History WesternAnimation / ScoobyDooFrankencreepy

* CueTheFlyingPigs: When Shaggy and Scooby say they're not hungry, shots of pigs flying and Hell freezing over are quickly shown.

* {{Expy}}: inverted, Despite what you may think Dr. Von Dinkenstein isn't based on Dr. Frankenstein. In fact quite the reverse, InUniverse, Mary Shelley's ''Victor Frankenstein'' is said to be based on him. So it could be said that Victor Frankenstein is an expy of him

** One of the train passengers resembles J.P. Ghastly III from ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'', another Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Unlike ''Scooby-Doo'', the rights to ''Gravedale High'' belong to Creator/{{Universal}} rather than Creator/WarnerBros.

* CutLexLuthorACheck: [[spoiler:As Velma points out in the end of the movie, if the villains had legally sold the natural gas mines to a company or something instead of wasting them on a failed revenge on her and her friends, they each would have made a fortune, thereby accomplishing the goals they had been reaching for with their crimes in the [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou original series]].

* KickTheDog: The brainwashed Velma brutally targets Daphne's insecurity over her appearance after she (apparently) becomes [[FatGirl fat.]]

** Said by Freddie after the Mystery Machine is destroyed.

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In this film, during one of Daphne's {{Web Video}}s on her modeling career that had been turned into a question-and-answer session on the Mystery Inc.'s mystery, they are contacted by the Dinkley family's lawyer. Despite Velma's protesting, the gang head off to meet the lawyer, learning that Velma Dinkley is about to inherit the Castle Von Dinkenstein in Transylvania. Afterward, the Ghost of Dr. Von Dinkenstein destroys the Mystery Machine. The gang go to the town, which is stuck in 19th-century Germany despite a curse.

* MindControledEyes: Velma gets these after she looks into the hypnosis machine. Strangely, they don’t stick to her when she thinks she’s a mad scientist.

* MindControlledEyes: Velma gets these after she looks into the hypnosis machine. Strangely, they don’t stick to her when she thinks she’s a mad scientist.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:The villains basically ignore the fact they got a piece of land that's a natural gas deposit and could have easily gotten stinky rich, but they were too focused on their revenge plot against the gang to realize that until they're told to by Velma]].

* {{Expy}}: Dr. Von Dinkenstein is based on Dr. Frankenstein. Heck, InUniverse, he is the basis for Mary Shelley's ''Victor Frankenstein''.

''Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy'' is the 23rd title in the WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries.

* BreakTheCutie: Daphne, when she finds out she's fat after she's given a dress, later revealed to be filled with air.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:While Scooby has sent a villain on the bus with most episodes, four of them are back for revenge.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: In comparison to even the slighty darker than usual tone the previous movies have had -- the monster this time actively tries to ''kill'' the gang with very direct methods, like blowing up the Mystery Machine or derailing a train. [[spoiler:And it turns out to all be a plan to get revenge on the gang by luring them into a trap in order to blow them all up.]] Also, the main plot is a bit more personal for the main characters, Velma in particular. The PG rating isn't for nothing, people.

* {{EvilCostumeSwitch}}/{{EvilMakeover}}: [[spoiler: When hypnotized into acting like a MadScientist, Velma wears a purple dress and has pink “Bride of Frankenstein”-style hair.]]

* FlyAtTheCameraEnding: The Mystery Machine takes off when Fred presses a red button.

** While seemingly a montage of the gang solving mysteries and Transylvania themed scenes, if you look close the opening credits are framed as [[spoiler:a masked person looking over a StalkerShrine of the gang,]] and has scenes like [[spoiler:a non-descript prisoner making a suspicious call inside of their cell,]] giving clues that there's a lot more going on here than meets the eye [[spoiler:and that the plot is ''very'' personal]] ''long'' before it comes out in the plot itself.

* HeroicResolve: Amusingly, [[spoiler:Freddy fails to muster up enough heroic resolve to fight the BigBad for Daphne's sake, but gets enough resolve to beat him in a CurbStompBattle for ''the Mystery Machine's'' sake.]]

* ScoobyDooHoax: Played with a bit differently. [[spoiler:While the EvilPlan involves a fake monster, it's not because the culprits are trying to scare people away -- it's a trap for Mystery Inc. themselves, and the mystery was concocted specifically because they wouldn't be able to resist it.]] The movie also plays with the formula a bit, in that the movie focuses primarily on what would normally be the side-plots and makes little attempt to hide who's behind the plot by the end of the movie. There isn't even a formal unmasking -- [[spoiler:the audience finds out who they are after it looks like their plan succeeded, and then the gang and the authorities catch up with them while they're trying to escape. While they are unmasked, it's specifically to show that they're old enemies disguised as other people, ''after'' the identity of the monsters as already been revealed.]]
* ShesGotLegs: Daphne, as always (at least before and after her curse).

