{"id":188566,"date":"2024-08-14T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=188566"},"modified":"2024-08-16T10:25:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T15:25:47","slug":"velma-dinkley-joining-warcraft-rumble-season-8-blizzard-watch-examines-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/08\/14\/velma-dinkley-joining-warcraft-rumble-season-8-blizzard-watch-examines-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Velma Dinkley joining Warcraft Rumble in Season 8? Blizzard Watch examines the evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

As has become tradition, the Warcraft Rumble<\/em><\/a> team released a teaser for Season 8<\/a> ahead of its launch next week. Front and center in that teaser is Rumble’s<\/em> next Cenarion unit, the Dryad.<\/p>\n

However, just off to the side of the shadowy unit is a book page featuring a face. And that face looks an awful lot like Velma of Scooby-Doo<\/em> fame. Naturally, one must now ask: Is Velma Dinkley coming to Warcraft Rumble<\/em>? Let’s take a very serious look at the evidence.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Blizzard released the official Season 8 update overview<\/a>\u00a0shortly after I finished writing this. There is no mention of Velma in the patch notes, but the timing is suspicious… too<\/em> suspicious. Also, there’s a redacted teaser for Season 9 in there, so I’m pretty sure everything below still checks out.<\/p>\n

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Velma Dinkley is no stranger to crossover<\/h2>\n

For those unfamiliar, Velma Dinkley is not just famous for existing across the multiverse of Scooby-Doo<\/em> iterations — she will also kick Arya Stark’s butt in MultiVersus<\/em><\/a> before calling the Mystery Machine to take away Superman\/The Iron Giant. She has no qualms about stepping into another universe and causing chaos.<\/p>\n

Not to mention, one of Velma’s variants in MultiVersus<\/em> is Witch Velma<\/a> — what better time to join Rumble<\/em> than as a witch shortly after the introduction of Scholomance, A.K.A. The School of Necromancy? Heck, she’s solved so many mysteries that she surely knows exactly how to blend in the the point of being unrecognizable*. It only makes sense that someone as knowledgeable in both witchcraft and mysteries as Velma would want to broaden her horizons to a new universe.<\/p>\n

*With a mask.<\/h6>\n

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What about Mei from Heroes of the Storm<\/em> and Overwatch<\/em>?<\/h2>\n

We cannot dismiss the possibility that this is also a teaser for an a-Mei-zing crossover appearance from our favorite ice-wielding hero, Mei. The evidence:<\/p>\n