Possible character appearances.
Scooby-Doo himself won't be included in this series, but that doesn't hold out the possibility of other characters from the franchise showing up. So, place your bets on who might make an appearance.- The Hex Girls: They might make a cameo or come to Velma's town on their tour.
- Confirmed only with Thorn in season 2.
- Not in person, but books authored by "Ravencroft" could be mentioned or glimpsed as an Easter Egg.
- Scooby might still have a role in the series, possibly as an 11th-Hour Ranger, portrayed as transgender (with "Scuba" being his deadname and wears a binder disguised as a tuxedo vest), equipped with a voice modulator that allows him to talk yet still speech-impaired due to the device being set on autocorrect (voiced by Zach Barack impersonating Frank Welker), and have his Great Dane tail explained as a prosthetic cat tail.
- A dog similar to Scooby might appear. However, since the titular Great Dane won't be appearing, they could just change his breed to a 'modern' breed like a corgi or a Pitbull.
- Scrappy Doo, who in this adaptation, is actually Scooby's biological Child by Rape from transphobic dogs and whom he has a complicated relationship with. Scooby might lie to him about being his uncle and would've named him "Crappy" if it wasn't for the modulator's autocorrect (voiced by Connor Andrade).
- Alternatively, Scooby and Scrappy will both be furries or Super Prototypes of project SCOOBI.
- Jossed with Scooby but confirmed with Scrappy.
Norville isn't Shaggy
He doesn't use Shaggy's iconic nickname, nor does his more iconic dog appear in the series. Additionally (and subjectively), he doesn't really look like a Race Lift version of Shaggy. This is because a twist will be that Norville and Shaggy are two separate characters. Norville is the killer
Related to the above, Norville is the real murderer. After he's dealt with, a Truer to the Text Shaggy will come into the show as a Last Episode, New Character.- Jossed. In episode 7, he was busy chasing Fred when the killer was chasing Velma and Daphne and encounters the killer when they all collide.
Velma is an Unreliable Narrator
In the first episode, she says this is her story told her way. This version of Velma is cynical and judgmental, so everyone comes out worse in her eyes. Daphne gets upgraded from a former friend who drifted apart to Alpha Bitch. Fred is a little spoiled and has a temper, but she views him as a raving Manchild. Norville had a crush on Velma, but she thinks he would do anything to be with her. Everyone's nastiness is an Intended Audience Reaction
The audience is supposed to be horrified by how the characters act because they will eventually grow and mature into the mystery-solving team we know and love. The gang's parents are more like the original characters...
... And their exaggerated flaws are hurting the kids.We already know that Velma's mother wrote mystery novels, which Velma was interested in back in Zombie Island. Velma's mother also liked to drink and smoke, which means she could've been a more cynical or jaded version of Velma whose daughter is even more pessimistic than she is.
Fred's father is hyper-masculine and cold, which could be a criticism of Fred's original masculine leader archetype; he became successful and famous but has high expectations of his son, which has turned Fred into a bratty, emotional Manchild. It helps that he's voiced by Frank Welker, who voiced Fred in nearly every Scooby-Doo thing ever. This could be a hint at this.
We don't know as much about Daphne's parents, but one of them is a white, orange-haired woman — who, of course, is an incompetent cop. This may be a commentary on how Daphne is sometimes stereotyped as the damsel who eventually learned to kick ass but is still less likely to actually solve the mysteries. It's not as clear how she and her wife created the Alpha Bitch incarnation of Daphne, but the connection is there.
As for Norville, his father is confirmed to be a white man named Lamont Rogers, with the traditional shaggy light brown hair and even a bit of the typical Shaggy posture. The connection here is the most obvious — Lamont is Shaggy, and given Norville's hatred of drugs, Lamont could be an addict or former addict whose vice hurt his son and made him resentful of his habit, given Shaggy's association with pot.
If this is true, then the show may be trying something clever here, showing how the failings and vices of the "original" Mystery Inc. might have resulted in the kids we see in the show — kids who are drastically different from the archetypes their parents fell into.
The "murder victims" are still alive
Their brains have been taken out and put in a jar but kept alive for nefarious reasons.
- Confirmed in "A Velma in the Woods".
The entire series is just an in-universe show pitch
Everyone in the series simply suffers from character exaggerations because this is Velma's retelling of events, and she over-emphasizes socio-political commentary because she wants to raise awareness of these issues. The meta-humor in the first episode is just Biting-the-Hand Humor because the executives she's pitching the show to demanded gratuitous nudity. The reason why Scooby Doo isn't in this is that Velma wanted it to be a murder mystery drama, but the executives wanted a talking dog to lighten the tone of the show and Velma is just a Mary Sue-Esque self-insert character who's undeservedly considered attractive by Daphne, Fred, and Norville.
Fred is secretly gay
He's been occasionally portrayed as Camp Straight in the original show, and having the womanizing dude-bro turn out to be gay would be good irony and restore sympathy to the most defamed member of the gang.- It's possible that his dad is the one who's secretly gay. In episode 5, Fred mentions his dad has a secret collection of men's workout magazines. That's an odd thing to mention unless the show is implying the father is attracted to guys. It could be that he's using an ultra-macho demeanor to mask his sexual insecurities.
The love quadrangle will be towards Velma
And Norville, Daphne, and Fred will compete for her affection.- Confirmed.
The identity of the culprit
- Fred's Father- The last known location of Velma's mother before her disappearance was at his house and given how he's a Hate Sink Abusive Parent who strangely has yet to receive any form of comeuppance for the way he treats Fred, him getting caught as the culprit would be a long overdue case of Karma Houdini Warranty. Plus, this wouldn't be the first or second time Fred's father turned out to be evil, heck this wouldn't even be the third time.
- Jossed, he's actually an Unwitting Pawn to his below mentioned wife via hypnosis.
- Fred's Mother- For all of the same reasons as her husband, though she isn't nearly as frequently or openly abusive towards Fred as he is, and she has only previously been a villain once.
- Confirmed.
- Velma's Mother- She just so happens to return when Velma is about to fall to her death in the culprit's lair and just so happens to have no recollection of the culprit's identity. Plus, the culprit's victims have said that the only person they've seen since getting their brains removed is the culprit, so her suddenly showing up in the culprit's lair after being missing for years definitely makes her suspicious.
- Jossed, for the same reason as Fred's dad. She's an Unwitting Pawn in a Tomato in the Mirror situation for the real killer to frame for their crimes.
- Some Rando- Given how meta the show tries to be, it wouldn't be surprising if the culprit turned out to be a character we've never seen before and for the characters to then mention how they were expecting it to be someone they knew.
- Jossed, the killer is Fred’s mother, a character who has been around since episode 2 who each of the main characters has met at least once prior to The Reveal.
The Mystery Inc of this show is not the real Mystery Inc
They're actually imposters brought together by Scrappy-Doo to ruin the Scooby-Doo franchise as payback for being treated as The Scrappy by the entire fanbase, even though they should be grateful he saved the series from cancellation, with Scrappy himself playing Velma. The series will then abruptly end with a Truer to the Text band of meddling kids (complete with being played by their original actors) exposing Scrappy. It ends exactly how you'd expect a Scooby-Doo episode to end.- Really hope this isn't the case, I love Scrappy.
In the second season, Velma will treat her mother like she did before she left, and she will allow it due to wanting to catch back on lost time with her daughter and being a pushover for her.
As seen in the season one finale, the way Diya's parenting hasn't changed due to not seeing anything wrong with her daughter locking Aman, Sophie, and Amanda (a baby) out of the house, just so they both can live together. As a result, Velma could get even worse as a person and her mother will never reprimand her for it. Although she wouldn't torment Diya psychically and verbally like she did as a child, she would boss her around, be very demanding, act possessive of her, and do manipulative guilt trips on her whenever she ever thinks of trying to put a stop to her behavior. Diya will be revealed to be more of a Jerkass than what was previously shown.
Given that she didn't mind her ex-husband, his girlfriend, and his baby daughter being locked out of the house by Velma, one could say she only is the better parent in Velma's eyes because, in contrast with her dad neglecting her, Diya just lets her walk all over her. As a result, we could see more of Diya's nastiness on display when it comes to how she interacts with others and Velma will be selectively oblivious about it since it's not directed at herself. The gang will Take a Level in Kindness in season 2.
With Scooby's debut, he will probably become The Heart of the gang as their Living Emotional Crutch (mainly to Norville as his emotional support dog). He wouldn't mind because he's a dog, and in case he gets killed off, they will use project SCOOBI to resurrect him, explaining his talking origins. Velma's Aesop Amnesia will also be explained as a side effect of her hypnosis. There will be a Family Feud Intercontinuity Crossover episode with Harley Quinn and/or Titans (2018) (with Victor Stone/Cyborg debuting and the team subjected to Toon Transformation).
Teen Titans Go!'s Control Freak will pit the Velma gang (with a newly joined Scooby Doo) against the two shows similar to "Cartoon Feud" separately in an attempt to see if Velma is worse than Go!. Olive bullies Velma due to what she did with Daphne.
While Olive is depicted as a stereotypical Alpha Bitch to Velma, there are times when she shows perfectly good reasons to treat her with contempt. Most of all the fact that Daphne would be a close friend of hers and probably would have heard from her about how Velma cut ties with her when she started to hang out with the popular girls and as a result began to despise her for being that petty and jealous. As seen from the series, she doesn't really pick on any other kids except Velma (and for good reason). So, it looks like the rivalry is a case of It's Personal, and the other girl posse joins in because they follow the designated leaders of the group. The Sheriff isn't sexist, but only acts like that towards Velma due to really disliking her and wanting to get under her skin.
Mostly because his two workers are married lesbian cops and never says anything bigoted towards them, but always tries to provoke Velma due to how much of an insufferable Jerkass she can be and loves to provoke her out of pettiness. Aman and Diya only got married due to having Velma.
Aman and Diya were dating for a while and were almost going to break up until the latter noticed she was pregnant. Due to having conservative families they decided to marry each other, even though they never really felt in love. As a result they grew resentful of one another over the years, while barely putting any effort into their marriage and hoping one day there would be a way to finally be set free of their loveless marriage. Aman and Diya were in an Arranged Marriage.
Both of their families arranged a marriage between the two of them, which they obliged out of duty but never really felt anything for one another. At the beginning of Season 2, Aman would find a way to get back the house and kick Diya out and punish Velma for locking him, Sophie, and Amanda out.
The narrative would try to portray him as the bad guy for doing so, even though they had no authority to shut them out since Aman probably was paying most of the mortgage in his name and it's not a good look to kick out an infant. Velma only started appreciating her mother once she was gone.
When her mom was around, she took her for granted and never truly appreciated her once she disappeared. The show demonstrates how she only starts appreciating people once they are gone from her life and starts obsessing over them which causes them to yearn for them. Just like with many things with her memory concerning her mom, her talking with her mom about her problems would be less about her giving her personal testimonies to her and more like whining to her about how the world is unfair.
Given how much of an Unreliable Narrator she is and having a rose-tinted glasses of the past, she certainly would think her time privately talking with her mom was loving and meaningful. Season 2 will have Velma begin to miss her dad after kicking him, Sophie, and Amanda out of the house
Just like with her mom, she will slowly start to miss her dad and regret kicking him out. However, there would still be strain on his part due to what she did and she would do everything she can to apologize. At the beginning of Season 2, Velma will be accused of murdering Cogburn.
Given how people know about her vengeful streak and she was the last person to encounter him, they will put her as the number one suspect due to thinking she wanted to get back at him for giving her a backhanded compliment about being as smart as a man. Due to her mother being back, more people will give Velma less leeway to act like a Jerkass.
In season one, the only sympathy some people could give Velma was due to her mom going missing which somewhat affected her, but even then, they were tired of her behavior and didn't think it excused how horrible she treats others. However, after she's come back, they will still see she's still horrible person (and even worse with her mother at times enabling her) and just put her foot down with her, especially since she locked her own father, his girlfriend, and her half-sister out of the house. Velma gets her bigotry against white men from her mother
We've already seen that Velma takes after her mother in many ways, especially her personal hygienic habits, so it wouldn't be out of reason she could have gotten her racism from someone who she really looks up to. It could be that Diya blamed white men for why no one wanted her manuscripts (which according to Velma were described as being terrible) and that rubbed off on Velma. There will be at least one scene in Season 2 dedicated to bashing the show's detractors
Given how most of the meta commentary in Season 1 is as subtle as a tactical carpet bombing, coupled with how the show wasn't afraid to make fun of its fans as early as the first couple of episodes and how many attribute the existence of a second season to "hate-watching", it only makes sense. Season 2 will focus on Character Development
So pretty much most of the characters have serious mental issues in the first season. But maybe that's what Season 1 is about: negativity. After looking at reviews online, the writers will steal those reviews and improve the show! It's the only way to improve your work: FAILURE. Ironically, Season 2 will make the show become the most popular and high rated! The series will end on a Halloween special.
