Shark

The Shark is an antagonist from the 1934 Silly Symphony short Peculiar Penguins.
==Background==
===Personality===
The shark is shown to have a great appetite for nearby prey that arrives especially when it comes to penguins. HeWalt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series (page 148) would occasionally eat nearby prey that would often consider him to be a threat to all prey in a sadistic, yet hostile manner, such as the case of Polly Penguin, hinting that he is a very territorial shark. He is also shown to have a dislike to fish who humiliate him, especially after he swallowed the boulder from a cliff.
===Physical appearance===
The shark has a teal coloration located over his body with six black stripes that overlap the back of his body (including his dorsal fin and tail). He is also shown to have two yellow sinister eyes with two black pupils in it as well as having a pair of black eyebrows. He is also shown to have a white underside overlapping his belly, fins, and his head. As a common characteristic for most species of sharks in real life, he is shown to have sharp teeth protruding out of his mouth.
==Appearances==
===Peculiar Penguins===
The shark is first seen after Polly became furious of Peter after she ate a blowfish and then made her spit him out, causing her to become upset for giving her an unusual fish for her to eat and just as she uses a small icy platform to leave, she became unaware of a shark approaching her. The shark below her attempts to eat Polly in a sadistic manner, breaking the floating ice where she is sitting on as she chases her across the ocean. To Peter's worry, he puts his determination to save Polly from the hostile shark, only for the shark to corner her on another floating ice.
Just as the shark continues to destroy the floating ice, Peter defends Polly in battle by hitting the shark with a stick. To his anger, the shark continues to chase Peter across the ocean in an attempt to continue eating him, much to the other fish who are worried of the shark in the ocean. Just as Peter places a stick in the mouth, he and the other fish are almost eaten, but later arrives at a cliff where a boulder lies ahead. As the shark is about to eat Peter, he drops the boulder onto the shark, which he swallows, causing him to sink onto the bottom of the ocean, while some fish, a lobster, and a starfish retreat. As a result, the shark is unable to move, due to a boulder stuck in his underbelly, leaving him unable to swim while the other fish humiliate him, followed by Polly praising Peter for being a hero who saved her from the shark.
==Printed material==
The shark also appears in the book Peculiar Penguins (and its two-story collection Elmer Elephant plus Peculiar Penguins) as the villain of the story. In the story, Peter and Polly became aware of the shark when they heard the other penguins aware of a shark spotted in the ocean. Throughout the ambush, the shark began to chase Peter and attack him throughout the ambush. Just as the shark continues to chase Peter across the ocean, he attempted to eat Peter when he leapt onto an icy platform, but the shark hit himself on a large icicle, knocking himself out unconsciously. Later on, the penguins built a sailboat made of ice on the spot where the shark is unconscious, so they drifted the ice floe to send the shark away from Penguin Island, never to bother the penguins again.
==Trivia==
*In real life, sharks are not actually hostile to their prey, unlike the one seen in Peculiar Penguins. Sharks only attack their prey when they are provoked.
==Gallery==
Frightened polly.png|The shark chasing Polly
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==References==
Category:Sharks
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