History Characters / Velma

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Although initially depicted as being nice by the series' standards, she subtly is shown to have a lot of unpleasant qualities: she was a big drinker who stunk up the house, she thought that Daphne would be the one to get pregnant, openly admitted she accidentally dropped Velma off the bed as a baby, [[spoiler: and approved of her daughter locking her father, Sophie, and Amanda (a baby) out of the house so they can live alone together.]]

* WomanScorned: [[spoiler:After learning that her husband moved on from her with Sophie and had a baby together, she treats it as an affair and at the end of the season endorses Velma locking her father alongside the other two outside of the house so they can live alone together.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Downplayed but present. [[spoiler:She willingly locks Amanda (who is an infant) out of the house because she's the child of her ex-husband and his new girlfriend and so she can live alone with her daughter.]]

** [[NeverMyFault '''Inculpability:''']] Velma will NEVER admit that she's wrong nor take responsibility for her actions. Even when she is directly responsible for someone getting hurt, falsely accused of a crime they didn't commit, one of her relationships being ruined or strained or cause trouble for others, Velma refuses to own up to her part in how she's wronged others and instead always look for someone to blame. When arguing with her friends, especially Daphne, Velma's arguments only end for her when the person she's arguing with admits that she is right even when she's wrong. Velma even outright says it, claiming that nothing is ever her fault and always blames others for her choices. No matter how many times people call her out, Velma refuses to take responsibility for her actions and always finds some way to pass blame onto others or justify her actions.
** [[ItsAllAboutMe '''Selfishness':'']] Velma believes the world revolves around her and expects everyone to venerate her as though she is the center of their universes. She cannot stand not being the center of attention, believing that she is entitled to whatever she wants for no reason other than because she's Velma and treats everyone like they're dirt even when they're her friends. Whether through intimidation, lies, or manipulation, Velma will do whatever it takes to make herself the center of attention at the expense of others.

* ParentWithNewParamour: To Velma, who sees her as a homewrecker taking her mom's place and is vocal about finally kicking her out, even after Amanda is born. Sophie herself doesn't help by making rude comments about Velma, but other than that, she does show she can care about her by snapping her out of her hallucinations, trying to convince her to work at her diner, and driving her to school.
* PushoverParents: Although she doesn't really parent Velma and isn't really her stepmother due to Aman not being officially married to her, she does seem to be very permissive to her behavior towards her like letting her insult her, easily quit her job at Spooner's, destroy her stuff (and Amanda's) when trying get the house back to what it looked like when Diya was missing, and even let her daughter be masqueraded as Velma's daughter to not upset Diya with revelation her husband moved on. The once exception is when in episode five when she wanted to make sure that Velma kept the house clean as the band had their sleepover.

* InformedFlaw:
** She says to Norville she never fit in with everyone due to her adoptive background and her love of danger, but the fact that she was in with the popular girls [[spoiler: until she left the brains for dead]] contradicts this.
** She supposedly suffers from mental health issues due to being abandoned by her biological parents, but outside of her own claims, she doesn't show any notable symptoms.

Someone who worked with Mrs. Purdue.

The UltimateLifeForm of project SCOOBI, a talking dog named Scrappy.

* SamusIsAGirl: [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-Inverted]]. This killer passes as a woman who DoesNotLikeMen, complete with a feminine voice. They're revealed to be a fully male Scrappy-Doo.

** Despite her rightful issues with sexism, she has shown strong attraction towards Fred.

* EntitledBitch: She has always been possessive of Daphne since they were kids and got so mad that she was befriending the popular girls that she cut things off with her. In the present, she goes back to her old ways and tries to always make herself her top priority.

* PetTheDog: Even though she lacks any big redeeming attributes, she does save the brains while Daphne just say to leave them because she wants to learn to actually tolerate them as Daphne's friends.

* AdaptationalUgliness: Due to being older Thorn is presented as gaunt and visibly wrinkled while all previous incarnations of her were MsFanservice.

* HypocriticalHumor: She almost drowns another girl in the first episode over a petty argument but gets miffed when Velma throttles her (to death in her own words) in the shower.

* EntitledBitch:
** Despite criticizing all white men (especially rich ones) as being like this, it's a perfect description of herself since she blames society for supposedly mistreating her due to being a woman of color when she doesn't get her way.
** She has always been possessive of Daphne since they were kids and got so mad that she was befriending the popular girls that she cut things off with her. In the present, she goes back to her old ways and tries to always make herself her top priority.

