YMMV / Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob

• Ass Pull: Merlin being Real After All. While he mostly talked with Velma there are multiple instances where the rest of Norville o'er Morgania saw him and no one commented he wasn't a part of the hoax or was weirded out by his presence.
• Designated Hero: Mayor Saunders is meant to be a Reasonable Authority Figure that was worried of a random teenager having a claim to the land he's a major of, so he decided to pull a Benevolent Conspiracy to avert this. But the way he did this involved sedating, kidnapping and tricking a group of teenagers and their dog that were passing by to make them believe they were living in Medieval Times just so Shaggy will sign away his right to the land. In any other Scooby-Doo movie, he will be the villain, but because Shaggy didn't want the land in the first place, this is treated as desperate but understandable measures even if a lot of what he did was extremely illegal.
• Funny Moments: When the gang ask King Arthur to join them to get Shaggy back, he refuses, saying he's not leaving without an entourage of knights. Daphne worriedly says that she thinks she "broke" the knights.
• The Scrappy: Because of what's mentioned in Unintentionally Unsympathetic and Designated Hero, pretty much no one likes Mayor Saunders for being one of the biggest cases of a Karma Houdini in the history of the franchise.
• Take That, Scrappy!: Those fans who had found Velma's characterization in the last bunch of movies to be falling into Insufferable Genius were satisfied when she discovers Merlin was Real After All.
• Unexpected Character: The plot of this movie revolves around Thundarr the Barbarian, which in this story is a popular TV show. Although it's not a more straightforward crossover, whoever thought that that show would ever get referenced again by anything?
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Mrs. Wentworth is not a saint, but she's only treated as the villain for taking advantage of the situation and making Shaggy sign the land over to her, which is exactly what the Mayor was trying to do who ends up as a Karma Houdini, so she doesn't really come up as any worse that the rest of Norville o'er Morgania or Mayor Saunders despite the movie attempts of highlighting her as the main villain. Worse, given she's the one arrested at the end while Saunders remains as the Mayor can make her look like The Scapegoat. Even if one assumes the Mayor only wanted Shaggy to sign the town over to the townsfolk collectively, rather than to himself, it's dubious at best.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Pretty much the entirety of Norville o'er Morgania had absolutely no issue with kidnapping the Mystery Gang and tricking them into signing away the land away to the actual Mayor, for some strange reason the movie treats this as a mild misunderstanding at worst because Shaggy didn't want the land in the first place despite everything about this "Scooby-Doo" Hoax being as illegal as the ones the gang usually faces and they even becomes friends with them instead of causing massive arrests.