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    Woke Mindy Kaling Announces Her ‘Scooby-Doo’ Velma Character Is South Asian, Says ‘If People Freak Out About That, I Don’t Care’

    By Katie Jerkovich - The Daily Wire




    Actress Mindy Kaling announced her “Scooby-Doo” Velma character is South Asian and made it clear she didn’t “care” if “people freak out” about the animated mystery hunter no longer being a white character.

    During the Warner Bros. Discovery Upfront presentation Wednesday, the 42-year-old star and executive producer of the upcoming adult animated series, titled “Velma,” showed the audience an image of her character who is now South Asian, reported Entertainment Weekly.

    Kaling’s solo-series is reimagined from the popular 1969 cartoon “Scooby-Doo.” On the show, it was Velma who was often the one who solved the mysteries and was definitely seen as the brains behind the rag-tag crew of kids that worked together to solve crazy mysteries, which consisted of Velma Dinkley, Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Shaggy Rogers, and their pup Scooby-Doo.

    The new show will not be that, and is being sold as a 10-episode adult animated series that will run on HBO Max. After Kaling introduced her character, she made a point to note what was different about her Velma.

    “If a dog can solve crimes,” Kaling shared, then her Velma “can be brown,” reported Deadline.

    “Hopefully you noticed my Velma is South Asian,” “The Mindy Project” star told the crowd. “If people freak out about that, I don’t care.”

    Along with Kaling revealing her character, the actress also shared a NSFW image of the upcoming animated series that shows a character with some of their head missing and an animated person topless with the rest of their body covered in what appears to be bubbles.

    Last year, the streaming service announced the project it described it as “an original and humorous spin that unmasks the complex and colorful past of one of America’s most beloved mystery solvers.”

    At the time, WarnerMedia’s Tom Ascheim, president of Warner Bros. Global Kids, Young Adults and Classics, revealed it’s not for kids.

    “Not for children, but we have a Mindy Kaling project called ‘Velma’ because she was excited to re-imagine what Scooby-Doo would be like if Velma were of East Asian descent and lived in a different world,” Ascheim shared.

    “There’s no dog, and there’s no van, but we have our four key characters through a different lens,” Ascheim added, referring to Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, Fred.

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    Still waiting for the time they take a historically black/brown character and turn them white.

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    Make Scooby a Kitty cat ! That'll get em' all worked up !

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    What I'm taking from this is that no one's going to watch it.


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    I don't watch any of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Still waiting for the time they take a historically black/brown character and turn them white.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Still waiting for the time they take a historically black/brown character and turn them white.
    This has happened many many times in movie history though. Justin Chatwin played Goku a few years back

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewashing_in_film
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examples_of_yellowface

    Not saying these are all bad or outrageous examples, but it happens both ways.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    What I'm taking from this is that no one's going to watch it.






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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Still waiting for the time they take a historically black/brown character and turn them white.
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