Scooby-Doo VS Courage the Cowardly Dog

Scooby-Doo VS Courage the Cowardly Dog is the 184th episode of Death Battle, featuring Scooby-Doo from the Scooby-Doo series and Courage the Cowardly Dog from the Courage the Cowardly Dog series in a battle between cowardly cartoon canines. Scooby was voiced by Billy B Burson III and Courage was voiced by Edward Bosco.
==Interlude==
Wiz: Scooby-Doo, the miraculous mutt from Mystery Incorporated.
Boomstick: Courage, the Cowardly Dog straight outta Nowhere.
Wiz: Canis familiaris. Man's best friend. The dog. No animal companion has stood by humanity's side as long or as loyally.
Boomstick: Even, and maybe especially, these two yellow-bellied, lily-livered scaredy-cats! Or... dogs.
We cut to Wiz and Boomstick. 
Boomstick: 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-Doo==
Wiz: Throughout the ages, countless philosophers have posited the same question time and time again.
Boomstick: "Scooby-Dooby-Doo, where are you?"
Wiz: Pretty much everywhere! From cartoons to comics. From video games to board games. From live theater...
Boomstick: To the most incredible major motion picture of all time! He's the greatest Dane since Hamlet.
Wiz: But his monumental presence in popular culture belies his humble origins.
Wiz: Born to Mumsy and Dada-Doo in Dooville, USA...
Boomstick: (sigh) Dooville ain't what it used to be ever since they moved all those manufacturing jobs to Bangladesh.
Wiz: ...The young Scoobert was adopted by the Rogers family and their prodigal gluttonous son, Norville, better known by his friends as "Shaggy".
Boomstick: Those friends being Velma Dinkley, Daphne Blake, Fred Jones, and sometimes...
Scrappy-Doo is shown on-screen as Boomstick hisses at him.
Wiz: With their powers combined, they are Mystery Incorporated, a cadre of snot-nosed teenagers traveling the Nixon-era United States in a kushed-up Volkswagen, foiling seemingly paranormal crimes and unmasking corrupt authority figures.
Boomstick: All of whom definitely "And_I_Would_Have_Gotten_Away_With_It_Too,_If_It_Weren't_For_You_Meddling_Kids"_Quotes would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!... and their dog!
Wiz: Scooby is indispensable in Mystery Inc. investigations. Great Danes were bred by 17th-century German nobility to hunt bear, boar, and deer, which means he's a master tracker. Scooby's super sniffer nose can root out the bad guys no matter how well-hidden.
Boomstick: They were called "kammerhunde", or "chamber dogs", because they stay in their prince's chambers and protect them from assassins. Such brave, fearless doggos.
Wiz: Too bad for Shaggy and the gang, the apple didn't just fall far from the tree; it defied the laws of Newtonian physics and rocketed it into space at the speed of light! Because Scooby is an absolute coward.
Boomstick: He's terrified of his own shadow and constantly anxious about everything imaginable. And his only motivation is his delicious Scooby Snacks.
Wiz: Which makes it so baffling that he's actually... kind of a badass.
Boomstick: Scooby's a master of "The Dupe", a classic technique of cartoon tricksters.
Wiz: Sometimes called the "Power of Positive Assertion", Scooby flexes his mastery of disguise to fool would-be attackers, like seducing zombies as a belly dancer, or tricking a jester into entering an existential crisis.
Boomstick: This man was so thoroughly convinced to rethink his entire life, he went all the way home and got into bed before realizing he'd been fooled.
We cut to Wiz.
Wiz: Obviously, these disguises shouldn't work at all, but Scooby's just so supernaturally talented, they just do.
Mama Boomstick suddenly walks in, impressed with the looks of the Death Battle Lab, only to be brought in close by Wiz.
Wiz: Uh, see, this is a perfect example! No one in their right mind would think that that's anyone but Boomstick in an awful wig and makeup.
Boomstick walks in, frustrated with Wiz's misassumption as the music pauses.
Boomstick: That's my mom!
Realizing his mistake, Wiz backs away in shock and holds his hands together, as if pleading to Mama Boomstick.
Wiz: (quietly and politely) So sorry, ma'am.
We cut back to the analysis.
Wiz: If those disguises sound completely impossible, that's because they are. You might have thought of the Scooby-Doo series as being pretty grounded with all its men in masks, but then one day, the mask did not come off.
Boomstick: That's right, ♫it's terror time again!♫ The monsters started being real, and Scooby became just as bonkers to match. Like, remember those Scooby Snacks? They started to give him a physical boost in strength, kind of like Popeye's spinach!
Wiz: That's nothing. Shaggy's brilliant uncle, Albert Shaggleford, upgraded those snacks with nanite technology, giving them a variety of different effects. Everything from invisibility, robotic armor, force fields, super intelligence, and... panther!
A panther's cry is heard.
Boomstick: Yeah, nanomachines, dog! And we're just gettin' started. He can stretch and squash his body any way he likes, even duplicating himself or regenerating from damage.
Wiz: Like being chopped into pieces, crumbling into dust, or just blowing up.
Boomstick: His soul was literally scared out of his body and both his body and soul kept going... at the same time! That doesn't make sense.
Wiz: He can appear in multiple places at once, ignore the laws of gravity, rewind time with his Time Scepter or super speed, draw things into existence, and mess with the plot of his own show.
Boomstick: Things gettin' a little too spooky for him? 
Wiz: He's also got weapons like the Super Spooker 3000, a gun that instills fear into the hearts of man.
Boomstick: (stutters) No no, not like an actual gun, it- it literally shoots fear.
Wiz: Or the Chest of Demons, an ark containing 13 monstrous ghosts.
