Mayor Fred Jones, Sr.

"From six to one the spell is spun. No time to run. The curse begun!"

- The Freak of Crystal Cove "The curse begun, but soon they'll see, the buried truth will end with me!"

- The Freak of Crystal Cove Mayor Fred Jones, Sr. is a character in Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated and the main antagonist of the show's season 1 finale All Fear The Freak. 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.

He is voiced by Gary Cole, who also portrayed Bill Lumbergh.

Personality
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 (Menace Of The Manticore). 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. He lost his title as mayor to Janet Nettles.

However 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.

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.