One Scooby-Doo fan theory suggests that baddies are quick to confess to Mystery, Inc.’s allegations to cover up other heinous crimes.
Scooby-Doo and the gang have solved countless mysteries over the years, and bad guys are known to be prone to quickly confessing their crimes. It’s a confusing fact considering that Scooby and company don’t seem to be forced to do much to gain admission from the villains. However, a Reddit fan theory proposes that the reason the bad guys always admit to the gang’s allegations is that they might be hiding something more sinister.
It’s the same routine every time: Mystery, Inc. catches the villain and exposes his plan; then the villain admits his guilt without hesitation and says that “they would have gotten away with it too, not for you nosy kids!” But according to fan theory, the villains could get away with much worse. These outlaws confess to the misdemeanors they are charged with to prevent Mystery Inc. from delving deeper and uncovering more heinous crimes. It is essentially an act of reducing your losses.
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Scooby-Doo and the gang often uncover common plots like real estate fraud or counterfeiting, but there are also more serious crimes, such as murder and drugs, associated with these entry cases. To make the authorities think that small game crimes are the only crimes committed, the bad guys enthusiastically cling to the accusations against them. Sometimes the villain’s act is even as well in the nose. Bad guys prefer to admit to a misdemeanor and get a smaller prison sentence and then have the authorities dig deep.
It cannot be forgotten that Mystery, Inc. is made up of a group of straight teenagers who lived in a Midwestern city in the 1960s. For them, a counterfeiting operation is worthy of Velma’s “shenanigans.” They never think of investigating crimes further, once they are quick to gather some clues into a half-finished conclusion. Based on all the mysteries they “solved,” there are likely a few crimes that only scratched the surface. The fan theory seems more plausible and representative of real life crime stories than the unrealistic schematics the show presents.
Of course, Scooby Doo It was a children’s cartoon, and showing a mystery in which the bad boy murders his partner after a drug deal goes awry doesn’t fit in with the squeaky clean nature of the show. A crime like that would also be above the salary level of Mystery, Inc. It would not be an exaggeration to assume that, for example, Mr. Wickles, the Phantom Black Knight of the Scooby Doo Where Are You! The episode “What a Night For a Knight”, he was planning to kill the man who could prove he was forging paintings and selling them.
At Scooby Doo Where Are You? episode “Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too”, after the villain pretending to be a mummy finds the hidden gems, was he really going to let go of the archeology professor he had tied in a closet? The villain has already replaced the professor with a concrete doll to imply that the mummy turned him to stone, so the logical assumption would be that the professor would be killed if Mystery, Inc., did not find him first. Children never make the connection to get rid of their witnesses, they only focus on the crime that has already been committed. Since the kids don’t bring it up, why would the villain bring it up and make the charges against him harsher?
This theory appears to be based on sound logic and is plausible in many of the episodes. It’s very likely that some of the schemes were as benign as the gang posed, but others were likely apt for a Netflix true-crime documentary. It’s also very entertaining to think about all the spooky plots Scooby-Doo was close to or could have stopped happening. If a scam operation and a ghoul scared Shaggy, imagine what a double homicide would have caused him.
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