Fred Jones (Velma)

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This article is about the incarnation of Fred Jones in the TV series Velma. For other incarnations, see Fred Jones (disambiguation).

Fred Jones
Vital Statistics
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Hair color	Blond
Eye color	Black
Other Statistics
Family	William Jones (father) Victoria Jones † (mother) Harry Meeting † (maternal grandfather) Diya Dinkley (stepmother) Velma Dinkley † (stepsister)
Production Details
First appearance	Velma: Velma (episode)
Played by	Glenn Howerton

Frederick "Fred" Jones is one of the protagonists in the Velma TV series. He is a student at Crystal Cove High School.

Physical appearance

He is a 16-year-old boy with blond hair and black eyes.

Personality

Fred is air-headed, insecure, self-serving and blind to his own privilege. Having been raised as the only child in a wealthy family, and due to being amongst the school's most popular students, he believes the world caters to him, and carries an aura of smug confidence wherever he goes. When he encounters people that do not conform to the self-image he has of himself, he turns angry and will even resort to violence, though he himself also admits that "he's too much of a puss to kill someone". Fred is also a misogynist and thinks that all women want to sleep with him. Even as he is being taken to a cop car, he waves and winks at female onlookers. He cannot take rejection well and views women as objects, even after reading The Feminist Mystique. When Velma rejected him he reacted by saying "you know I'm rich, right?".

Apart from sexism, he is also racist, referring to Velma as "Samoan" and "Mexican" despite being told she's of Indian descent.

A portrait of Fred and his father when they were younger

As Fred holds his self-image to high standards, he cannot cope with being made fun of, and will lash out people who do so. When talking with Velma, he decides to stop because "if anyone saw you talking to me I'd die of shame".

Fred admires his father and aspires to be a "real man" just like he expects him to be. Despite his abusive tendencies, he is capable of feeling empathy and sympathy for others, such as crying upon hearing about Brenda's death. However, he then immediately shamed himself for it as "real men don't show emotion". Fred also initially showed respect to Aman and thanked him for representing him, but when his father disapproved of it, he immediately changed his attitude and began threatening him.

Fred also often has no grasp of severity and consequences. When he was sent to prison he wasn't fazed at all and instead fixated on the fact that he got to sleep in a bunk bed. He is also blind to the fact that he is a victim of child abuse and casually mentions his mother used to put her cigars out on him.

Fred is incredibly spoiled and has a child's mentality, not being able to cut food for himself and being expected to be fed, and other behaivours that portray him as acting like a young child.

It is implied that Fred's worst qualities were direct learned behiaviours from his father. His least onjectionable traits is shows in his portrayal as a naive, babied, clingy and oblivious romantic, and his worst being entitled sexism and ignorance that is usually attributed to something "father told me".

History

Velma

In the first episode, Fred bumps into Velma. When Fred asks who she is, Velma replies that Fred cheats off her in Spanish (because he thinks she's Mexican). Fred replies by saying that he has a disease where he can't recognise hot people. Velma then asks him if his disease is called "rudeness". Fred, surprised, revealed that his doctor does indeed call it rudeness. When Daphne runs up to him, hugs him and puts her arms around his waist, he gets embaressed (due to having a small penis) and shoves her off, before changing the topic to Velma and calling her a "wierdo".

When two girls, Brenda Bright and Krysta McRae, are murdered at Crystal Cove High School, and their corpses are later found but with their brains removed, Fred is the prime suspect. When Velma confronts him, he threatens to do "the unthinkable" as he advances closer to her, but before he can, he is shot by Daphne's parents, who are police officers. Fred later revealed that when he said "the unthinkable", he was referring to paying her to keep quiet, like he did to Brenda, because he is "too much of a puss to kill someone". He is then arrested.

