->For the main page, see [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated here]].
-->For tropes A to C, see [[ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated/TropesAToC here]].
-->For tropes D to H, see [[ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated/TropesDToH here]].
-->For tropes I to R, see [[ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated/TropesIToR here]].
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* SassyBlackWoman: Angel Dynamite [[spoiler:a.k.a. Cassidy Williams]]. Also, Lady Marmalade in episode 23 and [[spoiler:Gorgeous G in episode 29]].
* ScarecrowSolution: Mystery, Inc. stage one in "[[spoiler:Wrath of the Krampus]]."
* ScheduleFanatic: Fred makes a multi-page schedule for Daphne so he'll know where she is every minute of the day. Like Series/{{Monk}}, he [[spoiler:got it because of the loss of a loved one, in Fred's case his abandonment by his mother]].
* ScoobyDoobyDoors: It only took seven episodes for them to reappear in the episode "In Fear of the Phantom."
* ScoobyDooHoax: It wouldn't be a Scooby-Doo show without it. [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] a lot, though, as it's not ''fear'' that prevents people in [[NightmareFetishist Crystal Cove]] from investigating a monster, but ''greed''.
** Averted in episode 17. Instead of a human in a fake ghost costume, the antagonist was the deranged surviving member of a lost family.
** Averted in episode 23. The antagonist was Professor Pericles, who gets away after trapping the gang.
** [[spoiler:The gang stages their own hoax in episode 39 in order to steal the other three pieces of the Planispheric Disc from the old Mystery Incorporated]].
** Other aversions: [[spoiler:Episode 43 has the gang sussing out right away that Professor Pericles is behind the mutant cattle. Episode 50 is a straight adventure drama with a touch of humor]].
* SdrawkcabAlias: In "The Secret of the Ghost Rig", Rung Ladderton uses the alias 'G. Nur Notreddal' to hide some of the purchases he made to create his identity as the Ghost Trucker.
* SdrawkcabName: All of the "Wild Brood" bikers in have these, from smooth-acting leader Odnarb, to Foog and Dren, to the disgusting Gabtraf. Justified because [[spoiler:they are role-playing nerds who chose these names on purpose]].
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:The Nibiru entity, who is sealed inside the crystal coffin of the Conquistador's Treasure and is heard laughing from inside it at the end of episode 39]].
* SecretRelationship: Shaggy and Velma. At first it seems like Shaggy's just afraid of commitment and using Scooby as an excuse.
* SelfInflictedHell: The nightmare realm to El Aguirre and his men (or at least their good sides), they believe to deserve it so much that [[spoiler:they try to stop people who want to destroy the Nibiru entity because that would set them free]].
* SeventiesHair: In abundance.
* ShadowArchetype: Hot Dog Water is what Velma would be like if she didn't have any friends to help her.
* ShadowDiscretionShot: Spoofed. Fred assures Scooby they wouldn't leave him behind at the Mystery Solvers State Finals, but then excuses himself to go sob and wail -- but we hear him and see his shadow [[{{Angst}} angsting]].
-->'''Daphne:''' (''winks to Scooby'') They actually put it off till next week so you could get better...but we haven't told Fred yet.
* ShadowOfImpendingDoom: In episode 4 the shadow the kids mistake as the Man Crab turns out to be an actual little crab. Painful none-the-less - it pinches Scooby's nose.
* ShipTease: Velma/Shaggy; Velma/Hot Dog Water in an alternate opening, where she clutches a photo of Velma to her chest just like Daphne normally does of Fred.
* ShirtlessScene: This is becoming increasingly frequent for Fred in Season 2. "Art of Darkness" even becomes a [[WalkingShirtlessScene Walking Shirtless Episode]] for him.
* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: The gang is still in high school, but cuts class frequently.
-->'''Freddie:''' It looks like a mystery to me, and I think that's just a little more important than school.
* ShoutOut: Enough for [[ShoutOut/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated its own page]].
* ShownTheirWork: Why yes, that IS in fact how string theory and quantum entanglement work.
** The Annunaki are a name for the elder Mesopotamian gods; Nibiru is not only a hypothetical planetoid and cataclysmic event involving a collision between Earth and said planetoid, and an object in Mesopotamian mythology.
* SignsOfDisrepair: '''The''' '''D'''r'''o'''wsy '''G'''ator. Pool, Food and Sun'''d'''r'''ies'''.
** [[spoiler:And it's proving to be a potential sign of what could happen later. In episode 41, we find out that a group of mystery solvers 500 years ago had a pet donkey who detonated the settlement of Crystal Cove into the sea and tried to take off with a piece of the Planispheric Disc before he was attacked by an alligator. The mummy of Friar Gabriella Serra (and he's a real spook this time) warns the gang "this has all happened before" and presages that Scooby, being the animal of the team, will die as warned by the alligator]].
