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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.

Frank Welker

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for Sludge in Ultra Magnus: Shattered Phase 3: Movie 17
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After a Military Base had been destroyed by a robot that resembles Optimus Prime, the AutoBots are being put under suspension by the U.S. Government. Stating that they must either be working with the government and only do battle when allowed, or else they will have separate themselves from the AutoBot Team. Ultra Magnus thinks that fighting under control is not they way of a Soldier, that if they are not allowed, they won't fight battles that would still matter, and separates himself from the AutoBots and Optimus Prime. This creates a divide in the AutoBots, as Optimus's and Magnus's teams fight each other. All the while, this new threat is still pulling the strings, and causes havoc and chaos to the world, as well as spilt the AutoBots in Two. It is revealed at the end that this Optimus Prime CopyCat is an Evil Version named Nemesis Prime from a World where the AutoBots are Evil and the Decepticons are Good. The AutoBots decide to work together to stop these new threats. But in the end, this new threat still dosen't change anything between Optimus and Magnus and they decide to split the team. Optimus's Bots stay working with the government, and Magnus's Bots go on the Run.





