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And then they undermined that message that one time they made the zombies real, and probably a couple other times I don't remember.
Every movie essentially involves the supernatural to some extent.
To be fair it started with the Scrappy Doo series. A lot of those villains were real.
Explains why the first live action movie features him so prominently
That and to cash in on everyone hating his guts
Don't get me started on Kiss being aliens with transformation sequences.
I mean, that's just Kiss lore. I'm not kidding, there's KISS lore
Most of the followups have treated the supernatural as real. It's never that way in the original.
But even then, the twist was that even if the monster is real, the bad guys were still mundane crooks.
Scooby Doo on Zombie Island prominently features adults who lie to children.
Also in the show that is pictured here