Headscratchers / Scooby-Doo (2002)

• When the Gang breaks up, it's understandable why Velma, Daphne, and Fred hate each other. Fred takes credit for Velma's plans, Daphne hates being reminded of her constant Damsel in Distress and Fred....he's Fred let's leave it at that. However, did they have to take it out on Shaggy and Scooby? So far not one of the three has anything bad to say about them, even their clumsiness and cowardliness are overlooked. But they pretty much have been the only nice guys on the movie and have tried time and again to keep them together. And when The Stoner and a dog are The only sane men, that could be a problem.
  • "Only nice guys"? Shaggy at one point suggests letting Fred and Velma get eaten and Scooby is totally fine with abandoning his nephew in the middle of the desert (and he also punches Fred in the face at one point). As for why Fred, Velma, and Daphne treat Shaggy and Scooby crappily, it's honestly just easiest to say that they all got hit with Adaptational Jerkass.

• All the possessed people dress in sort of matching cult-y outfits, it's some kind of uniform. So why does Mary Jane stay in her normal clothes?

• The body-swapping bit. Fred and Daphne make sense, they were in the wrong bodies, Velma had had her soul removed earlier in the film so it just about works but Shaggy is the only member of the gang (and one of the few cast members) who 'didn't become a human suit, with his soul removed, so why did Shaggy's soul get sucked out as well?
  • He was around a mystical artifact that allowed the manipulation of souls and unstable souls in the wrong bodies. As a result when the artifact caused the souls to shuffle Shaggy got caught up in it.