History WesternAnimation / The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Most of the visible "ghosts" take this to a whole new. It's not entirely clear if we are meant to take ghost literally or just a catchall. This is complicated even more that the chest that contained them is called the "Chest of Demons" instead of chest of ghosts. In fact the only genuine, classical ghosts in there were the sunken ship ghosts. The others all have a mix match of attributes on top of possibly being ghosts. Some like Maldor the Malevolent and Nekara are the EvilSorceror or Enchantress up to eleven. Marsella is a witch of general sorts. As for the more direct explanations:

* BadFuture: The episode "[[Main/ItsAWonderfulPlot It's a Wonderful Scoob]]". Without Scooby around, the world falls to the ghosts, Daphne is a broken slave to the Time Slime ghost, Scrappy and Flim-Flam have become his loyal servants, and Shaggy is a lone rebel that has gone crazy, adamantly believing that Scooby will return and save them (not believing that he's standing right in front of him).

The 2019 direct-to-video movie ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCurseOfThe13thGhost'' serves as a conclusion to the show's plot, with the whole gang helping Van Ghoul take on the last of the ghosts.

* FiveManBand: The gang, for the first time in a while, though they share roles occasionally.
** TheHero: Scooby
** TheLancer: Scrappy, or Flim-Flam occasionally.
** TheBigGuy: Shaggy
** TheChick: Daphne
** TheSmartGuy: Flim-Flam
*** MentorArchetype: Vincent Van Ghoul

* AbsenteeActor: Bogel and Weerd, despite being regulars this season and eager to aid the thirteen ghosts, are absent from some episodes with no explanation.

* BadFuture: The episode "[[Main/ItsAWonderfulPlot It's a Wonderful Scoob]]." Without Scooby around, the world falls to the ghosts, Daphne is a broken slave to the Time-Slime ghost, Scrappy and Flim-Flam have become his loyal servants, and Shaggy is a lone rebel that has gone crazy, adamantly believing that Scooby will return and save them (not believing that he's standing right in front of him).

* CharmPerson: Nekara

** In "Reflections in a Ghoulish Eye", a vendor hands Daphne a magic amulet written in gibberish. [[spoiler:It turns out that when Daphne gets sucked into the mirror world, she learns that it's a magic spell. Moreover, the vendor was actually Vincent Van Ghoul in disguise!]]

* CreditsGag: In the episode "That’s Monstertainment", Zomba's movie has a custom Hanna-Barbara logo which resembles the MGM logo with Scooby-Doo in it. Scooby-Doo creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera had started out as animators at MGM Studios. The logo is also customized: it reads "Ranna-Rarrera" (Hanna-Barbera in Scooby's dialect) and has the logo read "limitus animatus" (which is Latin for "limited animation", [[Main/SelfDeprecation which Hanna-Barbera was famous for]]).
* CutawayGag: In the second episode, "Scoobra Kadoobra," just as a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent fire-breathing dragon]] is bearing down on our heroes, the scene cuts to Shaggy as a news anchorman, who introduces Scrappy-Doo interviewing a MoralGuardian named [[MeaningfulName Loretta Cutitout]], who disapproves of the use of fire on a children's show. Scrappy manages to accuse her of being [[FantasticRacism anti-dragon]] and reduce her to tears before the show cuts back to the story.
* CutShort: Scooby-Doo and his friends never ''did'' catch all 13 ghosts. Only 11 of them were shown being caught at all (twelve with later supplemental material confirming that the Captain from "Ship of Ghouls" was ''also'' one of the thirteen) -- and no ghosts were captured in the pilot.
** At least, not for a very long time; ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCurseOfThe13thGhost'' finally gave a long overdue ending to the show's story.

* IntercontinuityCrossover: Platypus Duck, who makes his first and last Hanna-Barbera appearance in "Scooby in Kwackyland," was originally created by Tom Ruegger for a student film called "The Premiere of Platypus Duck."