Boomstick: Ghoooosts~!
Wiz: Should you be trapped within its grasp, your body and soul will be imprisoned in everlasting torment, in this heretofore undiscovered 10th Circle of Hell.
Boomstick: Neat.
Boomstick: Scooby-Doo has dodged laser beams and electromagnetic waves, , and successfully performed the Zobrinsky Triangle with Shaggy and Maddie Ziegler.
Wiz: The Zobrinsky Triangle is a dance so unbelievably dangerous, that even imperfect executions have caused widespread destruction.
Boomstick: When performed perfectly, it was so beautiful it literally lit up the entire universe and blew up the enormous snow globe containing it. It... makes sense if you watch the show. Actually... No, it- it doesn't.
Wiz: Taking this literally, we can measure the volume of the broken glass compared to the size of our entire cosmos within it.Thickness of Glass: 1.94113349e25 mVolume of Broken Glass: 3.82008852e85 cm^3Volume of Globe Interior: 3.11624155e80 m^3 In order to shatter what is essentially an enormous glass superstructure, each dancer would have to be generating enough energy to destroy our universe 11 quintillion times over!Fragmentation of Glass (3.5 j/cm^3): 4.45676993e85 Joules; 11,141,924,800,000,000 x Universe's Mass-Energy
Boomstick: That's right, Maddie Ziegler is a universe buster!
Wiz: With Scooby-Doo as their nigh-omnipotent mascot, Mystery Incorporated has saved the world from alien invasions, wielded the power of a Yellow Lantern Ring, and was even made a member of the Mystery Analysts of Gotham by Batman himself.
Boomstick: Yes, Batman, the world's greatest detective, recognizes Scooby's skills.
Wiz: Even facing down and defeating the Evil Entity, an eldritch dark god, and surviving its death, which rewrote all of reality!... Yeah! You know, the talking dog that crossed over with the Harlem Globetrotters and Don Knotts... defeated Satan! No biggie.
Boomstick: So, where is Scooby-Doo? He's solving mysteries and saving the world with his found family.
Wiz: Also, he's an alien.
Boomstick: WAIT, WHAT?!
==Courage the Cowardly Dog==
Boomstick: We interrupt this program to bring you... Courage the Cowardly Dog Show, starring Courage, the Cowardly Dog!
Wiz: Abandoned as a pup, he was found by Muriel, who lives in the middle of Nowhere with her husband, Eustace Bagge.
Boomstick: But creepy stuff happens in Nowhere.
Wiz: It's up to Courage to save his new home!
Boomstick: Stupid Wiz! You made me look bad! OOGA BOOGA BOOGA!
The rest of the Courage the Cowardly Dog opening plays out as Boomstick says this, only with Courage ramming into the camera in fright with enough force to crack it before static transitions to the next scene.
Wiz: You're breathing on me. Get away...
Boomstick: Sorry. But, who wouldn't be excited for one of animation's mightiest mutts?
Wiz: Courage is an adorable pink beagle with a heart of gold and an undying love for his doting Scottish mistress.
Boomstick: Beagles are hare hunters with intense separation anxiety, excellent senses of smell, and a set of lungs that'll knock your socks off. All of which fits Courage to a tee, especially the howling part.
Wiz: To be fair, Courage has a LOT to howl about. Nowhere, USA is a magnet for interdimensional weirdness, attracting some of the strangest freaks in the world.
Boomstick: Like master criminals Katz and Le Quack, mattress demons, mummies, weremoles, mad scientists, gods and goddesses, aliens, robots, alien robots, this chicken, the King of Flan, and of course, the United States government.
Wiz: And poor Courage is absolutely terrified of ALL of it! But his devotion to Muriel means he'll always step up and fight the good fight.
Boomstick: Good thing he's kind of a genius. He's a brilliant engineer capable of whippin' up the most devious of traps almost instantly, and he's got an unending supply of tools at his disposal.
Wiz: Everything from his trusty mallet to grappling hooks, ray guns, flamethrowers, chainsaws, bombs, beagle-sized cannons, yo-yos, a , , and... the God Bone!
Boomstick: An ancient artifact that is completely irresistible to any mortal dog, forcing them to lick it until they die!
Wiz: Except for Courage, of course! I guess if you have the willpower to stare down a gigantic purple foot mobster, you can resist even the most delicious of treats.
Boomstick: And he can pull all of this stuff out of his ass anytime he wants! He always has exactly what he needs.
Wiz: All thanks to his computer named... "Computer", a sentient desktop which knows almost anything and everything, even if he has a bit of an attitude about it.
Boomstick: Which means he's always prepared, especially when he can shapeshift his body into literally anything he can think of!
Wiz: From inanimate objects to monsters to different animation mediums entirely. Courage usually uses this as a form of charades to communicate with others, but don't get it twisted, these aren't just visual animation gags. His body is actually shapeshifting.
Boomstick: Courage's body is a canvas upon which his imagination runs wild. He can stretch to crazy lengths, shrink to microscopic sizes, turn invisible, appear anywhere he wants, or duplicate himself.
Wiz: He's also effectively immune to damage. Oh, he still feels pain, but apparently, his sheer terror overrides it.
Boomstick: Like the times he tore himself in half, or turned himself fully inside out!
Boomstick: The dude somehow vaporized his entire body completely, without even ash remaining, and he just popped back good as new!
Wiz: Classic cartoon shenanigans, but technically anatomically correct... until it isn't. Courage can create objects from his imagination and often breaks the fourth wall, directly addressing the audience.
Boomstick: Now, you would think being an impossible-to-kill force of nature would boost his confidence a bit, but isn't that what anxiety does to ya? It undermines your sense of self-worth and magnifies the problems around you.
