Ultra Instinct Shaggy — Shaggy from Scooby-Doo with a blue aura and intense expression, in Ultra Instinct pose

Ultra Instinct Shaggy

2017video remix / character memeclassic

Published October 4, 2026

Ultra Instinct Shaggy is a fan edit that splices the Scooby-Doo character Shaggy Rogers into Goku's divine transformation from Dragon Ball Super, treating the lanky stoner as a hidden god of destruction. The joke started with a single 2017 YouTube remix and snowballed into a petition to add Shaggy to Mortal Kombat 11, eventually earning an official nod from Warner Bros. in a 2021 animated film.

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Overview

Ultra Instinct Shaggy takes the normally cowardly Shaggy Rogers from Scooby-Doo and reframes him as a secretly all-powerful fighter in the style of Goku's Ultra Instinct form from Dragon Ball Super3. The gag works by pairing Shaggy's silly voice and skinny frame with the operatic Dragon Ball score 'Ultimate Battle,' usually while he no-sells attacks from random cartoon thugs1.

The bit expanded into a shared joke that fans call 'Shaggy's Power,' a running premise that Shaggy is holding back at 1% strength and could flatten Thanos, Goku, or anyone else if provoked2. Fan art, Photoshop edits dropping Shaggy into Dragon Ball scenes, and in-game mods for titles like Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 are the common formats, with Urban Dictionary summing him up as 'just Shaggy, but he is a god'2.

Origin & Background

Platform
YouTube (origin) / Reddit, Tumblr (viral spread)
Creator
Midya
Date
2017

The format started on October 12th, 2017, when YouTuber Midya posted an 'Ultra Instinct Remix' pairing a brawl scene from the 2011 animated film Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur with Dragon Ball Super's 'Ultimate Battle' theme3. Midya's original upload was later taken down, but a reupload by YouTuber RoastedCurry preserved the edit in January 20191.

Warner Bros. animated Shaggy and the Dragon Ball Super soundtrack belong to Toei Animation; Midya created the fan remix that fused the two3. Early fan art followed on November 3rd, 2017, from DeviantArt user MielSibel100320023.

How It Spread

After the Midya video circulated, the character was reposted to /r/TwoBestFriendsPlay in November 2017, where the thread picked up 643 upvotes3. On January 13th, 2018, Tumblr user mgx0 published a set of Dragon Ball panels redrawn with Shaggy that cleared 35,000 notes, pushing the joke outside of anime-remix YouTube3.

The format broke through on Reddit and Instagram in January 2019 under the 'Shaggy's Power' banner, treating Shaggy as a joke-tier omnipotent being3. On January 27th, 2019, Woken News Network started a Change.org petition asking Warner Bros. Interactive to add Shaggy as a DLC fighter in Mortal Kombat 11, which collected more than 83,000 signatures inside 24 hours4. A Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 mod from GOWBuuzer passed 358,000 views on YouTube around the same stretch5.

Warner Bros. itself eventually acknowledged the joke. On August 30th, 2021, a leaked opening from Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms showed Shaggy grabbing Scorpion by the neck and yanking him off-screen during the Warner Bros. Animation vanity card, surfaced in a tweet by Elliot Duby6. Fans treated the cameo as the meme going canon6.

Timeline

2017-10-12

YouTuber Midya posts the original 'Ultra Instinct Shaggy' remix set to Dragon Ball Super's 'Ultimate Battle' theme.

2017-11-03

DeviantArt user MielSibel10032002 uploads early Ultra Instinct Shaggy fan art.

2018-01-13

Tumblr user mgx0 posts Dragon Ball panels redrawn with Shaggy, reaching over 35,000 notes.

2019-01

The format surges on Reddit and Instagram as 'Shaggy's Power.'

2019-01-27

Woken News launches a Change.org petition to add Shaggy as DLC in Mortal Kombat 11, hitting 83,000+ signatures in 24 hours.

2021-08-30

A leaked Warner Bros. Animation intro from Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms shows Ultra Instinct Shaggy yanking Scorpion off-screen.

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