* ItsAWonderfulPlot: The main focus of "It's a Wonderful Scoob." After a mishap with Time Slime's scepter shows him all the horrors he's endured in his life, Scooby is badly traumatized and quits the gang, refusing to come back. When the rest of the gang is captured by Time Slime, Vincent takes Scooby to the future to show him the BadFuture that will ensue if Time Slime wins.

* SealedEvilInACan: The 13 ghosts were sealed within the Chest of Demons until Scooby and Shaggy were duped into releasing them. The whole show revolves upon getting them ''back'' into the can.

** The three inept witches the Brewski Sisters in "When You Witch Upon a Star" are [[ThreeStoogesShoutOut shout-outs]] to Film/TheThreeStooges.

* CutShort: Scooby-Doo and his friends never ''did'' catch all 13 ghosts. Only 11 of them were shown being caught at all - and no ghosts were captured in the pilot.

* BadFuture: The episode "[[Main/ItsAWonderfulPlot It's a Wonderful Scoob]]." Without Scooby around, the world falls to the ghosts, Daphne is a broken slave to the Time-Slime ghost, Scrappy and Flim-Flam have become his loyal servants, and Shaggy is a lone rebel that has gone crazy, adamantly believing that Scooby will return and save them (not realizing that he's standing right in front of him).

* BewareTheSillyOnes / NotSoHarmlessVillain: Bogel and Weerd are usually seen as incompetent ghosts who constantly mess up the schemes of the 13 ghosts, but in the pilot, they did successfully trick Shaggy and Scooby to release them in the first place. Even Vincent Van Ghoul seemed to view them as a formidable threat.

* DamselInDistress / DudeInDistress: Scooby, Daphne, Flim-Flam and even Vincent Van Ghoul ended up in this role a few times.

** In "Reflections in a Ghoulish Eye", the character Sandy has a tendency to end his sentences with "I must say". This is due to his being an obvious homage, both physically and in behavior, to Ed Grimley [[WesternAnimation/TheCompletelyMentalMisadventuresOfEdGrimley]], for whom this was also a catch-phrase.

** The three inept witches the Brewski Sisters in "When You Witch Upon a Star" are expies of Film/TheThreeStooges.

* BroughtDownToNormal: Nekara's kiss does this to Victor Voudini

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Bogel and Weerd, a pair of bumbling ghost minions who bounce their services from demon to demon, but consistently mess up.

** At least, not for a very long time; ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCurseOfThe13thGhost'' is set to finally give a long overdue ending to the show's story.

The 1985 incarnation of the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' franchise and the [[EndOfAnEra final incarnation of its original run]]. This series was also the first also to introduce a story arc, though it was never finished during its original run due to [[LeftHanging its cancellation]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The series starts with Scooby and Shaggy tricked into opening the Chest of Demons, and therefore releasing the demons. As Vincent Van Ghoul states in the opening narration as to why they have to be the ones to return the ghosts to the Chest: "...because '''you let them out!!!'''"

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The series starts with Scooby and Shaggy tricked into opening the Chest of Demons, and therefore releasing the demons. As Vincent Van Ghoul states in the opening narration as to why they have to be the ones to return the ghosts to the Chest: "Because you '''let them out!!!'''"

* DarkerAndEdgier: Played straight and mercilessly averted in the same show. Several of the villains in this show are among the most threatening enemies Scooby has ever been pitted against. Among them a dark sorcerer who can put people to sleep for centuries, a soul stealing circus master and a Saturday Morning version of a succubus. At the same time because the show doesn't take itself seriously the show is goofier than a usual Scooby Doo show. This is played for laughs that many of the ghosts are often annoyed by the other characters' humor.

* CreditsGag: In the episode "That’s Monstertainment", Zomba's movie has a custom Hanna-Barbara logo which resembles the MGM logo with Scooby-Doo in it. Scooby-Doo creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera had started out as animators at MGM Studios. The logo is also customized: it reads "Ranna-Rarrera" (Hanna-Barbera in Scooby's dialect) and has the logo read "limitus animatus" (which is Latin for "limited animation", which Hanna-Barbera was famous for).

