Shaggy Rogers

Norville "Shaggy" Rogers is a fictional character from the American animated television series Scooby-Doo. One of the main members of Mystery Inc., he solves mysteries with his freinds and his best friend, the Great Dane, Scooby-Doo. He has a short goatee, a green v-shirt and brown bellbottom pants. Despite his hippie appearence he is the best athele in his high school. He is also the only character, besides Scooby, to be present in all alliterations of the Scooby-Doo francise.

Along with Scooby-Doo, Shaggy usually plays the part on the comic relief. Both characters are renowned for their cowardice. Dispite usually running from the monsters, he is very usefull as the gang uses Scooby and him to ferrett out the villians, as live bait. They are also both renowned for their eating abilites. Shaggy is also usefull in other ways. He is a very good ventriliquist, and is able to use this skill to lure villians into the opposite direction of where they are, sometimes into a storage room where they are then caught.

Shaggy was originally voiced by radio DJ Casey Kasem in the original series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, who also continued to voice him until his retirement in 2007. Shaggy was also voiced by Scott Innes and Billy West (1998-2003), as well as Scott Menville (Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue) and is currently voiced by Matthew Lillard, who potrayed Shaggy in the live-action films, Scooby Doo (2002) and Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.