History WesternAnimation / ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: [[TakingYouWithMe Sarah's ghost drags Ben with her]] when she's pulled back into her diary. And then a burning branch destroys the diary so neither one can ever escape again.]]

** [[spoiler:Ben Ravencroft]] gives to to the Mystery Inc. gang after revealing his true colors and aging warlock powers from the spell book.

** The Witch gives one to [[spoiler: Ben Ravencroft]] after the latter demands her loyalty for being released.

* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler: Ben Ravencroft is gunning for this, wanting to rule the world alongside his ancestor Sarah. However, to his dismay, he finds that Sarah wants to ''destroy'' the world, not rule it, and ends up at her mercy while she takes center stage as the BigBad.]]

* BigFun: Mayor Corey and Jack the diner owner are plump, jolly, welcoming individuals. [[spoiler: That being said, both are part of the fake witch conspiracy. Mayor Corey does show up to apologize afterwards, but Jack doesn't]].

** Velma screams "No" when [[spoiler: Ben activates the book's magic]], and another when [[spoiler: he is blessed with dark magic.]]
** [[spoiler: By Sarah when Thorn successfully recites the incantation to reimprison her.]]
** [[spoiler: Ben shouts three of them when Sarah pulls him into the book with her.]]

* CardCarryingVillain: [[spoiler:Ben has no delusions about whether or not he and Sarah are the bad guys, and Sarah doesn't seem to either. Justified, as the spell to obtain dark magical power literally involves calling upon the forces of evil, so the spell book didn't exactly leave much ambiguity about which side you're on if you use it.]]

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Ben Ravencroft orchestrated the entire events that lead the gang to Oakhaven, including being behind the Museum mystery at the start of the movie that would lead to Velma meeting him.]]

* CuteLittleFangs: The Hex Girls sport [[spoiler: prosthetic]] vampire fangs as part of their image.

* DecoyBackstory: Mystery Inc. is invited by famous horror writer Ben Ravencroft to Oakhaven for Harvest Fest, where Ben's supposed ancestor Sarah is accused of a witch when really, back then, she was a Wiccan who healed the innocent, and we get an appropriate flashback for such. [[spoiler:But it turns out Sarah wasn't a Wiccan at all; she was indeed a witch whom Ben is trying to free from her spell book prison.]]

-->[[spoiler: '''Ben:''']] This isn't what I envisioned. We were supposed to ''rule'' the world ''together'', not ''destroy'' it!

* EvilIsNotAToy: [[spoiler: Ben]] frees [[spoiler: Sarah]] from her imprisonment in the hopes of [[WeCanRuleTogether ruling the world together along with her]]. What he doesn't count on is that [[spoiler: Sarah]] is more OmnicidalManiac than EvilOverlord.

** The Witch's Ghost has one clearly inspired by ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. [[spoiler: The real Witch's Ghost has a much more impressive one.]]
** [[spoiler: Ben Ravencroft has a pretty great one too, after his true nature is revealed. Of course, it's a given since he's voiced by Creator/TimCurry, who's known for his memorable EvilLaugh.]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Ben being pulled inside Sarah's spellbook when she is being re-sealed by Thorn, followed by the book being burnt by a flaming tree.]]

** Ben becomes visibly irritated and annoyed when Velma continues to incessantly gush about his work, and is extremely eager to cut her off once they arrive in Oakhaven. [[spoiler: This is a hint that he is a BitchInSheepsClothing and is only using the gang for his own ends.]]
** Potkins begins the famous "YouMeddlingKids" phrase after being caught, only to put the blame on Ben, [[spoiler: hinting that this is really a hoax.]] In addition, Ben is the one who does the unmasking, [[spoiler: foreshadowing he set the whole thing up.]]
** Ben somehow knows the names of the entire Mystery Inc. crew, he even snickers a little when pointing out Scooby and Shaggy. [[spoiler: This is because he read about them in the newspaper, prompting him to set up the museum hoax from the start.]]

* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler: As with the villains featured in the film before this one, Ben and Sarah Ravencroft are very much dangerous threats that should be taken seriously. They don't drain all the comedy from the movie after their true colors are revealed, but the entire last twenty minutes of the movie become a desperate fight for survival against their dark magic.]]

* MagicMustDefeatMagic: After evil witch Sarah Ravencroft's vengeful spirit is released from her spell book, only Thorn (who has Wiccan blood) is able to defeat her by using a spell to seal her back in the book again.
* ManEatingPlant: [[spoiler: Sarah]] turns a few pumpkins into giant monsters that chase after Shaggy and Scooby.

* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Ben Ravencroft and Mystery Inc. attempt to clear Sarah's name because they believe she was this. As it turns out [[spoiler: she was indeed very evil, something Ravencroft was aware of from the beginning.]]

