Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Wizard City – Daisy Willowmancer

Daisy Willowmancer – Velma Dinkley
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Daisy_Willowmancer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_Dinkley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo,_Where_Are_You!

Daisy Willowmancer is a young wizard who is fascinated with ghosts and the undead. You’ll find her at the Haunted Cave and she sends you to fight Lord Nightshade.

Daisy’s inspiration was not immediately obvious and I do have to thank Hawkules, Pirate101’s Community Leader, for pointing this one out. Her name is not the indicator but rather her appearance, interest, and vocabulary. Without Hawkules tweet a few months back, I wouldn’t have made the connection.

Velma Dinkley is a fictional character in the Scooby-Doo franchise. She is usually seen wearing a baggy orange turtleneck sweater, a short red pleated skirt (or in later episodes an A-line skirt, or sometimes shorts), knee socks, Mary Jane shoes, and a pair of black square glasses, which she frequently loses and cannot see without. During the winter, she sometimes wears high-heeled boots. She is seen as the “brains” of Mystery Inc.

Throughout her various incarnations, Velma is usually portrayed as a highly intelligent, young, white woman with an interest in the sciences. She is also often portrayed as being very well-read on obscure fields such as Norse writing (as in the third Scooby-Doo series, The Scooby-Doo Show). Due to her intelligence and problem-solving abilities, Velma is typically the first one to solve the mystery and, like Sherlock Holmes and many other fictional detectives, often keeps her conclusions secret till the end of the story. Velma Dinkley was inspired by the brainy sweater girl Zelda Gilroy, as played by Sheila Kuehl, from the late 1950s/early 1960s American sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is an American animated comedy television series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera for CBS. The series premiered as part of the network’s Saturday morning cartoon schedule on September 13, 1969, and aired for two seasons until October 31, 1970. In 1978, a selection of episodes from the later series Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics and The Scooby-Doo Show were aired on ABC under the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! name, and they were released in a DVD set marketed as its third season. It also aired on BBC One in the UK from 1970 to 1973. The complete series is also available on the Boomerang, HBO Max, and Tubi streaming services.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of a long-running media franchise primarily consisting of animated series, several films, and related merchandise.

The current list of all the Wizard City references can be found here.

Daisy Willowmancer image is from Wizard101, and is (c) KingsIsle Entertainment.

All Scooby Doo images are (c) Hanna-Barbera / Warner Communications

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Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages