| “ | The curse begun, but soon they'll see, the buried truth will end with me! | „ |
| ~ The Freak of Crystal Cove. |
| “ | Two years after they left, Brad tried to return to Crystal Cove, by that time he and Judy had married and she'd given birth to a baby boy. I had to stop Brad, I took you in and told them you'd be safe, as long they never returned again. | „ |
| ~ Mayor Jones confessing the truth behind his adopted son. |
Mayor Frederick Jones, Sr. is a major antagonist in the cartoon series Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. He is the adoptive father of Fred Jones, Jr.
He was voiced by Gary Cole and his Freak of Crystal Cove disguise was voiced by Frank Welker.
Biography[]
Past[]
Prior to the show, Fred Jones Sr. came to Crystal Cove having heard about the town curse and the haunted treasure. After being accepted into the history department of Darrow University, Jones gained access to the town archives and learned about the Conquistadores that had disappeared. From there, Jones disguised himself as the Freak of Crystal Cove in order to search for the Planspheric Disc. Jones failed to find the disc until the original Mystery Inc. came to him for advice. Jones then struck a deal with the team's mascot, Professor Pericles, to blackmail the kids into leaving town by threatening them with documents implicating their parents in various crimes. In order to keep his identity a secret, Jones knocked out Pericles, scarring his left eye, and placed a call to the police implicating him in the kids' disappearance. Eventually, Jones would become Mayor of Crystal Cove, allowing him to continue his search for the disc pieces undetected.
Years later, Brad Chiles and Judy Reeves, former members of Mystery Inc. returned to Crystal Cove having birthed a son. In order to keep the pair away, Mayor Jones kidnapped Fred, promising to keep him safe should the two stay away from Crystal Cove forever. Despite the fact that he was initially just using Fred, he would go on to truly care for the boy, whom he now viewed as his own son.
Season 1[]
Introduced as the Mayor of the town Crystal Cove, Fred Jones Sr. is a greedy Mayor who takes the opportunity of the paranormal events in the town for his own money. Because of this, along with the fact that he constantly forbids his son, Fred Jones Jr., to hang out with the Mystery Incorporated, their relationship slowly cracks worse and worse.
Though Mayor Jones does not do much for most of the Season, it is hinted that he knows about the true mystery of what happened to Crystal Cove in the past, as revealed in "A Haunt in Crystal Cove" where Professor Pericles reveals to the Mystery Incorporated that Jones had stolen a piece of the Planispheric Disk from him years ago.
The monster that inspired Mayor's Freak costume
His true nature is revealed in the Season 1 finale, "All Fear the Freak", where he disguises himself as The Freak of Crystal Cove and attempts to attack the Mystery Gang, though they manage to unmask him and reveal his true identity. Mayor Jones was then arrested and lost his title as the Mayor of Crystal Cove to Mayor Nettles.
Season 2[]
Fred Jones Sr. is a minor character in Season 2 as he is now under imprisonment. When those of Misterios S.A. They need to hide the disk Fred Jones, Sr. is willing to cooperate with them, hiding the authentic disk of Pericles and his accomplices. Attending to Fred's words at the end of the episode, it is implicit that Fred has forgiven his adoptive father a little, and that he believes that he was more of a father to him than his biological parents.
Fred met his good side in the Waiting Room, and after a confession, Fred is finally able to forgive his adoptive father. Jones was later eaten by the Evil Entity as Fred watched, the young man looked away, indicating signs of pain at having just lost the closest thing to a father he ever had in his life.
Post-Nibiru[]
In the alternative timeline created by destroying the Evil Entity he is simply the school's soccer team coach; here he is happy with his job and has a good relationship with Fred, even being flattered when Fred mistakenly calls him his dad.
Personality[]
He was the mayor of Crystal Cove and the "surrogate" father of Fred Jr. Jones. On the surface, he seems to only care more about making money from the town's mysteries rather than solving them, which conflicts with his son, contributing to an already awkward relationship.
In reality, this is a cover for a much darker and obsessed personality, one who has gone to great lengths to complete the Planispheric Disk. He forced the original Mystery Incorporated to leave Crystal Cove and bargained away the guardianship of the son of Brad Chiles and Judy Reeves.
Mayor Jones is shown to be a selfish and greedy opportunist. He will do almost anything to make Crystal Cove into a tourist hotspot. He takes any of the paranormal and bizarre events that happen in Crystal Cove as an opportunity to promote the town's popularity regardless of the consequences and thus, he will willingly turn a blind eye in favor of reaping the benefits that they bring until it is too late. In turn, his relationship with his son has become turbulent at best, with Fred Jr. slowly (but surely) realizing how selfish his father really is.
However, there is some good somewhere inside him. When Fred was chasing him while he was still disguised as the Freak of Crystal Cove, a cliff Fred Jr. was standing on crumbled and Fred was clinging. Fred Jones Sr. saved his adopted son's life helping him up, allowing Fred Jr. to capture the Freak revealing Fred Sr.'s true nature. In irony, him saving Freddie resulted in his outing and arrest.
Fred later met up with his good side trapped in Limbo, where he admitted he did love Fred, but had been corrupted by the influence of the entity and his own greed. He and Fred managed to make up, with Fred admitting that he may not have been the best father, but he still raised him and loved him nonetheless.
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