Madame Zobrinsky is a retired Russian ballerina who faked her own death.
Physical appearance[]
Zobrinsky is a tall, thin, and elderly woman with short, voluminous gray hair with large black streaks in it, purple eyeshadow and red lips. She wears a Victorian-style, long-sleeved pink dress with shoulder pads, a gold necklace, hoop earrings and pink ballet shoes from the 1960s.
Personality[]
Being a ballerina, Zobrinsky is a woman who highly values dance and also her dance studio, faking her own death so she could ensure the studio went to a worthy inheritor. Despite disguising herself as her own ghost, she is a kind dance teacher who values dedication and hard work, eventually bequeathing her famous dance studio to Maddie Ziegler after being shocked by her performance of the Zobrinsky Triangle. She speaks in a Russian accent.
History[]
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?[]
Season one[]
Madame Zobrinsky was a ballerina and dance instructor living in Pittsburgh who retired thirty years prior to the present day. Faking her own death, she lived in a penthouse apartment above her old dance studio on a secret fourth floor. This allowed her to control who would inherit her studio, which the public believed was left completely abandoned.
When celebrity dancer Maddie Ziegler won Zobrinsky's studio in a contest, Zobrinsky disguised herself as her own ghost to test her resolve. First chasing Ziegler out of the dance studio and warning her never to return, when she returned, Zobrinsky placed a Russian dance curse on her, ordering her to teach one of three dance moves to a student in order to lift the curse. Despite Ziegler's efforts to teach each dance to Shaggy and Scooby, Zobrinsky sabotaged her every attempt, leading to their failure.
Madame Zobrinsky unmasked.
Zobrinsky appeared to offer her a final chance to lift the curse, ordering her to perform the notoriously-difficult and dangerous Zobrinsky Triangle dance in front of a large audience. That night, Shaggy, Scooby and Ziegler successfully performed the dance, being the first to do so since Zobrinsky herself. She appeared, witnessing the dance, but was soon captured by Mystery Inc., who prepared a trap for her in the theatre. She was unmasked, revealed to be alive. Zobrinsky, seeing Ziegler pass her test, deemed her worthy to inherit her studio and personally attended its grand reopening.
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Trivia[]
- Her facial features and hairstyle resemble those of Lady Tremaine, the main antagonist of the 1950 Walt Disney film, Cinderella.