** One of the train passengers resembles a character from Hanna Barbera's ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh''. Which, interestingly, is one not owned by Warner Brothers. This could be a double ShoutOut as that character looks like Creator/PeterLorre.

* StuffBlowingUp: Quite a bit of it, most notably the Mystery Machine at the start.

''Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy'' is the 22nd title in the WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** While the villagers are celebrating [[spoiler:the supposed deaths of the gang]], they partake of [[Film/YoungFrankenstein Schwanstucker's Root Beer.]]
** When Shaggy and Scooby say they're not hungry, shots of pigs flying and Hell freezing over are quickly shown.
** Daphne's webshow is ostensibly supposed to be about her modelling career. When the gang ends up talking about mystery-solving instead, a skeevy-looking fan whose walls are papered with skimpy photos of Daphne keeps trying to remind her to post pictures.

* EvilCostumeSwitch/EvilMakeover: [[spoiler: When hypnotized into acting like a MadScientist, Velma wears a purple dress and has pink “Bride of Frankenstein”-style hair.]]

* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse. The lawyer claims Velma is the youngest of the Dinkleys. This contradicts ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAbracadabraDoo'' with Madelyn (who's taller but younger). To a FridgeBrilliance level in this film's opening credits it even uses a clip from that movie with her in it in the opening credits but then show a Dinkley family tree without Madelyn. This being because it's a part of the villains' stalker shrine reflecting their error but offers the more clever viewer a clue that something is off. This likely In-Universe clued Velma in as well about the mystery but she doesn't directly call attention to it.

In this film, during one of Daphne's WebVideos on her modeling career that had been turned into a question-and-answer session on the Mystery Inc.'s mystery, they are contacted by the Dinkley family's lawyer. Despite Velma's protesting, the gang head off to meet the lawyer, learning that Velma Dinkley is about to inherit the Castle Von Dinkenstein in Transylvania. Afterward, the Ghost of Dr. Von Dinkenstein destroys the Mystery Machine. The gang go to the town, which is stuck in 19th-century Germany despite a curse.

!!Tropes Appearing in this Scooby-Doo DirectToVideo Film:
* ADayInTheLimelight: This is the third Scooby-Doo movie, live-action or animated, that centers around Velma.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: It's implied that Velma is aware of the terrible things she's doing while she's hypnotized]].

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Velma of all people, after being hypnotized. She even tries to take out Scooby and Shaggy's brains with a chainsaw.]]

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: While Scooby has sent a villain on the bus with most episodes, four of them are back for revenge.]]
* ContinuityNod:
** During Daphne's webshow, several actual villains from the gang's past are referenced by name - when shown on screen, they appear as clips from [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou the original series]]. [[spoiler:These villains later turn out to be the villains of the movie, back for revenge.]]

* CutawayGag: Used as running gags, as well as various {{Description Cut}}s and {{Gilligan Cut}}s - this movie is fond of quickly cutting through events rather than show them in their entirety for humor's sake: unrelated cutaways, images going through the characters' minds, and things currently happening.
* DarkerAndEdgier: In comparison to even the slighty darker than usual tone the previous movies have had - the monster this time actively tries to ''kill'' the gang with very direct methods, like blowing up the Mystery Machine or derailing a train. [[spoiler: And it turns out to all be a plan to get revenge on the gang by luring them into a trap in order to blow them all up.]] Also, the main plot is a bit more personal for the main characters, Velma in particular. The PG rating isn't for nothing, people.

* FictionalSocialNetwork: [[spoiler: The villains who have been thwarted by the Scooby gang over the years have their own social network, which is where the villains of the story met and began plotting revenge.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: While seemingly a montage of the gang solving mysteries and Transylvania themed scenes, if you look close the opening credits are framed as [[spoiler: a masked person looking over a StalkerShrine of the gang,]] and has scenes like [[spoiler: a non-descript prisoner making a suspicious call inside of their cell,]] giving clues that there's a lot more going on here than meets the eye [[spoiler: and that the plot is ''very'' personal]] ''long'' before it comes out in the plot itself.
** The opening also foreshadows [[spoiler: some of the traps, fake monsters and other things that would show up, like the outfit Shaggy would wear that ends up making him braver through acupuncture needles.]]
* FreudianExcuse: We get one for Velma's love of mystery hunting: her great uncle's failed attempt to create a monster gave her family a terrible reputation, which drove her to prove that monsters don't exist. When it appears that her uncle might have been onto something after all, she gets a little... obsessed, [[spoiler: even before the hypnosis kicks in.]]
* ForScience: For laughs, Velma flips the classic MadScientist ForScience motivation yet somehow manages to hit all the points of it anyway. No, she isn't ([[spoiler: initially]]) recreating her uncle's experiment to finish his work ForScience, she's doing it to prove his theories would ''never'' work ForScience. And since it would never work and [[JustThinkOfThePotential there's no potential to think of]], [[InsaneTrollLogic turning on all the dangerous machinery and getting the hunchbacked assistant to bring her forbidden materials isn't a bad thing.]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial She's not acting obsessed.]] [[BlatantLies Seriously.]] [[spoiler: Again, this is ''still'' before the hypnosis.]]

