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3/21/2019

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Hi everyone!

With all the discussion lately following Curse of the 13th Ghost about what's canon and what's not, SDF and I have been working on a project about what could be considered canon. In our definition, canon means that there are no continuity errors with other things in the Scooby-Doo franchise that would prevent it from being in the main continuity. Anything that is not canon would be discontinuous with another incarnation, or it somehow contradicts another Scooby-Doo episode, special, or film.

The following is the canon we came up with. Some non-canon movies fit together nicely with others, such as the LEGO or live action films, and have been placed in a canon together. All incarnations under the "separate canons" category are all in their own, individual canons and do not fit together with anything else in the franchise. Some notes are provided where our placement might be a bit confusing. However, if there's anything you feel should be placed elsewhere, please let us know in the comments and we'll be happy to explain our reasoning as to why we chose to place it there.

Main Canon
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
"Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!"
The Scooby-Doo Show
"Bravo Dooby-Doo"
Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico
Scooby-Doo! Spooky Games
Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays
Scooby-Doo! and the Spooky Scarecrow
Scooby-Doo! Mecha Mutt Menace
Scooby-Doo! Ghastly Goals
Scooby-Doo! and the Beach Beastie
Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster
Aloha, Scooby-Doo!
Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?
Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!
Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!
Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo
Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur
Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire
Big Top Scooby-Doo!
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright
Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery
Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy
Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness
Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery
Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
The Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show
The Richie Rich / Scooby-Doo Show
The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo Puppy Hour
Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights (Shaggy and Scooby are alone, without Daphne. Other non-Daphne films are placed below because they had a darker feel which went with 13 Ghosts and Zombie Island)
The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show
The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers
Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School
Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf
Monster Party (OK K.O.)
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost
Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase
Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire (Hex Girls are present, first introduced in Witch's Ghost)
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword (Real monsters are featured, and Velma doesn't seem overly skeptical)
What's New, Scooby-Doo? (Hex Girls are present)

Separate Canons
Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
"Shaggy Busted"
"Scoobynatural"
Scooby-Doo: Behind the Scenes (8 shorts)
The Scooby-Doo Project
Night of the Living Doo
Scooby Goes Hollywood
Scooby-Doo! Adventures: The Mystery Map
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Daphne & Velma
​SCOOB!

Dynomutt, Dog Wonder Canon:
"Everyone Hyde!"
"What Now, Lowbrow?"
"The Wizard of Ooze"

LEGO Canon
Lego Scooby-Doo! Knight Time Terror
The Lego shorts
Lego Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood
Lego Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash

Live Action (Era 1) Canon
Scooby-Doo {2002 live action}
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

Live Action (Prequel) Canon
Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins
Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster

Reboot Canon

Scooby-Doo and the Curse of the 13th Ghost
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!


Thanks so much to SDF for working with me on this! It was a lot of fun! :)

Let us know what you think of the timeline in the comments!!!
33 Comments
The cop
3/25/2019 11:28:00 am

It was said that mystery incorparated takes place right before where are you and curse of the 13th ghost takes place a couple months after the 13 ghosts of scooby doo

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WildwindVampire link
3/25/2019 01:00:51 pm

SDF and I decided that there are too many continuity errors (i.e. the rebooting universe at the end of SDMI, the numerous inconsistencies between the original 13 Ghosts show and the film) to include it in the main canon of the franchise.

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The cop
3/29/2019 01:49:43 pm

I am pretty sure samurai sword and what's new would be right before loch ness monster because they all have the what's new scooby doo art

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WildwindVampire link
3/30/2019 08:25:53 am

I wish we could do that. Our reasoning for placing WNSD after was in part because of the Hex Girls being in "The Vampire Strikes Back." Witch's Ghost and Legend of the Vampire had to be before WNSD because that's how the gang met the Hex Girls. Additionally, the gang goes to Australia in "Reef Grief," but in Big Top Scooby-Doo, Shaggy comments he had never been to Australia and didn't even know what a kangaroo looked like. Samurai Sword was placed after everything else because real monsters are featured, but Velma doesn't seem overly skeptical (whereas she does in many of the other DTVs).

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Timothy Weber
5/2/2019 01:19:55 am

Personally I believe Scoobynatural to be part of Scooby-Doo canon, and to finally solve the biggest question in Scooby history: Should real monsters exist?

So basically there's two ACTUAL CANON timelines
Timeline 1: Al Monsters are fake
Timeline 2: Some Monsters Are Real

So the timeline diverged when the Winchester brothers went into the Scooby universe. There was the villain there (I forget what it was, only seen the episode once) and as soon as that monster entered the Scooby reality, it altered history to where monsters do exist (Though not discovered till years later)
Where as in the original still canon timeline, monsters were always fake, and thus some things never happen i.e. Zombie Island, 13 Ghosts, etc.

So the timeline diverged in A Night of Fright Is No Delight.

So the way I see it you can have two versions of the actual canon. If you're a fan that prefers Scooby-Doo to always have fake monsters, watch the timeline listed above, but take out every movie, show, episode to have real monsters in it, as those never happen in Canon Timeline A.
If you prefer Scooby-Doo to have both fake and real monsters, watch the timeline listed above, but instead of watching every episode of Where Are You, replace A Night of Fright Is No Delight with ScoobyNatural, then finish the timeline!

So both are canon, they are just alternate timelines! That's how I see it!

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WildwindVampire link
5/2/2019 08:13:44 am

This is a really interesting idea, Timothy! Thanks for sharing!

The villain in "Scoobynatural" was the Green Ghost/Phantom Shadow btw :)

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Mahsad
9/19/2019 09:12:56 pm

I think Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? are in the main canon.

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WildwindVampire link
9/20/2019 10:55:02 am

Agreed, I don't think we had updated it yet but I will ask SDF to make sure he agrees. Thanks!

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Mahsad
9/20/2019 11:23:18 pm

No Prob!

sdf
11/24/2019 07:22:26 pm

Recently i was scoobypedia and specifically the guess who episode pages and there were a lot of continuity errors noticed. These are:

-Even though this is supposed to be a continuation of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Shaggy & Scooby are in hysterics at the idea of Speed Buggy being a talking car, despite having had an entire case together in the aforementioned series episode The Weird Winds of Winona.{A Mystery Solving Gang Divided}
-The world of Sherlock Holmes has always been real within the realm of Scooby-Doo canon, but in this episode, the gang clearly state that he isn't a real person. {Elementary, My Dear Shaggy!}
-The direct-to-video film Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon depicted Wonder Woman as fictional, despite her appearing in the flesh in this episode.{The Scooby of a Thousand Faces!}

I mean Shaggy and Scoob could have forgoten about speed buggy after so many adventures like shaggy's kangaroo issues on big top{It's a talking car though come on} but there are no explanations for the other 2. I belive it is out of canon... What do you think?

PS Many thanks to the guy who runs scoobypedia. Amazing work

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WildwindVampire link
11/25/2019 07:31:01 am

I think yeah, there are things that put it out of canon. The gang also doesn't know Batman in his episode at all. Do you think this puts the whole series out of canon though, or just those specific episodes?

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sdf
11/25/2019 08:43:42 am

I belive there's a new continuity the guess who one.

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WildwindVampire link
11/25/2019 03:37:06 pm

Okay, I will update that in my post then!

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Rhea
12/7/2019 11:47:45 pm

So I have a question... The Boo Brothers movie and the episode the Scoobynatural is based on both feature the uncle Beauregard character dying. How is this explained? Is it a continuity error that he's leaving two different fortunes and dying twice?

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WildwindVampire link
12/8/2019 11:37:14 am

Hmm, very interesting point! I've always assumed that the Beauregards were two different people. Scoobynatural was based on the episode "A Night of Fright is No Delight," which says Beauregard is just a person that Scooby rescued from a pond. I believe it's only Boo Brothers that says that Beauregard is Shaggy's uncle, so my explanation would be that it's two different people both named Beauregard.

