Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated producer Tony Cervone has confirmed that Velma Dinkley is a lesbian while James Gunn has revealed that the character was supposed to be "explicitly gay" in the 2002 live-action/computer-animated movie. In a Pride-themed Instagram post of Velma pictured with Marcie "Hot Dog Water" Fleach, Cervone jumped into the comment section to clarify that the bespectacled detective was written as a gay character in the classic cartoon series.