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[[Mystery Incorporated (Crystal Cove successors)|The gang]] and {{Sheriff Stone}} fail to trap the [[Pirahna-Goat]], a masked villain who wants to disrupt the water supply. But Dead Justice makes the capture. Over the next several days, he beats the Sheriff to the arrest of many more criminals.
  
[[Mystery Incorporated (Crystal Cove successors)|The gang]] and {{Sheriff Stone}} fail to trap the [[Pirahna-Goat]], a masked villain who wants to disrupt the water supply. But Dead Justice makes the capture. Over the next several days, he beats the Sheriff to the arrest of many more criminals.
   
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The Sheriff has won the annual Crimey Awards for several years in a row, and his hero-worshiping [[Deputy Bucky]] assures him that he will again. The Sheriff just arrogantly sends him for some cotton candy. Instead, [[Fred Jones, Sr.|Mayor Jones]] gives the award to Dead Justice. The ghost appears and says he doesn't care about awards, just about doing a better job than the current incompetent Sheriff. Deputy Bucky shows up afterwards, expecting the Sheriff to have won.
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The Sheriff has won the two hundredth and fifteenth annual Crimey Awards for twenty seven years in a row, and his hero-worshiping [[Deputy Bucky]] assures him that he will again. The Sheriff just arrogantly sends him for some cotton candy. Instead, [[Fred Jones, Sr.|Mayor Jones]] gives the award to Dead Justice. The ghost appears and says he doesn't care about awards, just about doing a better job than the current incompetent Sheriff. Deputy Bucky shows up afterwards, expecting the Sheriff to have won.
   
 
Sheriff Stone is suspicious of [[Night Ranger]], the author of a blog critical of him, who was present at the award show. The gang agrees to help him investigate. As they drive home in the Mystery Machine, they are threatened and shot at by Dead Justice. The kids see that the "bullets" he uses have grinning cartoon faces.
  
Sheriff Stone is suspicious of [[Night Ranger]], the author of a blog critical of him, who was present at the award show. The gang agrees to help him investigate. As they drive home in the Mystery Machine, they are threatened and shot at by Dead Justice. The kids see that the "bullets" he uses have grinning cartoon faces.

Revision as of 09:11, 25 January 2017

This article is about the episode. For the character, see Will Williamson. For the disguise, see Ghost of Dead Justice.

Dead Justice is the twenty-fourth episode of the first season of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.

Premise

The ghost of Crystal Cove's first sheriff tries to get Sheriff Stone to quit his job.

Synopsis

The gang and Sheriff Stone fail to trap the Pirahna-Goat, a masked villain who wants to disrupt the water supply. But Dead Justice makes the capture. Over the next several days, he beats the Sheriff to the arrest of many more criminals.

The Sheriff has won the two hundredth and fifteenth annual Crimey Awards for twenty seven years in a row, and his hero-worshiping Deputy Bucky assures him that he will again. The Sheriff just arrogantly sends him for some cotton candy. Instead, Mayor Jones gives the award to Dead Justice. The ghost appears and says he doesn't care about awards, just about doing a better job than the current incompetent Sheriff. Deputy Bucky shows up afterwards, expecting the Sheriff to have won.

Sheriff Stone is suspicious of Night Ranger, the author of a blog critical of him, who was present at the award show. The gang agrees to help him investigate. As they drive home in the Mystery Machine, they are threatened and shot at by Dead Justice. The kids see that the "bullets" he uses have grinning cartoon faces.

They visit Sheriff Stone at his ranch home (where he lives with his mother) and ask for historical background on the ghost. He tells them of "Iron Will" Williamson, the first real Sheriff of Crystal Cove, and his enmity with bank robber "Nitro" Wisinksi that lead to both of them dying in a volcano.

They go to the home of the Night Ranger together with the Sheriff to check for clues. They find a few suspicious items like bales of hay (since Dead Justice has a horse), but they find out the body-building Ranger uses them as punching bags. Then the real Dead Justice shows up and threatens them all. They escape when Night Ranger uses his car to pull down one wall of his house.

