Oscar (Shark Tale)

Oscar is the main protagonist of ' 9th full-length animated feature film . He is a deluded, prideful, cool, street-talking rainbow tropical fish, who dreams of fame and fortune, and in order to achieve his goal, he fibs, saying that he slaughtered Frankie, the son of Don Lino and older brother of Lenny, which makes him the famous Sharkslayer.
He was voiced by , who also plays a fictionalized version of himself in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Mike Lowrey in the Bad Boys films, Steven Hiller in Independence Day, Agent J in the Men in Black film trilogy, Deadshot in Suicide Squad, Genie in the 2019 live-action remake Aladdin, Henry Brogan and Junior in Gemini Man, and Lance Sterling in Spies In Disguise. He is also voiced by Phil LaMarr in the film's tie-in video game .
== Personality ==
Oscar would prefer to run away from danger rather than fight it, but he's actually very caring and will do anything to protect his friends from danger. Due to a bunch of classmates poking fun at his father being a tongue-scrubber when he was a kid, he has a powerful desire to become famous, or a 'somebody' as he puts it. He has a long history of coming up with get-rich-quick schemes, which results in him owing a huge debt to Mr. Sykes. He also has no qualms about fibbing in order to make himself look good, as shown when he shamelessly fibs about slaughtering Frankie when questioned by Ernie & Bernie. Oscar likes to think of himself as a ladies man but is somewhat awkward around females, accidentally bumping into a pillar when trying to seduce Lola and stuttering when he tried to tell Angie how he felt about her.
Despite his scheming nature, Oscar is not particularly bright, being very much the kind of person who acts before he thinks; when he fibs about slaughtering Frankie, which makes him the Sharkslayer, it doesn't occur to him until much later (specifically, when Angie points it out to him) that the other sharks would not be best pleased about some random fish showboating about how he slaughtered one of their own. When Angie asks Oscar if he honestly thought he could get away with doing such a thing, he can only respond with a simple "Uh... yeah", confirming just how poorly he thought his plan through.
Because of his insecurities, Oscar is completely dense towards Angie's blatant romantic feelings for him until she anguished admits to him after seeing him kiss Lola, and calls him out for acting like everything in his old life wasn't good enough, her included. At the end of the film, he owes her an apology for never realizing that everything he ever wanted was in front of him the whole time. When she asks "What about being a somebody?", he replies "I'm a nobody without you." and the two reconcile.
Despite all of his faults, he proves himself to be a good person at heart. Even when he was living his lie and eventually lets his fame go to his head, Oscar still does good things, such as returning Angie's grandmother's pearl to her at his penthouse, showing that, deep down, he values the relationships that he has before becoming the Sharkslayer. He is also compassionate and open-minded, as he befriends Lenny and promises to not laugh at his secret. Despite his urge to laugh, he is rather accepting to Lenny revealing his vegetarianism, believing that sharks should accept him for who he is and be like him. Oscar also comforts Lenny when the latter blames himself for Frankie's death, saying that it's not his fault.
He also has great integrity, as whenever he finds himself in the wrong, he becomes dead set on setting things right for the people he cares about.
Additionally, despite lying about being the Sharkslayer, he proves to be courageous, as he manages to defeat Don Lino by trapping him in the whale washing machine and admits his lie to him.
==Biography==
Oscar is a professional tongue scrubber at his job the Whale Wash who doesn't seem to get much respect and seems to get himself into unwanted situations. In his youth, he admired his dad Earl's work at the Wash so much he decided to bring it to school for show and tell, only for the class to cruelly mock him. This tragic disaster caused Oscar to consider himself a loser and a "nobody". Since then, Oscar dreams to be rich and famous and to be a respected somebody. 
Arriving late for work one day, Oscar finds that he's already punched in on the time clock, and realizes he has been helped out by Angie, the angelfish receptionist and cashier at the Whale Wash (and harbors a secret unconditional crush on him). He stops by her office to thank her and chat, and exasperates her with his latest get-rich-quick-scheme: bottled water. Angie advises Oscar to just do his job "which, by some miracle, you still have." And Oscar leaves the reception booth.
As the day progresses, Oscar bemoans his existence shoveling slime in the gaping maw of an endless line of whales. A prank turns unpleasant when a whale is accidentally hit in the eye with a jet of soap and thrashes about in pain. Oscar closes the emergency clamps to hold the whale immobile and squeegees the soap from the whale's eye, shortly before Syke's jellyfish henchmen Ernie and Bernie arrive and hurl him into Sykes' office. To raise the cash to pay back Don Lino, Sykes demands that Oscar owes him five thousand clams, to be paid back by tomorrow. A shocked Oscar asks how he can possibly come up with that much money with so little time, but Sykes dismisses his worries and tells him to bring it to the racetrack tomorrow, or else. Oscar asks "Or else what?" to which Sykes responds "The boys'll explain." As Sykes leaves, Bernie stings Oscar in the eye as a warning.
