Woke Scooby-Doo reboot 'Velma' gets destroyed by reviewers for pushing nude scenes, drugs, and LGBTQ agenda



The new Scooby-Doo reboot "Velma" is being slammed for being overtly woke and for straying far from the innocent and beloved cartoon about a talking dog that helps solve mysteries.

"Velma" is the prequel to the Hanna-Barbera animated series for children that debuted in 1969. The new HBO Max show has a rating of TV-MA for sex, nudity, violence, gore, profanity, and intense scenes, according to IMDb. The main characters are high school students who are about 15 years old.

The reboot features actress Mindy Kaling as the voice for Velma Dinkley.

The Chicago Sun-Times detailed the "diverse" cast, "Velma is South Asian and gay, Daphne is an adopted Asian girl with lesbian cop parents, and Norville is black."

"Fred, the entitled heir to an accessories fortune who turns out to be more than just a vanilla villain when Velma slips him a copy of 'The Feminine Mystique' and inspires his great awakening and new obsession with the gender pay gap," The Guardian said.

Don't expect to see a talking Great Dane – there actually is no Scooby-Doo the dog in the TV show.

The Wrap described the first episode, "Things kick off not just with a murdered high school girl, but with her brain cut out of her oozing corpse by a next-level serial killer."

According to Polygon, "The premiere starts with two cockroaches boning and then immediately segues to a nude girls’ locker room shower fight between characters having a metatextual argument about premiere episodes using nudity to cynically gain viewers’ attention."

Velma and Daphne kiss in the animated series, according to Collider.

Daphne is a drug dealer.

The Chicago Sun-Times revealed a conversation about dealing drugs between Velma and Daphne:

Daphne: “According to TV, it’s morally OK to deal drugs if your life is just kind of crappy. Like, your kid’s sick, you’re a widow with a mortgage, you have to live on a lake in Missouri.”
Velma: “Those are all white people, Daphne. Minorities on TV can only deal drugs to escape poverty.”

The Guardian said of the woke reboot, "Against the retro-drippy backdrop, though, Kaling weaves in jokes about the paradoxes that go hand-in-hand with femininity, patriarchy, and power."

According to the Hollywood Reporter, "'I speak truth without a filter, like every comedian before #MeToo,' declares Velma, never mind that the line doesn’t make a ton of sense coming from a proud feminist teenager in 2023."

"Velma' debuted this week and has already been obliterated by negative reviews.

The show has an abysmal 1.8 rating out of 10 on IMDb. On Rotten Tomatoes, "Velma" has a 53% score from critics and an atrocious 7% rating from the audience.

You can watch the trailer for "Velma" below.

Velma | Official Trailer | HBO Max www.youtube.com

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Google runs pro-LGBT animation on Velma-related search results to celebrate the 'Scooby-Doo' character being made explicitly gay in new movie



Google is celebrating the news that Velma, one of the main characters from the widely-beloved world of "Scooby-Doo," is being explicitly presented as a lesbian in the new movie "Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!"

Googling words and phrases such as "velma," "velma dinkley," "dinkley," "scooby velma," or "scooby-doo velma" yields the typical search results as well as an animated shower of virtual confetti and two kinds of LGBT flags that float down from the top of the screen — one of the flags is a lesbian pride flag.

Two buttons appear onscreen, including one to run the animation again, and another button where people can copy a link to results page for "Velma Dinkley" or share the link on Facebook, Twitter, or email.

\u201cWhy does google do this when you search for velma? wut!?\u201d
— Luke Rudkowski (@Luke Rudkowski) 1665095098

"We saw a long-anticipated moment for a character people love, and had a good feeling it'd be an identity-affirming surprise for fans around the world," Google senior interaction designer Anthony Irwin said, according to Variety. "We didn't expect it to be so well received, resonating across so many different cultures and age groups, but people need things to be happy about, and when we can help everyone celebrate together, that's pretty great."

Google software engineer Emma Freeman, who was also involved, said, "We have loved seeing the response from both the fans who grew up with the franchise finally getting a chance to celebrate the acknowledgement of her sexuality and younger fans who get to grow up seeing themselves represented."

Velma is blatantly portrayed as a lesbian in the new animated movie, including in one scene where her glasses fog up and her cheeks turn red after she sets eyes on another female character, Coco Diablo.

In another clip, Velma admits to her friend Daphne that she has a crush on Coco, saying, "OK, who am I kidding? I'm crushing big-time, Daphne. What do I do? What do I say?"

\u201cVelma first meets Coco Diablo in \u201cTrick or Treat Scooby-Doo\u201d\n#Scoobydoohistory \nhttps://t.co/TnWGS0B5GK\u201d
— Scooby-Doo History (@Scooby-Doo History) 1664889662

Jinkies! New 'Scooby-Doo' movie makes Velma explicitly gay



Velma, one of the key characters in the widely-beloved world of "Scooby-Doo" kids shows and movies, is clearly portrayed as a lesbian in the new movie "Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!"

Movie clips circulating online show Velma smitten with female character Coco Diablo.

In one clip, after setting eyes on Coco, Velma's glasses fog up, her cheeks turn red, and she says, "Jinkies."

\u201cVelma first meets Coco Diablo in \u201cTrick or Treat Scooby-Doo\u201d\n#Scoobydoohistory \nhttps://t.co/TnWGS0B5GK\u201d
— Scooby-Doo History (@Scooby-Doo History) 1664889662

In another clip, Velma visibly reacts after Coco Diablo says, "The cute one's right," and then grabs Velma's shoulder.

And in another clip, Velma exclaims to Daphne, "OK, who am I kidding? I'm crushing big-time Daphne. What do I do? What do I say?"

The move to make Velma explicitly gay in the new animated movie does not come completely out of the blue, as individuals associated with earlier "Scooby-Doo" content have previously indicated that they viewed Velma as a gay character. But the on-screen evidence of Velma's homosexuality in this new movie will likely disturb many parents who do not want their children exposed to such content.

James Gunn of the 2002 "Scooby-Doo" movie, and its sequel "Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed," had wanted to make Velma's character a homosexual, but was blocked from doing so.

"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)," Gunn wrote in a tweet in July of 2020 that has apparently been deleted.

Also Tony Cervone, who according to IMDB was a supervising producer with the television series "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated," had said that Velma was meant to be gay in that show.

According to screenshots of an Instagram comment, Cervone noted, "I've said this before, but Velma in Mystery Incorporated is not bi. She's gay. We always planned on Velma acting a little off and out of character while she was dating Shaggy because that relationship was wrong for her and she had unspoken difficulty with the why. There are hints about the why in that episode with the mermaid, and if you follow the entire Marcie arc it seems as clear as we could make it 10 years ago. I don’t think Marcie and Velma had time to act on their feelings during the main timeline, but post reset, they are a couple. You can not like it, but this was our intention."

\u201cScooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated producer Tony Cervone confirms character Velma Dinkley is a lesbian.\n\nFilmmaker James Gunn also reveals that he was blocked from depicting Velma as a lesbian in the 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo film.\u201d
— Pop Crave (@Pop Crave) 1594649270