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* AssholeVictim: Lotte, one of the contestants, is the first victim of the Phantom's sabotage and the first one booted from the show. But she's also an AxCrazy, viciously competitive, Jerkass diva, who made a little girl cry with no shred of guilt, terrified Shaggy and Scooby, and yelled that she was gonna sue everyone afterwards.

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* AssholeVictim: Lotte, one of the contestants, is the first victim of the Phantom's sabotage and the first one booted who has to resign from the show. show as a result. But she's also an AxCrazy, viciously competitive, Jerkass diva, who made a little girl young fan cry with no shred of guilt, terrified Shaggy and Scooby, and yelled that she was gonna sue everyone afterwards.



* FeminineLegSwish: When the guys are going to their own room for the night, Daphne begins swishing her legs back and forth as she makes eye contact with Fred, who tells her he'll see her in the morning. She sighs contentedly as she lay her head down on the bed, repeating that Fred would see her while continuing to swish her legs, showcasing the femininity of a girl in love. Also serves as LegFocus and mild {{Fanservice}} for the film.

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* FeminineLegSwish: When the guys are going to their own room for the night, Daphne begins swishing her legs back and forth as she makes eye contact with Fred, who tells her he'll see her in the morning. She sighs contentedly as she lay her head down on the bed, repeating that Fred would see her Fred's words while continuing to swish her legs, showcasing legs with the femininity of a girl in love. Also serves as LegFocus and mild {{Fanservice}} for the film.



** Also, Velma casually mentions the [[spoiler: Soap Diamond]] in the first scene after the ColdOpen. Likewise, during the Phantom's night-time appearance Dewey runs into the Phantom and displays none of his prior fear of him (being more concerned about touching a dog than anything), then even takes it upon himself to clean up the evidence - [[spoiler: [[FridgeBrilliance all of the Phantoms work to his advantage and any of them getting caught hurts his plan.]]]]
** NeatFreak Dewey Ottomon expresses so much fear of the Phantom that the mere mention of his name causes him to have a fainting spell... except for that one time when he was too busy freaking out over Scooby-Doo and his germs to even bother caring about the Phantom right in front of him.

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** Also, Velma casually mentions the [[spoiler: Soap Diamond]] Diamond on display at the local museum in the first scene after the ColdOpen. Likewise, during the Phantom's night-time appearance Dewey runs into the Phantom and displays none of his prior fear of him (being more concerned about touching a dog than anything), then even takes it upon himself to clean up the evidence - [[spoiler: [[FridgeBrilliance all Stealing it turns out to be one of the Phantoms work to his advantage and any of them getting caught hurts his plan.]]]]
motive.]]
** NeatFreak Dewey Ottomon expresses so much fear of the Phantom that the mere mention of his name causes him to have a fainting spell... except for that one time the late-night incident at the hotel when he was too busy freaking out over Scooby-Doo and his germs to even bother caring about the Phantom right in front of him.him. Later that same night, he even takes it on himself to clean the mess the Phantom left - [[spoiler: all of the Phantoms work to his advantage and any of them getting caught hurts his plan.]]



-->'''Cathy:''' ''Ohmigosh, he's'' adorable!
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* CastingGag: The large security guard isn't the only [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls bumbling authority figure]] played by Kevin Michael Richardson.
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* AssholeVictim: Lotte, one of the contestants, is the first victim of the Phantom's sabotage and the first one booted from the show. But she's also an AxCrazy, viciously competitive, Jerkass diva, who made a little girl cry with no shred of guilt, terrified Shaggy and Scooby, and yelled that she was gonna sue everyone afterwards.

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->''"Opening night, and you're ready to go\\
Ticket in your pocket to a sold-out show\\
Outside, the limousines are lining up in a row\\
Tonight, you're gonna have some fun\\
But there's a rumor going round\\
There's a phantom inside\\
A shadow and a mask as a cunning disguise\\
So if you hear a cackle find a place you can hide\\
'Cause tonight he wants to have some fun.''"
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* FeminineLegSwish: When the guys are going to their own room for the night, Daphne begins swishing her legs back and forth as she makes eye contact with Fred, who tells her he'll see her in the morning. She sighs contentedly as she lay her head down on the bed, repeating that Fred would see her while continuing to swish her legs, showcasing the femininity of a girl in love. Also serves as LegFocus and mild {{Fanservice}} for the film.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: Brick Pimiento's "Fantastic!"

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* {{Catchphrase}}: CharacterCatchphrase: Brick Pimiento's "Fantastic!"
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* InformedAbility: Lotte is framed as one of the biggest competitors in the contest for her singing ability, but thanks to the phantom she never gets a chance to show it off.

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* AgeInappropriateArt: Chrissy, a preteen at most, goes everywhere in OperaGloves and a strapless dress and sings a love ballad that threatens violence on a homewrecker. Lampshaded by the gang:

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* AgeInappropriateArt: Chrissy, a preteen at most, goes everywhere in OperaGloves opera gloves and a strapless dress and sings a love ballad that threatens violence on a homewrecker. Lampshaded by the gang:



* NoWrongAnswersExceptThatOne: When Shaggy and Scooby initially catch Brick Pimiento to show him the juggling act they've been practicing, Brick says that he's lived his life by two principles: 1) All talent deserves to be recognized and 2) Juggling is an exception to the first rule.



