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There is two ways that he could me looking at them. 1. He wanted to eat them so bad. 2. He feels jealous and he wants to have a friendship as strong as their's.
It's a testament to the strength of the film. What should be a normal summer cookie cutter comic book movie turned out to be a micro character study on real mental and psychological issues and the toll it takes on people. Apply real legit mental health issues to meta humans and you can see the real dangers AND beauty of people who want to be loved and heard. I may be looking into more than I should but I like a movie that can be fun and tackle real issues without coming across heavy handed. Now if you'll excuse me I need to go get fitted for my fake mustache.
The rats saving the day was a great analogy of the suicide squad itself. These despised creatures are something no one would want to see until they are helping them; the squad were villains and did terrible things, but came together and chose to save the city because even they don’t stoop that low
And add to that the final moment with Bloodsport and Sebastian - if the rats are a metaphor for the Squad themselves, then his learning to accept Sebastian and comfort him is his learning to accept himself and accept that *he* deserves to be shown affection and love.
Yeah, but... those are the hazards of the universe. You never know when that "peace" is interrupted by a hostile race. Or more generally speaking, when fate takes a mean turn.
Considering Nanue is bullet proof and has never been hurt before, the fish are probably the first time he's been physically hurt. In tge same way he's hurt others.
@@toomanyaccounts His skin isn't kevlar so it's not really comparable. Whatever those fish are they probably have some special teeth or something else that helped them get through his skin. And they could've shoved the bomb in his nose, his mouth or up his ass.
@@adoboflakes8473 the bomb is implanted the same place. shark skin is tough. why do you think it was used as a sandpaper substitute and why the leather is one of the toughest out there.
@@toomanyaccounts Bruh we aren't talking about regular sharks. We're talking about a fictional bullet proof (possibly a demigod) half man half shark and you're comparing him to a regular shark. Are we even on the same page?
I personally like that the first two interactions with King Shark he is trying his best to make a good impression. They come in while he's "reading" a book, and then during the briefing he wants to join the discussion raises his hand and says "hand" and getting congratulated by Waller. You see him nodding back like "yeah I'm cool"
I liked that little nod that Shark made in the briefing, too. It’s like he was thinking, “Yeah, I know what’s going on, too.” I think Waller has been constantly dealing with enough deluded idiots in the squad, that she’s regretting the whole thing. That look on her face when she’s in her office with the ice pack on her head made me wonder. Is that a, “Where am I going to bury those goons that just took me down with a 9-iron,” look, or a, “I knew I should’ve called in today. Called in, ordered takeout, and not dealt with any of this *insanity*.”
I mean for reference... King Shark alone in this movie has more real character development than every character in the last Suicide Squad movie combined.
i think Diablo had a very interesting character arc. one of my favorite lines of his was "Im a man, i aint no weapon. Ima die in peace before i raise my hands again"
I think King Shark has more happen in his arc, than in most of the Marvel AND DC movies put together. I was shocked at how much depth they gave a throw away character like him. My best friend always talked shit about the King Shark character whenever he showed up in some place or another. She wasn't talking shit after the movie. This whole movie was like how Steven Darabont described Bladerunner: "Bladerunner was like this huge gift box that someone gives you, and you open it and the gift itself is THIS SMALL (gestures with both hands like he's holding a walnut). It's not that the gift isn't precious, it's just that the two don't go together." Basically, what I'm trying to say about Suicide Squad is that this movie looked UGLY in the trailer, and I was revolted by the character designs, and just how washed out the imagery was. Then I saw the movie, and the tag line "from the beautifully ugly mind of James Gunn . . .", made complete sense. With one poignant point he made overall about beautiful presents can come from ugly places, he immediately all encompassed the entirety of its characters and themes with that sentiment, in a myriad of ways. It's like an onion, peel after peel brings so much. This is possibly the greatest of the superhero genre, at this present moment.
@@Cam-vs4fd was that really an arc though? or was that just his character showing through the film? the character development you're referring to is going from a dangerous burny burny man to someone who refuses to hurt people, but i thought that happened off screen in the past with his family. unless im missing stuff that happened during the film, thats backstory, not character arc
king shark arc is how the world looks at great white sharks... mistaken as a creature on the hunt for humans.... while shark experts know they are not. there is a similarity to it.
I like the thought that the sharks everyone mentioned being assholes were those trash talkers on 360 CoD, but each encompassing one of the many repetitive things they say, like hammerheads call you trash, bull sharks sleep with peoples moms, and tiger sharks think everyone is hacking.
Sharks are harmless Mostly because why the hell would you go to the ocean in the first place But also because humans aren't really their food I think there was only reports of about 8 deaths from shark attacks and all of those are from bleeding out, not eaten No shark has ever eaten a human person before
You should maybe talk about peacemaker and his denial of the wrongdoings he commits, how he tells himself he does these things for a right cause but you can tell he doesn’t know himself.
