r/TopCharacterTropes • • 14d ago

Hated Tropes (Hated trope) Remember all these stories and characters we followed for so long? Welp now it’s all reset.

1: using another flashpoint to create the tomorrowverse (Justice League Dark: Apokolips war) after 80-90% of the cast is killed off and billions lives are fated to die Flash and Constantine hatch up a plan to kill baby Darkseid to prevent the entire story from happening which just leads to an entirely different universe being formed and even erasing some characters from existence.

2: Jim travelling to the beginning (Tales of Arcadia series) after multiple characters die including Toby Jim uses a magic gem to travel back to the very first episode but instead lets Toby find the amulet… this changes things how?

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u/SaintOfPride201 14d ago

Mystery Incorporated [Bittersweet]

They had been thrust into a centuries old mystery and found out that their mystery crew is a sort of "reincarnation" of past mystery crews that span back whole centuries to several millennia, spanning back to ancient Mayans (Reincarnation is in quotes because it's not necessarily a reincarnation, no souls are reincarnated, just the concept of a mystery crew). Every generation has its own chosen mystery crew, and always consists of two men and two women, and their beast companion.

Part of the mystery crew that existed before them (and still does because they're all still alive) wanted to bring back a slumbering evil for their own gain, with their "beast companion" (a german parrot named Pericles) pulling the strings. A lot of people are killed for this goal (yes, this is still scooby doo), and when they reach the end of it, Pericles tries to take the power for himself, only to be consumed by it. Mystery Incorporated finishes the fight before the slumbering evil can end the world, and thus defeats it.

It causes the universe to reset. All of the cases they completed in Crystal Cove have never happened, Fred was never abandoned as a child by his real parents, the previous Mystery Incorporated are all friends (and married to their sweethearts), and Pericles was never evil. Mystery Incorporated has no real need to exist in this town. So what do they do? They drive off to solve OTHER mysteries elsewhere.

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u/Lwmons 14d ago

Important to clarify. The implication is that by resetting the timeline, the new timeline is the events of the original series

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u/24Abhinav10 13d ago

Which is crazy lol. Imagine going from fighting a universal eldritch monstrosity to busting men in masks.

What a downgrade.

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u/24Abhinav10 14d ago

I've always described Mystery Incorporated as "What if Gravity Falls had JoJo Stone Ocean's ending?"

My first introduction to Mystery Incorporated was the online game on the Cartoon Network website. So I was already familiar with the plot of Season 1 when watching, since that's what the game covers.

Also, RIP original Angel Dynamite

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u/PuzzleheadedEssay198 13d ago

Twin Peaks by way of Gravity Falls, yeah

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u/FadingSignal11 14d ago

I need to watch this. What the hell

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u/SaintOfPride201 14d ago

It's fucking fantastic, I recommend it wholeheartedly 

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u/FadingSignal11 14d ago

Do you know where I can get my hands on it?

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u/rubbersnakex2 14d ago

It's on netflix, and dvds exist. it is the best Scooby Doo.

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u/SuperSocialMan 13d ago edited 13d ago

It's the best Scooby-Doo show by far.

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u/24Abhinav10 13d ago

I think you meant "best"

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u/SuperSocialMan 13d ago

Swipe typing failed me :'c

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u/SuperSocialMan 13d ago

I heard that the show would've become standard Scooby-Doo if they'd gotten a third season, and just thinking about that possibility is so weird lol