History WesternAnimation / ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheLegendOfTheVampire'' (2003): The first movie in the ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo What's New?]]'' era, but shares a style similar to that of [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou the original series]]. The gang's vacation in Australia is cut short when they hear about a monster known as the Yowie Yahoo kidnapping contestants from the Vampire Rock Music Festival.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheLochNessMonster'' (2004): The first movie actually done in the same ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo What's New?]]'' style. The gang travels to Loch Ness in Scotland to visit the Blake family's ancestral home, Blake Castle, which has recently been terrorized by the Loch Ness Monster.

By 1998, the venerable franchise had become moribund, although multiple incarnations of the TV series were airing in syndication (as they had for decades), nothing new had been made since ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooInArabianNights Arabian Nights]]''. Creator/HannaBarbera output at the time had been highly reduced under Turner, and most of the funding was going to the shows Creator/CartoonNetwork Studios was making within the larger company. Similarly to what was created with ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'', the time was right to tap into a new era for the studio's best-selling property, in collaboration with Creator/WarnerBros Animation, whom eventually absorbed Hanna-Barbera (and Cartoon Network Studios branched off as their own unit). The first fruit of this was ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' (though that project [[DolledUpInstallment had its']] [[DivorcedInstallment genesis]] as an unmade episode of ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats''). This movie kick-started a complete revival of the franchise over the next several years – three animated TV series, two live-action theatrical films, two live-action TV-movies, and ''at least'' one new Direct-to-Video cartoon per year each year since 1998 (it averages out to about one every nine months).

Creator/CartoonNetwork is owed some gratitude for helping air a lot of these upon their first arrival, especially with the first few installments of this series.[[note]]They've strayed a lot from this over the years, some not airing on Cartoon Network and Boomerang for over a year after release. Nowadays, they're lucky to even be aired on the former.[[/note]]

For the Lego movies see ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoLegoFilmSeries''. See also ''WesternAnimation/{{SCOOB}}'', which was originally intended for theaters (and thus is not part of this series) but instead released on digital platforms due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCyberChase'' (2001): Mystery Incorporated visit a college to see their friend, Eric, who is studying to be a computer scientist. A virtual creature known as the Phantom Virus had emerged from his game and has gone rogue on campus. Though the virus is sent back into the virtual world, so is the gang, who must complete the game in order to get home. The problem? Eric based the game off of their escapades, which means that they'll have to face off against their worst foes once more, but fortunately find that their greatest allies are... themselves?!
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheLegendOfTheVampire'' (2003): The first movie in the ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo What's New?]]'' era, but is based in style off [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou the original series]]. The gang's vacation in Australia is cut short when they hear about a monster known as the Yowie Yahoo kidnapping contestants from the Vampire Rock Music Festival.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheSamuraiSword'' (2009): The gang travels to Japan for Daphne's martial arts tournament at a prestigious academy, a mysterious ancient Black Samurai rises from the dead to regain a lost artifact that could mean ultimate evil for everyone...

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWWECurseOfTheSpeedDemon'' (2016): The second {{Crossover}} with WWE Studios with returning cameos of Wrestling/TripleH, Wrestling/TheMiz and Wrestling/VinceMcMahon and new ones like Wrestling/TheUndertaker, Wrestling/KofiKingston and Wrestling/{{Sheamus}}

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndBatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' (2018) : A crossover with ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', with many of the voice actors reprising their roles from the series and other projects. The Scooby Doo characters previously guest starred in the April Fools episode of the series, "Batmite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases".

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCurseOfThe13thGhost'' (2019): A long-belated follow-up to ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'' where Mystery, Inc. have to help Vincent Van Ghoul recapture Asmodeus, the last of the 13 ghosts released from the Chest of Demons.

* ''WesternAnimation/HappyHalloweenScoobyDoo'' (2020) A Halloween [[https://youtu.be/z6UVARUhXH4 movie]] that sees the gang working with Bill Nye and Elvira to take down the Batman villain Scarecrow and his army of pumpkins

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' is definitely the darkest Scooby Doo movie so far. The three movies that followed also stepped into this territory, and it wasn't till 2010 when ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooCampScare Camp Scare]]'' brought it back.
* DemotedToExtra: Shaggy and Scooby in the 2004-2005 movies (which spend more time focusing on Fred, Daphne and Velma), and Fred, Daphne and Velma in the 2007-2009 movies (where the focus is largely shifted towards Shaggy and Scooby.)

