Fred from Scooby-Doo is one of the four most loved animated cartoon characters from television past and present. Frederick Herman Jones, also known as “Freddie”, is an intellectual character in one of the most loved, adored and long running American television animated series Scooby-Doo, about a group of four curious teenage sleuths and their dog, Scooby-Doo, who just happens to be a Great Dane.
Fred’s character would often be shown constructing various creative traps to catch villains, which Scooby-Doo and/or Shaggy would often set off by mistake, only for the villain to wind up captured by the trap anyway. During the first season of Scooby Doo, Where Are You?, Fred would sometimes refer to his partner, Daphne Blake, as “Danger-Prone Daphne” because she had a knack for getting herself into trouble. Fred has always been portrayed as the leader of the gang. One of his most well-known attributes is that he will always have the gang split up and search for clues. Fred, Daphne, and Velma are usually in one group while Shaggy and Scooby Doo go their own way; sometimes Velma ends up with Shaggy and Scooby, but very seldom are Fred and Daphne separated. Fred’s main catchphrase is related to this divide-and-conquer clue search method: “Okay, Gang, Let’s Split up and search for clues!”. His catchphrase is made fun of in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo when he often prematurely tells the group to split up before they even know their purpose in doing so.
It is suspected that Fred and Daphne share an attraction to each other; however, this has yet to be made clear in the series itself, although Cartoon Network, in its various promotional bumpers, has had fun with this notion. Fred and Daphne do kiss in Scooby-Doo and The Cyber Chase, and openly make comments in every film that has made viewers expect that they share mutual romantic feelings. Their relationship was parodied in a crossover episode of Johnny Bravo, most notably when he and Daphne go off to ‘investigate’ the basement together and with his various winks to the viewer whenever Daphne lands in his hands.
In the 1990s direct-to-video movies and in the 2000s series What’s New, Scooby Doo?, Fred’s signature style was given an update, with the removal of his orange ascot, the most noticeable change (Though he is seen dallying with the idea of wearing a neckerchief in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island when changing his clothes before rejecting it). He also is shown as slightly less intelligent (Though he has tricked out the Mystery Machine, of which he is deeply possessive, with a near infinite number of modifications), and more clueless to his surroundings (Convinced that he can speak foreign languages when the best he can do is mangle words from a phrasebook), similar to how he was depicted in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. However, in Scooby Doo, Where Are You? Fred was as smart as Velma and he would help solve the mysteries the gang found themselves in. The removal of his ascot was poked fun at during one of the first promotional advertisements for What’s New, Scooby Doo?, when the ascot is found on the ground, puzzling everyone but Fred, who seems to be uncomfortable around the discovery. Resource: Wikipedia