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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Dead Justice'' (episode)}}
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{{Expansion|<br />* Synopsis is missing details<br />* Miscellaneous is incomplete}}
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:''This article is about the episode. For the character, see [[Will Williamson]]. For the disguise, see [[Ghost of Dead Justice]].''
 
{{Infobox Episode
 
{{Infobox Episode
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| mainimage= Greg shoots fire at crowd.png
| image= [[File:Dead Justice TC.jpg|250px]]
 
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| titlecard= Dead Justice title card.png
 
| series= Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
 
| series= Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
| episode= 124
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| episodenum= 124
| airdate= July 12, 2011
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| airdate= July 12, 2011 ([[Cartoon Network]])
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| CAN= May 28, 2011 ([[Teletoon]])
 
| writtenby= [[Jed Elinoff]]<br />[[Scott Thomas]]
 
| writtenby= [[Jed Elinoff]]<br />[[Scott Thomas]]
 
| directedby= [[Victor Cook]]
 
| directedby= [[Victor Cook]]
| previousepisode= ''[[A Haunting In Crystal Cove]]''
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| previousepisode= ''[[A Haunting in Crystal Cove]]''
| nextepisode= ''[[Pawn Of Shadows]]''
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| nextepisode= ''[[Pawn of Shadows]]''
 
}}
 
}}
 
'''''Dead Justice''''' is the twenty-fourth episode of the [[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated season 1|first season]] of ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated]]''.
 
'''''Dead Justice''''' is the twenty-fourth episode of the [[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated season 1|first season]] of ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated]]''.
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==Synopsis==
 
==Synopsis==
The ghost of Crystal Cove's most famous sheriff, [[Ghost of Dead Justice|Dead Justice]], has come back from his grave to make [[Sheriff Bronson Stone]] quit his job by trapping Crystal Cove's top criminals. [[Mystery Incorporated (Crystal Cove successors)|The gang]] first encounters him when they are trying to trap the [[Pirahna-Goat]], a masked villain who wants to disrupt the water supply. Both they and the Sheriff fail, but Dead Justice makes the capture. Over the next several days he beats the Sheriff to the arrest of many more criminals.
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[[Mystery Incorporated (Crystal Cove successors)|The gang]] and {{Sheriff Stone}} fail to trap the [[Pirahna-Goat]], a masked villain who wants to disrupt the water supply. But Dead Justice makes the capture. Over the next several days, he beats the Sheriff to the arrest of many more criminals.
   
The Sheriff has won the annual Crimey Awards for several years in a row, and his hero-worshiping [[Deputy Bucky]] assures him that he will again, but Mayor [[Fred Jones, Sr.|Jones]] instead gives the award to Dead Justice. The ghost appears and says he doesn't care about awards, just about doing a better job than the current incompetent Sheriff.
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The Sheriff has won the two hundredth and fifteenth annual Crimey Awards for twenty seven years in a row, and his hero-worshiping [[Deputy Bucky]] assures him that he will again. The Sheriff just arrogantly sends him for some cotton candy. Instead, [[Fred Jones, Sr.|Mayor Jones]] gives the award to Dead Justice. The ghost appears and says he doesn't care about awards, just about doing a better job than the current incompetent Sheriff. Deputy Bucky shows up afterwards, expecting the Sheriff to have won.
   
 
Sheriff Stone is suspicious of [[Night Ranger]], the author of a blog critical of him, who was present at the award show. The gang agrees to help him investigate. As they drive home in the Mystery Machine, they are threatened and shot at by Dead Justice. The kids see that the "bullets" he uses have grinning cartoon faces.
 
Sheriff Stone is suspicious of [[Night Ranger]], the author of a blog critical of him, who was present at the award show. The gang agrees to help him investigate. As they drive home in the Mystery Machine, they are threatened and shot at by Dead Justice. The kids see that the "bullets" he uses have grinning cartoon faces.
   
They visit Sheriff Stone at his home (where he lives with his mother) and ask for historical background on the ghost. He tells them of "Iron Will" Williamson, the first real Sheriff of Crystal Cove, and his enmity with bank robber "Nitro" Wisinksi that lead to both of them dying in a volcano.
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They visit Sheriff Stone at his ranch home (where he lives with his mother) and ask for historical background on the ghost. He tells them of "Iron Will" Williamson, the first real Sheriff of Crystal Cove, and his enmity with bank robber "Nitro" Wisinksi that lead to both of them dying in a volcano.
   
