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It's A Wonderful Fright is a story in Scooby-Doo! #115 by DC Comics.
Premise
Shaggy and Scooby-Doo are being chased by The Plotter and his accomplices. Shaggy wishes that he had never met Mystery Inc., just before crashing through a rotten floor. While unconscious, he dreams of what the world would be like with no Mystery Inc.: overrun with costumed monsters who were never caught.
Synopsis
Characters
Character |
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Scooby-Doo |
Shaggy Rogers |
Fred Jones |
Daphne Blake |
Velma Dinkley |
Mr. Scamlin |
Villains
- The Plotter/Mr. Scamlin
- Various monsters in Shaggy's hallucination.
Villain cameos
- Spooky Space Kook
- Ghost of Mr. Hyde
- Phantom Shadow
- Mummy of Ankha
- Creeper
- Ghost Clown
- The Ape Man of Forbidden Mountain
- Charlie The Haunted Robot
- Captain Cutler's Ghost
- Dracula
- The Ghostly Indian on Horseback
- The Wax Phantom
- The Caveman
- The Swamp Witch
- The Witch Doctor
- The Phantom of Vasquez Castle
- The Black Knight Ghost
- One of the members of Zen Tuo's Scare Pair
- The Headless Spector
- Redbeard's Ghost
Suspects
Suspect | Motive/reason |
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Suspect | Motive/reason |
Culprits
Culprit | Motive/reason |
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Mr. Scamlin as The Plotter | To get real estate to be bought by an amusement park |
Locations
Notes/trivia
- This plot follows the idea of It's a Wonderful Life, in which a man sees how bad things would be in his town if he had never been born.
- The villain, "The Plotter", is an echo of the villain in that movie, Mr. Potter.
- Scooby-Doo had a similar experience in the The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo episode, It's A Wonderful Scoob.
Reception
It's a Wonderful Xmas from Scooby-Scooby-Doooooooooooo. Shaggy takes a tumble while fleeing from an imaginatively conceived masquerade by Pope and McRae. His trip to la-la land has him dreaming a little dream where Mystery Inc. never existed.
Simmons takes a time-honored tradition through the magnifying glass of the sleuth. Despite being consistently scared witless--evidenced by hilarious wild takes from the Shagster, Shaggy quickly learns that it's preferable to a world over-run by flamboyant real estate scammers. Bonus bell ringing for Simmons having Shaggy solve the mystery that led him to the insight.[1]
Quotes
References
- ↑ Ray Tate in Line of Fire Reviews