Film Theory: Scooby Doo is an Alien?!

and now gang we'll find out who was really behind the hauntings at YouTube headquarters wait gang I think this is another mask yeah no big no there hold on hold on jinkies how many of these things are there [Music] alright alright I think this is the last one the real person behind the hauntings that YouTube HQ was liked commented and imprison hello Internet welcome to film theory the show inspired by Velma's incredible ability to rationalize any supernatural event simple fact is monsters are nothing more than crooks and masks usually unscrupulous real estate developers so just over a year ago I did my first episode on scooby-doo in which I tried to calculate Shaggy's power level and whether ultra instinct shaggy was actually some sort of super saiyan remember that meme that lasted like a week good times anyway in my research for that episode I've watched an entire generations worth of new scooby-doo episodes not just the original scooby-doo where are you not just what's new scooby-doo or heck not even just the new scooby-doo movies but all of the scooby-doo generations let me reiterate that all the generations and that my friends is no small feat scooby-doo is a 14 series 36 movie cannon spreading 51 years it's turned to lose his mind and boy was that crash course through half a century's worth of cartoon can and a wake-up call for four years I just assumed that shaggy Scooby the gang were living out the same Sisyphean note Meryl time driving from town to town and a barely functional van forced to solve spooky mysteries that always always amounts to some guy in a really convincing rubber mask with way too much special-effects technology on his hands and what does the gang get for all their hard work nothing maybe a sandwich if they're lucky well except for that one time that Scooby got himself a chest full of Confederate money Fred and Daphne are in a will they won't they relationship Shaggy's romantic interests fluctuate between Velma and Scooby as dog insert wacky guest star here sorry Batman they run off sometimes plate is a natural response to the unknown can we help you kids out and I wasn't entirely wrong but I was binging through this franchise I was shocked to learn that across those 51 years those fourteen series and those thirty-six spin-off movies that there's actually a complex scooby-doo lure here no joke long long before the MCU there was the SDU it might be easy to assume that each iteration of scooby-doo is completely separate from all the ones that came before it because it helps chest a cartoon right who's putting in that much effort but in reality the teams behind these shows appear to be taking a lot of care with the long long long history of this series so much so that the entire franchise movies and all can basically be boiled down into two self-consistent timelines well two and a half if we're being completely accurate at least that's my theory today anyway so with the new film entry coming out later this week looking to set up a prequel story that I guarantee will burn this theory to the ground I guess our new movie is an origin story I may at least get the video out now before it completely throws off all my research so before we start throwing things into timelines let me lay out the major pieces first and most importantly let's get the big one out of the way scooby-doo is an alien period end of sentence that is a hundred percent canonical fact that isn't me even overreaching in the slightest in the recent series scooby-doo mystery Incorporated which his shockingly lore heavy for a Scooby show we learn about the Anunnaki an ancient godlike alien race that comes to earth every few thousand years the Anunnaki have no physical forms so the forced to possess animal bodies the Anunnaki have a great history of helping humans but we have no physical form and must inhabit animals this is why some animals our descendants can talk and others cannot so if we happen to know any animals in this series that are capable of talking or being understood by humans well we can reasonably assume that that individual is an alien descendant that's why scooby-doo can talk he's got himself damn a lien genes the heart it also explains one of his iconic catchphrases so that's big reveal number one about this series its lore and we are just getting started the mystery Incorporated series also introduces us to the canonized concept of a Scooby multiverse in the final episode of this particularly interesting run Scooby and his friends help defeat an evil Anunnaki who's been trapped on earth to try and escape this Force has been assembling and manipulating mystery teams throughout the ages to try and get released with the Scooby Gang being his most recent group of kids once this evil entity gets destroyed however Scooby's entire world gets destroyed along with it launching the main mystery gang into a brand new existence their same hometown of Crystal Cove but with everything slightly different shaggy is no longer a slacker but rather a top chef Velma is a champion academic but perhaps most shocking of all Fred and Daphne are engaged I know why everything's different we destroyed the entity and by destroying it It was as if it never existed by destroying the evil entity we created an entirely different timeline our actions created a better world where we all have normal and productive lives so that off the bat gets us into two separate timelines same Scooby Gang carried out across two branches of the multiverse the next big issue that we need to talk about are the monsters themselves the vast vast vast majority of the shows recycled the same twist there were no ghosts man was the real monster all along that was the formula for decades for the TV show at least and yet for some strange reason most of the movies like 1987 scooby-doo meets the Boober of and most of the directive video scooby-doo movies like scooby-doo on Zombie Island all have the gang encountering real-life supernatural creatures a very select few of the series had this as well like the 13 ghosts of scooby-doo the Scooby and Scrappy show and mystery Incorporated where again the ghosts and boogie men are actually real supernatural creatures when I first encountered these outliers I was just happy to write them off as taking place in a totally different universe in one universe ghosts are fake the mystery gang always pulls off a mask and everyone's happy and the other ghosts are a real threat and we should all be terrified by the retribution that the undead shall deliver unto us here's where things get weird though and many of the ghosts are real iterations shaggy wears a red shirt red different shirt different universe obviously okay now that might seem like an exaggeration and normally it would be but there's actually more to Shaggy's wardrobe changes than meets the eye you see in the 2001 direct-to-dvd movie scooby-doo and the cyber chase the Scooby Gang goes into a Scooby based video game world complete with digital doppelgangers and what does Shaggy's digital form look like red shirt big deal right it's just a physical color swap to differentiate him from the real shaggy except that's not the case look closer and you start to see that the shirt isn't the only thing different about Shaggy's digital form his eyes are also different and not just different they're the exact match for how they were drawn during those 80s era scrappy centric scooby-doo episodes so could all of the ghosts and Ghoulies from scooby-doo and the 13 ghosts and Scooby and the scrappy show episodes have taken place in a digital simulation to know for sure we have to start putting this whole thing together the first thing that happens chronologically is the birth of scooby-doo in 1969 this is according to a fake document that Velma uses to claim scooby as a service dog in the movie legend of the phantosaur which funny enough was the same movie where ultra instinct shaggy got his origin so across the board probably the single most important piece of scooby-doo related media to ever come out in half a century I can't tell if I'm exaggerating that or not the rest of the gang was probably Morna round the same time because of Scooby's Annunaki heritage he actually ages at a speed closer