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Franklin Wendell Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor with an extensive career spanning nearly six decades. As of 2021, Welker holds over 860 film, television, and video game credits, making him one of the most prolific voice actors of all time. With a total worldwide box-office gross of $17.4 billion, he is also the third highest-grossing film voice actor of all time. Welker is best known for voicing Fred Jones in the Scooby-Doo franchise since its inception in 1969, and Scooby-Doo himself since 2002. In 2020, Welker reprised the latter role in the CGI-animated film Scoob!, the only original voice actor from the series in the movie's cast. He has also voiced Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in Epic Mickey and its sequel, Megatron, Galvatron and Soundwave in the Transformers franchise, Shao Kahn and Reptile in the 1995 Mortal Kombat film, Curious George in the Curious George franchise, Garfield on The Garfield Show, Nibbler on Futurama, the titular character in Jabberjaw, Speed Buggy in the Scooby-Doo franchise, Astro and Orbitty on The Jetsons, Mushmouse on Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse, and various characters in The Smurfs as well as numerous animal vocal effects in many works. In 2016, he was honored with an Emmy Award for his lifetime achievement. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Welker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Corneria, Fourth planet of the Lylat System. The Evil Andross turned once thriving system into a wasteland of near extinction General Pepper of the Cornerian army was successfu in exiling this maniacl scientist to the barren deserted planet Venom. Five years later General Pepper knowticed strange activity coming from Venom. James McCloud, Pigma Denmar, and Peppy Hare of the Star Fox team were sent to investigate. Upon their arrival Pigma betrayed the team and James and peppy were captured by Andross Peppy barely escaped Venom and returned home to tell James' son Fox about his father's fate. A few years have passed Andross has again invaded the Lylat System General Pepper has turned to a new Star Fox Team headed by Fox McCloud to save Corneria and Free the Lylat System once again.