*** Ultimately averted as the dog that dies ends up being [[spoiler:Nova]]
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: Unlike most Scooby Doo incarnations, this one might perhaps be more towards the horror element. Whereas most incarnations focused on goofy humor and fun horror, this series is much DarkerAndEdgier in comparison to the other installments thus is much creepier and frightening than it Scooby Doo usually is.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: This adaptation is surprisingly more cynical than some of the other versions of the Scooby Doo franchise. With that said, it's not relentless in its cynicism or is ungodly mean-spirited. It actually gets more optimistic as the series goes on.
* SlutShaming: The puritan "ghost" of Hebediah Grimm, who attacked women with a giant mallet for their "painted faces, exposed necklines, and skirts that rise above the ankle!" It turned out Hebediah was being played by two teens who would "rescue" his victims, who they found hot for exactly the reasons Hebediah was attacking. This is probably why [[HollywoodHomely Velma]] was spared, despite her short skirt, with Grimm calling her a homely "model of purity."
* SongsInTheKeyOfLock: Mr. E opens his vault by playing the first few notes of his theme.
* SpaghettiKiss: Done with Scooby and Shaggy and a cake... oddly enough.
* SpikedWheels: The Mystery Machine acquires spiked wheels when it is rebuilt in weaponized form in the final few episodes.
* SpiritualPredecessor: To ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', another supernatural mystery {{dramedy}} adventure cartoon with a focus on ComedicSociopathy and surprisingly dark & plot-heavy themes for a children's cartoon.
* SpyCatsuit: Angel Dynamite wears one she breaks into Destroido in "Menace of the Manticore."
** [[spoiler:Velma and Hot Dog Water wear some briefly while working for Mr. E]].
* SqueakyEyes: Just about every character has them.
* StabTheScorpion: In "The Midnight Zone", Cassidy levels a shotgun at Mystery, Inc. with a DramaticGunCock. She then uses it to shoot the robot coming up behind them.
* StalkerWithACrush and StalkerShrine: Velma's got one in her old lab partner, Jason. The tubby little dork's bedroom walls are a virtual to her. It's somewhat subverted in the end of episode 10 when Velma confesses she has someone she likes and that the two be 'friends'.
** Fred turned into one in the second season towards Daphne, even giving his Teddy Bear Daphne-like hair.
* StealthPun: "Hey there, Delilah."[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke Like the song by Plain White T's.]][[/note]]
** Also, Lady Marmalade the barista's "mocha-choca-lattas."
* StealthPrequel: [[spoiler:The series finale reveals that the series was actually a prequel to the Scooby Doo mythos as a whole. The show ends with the gang in an alternate reality, setting forth to go to college, stopping to solve mysteries along the way]].
* {{Steampunk}}: The Benevolent Lodge of Mystery has a definite Steampunk look to it. The Fred and Velma counterparts both wear goggles, and the Shaggy counterpart has a thick brass monocle and a similar device in his top hat.
* StoutStrength: Shaggy and Scooby temporarily acquire this attribute after they consume all of the starchy food in Crystal Cave. While too fat to fit into the Mystery machine, they have enough strength to go one-on-one with the Gluten Demon.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Played out in an interesting fashion. They actually haven't left for any significant period of time, but after the [[spoiler:CosmicRetcon, the Scooby Gang are subjected to this because their lives have been changed very drastically. While most of these changes are positive ones and most of Crystal Cove's residents are alive once again, the Scooby Gang find they cannot fit in because their lifelong experiences of being considered the outcasts of Crystal Cove before the Retcon make it very difficult to adjust to a reality where they're considered productive and loved members of society. The fact that they're one of the very few who even remembers the traumatizing experiences in the previous timeline, and the relative rarity of mysteries in this new timeline, and they feel even more isolated as a result. As such, when HarlanEllison offers them a chance to solve more mysteries at his university, they jump on the chance. ]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: The gang's families traits were clearly passed on.
** Actually serves as {{foreshadowing}}, since [[spoiler:Fred doesn't strongly resemble Fred Jones, Sr. When his biological parents do show up, they fall more in line with this trope (though still not as much as the rest of the gang)]].
* StunnedSilence: [[spoiler:When the original Mystery Incorporated think they've gotten their hands on the Planispheric Disc, they instead find a tape with a message from the Scooby Gang. It's revealed that the entire plot was orchestrated by the gang so that they would be distracted, allowing them to steal their pieces instead. When the tape finishes, all they can do is stare at the screen in shock]].
* StuffBlowingUp: An alarmingly high rate too, compared to the older shows; there have been cars, trains, houses, helicopters exploding, even ''the Mystery Machine'' [[spoiler:but it turned out the blowing up van was a decoy to upset Fred and the gang]].