They go to the home of the Night Ranger together with the Sheriff to check for clues. They find a few suspicious items like bales of hay (since Dead Justice has a horse), but they find out the body-building Ranger uses them as punching bags. Then the real Dead Justice shows up and threatens them all. They escape when Night Ranger uses his car to pull down one wall of his house.
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They go to the home of the Night Ranger together with the Sheriff to check for clues. They find a few suspicious items like bales of hay (since Dead Justice has a horse), but they find out the bodybuilding Ranger uses them as punching bags. Then the real Dead Justice shows up and threatens them all. They escape when Night Ranger uses his car to pull down one wall of his house.
   
 
The Mayor drives up and fires the Sheriff, saying he can get Dead Justice to do a better job for free. Stone is devastated and he reveals his mother gave him the name "Sheriff Bronson Stone" at birth, in anticipation that he would one day hold the job.
 
The Mayor drives up and fires the Sheriff, saying he can get Dead Justice to do a better job for free. Stone is devastated and he reveals his mother gave him the name "Sheriff Bronson Stone" at birth, in anticipation that he would one day hold the job.
   
The next day, the gang collects the Sheriff's property from his office, from the distressed Deputy Buckner. Velma notices a clue and they go immediately to find Stone, who has taken a job at the Clam Cabin, with a bag over his head to hide his shame. They raise his hopes of capturing the imposter Dead Justice.
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The next day, the gang collects the Sheriff's property from his office, from the distressed Deputy Bucky. Velma notices a clue and they go immediately to find Stone, who has taken a job at the Clam Cabin, with a [[Baghead|bag over his head]] to hide his shame. They raise his hopes of capturing the imposter Dead Justice.
   
Dead Justice runs into the [[Ghost of Nitro Wisinski]] (Sheriff Stone in disguise), and he is captured as he tries to get away from him. The culprit is Deputy Buckner, who planned all this to get the Sheriff's job. He used CGI to create his bullets, which is what gave him away to Velma. One of the papers in the files they got from Buckner included cartoon sketches of the bullets.
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Dead Justice runs into the [[Ghost of Nitro Wisinski]] (Sheriff Stone in disguise), and he is captured as he tries to get away from him. The culprit is Deputy Buckner, who planned all this to get the Sheriff's job because he was tired of being a deputy and whenever he did try to get promoted he failed his exams. He used CGI to create his bullets, which is what gave him away to Velma. One of the papers in the files they got from Bucky included cartoon sketches of the bullets. Sheriff Bronson admits that he owes the kids one.
   
Fred asks his dad if he is proud of him for solving the mystery, but Mayor Jones says no. Fred and Daphne then go to the Clam Cabin and Fred explains how Daphne is the only one who really understands him. Fred proposes to Daphne, asking if she will ride shotgun with him forever. Daphne accepts, and they kiss. Night Ranger, observing from a distance, gives a gesture of satisfaction and drives away.
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Fred asks his dad's thanks about solving the mystery, but Mayor Jones avoids the question by saying he has a meeting to go to, then walks in the wrong direction. Fred wonders why he even bothers, but Daphne assures him that he just needs time.
   
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Fred and Daphne then go to the Clam Cabin and Fred explains how Daphne is the only one who really understands him. Fred makes a proposing gesture to Daphne, asking if she will ride shotgun with him forever, and putting an onion ring on her finger. Daphne accepts (just as long as they get married after graduation), and they kiss. Night Ranger, observing from a distance, gives a gesture of satisfaction and does a cool backwards walk.
==Cast and characters==
 
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{| class="wikitable"
 
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==Characters==
! Actor
 
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'''Main characters:'''
! Character
 
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* [[Mystery Incorporated (Crystal Cove successors)|Mystery Incorporated]]
|-
 
 
** [[Scooby-Doo (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|Scooby-Doo]]
| [[Frank Welker]]
 
| [[Scooby-Doo (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|Scooby-Doo]]<br />[[Fred Jones, Jr.]]
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** [[Shaggy Rogers (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|Shaggy Rogers]]
 
** [[Fred Jones, Jr.]]
|-
 
 
** [[Daphne Blake (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|Daphne Blake]]
| [[Matthew Lillard]]
 
| [[Shaggy Rogers (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|Shaggy Rogers]]
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** [[Velma Dinkley (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|Velma Dinkley]]
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|-
 