* {{Fanservice}}: Ever since ''[[https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CS5c8ypXgdY/TXGFVI97zII/AAAAAAAAARE/rBV14b8LhFY/s1600/B_Daphne_CR.jpg Abracadabra-Doo]]'' and beyond, they've done this more and more with Daphne and, to a lesser degree, Velma. Plus, [[OneShotCharacter one-movie characters]]. Best examples in ''Camp Scare'' where Daphne and Velma have a scene in bikini and swimsuit and feature [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/thescooby/images/0/0c/Jessica_Camp_Scare.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20160227100844 Jessica, a really curvy girl]] and Fred note her.

* InvisibleParents: The '10's movies indicate that the Gang are still high school students, but their parents are never seen or brought up, save for Velma getting a call from her mother in ''Abracadabra Doo!'' and a silouhette cameo of Velma's parents in the opening sequence of ''Frankencreepy''. Presumably, this is to keep their connection to the other ''Scooby-Doo'' entries ambiguous so to not keep viewers hung up on those details. Velma's parents are the only ones implied to be Angie and Dale from ''Mystery Incorporated'', since they're Velma's only parents (''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' introduced Velma's parents, but they were {{Flat Character}}s that only appeared once).

** The first had Simone, Lena, and Jacques in ''Zombie Island''. They are the first villains in the Scooby Doo franchise to be outright figuratively and literally monstrous, having committed murder countless times before and tried to kill Mystery Inc. (and nearly killed Scooby and Shaggy to a point Shaggy "was going to feel like a raisin") and an undercover police officer to preserve their immortality as well as suffering {{Family Unfriendly Death}}s when the harvest moon became no longer in alignment.

** ''Loch Ness Monster'' to ''Samurai Sword'' gave the Gang looks more line with ''What's New Scooby Doo'', largely going back to the formula of the original series, being much more realistic (in most cases) occasionally making fun of series staples but being more likely to play them straight, and for the most part keeping with [[ScoobyDooHoax the guy in a mask formula]], but in the end took major steps back to fantasy adventure in the last two of this era.
** The 2010 films employ darker shading, have a more self-aware (but not outright self-defying) tone, and the monsters tending to be much more violent. The animation is also in line with the original shows again, but more polished, and generally not very cartoony.

* LongRunner: The series of Direct-to-Video films ''alone'' have been going on for almost twenty years, and is still going today. It's pretty much guaranteed that there will be ''at least'' one new installment per year, sometimes more, with only one year being missed.

* MythologyGag: The series while having many different adventures has been pulling much deeper out of the well as of late than ever before. Some movies even become throwbacks to a specific older series like ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' or gags of Creator/HannaBarbera like characters being a fictional tv show in one episode only to crossover for real later.

* SharedUniverse: The 10s-era movies establish that ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', a BroadStrokes of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', ''WesternAnimation/DynomuttDogWonder'', ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'', ''WesternAnimation/FrankensteinJr'', ''WesternAnimation/MightyMightor'', ''WesternAnimation/TheHerculoids'', and possibly ''more''. Yeah. And we may have to add more to that list if these movies are a sequel to ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated''.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Given ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' and ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost'' are DarkerAndEdgier in contrast to the usual light-heartedly comedic nature of the overall franchise, this is expected due to the villains being AxCrazy and real supernatural threats in contrast to the previous MalevolentMaskedMen with petty and non-homicidal criminal motives. ''Zombie Island'' has Simone, Lena and Jacques, while ''Witch's Ghost'' has Ben and Sarah Ravencroft, the latter of witch is much more vile than the former. ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooFrankencreepy'' took this even farther when old villains from the past return with revenge murder on their agenda.

For the Lego movies see ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoLegoFilmSeries''.

