Scooby Doo Mask Reveal Meme Template

The impressive disguise comes off, and the familiar culprit is underneath. Label the ghost with what something claims to be, then reveal what you think it really is.

Fred holds a captured ghost’s hood in the first panel. In the second, he removes it to reveal the man inside. The two frames make a claim and then replace it with an explanation.

The reveal can expose a fancy name for something ordinary, a repeated idea in new packaging, or the actual cause of a small problem. The lower label should make the upper one look different in hindsight.

The scene comes from Hassle in the Castle, a Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode broadcast on September 27, 1969. The gang discovers that the ghost is the former magician Bluestone the Great. [1]

Online edits use the unmasking to compare one thing with another. Know Your Meme documents a July 2017 post by @SmashBros_Nin that puts Crash Bandicoot over the disguise and reveals a Dark Souls character beneath it. [1]

Put the claimed identity on the ghost’s torso in the top panel. Put the reveal on the same area of the unmasked man below. Keep Fred’s hand and the lifted hood clear.

Use two labels that make sense together. The second should expose or reframe the first, rather than introduce an unrelated subject.

The disguise

What the thing appears or claims to be.

The reveal

What you think is actually underneath.

• Read the pair as “This is really that.”
• Keep both labels short.
• Choose a familiar explanation so the reveal needs no extra context.