That's not true.He has his ideals and he sticks to them.What is a wrong decision for you may not(and its probably not)for him. You should try to see the things from is POV. Also,the "bad things" he does like killing Flag,he's completely aware of that however is ideals are so strong he sticks to them no matter what. For him,releasing the disc would bring even more death than the one that was necessary so he HAD to kill Flagg to protect whay he believe. That's also why he wasnt the one chosen to lead the team,Bloodsport was in Waller's hand because of his daughter however Peacemaker could have easily turned on her if the mission entered in conflict with his ideals
The thing about Peacemaker, is that he is so committed to peace, that he, an actual pacifist, embraces extreme violence as the way to bring about that peace. He will literally do anything, no matter how terrible or abhorrent. He is very much a "the ends justify the means" type person.
If they go with his comic book origin, he's got problems on top of problems. If they make up a new one like they did with Polkadot instead, it will be fun to see where they go with him in his new series.
I always appreciated how the most loathed of creatures (rats) ended up saving the day. I suppose there's a parallel between that and the suicide squad themselves.
I like how Waller acknowledged and complimented him when all he said was hand. Despite being so cynical and jaded she knows how to get the best out of her team.
Dammit, now I'm going to have to watch it, because it sounds like Mr. Gunn is in rare form. He does have a knack for humanizing characters, literally in this case, considering that teammates where on the menu for Mr. Shark prior to that entire affair. It is kind of funny that big things for James in his superhero flicks are family, found family, and friends, when those tropes are usually in short supply in most action flicks. Like Yondu's arc in the Guardians movies. "He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn't your daddy." That bit hit me in the feels.
@@ryancols If we're being perfectly honest, he seems to be getting better as time goes, and while his last 5 flicks have all been rather good, his most recent effort stands head and shoulders above the rest in my opinion.
I kinda thought the point of this scene was for King Shark to learn empathy for Ratcatcher2. Initially, she trusted him, but he tried to eat her, then he trusts the small creatures, but they try to eat him. After this, he can appreciate the disappointment Ratcatecher2 must have felt in for him initially. And of course the moral of the story is friends don't eat friends!
King Shark was undoubtedly my favorite character as well. when he said "I no friends" and then later when he was alone in the bus while everyone else was having the time of there lives in the club both made me so sad.
Ratcatcher 2 was my fav due to some of the same moments 😊 also ha the polka dots man stuff with his mother would make another interesting video, huh? 😅
you skipped over one split second scene (that i only noticed my second or third time watching) that i think is hugely important - when the "new dumb friends" attack, Nanaue's *real* friends (the Squad) swim toward him to try to save him, risking their own lives in the process. when the building is collapsing, you can see Harley trying to pull those creatures off of him. if they hadn't tried to help him, i expect he probably would have written off the idea of friendship altogether, but since they put themselves in danger to save him, it made him appreciate his real friends even more.
I love this version of King Shark so much, he’s so adorable no one can dislike him, which I think is really amazing, I feel like Nanaue could be the Lucas the Spider for people who are afraid of sharks and help them with their phobia with how adorable he is. :)
What I love is how nowadays, they manage to make so many versions of King Sharks which are pretty distinct and yet manage to hit the right spots. King Shark seems to have become this kind of character where you just do something new.
"Doesn't make for a good team environment. Doesn't build morale" Your deadpan humor warms my heart. Skipped this movie after watching the last Suicide Squad, as that one was lacking...and this one had...shall we say...less calories? Suicide Squad-light? So all I know of it is what you have shared with us, Georgia Dow. And it does indeed seem to be a somewhat touching set of scenes. A pack of wolves once tried to eat me, but I don't know how they feel about it now. They never call, they never write. One thought: Perhaps his experience with supposed friends trying to eat him, helped him realize how bad a friend would feel if HE tried to eat THEM? "Friends should not eat friends."
@@MarvelX42 Oh! I see. Thank-you! So...I take it then that in the movie King Shark...ignores...table manners? And has a severe lack of cleaning up after himself? I imagine the rest of them are violently messy too. Tsk.
@@MarvelX42 I believe you! That would ruin it for me too! I took advanced makeup (besides acting directing etc.) in university, so I know how to do wounds, and I understand the process...but a lot of movies just take it too far. Sorry you experienced that...
Daniela's raspy / cute-pitchy voice helps alot aswell to capture the moments that barely lasts a few seconds. And SLY's voice is just perfect, Sly is the best when he get's a funny role to play.
The lore in the books King Shark's father was the Pacific god of sharks. He grew up on a island with only his mother who was a human as company till she died.
Nanaue was my favorite by far the sheer joy in the “new dumb friends AHUHA” and the sheer confidence he has in wearing a fake mustache and the disappointment in his voice with the FUCK had me laughing and falling in love with Nanaue and I was going to boycott the next James Gunn movie if they killed him with those little evil colorful bastards
I loved how King Shark tried to fit in among the group by acting like he was just as smart as them. Reading a book, the fake mustache, etc. I also loved how after being told Ratcather wasn’t Nom Nom, he asks not only the group what is Nom Nom, but himself too. You can really see this after the final fight when he asks the group “Nom Nom?” while pointing at one of the bodies.
