Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated / Tropes D to H

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D

• Darker and Edgier: As you would not believe. By the Grand Finale, it completely surpasses Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island as the darkest version of Scooby Doo. Though it has been surpassed by Scooby Apocalypse and Velma, Mystery Incorporated is still the darkest the franchise has gotten while still aimed at the original child demographic.
  • Hell, even some Monsters of the Week try to KILL people; not even just the Big Bads. For example, the aforementioned Phantom. And the Shadow Orc.
  • The Blue Falcon has gone from Adam West to Frank Miller.
  • In the penultimate episode, Marcie gets shot to death offscreen. She comes back the next episode along with all the other dead characters when the Evil Entity is destroyed, but still. And those mentioned dead characters? It's because the Evil Entity ate them, both offscreen (while being unambiguous) and on-screen.
  • The endgame story is a Cosmic Horror Story, and this is used to give explanations for the whimsical elements the franchise is known for. Scooby being smarter than normal dogs is due to being descended from the Annunaki (who are admittedly Benevolent Abominations, but any Abomination-type character in Scooby media is jarring) and the criminals in scary costumes are actually being influenced by the Evil Entity underneath Crystal Cove.
• Dartboard of Hate: In the episode "In Fear of the Phantom", when it is explained that Daniel Prezette was disrupting the Hex Girls' concert as the Phantom because he hated the Hex Girls for ruining his musical career, a flashback shows him throwing a screwdriver at a picture of the Hex Girls.
• The Dead Can Dance: The Ska Zombies in "Dance of the Undead".
• Deadpan Snarker: Velma, in spades, Shaggy on occasion, and, remarkably enough, Scooby in some very memorable moments.
• Decon-Recon Switch: The show points out how a team of mystery solving teenagers are likely to have obvious dysfunction in their personalities and roles, as well as how life-threatening their profession is, but at the same time showcases that they are willing to get better about these problems and move forward, and that they're effective in their profession.
• Deconstruction: The series deconstructs a lot of tropes associated with the Scooby Doo franchise.
  • One particular aspect about the fandom that it deconstructs is the indication that there were romantic feelings between Shaggy and Velma. This show proves that a pairing with a teen girl brainiac and a cowardly slacker who likes to just hoard down junk food with his dog show that they might work well as friends but be a very toxic couple. During their time together, Velma wants to constantly change Shaggy to be more in her image whereas Shaggy is afraid of commitment and doesn't spend as much time as he should in a relationship.
• Deconstructor Fleet: The whole series rips apart the tropes common to Scooby Doo.
• Demonic Possession: played with, "Stand and Deliver" reveals that talking animals like Scooby and Pericles are descendants of animals once possessed by Annanuki during the periods that their reality is closest to the earthly one, and the Annanuki possessing Nova reveals that while some are benevolent, the one within the crystal coffin with the treasure is EVIL, and must be destroyed.
• Despite the Plan: Averted every few episodes where Fred's traps actually work. Lampshaded in "Battle of the Humungonauts".
• Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Velma's mother has this moment after she just bursts into her daughter's room:
  Angie: "Good thing I have this spare key so I can search your room when you're not home. (Beat) Oops, did I just say that out loud?"
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: 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.
  • Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: The only problem in killing the entity is that completely changes the history as the gang know it! See Bittersweet Ending entry.
• Disability Immunity:
  • In "Where Walks Aphrodite", Angel Dynamite is immune to Aphrodite's pheremone attack because she suffers from anosmia (i.e. she has no sense of smell).
  • In "Dance of the Undead", Rude Boy and the Ska-Tastics' music is not sending Shaggy and Scooby into hypnotic dances like everyone else because Shaggy is tone deaf and Scooby says that music is just noise to dogs.
• Disproportionate Retribution: In "Web of the 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.
• Does Not Like Men: Marcie (aka Hot Dog Water) seems to take it as a sign of weakness to need help from a man.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?:
  • Fred's magazine "Traps Illustrated" has a woman in a bikini on the cover. His reaction to Daphne finding it is similar to someone hiding porn. It's a reference to Sports Illustrated with its famous swimsuit issues, though Fred's "I read it for the articles" invokes Playboy.
  • "Grim Judgement" has two teen boys stalking and assaulting women they want as girlfriends.
  • In "In Fear of the Phantom", the Hex Girls' 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 "The Grasp of the Gnome" 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."
  • "Pawn of Shadows": A fan song about Hatecraft's character Char Gar Gothakon is supposedly a major hit in Japan...
  • For a non-sexual one let's go back to "Menace of the Manticore" with Angel and Velma. 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. Specifically because the gang is broken up and Daphne has blamed Velma for causing this for keeping Angel's identity a secret.
  • Another nonsexual one: In "The Gathering Gloom", Velma suspects a gravedigger for the Monster of the Week based solely on the way he looks and his odd grumpiness. Fred dismisses this as "villain profiling."
• Downer Ending: 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....
  • And the second season premiere, if you can believe it, ends on another, nearly as grim a downer ending where The Bad Guy Wins, Fred's confidence is destroyed and Daphne refuses to come back to mystery solving.
  • "The Midnight Zone". 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. Tony Cervone confirms on Twitter that Cassidy did not survive.
  • "Aliens Among Us": 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.
  • "The Horrible Herd": 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.
• Dramatic Thunder: Done near the end of "The Shrieking Madness".
• Dream Within a Dream: 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.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Shaggy's instructor at military school in "The Night The Clown Cried".
• Dude, Where's My Respect?:
  • The gang's attempts at solving crimes are not met with enthusiasm. Justified, in that curtailing the crimes would lessen the town's revenue stream. It's their stream of revenue!
  • You'd think that after being saved from an Eldritch Abomination, even a faux Eldritch Abomination, would make the rescued party grateful enough to spare you a lecture on proper grammar.
  • The Motive Rant for "Lord Infernicus" in "Mystery Solvers State Finals".

