Why does daphne always get kidnapped

Register Don't have an account? Kidnapping Daphne Blake. View source. History Talk Do you like this video? Play Sound. This needs a stretch. Feel free to remove when satisfied of completion. Needed : Video games. Decoy for a Dognapper. A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts. Which Witch is Which? Go Away Ghost Ship. Mystery Mask Mix-Up. The Swamp Witch. The Ghosts of Grimstone Castle. The Ghost of Redbeard.

Custard's Next-To-Last Stand. The Four Flushers. Daphne's aunt gets her own personal monster lurking around her place, and Mystery Inc. This fellow in a giant cat costume has been plaguing Daphne's aunt, and even though it just looks like a bipedal cat, this is one of those villains that terrified me. Cat-Man has an actual cat face on its head, with a muzzle and sharp feline teeth. The villain's face is not just concealed by a cat mask.

That's a cat face there! And of course poor Daphne's relation is the person who has to be on the receiving end of the Cat-Man's dastardly ways. What's worse, the man responsible for the Cat-Man is Daphne's aunt's physician, a man who is supposed to be looking out for her. Instead, he tries to steal her things and then blames her for it by pretending she is mentally ill and unstable enough to become a feline monster. When Daphne chooses to purchase a creepy-looking, golden mask, all I thought of the situation was that it was odd.

Why would she buy that? It did not look like the kind of thing she would use, and since Daphne never appeared to have a stable home, it wasn't as if she could just mount it on the wall of her house.

That's what I assume people who buy decorative masks do with them. As per usual, Daphne buying the mask was a plot excuse to have her get captured by the people who really wanted it. Apparently, the mask was accidentally sent to a curio shop when it was actually worth quite a lot of money. The leader of a smuggling ring who was supposed to get the mask himself saw Daphne buy it and followed her in order to get it. There was no reason in the world for Daphne to buy that mask.

I know the gang was in a curio shop, but still, the mask looked hideous! You would think that Daphne, with her fashion sense, would not buy a scowling mask on a whim. There was also no reason as to why the mask should have ended up in the curio shop in the first place. You would think a smuggling ring would keep a closer watch on their goods. This was the first example of Daphne getting herself stolen away for no reason other than to have Daphne get stolen away.

Forget John Cena. In his appearance on Scooby-Doo, he's way older than he was as Bert, the friendly chimney sweep. But his old age does not stop Daphne from being That's right. Van Dyke is more than old enough to be Daphne's father, but he and she still engage in this casually flirtatious manner regardless of that fact.

Dick Van Dyke has always appeared to be a bit of a charmer. That's kind of his shtick. He's smooth, suave, and endearingly clumsy. I know what you're thinking. How can someone be both suave and clumsy? It's possible.

It's a lost art form, really. Anyways, even as a kid, when I was watching how chummily Van Dyke and Daphne were acting towards each other, I felt that something was a bit off with the situation. Daphne was already the member of the group most likely to get caught.

Did she have to be the resident relationship fodder? Scooby-Doo and his friends have been around long enough for them to run the gamut of crazy costumed villains. They have encountered men dressed as clowns, men dressed as apes, men dressed as ghosts, men dressed as zombies, men dressed as vampire, and men dressed as werewolves. Any monster you can think of, Scooby and the gang have met them. As such, as more episodes of Scooby-Doo have come out, people have to get a little creative when coming up with the monsters they face.

You can tell they're scraping the bottom of the barrel when Mystery Inc. And who do you think the Man Crab selects for capture when he attacks?

That's right, you guessed it. It's Daphne. When this larger-than-life crab creature attacks the beach, out of all the random citizens ripe for the plucking, the Man Crab zeroes in on Daphne and nabs her into the clutches of his evil claws. Even when the villain is the lowliest of the low, they still know that Daphne is the one to take.

It's like it is hardwired into all Scooby-Doo villain-brains that Daphne is meant to be the helpless one. She can now add "being captured by the Man Crab" to her repertoire. Not that that is a skill she would want to be known for. Along with meeting various villains, Mystery Inc. They investigate haunted mansions, villages, mines, shipwrecks, dungeons, forests, islands, and so on and so forth. One of their adventures takes them to a haunted candy factory. I've never been to a real candy factory.

The only reference I have for what a candy factory could look like is Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, and I'm fairly certain that is not an accurate representation. The candy factory that the gang visits is nowhere near as fantastic as Willy Wonka's, but liberties were still taken when depicting some of the machines you could see in a candy factory, most notably, the taffy machine. At a local fair, I've seen homemade taffy get stretched out on a small scale.

The contraption that made taffy in the haunted candy factory was insanely huge, and it spewed out these huge strands of taffy. While in pursuit of the bad guy, the gang finds themselves engulfed in the taffy. In cartoons, taffy always works like tar. Once caught in it, you're trapped. The good thing about this situation is that Daphne wasn't the only one who found herself taffy-trapped.

The bad thing about this situation is that Daphne definitely had more hair on the line than everyone else. One of the worst things that Daphne has ever experienced aside from multiple captures by creeps is a rival for Fred's affections. Meet Alice May, the girl who almost took Fred to prom instead of Daphne. In Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, we see the gang when they're still in high school. Not only do they have to deal with mysteries, they have to deal with the rigors of going to school.