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===Supporting characters:===
| [[Grey DeLisle]]
 
 
* [[Sheriff Bronson Stone]]
| [[Daphne Blake (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|Daphne Blake]]
 
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* [[Fred Jones, Sr.|Mayor Fred Jones, Sr.]]
|-
 
 
* [[Night Ranger]] {{Only}}{{NL}}
| [[Mindy Cohn]]
 
 
* [[Ruby Stone]] {{Only}}
| [[Velma Dinkley (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|Velma Dinkley]]
 
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|-
 
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===Villains:===
| [[Gary Cole]]
 
 
* [[Piranha-Goat]] {{Only}}
| [[Fred Jones, Sr.|Mayor Fred Jones, Sr.]]
 
 
* [[Ghost of Dead Justice]] {{Only}}{{Green|Deputy Bucky's disguise}}
|-
 
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* Burglar {{Only}}{{NL}}
| [[Patrick Warburton]]
 
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* Bank robbers {{Only}}{{NL}}
| [[Sheriff Bronson Stone]]
 
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* [[Deputy Bucky]]
|-
 
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* [[Greg]] {{Only}}{{NL}}
| [[Carlos Alazraqui]]
 
| [[Pirahna-Goat]]<br />[[Deputy Bucky]]<br />[[Ghost of Nitro Wisinski]]
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* [[Ghost of Nitro Wisinski]] {{Only}}{{Green|Sheriff Stone's disguise}}
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|-
 
 
===Other characters:===
| [[Powers Boothe]]
 
 
* [[Mr. Baywosenthal]] {{NL}}
| [[Ghost of Dead Justice]]
 
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* [[Janitor (Beware the Beast from Below)|Janitor]] {{NL}}
|-
 
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* [[Gary (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|Gary]] {{NL}}
| [[Florence Henderson]]
 
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* [[Will Williamson]] {{Only}}{{NL}}{{Flashback}}{{Diesinflashback}}
| [[Ruby Stone]]
 
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* [[Nitro Wisinski]] {{Only}}{{NL}}{{Flashback}}{{Diesinflashback}}
|-
 
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! colspan=3 | Non-speaking roles
 
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==Locations==
|-
 
 
* [[Crystal Cove]]
| colspan=2 | [[Will Williamson|"Iron" Will Williamson/Dead Justice]] <sup>(flashback)</sup>
 
 
** [[Crystal Cove City Hall]]
|-
 
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** Bank
| colspan=2 | [[Greg]]
 
 
** [[Stone home]]
|-
 
 
*** [[Sheriff Bronson Stone]]'s bedroom
| colspan=2 | [[Mr. Baywosenthal]] <sup>(cameo)</sup>
 
 
** [[Night Ranger's home]]
|-
 
 
** [[Crystal Cove Savings & Loan]]
| colspan=2 | [[Night Ranger]]
 
 
** [[Crystal Cove State Beach]]
|-
 
 
*** [[Skipper Shelton's Clam Cabin]]
| colspan=2 | [[Nitro Wisinski]] <sup>(flashback)</sup>
 
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|}
 
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==Objects==
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* Hot dog cart
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* [[Hot dog|Hot dogs]]
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* [[Hot dog bun|Hot dog buns]]
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* [[Umbrella|Umrellas]]
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* [[Handcuffs]]
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* Oyster shells
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* Dead Justice's pistol
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* Crimey award
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* [[Cotton candy]]
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* Fred's [[flashlight]]
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* Velma's flashlight
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* [[Mankini!]]
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* [[Trunks]]
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* [[Onion ring|Onion rings]]
   
==Villains==
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==Vehicles==
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* [[Mystery Machine (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|The Mystery Machine]]
* [[Pirahna-Goat]]
 
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* Sheriff Stone's police car
* [[Ghost of Dead Justice]]/[[Deputy Bucky]]
 
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* [[Night Ranger|Night Ranger's]] car
* [[Sheriff Bronson Stone]]/[[Ghost of Nitro Wisinski]]
 
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* Bank Robber's car
   
 
==Suspects==
 
==Suspects==
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|-
 
|-
 
| [[Deputy Bucky]] as the [[Ghost of Dead Justice]]
 
| [[Deputy Bucky]] as the [[Ghost of Dead Justice]]
| To discredit [[Sheriff Bronson Stone]] and become Sheriff himself.
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| To discredit [[Sheriff Bronson Stone]] and become sheriff himself.
 
