Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated

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Anyone seen this cartoon? It's basicly Scooby-Doo done with a more grown up edge to it, kind of emulating Buffy, with genuine character progression and development and an ongoing storyline focusing on what happened to the first group to call themselves "Mystery Inc". Each of the Scooby gang go through relationship dramas and must make choices that sometimes hurt the people they care about, whilst encircling all this is the trademark "whodunnit" aspects of the franchise

The finale of the first season was a jaw-dropper. Fred unmasks the creep of Crystal Cove to reveal it's

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His father, the mayor. Then he discovers he was abducted as a child and his real father is somewhere outside of town, so he breaks off his engagment to Daphne and leaves to search for them. Scooby discovers the mascot of the original Mystery Inc, a parrot, has the peice of the treasure the Mayor was seeking, and now Mystery Inc is disbanded with noone to stop him searching out the remaining four peices. In a moment of unexpected badassery, Scooby vows revenge

I recommend you seek out this series and take it all in, it makes you care about this franchise on a completly different scale.