This show uses the globetrotting Scooby-Shaggy-Daphne-Scrappy format of the late 1970s/early 1980s shows, though it is the last show to do so, also adding a new member of the gang in the form of Flim-Flam, a child con artist who runs into the gang and joins up with them. It was also one of the first shows to substantially feature ''real'' ghosts, as opposed to guys in masks, and the self-referential parody, pop-culture references, and fourth wall breaking that would go on to characterize ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' (this is the result of Tom Ruegger, who produced the latter, being associate producer on this one).

* AllThereInTheScript: While his name in the show is never mentioned, the mirror demon's name is Reflector Specter. Which is hilariously used to identify him on the DVD subtitles. Somebody did their homework there.

The 1985 incarnation of the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' franchise and final incarnation of the original Scooby-Doo franchise. The first also to introduce a story arc, though it was never finished during its original run due to [[LeftHanging its cancellation]].

-->'''Daphne:''' Which reminds me, where are Shaggy and Scooby?\\

* BadFuture: The episode "[[Main/ItsAWonderfulPlot It's a Wonderful Scoob]]." Without Scooby around, the world falls to the ghosts, Daphne is a broken slave to the Time-Slime ghost, Scrappy and Flim-Flam have become his loyal servants, and Shaggy is a lone rebel that has gone crazy, adamantly believing that Scooby will return and save them.

It begins when Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne and Scrappy end up in Tibet by plane crash, and Scooby and Shaggy are tricked into opening the Chest of Demons, a chest containing 13 powerful, terrifying ghosts each bent on world domination. Fated to return the malevolent spirits to the chest, the team is guided by mysterious mystic Vincent Van Ghoul, played by Creator/VincentPrice, who exasperatingly helps our heroes [[GottaCatchEmAll catch them all before it's too late]].

* ChekhovsGun: Flim-Flam was selling a concoction known as "Lots of Luck Joy Juice" when we first see him. [[spoiler:One of the ingredients was Wolfsbane, and a splash of it was enough to cure the werewolf villagers that put the gang into a corner.]]

* CreditsGag: In the episode “That’s Monstertainment”, Zomba's movie has a custom Hanna-Barbara logo which resembles the MGM logo with Scooby-Doo in it. Scooby-Doo creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera had started out as animators at MGM Studios.
** The logo is also customized: it reads "Ranna-Rarrera" (Hanna-Barbera in Scooby's dialect) and has the logo read "limitus animatus" (which is Latin for "limited animation", which Hanna-Barbera was famous for).

* DependingOnTheWriter: The first piece on this trope is obviously on the use of the terms "ghosts" and "demons" for the antagonists. They are practically used interchangeable even though some of which don't even seem to properly fit either.

* NoEnding: There are 13 ghosts and 13 episodes. But the first episode was just Scooby and Shaggy accidentally letting them loose, and another episode didn't end with an explicitly captured ghost (Fans had speculated the ship's captain to be one or not in the years since). So the show ended with either one or two ghosts left with no conclusion. Until "[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCurseOfThe13thGhost Curse of the 13th Ghost]]" which was sold as a FullyAbsorbedFinale to this series. In the process it did give credence to the series having caught 12 of the 13 ghosts. However in a move most did not see coming the film chose to end with a wholly new NoEnding debate. Where it is not clear if the 13th ghost has actually repented and is no longer a threat or if this is going to come back to haunt Scooby AGAIN.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Down to the last ghost. While they are all referred to as ghosts, most of them are not the ghosts of something that was human in the first place (we have ghost witches, ghost vampires, ghost demons, a ghost EldritchAbomination, and -- however that works -- the ghost of a zombie), and in those cases they retain the abilities they had in life (or unlife or whatever).

The 2019 direct-to-video movie ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCurseOfThe13thGhost'', serves as a conclusion to the show's plot, with the whole gang helping Van Ghoul take on the last of the ghosts.

The 1985 incarnation of the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' franchise and final incarnation of the original Scooby-Doo franchise. The first also to introduce a story arc, though it was never finished due to its cancellation.

A 2019 direct-to-video movie follow-up, ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCurseOfThe13thGhost'', features the whole gang helping Van Ghoul take on the last of the ghosts.