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InfinityStar

2023-04-14T10:02:09Z

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[[File:Lucky.png|right|thumb|150px|Lucky, as drawn by Genesis Supernova.]]
'''Genesis Supernova''', also known as '''ArtemisCrystal''', '''Lillyluck1990''', '''Kuromi1990''', '''InfinityPrincessKuromi''', '''Dark Emperor Kuromi''', '''DiabolicalPrincessKuromi''', '''-Kuromi-''', and '''SuperSkyMAX90''', formerly as '''LuckyFluff20XX''', '''Lucky The Ranuki''', '''Supernova-Skymancer''', '''Crystal Mae Franks''' and '''CrystalMae1990''',<ref>[http://kristhemew.livejournal.com/profile Kris The Mew's (Crystal The Mew's) profile] on [[LiveJournal]]. Retrieved in 2009.</ref> is an [[artist]] and [[YouTuber]] from the United States

== Fandom involvemnent ==

Genesis first joined [[Fur Affinity]] on October 5, 2010, under the name '''Crystal_the_Mew'''.

=== Characters ===

Genesis has a wide range of [[fursona]]s depending on what she decides. Currently, her main fursona is a brown [[cat]], although her character was a black creature, formerly a [[rabbit]], named Darcia. Formerly, she played several other characters, such as a cat-like creature named "Domino", a purple creature named '''Artemis''', an Eevee named '''Keromi''', a pink and purple [[raccoon]]/[[tanuki]] [[hybrid]] named '''Lucky''', a tanuki/[[rabbit]] hybrid, a [[red panda]] named '''Yurobi''', a [[W:Pixie|pixie]] named "Ginara", a [[cat]]-like [[W:Fairy|fairy]] named '''Cybelle Fuwaya''' (later known as '''Twinkle Belle'''), a [[dragon]] named '''Crystal Tatsuya''' (later known as '''Alliya Tatsuya'''), and a white [[chinchilla]] named '''Nova''' (who was originally a winged, fairy [[extraterrestrial]]).

In the past, in the battle Genesis uses her attacks by throwing false teeth caused by spinach, and a bologna sausage, preferring melee combat to long-range She normally had magical powers, which she uses to make victims inflate or vomit. However, she quits doing that to avoid being bullied. The cat character is rarely drawn in an alternative form which sports white armor (actually a white battle suit from ''[[Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden]]''), and shoes.

Her other characters are '''Kris The Mew''' (her Pokémon fan character), '''Omiya-Chan''' (a cat), and '''Matia the Rabbit''' (her old rabbit fursona who later became her [[Sonic]] [[OC]], later remade into Darcia).

== Art ==

Genesis is primarily known for her cute, clean [[artwork]], although since 2018 she has drawn draw [[W:Sexual maturity||mature]] and even [[adult]] art. Her images generally feature either [[characters|furry character]]s, or characters of [[mammal]]ian nature, possibly inspired by [[Pokémon]] and/or [[Kirby]] characters. Currently, her art style is inspired by a mix of '80s and 90's children's [[anime]], gag anime, and certain [[W:Indie game|indie game]]s like ''[[W:Friday Night Funkin'|Friday Night Funkin]]''.

==Controversy==

In 2015, she was accused on [[DeviantArt]] by some users{{who}} of being a [[W:pedophile|pedophile]]{{cn}} because she drew some images of fictional children either [[W:Pregnant|pregnant]] or [[inflated]], and in 2020{{cn}} for defending a user named [[NuggetTheBalloonGirl]], who is also known for drawing inflated children.

On June 2, 2021, Genesis (under the name of "Supernova-Skymancer") wrote a [[Fur Affinity]] journal about claiming to be a pedophile. As a result, all of her Fur Affinity accounts were permanently banned (although they all deleted later). She wrote this "confession" in order to stop people{{who}} from [[W:Kiwi Farms|Kiwi Farms]] from archiving any of her sites online due to her mental issues.{{clarify}}

==References==
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==External Links==
{{Contributor|Supernova-Skymancer}}
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~supernovagenesis SupernovaGenesis] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/SupernovaGenesis SupernovaGenesis] on [[InkBunny]]
* [https://supernova-genesis.sofurry.com/ Supernova Genesis] on [[SoFurry]]
* [https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/16281053 Gene. Supernova] on [[Pixiv]]
* [https://genesissupernova.newgrounds.com/art GenesisSupernova] on [[W:Newgrounds|Newgrounds]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/CrystalMae1990 Crystal Mae Franks] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/CrystalF_1990 Genesis Supernova] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://kristhemew.livejournal.com/ Crystal the Mew] on [[LiveJournal]]
* [https://www.instagram.com/genesissupernova1990/ Genesis Supernova] on [[W:Instagram|Instagram]]
* [https://www.tiktok.com/@genesissupernova GenesisSupernova] on [[W:TikTok|TikTok]]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/82877560@N03/ Genesis Supernova] on [[W:Flickr|Flickr]]
* [https://www.twitch.tv/genesissupernova GenesisSupernova] on [[W:Twitch|Twitch]]
* [https://genesissupernova1990.tumblr.com/ GenesisSupernova] on [[W:Tumblr|Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2XpeSO5OwSx42LAX1tS9Eg Genesis Supernova] on [[YouTube]]

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Kuro

2023-04-14T10:01:14Z

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[[File:KuroThumb.jpg|right|Art of Kuro's character.]]
'''Kuro''' is a [[furry artist]]. Kuro and his wife [[Ana]] are the creators of the [[webcomic]] ''[[Anakuro]]''. He is a Kai Ken/wolf hybrid.

==External links==
*[http://www.anakuro.com Anakuro.com homepage]
*[http://bandanamanstudios.com/forum/index.php The Anakuro Forum]
*[http://kuro-mori.deviantart.com/ Kuro] on [[deviantART]]

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InfinityStar

2023-04-14T09:58:17Z

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InfinityStar

2023-04-14T09:56:35Z

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[[File:Lucky.png|right|thumb|150px|Lucky, as drawn by Genesis Supernova.]]
'''Genesis Supernova''', also known as '''ArtemisCrystal''', '''Lillyluck1990''', '''Kuromi1990''', '''InfinityPrincessKuromi''', '''Dark Emperor Kuromi''', '''DiabolicalPrincessKuromi''', '''-Kuromi-''', and '''SuperSkyMAX90''', formerly as '''LuckyFluff20XX''', '''Lucky The Ranuki''', '''Supernova-Skymancer''', '''Crystal Mae Franks''' and '''CrystalMae1990''',<ref>[http://kristhemew.livejournal.com/profile Kris The Mew's (Crystal The Mew's) profile] on [[LiveJournal]]. Retrieved in 2009.</ref> is an [[artist]] and [[YouTuber]] from the United States

== Fandom involvemnent ==

Genesis first joined [[Fur Affinity]] on October 5, 2010, under the name '''Crystal_the_Mew'''.

=== Characters ===

Genesis has a wide range of [[fursona]]s depending on what she decides. Currently, her main fursona is a brown [[cat]], although her character was a black creature, formerly a [[rabbit]], named Darcia. Formerly, she played several other characters, such as a cat-like creature named "Domino", a purple creature named '''Artemis''', an Eevee named Keromi, a pink and purple [[raccoon]]/[[tanuki]] [[hybrid]] named '''Lucky''', a tanuki/[[rabbit]] hybrid, a [[red panda]] named '''Yurobi''', a [[W:Pixie|pixie]] named "Ginara", a [[cat]]-like [[W:Fairy|fairy]] named '''Cybelle Fuwaya''' (later known as '''Twinkle Belle'''), a [[dragon]] named '''Crystal Tatsuya''' (later known as '''Alliya Tatsuya'''), and a white [[chinchilla]] named '''Nova''' (who was originally a winged, fairy [[extraterrestrial]]).

In the past, in the battle Genesis uses her attacks by throwing false teeth caused by spinach, and a bologna sausage, preferring melee combat to long-range She normally had magical powers, which she uses to make victims inflate or vomit. However, she quits doing that to avoid being bullied. The cat character is rarely drawn in an alternative form which sports white armor (actually a white battle suit from ''[[Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden]]''), and shoes.

Her other characters are '''Kris The Mew''' (her Pokémon fan character), '''Omiya-Chan''' (a cat), and '''Matia the Rabbit''' (her old rabbit fursona who later became her [[Sonic]] [[OC]], later remade into Darcia).

== Art ==

Genesis is primarily known for her cute, clean [[artwork]], although since 2018 she has drawn draw [[W:Sexual maturity||mature]] and even [[adult]] art. Her images generally feature either [[characters|furry character]]s, or characters of [[mammal]]ian nature, possibly inspired by [[Pokémon]] and/or [[Kirby]] characters. Currently, her art style is inspired by a mix of '80s and 90's children's [[anime]], gag anime, and certain [[W:Indie game|indie game]]s like ''[[W:Friday Night Funkin'|Friday Night Funkin]]''.

==Controversy==

In 2015, she was accused on [[DeviantArt]] by some users{{who}} of being a [[W:pedophile|pedophile]]{{cn}} because she drew some images of fictional children either [[W:Pregnant|pregnant]] or [[inflated]], and in 2020{{cn}} for defending a user named [[NuggetTheBalloonGirl]], who is also known for drawing inflated children.