E

• Early-Bird Cameo: Skipper appears in episode 3. In the next episode, he's a prime suspect.
  • Mr. Chen, as well as his cafe, are introduced in episode 15. They are featured in a more prominent role three episodes later.
  • 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 and attacker of the amusement park that the manticore attacks. She then went on to get a major role in the second season.
  • There is also Ernesto and his group of environmentalists. They first appear in episode 12. They appear again in episode 20 as the Fish Freaks.
  • The Quest Team, who were first seen in the Obliteratrix's confession flashback appear again in a season 2 episode as part of the Blue Falcon's origin story.
• Early-Installment Weirdness:
  • An early episode has Ed Machine mistakenly voiced by Lewis Black, giving the impression that Machine is actually 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. Something similar will happen several episodes later, when the gang is surprised when Fred's trap works. While this Fred doesn't have a 100% success rate, he certainly wins more than he loses so the comment makes no sense.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: 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.
  • Subverted by Daphne's sisters though, who are revealed to NOT be successful in their respective careers, though they were kinda jerkish anyways
• Earthquakes Cause Fissures: The cold open in Episode 17 starts off with this during a flashback, swallowing a mansion up underneath it. An earthquake appeared at the end of the episode, but it's not stated what happens after that.
• Eldritch Abomination:
  • Char Gar Gothicon, monster of "The Shrieking Madness."
  • The Nibiru Entity. And unlike Char Gar Gothicon, it's real.
• Eldritch Location: 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.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: The Hex Girls' new look for the series.
• Establishing Character Moment: The first episode had the gang talk to their parents to show off certain quirks of theirs, such as Fred's obsession with traps and Velma's sardonic attitude.
• Engineered Heroics: The reality of Hebediah Grimm.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Mr. E throughout the series.
• "Everybody Laughs" Ending:
  • In "Nightfright", Vincent Van Ghoul starts the laughter at the end of the episode with an Evil Laugh and everyone else joins in.
  • Scooby, the gang, Blue Falcon and Dynomutt at the end of episode 40.
  • 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. Worth noting that this also takes place in the altered timeline — the original timeline never had one.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": One of the background characters is a classmate known as "That weird girl, Hot Dog Water." In an episode 18 flashback, she says she's gluten intolerant.
  • Hot Dog Water returns in season 2, filling in for Daphne's spot for the first three episodes. She remains an ally of the gang.
  • She reveals her real name in episode 28. It's Marcie Fleach.
• Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy: The Bjorkland girls in episode 33.
• Evil Counterpart: Professor Pericles to Scooby Doo.
  • And to Velma, since he was The Smart Guy in addition to the Team Pet. The other former members of Mystery Inc (except for Angel) have also developed into this, with Mr. E being the Evil Counterpart to Shaggy, and Brad Chiles and Judy Reeves to Fred and Daphne.
• Evil, Inc.: Destroido to ridiculous extremes. For just one example, they repurposed a lawn fertilizer so toxic it destroyed an entire town as body wash, without even changing the formula. Also, they're called Destroido
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Pericles ultimately ends up releasing the Nibiru Entity, and sacrifices his body to it, thinking that it might give him some kind of supreme power. It kills him, and devours the other members of the old Mystery Incorporated as well.
• Evil Twin: The Fright Hound in episode 10, to Scooby.
• Evil Versus Evil: Professor Pericles vs. Mr. E. vs. Mayor Jones.
  • Not as of season 2, seeing as Mayor Jones is in prison and E and Pericles have teamed up.
    • It's gone back as of 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.
• The Exit Is That Way: In "The Wild Brood", Sheriff Stone attempts to leave Daphne's bedroom and instead walks into her closet. Where he gets lost.
• Expy:
  • Design-wise, Alice May is a blatant one for Gwen Stacy: same hairstyle, hairband, and green-striped clothes.
  • Gus, or "G-man" from episode 7 is basically the eccentric Ronnie "Z-man" Barzell from a certain creepy schlock film. In addition to looking exactly like Z-man, he talks with his faux-British accent and mannerisms, as well as being a record producer with a taste for alt bands.
  • Jason Wyatt from episode 10. What with being a nerd, having great scientific know-how, and adores/admires Velma... It's "What's New Scooby Doo?"'s new form of Velma-stalker Gibby Norton!
  • Ernesto from Episode 20 is a die-hard environmental protestor. He is also Che Guevara, even down to his first name.
  • Dr. Rick Spartan is a composite of and stand-in for Doc Savage, Allan Quatermain and Indiana Jones.
  • Episode 30: Chareline is a cartoon version of Paula Deen. The fantasy game Shaggy and Sheriff Stone referred to, Crypts and Creatures, is a stand-in for ''Dungeons & Dragons.
  • Angel Dynamite is pretty much Scooby Doo's version of Foxy Cleopatra.
  • Episode 40: Blue Falcon is turned into a Captain Ersatz of Frank Miller's Batman. Velma even lampshades the dubious need of a vigilante.
  • Scooby Snacks looks like a different color scheme for a box of Cheez-Its.
  • 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 Davy Jones, too. Also, makes sense as Hatecraft is a pretty blatant expy of Lovecraft.
  • Mr. E in the alternate timeline is pretty clearly supposed to be Steve Jobs.