to that of normal human so roughly ten years after being born he's still very much a puppy for the events of the first series chronologically in the ninth overall series in the franchise to be launched a pup named scooby-doo along with the movie that was set in the same time period into mystery map in the first episode of the series we see the gang already together in solving mysteries in their hometown of Coolsville USA under the name the scooby-doo detective agency this series directly leads into the original series scooby-doo where are you and its many follow-ups the new scooby-doo movies where they hang out with celebrities before eventually winding up with the scooby-doo show and with that we come to the darkest period scrappy-doo Scooby's nephew who was deemed by censors as quote too independent which apparently is a bad thing to teach kids well at the time he was popular enough to help prevent the scooby franchise from being cancelled since then he's become the single most hated television sidekick of all time even the creators of scooby-doo themselves will only allow references to him insofar as they make fun of how bad he was unlike the previous incarnations of the series this new iteration focuses on dealing with real monsters and real supernatural threats rather than your typical villain hiding under a mask but oh in a series that's only focused on real-life crooks did supernatural forces suddenly appear out of nowhere in this world clearly there had to have been something to prompt this change in the world from the classic Scoobies technological terror into the modern Scoobies paranormal fears the answer actually lies in a crossover episode one that would happen three decades after scrappy was first introduced a crossover of supernatural proportions because it's crossing over with the show Supernatural now if you're unfamiliar with Supernatural it's about you guessed it the supernatural and two paranormal hunters in the season 13 episode Scooby natural something incredible happens for both the supernatural and scooby-doo universe's when the two collide brothers Sam and Dean from Supernatural gets sucked into the world of scooby-doo along with their angel friend Cass but here's where things get really crazy you see they're not just sucked into the world of scooby-doo they're sucked into a real episode of the show specifically the 16th episode ever titled a night of fright is no delight which when it first aired just ended with the typical bad guy in a mask reveal however what were shown in this crossover is that the supernatural guys accidentally opened the Scooby Doo universe up to real paranormal powers them entering the TV show has allowed a ghost in resulting in the two hunters chasing an actual ghost through an episode where there wasn't a ghost to begin with meanwhile the mystery yang stays oblivious to the whole thing at the end of the episode the Winchester brothers managed to convince the Scooby Gang that it's all been elaborate tricks and gadgetry before that though the mystery gang does get itself a little wake-up call from Cass vampires I thought I was blind without my glasses but I was just blind that means that Scooby's supernatural elements may have been brought into its universe by the supernatural team when they chased a ghost into the cartoon that explains how later series in the timeline with the scrappy-doo series and the 13 ghosts of scooby-doo that follows it we have supernatural beings suddenly present out of nowhere in the Canon what it doesn't explain away though is Velma and Fred not knowing who scrappy is oh I guess the gang's all here except scrappy what's a scrappy sure they didn't share that many episodes together but that first season that scrappy appeared and did have all the gang together for multiple episodes it also had really terrible animation for all those episodes I mean look at shaggy looks like he was put through the rack must have been a gas leak season or as we previously established it had to have been in the video game simulation for as crazy as it sounds it actually makes sense the first season with scrappy literally sees the gang week over week going to Britain to Egyptian inspired locales to California New York even places as far-flung as Greece which wouldn't you know it are exactly the types of exotic levels that we see the gang flashing through as we're trapped in the video game sim from scooby-doo and the cyber chase so look on the plus side all you scrappy haters a full one of his seasons doesn't even count because it all took place in a computerized simulation that season along with at least three movies scooby-doo meets the boo brothers you guys are ghost exterminators scooby-doo in the ghoul school and scooby-doo and the reluctant werewolf totally don't count at this point then we have to remind our timeline math all the way back to the beginning the very beginning for our second alternate universe the mystery Incorporated universe you see televisions in the world of mystery Incorporated still use a four by three standard broadcasting ratio which started going out of style in the mid 90s and would have been startling ly obsolete by the time mr. Inc actually aired in 2010 that means that this show wasn't meant to take place concurrently with the show's airing but rather sometime back in the 80s and 90s because the gang is back in high school again it's most likely to take place in the 80s except this go-around all the mysteries from the other timeline have already been solved the first episode of the series starts with Velma giving a tour of the Haunted museum and it's a who's who filled with nods to all the classic monsters from scooby-doo where are you not me they all turned out to be fakes that's not although we see the luna ghost from the scooby-doo live-action film as well as references to scrappy-doo and never talking about him again we all promised each other that we would never speak of him not ever so then why wouldn't this be connected somehow to our main timeline well because a they don't believe in real ghosts win in the main timeline by this point they've seen plenty of those be there born and raised in a new town this one's town is Crystal Cove as opposed to Coolsville USA and see they don't recognize Vincent van ghoul the wizard who served as their guide throughout the 13 ghosts of scooby-doo and its spin-off movie the curse of the 13th ghost it's a paradox that can only be solved via separate timeline at the end of the series as I talked about earlier the team is sent to a new timeline where the supernatural entity never existed in the first place when Fred arrives in this new world upon realizing there's no dark entity or the effects that it left he declares that it's a histories of course this is wrong but what it does mean is that this is a world without paranormal activity which leads directly into the events of be cool scooby-doo which sees our gang in their new timeline we're told that they just got out of high school which continues the story of them being in high school and mystery Incorporated and true to what Fred said about a world without mystery this new series moves away from solving crimes and more into the territory of Phineas and Ferb complete with increased emphasis on comedy and wacky inventions and that's the latest point in the scooby verse as of now given the show's tendency to jump around its own timeline there's no guarantee the next batch of Scooby episodes and movies will even take place in the future of the timeline maybe they'll track back to when the gang was in a more grounded seeming reality but for once we can roughly see the way this entire timeline links together one mystery gang we've watched grow up since they were kids a second mystery gang that of themselves crossed dimensions into a brand new timeline and a third that's entirely digital and now with that out of the way tune in next week when I explain how Fred and Daphne still haven't become an official couple after all these years actually that's not an episode at all I just said it as a joke the next episode is absolutely Rick and Morty anyway until then remember it's all just a theory film theory [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 17min 3sec (1023 seconds)

