| NOTE: This page will only focus on the titular Velma Dinkley from the 2023 Velma television series, as the original and other adaptions aren't considered scrappies, thus only information on the 2023 Velma version should be put here. |
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"Mature Content Warning!" |
| “ | Norville: If I ever get into 420, 420 culture, or 420 humor, kill me. You know what 420 is, right? Velma: Uh yeah, it's code for; Adults who still like cartoons. |
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| ~ Velma's infamous exchange with Norville, insulting the very audience her show was made for. |
| “ | Dear HBO Max, I just learned that you are planning to make a genre-bending, comedic origin story of Judy Jetson. When I heard that this version of Judy wouldn't be boy-crazy, the only word I had to describe my disgust was "Jinkies". If there is one thing the internet agrees on, it's that you should never change anything ever, I hope you die! Sincerely, Velma Dinkley. | „ |
| ~ Velma to HBO on the teaser of the series |
Velma Dinkley is the eponymous main protagonist of the infamous HBO Max adult animated series Velma. She is loosely based on the character of the same name from the Scooby-Doo franchise.
She was voiced by Mindy Kaling.
What Makes Her a Scrappy?[]
- She is a self insert of Mindy Kaling herself which is evident that she is race swapped to make her look like herself while changing her personality entirely in order to "relate to her". What makes it even worse is that the original Velma has decades worth of history that people around the globe would know what kind of character she is; this in turn would make self inserting a pre existing character like Velma extremely tacky and way out of place, and this massive change has garnered a massive backlash not just from the Scooby-Doo fans, but those outside the fandom all around the world.
- The writer's attempt at making Velma sympathetic despite her toxic personality falls completely flat, as even that is treated as the butt of a joke. Flashbacks show that Velma hadn't such an actually tragic past, as she had harmed her mother constantly, even nearly destroying her eye, with it falling out in several scenes afterwards.
- She constantly tells self-aware jokes that were meant to be funny, but are used so often that they are just annoying and slightly predictable.
- All her panic attacks are very unrealistic, as she suddenly snaps out of it whenever she is kissing Daphne.
- She is a complete jerk to everyone around her (including her "friend", Norville), to the point that it can be considered a hobby for her. She even laughs in Norville's face for saying he loves her.
- Unlike Daphne, who sold drugs but was at least respectful to her customers, Velma was not respectful towards them at all.
- She tried to break Norville up with his girlfriend Gigi. Gigi is portrayed as being as someone who manipulates Norville into doing what she wants (which would have justified this course of action), but Gigi happens to care about Norville a lot and is willing to engage in his interests and growth as a character, which makes Gigi more sympathetic unintentionally, and Velma comes across as being the manipulative one instead. This ultimately gives an horribly insensitive message that people are happier staying in a toxic relationship than a healthy one.
- Just like most characters in the show, her design is just lazy and uncanny, as it looks like a bootleg Happy Meal toy. Also, she is brown washed for no good reason.
- Unlike the original Velma Dinkley, this Velma rarely makes intelligent decisions, yet is treated like a genius throughout the show.
- There's even one piece of dialogue where it's revealed Norville does Velma's math homework for her. She also makes mention of a time she believed in the Flat Earth theory, which she claimed that Norville got her out of.
- She also body-shames people including Fred throughout the series. Additionally, she dismisses evidence that Fred is innocent of being a serial killer simply because of her prejudices, even though Fred could easily die in prison given his naivety and his parents noted his life was difficult for him before his prison sentence.
- She is horrendously evil towards her family. She pulls a terribly cruel prank on Sophie along with her father, making her believe her newborn daughter, Amanda had disappeared and had left the house altogether.
- She even kicks her father, Sophie, and Amanda without a second thought about where they are supposed to go just to live with her biological mother, because her father supposedly cheated on Diya when she was presumed dead for two whole years, making her disappearance a cold case. Sophie had shed her worst qualities early on and she does try to put in enough effort to be nice and supportive of Velma, even saving her life at one point. Amanda did absolutely nothing to deserve it either and it was interpreted that Velma did it to her only because she was a half sister who was born from her father and stepmother, not a blood related sister, making Velma and Diya look like abusive monsters.
- She gives the audience the bad moral that being a man is far easier than being a woman. Additionally, she tells the audience that men have little consequences for their actions, even though men get longer prison sentences than women and are much more likely to be incarcerated.
- Additionally, while she believes that people didn't listen to her before because she was a woman, it is implied the actual reason is because people considered her to be untrustworthy and that she was wearing a disguise so that people wouldn’t recognize her as Velma. This is supported by the fact that many people who listened to her once she donned her disguise were themselves women.
- She claims that men make it everything about them and what they want, but she comes across as a hypocrite as she is extremely self-centered herself.
- Her romance with Daphne is very unhealthy and toxic, with her ignoring Daphne's wish to meet her biological parents, which also makes her seem hypocritical given that she has a similar goal, and trying to publicly humiliate her for going to therapy.
- Not to mention the harmful method of stopping panic attacks the show portrays by having Daphne kiss Velma while the latter's in the middle of a panic attack being portrayed as a good thing. The fact that Velma didn't give consent while in a panicked state of mind just makes the scene even worse.
- She is very possessive toward Daphne in "A Velma in the Woods", as she fakes having a panic attack to manipulate Daphne so she can help her find the serial killer in the woods, and when Velma, Daphne, Norville and Gigi got trapped, Velma blames Daphne for it, even though Velma herself caused it. Additionally, she could have simply reminded Daphne that the serial killer was targeting attractive girls (like her friend Olive) instead of faking one.
- While Daphne abandoned Velma to hang out with more popular girls, it is implied she did so not because they were more popular than Velma herself, but because of how toxic their relationship was. This is supported by the fact that many consider the popular girls to be better friends for Daphne than Velma herself.
- Overall, the fact that it was all supposed to be "representation", it instead implodes on itself since both the straight and the LGBT+ community all hate it for its offensive portrayal, mainly because the kiss from Daphne was non-consensual and Velma being insufferable all around.
- Fans considered her getting called out by Norville and Olive, rammed by Sheriff Cogburn (especially since she kicked him in the groin), and temporary killed by Scrappy-Doo more satisfying than sympathetic and is considered karma. Velma has also been compared unfavorably to Scrappy as well, including the movie version who, despite being a Hate Sink, at least became Unintentionally Sympathetic for some viewers.
- Despite redeeming herself after defeating Evelyn and being revived by Fred near the end, it comes off too late to save her show and already too late for her to be brought out of her already intense hatedom.
- She is the main reason why her show got cancelled.
External Links[]
- Velma Dinkley on the Villains Wiki
- Velma Dinkley on the Scoobypedia Wiki
- Velma Dinkley on the Conflicting Good Wiki
- Velma Dinkley on the Likability Scaling Purgatory Wiki
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