On June 2, 2021, Genesis (under the name of "Supernova-Skymancer") wrote a [[Fur Affinity]] journal about claiming to be a pedophile. As a result, all of her Fur Affinity accounts were permanently banned (although they all deleted later). She wrote this "confession" in order to stop people{{who}} from [[W:Kiwi Farms|Kiwi Farms]] from archiving any of her sites online due to her mental issues.{{clarify}}

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
{{Contributor|Supernova-Skymancer}}
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~supernovagenesis SupernovaGenesis] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/SupernovaGenesis SupernovaGenesis] on [[InkBunny]]
* [https://supernova-genesis.sofurry.com/ Supernova Genesis] on [[SoFurry]]
* [https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/16281053 Gene. Supernova] on [[Pixiv]]
* [https://genesissupernova.newgrounds.com/art GenesisSupernova] on [[W:Newgrounds|Newgrounds]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/CrystalMae1990 Crystal Mae Franks] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/CrystalF_1990 Genesis Supernova] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://kristhemew.livejournal.com/ Crystal the Mew] on [[LiveJournal]]
* [https://www.instagram.com/genesissupernova1990/ Genesis Supernova] on [[W:Instagram|Instagram]]
* [https://www.tiktok.com/@genesissupernova GenesisSupernova] on [[W:TikTok|TikTok]]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/82877560@N03/ Genesis Supernova] on [[W:Flickr|Flickr]]
* [https://www.twitch.tv/genesissupernova GenesisSupernova] on [[W:Twitch|Twitch]]
* [https://genesissupernova1990.tumblr.com/ GenesisSupernova] on [[W:Tumblr|Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2XpeSO5OwSx42LAX1tS9Eg Genesis Supernova] on [[YouTube]]

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InfinityStar

2023-04-14T09:55:55Z

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[[File:Lucky.png|right|thumb|150px|Lucky, as drawn by Genesis Supernova.]]
'''Genesis Supernova''', also known as '''ArtemisCrystal''', '''Lillyluck1990''', '''Kuromi1990''', '''InfinityPrincessKuromi''', '''Dark Emperor Kuromi''', '''DiabolicalPrincessKuromi''', '''-Kuromi-''', and '''SuperSkyMAX90''', formerly as '''LuckyFluff20XX''', '''Lucky The Ranuki''', '''Supernova-Skymancer''', '''Crystal Mae Franks''' and '''CrystalMae1990''',<ref>[http://kristhemew.livejournal.com/profile Kris The Mew's (Crystal The Mew's) profile] on [[LiveJournal]]. Retrieved in 2009.</ref> is an [[artist]] and [[YouTuber]] from the United States

== Fandom involvemnent ==

Genesis first joined [[Fur Affinity]] on October 5, 2010, under the name '''Crystal_the_Mew'''.

=== Characters ===

Genesis has a wide range of [[fursona]]s depending on what she decides. Currently, her main fursona is a brown [[cat]], although her character was a black creature, formerly a [[rabbit]], named Darcia. Formerly, she played several other characters, such as a cat-like creature named "Domino", a purple creature named '''Artemis''', an Eevee named Keromi, a pink and purple [[raccoon]]/[[tanuki]] [[hybrid]] named '''Lucky''', a tanuki/[[rabbit]] hybrid, a [[red panda]] named '''Yurobi''', a [[W:Pixie|pixie]] named "Ginara", a [[cat]]-like [[W:Fairy|fairy]] named '''Cybelle Fuwaya''' (later known as '''Twinkle Belle'''), a [[dragon]] named '''Crystal Tatsuya''' (later known as '''Alliya Tatsuya'''), and a white [[chinchilla]] named '''Nova''' (who was originally a winged, fairy [[extraterrestrial]]).

In the past, in the battle Genesis uses her attacks by throwing false teeth caused by spinach, and a bologna sausage, preferring melee combat to long-range She normally had magical powers, which she uses to make victims inflate or vomit. However, she quits doing that to avoid being bullied. The cat character is rarely drawn in an alternative form which sports white armor (actually a white battle suit from ''[[Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden]]''), and shoes.

Her other characters are '''Kris The Mew''' (her Pokémon fan character), '''Omiya-Chan''' (a cat), and '''Matia the Rabbit''' (her old rabbit fursona who later became her [[Sonic]] [[OC]], later remade into Darcia).

== Art ==

Genesis is primarily known for her cute, clean [[artwork]], although since 2018 she has drawn draw [[W:Sexual maturity||mature]] and even [[adult]] art. Her images generally feature either [[characters|furry character]]s, or characters of [[mammal]]ian nature, possibly inspired by [[Pokémon]] and/or [[Kirby]] characters. Currently, her art style is inspired by a mix of '80s and 90's children's [[anime]], gag anime, and certain [[W:Indie game|indie game]]s like ''[[W:Friday Night Funkin'|Friday Night Funkin]]''.

==Controversy==

In 2015, she was accused on [[DeviantArt]] by some users{{who}} of being a [[W:pedophile|pedophile]]{{cn}} because she drew some images of fictional children either [[W:Pregnant|pregnant]] or [[inflated]], and in 2020{{cn}} for defending a user named [[NuggetTheBalloonGirl]], who is also known for drawing inflated children.

On June 2, 2021, Genesis (under the name of "Supernova-Skymancer") wrote a [[Fur Affinity]] journal about claiming to be a pedophile. As a result, all of her Fur Affinity accounts were permanently banned (although they all deleted later). She wrote this "confession" in order to stop people{{who}} from [[W:Kiwi Farms|Kiwi Farms]] from archiving any of her sites online due to her mental issues.{{clarify}}

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
{{Contributor|Supernova-Skymancer}}
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~supernovagenesis SupernovaGenesis] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://inkbunny.net/SupernovaGenesis SupernovaGenesis] on [[InkBunny]]
* [https://supernova-genesis.sofurry.com/ Supernova Genesis] on [[SoFurry]]
* [https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/16281053 Gene. Supernova] on [[Pixiv]]
* [https://genesissupernova.newgrounds.com/art GenesisSupernova] on [[W:Newgrounds|Newgrounds]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/CrystalMae1990 Crystal Mae Franks] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://twitter.com/CrystalF_1990 Genesis Supernova] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://kristhemew.livejournal.com/ Crystal the Mew] on [[LiveJournal]]
* [https://www.instagram.com/genesissupernova1990/ Genesis Supernova] on [[W:Instagram|Instagram]]
* [https://www.tiktok.com/@genesissupernova GenesisSupernova] on [[W:TikTok|TikTok]]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/82877560@N03/ Genesis Supernova] on [[W:Flickr|Flickr]]
* [https://www.twitch.tv/genesissupernova GenesisSupernova] on [[W:Twitch|Twitch]]
* [https://genesissupernova1990.tumblr.com/ GenesisSupernova] on [[W:Tumblr|Tumblr]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2XpeSO5OwSx42LAX1tS9Eg Genesis Supernova] on [[YouTube]]

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Chakat (species)

2023-04-14T09:38:40Z

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{{Infobox fictional species
| name = Chakat
| image = [[File:Bernard Doove Chakat. Art By Dustmeat.jpg|250px]]
| caption = Bernard Doove Chakat. Art by [[Dustmeat]]
| author(s) = [[Bernard Doove]]
| creation date =
| publishing date =
| alternate name(s) =
| home = Chakona
| metazoan = [[Mammal|Mammalian]] [[feline]] [[Centaur|centauroid]]
| type = Genetic construct
| morphology = [[Anthro]] [[taur]]
| sapience = [[Human|Humanoid]]
| gender = [[hermaphrodite|Hermaphroditic]]
| locomotion = [[Quadrepedal]]
| communication = Verbal
}}
[[File:LookingToTheFuture-small.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Chakat. Art by [[Goldfur]].]]
'''Chakats''' are a felinoid centauroid [[species]] once described as "Everybody's favourite over-perfected cat".{{fact}} They are the creations of [[Bernard Doove]], inspired by some ideas brought forward by other people for their own [[character]]s, most notably artists [[Mike Higgs]]' [[Kendarii]], [[Roy Pounds]]' [[Garetta]], [[Mary Lynn Skirvin]]'s [[snow cat]]s and other similar characters.

== Overview ==

Chakats are extremely social creatures, needing both physical and emotional contact regularly. Due to their empathic nature, this is frequently more intimate than most. It also means that they try to be friendly with everyone, but when crossed, can be dangerous enemies.

In the [[Chakona Space]] universe, chakats were [[genetic engineering|designed]] as first-landing colonizers and ideal organisms of high intellect and great physical capacity; in space, their extra limbs allow them extra maneuverability, and when their colony ships land, they can act as their own heavy equipment. In addition, being hermaphroditic allows their population to expand quicker than a normal colony.

==Physiology==

Chakats have the lower body of any of the big [[cat]]s, a [[humanoid]] torso, and anthro-feline faces. They have prehensile [[tail]]s, are all functional [[hermaphrodite]]s, and all have [[feminine]] [[breasts]]. All four [[paw]]s of their Taur half have retractable [[claw]]s and the front paws have elongated toes with the [[dewclaw]] modified into a semi-thumb. This does not interfere with walking or running, but it does enable them to grasp objects. Adult heights range from about 5' to 5' 8" (1.5 to 1.7 metres), while their weight is between 350 to 440 lbs (160 to 200 kilograms). Life-span is around 150 years.<ref>[http://www.chakatsden.com/chakat/Intro.html ''An Introduction To Chakats''] on the [http://www.chakatsden.com/ Chakat Den]. Retrieved ?.</ref> Their fur colors can also vary.

Though Chakats were designed to be "ideal organisms", Chakats have four major disadvantages. First, they are large, which means they are unwieldy in cramped areas. Second, they have increased life support requirements, including air, food, and water. Third, they are very sensitive to high temperatures making their inhabitable range more limited. Finally, they can suffer from mild [[W:atavism|atavism]].

==Family life==

Chakats enjoy a very open and active [[polyamorous]] lifestyle, with each member of the family supporting each other in the upkeep of the family as a whole, whether it is by providing or helping to raise the cubs.

Chakats have a complex [[mate|mating]] system, including (in ascending order):
* ''Companions'' - somewhere between best friend and lover
* ''Denmates'' - those one formally brings into the family
* ''Lifemates'' - those one wants to live with, grow old with, and die with

Additionally, a ''[[mate]]ship of the heart'' denotes an unconsummated mateship, based on emotions entirely without any physical drive behind them.

==Other==

* "[[Tail High!]]" is a chakat version of "goodbye"; it means "Be happy!". This phrase was borrowed from the [[Lensman universe]] of [[Edward E. Smith]], PhD. (E. E. "Doc" Smith). It is a the war cry of a felinoid race known as '''Vegians''', who are found in the book titled ''[[The Vortex Blaster]]'', later ''[[Masters of the Vortex]]''.{{fact}}
* Chakats are main characters in the comic ''[[Apollo 9]]''. In this variant universe, chakats naturally evolved in Australia, Earth.

