New Scooby-Doo Film Makes Velma A Lesbian
October 5, 2022Velma is a lesbian.
Clips from the new Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! movie show the Mystery Inc. member googly-eyed and speechless when encountering costume designer Coco Diablo have gone viral on Twitter, confirming suspicions held by the Scooby fan base for decades, according to Variety.
With over 100,000 likes, one tweet reads: “OMG LESBIAN VELMA FINALLY.”
It’s been an open secret among fans and Scooby-Doo creatives that Velma is gay. Even James Gunn, who wrote the early live-action films, and Tony Cervone, who served as supervising producer on the Mystery Incorporated series, have confirmed the character’s sexuality. But they were never able to make it official onscreen.
In 2020, Gunn tweeted that he “tried” to make Velma a lesbian in the live-action movies. “In 2001, Velma was explicitly gay in my initial script,” he wrote. “But the studio just kept watering it down & watering it down, becoming ambiguous (the version shot), then nothing (the released version) & finally having a boyfriend (the sequel).”
During Pride Month in 2020, Cervone wrote on Instagram: “I’ve said this before, but Velma in ‘Mystery Incorporated’ is not bi. She’s gay. We always planned on Velma acting a little off and out of character when she was dating Shaggy because that relationship was wrong for her and she had unspoken difficulty with the why. There are hints about the why in that episode with the mermaid, and if you follow the entire Marcie arc it seems as clear as we could make it 10 years ago. I don’t think Marcie and Velma had time to act on their feelings during the main timeline, but post reset, they are a couple. You can not like it, but this was our intention.”
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