F

• Face–Heel Turn: Former members of mystery solving teams have a habit of becoming enemies to the next generation.
• Failed Attempt at Scaring: Zig-zagged. Night Fright is trying to terrify Vincent Van Ghoul, and he's doing a very good job of it. Until Scooby and Shaggy remind Van Ghoul that he's a professional actor. He then walks around the house giving Shaggy and Scooby a tour while utterly ignoring Night Fright who keeps trying to scare them, except at one point turn to the demon and say, "Excuse me, you are being rude!"
• Falling Chandelier of Doom: In "Pawn of Shadows", Angel Dynamite traps the Obliteratix beneath a falling chandelier.
• Family-Friendly Firearms: Averted in episode 10. Not that it does the guards any good against the Fright Hound, a robot who is Immune to Bullets.
• Family-Unfriendly Violence
• Fan Disservice: Episode 24, when Night Ranger takes his shirt off to use a bale of hay for a punching bag (It Makes Sense in Context). Daphne pretty much speaks for the viewers when she asks "why did he have to take his shirt off?"
• Fanservice: Daphne has a strange habit of walking around in her underwear and wearing bikinis and other Stripperiffic outfits on a regular basis.
• Fantastic Racism: Hilariously played with the Wild Brood. Everyone treats them suspiciously, but this is due to the fact that they are a motorcycle gang and not because they are Orcs. 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.
• Fearsome Critters of American Folklore: The Hodag appears as a Monster of the Week in Season 2.
• Fetch Quest: Dramatically subverted in episode 16. 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.
• 555: A radio version - Angel Dynamite's station is the extremely impossible AM 104.2.
• Flaming Skulls: Lord Infernicus.
• Foreshadowing: A fair amount, much of it related to hinting at the mysterious history of Crystal Cove and the identity of Mr. E.
  • First, we have the locket from episode 1. Members of the original Mystery Inc. had them and it was considered their symbol. It was Judy's locket and the picture inside are actually Fred's real parents, which explains Mayor Jones' expression when he saw it!
    • Also take a good note at what Velma states about Crystal Cove's early history: it was founded by Spanish Conquistadors. Guess what's important about them about 24 episodes later!
  • Then there's the newspaper clipping in episode 4. Part of it was cut off and Angel seems as if she knows something. She does, because the part cut off showed her when she was still known as Cassidy Williams.
  • Episode 6 shows someone getting Alice May to escape from jail. Said man is actually Ed Machine, the head of Destroido, who has relationships to Mr. E
  • Episode 10 has Professor Pericles spouting out that the gang has to keep an eye on those close to them; especially Fred. 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.
    • 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. Episode 17 lead them to meet up with Danny Darrow and episode 25 finally told them what they were looking for.
    • HP Hatecraft also claims that Char Gar Gothikon comes to him in his dreams to inspire his stories. While he admits that he lied in order to get the book to sell, the idea of an eldritch horror influencing people within their dreams matches the modus operandi of the Nibiru Entity.
  • Episode 16 has Pericles and Scooby teaming up and gathering items for an antidote. One of the places was at the old Spanish Church which holds the entrance to where the Haunted Treasure resides!
  • Here's another one: "I guess we're not a team anymore." Velma, you don't know what you caused.
  • A minor one. In the cold opening flashback of episode 17, Danny Darrow as a little boy is wearing a white beard as his Halloween costume.
    • Speaking of Danny Darrow, he nicknames Fred as Big Chin Man because he's really seeing Fred as the original Mystery Inc; member Brad Chiles, who happens to be Fred's father!
  • 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. 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.
  • Frank Welker voices the Freak of Crystal Cove, the Monster turns out to be Fred Jones Senior.
  • Fred and his dad look nothing alike. This hints at the fact that Mayor Jones is not Fred's real father.
• Forbidden Fruit/G-Rated Drug: Chocolate to Daphne.
• Forklift Fu: Scooby uses a forklift to take on the robotic fright hound in "Howl of the Fright Hound."
• Four-Philosophy Ensemble: The central human cast:
  • The Cynic: Sheriff Stone, Major Jones and (to a lesser degree) Angel Dynamite.
  • The Optimist: Fred.
  • The Realist: Velma.
  • The Apathetic: Daphne.
  • The Conflicted: Shaggy.
    • Interesting to note is that while they fit this pattern philosophically and functionally Velma, Daphne and Fred have personalities more closely associated with Cynic, Optimist and Apathetic respectively.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The gang appropriately match their own color schemes. Velma (Yellow Sweater) is choleric, exhibiting leadership when solving the mystery, but rather pushy, and a rather violent Tsundere at her worst. Daphne (Red Hair) is sanguine, the most cheerful and optimistic of the group. Scooby (Blue collar) fits into leuquine, as he is rather non-confrontational. Shaggy (Green Shirt) is phlegmatic, the Non Action Guy who runs away from anything spooky, and is only there to react to the situations. Fred is melancholic as he is obessessive (when it comes to traps) and emotionally high strung (when Daphne is in danger). He wears... white, rather than black, kinda crashing that color coded bit.
• Free-Handed Performer: Daphne becomes a guest vocalist for The Hex Girls during one mystery.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus:
  • Sheriff Stone's pad during the first gnome victim's interview.
  • The complete recipe for "Countess Hagula's Youth Juice" from The Secret Serum is readable in freeze-frame.
  • Count Evallo's rejected work permit in episode 33.
  • Charlie the Haunted Robot is missing in Wrath of the Krampus, foreshadowing that it's being deployed in-costume as the Krampus.
• Friend Versus Lover:
  • Velma vs Scooby over Shaggy. At first it seemed that Shaggy was using Scooby as a scapegoat to hide his fears of commitment, but it turned out his fear of telling Scooby was pretty well founded.
  • Also, Fred and Daphne.
    Fred: Oh what the heck, going to the prom with a friend will be more fun than with a date anyway. Right?
    Daphne: *sigh* I'll take what I can get.
  • The Fred and Daphne thing has been averted as of episode 24. Fred has proposed to Daphne and the two plan to marry once they get to college.
    • Not anymore! 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.
  • Shaggy and Velma. Shaggy dumped Velma in favor of Scooby, then had a change of heart and wanted to try the romance thing with Velma again. She responded at first, but decided they should stay "just friends"... later revealing that she is still hurting over being dumped for Scooby, and apparently afraid if she took Shaggy back he'd do it to her again.
    • And turnabout occurs when Scooby abandons food and Shaggy for following his puppy love, Nova.
• Funny Background Event: Scooby is harassed by an angry squirrel in the first episode, while the rest of the gang are talking to Prof. Raffalow.
  • "Scarebear" has Scooby and Shaggy be chased by a mutant owl while Daphne and Fred hit on each other.