Even i too thought the same. When he tried to make friend with those creatures they started eating him and he fell down from the building and every started shooting at him. At that moment i realised his innocence was gone and he turned into an full on predator.
Nah. It wasn't gone. I think it enabled him to appreciate the friends he has, or at least he's not as naive as before and can better recognise real friendship.
I love that we live in a world where scenes and concepts from movies and games are so thoroughly deconstructed and analyzed. It's a nice reminder of why I love the world of fiction, where friendship is real and the good guys win.
He even sheds a tear once he is on the ground before the soldiers start shooting him, he was really sad his new friends turned on him like that. It is hard to tell since there is water but you can clearly see a tear fall down his cheek/nose. I too felt bad for him when that happened but like you said the fact he still kept trying even after that shows he has grown.
The one scene that also broke my heart was when the Squad were all partying having a good time in the club and he was just sitting in the car all by himself!! :’( Like at least have someone go check on him or something lol Poor Nanaue
You know this is a brilliant movie when a professional therapist feels the need to comment on the character arc for the shark man who was advertised as the big dumb comic relief.
I left a comment on another video analyzing king shark that one of the reasons we as the audience love him so much is most of the time we see him we see him through rat catchers eyes and that she adores him from start to finish from the second she meets him to the final scene she looks at him as if she's already fallen in platonic love with him
Really like this video, thanks for explaining some of these things. I hope they keep going with the Suicide Squad movies, so much potential for exploring more complex characters. Could you do some stuff on the Peaky Blinders series? If you haven't seen it, I think you would LOVE it due to the subtle emotional complex depth of Thomas Shelby.
My Sleepy self woke up at 4 am and couldn't get back to sleep, so I went to youtube. I saw the thumbnail and thought it said King Shark: The Rapist reacts.
I found myself thinking that the jelly=blennies were okay with him from behind the glass and in their little minds their mimicry was a bluff. When he took off running they were probably thinking "Yay! We won!! We chased him away!!!" Glass barrier removed and they went into a collective defense frenzy.
you almost forgot about the part where after everyone turns against waller he goes “where go, friends?” showing that despite what he just went through he still sees the squad as his friends
I'd say Ratcatcher 2 was my favorite character, her life was pretty similar to mine, except for the loving parent part. I formed a bond with the mice living everywhere in the place I grew up in
Those little bastards run the Cute Puppy Con. To paraphrase Guy from Galaxy Quest "They look cute and cuddly now, but pretty soon, they won't be so cute anymore and there's gonna be a million more of them."
What? Not a word about when they are driving in the van and King Shark stares longingly at couples on the street and when he is left alone in the van while everyone else is partying up in the bar? (Thought those two short clips said more about him than the whole rest of his scenes)
I think she took a survival gamble, personally. He did literally just try to eat her. It's the concept of; you suddenly find yourself in a cell with the biggest baddest bubba in the whole prison. You'd better try to make friends, cause you have to sleep sometime. So she tries to get him to empathize. She can't overpower or even outrun him for long, since they're forced to remain in proximity as a team. It's really the only card she can play, unless she wants to die of sleep deprivation instead.
I just finished this great playlist, and what can I say: thank you very much. This is my all time favorite movie and I always find it a little frustrating to hear people just say "it's a fun movie with good action scenes", when in fact Gunn's real strength is to tell the story of these seven (eight with Starro) outsiders who, after a life of manipulation, must learn to become independent. I hope Gunn does more spin offs, at least du Harley and Ratcatcher II.
after nanaue fell out of jotunheim he started to tear from his left eye right after he hit the ground and that just hurt to see followed by the soldiers shooting him
To Georgia, not sure if you've seen the original frankenstein but Nanaue is very reminicent of him. Between frankenstein and bride of frankenstein,with Boris Karloff, it's a great look into this type of character.
Nanaue's happy laugh when he legitimately thought those jellyfish things were his new friends is heart breaking to hear now. 🥺 I just wanted him to be happy. "New dumb friends! A-haha! haahhaaa..." 😭
2:26 the whole tank scene is a thin nostalgia reference to the First Blood (first Rambo movie). During that movie Sylvester Stallone (Rambo) is In cave that has flood. While he is trying to find his way out, rat's attack him from everywhere. As a matter In fact Rambo In that movie is alone abandoned by soceity with his mental issues, from the war. So kind of like King Shark story: Alone, no friends, doesn't fit...