The Mayor drives up and fires the Sheriff, saying he can get Dead Justice to do a better job for free. Stone is devastated and he reveals his mother gave him the name "Sheriff Bronson Stone" at birth, in anticipation that he would one day hold the job.

The next day, the gang collects the Sheriff's property from his office, from the distressed Deputy Bucky. Velma notices a clue and they go immediately to find Stone, who has taken a job at the Clam Cabin, with a bag over his head to hide his shame. They raise his hopes of capturing the imposter Dead Justice.

Dead Justice runs into the Ghost of Nitro Wisinski (Sheriff Stone in disguise), and he is captured as he tries to get away from him. The culprit is Deputy Buckner, who planned all this to get the Sheriff's job. He used CGI to create his bullets, which is what gave him away to Velma. One of the papers in the files they got from Bucky included cartoon sketches of the bullets.

Fred asks his dad's thanks about solving the mystery, but Mayor Jones avoids the question by saying he has a meeting to go to, then walks in the wrong direction. Fred wonders why he even bothers, but Daphne assures him that he just needs time.

Fred and Daphne then go to the Clam Cabin and Fred explains how Daphne is the only one who really understands him. Fred makes a proposing gesture to Daphne, asking if she will ride shotgun with him forever, and putting an onion ring on her finger. Daphne accepts (just as long as they get married after graduation), and they kiss. Night Ranger, observing from a distance, gives a gesture of satisfaction and does a cool backwards walk.

Characters

Main characters:

Supporting characters:

Villains:

Other characters:

Locations

Objects

  • Oyster shells
  • Crimey award
  • Cotton candy
  • Mankiki!
  • Trunks

Vehicles

Suspects

Suspect Motive/reason
Night Ranger He blogged against the Sheriff and left clam shells around.

Culprits

Culprit Motive/reason
Pirahna-Goat To disrupt the city's water supply.
Deputy Bucky as the Ghost of Dead Justice To discredit Sheriff Bronson Stone and become sheriff himself.
Sheriff Bronson Stone as Ghost of Nitro Wisinski To capture the Ghost of Dead Justice.

Cast

Frank Welker Scooby-Doo
Fred Jones, Jr.
Matthew Lillard Shaggy Rogers
Grey DeLisle Daphne Blake
Mindy Cohn Velma Dinkley
Gary Cole Mayor Fred Jones, Sr.
Patrick Warburton Sheriff Bronson Stone
Carlos Alazraqui Pirahna-Goat
Deputy Bucky
Ghost of Nitro Wisinski
Powers Boothe Ghost of Dead Justice
Florence Henderson Ruby Stone

Continuity

Notes/trivia

  • Fred and Daphne share their first kiss in this episode; this is also the first kiss they've had in animated form in the franchise's history. Both live-action incarnations (theatrical and TV) had already kissed.
  • Daphne and Fred intend to marry after graduating.

Cultural references

  • The bullets with faces may be a tribute to Bullet Bill from Nintendo's Super Mario.
  • When Dead Justice says "Hi ho, Greg!" to his horse, this is a reference to The Lone Ranger, who says "Hi Ho! Silver!"

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches

  • When Fred was pulling the rope over the Pirahna-Goat to try and trap him the ascot is blue instead of orange.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

  • Where Deputy Bucky got Greg from is unexplained, nor is its ability to breathe fire, although that could be CGI as well.
  • Fred doesn't know what graduation is, ignoring The Creeping Creatures, where he told Shaggy his plans of them moving in together after graduation.
  • Sheriff says "Crimestopper of the Year Awards," when the sign says "Crystal Cove Crimey Awards."
    • There is only one award given.

In other languages

Language Name Meaning
Spanish (Latin America) La Justicia Muerta The Dead Justice
Italian Il Giustiziere The Justiciary
Potuguese Justiça Morta Dead Justice
Hungarian Dead Justice
Greek Ο Νεκρός Νόμος
Νεκρός Δίκαιος 		The Dead Law
Dead Just

Home media

Quotes


External links

  • TBA


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