Velma Dinkley, one of the solid members of the Mystery, Incorporated crew in the Scooby-Doo cartoon series, has been confirmed as being a lesbian.
The upcoming “Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!” Halloween special this fall has confirmed the supposed queerness of Velma explicitly onscreen, to the joy of many LGBTQ fans everywhere.
This confirmation comes in the wake of several spin-offs, a history of queer coding, cut scenes, spiked queer plot lines, and resulting fan pleas to finally pin down Velma’s queerness.
She is undoubtedly a lesbian
In the animated movie, “Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!”, Velma (voiced by Kate Micucci) meets and falls in love with Coco Diablo, a costumer designer and female crime boss.
According to the summary of the new movie, the Mystery, Inc. are able to capture Coco Diablo, who is the head of the notorious costume crime syndicate.
However, when faced with doppelgänger ghosts of the crew and favorite classic foes, the members of Mystery, Inc. have to team up with their new partner– Coco.
In several scenes released by the Warner Bros. that have gone viral on the internet, her falling in love with Coco explicitly shows that Velma is extremely gay.
These scenes show her expressing her crush, from heart eyes to freaking out when Coco touches her shoulder.
Velma: Is she or isn’t she?
The first Scooby-Doo work that hinted to fans that Velma may not be entirely straight was in the live-action 2002 film, “Scooby-Doo.”
In 2020, James Gunn, the film’s director, confirmed in a now-deleted twitter exchange that he had wanted Velma– who was then played by Linda Cardellini– to be a lesbian.
When one fan asked Gunn fi he could make a live-action Velma lesbian in a possible third live-action Scooby-Doo movie, he replied, “I tried! 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),” he said.
Later on, in the 2010 animated series “Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated”, Velma ended up dating Shaggy. However, many fans disagreed with this new relationship.
A mystery solved about Velma
But even the series animator of that eleventh incarnation, Tony Cervone, explained on Instagram during the 2020 Pride Month that their version of Velma also wasn’t straight.
“I’ve said this before, but Velma in “Mystery Incorporated” is not bi. She’s gay,” Cervone said.
He added, “We always planned on Velma acting a little off and out of character when she was dating Shaggy because that relationship was wrong for her and she had unspoken difficulty with the why.”
For those who want to see Velma’s official queerness, “Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!” is available to rent or purchase on Prime Video.
Here’s a trailer of the movie itself:
