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Warning : spoiler for Scooby - Doo , Where Are You ? # 127 ahead !
Back whenScooby - Doofirst aired , Daphnelanguished in the role of damsel in distress , earning her the inauspicious byname of " Danger - Prone Daphne . " With decades of reference evolution having transformed her into Mystery Inc. ’s resident badass , the advanced strip take a playful jab at her origins by giving her nickname a brash update .
InScooby - Doo , Where Are You?#127 , Fred has the doubtful whimsy of leading Mystery Inc. on a team - building exercise . This result in a visit to a brand new ( and of class , preoccupied ) optical maser rag arena . When the gang proves to be dispiritedly inept on the area of optical maser combat , Daphne is quick to take charge .
See the mystery play out in full inScooby - Doo , Where Are You?issue#127 , " Dog Tag , " by Derek Fridolfs , Walter Carzon , Horacio Ottolini , Silvana Brys , and Saida Temofonte !
Daphne heraldic bearing into battle while the ease of Mystery Inc. cowers , directing her team to find screening . Always one for a cheeky sally , Fred remarks " I guess that makes youLaser - prostrate Daphne"as he and Velma flair to safety , referencing Daphne ’s superannuated nickname of " Danger - Prone . "
A squad - up between Mystery Inc. and the Shazam Family break that Shaggy and Velma ’s iconic " ZOINKS " and " JINKIES " catchphrases have a secret meaning .
Daphne Has Gone From Danger-Prone to Dangerous
In the original spreading of the 1969 seriesScooby - Doo , Where Are You ? , Daphne had a penchant for walking into bunker and being snatch by the monster of the calendar week . This earned her the sobriquet of " Danger - Prone Daphne " as early as the series ' fourth sequence , " Mine Your Own Business . “Later adaption of the dealership gradually leaned into Daphne actively pushing by from her risk - prostrate root , with features like the 2002 live - actionScooby - Doofilm and 2009’sScooby - Doo and the Samurai Swordemphasizing her newfound position as a martial creative person . Meanwhile , the much - maligned HBO seriesVelmauses the terminal figure " danger - prone"to mould Daphne as a red delinquent .
However , Daphne embraces her persona as an action wedge most powerfully in theScooby - Doocomics - especially when Mystery Inc. teams up with Batman . Daphne does n’t pause to cross blade with none other than Ra ’s al Ghul in 2022’sThe Batman & Scooby - Doo Mysteries # 1 ; after , the very next issuehas her filling in as Batgirlwhen Barbara Gordon is accept out of commission by Poison Ivy . Rather than constantly needing to be rescued , modern - day Daphne is unafraid to leap into risk to protect her friends - and has the accomplishment to do so .
The Batman & Scooby - Doo Mysteriesissues # 1 and # 2 are by Sholly Fisch , Ivan Cohen , Dario Brizuela , Franco Riesco , Carrie Strachan , and Saida Temofonte .
Creeps and Criminals Had Best Beware Dangerous Daphne
" Laser - Prone Daphne " is a cheeky way to highlight how Daphne has grown from being the damsel in distress to the phallus of Mystery Inc. that bad cat need to fear the most . Fearless almost to a shift , modernDaphneshows no hesitation about jumping into the fray , guns blazing and skewering her legacy of beingScooby - Doo’s"danger - prone " damsel once and for all .
Scooby - Doo , Where Are You?#127is available now from DC Comics .
Scooby - Doo , Where Are You ? # 127 ( 2024 )
