Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Living... with his best friend, the (talking) Great Dane Scooby-Doo. Norville Rogers – everyone calls him Shaggy – and Scooby rarely leave each other’s side. They have even known to jump into each other’s arms, typically when one or both of them are afraid. Which is often.
Profession... member of the Mystery Inc. detective crew. Shaggy and Scooby join their friends Fred, Daphne, and Velma to solve supernatural mysteries. Though Shaggy and Scooby tend to spend most of their time being scared and/or eating. They do very little actual crime-solving, except what they inadvertently get done along the way.
Interests... food. Shaggy is perpetually hungry. Fred likes to say that Shaggy has a high metabolism, while Shaggy himself often chalks up his appetite to the fact that’s he’s frequently terrified by the ghosts and other ghouls they encounter in their work. The fact that the paranormal visions almost always turn out to be fakes perpetrated by criminals or other ne’er-do-wells doesn’t make Shaggy any less afraid the next time.
Relationship Status... single. Shaggy has two main relationships: with his pal Scooby, and with food.
Challenge... overcoming his fear and tendency toward loafing to help his friends solve cases. On the surface, Shaggy isn’t a very helpful member of Mystery Inc. He’s generally too afraid to actively pursue leads, and he and Scooby tend to accidentally set off the elaborate traps set up by Fred and the others. Shaggy mostly shivers with fear and says, “Zoinks!” Even so, Shaggy and Scooby have a surprising knack for (sometimes) capturing the bad guys, though they usually do so unintentionally. But hey, it’s all about results, right?
Personality... goofy and laid-back. Shaggy wouldn’t hurt a fly. He’d also likely be afraid of it. If he could, he’d sit around all day with Scooby, watching TV and eating pizza with extra cheese and pickles. Maybe if he and the gang can solve their next mystery really fast, he’ll finally get a chance to do just that.
Get to Know him in...
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The Mystery Inc. gang have gone their separate ways and have been apart for two years, until they each receive an invitation to Spooky Island. Not knowing that the others have also been invited, they show up and discover an amusement park that affects young visitors in very strange ways.
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When Mystery, Inc. are guests of honor at the grand opening of the Coolsville Museum of Criminology, a masked villain shows up and creates havoc before stealing the costumes of the gang's most notorious villains. Could it be that their nemesis, mad scientist Jonathan Jacobo has returned and is trying to recreate their deadliest foes?
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Scooby Doo, Where Are You! A talking and walking dog named Scooby is part of Mystery Inc. with his four human friends: Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma. Together, they drive around in their "Mystery Machine" van to solve paranormal cases. They are forever running into ghosts, zombies, and other ghouls, though in truth the supposedly supernatural visions usually turn out to be fakes perpetrated by folks who are up to no good.
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In Scooby-Doo’s greatest adventure yet, see the never-before told story of how lifelong friends Scooby and Shaggy first met and how they joined forces with young detectives Fred, Velma, and Daphne to form the famous Mystery Inc. Now, with hundreds of cases solved, Scooby and the gang face their biggest, toughest mystery ever: an evil plot to unleash the ghost dog Cerberus upon the world. As they race to stop this global “dogpocalypse,” the gang discovers that Scooby has a secret legacy and an epic destiny greater than anyone ever imagined.
