Mr. Wikles

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Mr. Wikles
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Species Human
Gender Male
Occupation Museum curator
Works for Museum
Father Not mentioned
Mother Not mentioned
Marital status Single
First appearance WAY: "What a Night for a Knight" (1969)
Played by Don Messick (1969)
Peter Boyle (2004)
Rob Paulsen (2004)
Dee Bradley Baker (2022)
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Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
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Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

Mr. Wikles, also spelt Mr. Wickles, is notable for being the first villain in the Scooby-Doo animated franchise. He was the county museum curator and dressed up as the Black Knight to scare visitors away during his art forgery scheme. His voice was originated by Don Messick.

There is also a live-action version called Jeremiah "Old Man" Wickles, who had served his time in prison after committing a crime in Coolsville as the Black Knight Ghost, and wanted to turn a shut down mining town into an amusement park. He also owned an ancestral mansion.

Character description

Wikles as the Black Knight.

Wikles is a fairly short, overweight and middle-aged man, with a balding head. He has lost the hair on top of his head, while the remaining hair has remained black. He wears a blue shirt, a black tie, and a brown overcoat, along with round and thick-framed black glasses. As the Black Knight, he wears a medieval armor with a heavy plating, yellow eyes, and a red plume on its helmet.

Wikles appears to be good-natured, as he told Mystery Incorporated of Professor Jameson Hyde White's disappearance. However, his claim would make him appear more suspicious by the gang during their investigation of the case.

Old Man Wickles has gray hair now and sticks out, and has some dementia, as he thinks the bushes are talking to him. He has a gruff persona and seems to have it out for Mystery Incorporated sending him to prison, but this isn't true. He has an interest in acting in plays as he wanted to play Eliza Dolittle in My Fair Lady while in prison. While in prison, he also formed a bitter rivalry with Doctor Jonathan Jacob. While Wikles served his sentence, Jacobo faked his death, and framed Wickles for turning the monster costumes into real ones.

In his eccentric behavior, he has set up traps for unwanted house calls that send the unsuspected victim through the doormat and into an electronically locked cage in the basement and have to wait until they can be released.

He has an uncharasteric interest in music as he has "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot on a phonograph.

Appearances

TV series

Movies

Specials

Shorts

Comics

Video games

Biography

Original Series

At the town's museum, Wikles thanked the gang for bringing the Black Knight ghost statue to him. He then tells the gang that they shouldn't have with the mysterious disappearance of the professor, and because of the legend that the Black Knight coming to life at the full moon.

He was eventually unmasked as the Black Knight, once the gang found out what his scheme at the museum was after they suspected him. He was working on counterfeit paintings and switching them for the real ones at the museum. Because Professor Hyde White was the only one who spotted the fake paintings Wikles made, he kidnapped the professor and made up the legend of the Black Knight to cover it up. During his forgery scheme, he would put on a suit of armor and scare people away from the museum.

Old Man Wickles

SCOOB!

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In a retold origin, the gang come together as younger children, and decide to solve mysteries together in their town, shown through a montage which includes foiling the Black Knight again, who is presumbly Mr. Wikles inside.[1]

Wikles in the Funny Books

Development

Toys and merchandise

Gallery

Behind the scenes

References