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Velma Dinkley
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Species Human
Gender Female
Member of Mystery Incorporated
Affiliation Scooby-Doo
Shaggy Rogers
Daphne Blake
Fred Jones
Scrappy-Doo
The Hex Girls
Occupation Sleuth
Bookshop owner in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
Works for Dinkley's Mystery Book Shoppe in Scooby on Zombie Island
Goals Solving mysteries
Studying
Father Mr. Dinkley
Mother Mrs. Dinkley
Sibling(s) One younger sister, Madelyn Dinkley[1]
Uncle(s) Four uncles, Uncle John[2]
Dave Walton[3]
Cosmo Dinkley[4]
Evan[5]
Aunt(s) Two aunts, Thelma[6]
Aunt Meg[5]
Other relative(s) One cousin, Marcy[5]
Marital status Wife to Shaggy Rogers in Scooby Apocalypse
Children One son, Frederick Rogers-Dinkley, in Scooby Apocalypse
First appearance SDWAY: "What a Night for a Knight" (1969)
Played by Nicole Jaffe (1969-72, 2003)
Pat Stevens (1976-79)
Marla Frumkin (1979-84)
Robyn Moore (1981)
Christina Lange (1988-91)
B.J. Ward (1997-2002)
C. Martin Croker (1997)
Linda Cardellini (2002, 2004)
Mindy Cohn (2002-2015, 2017)
Hayley Kiyoko (2009, 2010)
Stephanie D'Abruzzo (2013)
Kate Micucci (since 2015)
Sarah Gilman (2018)
Trisha Gum (2019)
Em Eldrige (2020-22)
Gina Rodriguez (2020)
Ariana Greenblatt (2020)
Mindy Kaling (2023)
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Velma

Velma Dinkley is a member of Mystery Incorporated of the Scooby-Doo animated franchise. Her voice was originated by Nicole Jaffe.

Throughout the years, Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Network, and Warner Bros. Animation, as well as book and video game publishers, have conceived several incarnations, which don't always fit together because new writers have come on board and disregarded what has come before or there has been a complete reboot, but the general concept has been the same, perhaps except for DC Comics' radically altered Scooby Apocalypse.

Character description

Velma is a teenage girl with an auburn-colored bob cut, a slightly wide waistline and freckles. Her fashion choices are somewhat comfortable, wearing a baggy, orange turtleneck sweater, a red skirt, orange socks that extend to her knees, and black Mary Jane shoes. She is well known for wearing square, thick-framed glasses.

In various incarnations, Velma is a highly intelligent woman with an interest in science. She is well-read on many fields and is fascinated by mysteries. Because of her highly analytical intellect, Velma is typically the first Mystery Inc. member to solve a mystery, and often keeps her conclusions a secret till the very end. She is also the most skeptical of the gang and is most likely to discount any accounts of paranormal activity, often holding a philosophy that there is always a rational explanation in everything. Velma was initially characterized as a humble girl with a no-nonsense attitude, though modern iterations of the character—namely Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated—depict her as highly sarcastic.

Despite using her knowledge in solving mysteries, Velma is prone to nearsightedness, which came from losing her glasses on many occasions.

Appearances

TV series

Movies

Specials

Shorts

Comics

Books

Video games

Stage performances

Biography

German Expressionism is an Art Form

The N̶e̶w̶ Decades Old Scooby-Doo M̶o̶v̶i̶e̶s̶ 40 Minute Episodes

Back to Basics

Dynomic Duo

Scooby Goes Hollywood-Meta

The Scrappy years

Scrappy Saves the Show

Daphne, Freddy, and Velma MIA

Velma's Break from NASA

The Coolest Pup Around

THIS TIME THE MONSTERS ARE REAL

Cartoon Network Spoofs

Harvey Birdman Represents

Velma Gets Real

Velma Goes (Pop)Punk

What's New in the Movies

Gonna Sing This Song ALL DAY LONG

Velma Gets Real (again)

Return of the Ascot (DTVs since Abracadabra-Doo)

Crystal Cove Chronicles

Velma Ain't Nobody's Puppet

Velma in the LEGO world

Velma Griffin

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Lib World

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? the Creators Wanted to See Thirty Years Ago?

Velma Goes YA in Scholastic's moderately more successful Daphne and Velma

SCOOB! on the Big Screen

Scoobyless Riverdale

Velma is the titular character. In this series, she is of South Asian descent.

Velma Sells Out

In 2005, Velma appeared in a Dove shampoo commercial, with Wilma Flintstone and Jane Jetson.

