History ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated / TropesDToH

* DoesNotLikeShoes: The female vampire MonsterOfTheWeek in episode 11.

** [[spoiler: In episode 39, the good guys now have all six pieces, having retrieved the other three from Mr. E's lair thanks to a ScoobyDooHoax [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome the gang themselves set up]]. But now Pericles has it in episode 47 (Fred gave it to him in exchange for Daphne, who was held captive by Pericles' robot goons) and he's summoning what he terms as his "master" with it]].

* HumansAreBastards: Many of the side characters are much more cruel and selfish here than the other Scooby Doo incarnations have been. While the Mystery Inc gang are still the same nice and likable group of detectives that they have always been, almost all of them have developed an AdaptationalJerkass characteristic.

** Velma is much more self-centered, sassy, vain, and sexually aggressive than she was in past incarnations.

* HumansAreBastards: Many of the side characters are much more cruel and selfish here than the other Scooby Doo incarnations have been. While the Scooby gang are still the same nice and likable group of detectives that they have always been, almost all of them have developed an AdaptationalJerkass characteristic with Daphne occasionally being more self-invested in the attention she gets from Fred and Velma is much more self-centered, sassy, vain, and sexually aggressive than she was in past incarnations.

** [[spoiler: The series only has one laugh track ever played, which is in the series finale after Scooby-Doo says his catchphrase, wrapping everything up on a positive note]].

** [[spoiler: Hot Dog Water returns in season 2, filling in for Daphne's spot. It has been noted that Velma will allude that she and HDW possibly had a "relationship"]].
** [[spoiler: She reveals her real name in episode 28. It's Marcie]].

** And to Velma, since he was TheSmartGuy in addition to the TeamPet. [[spoiler: The other former members of Myster Inc (except for Angel) have also developed into this]], with [[spoiler: Mr. E]] being the EvilCounterpart to Shaggy, and [[spoiler: Brad Chiles and Judy Reeves]] to Fred and Daphne.

** An early episode has Ed Machine mistakenly voiced by [[spoiler: Louis Black]], giving the impression that Machine is actually [[spoiler: Mr. E]].
** The first episode features the trap Fred built failing due to him and the members of Mystery Inc being in completely the wrong place, like how the traps never worked in the original series. Fred's traps have a greater success ratio in almost every other episode of this series.

* DarkerAndEdgier: As you would not '''believe'''. By the GrandFinale, it completely surpasses ''ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' as the darkest version of ''Scooby Doo''.

** [[spoiler:BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: The only problem in killing the entity is that completely ''changes the history as the gang know it''! See BittersweetEnding entry]].

** For a non-sexual one let's go back to episode 21 with Angel and Velma. [[spoiler: Angel tells Velma to keep the identity of her as Cassidy Williams a secret]]. Now compare that to the first 10 episodes with Velma's relationship with Shaggy. We all know that keeping secrets never leads to anything good. [[spoiler: Specifically because the gang is broken up and Daphne has blamed Velma for causing this for keeping Angel's identity a secret]].

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: For a season finale no less! The Mayor was the freak who caused all of the mess in the first place, Pericles has 2 of the 6 Planespheric Map pieces, the gang is broken up, and Fred is off on his own to find his real parents. Here's hoping to Scooby fulfilling his promise to get the gang back...]].

** [[spoiler: Episode 37. Cassidy, from all indications, did not survive the detonation of the undersea city while trying to free the submarine's tail. Plus, Professor Pericles has made off with the sixth piece of the Planispheric Disc, giving him three pieces and the gang three pieces. [[WordOfGod Tony Cervone]] confirms on Twitter that Cassidy did not survive]].
** [[spoiler: Episode 42: Just as the gang finally has a lead on the treasure as told by the Planespheric Disc, they return to see the City Hall/their base of operations up in flames, caused by Brad and Judy]].