Wiz: Sure, but Courage is also fighting gods just as powerful as himself, like this enormous alien which could spike meteors so hard, it spun the Earth a thousand years into the future. That's crazy!
Boomstick: Then, Courage got shot out of a cannon that punched him through the Moon, only to get slapped by that same alien, and sent crashing back to the planet. And he was fine!
Wiz: Courage is strong enough to , hold stars in his hands, and scream so loud, he shattered the Sun!
Boomstick: A scream like that would be like gettin' hit with over 100 septillion hydrogen bombs all at once!Screaming Power (Sun GBE): 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Hydrogen Bombs; 68 Quettatons of TNT Which is... y'know, a lot!
Wiz: And keep in mind, the soundwaves of his scream would have had to travel through the near vacuum of space; basically a complete scientific impossibility.
We cut to Wiz and Boomstick.
Boomstick: Next time you replace my beers in the fridge with La Croix, I'm gettin' my boy Jack Spaniels to blow up the Sun! You've been warned.
A dog is heard barking behind Boomstick, causing Wiz to back away fearfully as we cut back to the analysis.
Wiz: That's not all. One time, he operated a peloton controlling a UFO, and pedaled it fast enough to fly past Saturn, Milky Way galaxy!
Boomstick: Though, Courage's greatest challenge came from inside his very home: a monster who tortures his poor pooch every single day. A depraved, psychotic motherf***er. The true Prince of Darkness. THE GREATEST VILLAIN IN CARTOON HISTORY! EUSTACE...
Wiz: He even collected all of Courage's greatest foes like a Legion of Doom, all to mercilessly beat Courage to a pulp in a game... of dodgeball!
Boomstick: He gives all rednecks a bad name, Wiz. I wanna end him. Low...
Wiz: Okay... Well, Courage's accumulated PTSD always held him back until he met a kindred spirit, another cowardly monster-hunting hound: Scooby-Doo!
Boomstick: Oh yeah, I remember him.
Wiz: Together, they discovered the source of Nowhere's weirdness: a Dark Matter Meteor that controlled reality itself.
Boomstick: Originally the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs, its dark matter can rewrite the laws of physics, control minds, and turn Courage into a giant kaiju!
Wiz: Taking the meteor for himself, Courage finally faced his fears, defeating this cicada-queen-goddess-thing and saving his family once and for all. Yes, even Eustace.
Boomstick: (from afar) SHIT!
Wiz: So let that be a lesson to any who would encroach upon the Bagges' humble farm: It has a protector.
Boomstick: He may be small, and he may be scared, but standing up to our fears is what makes us brave in the first place. That's why his name... is "Courage"!
==Prelude==
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set, and we've run the data through all possibilities.
Boomstick: IT'S TIME FOR A DOG BATTLE— Oh God, when I say it like that, it sounds—
As Boomstick says this, the clips of Scooby and Courage transition to various clips of real-life Great Danes and beagles. He's then cut off by the Death Battle transition card as the fight begins.
==Death Battle==
In the middle of the night, a haunted mansion with its lights on is seen as thunder strikes behind it and a swarm of bats passes by. Inside the mansion, Courage is fearfully looking around the dark halls for his owner.
Courage: Muriel? Muriel?! MURIEL!!!
Unbeknownst to him, on the other side of the hall is Scooby-Doo, also shakily walking backwards as he calls out for his buddy.
Scooby: Raggy? Raggy?! RAGGY!!!
They soon bump into each other in front of a dark door, leaving them to turn and scream at each other with cowardly fear. However, the two suddenly realize they have met an old friend and let out a relieving laugh over the incident.
But as they calm down, a giant monster with the visage of Eustace's mask enters from the dark doorway next to them. In response, the two canines scream loudly again and then start running away together as the creature begins chasing them on all fours. Mid-haste, Scooby requests a favor of Courage.
Scooby: Courage, roh ret 'em!
Courage: Me?!
Courage stutters over his words as they run, incredulous at the ask as the monster continues to chase them.
Courage: What do I do, what do I do?!
Needing to gain distance, Courage regrettably trips Scooby to fall on his face to get ahead. The Great Dane gets up and looks back as the monster pulls out a giant mallet. He quickly sprints off as the mallet crashes into the wooden floor where he was.
Courage scurries into the next room and looks nervously behind him, only to find an angry Scooby in the middle of the foyer crossing his arms. Desiring retribution for Courage's betrayal, Scooby determinedly reaches out with his thumb up, prompting his cowardly opponent to do the same. The two lock paws with each other and stare intensely as they begin a thumb-wrestling contest, where their thumbs change to resemble muscle-bound boxers as they attempt to exchange blows on each other.
Scooby: Rot rit!
Courage: Not it!
Scooby: Rot rit!
Courage: Not it!
Courage sweats while concentrating on the match.
Courage: Come on, come on!
His concentration is broken when Scooby extends his tail to poke him on his right side, giving Scooby the opportunity to knock his opponent's thumb out with a devastating uppercut. As the bell rings, the victorious Scooby proudly lifts up his thumb, which cries in celebration of its win.
The monster pulls out its mallet from the floor and begins closing in on both dogs. As this happens, Courage leaps back and reaches into his pocket to take out his laser gun. As he begins firing rapidly, Scooby bends his body in all sorts of directions to avoid the shots before one of them hits his nose, disintegrating his head. Courage is shocked over what he has done, but Scooby reaches inside his stump and pulls out his regenerated head, giggling at the repaired damage. This relieves Courage as he shoots another laser at him.
