History WMG / ScoobyDoo

* [[{{Sarcasm Mode}} OH WOW! I DIDN'T THOUGHT OF THAT!]]It is Word of God, duh.

Freddie is always wanting the gang to "split up and search for clues." Shaggy calls him on this not because he's "chicken," but because he's savvy enough to realize safety in numbers is the best plan in the situations the gang finds themselves in. It's better to make whatever hostile party is out there have to take you all on simultaneously rather than splitting up and allowing them to pick you off one at a time at their leisure. Sure, the monsters ultimately turn out to be people in costumes, but quite a few of them were also dangerous criminals who were clearly prepared to do some really dastardly things to the kids.

Freddie is always wanting the party to "split up and search for clues." Shaggy calls him on this not because he's "chicken," but because he's savvy enough to realize safety in numbers is the best plan in the situations the gang finds themselves in. It's better to make whatever hostile party is out there have to take you all on simultaneously rather than splitting up and allowing them to pick you off one at a time at their leisure. Sure, the monsters ultimately turn out to be people in costumes, but quite a few of them were also dangerous criminals who were clearly prepared to do some really dastardly things to the kids.

Freddie is always wanting the party to "split up and search for clues." Shaggy calls him on this not because he's "chicken," but because he's savvy enough to realize safety in numbers is the best plan in the situations the gang finds themselves in. It's better to make whatever hostile party is out there have to take you all on simultaneously rather than splitting up and allowing them to pick you off one at a time at their leisure. Sure, the monsters ultimately turn out to be a person in a costume, but quite a few of them were also dangerous criminals who were clearly prepared to do some really dastardly stuff to the kids.

Freddie is always wanting the party to "split up and search for clues." Shaggy calls him on this not because he's "chicken," but because he's savvy enough to realize safety in numbers is the best plan in the situations the gang finds themselves in. It's better to make whatever hostile party is out there have to take you all on simultaneously rather than splitting up and allowing them to pick you off one at a time at their leisure.

[[WMG: Shaggy isn't actually a coward, he's just more sensible than Fred.]]
Fred is always wanting the party to "split up and search for clues." Shaggy calls him on this not because he's "chicken," but because he's savvy enough to realize safety in numbers is the best plan in the situations the gang finds themselves in. It's better to make whatever hostile party is out there have to take you all on simultaneously rather than splitting up and allowing them to pick you off one at a time at their leisure.

This is likely, because the animation instead is done in Warner Bros. Animation's typical house style, and for the most part attempts to be more "realistic" and like real life, compared to the originals' more cartoony tones. The gang is all exaggerated parodies of how they originally were, such as Fred being a more [[TheDitz ditzy and scatterbrained]] version of himself, Daphne becoming more fashion-conscious, etc. in a manner similar to ''APupNamedScoobyDoo'', implying that the staff mainly only watched that series for research and references in the series' production process. The staff also most likely hated HannaBarbera's famous StockSoundEffects, and instead gave the sound editors only a small portion of the library and ordered them to make new effects from scratch, to make the show sound more like the real world as well.

* Probable. As long before ''Reluctant Werewolf'' we find Shaggy's family had a werewolf curse. So it turns the fact that he was destined to be that Dracula's new werewolf become a mythology gag.

To continue on with this, the Gang all have a certain degree of trouble dealing with the fact that saving Crystal Cove has made it no longer the town they all remember. While they like the idea of the people living happy lives free from the Nibiru entity's influence, part of each of them sees the place as being half-way to being a {{MarySueTopia}} and thus refer to it by a seemingly-complimentary nickname that hides their real feelings.

[[WMG: The crew behind "What's New Scooby-Doo" most likely did not watch the original series.]]

The original series, with a more serious take on things was Freddy's perspective with him as the hero. What's New Scooby Doo is Daphne's viewpoint, with things being LighterAndSofter. The upcoming Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated is Velma's perspective, with things being much more grounded in reality and her being the main heroine. Finally, the movies are when things got way too real for Shaggy.

** Velma's love interests didn't really occur until the later years. In the original she dances with Shaggy once but it's used for a gag to let Scooby cut in.

[[WMG: Scrappy's father is the dog fron DuckHunt]]

[[WMG: Scooby Doo and the Alien Invaders is an allegory for the Holocaust.]]

It's established in Scooby Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf that Shaggy is next in line to be the wolf- man. That's why he displays super speed, strength, stamina, etc, and why he can eat dog treats. He has canine genes. Even before and after his transformation the werewolf genes were dormant inside him.

* Probable. As long before Reluctant Werewolf we find Shaggy's family had a werewolf curse. So it turns the fact that he was destined to be that Dracula's new werewolf become a mythology gag.
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As it turns out, WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated seems to be the origin story of the Gang. Since Scooby and the others remember the fight with the Nibiru entity, he and Shaggy are worried that all the oddballs in the costumes might herald in a lesser version of the same monster.
* Let's not forget that they had to watch as the Entity ate pretty much everyone that they knew. Sure, they came back afterwards but hanging around the previously dead isn't going to do wonders for anyone's peace of mind.

