| Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! | |
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| Original broadcast | October 4, 2022 (Digital) October 14, 2022 (Cartoon Network) October 15, 2022 (HBO Max) October 18, 2022 (DVD) |
| Country | United States |
| Network | Cartoon Network |
| Directed by | Audie Harrison |
| Preceded by "Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog" |
Succeeded by "Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too!" |
Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! is an American animated direct-to-video film produced by Warner Bros. Animation and distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and the thirty-seventh entry in the direct-to-video series of Scooby-Doo films. It is the first DTV film to use the animation style of Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?. It was released on October 4, 2022 on Digital and on October 18, 2022 on DVD. It premiered on Cartoon Network on October 14, 2022 and on HBO Max on October 15, 2022.
Synopsis[]
Mystery Incorporated are summoned to a local ski resort under siege by a cat monster. After capturing it by triggering an avalanche, it's revealed to be one of the owners of the resort, trying to keep her step-mother out of the business. Mystery Inc. takes and analyzes a whisker from the cat costume, revealing that it is made with the same materials as every other costume used by villains in their previous mysteries. They determine that the costumes were made by the same person, Coco Diablo, a high end Halloween costume designer. We are introduced to both Coco and her assistant, Trevor (who can only make Dracula costumes), and Coco berates Trevor for his lack of imagination, feeding his recent outfit design to a pit of alligators. To capture her, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy disguise themselves as a potential buyer, and when Coco agrees to give them a costume in exchange for killing Mystery Inc, they reveal themselves. Velma is instantly attracted to Coco, but it's too late, because Coco is off to the Coolsville Penitentiary. A year passes with Fred, Daphne and Velma growing more and more depressed by the lack of truly difficult mysteries, while Shaggy and Scooby are having a much better time. After solving a tax scheme, only for the perpetrator to get away with it, Fred makes a wish in a wishing well for more mysteries. The gang attends a local carnival, and are attacked by a ghost that resembles Fred, and who blows up the Mystery Machine. Desperate for leads, they go to Coolsville Penitentiary to interview Coco Diablo, and meet the sadistic warden, who calls himself their biggest fan. He allows them to meet Coco, and when they can't give her any details about the costume, the warden agrees to let them take Coco out, as long as one of them wears a bracelet that will monitor Coco's heartrate and alert the police if she gets too far away from it. After finding a clue at the carnival in the remains of their booth, the gang goes to do research at the local library, joined by Coco and Esteban, her highly intelligent cat. At the library, they are attacked by ghosts that resemble the entire gang, but escape and go to confront Trevor at his new shop when Coco determines that the costumes matched his style of design. Trevor reveals that he sent four Victorian Era style costumes to Coolsville Penitentiary, and the Gang discoverers that Coco broke her heart monitor and escaped. They follow her to her factory and trap the ghosts with the Alligator pit, revealing that they're robots in costumes. Coco offers a false confession, but the gang sees through it and determines that the Warden is behind the whole thing. He confesses and is arrested, but when trying to assure Mystery Inc that they were never in any real danger, accidentally releases all the inmates at the Penitentiary. They escape, and the gang dresses up in the costumes Coco has extras of to round them up.
Voice Cast[]
- Frank Welker as Frank Jones, Scooby-Doo
- Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers
- Grey Griffin as Daphne Blake
- Kate Micucci as Velma Dinkley
Release[]
The film was released on digital on October 4, 2022 and on DVD on October 18, 2022. It aired on Cartoon Network on October 14, 2022 and premiered on HBO Max on October 15, 2022.
Depiction of Velma Dinkley[]
Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! made headlines for depicting Velma Dinkley "crushing big time" on female character Coco Diablo, in accordance with long-held fan speculation that Velma was a lesbian/bisexual, a concept previously considered for depiction in the first theatrical live-action Scooby-Doo film Scooby-Doo (2002) and the TV series Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010–2013). Lesbian actress Hayley Kiyoko, who played Velma in the direct-to-video live-action Scooby-Doo films directed by Brian Levant, said she was "happy for her".[1][2] In response to speculation that Trick or Treat would lead to Velma being depicted as a lesbian in all subsequent Scooby-Doo media, Mindy Kaling clarified on International Lesbian Day that Velma would not be depicted as such in her upcoming adult-oriented metafictional HBO Max series Velma, instead involved in a "love quadrangle" with Fred, Daphne, and Shaggy, specifically with a crush on Fred.