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: The gang manage to defeat the monster under Crystal Cove, but in doing so erase it from existence and wind up in alternate timeline (implied to be the ''original series timeline'') where everything is different and the treasure of Crystal Cove (and the monster within) never existed. However without it, there's no mysteries to solve and the town is uncorrupted because of it. However the group get a message from a professor from the previous timeline who managed to jump to the alternate one with them and offers them enrollment at [[Creator/HPLovecraft Miskatonic University]] where he works. The gang, giddy for a new adventure, accept and set off on a roadtrip towards there, vowing to solve any mysteries they come across along the way]].

* TheDeadCanDance: The Ska Zombies in "Dance of the Undead".

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:In the season 2 finale sees the gang kill the Nibiru Entity by severing the connection it was using to draw power from another dimension, resulting in the connection imploding and ''erasing it from existence''.]]
** [[spoiler:BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: The only problem in killing the entity is that completely ''changes the history as the gang know it''! See BittersweetEnding entry.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: In "Dreamweaver," the criminal of the week attempts to ruin his former friend's lives because his in-game character died when they played an RPG together back when they were kids.

** In episode 7, the Hex Girl's manager used to be the manager of a singer called Fancy Pants. After he was dropped by his old label, the manager mentions that Pants "went down the rabbit hole". Consider for a moment what that's slang for, and what some rock stars get involved with when their career hits a rocky patch...
** In episode 8 Shaggy and Scooby watching the Renaissance Fair announcer who says he hates pirates secretly dresses up like one. It's made to seem like watching him dress up in women's clothing. Even Scooby says his "brain needs a shower".

** For a non-sexual one let's go back to episode 21 with Angel and Velma. [[spoiler: Angel tells Velma to keep the identity of her as Cassidy Williams a secret.]] Now compare that to the first 10 episodes with Velma's relationship with Shaggy. We all know that keeping secrets never leads to anything good. [[spoiler: Specifically because the gang is broken up and Daphne has blamed Velma for causing this for keeping Angel's identity a secret.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: For a season finale no less! The Mayor was the freak who caused all of the mess in the first place, Pericles has 2 of the 6 Planespheric Map pieces, the gang is broken up, and Fred is off on his own to find his real parents. Here's hoping to Scooby fulfilling his promise to get the gang back...]]
** [[spoiler:And the second season premiere, if you can believe it, ends on ''another'', nearly as grim a downer ending where TheBadGuyWins, Fred's confidence is destroyed and Daphne refuses to come back to mystery solving.]]
** [[spoiler: Episode 37. Cassidy, from all indications, did not survive the detonation of the undersea city while trying to free the submarine's tail. Plus, Professor Pericles has made off with the sixth piece of the Planispheric Disc, giving him three pieces and the gang three pieces. [[WordOfGod Tony Cervone]] confirms on Twitter that Cassidy did not survive.]]
** [[spoiler: Episode 42: Just as the gang finally has a lead on the treasure as told by the Planespheric Disc, they return to see the City Hall/their base of operations up in flames, caused by Brad and Judy.]]
** [[spoiler:Episode 43: The town is in ruins, the gang have inadvertently released a ravenous and aggressive species into the ocean ecosystem, and Nova's barely clinging to life.]]
* DramaticThunder: Done near the end of "The Shrieking Madness".
* DreamWithinADream: Scooby experiences one at the start of "Stand and Deliver". He dreams he is sharing a romantic dinner with Nova when it is attacked by killer robots. He then wakes up in Nova's hospital room, which is then attacked by the same killer robots. He then wakes up for real and blames the dream on eating too many doughnuts before going to sleep.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Shaggy's instructor at military school in "The Night The Clown Cried".