Scooby quickly grabs a nearby mirror and uses it to reflect the laser back at Courage, who disturbingly rips himself in half to let the laser pass through him before repairing his damage. This ends up making the laser hit the monster's knee behind Courage, causing it to drop its mallet and clutch it in pain as it lets out a scream. Regardless, it ignores this and quickly begins chasing Scooby and Courage again, who go around the corner into a hallway of multiple doors. A goofy door chase then ensues, in which Scooby is seen gathering fruits and cloth, whereas the monster and Courage travel through a few doors aimlessly.
Courage arrives at a door and opens it to find Bad Mr. Frosty reaching out at him. Slamming the door, Courage lets out another comical scream before heading to a new door, only to find Godzilla noticing him after opening it before he closes and screams again. Once more, he goes to another door and opens it, revealing a certain detective making his presence known...
Columbo: There's one more thing—
After slamming the door and yelling once more, he opens one last door to find a pair of Scoobies dressed like women with fruit on their heads, who flirtatiously address him.
Scooby: Rerro there, big boy...
Not fooled by the disguise, Courage lets out another howling scream before pulling Computer out and slamming it onto the ground, frantically typing a question onto it. Scooby grabs him and pulls him away, but Courage digs his teeth into the ground to keep typing before stretching out his tongue to enter the question as he is fully dragged away.
Computer: "How to defeat a Great Dane with a speech impediment," eh? You twit.
The two Scoobies pull Courage in, painfully stretching his limbs and performing the Zobrinsky Triangle with him, leaving him to scream in shock as the area is enveloped in a yellow light just as the monster enters the room. 
The scene suddenly cuts to Wiz and Boomstick watching the battle on the Death Battle Lab's monitor, and as a result of the dance being done properly, the universe within the simulation glows with a massive yellow light that begins breaking the monitor and pushing the hosts away.
Wiz: Ah, my eyes!
Boomstick: GAH, it burns!!!
As the blinding light envelops the screen, the scene is interrupted by SMPTE color bars before cutting back to the fight, where a scorched but otherwise unharmed Courage lets out a gravelly laugh next to a completely undamaged Computer. He then notices something glowing in his pocket and reaches into it to find the Dark Matter Meteor.
Meanwhile, Scooby jumps out the front doors of the mansion and runs to the Mystery Machine. When he reaches it and grins in delight, however, he notices the giant God Bone floating above him, being telekinetically controlled by a likewise grinning Courage with the Dark Matter Meteor, now on the front steps of the mansion alongside Computer.
Computer: All dogs love their bones, don't they?
Courage: Uh-huh! Uh-huh!
Courage slams the bone directly onto the Mystery Machine, causing it to explode and send its contents flying out, namely boxes of Scooby Snacks and the Chest of Demons, the latter of which hits Courage in the face and knocks him down. This causes the meteor to fall out of his hands and bounce into the flaming pile of Scooby Snacks left from the van's destruction. Courage runs toward it, not hearing the sounds of Scooby happily gorging on his favorite treats. As Courage desperately searches through the pile for the meteor, he hears Scooby giggling before looking up and seeing Scooby's shadowy, ominous figure laughing demonically with glowing eyes of doom.
Courage: This could be bad, or my name isn't Chad James!
He looks to the audience as the music abruptly pauses.
Courage: And it's not...
As the music resumes, Scooby grows larger in size as he takes on a muscular, humanoid form while consuming another handful of Scooby Snacks in one bite and the God Bone in another, licking his lips in satisfaction. He continues growing until he becomes larger than the Earth itself. Eyes glowing with menacing intent, Scooby-Doo prepares a massive punch.
Scooby: SCOOOOBY-DOOOBY-DOOOOOOOOOO!!!
He throws his fist down at Courage, with it catching on fire as it enters the atmosphere. As Courage witnesses the massive flaming fist hurdling towards him, he huffs in a large amount of air before letting out a scream so incredibly loud, it muffles out the music. Just before the fist reaches him, it halts in its tracks and begins cracking like glass, along with the rest of Scooby's giant body before it shatters and returns him to his normal size and form. Right as he does so, Scooby starts quickly falling back down to Earth, reaching terminal velocity and rocketing straight into Courage with enough force to cause a large explosion and crater the area they were in.
As the dust clears, the completely debilitated Scooby and Courage, the latter of whom now sporting a black eye, weakly slap each other, only to notice a newcomer. Having caught up to them, the monster's face glitches as it screams at them.
Monster: OOGA BOOGA BOOGA!!!
Courage leaps into Scooby's arms as they both scream in fear, with Scooby grabbing the Chest of Demons from off-screen and placing it in front of the two dogs for them to hide behind. However, the chest opens, revealing 13 sets of sinister glowing eyes as multiple demonic arms burst out. They take notice of the monster and reach for it, with one grabbing its head and ripping it off, revealing that it was actually Eustace the whole time.
Eustace: Stupid dogs! Ya' made me look bad!
After his rant, Eustace looks up and notices the demonic hands reaching for him.
Eustace: What's– huh?
As he attempts to run away from the ghostly hands, he trips over the Dark Matter Meteor and falls onto the ground, allowing the hands to grab him.
Eustace: Ow, cut it out!
Answering Eustace's request in a literal way, the hands then grab Eustace's head from both sides, throwing his signature hat away, while one claws at his face, splitting it apart into multiple vertical slices as he screams in distorted pain. His split head is then ripped from his body and dragged into the chest, still screaming.
After it closes and lets out a satisfied burp, Scooby and Courage emerge from behind it with shock on their faces, only to giggle in relief before collapsing on the ground, exhausted from the ordeal. Eustace, still alive in the chest, lets out one final rant.
Eustace: Awww, Muriel, I hate that stupid dooooooooog!
The episode then ends in classic Courage the Cowardly Dog cartoon fashion as the screen closes in on the chest.
