the misunderstanding of daphne blake.

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[@tvgamerstan6180]

I love that Daphne isn't a stereotypical pretty girl. She doesn't come off as bitchy and stuck up. She's actually pretty sweet. She literally hangs out with a Jock, a nerd, a social outcast, and a talking dog. We rarely get to see that in animation or live action media.

[@DDarkestKnight]

That's a type for pretty girls nowadays. Before pretty girls like Daphne were the nice ones because they were pretty. Being pretty and mean was supposed to be a deconstruction now it's just the other side of the coin

[@tvgamerstan6180]

@@DDarkestKnight True

[@littlemisstfc]

Daphne Blake did not kick that luchador’s ass in the first movie and then manage to break a damn lock with makeup in the second movie for y’all to disrespect her! 😤 Miss Daphne Blake is the icon and the moment. 💜

[@DDarkestKnight]

The fact that thanks to Buffy Daphne is now a fighter is probably my favorite thing about most future adaptions of Scooby Doo

[@haileyharmon5298]

If the Muiltiversus game ever comes back, please make Daphne playable!

[@DDarkestKnight]

@@haileyharmon5298 Crazy how there's been 20 years of Daphne being the martial arts fighter in the group but *Velma* is the one they put in the game!

[@haileyharmon5298]

@@DDarkestKnight Right? I mean don't get me wrong, I like Velma but bring my girl Daphne in the game too!

[@haileyharmon5298]

Daphne's always been my favorite Scooby-Doo character growing up, it's nice to see her get some appreciation and an in-depth video about her.

[@Lilothestitch]

Same for me.

[@haileyharmon5298]

@@Lilothestitch Awesome.

[@Josh-xd7jc]

same she is givin so much disrespect when she really is that girl

[@shirlecemcghee]

Understatement of the century. I appreciate both Daphne and Velma for different reasons. Daphne is an example of a female character that is comfortable with herself. To answer your question, when it comes to Beauty and Intelligence is that you don't have to choose. Some people may lean towards one more than the other but that's life.

[@StylusShade]

In Mystery Incorporated, Velma had fewer snide comments for Daphne than anyone else in the group. That says a lot.

[@DDarkestKnight]

I think they've shown her being jealous of the attention Daphne gets compared to her but I think compared to the rest of the gang Velma respects Daphne the most.

[@tcwentertainment]

Velma also just kinda sucked in that series but her character isn't supposed to be likeable so its fine

[@MariAnimates]

Daphne is so amazing and vital she can fight, she's creative, she's smart, on top of that she's incredibly kind and supportive. That girl would go to bat for her friends without hesitation. P.S. I also watched PASWG when I was super young, as a little black girl I was in love with the show. I still love it even today. Stocking is also sexually promiscuous but everyone seems to forget that, Stocking has sex and talks about sex multiple times too

[@haileyharmon5298]

This! All of this!

[@harriyanna]

THANK YOU. can cause we have seen panty eat extremely alot too just as well. like they both act similarly.

[@AngeltheAnswer]

We def need to change the status quo on pretty isn’t smart. Another aspect that’s annoying in this is the need for people to always compare women/fem presenting people who are in proximity to each other. Like no one ever goes “Shaggy’s better” if you say you like Fred.

[@esztersimon2210]

I met so many pretty people at uni who were like super smart while caring about their look as well. I don't get it either why people think these are mutually exlusive treats

[@kevonhankerson2124]

I always been a fan of Daphne I love how she has multiple layers to her even though she's into beauty and fashion she also isn't afraid to defend herself or get down and dirty and that's why I like her so much Daphne is the GOAT and is low key the back bone of the mystery gang

[@MustardLadySaveMe]

plus the reason that Daphne gets into so many traps is because she is FEARLESS. she is passionate about a mystery and will be the first to walk through a dark, spooky room if she feels like it will bring her closer to the truth. Daphne Blake has got GUMPTION.

