Shaggy's Power — 4chan greentext post narrating Shaggy fighting an opponent and escalating his power output.

Shaggy's Power

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Published September 27, 2026

Shaggy's Power is a Scooby-Doo image macro series that turns stoner sidekick Shaggy Rogers into a reality-warping demigod who never uses more than a fraction of his real strength. The joke traces to a 2018 DeviantArt script and exploded across Reddit and 4chan in January 2019, eventually pulling in a Mortal Kombat 11 petition with tens of thousands of signatures and a public co-sign from actor Matthew Lillard.

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Overview

Each image pairs an intimidating shot of Shaggy with a caption where he shrugs off a fight and admits he barely used any of his real strength, riffing on anime power-scaling lines like 'this isn't even 1% of my power.' Common edits stick katanas or other weapons in his hands1 or drop him into Superman and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure panels4.

The subreddit /r/BadAssShaggy became the meme's headquarters, filling with re-subbed still frames from the 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo film in which Matthew Lillard's interview quotes carry menacing new dialogue8. The tone stays deadpan: Shaggy speaks softly, sometimes apologizes for the destruction, and levels planets between sentences.

Origin & Background

Platform
DeviantArt (source line) / Reddit and 4chan (viral spread)
Date
2018

On April 1, 2018, DeviantArt user Nekroz-of-Mokey posted a script for a comedy sketch called 'Shaggy Rogers vs. Madara Uchiha,' spun off the earlier Ultra Instinct Shaggy edit trend, in which Shaggy tells the Naruto villain 'this isn't even 1% of 1% of 1% of my power, kid'8. That triple-percentage line pinned the character to the anime power-scaling bit that Reddit and 4chan later ran with.

How It Spread

The bit hit Reddit on July 19, 2018, when u/pizzazzle18 uploaded a video of Shaggy fighting off thugs to /r/BossFight, and u/muffler_kek replied 'Like, you only made me use 10% of my power man,' which became the format's working caption10. On November 2, u/narwhal-lord14 posted a katana-wielding Shaggy photoshop that pulled 3,100 upvotes over three months1. On January 5, 2019, an anonymous 4chan /b/ user wrote a greentext story built around the macro11, which u/matthewoliveira mirrored to /r/greentext the next day for over 2,000 upvotes in 48 hours2.

Between January 13 and 16, the format cross-pollinated with u/roaringdoom's JoJo-style edit on /r/ShitPostCrusaders3, a Superman-begs-for-mercy comic panel on /r/dankmemes4, and @GnarlyBuster's Sasuke Choke Edit tweet, which pulled over 5,100 retweets in two days5. A screenshot of that tweet reposted to /r/dankmemes hit 39,200 upvotes in the same window9. On January 17, /r/BadAssShaggy launched and passed 22,400 subscribers within eleven days. Ten days after that, a Woken News Network Change.org petition to make Shaggy a Mortal Kombat 11 DLC character cleared 58,700 signatures in 24 hours6, and Matthew Lillard himself tweeted the subreddit with the message 'Dear universe. Please never let this end'7.

Timeline

2018-04-01

DeviantArt user Nekroz-of-Mokey posts the 'Shaggy Rogers vs. Madara Uchiha' script introducing the '1% of 1% of 1% of my power' line.

2018-07-19

U/pizzazzle18 uploads Shaggy fight footage to /r/BossFight, and u/muffler_kek's '10% of my power' reply seeds the format's caption template.

2018-11-02

U/narwhal-lord14 posts a katana-wielding Shaggy photoshop on /r/BossFight; it pulls 3,100 upvotes over three months.

2019-01-05

Anonymous 4chan /b/ user writes a greentext story built on the Shaggy's Power macro.

2019-01-06

U/matthewoliveira reposts the 4chan greentext to /r/greentext for over 2,000 upvotes in 48 hours.

2019-01-16

@GnarlyBuster posts a Sasuke Choke Edit version of Shaggy's Power that pulls 5,100+ retweets in two days.

2019-01-17

The /r/BadAssShaggy subreddit launches and reaches 22,400 subscribers in eleven days.

2019-01-27

Woken News Network's Change.org petition to add Shaggy to Mortal Kombat 11 clears 58,700 signatures in 24 hours; Matthew Lillard tweets the subreddit.

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