* RightForTheWrongReasons: When the gang is brainstorming suspects, Daphne suggests [[spoiler: Dewey Ottoman]], on the grounds that "he's creepy." Fred asks if he has a motive, and Daphne claims that "creepy" is a motive. [[spoiler: Dewey does end up being one of the Phantoms, but his motives are tangentially related to "creepiness"; he's trying to steal a cleanliness-related treasure, the Soap Diamond.]]



*** The movie is set in an opera house haunted by a phantom obsessed with a singer named Chrissie, whose presence is all too often accompanied by the sound of an OminousPipeOrgan.
*** The original phantom's most iconic act of destruction was to drop not a chandelier but a disco ball.

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*** The movie is set in an opera house haunted by a phantom obsessed with a singer named Chrissie, whose presence is all too often accompanied by the sound of an OminousPipeOrgan.
OminousPipeOrgan and who is obsessed with a singer named Christine.
*** The original phantom's most iconic act of destruction was to drop not a ceiling decoration, albeit a disco ball rather than a chandelier but a disco ball.this time.
*** One of Christine's rivals gets sabotaged via contaminated throat spray and ends up losing her voice.



** The trend continues, in comparison to the [[RomanticPlotTumor teen romance melodrama]] in [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated the recent TV show]], this movie goes out of its way to turning the romance back into a subplot that [[StatusQuoIsGod goes back into being]] a WillTheyOrWontThey by the end credits. Though since [[ProductionPosse a great number of crew members from the show returned to make this]], an alternative interpretation is that this is a case of DeconReconSwitch or TakeThatUs.

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** The trend continues, in comparison to the [[RomanticPlotTumor teen romance melodrama]] in [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated the recent TV show]], this movie goes out of its way to turning the romance back into a subplot that [[StatusQuoIsGod goes back into being]] a WillTheyOrWontThey by the end credits. Though since [[ProductionPosse a great number of crew members from the show returned to make this]], an alternative interpretation is that this is a case of DeconReconSwitch or TakeThatUs.SelfDeprecation.



* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The little diva girl Chrissy… and her song, "Homewrecker". She spends the whole movie in a strapless dress and OperaGloves, and she's not even a teenager. She's also gleeful when the Phantom tells her that he'll destroy all the other contestants if necessary for her to win and [[spoiler: is more irritated over her dad (the first Phantom) being stupid enough to get caught than that one of her parents was arrested.]]

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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The little diva girl Chrissy… and her song, "Homewrecker". She spends the whole movie in a strapless dress and OperaGloves, opera gloves, and she's not even a teenager. She's also gleeful when the Phantom tells her that he'll destroy all the other contestants if necessary for her to win and [[spoiler: is more irritated over her dad (the first Phantom) being stupid enough to get caught than that one of her parents was arrested.]]
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** Multiple times, the unmasking of an apprehended Phantom is immediately followed by the un-''corseting'' of said Phantom, not all of which were as slender as the supposed ghost.
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* BatScare: The gang disturbs a ''big'' flock of roosting bats while exploring the sewer tunnels.
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** During a car chase with the Phantom, Scooby ends up clinging to the front of his car. [[Film/BackToTheFuture Then he runs through the car to jump onto another vehicle behind (the Mystery Machine). The villain can't react in time and rams into a truck which gets something unclean all over him.]]

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** During a car chase with the Phantom, Scooby ends up clinging to the front of his car. [[Film/BackToTheFuture [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 Then he runs through the car to jump onto another vehicle behind (the Mystery Machine). The villain can't react in time and rams into a truck which gets something unclean all over him.]]
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: After Chrissy insults Brick and pushes him out of the way after her act, [[spoiler: he coldly tells her that her father's been arrested before her mother can break the news to her gently]].
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* MaskingTheDeformity: Subverted. When the gang tracks down the Phantom in the sewers beneath the opera house, he dramatically rants about how he's needed to hide all his life to conceal his hideous face. Then he yanks off his mask... to reveal a completely normal-looking guy. It turns out that his only mirror growing up was one from a fun house, and he never saw his face in any mirrors when he went out thanks to wearing a mask.

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* LampshadeHanging: Shaggy gets a great instance of this when told that there are rumors about the Opera House being haunted.
-->'''Shaggy:''' ''(casually)'' Of course it's haunted. When do we ever go anywhere that is ''not'' haunted?

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* LampshadeHanging: LampshadeHanging:
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Shaggy gets a great instance of this when told that there are rumors about the Opera House being haunted.
-->'''Shaggy:''' --->'''Shaggy:''' ''(casually)'' Of course it's haunted. When do we ever go anywhere that is ''not'' haunted?



