Are all the Scooby Doo cartoons in the same continuity with each other?

I generally like to put the series in their own seperate continuites:

1. Original/Scrappy Doo Timeline
Everything from Scooby Doo: Where Are You through 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo, plus the three tv movies from the 80's.

2. Pup/What's New Timeline
A Pup Named Scooby Doo, Scooby Doo Where Are You, and What's New Scooby Doo{and possibly Get A Clue also}. The events of SD: Where Are You take place in this timeline, except in the late 90's instead of the 60's.

3. Zombie Island Timeline
Everything from SD: Where Are You to the Scooby Doo Shou, plus all the DTV movies from 1998 to present.

4. Live Action Movie Timeline
Everything through the Scooby and Scrappy Doo, plus the two live action movies.

5. Mystery Begins Timeline
This is a new timeline since it's a orgin story and it takes place in 2009.


Scooby Goes Hollywood and Laff-A-Lympics are not in continuity. "Mystery Incorporated" would go directly after SD:WAY.
 
Yeah, I'm probably the one who suggested Van Ghoul mind-wiped the gang after "13 Ghosts" (and Dracula doing the same for "Werewolf"), with the side-effect of making them forget the other real ghouls (from the 7-minute-shorts/"Ghoul School"/"Boo Brothers"). Though an equally-overanalytical alternative could be they only succeeded in temporarily *suppressing* their memories of same, only until they ran into real ghouls again... as happened in "Zombie Island."

Otherwise, I just assume all the Scooby spinoffs happened in the same universe, no matter how outlandish (the same way the Batman who fought Zebra-Man in the sci-fi early 60s comics is the same Batman who fought drug dealers in 80s stories, despite the great change in tone), with "Scooby Goes Hollywood" and "Laff-a-Lympics" (given their Roger-Rabbit setup) and the live-action films (being, well, live-action) as exceptions.

-B.
 
My only problem with that is they didn't go, "Oh yeah, I remember now, monsters is real and we fought them for years." They were more like "OMGWTHBBQ, it's zombies!!!!"

I can buy just about anything fitting with Batman, given how easy it is to believe that he would have secret adventures. There's a great scene in JLA Classified #1 where he tells Alfred. "I'm opening the Sci-Fi closet, Alfred. Don't tell my friends in the G.C.P.D. about this." Inside are like, ray guns and Daleks that he's collected from his science fiction era adventures.

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You know, I guess in some ways one of the greatest things going for Scooby is that detective stories never went out of style. Cowboys, space men and super spies are tied to their respective eras, but everyone will always need people to solve crimes.
 
Sounds very similar to my timelines, except I only include the first four DTVs in the Zombie Island Timeline and place the post-2002 DTV's with the exception of Abracadabra-Doo in the What's New Timeline.
 
I agree. Which is why I separate 'The Scooby-Doo Show', 'New Mysteries', '13 Ghosts', and the three 'Superstar 10' movies from what came before due to the fact that some monsters started to exist.For me, it's kinda hard to take that as a legitimate link to 'Witches' Ghost' since the tone is drastically different.
 
Personally, I really don't consider tone in my analysis, just continuity. For instance, Shaggy and Scooby Get a Clue is different in tone from What's New, but there's nothing in either series that contradict each other enough that they can't be in the same universe. And Pup has a different tone, but it's clearly acceptable as their real childhoods.

What I'm taking into account is that they're clearly the same Hex Girls and the Scooby Gang always seems to remember their previous meetings with them.
 
Maybe the memory-suppression didn't get lifted until after the Zombie Island adventure was done?

SHAGGY: (Post-adventure) "Like, now I remember... Dracula, the Boo Brothers, a Ghoul School, and like, all those 13 creepy ghosts!"
DAPHNE: "Erm, let's not talk to the rest of the gang about this, OK, guys? They'll think we're nuts or something..."
SCOOBY: "Reah..." (shivers)
SHAGGY: "Like, I'm just glad we caught all 13 ghosts..."
DAPHNE: "13? I thought it was just *12* ghosts we caught..."
SCOOBY: (Counts on his paws) "um... erm, ret's see... ruh-roh."

:-p



Yes, the Batman comics starting with the "New Look" era on to, well, today, never explicitly said the wacky-sci-fi-era didn't happen, they just completely ignored it/pretended it didn't happen (with a few exceptions)... thus scenes like the above I imagine...

