Mystery Inc.

: This article is about the standard continuity Mystery Inc. For other incarnations, see Mystery Incorporated (disambiguation).
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== Vital Statistics ==
=== Members ===
Scooby-Doo
Shaggy Rogers
Fred Jones
Daphne Blake
Velma Dinkley
=== Base of operations ===
Mobile; Coolsville
== Other Statistics ==
== Production Details ==
=== First appearance ===
SDWAY: What a Night for a Knight
“	Of course it's haunted. Like, when do we ever go to a place that is not haunted?	”
 	 	
Mystery Incorporated, often shortened to Mystery Inc., are an amateur crime-solving group of friends. Their mystery solving began as preadolescents in the city of Coolsville, and eventually across the globe.
== Members ==
* Scooby-Doo (mascot)
* Shaggy Rogers (Scooby's master/friend)
* Fred Jones (leader)
* Daphne Blake ("damsel in distress")
* Velma Dinkley ("team nerd")
; Former members
* Scrappy-Doo (Scooby-Doo's nephew)
* Scooby-Dum (Scooby-Doo's cousin)
== Associates ==
: For a complete list of Mystery Inc.'s associates, look here.
== History ==
=== Animated history ===
: Main article(s): Mystery Inc./animated history
== Apocryphal ==
=== Comic history ===
: Main article(s): Mystery Inc./biographical account of comic appearances
=== Novel history ===
: Main article(s): Mystery Inc./biographical account of novel appearances
=== Video game history ===
: Main article(s): Mystery Inc./biographical account of video game appearances
== Appearances ==
* Mystery Inc.'s filmography
== Origin of name ==
In 1969, they were simply known as "the gang," with the designation of a proper name first appeared in 1973, on an LP called Scooby Doo and the Snowmen Mystery, when they were referred to as Mystery Incorporated. In 1977, the Peter Pan read-a-long books called them both Mystery Incorporated and Mystery Inc., also the same year, comics published by Marvel Comics referred to them as Mystery Inc.
In 1988, when the gang appeared in the A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, they were called the Scooby-Doo Detective Agency, "borrowed" from the team name used in The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show and The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries (which had Scrappy-Doo, but largely no Fred or Velma).
Finally in 1998, they were officially recognized in animated form for the first direct-to-video film, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, as Mystery Inc. Following on from that, in the fourth film, Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, they were both called Mystery Inc. and the Mystery Gang. They are rarely called Mystery Inc. in animated form, with a seeming general avoidance from writers to ever attempt to use it, instead opting to just call them the Scooby Gang or the Scooby-Doo Gang. Since 2013, however, "Mystery Incorporated" is randomly used in DTVs, beginning with Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon. This may be largely down to its heavy use in the unrelated TV series, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, airing from 2010-2013. It was also used in the unrelated live-action films Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (in 2004) and Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (on TV in 2010, and 2011 on DVD).
Conversely, "Mystery Inc." has been in regular use by Scholastic and DC Comics.
== Notes/trivia ==
* The gang appeared as a cameo in the Warner Bros. Animation-produced Duck Dodgers episode Surf the Stars, during the surf contest between Dodgers and Crusher.
== See also ==
* Categorized gallery
== References ==
# ↑ Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon, direct-to-video film 19.
# ↑ Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon, direct-to-video film 25.
# ↑ Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, direct-to-video 1.
# ↑ Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, direct-to-video film 4.
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