|-
 
|-
 
| [[Sheriff Bronson Stone]] as [[Ghost of Nitro Wisinski]]
 
| [[Sheriff Bronson Stone]] as [[Ghost of Nitro Wisinski]]
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|}
 
|}
   
==Locations==
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==Cast==
 
{| class="wikitable"
* [[Crystal Cove]]
 
 
! [[Frank Welker]]
** [[Crystal Cove City Hall|City Hall]]
 
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| [[Scooby-Doo (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|Scooby-Doo]]<br />[[Fred Jones, Jr.]]
** [[Stone home]]
 
 
|-
** [[Night Ranger's home]]
 
 
! [[Matthew Lillard]]
** [[Crystal Cove Savings & Loan|Savings &amp; Loan]]
 
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| [[Shaggy Rogers (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|Shaggy Rogers]]
** [[Crystal Cove State Beach|Beach]]
 
 
|-
*** [[Skipper Shelton's Clam Cabin|Clam Cabin]]
 
 
! [[Grey DeLisle]]
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| [[Daphne Blake (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|Daphne Blake]]
 
|-
 
! [[Mindy Cohn]]
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| [[Velma Dinkley (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|Velma Dinkley]]
 
|-
 
! [[Gary Cole]]
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| [[Fred Jones, Sr.|Mayor Fred Jones, Sr.]]
 
|-
 
! [[Patrick Warburton]]
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| [[Sheriff Bronson Stone]]
 
|-
 
! [[Carlos Alazraqui]]
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| [[Pirahna-Goat]]<br />[[Deputy Bucky]]<br />[[Ghost of Nitro Wisinski]]
 
|-
 
! [[Powers Boothe]]
 
| [[Ghost of Dead Justice]]
 
|-
 
! [[Florence Henderson]]
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| [[Ruby Stone]]
 
|}
   
 
==Continuity==
 
==Continuity==
* Daphne's allergy to shellfish is mentioned again, revealed in ''[[Revenge of the Man Crab]]''. 
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* Daphne's allergy to shellfish is mentioned again, revealed in ''[[Revenge of the Man Crab]]''.
   
 
==Notes/trivia==
 
==Notes/trivia==
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*[[Shaggy Rogers (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|Shaggy]] and [[Scooby-Doo (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|Scooby]] don't bathe.
* This episode originally aired May 28, 2011 on Canada's Teletoon.
 
 
*[[Fred Jones, Jr.|Fred]] and [[Daphne Blake (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|Daphne]] share their first kiss in this episode; this is also the first kiss they've had in animated form in the franchise's history. Both live-action incarnations (theatrical and TV) had already kissed.
* The bullets with faces may be a tribute to Bullet Bill from Nintendo's ''Super Mario''.
 
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* Daphne and Fred intend to marry after graduating.
* When Dead Justice says "Hi ho, Greg!" to his horse, this is a clear reference to ''The Lone Ranger'', who says "Hi Ho! Silver!".
 
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* Fred and Daphne share their first kiss in this episode; this is also the first kiss they've had in animated form in the franchise's history. Both live-action incarnations (theactrical and TV) had already kissed.
 
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=== Miscellaneous ===
* It is revealed that after graduating from college, Daphne and Fred will marry (in so many words).
 
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* [[List of catchphrases#Zoinks|"Zoinks" count]]: 2.
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* [[List of catchphrases#Jeepers|"Jeepers" count]]: 1.
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===Cultural references===
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* The bullets with faces recalls:
 
** Bullet Bill from Nintendo's ''Super Mario''; or
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** Eddie Valiant's talking bullets in ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''.
 
* When Dead Justice says "Hi ho, Greg!" to his horse, this is a reference to ''The Lone Ranger'', who says "Hi Ho! Silver!"
   
 
===Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches===
 
===Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches===
* When Fred was pulling the rope over the Pirahna-Goat to try and trap him the ascot is blue instead of orange.
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* When Fred was pulling the rope over the [[Piranha-Goat|Pirahna-Goat]] to try and trap him, his ascot is blue instead of orange.
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*The [[Night Ranger]] jumps over the closed door of his car and into the driver's seat when he goes to drive home, although in the same scene and all others, his car is shown to have a roof, which would make this impossible.
   
 
===Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities===
 
===Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities===
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* Where [[Deputy Bucky]] got [[Greg]] from is unexplained, nor is its ability to breathe fire, although that could be CGI as well.
* None known.
 