Bruh king shark was the character i related to the most and i got worried reading the title, i mean watching the video didn't really change much since i related to it just as much having the exact same mental thought processes that she explained in the video from similar life experiences, but at least i know its normal, and hey maybe i'll have a similar character arc to king shark, not really betting on it, fish nets (sorry rhyme)
I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw the subtle emotional complexity of King Shark. Most are just going to view him as the big dumb guy on the team but Gunn and Stallone really nailed on giving Nanaue a touching background character arc that I think deserves more credit. I also really related to Nanaue so maybe that helped in me spotting these things. One-shot that really got to me was when he's on the ground, he lets out a tear because the little creatures betrayed him. Then when the soldiers began unloading on him, his reaction was to simply curl up and take it. That is just heartbreaking, he's like a little kid suffering abuse and he doesn't understand why. Again...I related to him. So I cheered him on when he finally snapped and murdered that one soldier. Another one that I know a lot of people will mostly view for comedy is his scene with Peacemaker. He makes the little figure out of the explosive and it's cute and humorous but when he turns around after planting it, he's left alone in the room. Poor guy was just trying to be a good friend and he looks so sad standing there alone like that.
He's actually confused since Bloodsport already told him the answer. So he has to think wait no thats wrong and it can be hard when people all ready decide what who and how just by looking at you. Plus he's a predator with roughly the mind of a toddler who's only known spite and distrust.
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Great video and breakdown, King Shark is a sweet boy!
King shark for the win he had a rough start but it worked out in the end :)
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That brief shot of King Shark wistfully watching a happy couple from the van tells us everything important.
That he was wanting to eat them
There is two ways that he could me looking at them.
1. He wanted to eat them so bad.
2. He feels jealous and he wants to have a friendship as strong as their's.
he needs a Queen Sharkess
that scene was the most beautiful and pure thing ive seen in a while
@@ruzahel6287 he has a scientist who became an humanoid orca
I love that a therapist is reacting to an anthropomorphic shark who’s most memorable lines are “nom nom” and “bird.” Lol nice video
And "hand"
So smart me. book enjoy so much. NEW DUMB FRIENDS heehhee
It's a testament to the strength of the film. What should be a normal summer cookie cutter comic book movie turned out to be a micro character study on real mental and psychological issues and the toll it takes on people. Apply real legit mental health issues to meta humans and you can see the real dangers AND beauty of people who want to be loved and heard. I may be looking into more than I should but I like a movie that can be fun and tackle real issues without coming across heavy handed.
Now if you'll excuse me I need to go get fitted for my fake mustache.
@@lengendofthecrane9992 totally get it, this movie was amazing with how it was funny and still had a lot of heart to it
Fake mustache
The rats saving the day was a great analogy of the suicide squad itself. These despised creatures are something no one would want to see until they are helping them; the squad were villains and did terrible things, but came together and chose to save the city because even they don’t stoop that low
i promise james gunn didn’t think that hard about it lol
@@jxstin2317 I think you'd be surprised actually. These kind of things are rarely accidental.
And add to that the final moment with Bloodsport and Sebastian - if the rats are a metaphor for the Squad themselves, then his learning to accept Sebastian and comfort him is his learning to accept himself and accept that *he* deserves to be shown affection and love.
A rat saved the day in Endgame too. Didn't get recognition 😕
@@jxstin2317 Bro have you SEEN any movie by James Gunn??
Starro’s last line broke my heart... :(
“Monster, Nom Nom?”
I was happy. Floating. Staring at the stars.
“Nom Nom?”
Really?, that is what your thinkin’ about right now?”
“No. That Nom Nom Though”
“No it’s not Num Num”
“NO!!”
sympathy among conquerors i see
Yeah, but... those are the hazards of the universe.
You never know when that "peace" is interrupted by a hostile race.
Or more generally speaking, when fate takes a mean turn.
I liked his little doll he made out of C4 "Peacemaker"
I saw a comment that he was trying to say peacemaker is the bomb lol epic
that is very nice though
@@tonygatto6315 and he was right lol
NO! That looks nothing like me.
Goddammit Nanaue!
Considering Nanue is bullet proof and has never been hurt before, the fish are probably the first time he's been physically hurt. In tge same way he's hurt others.
then how could the bomb be put in him? give you a hint kevlar is bullet proof but an icepick will go through it.
@@toomanyaccounts yeah, but a knife will probably go through kevlar the same as an arrow would go through kevlar
@@toomanyaccounts His skin isn't kevlar so it's not really comparable. Whatever those fish are they probably have some special teeth or something else that helped them get through his skin. And they could've shoved the bomb in his nose, his mouth or up his ass.
@@adoboflakes8473 the bomb is implanted the same place. shark skin is tough. why do you think it was used as a sandpaper substitute and why the leather is one of the toughest out there.
@@toomanyaccounts Bruh we aren't talking about regular sharks. We're talking about a fictional bullet proof (possibly a demigod) half man half shark and you're comparing him to a regular shark. Are we even on the same page?
Nanaue sitting alone in the bus while everyone's in the club having fun hit too hard, and too close to home.
Yeah, I think I would most definitely stay behind to keep him company. :)
that scene reminded me of my college freshman self, was definitely heart breaking
I personally like that the first two interactions with King Shark he is trying his best to make a good impression.
