History ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated / TropesAToC

* AchillesInHisTent: Episode 26:[[spoiler: When Fred realizes that his [[WasItAllALie whole life has been a lie]], he leaves town and declares Mystery Incorporated to be dead. Good thing for him and the gang that Mr E has [[TheDeterminator Scooby]] pegged; once he works out his issues, the title character will speed along [[TenMinuteRetirement the process of getting things back to normal]]]].

* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: [[WesternAnimation/TheFunkyPhantom Mudsy]]]], in a MythologyGag. However, this was a dream of Scooby's, and the real, benevolent [[spoiler: Mudsy]] doesn't exist.

* AdrenalineMakeover: Principal Quinlen in "The Mystery Solvers Club State Finals." She starts off as very nervous and upset but the frantic pace and perils of the mystery causes her to lose her ponytail, glasses, and the top buttons of her blouse, and gains a more adventurous attitude.
* AdultFear: [[spoiler:It turns out that Fred Jones Sr. ''kidnapped Fred as a child'', taking him away from his real parents and feeding lie after lie to him, bringing the issue of parents not just lying to you, but not really owning you and treating you that way]].

* AfterlifeAntechamber: The place in Nightmare In Red is described as the boundary between life and the afterlife, and it holes the best aspects of the people living there [[spoiler: El Aguirre feels that he and his men should remain there as they unleashed the monster. Cassidy Williams, Ed Machine and the previous (deceased) members of Mystery solvers clubs all are presumably stuck there]].

** [[spoiler:It's also implied that the series is a prequel to the existing ''ScoobyDoo'' universe, so all the CharacterDevelopment over the two seasons will eventually be reset]]

* AdrenalineMakeover: Principal Quinlen in "The Mystery Solvers Club State Finals". She starts off as very nervous and upset but the frantic pace and perils of the mystery causes her to lose her ponytail, glasses, and the top buttons of her blouse, and gains a more adventurous attitude.

* AdultsAreUseless: In Episode 2 none of the parents can give the kids a ride home, for reasons such as "I just got comfortable" and "It's dark out there". The kids were stranded alone in a small suspicious town that had recently been having people disappear.
** Not all adults are. Velma's mom knows a lot about the supernatural and the gang goes there when they don't have a lead on monsters. And in episode 25, Professor Hatecraft helps the kids [[spoiler: even going as far as to stand up to the monster of the week.]]

* AffectionateParody: The second half of episode 10 is a shameless parody of the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' films. Several shots are almost identical to those used in the film, such as [[spoiler: only half of the Fright Hound's face being pulled off]] or [[spoiler: the fully robotic body rising out of the fire, without a scratch on it.]] Oh yeah, and there's also the mech from ''Film/{{Aliens}}''

* AfterlifeAntechamber: The place in Nightmare In Red is described as the boundary between life and the afterlife, and it holes the best aspects of the people living there [[spoiler: El Aguirre feels that he and his men should remain there as they unleashed the monster. Cassidy Williams, Ed Machine and the previous (deceased) members of Mystery solvers clubs all are presumably stuck there.]]
** [[spoiler: The room also holds the better sides of still-living people corrupted, including a teenaged Ricky Owens, what we can assume are the parental and loving aspects of adult Brad and Judy, and the paternal side of Fred Jones Sr.]]
* AllJustADream: The events of [[spoiler:"The Mystery Solvers Club State Finals"]].

** Episode 24: [[spoiler: Fred finally gets the message. He proposes to Daphne.]]
** [[spoiler: Episode 26 gets Daphne to reveal they are engaged but when Fred finds out about his past, let's just say that these two won't be married for quite some time.]]
** Episode 30: [[spoiler: Daphne now simply wants to be friends with Fred.]]
** Episode 31: [[spoiler: Scooby falls for Brad and Judy's cocker spaniel Nova, and he asks the two people about love that he shouldn't: Fred and Velma.]]

** As Velma states in the season 2 premiere, "The town hates us when we're not needed, cheers us when we are".
* AllPartOfTheShow: This is what happens when the ghost of Friar Serra attacks the production in "Theater of Doom". Director Vincent Van Ghoul gets hailed as a genius.
* AllUpToYou: Scooby Doo and the other non-human {{sidekick}}s have to solve the mystery when the teenage sleuths are abducted in "The Mystery Solvers Club State Finals".
** Taken literally in Episode 26. [[spoiler: The gang has broken up due to Fred going to find who he is, Daphne chewing out Velma for her keeping Angel's identity all to herself and Shaggy being sent to military school. Scooby swears to Pericles that he's going to bring the gang back together to hunt him down.]]
*** [[spoiler: Episode 27: It's Velma who has taken the initiative. Disguised as a mysterious stranger, she tells the new mayor of Crystal Cove, Janet Nettles, to get Mystery Inc. to solve the mystery of the Crybaby Clown. Scooby escapes from the farm and is rescued by Mayor Nettles, then he springs Shaggy from military school. The disguised Velma then rescues Fred from being blown up by the Crybaby Clown before revealing herself. Daphne has a new boyfriend and now she thinks mystery solving was all a waste of time.]]

* [[spoiler:AlternateTimeline: After destroying the evil Annunaki, the Gang end up in a LighterAndSofter version of Crystal Cove As an example of the changes, Crystal Cove is now billed as being the ''SUNNIEST'' place on Earth and all the tourism dollars are spent lauding the scenery.]]

* AnswerCut: In Episode 8 when the Queen says they must keep out the pirates because "Who knows what shambling low-lives will arrive?". Enter Shaggy and Scooby dressed as pirates.

** Season 2 has [[spoiler:"Nibiru..."]] and [[spoiler: "The dog dies.."]]

* ArtifactOfDoom: The Conquistadors' Treasure and the Planispheric Disk that leads to it are implied to be the reason Crystal Cove is cursed. There is some evidence that the curse may be real [[spoiler:in "The Hodag of Horror" one piece manipulates its owner so it can be reunited with the others.]]
** [[spoiler: A Conquistador's spirit appears at the end of episode 34 once the gang takes off with the fifth piece. The spirit slowly disappears as it laughs, so yes, there could be a menacing curse.]]
** [[spoiler: And it's all coming together...the centerpiece of the Conquistadors' Treasure, on which Crystal Cove was founded upon, is a SealedEvilInACan, who has cursed the Disk to corrupt people and animals into seeking out all the pieces and finding the treasure, unleashing him from imprisonment, and causing ''doomsday'' to happen.]]
** [[spoiler: Scooby himself senses it in a nightmare in episode 46. He pleads to the gang to destroy the treasure once it's found.]]
* ArtShift: Episode 14 has the cast appear [[ThickLineAnimation as they did]] [[MythologyGag in the original series.]] There also appears not to be any ConspicuousCGI.

* BeardOfSorrow: [[spoiler: After the events of the Downer Ending and his continued failure to find his parents, Fred begins season two sporting his "hobo look".]]
* BedlamHouse: [[ShoutOut Animal Asylum]] [[Franchise/{{Batman}} For the Criminally Insane.]]

** Although the Hatecraft thing is debatable. [[spoiler: The two are planning to write a book together after the Char Gar Gothikon thing has been dealt with.]]

** BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Nibiru, the SealedEvilInACan that's the source of the Curse of Crystal Cove.]]

** [[spoiler: Fred's family is incredibly screwed up. His adopted father turned out to be a villain, who was only keeping him around as leverage to keep his actual parents at bay. However, his actual parents aren't much better as they made no attempt to contact him during their exile and, it's strongly implied they are just using him to get to the treasure.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Nibiru Entity is destroyed saving the universe from doom! However it's a recreated/divergent timeline based on what happened without the Entity below Crystal Cove to corrupt it causing what should be idyllic lives for the gang... however they now feel like strangers in their own homes as these aren't quite the people or home they know. Worse yet, for them, this perfect setting seems to have no mysteries. A message from Harlan Ellison, who knows about the reality change, telling them to come to Miskatonic University perks them up and they resolve to travel across the country and while it means leaving everything behind they're now able to travel the road together doing what they love.]]
** [[spoiler: In addition to their own problems with the new world. Not everyone is better off. Daphne's sisters for example, who went from all being prodigies with high profile careers, to underachieving slackers with Daphne being the only one their parents can be proud of.]]

* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Happens to EVERYONE of the main cast in the season one finale. [[DownerEnding Yeah.]]]]

* BrownBagMask: Sheriff Stone dons one to conceal his identity after he loses his job in "Dead Justice".

** And the publicist who appeared in part two of "Night The Clown Cried".
* CaptainColorbeard: Scooby uses the pirate name 'Dogbeard' in "The Grasp of the Gnome".

* CeilingCorpse: A professor was found in a cocoon on the ceiling. [[spoiler:He did it to himself to appear innocent.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: Many of the Ascended Extras are at first unimportant, then vital, or at least important to the episode, like George Avocados, Marcie Fleach, or Gary and Ethan. Harlan Ellison is just a book-writer whom Angie knows, and is friendly to H.P. Hatecraft [[spoiler: at the very end, he reveals he knows about parallel universes, and knows what the CosmicRetcon was.]]

* CoatHatMask: [[spoiler:Velma]] wears this disguise while contacting the mayor in "The Night The Clown Cried".

* CodeName: Episode 31 [[spoiler: has the gang communicating via walkie-talkie with the code names "Smart Girl" (Velma), "Smokin' Hottie" (Daphne) and "Scarf Boy" (Fred).]]

** Episode 25 not only has Hatecraft show up again, [[spoiler: Alice May is back messing with the gang in a different costume.]]

** Episode 48: All the people associated with the treasure appear in the dream sequence: "Benevelent Lodge of Mystery, The Darrow family, the original mystery inc, even Ed Machine and [[spoiler: Fred Jones Senior.]]

* [[spoiler:CosmicRetcon: The demise of the Nibiru Entity erases it from existence. As a result, its influence is removed from history, changing Crystal Cover to a normal, happy town and giving the original Mystery Inc the lives they ''should'' have had without his influence.]]

* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: In one episode, Fred rescue Daphne from the rising water of a [[DeathTrap swimming pool]]. Fred ask her if she's alright. Daphne, who is unharmed, take advantage of the situation and tells Fred to give her CPR. [[ChasteHero It doesn't work.]]
* CrazyPrepared: In Episode 21, Fred explains to Velma that he gave the Planespheric disc piece [[spoiler: to Shaggy and Scooby cause they'd be the last person to have it.]] Episode 26 reveals that Shaggy and Scooby do have it in a bed/fridge that they keep in the case that they don't get an evening snack before bed.

* CrustyCaretaker: Gravedigger Evallo von Meanskrieg in "The Gathering Gloom".

** [[spoiler:Justified in that apparently all of the villains were being manipulated by the Nibiru Entity's presence.]]

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* BMovie: The [[VincentPrice Vincent Van Ghoul]] movies. He's starred in at least 400, we can assume they were cranked out fast and on a low budget. Their titles include ''[[Film/TheFly1958 The Mutant Bee]]'', ''[[Film/TheAbominableDrPhibes The Repellant Dr. Phobos]]'' (Doubles as a bit of ActorAllusion) and ''[[Film/HauntedCastle The Castle of Gummy Discharge]]''.

* AllWomenAreLustful: Velma and Daphne are both shown to be much more sexually aggressive than either of their respective love interests, with Shaggy being generally hesitant and timid about openly expressing his feelings and Fred being heavily implied to be [[{{Asexualality}} asexual]].

* BreatherEpisode: Episode 40, with Blue Falcon and Dynomutt. Mind you, Blue Falcon is a walking homage to Franchise/{{Batman}} as written by FrankMiller, but the whole thing is basically played for laughs and but for a sole scene has no immediate effect on the rest of the series.