G

• Gainax Ending: 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 was never corrupted because of it. However, the group get a message from Harlan Ellison—who also has Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory—and offers them enrollment at 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.
• The Generic Guy: Deliberately avoided. Even Fred, the former Trope Namer himself, is given a much more developed personality than ever before.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: invoked The horror author's books are popular in Japan.
• Getting Crap Past the Radar: Tony Cervone has stated that Velma was written as a lesbian, which they made as clear as possible at the time but the showrunners were limited due to Executive Meddling, and the result was the best they could get away with at the time. She and Marcie do get together after the timeline reset.
• Generation Xerox: Their have been many versions of Mystery Inc., each having four people and a mascot, each having some variation on the name Mystery incorporated. In some case there is even a close resemblance between the group members.
  • More directly the Fred inherited his parents' trap obsession; and Angel when she was younger, was nerdy, wore glasses and was in love with owner of the mascot, Ricky Owens, which obviously mirrors Velma.
• Gold Fever: The Planespheric Disk has this effect on anyone who finds it, and has led to the destruction of several mystery solving teams throughout history, as the members quickly turned on each other for the treasure, including a biological family (The Darrows). The Disk is cursed due to its connection to Nibiru, and the corruption it causes is mystical in nature, not simple human greed.
• Gotta Catch 'Em All: The six pieces of the Planespheric Disk. 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.
  • As of episode 31, Scooby and the gang have pieces three and four. Professor Pericles calls a powwow in regards to this.
  • Episode 34 has the gang possessing piece no. 5 now.
  • Episode 37 has Professor Pericles with piece no. 6.
  • In episode 39, the good guys now have all six pieces, having retrieved the other three from Mr. E's lair thanks to a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax 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.
• Grand Finale: The series finale, where the Nibiru entity is defeated, and Mystery Incorporated also manages to (inadvertently) create an alternate timeline where the entity's evil never negatively influenced anyone's lives.
• Growling Gut: A Running Gag with Daphne in episode 19.
• Guilt by Association Gag: 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 (losing her career and husband is a bit much for rudeness), Delilah was a Cool Big Sis, and the other two didn't have enough characterization.

