History YMMV / Velma

** Many viewers, especially long-time ''Scooby-Doo'' fans, were displeased with the changes made to the Mystery Inc Gang--especially as most of them undergo personality shifts that result in a major case of AdaptationalJerkass--to the point that some view the group as being their characters InNameOnly.

* ItWasHisSled: [[spoiler:Velma was killed by Scrappy in the Season 2 finale]]. Many viewers had spoiled the outcome in social media, make it one of the most well-known pieces of the show.

** In the Season 2 finale, [[spoiler:Velma's spirit being able to possess Scrappy's body and overpower his spirit. This has quite a number of factors they expect us to swallow; Velma coming back when she did as opposed to Victoria comic back days at least and weeks at most. Velma realising and accepting she's a ghost in a timely manner. Velma knowing she can possess people, as she was not there when Victoria revealed herself as a ghost. And that possessing Scrappy would be the way to beat him. It's really something when "teen girl defeats super soldier dog by possessing him" is the least stupid part of that scenario]].

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: [[spoiler:The TropeNamer himself literally wound up becoming this when he killed Velma in the Season 2 finale.]]

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Daphne's subplot of looking for her real parents has been heavily criticized for being a repeat of Mystery Incorporated's subplot of Fred looking for his.

** In the Season 2 finale, [[spoiler:Velma's spirit being able to possess Scrappy's body and overpower his spirit despite Velma being a normal teenage girl and Scrappy being a super soldier]].

** This show's Fred might be the most polarizing take on the character yet. Many older fans regard him as the worst version of the character yet for turning him into a {{Manchild}} ButtMonkey that lacks any of the positive attributes or abilities that characterized the character in other iterations and for constantly holding the StrawmanBall. With that said, he has some defenders who felt he was the only main character that was actually improving on his flaws through the season, with Creator/GlennHowerton's performance being seen as a highlight, not to mention many viewers felt [[DesignatedMonkey he suffered way more than he deserved]] giving him some JerkassWoobie points.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Fred and Norville's reception has been pretty mixed. Some people view them as some of the more likable characters of the show, citing Fred actually trying to better himself as the season goes on and Norville just generally being more of a NiceGuy than most of the other cast. But others have pointed out that just because Fred comes off as UnintentionallySympathetic that doesn't automatically make him likable and Norville began to lose a lot of support after his relationship with Gigi ended up showcasing his worst traits.

* ItWasHisSled: [[spoiler:Velma was killed by Scrappy in the Season 2 finale]]. Many viewers had spoiled the outcome in social media, make it one of the most pieces of the show.

* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Many consider Velma to be the worst character in the show, even compared to the SerialKiller that is targeting teenage girls and ''removing their brains'', because Velma comes off as an unlikable main protagonist who constantly insults, uses, and manipulates everyone around her. It all culminates in the Season 1 finale, when Velma [[spoiler:twerks over the corpse of Fred's mother (the said serial killer) right in front of him and locks her father, his girlfriend, and her half-sister (who is only a baby) out of the house]].

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* TakeThatScrappy: Many viewers rejoiced after Velma was, ironically, [[spoiler:killed by the TropeNamer himself.]]

** Many viewers also feel the much-maligned "Meta Humor" of the show falls into this as well, with many of the jokes just being the characters commenting on cliches before going through with them anyway (such as the infamous opening scene where Daphne and the popular girls discuss nudity in television pilots while being nude and showering themselves), referencing a hyper-specific piece of media and acting it defines the entire genre, or worse making up tropes and cliches.Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn
** The ultimate villain of Season 2 being [[spoiler:a monstrous evil Scrappy-Doo as a [[TakeThatScrappy metatextual nod]] to [[TheScrappy his infamous reputation]], down to Velma taunting him with the line "This is the last Saturday morning you'll ever ruin!" can be seen as this, as the ''Scooby-Doo'' fandom in general [[VindicatedByHistory no longer hates Scrappy nearly as much as they used to for various reasons]], and besides that, this '''exact same joke''' [[Film/ScoobyDoo was already done in 2002]], and even ''then'' fans didn't find it particularly funny.]]

** [[WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish Jack Horner]] is more likeable than Velma.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Due to Velma being a DesignatedHero for much of the audience, some people have gone as far as to claim that [[BeyondRedemption unrepentant]] and [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] Jack Horner from ''Puss In Boots: The Last Wish'' was a more likeable character than this version of Velma, since he's deliberately cast as a LoveToHate character as opposed to Velma, who the narrative wants the audience to sympathize with on occasion despite how awful she can be.[[/labelnote]]

** In the days before and after its premiere, several meta examples emerged in social media discussions of the series. The most common and benign of these theories is that ''Velma'' was meant to be an original IP that only had the ''Scooby-Doo'' characters [[DolledUpInstallment attached for brand recognition.]]

* OlderThanTheyThink:
** This isn't the first time Velma has been portrayed by (or as) a nonwhite person. She's previously been played by Hayley Kiyoko (who is of Japanese descent) in the Creator/CartoonNetwork live-action films, ''[[Film/ScoobyDooTheMysteryBegins The Mystery Begins]]'' (2009) and ''[[Film/ScoobyDooCurseOfTheLakeMonster Curse of the Lake Monster]]'' (2010), and voiced by Latina Creator/GinaRodriguez in 2020's ''WesternAnimation/{{Scoob}}'' The same also with Daphne being either non-white or mixed-race and portrayed by actors who are the same; in the live-action ''Film/DaphneAndVelma'', she is played by mixed-race Creator/SarahJeffery.
** A ''Scooby-Doo'' spin-off without the titular Great Dane isn't new. The film ''Film/DaphneAndVelma'' was the first to lack the character, as it only focuses on the titular women in their pre-Mystery Inc. days, with Shaggy and Fred also not being present.
** Quite a few people are under the impression ''Velma'' changed Shaggy's name to Norville. Shaggy's real name being Norville has been an element of the franchise since ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' in the late 1980s. This is just the first time it hasn't been treated as an unspoken EmbarrassingFirstName.
** This is not the first official piece of ''Scooby-Doo!'' media to be geared towards adult audiences. The characters appeared in the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' crossover episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS13E16ScoobyNatural ScoobyNatural]]", in which the Winchesters and Castiel are sent into the classic ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou Where Are You]]'' series by a ghost and the bleed-over effect from "real life" causes it to become filled with murder, gore, and the gang getting badly injured by things they themselves note they usually bounce back from. The ''Scooby'' characters also made appearances in ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'' over a decade prior to that, with Scooby and Shaggy being arrested for suspected drug use in one episode.
** Velma being slightly overweight goes back to the classic era of the franchise, with ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'', where she was depicted as such. Velma only became slimmer after the franchise's revival in the late 1990s.
** This isn't the first time that Creator/FrankWelker hasn't been the voice of Fred in a television installment of the series. Welker was also replaced as Fred in ''A Pup Named Scooby-Doo'', with him similarly having a RemakeCameo in form of being Fred's uncle Eddie.
** This series' Velma is shown to be a ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}''-esque DeadpanSnarker, which has rubbed some fans as an unusual characterization choice. While her snark intensity [[DependingOnTheWriter depends]] on the writer and series, interpretations starting from the 2000s have explored this side of her, along with her hard appeal to science and supernatural denial. ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Mystery Incorporated]]'', in particular, has Velma as her most ''Daria''-esque but mellows out over the course of the series.
** The premise of Mystery Inc. gang dealing with mass violence and killing had been done in the ''ComicBook/ScoobyApocalypse'' comics.
** The idea of a Scooby-Doo entry having SelfReferentialHumor, AffectionateParody, or playing around with MetaConcepts of the franchise is as old as 1983's ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyAndScrappyDooShow'', with every entry since also playing around with franchise staples to varying degrees.
** Viewers who watched the show have criticized it over the fact Velma, Fred, and Daphne have gone through AdaptationalJerkass. However, there has quite a few adaptations in which the trio are depicted as much meaner than their usual baselines, the most notable being the first live-action film where they all spend a large portion arguing with one another, and Fred in particular is presented as being a narcissistic jock like his ''Velma'' incarnation.
** Velma and Daphne being former friends before Daphne became an alpha bitch was tackled much more seriously in the first ''[[Literature/DaphneAndVelma2020 Daphne and Velma]]'' YA novel, ''The Vanishing Girl'', by Josephine Ruby.

* RonTheDeathEater: While the characters are terrible in canon, Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn ramps it up by rewriting Velma as a rapist. Look it up at your own discretion, but a lot of fics in the "Velma (Cartoon 2023)" tag are tagged "rape". This is likely because as stated in HarsherInHindsight, Mindy Kaling (who 2023 Velma is based on) also admitted to sexually harassing a coworker.

* TakeThatScrappy: Many viewers rejoiced after Velma was, ironically, killed by the TropeNamer himself.

** Many viewers also feel the much-maligned "Meta Humor" of the show falls into this as well, with many of the jokes just being the characters commenting on cliches before going through with them anyway (such as the infamous opening scene where Daphne and the popular girls discuss nudity in television pilots while being nude and showering themselves), referencing a hyper-specific piece of media and acting it defines the entire genre, or worse making up tropes and cliches.

* TakeThatScrappy: Many viewers rejoiced after Velma was, ironically, killed by the trope-namer himself.

* TakeThatScrappy!: Many viewers rejoiced after Velma was, ironically, killed by the trope-namer himself.