** Propane tanks seem to only exist to be blown up as well.
** [[spoiler:Fred actually blows up the tricked-out Mystery Machine in episode 50 when Pericles' Kriegstauffenbots surround and attack it]].
* StupidJetpackHitler: Although the robots from Recap/ScoobyDooMysteryIncS2E11TheMidnightZone that are stated to be both WWII-era and German are not Nazi robots, they still look like they're wearing Stahlhelms and are called "Kriegstaffel."
* StylishProtectionGear: In "The Midnight Zone", Mystery, Inc. don scuba gear that closely matches their usual outfits, even done to the neckwear with Velma's suit having a turtleneck and Fred's an ascot.
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Daphne feels inferior to her older sisters, who ''all'' graduated college before 13 and now have highly successful careers. And it doesn't help that her parents are constantly putting pressure on her to live up to her sisters' reputations. However, [[spoiler:after the timeline reset in the series finale, the roles are reversed. Daphne is now considered the most successful sibling by everyone and her sisters are under-achievers who live in ''her'' shadow. They're the only residents of Crytal Cove whose lives were not improved by the timeline reset]].
* SuperCellReception: Subverted. The gang has cell phones that work when they are stranded in Gatorsburg, but [[spoiler:they reach indifferent parents who are unwilling to help]].
* SuperHeroOrigin: This is the only Scooby Doo story thus far that gives an explanation for why he's capable of talking while other animals are not. It turns out that Scooby was revealed to be [[spoiler:a descendant of the Annunaki, a group of otherworldly sentient animal-like beings who were capable of speech and played a part in human history in the distant past]].
* SupernaturalHotspotTown: Every single mystery Scooby and the gang solve happens in their hometown of Crystal Cove. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that this because the conquistadors that founded the town brought along a cursed treasure that included a crystal sarcophagus imprisoning a being known as the Nibiru Entity, who for centuries compelled people into committing outrageous acts dressed as monsters while also bringing together a mystery team consisting of four people and a pet, all to ensure it would one day be freed. Upon its destruction, all the evil it caused throughout the centuries was erased and everyone it had ever affected had much happier lives]].
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Episode 33, when Sheriff Stone tells Velma and Scooby about all the unlawful arrest charges against him from the gang's incorrect assumption of who was behind the monster of the week. When Stone finally thinks he's got a legit tag, the perp [[spoiler:(Count Evallo)]] claims diplomatic immunity.
** In episode 7, a Phantom chasing Shaggy and Scooby leads to the classic ScoobyDoobyDoors bit. [[spoiler:The Phantom gets fed up with it and just lights the place on fire]].
** A company that makes something that people don't need to replace or buy more than one of isn't going to remain successful, as Rung Ladderton will admit.
** After Que Horrifico is unmasked as [[spoiler:Mary-Anne Gleardan]], the trope of ChildrenAreInnocent that the franchise usually indulges in is averted, as Sheriff Stone quickly arrests her and takes her off to jail like every other MonsterOfTheWeek. [[spoiler:Mary-Anne]] herself even comments on this.
-->[[spoiler:'''Mary-Anne''']]: I’m going to jail? But I’m just a kid!
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* TailorMadePrison: Professor Pericles is kept in a special isolated cell (visually based on Magneto's cell from the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'') in the maximum security animal asylum.
* TaintedVeins: These show on on the Gnome's victims in Episode 8.
* TakeThat: Episode 20 has one against Scrappy Doo and [[ReplacementScrappy Flim Flam]]. It's mentioned that Flim Flam was given 25 to life for being a con artist, even as a ''preteen.'' Scrappy gets a quick "[[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain We all promised each other that we would never speak of him]]."
* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Parodied in episode 17, where [[spoiler:Danny Darrow]] says that his tape is pre-recorded as they can't trick him, but then they point out ''he did indeed answer them'' and he just gives up the charade.
* TeamRocketWins: [[spoiler:Episode 27: Crybaby Clown gets away, leaving Crystal Cove in virtual ruins and Scooby, Shaggy, Fred and Velma completely defeated]].
** [[spoiler:The perp of Episode 33, Count Evallo, gets off on a technicality--he had diplomatic immunity]].
** [[spoiler:Professor Pericles appears to have obtained the Planispheric Disc in episode 47]].
* TearsOfJoy: [[spoiler:In episode 50. Daphne, when Fred tells her he loves her (and the subsequent kiss); and Velma, when she witnesses the act]].
* TheReveal: Mayor Jones [[spoiler:is the Freak of Crystal Cove and is not Fred's real father.]]
** Mr. E [[spoiler:is actually Ricky Owens of the original Mystery Incorporated.]]
** Angel Dynamite [[spoiler:is Cassidy Williams of the original Mystery Incorporated.]]
* TheTeaser: Each episode begins with one where the MonsterOfTheWeek attacks a victim.
