It was an open secret, which had never before been revealed during the adventures of Scooby-Doo and his friends: Vera, the nerd of the detective dog gang, will be coming out in the next movie of animation of the franchise. The clips of this new opus, Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!, made especially for Halloween, show Vera Dinkley blushing in her eternal orange dress, glasses clouded with emotion, when she meets the villain of the movie, costume designer Coco Diablo. “I love so much, Daphne! What do I have to do ? What should I say?”, she confides then in another scene unveiled this week on social networks. their famous Mystery Machine in 1969, in a children’s television series that marked several generations. Many fans of the franchise had long believed that Vera was lesbian, but it had never been confirmed on screen. The producers of previous series and films had already dropped many clues to indicate that Vera was queer, but the studios had so far never agreed to make it an openly LGBTQ + character. In 2020, Tony Cervone, for example, posted an image of Vera on Instagram with another female character, against a backdrop of a rainbow flag, on Pride Day. “We have tried to be as clear as we we could ten years ago”, wrote on the social network the creator of the series Scooby-Doo: Associated Mysteries, broadcast between 2010 and 2013. “Most of our fans have understood. For the others, I suggest you take a closer look,” he added. Vera’s sexual relations are “very revolutionary”. “I just tried to have fun with a comedy about an awkward teenage crush,” he explained. “That being said, it’s really nice to be part of the standardization of representations, especially with a franchise as well-known as Scooby-Doo!”
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