts of speculation and jokes about his new power level. There was even a petition going around to include it in the new Mortal Kombat game, Mortal Kombat 11.

I mean, it didn't happen. but it did spark this incredible tweet from a serious crater in Boone. So I thought I'd do my best as a Device Scouter today to explore what's really going on with Shaggy. How has this character, sixty years into his career, been able to take advantage? this new power? And what exactly is that new power? Can it be quantified? What is his power level? To find out, tune in next time to Shaggy Ball Z! Or you can just continue watching this

film

theory

episode. To start, we'll need to understand the source of Shaggy's powers.

You see, what makes this meme even more interesting is the fact that Shaggy is always the scared character. He's always the coward. So for him to suddenly become such a skilled fighter is... unexpected, to say the least. Fortunately, the legend of the Phantassaurus explains the transition, and in case you're wondering what a Phantassaurus is, it's literally a ghost dinosaur. Hey, I can't blame him after 60 years of people wearing rubber masks. You have to start pushing yourself in search of new ideas. Anyway, while on a standard Scooby-Doo-style adventure, Shaggy finds himself locked in a dark closet full of monster masks.

This sends it. in a catatonic state and the doctor gave him the diagnosis of "acute threat avoidance hypertrophy disorder." And he was ordered not to investigate any more terrifying mysteries or even set foot in the Mystery Machine. He told her not to enter the Mystery Machine. That's why I repainted it. So, to try to cure Shaggy of this crippling fear, the gang decides to try hypnosis. "No, it's more like hypnosis, but not the boring old type of hypnosis. Psycholuminescent reprogramming. PLR." The PLR ​​process hypnotizes Shaggy so that when he hears the word "bad", he literally becomes fearless until he hears the word again.

And this is not as unrealistic as it might seem at first glance. You see, Shaggy starts out diagnosed with acute threat avoidance hypertrophy disorder, a disorder that doesn't actually exist, but if we look at the meaning of each of those words, we can find some pretty similar real-life problems. Acute simply means the symptoms appear suddenly, threat avoidance obviously refers to Shaggy's overwhelming fear responses. Hypertrophy simply means getting bigger. So while cardiac hypertrophy may be problematic because you have an enlarged heart, muscular hypertrophy would actually be quite desirable because you made those gains, son. In this case, the enlargement we are talking about would be the area of ​​the brain that avoids threats.

What is the amygdala in real life? Amygdala hypertrophy is a real thing. It can occur when someone suffers the effects of an acute stress disorder similar to and often a precursor to post-traumatic stress disorder. Those who suffer from acute stress disorder find themselves overreacting to negative stimuli after some traumatic event, as we see it. It happens to Shaggy after he gets trapped in that monster closet, and believe it or not,

true

to the movie, hypnosis has been shown to help reduce the effects of acute stress disorder. So it looks like the Scooby-Doo story here actually has its roots in some real-life science.

At least a lot more real-life science than he ever expected. But then, how does all this explain why he became Goku's son? Well, the ultra-instinctive fight scene that started all of this happens while Shaggy is in one of those fearless states in a movie. Mr. Hubely makes a point of saying that his PLR is more powerful than standard versions of hypnosis. "This is completely different" It's so powerful, in fact, that it even reprograms Hubely himself later in the

film

, so it seems likely that what Shaggy is undergoing here is a hypnotically induced Super Saiyan-style transformation, a concept that by As absurd as it sounds once again, it is incredibly backed by real-world science.

The Soviets in the 1950s and 1960s believed so strongly in the power of hypnosis that at the 1956 Olympic Games they had eleven hypnotists accompanying them. It seems ridiculous, until you start. If we look at the numbers, the Soviets managed to surpass the Americans in medals that year: ninety-eight medals, compared to 74 now. Obviously, this is not really a transformation and is more correlation than causation. Otherwise, we would see every country bringing all kinds of hypnotists with them to the games. No, scientists who have studied hypnosis tend to conclude that it helps put athletes in a state of flow - a mental state of being completely immersed in the activity they are doing, clearing their mind and putting everything into what they are doing in that moment. same moment.

The crazy thing about all this is that it's almost identical to how ultra instinct works. This is how Goku can unlock this new transformation in the first place, Ultra Instinct requires the fighter to literally stop thinking, stop overanalyzing and simply exist in the moment, which is why users can react instantly to attacks. that are happening. Around him he is also like Vegeta with his highly analytical mind. He has difficulties when he tries to master the ultra-instinctive way. He's thinking too much. He can't clear his mind enough to enter the necessary flow state. So does that make Shaggy, the gods of Scooby-Doo, your equivalent of Goku?

