Conservatives Melting Down Over Velma in 'Scooby Doo' Being a Lesbian
After fuming over Halle Bailey portraying Ariel in the upcoming live-action reboot of "The Little Mermaid," conservatives at it again over Velma coming out as queer in the new "Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!"
As reported by Rolling Stone, conservatives have taken to the air waves and social media to express their discontent over Velma being a lesbian.
On the heels of clips circulating online showing Velma being obviously attracted to a female character, conservatives have begun circulating outrage clips of their own, with some like Fox News alleging: "SCOOBY DOO GOES WOKE WHEN VELMA COMES OUT AS GAY."
Right-wing pundit Steven Crowder claimed on his podcast that there are too many gay TV characters. "If we're going to bitch about appropriation, why do you need to take a straight character and make her lesbian?" he said. "Just go make your own. It's not our fault people don't want to watch it, just because we don't want to watch a bunch of cartoon women shop at Bass Pro."
However, Velma wasn't exactly straight in the original show. Most die-hard "Scooby Doo" fans understood her to have some level of queerness — with James Gunn saying in 2020 that he wanted to make Velma "explicitly" gay in his script for the live-action "Scooby Doo" movie.
"In 2001 Velma was explicitly gay in my initial script" [for 2002's live-action "Scooby-Doo"], Crowder wrote on Twitter. "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)."
What do you think? Is Velma coming out going woke or is it well-received?