Creator/CartoonNetwork is owed some gratitude for helping air a lot of these upon their first arrival, especially with the first few installments of this series.[[note]]They've strayed a lot from this over the years, some not airing on Cartoon Network and Boomerang for over a year after release.[[/note]]

* [[https://www.facebook.com/KISS/posts/10156223955181412 Upcoming sequel]] to ''Scooby-Doo And KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery''

* {{Fanservice}}:[[https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CS5c8ypXgdY/TXGFVI97zII/AAAAAAAAARE/rBV14b8LhFY/s1600/B_Daphne_CR.jpg Ever since ''Abracadabra-Doo'' and beyond, they've done this more and more with Daphne]] and, to a lesser degree, Velma. Plus, [[OneShotCharacter one movie]] characters. Best examples in ''Camp Scare'' where Daphne and Velma have a scene in bikini and swimsuit and feature [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/thescooby/images/0/0c/Jessica_Camp_Scare.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20160227100844 Jessica, a really curvy girl and Fred note her.]]

!!The films overall commonly provide examples of the following tropes:

* {{Fanservice}}: Ever since ''Abracadabra-Doo'' and beyond, they've done this more and more with Daphne and, to a lesser degree, Velma. Plus, [[OneShotCharacter one movie]] characters. Best examples in ''Camp Scare'' where Daphne and Velma have a scene in bikini and swimsuit and feature Jessica, a really curvy girl and Fred note her.

[[AC: Here are all the DirectToVideo films:]]

* ''Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island'' (Follow-up to ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'')

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWrestlemaniaMystery'' (2014): Co-produced by Wrestling/{{WWE}} Studios, this is a {{Crossover}} that involves the Mystery Inc. gang solving a mystery at [=WrestleMania=], with cameo appearances by WWE Superstars and Divas such as Wrestling/JohnCena, Wrestling/TripleH, Wrestling/{{Kane}}, Wrestling/TheMiz, Wrestling/BrodusClay, Wrestling/SantinoMarella, Wrestling/SinCara and Wrestling/AJLee, as well as Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, lending their voices. It is WWE Studios' first animated film.

* ''Film/ScoobyDooAdventuresTheMysteryMap'' (2013): A film that differs from the others by being made with live-action puppetry rather than animation. Here, the gang resemble their depictions in ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' and search for the treasure of Gnarlybeard the Pirate.

As of 2019, there have been ''twenty-nine'' entries in this series, spread across four style development eras.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheMonsterOfMexico'' (2003)

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooCampScare'' (2010)
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooLegendOfThePhantosaur'' (2011)
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMusicOfTheVampire'' (2012)
* ''WesternAnimation/BigTopScoobyDoo'' (2012)
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMaskOfTheBlueFalcon'' (2013)
* ''Film/ScoobyDooAdventuresTheMysteryMap'' (2013): A film that differs from the others by being made with live-action puppetry rather than animation.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooStageFright'' (2013)

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooFrankencreepy'' (2014)
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMoonMonsterMadness'' (2015)

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooShaggysShowdown'' (2017)

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGourmetGhost'' (2018)
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCurseOfThe13thGhost'' (2019) (Follow-up to ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'')

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooInWheresMyMummy'' (2005):
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooPiratesAhoy'' (2006):
* ''WesternAnimation/ChillOutScoobyDoo'' (2007)
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGoblinKing'' (2008)

* ''[[https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RzXRzphRjjc/WHhZfbFtNII/AAAAAAAAA_8/Qh4vCRFHraI2C5V0JiLlkiE4_X0DG_aHQCLcB/w506-h910-k/FullSizeRender%2B%25287%2529.jpg Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island]] (Follow-up to ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'')

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Music/{{KISS}} is this to Mystery Inc. in their team up. The reason why the Scooby Gang hasn't met up with them before is because their mysteries are more "cosmic" in nature.

