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Veronica "Ronnie" Lodge ("created" April 1942) is a fictional character in the Archie Comics books series. Since the Archie characters are ageless, Lodge remains a high-school teenager after 67 years.
[edit] Fictional history and characterShe is called both by her name Veronica and her nickname Ronnie (sometimes shortened further to Ron). Bob Montana, creator of the original Archie characters, knew the "Boston Brahmin" political family, the Lodges, because he had once painted a mural for them. Montana combined that name with actress Veronica Lake (at the peak of her popularity in 1942) to create the character of Veronica Lodge. Veronica is the beautiful, stylish daughter of Hiram Lodge, the richest man in the fictional city of Riverdale, and his wife Hermione Lodge. She is tall, slender and busty with long shiny black hair. Veronica favours expensive, up-to-the-minute fashion. In the more recent comics, it has been mentioned that their family moved to Riverdale so that Mr. Lodge could avoid Veronica becoming spoiled, like many of the children he knew and grew up with. Her character was added to the mix of Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones just months after these characters debuted, and her features and personality have changed perhaps less than any other character in the series. At one point in Tales from Riverdale (Veronica Issue #111 Early), Veronica became Powerteen — a comic book character created by Chuck Clayton. In early issues of Archie Comics, it was written that Archie Andrews writes to her asking her to a dance in Riverdale. The letter was accidentally sent; he did not really want to ask her, it was some of his male "daydreaming", as he tells his friend, Jughead Jones. Archie had actually intended to ask Betty Cooper to the dance. That is how Veronica came into the story; she lived in a much bigger city and begged her parents to go. Archie did not think she would really come after he realized that she had been sent the letter. Veronica said the reason she wanted to go was because, "it would be fun going to a dance in the south". Archie struggled taking both of them to the dance. This is how the Love Triangle started. [edit] Lifestyle and relationshipsVeronica enjoys a very posh lifestyle; her net worth as of August 14, 2002 is almost $8.6 billion,[1] which would make her the 36th richest person in the US.[2] In one comic strip she also claims to be the richest cartoon character, particularly richer than both Scrooge McDuck and Richie Rich. She nevertheless chooses to hang out with her less affluent friends, in part to try to win the love of Archie Andrews. Sometimes she shows a great deal of interest in "Archie-kins" (as she sometimes calls him), sometimes he must work to earn her interest, and sometimes she is not interested at all. By the 1960s, Veronica, along with her best friend and love rival Betty Cooper, joined Archie's band, The Archies; Betty plays the tambourine; Veronica plays the organ; both girls sing accompaniment. Veronica frequently bounces back and forth between Reggie Mantle and Archie Andrews when she dates, feeling strongly about Archie but allowing that Reggie has the wealth and possessions that she craves, as well as a narcissism that rivals hers. Her relationship with Jughead Jones is more complex. Though typically antagonistic, one storyline puts them together in a school play that requires them to kiss. Though she kisses him with reluctance, she subsequently declares herself in love.[3] In another storyline, Veronica and Jughead are paired in a dancing competition. In another, the two team up to teach Reggie a lesson about snobbery. Veronica is very popular among guys in Riverdale High School, a fact she knows very well. She always throws extravagant parties to keep herself on the 'A' list. Sometimes good-hearted, sometimes spoiled and vain, the fashion-conscious Lodge is the star, alongside Betty, of Archie spin-offs Betty And Veronica Magazine and Betty and Veronica Spectacular, as well as her own title, Veronica. Her foibles are commonly featured in stories: she has no talent for cooking or other "domestic" skills but she is an impulsive, hard-core shopper and often addicted to gossip. Her sports abilities vary from "total klutz" to superstar. In one story, in which Ronnie shows considerable talent as a mechanic, Mr. Lodge, already startled to see Archie deftly preparing a meal in the kitchen of the mansion, comes outside to see his daughter slide out from under one of his cars she has been working on. Veronica has a cousin, Leroy, aged perhaps 12, whose tree house, complete with an elevator, was built for him by a contracting company. Leroy has a mean-spirited, juvenile delinquent-like personality and is a constant thorn in Archie's side whenever Archie and Veronica get together during Leroy's visits. Veronica also has a cousin named Marcy, who is very different from Veronica. Marcy enjoys science fiction and other things that Veronica finds "geeky". Every time Veronica runs into her, she makes it a point to call her "my annoying cousin Marcy." Most of the time when Marcy appears she helps out Veronica, and in turn Veronica discovers that her cousin isn't so geeky after all. Mr. Lodge often has nightmares that Veronica and Archie will marry and have kids. One of those nightmares is patterned after A Christmas Carol. As revealed in October 2009, Veronica states she is pregnant during her and Archie's honeymoon[4]. [edit] FriendsArchie Andrews, Jughead Jones, Betty Cooper, Reggie Mantle, Nancy Woods, Moose Mason, Dilton Doiley, Chuck Clayton, Midge Klump, Big Ethel, (known as Ethel Muggs), and other Archie Comics characters. [edit] References
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