Gabriello Serra

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Gabriello Serra
Vital Statistics
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Hair color	Brown Green (as a ghost)
Eye color	Black Green (as a ghost)
Status	Deceased
Other Statistics
Powers and abilities	As a ghost: Flight; Super strength
Occupation	Friar
Production Details
First appearance	SDMI: Night Terrors (portrait) Theater of Doom
Played by	James Arnold Taylor

Gabriello Serra was a friar and leader of the Fraternitas Mysterium.

Physical appearance

Gabriello Serra was a tall, middle-aged man with light brown tonsured hair. He wore a brown monastic robe with a knotted rope belt.

When he appeared to Mystery Incorporated as an undead being, he was a bony, mummified corpse with a green aura and severely tattered robes. His left eye was open and glowing, while the other was a lidded empty socket.

Personality

As a monk, he likely held his beliefs in high-esteem. He also enjoyed discovering unlocking the secrets around him and, like the other mystery solving groups associated with the Planispheric Disk, had a strong bond with the rest of the Franternitas Mysterium and their mascot, Porto. After gaining possession of a piece of the Planispheric Disk, Serra was consumed by it, but he came to his senses when Porto was corrupted by the Evil Entity.

As a ghost, he was forceful and frightening, but he remained dedicated to preventing the Evil Entity from gaining power.

Powers and abilities

As an undead being, he had the following powers:

• Flight
• Super strength: He could crash up through wooden floors with supernatural strength.
• Green smoke

History

Early life

The legend was that he and his donkey, Porto, had tried to save Crystal Cove by warning them of an upcoming earthquake.

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

Season two

Serra as a ghost.

Mystery Incorporated saw a photo of the Fraternitas Mysterium in the Burlington Library. Serra first appeared during a rehearsal to warn Mystery Incorporated not to "evoke the memory of Nibiru" before Fred Jones made him disappear and was originally thought to be George Avocados until Shaggy pointed out the inconsistency and the older man confirmed that it was not him.

In the basement of the Haunted Historical Society theater, he reappeared in his coffin and told the young Mystery Inc. the story of the donkey that saved Crystal Cove was fictionalized and that Porto never tried to help save the town, but to destroy it.

Serra reveals the truth: when his group and Porto arrived at Crystal Cove, they encountered a conquistador, who told them about the curse before his madness got the best of him and ran away, leaving behind two pieces of the Planispheric Disk. While trying to uncover the truth, they quickly became obsessed with the pieces, realizing there was an evil at work. They tried to destroy the pieces to both rid themselves and Crystal Cove of evil, but the evil wouldn't allow it. Eventually, the dark power of the disk pieces manipulated Porto to destroy the town by stealing dozens of barrels of gunpowder, planting them beneath the town and making off with one of the disk pieces after lighting the fuse to the barrels. Serra chased Porto to the area outside of town that would later be known as Gatorsburg. Serra was able to retrieve the disk piece while Porto was dragged away to be eaten by the alligators. Unfortunately, he couldn't stop the barrels from exploding and sending half the town into the ocean, but thankfully, the other piece got lost at the bottom of the ocean with it. Afterwards, Serra hid the piece he retrieved in a wheel of cheese made by a master Spanish cheese maker to ensure the piece would never be found.

Before his corpse crumbled to dust, the ghost of Friar Serra warned of the coming of "Nibiru" and "the dog dies" because the downfall of the mystery-solving groups always begins with the animal mascot.

Appearances

• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
  • 210. Night Terrors ^(portrait)
  • 215. Theater of Doom
  • 222. Nightmare in Red ^{(dream only)}
  • 226. Come Undone ^{(flashback only)(no lines)}

Quotes

Gabriello: Heed the warning of the alligators: The dog dies! Theater of Doom

Notes/trivia

• Friar Gabriello Serra is likely a reference to the famed Franciscan missionary Saint Junípero Serra, who built many of the landmark California Missions. While it is not expressly stated that Crystal Cove is in California, this is one of several observable references and similarities to California history.