-->'''Daphne:''' Fred, why do ghosts and monsters show up wherever we go? Is it something about us?
-->'''Fred:''' (as if it's obvious) No, this happens to everyone.
-->'''Daphne:''' What?
-->'''Fred:''' It would just be too much of a coincidence if it just happened to us, so logically everyone must run into ghosts and monsters all the time.

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-->'''Daphne:''' --->'''Daphne:''' Fred, why do ghosts and monsters show up wherever we go? Is it something about us?
-->'''Fred:''' --->'''Fred:''' (as if it's obvious) No, this happens to everyone.
-->'''Daphne:''' --->'''Daphne:''' What?
-->'''Fred:''' --->'''Fred:''' It would just be too much of a coincidence if it just happened to us, so logically everyone must run into ghosts and monsters all the time.



** During a car chase with the Phantom, Scooby ends up clinging to the front of his car. [[Film/BackToTheFuture Then he runs through the car to jump onto another vehicle behind (the Mystery Machine). The villain can't react in time and rams into a truck which gets something unclean all over him.]]
* SkewedPriorities: When [[spoiler: Phantom Mel]] gives the standard YouMeddlingKids speech, the African American security guard who's been trying to keep out Scooby gets distracted by the mention of a dog. He drops the attempted arsonist/murderer to go after Scooby.



* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Brick Pimiento concludes his self-introduction with, "...and there's definitely ''no ghost''."

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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
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Brick Pimiento concludes his self-introduction with, "...and there's definitely ''no ghost''.""
** When he mentions the gang catching the Phantoms, he says they got "every last one." There's still one left.

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* BadassBaritone: The Phantom comes complete with a deep voice and magnificent, hooting EvilLaugh.



* BruiserWithASoftCenter: The security guard, a heavily muscled and intimidating guy, coos over Scooby and tries to tickle him under the chin when Shaggy disguises him as a baby.



-->'''Dewey:''' ''The garbage in this trash can is ''filthy''. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I want this garbage cleaned at once!]]''

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-->'''Dewey:''' --->'''Dewey:''' ''The garbage in this trash can is ''filthy''. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I want this garbage cleaned at once!]]''



* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Everyone who bothers to notice automatically pins Daphne and Fred as a couple... thing is, Fred [[ObliviousToLove doesn't notice]].

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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Everyone who bothers to notice automatically pins Daphne and Fred as a couple... couple. The thing is, Fred [[ObliviousToLove doesn't notice]].notice]]...[[spoiler: despite being in love with her.]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: The Phantom comes complete with a deep voice and magnificent, hooting EvilLaugh.



** [[spoiler: Brick Pimiento]] sounds incredibly nervous when Shaggy and Scooby apologize for knocking him over, saying they thought he was the Phantom. [[spoiler: He actually is one of them.]]



-->'''Daphne''' (after Fred plays his song): "How Fred, that's beautiful. I really like you. ''It.'' I like ''it.'' Not you. I mean, I like you, but... uh... like your song?"
-->'''Fred''' (chipper): [[ObliviousToLove "Thanks!"]]

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-->'''Daphne''' (after Fred plays his song): "How Wow, Fred, that's beautiful. I really like you. ''It.'' I like ''it.'' Not you. I mean, I like you, but... uh... like your song?"
song?
-->'''Fred''' (chipper): [[ObliviousToLove "Thanks!"]]Thanks!]]


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* LiteralMetaphor: While Girl-o-saurus Rex is watching Waldo perform, Cathy says he's on fire. One of the others agrees, thinking she means the act is great. She means the dummy is ablaze.
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* FemmeFatalons: Lotte has long nails.

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* FemmeFatalons: Lotte has very long nails.nails. She can pierce walls with them and carve her name into Shaggy's shirt and Scooby's fur.
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* WorldWearyWaitress: Shaggy and Scooby go to a pizzeria in Chicago, where they encounter a World Weary Waitress. They state they want to take part in an eating challenge. The waitress tells them she'll have to move them to another table. When they ask why, she delivers the reply with a flat, uninterested tone saying, "Because your pizza is bigger than this table." She does actually show a moment of incredulity when Shaggy and Scooby actually finish off the massive pizza.
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* TenderTomboyishnessFoulFemininity: Between the two young girls competing in the talent show: Emma Gale is a polite, soft-spoken and overall kind farmer girl dressed in a shirt, jeans and sneakers while Christine "Chrissy" Damon is a self-absorbed, spoiled diva in an AgeInappropriateDress.

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* TenderTomboyishnessFoulFemininity: Between the two young girls competing in the talent show: Emma Gale is a polite, soft-spoken and overall kind farmer girl dressed in a shirt, jeans and sneakers while Christine "Chrissy" Damon is a self-absorbed, spoiled diva dressed in an AgeInappropriateDress.AgeInappropriateDress and isn’t hesitant on insulting other people.
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* TenderTomboyishnessFoulFemininity: Between the two young girls competing in the talent show: Emma Gale is a polite, soft-spoken and overall kind farmer girl dressed in a shirt, jeans and sneakers while Christine "Chrissy" Damon is a self-absorbed, spoiled diva in an AgeInappropriateDress.

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