They come in while he's "reading" a book, and then during the briefing he wants to join the discussion raises his hand and says "hand" and getting congratulated by Waller. You see him nodding back like "yeah I'm cool"
I find it funny that Waller didn’t shut him down for that lol
I liked that little nod that Shark made in the briefing, too. It’s like he was thinking, “Yeah, I know what’s going on, too.”
I think Waller has been constantly dealing with enough deluded idiots in the squad, that she’s regretting the whole thing. That look on her face when she’s in her office with the ice pack on her head made me wonder. Is that a, “Where am I going to bury those goons that just took me down with a 9-iron,” look, or a, “I knew I should’ve called in today. Called in, ordered takeout, and not dealt with any of this *insanity*.”
when he falls out of the building hes looking at that squid creature dead and you can see a tear 🥺
Missed that ! thanks now I will have to go back to look.
@@GeorgiaDow I think he cried because he thought he made some new friends, but they were just trying to eat him. He just wants friends.
I mean for reference... King Shark alone in this movie has more real character development than every character in the last Suicide Squad movie combined.
i think Diablo had a very interesting character arc. one of my favorite lines of his was "Im a man, i aint no weapon. Ima die in peace before i raise my hands again"
I think King Shark has more happen in his arc, than in most of the Marvel AND DC movies put together. I was shocked at how much depth they gave a throw away character like him. My best friend always talked shit about the King Shark character whenever he showed up in some place or another. She wasn't talking shit after the movie. This whole movie was like how Steven Darabont described Bladerunner: "Bladerunner was like this huge gift box that someone gives you, and you open it and the gift itself is THIS SMALL (gestures with both hands like he's holding a walnut). It's not that the gift isn't precious, it's just that the two don't go together." Basically, what I'm trying to say about Suicide Squad is that this movie looked UGLY in the trailer, and I was revolted by the character designs, and just how washed out the imagery was. Then I saw the movie, and the tag line "from the beautifully ugly mind of James Gunn . . .", made complete sense. With one poignant point he made overall about beautiful presents can come from ugly places, he immediately all encompassed the entirety of its characters and themes with that sentiment, in a myriad of ways. It's like an onion, peel after peel brings so much. This is possibly the greatest of the superhero genre, at this present moment.
@@Cam-vs4fd was that really an arc though? or was that just his character showing through the film? the character development you're referring to is going from a dangerous burny burny man to someone who refuses to hurt people, but i thought that happened off screen in the past with his family. unless im missing stuff that happened during the film, thats backstory, not character arc
king shark arc is how the world looks at great white sharks... mistaken as a creature on the hunt for humans.... while shark experts know they are not. there is a similarity to it.
Great Whites are more focused on fatty seals. It's the bull sharks that are assholes
@@rosenrot234 and the Hammerheads. They're straight up c***s!
@@rosenrot234 I would put tiger sharks on there too, they big dickheads.
I like the thought that the sharks everyone mentioned being assholes were those trash talkers on 360 CoD, but each encompassing one of the many repetitive things they say, like hammerheads call you trash, bull sharks sleep with peoples moms, and tiger sharks think everyone is hacking.
Sharks are harmless
Mostly because why the hell would you go to the ocean in the first place
But also because humans aren't really their food
I think there was only reports of about 8 deaths from shark attacks and all of those are from bleeding out, not eaten
No shark has ever eaten a human person before
When the jellyfish dudes tried to eat him I think he finally understood why eating friends=bad
You should maybe talk about peacemaker and his denial of the wrongdoings he commits, how he tells himself he does these things for a right cause but you can tell he doesn’t know himself.
I’d wait until the spin off series comes out.
That's not true.He has his ideals and he sticks to them.What is a wrong decision for you may not(and its probably not)for him.
You should try to see the things from is POV.
Also,the "bad things" he does like killing Flag,he's completely aware of that however is ideals are so strong he sticks to them no matter what.
For him,releasing the disc would bring even more death than the one that was necessary so he HAD to kill Flagg to protect whay he believe.
That's also why he wasnt the one chosen to lead the team,Bloodsport was in Waller's hand because of his daughter however Peacemaker could have easily turned on her if the mission entered in conflict with his ideals
The thing about Peacemaker, is that he is so committed to peace, that he, an actual pacifist, embraces extreme violence as the way to bring about that peace. He will literally do anything, no matter how terrible or abhorrent. He is very much a "the ends justify the means" type person.
If they go with his comic book origin, he's got problems on top of problems. If they make up a new one like they did with Polkadot instead, it will be fun to see where they go with him in his new series.
@@Falcun21 like the line he drops about killing children and innocents to get peace.
I always appreciated how the most loathed of creatures (rats) ended up saving the day. I suppose there's a parallel between that and the suicide squad themselves.
Kind of? But rats actually are misunderstood while most of the villains in squad are actual killers and monsters
If they kill King Shark in Suicide Squad 3 ima throw hands
Everyone will
Facts.
It would be the suicide squad 2, but I agree
@@nigelreginaldaugustus-bake1503 actually this suicide squad is the 2 so it would be 3
@@logancasselman153 its not a sequel
When Nanaue cried. I cried.
