Scoobert "Scooby" Doo (also known as Scooby-Doo or Scooby for short) is the eponymous character and the protagonist in the Scooby-Doo animated television series created by the popular Hanna-Barbera franchise. Scooby-Doo is the pet and life long companion of Shaggy Rogers and in many iterations, including the original series, is regarded as a unique Great Dane dog who is able to speak in broken English, unlike most other dogs in his reality. Other incarnations, such as A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, present talking dogs like Scooby as quite common.