Wow. Power levels in the Dragon Ball series are generally not determined by Scouter devices that measure the amount of ki energy. that is owned by a single character. Although in

theory

this number should remain somewhat stable throughout your life, intensive training. Natural aging and shape changes, such as becoming Super Sam, can change your total power levels. Shaggy is still limited by his human limitations and his lack of training, although his reaction time is certainly faster when he is in this quote-unquote "ultra instinct mode." He still needs time to think about how he reacts to attacks and he's missing out on all those really clever flashes.

So what exactly is his power level too? Shaggy's other shining moment comes at the end of the film, when he jumps across a river. He jumps over a series of falling rocks to reach a hole in the ceiling. Shaggy is now jumping from a falling rock and gaining an enormous amount of altitude from each jump. So, Shaggy not only has to create enough force to jump from rock to rock, but he also has to do it before the rock he lands on. You are losing too much of your own altitude. User Brenda la on LiveJournal actually shared a collection. from old Scooby-Doo comics with information about all the characters and Shaggy's height is 6 feet by 1,822 meters.

So, using Shaggy as a ruler in this shot, we can estimate that Shaggy crosses about 5.5 meters over the course of about three seconds using three separate jumps. Shaggy also has to at least keep up with him. And indeed, we see him gaining altitude with the next two jumps bouncing more than a meter off each rock while he waits for the next one to fall. Consider how this should work for Shaggy on a normal ground jumping force diagram. doesn't move So it's exerting a force equal to your weight Accelerated by gravity toward the ground when you want to jump All you need to do is exert a little extra force downward toward the ground and that propels you up But now imagine the The ground also accelerates downward at the same speed, just as we see the falling rocks in the scene.

Sure, you can still jump off of them, but actually gaining additional height will be significantly more difficult instead of getting the full equal and opposite effect of your Downward Push, you now have to take into account the fact that the rock is also falling, in Instead of force being equal to mass times acceleration, as it normally would be for any type of jump now, it becomes force equal to mass times acceleration to account for your jump plus mass. times gravity to account for the rock fall. We see Shaggy hit four rocks in total and three that we see, a good measure of the collision time of him with each of them takes about two to four frames each, about one to two tenths of a second.

So, yes, consider all of this along with Shaggy's listed weight of 160 pounds or 72.5 kilograms. We find that in every jump. To achieve this, Shaggy will need a staggering 5,428 Newtons or 1,220 pounds of force. Now, in 2014, Žydrūnas Savickas set a deadlift world record of 1,155 pounds and Shaggy has to beat it three times in the span of a couple of seconds. Those are superhuman strength levels, not so much the power of flight, but it's getting pretty close and in the Dragon Ball universe, flight or high jumping is definitely something we can use to help calculate overall power levels. .

Now, the Dragon Ball Kanzenshuu Encyclopedia has an amazingly comprehensive look at the power levels of various characters throughout the series, which in turn will allow us to make some rough comparisons to Shaggy Ultra Instant. So let's look at Shaggy's power set. Shaggy has fast reaction times above average strength and the ability to almost, but not quite, fly. The jumping ability is really good and very fast. Where Shaggy has the clearest limitation on him is not being able to create any type of energy or ki related blasts. Now look at the history of the franchise. The original Dragon Ball series is the only time we see this level of more solid realistic Enlightenment before the power levels began to get out of control during the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament We see Goku face off against his future wife Chichi during the course From their combat, we see her demonstrate many of the same abilities that Shaggy uses in the Ghost Movie, quick reflexes and superhuman jumps, but without actual flight.

So according to the encyclopedia, his power level at that time was 130, the next power level we see from there is 139, as shown by Jackie Chun aka Master Roshi in disguise during the 21st World Arts Tournament Martial. Here he demonstrates many skillssimilar to those of Chi. Chi, intense reflexes, stronger than normal attacks, except there's one key difference. Or should I say ki difference? Haha do you understand? ki difference ki Anyway, Jackie Chan's battles against Yamcha and Goku show his ability to take advantage of ki-related attacks. Leading up to the taps, Yamcha's battle in particular shows why Shaggy wouldn't be able to hold his own in the fight like this SS Ultra Instinct.

Shaggy's power level is best estimated as comparable to Chi Chi's level 130. Maybe just a little bit more based on that series of extreme jumps. But we definitely know it will fall between 130 and 139. I feel like a "your movie sucks" review. A 130 isn't, but it's definitely not a 139 either. So let's give it a 130 and a half. I might change that number later, but that's what we're going to use. That being said, it's worth noting that all of this is hassle-free. any training up to this point He's just been a hippie living in a van running away from mysteries, practicing a bit with Master Roshi in the gang, Shaggy could absolutely ascend reaching higher and higher levels of power until he can finally stay the same of useless. like the other Z fighters on the sidelines as they watch Goku do all the work.

Hey, at least he won't die as much as Krillin. So Shaggy's power level may be a bit disappointing. Definitely not enough to match Goku, but you know where the two have comparable appetites, that furry could really beat Goku, but hey, that's just a theory. A cinematographic theory!! aaaaaaaa and Cut!