Vera from “Scooby-Doo” is officially a lesbian

Vera, the nerdy heroine of

, was officially able to come out!

What's new under the sun, fans of the franchise will no doubt ask.

Yes, but now, the character's sexuality had never been made explicit, whether in the anime or the movies… until

, the latest animated adventures of the Mystère & Cie troupe released on VOD on October 4th.

“Oh my God, finally Vera is a lesbian”, exclaimed, delighted, a surfer on Twitter, relaying a scene from the footage in which the heroine falls under the spell of a female character.

An open secret

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and the creatives driving the franchise forward have long considered Vera's homosexuality an open secret.

James Gunn, who was in charge of the first live-action films, had also claimed to have “tried” to stage a lesbian Vera, in vain.

In a tweet dated 2020, the director claimed that the studios had preferred to drown the fish, until putting the character in the arms of a man.

Ditto for Tony Cervone, who oversaw the 2010s animated series and sought, as he claimed in 2020, to reveal the character's sexuality through devious means.

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