** The MotiveRant for "Lord Infernicus" in "Mystery Solver State Finals".

** Hot Dog Water made a brief appearance in episode 16 when Velma recognizes her in class affected by Aphrodite. She then makes another cameo in episode 18. Episode 21 had her be an employee [[spoiler: and attacker]] of the amusement park that the manticore attacks. [[spoiler: She then went on to get a major role in the second season.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: EVERYONE. When the Nibiru entity is destroyed, it retroactively erases its influence from time. Fred's parents are not psychotic and are dual obstetricians, Daphne's parents are highly supportive of her and her plans to marry Fred, Velma is best friends with Marcie, Shaggy's an award winning chef, Fred Jones Sr. is the upstanding principal of Crystal Cove High and considers Fred to be like the son he never had, Sheriff Stone and Mayor Nettles are married and have four kids, and Ricky Owens runs an environmentally friendly corporation alongside his wife Cassidy, with Professor Pericles as their sponsor, and Danny Darrow is the dean of Darrow College, and has turned his family's old mansion into a historical site. No one has been corrupted or gone crazy and Crystal Cove is not a haven for masked psychos. At first this seems subverted for the Gang as they're left with no place in Crystal Cove, as mystery solvers have no place...then they get a call and realize the ''world'' has mysteries aplenty, paint up Fred's van as the Mystery Machine and head out to solve them.]]

** Char Gar Gothicon, monster of "The Shrieking Madness".
** [[spoiler: The Nibiru Entity. And unlike Char Gar Gothicon, it's REAL.]]

* EldritchLocation: [[spoiler:The Nibiru Entity's lair has a bunch of areas requiring the use of "keys" (an old Flintlock pistol, a Conquistador helmet, a bowl, and a piece of cloth). The first one in particular is an area that seems to take place in a sky-like area.]]

** [[spoiler: Hot Dog Water returns in season 2, filling in for Daphne's spot. It has been noted that Velma will allude that she and HDW possibly had a "relationship."]]
** [[spoiler: She reveals her real name in episode 28. It's Marcie.]]

* EvilVersusEvil: Professor Pericles vs. Mr. E. vs. [[spoiler: Mayor Jones.]]
** Not as of seasons 2, seeing as [[spoiler: Mayor Jones is in prison and E and Pericles have teamed up.]]
*** It's gone back as of [[spoiler:episode 45. After getting bitch-slapped by Pericles, Ricky confers with Brad and Judy about eliminating him. But Brad and Judy end up siding with Pericles and snitch on Ricky.]]

** Episode 30: [[spoiler: Chareline is a cartooned version of Paula Deen. The fantasy game Shaggy and Sheriff Stone referred to, ''Crypts and Creatures'', is a stand-in for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons.]]

* FantasticRacism: Hilariously played with the Wild Brood. Everyone treats them suspiciously, but this is due to the fact that they are [[BadassBiker a motorcycle gang]] and not because [[OurOrcsAreDifferent they are Orcs]]. [[spoiler:However, when they take off their masks to reveal that they are video game developers and geeks, Sheriff Stone suffers a full-on panic attack and asks them to put their masks back on.]]

* FetchQuest: Dramatically subverted in episode 16. [[spoiler: Sure Scooby does get the stuff he needs to save the gang, but Pericles also gets what HE wants and played Scooby like a piano.]]

** Then there's the newspaper clipping in episode 4. Part of it was cut off and Angel seems as if she knows something. [[spoiler: She does, because the part cut off showed her when she was still known as Cassidy Williams.]]

** Episode 10 has Professor Pericles spouting out that the gang has to keep an eye on those close to them; especially Fred. [[spoiler: In episode 21, the Mayor is looking for something and Mr. E comments that Fred is getting in the way of saving the remaining members of Mystery Inc. Plus in episode 23, Pericles states that the Mayor stole something important from him, but said Mayor is in denial.]]
*** [[spoiler: Mayor has a good reason; he made a deal with Pericles who would betray his gang. Then he betrayed Pericles and stole the disk piece. Then Pericles stole it back at the 26th episode and now Mayor Jones is going to be arrested.]]
** Episode 12 has the Darrow Family Trunk filled with secret documents. [[spoiler: Episode 17 lead them to meet up with Danny Darrow and episode 25 finally told them what they were looking for.]]

