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** Knowing this show's InsaneTrollLogic, it was probably to make it look like someone was trying to follow in Victoria's footsteps as a female serial killer.
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* Apart from trying to mislead the audience, what in-universe reason did Scrappy have for trying to make it look like a woman was committing the murders?

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* Apart from trying to mislead the audience, what in-universe reason did Scrappy have for trying to make it look like a woman was committing the murders?murders?
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* Setting aside the fact that this universe's Thorn is no longer as "traditionally attractive" as the actual one (which I guess is meant to give the bird to that incarnation), why bother bringing her in aside from further alienating fans and being Amber's aunt? And why is Amber shown to be using actual witchcraft? I thought the point of the Hex Girls was originally to put a distinction between Wicca and witchcraft. (Unless I'm wrong; I haven't watched "The Witch's Ghost" in years.)

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** Tidy doens't necessarily mean "clean", it just means tidy. The resturaunt is tidy enough to pass a health inspection but it's not a clean place.

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** Tidy doens't necessarily mean "clean", it just means tidy. The resturaunt restaurant is tidy enough to pass a health inspection but it's not a clean place.place.
*** Assuming the Health department is remotely competent in this universe.



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*** But that raises the question: how does one quickly and cleanly remove a brain so that the personality of the victim is still intact when you put them in your expensive, high-tech jars?

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** ​Likely she was hellbent on haunting him specifically as most tales of ghosts are that they have unfinished business or are restless for specific reasons. How she became visible was likely because she wanted to see what on the phone was accurate. Kinda weak, but it's the best I got.

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** ​Likely she was hellbent on haunting him specifically as most tales of ghosts are that they have unfinished business or are restless for specific reasons. How she became visible was likely because she wanted to see what on the phone was accurate. Kinda weak, but it's the best I got.got.
!!Scrappy pretending to be a woman
* Apart from trying to mislead the audience, what in-universe reason did Scrappy have for trying to make it look like a woman was committing the murders?
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** ​According to Velma, Aman doubled his work hours rather than taking paternity. It is likely just an attempt of dark "humour".
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** I am not sure which of these two answers are sadder; people even in the real world would want a quick and easy wrong answer rather than a correct but hard to understand right one... or the writing of the show giving Velma "credibility as a detective".



** ​Two years is a long time, people would forget someone's name after not seeing them for a month if they weren't that close. Plus they aren't that bright.



** ​Considering it's Mindy's self insert? Being a Mary Sue. Especially since Velma didn't believe ghosts were real.



* How come no-one other than Norville could see Victoria's ghost? She thought she was a hallucination, so she couldn't have been purposely making herself visible to only him. Also, how did she suddenly become visible to everyone else?

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* How come no-one other than Norville could see Victoria's ghost? She thought she was a hallucination, so she couldn't have been purposely making herself visible to only him. Also, how did she suddenly become visible to everyone else?else?
** ​Likely she was hellbent on haunting him specifically as most tales of ghosts are that they have unfinished business or are restless for specific reasons. How she became visible was likely because she wanted to see what on the phone was accurate. Kinda weak, but it's the best I got.
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** While I can't speak for the latter, the former is clearly because Scrappy (while a super soldier) is still a mortal being. Think of it like Superman's vulnerability to magic; there's no way his biology can compensate for that.

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** While I can't speak for the latter, the former is clearly because Scrappy (while a super soldier) is still a mortal being. Think of it like Superman's vulnerability to magic; there's no way his biology can compensate for that.that.
!!Velma being aware that she's a ghost
* Why is it Velma is just instantly aware that she's a ghost when it took Victoria's ghost at least a few weeks to figure it out?
!!Victoria only being visible to Norville
* How come no-one other than Norville could see Victoria's ghost? She thought she was a hallucination, so she couldn't have been purposely making herself visible to only him. Also, how did she suddenly become visible to everyone else?
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** The reasoning is in two parts... that matter (likely it was just for another "sh*t on men" moment). The first is that missing people would be declared dead after 7 years whilst Diya was missing for 2 and likely Aman couldn't find any real proof she could've been dead. The second is that people have varied ideas about marraige, some beleive divorce doesn't count. So people could still see Aman as married to Diya.

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** The reasoning is in two parts... that matter (likely it was just for another "sh*t on men" moment). The first is that missing people would be declared dead after 7 years whilst Diya was missing for 2 and likely Aman couldn't find any real proof she could've been dead. The second is that people have varied ideas about marraige, some beleive believe divorce doesn't count. So people could still see Aman as married to Diya.



** ​ScrewedPriorities, and being quite dumb. Assuming it did work and stretching suspension of disbelief, they could apply the "uggo lessons" to other girls for the same "protection" if the plan worked with the killer going after someone else. But that assumes this plan has any form of sense

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** ​ScrewedPriorities, ​SkewedPriorities, and being quite dumb. Assuming it did work and stretching suspension of disbelief, they could apply the "uggo lessons" to other girls for the same "protection" if the plan worked with the killer going after someone else. But that assumes this plan has any form of sense

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** The show is kinda shameless in terms of how it portrays a number of the characters in numerous ways. On the one hand, the writers play up the AllMenArePerverts trope (as seen with the mayor saying "daddy likey" when he sees the hot girls when Velma was presenting the results of her "uggo lessons") while on the other showing all the attractive girls as eroticised down to grinding on their police escorts.



** ​ScrewedPriorities, and being quite dumb. Assuming it did work and stretching suspension of disbelief, they could apply the "uggo lessons" to other girls for the same "protection" if the plan worked with the killer going after someone else. But that assumes this plan has any form of sense



* How would she personally know Velma's locker combo to put Brenda's body in it?

