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The series Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated had them facing actual supernatural beings. It also had a teenager getting executed with a machine gun, which might be one of the darkest things done across the entire franchise.

The comment about Casey Newton being declared "The Special" is especially funny, because there's nothing that she does to justify this when she's given the pin. It's not much of a spoiler, since it's in the first act and is one of the things that gets the plot rolling, but I'll put it behind...

I think that a lot of commenters might be losing sight of the fact that this was (very) loosely based on a real event, the "Crazy Eights" incident of 15 May 2001, so named for the CSX locomotive #8888 involved. http://kohlin.com/CSX8888/z-final-report.htm has a good overview. The real incident...