Mutate Madness

Tutorial screen.

**Mutate Madness** is the 10th section in the Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed PC game and an adaptation of The Potions Scene.

The section contains the titular mini-game, a point and click section, and 3 cutscenes.

## History

(Many of the actions by these characters are in the control of the player)

Scooby-Doo and Shaggy ride the creepy elevator down to Jonathan Jacobo's Lab under the Coolsville Mining Town. Getting out, they look around for any potential clues.

Scooby finds a fridge full of potions. Hungry, he sees one that looks like yogurt and eats it. This causes him to transform into a hideous monster. Shaggy is startled, telling him they need to create an antidote by mixing the potions in the fridge together. After his first attempt, Scooby becomes more dog-like, but now with a very muscular body. After his second attempt, Scooby becomes a nerdy scientist. After his third attempt, he turns into a miss-match of a scientist with blue underwear. After his fourth attempt, Scooby finally reverts back to normal.

Somehow, all this commotion causes an explosion in the mine. Fred, Daphne, and Velma show up and angrily scold them for lying.

## Gameplay

### Cutscene 1

A cutscene plays. If the player chooses, they can skip by clicking. This cutscene has 4 shots.

### Exploration

The player enters a point and click segment. It takes place within 3 different areas: The Elevator area, the Underground Lab area, and the Table area.

The player can click various objects to find clues, and one can be found in each area. Its location is randomized each time. The player must click the refrigerator to progress, which triggers another cutscene.

### Cutscene 2

Another cutscene plays that the player can skip. This cutscene has 2 shots.

### Instructions

A screen with instructions appears before the minigame, narrated by Shaggy. The player must click anywhere to play the game.

### Minigame

The player enters the minigame, with instructions (read out by Shaggy) telling them to mix the different potions into an antidote of a specific color Shaggy instructs, acting as a simple mixing colors puzzle. There are four levels, and all must be completed to beat the game and progress. Failing to mix the color specified will result always in a black potion, and the player must try the same color again. The player only has 5 minutes to complete the minigame, otherwise they must try again from the beginning.

The four colors needed are always the same (though not specifically in this order):

* Pink (white and red)
* Purple (blue and red)
* Green (blue and yellow)
* Orange (yellow and red)

### Results Screen

The player gets a standard 1000 points for completing the minigame, with additional time bonus for how quickly they completed it.

### Cutscene 3

Another cutscene plays that the player can skip. This cutscene has 3 shots before Velma calls attention to The Monster Hive, segueing into the next section of the game and ending Mutate Madness.

## Differences from the Original

* Scooby is the only one who drinks potions, meaning all of Shaggy's transformations are not seen.
* Tasmanian Devil Scooby is not seen.
* The explosion caused by the "Highly Combustible" Potion is caused by an unknown source.
* Scooby Brainiac is designed much differently.
* Neil Fanning voices Scooby Brainiac instead of J.P. Manoux.
* Buff Scooby and Underwear Scooby are exclusive to this game.
* Potions must be mixed to be effective.

### Relation to the Original Script

While being very different from the film's final scene, some details are closer to James Gunn's original script. There are still some differences between this version and the script, detailed here.

## Characters

* Shaggy
* Scooby-Doo
* Fred
* Daphne
* Velma

## Transformations

* Monster Scooby
* Buff Scooby
* Scooby Brainiac
* Underwear Scooby

## Potions

* Unmarked Potion
* Potions from Mutate Madness

## Music

* **Dazed** by Rushmore Denooyer plays during the minigame.

## Trivia

* The lines for picking up a green or purple potions are sentence spliced from other parts of Shaggy's audio.
	+ This may have been done because they mistakenly did not get Matthew Lillard to record lines for picking up those colors.
* According to speedrun.com's page on Mutate Madness, the record for this scene is currently held by Sandmanfan, who completed the game in only 17 seconds.
* On the "Jump to Game" menu, an image of Buff Scooby is used as the thumbnail for Mutate Madness.
	+ This is different from how Monster Scooby is used as the thumbnail the film scene Transformers on the DVD's scene selection menu, even though Monster Scooby is also in the game (as well as still being Scooby's first transformation).
	+ This image is also used during the game's installation process, along with a shot of the Underground Lab area.