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* How would she personally know Velma's locker combo to put Brenda's body in it?it?​


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** ​Because you work somewhere well known, doesn't mean people would know your name.
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** ​It is established that snapping fingers causes the person under hypnosis to snap out of it, though that could be solved with post hypnotic suggestion.
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** ​She could've called someone to do it while changing her report card likely needed computer access she didn't have

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** ​She could've called someone to do it change the locks, while changing her report card likely needed computer access she didn't have
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** ​Meta reason; the writers expect us to side with Velma, despite all the horrible things she has done. Same reason why Diya was ok with it or how Velma is seen as a "great detective" when she parely did any real detective work throughout the series.

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** ​Meta reason; the writers expect us to side with Velma, despite all the horrible things she has done. Same reason why Diya was ok with it or how Velma is seen as a "great detective" when she parely barely did any real detective work throughout the series.
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** ​The mines were likely connected to Edna Perdue's lab, also explaining any slasher-killer teleporting Victoria was doing.

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** ​The mines were likely connected to Edna Perdue's lab, also explaining any slasher-killer teleporting Victoria was doing. It could be Diya could only navigate the mines for so long before risking Victoria noticing, and the times she could do so were very far apart.

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** ​Either it was something to make us side with Velma being an underdog, or they did it on purpose as she is clearly very disliked.



** ​Maybe the second body was dated to when Velma was in custody or when she had an alibi?



** ​Her motivation at the end was that she wanted Velma to "body snatch" her son, so it could've been some overly complicated (and likely poorly thought out) plan to motivate Velma to join her.



** The reasoning is in two parts... that matter (likely it was just for another "sh*t on men" moment). The first is that missing people would be declared dead after 7 years whilst Diya was missing for 2 and likely Aman couldn't find any real proof she could've been dead. The second is that people have varied ideas about marraige, some beleive divorce doesn't count. So people could still see Aman as married to Diya.



*** While that was the case, couldn't she get arrested for wasting police resources?



** ​Meta reason; the writers expect us to side with Velma, despite all the horrible things she has done. Same reason why Diya was ok with it or how Velma is seen as a "great detective" when she parely did any real detective work throughout the series.



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** ​She may have tried it, but Diya just didn't agree to it.


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** ​She could've called someone to do it while changing her report card likely needed computer access she didn't have

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** ​The mines were likely connected to Edna Perdue's lab, also explaining any slasher-killer teleporting Victoria was doing.



** Averted in season 2



** Actually, "Dinkley" is English in origin. And since the British did occupy India for a while, it might be possible that Velma's ancestors in one way or another took the name and it stuck.



** ​He had an alibi, being home with his daughter. Plus the police are clearly not the best around.



** ​While I know very little about lawyers, I think they need clients to get paid.



** ​Just because you are a genius in one field, doesn't mean you are knowledge able about everything. Victoria was likely good at business, manipulation and the like, but knew very little on mechanics.



* Why didn't they just order a delivery person to give them the pizzas?
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* Why didn't they just order a delivery person to give them the pizzas?
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!! The search for Fred

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!! The ** Either she's lazy or is just saying she's smarter than she is.
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!! Using hypnosis on Fred

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!! Using ** She still needed his body at least for her plans.
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** Victoria was the SerialKiller and Norville accidentally murdered her in self-defense.

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** Victoria was the SerialKiller serial killer and Norville accidentally murdered her in self-defense.



* Why would Scrappy want to escape into the body of a normal teenage girl when his original body is NighInvulnerable?
!! No other ghosts

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* Why would Scrappy want to escape into the body of a normal teenage girl when his original body is NighInvulnerable?
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** What prospects does he have? He's clearly on the run from the military and the fact he looks like a psychotic monster means no one is going to willingly approach him. [[spoiler: Sophie]] already knew about him and what he was capable of, so she was more inclined to listen rather than run away.
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* How could the spirit of a normal teenage girl overpower the spirit of a super soldier? Also, why did Scrappy's body explode instead of Velma's spirit staying in it and Scrappy's being pushed out, like what happened with Fred and Victoria?

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* How could the spirit of a normal teenage girl overpower the spirit of a super soldier? Also, why did Scrappy's body explode instead of Velma's spirit staying in it and Scrappy's being pushed out, like what happened with Fred and Victoria?Victoria?
** While I can't speak for the latter, the former is clearly because Scrappy (while a super soldier) is still a mortal being. Think of it like Superman's vulnerability to magic; there's no way his biology can compensate for that.
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* How could the spirit of a normal teenage girl overpower the spirit of a super soldier? Also, why did Scrappy's body explode instead Velma's spirit staying in it and Scrappy's being pushed out, like what happened with Fred and Victoria?

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* How could the spirit of a normal teenage girl overpower the spirit of a super soldier? Also, why did Scrappy's body explode instead of Velma's spirit staying in it and Scrappy's being pushed out, like what happened with Fred and Victoria?
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*** But Victoria was rich and white, which according to how the law works in this show should trump any evidence against her.



* How is it Victoria and Velma are the only deceased characters that come back as ghosts?

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* How is it Victoria and Velma are the only deceased characters that come back as ghosts?ghosts?
!! Velma possessing Scrappy
* How could the spirit of a normal teenage girl overpower the spirit of a super soldier? Also, why did Scrappy's body explode instead Velma's spirit staying in it and Scrappy's being pushed out, like what happened with Fred and Victoria?

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