* ThereWasADoor: Mr. E states this to Mystery Inc. and Blue Falcon when the latter barges in and knocks out all of his security.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Jabberjaw lampshades how, now that they were near water, he can actually be useful.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Ethan (thin red-haired guy) and Gary (large brown-haired guy), team-mates of Fred that keep showing up together.
** They are voiced by Mitch Watson (producer and writer) and Tony Cervone (supervising producer) respectively, making these [[CreatorCameo Creator Cameos]].
* ThoseWackyNazis: [[spoiler:Flau Gluck builds an army of Nazi Robots to aid her in her search for the disc pieces. Given her design choice, she must have had some affiliation with the Nazi Party. What verifies this as opposed to her just using Nazi imagery to scare others away is the time period: she was making the robots sometime during the 1940's. The presence of Nazi Robots off the Coast of America during this time would have assuredly triggered a response by the Navy, defeating the purpose]].
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Done repeatedly by the Obliteratrix in "Pawn of Shadows."
* TitleDrop: The gang eventually finds out that the kids who vanished from Crystal Cove long ago were a mystery-solving crew much like them, who called themselves "Mystery Incorporated." [[MythologyGag Fred likes the name]] and the group adopts it. When the Scooby show was first developed in 1969, this was their unofficial - and unused - team name.
* ToiletHumor: Episode 11 has this all over the place, with mentions of Daphne's mom getting "the squeakers", talk of throwing "poo" on plants, and French "oui-oui" jokes, the first two of which show up in the first ten minutes.
** Episode 19 has Vincent Van Ghoul saying he's so scared of facing Nightfright that he has to tinkle.
--->'''Scooby:''' I think I already did. (''Shaggy and Van Ghoul distance themselves from Scooby slightly'')
** Episode 23:
--->'''Shaggy:''' A couple of late night jalapeño stuffed clam poppers and it's another all-nighter on the porcelain--
--->'''Scooby:''' (''disdainfully'') Shaggy! Please!
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Velma and Daphne, who are, of course, best friends.
* TooDumbToLive: "Those are radioactive symbols, meaning whatever's inside is ''dangerous''. Meaning we need to open it right away. Don't want whatever's in there to mess up our schedule."
** Episode 20: A fisherman and his crewman find their net empty, so the captain plans a venture to Dead Man's Point.
--->'''Crewman:''' But isn't that haunted?
--->'''Captain:''' Aye, 'tis what they say. And we may not even make it back alive. But don't forget, we're fishermen. We do stupid things all the time!
** The entire gang for not ever realizing the hole in Alice May's story about being a little girl when her "father" the Creeper was caught by those meddling kids...who are still meddling kids in the present day where Alice May is a teenager.
* TookALevelInBadass: Scooby Doo is a lot braver and more proactive here than in other incarnations. Particularly in the season 1 finale and the season 2 premiere.
** Also the monsters in this series are more threatening and do more damage than in previous shows, causing lots of collateral damage and being willing to murder people who get in their way. And that's not even getting to the main villains.
** Fred in the second season, as he got more competent and protective, yet was still really into traps.
** Shaggy in episode 40. He will kick your ass if you mess with Scooby-Doo. The others put up a good fight with Zin's goons as well.
** Shaggy ''and'' Scooby in [[spoiler:episode 45. Incredibly obese from an eating binge, they take it upon themselves to fight the gluten monster]].
** Scooby-Doo in [[spoiler:episode 50 when the robots threaten Shaggy]].
** [[spoiler:Hot Dog Water]] in Episode 51.
* TookALevelInJerkass:
** Velma and Scooby both due to the "love triangle" between them and Shaggy. Shaggy seems to inadvertently bring out the worst in both of them.
** Fred in season two. [[spoiler:He forgoes all character development he had in the previous season and acts violently posessive towards Daphne without really acknowledging that HE was the one who broke the two of them up in the first season finale]].
** This is the effect the curse of Crystal Cove [[spoiler:caused by the Nibiru Entity]] has on ''everyone''.
* TortureCellar: The ruins of the Darrow Mansion in Episode 17 is a mansion variant, complete with ominous music.
* TourismDerailingEvent: The activities of Mystery Inc. are treated as tourism derailing from the first episode, as their hometown of Crystal Cove bills itself as being the most haunted place in America, and Mystery Inc. unmasking ghosts and monsters as crooked real-estate developers in Halloween masks is not good for that image.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Crystal Cove has a long and storied history of mysterious happenings, as well as an alleged curse. And if "Mister E" is to be believed, the gang have just invoked the curse again. Regardless, it becomes clear by the end of the pilot episode that something is very ''wrong'' with Crystal Cove. That very wrong thing [[ArtifactOfDoom is a treasure hidden by the conquistadors]]; it's said that trying to find it could well bring about the destruction of the world.