==Results==
Wiz: Wait, what?! Who won?
Boomstick: Wiz, as happy as I am to avoid onscreen dog murder, uh... wasn't one of 'em suppose to die?
Wiz: Not since the Great Norris-Sanshiro Singularity Event of 2015 have we had a result like this! It can't end like this, right?
Boomstick: Even with Courage's insane cosmic feats, you'd think the Zobrinsky Triangle would be enough to seal the deal. But, both pooches could regenerate from basically any kind of physical damage.
Wiz: Both were incredibly smart in different ways. Scooby was more of a trickster with his dupes, while Courage was a scheming genius. Computer could have given Courage the edge, if not for their canon crossover, where it failed to have solid information on Scooby and the gang.
Boomstick: So, I guess it came down to their unique abilities, and for 90% of their arsenals, they were evenly matched. Transmutation, mind control, you get it. They're toons with basically anything... except for the Chest of Demons and the Dark Matter Meteor.
Wiz: Sure, the chest could theoretically always trap Courage, but he'd always be able to escape and destroy it with the Dark Matter Meteor.
Boomstick: But, Scooby could repair the damage by reversing time and then trap him again.
Wiz: And then Courage would break out again... you know where this is going.
Boomstick: Ultimately, this battle between man's best friends would never end!
Wiz: But, this is a Death Battle. Somebody has to die.
Boomstick: Someone did, Wiz. Ah... someone did...
Wiz: ...Did anybody tell you that you're kind of... scary sometimes?
Boomstick: I don't like dog killers!
We cut to Wiz and Boomstick.
Wiz: Scooby and Courage were incredibly tough opponents that could go blow for blow for blow; they were smart, powerful, and incredibly broken.
Boomstick: Doggone-it, Wiz! I guess you could say Eustace had one hell of a "ruff" day! I "shih tzu" not! ...Oh, whew, those were "paw-ful".
Wiz: S-Stop.
We cut to the "Winner" card.
Wiz: This battle is a draw.
==Comparison==
===Scooby-Doo===
:= Strength, Speed & Durability
:= Similar Abilities & Arsenal
:+ Street Smart
:+ Chest of Demons
:- Could not kill Courage
===Courage===
:= Strength, Speed & Durability
:= Similar Abilities & Arsenal
:+ Book smart
:+ Dark Matter Meteor
:- Could not kill Scooby-Doo
==Original Track==
===Composition===
The track for this fight is "Forever Terror Night" by Therewolf Media feat. Donna Caruthers (credited as "Chicknamedd" on the track's cover art). It is an intense yet upbeat lyrical rock song with horror instruments similar in style to songs from Scooby-Doo, namely "It's Terror Time Again" from Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, which it also uses riffs from. The drum pattern of the crisis theme from Courage the Cowardly Dog also briefly featured in the track, with similar-sounding drums also being incorporated throughout it. After the fight ends, a calm banjo melody reminiscent of the credits theme from Courage the Cowardly Dog is played.
===Title===
The title is a reference to "It's Terror Time Again", as well as a nod towards the cowardly nature both combatants have against the supernatural terrors they experience and fight against on a near-daily basis, especially during the dead of night. The "Forever" part of the title also serves as a hint towards this episode's verdict of Scooby and Courage being unable to kill each other, resulting in a never-ending battle.https://twitter.com/CVAnimation/status/1726419794822365194
===Cover Art===
The cover art done by John Mitchell depicts a box of Scooby Snacks, the Dark Matter Meteor, the Chest of Demons, and King Ramses' slab inside the mouth of Eustace's mask, one of its teeth having a hole through it to resemble the design of Courage's own.
===Lyrics===
==Trivia==
===Production===
*The core connections between Scooby-Doo and Courage are that they are both iconic, talking cartoon dogs belonging to hunting breeds (Great Danes and beagles, respectively) who are extremely cowardly and are easily frightened as a result, yet always end up facing their fears for the sake of their loved ones, especially their human owners (Shaggy Rogers and Muriel Bagge, respectively), to protect them from monsters and other supernatural forces, whom they usually defeat them through sheer wit as opposed to brute force. In addition:
**Both are associated with an iconic catchphrase relating to them being motivated to overcome their cowardice ("Would you do it for a Scooby Snack?" and "The things I do for love...", respectively).
**Both are known for being difficult to understand (Scooby has a speech impediment and Courage babbles inanely when frightened).
**Both have faced similar foes, including zombies (various zombies and both Benton Tarantella and Errol Von Volkheim, respectively), ghosts (various ghosts and the McPhearson Phantom, respectively), aliens (various aliens from both series), alligator humanoids (both the Ghost of Gator Ghoul and Creeping Creatures and Fusilli, respectively), werecreatures (various werecreatures and the Weremole, respectively), giant birds (the Wakumi and Mother Vulture, respectively), mummies (various mummies and the Mayan Baker, respectively), skeletons (various skeletons and the Dog Skeletons, respectively), swamp monsters (various swamp monsters and Everett, respectively), dragons (various dragons in both series), evil chickens (Chickenstein and the Space Chicken, respectively), living snowmen (various snowmen and the Snowman, respectively), Bigfoot, giant, animalistic versions of their owners (30 Foot Shaggy and Kangaroo Eustace, respectively), evil magicians, (both the Ghost of Rufus Raucous and the Amazing Krudsky and Mondo, respectively), humanoid cats (the werecats and Katz, respectively), undead vikings (the Vikings ghosts and the Windmill Vandals, respectively), evil computer viruses (the Phantom Virus and the Hard Drive Virus, respectively), evil scientists (Dr. Phineus Phibes and Dr. Zalost, respectively), and evil robot versions of themselves (the Fright Hound and Mecha Courage, respectively).