* MoralMyopia: Despite being frustrated with other people's bigotry, she is quite a vocal racist and sexist against white men.

** While she was right for the fact that middle aged men shouldn't determine beauty standards (especially for underage girls), she was just mad white men did it which is rooted in her racism.

** Despite having racist and misandrist views towards white men, she has shown strong attraction towards Fred.

* DoesNotLikeMen: Velma has a prejudice towards males, especially white men (despite her crush on Fred), and frequently states that men are given benefits and privileges because of their sex and race. Whereas women like Velma have to work hard and endure sexism.

* AdapatationalUgliness: While Velma's attractiveness depends on the adaptation, in this show she's portrayed as hideous in-universe, being visibly overweight and having multiple characters mock her appearance, comparing her to a gorilla.

* FemaleMisogynist: A [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-Inverted]] subversion. While his victims were all men, complete with [[GroinAttack mutilated crotches]], they were all part of his creation and participated in the vicious torment of him. He also had no qualms in murdering Velma when she turned on him.

* HopelessSuitor: Because Velma struggles with her attraction to Daphne and Fred and doesn't feel anything romantic for him, Norville is desperately pining after Velma in the vain hope that she will be his girlfriend. [[spoiler:By the finale, Velma realizes she loves Norville too... after having already gotten into a relationship with Daphne. It's unclear by the end of the season whether the two are together or not.]] [[spoiler: However, at the end of season two, Velma ultimately chooses Daphne over him, and he accepts it]].

* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: The manuscripts we see on the show are mentioned to be terrible by Velma due to not minding swatting bugs with them. One of them called "Detective Jinkies: The Case Of The Invisible Ink", which Velma finds the phone number of the serial killer, shows the main character is named after Diya herself except with the surname Jinkies, has really clichéd writing, and in-story the hidden message was [[FanDisservice a love confession]] by SantaClaus. And going by the titles of one of the them the "Stabbening" it's blatantly ripping off other works.
* HollywoodHealing: She lost her eye due to Velma splashing water on her which caused a cigarette to burn it, but in the present it seems to okay and not popping out like in the flashback.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Although at first she seems nice by the show's standard, she still has moments that show she can be just as much as a {{Jerkass}} as the rest of the characters.

** Also in that same episode she makes a comment about how she thought that Daphne would be the one to get pregnant when Velma was pretending to be the mother of Amanda.

* SiblingRivalry: In episode 9, it's mentioned she has sisters with kids that she's always been competitive with and that's why Velma made Norville make a fake news report about herself so her mother can gloat about her to them. Aman even encourages her to call down by saying she's more attractive than one of her sisters.

* MoneyDumb: Before Amanda was born, she tended to spend a lot of expensive stuff for her, including a two thousand dollar baby carriage that hovers.

* NeatFreak: This is why the Dinkley house is so clean (before and after Diya comes back) due to the fact she tends to freak out if anything is a mess. However, this for some reason doesn't apply to Spooners which was stated by Velma to cause a health inspector to say "I quit".

* TheDeterminator: When she is separated from her mother she is determined to get back to her at any cost while escaping being in her older sister's presence. She even rolls out of her stroller in order to get her mother's diner.

* ThreeMonthOldNewborn: She's supposed to be a newborn but she's frequently shown to have development that is more around an one year old: having limb & head mobility, eating solid foods like cereal, showing tooth growth, and even being able to stand up on her feet.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: He looks like a middle aged version of his son.

* MissingMom: her mother is never shown or mentioned.

* SignificantWardrobeShift: {{Downplayed}}. After the events of "Velma Makes a List," she's inspired to take on a style she's more comfortable with, a pair of RoughOveralls

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: They get their bodies back in the season two finale]].

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Victoria Jones, Fred's mom.

* AdaptationalUgliness: Scrappy is covered in stitches, has 6 nipples, and additional emphasis on his jowly face. He has bright yellow eyes and sharp looking teeth.

* WalkingSpoiler: ''Velma'' still couldn't use Scooby-Doo because of ExecutiveMeddling, [[LoopholeAbuse so they brought back his nephew instead]].

** Daphne is portrayed as an insufferable AlphaBitch who at first seemed to have abandoned her friendship with Velma for popularity, someone she is almost always on good terms with in other depictions. Later subverted, as it turns out, that ''Velma'' was the one ended their friendship under the belief that Daphne was going to do this anyway, and she's felt hurt by that ever since.

* FireForgedFriends: They ultimately come together to solve the main mysteries, [[spoiler: but this is subverted at the end because of their unresolved differences and drift apart]].