[@Lilothestitch]

I always loved Daphne as a character. The fact that people misunderstood Daphne’s character reminds me of how people misunderstood Chloe Price and Rachel Amber’s characters in Life is Strange and Kenny’s character in Telltale’s The Walking Dead for example. Daphne is best girl.

[@Turquerina]

I feel like a lot of the time, people equate beauty with stupidity is due to their insecurity. People feel like someone who is not only good looking but also smart is too much of a threat so they try to downplay their intelligence based on superficial characters. This is why we get the dumb blonde tropes and the cultural hatred of pink, as if that makes you a bimbo.

[@xryxix]

Love her fr, she's like, Elle Woods before Elle Woods

[@MisfitJetta-du8rg]

YES SIS! Thank you for this. Daphne is one of my favorite characters. She is literally misinterpreted so much. It’s like they can’t make up their minds if they want to write her as a dumb damsel in distress or the intelligent badass she is. Daphne was such a role model for me. She was so kind and sweet. She didn’t care about her social status, actually using it for good to help other people.

[@devontamosley4487]

I like both Daphne and Velma. They're smart in their own way. Velma is book smart and Daphne is fashionably street smart.

[@ShyasShadow]

I always loved both. I think both tomboy, nerd, feminine characters are all valid.

[@AngelicMilkyYT]

Me too :)

[@DAVIDblinditems]

I'm a Scooby Doo fan, and I have been saying these things for years. You literally took all the words out my mind and presented it in video form. It's honestly like the question (joke) me and my friend made in middle school during lunch(just as a light-hearted fun)- If Velma or Daphne was in the hood, who would have the common sense and intelligence to survive and live freely? And the answers were some of the wildest responses I ever heard in my life. Keep in mind, I working on my PH.D in African American Studies and I have heard/learned some deep/life altering things, but nothing gets people going more than the light-hearted stuff you think they wouldn't have a opinion on. Honestly, the whole gang is iconic and all of them played a important role in their success. GREAT VIDEO HARRI !

[@NatalieLovesxo]

Also this reminds me, Idk if you know of Emily Ratajkowski, she’s a model & she came out with a book called “My Body” and in it she mentioned that nobody takes her seriously when she expresses interest in politics and social justice because she’s pretty and a model.

[@harriyanna]

yes i read my body! i remember people were trying to say that she didn't write it herself and that pissed me off so much.

[@therotryzit]

I remember reading somewhere that appearantly the original intent behind making Velma not pretty like Daphne was that because the creators coundn't actually believe that a woman can be both pretty and smart. Funny how the misogyny of the original creators back then creeped into the fandom!

[@AquaJulieMarine]

Daphne fans unite!

[@haileyharmon5298]

Daphne nation, rise up!

[@jennah5990]

She was my favorite, one because she wore purple but also she was fashionable and smart all together! 💜

[@haileyharmon5298]

​@@jennah5990That's what makes Daphne so awesome!

[@karastears]

I'm here! 💜

[@jourdonpatron212]

I remember you brought up a point in the Naomi Campbell video that people associate beauty and sexiness with stupidity. I just never understood that correlation.

[@bunny-we6xn]

i hate comparing the characters because to me, it just wouldn't be the same without ALL of them!! they bring out the best qualities in each other and their friend group has such a nice contrast, with everyone having their own strengths and weaknesses :) i think the trend of trying to figure out who's the best/smartest character is so reductive because that's the whole point, that no one could do it alone and that we need the WHOLE team to solve mysteries!! but yeah i agree so much, some of the most intelligent girls i've ever met were also big fans of fashion and makeup. there's this group of hyperfeminine "girly" girls i accidentally befriended in high school because there was no one else in my english class i could do group projects with (i was a typical loner and art nerd), they immediately adopted me and hung out with me during class, and even beyond that. they were the only ones who were nice to me or even noticed me. one of them was in my PE class and calmed me down during a panic attack and sat with me for an hour, she handled it perfectly, another one of the girls wrote one of the most amazing papers i've ever read on islamophobia in america (since she's a muslim). and yet, when it came to these stupid "student polls" our graduation year book was doing, both of these girls were voted on first and second place for what was essentially the bimbo category. made me FURIOUS. how much someone cares about their appearance says absolutely nothing about their intelligence and i'm tired of kind, super smart women being reduced to "mean girls" or whatever just because of certain interests