**Both have crossed over a few times in animated media, such as this Cartoon Network promo ad, promo ads for the Scooby-Doo/Courage the Cowardly Dog Scare-a-Thon, and the 2021 animated film Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog, the latter of which was brought up in Courage's analysis and an integral part of the episode's draw verdict due to both combatants physically scaling to each other through it.
*One of Death Battle's 2D animators, Susie Combs, drew art as a teaser for the episode.https://twitter.com/DEATHBATTLE/status/1720242452664123471
**This is the ninth episode she made art for, after Darth Vader VS Obito Uchiha, Phoenix VS Raven, Guts VS Dimitri, Martian Manhunter VS Silver Surfer, Bill Cipher VS Discord, Cole MacGrath VS Alex Mercer, Frieza VS Megatron, and Gojo VS Makima.
***This episode also marked the end of Susie's commemorative art streak, as she would stop making art for episodes after this one.
*This episode's fight being animated in a fully hand-drawn style by Luis Cruz was hinted at by the inclusion of Samurai Jack VS Afro Samurai (the last episode to be animated in this manner) being played in the movie theater at the beginning of Gojo VS Makima, the previous episode.Skeletor vs Lord Zedd! Who wins a DEATH BATTLE Debate? | DEATH BATTLE Cast
*The day before this episode was announced at the end of Gojo VS Makima, Luis Cruz (who is an animator for this episode) hinted toward it by jokingly claiming the next episode would be Skibidi Toilet VS Scrappy-Doo (Scooby's nephew).https://twitter.com/CVAnimation/status/1715758297565802846
*Interestingly, the scene of Scooby raising his thumb in victory after beating Courage in their brief thumb war is flipped from the sneak peak for the episode shown in the 354th episode of DEATH BATTLE Cast, with him holding up his right paw in the final episode instead of his left.
**This was likely done to fix a potential error before the episode's release, as Scooby proposed the thumb war with his right paw, yet he holds up his left one in victory in the sneak peek. However, the paw he uses is still inconsistent in the final episode, as he uses his left paw during the thumb war.
*At the beginning of the season, a teaser trailer was released that included a Gravity Falls-inspired zodiac wheel with 16 symbols on it, each representing and hinting toward an episode in the season. After the release of the Season Finale, the Death Battle YouTube channel began revealing the answers to the zodiac wheel by posting the answers in pinned comments under the symbols' respective episodes. This episode was revealed to be represented by the skull and crossbones.☠☠☠ CROSSBONES ☠☠☠ This is because the skull represents the fact that this is the Halloween episode (with the month of October Halloween celebrations even being known as "Skeletober" on the DEATH BATTLE Cast), while the bones represent how the canine combatants like bones, with Courage's God Bone even being featured in the fight. It's likely also a nod to the supernatural entities and monsters both canines have had encounters with and the dangers they represent, which are sometimes represented by said symbol of crossbones with a skull, particularly undead creatures.
*Marty Grabstein, the official voice actor for Courage, confirmed that he was offered to reprise his role at one point, but that the team eventually stopped getting back to him (presumably after it was made unclear whether he could legally reprise it or not), and that he was disappointed that the team ultimately recast Courage for the episode without telling him.Marty Grabstein’s ISSUE with ‘Scooby Doo vs Courage the Cowardly Dog DEATH BATTLE’
===Easter Eggs===
*Boomstick name-drops the title of Scooby and Courage's crossover movie during the interlude by referring to Courage as "the Cowardly Dog straight outta Nowhere."
*Boomstick's antagonistic reaction to Scrappy-Doo is a reference to the near-universal hatred towards the character.
*Near the end of Scooby's analysis cutaway, a clip of Muscle Man from Regular Show can be seen playing on the Death Battle Lab's monitor after Boomstick tells Wiz that Mama Boomstick wasn't him in disguise, most likely as a reference to his "My mom!" running gag.
*Boomstick references the famous "Nanomachines, son!" meme from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance in Scooby's analysis after Wiz mentions the Scooby Snacks being enhanced with nanotechnology.
**This makes this the second episode to reference the meme, after Excalibur VS Raiden.
*With the exception of "Stupid dog!" being replaced by "Stupid Wiz!", the opening to Courage's analysis is a verbatim reciting of his show's opening monologue.
*In Courage's "Background" slide:
**"Leone" is listed as one of his nicknames, which is his name in the Italian version of Courage the Cowardly Dog.
**The "Not named 'Stinky Lou Lou,' (thank goodness)" bullet point is a reference to this moment from the episode "Heads of Beef".
***The gag is later referenced in the climax of the fight when Courage sees that Scooby survived getting crushed by the God Bone, name-dropping Chad James in the process.
*Courage's "Abilities" slide teases the reveal in the post-analysis that both combatants are equally matched, as after listing all of his abilities (lined up exactly like Scooby's own "Abilities" slide), it has "...the same as Scooby" at the bottom in small text.
*Scooby and Courage's "Feats" slides are instead labeled "What He's Done For a Scooby Snack" and "The Things He's Done For Love", respectively, referencing their respective iconic catchphrases associated with them overcoming their cowardice through motivation.
*The establishing shot of bats flying past the haunted mansion is a reference to the opening of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!.
*The way that Scooby-Doo and Courage bump into each other at the start of the fight is based on the way they do so in Straight Outta Nowhere.
*The first hallway the monster chases Scooby and Courage through features a few split-second cameos, namely a framed picture of Discord (which appears again above the fireplace in the room where Scooby and Courage engage in a thumb war), a stone carving of Bill Cipher sitting on a bookshelf, and a framed picture of Makima taken from her fight (which appears again to the left of the door that houses Godzilla's later cameo).