That evening, Oscar mopes on Angie's balcony as she tends to his swollen eye, and tries to help him understand a few things. She can't understand why Oscar always gets himself into these situations, nor his obsession with trying to live at the top of the reef. Oscar recalls his late father, a tongue-scrubber at the Whale Wash for 25 years and how he admired his work so much he brought it to school, only for the class to cruelly mock him for it because it's technically not something to be enthusiastically proud of. After that, he desperately wanted to be a somebody. Angie tries to explain to him that he doesn't need to live at the top of the reef to be a somebody, and, feeling sorry for him, she tries to help him out by giving him a pink pearl – a precious gift from her grandmother. Oscar is reluctant to take such a valuable object from her, but Angie insists, saying it will get him the money he needs to pay back Sykes.
The next day, Oscar has pawned Angie's pearl and arrives at South Side Racetrack with the 5,000 clams, but becomes distracted in his dreams of fame. Hearing the race is rigged, Oscar instead foolishly bets all of Sykes' money on Lucky Day to win. The boldness of the wager attracts the attention of gold-digging femme-fatale Lola, When Sykes turns up with Ernie and Bernie, he is furious that Oscar has placed a bet with the money he is owed, and Lola, realizing that Oscar isn't the millionaire she imagined, quickly loses interest in him, and dismisses him, calling him a "cute but a nobody." Sykes brings Oscar to watch the race and everything seems smooth sailing and Lucky Day is pulling ahead of the horses, when suddenly the horse trips on the finish line and the race is lost. Oscar sees his dreams of begin rich and famous evaporate, and Sykes, inflating in anger, tells Ernie and Bernie to find the deepest, darkest hole in the ocean.
Ernie and Bernie take Oscar out into the wasteland surrounding the reef, and, with Oscar tied to a rock, torture him with their glowy stingers. At the same time, Frankie and Lenny approach from the direction of Lino's ship. Frankie tells Lenny it doesn't come any easier than this, and instructs him to eat Oscar. Ernie and Bernie flee as Lenny approaches. Lenny psyches himself up to eat Oscar, but can't go through with it, and tries to fake it by biting through Oscar's ropes and thrashing his tail to stir up a cloud of silt to hide Oscar's escape. But Oscar is confused by Lenny's attempt to con Frankie into thinking he actually killed something. Because of Oscar's slight confusion, Lenny's plan with pretending he ate him didn't work. Furious and fed up with Lenny's usual tenderness, Frankie tries to attack Oscar himself when suddenly, an anchor falls on top of him, crushing him to death. Lenny swims off distraught, leaving Oscar along with Frankie’s body when Ernie and Bernie return. Realizing he can become famous, Oscar lets them believe he killed the shark.
Oscar returns to the city with a new title of the Sharkslayer. Sykes becomes his manager, Lola becomes his girlfriend, and Oscar moves to the "top of the reef" to live in luxury. When several sharks get close to Oscar's neighborhood, Oscar's neighbors expect him to drive them away. When Oscar runs into Lenny, Lenny (who does not wish to return home) forces Oscar to let him stay with him since he is aware of Oscar's lie, and that he can spread the word that Oscar is actually a fake with being what he's known as. Soon, Angie finds out about the lie from Lenny, Oscar and Lenny convince her to keep it confidential, to which she does but she is heartbroken by Oscar's dishonesty.
With Don Lino planning revenge, Oscar and Lenny stage an event in which Lenny pretends to terrorize the town and Oscar must defeat him throwing him into the depths of the ocean. Then Lola forcefully kisses Oscar in front of the cameras causing Angie to leave in anger, jealousy and sadness. Angie furiously argues with Oscar over his lies and fame. Oscar defends his lie as being his only true source of happiness in life, claiming that no one cared about him or had any regard for him before he put it out, but Angie finally confessing that she'd always loved him, "before the money, and before the fame", especially before the great white lie. Angie then tells Oscar that to her he was a somebody and didn't care what anyone else thought, but now she sees him as nothing but a "fake, sham, con and a joke." Oscar, deeply hurt tries to say something, but Angie tells him to just go away as she is "tired of hearing about "how everything you had in your life wasn't good enough; including me." Oscar sadly swims out of the warehouse, while Angie weeps and Lenny tries to comfort her.
As Oscar sadly swims around the reef that night, he sees how much his lie has affected him far more than he'd intended it to. He sees the Shorties and Crazy Joe laughing. Oscar remembers how fun the bottom of the reef was like and how he still enjoys it. He then looks at his penthouse and his smile quickly fades. He then sadly enters his penthouse ignoring the party inside and shuts the balcony door behind him. When Lola comes out on the balcony Oscar rethinks his feelings and dumps Lola due to the way she was just into him to become ritch herself which unfortunately, leads to her great fury, as she mercilessly whacks Oscar against the windows, before sulking away.
