Scooby-Doo’s Velma Is Officially Gay in New Halloween Special

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On this fall’s Trick or Deal with Scooby-Doo! Halloween particular, we seemingly get a affirmation about Velma’s long-debated sexual orientation. Embraced as a lesbian amongst followers, the unofficial canon turns into a actuality when she meets costume designer Coco Diablo, who cutely clouds the thoughts of our brainy Thriller Inc. detective.

Try the viral clip under from the Warner Bros. launch that followers are rallying behind, the place we lastly see Velma (voiced by Kate Micucci) simply be the queer icon creatives behind the animated collection and followers have lengthy wished her to be. Formally on display, it’s her time!

Director James Gunn, author of the live-action Scooby-Doo movies, has mentioned he deliberate to make his tackle Velma (performed by Linda Cardellini) a lesbian. In a now-deleted tweet, Gunn disclosed that he tried to maintain that within the script. “In 2001 Velma was explicitly homosexual in my preliminary script. However the studio simply saved watering it down & watering it down, turning into ambiguous (the model shot), then nothing (the launched model) & lastly having a boyfriend (the sequel),” he wrote.

Trick or Deal with Scooby-Doo! follows Thriller Inc., who’ve simply “tracked down Coco Diablo, the pinnacle of the infamous costume crime syndicate that colludes the Black Knight, Area Kook and the Ghost Diver. With Coco and her kitty in jail, Thriller Inc. thinks that they will lastly take pleasure in a break. Flawed! Immediately, menacing doppelgänger ghosts of the Scooby crew and favourite basic foes present up in Coolsville to threaten Halloween. Now it’s as much as the meddling youngsters—and their unlikely new accomplice Coco—to unmask the most recent scoundrel and save Halloween! For Shaggy and Scooby-Doo, with trick-or-treating on the road—this time it’s private!”

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Defend the Scooby snacks! Trick or Deal with Scooby-Doo! is on the market now on digital and residential launch.

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