Fred threatening Aman wth dire consequences if he doesn't prove his innocence, despite earlier showing gratitude to him

Fred's parents hire lawyer Aman Dinkley (who is Velma's father) to defend him. Fred threatens Aman with dire consequences if he cannot prove him innocent. To ensure Fred has a clean image, Aman tries to dress Fred up as a child, complete with make-up that resembles a doll, so that people will sympathize with him and see him as non-threatening. However, due to a rainstorm happening the same day, the mascara is ruined in such a way that Fred's face has what appears to be a Hitler mustache, thus having the opposite effect. This has such a bad affect on Aman that he considers drugs, feeling as if he gambled his family's future on Fred's innocence, but Velma catches him in the act and encourages him not to. Aman then decides to enlist Velma to help him.

The next day, at the Jones family mansion, Velma observes how Fred cannot cut his own food and has to ask his butler to do so. She then realizes that there is no way Fred could have killed Brenda and Krista as he is so incompetent that he cannot perform basic tasks by himself. At his trial, Velma repeats her reasoning, and to prove her hypothesis, Velma asks Fred to cut a steak in front of the audience. When Fred demonstrates that he cannot use basic utensils such as a knife and fork, the audience begin laughing at him, which causes him to lose his temper and scream that he is "someone who could be pefectly capable of removing those dumb girls' brains". He is then declared guilty and arrested.

In the next episode Fred is shown to be in prison. He is visited by Norville, who asks him about Velma's missing mother, Diya Dinkley, since his mansion was the last place she was seen. Fred tells him that he doesn't recall anything from her apart from the fact that she is Indian. Norville also expresses a desire to be a therapist to Fred. However when expressing his emotions Fred lashes out again and throws a chair, which incites a riot in the prison. Fred escapes and is then tasered by the same police officers that arrested him before being released.

The next day Velma and Fred meet at a diner and Velma tells him to read The Feminist Mystique, a novel about feminism and patriarchy. After reading it, Fred loses his misogynistic perspective on women and begins realizing his behaviour was wrong. He also gains a crush on Velma, but Velma no longer has a crush on him due to witnessing his immature and selfish personality. Fred spends the next two episodes espousing feminist views, but Velma still doesn't trust him.

After Fred is released, a third girl, Lola, is murdered.

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Relationships

Daphne

Fred and Daphne

Daphne is Fred's girlfriend. However it's unknown if Fred actually loves her or is using her for popularity since he cares about his self-image. The latter is likely, as he mentions that Brenda was his plan "if Daphne got too clingy". In the first episode, after Daphne accuses Velma of trying to steal her boyfriend, she says that she can have him as Fred won't take his pants off despite the two dating for a year and is so insecure about himself that he makes everyone leave the bathroom at Spooner Malt when he uses it. Daphne breaks up with Fred when he's initially accused of her friend's murders.

Velma

Velma first met Fred in eighth grade when he mistook her for a beanbag chair. Because of their popularity deficit, they didn't interact much beyond him cheating off of her Spanish class workm despite attending the same school. He continued to hold an unfavourable view of her for several episodes, but after he reads The Feminist Mystique he gains a crush on her, despite Velma now disliking him.

His father

Fred claims to love his father and says he wants to be manly just like him. In the first episode it is revealed that Fred keeps a photo of the two on his phone. When his father shows disapproval for Fred's behaviour, Fred immedately tries to appease him, for example yelling at Aman because his father didn't like the fact that he was being nice to him. He is later shown to be fearful of his father's overbearing toxic masculinity, strict child-oriented rules, and his forbidding of Fred's romantic persuit of Velma.

Appearances

• Velma
  • All episodes

Quotes

• "Jones men normally usually bury their emotions until they explode on a family vacation"
• "Prison is cool but no one watches me pee quite like mother"

Trivia

• Fred is the only character amongst the original cast who didn't have his race changed in Velma. Shaggy was changed to be black, Daphne was changed to be East Asian and Velma was changed to be Indian.
• Unlike other teenagers, Fred tends to call his parents "Father" and "Mother" instead of "Dad" and "Mom".
• Fred is around 5 feet 6 inches tall.
• According to Fred's father, he hasn't gone through puberty yet, hence the size of his genitalia and hairless body.

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