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Rhea
12/9/2019 05:56:48 am

So I thought that too, but their ghost looks the same (or rather, the portrait looks the same in A Night of Fright is No Delight as the ghost in Boo Brothers). It totally tripped me out! (I'm new to scooby, and just started watching, so I caught this and was like "deja vu what" and got so confused.)

WildwindVampire link
12/9/2019 09:03:38 am

Welcome to the Scooby fandom then! Unfortunately, Scooby does tend to re-use their character designs (as does Hanna-Barbera in general), so you'll see a few villains that look similar (i.e. the zombies in "Which Witch is Which?" and "Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo" look the same with the exception of the shirt color).

MasterSolo
2/8/2020 01:21:02 am

Shouldn’t Spooky Scarecrow be before Haunted Holidays, since Halloween comes before Christmas?

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WildwindVampire link
2/8/2020 05:24:24 pm

Very good point, MasterSolo! I've switched these around now.

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MasterSolo
2/8/2020 06:37:29 pm

Also, how can Witch’s ghost come after Zombie Island, when in Zombie Island Daphne and Fred are already dating, then in Witch’s Ghost, she asks him why he always pairs them together and tries to kiss him for the first time?

WildwindVampire link
2/9/2020 09:35:21 am

Witch's Ghost definitely comes after Zombie Island, because Ben says he read a newspaper which has them solving a mystery with the moat monster from Zombie Island. I don't think Fred and Daphne ever officially confirm that they're dating in the film (in fact Daphne acts defiant against Fred until the end of Zombie Island, saying things like "I can handle myself!"), though there is the little "this is so romantic" comment when they're on the end of the dock. I would say Ben reading the newspaper that has the Moat Monster mystery is more conclusive proof that Zombie Island comes before Witch's Ghost than the romance thing, though you make a good point that it's an odd inconsistency.

Lil_Nathan
9/27/2020 08:44:20 pm

Honestly, I agree with the administrator of this blog, that the canon should be everything that does not interfere with the other content, but I consider that if something damages the rest we should put it aside in another canon as is everything related to Scrappy Doo as it hinders the gang's history.

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WildwindVampire link
10/6/2020 10:21:17 am

Thank you! :)

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Lil_Nathan
10/3/2020 08:32:36 pm

I think Scooby Doo the Rock and Roll Mystery has to happen before camp scare and stage fright because that movie breaks all the progress that was Fred and Daphne in Camp scare and Stage Fright developing and demostrating their feelings for each other little by little.

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Lil_Nathan
10/3/2020 10:13:48 pm

And In SF Vilma consider that the phantom can be a real ghost when it desapear at the begging of the mystery something very strange in Vilma considering his skepticism in other movies and series.

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WildwindVampire link
10/6/2020 10:22:38 am

Sorry for the delayed response. I contacted SDF but never heard back yet (was waiting to hear back to respond). I would agree with this, though I'll wait to see if SDF responds back to change it.

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Lil_Nathan
10/6/2020 05:23:36 pm

Perfect, it is a pleasure for me to contribute to your timeline cause the truth is that it enriches the history of scooby and I think that change would help to the history and development of the characters so loved for us

WildwindVampire
10/6/2020 08:28:41 pm

I definitely agree that projects like this enrich Scooby's history and I'm glad I was able to help in creating this timeline :)

Lil_Nathan
10/10/2020 12:58:22 am

SDF already answered you because I would like to know his opinion about it ;)

WildwindVampire link
10/10/2020 04:14:12 pm

I guess I don't really understand what you mean in your comment but SDF did comment again on the blog so I just left a comment in response directing him here.

Sdf
10/10/2020 06:59:47 pm

Lil Nathan has a good point. I think we should change the order. Thanks for the help and forgive me for the late response

WildwindVampire link
10/10/2020 07:53:05 pm

Awesome, I'll change it in the post right now then!

Lil_Nathan
10/10/2020 10:11:00 pm

No problem SDF! I really appreciate that you guys change it because I love this franchise and his characters. I’m happy to help ;)




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