Me too
When was that ?
@@GeorgiaDow monster is nom nom?
@@Ant_5350 when he was on in the bus while the squad was dancing
@@wwijma2000 no, was when he fell down from the tower.
I like how Waller acknowledged and complimented him when all he said was hand. Despite being so cynical and jaded she knows how to get the best out of her team.
Dammit, now I'm going to have to watch it, because it sounds like Mr. Gunn is in rare form. He does have a knack for humanizing characters, literally in this case, considering that teammates where on the menu for Mr. Shark prior to that entire affair. It is kind of funny that big things for James in his superhero flicks are family, found family, and friends, when those tropes are usually in short supply in most action flicks. Like Yondu's arc in the Guardians movies. "He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn't your daddy." That bit hit me in the feels.
Literally in the last like 5 cases you mean
@@ryancols If we're being perfectly honest, he seems to be getting better as time goes, and while his last 5 flicks have all been rather good, his most recent effort stands head and shoulders above the rest in my opinion.
James Gunn was abused as a child so all of that family stuff comes from the heart.
@@user-ex9ti7ds3m I never knew, but that makes perfect sense, we try to be the people that could have saved us from what happened.
Nanaue alone in the bus while the rest party, that'd sums up my typical "interactions" with other people.
I wish she would’ve covered the shear wisdom and unmatched philosophy of “Bird”
I'm tell y'all this little kid personality of King Shark works, because now we all want to hug & cuddle him.🥰
I kinda thought the point of this scene was for King Shark to learn empathy for Ratcatcher2. Initially, she trusted him, but he tried to eat her, then he trusts the small creatures, but they try to eat him. After this, he can appreciate the disappointment Ratcatecher2 must have felt in for him initially. And of course the moral of the story is friends don't eat friends!
Ratcatcher II does work with rats some of the most despised creatures, sharks are also despised so it makes sense they would be friends :)
And rats are actually very empathetic so it fits.
True indeed
James Gunn being able to make some of DC's more obscure villains so likeable is a major flex
King Shark was undoubtedly my favorite character as well. when he said "I no friends" and then later when he was alone in the bus while everyone else was having the time of there lives in the club both made me so sad.
My fav is the brave, MILTON! Dude had no explosives implanted in the back of his neck, no powers, and still tried to help.
When king shark fell down from the tower and was getting shot by the military and when he balled upped he was tearing up 😢
Ratcatcher 2 was my fav due to some of the same moments 😊 also ha the polka dots man stuff with his mother would make another interesting video, huh? 😅
Ditto
Polka Dot Man's mother issues could likely be a whole series...
Stallone's finest roll since "Rocky".
Fully agree. Stallone needs to do more voice acting as he has potential.
you skipped over one split second scene (that i only noticed my second or third time watching) that i think is hugely important - when the "new dumb friends" attack, Nanaue's *real* friends (the Squad) swim toward him to try to save him, risking their own lives in the process. when the building is collapsing, you can see Harley trying to pull those creatures off of him. if they hadn't tried to help him, i expect he probably would have written off the idea of friendship altogether, but since they put themselves in danger to save him, it made him appreciate his real friends even more.
King shark needs his own movie
I love this version of King Shark so much, he’s so adorable no one can dislike him, which I think is really amazing, I feel like Nanaue could be the Lucas the Spider for people who are afraid of sharks and help them with their phobia with how adorable he is. :)
What I love is how nowadays, they manage to make so many versions of King Sharks which are pretty distinct and yet manage to hit the right spots. King Shark seems to have become this kind of character where you just do something new.
Living him on the bus earlier on made me wanna cry 😢
"Doesn't make for a good team environment. Doesn't build morale" Your deadpan humor warms my heart. Skipped this movie after watching the last Suicide Squad, as that one was lacking...and this one had...shall we say...less calories? Suicide Squad-light? So all I know of it is what you have shared with us, Georgia Dow. And it does indeed seem to be a somewhat touching set of scenes. A pack of wolves once tried to eat me, but I don't know how they feel about it now. They never call, they never write. One thought: Perhaps his experience with supposed friends trying to eat him, helped him realize how bad a friend would feel if HE tried to eat THEM? "Friends should not eat friends."
If you go see it just be ready for it to be REALLY violent and gory.
@@MarvelX42 Oh! I see. Thank-you! So...I take it then that in the movie King Shark...ignores...table manners? And has a severe lack of cleaning up after himself? I imagine the rest of them are violently messy too. Tsk.
@@classicslover It is just that I REALLY wasn't ready fur that and it almost ruined the movie fur me.
@@MarvelX42 I believe you! That would ruin it for me too! I took advanced makeup (besides acting directing etc.) in university, so I know how to do wounds, and I understand the process...but a lot of movies just take it too far. Sorry you experienced that...
@@classicslover It was still an alright movie. I know it is all fake and the good stuff in pretty much equaled out the bad. >^_^
Daniela's raspy / cute-pitchy voice helps alot aswell to capture the moments that barely lasts a few seconds.