[@jadacoombs5263]

Major fan of the franchise, even though i always liked Velma, especially form Mystery incorporated, I liked her snarky side and being nerdy, and i related to that more during my youth. But I like the fact that Daphne subverted the archetype of being the "Pretty Girl", she wasn't a typical lame mean girl character, she knew how to to physically defend herself and value her friendship with the rest of the Mystery gang. Now the the pretty vs. smart, I never understood where people think you just can't be both, especially from the female side of the argument. LOL, it has this "not like other girls" vibe which is sickening.

[@BozeDoesGodsWork]

Never in a million years did I think Daphne Blake was “dumb”. I don’t even know where the hell that comes from. Even in the live action movies (which definitely have their problems) she wasn’t even portrayed as dumb per say. She was actually a very ambitious young woman who did anything and everything for the sake of the team and getting the mystery solved. Even if that meant she was the one who got captured first. Though it bugged her in the beginning she soon learned to defy people’s perception of her and fight back. That’s the Daphne Blake I know.

[@melancholyjones2873]

I don't remember enough of the og cartoon to weigh in on that, but def since at least the 90s daphne has been characterized as "people smart" in contrast to velma's "book smart" or fred's "strategy smart". From a story writing standpoint, she provides the practical skills like stealth/combat/interrogation, velma provides contextualizing info & analysis, fred organizes the group & finds the best way to utilize everyone's skillsets, & shaggy/scooby fill in whatever gaps are left. The reason every attempt to cut the series down to just 1 or 2 of them has flopped is bc they don't function independently of each other, narratively speaking. "Mystery inc" isn't a group of detectives, they're a single detective broken into highly specialized parts.

[@ShonnysLab1995]

I’m glad you did this video, Scooby Doo is my all time favorite show, and Daphne is a icon.

[@tyjordanflophour]

Team Daphne! She was always my favorite. I think she got disregarded a lot because she's very girly and things deemed as feminine aren't often seen as having much "practical" value. Not a fan of how she tends to get singled out in discussions for not having much depth or personality when she's just as goofy as her friends! They spend their free time /looking/ for problems in a van with a giant dog. They're quite literally all silly. The "girl that likes fashion needs a personality" is the lens a lot of people look through and it suspiciously doesn't apply to "neutral" or "masculine" interests. I think this falls under the case of people devaluing something to feel comfortable interacting with it. Velma's cool too, but I'm not gonna sit up and lie about who's my favorite.

[@mysticdigital5936]

I love all of Mystery Inc. because they ALL bring something to the table. And they're just close friends(or more if you want) at the end of the day. One of the worst decision any Scooby media can make is pitting Daphne and Velma against each other, because they are both incredible and it's a waste of time. Daphne definitely has the most nebulous depictions across Scooby, with some leaning towards her being ditzy or eccentric and others making her the ultimate girlboss. For me, Daphne is both, somewhere in the middle. I love when Daphne tricks the finger print scanners in Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed or like in The 13th Ghosts movie where she takes charge or in Trick or Treat! where she struggles with her identity until Fred calls *her* the leader. Anyways, Daphne's great and so is this video.

[@psychounicorn5434]

I always liked Panty more. She was my favorite because she had a better personality and was the funniest (usually my fave is the comic relief). I like Stocking’s design/style better, but that’s it (I’d cosplay her simply because of looks).

[@enchantingmirage]

It always the pretty girls that are seen as inferior sadly... 😔

[@DDarkestKnight]

I think it definitely comes from a negative perception of the 1960s and 1970s Daphne that's why they called her "Danger Prone Daphne". And it comes from people who don't watch the later adaptations of Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated, direct to vhs and DVD. I think it bleeds into later mainstream Scooby-Doo adaptions, like they're doing 1960s Daphne with a twist. Like how Live action Daphne can fight and trying to defeat the damsel in distress stereotype of her and Velma's Daphne is "Danger Prone Daphne" because she's *dangerous* .