** The first had Simone, Lena and Jacques in ''Zombie Island''. They are the first villains in the Scooby Doo franchise to be outright figuratively and literally monstrous, having committed murder countless times before and tried to kill Mystery Inc. (and nearly killed Scooby and Shaggy to a point Shaggy "was going to feel like a raisin") and an undercover police officer to preserve their immortality as well as suffering {{Family Unfriendly Death}}s when the harvest moon became no longer in alignment.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCurseOfThe13thGhost'' (2019) (Followup to ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'')

As of 2017, there have been ''twenty-seven'' entries in this series, spread across four style development eras.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooCurseOfThe13thGhost'' (2019) (Followup to ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'')

* Scooby Doo: Curse of the 13th Ghost (2019) (Followup to WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo)

* BigBudgetBeefUp: Compared to the original shows produced by HannaBarbera.

%%* LetsGetDangerous: Scooby and Shaggy do get several moments to themselves when put into real danger.

By 1998, the venerable franchise had become moribund, although multiple incarnations of the TV series were airing in syndication (as they had for decades), nothing new had been made since ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooInArabianNights Arabian Nights]]''. Creator/HannaBarbera output at the time had been highly reduced under Turner, and most of the funding was going to the shows Creator/CartoonNetwork Studios was making within the larger company. Similarly to what was created with ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'', the time was right to tap into a new era for the studio's best-selling property. The first fruit of this was ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' (though that project [[DolledUpInstallment had its']] [[DivorcedInstallment genesis]] as an unmade episode of ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats''). This movie kick-started a complete revival of the franchise over the next several years – three animated TV series, two live-action theatrical films, two live-action TV-movies, and ''at least'' one new Direct-to-Video cartoon per year each year since 1998 (it averages out to about one every nine months).

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheLegendOfTheVampire'' (2003): The first movie in the ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo What's New?]]'' era. The gang's vacation in Australia is cut short when they hear about a monster known as the Yowie Yahoo kidnapping contestants from the Vampire Rock Music Festival.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheLochNessMonster'' (2004): The gang travels to Loch Ness in Scotland to visit the Blake family's ancestral home, Blake Castle, which has recently been terrorized by the Loch Ness Monster.

** The films ''Legend of the Vampire'' and ''Monster of Mexico'' tried a retro redesign, bringing back most of the classic cast, old Hanna Barbera sound effects and the return of direct hoaxes.
** ''Loch Ness Monster'' to ''Samurai Sword'' gave the Gang looks more line with ''What's New Scooby Doo'', largely going back to the formula of the original series, occasionally making fun of series staples but being more likely to play them straight, and for the most part keeping with [[ScoobyDooHoax the guy in a mask formula]], but in the end took major steps back to fantasy adventure in the last two of this era.
** The 2010 films employ darker shading, have a more self-aware (but not outright self-defying) tone, and the monsters tending to be much more violent.

By 1998, the venerable franchise had become moribund, although multiple incarnations of the TV series were airing in syndication (as they had for decades), nothing new had been made since ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooInArabianNights Arabian Nights]]''. Creator/HannaBarbera output at the time had been highly reduced under Turner, and most of the funding was going to the shows Creator/CartoonNetwork Studios was making within the larger company. Similarly to what was created with ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'', the time was right to tap into a new era for the studio's best-selling property. The first fruit of this was ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' (though that project [[DolledUpInstallment had its']] [[DivorvedInstallment genesis]] as an unmade episode of ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats''). This movie kick-started a complete revival of the franchise over the next several years – three animated TV series, two live-action theatrical films, two live-action TV-movies, and ''at least'' one new Direct-to-Video cartoon per year each year since 1998 (it averages out to about one every nine months).

By 1998, the venerable franchise had become moribund, although multiple incarnations of the TV series were airing in syndication (as they had for decades), nothing new had been made since ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooInArabianNights Arabian Nights]]''. Creator/HannaBarbera output at the time had been highly reduced under Turner, and most of the funding was going to the shows Creator/CartoonNetwork Studios was making within the larger company. Similarly to what was created with ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'', the time was right to tap into a new era for the studio's best-selling property. The first fruit of this was ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' (though that project [[RecycledScript had its' genesis]] as an unmade episode of ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats''). This movie kick-started a complete revival of the franchise over the next several years – three animated TV series, two live-action theatrical films, two live-action TV-movies, and ''at least'' one new Direct-to-Video cartoon per year each year since 1998 (it averages out to about one every nine months).