Mindy Kaling's Velma will reimagine the Scooby-Doo character as being of East Asian descent

The Mary Sue

Tom Ascheim, president of Warner Bros. Global Kids, Young Adults and Classics, revealed new details about the upcoming series today at The TV Kids Summer Festival, including that there will be no mystery van or Scooby-Doo in the HBO Max adult animated series. But the news that Kaling's Velma will be of East Asian descent sparked some predictable backlash on Twitter, even though Kaling isn't the first person of Asian descent to play Velma.