The Bull Shark

The **Bull Shark** is the main protagonist of the 2020 action role-playing shark video game, Maneater. Although the shark on the cover of the game looks like a Great White, it's actually an abnormally large female Bull Shark. Born a pup in Fawtick Bayou Port Clovis, the shark navigates throughout all the water ways around the city. After fighting off many apex predators, hunting down Scaly Pete (the shark hunter who murdered her mother), and defeating the evolved apex predators (including M.O.L.O.C.H.) from Plover Island, the Bull Shark becomes the true apex predator of Port Clovis.

## Biography

One day, local shark hunter Pierre LeBlanc, or "Scaly Pete", killed one of the presumably last remaining bull sharks in the area, a pregnant female. After Pete kills the mother bull, he pulls out a pup, throws it into the water after marking it to identify her next time he sees her (but not before she bites off his hand), and the pup sets on a quest to find Scaly Pete and eat him alive while trying to survive in her aquatic world.

Growing up in Fawtick Bayou, the pup eventually grows into a teen, where it ventures to Dead Horse Lake and fights its first Apex, the Barracuda. After that, the shark travels to Golden Shores and becomes an adult to fight the Apex Mako before returning to Fawtick Bayou to defeat Rosie, the Apex Alligator.

Both of them defeated and continuing to grow, the large bull shark moves on to Sapphire Bay and kills the Apex Hammerhead. From there, the bull reaches level 20, though has to fight Scaly Pete to become an Elder. Attempting to kill Pete, she instead gives Pete a 3rd degree burn on his face and kills Pete's son, Kyle LeBlanc. Additionally, she also is scared on her left face.

The bull shark becomes an elder and journeys to Prosperity Sands to kill the Apex Great White. Following that, she finally grows up into a a 9-metre-long Mega bull shark and goes to Caviar Key and kills Mahana, the Apex Orca, or Apex Killer Whale. Finally reaching the Gulf, the largest area in the game, the Bull Shark kills the Apex Sperm Whale. Scaly Pete prepares a World-War-II era vessel to kill the shark, though fails and dies himself.

However, the shark survives and returns to the Grotto. Having finally won the battle, the Bull Shark now becomes the ultimate apex predator of Port Clovis.

## Characteristics

Starting out as a 1.1 m (3 ft.) long pup and eventually growing into a mega beast of a shark measuring 10 m (32 ft.) in length, the Bull Shark is truly nature's most vicious killing machine. As the shark grows up into teen, adulthood, elder, and Mega, it will require evolution sets and abilities as it progresses through the game. There are three complete evolution sets. They include Bio-Electric, Shadow, and Bone.

The Bio-Electric Set will make the shark appear blue along with fins, tail, and head as well as teeth. The electric body will allow the Bull to evade with an electric jump as the electric tail sends an electric shockwave to stun enemies and do more boat damage. Bio-Electric Teeth can be used to give prey and other predators a mighty shock upon biting them. The sets are unlocked after defeating Port Clovis' top 10 bounty hunters.

The Shadow Set will make the shark appear dark purple with all of its parts. Shadow Teeth allows the shark to re-heal itself as it grabs on to prey and eats them. The shadow head can also provide some head protection during combat, especially with stronger predators. The Shadow Tail will create a wave of black venom, covering any animal and blinding them for a few seconds. The sets are unlocked after discovering landmarks in specific regions which they're located in.

The Bone Set is quite possibly the strongest form of the Bull Shark. Every bone part provides the shark with a lot of protection during combat and makes it feel very powerful and resilient. Bone teeth works very effectively on stronger predators and prey, allowing it to thrash them more easily and Bone Tail packs a bigger punch during combat with other sharks, orcas, and Sperm Whales. The sets are unlocked after beating the Apex Predators.

Aside from these, the Bull Shark also possesses additional abilities, or Evolution Organs, that it receives from killing bounty hunters sent to kill it. One by one, the shark gains abilities such as advanced Bio-Sonar, Reinforced Cartilage, Amphibiousness, etc.