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* It is never explained how the Demon Bullets are able to split the trophy in half, considering they are shown to be CGI.
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* Fred doesn't know what graduation is, ignoring {{SDMI102}}, where he told Shaggy his plans of them moving in together after graduation.
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*[[Sheriff Bronson Stone|Sheriff Stone]] says "Crimestopper of the Year Awards," when the sign says "Crystal Cove Crimey Awards."
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** There is only one award given.
   
 
==In other languages==
 
==In other languages==
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| '''Potuguese'''
 
| '''Potuguese'''
 
| Justiça Morta
 
| Justiça Morta
| rowspan="2"|Dead Justice
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| rowspan="3" |Dead Justice
 
|-
 
|-
 
| '''Hungarian'''
 
| '''Hungarian'''
 
| Dead Justice
 
| Dead Justice
 
|-
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|'''Turkish'''
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|Kristal Koyda Bir Hayalet
 
|-
 
|-
 
| '''Greek'''
 
| '''Greek'''
| Ο Νεκρός Νόμος
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| Ο Νεκρός Νόμος<br />Νεκρός Δίκαιος
| Dead Law
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| The Dead Law<br />Dead Just
 
|-
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| '''Polish'''
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| Sędzia widmo
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| Judge Spectre
 
|}
 
|}
   
 
==Home media==
 
==Home media==
* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Season One, Part 2 - Crystal Cove Curse]]'' DVD set.
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* {{US}} ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Season One, Part 2 - Crystal Cove Curse]]'' DVD set released by [[Warner Home Video]] on January 24, 2012.
* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: The Complete Season 1]]'' DVD set released October 8, 2013.
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* {{US}} ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: The Complete Season 1]]'' DVD set released by Warner Home Video on October 8, 2013.
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* {{FR}} ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystères associés: L'intégrale de la saison 1]]'' (''Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: The entirety of season 1'') DVD set released by Warner Home Video on October 3, 2012.
   
 
==Quotes==
 
==Quotes==
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{{Quotes
 
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'''[[Daphne Blake (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)|Daphne]]:''' It is a pretty complicated trap.<br>
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'''[[Fred Jones, Jr.|Fred]]:''' That's exactly why it will work!
 
}}
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==External links==
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* TBA
   
 
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This article is about the episode. For the character, see Will Williamson. For the disguise, see Ghost of Dead Justice.

Dead Justice is the twenty-fourth episode of the first season of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.

Premise

The ghost of Crystal Cove's first sheriff tries to get Sheriff Stone to quit his job.

Synopsis

The gang and Sheriff Stone fail to trap the Pirahna-Goat, a masked villain who wants to disrupt the water supply. But Dead Justice makes the capture. Over the next several days, he beats the Sheriff to the arrest of many more criminals.

The Sheriff has won the two hundredth and fifteenth annual Crimey Awards for twenty seven years in a row, and his hero-worshiping Deputy Bucky assures him that he will again. The Sheriff just arrogantly sends him for some cotton candy. Instead, Mayor Jones gives the award to Dead Justice. The ghost appears and says he doesn't care about awards, just about doing a better job than the current incompetent Sheriff. Deputy Bucky shows up afterwards, expecting the Sheriff to have won.

Sheriff Stone is suspicious of Night Ranger, the author of a blog critical of him, who was present at the award show. The gang agrees to help him investigate. As they drive home in the Mystery Machine, they are threatened and shot at by Dead Justice. The kids see that the "bullets" he uses have grinning cartoon faces.

They visit Sheriff Stone at his ranch home (where he lives with his mother) and ask for historical background on the ghost. He tells them of "Iron Will" Williamson, the first real Sheriff of Crystal Cove, and his enmity with bank robber "Nitro" Wisinksi that lead to both of them dying in a volcano.

They go to the home of the Night Ranger together with the Sheriff to check for clues. They find a few suspicious items like bales of hay (since Dead Justice has a horse), but they find out the bodybuilding Ranger uses them as punching bags. Then the real Dead Justice shows up and threatens them all. They escape when Night Ranger uses his car to pull down one wall of his house.

The Mayor drives up and fires the Sheriff, saying he can get Dead Justice to do a better job for free. Stone is devastated and he reveals his mother gave him the name "Sheriff Bronson Stone" at birth, in anticipation that he would one day hold the job.

