Well-liked “Scooby-Doo” character Velma Dinkley has come out of the closet after 53 years.
The most recent “Scooby-Doo” film, “Trick or Deal with Scooby-Doo!,” reveals the brainy sleuth creating a severe crush on a feminine costume designer named Coco Diablo, as you possibly can see within the clip beneath.
The information isn’t precisely surprising: Velma’s sexual orientation has been the topic of hypothesis virtually because the first “Scooby-Doo” collection debuted in 1969.
And it wasn’t simply the viewers who suspected Velma wasn’t straight.
Selection identified that “Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn, who wrote the script for the 2002 live-action “Scooby-Doo,” and Tony Cervone, the supervising producer on the “Thriller Integrated” collection, each confirmed Velma preferred girls, however have been by no means in a position to make it an official a part of her character.
Cervone revealed on Instagram again in 2020 that the opposite folks on the present “made our intentions as clear as we might 10 years in the past,” and added, “Most of our followers bought it. To those who didn’t, I recommend you look nearer.”
The brand new movie debut is out there on Amazon Prime and can air on Cartoon Community on Oct. 14.
Many Twitter customers have been joyful concerning the information, however not essentially stunned.
Though this long-standing query has been resolved, there isn’t any phrase on whether or not there are plans to reply one other rumor by depicting Shaggy and Scooby-Doo as stoners.