Mr. Wikles
| Mr. Wikles | |
|---|---|
 | |
| 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) Nicholas Braun (2024) |
 Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed | |
 Velma | |
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 shutdown mining town into an amusement park. He also owned an ancestral mansion.
In the Max adult series Velma, he is a deceased teenager from the 1980s called Geoff "PT" Wickles, who dressed up as a black knight on one Halloween. After existing as a ghost for decades, he was inadvertently returned to his body, but since it had been at the bottom of the ocean, he was turned into a zombie.
Character description
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 medieval armor with heavy plating, yellow eyes, and a red plume on his 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 to the gang during their investigation of the case.
Old Man Wickles has gray hair now that 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 uncharacteristic interest in music as he has "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot on a phonograph.
In Velma, Geoff Wickles is a nerd who was nicknamed "Peeping Tom."
Appearances
TV series
- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold
- 2.25B "Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!" (Black Knight costume only)
- Supernatural
- 13.16 "Scoobynatural" (mentioned as Black Knight only)
- Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
- 1.16 "One Minute Mysteries!" (no lines)
Movies
- Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
- Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (opening credits, no lines)
- Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost (Black Knight statue)
- Scoob! (as Black Knight only, no lines)
- Trick or Treat, Scooby-Doo!
Specials
Shorts
- "Lego Scooby-Doo! and the Tag-Sale Clue" (as the Black Knight only)
- "Lego Scooby-Doo! in Donuts Save the Day!" (no lines)
- "Lego Scooby-Doo! in Doorway Debacle" (as the Black Knight only, no lines)
- "Lego Scooby-Doo! in Wicked Warehouse Pursuit" (as the Black Knight only, no lines)
- Scooby-Doo! Mini Mysteries
- 1.1 "Big Screen" (as the Black Knight only, no lines)
- 1.2 "The Line Up" (photo of Black Knight only)
Comics
- Scooby-Doo... Where Are You!
- Issue #1A: "What a Night for a Knight"
- Scooby-Doo
- Issue #48: "Tiki Taboo Trouble" (photograph of Black Knight only)
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 comes 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!
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 presumably Mr. Wikles still inside.[1]
Wikles in the Funny Books
Development
Toys and merchandise
Gallery
Black Knight model sheet for Mask of the Blue Falcon.
Behind the scenes
- His character design was later used for one of the scientists in the Josie and the Pussycats episode "Never Mind a Master Mind."
- The video games, Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights and Scooby-Doo! Unmasked, had variations of the Black Knight, now as a boss and minion, respectively.
- The Black Knight appeared in the TV special Lego Scooby-Doo! Knight Time Terror, but it was the disguise of Kyle Grimsley, instead of Mr. Wickles, even though Lego was selling minifigures of Mr. Wickles as the Black Knight.