...and my guess to it would right up the "Twilight Zone" and "Outer Limits" neighborhood. The gang had decide to set a trap. Freddie explains the trap as usual -- but before he can send Shaggy and Scooby-Doo out to get the villain. They heard a a lot of noises similar how Freddie imagines Shaggy and Scooby-Doo would have made from the trap. The villian is trapped, unmasked, and his plan reveal. The gang is about to leave when they heard voice similar to Scooby-Doo and Shaggy from the trap. They pull out another Shaggy and Scooby-Doo from the trap. This puzzle the gang and Daphne is amount to groan about feeding four cowardly eating machines -- but another Daphne enters with another Freddie and another Velma. This second Mystery Inc. is the gang from "WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated". As the two Shaggy and two Scooby-Doo eat, the Crystal Cove gang and the Coolville gang compare notes on their hometowns.

This is likely, because the animation instead is done in Warner Bros. Animation's typical house style, and for the most part attempts to be more "realistic" and like real life, compared to the originals' more cartoony tones. The gang is all exaggerated parodies of how they originally were, such as Fred being a more [[TheDitz|ditzy and scatterbrained]] version of himself, Daphne becoming more fashion-conscious, etc. in a manner similar to ''APupNamedScoobyDoo'', implying that the staff mainly only watched that series for research and references in the series' production process. The staff also most likely hated HannaBarbera's famous StockSoundEffects, and instead gave the sound editors only a small portion of the library and ordered them to make new effects from scratch, to make the show sound more like the real world as well.

In the first live action movie, he tries to kill off an island, steal their souls and take over the world, in a later series, scrappy appears as an exhibit in a museum, that scrappy is the real scrappy who was killed and stuffed, thats why fred said they vowed to never speak of him again

* [[{{Sarcasm Mode}} OH WOW! I DIDN'T THOUGHT OF THAT!]]

This cartoon is a precursor to the XFiles.

This is because the people from the DensierAndWackier version of the timeline are the people that the Gang that destroyed the Nibiru entity believe themselves to have displaced. Every so often, they'll come across clues that there's another van with another group of meddling kids and a talking dog with a speech impediment on their own road-trip only to have them comparing notes about crooked real estate developers in rubber masks.

Whichever one or ones of them that are reality warpers are powerful anti-mages like Doctor Thirteen. As explained in TheBooksOfMagic, ''not'' believing in magic strongly enough can actually cause magical events to lose their magic and become reality.

A slightly different interpretation of the "they're dead" WMG above. The Gang where traveling in the "mystery machine" sometime in the late 1960s, when they where in a car accident that killed them all. After death their souls became trapped in purgatory. This explains why every building they visit is abandoned. Scooby Doo, who in life was a normal, non-talking dog, takes on the role of a sort of "spirit guardian" who's job it is to keep the gang safe after his death. This is because of his strong domestic dog instinct to protect his humans, and a sort of "animal sixth sense" that helps him understand the actual danger the gang's in even if they don't. The monsters are actual demons, which Scooby Doo, in his role of protector, ends up defeating in every episode. After Scooby defeats the demons he kills them, The gang's minds, causes them to hallucinate that the demon is actually just a guy in a mask. This is to protect their psyches from learning the truth they're not ready to learn. The world is derived from their collective sub-conscious, for example the "creepiness" of the places they go, and the forms the demons take comes from Shaggy, the biggest coward of the group, while the "clues" that Velma find are fabrications of her rational mind trying to makes sense of what's happening.

A slightly different interpretation of the "they're dead" WMG above. The Gang where traveling in the "mystery machine" sometime in the late 1960s, when they where in a car accident that killed them all. After death their souls became trapped in purgatory. This explains why every building they visit is abandoned. Scooby Doo, who in life was a normal, non-talking dog, takes on the role of a sort of "spirit guardian" who's job it is to keep the gang safe after his death. This is because of his strong domestic dog instinct to protect his humans. The monsters are actual demons, which Scooby Doo, in his role of protector, ends up defeating in every episode. After Scooby defeats the demons he kills them, The gang's minds, causes them to hallucinate that the demon is actually just a guy in a mask. This is to protect their psyches from learning the truth they're not ready to learn. The world is derived from their collective sub-conscious, for example the "creepiness" of the places they go, and the forms the demons take comes from Shaggy, the biggest coward of the group, while the "clues" that Velma find are fabrications of her rational mind trying to makes sense of what's happening.

[[WMG: The gang is dead, and in purgatory.]]
The Gang where traveling in the "mystery machine" sometime in the late 1960s, when they where in a car accident that killed them all. After death their souls became trapped in purgatory. This explains why every building they visit is abandoned. Scooby Doo, who in life was a normal, non-talking dog in life takes on the role of a sort of "spirit guardian" who's job it is to keep the gang safe after his death because of his strong instinct to protect his humans. The monsters are actual demons, which Scooby Doo, in his role of protector, ends up defeating in every episode. After Scooby defeats the demons he kills them, but not before using his powers to show them hallucinations of the monster not being real, and actually just a guy in a mask. This is to protect their psyches from learning the truth they're not ready to learn. The world is derived from their collective sub-conscious, for example the "creepiness" of the places they go, and the forms the demons take comes from Shaggy, the biggest coward of the group, while the "clues" that Velma find are fabrications of her rational mind trying to makes sense of what's happening.