Get ready for the Outrage Machine vs. the Mystery Machine.
After decades of hints that she’s a lesbian, Velma Dinkley’s sexuality has officially been acknowledged in the new film, Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!
Here’s the scene where Velma falls head over heels for a new character, fashion designer Coco Diablo, who also wears a turtleneck and oversized glasses. And to make conservatives’ heads spin even more, it’s an interracial relationship.
And just one touch gets the nerdy mystery solver all googly-eyed.
And here’s the scene in which Velma actually admits her feelings: “I’m crushing big time, Daphne. What do I do? What do I say?”
The revelation just confirms suspicions among Scooby-Doo fans who have long considered Velma a lesbian icon. Of course, there were no such hints when the original animated Scooby-Doo, created by Hanna Barbera Productions, premiered as a Saturday morning cartoon in 1969.
Some members of the Scooby-Doo creative team have said that they wanted Velma to come out of the closet much earlier, but until now, were never able to make it official onscreen, according to Variety.
Variety wrote that James Gunn, who wrote the script for the live-action Scooby-Doo films released in 2002 and 2004, tweeted that he did his best to make Velma a lesbian in the two films in which Linda Cardellini played the character.
“In 2001 Velma was explicitly gay in my initial script,” Gunn 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).”
Producer Tony Cervone reveals Velma was going to become romantically involved with Marcie Fleach if they’d had more time
And during 2020 Pride Month, Tony Cervone, the supervising producer on the Mystery Incorporated animated series (2010-2013) on Cartoon Network, wrote on Instagram:
Needless to say, Velma’s coming-out film thrilled some fans:
And it also won praise from a leading LGBTQ advocacy group:
And now the conservative Outrage Machine has something else to get apoplectic about. Last month, they raged about the “woke elite” in Hollywood casting a Black actress, Halle Bailey, to play Ariel in a live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.
Right-wing pundit Steven Crowder expressed his outrage on his podcast. claiming that he has no problem with gay TV characters, just that there shouldn’t be so many of them. “If we’re going to bitch about appropriation, why do you need to take a straight character and make her lesbian,” he said. “Just go make your own.”
And it didn’t take long for Fox News to declare that Scooby-Doo had gone “woke.”
After decades of hints that she’s a lesbian, Velma Dinkley’s sexuality has officially been acknowledged in the new film, Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!
Here’s the scene where Velma falls head over heels for a new character, fashion designer Coco Diablo, who also wears a turtleneck and oversized glasses. And to make conservatives’ heads spin even more, it’s an interracial relationship.
And just one touch gets the nerdy mystery solver all googly-eyed.
And here’s the scene in which Velma actually admits her feelings: “I’m crushing big time, Daphne. What do I do? What do I say?”
The revelation just confirms suspicions among Scooby-Doo fans who have long considered Velma a lesbian icon. Of course, there were no such hints when the original animated Scooby-Doo, created by Hanna Barbera Productions, premiered as a Saturday morning cartoon in 1969.
Some members of the Scooby-Doo creative team have said that they wanted Velma to come out of the closet much earlier, but until now, were never able to make it official onscreen, according to Variety.
Variety wrote that James Gunn, who wrote the script for the live-action Scooby-Doo films released in 2002 and 2004, tweeted that he did his best to make Velma a lesbian in the two films in which Linda Cardellini played the character.
“In 2001 Velma was explicitly gay in my initial script,” Gunn 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).”
Producer Tony Cervone reveals Velma was going to become romantically involved with Marcie Fleach if they’d had more time
And during 2020 Pride Month, Tony Cervone, the supervising producer on the Mystery Incorporated animated series (2010-2013) on Cartoon Network, wrote on Instagram:
Needless to say, Velma’s coming-out film thrilled some fans:
And it also won praise from a leading LGBTQ advocacy group:
And now the conservative Outrage Machine has something else to get apoplectic about. Last month, they raged about the “woke elite” in Hollywood casting a Black actress, Halle Bailey, to play Ariel in a live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.
Right-wing pundit Steven Crowder expressed his outrage on his podcast. claiming that he has no problem with gay TV characters, just that there shouldn’t be so many of them. “If we’re going to bitch about appropriation, why do you need to take a straight character and make her lesbian,” he said. “Just go make your own.”
And it didn’t take long for Fox News to declare that Scooby-Doo had gone “woke.”