Velma is proudly out! The beloved Scooby-Doo character is a lesbian in Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!, a brand new movie available digitally on October 4 on Amazon Prime Video.
In newly surfaced clips from the film that are circulating on social media, Velma gets googly-eyed when meeting costume designer Coco Diablo.
The clips have gone instantly viral, some tweets garnering hundreds of thousands of likes, after fans have long held the suspicion that the character is gay. Click inside to read more… James Gunn, who wrote the early live-action films, and Tony Cervone, supervising producer on the Mystery Incorporated series, have also confirmed the character’s sexuality, even though it never explicitly appeared onscreen, via Variety. “In 2001 Velma was explicitly gay in my initial script.
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),” James revealed back in 2020. “I’ve said this before, but Velma in ‘Mystery Incorporated’ is not bi.