Headscratchers / Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery

• Why did they use an original character (Bayard) for the kooky 'get off my property' guy and not Bray Wyatt? This is the sort of exposure for a big heel that could pay off.
  • It might be because he wasn't part of the roster when the script was made at the time (note that Triple H and Kane were in full wrestling gear despite the movie coming out while the two were in the Authority)
  • These movies are written/recorded around two years to a year and a half in advance. Bray wasn't ready then. Let alone this reason and WWE axeing Hulk Hogan are reasons why the DTV pace has been slowed down from the steady two Scoobys and one T&J a year.
• The final challenge in WWE Smackdown (or whatever they call the game) is beating your best friend? Neither Shaggy nor Scooby is holding controllers so they are playing via Kinnect/Move. The movie establishes this starting with Shaggy doing the "You can't see me" taunt, and with Scooby's moonsault pin and final victory dance. This wasn't Scooby playing alone at the highest level it was two friends playing.
  • The hypnotic commands the villain planted in the game can only be activated on the final victory dance portion, which only one player can participate in. Thus, if two people are playing, they have to compete against each other to see who plays the level. The villain would be missing out on a potential Unwitting Pawn if the game wasn't set up that way.
• Is wrestling supposed to be real or fake in this? The only wrestlers who seem to be heels at the period this is set in are Kane and possibly Miz (who was a tweener it seems). The idea that it's absurd for a bunch of actors to fight a demonic ghost bear never once enters anybody's mind which makes sense if this WWE exists in a world where Undertaker is some kind of zombie warlock, Kane is his demonic brother and John Cena has fought both of them and won. This is even plausible since animated Scooby-Doo since Zombie Island has taken place in a world where the supernatural is extraordinarily rare (you're more likely to find a guy in a mask than an actual vampire) but monsters are explicitly real. In addition, Easter Egg that it was Wonder Girl, Artemis, Zatanna, and Miss Martian are shown watching which establishes a "canon" of sorts that this world could contain everything up to and including Darkseid. On the other hand, all of Velma's comments sound like wrestling is fake, everybody knows it's fake and she doesn't understand why people are into it. Which makes it baffling that she finally believes it's awesome when it's real and the Ghost Bear is attacking.
  • Fake, but with the occasional legitimate match (Shaggy and Scooby vs. Kane, presumably Sin Cara Grande vs. the original bear). Fred explicitly mentions that wrestling is "just a show" to Velma. As for the wrestlers taking on the Ghost Bear, Mystery Incorporated and co. were probably assuming that the "Ghost Bear" was just someone in a costume. Hypnotizing Scooby and stealing the championship belt hint at a rational mind behind the Ghost Bear scheme. They're the actions of a person, not a rampaging bear spirit hell-bent on revenge. A bunch of actors taking on an actual Ghost Bear would be crazy...a bunch of actors taking on a person in a costume, not so much, particularly when those actors are as strong and well-trained as WWE wrestlers (fake or not, you could do worse than a pro wrestler as someone to have on your side in a fight.) As for why no one outside of that group thought it was crazy, this is the WWE we're talking about. The announcers, fans, and wrestlers not in on the plan to catch the Ghost Bear probably just thought it was All Part of the Show. Outlandish scenes like that happen in the ring all the time.
  • This headscratcher is also taking "cannon" to a bit more modern extreme. Historically speaking the company that created Scooby-Doo always had a sometimes we care or not a stance on continuity. While moving forward in time, there have been times where continuity means something and times when not. But that being said Scooby-Doo itself can only be said to be existing in the Hanna Barbera canon itself due to its many cross-overs. And in that world, the supernatural is not rare. It's around a lot. One whole Scooby-Doo season only had the supernatural. Scooby also had a DC cross-over set with Batman and Robin, the cameo of modern DC analogies was more or less a one-off joke. I doubt anyone intended you to take away Scooby exists in the DC Universe or the Young Justice show. If anything it's just then Scooby was able to meet a DC character due to the fragile and always changing "continuity". It's probably best just to roll with this most of the time. As in the end, the only logical end of this discussion is an explanation that excuses all the errors due to a faulty timeline. So just have some fun with it.
  • In the two previous wrestling episodes of Scooby-Doo, wrestling was treated as real but also a business and leaving it at that. So it's pretty much par the course by now.
• If Cookie wanted to exchange the belt with the copy from the beginning, why didn't he do so while Scooby was hypnotized instead of trying to frame him and set this up?