* ToxicInc: Destroido Corporation, a company founded by Mister E, prides itself on causing as much environmental destruction as possible, and claims corporate sovereignty to prevent the police from doing anything about it.
* ToyBasedCharacterization: Fred still owns a teddy bear despite being a teenager, and he calls him Mr. Trapples because he loves setting traps.
* TrainJob: In "The Wild Brood", the villain [[TrackTrouble blows up a bridge]] in order to destroy something being carried on a train.
* TrapMaster: Fred, to the immediate tee, and [[spoiler:Danny Darrow, Episode 17's villain]].
* TrickArrow: The Obliteratrix uses them to attack Mystery, Inc. in "Pawns of Shadow."
* TrippyFinaleSyndrome: Seriously the finale's a real [=WTF=], in a good way.
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* TrueCompanions: Fred already thinks of the gang as this, stating in episode 8 that the relationship of the group as a whole is more important than the individual romances within and that they're going to be together their "whole lives."
** [[spoiler:This is important in the series finale, where the true heart of the jaguar that they used to destroy the evil entity was their friendship]].
* TurnInYourBadge: In Episode 24, Mayor Jones fires Stone in favor of a vigilante in a rubber mask. [[spoiler:He gets it back thanks to the gang]].
* TwoScenesOneDialogue: The gang talk to their parents this way in the beginning of the first episode.
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* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:Dr. Zin]] in "Heart of Evil."
* UnwittingPawn: Scooby, Angel and the gang in Episode 16; Mister E's legman arrives at the end of the episode to tell them they've not only been played, they may well have [[DoomedHometown unleashed the very destruction]] they were supposed to prevent.
** Velma in episode 21. Angel plants an eavesdropping bug in her sweater collar so Mr. E can find out who has the disc piece.
** The final episodes reveal that [[spoiler:Mystery, Inc. as a whole were pawns being manipulated by the Evil Entity, right down to their formation, much like the former mystery solving groups before them. The Evil Entity even boasts that it ''created'' them, and calls them the "Children of Nibiru"]].
* UpperClassTwit: Daphne's and Shaggy's parents both have shades of this, Daphne's more so than Shaggy's given their vapidness and implied history of hospitalization and psychotherapy.
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* VandalismBackfire: In "Heart of Evil", Dr. Zin captures the Blue Falcon and Scooby-Doo. Having established that the Falcon would do anything to save his dog, Zin proceeds to subject Scooby to the agonizer ray. This fails to convince the Falcon to talk and Zin asks him why. The Falcon replies "That's not my dog."
* ViciousCycle: Ever since the ArtifactOfDoom was left behind in Crystal Cove, it has manipulated groups of intrepid mystery solvers throughout the town's history in a bid to free itself. [[spoiler:And in each case, the animal companion always betrayed the others]].
** [[spoiler:That's because the search for the treasure had corrupted the human members, so the animal mascot took it upon itself to destroy the disc. It was trying to stop the curse]].
*** Except, notably, [[spoiler:Professor Pericles, who willingly manipulated '''everyone''' to try to free Nibru so he could try to gain its power. He wasn't smart enough to realize that trying to mess with a CosmicHorror always ends badly and winds up the first to be absorbed in the series finale]].
* TheVirus: In Episode 16, a woman with a huge grudge against the town tried destroying it by making the locals mad with love.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Professor Pericles, Mr. E, the Freak Of Crystal Cove. Take your pick.
** [[spoiler:The Nibiru Entity]] blows them out of the water. In addition to [[spoiler:being ''responsible'' for them, he ''eats the entire town''. This isn't 'DisneyDeath by a guy in a mask', this is an EldritchAbomination eating people ''onscreen'']]. It makes one wonder what happened to the censors.
* VillainRevealsTheSecret: This happens many times:
** In the finale of the first season, Mayor Fred Jones Sr. admits that he isn't really Fred's dad, and that his real parents are Brad Chiles and Judy Reeves.
** In Menace of the Manticore", when Mr. E's identity is revealed to be Ricky Owens of the original Mystery Inc, we get this line.
-->'''Mr. E:''' You see, Scooby is a far more trusting companion than Pericles was to me.
* VocalDissonance: Technical issue: the credits of episode 38 have Jeff Bennett as the voice of Mr. E. It's not readily clear if this was a typo or Lewis Black has been replaced--it still sounds the same. Must have been a typo. Episode 39 has Mr. E voiced by Black.
** Jonathan Wellington Muddlemore's spectral cat, Boo, has a ridiculously deep bass voice when he speaks at the end of Episode 14.
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* TheWarHasJustBegun: The last line in episode 26: [[spoiler:"I'll get the gang back together, Pericles. We'll be coming for you, or my name isn't Scooby-Dooby-Doo!"]]
