Top 10 Peculiar Villains from Scooby Doo

Saturday mornings always have some treat for children. Scooby Doo was also a treat for the children which started on September 13, 1969 for the first time. Since then the cartoon lovers have enjoyed 11 seasons of Scooby Doo. Scooby Doo is an animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions after the protests of the parents in early 1960’s that Saturday morning cartoons are full of violence and after this protest Scooby Doo came in to being.

Scooby Doo is a comedy mystery series, in which the five characters, Fred, Velma, Daphne, Shaggy and their dog Scooby Doo, movie around in their van called Mystery Machine. Every time they are called somewhere to solve the mystery, Scooby Doo accidentally becomes a reason for the arrest of the culprit. The culprits in this series are mostly the ghosts who are not actually ghosts but the disguises adopted by the people who are after the treasures. There is a new ghost in every episode but there were some ghosts who appeared a lot of time. Here Top ten Peculiar ghosts are listed.

 10. The Tar Monster: The tar monster was first seen in 1978. This Tar Monster is, as it is obvious from the name, a monster with Tar flowing all over him. This Tar monster comes from a pool of Tar in an ancient Greek city of Byzantium currently known as Constantinople. The Tar Monster is actually Mr. Stoner who is trying to steal the treasures of the city and for that purpose he has disguised himself as The Tar Monster who is constantly attacking the Archeologists and the members of Mystery Inc. But in the end Scooby Doo is successful in capturing the monster

9. The Pterodactyl Ghost: The pterodactyl ghost first appeared in 1977. This ghost appeared in two seasons of Scooby Doo, Hang in There Scooby Doo and Scooby Doo Monsters Unleashed. This pterodactyl ghost was a flying ghost who was trying to scare the contestants of Local Hang Gliding contest. This ghost was actually a contestant Jonathan Jacob who was scaring the contestants so that he can win the competition easily. Thos ghost is some what like a power full man with bat like wings and a long and thick beak. This character is actually a modified form of a bird pterodactyl which was found million years ago back when Dinosaurs roamed the earth.

8. The Ghost Animals of Africa: These Ghost Animals first appeared in 2002. This actually was a scheme of a couple from the community of Hunsecker (Pennsylvania) who wanted to kidnap these animals and take them home where they will sell them as pets. They painted these animals in a fluorescent paint and to make them mad they emitted a supersonic pitch from the device they had so that the animals went crazy and every one in the jungle thought that they had an evil spirit in them. They mystery of these animals was solved when this couple kidnapped Scooby Doo and Shaggy went crazy and made all the effort to find Scooby.

7. The Wax Phantom: The Wax Phantom first appeared in 1970. This monster was owner of a radio station and was getting away with a lot of money of the station. He was putting all the blame on his butler. Mystery Inc. catches him by showering wax on him.

6. It: This monster made his first appearance in 1969. “It” was the creation of a disgruntled farmer whose lands were taken by the armed forces. The interesting thing about this episode was that this episode was aired when military had full control over the TV and it was not being nice to the people. “It” was a monster that floated in the air and had a space ship.

5. Ghost Clown: Ghost Clown was first seen in 1969. The Ghost clown, a purple face clown with a typical big red clown nose, was used to hypnotize people who came in the circus. This ghost clown was actually a frustrated hypnotist of the circus who was fired by the owners and to take the revenge from the circus owners he tried to scare the people so that the owners have to run for their business.

4. The Ghost of Zen-Tuo:  This ghost appeared in 1970 in an episode called Mystery Mask Mix-Up. This ghost was a prominent example of race discrimination. The America actors had to provide the vocals so they made a fake accent. There were also a lot of Chinese characters who were shown as goofs.

3. The Mystery Machine: This episode was aired in 2002.in this episode the monster was mystery machine itself who tries to run over Shaggy and Scooby. At first the mystery gang refuses to believe them but in the end they run to solve the mystery. The culprit behind this mystery machine was a crazed mom who wanted the reunion of her kid’s band.

2. The Titanic Twist: This monster first appeared in 2005. This episode was called Wrestle Maniacs and it was about A wrestling Ghost who was very violent and spine-chilling. This wrestling ghost was all over the town and it was beating people for no reason. This was the first episode in which blood was actually shown.

1. The Gold Monster: This monster appeared in 2005 in the episode called Gold Paw. This monster was made of gold and had the power of turning the things into gold with a single touch. This Gold monster was actually made by an old lady who made this monster with cookie dough and created some special powers in it the purpose of this lady was to break into Fort Knox a post of United States army in Kentucky.