The latest film from our favorite Mystery Inc. gang, Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! is officially out digitally, and it confirmed that Velma Dinkley is officially out, too.
Yap! You heard that right. Velma is officially a lesbian!
According to Variety, new clips from the new movie showing Velma swooning hard over costume designer Coco Diablo have gone viral as fans of the long-running franchise rejoice in having their long-held theories confirmed.
“OMG, LESBIAN VELMA FINALLY,” read one tweet, with over 100,000 likes.
This change didn’t just happen. In fact, it’s long been an open secret among Scooby Doo fans and creatives that Velma is a lesbian.
Even James Gunn, the brains behind the early live-action films, and Tony Cervone, who served as supervising producer on the “Mystery Incorporated” shows, confirmed Velma’s sexuality in the early aughts, but they weren’t able to make it official onscreen.
“In 2001, Velma was explicitly gay in my initial script,” James wrote in a now-deleted 2020 tweet.
“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 the 2020 Pride Month, Cervone also confirmed that this was canon in an Instagram post:
“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,” he wrote.
Cervone’s post has since been edited. It reads: “I obviously don’t represent every version of Velma Dinkley, but I am one of the key people that represent this one. We made our intentions as clear as we could ten years ago. Most of our fans got it. To those that didn’t, I suggest you look closer. There’s no new news here.”
OMG LESBIAN VELMA FINALLY CANON CANON IN THE MOVIES LETS GOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/0ilx2uid1q
— Trin (@MythicalLlamaXO) October 3, 2022
The way I could actually cry about this like her finally being canon in the movies not just in mystery incorporated show makes me so unbelievably happy :,)
— Trin (@MythicalLlamaXO) October 4, 2022
Also here’s the part where she actually admits it pic.twitter.com/nyA3toBz80
— Trin (@MythicalLlamaXO) October 4, 2022
Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! is now available digitally. However, you can check out some of Velma’s and Coco’s scenes down below:
