This just isn’t a thriller any longer: Scooby-Doo’s Velma Dinkley is section of the LGBTQ+ local community.
The sexuality of the spectacled brains of the team has been verified in freshly-produced clips from “Trick or Treat Scooby Doo!” In a single scene, which has absent viral on the net, Velma meets costume designer Coco Diablo for the initially time. When she lays eyes on her, epic songs plays in the history and textual content pops up on-screen that points out her “outstanding glasses,” alongside with other beneficial characteristics like how she’s “fantastic with animals,” “of course excellent” and has “an wonderful turtleneck.”
To all this, Velma definitely states her signature catchphrase, “Jinkies!” As she does so, she’s of course smitten as her eyeglasses fog up and her cheeks redden.
In another scene, Velma tells Daphne that she’s “crushing significant time.” In a 3rd, she smiles fortunately after Coco phone calls her “the lovable a person.”
Fans have been overjoyed about this advancement, with persons crafting tributes like “Let us GO LESBIANS” and “OMG LESBIAN VELMA Lastly CANON CANON IN THE Flicks Allows GOOOOOO” on Twitter. But no one is much more delighted than Hayley Kiyoko, who performed Velma in the 2009 made-for-television film “Scooby Doo! The Thriller Begins” and its 2010 sequel “Scooby Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster.”
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“I keep in mind booking Velma in 2008,” she wrote on Twitter Oct. 4. “It was my very first huge function in a movie. I also recall contemplating ‘I speculate if they know they employed a lesbian as Velma’ right here we are, 14 several years later…… really like you all so much.”
Followers have prolonged considered Velma was a part of the LGBTQ+ group, with “Mystery Incorporated” supervising producer Tony Cervone posting a photo in June 2020 of Velma and former rival Marcie in delight hues. Just a month afterwards, “Scooby-Doo” director James Gunn unveiled in 2020 that he tried to make Linda Cardellini’s Velma “explicitly homosexual,” but was shot down by studio execs.
Look at Velma and Coco’s romance blossom in “Trick or Take care of Scooby Doo!,” readily available now for hire or buy. The film will premiere on HBO Max on Oct. 16.