Fred Jones (fictional character)

:For other uses, see Fred Jones (disambiguation).

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Fred Jones, known to his friends by the nickname Freddie, is a fictional character in the long running American television animated series Scooby-Doo, about a quartet of teenage mystery solvers and their Great Dane cohort, Scooby-Doo.

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Fictional character - American - Television - Animated series - Scooby-Doo - Great Dane

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The leader of the group, and the driver of the gang's van, the Mystery Machine, Fred is a blonde, ascot-wearing, statuesque and brave youth---in other words, everything that the group's other male human member, Shaggy, isn't. In later spinoffs, Fred is also shown as having a great interest in various types of sports.

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Ascot - Shaggy - Sports

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Fred leads the group in solving mysteries and often orders the gang to split up to search for clues. Fred usually takes the female members of the gang, Daphne and Velma, with him while Shaggy and Scooby go off by themselves; Fred's main catchphrase is related to this divide-and-conquer clue search method: "let's split up, gang..."

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Daphne - Velma

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Some fans have posited that Fred and Daphne share an attraction to each other, but this has yet to be truly declared as such in the series itself (though Cartoon Network, in its various promotional bumpers, has had fun with this notion).

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In the 1990s direct-to-video movies and in the 2000s series What's New, Scooby Doo?, Fred's outfit was given an update, with the removal of his ascot the most noticeable change.

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1990s - 2000s - What's New, Scooby Doo?

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