== See also ==
* [[Wemic]]
* [[Felitaur]]
* [[Chakasa]]
* [[Skunktaur (Chakat-kin)|Skunktaur]]
* [[:Category:Chakat characters|Chakat characters]]

==References==
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== External links ==

*[http://www.chakatsden.com/chakat/ ''The Chakat's Den''] - Official webpage of all things Chakat
*[http://furry.de/miavir/stories/key.chakat.html Stories with "Chakat" keyword] at [[Mia's Index of Anthro' Stories]]
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/chakat/ Chakat subreddit] on [[Wikipedia:Reddit|Reddit]]

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Felitaur

2023-04-14T09:31:15Z

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[[Image:Ayukawataur_eve.jpg|right|thumbnail|200px|[[Ayukawataur|The Ayukawataur]], a '''Felitaur''' descended from the [[Wikipedia:Iriomote_cat|Iriomote Yamaneko]]]]
'''Felitaurs''' are one of the most common [[taur]] variants within the [[furry fandom]]. While the most commonly found species in the fandom are [[chakat]]s, others exist too, such as [[wemic]]s and tigertaurs.

Felitaurs have existed as far back as Assyrian culture. Artwork during the Middle Assyrian period depicts a type of leonid felitaur, known as an ''urmahlullu'', a creature that protected washrooms from evil demons. <ref>Black, Jeremy A. and Anthony Green; Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia; University of Texas Press 1992 ISBN 0-292-70794-0</ref><ref>Wiggermann, F. A. M.; Mesopotamian Protective Spirits: The Ritual Texts; Styx 1992 ISBN 9-072-37152-6</ref>. Another example of felitaurs is the ''sagittary'' - a half man, half lion figure similar to those used to depict the star sign Sagittarius, often depicted with the man half with a drawn bow. <ref>Conway D.J.; Magickal Mystical Creatures; Llewellyn 2001-01-01 ISBN 1-567-18149-X</ref>

In today's fandom, felitaurs are normally depicted as having the lower body of any of the big cats, a humanoid torso, and anthro-feline faces. They have a fur coat covering their entire body excepting the pads of the hands and paws.

[[P'Tar the Catarian]], a character from ''[[Extinctioners]]'' is a cougar felitaur.

==References==
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Shark Tale

2023-04-14T09:19:41Z

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[[File:Shark Tale.jpg|right|175px|Shark Tale]]
'''''Shark Tale''''' is a 2004 CGI comedy adventure movie from [[Wikipedia:DreamWorks Animation|DreamWorks Animation]], written by [[Wikipedia:Michael J. Wilson|Michael J. Wilson]] and [[Wikipedia:Rob Letterman|Rob Letterman]]. Letterman directed with [[Wikipedia:Bibo Bergeron|Bibo Bergeron]] and [[Wikipedia:Vicky Jenson|Vicky Jenson]]. It stars [[Wikipedia:Will Smith|Will Smith]], [[Wikipedia:Jack Black|Jack Black]], [[Wikipedia:Renée Zellweger|Renée Zellweger]], [[Wikipedia:Robert De Niro|Robert De Niro]], [[Wikipedia:Martin Scorsese|Martin Scorsese]], and [[Wikipedia:Angelina Jolie|Angelina Jolie]].

The movie features [[anthropomorphic]] sea animals in an underwater setting.
It premiered at the [[Wikipedia:Venice Film Festival|Venice Film Festival]] on September 10, 2004. It was later released on DVD. During production, the movie was titled "Shark Slayer".

==Plot==
[[File:SharkTale-LinoFrankieLenny.JPG|thumb|right|180px|Great White Sharks: Don Lino, Frankie, and Lenny]]
''Shark Tale'' takes place in the underwater world of South Side Reef, a crowded metropolis where streams of fish surge between coral skyscrapers, police dolphins deal with traffic chaos caused by an overturned mackerel, lobster-trains scuttle along elevated tracks, and such business as Coral Cola, The Gup, and Old Wavy operate.

One of the inhabitants of the reef is Oscar, a lowly tongue-scrubber who works at Sykes' Whale Wash, where whales move along an assembly line having barnacles removed and their skin and teeth scrubbed clean. Oscar dreams of riches and fame beyond his humdrum life.

Arriving late for work, Oscar finds he has 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 with whom he is a close friend. He stops by her office to thank her and chat and exasperates her with his latest get-rich-quick-scheme: Bottled water.

Meanwhile, in a sunken ocean liner off the reef, Whale Wash owner Sykes – a porcupine blowfish – is nervously meeting with Don Edward Lino, a great white shark and head of the reef mafia. Edward explains he is retiring and is handing over control of the reef to his two sons Lenny and, his favorite son, Frankie. Sykes can understand the choice of the mean, bullying Frankie, but scoffs at the thought of passive, kind-hearted Lenny running the reef. Lino loses his temper and orders Sykes out, telling him he will have to start paying protection money if he doesn't want something to happen to his Whale Wash.

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 Ernie and Bernie – two Rastafarian jellyfish, and henchmen of Sykes – arrive and hurl him into Sykes' office. To raise the cash to pay of Lino, Sykes is calling in his IOUs and Oscar owes him five thousand clams, to be paid back my tomorrow. Oscar protests that is impossible, but Sykes tells him to bring it to the racetrack tomorrow, or else. As Sykes leaves, Bernie stings Oscar in the eye as a warning.

[[File:SharkTale-AngieOscar.JPG|right|thumb|180px|Angie and Oscar]]
That evening, Oscar mopes on Angie's balcony as she tends to his swollen eye. 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. Oscar had always thought that working at the wash was the greatest job anyone could do until he took his father's scrubbing broom to school for show-and-tell, and got laughed at. 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.

In the meantime, the great white sharks are dining on The Titanic. Lino, Lenny, and Frankie occupy a table in the corner. Lino praises Frankie for being a killer, but he expresses concern about Lenny, about whom he has been hearing things. Lino plucks a live shrimp from his shrimp cocktail and demands that Lenny eat it in front of him. Lenny refuses and helps the shrimp escape to freedom out the window. Lino is furious and tells Frankie to take Lenny out to show him the ropes – Lenny is going to learn how to be a shark, whether he likes it or not.

The next day, Oscar has pawned Angie's pearl and arrives at South Side Racetrack with the 5,000 clams. Overhearing two fish discussing how the next race is rigged to allow long-shot seahorse Lucky Day to win, Oscar rashly bets all of Sykes' money on it. The boldness of the wager attracts the attention of gold-digging femme-fatale Lola, half-lionfish, half-dragonfish. When Sykes turns up with Ernie and Bernie, he is livid that Oscar has placed a bet with the money he is owed, and Lola, realizing that Oscar isn't the millionaire she imagined, she quickly loses interest in him, calling him a nobody.

In the race on which Oscar has bet, Lucky Day gets off to a bad beginning when his starting gate jams and doesn't open. However, he manages to smash through it and – astonishingly – not only manages to catch up with the pack but begin to draw ahead. The last length sees Lucky Day and Fishfingers neck and neck, before Lucky Day puts on a burst of speed and pulls ahead. A win for Lucky Day seems certain until he wobbles and trips, tumbling in a heap just short of the finish line. 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 the Titanic. 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 save him, and is still there, looking baffled, as the silt settles.

Frankie declares that he has had it up to here with Lenny, and, with a growl, launches himself after Oscar. Just as Frankie catches up with Oscar, he's unexpectedly hit by an anchor thrown by Oscar. Horrified, Lenny tosses the anchor aside and cradles his dying brother. Feeling responsible for what happened, 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.

Back at the Whale Wash, Oscar is soon telling an increasingly embellished story about what happened, and soon the media is reporting the story. An interview with reporter Katie Current is interrupted by Sykes, who declares himself Oscar’s manager. Oscar is a little dubious, but he and Sykes agree to a 50/50 partnership.

Things are somber back on The Titanic as Frankie's funeral is held, attended by members of the Five Families – the great whites, hammerheads, leopard sharks, killer whales ([[Orca_(species)|orcas]]), and swordfish (or sailfish). At the wake afterwards, Don Ira Feinberg, the aging don of the leopard sharks, tells Lino about the Shark Slayer, about whom the word is getting around. Lino determines to find out who this shark slayer is. The rumor is spread around the reef.

In the meantime, Oscar rockets to stardom, and holds a lavish party in his new penthouse apartment at the top of the reef. Angie arrives and Oscar shows her the breathtaking view from his balcony. He seems on the verge of proposing to her when they are interrupted by Lola. Now that Oscar really is a somebody after all, she's determined to make him her own, and leads him away from Angie. Back inside the apartment, there is panic as the cry goes up that there are two great whites on the edge of the reef. Oscar reluctantly leaves to take care of the sharks.

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Hiding in a bed of kelp from the sharks – who are out searching for the Lenny – Oscar finds the missing shark also lying low. Lenny begs Oscar to take him home. Oscar is appalled by the notion, but when Lenny learns that Oscar has lied about killing a shark, he blackmails Oscar into helping him, pointing out that if he has to go back to Lino, soon everyone will know what really happened to Frankie.

Oscar reluctantly agrees to help, and hides Lenny in a storage shed near the Whale Wash. Oscar sets a few ground rules, worried about what will happen when Lenny gets hungry. Lenny tells him not to worry, he's different from the other sharks. When pressed for details, Lenny reluctantly admits to Oscar he is a vegetarian. He complains that his father will never accept him for who he is, and piteously whines, "What's wrong with me?". Oscar assures Lenny he wishes all sharks were like him, but then learns Lenny's father is head of the shark mob and realizes how much trouble he is in for taking the credit for Frankie's death.

Panicked, Oscar returns to his now-nearly-empty apartment where Sykes is on the phone trading insults with Edward. Edward asks to talk with Oscar and tells him he is going to tear him fin from fin. After Sykes leaves, Oscar finds Lola has been waiting for him. She assures him that all he has to do is show the sharks who is boss and they will leave him alone. With the beginning of a plan forming in his mind, Oscar returns to the storage shed to find Lenny.

What he does find is that Angie has discovered the fugitive shark, and he has confessed everything to her. She is furious that Oscar has lied to everybody, especially her. She tells Oscar to tell the truth and Lenny to go home. Neither like the sound of this, and Lenny devises a plan to stage a public fight in which he "dies", thereby solving both their problems.