The next day, Oscar buys some Valentine's Day gifts for Angie, but before he can present them to her, he finds that Don Lino has kidnapped Angie to force a sit-down. Lenny comes along now disguised as a dolphin named Sebastian. They arrive at the meeting with the sharks scared of him due to what they still know him as; he also ends up coming across Lola (who obviously arranged the whole thing) once again, while Angie is tied up and gagged and presented to Don Lino on a plate who prepares to eat her if Oscar doesn't comply. 
In response, Oscar has Lenny (disguised as a dolphin) to grab Angie and eat her on the spot (grabbing her in her mouth, but not swallowing), but Lenny begins choking and vomits Angie out. Lenny's disgust in fish causes Lino to recognize his youngest son. Lenny in defeat, sheds his dolphin disguise. Lino, however is embarrassed of the situation and accuses Lenny of "taking sides against the family". When Oscar tries to defend Lenny by saying it's really between him and Lino, the latter asks what he could ever have done to Oscar. Lino accuses Oscar of killing Frankie, then "turning Lenny into a dolphin". At this, the shark father's sadness quickly turns to fury, and he begins to chase Oscar out of the shipwreck, snapping his jaws at him.
Oscar leads Lino towards the Whale Wash. He pulls down a lever to trap him into a whale clasping device, only to discover that he trapped Lenny by mistake. Lino continues to chase Oscar. Eventually, Oscar subdues Lino by trapping him into another machinery, leaving him face to face with Lenny.
As a crowd cheers Oscar on, a disappointed Angie begins to leave believing Oscar will CONTINUE to live under a lie. Oscar can't take it anymore and finally confesses the truth that he lied about being a Sharkslayer, and an anchor killed Frankie. Lino asks Lenny why he never returned home if there never was any Sharkslayer. Lenny responded "You always wanted me to be like Frankie. I'll never be the shark you want me to be." Oscar gives Lino a speech of how everybody accepts Lenny's behavior and asks why Lino can't do the same. He warns Lino against making the same mistake he made. Remorseful, Lino asks Oscar to free him so he can reconcile with Lenny. He then makes a truce with the reef. Angie, amazed that Oscar confessed, forgives him and kisses him. When Katie Current asks Oscar what's next for him after he lost everything he lied about, Oscar looks very thoughtful.
Oscar forsakes all the wealth he has acquired, makes peace with the sharks, becomes co-manager of the Whale Wash (now frequented by sharks, killer whales, and swordfish), and starts dating Angie and enjoys a happy, honest life as he and Angie dance on the Whale Wash sign.
==Skills==
*High Intelligence: During the film, Oscar has a very good tendency towards coming up with ideas and set goals for his life. As he attempts in getting rich by borrowing money from scheming Sykes on his advanced payments in working at the whale wash, after irresponsibly spending and losing the $5,000 clams and getting dragged to the bottom of the ocean which led him to be chased by Frankie who died by an anchor falling on him for Oscar to make up a story to con art himself as a Sharkslayer. Then when realizing Frankie was the son of the Shark mafia leader Don Lino, he sends his sharks after him but goes to Lenny to help keep both their covers from being blown by fake fight in front of the reef ‘em which was a success as the group of sharks fled away. Until he had come to the conclusion of how being a fake wasn’t meaningful to him, realizes he loves Angie and dumps Lola who in revenge made an arrangement with the mob to get Angie captured as bait to set up a sit down with Oscar which he attends to rescue her. Moments later during the sit down, Lino chases him throughout the sea and towards the whale wash for Oscar to use for defense against the latter by turning on the soup which briefly irritates him to pull back and trap him on the restraints that fails after Lenny was in it and Lino sneaks behind Oscar yo continue going after him. However when a machine blows bubbles that lifts Oscar above the water to dodge from Lino bitting him, he sees the scrubbers all assemble he strategizes to lure Lino into the middle hole of them giving himself to advantage to use the controls to completely have the mob shark at bay.
*Physical Strength: While not presented much in the film, during the game Oscar possesses an impressive feat of strength capable of punching a great white shark in the chine with an uppercut that causes its whole body to flip backwards.
* Physical Speed: Being a fish himself, he can move rather quickly as he's swimming.
*Acrobatics: To be added
*Underwater Swimming: As a fish, he can swim at a very fast pace that allows him an advantage to use in dangerous situations.
==Trivia== 
*Many people dislike Oscar because they feel his egocentric nature makes him unsympathetic and remorseless. However, his actions in the second half of the movie lead to his character growth and present him in a more heroic light, in which he saves Angie, defeats Don Lino using his wits, helps Lenny reconcile with Don Lino, owns up his mistakes, and puts to an end to the war between the fishes and the sharks, bringing peace to Reef City in the process. All of these acts make Oscar a hero regardless of his many faults.
*Oscar may be similar to Flik and Osmosis Jones, being rejected by others, and trying to save everybody from a menace (although Oscar lied about being the "Sharkslayer").
*Oscar was originally called Michael, according to Tony Siruno (character design).
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