They can’t seem to figure out what to do with her. Heck, in Be Cool Scooby-Doo, they reduced Daphne to a cloudcoocoolander comic relief character. But even this knowledge was rather shallow, and nothing really seems to stick. Mystery Incorporated expanded on Daphne’s rich upbringing by having her know some things about high culture, such as fashion, art, and cuisine. Daphne has become more of an athlete since Grey Griffin took over her voice role, knowing martial arts, being a surfer, and playing volleyball. Sometimes she provides the Mystery Machine, other times it’s Shaggy’s van. Sure, Fred’s the leader, Shaggy and Scooby are the heart of the team, and Velma solves the mysteries, but what is Daphne’s role? Some have argued that because she’s rich, she bank rolls the gang’s mystery solving. More recently, the franchise has tried to flesh out the gang and give them more defined roles.
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Scooby-Doo is a series where three friends and a dog fool around while Velma literally solves the entire mystery by herself. Velma from the Scooby-Doo franchise is the other egregious example. And when they do veer into other topics like Altean Alchemy, the specifics of this intellectual field of study are conspicuously absent to the surprise of absolutely nobody. Nobody uses any other kind of intelligence. Yet does he ever instruct his teammates to use these maneuvers, or execute attack formations? Of course not because the only kind of intelligence in Voltron is the hard sciences.
Keith’s an ace pilot, he knows the terminology for flight maneuvers. Because Pidge hogs all of the intelligence for herself, no one else can really show their own areas of intelligence. Curan needs to fix the warp drive but does the MECHANIC go to help repair it? No, they send the math nerd. But because Pidge does all the hacking, Hunk is just kind of there. As the mechanic who does the physical techy stuff, while pidge does physics, makes calculations, and understands the science behind outer space anomolies. If they’d altered it so that Hunk was the hacker tech guy, Hunk would have a more defined role in the group. And I think this is where Hunk gets under utilized. Using the information about Galra culture that he took the initiative to learn. And it’s not Pidge who pulls a solution out of her butt. In the later seasons, when introduced to Lotor’s nanny, it’s not Pidge who immediately seeks information, it’s Hunk. Occasionally, they do manage to circumvent this by having Allura and/or Curan be the exposit faucet, but it’s usually Pidge. The issue is that if it’s an intellectual endeavor, Pidge will pull the information out of her butt. If she was just a hacker, that wouldn’t be such an issue. If Pidge was just good at physics and like astronomy, that wouldn’t be such an issue. Most prodigies and geniuses have an area of expertise. The Voltron Earth is ahead of us technologically.
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Among her list of know-it-all topics, she can reprogram alien tech she’s never seen before and yet she has to study how to speak Altean, bypass alien technology without having to study it first, she knows how to code programs, speaks fluent binary, can recognize mechanical messages inside organic spores, knows extremely advanced mathemathics and science on par with college level advanced coursework, and she’s 14. If there’s nothing they can’t fix, then the story loses tension because they can pull any information needed out of thin air, regardless of whether it makes sense for them to know this information or not. Pidge from Voltron Legendary Defender is probably one of the most egregious versions of this trope by the sheer volume of her fields of study. It’s the intellectual equivalent of a soft magic wizard with no limits to their magic. There’s nothing wrong with a character being intelligent, but this character is almost too knowledgeable. The Know-It-All is a trope in fiction where the Smart Guy of the team becomes a walking encyclopedia.