The Pterodactyl Ghost is an antagonist in the Scooby-Doo franchise.
It is a persona adopted by Johnny to smuggle pirated music, which would later become its own character in various subsequent adaptations, most notably in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed where a real version of it appeared as the secondary antagonist after being brought to life by the man once posing as him.
He was voiced by the late Casey Kasem.
Biography[]
The Scooby Doo Show[]
In the The Scooby-Doo Show episode "Hang In There, Scooby-Doo!", the Pterodactyl Ghost was a scary humanoid pterodactyl. It terrorized a hang gliding contest. He was actually unmasked to be a man named Johnny, a catering business owner who served as a crime partner to a hotel manager who was a ringleader of a pirated CD smuggling operation.
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed[]
The Pterodactyl Ghost is a supporting antagonist in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. Its user, while also sharing the name John, is given the name Jonathan Jacobo and is depicted as a mad scientist who robbed banks under the said persona and used the stolen money to create experiments and build monsters.
While he went to prison and supposedly died in a escape attempt, Jacobo survived and was the mastermind behind the whole mystery in the movie. He reanimated the original Pterodactyl Ghost costume while adopting the new persona, Evil Masked Figure.
The Pterodactyl Ghost tried to catch Scooby-Doo in the monster battle, but the Pterodactyl Ghost didn't know where he was going while he watched Scooby catch the control panel and drowns in the Tar Monster's stomach, later returning to costume form.
Scooby-Doo! Unmasked[]
The Pterodactyl Ghost appears as a minor antagonist in Scooby-Doo! Unmasked. A giant version appears as the final boss in the final level.
Webseries[]
In the 2022 Webseries, Mystery Incorporated, Velma learns about a man named Jonathan Jacobo, who, after witnessing two brutal murders, went on a crime spree, claiming he was told to by a demonic pterodactyl. While it is unknown whether the Pterodactyl Demon was real, it is implied it may be one of the demons from Hell, and it may be slated to appear in a future episode.
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