Victoria Jones

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For other versions, see Mrs. Jones (disambiguation).

Victoria Jones
Vital Statistics
Birthname	Victoria Meeting
Species	Human/ghost
Gender	Female
Hair color	Blonde
Eye color	Black
Status	Deceased
Other Statistics
Occupation	Co-owner of Jones Gentlemen's Accessories
Family	William Jones (husband; formally) Fred Jones (son) Harry Meeting † (father)
Production Details
First appearance	Velma: The Candy Man
Played by	Cherry Jones

Victoria Jones (née Meeting) was the wife of William Jones, the mother of Fred Jones, and a serial killer in Crystal Cove known for killing three teenage girls. After being exposed and killed while attempting to escape, Victoria haunted Norville as a ghost before finally being put to rest by Fred and moving to the afterlife.

Physical appearance

Victoria as the serial killer.

Jones was a middle-aged woman with black eyes, and short, shiny, and blonde hair slicked back. She wore a white, sleeveless shirt with a gold pin, white pants, and white high-heels. She also wore large, oval-shaped gold earrings with matching bracelets and a black choker adorned with a jade gemstones around her neck, She also had long, black fingernails.

Victoria as a ghost.

As a serial killer, she wore a black cloak covering her entire body, black gloves and a welding mask covering her face. In a later appearance as the killer, she was seen wearing a stained white lab coat over a dark green turtleneck sweater. She wore a pair of blue jeans and black shoes.

After being killed, she appeared as a ghost to possess Norville, her killer. Jones was a glowing white figure with more defined facial features, though missing a nose and having no pupils in her eyes. She still kept her gold bracelets, earrings, and turquoise brooch. However, she has a gaping, bleeding hole in her abdomen, indicating her cause of death as she was impaled by a stalactite.

Personality

Jones is a woman predominantly concerned with preserving her family's social status as upper-class individuals. According to her, the Jones Family is known for being the best, and she is disgusted and humiliated with her son's immaturity and incompetence. Seeing Fred as simply a tool to consolidate their family legacy, she and her husband, William, excessively control Fred's behaviour and interactions with others purely to preserve his public image and reputation, with little to no regard to his feelings and desires. As such, they prohibit Fred from meeting with Velma, viewing her as an unworthy partner due to her lack of popularity.

However, unlike her husband, her goal of preserving her family legacy drives her to crime. Harbouring wrath from her childhood in which she fell into poverty, Jones recreated her mother's unethical work, killing three innocent high school students, confining their living brains in jars, and attempting to frame another student. Marrying her husband for his wealth and not out of love, as well as attempting to essentially kill his own son, she can be described as one of the most heartless villains encountered by Velma, Fred, Norville, and Daphne across all incarnations, showing no signs of empathy or compassion towards any other person and going to especially-extreme lengths to achieve her goals.

Powers and abilities

• Hypnosis: Learning the ability from her father, Jones is a skilled hypnotist and is capable of manipulating her victims in many different ways. She is able to induce psychedelic hallucinations in her victims in response to particular stimuli, as well as completely brainwashing others into being completely subservient to her. Her abilities do not seem to be limited to certain victims, as it works on both children and adults, and their effects also do not appear to wear off, with the longest hypnotic state achieved being two years. Furthermore, while her father's hypnosis can be nullified with the snapping of a finger, Victoria's hypnotic abilities do not appear to have this weakness.
• Marksmanship: Victoria is capable of brandishing and shooting a handgun, being able to fire it with relative accuracy.
• Ghost physiology: As a ghost, Victoria had special abilities.
  • Invisibility: Victoria cannot be visibly perceived by other human beings, existing only in Norville's mind. This led Norville to believe her to only be a hallucination. She was only revealed to be a ghost due to Amber's spiritual abilities.
  • Intangibility: As a ghost, she can pass through solid objects and even other people. However, she is capable of controlling what she can and cannot touch, as she is still able to touch Fred.
  • Teleportation: Victoria is able to transport from place to place, seemingly in no time at all.
  • Levitate: Victoria can levitate a short height above the ground, though she has not been seen flying.
  • Possession: Victoria can inhabit other people's bodies. However, she cannot control other people's bodies without the other person's soul being removed from the body as a ghost. This is because the human brain cannot handle being inhabited by two souls at once.

