Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery[1] is the twenty-first installment in a line of direct-to-video (DVD) films based on the Scooby-Doo franchise. It was produced by both Warner Bros. Animation and WWE Studios.
Premise
Premise taken from WWE.com[2]:
When Shaggy and Scooby win tickets to WrestleMania, the entire gang travels in the Mystery Machine to WWE City to attend the epic event. However, when a mysterious ghostly bear appears and threatens to ruin the show, Scooby, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne and Fred work with WWE Superstars to solve the case.
Synopsis
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Cast and characters
| Actor | Character |
|---|---|
| Frank Welker | Scooby-Doo Fred Jones |
| Matthew Lillard | Shaggy Rogers |
| Grey DeLisle Griffin | Daphne Blake |
| Mindy Cohn | Velma Dinkley |
| Charles S. Dutton | Cookie |
| Mary McCormack | Ms. Richards |
| John Cena | Himself |
| Brodus Clay | Himself |
| Michael Cole | Himself |
| Kane | Himself |
| A.J. Lee | Herself |
| Santino Marella | Himself |
| The Miz | Himself |
| Triple H | Himself |
| Vince McMahon | Himself |
| Corey Burton | Bayard Announcer |
| Bumper Robinson | Ruben |
| Fred Tatasciore | Ghost Bear (credited as "Bear") |
| Uncredited | |
| Alberto Del Rio | |
| Attendants at WrestleMania | |
| Big Show | |
| Father watching WrestleMania | |
| Female ticket collector | |
| Girls watching WrestleMania | |
| Male ticket collector | |
| Mother watching WrestleMania | |
| Raccoon | |
| Son watching WrestleMania | |
| Shirtless fans | |
| Wrestling trainees | |
| Non-speaking roles | |
| Brodus Clay's dancers | |
| Jerry "The King" Lawler | |
| Jimmy Hart | |
| Security officers | |
| Sgt. Slaughter | |
| Sin Cara Grande (flashback) | |
| Sin Cara | |
| Vicious (flashback) | |
| Waitress | |
Songs
| Song | Credits | Performed by |
|---|---|---|
| "Fight Or Fright" | Music and lyrics by Andy Sturmer | Socrates Devinger |
| "My Time Is Now" | Written by Marc Joseph Predka, John Cena and Bobby Russel (Courtesy of WWE Music Group) | John Cena and Tha Trademarc |
| "Let's Light It Up" | Written by Jim Johnston (Courtesy of WWE Music Group) | Kari Kimmel |
| "No Chance In Hell" | Jim Johnston | |
| "Veil Of Fire" | ||
| "I Came To Play" | Downstait |
Villains
- Ghost Bear/Cookie
Suspects
| Suspect | Motive/reason |
|---|---|
| Kane | Wants to earn back the title. |
| Bayard | Doesn't like people in his property. |
| Ruben | Frustrated with Cookie not training him. |
| Ms. Richards | Calls Shaggy and Scooby thieves for "stealing" the belt. |
Culprits
| Culprit | Motive/reason |
|---|---|
| Cookie as the Ghost Bear | His limb made him resent the WWE, and wanted to shut it down. |
Locations
- WWE City
- WrestleMania
- Locker room
- WWE Management building
- Ms. Richards's office
- Video game studio
- Kitchen
- Roof
- Belt room
- Forest
- Bear Cave
- Cookie's lair
- Bear Cave
- WWE Training Camp
- Gym
- Cafe
- 24/7 All You Can Eat Grill
- Daphne and Velma's cabin
- Shaggy and Fred's cabin
- Miz's cabin
- John Cena's cabin
- Sin Cara's cabin
- WWE City Hotel
- Sleeper Hold Hotel
- WWE Superstar Inn
- Best Wrestler Hotel
- Champ Belt Hotel
- Royal Rumble Ribs
- McMahon's Waffle House
- Tap Out Diner
- Tombstone Tacos
- WrestleMania
- Shaggy's house
- The Burger Binge
Notes/trivia
- Due to being a tie-in to that year's WrestleMania, this film was promoted more than the other ones have been, although the one thing it didn't get which the others did was a novelization (perhaps because of the trademarks of the WWE name, but that's not explicitly confirmed):
- Mattel released two 2-packs including Scooby and either John Cena or Sin Cara.