In this particular series, Fred and Daphne are not a couple. You know, two people on a television show that are meant to be with each other, but since suspense has to be drawn out, they're not with each other? In one episode, Daphne desperately wants Fred to ask her to prom, but he's being a bit obtuse about it. Another girl named Alice invites Fred to go with her instead.

Daphne is totally crushed, until Fred decides to ditch Alice and go with Daphne instead. Classy, Fred, real classy. Don't stop to feel bad for the spurned Alice May though. She ends up being a bad guy. She dresses up as this villain named Ghost Girl who specifically preys on teenage boys that are going to prom. Fred was just going to be another one of her victims.

Heaven forbid that an actual challenger for Daphne's beau actually existed. The live-action Scooby-Doo movie was not bad at all. After a nasty split, Mystery Inc. Daphne, tired of being the damsel in distress, learns martial arts, and she is able to save herself without requiring help from anyone else. You would think this is a big step in the right direction. Well, it would have been, if the movie also had not included an awkward case of body invasion.

The magical horrors being performed on the island are eerily real, and Mystery Inc. Shaggy is able to free their souls, but when he does, a bunch of them go flying off in the wrong direction.

Fred's soul enters Daphne's body by accident. He's appropriately freaked out for a quick second, but after he realizes whose body he is inhabiting, he begins to smirk when he thinks of all the advantages he is now endowed with.

Instead of rushing out to find his real body, he takes a moment to peek at said "endowments. Daphne's soul had likewise landed inside Fred's body.

Springtime is not always a pleasant time for me. With all of the flowers in full bloom, my allergies kick into high gear.

My nose starts streaming faster than Niagara Falls, and I can't stop sneezing every five seconds. Sometimes, if the spring is being especially vicious to me, my eyes get red and watery and I get an itchy throat.

It gets so bad that I bemoan the coming of spring. However, I do thank my lucky stars that while I may have seasonal allergies, I do not have any terrible food allergies. I feel nothing but compassion for those who suffer from dire food allergies. Not only are they prevented from eating something that may be potentially delicious, but the act of consuming something they're allergic to can result in a horrible reaction.

Daphne is one of those people who has a bad food allergy. During one of her sisters' weddings, Daphne eats some seafood, and she gets the worst allergic reaction I've ever seen portrayed in a cartoon.

Her skin gets covered in these angry red patches of discoloration, and these patches have what look like pus-filled boils on them. It didn't look like a fun time for Daphne, and it definitely did not sound like a fun time for Daphne either.

Seriously, those allergies were bad. Daphne's allergic reaction was more terrifying than any monster I've ever seen Mystery Inc. Freddy shook his head. They will also try to tell him that maybe she ran away with a boyfriend of something. Someone might have kidnaped her to try to get the Blake fortune! As rich as they are, they keep a low profile.

You really have to know them before you know they're rich. I just thought of something! What if it's someone from our past? There are dozens of people serving time because of us, and a few that have served their time and are out!

What if one of them was mad enough to try to get back at us? In a rather somber mood, Mr Blake reentered the room. They said they would keep an eye out, but could do nothing formal yet.

Mr Blake, is there anyone you can think of that may hold a grudge against you or one of the companies you own? Freddy paused for a second, then spoke. Maybe some criminal that served some time because we caught them. You've all done some amazing work over the years, lets hope you can get to the bottom of this one. In real life you need all sorts of passwords and authorization numbers to get to those kind of files, and even if I could, I would be breaking the law! He owes me a big favor.

This is going to be a long list, and Daphne was always the one who kept the journal of our adventures. About a week ago I thought someone may have broken in my house, but I did not find anything missing so I dismissed it as my imagination. Now I think I know what may have been stolen. On the way to Freddy's house, Velma was busy typing names and notes on her laptop. She paused for a second. I would have never suspected someone would have broken in my house to steal a old notebook, but they were after a sample of my handwriting!

Freddy opened the door of his modest two bedroom house, and the three entered. Velma glanced around the livingroom. It was sparsely furnished and neat as a pin. The bookshelf next to the fireplace had a few sports trophies on it. Shaggy laughed. Velma turned around and laughed a bit herself. You should take you own advice. Lets look at my recent choices: A con-man that tried to rob me blind, some Elvis want-to-be that stepped on my glasses, and a want-to-be warlock that almost killed us all!

I think you can see why my confidence level in that department is a little low right now! Shaggy looked surprised, "Hey look! Fingers without prints! Freddy, unless you walk around wearing rubber gloves, someone was in this draw besides you! Not only that, but if this happened a week ago, this break-in was part of a well thought out plan!

Scooby, see if you can sniff out anything that brings back a memory. Why didn't I report this! You can't be hard on yourself about that. None of us would have know what it meant. Right now, I think I'll call Mr Blake and bring him up to speed. Doesn't look like Scooby is finding much either. Freddy starts the van as Velma sits in the front seat typing on her laptop.

Shaggy, who had climbed in the back with Scooby, peeked forward. Freddy glanced back. It would also have to have been out of public view, but, a place she was familiar with.