History ScoobyDoo / TropesAToM

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: To all who became acquainted with the series via a post-1990 production, the cartoons from the 60s and 70s may startle due to how undeveloped the characters of Velma, Daphne and Fred were.

* FiveManBandConcert: After they solve the mystery and if [[FakeBand "The Hex Girls"]] are involved, there's a concert and the gang is often a backing band of sorts for "The Hex Girls". BigFriendlyDog is on the percussion, LovableCoward is on the bass, TheChick Daphne is on the tambourine, TheSmartGal Velma is on the keyboard, and StandardizedLeader Fred is on the guitar. All of them are appropriately dressed following the goth style that characterizes "The Hex Girls". Such lucky, InUniverse [[AscendedFanboy Ascended Fans]]. There have been variations in the arrangement, though.

** The death of [[spoiler:the cat people]] in ''Scooby Doo on Zombie Island'' goes straight into NightmareFuel. Also the death of the former inhabitants. Being forced to go into a sea where alligators just wait for their meal? Charming.

* BeautifulAllAlong: Rarely, Velma will lose the frumpy outfit and thick glasses to reveal she actually can be quite pretty. She's also pretty [[BuxomIsBetter well-endowed]], even though she downplays it with her oversized orange sweater.

* AmusementParkOfDoom: Every incarnation has at least one of these. One of the earlier examples had a runaway robot mess with the controls. ''The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby Doo'', had one of the titular villains run one of these.

* CutShort: Scooby-Doo and his friends never ''did'' catch all 13 ghosts from ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo''. Technically, only 11 ghosts were shown being caught at all - and no ghosts were captured in the pilot.
** The DVD feature ''Scooby-Doo and the Curse of the 13th Ghost'' presumably fills the gap but it still doesn't account for the twelfth ghost.

** In the first episode of ''Mystery Inc.'', Shaggy mentions that he fell asleep watching "a Vincent van Ghoul movie". Vincent van Ghoul was the group's mentor in ''The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby Doo''. In the same episode, several previous mysteries are seen in a museum, with Velma mentioning a few mysteries, and giving out the motives and identities of the "monsters".

** The 2012 special ''Spooky Games'' uses the same premise as the 1973 Scooby Doo Movies episode "The Spirited Spooked Sports Show'' (with Tim Conway)--Shaggy becoming a competitive runner who runs fastest when he's scared.

* FiveManBand
** Fred: TheLeader: He makes the plans, designs the traps, and decides when to [[LetsSplitUpGang split up]].
** Shaggy: TheLancer: When the gang does split up, Shaggy leads one half. Shaggy (along with Scooby) often notices creepy things that Fred had missed. Shaggy likes to sneak away with Scooby to [[BigEater eat a large snack]].
** Velma: [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: The girl who examines the clues. When Fred unmasks the monster, expect Velma to explain today's ScoobyDooHoax.
** Scooby: TheBigGuy: Dumb as a dog, but loyal -- though he may require a Scooby snack -- and necessary to sniff out clues.
** Daphne: TheChick: She can talk, stumble into secret passages, and become the monster's DamselInDistress.
** Scrappy: SixthRanger. Or, isn't the Mystery Machine technically the actual Sixth?

* CreepyOldFashionedDivingSuit: The ghost of Captain Cutler is an old-fashioned light-green deep sea diving suit covered by [[GlowingFlora glowing seaweed]], said to be the returning ghost of a dead captain. As the Mystery Gang discovered, [[ScoobyDooHoax it was just a man who had faked his own death so he could pretend to be a ghost and steal the yachts of the region]], but his uniqueness and importance as one of the first monsters that appeared in the series ensured he got several appearances and cameos throughout the franchise.

* {{Meganekko}}:
** Velma is a classic example.
** Also Madelyne and the birdwatcher's wife/girlfriend in ''Abracadabra Doo''.
** And Velma's aunt in ''A Scooby Doo Halloween''.

* MonsterClown: Quite a lot of these.
* MonsterMash: In a few of the movies.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Usually, the monsters they caught are people in masks. On several occasions, they encountered real ones as well.
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Used in a few movies and episodes, including Igor and his coach Sergei from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooSpookyGames''.

** The death of [[spoiler:the cat people]] in ''Scooby Doo on Zombie Island'' goes straight into NightmareFuel. Also the death of the former inhabitants. Being forced to go into a sea where alligators (or crocodiles?) just wait for their meal? Charming.

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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: ''Witch's Ghost'' treats witches and UsefulNotes/{{Wicca}} as two separate WitchSpecies, meaning a) one character claims his ancestor was a Wiccan who was burned at the stake 300 years before the religion was founded ([[spoiler:granted, said character was lying and she really was a witch]]), and b) one of the Hex Girls is "one-sixteenth Wiccan".

** In ''Snack Attacked!'' from the same series, the gang creates another fake mystery to distract Scooby while the Scooby Snack Factory is preparing a new brand with his face on the box.

-->Zoinks! What's going on here, readers? Those costumed clown superheroes usually appear in other comic books! Perhaps you should check the indicia at the bottom of the page to see if you're really holding a copy of ''Scooby Doo Mystery Comics''...

* MediumAwareness: In the comic story "Mark of the Blue Scarab" (Gold Key #24), the narrator affects this on the first page where the title character is chasing Shaggy an Scooby:

-->Zoinks! What's going on here, readers? Those costume clown superheroes usually appear in other comic books! Perhaps you should check the indicia at the bottom of the page to see if you're really holding a copy of ''Scooby Doo Mystery Comics''...

* {{Expy}}: [[WeirdAlEffect It's mostly forgotten now]], but the characters of Fred, Velma, Daphne and Shaggy were originally thinly disguised knockoffs of Dobie, Zelda, Thalia and Maynard from ''Series/TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis''.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqLS4Sg0GDA Night of the Living Doo]]'', a parody of ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies'' which aired on Halloween in 2001.

*** #2 - "Phantom Of The Castle" (from "Hassle in the Castle").
*** #3 - "One Spook Too Many" (from "The Backstage Rage")

*** #6 - "The Ghost of Redbeard" (from "Go Away Ghost Ship"; reprinted in issue #26).

*** #10 - "The Ghosts of Grimstone Castle" (very loosely from "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts").