Does she really need the team?
>>83127088
By herself, she's just a slightly klutzy paranormal investigator. With the rest of the gang, she looks like a fucking genius.
>>83127088
If by "team" you mean her tits, then yes.
>>83127088
Not really, no. I like to think she just hangs around the gang for fun. Ten years into her future she's probably working for the FBI or NSA.
>>83127088
The team? No.
A team? Yes.
if she really wants to investigate paranormal crime in order to expose actual criminals, it's good to have a few bodies between you and getting drowned in a lake to further credit the fishman's curse
>>83127509
On a more serious note, she clearly does need backup to be effective. While she's important, she clearly works best in person, so she'd need help being present safely, not to mention that she obviously couldn't catch more than a handful on her own.
She's certainly the best investigator, but that's the thing about a team; specialization of its parts makes the team stronger as a whole.
The team helps with manpower.
She can't be everywhere or do very physical things.
She's a blind out of shape womanlet.
Also Fred is the leader, she can figure shit out but Fred mobilizes the team to DO anything.
>>83127088
You need Fred to make the plans, set the traps, and give people the directions.
Scooby and Shaggy always inadvertedly ruin Fred's aforementioned traps while accidentally making an even better trap. Also they usually lure out the ghost first.
Daphne probably funds it. She's got connections that allow them access to things they normally wouldn't
all of this stuff provides the perfect vessel for Velma's mystery solving skills.
>>83127088
>need the team
she is an eldritch entity. she just keeps the gang around for giggles
A R C H E T Y P E S
The core of Scooby Doo is that each character is their own archetypal role. Scooby Doo, consciously or unconsciously, borrows from deeply embedded cultural archetypes. Scooby Doo is one of the most finely constructed fictional groups to ever be created. Each character plays off each other and act as foils. The character designs are enduring. Instantly classic.
That's also why everyone hates Scrappy. Because he was a cheap knock-off and only disrupts the relationships that exist so naturally between the original cast. He lacks the kind of cultural connection that the other characters innately tap into.
>>83127088
Yea
She could get by with Fred and Shaggy or Scooby, but she needs someone for heavy lifting and someone for bait at least.
>>83128256
> Dat Velma
MUH FUCKING DICK
When she was on her own, she ran a bookshop.
No clue how good business was, but it wasn't fulfilling for her.
I want Scooby Doo to go.
Forever.
>>83131539
But Velma can stay.
>>83127088
well Fred's the Muscle(at least theoretically) and Driver(after all in most continuities he's the owner of the Mystery Machine), not to mention he usually comes up with the Traps, Daphne directly or indirectly provides the Money that Mystery Inc needs, and as for Scooby and Shaggy, well they're mostly there as moral support and as a distractions to the Monster of The Week
also got a sauce for that pic?
>>83128206
>Daphne probably funds it. She's got connections that allow them access to things they normally wouldn't
well Shaggy is from a fairly wealthy family too, so he probably pitches in with the gas money occasionally as well
>>83128557
>That's also why everyone hates Scrappy. Because he was a cheap knock-off and only disrupts the relationships that exist so naturally between the original cast. He lacks the kind of cultural connection that the other characters innately tap into.
there's probably a way to make Scrappy work(heck he was almost tolerable in Ghoul School and Reluctant Werewolf), just a matter of figuring out what that is
I don't know if anyone's read it yet, but Scooby Apocalypse is worth downloading for this new Velma alone.
>>83127088
Yes? Otherwise she ends up raped and murdered, her body left cooling in a ditch somewhere.
POST MEI!
>>83138356
I've been noticing a lot of character lately that seem to be inspired by Velma.
>>83128256
Nice