History

Early life

Victoria Meeting was the daughter of General Harry Meeting of the United States Army. During her childhood, her father was the main contributor in Project SCOOBI, an inhumane human experiment involving brain transplants. However, when Harry's partner, Dr. Edna Perdue, later hid her work and ended her collaboration with General Meeting, the project failed and Meeting's family was driven into poverty. In order to regain her wealth, Victoria married William Jones, the wealthy CEO of Jones Gentleman's Accessories, helping establish the business as a wealthy international corporation.

When she gave birth to her only son, Fred Jones, Victoria hoped Fred would eventually take over the family business. However, in his teenage years, Victoria became disappointed by her son's immaturity. Wanting to preserve her family's status, she decided to recreate her father's experiments with the ultimate goal of replacing Fred's brain with that of a more intelligent, charismatic person. She purchased Perdue's mansion, aware of her underground laboratory where she conducted her experiments. Upon discovering that Diya Dinkley had also been researching Perdue's work, Victoria used hypnosis learned from her father to brainwash Dinkley, commanding her to rebuild Perdue's laboratory. To prevent Dinkley's daughter, Velma, from becoming suspicious of her mother's disappearance, Jones also hypnotized Velma, causing her long-lasting psychotic effects triggered whenever she attempted to investigate.

Velma

Season one

Two years later, when the laboratory was fully-operational, Jones chose victims which she described as ambitious, status-conscious young women. Targetting two popular female students at Crystal Cove High School, she killed each of them by removing their brains with a saw. The first victim, Brenda, was found with her brain removed and stuffed in a changing room locker. The second victim, Krista, was found in a garbage can on the Dinkley residence's driveway. Both victims' brains were kept alive in sealed containers in her underground lair. The dead bodies, on the other hand, were placed in a way to frame Velma. However, this had unintended consequences as Velma would incorrectly accuse Fred of the crime, having him arrested in his home.

Jones collaborated with her husband, William, and hired lawyer Aman Dinkley to help prove Fred's innocence in court. They attempted to portray him as an immature child, making him appear too incapable to commit the crime. However, during the trial, Fred lost his temper in the courtroom and brandished a steak knife, threatening to harm others with it. For this, he was found guilty and given a prison sentence, embarrassing both of his parents and Aman alike.

To prove Fred's innocence, Jones decided to kill a third victim. Choosing Lola, Jones killed her in a similar fashion, also keeping her brain alive with that of Brenda and Krista. Her body was found by another student, and as Fred was in prison, the court ruled that he could not have committed the crime. Acknowledging he was wrongly convicted, he was exonerated and shortly released from prison.

For an unknown reason, Victoria decided to attempt to kill Carroll, a gang member and Daphne Blake's biological mother. However, her attack failed as Carroll defended herself, taking the pocket watch she used to hypnotize her victims during the tussle.

In an effort to improve the public image of their family business, Jones and her husband ordered Fred to attend the Fog Fest celebration, threatening to kick him out of the house if he was not voted Fog King. They forbade Fred from bringing Velma as his date, seeing her as an unsuitable partner for being unattractive and unpopular. Fred later brought another classmate, Daphne Blake. However, Victoria decided to attend the event herself, obscuring her face with a welding mask and threatening to attack the event attendees. However, after cornering Velma, she simply disappeared into the fog, leaving behind her cellphone. However, later during the event, she kidnapped Fred and imprisoned him in her lair.

Fred, along with the brains of Victoria's victims were later found in her lair by Velma, Norville, Gigi, and Daphne, who found after falling off the edge of a ravine. Fred ended up causing the entire lair to collapse, but the brains were recovered. The disembodied brains later returned to school and resumed normal life, though they remained separated from their bodies.

Later, when Daphne Blake offered to pretend to be in a relationship with Fred, Victoria encouraged them to do so in order to improve Fred's reputation. This caused Fred to go from being a social pariah to a well-respected individual.

Victoria unmasked.