Published: Thu May 14 2020

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[u/fireraptor08]

Everyone who watched the entirety of scooby doo mystery incorporated knows this he is the descendet from one of the aliens from planet x

[u/beaconknight2009]

but seriously the whole thing didnt even focus on scooby being an alien

[u/Cass-or-Jack]

I can't believe he forgot to talk about the comic

[u/Ironboy9]

The title was clickbait bit the real theory was still good

[u/Azrael_Fornivald]

I like how Scooby being an alien isn't even the theory, he points out that that's cannon.

[u/CaptainLlama500]

I feel like this episode was just going everywhere, there was no consecutive story.

[u/FlannerysNotebook]

Matt, why did you clickbait this video? "The Scooby Doo Cinematic Universe" would have been just as good of a title and not misleading. I'm not upset, just very, very disappointed in you. 2/10

[u/MattWolf96]

It was good but he messed up on the timeline placement for Mystery Inc, it's definitely set in the 2000's or 2010, it had modern computers capable of video chat in it, there was flip phones and even a few flat screens here and there, I think there was even a smartphone in one episode. 4:3 wasn't going out in the mid 90's, it was going out in the mid 2000's and while 4:3 CRTs were outdated, they were still common in 2010, I still had a few then and about 40% of people I knew still had at least one in regular use then. Also, most of the characters in this are teens which were probably using cheap used/hand-me-down TVs. Also, cartoons sometimes just like to make stylistic choices, those retro TVs are probably one of them. Most of the cars in Mystery Inc were 50's/60's style. Not many of those were still in good condition or regular use by the 80's and 90's, it was a stylistic choice.

I also don't really buy Boo Brothers and Ghoul School taking place inside the video game. First of all, while Scrappy may have just ran off into an out of the way location of the city level. There's still no evidence for his existance in that game. Also, no locations in the game resembled what we see in The Ghoul School and The Boo Brothers.