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Though this series remains about as light and soft as the original, it still provides a few examples:- "Big Scare in the Big Easy":
- The gang spends a lot of time searching through a graveyard and looking for clues about two ghosts that come to life and fight each other. These ghosts are pretty terrifying, about as much as you can get from this series.
- It's made worse when Daphne tells Shaggy and Scooby that she wasn't wailing, and the ending implies that it was one of them moaning from beyond the grave.
- "Farmed and Dangerous":
- The Monster of the Week is a demonic zombie-like farmer with rotting, green flesh and a scythe replacing one of his arms. Like Pharaoh Scamses, it's a surprisingly disturbing monster design for a light-hearted cartoon, especially regarding his face.
- His backstory, made Deliberately Monochrome, had him get run over by his tractor for building his farm on a graveyard.
- The response from the "Hi-Tech House of Horrors" when Velma realizes that they need to stop fighting it in order to defeat it:
- "Wrestle Maniacs": The backstory of the Twisted Titan. He was a wrestler that fell victim to the Titanic Twist, a wrestling move that was so dangerous it was outlawed the one time it was used. Judging by the way the poor guy who fell victim to it was twitching in the flashback, it was VERY painful.
- "A Terrifying Round with a Menacing Metallic Clown":
- The Teaser, where a pair of siblings are playing mini-golf beside a giant clown head. Then the clown head comes to life and devours the boy and advances toward the girl before fade-out.
- Actually, the premise of this episode Velma being terrified of clowns and playing Shaggy's part, while Shaggy takes Fred's part due to him being the headliner act of the mini-golf tournament where the action is taking place is just freaky if you know the characters at all. The role reversal is just creepy.
- The reason for Velma's half of the above is pretty darn creepy when you think about it. At one of her childhood birthday parties, she received an encyclopedia set, which naturally delighted her. However the clown performing at the party assumed it was just some boring gift from an out-of-touch adult and proceeded to shred it to make confetti. Hard to blame Velma for how she reacted to that.
- The mummy from "Mummy Scares Best" is pretty creepy. Especially those glowing red eyes.
- Even though it's based on a popular misconception/Urban Legend taken up to eleven, the boat trip back from Alcatraz in "The San Franpsycho" with the gang's boat being repeatedly attacked by ferocious sharks. Furthermore, they aren't just regular sharks — they're Bruce-size monstrosities that seem bent on tearing the gang's sinking boat apart. Given the damage just one regular shark can do while hardly trying, the gang were lucky that they managed to get close to shore before the boat went under.
- The San Franspsycho himself has one of the scarier designs of this incarnation. He resembles a zombie covered in seaweed with a hook for a right arm, but what sells it are the glowing red eyes.
- "There's No Creature Like Snow Creature": The Snow Creature costume has a pretty scary design. Fred reassures the others its just a "terrifying monster suit with some creep inside", until Shaggy pokes a hole in it:Shaggy: There's only one thing missing from your theory, Fred.Fred: What?Shaggy: (looking through the clearly transparent monster) Like, the creep inside!
- "Fright House of a Lighthouse":
- The backstory of the Creepy Keeper. He was a corrupt lighthouse keeper that sought a priceless treasure that was being carried in by ship, so he turned off the light of the lighthouse during a perfect storm to sink the ship (and presumably kill everyone on board) to ensure that only he would know where to dive for the treasure. Immediately afterwards, Karma caught up with him in the form of a stray branch that pushed him down the hatch of the lighthouse to his death.
- The Keeper's design is also quite spooky: Prophet Eyes, rotting skin, and wild hair flying about his face.
- Homeward Hound has Scooby-Doo and the Secret Six dognapped and put into peril numerous times throughout the ordeal and all because Meadow wanted no competition for her dog Lady Moonbeam.
- "Lights! Camera! Mayhem!": The Faceless Phanrom has a rather eerie design, with a body wrapped in tattered rags and a face covered in shadows. But the hoarse, shrieking voice it has kicks the fear up a notch.Faceless Phantom: Abandon this production, all who wish to live!
- The fish monster from "Uncle Scooby and Antarctica" looks terrifying enough, but its introduction during the Cold Open has it kidnap Dr. Zola and throw him into the icy waters. There's also the smile it has when it stalks Scooby underwater.
- "Large Dragon at Large": The joust between Fred and Jamison Stephen Ripley. It's never made clear if Ripley switched the lances or they were always meant to be real. What is clear is after the joust is disrupted by Shaggy and Scooby, the suit of armor they'd been wearing can clearly be seen impaled on one of the lances. Luckily, the two had flown out of the armor before impact. Somebody could have really been hurt, or worse.