** Season 2 features more of the Quest family, along with [[DynomuttDogWonder Dynomutt and Blue Falcon]], who appear in episode 40.

* CarMeetsHouse: In "Mystery Solvers Club State Finals", Principal Quinlan gets into her office by driving SpeedBuggy through the wall. Of course, it is a FeverDreamEpisode.

* BMovie: The [[VincentPrice Vincent Van Ghoul]] movies. He's starred in at least 400, we can assume they were cranked out fast and on a low budget. Their titles include ''[[TheFly The Mutant Bee]]'', ''[[TheAbominableDrPhibes The Repellant Dr. Phobos]]'' (Doubles as a bit of ActorAllusion) and ''[[HauntedCastle The Castle of Gummy Discharge]]''.

** The end of the series [[spoiler:implies that the original continuity may be the AlternateTimeline below.]]
* [[spoiler:AlternateTimeline: After destroying the evil Annunaki, the Gang end up in a LighterAndSofter world more akin to the original series. As an example of the changes, Crystal Cove is now billed as being the ''SUNNIEST'' place on Earth and all the tourism dollars are spent lauding the scenery.]]

** The show itself is stylistically set in what looks to be the 60s or 70s, vinyl records and the like have their place but such futuristic marvels like cassette players, compact discs and cellphones make appearances. Despite the presence of Laptops, desktops by in large are bulky and resember computers from the early 80's.

* TheCastShowoff: Daphne gets to sing, not one, but TWO songs in the episode "In Fear Of The Phantom". GreyDeLisle knocks both right out of the park.

* CluelessMystery: Episode 15.

** "Escape from Mystery Manor" is a riff on the ''Film/{{Saw}}'' movies.

* AncientAstronauts: [[spoiler:Revealed to be the primary forces at work in Crystal Cove in Season 2. Interdimensional beings known as the Annunaki utilize animals as vessels, causing them to talk and being responsible for a variety of mythological figures around the world from Egyptian and Sumerian gods to Sun Wukong and [[UsefulNotes/AztecMythology Quetzalcoatl]], with talking animals such as Scooby Doo being explained as descendants of these vessels]]

* BabaYaga: Featured in Episode 28

* AscendedExtra: Hot Dog Water appeared twice as a background/cutaway gag; [[spoiler:eventually she's revealed as the villain in episode 21, and later as the replacement for Daphne in the Mystery Inc. Gang.]]
** Gary and Ethan: Were just background characters, who gradually got more and more screen time, before [[spoiler: being the villain(s) in Grim Judgement.]]
** Ernesto and his activists appeared once as an activist group when the gang visit a college, and a few episodes later they reappear protesting Destroido, [[spoiler: and they are the villainous fishmen in that episode.]]
** Vincent Van Ghoul appears in a MythologyGag movie series commonly seen on the television, before later appearing in person.
** George Avocados first appears as the mayors rival, then as a guest at a dinner party, he becomes more important when its revealed that he's considerably poorer (Scarebear), and farms avocados, which are accidentally blown up [[spoiler: he is the ghost in Theater of Doom, and upon his capture Fred exclaims "Yes finally! I knew you'd be the villain eventually," and he states that it was finally him after previous misdirects.]]

* ArcWelding: Happens more and more frequently as the show goes on.

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: The Nibiru Entity is destroyed saving the universe from doom! However it's a recreated/divergent timeline based on what happened without the Entity below Crystal Cove to corrupt it causing what should be idyllic lives for the gang... however they now feel like strangers in their own homes as these aren't quite the people or home they know. Worse yet, for them, this perfect setting seems to have no mysteries. A message from Harlan Ellison, who knows about the reality change, telling them to come to Miskatonic University perks them up and they resolve to travel across the country and while it means leaving everything behind they're now able to travel the road together doing what they love.]]

** Season 2 is set to feature more of the Quest family, along with [[DynomuttDogWonder Dynomutt and Blue Falcon]] (those two will appear in episode 40).

** Yogi Bear shows up at the end of Episode 10.