- WWE released t-shirts.
- Scooby-Doo (or a guy in a suit) appeared on the March 24 edition of WWE Raw, the day before the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray. He "assisted" Sin Cara in the ring against Damian Sandow.
- The opening theme presents a lot of elements of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, including:
- Pictures of Charlie the Funland Robot, the Phantom Shadow, the Space Kook, the Indian Witch Doctor, the Ghost of Captain Cutler, Redbeard's Ghost and the Creeper.
- A lot of scenes from the show playing in the background, as well as live-action shots of WWE matches, while the characters are being introduced in the front. Because of this the main cast aren't credited at the beginning.
- In the teaser, when Miz first encounters the Ghost Bear, he refers to it as "Yogi".
- The Mystery Machine has been redesigned, resembling the new look it had the Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! TV series.
- Shaggy references the fact that the gang wear the same outfits every day when Daphne and Velma complain to him about forgetting their luggage. Also, when Daphne only has two scarfs to choose from she asks Velma which one is better with a predictable response.
- The businesses in are named after subjects relating to and wrestling in general:
- Sleeper Hold Hotel is a reference to a wrestling move.
- Royal Rumble Ribs is a reference to the pay-per-view event held every January by the WWE.
- McMahon's Waffle House is named after Mr. McMahon. It even has his face on top of the sign.
- Tap Out Diner may refer to the submission move.
- Tombstone Tacos is a spoof name on the Undertaker's signature move, Tombstone.
- Numerous references are made to Brodus Clay's time as the Funkasaurus.
- Brodus's dancers appear to be based on the Funkadactyls who had already disbanded at the time.
- Brodus refers to his entrance music, "Somebody Call My Momma", when he says "Time somebody called your Momma" when facing the Ghost Bear, and when a man in the WrestleMania crowd held a sign saying "Somebody call your Momma".
- During the broadcast of WrestleMania on television, three sequences were shown of four girls watching the main event on their sofa, resembling Cassie Sandsmark (Wonder Girl), Artemis Crock (Artemis), Zatara Zatanna (Zatara), and Megan Morse (Miss Martian) from Young Justice: Invasion, the second season of Young Justice on Cartoon Network. Brandon Vietti, who directed this film, was the co-creator of the Young Justice TV series.
Inconstitencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities
- Fred was a major wrestling fan in the What's New, Scooby-Doo? episode, Wrestle Maniacs, but here he has to be guilted in to going to WrestleMania. Daphne also had no problem in going to the Bosepheus Jumbo Wrestling Bowl in the aformentioned episode, but she really doesn't want to go to WrestleMania at all.
- Are the gang that incompetent that they leave Shaggy to pack their bags for the trip?
- Even if they did only wear one outfit they would still need another set of a fresh clothing, not to mention underwear.
- It's implied, but not explicitly confirmed that those who work at the WWE live in WWE City. It's unknown if this applies to everyone of its employees.
In other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish (Latin America) | Scooby-Doo! Misterio en el ring (DVD) Scooby-Doo! Misterio en la lucha libre (movie) |
Scooby-Doo! Mystery in the ring Scooby-Doo! Mystery in the Wrestling |
| Greek | Scooby-Doo! Μυστήριο στη Παγκόσμια Πάλη | Scooby-Doo! Mystery at the World Wrestling |
Home media
- USA release date: Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery DVD released March 25, 2014.
- USA release date: Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery Blu-ray/DVD combo released March 25, 2014.
- UK release date: Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery DVD released March 24, 2014.
- UK release date: Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery Blu-ray/DVD combo released March 24, 2014.
Quotes
Gallery
Videos
WrestleMania Mystery! - John Cena to the Rescue
Images
Blu-ray/DVD combo