History ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated / TropesDToH

** In the penultimate episode, [[spoiler: Marcie gets ''shot to death'' offscreen. She comes back the next episode along with all the other dead characters when the [[BigBad 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.]]

* DemonicPossession: played with, "[[Recap/ScoobyDooMysteryIncS2E20StandAndDeliver Stand and Deliver]]" reveals that [[spoiler: 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]].

** 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 [[spoiler: and attacker]] of the amusement park that the manticore attacks. [[spoiler: 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 [[spoiler: as the Fish Freaks]].
** [[WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest The Quest Team]], who were first seen [[spoiler: in the Obliteratrix's confession flashback]] appear again in a season 2 episode as part of the Blue Falcon's origin story.

** An early episode has Ed Machine mistakenly voiced by [[spoiler: Lewis Black]], giving the impression that Machine is actually [[spoiler: Mr. E]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: 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]].
** [[spoiler: Subverted by Daphne's sisters though, who are revealed to NOT be successful in their respective careers, though they were kinda jerkish anyways]]

** [[spoiler: The Nibiru Entity. And unlike Char Gar Gothicon, it's '''''real''''']].

** [[spoiler: 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.]]

** [[spoiler: 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.]]
** [[spoiler: She reveals her real name in episode 28. It's Marcie Fleach.]]

** And to Velma, since he was TheSmartGuy in addition to the TeamPet. [[spoiler: The other former members of Mystery Inc (except for Angel) have also developed into this]], with [[spoiler: Mr. E]] being the EvilCounterpart to Shaggy, and [[spoiler: Brad Chiles and Judy Reeves]] to Fred and Daphne.

* EvilIsNotAToy: [[spoiler: 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]].

* EvilVersusEvil: Professor Pericles vs. Mr. E. vs. [[spoiler: Mayor Jones]].
** Not as of seasons 2, seeing as [[spoiler: Mayor Jones is in prison and E and Pericles have teamed up]].

** Episode 30: [[spoiler: Chareline is a cartooned version of Paula Deen. The fantasy game Shaggy and Sheriff Stone referred to, ''Crypts and Creatures'', is a stand-in for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons]].

** [[spoiler: Mr. E in the alternate timeline is pretty clearly supposed to be Steve Jobs]].

* FetchQuest: Dramatically subverted in episode 16. [[spoiler: 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]].

** First, we have the locket from episode 1. Members of the original Mystery Inc. had them and it was considered their symbol. [[spoiler: 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 found by Spanish Conquistadors. [[spoiler: 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. [[spoiler: She does, because the part cut off showed her when she was still known as Cassidy Williams]].
** Episode 6 shows someone [[spoiler: 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. [[spoiler: 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]].
*** [[spoiler: 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. [[spoiler: Episode 17 lead them to meet up with Danny Darrow and episode 25 finally told them what they were looking for]].

** Episode 16 has Pericles and Scooby teaming up and gathering items for an antidote. One of the places was at the old Spanish Church [[spoiler: which holds the entrance to where the Haunted Treasure resides!]]
** Here's another one: "I guess we're not a team anymore." [[spoiler: Velma, you don't know what you caused]].

*** Speaking of Danny Darrow, he nicknames Fred as Big Chin Man [[spoiler: because he's really seeing Fred as the original Mystery Inc; member Brad Chiles, who happens to ''be'' Fred's father!]]

** Creator/FrankWelker voices the Freak of Crystal Cove, [[spoiler: the Monster turns out to be Fred Jones Senior]].

** The Fred and Daphne thing has been averted as of episode 24. [[spoiler: Fred has proposed to Daphne and the two plan to marry once they get to college]].
*** Not anymore! [[spoiler: 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]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Tony Cervone [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CCAB5kPDDqG/ 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 ExecutiveMeddling, and the result was the best they could get away with at the time. She and [[spoiler: Marcie]] [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ecu_Z54WkAkl0Uc?format=jpg&name=large do get together]] after [[spoiler: the timeline reset.]]

* GottaCatchEmAll: The six pieces of the Planespheric Disk. [[spoiler: 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]].
** [[spoiler: As of episode 31, Scooby and the gang have pieces three and four. Professor Pericles calls a powwow in regards to this]].
** [[spoiler: Episode 34 has the gang possessing piece no. 5 now]].
** [[spoiler: Episode 37 has Professor Pericles with piece no. 6]].
** [[spoiler: In episode 39, the good guys now have all six pieces, having retrieved the other three from Mr. E's lair thanks to a ScoobyDooHoax 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]].
* GrandFinale: [[spoiler: 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]].

* GuiltByAssociationGag: [[spoiler: 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 ([[DisproportionateRetribution losing her career and husband is a bit much for rudeness]]), Delilah was a CoolBigSis, and the other two didn't have enough characterization]].

** Subverted in episode 36. [[spoiler: 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]].

* HellHotel: The one place to stay overnight in Gatorburg invokes this. [[spoiler: Deliberately, as it's the home of a group of counterfeit gator-skin product scammers]].

* HeroicBSOD: This happens to Fred after Daphne is kidnapped by the crab monster and when a teacher has supposedly died (see FauxDeath). [[spoiler: Fred gets a serious case of this in Chapter 26]].
** [[spoiler: 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]].
** [[spoiler: 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]].

