Shaggy, from the neck down, is played by Nazanin Afshin-Jam, who was likely picked because, at the time of filming, she was competing in the Miss World Canada beauty pageant. In an interview with blackfilm, the actor for Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) was asked what it was like to have his head morphed onto a girl's body.
The name "Shaggy Chick" comes from the credits. Shaggy, from the neck down, is played by Nazanin Afshin-Jam. She was likely picked because, at the time of filming, she was the winner of the Miss World Canada beauty pageant and placed second in the overall Miss World contest.
Velma Dinkley is Shaggy's official love interest in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated; it is the first series to have an officially stated romantic relationship between the two.
Matthew Lyn Lillard is an American actor, voice actor, director, and producer. He plays Shaggy in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, along with his transformations, Shaggy Chick and Buff Shaggy. He also voices Shaggy in the video game.
Shaggy's passive allows him to enter rage. During rage, his special attacks hit harder and cover more ground. His special moves also give him armor during the attack and apply maximum stacks of weakened debuff to hit enemies. Rage is consumed after a special attack is used.
Velma in new 'Scooby Doo' clip delights fans who say her LGBTQ+ identity has been confirmed. Coco Diablo, Shaggy, Velma and Scooby Doo in a scene from "Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!" Warner Bros. It appears Velma wants a same-sex boo in the an upcoming HBO Max Scooby Doo Halloween movie.
Frederick Rufus "Fred" Rogers-Dinkley: Velma's son with Shaggy Rogers (named after Fred Jones and Rufus Dinkley), as seen in the final volume of Scooby Apocalypse.
During the first season of the 2010–2013 series Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, Velma is in a romantic relationship with Shaggy, much to the distaste of Scooby-Doo. Their relationship ends in "Howl of the Fright Hound" (season 1, episode 10).
The writers even said that Velma is a lesbian, leaving no room for doubt. Apparently, the team working on another Scooby-Doo show, Velma's own spin-off, didn't get the memo. In promotional material for the upcoming HBO Max show, it's mentioned that Velma has a "secret crush" on Fred - not Daphne.
Shaggy decided to break up with Velma in favor of his relationship with Scooby, ultimately deciding that he wasn't ready for a committed relationship. Velma became irate and inconsolable at the realization that he chose a dog over her.
Throughout the What's New Scooby-Doo? series, Shaggy had four known love interests.
While Shaggy shows hints of true Paranoid personality disorder, it's clearly not full blown as he generally trusts the rest of the Mystery Inc. gang, though not fully.
Scooby Fact: Shaggy wore a red shirt in the 80s, because the animation studio wanted to give the characters a new look. For Daphne, that meant wearing a Charlie's Angel type outfit. For Shaggy, that meant changing his shirt color!
Scooby-Dee is a female Great Dane, with white fur, first appearing in The Scooby-Doo Show.
Clips from HBO Max's upcoming Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! show Velma crushing on crime syndicate costume designer Coco Diablo—the film's villain. Consider this mystery solved. After years of speculation surrounding Velma's sexuality, footage from HBO Max's upcoming Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!
Velma is a female, teenage detective character from the Scooby-Doo cartoon and films, popularly identified as a nerd and lesbian.
Tony Cervone, one of the creators of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, has directly stated that Velma and Marcie Fleach are an official couple after the timeline resets in Come Undone, and even stated that Velma was a closeted lesbian before that.
No, Shaggy and Daphne have never dated in the Scooby-Doo franchise. The closest the two ever may have came to such was when they made out in the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated episode “Night Terrors”.
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated producer Tony Cervone confirms character Velma Dinkley is a lesbian. Filmmaker James Gunn also reveals that he was blocked from depicting Velma as a lesbian in the 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo film.
Kaling, who voices Velma, also bluntly addressed the criticism of making her titular character South Asian. "Hopefully you noticed my Velma is South Asian. If people freak out about that, I don't care." As per Deadline, Mindy Kaling went on to say that if a dog can solve the crime, Velma "can be brown."
The show's own Shaggy is a vegetarian (he eats veggie burgers in the Golden Raspberry Award-nominated 2002 live-action feature “Scooby-Doo: The Movie), thanks to his original voice actor Casey Kasem.
One of the stranger additions is Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. This seems odd until seeing the moveset they gave Shaggy: he can power up in a manner very similar to, but no doubt legally distinct from, Goku's Super Saiyan and Ultra Instinct forms, with the correct auras and everything.
At San Diego Comic-Con 2022 we got official confirmation that "Ultra Instinct Shaggy" meme is indeed canon.