* OmnicidalManiac: Upon being freed from her imprisonment, [[spoiler: Sarah's immediate priority is to destroy the world as revenge for said imprisonment, [[EvenEvilHasStandards much to Ben's shock]]]].

* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler: Everything learned about Ben near the climax takes on a whole new meaning since the audience now knows his true motives and the reason he appeared from the start.]]

** [[spoiler: Sarah Ravencroft is revealed to be a real, evil witch, and her descendant, Ben, a warlock, when the gang uncovers Sarah's journal full of rhyming spells. Thorn, who is descended from a Wiccan (basically the film's [[ArtisticLicenseReligion Artistic License]] term for a "[[GoodWitchVersusBadWitch good witch]]"), is also able to use one of these spells to seal Sarah back into the book.]]
* ScareChord: A deep, guttural one plays when [[spoiler: Sarah's journal is found and revealed to be an evil grimoire]].

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: Sarah was actually a WickedWitch and her ghost has been kept in her diary for centuries.]]

* SpellBook: [[spoiler: What the diary, which Ben Ravencroft is seeking, is.]]

* TemptingFate: Ben offers to pay the bill for Scooby and Shaggy's lunch before they start. Velma jokes that he's going to regret it, and she's right. [[spoiler: Mercifully, he doesn't live long enough to have to pay the surely massive bill Scooby and Shaggy left him as he's taken into Sarah's prison with no way to return.]]

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When Scooby and Shaggy go to eat at Jack's diner, Ben says it's on him. The others warn him that he's going to regret it, and sure enough, Scooby and Shaggy eat inhumanly huge amounts of food and surely rack up a colossal, easily four figure meal. [[spoiler: Mercifully, Ben is trapped forever in Sarah's destroyed spell book before he has to pay the bill, but it elicits a similar reaction as this tropes.]]
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[spoiler: Almost the entire climax of the movie is played up in the trailers, especially where Sarah is released and Ben is revealed to be EvilAllAlong. Sarah is even featured on the boxart.]]
* VictoryFakeout: All the film's scary events have been revealed to be [[spoiler: a hoax put on by the townsfolk to drum up tourism]]. The mystery is solved, hooray! The gang then gives Ben the broken buckle from Sarah's diary...[[spoiler: and the ''real'' supernatural horror starts]].
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: [[spoiler: Ben and Sarah Ravencroft, however, Sarah is a definite force to be reckoned with.]]

* WhamShot: [[spoiler: The shot revealing that Sarah's journal that Ben has been searching for - supposedly one about her medicine that will clear her name - has a huge, demonic skull on it. This immediately makes it clear that Ben was ''not'' telling the truth about his ancestor.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Daphne''']]: [[spoiler:Looks kinda evil to belong to a Wiccan healer.]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Velma''']]: [[spoiler:Ben, that doesn't seem to be a journal at all.]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Ben''']]: [[spoiler:Because it isn't, Velma. [[WhamLine It's a spellbook.]]]]
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Inverted. [[spoiler: Sarah Ravencroft was indeed a witch, but neither the Mayor nor the modern day townsfolk knew that when they promoted the rumor of the Witch's Ghost as a tourist trap. When their ScoobyDooHoax is exposed, each of them is called out on the principle of their dishonesty, and seem to be ashamed about it.]]

** Potkins begins the famous "YouMeddlingKids" phrase after being caught, only to put the blame on Ben, [[spoiler: hinting this is really a hoax.]] In addition, Ben is the one who does the unmasking, [[spoiler: foreshadowing he set the whole thing up.]]

* ImpactSilhoutte: Scooby and Shaggy leave these when fleeing from the false Witch's Ghost. When everyone returns, the holes are still there.

* EvilerThanThou: [[spoiler:Ben finds out too late that Sarah not only dwarfs him in power but desires to destroy the world in revenge for her imprisonment than rule it as he he intended.]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Daphne''']]: [[spoiler:Looks kinda evil to belong to a Wiccan healer.]]\

* FiveManBandConcert: After they solve the mystery, there's a celebratory concert and the gang gets to perform as a backing band of sorts for [[FakeBand "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". They play the iconic song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJDaaCtJ85c "Earth, Wind, Fire, and Air"]] as well as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QcCY8X87A4 "Those Meddling Kids"]].

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Dusk and Luna run for it after they're freed.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The film establishes Thorn as one-sixteenth Wiccan, which would make sense if Wicca doubled as an ethnic identity, but it doesn't. They also push the age of Wicca back at least to the Salem witch trials, whereas it actually dates from the 20th century (so being one-sixteenth Wiccan, which would take five generations, is only barely possible even if you involve a lot of {{squick}}). In the finale, this means (and somehow it's Daphne who just intuitively knows this, and not the one-sixteenth Wiccan herself, though she was admittedly terrified out of her mind at the time and never took her vague Wicca-relation seriously in the first place) that she can cast magic, defeating the evil Witch. Oh yes, in this movie, rather than simply an ecologically-focused type of spirituality, [[GoodWitchVersusBadWitch Wiccans are good magic-users, and Witches are evil ones]].
** overlapping with ArtisticLicenseHistory, Velma claims the word "witch" derives from "Wiccan." This is...technically sort of true, in that the root word is the Old English '' wiċċa,'' but this has nothing to do with the modern religion of Wicca, except insofar as modern Wiccans also take the name of their religion from this old word for 'witch.'