The plan begins well, with Lenny terrorizing the reef until Oscar arrives and punches him through a billboard. Things take a slight turn for the worse when Lenny, chasing after Oscar, gets a little enthusiastic and accidentally swallows Oscar whole. Realizing what he has done, Lenny begins to gag, on the verge of throwing up. Oscar, inside Lenny's mouth, calms him down and "forces" open Lenny's jaws in a appearance of superhero-like strength. The chase resumes, and, after being "thrown" through a jumbotron screen, Lenny plummets screaming to his "death" down a crevice. In the aftermath of the fight, Lola sidles up to Oscar and gives him a lingering kiss in front of the television cameras. Angie, watching the live news reports back at the Whale Wash, is scared.

In the storage shed afterwards, Lenny is busily painting himself blue. When his shark snout squashed with rubber bands and his gills hidden behind a scarf of caution tape, he intends to pass himself off as Sebastian the Whale-Washin' [[Dolphin]]. When Oscar returns, Angie is furious about Oscar kissing Lola and asks him if he really believes she would be interested in him if he wasn't rich and famous. Oscar replies that at least she treats him like a somebody, and that no one loved him when he was a nobody. Hurt, Angie yells that she did. Oscar is taken aback, and Angie tells him that, to her, he was a somebody, but now she just sees him as a sham. Oscar tries to mend the situation, but Angie tells him to go away. Oscar leaves sadly, leaving Lenny to comfort a weeping Angie.

Oscar glumly swims around the reef, visiting old familiar places and fondly remembering the fun parts of his simpler life before becoming the Shark Slayer. Returning to his penthouse apartment, he ignores the party going on inside, and, alone, down on the reef from the balcony. He realizes that Angie's right, and when Lola joins him from inside, he tells her he doesn't think things are going to work out between them. Furious that anyone would dare to dump her, Lola slams him repeatedly against the plate-glass window.

Oscar arrives at the Whale Wash the next day determined to make up with Angie, but he finds out through Sykes that she hasn't turned up to work. A phone call from Luca, Lino's octopus consigliere, best friend and assistant, reveals that she has been abducted, and that if he doesn't want to see her sleeping with the fishes (the dead ones), he had better present himself at a sit-down in one hour. Oscar resolves to rescue her. Lenny, now working at the Whale Wash in his guise as Sebastian, says he can't just waltz in there and say, "Hi Pop! I'm a dolphin!". Sykes is doubly scared to realize his new employee is Lenny and Oscar isn't a real shark slayer. Oscar muses that the sharks don't know that.

Oscar, Sykes, and the still-disguised Lenny attend the sit-down. Whilst waiting for Edward to arrive, a very nervous Oscar realizes the members of the Five Families are actually terrified of him. Lino enters and regards the fish who has killed both his sons. When he sadistically teases Oscar by revealing Angie wriggling on a serving platter, Oscar tries to say he barely knows her. Lola emerges from the shadows and declares he is bluffing, and betrays him. It is revealed that Lola works for Lino. after which Oscar says Lino has nothing and tells Lenny to take her out – in a flash, Lenny swims down the table and swallows Angie whole (in fact, holding her safe in his mouth). Oscar teases the sharks and he almost gets away with it, but the taste of Angie on his tongue is making Lenny nauseous and he vomits over the meeting table. Hearing Lenny say, "I couldn't take it! The taste was killin' me!", Lino realizes the dolphin at the end of the table is his son. He is bewildered, yet relieved, that Lenny is still alive, then embarrassed about how the situation makes him look in front of his mob underlings, and finally furious that Oscar has not only took Frankie away, but also turned Lenny into a dolphin. Oscar and Lenny's plan failed.

With surprising speed, Lino throws himself at Oscar with the intent of eating him. Oscar escapes from the ocean liner and lures Lino to the Whale Wash, where he tries to trap him in the emergency whale clamp, but in the confusion, he pins Lenny instead. Continuing to play cat-and-mouse with Lino, Oscar eventually defeats the great white by trapping him in the middle of the Whale Wash's various robotic sponges. A gathering crowd, including a TV crew with Katie Current, hails Oscar as a hero once again and lift him aloft, chanting his name. Angie sees everything's going to go on just as before, and, having had enough, begins to swim away. Seeing he's about to lose Angie again, Oscar screams an admission that he isn't a real shark slayer. He explains to Lino that an anchor killed Frankie and Óscar didn't had anything to do with it, and neither that Lenny. Lino can't understand why Lenny would then run away, and Lenny miserably explains it was because he always wanted him to be more like Frankie, and that he could never be the shark he wants him to be. Oscar admonishes Lino, telling him everyone loves Lenny just the way he is, and why can't he? He further tells Lino he shouldn't make the same mistake he has, and lose someone important. Lenny looks hopefully at his father, who relents, and asks to be released so he can forgive his son. Oscar withdraws the traps, and Lino hugs Lenny. Lino is revealed to be a nice shark before he was hired by Lola. As this happens, Oscar is approached by Angie, and he awkwardly tells her than he has realized he didn't need the top of the reef, and everything he wanted was already in front of him. She asks him about being a somebody, and he sheepishly tells her that he's a nobody without her. Angie throws her arms around Oscar and kisses him, to the crowd's approval. After the kiss, Oscar tentatively questions Lino about what will happen to him after this, but Lino, having regained his son, seems willing to call it a truce, as everyone in the reef celebrates. Asked by Katie Current what he's now gonna do, having lost everything he lied so hard to achieve, Oscar looks thoughtful.

The movie ends with Oscar now one of Sykes' partners at the Whale Wash. Over a lengthy musical number, we see the Whale Wash workers dancing as they clean the incoming whales. Lenny and Lino arrive and greet Angie in the cashier's booth, telling her they have bought some new customers – the various members of the Five Families. In the closing scene, Oscar and Angie share a kiss atop a revolving sign near the Whale Wash. Lino becomes a member of Oscar's gang and works as crime boss again, Lola is arrested by Crazy Joe for the whole incident, and Sykes fires Ernie and Bernie and Oscar hires them as his DJs "''E and B''".

==Main characters and cast==
* Oscar (cleaner wrasse), the main protagonist of the film. He is a Whale Wash tongue-scrubber and later, the co-manager. He is nice, selfless, kind, sweet, meek, mischievous, cool, and kind. – [[Wikipedia:Will Smith|Will Smith]]
* Lenny (great white shark), the deuteragonist of the film. He is Oscar's best friend, as well as Don Lino's youngest son and Frankie's brother. He is happy, funny, silly, goofy, mischievous, and playful. – [[Wikipedia:Jack Black|Jack Black]]
* Angie (angelfish), the tritagonist of the film. She is Oscar's girlfriend. She is mischievous, funny, goofy, sweet, clumsy, silly, kind, and selfless. – [[Wikipedia:Renée Zellweger|Renée Zellweger]]
* Don Lino (great white shark), the main antagonist of the film. He is the boss of the Great White sharks, Sykes, and the reef, as well as Lenny and Frankie's father and Oscar's arch-nemesis. He is ruthless, aggressive, murderous, short-tempered, greedy, and selfish. At the end, he is selfless, kind, sweet, gentle, and nice. – [[Wikipedia:Robert De Niro|Robert De Niro]]
* Sykes (porcupine fish), the secondary antagonist of the film. He is Oscar and Angie's boss, Ernie and Bernie's leader and boss, and Lino's former Dragon. He is funny, goofy, comical and silly. – [[Wikipedia:Martin Scorsese|Martin Scorsese]]
* Lola (part lion fish, part dragon fish), the hidden tertiary antagonist of the film. She is a gold digger who wants Oscar just to get his money and becomes Angie's arch-rival. She is ruthless, selfish, mean, aggressive, and greedy. – [[Wikipedia:Angelina Jolie|Angelina Jolie]]
* Ernie (jellyfish), one of the two quartenary antagonists of the film. He is one of Sykes' henchmen. – [[Wikipedia:Ziggy Marley|Ziggy Marley]]
* Bernie (jellyfish), one of the two quartenary antagonists of the film. He is one of Sykes' henchmen. – [[Wikipedia:Doug E. Doug|Doug E. Doug]]
* Frankie (great white shark), a minor antagonist in the film. He was his father's Dragon, despite having small screen time. He was Don Lino's oldest son and Lenny's brother of Lenny. Later in the movie, he gets killed by an anchor while trying to eat Oscar. – [[Wikipedia:Michael Imperioli|Michael Imperioli]]
* Luca (octopus), a supporting antagonist in the film. He is Don Lino's right-hand-man who irritates him often. - [[Wikipedia:Vincent Pastore|Vincent Pastore]]
* Don Feinberg (leopard shark), a minor character in the film, despite being Don Lino's Brute. He is an old leopard shark. – [[Wikipedia:Peter Falk|Peter Falk]]
* Crazy Joe (hermit crab), a supporting protagonist in the film. He is Oscar's comical bodyguard and assistant. – David P. Smith

===[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveManBand Five-Man Band]===
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLeader The Leader] - [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnlySaneMan Oscar]. He is the film's star after all and he leads the rescue of Angie.
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLancer The Lancer] - [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Cloudcuckoolander Lenny] who befriends Oscar. Lenny gets the most respect out of the crew and is also the guy who helps distract his father as his job of the rescue of Angie.
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSmartGuy The Smart Guy] - [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ButtMonkey Sykes]. He is the first one to deduce that the Shark Slayer is real.
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheBigGuy The Big Guy] - [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PluckyComicRelief Crazy Joe], [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PintsizedPowerhouse the biggest guy of the group] and the first one to pull a Heroic Sacrifice to save the guys from Lino (which happens during the chase).
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheChick The Chick] - [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceGuy Angie], judging how nice and sensitive she is to everyone.
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SixthRanger Sixth Ranger] - [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceMole Don Edward Lino], seeing how the Shark Slayer incident began moments after the group has been formed. Also doubles as [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLoad The Load].

