First Velma Images Reveal an Adults-Only Scooby-Doo Reimagining

Warner Bros. Discovery shares a first look at HBO Max’s adults-only Velma animated series, starring Mindy Kaling as the Scooby-Doo character.

The first image from HBO Max’s Mindy Kaling-led Scooby-Doo spinoff centered on Velma Dinkley promises it won’t be a family-friendly affair.

Debuting during Warner Bros. Discovery’s upfronts event, the image sees Velma discovering the mutilated body of a young girl in a locker room and naked bystanders look on in horror. “It is a tremendous privilege to build on the 100 year plus legacy of ‘cartoons’ at this company,” HBO Max EVP of Original Comedy and Adult Animation Suzanna Makkos said. “We can draw a straight line from our hundreds of childhood hours spent watching Bugs outwit Elmer to the current slate of adult animated projects we are building here at HBO Max and we think fans will agree. We are proud to introduce this distinctive group of series from a wide range of diverse creators that will form a first stop destination for animation lovers everywhere.”


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HBO Max announced Velma in February and described it as an adult-focused comedy. “It is a tremendous privilege to build on the 100-year plus legacy of ‘cartoons’ at this company,” HBO Max Executive Vice President of Comedy and Adult Animation Suzanna Makkos said. “We can draw a straight line from our hundreds of childhood hours spent watching Bugs outwit Elmer to the current slate of adult animated projects we are building here at HBO Max and we think fans will agree. We are proud to introduce this distinctive group of series from a wide range of diverse creators that will form a first stop destination for animation lovers everywhere.”


Kaling, who’s been attached to the project since the start, received backlash from Scooby-Doo fans for being cast as an East Asian version of Velma. Of course, the character has been portrayed as Asian in the past, most notably by Haley Kiyoko in Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins and Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster. However, this will mark the first time she’s been depicted as East Asian.

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In June 2021, WarnerMedia’s Tom Ascheim explained that part of what drew Kaling to Velma was her excitement to “reimagine what Scooby-Doo would be like if Velma were of East Asian descent and lived in a different world. And so in that version, which is going on HBO Max first, there’s no dog and there’s no van, but we have our four key characters through a different lens.”



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