** [[spoiler:Scooby issues as similar threat to Pericles at the end of episode 50: "Professor Pericles will regret the day he ever messed with Scooby...Dooby Doo!"]]
* WasItAllALie: In Episode 18, Shaggy asks [[FalseFriend Mai Le]] this after she'd been caught with the ruby she'd come to Crystal Cove to steal; the answer "Yes, you fool!" devastated him.
** Fred to Angel in episode 25.
** Fred [[spoiler:about his whole life]] in episode 26.
** And Sheriff Stone to [[spoiler:Mayor Jones about being the Freak of Crystal Cove]].
** The Gang question whether or not their own ''friendship'' is this, after the reveal that [[spoiler:the Nibiru Entity manipulated them all along to form a group]].
* WeaponizedCar: The Mystery Machine is rebuilt as an armoured battle van after it is destroyed towards the end of season two.
* WeirdWorldWeirdFood: The whole community eats such bizarre foods as Clam Cones. This is one of the first hints that there's something odd about the setting at all, as it's otherwise relatively normal at first.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Nearly everyone in the Gang suffers from this to some degree. Shaggy's parents are embarrassed by him and Scooby as a couple of BigEater slackers, Daphne's parents wish she was more like her successful prodigy sisters and completely disapprove of her not being a SpoiledBrat and her relationship with Fred, and Fred's got an entire truckload of issues with his [[spoiler:fake AND real parents]]. Only Velma has got a stable relationship with her parents, mostly her mom.
** [[spoiler:As the result of the WorldHealingWave unleashed by destroying the Nibiru entity, this has changed entirely. Fred's birth parents Brad and Judy are no longer self-serving dimwit psychopaths and are implied to have raised Fred with lots of healthy love and attention, and even Fred Jones Sr., who is now the principal and head coach at Crystal Cove High, considers Fred to be like the son he always wanted. Daphne's parents are completely supportive and proud of her and now wish she her so-called "underachieving" sisters were more like her, to the point that they're helping plan Daphne and Fred's wedding because they think he's a great guy. And Shaggy's parents are bursting with pride over what an accomplished, award-winning chef Shaggy is, to the point that they have a hard time imagining him to be a slacker]].
* WhamEpisode: [[WhamEpisode/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Can be found here]].
* WhamLine:
** [[spoiler:"Mystery Inc. is dead."]] in "All Fear the Freak."
** [[spoiler:"Brad Chiles is your real father."]] in the same episode.
** [[spoiler:"Don't expect me home for dinner...ever."]] in "Wrath of the Krampus."
*** And right before that: "[[spoiler:If you're watching this, you're probably wondering what's happened to your pieces of the Planispheric Disc. In a word, you've been conned, scammed, bamboozled]]."
** "[[spoiler:The dog... ''DIES!'']]"
** "[[spoiler:Nibiru. Nibiru is coming]]."
** "The Legend of Alice May": "It'll be a long time before they find out that [[spoiler:Deacon Carlswell never had a daughter]].
** "The Siren's Song": "I'm saying [[spoiler:Angel Dynamite isn't your real name]]. I think [[spoiler:your real name is Cassidy Williams, and you're one of the members of the original Mystery Incorporated that vanished in the caves beneath Crystal Cove]]. Tell me I'm wrong, friend!"
** "Menace of the Manticore": "It seems that Scooby is a far more trustworthy companion to Shaggy than [[spoiler:Professor Pericles ever was to me!]]"
** [[spoiler:"The Anunnaki have a great history of helping humans, but we have no physical form and must inhabit animals. This is why some animals, our descendants, can talk and others cannot." Not only does the revelation come out of nowhere yet fit in perfectly with the ongoing storyline, it also finally answers a lingering question that's ''forty-four years in the making'': how come Scooby-Doo can talk?]]
* WhamShot: The final shot of "A Night On Haunted Mountain", in which [[spoiler:an ''actual ghost'' appears in the wreckage of the galleon, visibly fading from man to skeleton and confirming that Season 2 will have full-blown ''non''-faked supernatural events.]]
* WhatAreYouInFor: "Wrath of the Krampus" has the gang trying to get help from one of the people they've put away. Shaggy and Scooby, in their usual fashion, slink away to the cafeteria. One inmate asks them what they're in for, and Shaggy responds "The food!"
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In episode 13 the gang visits a victim in the hospital and asks for information on the Cicada monster. They end up giving the poor guy a heart attack, his monitor flatlines, and they sneak off as the nurses are rushing in the crash cart. His fate is never revealed.
** Episode 21: We never know what happened to Brenda and Dylan after the Manticore attacked them in the cold opening.
*** Brenda and Dylan show up in episode 35 and discuss their hospitalization and therapy.
** Episode 26: We don't know what became of Ed Machine after Professor Pericles visits him. We just see lights flashing and hear Ed in what sounds like agony.