===[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveBadBand Five-Bad Band]===
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad Big Bad] - Don Lino
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheDragon The Dragon] - Sykes until his [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceTurn Heel–Face Turn] near the end of the film
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilGenius The Evil Genius] - Luca
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheBrute The Brute] - [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdvertisedExtra Don Feinberg]
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkChick The Dark Chicks] - Lola and Frankie

====Notes====
* Despite having lots of screen time, [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnsembleDarkhorse Luca, Don Feinberg, Frankie, Katie Current, Crazy Joe, and the Shorties] are minor characters.

==Critical reaction and box office==
''Shark Tale'' received mixed reviews from movie-goers. Some felt that this was DreamWorks' attempt to copy Pixar's ''[[Wikipedia:Finding Nemo|Finding Nemo]]'' (even though ''Shark Tale'' was already well into production at the time of ''Finding Nemo'''s release), and that the movie relied too heavily on dated pop-culture references.

Others felt they could not sympathize with Oscar (the protagonist), who had little in the way of redeeming characteristics until the end of the film. Many fans of the movie felt more concern for the plight of Lenny (the deuteragonist).

Despite the mixed reactions, ''Shark Tale'' did well at the box office, generating $160,861,908 in the US and $202,668,288 elsewhere in the world.<ref>http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=sharktale.htm</ref>

==Controversies==
Two controversies surrounded ''Shark Tale''. Before the movie was released, groups including the National Coalition Against Racial, Religious and Ethnic Stereotyping (CARRES) and the [[Wikipedia:National Italian American Foundation|National Italian American Foundation]] denounced the film for its use of Italian-American mafia stereotypes.
<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20041125094422/biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041028/nyth087_1.html</ref>

The second controversy arose when several conservative groups accused Shark Tale of promoting a [[homosexual]] agenda,<ref>http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/afa/172004c.asp</ref> labeling Lenny as "that gay shark".

Critics of this label point out that, though Lenny behaves in quite an effeminate manner, his sexual orientation simply does not arise one way or the other in the movie. However, what is true that Lenny's vegetarianism is an excellent allegory for homosexuality – he is initially in the closet, afraid to admit it to anybody and is especially afraid that his father will never accept him for who he is. He wonders if he is the way he is because something is "wrong" with him and eventually "comes out" by confiding with a friend.

==Possible sequel==
In April 2011, DreamWorks Animation's CEO, [[Wikipedia:Jeffrey Katzenberg|Jeffrey Katzenberg]], commented that the studio did not have plans to produce future movie genre parodies like ''Shark Tale'', ''[[Wikipedia:Monsters vs. Aliens|Monsters vs. Aliens]]'', and ''[[Wikipedia:Megamind|Megamind]]'', saying that these films "all shared an approach and tone and idea of parody, and did not travel well internationally. We don't have anything like that coming on our schedule now."<ref>http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/dreamworks-pins-hopes-on-kung-fu-panda-2-after-first-quarter-earnings-fall-short</ref>

==References==
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==See also==
* ''[[Wikipedia:Shark Tale|Shark Tale]]'' at Wikipedia

==External links==
* [http://www.sharktale.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307453/ ''Shark Tale'' on the Internet Movie Database]

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[[File:Shark Tale.jpg|right|175px|Shark Tale]]
'''''Shark Tale''''' is a 2004 CGI comedy adventure movie from [[Wikipedia:Dreamworks_animation|DreamWorks Animation]], written by [[Wikipedia:Michael J. Wilson|Michael J. Wilson]] and [[Wikipedia:Rob Letterman|Rob Letterman]]. Letterman directed with [[Wikipedia:Bibo Bergeron|Bibo Bergeron]] and [[Wikipedia:Vicky Jenson|Vicky Jenson]]. It stars [[Wikipedia:Will Smith|Will Smith]], [[Wikipedia:Jack Black|Jack Black]], [[Wikipedia:Renée Zellweger|Renée Zellweger]], [[Wikipedia:Robert De Niro|Robert De Niro]], [[Wikipedia:Martin Scorsese|Martin Scorsese]], and [[Wikipedia:Angelina Jolie|Angelina Jolie]].

The movie features [[anthropomorphic]] sea animals in an underwater setting.
It premiered at the [[Wikipedia:Venice Film Festival|Venice Film Festival]] on September 10, 2004. It was later released on DVD. During production, the movie was titled "Shark Slayer".

==Plot==
[[File:SharkTale-LinoFrankieLenny.JPG|thumb|right|180px|Great White Sharks: Don Lino, Frankie, and Lenny]]
''Shark Tale'' takes place in the underwater world of South Side Reef, a crowded metropolis where streams of fish surge between coral skyscrapers, police dolphins deal with traffic chaos caused by an overturned mackerel, lobster-trains scuttle along elevated tracks, and such business as Coral Cola, The Gup, and Old Wavy operate.

One of the inhabitants of the reef is Oscar, a lowly tongue-scrubber who works at Sykes' Whale Wash, where whales move along an assembly line having barnacles removed and their skin and teeth scrubbed clean. Oscar dreams of riches and fame beyond his humdrum life.

Arriving late for work, Oscar finds he has 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 with whom he is a close friend. He stops by her office to thank her and chat and exasperates her with his latest get-rich-quick-scheme: Bottled water.

Meanwhile, in a sunken ocean liner off the reef, Whale Wash owner Sykes – a porcupine blowfish – is nervously meeting with Don Edward Lino, a great white shark and head of the reef mafia. Edward explains he is retiring and is handing over control of the reef to his two sons Lenny and, his favorite son, Frankie. Sykes can understand the choice of the mean, bullying Frankie, but scoffs at the thought of passive, kind-hearted Lenny running the reef. Lino loses his temper and orders Sykes out, telling him he will have to start paying protection money if he doesn't want something to happen to his Whale Wash.

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 Ernie and Bernie – two Rastafarian jellyfish, and henchmen of Sykes – arrive and hurl him into Sykes' office. To raise the cash to pay of Lino, Sykes is calling in his IOUs and Oscar owes him five thousand clams, to be paid back my tomorrow. Oscar protests that is impossible, but Sykes tells him to bring it to the racetrack tomorrow, or else. As Sykes leaves, Bernie stings Oscar in the eye as a warning.

[[File:SharkTale-AngieOscar.JPG|right|thumb|180px|Angie and Oscar]]
That evening, Oscar mopes on Angie's balcony as she tends to his swollen eye. 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. Oscar had always thought that working at the wash was the greatest job anyone could do until he took his father's scrubbing broom to school for show-and-tell, and got laughed at. 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.

In the meantime, the great white sharks are dining on The Titanic. Lino, Lenny, and Frankie occupy a table in the corner. Lino praises Frankie for being a killer, but he expresses concern about Lenny, about whom he has been hearing things. Lino plucks a live shrimp from his shrimp cocktail and demands that Lenny eat it in front of him. Lenny refuses and helps the shrimp escape to freedom out the window. Lino is furious and tells Frankie to take Lenny out to show him the ropes – Lenny is going to learn how to be a shark, whether he likes it or not.

The next day, Oscar has pawned Angie's pearl and arrives at South Side Racetrack with the 5,000 clams. Overhearing two fish discussing how the next race is rigged to allow long-shot seahorse Lucky Day to win, Oscar rashly bets all of Sykes' money on it. The boldness of the wager attracts the attention of gold-digging femme-fatale Lola, half-lionfish, half-dragonfish. When Sykes turns up with Ernie and Bernie, he is livid that Oscar has placed a bet with the money he is owed, and Lola, realizing that Oscar isn't the millionaire she imagined, she quickly loses interest in him, calling him a nobody.

In the race on which Oscar has bet, Lucky Day gets off to a bad beginning when his starting gate jams and doesn't open. However, he manages to smash through it and – astonishingly – not only manages to catch up with the pack but begin to draw ahead. The last length sees Lucky Day and Fishfingers neck and neck, before Lucky Day puts on a burst of speed and pulls ahead. A win for Lucky Day seems certain until he wobbles and trips, tumbling in a heap just short of the finish line. 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 the Titanic. 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 save him, and is still there, looking baffled, as the silt settles.

Frankie declares that he has had it up to here with Lenny, and, with a growl, launches himself after Oscar. Just as Frankie catches up with Oscar, he's unexpectedly hit by an anchor thrown by Oscar. Horrified, Lenny tosses the anchor aside and cradles his dying brother. Feeling responsible for what happened, 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.

Back at the Whale Wash, Oscar is soon telling an increasingly embellished story about what happened, and soon the media is reporting the story. An interview with reporter Katie Current is interrupted by Sykes, who declares himself Oscar’s manager. Oscar is a little dubious, but he and Sykes agree to a 50/50 partnership.

Things are somber back on The Titanic as Frankie's funeral is held, attended by members of the Five Families – the great whites, hammerheads, leopard sharks, killer whales ([[Orca_(species)|orcas]]), and swordfish (or sailfish). At the wake afterwards, Don Ira Feinberg, the aging don of the leopard sharks, tells Lino about the Shark Slayer, about whom the word is getting around. Lino determines to find out who this shark slayer is. The rumor is spread around the reef.

In the meantime, Oscar rockets to stardom, and holds a lavish party in his new penthouse apartment at the top of the reef. Angie arrives and Oscar shows her the breathtaking view from his balcony. He seems on the verge of proposing to her when they are interrupted by Lola. Now that Oscar really is a somebody after all, she's determined to make him her own, and leads him away from Angie. Back inside the apartment, there is panic as the cry goes up that there are two great whites on the edge of the reef. Oscar reluctantly leaves to take care of the sharks.

[[File:SharkTale-Lola.JPG|right|thumb|180px]]
Hiding in a bed of kelp from the sharks – who are out searching for the Lenny – Oscar finds the missing shark also lying low. Lenny begs Oscar to take him home. Oscar is appalled by the notion, but when Lenny learns that Oscar has lied about killing a shark, he blackmails Oscar into helping him, pointing out that if he has to go back to Lino, soon everyone will know what really happened to Frankie.

Oscar reluctantly agrees to help, and hides Lenny in a storage shed near the Whale Wash. Oscar sets a few ground rules, worried about what will happen when Lenny gets hungry. Lenny tells him not to worry, he's different from the other sharks. When pressed for details, Lenny reluctantly admits to Oscar he is a vegetarian. He complains that his father will never accept him for who he is, and piteously whines, "What's wrong with me?". Oscar assures Lenny he wishes all sharks were like him, but then learns Lenny's father is head of the shark mob and realizes how much trouble he is in for taking the credit for Frankie's death.

