The character Velma is portrayed as being drawn to women inside the mannequin new Scooby Doo film.
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The character Velma is portrayed as being drawn to women inside the mannequin new Scooby Doo film.
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followers have been theorizing for years, however now clips from the mannequin new film Trick or deal with Scooby-Doo! appear to confirm it — the character Velma Dinkley is drawn to women.
“It actually did not happen to [me] that we had been doing one factor so groundbreaking till proper now,” the film’s director, Audie Harrison, informed NPR in an e mail. “whereas writing and directing this, I simply obtained proper down to have pleasurable with the comedy of a clumsy teenage crush.”
He added, “I truly thought it was an even larger deal for Velma’s character that she is in love with the villain of the film. the very indisputable actuality that she is a lady is simply… effectively, a actuality. That being acknowledged, it does really feel good to be an factor of normalizing illustration, particularly with such a broadly acknowledged franchise like Scooby-Doo!”
The animated film, which was launched for buy on digital platforms Tuesday, incorporates a mannequin new character, the pinnacle of a dressing up crime syndicate named Coco Diablo. the factor of Velma’s infatuation, the thriller Inc. member’s glasses fog up and cheeks flush as she swoons in a quantity of scenes.
in a single scene, Daphne teases about convicted felons being Velma’s form. The bespectacled detective tries to disclaim it, then cries out, “Oh, who am I kidding? i am crushing huge-time, Daphne! What do I do? What do I say?”
A tweet studying “OMG LESBIAN VELMA lastly CANON CANON inside the flicks LETS GOOOOOO” accompanying a clip by which Velma first sees Coco has garnered elevated than 200,000 likes.
of us behind the scenes of the Scooby-Doo franchise have been making an try to depict Velma’s sexual orientation for no decrease than 20 years. James Gunn, who wrote reside-movement Scooby-Doo movies launched in 2002 and 2004, tweeted in 2020 that Velma was “explicitly gay” in a 2001 script. Gunn added that Warner Bros. finally took these particulars out of the primary film, and even gave Velma a boyfriend inside the sequel.
This time round, Harrison described a distinctive situation with Warner Bros. “From my perspective, they had been very supportive of this course for Velma’s character from day one and it by no means appeared like they had been too apprehensive regarding the means by which it is extra probably to be perceived. Which was very refreshing,” he acknowledged.
“I’ve acknowledged this earlier than, however Velma in ‘thriller integrated’ isn’t bi. She’s gay,” Tony Cervone, the 2010-2013 animated sequence’ supervising producer wrote on Instagram in 2020. “when you adjust to your complete Marcie arc it seems as clear as we might make it 10 years in the past. i do not assume Marcie and Velma had time to behave on their feelings in the course of the primary timeline, however submit reset, they appear to be a pair. you can’t choose it, however this was our intention.”
NPR reached out to Warner Bros. and representatives for Kate Micucci, who voices Velma, and Myrna Velasco, who voices Coco Diablo, for remark however did not immediately hear again.
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