** Here's another one: "I guess we're not a team anymore." [[spoiler: Velma, you don't know what you caused.]]

** In episode 2 the lights that light up the letters of the The Drowsy Gator's sign flicker in such a way to read "The dog dies!", a simple little scene to scare Scooby. [[spoiler:In episode 41 the mummy of Friar Serra, a member of a previous Mystery Inc. group hailed for saving Crytal Cove from an earthquake along with the group's donkey Porto, tells the group the real story. That Porto in fact had been corrupted by a piece of the Planispheric Disk and destroyed Crystal Cove. In every group the animal member has been the one to be corrupted and betray everyone leading Friar Serra to declare "Heed the warning of the alligators! The dog dies!" while pointing at Scooby.]]

** Fred and his dad look nothing alike. [[spoiler:This hints at the fact that Mayor Jones is not Fred's real father.]]
* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler: The tension between Angel and the gang probably could've been avoided if either Angel or Velma explained about Angel's real identity sooner.]]

* ForkliftFu: Scooby uses a forklift to take on the robotic fright hound in "Howl of the Fright Hound".

** The Fred and Daphne thing has been averted as of episode 24. [[spoiler: Fred has proposed to Daphne and the two plan to marry once they get to college.]]
*** Not anymore! [[spoiler: Thanks to Mayor Jones' actions, he took Fred away from his real parents and now Fred is a) going to go search for them, b) broke up the engagement and c) broke up Mystery Inc.]]

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: The gang manage to defeat the monster under Crystal Cove, but in doing so erase it from existence and wind up in alternate timeline (implied to be the ''original series timeline'') where everything is different and the treasure of Crystal Cove (and the monster within) never existed. However without it, there's no mysteries to solve and the town is uncorrupted because of it. However the group get a message from a professor from the previous timeline who managed to jump to the alternate one with them and offers them enrollment at [[Creator/HPLovecraft Miskatonic University]] where he works. The gang, giddy for a new adventure, accept and set off on a roadtrip towards there, vowing to solve any mysteries they come across along the way.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: [[Radar/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Enough examples for its own page.]]

* GottaCatchEmAll: The six pieces of the Planespheric Disk. [[spoiler: As of the season 1 finale, Pericles has nabbed off with two of them. The other four pieces should be snapped up in season two as producer Mitch Watson has noted on his Facebook page that the series will only go 52 episodes.]]
** [[spoiler: As of episode 31, Scooby and the gang have pieces three and four. Professor Pericles calls a powwow in regards to this.]]
** [[spoiler: Episode 34 has the gang possessing piece no. 5 now.]]
** [[spoiler: Episode 37 has Professor Pericles with piece no. 6.]]
** [[spoiler: In episode 39, the good guys now have all six pieces, having retrieved the other three from Mr. E's lair thanks to a ScoobyDooHoax [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome the gang themselves set up.]] But now Pericles has it in episode 47 (Fred gave it to him in exchange for Daphne, who was held captive by Pericles' robot goons) and he's summoning what he terms as his "master" with it.]]

* GuiltByAssociationGag: [[spoiler: In the final episode, all of Daphne's sisters, who were hailed as better than her, are now underachievers, and strictly below her, supposed Karma for looking down on her... except that Daisy was the only one actively putting her down ([[DisproportionateRetribution losing her career and husband is a bit much for rudeness]]), Delilah was a CoolBigSis, and the other two didn't have enough characterization.]]

** Subverted in episode 36. [[spoiler: In the Burlington mansion, the gang wants to get some sleep but Velma wants to check out the library. "Who can sleep with all those books?" She asks. The others raise their hands.]]