Re: Scooby: I'm still wondering if Superman exists in Scooby's world, given Batman and Robin do. On the one hand, the only superheroes seem to be non-superpowered ones like Bats or the Blue Falcon, which seems to fit with the down-to-Earth tone of most of the gang's adventures (plus Batman's a detective himself, as a bonus). On the other hand, in just about every media spinoff, there's always a reference or assumption (or eventual appearance) of the Man of Steel (or vice-versa, if it's a Superman production), with a few exceptions... dating back to the Superman radio show of the 40s (where Batman made guest-appearances during storylines with Kryptonite---to give Superman's voice actor a vacation). Still, guess that'd lead to Velma pondering what Hawkgirl's native world of Thanagar is like, or Fred wanting to meet the Elongated Man, or something. :-p

-B.
 
That's hilarious. If that didn't happen it probably should have.



Grant Morrison seems to be doing his best to establish that all of the Sci-Fi era happened, he even brought back things like the Mexican Batman. Morrison is one of the few writers who isn't embarrassed by past silliness, he embraces it, and that's why he's one of my favorites.

As for Superman, Scooby doesn't exist in the same reality with the comic Batman, he seems to exist in the same reality with the Adam West Batman from the TV Show and related cartoons. I don't think Superman was in the TV show, but that Adam West version of Batman was in Superfriends and that included Superman and other superheroes, so I dunno. I think like just about everything else with Scooby continuity, and I think this is a very key point here, they would include it if it's convenient and ignore it if it's not.
 
Thanks :-p




Hmm, wonder what a reunion with Batman would be like nowadays for Scooby and company... amusing if he resembled the one from "Brave and the Bold" (without being that version exactly). :-p
 
A few months ago, I was thinking the same thing. They totally should, and it'll totally work.

Anyway...when it comes to Scooby-Doo continuity, Mister Intensity did a pretty good job. I never gave continuity much thought into the show, but if there was one, all the series are connected to the original one, but not to any other series.

Wait....Scooby-Doo has met Dynomutt and Blue Falcon at least twice. I'm just bringing it up since no one's mentioned it yet.
 
I never thought of t that way. I suppose that could work.HA! That's a good one. :p
Considering that Scooby, Batman, and Superman are all under the Time Warner umbrella, it's definitely possible. I could imagine Scooby, and the gang teaming up with Marvin, Wendy, and Wonder Dog if they ever run into The Superfriends.
 
Thanks. Maybe I should do a blurb that tackles the oddity that Shaggy and Scooby have traveled through time at least *twice*... sure Velma would be thrilled. :-p



Heh...

Re: the original topic: From what I saw of "Mystery Incorporated," it seems like it's different from most of the previous spinoffs----the cast seem to be high schoolers again, the name of their town's now "Crystal Cove" (vs "Coolsville"/"Dooville"/being unnamed), yet *another* art model for most of their parents (Shaggy's Dad looks *way* too short IMO, and I liked Fred's parents from the "Pirates Ahoy" film better, though Velma's parents look dead-on to me, as does Shaggy's Mom), even *more* relatives of the gang sprouting up (this time, 3 or 4 sisters in one go for Daphne :-p ), and they don't seem as famous as crimesolvers as we're used to seeing. All in all, seems like a "Year One" (to use a DC Comics term) feel they're going for. (I won't go into Shaggy/Velma as a couple---which feels too fanfiction-ish to me---or the lack of a *theme song*, grumble...).

Guess if I were drawing up another timeline now, I'd put this new show probably taking place just after "Where Are You?" (given they seem to be trying to base this new show on an updated version of that... or sort of turning "Zombie Island" into a series :-p ).

-B.
 
Just because we were talking about it, I was watching the "Foul Play in Funland" episode from the first season and I did see a reference to Superman. Shaggy sees a robot moving and says it's faster than a speeding bullet and Scooby says "Ruperman?" Considering they used the well-known catchphrase they were probably referring to him as a fictional character, though. I guess it really doesn't prove anything, but I thought it was interesting.
 
Superman got referenced twice in "Cyber Chase". Once when one of the lab workers described the effect of a magnet on the Virus as "like kryptonite on Superman"; later, in the moon stage of the game, Shaggy lifts a moon rock and says he's "Super-Shaggy!" Yeah, the references don't mean Supes is real, but worth throwing out...

-B.
 
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