[@finland4ever55]

They also forget that as revealed in loch ness monster , it's not her only, it's a genetic thing, her family, boys and girls, just have really bad luck. And how on most episodes and especially the movies it's the female sidekicks that get in trouble more than her. Like lemme think. Sharon Weatherby, Crystal from Alien Invaders, the Hex Girls, Mei Ling, Miyumi from Samurai Sword, Jessica from Camp Scare, Madeline from Abracadabra, Willow from Goblin King, the ghouls from ghoul school, mayor nettles, trini Lee, etc.

[@finland4ever55]

Also MI daphne ironically gets in trouble more often than 60s daphne. 60s daphne was unlucky, but more often than not she would fall through trap doors which isn't her being in trouble, she's clumsy and those doors usually lead to another clue, not a dungeon, she got actually taken like maybe 5 times? Whereas in MI she's kidnapped, sacrificed and attacked like constantly. If anything MI Daphne fits their warped image of her more bur even then not really.

[@jessicavictoriacarrillo7254]

I love the fans who head Canon Daphne and Velma as lovers. I loved Daphne a lot in A Pup Naned Scooby Doo for her sass. I see her as a big sis figure for Velma

[@madamebunbun3479]

Ya know daphne was my fav I didn't think she was dumb and I thought she was badass (great taste in live action scoob movies btw)

[@NatalieLovesxo]

Omg I wanted to watch the scooby doo movie of 2022 where Velma got a gf but did not get very far bc I was just too annoyed they had Daphne’s character keep saying, “what am I good at?” “What is Daphne good at?” And they were probably gonna reveal it at the end of the movie but her being portrayed as a ditz that nobody knows what she’s in the gang for for the majority of the movie just irritated me too bad. I did not like it. 😭

[@liallialcroc]

also ive been going back and watching the original scooby doo and youtubers always say daphne is the damsel in distress that always gets kidnapped but like in the original series other characters get kidnapped just as much as her lol

[@venus.4047]

Yass I needed this ❤

[@riverbanzachamploo9725]

Thank you . Everytime I hear people try to downplay Daphne's intelligence cuz she's her looks, I think of Elle Woods. In legally blonde litterally everyone underestimates her just for her to get into Harvard with ease.

[@queenspacegirl1393]

It’s not Daphne vs Velma it’s Daphne and Velma ❤

[@Esmeralda2diamon]

I love Daphne ❤️I think she is a people person. She can read and understand people very well. She is also very kind and supportive of her friends.

[@nitrofairywing1541]

It's really mind boggling how people still think this way, like it's 2023, it's tired, it's old, and it's plain stupid. Even when I watch Scooby Doo I kinda like the characters of Scooby, Shaggy, Velma and Daphne all equally, her boyfriend(sorry his name escapes me at the moment 😂) I really could care less about, I don't hate him I just don't care lol. But like, idk why when we have characters like Velma and Daphne some people just HAVE to pit them against each other when there was nothing to pit against in the first place.

[@ascotcult]

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[@devinsauls9137]

I always prefer Daphne Blake over Velma Dinkley anyway. She's pretty, can kick a$$, knows who she is and owns it!

[@MustardLadySaveMe]

Daphne was my favorite over Velma as the series aged because she was given way more backstory and character development. Like we never meet Velma's family but we meet ALL of Daphne's sisters and learn their family dynamic. Velma gets some more development in the Mystery Incorporated series but not on par with the little things we learn about Daphne that we can connect to her background. like the fact that she knows how to drive manual in multiple reboots because her rich family owns many kinds of luxury cars and her sister is a racecar driver. those little details along with an iconic character design & personality really MAKE a character loveable and memorable.

