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Matches is Miss Grimwood's hot-tempered pet dragon.

Physical appearance[]

Matches is entirely covered in light green scales, with dark green horns, hair, and spots and scales on his back. His eyes are yellow with orange irises and red pupils. He also has webbed hands, sharp teeth, and an arrow-shaped tail.

Personality[]

When angry or excited, he glows red, then breathes out fire like most dragons. Matches can get a little feisty around strangers, but once they get to know him, he's fine. He dislikes Scooby-Doo at first, but later becomes friends, and has a strong liking for Scrappy-Doo. He also doesn't like being left out. Matches often seems to display behavior typical of an introvert, disappearing for long periods of time busy with a journey or a project.

Powers and abilities[]

  • Matches can breathe fire and hot steam. His flames can disintegrate anything, except if it is fireproof and nonflammable.
  • If he is wet, however, he cannot breath fire until he is dry. Although, this doesn't stop him from being able to swim.
  • Matches is depicted wearing an arc welding mask, implying that he knows something about the properties of various metals and may even be able to crudely weld them back together simply with his fire breath. The fact that he uses a mask sometimes implies that he can somewhat control the temperature of his fire breath yet his own eyes haven't adapted to prolonged extreme temperatures yet.
  • He is fairly strong for his size, holding an entire boombox on one shoulder with no issue.

History[]

Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School[]

When Scooby first met Matches he laughed, because he was small. Matches got angry and breathed fire at him, frightening Scooby. Matches was then told off by Miss Grimwood. Scrappy met Matches next.

When Scooby and Shaggy were preparing for the mightiest monsters to arrive, they went to the kitchen that Mrs. Grimwood was making swamp brownies and Matches lit the fire with his flames. The brownies turned out to be made of swamp water and chock-full of mosquitos.

After the monsters arrived, Matches became left out and sad. Sibella made a fire proof robe for him. Revolta sent a spider bat to hypnotize Shaggy. Shaggy took the girls for a "field trip". Matches wanted to go, but Miss Grimwood told him to stay. Miss Grimwood's scorpion stew was frozen and Matches left to go to this "field trip". Scooby was attacked by Grim Creeper and Matches saved Scooby and breathed fire on Grim Creeper.

The Grimwood girls were captured by the spider bats and sent to Castle Revolta. Grim Creeper traps Scooby and the gang in a well of water and a Well-Dweller appears and Matches tries to breathe fire, but his flames went out by the water. Scrappy plays back with Matches, Scooby, and Well-Dweller. The Dweller gets the ball and lets the gang out. Scooby and Shaggy try pushing the wall for a secret entrance but there was no time since it was almost midnight and Scooby and Shaggy fall into the secret passageway in the wall. The Grim Creeper grabs Scooby and Shaggy and Winnie and Tanis tried pulling, but they were distracted by the Calloway Cadets fighting spider bats. Grim Creeper broke through the wall and grabs Scrappy and Matches, but Matches was still out of steam to breathe fire.

Revolta ordered the girls to go back, or she would turn the gang into something worse than toads (Scooby turned into a toad). A spider bat saw Scooby and tries to eat him, but they knocked down some ingredients into the formula and Matches breathes fire at the spider bat. Grim Creeper also got burned by Matches. Elsa threw the wand into the formula and the castle was about to explode. Scooby and the others got out, while Revolta and Grim Creeper tried getting out with their flying brooms, but they were caught in the explosion, falling to the low ground beneath them. A celebration after Revolta and Grim Creeper's defeat occurred at Grimwood's. The Grimwood girls and Matches waved goodbye to the gang as they left (after Scooby and Shaggy saw the new students).

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