Not long ago the idea ofMultiVersuswas not really taken very seriously. The thought that Warner Bros. would be stepping into the fighting genre with a game combining many of its propertiesseemed like a crazy video game rumor.
Well that rumor is a rumor no more:MultiVersusis indeed a thing. Taking the form of a platform fighter with many of Warner Bros. most popular characters stepping into the ring, it will be an immediate competitor withNickelodeon All-Star Brawl,Brawlhalla, and others like them. Even more bonkers than the roster are some of the moves they are bringing to the table.
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Thecast ofMultiVersusis certainly diverse, ranging from Arya Stark to Tom & Jerry and every level of serious or wacky in between. One of the stranger additions is Shaggy fromScooby-Doo. This seems odd until seeing the moveset they gave Shaggy: he can power up in a manner very similar to, but no doubt legally distinct from, Goku’s Super Saiyan and Ultra Instinct forms, with the correct auras and everything.
To anyone who finds this strange, the origin of these moves is not aScooby-Doo/Dragon Ball Zcrossover, but the internet. A sequence in a more recentScooby-Doofilm shows Shaggy taking on a bar full of bikers, and from this was born a meme about Shaggy being super powerful on a level comparable withDragon Ball Z’s Goku. It became so widespread thatWarner Bros. paid homage to it in a recent animation, and now it seems these powers are being cannonized inMultiVersusat least.
The “Super Shaggy” meme became really popular, with Shaggy’s power levels reaching absurd heights, typically blowing up a planet with 10% of his power, so it makes sense that Warner Bros. wants to capitalize on it.Shaggy was already being modded intoSuper Smash Bros., so putting him in a platform fighter just makes sense.
Of course, the moment a corporation adopts a meme for its own use is usually the moment that the meme dies for good. If Warner Bros. wants this to work, it will still have to put out a legitimately good platform fighter, or all thatteasing from Ed Boonwill come to nothing. There’s a lot of good will riding onMultiVersusnow, as fans are not quick to forgive a soured meme.
MultiVersusis coming to PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in 2022.
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