And SLY's voice is just perfect, Sly is the best when he get's a funny role to play.
The lore in the books King Shark's father was the Pacific god of sharks. He grew up on a island with only his mother who was a human as company till she died.
Nanaue was my favorite by far the sheer joy in the “new dumb friends AHUHA” and the sheer confidence he has in wearing a fake mustache and the disappointment in his voice with the FUCK had me laughing and falling in love with Nanaue and I was going to boycott the next James Gunn movie if they killed him with those little evil colorful bastards
The friendship between rat catcher and nanue is so wholesome I love it!
King Shark has to be the best character of any film ever😍
I rlly wanna see more King Shark and more of him having lotz of friends and being happy with Rat 2
So those things that attacked King Shark are called Clyrax in case you're wondering.
I loved how King Shark tried to fit in among the group by acting like he was just as smart as them. Reading a book, the fake mustache, etc.
I also loved how after being told Ratcather wasn’t Nom Nom, he asks not only the group what is Nom Nom, but himself too. You can really see this after the final fight when he asks the group “Nom Nom?” while pointing at one of the bodies.
Even i too thought the same. When he tried to make friend with those creatures they started eating him and he fell down from the building and every started shooting at him. At that moment i realised his innocence was gone and he turned into an full on predator.
Nah. It wasn't gone. I think it enabled him to appreciate the friends he has, or at least he's not as naive as before and can better recognise real friendship.
Eh I excepted him to go crazy and destroy the army but he beheaded a guy and chewed on it for a while so that’s cool
@4:09 could also be because he has never had friends he doesn't know what a hug is or how to do it.
I really appreciate you doing these reaction videos, very enjoyable. Blessings on your day.
I love that we live in a world where scenes and concepts from movies and games are so thoroughly deconstructed and analyzed. It's a nice reminder of why I love the world of fiction, where friendship is real and the good guys win.
I figured King Shark was happy there was an in-flight meal.
And now when we see him and Constantine I fully expect a very nice relationship
Shaaaaaaaaaark! 👉🦈
Yes, that is a shark. Very good.
Biiiiirrrrrd
"friends dont eat friends". debatable...
He even sheds a tear once he is on the ground before the soldiers start shooting him, he was really sad his new friends turned on him like that. It is hard to tell since there is water but you can clearly see a tear fall down his cheek/nose. I too felt bad for him when that happened but like you said the fact he still kept trying even after that shows he has grown.
I feel that king shark is eating his feelings from being depressed because he is alone in this world.
Please make a video for Polka Dot Man. He had some serious issues
King Shark has the mind of a toddler in this new movie. There’s almost no one who couldn’t love him. “Nom nom?”
The one scene that also broke my heart was when the Squad were all partying having a good time in the club and he was just sitting in the car all by himself!! :’(
Like at least have someone go check on him or something lol Poor Nanaue
Yeah that was so sad, I would have stayed behind with him.
King shark is vulnerable showing his human side.
You know this is a brilliant movie when a professional therapist feels the need to comment on the character arc for the shark man who was advertised as the big dumb comic relief.
I left a comment on another video analyzing king shark that one of the reasons we as the audience love him so much is most of the time we see him we see him through rat catchers eyes and that she adores him from start to finish from the second she meets him to the final scene she looks at him as if she's already fallen in platonic love with him
Really like this video, thanks for explaining some of these things. I hope they keep going with the Suicide Squad movies, so much potential for exploring more complex characters. Could you do some stuff on the Peaky Blinders series? If you haven't seen it, I think you would LOVE it due to the subtle emotional complex depth of Thomas Shelby.
My Sleepy self woke up at 4 am and couldn't get back to sleep, so I went to youtube.
I saw the thumbnail and thought it said King Shark: The Rapist reacts.
His first friends he ever made tried to eat him. This is the story of my life
I found myself thinking that the jelly=blennies were okay with him from behind the glass and in their little minds their mimicry was a bluff. When he took off running they were probably thinking "Yay! We won!! We chased him away!!!" Glass barrier removed and they went into a collective defense frenzy.
they were sizing him up.
you almost forgot about the part where after everyone turns against waller he goes “where go, friends?” showing that despite what he just went through he still sees the squad as his friends
good catch
i Love King Shark and Ratcatcher 2
they’re relationship is so sweet.. I’d like that to be a movie
That Chubb-Chubb reference! That's exactly what it's like!
"Friends don't eat friends."
2:40. I can’t believe other people remember the Chub Chubs.
I never realized that, he considered the jellyfish friends and they break the rule of friends don't eat friends.
I'd say Ratcatcher 2 was my favorite character, her life was pretty similar to mine, except for the loving parent part. I formed a bond with the mice living everywhere in the place I grew up in
Then there was a guy who even *dated* King Shark.
Wholesome.
He's not real just a 'Guy' though.
@@finh8895 King Shark isn't real either. Your point?
@@fransthefox9682 My bad i meant ''He's not really just a guy' ' John isnt really describable as just a human.
@@finh8895 Ohhhhh! Okay sorry.
I almost cried when the little jelly fish things attacked him
Those little bastards run the Cute Puppy Con. To paraphrase Guy from Galaxy Quest "They look cute and cuddly now, but pretty soon, they won't be so cute anymore and there's gonna be a million more of them."
King Shark effectively took Crocodile's place in Suicide Squad 2, hes very funny, charismatic and memorable character
What? Not a word about when they are driving in the van and King Shark stares longingly at couples on the street and when he is left alone in the van while everyone else is partying up in the bar? (Thought those two short clips said more about him than the whole rest of his scenes)
I love how shark king varies in his portrayal in different stuff
So glad king shark lived...I love the guy!
King Shark and Rat Catcher 2 need a spin off movie of their own. It's a definite hit waiting to happen!
I did not expect the giant shark monster to be one of the most appealing characters in an R rated Super Villain movie.
I think she took a survival gamble, personally.
He did literally just try to eat her.
It's the concept of; you suddenly find yourself in a cell with the biggest baddest bubba in the whole prison. You'd better try to make friends, cause you have to sleep sometime.
So she tries to get him to empathize.
She can't overpower or even outrun him for long, since they're forced to remain in proximity as a team.
It's really the only card she can play, unless she wants to die of sleep deprivation instead.
I just finished this great playlist, and what can I say: thank you very much. This is my all time favorite movie and I always find it a little frustrating to hear people just say "it's a fun movie with good action scenes", when in fact Gunn's real strength is to tell the story of these seven (eight with Starro) outsiders who, after a life of manipulation, must learn to become independent.
I hope Gunn does more spin offs, at least du Harley and Ratcatcher II.
I haven’t even seem Suicide Squad yet but I am already in love with King Shark 😁
Nice to know I'm not the only one who had that same reaction to him!
My favorite was king shark as well because I find him relatable
rat catcher bes the one thing he needed A MOTHER FIGURE 😭 reson i love her and king shark
after nanaue fell out of jotunheim he started to tear from his left eye right after he hit the ground and that just hurt to see followed by the soldiers shooting him
To Georgia, not sure if you've seen the original frankenstein but Nanaue is very reminicent of him. Between frankenstein and bride of frankenstein,with Boris Karloff, it's a great look into this type of character.
Nanaue's happy laugh when he legitimately thought those jellyfish things were his new friends is heart breaking to hear now. 🥺 I just wanted him to be happy.
"New dumb friends! A-haha! haahhaaa..."
😭
People are friends, not nomnom.
2:26 the whole tank scene is a thin nostalgia reference to the First Blood (first Rambo movie). During that movie Sylvester Stallone (Rambo) is In cave that has flood. While he is trying to find his way out, rat's attack him from everywhere. As a matter In fact Rambo In that movie is alone abandoned by soceity with his mental issues, from the war.
So kind of like King Shark story: Alone, no friends, doesn't fit...
Can you react to polkadot man, especially since he sees his mother everywhere.
does she get why Peacemaker called him Norman Bates?
Bruh king shark was the character i related to the most and i got worried reading the title, i mean watching the video didn't really change much since i related to it just as much having the exact same mental thought processes that she explained in the video from similar life experiences, but at least i know its normal, and hey maybe i'll have a similar character arc to king shark, not really betting on it, fish nets (sorry rhyme)
Iv read your title wrong. I thought it said The suicide squad: Shark therapist reacts
Honestly my favorite characters were king shark and the rats.
He's my little nom nom boy 😭
so different from my IT himbo from Harley Quinn animated series, but just as valid ♡
this is a really good in depth video
I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw the subtle emotional complexity of King Shark. Most are just going to view him as the big dumb guy on the team but Gunn and Stallone really nailed on giving Nanaue a touching background character arc that I think deserves more credit. I also really related to Nanaue so maybe that helped in me spotting these things.
One-shot that really got to me was when he's on the ground, he lets out a tear because the little creatures betrayed him. Then when the soldiers began unloading on him, his reaction was to simply curl up and take it. That is just heartbreaking, he's like a little kid suffering abuse and he doesn't understand why. Again...I related to him. So I cheered him on when he finally snapped and murdered that one soldier.
Another one that I know a lot of people will mostly view for comedy is his scene with Peacemaker. He makes the little figure out of the explosive and it's cute and humorous but when he turns around after planting it, he's left alone in the room. Poor guy was just trying to be a good friend and he looks so sad standing there alone like that.
Lolzzzzz
U said chub chub!
"I understood that reference..."
DC animated movies King Shark: King Shark is a shark
The Suicide Squad King Shark: Me so smart.
Harley Quinn King Shark: Howdy!
He's actually confused since Bloodsport already told him the answer. So he has to think wait no thats wrong and it can be hard when people all ready decide what who and how just by looking at you. Plus he's a predator with roughly the mind of a toddler who's only known spite and distrust.
My 2 favourite characters were polka dot man and king shark