greeting your relatives
Despite being a near-constant pop culture staple for fifty years, Scooby-Doo has managed to keep their main cast pretty much the same as in its original conception. Fred is the leader and trap guy, Velma’s the brain, Shaggy and Scooby are the comedic cowardly foodies. The exception to this rule is Daphne, who has had a completely different personality in each major incarnation of the show- a multitalented badass in What’s New Scooby-Doo, a rich little brat in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, an eclectic weirdo in Be Cool, Scooby-Doo… so on an so forth. This change occurs because while the rest of the gang’s personalities have strong presence in the 1969 series, Daphne’s personality in the original cartoon was “hot girl.” This goes to show how boiling a character’s entire existence down to their gender and/or appearance leads to characters being bland and one-dimensional, and as in the case with Scooby-Doo, this poor writing happens most often to female characters. In this essay I will