** While the villagers are celebrating [[spoiler: the supposed deaths of the gang]], they partake of [[Film/YoungFrankenstein Schwanstucker's Root Beer.]]

** Daphne's webshow is ostensibly supposed to be about her modelling career. When the gang ends up talking about mystery-solving instead, a skeevy looking fan whose walls are papered with skimpy photos of Daphne keeps trying to remind her to post pictures.

* HeroicResolve: Amusingly, [[spoiler: Freddy fails to muster up enough heroic resolve to fight the BigBad for Daphne's sake, but gets enough resolve to beat him in a CurbStompBattle for ''the Mystery Machine's'' sake.]]

** [[spoiler: The four villains' plot against Mystery Inc. itself, and thus the whole plot of the movie itself - it's a rare mystery that's ''about'' the Scooby gang personally. They note that they had to actually ''turn away'' co-conspirators for their plan.]]

* MadScientist: Velma's great uncle was one, attempting to create an animal-based version of Frankenstein's monster (see {{Expy}}). This supposedly runs in the family, as every one of her relatives that came across his notes ended up going mad and trying to take up his work. [[spoiler: This also happens to Velma, but in her case it's due to hypnosis.]]

** Daphne’s shellfish allergy originated from ''Mystery Incorporated''.

-->'''Shaggy''': Velma, you got here fast.
-->'''Velma''': Yeah. And in this dress, too.
* OhCrap: While running away from the monster, Shaggy and Scooby come into a library; they decide to find and barricade all the secret passages. Once it's finished, they plop themselves on a couch in relief - only to realize a second later that they forgot to lock the door... which is exactly when the monster bursts in. (This may also count as a WhatAnIdiot scene.)

* RevengeBeforeReason: The villains. [[spoiler: They come into the possession of a piece of land sitting on top of a natural gas deposit and, rather than sell the land for an enormous amount of cash, they decide to use the gas in an elaborate trap to blow up Mystery Inc.]] Velma lampshades this. [[WhyDidntIThinkOfThat They start mumbling for not thinking of it themselves.]]
* RunawayTrain: One of the ways the monster tries to kill the gang ([[spoiler: before ultimately setting the engine on fire]]) - which is scarily effective. [[FridgeHorror Several of the train cars even fall off the train before the gang gets the passengers to start running towards the front car.]] And of course, there is StuffBlowingUp among derailing.
* RunningGag: Freddy having increasingly over the top flashbacks to the Mystery Machine blowing up whenever its so much as mentioned. Every time, the explosion gets more and more exaggerated, until it ends with the ''entire planet'' blowing up.
* ScoobyDooHoax: Played with a bit differently. [[spoiler: While the EvilPlan involves a fake monster, it's not because the culprits are trying to scare people away - it's a trap for Mystery Inc themselves, and the mystery was concocted specifically because they wouldn't be able to resist it.]] The movie also plays with the formula a bit, in that the movie focuses primarily on what would normally be the side-plots and makes little attempt to hide who's behind the plot by the end of the movie. There isn't even a formal unmasking - [[spoiler: the audience finds out who they are after it looks like their plan succeeded, and then the gang and the authorities catch up with them while they're trying to escape. While they are unmasked, it's specifically to show that they're old enemies disguised as other people, ''after'' the identity of the monsters as already been revealed.]]

* WholePlotReference: To ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', naturally - particularly the famous Universal film version. As Velma's plot is similar to its premise, there's a lot of reference to ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' as well - particularly in the humor. Which in turn makes the plot also a reference to ''Film/SonOfFrankenstein'' which the prior movie parodied.

* ContinuityNod[=/=]MythologyGag:

** In the intro, a family tree of the Dinkleys is shown, with the members silhouetted. Two members located near Velma look like her parents in ''Mystery Incorporated'', Angie and Dale.
** The license plate on the Mystery Machine is from [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Crystal Cove]].
** Daphne’s shellfish allergy originated from ''Mystery Incorporated''.

* {{Fanservice}}/HiddenBuxom: Velma's mad scientist costume shows off her figure ''much'' better than her sweater.

* GenreSavvy: When Shaggy and Scooby are running from the monster, they decided to barricade themselves in the library. As soon as they are in there they immediately decide to barricade any location that could be a secret entrance for the monster to burst in. However this is subverted due to the fact in their hast to secure all of the secret entrances they forgot to lock the front door. Guess how the monster gets in.

* LooseCanon: Once again, whether or not it takes place after ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Mystery Incorporated]]'' or a BroadStrokes version of it.
** The Mystery Machine's license plate in this movie is from Crystal Cove, the hometown of the gang in ''Mystery Incorporated''.
** The silhouettes of Velma's parents look very similar to Angie and Dale, her parents in ''Mystery Incorporated''.