**This is the sixth episode to hide a stone carving of Bill in the background of the fight, after Phoenix VS Raven, Guts VS Dimitri, Martian Manhunter VS Silver Surfer, Bill Cipher VS Discord, and Gojo VS Makima, and with the next four being Rick Sanchez VS The Doctor, Goku VS Superman (2023), Galactus VS Unicron, and Among Us VS Fall Guys.
*Scooby and Courage's thumb war is an homage to when Courage thumb wrestled the Mattress Demon possessing Muriel in the episode "The Demon in the Mattress".
*The close-up split screen shot of Scooby and Courage's eyes on top of each other with Courage's eyes darkening recreates a similar shot from the beginning of Samurai Jack VS Afro Samurai, specifically the .
*The monster lets out the Wilhelm Scream after getting shot in the knee by the laser shot from Courage's ray gun.
*The scene of Scooby, Courage, and the monster running through and exiting various doors in a hallway is a reference to the classic "Scooby-Dooby Doors" gag seen in various Scooby-Doo media.
**The door seen at the very end of this hallway is labeled with the number "237", a reference to the room of the same number from the 1980 film adaptation of The Shining.
*Courage opening doors and getting scared by the photorealistic/claymation contents behind them is a reference to this scene from the episode "Courage in the Big Stinkin' City", with the contents behind the first three doors he opens being Bad Mr. Frosty from the ClayFighter series, Godzilla, and Columbo (referencing how Liam Swan wanted Light VS Columbo to become an episodehttps://twitter.com/LiamRichardSwan/status/1577799718570233857).
**Upon his reveal, Bad Mr. Frosty emits a roar that is nearly identical to SCP-682's commonly associated roar.
**Godzilla's cameo is a reference to how his arch-enemy King Ghidorah appears in a few Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes, including the aforementioned scene in "Courage in the Big Stinkin' City".
***As revealed in this episode's storyboards by John Mitchell, Ghidorah himself was originally behind the second door instead of Godzilla, alongside Thomas the Tank Engine being originally behind the first door instead of Bad Mr. Frosty.
**This is the sixth episode to hide Columbo in it as an easter egg in some form, after SpongeBob VS Aquaman, Sauron VS Lich King, Gogeta VS Vegito, Bill Cipher VS Discord, and Gojo VS Makima, and with the next two being Rick Sanchez VS The Doctor and Galactus VS Unicron.
*Scooby's disguises being pink and orange are references to Daphne and Velma's clothes, respectively.
*Courage's description of Scooby to Computer may be an indirect reference to Straight Outta Nowhere; since Computer canonically has no specific info on Scooby himself (as noted in the post-analysis), Courage instead describes him as a "Great Dane with a speech impediment" to get a less specific but still potentially usable win-condition from Computer.
*Courage weakly laughing following the Zobrinsky Triangle references the weakened state that Courage wounds up in after victoriously emerging from an encounter with a monster in his show. In fact, the laugh itself comes directly from the show.
*The Bagge Farmhouse can be seen in the background of the fight once Scooby and Courage exit the haunted mansion.
*The scene of Scooby winding up and throwing his fist at the Earth to attack Courage upon growing giant is a reference to Wyzen's boss fight in Asura's Wrath, particularly the scene in which he becomes a giant larger than the Earth itself and tries to crush Asura and the continent he's on with just a finger.
*The monster being unmasked and revealed to be Eustace at the end of the fight is a reference to how almost all the monsters across the Scooby-Doo series are unmasked and revealed to be regular humans.
*Eustace being trapped in the Chest of Demons at the end of the fight is a reference to how he frequently dies or gets otherwise gravely injured at the end of many Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes.
**Eustace's fate is likely also a reference to the episode "Shirley the Medium", in which he gets trapped in his late elder brother's locked moneybox by a demon that lives within it.
*During the "KO!" screen, the woman laughing from the Stretch Films, Inc. logo that plays at the end of Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes can be heard just after Ringmaster shouts "KO!".
*As Boomstick says that Scooby and Courage's battle would never end in the post-analysis, the screenshot of the YouTube Community poll for this matchup from the 286th episode of DEATH BATTLE Cast (where the results showed both Scooby and Courage each having 50% of the total votes at the time of its release) is shown near the top-left corner of the screen.
**Below the poll is a caption that reads "apparently, you guys thought so too! (no, the result was not fan-voted)", the latter part of which pokes fun at how some people believe certain Death Battle episodes were rigged via people voting for who should win, despite that never being the case.
===Errors===
*Boomstick states Courage's sun-shattering scream in his analysis would be like "getting hit by 100 septillion hydrogen bombs at once", but the calculation shown on-screen for the power of said scream actually reads "1" septillion hydrogen bombs.
*Despite proposing his thumb war with Courage by extending his right paw and it being the one he raises in victory after winning, the paw that Scooby actually uses for the thumb war is his left paw.
*Courage's line, "This could be bad, or my name isn't Chad James!", is incorrect, as he should be saying "or my name is Chad James!", as not only does the gag from his series this line is referencing say "is" instead of "isn't", it also doesn't make sense; the point of the gag is that it presents two possible options, where the former must obviously be the true one because the latter (that his name is something else) is false, but by saying "or my name isn't Chad James", both options are true.
*At the start of the post-analysis, Wiz says that this is the first Death Battle to "have a result like this" since Chuck Norris VS Segata Sanshiro. In spite of this, that was not the last episode to end in a draw, as the actual last one to do so was Deadpool VS Pinkie Pie.