Panicked, Oscar returns to his now-nearly-empty apartment where Sykes is on the phone trading insults with Edward. Edward asks to talk with Oscar and tells him he is going to tear him fin from fin. After Sykes leaves, Oscar finds Lola has been waiting for him. She assures him that all he has to do is show the sharks who is boss and they will leave him alone. With the beginning of a plan forming in his mind, Oscar returns to the storage shed to find Lenny.

What he does find is that Angie has discovered the fugitive shark, and he has confessed everything to her. She is furious that Oscar has lied to everybody, especially her. She tells Oscar to tell the truth and Lenny to go home. Neither like the sound of this, and Lenny devises a plan to stage a public fight in which he "dies", thereby solving both their problems.

The plan begins well, with Lenny terrorizing the reef until Oscar arrives and punches him through a billboard. Things take a slight turn for the worse when Lenny, chasing after Oscar, gets a little enthusiastic and accidentally swallows Oscar whole. Realizing what he has done, Lenny begins to gag, on the verge of throwing up. Oscar, inside Lenny's mouth, calms him down and "forces" open Lenny's jaws in a appearance of superhero-like strength. The chase resumes, and, after being "thrown" through a jumbotron screen, Lenny plummets screaming to his "death" down a crevice. In the aftermath of the fight, Lola sidles up to Oscar and gives him a lingering kiss in front of the television cameras. Angie, watching the live news reports back at the Whale Wash, is scared.

In the storage shed afterwards, Lenny is busily painting himself blue. When his shark snout squashed with rubber bands and his gills hidden behind a scarf of caution tape, he intends to pass himself off as Sebastian the Whale-Washin' [[Dolphin]]. When Oscar returns, Angie is furious about Oscar kissing Lola and asks him if he really believes she would be interested in him if he wasn't rich and famous. Oscar replies that at least she treats him like a somebody, and that no one loved him when he was a nobody. Hurt, Angie yells that she did. Oscar is taken aback, and Angie tells him that, to her, he was a somebody, but now she just sees him as a sham. Oscar tries to mend the situation, but Angie tells him to go away. Oscar leaves sadly, leaving Lenny to comfort a weeping Angie.

Oscar glumly swims around the reef, visiting old familiar places and fondly remembering the fun parts of his simpler life before becoming the Shark Slayer. Returning to his penthouse apartment, he ignores the party going on inside, and, alone, down on the reef from the balcony. He realizes that Angie's right, and when Lola joins him from inside, he tells her he doesn't think things are going to work out between them. Furious that anyone would dare to dump her, Lola slams him repeatedly against the plate-glass window.

Oscar arrives at the Whale Wash the next day determined to make up with Angie, but he finds out through Sykes that she hasn't turned up to work. A phone call from Luca, Lino's octopus consigliere, best friend and assistant, reveals that she has been abducted, and that if he doesn't want to see her sleeping with the fishes (the dead ones), he had better present himself at a sit-down in one hour. Oscar resolves to rescue her. Lenny, now working at the Whale Wash in his guise as Sebastian, says he can't just waltz in there and say, "Hi Pop! I'm a dolphin!". Sykes is doubly scared to realize his new employee is Lenny and Oscar isn't a real shark slayer. Oscar muses that the sharks don't know that.

Oscar, Sykes, and the still-disguised Lenny attend the sit-down. Whilst waiting for Edward to arrive, a very nervous Oscar realizes the members of the Five Families are actually terrified of him. Lino enters and regards the fish who has killed both his sons. When he sadistically teases Oscar by revealing Angie wriggling on a serving platter, Oscar tries to say he barely knows her. Lola emerges from the shadows and declares he is bluffing, and betrays him. It is revealed that Lola works for Lino. after which Oscar says Lino has nothing and tells Lenny to take her out – in a flash, Lenny swims down the table and swallows Angie whole (in fact, holding her safe in his mouth). Oscar teases the sharks and he almost gets away with it, but the taste of Angie on his tongue is making Lenny nauseous and he vomits over the meeting table. Hearing Lenny say, "I couldn't take it! The taste was killin' me!", Lino realizes the dolphin at the end of the table is his son. He is bewildered, yet relieved, that Lenny is still alive, then embarrassed about how the situation makes him look in front of his mob underlings, and finally furious that Oscar has not only took Frankie away, but also turned Lenny into a dolphin. Oscar and Lenny's plan failed.

With surprising speed, Lino throws himself at Oscar with the intent of eating him. Oscar escapes from the ocean liner and lures Lino to the Whale Wash, where he tries to trap him in the emergency whale clamp, but in the confusion, he pins Lenny instead. Continuing to play cat-and-mouse with Lino, Oscar eventually defeats the great white by trapping him in the middle of the Whale Wash's various robotic sponges. A gathering crowd, including a TV crew with Katie Current, hails Oscar as a hero once again and lift him aloft, chanting his name. Angie sees everything's going to go on just as before, and, having had enough, begins to swim away. Seeing he's about to lose Angie again, Oscar screams an admission that he isn't a real shark slayer. He explains to Lino that an anchor killed Frankie and Óscar didn't had anything to do with it, and neither that Lenny. Lino can't understand why Lenny would then run away, and Lenny miserably explains it was because he always wanted him to be more like Frankie, and that he could never be the shark he wants him to be. Oscar admonishes Lino, telling him everyone loves Lenny just the way he is, and why can't he? He further tells Lino he shouldn't make the same mistake he has, and lose someone important. Lenny looks hopefully at his father, who relents, and asks to be released so he can forgive his son. Oscar withdraws the traps, and Lino hugs Lenny. Lino is revealed to be a nice shark before he was hired by Lola. As this happens, Oscar is approached by Angie, and he awkwardly tells her than he has realized he didn't need the top of the reef, and everything he wanted was already in front of him. She asks him about being a somebody, and he sheepishly tells her that he's a nobody without her. Angie throws her arms around Oscar and kisses him, to the crowd's approval. After the kiss, Oscar tentatively questions Lino about what will happen to him after this, but Lino, having regained his son, seems willing to call it a truce, as everyone in the reef celebrates. Asked by Katie Current what he's now gonna do, having lost everything he lied so hard to achieve, Oscar looks thoughtful.

The movie ends with Oscar now one of Sykes' partners at the Whale Wash. Over a lengthy musical number, we see the Whale Wash workers dancing as they clean the incoming whales. Lenny and Lino arrive and greet Angie in the cashier's booth, telling her they have bought some new customers – the various members of the Five Families. In the closing scene, Oscar and Angie share a kiss atop a revolving sign near the Whale Wash. Lino becomes a member of Oscar's gang and works as crime boss again, Lola is arrested by Crazy Joe for the whole incident, and Sykes fires Ernie and Bernie and Oscar hires them as his DJs "''E and B''".

==Main characters and cast==
* Oscar (cleaner wrasse), the main protagonist of the film. He is a Whale Wash tongue-scrubber and later, the co-manager. He is nice, selfless, kind, sweet, meek, mischievous, cool, and kind. – [[Wikipedia:Will Smith|Will Smith]]
* Lenny (great white shark), the deuteragonist of the film. He is Oscar's best friend, as well as Don Lino's youngest son and Frankie's brother. He is happy, funny, silly, goofy, mischievous, and playful. – [[Wikipedia:Jack Black|Jack Black]]
* Angie (angelfish), the tritagonist of the film. She is Oscar's girlfriend. She is mischievous, funny, goofy, sweet, clumsy, silly, kind, and selfless. – [[Wikipedia:Renée Zellweger|Renée Zellweger]]
* Don Lino (great white shark), the main antagonist of the film. He is the boss of the Great White sharks, Sykes, and the reef, as well as Lenny and Frankie's father and Oscar's arch-nemesis. He is ruthless, aggressive, murderous, short-tempered, greedy, and selfish. At the end, he is selfless, kind, sweet, gentle, and nice. – [[Wikipedia:Robert De Niro|Robert De Niro]]
* Sykes (porcupine fish), the secondary antagonist of the film. He is Oscar and Angie's boss, Ernie and Bernie's leader and boss, and Lino's former Dragon. He is funny, goofy, comical and silly. – [[Wikipedia:Martin Scorsese|Martin Scorsese]]
* Lola (part lion fish, part dragon fish), the hidden tertiary antagonist of the film. She is a gold digger who wants Oscar just to get his money and becomes Angie's arch-rival. She is ruthless, selfish, mean, aggressive, and greedy. – [[Wikipedia:Angelina Jolie|Angelina Jolie]]
* Ernie (jellyfish), one of the two quartenary antagonists of the film. He is one of Sykes' henchmen. – [[Wikipedia:Ziggy Marley|Ziggy Marley]]
* Bernie (jellyfish), one of the two quartenary antagonists of the film. He is one of Sykes' henchmen. – [[Wikipedia:Doug E. Doug|Doug E. Doug]]
* Frankie (great white shark), a minor antagonist in the film. He was his father's Dragon, despite having small screen time. He was Don Lino's oldest son and Lenny's brother of Lenny. Later in the movie, he gets killed by an anchor while trying to eat Oscar. – [[Wikipedia:Michael Imperioli|Michael Imperioli]]
* Luca (octopus), a supporting antagonist in the film. He is Don Lino's right-hand-man who irritates him often. - [[Wikipedia:Vincent Pastore|Vincent Pastore]]
* Don Feinberg (leopard shark), a minor character in the film, despite being Don Lino's Brute. He is an old leopard shark. – [[Wikipedia:Peter Falk|Peter Falk]]
* Crazy Joe (hermit crab), a supporting protagonist in the film. He is Oscar's comical bodyguard and assistant. – David P. Smith

===[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveManBand Five-Man Band]===
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLeader The Leader] - [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnlySaneMan Oscar]. He is the film's star after all and he leads the rescue of Angie.
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLancer The Lancer] - [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Cloudcuckoolander Lenny] who befriends Oscar. Lenny gets the most respect out of the crew and is also the guy who helps distract his father as his job of the rescue of Angie.
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSmartGuy The Smart Guy] - [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ButtMonkey Sykes]. He is the first one to deduce that the Shark Slayer is real.
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheBigGuy The Big Guy] - [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PluckyComicRelief Crazy Joe], [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PintsizedPowerhouse the biggest guy of the group] and the first one to pull a Heroic Sacrifice to save the guys from Lino (which happens during the chase).
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheChick The Chick] - [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceGuy Angie], judging how nice and sensitive she is to everyone.
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SixthRanger Sixth Ranger] - [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceMole Don Edward Lino], seeing how the Shark Slayer incident began moments after the group has been formed. Also doubles as [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLoad The Load].