*** The latter two may fall under GoryDiscretionShot.
*** [[WordOfGod Tony Cervone]] clarified on Twitter that Pericles killed Ed Machine.
** Episode 52: [[spoiler:After the alternate timeline was created, we see Marcy and Cassidy alive again. But we never see Ed Machine]].
** In the Episode 'Night on Haunted Mountain' the gang briefly encounter a delusion woman named Boron, who has taken up the Lucky Soccer Ball as a 'man'. After they arrive at the Conquistador ship Boron simply vanishes and is never mentioned again.
* WhenThePlanetsAlign: Referred to as “Nibiru”; a 5000-year cycle where not just the planets of the solar system align but so too a tenth astral body only known as “Planet X”. During this cycle, the barrier between dimensions is at its most malleable and passage is permitted.
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Being thoroughly convincing up until the inevitable unmasking, the monsters are (almost) always asked where they get their get the resources to ''be'' monsters in all but physical constitution. The explanations are usually utterly ludicrous.
* WheresTheFunInThat:
-->'''Shaggy''': Can you give us a straight answer?
-->'''Mr. E''': Where's the fun in that?
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: There's a real Crystal Cove south of Los Angeles proper along Pacific Coast Highway (California highway 1) between Newport Beach and Dana Point, but the show's Crystal Cove is simultaneously a Pacific coastal town founded by conquistadors, a former Old West town in the middle of the desert, and three miles from ''the bayou''. At one point in the episode "Theater of Doom", it is mentioned that their location is next to the Pacific so the viewer can only assume that Crystal Cove is somewhere along the West Coast.
* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Episode 20. "We have to destroy the environment to save it!"
** Episode 32: [[spoiler:Cassidy pleads with Brad and Judy to place Fred's interests first; that the search for the treasure has destroyed everything the team originally stood for. They turn a deaf ear so Cassidy leaves them]].
* WhoIsDriving: In episode 27, Scooby barrels a tank into the barracks at the military school where Shaggy is attending so he can break him out.
** Shaggy operates Blue Falcon's Falconcar in episode 40.
* WholePlotReference:
** ''Howl of the Fright Hound'' lifts almost the entire plot from ''Film/TheTerminator'', right down to the music and the way the dog's robotic form is revealed.
** Chargargothicon was a reference to the many ''[[Creator/HPLovecraft Necronomicon]]'' forgeries. The names have been changed to protect the innocent... and for some reason implicate Robert E. Howard.
** "Where Walks Aphrodite" is basically ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'', down to the inhuman shriek.
* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: In "The Midnight Zone", Mystery, Inc is threatened by a group of partially assembled robots who crawl towards them on whatever limbs they have.
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: At the end of "Nightfright."
* WilhelmScream
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The Curse of Crystal Cove turns out to be that [[spoiler:everyone who gets involved in the search for the treasure, from the Spanish Conquistadors, to Mayor Jones, to every mystery-solving group including the original Mystery Incorporated, will gradually lose their good side to the Sitting Room, while their physical selves become more cold, callous, and obsessive in their search for the Planespheric Disc and the Crystal Sarcophagus. ''Nobody'' truly wanted to commit the sins they've done, and from what we're briefly shown, Mayor Jones and Fernando el Aguirre show remorse for their actions and wish to repent.]]
* WorkingWithTheEx: There's some tension in the team after Shaggy break up with Velma in Season 1. In Season 2, [[spoiler:Daphne returns to the team]], but emphatically wants to remain JustFriends with [[spoiler:Fred]]. It is also revealed that [[spoiler:Cassidy/Angel Dynamite]] used to be the object of affection of [[spoiler:Ricky/Mr. E]].
** In episode 37, [[spoiler:just before sacrificing herself, Cassidy is asked by Daphne about her relationship with Ricky. She tells Daphne that ended a long time back and in Fred's case, she urges Daphne to not make the same mistake]].
** [[spoiler:There's something about Velma, being Cassidy's counterpart, that Mr. E seems to fancy. In episode 33, he wants her to join his side again. She refuses]].
* WorldOfMysteries: The town of Crystal Cove itself is this. It was built above a buried crystal sarcophagus containing an otherworldy [[EldritchAbomination Evil Entity]], whose influence made people commit crimes and dress up as ghosts and monsters using increasingly outlandish means and technologies. After Mystery Inc. defeated the Entity, the town was brought to normal.
* TheWormThatWalks: The Cicada Creature, shaped like ''and'' made of cicadas, in episode 13.
* WrongInsultOffence:
-->'''Villain:''' And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you interloping adolescents.\\
'''Fred:''' [[CallBack You mean "meddling kids"]].
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* YellowPeril: Dr. Zin in "Heart of Evil."