Impressed with how effectively Daphne improved his reputation, Victoria offered her an internship position at her family business, where she would help promote the company's perfumes. However, Victoria decided she was an ideal victim to have her brain transplanted into Fred's body. She lured Daphne to her mansion by claiming Fred was caught in a scandal, sending a limousine to pick her up and take her to the mansion. Daphne was then knocked unconscious and brought to the laboratory, where Victoria, masked, prepared to place her brain into Fred's body. However, as Carroll sent the pocket watch to Daphne who later showed it to Velma, Velma figured out Victoria was the killer and stopped her in her lab. After a brief physical struggle, Victoria was knocked unconscious, bound, and unmasked. Despite being exposed for her crimes, she was rescued by her husband whom she hypnotized prior, who knocked Velma out and held Daphne at gunpoint.

Seeing her intelligence, Victoria decided to use Velma's brain instead of Daphne's. However, when Fred managed to free himself, Victoria attempted to set the laboratory on fire and escape. When Fred followed her to confront her, Victoria convinced him that she was possessed by Perdue's ghost. Attempting to kill Velma and Daphne, she held both of them at gunpoint. However, when Norville arrived at their aid, Victoria shot at him. However, Norville deflected the bullet, which instead hit a stalactite above Victoria, which fell on her, fatally impaling her.

Post-mortem

Velma, Fred, Norville and Daphne were all awarded keys to the city for stopping Victoria and exposing her for her crimes. Velma was reunited with her mother, and she later submitted her full case file to Sheriff Cogburn at the police station.

Season two

After her death, Victoria possessed her killer, Norville, so she could ensure Fred matures before she could move on to the afterlife. She was first seen tormenting Norville when he was speaking with his parents, where Victoria accused her of robbing Fred of a mother figure. Initially believing her to be an anxiety-induced hallucination, Norville attempted to treat his condition by electrocuting his brain as a science fair project. While the treatment temporarily incapacitated his hallucinations, the ghost returned after, with Norville's empathy also being temporarily nullified. With this idea failing, Amber, a follower of Wicca, suggested the hallucinations may be Victoria's ghost. During a Saturday detention, several students decided to hold a seance to communicate with Victoria's ghost. However, the seance failed, with Velma accusing Amber of fabricating the paranormal events.

Victoria then worked to help Fred mature. During a bus trip to Sacramento, she influenced Fred to bond with Norville, whom she deemed to be a strong role model for him. Later, when Velma was kidnapped by another serial killer, Scrappy, Victoria influenced Fred to bravely join the search efforts. However, Amber, hired by Perdue, identified Norville's hallucinations as the ghost. Victoria later appeared to the entire group in anger when she heard that her ex-husband, William, got engaged with Diya.

Victoria is dragged to Hell.

After Victoria explained her intentions, she attempted to possess Amber so she could hug Fred, helping him mature. However, this fails, as Amber's brain is unable to contain both their own and Amber's souls. So, she attempted to possess Fred so she could live in his body, with Fred having to live as a ghost. Fred, however, resisted Victoria's possession, fighting and standing up to her, and throwing her ghost out of his body. Deeming this to be a sign of Fred's maturity, Victoria decided that she could finally move on to Heaven. However, due to her immoral actions during her life, she was sent to Hell instead, Victoria thinks it was Fred's fault for getting into this mess. But that doesn't stop it for dragging Victoria into her eternal punishment.

Appearances

• Velma
  • 102. The Candy Man
  • 106. The Sins of the Fathers and Some of the Mothers ^{(in disguise)}
  • 107. Fog Fest
  • 108. A Velma in the Woods
  • 109. Family (Wo)man
  • 110. The Brains of the Operation
  • 201. The Mystery of Teen Romance ^(Ghost)
  • 202. Creaky Friday ^(Ghost)
  • 203. When Velma Met Money ^(Ghost)
  • 204. Seancé ^(Ghost)
  • 205. Burning Woman ^(Ghost)
  • 206. Private Velmjamin ^(Ghost)
  • 207. Female Utopia ^(Ghost)
  • 208. Aman Hunt ^(Ghost)
  • 209. The Real Villain ^(Ghost)

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Trivia

• Victoria Jones is one of the few villains in the Scooby-Doo franchise to be a serial killer.