===[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveBadBand Five-Bad Band]===
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad Big Bad] - Don Lino
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheDragon The Dragon] - Sykes until his [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceTurn Heel–Face Turn] near the end of the film
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilGenius The Evil Genius] - Luca
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheBrute The Brute] - [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdvertisedExtra Don Feinberg]
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkChick The Dark Chicks] - Lola and Frankie

====Notes====
* Despite having lots of screen time, [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnsembleDarkhorse Luca, Don Feinberg, Frankie, Katie Current, Crazy Joe, and the Shorties] are minor characters.

==Critical reaction and box office==
''Shark Tale'' received mixed reviews from movie-goers. Some felt that this was DreamWorks' attempt to copy Pixar's ''[[Wikipedia:Finding Nemo|Finding Nemo]]'' (even though ''Shark Tale'' was already well into production at the time of ''Finding Nemo'''s release), and that the movie relied too heavily on dated pop-culture references.

Others felt they could not sympathize with Oscar (the protagonist), who had little in the way of redeeming characteristics until the end of the film. Many fans of the movie felt more concern for the plight of Lenny (the deuteragonist).

Despite the mixed reactions, ''Shark Tale'' did well at the box office, generating $160,861,908 in the US and $202,668,288 elsewhere in the world.<ref>http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=sharktale.htm</ref>

==Controversies==
Two controversies surrounded ''Shark Tale''. Before the movie was released, groups including the National Coalition Against Racial, Religious and Ethnic Stereotyping (CARRES) and the [[Wikipedia:National Italian American Foundation|National Italian American Foundation]] denounced the film for its use of Italian-American mafia stereotypes.
<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20041125094422/biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041028/nyth087_1.html</ref>

The second controversy arose when several conservative groups accused Shark Tale of promoting a [[homosexual]] agenda,<ref>http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/afa/172004c.asp</ref> labeling Lenny as "that gay shark".

Critics of this label point out that, though Lenny behaves in quite an effeminate manner, his sexual orientation simply does not arise one way or the other in the movie. However, what is true that Lenny's vegetarianism is an excellent allegory for homosexuality – he is initially in the closet, afraid to admit it to anybody and is especially afraid that his father will never accept him for who he is. He wonders if he is the way he is because something is "wrong" with him and eventually "comes out" by confiding with a friend.

==Possible sequel==
In April 2011, DreamWorks Animation's CEO, [[Wikipedia:Jeffrey Katzenberg|Jeffrey Katzenberg]], commented that the studio did not have plans to produce future movie genre parodies like ''Shark Tale'', ''[[Wikipedia:Monsters vs. Aliens|Monsters vs. Aliens]]'', and ''[[Wikipedia:Megamind|Megamind]]'', saying that these films "all shared an approach and tone and idea of parody, and did not travel well internationally. We don't have anything like that coming on our schedule now."<ref>http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/dreamworks-pins-hopes-on-kung-fu-panda-2-after-first-quarter-earnings-fall-short</ref>

==References==
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==See also==
* ''[[Wikipedia:Shark Tale|Shark Tale]]'' at Wikipedia

==External links==
* [http://www.sharktale.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307453/ ''Shark Tale'' on the Internet Movie Database]

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Thebe and the Angry Red Eye

2023-04-14T09:16:30Z

2601:18D:4700:7640:919E:79A8:B6AD:26BC:

[[File:Thebe_And_The_Angry_Red_Eye_Chapter_4_intro_pic.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Thomas with his companion Oscar the tomato plant. Artwork by David Hopkins.]]

'''''Thebe and the Angry Eye''''', a [[science fiction]] novella written by [[David Hopkins]], is an acclaimed story about a furry crew's ill-fated space voyage. It first appeared as a serial on Hopkins' [[Fur Affinity]] page<ref>[https://www.furaffinity.net/view/13402679/|starting with this cover image]</ref>, with several illustrations by Hopkins himself, in 2014. The following year, a version with corrected spelling errors appeared in [[Fred Patten]]'s anthology ''[[The Furry Future]]''<ref>[https://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=770]</ref>, with two new illustrations by [[Roz Gibson]].

==Plot==
{{spoiler}}

'''Note:''' ''The original story is told in ananchronic order, with the narrative frequently moving back and forth between the present and the past. For the sake of clarity and simplicity, this synopsis arranges the events in chronological order.''

===Story setup and characters===

The story takes place in a future where, for unexplained reasons, anthropomorphic animals replaced humans thousands of years ago. The Hildebrand Corporation has initiated an ambitious program to send a ship called the Hildebrand One on a ten-year expedition to [[W:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)|Europa]], one of [[W:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter|Jupiter]]'s moons, in search of extraterrestrial life. A crew of seven is chosen, including:

* '''Thomas''', who specializes in telescopy, photography and botany. He is the protagonist who narrates the story, and his suffering is central to the plot.
* '''Captain Hawthorne''', the strong, brave leader of the mission, who keeps his shipmates working together and getting along.
* '''Mallory''', Hawthorne's very competent second-in-command. She's also the pilot.
* '''Carl''', the ship's taciturn engineer. He receives the least characterization of the main cast.
* '''Doctor Slawvitz''', the medic. Compassionate and supportive, she is a strong believer in the benefits of space exploration.
* '''Jenare''', the navigator and secondary pilot. A likable, wisecracking eccentric who hopes that the mission will make him famous.
* '''Tout''', an enthusiastic young journalist. She maintains communications with Earth.

'''Oscar''', a tomato plant, is considered the crew's mascot. During their odyssey, the astronauts get past their minor conflicts to bond together as friends.

===Radiation surge and crash landing===

All goes well during the voyage until tragedy strikes. While the Hildebrand One is passing Jupiter, it's hit by an unpredictable radiation surge that causes one of the fuel tanks to leak. Hawthorne and Carl suit up and do a space walk to repair the ruptured tank but it explodes, which severs Hawthorne's safety tether and causes him to fatally tumble into Jupiter's rings. The explosion also alters the ship's course so that it too goes through the rings, which overwhelms the shielding and causes the some of the rocks to break through the hull. Mallory becomes the second to die while she repairs a hull breach; one of the stones smashes into her head through the eye and enters her brain, killing her instantly.

These deaths force Thomas, Carl, Slawvitz, Jenare and Tout to figure out what to do next. They decide their best bet for survival is to land on another Jovian moon, [[W:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thebe_(moon)|Thebe]], even though it will be a crash landing because they've lost too much fuel to set down safely. They record a farewell message for their loved ones which they send to Earth, scatter to various parts of the Hildebrand One to increase the chances that at least one of them will live, and hope for the best. Thomas is knocked unconscious during the rough landing; when he wakes up and searches for his four crewmates, he is devastated when he sees that they were all killed when the ship crashed, leaving himself and Oscar as the only ones left alive.

===Trapped on Thebe===

Thomas tries to maintain a routine on the wrecked ship: he keeps the part where he lives clean, explores Thebe, and cares for Oscar as best he can. However, the terrible loneliness takes a toll on him, especially since he knows that no rescue is forthcoming. His sanity starts to slip as he imagines conversing with Oscar, and also that the [[W:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Red_Spot|eye of Jupiter]], which he calls "'''the Giant'''", is a malevolent being who is always watching him. He begins thinking more and more about his beloved wife '''Katie''', whom he believes he will never see again. He also has a vivid dream about the way the voyage should have ended, with him and his friends returning to Earth safely and receiving a heroes' welcome. However, just as he's about to embrace Katie, he wakes up.

Eventually, while "talking" with Oscar, Thomas realizes that he has three choices: keep up the useless routine until he finally expires; kill himself and Oscar; or as Oscar "says", "we live, for one last time". Tiring of his hopeless isolation, Thomas chooses option three. The next morning, he suits up, grabs Oscar, and jumps into the void between Thebe and Jupiter. If he has to die, he will die as an explorer.

===Encounter with the Giant===

Thomas is the first person to observe the wonders of the gas giant, although he loses Oscar along the way. Finally, he makes contact with the Giant --
which turns out to have a living being inside it! Its form is an impossibly huge black snake, which causes Thomas to describe it as "resembling one of [[W:H.P. Lovecraft|Lovecraft]]'s signature horrors", but it's actually friendly. Thomas communicates with the creature and says he doesn't hold it responsible for what happened to the ship and its crew; it seems that the snake alien created the radiation surge not as an attack, but as an attempt at first contact gone tragically wrong, which it regrets. The being comforts Thomas in his final moments by showing him the path the Hildebrand One took, the surface of Earth, and finally Katie, who's gardening at their home; she looks up and smiles at him as if she can somehow sense his presence. Thomas is glad to see that she's moved on from her loss.

One moment later, Thomas' suit finally fails and he dies. He notes that "It happens so quickly, that I don't feel a thing." The story ends.

==Notes==

===Furriness (or lack thereof)===
While the story features [[furry]] characters, it doesn't emphasize this aspect very much. Thomas makes occasional mentions of his whiskers, claws and tail. He is also the only character whose species has been verified, due to every illustration of him portraying him as a [[Felidae (mammal)|domestic housecat]]. The species of the other characters (except for the snakelike alien) are never mentioned.

===Character names===
Every character in the story is given only one name. Captain Hawthorne and Doctor Slawvitz are referred to by their ranks and surnames, while Thomas, Mallory and Carl have only first names. The names Jenare and Tout are unusual and ambiguous enough that they might be either first or last names.

