Why Doctor Stranges ScoobyDoo Line Is Different In No Way Home

Why Doctor Strange’s Scooby-Doo Line Is Different In No Way Home

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Doctor Strange’s “Scooby-Doo” joke from the Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer was changed for the movie, but did a stronger swear word improve it?

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Why Doctor Stranges ScoobyDoo Line Is Different In No Way Home

Warning! SPOILERS for Spider-Man: No Way Home

Doctor Strange’s infamous Scooby-Doo line from the Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer is different in the movie, but why? From the first trailer, Spider-Man: No Way Home promised to be the most ambitious Spider-Man movie so far. Even without revealing the most shocking Spider-Man cameos at any point during its marketing, Spider-Man: No Way Home managed to capture the same level of excitement as Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

Many theories ran wild between the release of the first trailer and the release of the movie. Besides the highly anticipated appearance of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield as their respective Spider-Men, one of the most common theories was that of an evil Doctor Strange. Given that Spider-Man: No Way Home draws inspiration from the Spider-Man: One More Day storyline from the comics (where Spider-Man makes a deal with Mephisto), many fans thought the Master of the Mystic Arts was possessed by a similar entity.

However, Doctor Strange’s line from the trailer, “Scooby-Doo this crap,” helped debunk the theory of an evil Strange, as it simply was too goofy to come from a demonic villain. It was so goofy, in fact, that it became widely regarded as the lowest point of the Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer. Fortunately, the “Scooby-Doo” line is one of many that are delivered differently in the movie.

No Way Home Changed Doctor Strange’s Scooby-Doo Line

Why Doctor Stranges ScoobyDoo Line Is Different In No Way Home

Doctor Strange’s “Scooby-Doo” line referenced the Scooby Gang’s penchant for capturing spooky creatures. Daphne, Velma, Fred, Shaggy, and Scooby are known to run into all kinds of monsters who are ultimately revealed to be simple humans in disguise. Similarly, the multiversal villains from Spider-Man: No Way Home were a side effect of Doctor Strange’s botched memory-wiping spell, and the only solution was for Spider-Man, MJ, and Ned Leeds to go after them and bring them to Doctor Strange. The fact that Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Lizard, and Electro were said to come from the moment right before they died creates a parallel to The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, where the Scooby Gang is aided by Vincent Price’s Vincent Van Ghoul, a magician who’s eerily similar to Doctor Strange, and who orders Shaggy and Scooby to capture the ghosts they released.

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Since The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo is a rather obscure 1985 miniseries, many viewers who watched the first trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home reasonably didn’t catch the full reference or didn’t find it particularly funny. One would expect the movie to elaborate on the joke, change it for a more relevant gag, or remove it altogether. Instead, No Way Home only changed the word “crap” for a more blunt synonym. A non-evil Doctor Strange swearing isn’t really out of character, but some may wonder why the movie kept the joke after the trailer ran it to the ground.

Marvel’s History Of Censoring Trailers & Curse Words

Why Doctor Stranges ScoobyDoo Line Is Different In No Way Home

While the Marvel Cinematic Universe has always been aimed towards a young audience, MCU superheroes are no strangers to profanity. This is especially evident in movies released before Marvel Studios was acquired by Disney. For instance, Iron Man and Iron Man 2 casually throw around an incredible amount of words that nobody would associate with Disney nowadays. Perhaps accidentally, this created a bigger divide between the tone of Tony Stark’s early adventures back when he was a self-absorbed playboy and his time as the world’s greatest superhero. However, even after Disney’s acquisition of Marvel Studios came into effect, movies like Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers: Age of Ultron used profanity in favor of comedy. Guardians of the Galaxy featured Star-Lord flipping off the Nova Corps after they captured him, and Avengers: Age of Ultron had a running gag of the Avengers mocking Captain America for enforcing a “language” rule on their potty-mouthed teammates, which culminated in Cap jokingly calling Nick Fury a “son of a b*tch.”

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The first trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy featured Star-Lord’s middle finger prominently, but it concealed the gesture behind a digital icon that recognized his insult. The scene in the actual movie lacks this icon, but neither version detracts from the joke. For the most part, MCU movies don’t include profanity in their trailers (with the exception of Talos posing as Nick Fury in Spider-Man: Far From Home, where he says, “B*tch, please”), and censorship is reserved exclusively for spoilers. Curse words in the MCU are either cut off from the start or said without hesitation. For instance, Spider-Man’s “What the fu-” closes Spider-Man: Far From Home and opens Spider-Man: No Way Home, but a carefully-placed car horn obscures the rest of the phrase.

Does No Way Home’s Change Make Strange’s Scooby-Doo Line Better?

All of this to say, Spider-Man: No Way Home didn’t have to change the word “crap” in Doctor Strange’s Scooby-Doo line. The joke was the same either way, and so many repeat viewings of the No Way Home trailer, which the fans scoured for hints and MCU easter eggs, made it so the gag was completely void of fun once it appeared in the movie. The improved pacing of the scene helped a lot in comparison to the screeching halt it produced in the trailer, and perhaps swapping “crap” with “sh*t” shook it up a little bit. Yet, the change didn’t do much to fix the scene. There were many other non-spoiler moments in Spider-Man: No Way Home that could have replaced the Scooby-Doo line in the trailer, such as the scene where Ned confuses a pilates machine for a torture contraption or the conspiracy theories of Hannibal Buress’s Coach Wilson. On the bright side, the marketing for Spider-Man: No Way Home was nearly flawless, as it didn’t make the same mistake as most of the MCU’s previous strategies, which spoiled a huge part of every movie before their release. Including a joke that didn’t entirely land in the trailer was ultimately much better than showing the movie’s biggest reveals.

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