**However, given the specifics of said draws (Chuck and Segata continue to fight each other indefinitely under Death Battle's ruleset, while Deadpool and Pinkie quit fighting and became friends after outright ignoring the rules altogether), it is possible they are directly comparing it to the former, since the verdict says that this fight "would never end" without any outside factors.
===Other===
*This is the eighth Cartoon-themed episode, after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Battle Royale, Starscream VS Rainbow Dash, He-Man VS Lion-O, Danny Phantom VS American Dragon Jake Long, Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly, SpongeBob VS Aquaman, and Bill Cipher VS Discord, and with the next two being Wile E. Coyote VS Tom Cat and Gru VS Megamind.
*This is the fifth Warner-themed episode, after Meta VS Carolina, Ben 10 VS Green Lantern, Black Canary VS Sindel, and Red VS Blue, and with the one being Wile E. Coyote VS Tom Cat.
*This is the ninth episode to be animated in a hand-drawn style, after Smokey Bear VS McGruff the Crime Dog, Samurai Jack VS Afro Samurai, Mario VS Sonic (2018), Deadpool VS Mask, Genos VS War Machine, Macho Man VS Kool-Aid Man, Saitama VS Popeye, and Omni-Man VS Homelander, and with the next two being Rick Sanchez VS The Doctor and Bowser VS Eggman.
**This is the second hand-drawn episode by Luis Cruz, after Samurai Jack VS Afro Samurai.
**This is the second hand-drawn episode to use a 3D background, after Saitama VS Popeye, and with the next two being Rick Sanchez VS The Doctor and Bowser VS Eggman.
*This is the fifth episode to end in a draw, after Goomba VS Koopa, Justin Bieber VS Rebecca Black, Chuck Norris VS Segata Sanshiro, and Deadpool VS Pinkie Pie.
**This is the first non-joke episode to end in a draw, with the conclusion of neither combatant being able to kill/incapacitate the other being the legitimate result that wound up happening after comparing them.
***This makes it the second non-joke episode that resulted in neither title combatant winning, after Eggman VS Wily.
**This is the third episode where neither of the main combatants die, after Chuck Norris VS Segata Sanshiro and Deadpool VS Pinkie Pie.
*This is the first episode where a combatant uses an attack that reaches outside the simulation they are in (as Scooby performing the Zobrinsky Triangle dance with a clone of himself and an unwilling Courage managed to crack the Death Battle Lab's monitor, alongside briefly blinding and pushing back Wiz and Boomstick with the resulting light being produced).
*This is the 26th episode where Boomstick yells a variation of his pre-fight catchphrase (via saying "IT'S TIME FOR A DOG BATTLE– Oh God, when I say it like that, it sounds—" before getting cut off by the Death Battle transition card), after Akuma VS Shang Tsung, Rogue VS Wonder Woman, Felicia VS Taokaka, Eggman VS Wily, Terminator VS RoboCop, Pokémon Battle Royale, Fulgore VS Sektor, Tigerzord VS Gundam Epyon, Boba Fett VS Samus Aran (2015), Guts VS Nightmare, Solid Snake VS Sam Fisher, Hercule Satan VS Dan Hibiki, Bowser VS Ganon, Joker VS Sweet Tooth, Meta VS Carolina, Mega Man Battle Royale, Dragonzord VS Mechagodzilla, Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna, James Bond VS John Wick, Trunks VS Silver, SpongeBob VS Aquaman, Jason Voorhees VS Michael Myers, Sauron VS Lich King, Gogeta VS Vegito, and Phoenix VS Raven, and with the next one being Galactus VS Unicron.
*This episode marks the second in-person appearance of Mama Boomstick, after Macho Man VS Kool-Aid Man.
*This is the eighth episode to feature an original track with lyrics by Therewolf Media that isn't a collaboration with Brandon Yates, after Ryu VS Jin, Optimus Prime VS Gundam, Ben 10 VS Green Lantern, Hulk VS Broly, Sauron VS Lich King, Stitch VS Rocket Raccoon, and Gojo VS Makima.
**This is the fifth episode with an original track to feature lyrics sung by Therewolf himself, after Samurai Jack VS Afro Samurai, Optimus Prime VS Gundam, Stitch VS Rocket Raccoon, and Gojo VS Makima.
*This is the seventh episode whose track includes female singers, after Meta VS Carolina, Gray VS Esdeath, Blake VS Mikasa, Harley Quinn VS Jinx, Skyrim VS Dark Souls, and Gojo VS Makima, and with the next one being Galactus VS Unicron.
*This episode marks the first time in which five vocal tracks were released within consecutive episodes (following Bill Cipher VS Discord's "Discordant Decipher", Cole MacGrath VS Alex Mercer's "[inHuman]", Frieza VS Megatron's "Final Formers", and Gojo VS Makima's "Who Wears the Crown").
*This is the eighth episode in which Wiz comments on the results of the fight before Boomstick, after Fox McCloud VS Bucky O'Hare, Boba Fett VS Samus Aran (2015), Donkey Kong VS Knuckles, Flash VS Sonic, Excalibur VS Raiden, Ant-Man VS Atom, and Killua VS Misaka, and with the next two being Galactus VS Unicron and Bowser VS Eggman.
*The episode reached #1 on YouTube's Trending page.https://x.com/AEthan48/status/1721717040850022632
**This is the ninth episode to reach #1 on Trending, after Johnny Cage VS Captain Falcon, Ganondorf VS Dracula, All Might VS Might Guy, Flash VS Sonic, Gogeta VS Vegito, Guts VS Dimitri, Bill Cipher VS Discord, and Frieza VS Megatron, and with the next three being Rick Sanchez VS The Doctor, Galactus VS Unicron, and Bowser VS Eggman (for gaming).
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