** This applies to their families as well. Norville's family are nice like him despite his grandma being a MadScientist, Fred's family turn out to be mean like Velma [[spoiler:(with one of them being worse than her)]], and Velma and Daphne's families are in-between, with Velma's being NotSoSimilar to her, and Daphne's adopted and birth parents contrasting each other.

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Norville did intend to block the bullet but didn't expect the bullet to break a pillar that would impale Victoria Jones and kill her.]]
* AdaptationalIntelligence: While his original counterpart is usually more average intelligence, here, due to Velma's AdaptationalDumbass, she regularly copies answers from his homework, which shows he currently gets better grades than her. Also she has to go to him to get make her a fake report card to make it seem she kept up with her grades while her mother was gone when she hasn't.

* HopelessSuitor: Because Velma struggles with her attraction to Daphne and Fred and doesn't feel anything romantic for him, Norville is desperately pining after Velma in the vain hope that she will be his girlfriend. [[spoiler:By the finale, Velma realizes she loves Norville too... after having already gotten into a relationship with Daphne. It's unclear by the end of the season whether the two are together or not.]]

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: She accidentally causes Velma's death in the finale by switching chocolate with baby carrots, something Velma was going to use against Scrappy when he turns his attention to her.]]

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: She accidentally causes Velma's death in the finale by switching chocolate with baby carrots, something Velma was going to use against Scrappy when he turns his attention to her,]]

* SignificantWardrobeShift: {{Downplayed}}. After the events of "Velma Makes a List," she's inspired to take on a style she's more comfortable with.

[[folder: Sheriff Cogburn]]

* FemaleMisogynist: A [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-Inverted]] subversion. While his victims were all men, complete with [[GroinAttack mutilated crotches]], they were all part of his creation and participated in the vicious torment of him.
* NighInvulnerability: Even a missile launched at him couldn't obliterate him.

* PoliceAreUseless: It's acknowledged that Donna Blay and Linda Ke ''suck'' at being real
detectives. Not only are they dragging their feet in finding Diya Dinkley, but they treat Daphne outing Velma as a murder-suspect as a mild inconvenience and they even try to encourage Velma -- who is a teenager with no experience solving real mysteries at this point -- to do their job for them. They are also useless with their daughter's borderline criminal behavior, doing nothing to stop her drug dealing and violent tendencies.

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: While Norville is the nicest by far, Velma has proven to be the meanest, and both Fred and Daphne are in-between, having a bit more redeeming qualities than her.

* PoliceAreUseless: It's acknowledged that Donna Blay and Linda Ke ''suck'' at being real detectives. Not only are they dragging their feet in finding Diya Dinkley, but they treat Daphne outing Velma as a murder-suspect as a mild inconvenience and they even try to encourage Velma -- who is a teenager with no experience solving real mysteries at this point -- to do their job for them. They are also useless with their daughter's borderline criminal behavior, doing nothing to stop her drug dealing and violent tendencies.

The UltimateLifeform of project SCOOBI, a talking dog named Scrappy.

* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: [[WithFriendsLikeThese Velma]] sees Blythe's reputation as a person ruined by being a high school principal married to a high school councilor.

The Town sheriff who ain't good at his job.

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The ultimate weapon of project SCOOBI, a talking dog named Scrappy.

* {{Jerkass}}: In a WorldOfJerkass and AdaptationalJerkass among the main characters , Velma manages to be the worst among them all by being an arrogant, narcissistic, judgmental, petty, hypocritical, cynical, sexist, racist, violent prone, and borderline sociopathic InsufferableGenius with a black and white, misanthropic view on the world. She generally treats everyone even friends and families like tools to use to her further goals and makes them do grand gestures for her which she never repays back. She tries to paint herself as spouting the truth when it's really just an excuse to say cruel things to people to emotionally hurt them. It's no wonder in-universe she is HatedByAll and people hold great contempt for her.

* PaperTiger: Although Velma loves to criticize and insult people, she's quickly dominated in an actual fight and backs down just as quickly when someone retaliates. She humiliates Daphne in a fight by reading out her mental health issues but is defeated with a single punch because this only gave Daphne another incentive to fight more viciously and rallied the school against herself. Norville and Olive also bite back against Velma and she backs down with the confrontation.

* PosthumousCharacter: She is long dead in the present day, but her work ties into season one's plot.

* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Just like Edna Purdue, he is long dead but his actions still play an integral part of the story and he is the father of Victoria Jones, who recreates his work for her plan.]]

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Victoria Jones, Fred's mom.