Velma Dinkley is one of the three deuteragonists (alongside Shaggy Rogers and Daphne Blake) of the Scooby-Doo franchise. She is prone to losing her glasses.
Velma is usually seen wearing a baggy long-sleeved orange sweater, short red pleated skirt (or in later episodes shorts), orange knee-high socks and red strap-on Mary Janes. She is seen as the brains of the group and the older sister of Madelyn.
Background[]
Like all of the Scooby-Doo gang, later labelled as Mystery Incorporated members, Velma has varying personal backgrounds and histories, depending on which series is meant.
According to the original "Where Are You!" series, Velma went to the same high school as all of her Mystery Incorporated partners. In the debut episode "What a Night for a Knight", she states she attended the same high school gym class as Shaggy. This is retconned in The New Scooby-Doo Movies, where Velma is stated now to have attended and graduated from a completely separate high school from her friends (as reported in the episode "Spirited Spooked Sports Show" with comedian Tim Conway).
In the current series, unlike the other members of Mystery Inc., Velma is stated to be a native of Ohio. But on one occasion, she mentioned she's from Texas.
Personality[]
She has a fascination with mysteries (her younger sister Madelyn said that she was "born with a mystery book in her hand".
At times she can be competitive with other people who are very intelligent like she is, such as Verona Dempsey.
She is tomboyish, sharp-witted and sometimes sarcastic, not lost on others. She also seems to love secrecy, and has a bit of slyness in her character, as she was the only gang member to actually perpetrate a hoax, albeit for a noble reason, as she was helping Omar Karam protect Cleopatra's riches
In the same case, she was also overly-caring of the gang, as she wanted to protect them from harm's way, despite everything they've been through.
When she found some unappetizing chicken at the Addams Family mansion, she said "it's time to start my diet." While this may be an excuse, the phrasing "my" rather than "a" implies that she may diet regularly, perhaps self-conscious of her weight.
She loses her glasses on a regular basis, immediately claiming "My glasses. I can't find my glasses" or "I can't see without my glasses," before hitting the floor to crawl around until she finds them.
She is a very serious skeptic, and has a philosophy that they're always a rational explanation (and admits that it's kinda boring).
She conquered her extreme phobia of clowns during the Menacing Metallic Clown case.
She also thinks herself as pure of heart and got annoyed that no one kidnaps her during the Valdronya case.
She can also identify fake jewels by looking at them, having dealt with a variety of monster jewel thieves for years.
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