* YouAreWhatYouHate: The greeter at the medieval fair professes nothing but contempt at the pirates who attend on the outside, but in private secretly wishes to be one.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Professor Pericles says this about [[spoiler:the citizens of Crystal Cove once they have successfully unearthed he door to the Nibiru Entity's tomb]].
* YouMeddlingKids: Lampshaded in the ''first episode'', and then becomes a MadLibsCatchPhrase.
-->'''Episode 2: ''' '''[[spoiler:Gunther Gator]]:''' If it weren't for you meddling [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness juveniles with your unauthorized investigation of our synthetic gator accessories]].
-->'''Episode 3:''' '''[[spoiler:Rung Ladderton]]:''' If it weren't for you meddling... peers.
-->'''Episode 6:''' '''[[spoiler:Alice May]]:''' If it weren't for you meddling.... schoolmates .... of mine.
-->'''Episode 12:''' '''[[spoiler:Howard E. Roberts]]:''' If it weren't for the dark elder forces conspiring in the inky black of time most foul! ...[[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Oh, and you meddling kids.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Maxwell the copy boy]]''' uses it straight in Episode 15, but the gang say it doesn't apply; that's because '''[[spoiler:a group of video game designers who dress up as NobleDemon Orks on motorcycles]]''' are the people who actually captured him.
-->* Or possibly because his plan was so loony it wouldn't have had the desired effect even if they hadn't stopped him.
-->'''[[spoiler:In Episode 18, Fred interrupts the speech while Scooby agrees that it's been run into the ground]]'''.
-->'''[[spoiler:Episode 19 has the bad guy thank the meddling kids because after he gets out of jail, he'll be able to collect the rights for the movie based on his time as a jackass in a rubber mask messing with people]]'''.
-->'''Episode 20''' has the perps saying if it wasn't for [[spoiler:the mermaid that tipped Velma off about the mystery earlier]].
-->'''Episode 21''' has the perp gets a card from a fortune-telling machine which reads, "''Meddling kids and a dog will foil your plan''" which satisfies Fred, who felt there was something missing when it wasn't said by the perp out loud.
-->'''Episode 22''' has the culprit calling the gang "those meddling sycophants."
-->'''Episode 23:''' Averted as the culprit was [[spoiler:Professor Pericles, who took off with the disc piece Fred's dad had--and apparently took from Pericles years ago]].
-->* When they trap him, he mutters something in German that ends in "kinder" (meaning "kids").
-->'''Episode 24:''' Fred tells his dad that perp "wouldn't have gotten away with it if it weren't for us meddling kids."
-->'''Episode 25:''' [[spoiler:Alice May calls Angel a "meddling sassy pants"]].
-->'''Episode 26:''' [[spoiler:Mayor Jones calls Fred "my meddling... Fred.", [[FiveSecondForeshadowing tying into the revelation]] that he's not actually Freddie's birth father]].
-->'''Episode 28:''' [[spoiler:Curator Vronski would have gotten away with it "if it wasn't for you decadent bourgeois teenagers and your slobbering democracy-loving dog!"]]
-->'''Episodes 17 and 34''' avert this. The antagonist in episode 17 was swallowed by an earthquake, while in episode 34, [[spoiler:Hot Dog Water--unmasked by Velma as the perp--simply hands Velma the disc piece and leaves. The rest of the gang was still covered in debris from the galleon wreckage]].
-->[[spoiler:Professor Pericles delivers the line straight in episode 37, attributing his failure to eliminate Cassidy to those "meddling kids"]].
-->[[spoiler:'''Episode 48:''' Professor Kharon's trapped spirit is reunited with himself "thanks to you meddling kids! You beautiful, brave meddling kids!"]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Episode 52:''' After Harlan Ellison reveals he's gotten the gang enrolled in Miskatonic University, he comments that "there's a lot of meddling to do"]].
--> AMC cell phone reminder: The entire audience says, "Keep it down, you meddling kids!"
* YouMonster: Mr. E says this to Pericles after [[spoiler:he orders the death of everyone in Crystal Cove]].
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: At the end of Episode 18, [[spoiler:it turned out that the girl the dude in the costume was chasing was also after the Dragon's Heart ruby; she'd used [[LawfulStupid Shaggy]]'s crush on her to manipulate [[BatmanGambit the gang into taking out the competition]]]].
* YouShallNotPass: In "The Midnight Zone", [[spoiler:Cassidy]] stays behind in the undersea base to keep the doors open long enough for the Moby Dick to escape and hold off the killer robots.
* YouWillKnowWhatToDo: [[spoiler:Said by the possessed Nova to Scooby-Doo when she freezes time in the series finale to tell Scooby that the heart of the jaguar was never the spear, and that he'll know what to do when the time comes]].
** [[spoiler:Lampshaded by Scooby, who tells her to just seriously, tell him what to do]].
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