Beware the Silly Ones: Seems like just a small pup with a big mouth, but is nonetheless a Pint Sized Power House who has several instances of holding his own. Big Eater: With Shaggy. When Shaggy is about to bite his Dagwood Sandwich, expect Scooby to swallow it. The Generic Guy: Former Trope Namer. He was the least interesting member of the cast in the original series, but later portrayals of him avert this, usually making him goofy and naïve. Being The Hero also makes him the Standardized Leader.

Adaptational Badass: In some incarnations, mostly the movies and Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, he is portrayed as braver and more willing to face his enemies head-on. No Social Skills: He misses Scooby's blatant cues that he's terrified (believing Scooby to be courageous as a result) and often thinks nothing of hauling a stranger for the (embarrassed and low-key horrified) Mystery Inc. Not to mention the fact that she likes to keep her conclusions secret till the end of the investigation. The alternate continuity Velma from Mystery Incorporated was also very secretive: at one point she didn't tell her friends the real identity of Angel Dynamite and was also secretly working for Mr. E together with Hot Dog Water. Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He is able to lift Scooby and Shaggy with one hand. So he has the strength for it...he just tends to borrow his strategies from Leeroy Jenkins.Ink-Suit Actor: Her original incarnation bore a striking resemblance to her voice actress, Heather North. Heroic Dog: And the Monster of the Week would have gotten away with it if You Meddling Kids didn't have a dog. This was also hinted at in some of the comics. There was one instance where she said she didn't celebrate Christmas and it was hinted she celebrated Hanukkah instead. He did have elements of this in earlier series, often being the last of the gang to run away from monsters, like when faced with the disguised Joker and Penguin in "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair", or running after the disguised villain in "The Spooky Fog of Juneberry". He also pointed out that ghosts aren't real almost as much as Velma. Dirty Coward: Usually averted but in the first live-action movie he DOES at one point suggest letting Fred and Velma get eaten after they're captured by monsters.

O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When he isn't enthusiastic and/or excitable, you know something's wrong. In the live stage production "Scooby-Doo in Stagefright", she was also played by a Jewish actress, Randi Rosenholtz . Grand Theft Me: In Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster, she gets possessed by the ghost of Wanda Grubwort so the villain can enact her revenge for being burned at the stake. Noticing the long-since abandoned coastal amusement park of Funland is once again running, Mystery, Inc. head into the park to investigate. There, they witness the robotic Charlie running freely throughout the park, essentially running Funland on his own. Initially believing him to be another one of the endless monsters they've faced over the years, the "Scooby-Doo" gang tries to unmask Charlie. The big twist of the episode comes when Funland's elderly owner, Mr. Jenkins, reveals that Charlie is indeed an android that's gone haywire, having initially been created to oversee the park whenever Jenkins is preoccupied.Magic Skirt: Daphne's original outfit consisted of a short, purple dress, with the hemline well above her knees. But her various accidents and falls failed to lift the dress. While the 1980s incarnation of Daphne mostly wore pants, most recent incarnations have returned to variations of the purple dress. The Leader: Type II/IV primarily, and a subtle Type III that gets Flanderized and parodied in later installments. Badass Driver: He's the one who actually owns the Mystery Machine, and it's one of the main reasons why he is needed on the team (along with leadership skills) because when you see the insane obstacle courses the gang encounter in all of these mysteries, you know that Fred has to be an awesome driver to make sure the mystery is solved. He never disappoints in this field. Furry Reminder: In his first series, when he got really worked up, he'd start putting barks in mid-sentence, and when the gang was running, he went on all fours. When Scooby runs in the early series, his legs don't follow a normal dog's running pattern. Each pair of legs go alternately in a circular motion. The only episode showing him running like a normal dog was "Decoy for a Dognapper", as he and the freed kidnapped dogs run after their captor.

Ambiguously Absent Parent: His father's identity and his mother's whereabouts are unknown. Maybe this is why he latches on to Scooby so much. Character Exaggeration: Zig-Zagged. Through his initial run in the franchise, he gradually began to show other interests besides 'splatting' monsters and solving mysteries, and using his iconic catchphrases less and less to the point where "Puppy Power!" was not uttered once throughout Reluctant Werewolf. Fast forward to the 2000s, where if he is appeared or is referenced, he is portrayed as obsessed with 'splatting' the monster just for the sake of splatting the monster, his confidence is dialed to egotism, and his moments of competence and Pint Sized Power House tendencies are completely forgotten in favor of the "small=weak" stereotype. Then it was subverted with his portrayal in the Scooby-Apocalypse comic, which is pretty much In Name Only. Fashion Dissonance: There's often a belief shown in later appearances, such as A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and the first Scooby-Doo live-action film, that go-go boots are Daphne's regular footwear. Her character image above and every appearance in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, and nearly every other series and film that follows, show that she mostly wears pumps. The Knights Who Say "Squee!": He adores Scooby, barely realizing his own far above-average strength, speed, and durability. They were cheap! You can find everything you need at the dollar store—you don't need to spend hundreds of dollars on costumes when there are so many cheap alternatives available to help you achieve the same results.Adaptational Badass: Overall, Daphne has been portrayed as more badass in later adaptations than in earlier ones, but she still flits between being an Action Girl and Damsel in Distress in each production.