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It looks like Velma wants a same-sex boo in the upcoming HBO Max Scooby Doo Halloween movie.
Excerpts from the animated special “Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!” have been making the rounds on social media, with people using them to proclaim that the character is finally coming out as gay.
“OMG LESBIAN VELMA FINALLY CANON CANON IN THE MOVIES LET GOOOOOO,”one person tweetedwith a clip showing Velma wide-eyed at a female character named Coco Diablo.
Other clips have also been circulating on social media, including one in which Velma tells fellow detective Daphne that she’s “crashing a lot of time” and asks for advice on what to do.
Fans have long believed Velma to be part of the LGBTQ+ community.
In 2020, director James Gunn said he tried to make the character “explicitly gay” in his script for the live-action movie “Scooby-Doo.”
“In 2001, Velma was explicitly gay in my initial script” (for 2002’s live-action “Scooby-Doo”), he tweeted at the time. “But the studio kept watering it down and watering it down, becoming ambiguous (the filmed version), then nothing (the released version), and finally having a boyfriend (the sequel).”
Gunn wrote both the 2001 live-action film and its 2004 sequel, both of which starred Linda Cardellini as Velma.
In the sequel, actor Seth Green played Velma’s boyfriend and nothing in the film implied that she was gay.
Tony Cervone, supervising producer of the “Mystery Incorporated” series, posted on Instagram during Pride Month 2020 about Velma and the character Marcie in a Pride-colored photo.
“I obviously don’t represent every version of Velma Dinkley, but I am one of the key people representing this one. We made our intentions as clear as possible ten years ago,” the caption reads. most of our fans got it. For those who haven’t, I suggest you take a closer look.
CNN has reached out to Warner Bros., which like HBO Max is owned by CNN’s parent company, for comment.
“Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!” debuts on HBO Max on October 16.