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With a warmly received journey into relatively mature writing, ''Zombie Island'' marked a, or ''the'', high-point in the ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise. The film, as mentioned before, is beautifully animated -- moreso than any incarnation before and still unmatched today -- with a literally dark and realistic feel to it. On top of that, it featured a somewhat cynical/mature look at what happened to Mystery Inc. after their adventures were done (which would be touched on again the [[The Movie]], but with less success). Characters were more fleshed out and three-dimensional, especially the newly empowered Daphne. The irrelevant pop songs of past cartoons gave way to Alternative and Metal music. The story appealed to older viewers with honest-to-goodness death as part of the backstory, and the end result for the gang if they didn't win. <ref>Although the back cover mentioned that they ''do'' make it out alive.</ref> And the best part of it all? No contrived story with a guy in a mask... just like the ads promised, [[This Is Sparta|they were real. Stinkin'. Zombies]]. Probably the only complaint the movie generated was, "[[Animation Age Ghetto|it's too scary for young]] ''[[Animation Age Ghetto|Scooby]]'' [[Animation Age Ghetto|fans]]."
The success of ''Zombie Island'' lead to the creation of three more videos covering mysteries Scooby and the gang would solve as adults. However, while they took many of the same conventions as ''Zombie Island'', they also brought back several of the old ones. For example, in ''Scooby-Doo and The Witch's Ghost'', Daphne returned to being [[The Chick]], the animation wasn't as dark, and there was even an old-fashioned [[Scooby
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=== This film provides examples of the following [[Tropes]]: ===
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* [[Jerkass Victim]]: {{spoiler|It's hard to feel sorry for Morgan Moonscar's fate}}
* [[Kick the Son of A Bitch]]: The first thing that the villains do is murder Morgan Moonscar and is men. Morgan deserves it.
* [[Last
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Fred tries on his orange ascot while getting ready for dinner at Simone's mansion, but tosses it aside after realizing it looks ridiculous.
* [[No Immortal Inertia]]
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** The gang unintentionally interfering with a villager's attempts to catch a catfish named Big Mona.
** Dog? Where?
* [[Scooby
* [[Sir Not
* [[Stab the Scorpion]]: After much criticism from Velma, Beau picks up a large rock and it looks like he's going to hurt her with it. Instead, he throws it in front of her, revealing that she was about to step in quicksand. She thanked him, but she ''still'' sees him as a suspect.
* [[Serial Killer]]: {{spoiler|The zombies turn out to be people being sacrificed/killed by Simone, Lena and Jacques}}.
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