In 2013, Velma is in the first State Farm commercial.

In The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, Velma pops up in the apocalyptic setting.

In the Teen Titans Go! episode "Cartoon Feud," Velma and her friends are forced by Control Freak to compete against the Teen Titans in Family Feud.

In the Warner Bros. Serververse in Space Jam: A New Legacy, the gang (based on their SCOOB! designs), arrive at the basketball game between the Tune Squad and the Goon Squad in the Mystery Machine, then watch from outside the van. Mystery Inc., like all the other IPs, has no particular preference and just reacts to whatever is happening.

Velma in the Funny Books

Marvel's Laff-a-Lympics

Velma Survives the Apocalypse

Velma in the Cyber Realm

Velma is a fighter in Multiversus. She makes a brief appearance in Scooby-Doo Mystery. She is a playable character in Scooby-Doo! Mystery of the Fun Park Phantom, Scooby-Doo! First Frights, and Scooby-Doo! and the Spooky Swamp, and is an NPC in Scooby-Doo! Classic Creep Capers, Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (video game), Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Mayhem, and Scooby-Doo! Unmasked.

Development

Velma's template when being created was Zelda Gilroy from the 1960s sitcom The Many Lives of Dobie Gillis.[7] Although writer Mark Evanier believes this resulted in something "very, very remote and hardly worth talking about", perhaps if one were to ignore the fact that the actress who played her is gay which Velma had recently been revealed to be at the time of his writing.[8]

Gallery

Main article: Velma Dinkley/Gallery

Toys and merchandise

Main article: Velma Dinkley/Toys

Behind the scenes

In popular culture

  • In Disney's Doug episode "Doug's Bloody Buddy," the teaser depicts a fantasy in which Doug and his friends are like Mystery Inc. searching for the Bluffington Vampire. Patti is the counterpart to Velma.
  • In the Animaniacs segment "Back in Style," the Warner siblings are loaned to a Hanna-Barbera-type studio that lets the Warner siblings "play themselves" in its cartoon Uhuru, Where Are You? In this parody, Pheobe acts as a stand-in for both Velma and Daphne.
  • In the Timon and Pumbaa episode "Werehog of London," a fortune teller warns Timon and Pumbaa that no one is safe from the curse of the werehog, not even "those meddling teens and their pesky dog." Then the camera reveals an orange and blue van resembling the Mystery Machine that has been abandoned after it was knocked into a lampost.
  • On the first page of Archie's Weird Mysteries #6, Betty is dressed up like Velma as she becomes a parody of Daphne for the comic's story (sans outfit). She inexplicably cries "Jinkies," when she's scared.
  • In the film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, the title characters hitchhike in a green van owned by a bunch of odd adults vaguely resembling Mystery Incorporated. The Velma doppelganger, referred to in the credits as "Bookworm Girl," is a closet lesbian who reveals she would like to have picked up a couple of hitchhiking girls after Daphne mishears her saying "hitchhiking ghouls." Jay introduces "doobie snacks" to the gang, but this is just a dream of Jay's.
  • In My Little Pony: Friends Forever #16, Prancy Drew, whose name is a play on the fictional sleuth Nancy Drew, takes visual cues from Velma, such as her hairstyle and color, and orange turtleneck sweater, while also wearing differently framed glasses. Prancy also has a cameo in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #52.
  • In the book The Skeleton Haunts a House, Sid, the titular living character, dresses up in a Scooby fursuit and his friend Georgia accompanies him as Velma.
  • In the Teen Titans Go! episode "Costume Contest," Robin does a drawing of Teen Titans as Mystery Inc., with Raven as Velma.
  • In Simpsons Comics #242, there is a story entitled "Scooby-Don't," with the kids dressed up as Mystery Inc., including Lisa Simpson wearing similar clothing to Velma, sans glasses, although there is a joke about her losing her glasses, which is actually her silverware.
  • For Warner Bros.' 100th anniversary, they celebrated by licensing a range of Looney Tunes Funko Pops with a Scooby-Doo motif, which included Tweety with Velma's hairstyle and glasses.

2000AD

  • In the Red Razors story, a group of Sov-Block mercenary enforcers called themselves the Spooky Doo Gang, due to owning a dog called Spooky who resembled a green Scooby-Doo. Velma's doppelganger is called Barbra (a reference to Joseph Barbera) who is later killed.
  • Issue #2041: A mutie resembling Shaggy has O.D.d on spike, taking away who he was. The friend beside him resembles Velma.