The next day, the gang collects the Sheriff's property from his office, from the distressed Deputy Bucky. Velma notices a clue and they go immediately to find Stone, who has taken a job at the Clam Cabin, with a bag over his head to hide his shame. They raise his hopes of capturing the imposter Dead Justice.

Dead Justice runs into the Ghost of Nitro Wisinski (Sheriff Stone in disguise), and he is captured as he tries to get away from him. The culprit is Deputy Buckner, who planned all this to get the Sheriff's job because he was tired of being a deputy and whenever he did try to get promoted he failed his exams. He used CGI to create his bullets, which is what gave him away to Velma. One of the papers in the files they got from Bucky included cartoon sketches of the bullets. Sheriff Bronson admits that he owes the kids one.

Fred asks his dad's thanks about solving the mystery, but Mayor Jones avoids the question by saying he has a meeting to go to, then walks in the wrong direction. Fred wonders why he even bothers, but Daphne assures him that he just needs time.

Fred and Daphne then go to the Clam Cabin and Fred explains how Daphne is the only one who really understands him. Fred makes a proposing gesture to Daphne, asking if she will ride shotgun with him forever, and putting an onion ring on her finger. Daphne accepts (just as long as they get married after graduation), and they kiss. Night Ranger, observing from a distance, gives a gesture of satisfaction and does a cool backwards walk.

Characters

Main characters:

Supporting characters:

Villains:

Other characters:

Locations

Objects

Vehicles

Suspects

Suspect Motive/reason
Night Ranger He blogged against the Sheriff and left clam shells around.

Culprits

Culprit Motive/reason
Pirahna-Goat To disrupt the city's water supply.
Deputy Bucky as the Ghost of Dead Justice To discredit Sheriff Bronson Stone and become sheriff himself.
Sheriff Bronson Stone as Ghost of Nitro Wisinski To capture the Ghost of Dead Justice.

Cast

Frank Welker Scooby-Doo
Fred Jones, Jr.
Matthew Lillard Shaggy Rogers
Grey DeLisle Daphne Blake
Mindy Cohn Velma Dinkley
Gary Cole Mayor Fred Jones, Sr.
Patrick Warburton Sheriff Bronson Stone
Carlos Alazraqui Pirahna-Goat
Deputy Bucky
Ghost of Nitro Wisinski
Powers Boothe Ghost of Dead Justice
Florence Henderson Ruby Stone

Continuity

Notes/trivia

  • Shaggy and Scooby don't bathe.
  • Fred and Daphne share their first kiss in this episode; this is also the first kiss they've had in animated form in the franchise's history. Both live-action incarnations (theatrical and TV) had already kissed.
  • Daphne and Fred intend to marry after graduating.

Miscellaneous

Cultural references

  • The bullets with faces recalls:
    • Bullet Bill from Nintendo's Super Mario; or
    • Eddie Valiant's talking bullets in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
  • When Dead Justice says "Hi ho, Greg!" to his horse, this is a reference to The Lone Ranger, who says "Hi Ho! Silver!"

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches

  • When Fred was pulling the rope over the Pirahna-Goat to try and trap him, his ascot is blue instead of orange.
  • The Night Ranger jumps over the closed door of his car and into the driver's seat when he goes to drive home, although in the same scene and all others, his car is shown to have a roof, which would make this impossible.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

  • Where Deputy Bucky got Greg from is unexplained, nor is its ability to breathe fire, although that could be CGI as well.
  • It is never explained how the Demon Bullets are able to split the trophy in half, considering they are shown to be CGI.
  • Fred doesn't know what graduation is, ignoring The Creeping Creatures, where he told Shaggy his plans of them moving in together after graduation.
  • Sheriff Stone says "Crimestopper of the Year Awards," when the sign says "Crystal Cove Crimey Awards."
    • There is only one award given.

In other languages

Language Name Meaning
Spanish (Latin America) La Justicia Muerta The Dead Justice
Italian Il Giustiziere The Justiciary
Potuguese Justiça Morta Dead Justice
Hungarian Dead Justice
Turkish Kristal Koyda Bir Hayalet
Greek Ο Νεκρός Νόμος
Νεκρός Δίκαιος
The Dead Law
Dead Just
Polish Sędzia widmo Judge Spectre

Home media

Quotes

Daphne: It is a pretty complicated trap.
Fred: That's exactly why it will work!

External links

  • TBA


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