-->[[spoiler:'''Velma:''' Ben Ravencroft's last book is one the world will never buy...]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Shaggy:''' [[BondOneLiner But, like, it would have been a]] ''[[BondOneLiner hot]]'' [[BondOneLiner best seller]].]]

--> '''[[spoiler:Ben]]''': This isn't one of your silly little mysteries! You can't solve ''me'' so easily!

--> '''Sarah''': I serve NO ONE! Leastwise a worm like thee. Aye, thou hast freed me so now I can punish the world for my long imprisonment; I shall create an era of darkness over this land!

--->[[spoiler:'''Daphne''']]: [[spoiler:Looks kinda evil to belong to a Wiccan healer.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Velma''']]: [[spoiler:Ben, that doesn't seem to be a journal at all.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Ben''']]: [[spoiler:Because it isn't, Velma. [[WhamLine It's a spellbook.]]]]

** overlapping with ArtisticLicenseHistory, Velma claims the word "witch" derives from "Wiccan." This is...technically sort of true, in that the root word is the Old English '' wiċċa,' but this has nothing to do with the modern religion of Wicca, except insofar as modern Wiccans also take the name of their religion from this old word for 'witch.'

** overlapping with ArtisticLicenseHistory, Velma claims the word "witch" derives from "Wiccan." This is...technically sort of true, in that the root word is the Old English '' wiċċa,' but this has nothing to do with the modern religion of Wicca, except insofar as modern Wiccans ''also'' take the name of their religion from this old word for 'witch.'

* BigEater: Scooby and Shaggy, proving this once again in one of their more notable eating adventures. They apparently eat so much that Jack has to run to the market to stock up on food to cook, and leaves him with a massive pile of dishes and them with enormous stomachs. It's a wonder Scooby could walk with such a BalloonBelly.

* EvilLaugh: The Witch's Ghost has one clearly inspired by ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. [[spoiler: The real Witch's Ghost has a much more impressive one.]]

* FiveManBandConcert: After they solve the mystery, there's a celebratory concert and the gang gets to perform as a backing band of sorts for [[FakeBand "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". They play the iconic song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJDaaCtJ85c "Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water"]] as well as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QcCY8X87A4 "Those Meddling Kids"]].

* Creator/MookDLE: This studio did the animation.

* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Ben]] isn't wrong when he chews out [[spoiler:the mayor and Thorn's father for using his ancestor's legacy as a tourist attraction. He crosses the line by attacking them with dark magic, however.]]

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The film establishes Thorn as one-sixteenth Wiccan, which would make sense if Wicca doubled as an ethnic identity like Judaism, but it doesn't (and even that somewhat veers into Nazi-level mental gymnastics, seeing as there's nothing that forces someone who ascribes to Judaism to actually be Israeli). They also push the age of Wicca back at least to the Salem witch trials, whereas it actually dates from the 20th century (so being one-sixteenth Wiccan, which would take five generations, is only barely possible even if you involve a lot of {{squick}}). In the finale, this means (and somehow it's Daphne who just intuitively knows this, and not the one-sixteenth Wiccan herself, though she was admittedly terrified out of her mind at the time and never took her vague Wicca-relation seriously in the first place) that she can cast magic, defeating the evil Witch. Oh yes, in this movie, rather than simply an ecologically-focused type of spirituality, [[GoodWitchVersusBadWitch Wiccans are good magic-users, and Witches are evil ones]].

* [[spoiler: FateWorseThanDeath: Ben being pulled inside Sarah's spellbook when she is being re-sealed by Thorn, followed by the book being burnt by a flaming tree.]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: Ben being pulled inside Sarah's spellbook when she is being re-sealed by Thorn, followed by the book being burnt by a flaming tree.

%%* BondOneLiner: Shaggy gets one when [[spoiler:the book Ben and Sarah get trapped in is destroyed by a burning branch]]. See AndIMustScream above.

* CheckhovsGunman: Thorn. Being one-sixteenth Wiccan, this allows her to recite the counterspell to re-seal Sarah.

--> '''[[spoiler:Ben]]''' This isn't one of your silly little mysteries! You can't solve ''me'' so easily!

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Ben Ravencroft orchestrated the entire events that lead the gang to Oakhaven, including being behind the Museum mystery at the start of the movie that would lead to Velma meeting him. ]]

* BadassBoast: The Witch gives one to [[spoiler: Ben Ravencroft]] after the latter demands her loyalty for being released.