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It seems Velma desires a same-sex boo within the an upcoming HBO Max Scooby Doo Halloween film.
Clips from the animated particular “Trick or Deal with Scooby-Doo!” have been making the rounds on social media, with people utilizing them to proclaim that the character is lastly being proven as homosexual.
“OMG LESBIAN VELMA FINALLY CANON CANON IN THE MOVIES LETS GOOOOOO,”one person tweeted, with a clip displaying Velma getting googly-eyed over a feminine character named Coco Diablo.
Different clips have additionally been circulating on social media, together with one by which Velma tells fellow sleuth Daphne that she’s “crushing massive time” and asking for recommendation on what to do.
Followers have lengthy believed Velma was a part of the LGBTQ+ group.
In 2020, director James Gunn mentioned he tried to make the character “explicitly homosexual” in his script for the live-action “Scooby-Doo” film.
“In 2001 Velma was explicitly homosexual in my preliminary script” (for 2002’s live-action “Scooby-Doo”), he tweeted on the time. “However the studio simply saved watering it down & watering it down, changing into ambiguous (the model shot), then nothing (the launched model) & lastly having a boyfriend (the sequel).”
Gunn wrote each the 2001 live-action movie and its 2004 sequel, which each starred Linda Cardellini as Velma.
Within the sequel, actor Seth Inexperienced performed Velma’s boyfriend and there was nothing within the movie to indicate she was homosexual.
Tony Cervone, supervising producer on the “Thriller Included” collection, posted on Instagram throughout 2020 Pleasure Month about Velma and the character Marcie in a photograph that used Pleasure colours.
“I clearly don’t signify each model of Velma Dinkley, however I’m one of many key those that represents this one. We made our intentions as clear as we may ten years in the past,” the caption learn. “Most of our followers obtained it. To people who didn’t, I counsel you look nearer.”
CNN has reached out to Warner Bros., which like HBO Max, is owned by CNN’s father or mother firm, for remark.
“Trick or Deal with Scooby-Doo!” debuts on HBO Max on Oct. 16.