[@WerewolfCat890]

i LOVE daphne, she's my fave!! and as a lifelong scooby doo fan, i also never understood the daphne vs. velma debate, bc i always loved them both and recognized they had different strengths. i think a lot of people reduce daphne to the ditsy, pretty damsel in distress, and there is a grain of truth in that, bc she does tend to get kidnapped more than the others 😅 but she does not go without a fight and has saved herself and saved her friends many times! and she's definitely not stupid.

[@goldenbrowngod]

Ok I agree with you about Daphne not being stupid. I always thought she was just average. Though I guess as you pointed out people tend to think if someone is pretty probably means they aren't smart then the fact that Daphne is seen as the pretty then I can see why they may just assume she's not smart. Similarly I think the reverse was true for Velma but people challenged that with sexy Velma cosplays. So I guess we know need smart Daphne cosplays to push people's views of Daphne. But I have to say you took it to far saying Velma is smart in a way similar to Elon Musk. Musk is a rich guy pretending to be smart. He's a dark version of what people think Daphne is if she tried to Velma.

[@niamh4761]

she said Velma is as smart as musk thinks he is :)

[@anunwantedsoul3672]

TLDR; Panty and Daphne are amazing, y'all are on crack Personally, Stocking is my favorite sister because she's more attractive to me as a character, She reminds me of myself in some aspects. I love Panty though, and I cant emphasize how much it annoys me when people down play Panty's character because shes a bit more "active," she and Stocking are way more similar than people like to admit and the strange fetishization of goth girls is also a large reason in why a lot of people (men) like her more. That is to say, I do like Velma more as a character than Daphne because I relate to her more, and I think she's more attractive to me as a character. That does not mean that I dont love and appreciate Daphnes' character though. A lot of people mistake Daphne as the dumb incapable rich girl who needs to be saved stereotype, even the gang does sometimes, but Daphne is actually such a valuable member of Mystery Inc. It's played off as a gag but Daphne is extremely intelligent. I recently binged Scooby doo mystery inc, and all the movies and you can really tell just how capable Daphne is in terms of wits and physical capabilities in most if not all iterations of Scooby Doo. That girl is literally a monster and I wish people would understand that

[@Lilothestitch]

I love both Panty and Stocking.

[@msleahb12]

My favorite things in Scooby Doo were Daphne and Velma. I was so close to falling down that Velma vs Daphne (not like other girls) pipeline. I definitely prefered them as a duo because they felt like a whole. I just have a thing for 2 characters who has smarts/strengths where the other lacks. I do think it sucks that fans who misinterpret characters to uplift/downplay will just ruin it for everyone

[@TDRajesh.]

I wish she was abit more narcissistic

[@imthebossmermaid3648]

Daphne was always my favorite, because cute girly girls were always my favorite! I love how fashionable and fierce she was as well! I don't understand how anybody can disparage her, other than the typical misogyny and hatred of femininity ofc. These suckers need to go watch Legally Blonde, and maybe interact with some feminine women in real life, because a lot of us are some of the most fiercest toughest most badass bitches you ever did see. Never forget that. I like Velma too, but please stop using her to put another woman down. In addition, maybe watch Friendship is Magic as well. Rarity is the most feminine and flamboyant of the main ponies, and is a fashion diva, but rather than being a consumerist shopaholic, she turns her feminine passion into a career and makes clothes. She's an independent and creative working woman who is compassionate and kind and always lends a hoof to help her friends, and not to mention also knows how to kick some pony ass! Also they both are purple. So yeah respect her name!

[@LilyandJasper]

I’m not the biggest Scooby Doo fan on the planet (though I might rewatch some of the movies after watching this), but I never read Daphne as dumb, and thinking she is dumb because Velma is smart is ignorant as hell, so thank you for pointing it out! In general, I feel like Hollywood has always been so weird when it comes to hyper femininity. If you like the color pink, wear makeup, love fashion and shopping, that somehow makes you vain, weak, a bitch, a slut and/or an idiot. Like, you can be pretty and smart! Why is both existing at the time such an anomaly for these people??? 💖🎀🧠👩🏾‍🏫

[@therealgowon]

i can’t watch the video now cus i got classes but i get it 🫶🏽