* HeroicBSOD: This happens to Fred after Daphne is kidnapped by the crab monster and when a teacher has supposedly died (see FauxDeath). [[spoiler: Fred gets a serious case of this in Chapter 26.]]
** [[spoiler: Scooby and Fred are paralyzed in disbelief when they see Shaggy and Daphne kissing in episode 36 (they were both under a dream hypnosis). Velma snaps Scooby and Fred out of it by telling them they were only dreaming.]]
** [[spoiler: Velma gets one in episode 48. She feels that how the events that happen during the gang's hypnosis are devoid of any logic and thus her trust of logic and facts have failed her, so she breaks down and cries.]]

** Episode 37: [[spoiler: Cassidy stays behind to free the gang as Pericles detonates the underwater city. Cassidy does not survive.]]
** Episode 51--[[spoiler: Marcie, giving Scooby and the gang time to get away. We ''don't'' see what happens, but it's quite obvious.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Before the Mystery Inc the show focuses on, there were several previous groups of four with one animal that solved mysteries together. [[spoiler: [[BigBad Nibiru's]] influence led to most of them being driven to evil, always starting with the TeamPet.]]

** In the same episode Fred gives us, [[HoYay "Before anyone outs Shaggy,]] I just might have another solution".

** Velma is happy to have Amy as her "special friend," gets angry about the gang trying to "steal her," and is devastated to eventually find out that Amy is married.

* TheHighwayman: The Dandy Highwayman in "Stand and Deliver".
* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler:Any group of mystery solving teenagers will eventually become attached to the Mystery of Crystal Cove, the Planespheric Disk, and Nibiru.]]

** [[spoiler: 3 episodes later, it happens]]

** In Episode 26 [[spoiler: Fred and Daphne develop a resentment toward Velma for keeping Cassidy's/Angel's secret. Fred also breaks off his engagement with Daphne to look for his real parents, Shaggy's parents plan to send him off to military school and Scooby to a farm, and the girls are grounded.]]

->For the main page, see [[Main/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated here]].

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: An early episode has Ed Machine mistakenly voiced by [[spoiler: Louis Black]], giving the impression that Machine is actually [[spoiler: Mr. E]].

** Episode 40: Blue Falcon is turned into a CaptainErsatz of FrankMiller's Batman. Velma even lampshades the dubious need of a vigilante.

** Pretty clear Chargargothica, the monster with no name is an Expy of Cthulu, given that Cthulu runs similar circles in having a "hard to pronounce" name with the human tongue, and having tentacles. He physically looks a little like [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Davy Jones]], too. Also, makes sense as Hatecraft is a pretty blatant expy of Lovecraft.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy:
** The villain in episode 7. Not only did The Phantom have the foresight to sabotage Fred's trap, when Shaggy and Scooby attempt their typical escape via ScoobyDoobyDoors, he simply ''sets fire'' to the van they're in.
** Episode 17 dealt with Fred and the villain out matching the other, both having encyclopedic knowledge of traps and their workings.

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: The gang manage to defeat the monster under Crystal Cove, but in doing so erase it from existence and wind up in alternate timeline (implied to be the ''original series timeline'') where everything is different and the treasure of Crystal Cove (and the monster within) never existed. However without it, there's no mysteries to solve and the town is uncorrupted because of it. However the group get a message from a professor from the previous timeline who managed to jump to the alternate one with them and offers them enrollment at [[HPLovecraft Miskatonic University]] where he works. The gang, giddy for a new adventure, accept and set off on a roadtrip towards there, vowing to solve any mysteries they come across along the way.]]

* {{Fanservice}}: Daphne has a strange habit of walking around in her underwear and wearing bikinis and other {{Stripperiffic}} outfits on a regular basis. One can assume one of the writers is fulfilling some deep seated PerverseSexualLust for the character.

** In the same episode gives us, [[""Before anyone outs Shaggy, I just might have another solution."" HoYay]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: A fair amount so far, much of it related to hinting at the mysterious history of Crystal Cove and the identity of Mr. E.