Mystery Inc.

**Mystery Incorporated**, often shortened to **Mystery Inc.**, is an amateur crime-solving group of teenage detectives. Their mystery solving began as kids in the city of Coolsville, and eventually across the globe many years later.

## Members

### Fred Jones

> Voiced by Seth MacFarlane
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With blonde hair and good looks that would inspire confidence in anyone (except maybe Scooby and Shaggy), **Fred Jones** is the glue that keeps Mystery Inc. together. Nearly as sharp as Velma in picking up clues, Freddy is the gang's leader, big brother and inspiration all rolled into one. His genius for setting elaborate traps to catch ghouls, ghosts and just plain bad guys is only diminished by the fact that most of his traps backfire! Freddy's the one who drives The Mystery Machine, gives the gang their assignments, and pairs them up for their missions. In the end, it's Fred who makes it official with the words, "Well, I guess that wraps up another mystery."

### Daphne Blake

> Voiced by Grey DeLisle
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Everybody loves **Daphne Blake**. She's beautiful. Her dad's rich (he paid for The Mystery Machine that the gang travels around in). And she's great for the ego since she always needs to be rescued. What's not to love? Unlike her canine traveling companion, the unknown is a challenge to Daphne. She loves a good mystery and hopes to become a famous mystery writer someday. Daphne has more enthusiasm than all the other kids put together, with hundreds of plunges into perilous predicaments under her fashionable belt. Maybe if one of Daphne's brushes with seemingly certain disaster ever manages to mess up her impeccably coiffed hair, she'll think twice about diving head-on into danger...but so far that hasn't happened.

### Velma Dinkley

> Voiced by Kate Micucci
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A veritable Sherlock in spectacles, and the undisputed brains of the outfit, **Velma Dinkley** is always the first to decipher the clues and figure out who's hiding under the mask. Velma tends to get separated from the gang almost as often as Scooby, but for opposite reasons. Scooby's running FROM the clues...Velma's intently following them. And unlike Scooby, she's very easy to find. Simply listen for her "Jinkies!"; she says it every time she makes a significant discovery.

### Shaggy Rogers

> Voiced by Matthew Lillard
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In the 50's they were called beatniks. In the 60's they were hippies. In Scooby-Doo cartoons, he's **Shaggy Rogers**, the funky, less-than-kempt every-teen who likes to go his own way (usually, in the opposite direction from trouble). If Shaggy's all-natural aversion to danger sounds familiar, it's because he and Scooby-Doo have much in common. They say Shaggy is the human version of Scooby. The boy/dog bond between Shaggy and Scooby has carried them through 300 plus episodes together. Shaggy speaks in "likes" and "mans" and uses groovy, out of sight expressions that endear him to kids of all ages. His least stupid human trick: using ventriloquism to put words in Scooby's mouth, confounding villains and causing their evil schemes to fall through.

### Scooby-Doo

> Voiced by Frank Welker
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He's afraid of ghouls, vampires, zombies, mummies...even his own shadow. And when the going gets tough, **Scooby-Doo** gets going...as far away as possible! Scooby is the Great Dane with the greatest following in TV cartoon history. Speaking semi-intelligible English, the only four-pawed member of Mystery, Inc. unwittingly helps his ghostbusting teenage pals solve monstrous mysteries and unmask pseudo-spirits. The key to Scooby's heart...and to whatever courage he can muster...is Scooby Snacks. He'll do anything for 'em, even wear disguises and venture into haunted houses. But you always get the feeling that the big, lovable pooch would rather be anyplace than the spooky place where he always happens to be.

## Appearance

Mystery Inc. appears in the episode, *Message in a Bottle*, they appeared on *The Tawny Young Show* indicting Toe Omnitech CEO Cutler Toe for trying to discredit their group. When Tawny Young asks the gang how Toe did it, Velma responds by furiously beating him up, only to be held back by her security guards.