H

• Hands Go Down:
  • "Can anybody tell me what photosynthesis is? ... And PLEASE don't say plant farts."
  • Subverted in episode 36. 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.
• Hannibal Lecture: The gang gets one in "Howl of the Fright Hound", from a prisoner in the city's Animal Asylum: Professor Pericles, the mascot-pet—of the original Mystery Inc!
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: The heart of the jaguar.
• Hell Hotel: The one place to stay overnight in Gatorburg invokes this. Deliberately, as it's the home of a group of counterfeit gator-skin product scammers.
• Hell Hound: "Howl of the Fright Hound"
• Hellish Copter: Seen in "The Horrible Herd" when the gang and Mayor Nettles ride in a helicopter; the herd of mutant bee-cattle cause some damage to it while in flight, then once among a safe landing and after everyone abandons it, the helicopter blows up, just like many things in the show do.
• Heroic BSoD: This happens to Fred after Daphne is kidnapped by the crab monster and when a teacher has supposedly died (see Faux Death). Fred gets a serious case of this in Chapter 26.
  • 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.
  • 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.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • Episode 37: Cassidy stays behind to free the gang as Pericles detonates the underwater city. Cassidy does not survive.
  • Episode 51—Marcie, giving Scooby and the gang time to get away. We don't see what happens, but it's quite obvious.
• Hero of Another Story: Before the Mystery Inc the show focuses on, there were several previous groups of four with one animal that solved mysteries together. Nibiru's influence led to most of them being driven to evil, always starting with the Team Pet.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Shaggy and Scooby, played mostly straight but also hilariously subverted. On chapter 9, with the Friend Versus Lover between Scooby and Velma, Scooby used phrases like "You are cheating on me!" or "I gave him the best years of my life".
  • In the same episode Fred gives us, "Before anyone outs Shaggy, I just might have another solution."
• Hide Your Lesbians: Velma's relationship with Marcie (and earlier, Amy) seem like queer relationships that are stuck as subtext, especially by the ending of the series.
  • 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.
  • In the finale, Marcie is casually hanging out in a bedroom with Velma and refers to her as "my girl." If this is meant to be relationship subtext, it wraps up loose threads about Velma's old attachment to Shaggy, which otherwise never gets resolved.
• The Highwayman: The Dandy Highwayman in "Stand and Deliver."
• History Repeats: Any group of mystery solving teenagers will eventually become attached to the Mystery of Crystal Cove, the Planespheric Disk, and Nibiru.
• Hope Spot: Please Scooby, after all that has happened in episode 26, you better bring the gang back together to stop Pericles!
  • 3 episodes later, it happens.
• A House Divided:
  • Episode 11 has Velma say "I guess we're not a team any more."
  • In Episode 26 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.
• Humans Are Bastards: Many of the side characters are much more cruel, selfish, and greedy 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 Adaptational Jerkass characteristic.
  • Daphne occasionally being more self-invested in the attention she gets from Fred.
  • Velma is more self-centered, sassy, vain, and sexually aggressive than she was in past incarnations.
  • Even Scooby is more stubborn in this one than he usually is.
• Hyperspace Arsenal: Episode 25 has Shaggy lampshading the fact that Obliteratrix's costume has no pockets so where are all her weapons coming from?
  • Justified: Dr. Quest did it. No, really - she stole tech from Quest Labs.
• Hypnosis-Proof Dogs:
  • The episode with Aphrodite had all the humans falling under the spell of flowers at least, those who could smell it, which left Scooby Doo and Professor Pericles to save the town.
  • Also, the episode with Rude Boy and the ska band has Shaggy and Scooby immune from the music from forcing everyone else to dance.

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