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Jinkies! Velma falls for a female felon in the latest Scooby-Doo! movie, and fans couldn’t be more proud.
Currently making the rounds on social media, a clip from Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! finds Velma (voiced by Kate Micucci) falling head over heels for Coco Diablo (Myrna Velasco), the brilliant leader of a “notorious costume crime syndicate.”
Between the swelling music, the fogged-up glasses and Velma’s sudden inability to speak, there’s no question that she’s catching feelings.
A second clip finds Velma chatting about Coco with Daphne (Grey DeLisle), who notes, “I didn’t know convicted felons were your type.” Velma attempts to play it cool (“Type? Me? Please!”), but her feelings for Coco once again could not be more obvious.
Lest there be any doubt, Velma eventually caves: “Oh, who am I kidding? I’m crushing big-time, Daphne! What do I do? What do I say?!”
Watch both clips below:
Also here’s the part where she actually admits it 🥲🥲 pic.twitter.com/nyA3toBz80
— Trin ♥️ (@MythicalLlamaXO) October 4, 2022
Velma’s sexuality has been a topic of discussion within the Scooby-Doo! fandom for decades. Though the character has mostly been paired with fleeting male love interests over the years, there has been subtext — and much more than subtext — suggesting her lack of interest.
Tony Cervone, a producer on the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated series (2010–2013), even confirmed that the show’s version of Velma was meant to be queer. “We made our intentions as clear as we could ten years ago,” he wrote in an Instagram post in 2020. “Most of our fans got it. To those that didn’t, I suggest you look closer.”
And James Gunn, who wrote the live-action movies Scooby-Doo (2002) and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), has also been clear about his original intentions for the character.
James Gunn has said Velma was explicitly gay in his initial ‘SCOOBY DOO’ script:
“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).
(Source: @JamesGunn) pic.twitter.com/rWUcynQ7aj
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) July 13, 2020
Per this new movie’s official description, “Mystery Inc. has cracked the case to top all cases! They’ve tracked down Coco Diablo, the head of the notorious costume crime syndicate that colludes The Black Knight, Space Kook and the Ghost Diver. With Coco and her kitty in prison, Mystery Inc. thinks that they can finally enjoy a break. Wrong! Suddenly, menacing doppelgänger ghosts of the Scooby crew and favorite classic foes show up in Coolsville to threaten Halloween. Now it’s up to the meddling kids — and their unlikely new partner Coco — to unmask the latest scoundrel and save Halloween! For Shaggy and Scooby-Doo, with trick-or-treating on the line – this time it’s personal!
Warner Bros.’ Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! is now available to purchase and stream on digital, with a DVD release set for Oct. 18. Your thoughts on Velma and Coco? Drop ’em in a comment below.
Cool. Don’t forget James Gunn wrote Velma to be a lesbian before the studio “got involved.”
Which it explicitly talks about in the article you appeared to only read the headline from…
Velma’s sexuality as I recall was implied during the run of Scooby Doo Mysteries Incorporated.
She had been dating Shaggy but later became close with Marcie Fleach aka “Hot Dog Water”
Marcie was voiced by Linda Cardellni who played Velma in the live action movies.
Of course the love interest is black HONESTLY THE WORLD IS ENDING FROM WO K E NE S S
Let me guess. You’re white?
……Tell us you’re racist without telling us you’re racist.
Up next on the Ben Shiprio show, a whole hour on why the woke culture has corrupted a show about a talking dog and friends traveling in a van after criminals.
Nice try but they’re erasing Scooby and the gang from the Velma show.
On top of the general ickiness of your distaste, I’m pretty sure the character is actually Latina.
So the woman of color is a felon? Sure, real progressive.
So they change her to bi.
Do we really need this to be “the smart girl is LBGTQ” stereotype? Don’t you think the character, and the fans of 53 years deserve better from WBD?
Is that actually a known stereotype?
This feels to me more like a case of this specific character clearly being both smart and queer.
Is this even a stereotype?
Only in porn
If anything, the stereotype is the smart girl being a shy virgin with a secret crush on the jock/rich/popular guy (often unrequited).
I’ve been waiting years for this development – very happy!!
So, this is a different movie than the one previously announced as cancelled?
Pathetic.
Velma exists since the 60’s in last century. About time James Gunn was born. So no… he created zero.
Who said anything about him creating anything? It’s simply mentions that *his* intentions for the movie that *he* wrote. Never tries to give him credit for creating anything, merely points out that he’d tried to make it explicit 20 years ago and was studio’d down.
It’s weird watching those clips because I’m totally picturing Webby Vanderquack saying that and my brain’s kinda broken now.
I don’t have much of a position now since my kid is a grown adult but if she was still at an impressionable age, I would be avoiding or at least trying to find other alternatives for viewing. Sorry to offend but…
No you’re not. If you were sorry to offend, you wouldn’t say something so blatantly offensive. Gosh, how would your kid ever live with the knowledge that *GASP* it’s okay to crush on another woman!
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Or am I completely mistaken and you actually find the idea of *any* romance, gay or straight, in cartoons, to be no bueno?
@HrdSlvrhnd
LOL….you’re offended? This is someone who’s deciding what she feels is right for her kid. How is that any business of yours?
Except she’s not deciding what’s best for her kid, because her kid is an adult.
She’s expressing a purely hypothetical stance, purely to elicit a reaction from other commenters.
Oh…and actually Im the Dad. I appreciate all of your views though.
And just like that Scooby Doo is dead to me.
Does that make him a G-G-G-GHOST?
Jinkies!
I don’t get the fuzz …unless you want to provoke a fuzz in 2022?? Who Velma, Daphne or any of them likes is their own business.
Please. Watched mystery inc and if you don’t think hot dog water was her squeeze you all missed out.