Talk:Todd "Scoops" Ming/@comment-71.222.95.191-20120811011727

Scoops or Tobey?: An Analysis

First, let's start with a character recap.

1. Tobey is an evil boy genius who often tries to destroy the city with his robots.

2. Scoops is a civilian boy reporter for The Daily Rag

Scoops is one of the show's good characters, and Becky has had a crush on him since the shorts, but he is not what he seems. In fact, most of the time, he doesn't even notice Becky's feelings for him.

Both Scoops and Tobey have high opinions of themselves, but Scoops moreso than Tobey. He has taken credit for foiling robberies WordGirl has foiled (in "High-Fat Robbery" and "Captain Tangent Returns").

Plus, who could forget the episode "Vocab Bee"? When Scoops discovered that Becky was WordGirl, he didn't care about her actual feelings, just about pushing his reporter career to the next level. And when Becky made him think she wasn't WordGirl, he ridiculed her when he said that she was obviously not WordGirl. Think about what would've happened if Scoops had succeeded in exposing WordGirl's secret identity. Becky would get no peace, her life wouldn't be the same, and to top it off, as is shown in "High-Fat Robbery" and "Violet Superhero", The Butcher and Dr. Two-Brains read The Daily Rag, and they might show up wherever Becky is and abduct her.

And in "Cherish is the Word", Scoops revealed that he didn't like Becky, but Violet, and even said, to WordGirl's face, that "Mecky" and "Beckface" wouldn't be bad nicknames for Becky.

Is that how Scoops treats his friends? Seriously?

Although Tobey is a villain, the only real reason he is even evil is because he has a crush on WordGirl, and he doesn't know any other way to express it other than trying to lure her with giant robot attacks.

While he, too, is desperate to know WordGirl's secret identity, Tobey actually cares about WordGirl to some extent. In the episode "Mouse-Zilla", while Two-Brains tried to use the titular mouse robot to get rid of WordGirl for good, Tobey stalled Dr. Two-Brains, giving WordGirl time to escape. As is shown in some later episodes, he also likes Becky to a degree, complimenting Becky with the same beauty he compliments WordGirl with.

Also note that Tobey's father seems to be absent, so he has probably had nobody to teach him about girls, which might explain why he believes that he can win WordGirl's heart the way he tries to.

So in my opinion, WordGirl and Tobey should be together. Besides, what is the point in crushing on someone who doesn't notice or care about your feelings and would exploit you to push his/her career to the next level, when there is someone else who has a bad reputation but at least cares about you?

What do you guys think?