** Episode 37: [[spoiler: Cassidy stays behind to free the gang as Pericles detonates the underwater city. Cassidy does not survive]].
** Episode 51--[[spoiler: Marcie, giving Scooby and the gang time to get away. We ''don't'' see what happens, but it's quite obvious]].
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Before the Mystery Inc the show focuses on, there were several previous groups of four with one animal that solved mysteries together. [[spoiler: [[BigBad Nibiru's]] influence led to most of them being driven to evil, always starting with the TeamPet]].

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Please Scooby, after all that has happened in episode 26, you better bring the gang back together to stop Pericles!]]
** [[spoiler: 3 episodes later, it happens]].

** In Episode 26 [[spoiler: 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]].

** Hell, even some MonstersOfTheWeek try to KILL people; not even just the {{Big Bad}}s. For example, the aformentioned Phantom. And the Shadow Orc.

** Design-wise, Alice May is a blatant one for [[Franchise/SpiderMan Gwen Stacy]]: same hairstyle, hairband, and green-striped clothes.

* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler: The tension between Angel and the gang probably could've been avoided if either Angel or Velma explained about Angel's real identity sooner]].

* DoingItForTheArt: [[spoiler:Used in-universe. The reason Baylor Hotner initially became Crybaby Clown, to do research for his next film.]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: The female vampire MonsterOfTheWeek in "[[Recap/ScoobyDooMysteryIncS1E11TheSecretSerum The Secret Serum]]" goes barefoot.

* EviInc: 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, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast they're called Destroido]]

* FiveManBand: Mystery Incorporated
** TheLeader: Fred
** TheLancer: Shaggy
** TheSmartOne: Velma
** TheBigGuy / TeamPet: Scooby-Doo
** TheChick: Daphne

* DarkerAndEdgier: As you would not '''believe'''. By the GrandFinale, it completely surpasses ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' as the darkest version of ''Scooby Doo''.

** In the penultimate episode, [[spoiler: Marcie gets ''shot to death'' offscreen. She comes back the next episode along with all the other dead characters when the [[BigBad Evil Entity]] is destroyed, but ''still.'']]

** Dr. Rick Spartan is a [[CompositeCharacter composite]] of and stand-in for Franchise/DocSavage, [[Literature/KingSolomonsMines Allan Quatermain]] and FRanchise/IndianaJones.

* GoldFever: 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 eachother for the treasure, including a biological family (The Darrows). [[spoiler: The Disk is cursed due to it's connection to Nibiru, and the corruption it causes is mystical in nature, not simple human greed.]]

** Hell, even some MonstersOfTheWeek try to KILL people; not even including the {{Big Bad}}s. For example, the aformentioned Phantom. And the bad guy in 1.15.

* DartboardOfHate: 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.
* TheDeadCanDance: The Ska Zombies in "Dance of the Undead."

* DemonicPossession: played with, episode 46 reveals that [[spoiler: 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]].
* DespiteThePlan: Averted every few episodes where Fred's traps actually work. Lampshaded in episode 9.

--> '''Velma's Mother''': "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?"
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:In 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'']].

** 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.
* DisproportionateRetribution: In "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.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: The female vampire MonsterOfTheWeek in episode 11 goes barefoot.

** "Grim Judgement" has two teen boys stalking and assaulting women they want as girlfriends.
** In episode 7, the Hex Girl's 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 episode 8 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."
** Episode 25: Hatecraft's novel about Char Gar Gothikon is supposedly [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles a major hit in Japan]]...
** For a non-sexual one let's go back to episode 21 with Angel and Velma. [[spoiler: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. [[spoiler: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: 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."

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: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...]].
** [[spoiler:And the second season premiere, if you can believe it, ends on ''another'', nearly as grim a downer ending where TheBadGuyWins, Fred's confidence is destroyed and Daphne refuses to come back to mystery solving]].
** [[spoiler:Episode 37. 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. [[WordOfGod Tony Cervone]] confirms on Twitter that Cassidy did not survive]].
** [[spoiler:Episode 42: 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]].
** [[spoiler:Episode 43: 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]].
* DramaticThunder: Done near the end of "The Shrieking Madness."
* DreamWithinADream: 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.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Shaggy's instructor at military school in "The Night The Clown Cried."

** The MotiveRant for "Lord Infernicus" in "Mystery Solver State Finals."

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

** Gus, or "G-man" from episode 7 is basically the eccentric Ronnie "Z-man" Barzell from [[Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls a certain creepy schlock film]]. That may make him a case of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, actually. 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.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: [[Radar/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Enough examples for its own page]].

* ElementsOfNature: [[spoiler:The four keys that unlock the way to the treasure of Crystal Cove are themed this way, as are the strange worlds that lie beyond the gates]].

* EldritchLocation: [[spoiler: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]].

** In the penultimate episode, Marcie [[spoiler: Gets ''shot to death'' offscreen. She comes back the next episode along with all the other dead characters when the [[BigBad Evil Entity]] is destroyed, but ''still.'']]

** The Blue Falcon has gone from [[Series/{{Batman}} Adam West]] to [[ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns Frank Miller]].