 Over the course of more than fifty years, the Scooby-Doo franchise has produced nearly 500 separate mysteries, spread across over a dozen animated series, as well as over 30 animated films and specials. However, despite the plethora of content, there have only been 150 mysteries with women represented in a villainous role, 68 of which still include at least one man sharing that role. Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! currently holds the record for containing the most women in a villainous role, with a total of 27, as well as the most episodes with ONLY a woman in the villain’s role, with a total of 11. As there are some mysteries in which multiple women appear, the series break down as follows: 2 women in 2 episodes of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! 2 in 2 episodes of The New Scooby-Doo Movies 7 in 7 episodes of The Scooby-Doo Show 2 in 2 episodes of Scooby-Doo & Scrappy Doo (first series) 4 in 4 episodes of The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show 8 in 6 episodes of The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo Puppy Hour 1 in 1 episode of Scrappy & Yabba-Doo 4 in 3 episodes The New Scooby & Scrappy-Doo Show 12 in 11 episodes The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries 11 in 6 episodes of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo 6 in 6 episodes of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo 25 in 21 episodes of What’s New, Scooby-Doo? 3 in 2 episodes of Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! 23 in 22 episodes of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated* 27 in 22 episodes of Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! 8 (so far) in 8 episodes of Scooby-Doo & Guess Who? Plus: 48 in 24 animated films 1 in 1 animated special Additionally, upon a closer examination of these 194 women, a surprising 41 are disguised as a specifically male character (21%), while only 37 wear the disguise of a specifically female character (19%). The remaining women are either in a non-gendered disguise (12%), an animal disguise/working with animals (9%) or are a real monster/not in a mask (38%). *this counts both Alice May and Marcie Fleach twice for their dual appearances as Ghost Girl/Obliteratrix and the Manticore/Dark Lilith respectively.  Thanks so much, B, for writing today's fun fact! If you want to download the full chart of a list of the female villains that make up those percentages, you may do so below: 
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Daveg7777
8/24/2020 10:27:01 am
I hate to be “that guy”, but there were actually 2 female culprits in the first “Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo” show, Lefty Callahan as the Lady Vampire and Tessie as the alien. 8/24/2020 10:31:51 am
OH NO! You're totally right. Not sure how that one slipped by.... dang.
Daveg7777
8/24/2020 10:39:18 am
No problem! And just wanted to mention, your blog is great! :D 8/24/2020 10:50:16 am
I only wrote this one post... but I totally agree that this is a great blog! :)
Lance Rutt
8/24/2020 12:30:33 pm
How did you arrive at four in The Richie Rich Hour? I don't think that show had any mysteries 8/24/2020 03:29:39 pm
We were counting female villains in general (hence the "real" piece of the pie chart), not just unmasked ones. There were 4 female villains in the Richie Rich Hour: the Swamp Witch, the Evil Queen of Wonderland, the Wicked Witch of the North by Southeast and Madame Olga.
Lance Rutt
8/24/2020 05:41:56 pm
I would add that Get a Clue's counter should be 1 instead of 0 due to More Fondue For Scooby-Doo 8/24/2020 07:22:47 pm
It'll actually need to be 3, I think. Misty, Carla AND Cat Lady will all need to be added. I'd left Get A Clue out, as I'd always seen Phibes as the series villain, but I did include side/not-main female villains in some of the other series counts, so it's only fair they get put in too. Thanks for pointing that out!
Peralaan
8/24/2020 01:22:15 pm
You guys forgot the janitor in the Urkel episode 8/24/2020 03:40:06 pm
CURSES! Thanks for catching that. Geez, I let more slip past me than I thought. Sorry!
Drakosleuth
8/24/2020 03:33:59 pm
@WildWindVampire. A new poll question just came to me as I was watching voice showcases. This one is specific, the question is "what is your favorite role that Jim Cummings performed?" This question can go to a theme of various voice actors that had more than one appearance to play a role that may or may not include the main cast. What do you think? 8/24/2020 03:58:25 pm
That could be a cool idea to ask what people's favorite voice actors roles are for certain actors. I like it, though I may not get to it for a little bit since I kinda have a bit of a theme (yet to be revealed) for the daily polls leading up to something on the last day of polls. I'm still actually trying to figure out how to work your previous movie question into that, so that might get bumped back to October as well. Thank you for all your poll suggestions though and I'll definitely get to them at some point :)
Drakosleuth
8/24/2020 04:18:42 pm
I understand and that's okay, I have a link that shows a list of the voice actors that you can click and read about them and there roles in The Scooby Doo Franchise.
Samuel Kirkwood
8/25/2020 04:23:12 am
Isn't Scooby Doo Where Are You 2? Captain Cutler's wife and I believe Mrs Jenkins from the Funland episode. This is a really great list though and really shows how cartoons have changed since the turn of the century! 8/25/2020 01:34:44 pm
You are correct. I'd originally done the list for only "masked" villains, but then I got to a point where I realized that wasn't really fair because it left so many out, and going back to include the non-masked villains I somehow managed to overlook a few. So I went through the entire franchise again last night/this morning to correct these mistakes and this post will be updated soon to reflect that. There were actually quite a few missing! 8/25/2020 02:12:35 pm
I just updated the post now! Thank you everyone for pointing out the few that we accidentally missed, and an even bigger thanks to Bradford for spending so much of last night and this morning going over every detail again to make sure everything was correct!
Samuel Kirkwood
8/26/2020 08:10:34 am
No worries, it really is interesting to see how female villains have become more regular in recent years.
Peralaan
8/27/2020 09:45:23 am
Season two of Guess Who will begin airing in Canada on October 18th. Whether or not someone will record them is unknown; however, we will know more guest stars and episodes.
Peralaan
8/27/2020 09:10:03 pm
https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/corus-plans-fall-harvest-of-animated-premieres-on-ytv-teletoon-treehouse/
Shadowscooby
8/27/2020 04:00:43 pm
That’s great news can’t wait for season 2. I just heard terrible news that Joe Ruby has died at age 87.
Amber noel
8/27/2020 06:47:58 pm
nooo! he was one of the creators of scooby doo please don't tell me that he died from the virus 8/27/2020 08:25:50 pm
It was reported he died from natural causes, so presumably it is not from the virus.
Amber noel
8/27/2020 09:07:49 pm
Yeah RIP
whackman
8/28/2020 07:03:32 am
unfortunately, I am fairly certain that they are no people from sharemania, which can actually record episodes from canada, but....(hear me out with this please.) but they are several uploaders from nanda which I do know of which can record shows from canada. Dani and DJStarfish can record from canada. (to be more specific that site is called, nanda.to) 8/28/2020 10:35:45 am
It seems like Dfrazzer has stopped uploading stuff, unfortunately, which is too bad. I hope someone is able to record these this time so we can watch them! Leave a Reply. |
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