Doctor Who

  • Velma was referenced in two Doctor Who books starring the 8th Doctor. The first was in The Book of Still, wherein Anji reminded Rhian of Velma, while Anji said she preferred Daphne over Velma, and in The Crooked World, there was a parody of Velma called Thelma Brains.
  • In Doctor Who Magazine #489, the thirteenth segment of the ongoing The Daft Dimension, depicted parallel universe counterparts of the Doctor and his companions who loosely resembled each member of Mystery Inc. by wearing their outfits, with Strax wearing Velma's outfit.

Family Guy

  • "Chitty Chitty Death Bang:" With the television transmitter cut, Peter wonders what the Scooby gang is up to, with the scene then cutting to an adult spin-off spoof called The Scooby-Doo Murder Files, where Mystery Incorporated investigates and describes in detail how someone was killed. Velma is voiced by Lori Allan.
  • "Family Guy Viewer Mail:" A segment parodies the Little Rascals with the adults as kids, which includes a portion of time at a spooky mansion, where the regressed boys also copy the hallway chase gag, featuring Mystery Incorporated in a cameo also running out of one door and into another.
  • "Deep Throats:" In a DVD-exclusive scene, when Brian and Stewie sneak into the town hall, they run into Mystery Incorporated, but Stewie gets rid of them by humming their own walk music against them.

Harley Quinn (comic)

  • Harley Quinn Invades Comic Con International: San Diego #1 (volume 2): Harley Quinn screams, "Jinkies," after turning on the Batmobile at the San Diego Comic-Con International 2014.
  • Issue #1 (volume 3): In the background of one panel, an alternately colored Velma (now with blonde hair and dressed in blues) and the rest of the gang chase a crook.
  • Issue #64 (volume 3): Justice League Dark is a parody of Mystery Inc., with Wonder Woman substituting Velma, whose only connection is that she doesn't believe the ghost of Captain Cutler is real, while Swamp Thing/Shaggy is the one to say, "Jinkies."

Looney Tunes

Main article: Looney Tunes
  • Looney Tunes #71: The story, "Tazzy-Doo, Where Are You?," depicts several Looney Tunes characters as members of Mystery Inc., with Petunia Pig as Velma; her catchphrase is "Jigglies." Like Velma with Shaggy and Scooby, She has to force Daffy and Tazzy to continue with the mystery, usually with Tazzy-Snacks.
  • For Warner Bros.' 100th anniversary, they celebrated by licensing a range of Looney Tunes Funko Pops with a Scooby-Doo motif, which included Daffy Duck with Shaggy's hairstyle and clothes.

Torchwood

  • Velma is also referenced in the Torchwood books, also a spin-off from the Doctor Who franchise. Torchwood member Toshi's favorite character is Velma in Slow Decay, but she was touchy when Owen tried to compare her to Velma in Trace Memory.
  • In the audio book The Death of Jack Harkness, John characterizes Torchwood Three as Scooby-Doo, "but without the dog and the lesbian."

The Venture Bros.

Main article: The Venture Bros.
  • "¡Viva los Muertos!:" Val is a composite of 1960s feminist/attempted murderer Valerie Solanas and Velma. Predictably, Val is depicted as a lesbian as an in-joke to Velma's own sexual orientation which wasn't made canon until 2021.
  • "Self-Medication:" Dr. Venture and his former boy adventurer colleagues discuss the sex lives of Daphne and Velma, which Dr. Venture didn't think Velma had much of because she was a lesbian, as everyone did, but Action Johnny reveals that this may not necessarily be true as the "pack of herpes" he contracted from her says otherwise.

References

  1. ^ Scooby-Doo! Abracabra-Doo (2010).
  2. ^ The Scooby-Doo Show: "The Curse of the Viking Lake," season 2, episode 1 (1977).
  3. ^ The Scooby-Doo Show: "Watch Out! The Willawaw!," season 3, episode 1 (1978).
  4. ^ The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries: "Ghosts of the Ancient Astronauts," season 1, episode 6 (1984).
  5. ^ a b c What's New, Scooby-Doo?: "A Scooby-Doo Halloween," season 2, episode 6 (2003).
  6. ^ A Pup Named Scooby-Doo: "Scooby Dude," season 1, episode 9 (1988).
  7. ^ Evanier, Mark (June 10, 2002). "Shaggy Dog Story". News From Me. Retrieved January 19, 2023.
  8. ^ Evanier, Mark (October 22, 2022). "From the E-Mailbag". News From Me. Retrieved January 19, 2023.