Shaggy Rogers

Norville "Shaggy" Rogers is the deuteragonist of the Scooby-Doo franchise. He is a skinny teenager who solves mysteries with his friends and his best friend, a Great Dane named Scooby-Doo. Despite his hippie appearance he is the best athele in his high school.

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

Voices
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 portrayed Shaggy in the live-action films, Scooby Doo (2002) and Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004). He was played by Nick Platats in the live-action films, Scooby Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009) and Scooby Doo! Curse of The Lake Monster (2010).

Trivia

 * He is also the only character, besides Scooby, to be present in all alliterations of the Scooby-Doo francise.