===Human pop culture references===
The story takes place long after the end of humanity, but vestiges of human culture still remain. For example, Jenare plays video games with an [[W:Xbox|Xbox]] and alludes to ''[[W:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(What's_So_Funny_'Bout)_Peace%2C_Love%2C_and_Understanding| What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding]]'', a song written by [[W:Nick_Lowe|Nick Lowe]] and popularized by [[W:Elvis_Costello|Elvis Costello]]. We also see Thomas listening to ''[[W:The_Jack_Benny_Program|The Jack Benny Program]]'' (misidentified as ''The Jack Benny Show'') and ''[[W:The_Shadow|The Shadow]]'' (not mentioned by name), two programs from the [[W:Golden_Age_of_Radio|Golden Age of Radio]].

===Scientific inaccuracies===
Hopkins wrote [[https://www.furaffinity.net/view/16405724/| a Fur Affinity post]] acknowledging and addressing some of the story's scientific inaccuracies.

===Award nomination===
''Thebe and the Angry Red Eye'' was one of the stories nominated for Best Anthropomorphic Short Fiction at the [[2015 Ursa Major Awards]]. It lost to another story from ''The Furry Future'', ''[[The Analogue Cat]]'' by [[Huskyteer|Alice "Huskyteer" Dryden]].

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[[Category:2014 births]]

==References==
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Thebe and the Angry Red Eye

2023-04-14T09:15:31Z

2601:18D:4700:7640:919E:79A8:B6AD:26BC:

[[File:Thebe_And_The_Angry_Red_Eye_Chapter_4_intro_pic.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Thomas with his companion Oscar the tomato plant. Artwork by David Hopkins.]]

''''Thebe and the Angry Eye'''', a [[science fiction]] novella written by [[David Hopkins]], is an acclaimed story about a furry crew's ill-fated space voyage. It first appeared as a serial on Hopkins' [[Fur Affinity]] page<ref>[https://www.furaffinity.net/view/13402679/|starting with this cover image]</ref>, with several illustrations by Hopkins himself, in 2014. The following year, a version with corrected spelling errors appeared in [[Fred Patten]]'s anthology ''[[The Furry Future]]''<ref>[https://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=770]</ref>, with two new illustrations by [[Roz Gibson]].

==Plot==
{{spoiler}}

'''Note:''' ''The original story is told in ananchronic order, with the narrative frequently moving back and forth between the present and the past. For the sake of clarity and simplicity, this synopsis arranges the events in chronological order.''

===Story setup and characters===

The story takes place in a future where, for unexplained reasons, anthropomorphic animals replaced humans thousands of years ago. The Hildebrand Corporation has initiated an ambitious program to send a ship called the Hildebrand One on a ten-year expedition to [[W:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)|Europa]], one of [[W:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter|Jupiter]]'s moons, in search of extraterrestrial life. A crew of seven is chosen, including:

* '''Thomas''', who specializes in telescopy, photography and botany. He is the protagonist who narrates the story, and his suffering is central to the plot.
* '''Captain Hawthorne''', the strong, brave leader of the mission, who keeps his shipmates working together and getting along.
* '''Mallory''', Hawthorne's very competent second-in-command. She's also the pilot.
* '''Carl''', the ship's taciturn engineer. He receives the least characterization of the main cast.
* '''Doctor Slawvitz''', the medic. Compassionate and supportive, she is a strong believer in the benefits of space exploration.
* '''Jenare''', the navigator and secondary pilot. A likable, wisecracking eccentric who hopes that the mission will make him famous.
* '''Tout''', an enthusiastic young journalist. She maintains communications with Earth.

'''Oscar''', a tomato plant, is considered the crew's mascot. During their odyssey, the astronauts get past their minor conflicts to bond together as friends.

===Radiation surge and crash landing===

All goes well during the voyage until tragedy strikes. While the Hildebrand One is passing Jupiter, it's hit by an unpredictable radiation surge that causes one of the fuel tanks to leak. Hawthorne and Carl suit up and do a space walk to repair the ruptured tank but it explodes, which severs Hawthorne's safety tether and causes him to fatally tumble into Jupiter's rings. The explosion also alters the ship's course so that it too goes through the rings, which overwhelms the shielding and causes the some of the rocks to break through the hull. Mallory becomes the second to die while she repairs a hull breach; one of the stones smashes into her head through the eye and enters her brain, killing her instantly.

These deaths force Thomas, Carl, Slawvitz, Jenare and Tout to figure out what to do next. They decide their best bet for survival is to land on another Jovian moon, [[W:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thebe_(moon)|Thebe]], even though it will be a crash landing because they've lost too much fuel to set down safely. They record a farewell message for their loved ones which they send to Earth, scatter to various parts of the Hildebrand One to increase the chances that at least one of them will live, and hope for the best. Thomas is knocked unconscious during the rough landing; when he wakes up and searches for his four crewmates, he is devastated when he sees that they were all killed when the ship crashed, leaving himself and Oscar as the only ones left alive.

===Trapped on Thebe===

Thomas tries to maintain a routine on the wrecked ship: he keeps the part where he lives clean, explores Thebe, and cares for Oscar as best he can. However, the terrible loneliness takes a toll on him, especially since he knows that no rescue is forthcoming. His sanity starts to slip as he imagines conversing with Oscar, and also that the [[W:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Red_Spot|eye of Jupiter]], which he calls "'''the Giant'''", is a malevolent being who is always watching him. He begins thinking more and more about his beloved wife '''Katie''', whom he believes he will never see again. He also has a vivid dream about the way the voyage should have ended, with him and his friends returning to Earth safely and receiving a heroes' welcome. However, just as he's about to embrace Katie, he wakes up.

Eventually, while "talking" with Oscar, Thomas realizes that he has three choices: keep up the useless routine until he finally expires; kill himself and Oscar; or as Oscar "says", "we live, for one last time". Tiring of his hopeless isolation, Thomas chooses option three. The next morning, he suits up, grabs Oscar, and jumps into the void between Thebe and Jupiter. If he has to die, he will die as an explorer.

===Encounter with the Giant===

Thomas is the first person to observe the wonders of the gas giant, although he loses Oscar along the way. Finally, he makes contact with the Giant --
which turns out to have a living being inside it! Its form is an impossibly huge black snake, which causes Thomas to describe it as "resembling one of [[W:H.P. Lovecraft|Lovecraft]]'s signature horrors", but it's actually friendly. Thomas communicates with the creature and says he doesn't hold it responsible for what happened to the ship and its crew; it seems that the snake alien created the radiation surge not as an attack, but as an attempt at first contact gone tragically wrong, which it regrets. The being comforts Thomas in his final moments by showing him the path the Hildebrand One took, the surface of Earth, and finally Katie, who's gardening at their home; she looks up and smiles at him as if she can somehow sense his presence. Thomas is glad to see that she's moved on from her loss.

One moment later, Thomas' suit finally fails and he dies. He notes that "It happens so quickly, that I don't feel a thing." The story ends.

==Notes==

===Furriness (or lack thereof)===
While the story features [[furry]] characters, it doesn't emphasize this aspect very much. Thomas makes occasional mentions of his whiskers, claws and tail. He is also the only character whose species has been verified, due to every illustration of him portraying him as a [[Felidae (mammal)|domestic housecat]]. The species of the other characters (except for the snakelike alien) are never mentioned.

===Character names===
Every character in the story is given only one name. Captain Hawthorne and Doctor Slawvitz are referred to by their ranks and surnames, while Thomas, Mallory and Carl have only first names. The names Jenare and Tout are unusual and ambiguous enough that they might be either first or last names.

===Human pop culture references===
The story takes place long after the end of humanity, but vestiges of human culture still remain. For example, Jenare plays video games with an [[W:Xbox|Xbox]] and alludes to ''[[W:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(What's_So_Funny_'Bout)_Peace%2C_Love%2C_and_Understanding| What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding]]'', a song written by [[W:Nick_Lowe|Nick Lowe]] and popularized by [[W:Elvis_Costello|Elvis Costello]]. We also see Thomas listening to ''[[W:The_Jack_Benny_Program|The Jack Benny Program]]'' (misidentified as ''The Jack Benny Show'') and ''[[W:The_Shadow|The Shadow]]'' (not mentioned by name), two programs from the [[W:Golden_Age_of_Radio|Golden Age of Radio]].

===Scientific inaccuracies===
Hopkins wrote [[https://www.furaffinity.net/view/16405724/| a Fur Affinity post]] acknowledging and addressing some of the story's scientific inaccuracies.

===Award nomination===
''Thebe and the Angry Red Eye'' was one of the stories nominated for Best Anthropomorphic Short Fiction at the [[2015 Ursa Major Awards]]. It lost to another story from ''The Furry Future'', ''[[The Analogue Cat]]'' by [[Huskyteer|Alice "Huskyteer" Dryden]].

[[Category:Short stories]]
[[Category:2014 births]]

==References==
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Thebe and the Angry Red Eye

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[[File:Thebe_And_The_Angry_Red_Eye_Chapter_4_intro_pic.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Thomas with his companion Oscar the tomato plant. Artwork by David Hopkins.]]

'''Thebe and the Angry Eye''', a [[science fiction]] novella written by [[David Hopkins]], is an acclaimed story about a furry crew's ill-fated space voyage. It first appeared as a serial on Hopkins' [[Fur Affinity]] page<ref>[https://www.furaffinity.net/view/13402679/|starting with this cover image]</ref>, with several illustrations by Hopkins himself, in 2014. The following year, a version with corrected spelling errors appeared in [[Fred Patten]]'s anthology ''[[The Furry Future]]''<ref>[https://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=770]</ref>, with two new illustrations by [[Roz Gibson]].

==Plot==
{{spoiler}}

'''Note:''' ''The original story is told in ananchronic order, with the narrative frequently moving back and forth between the present and the past. For the sake of clarity and simplicity, this synopsis arranges the events in chronological order.''

===Story setup and characters===

The story takes place in a future where, for unexplained reasons, anthropomorphic animals replaced humans thousands of years ago. The Hildebrand Corporation has initiated an ambitious program to send a ship called the Hildebrand One on a ten-year expedition to [[W:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)|Europa]], one of [[W:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter|Jupiter]]'s moons, in search of extraterrestrial life. A crew of seven is chosen, including:

* '''Thomas''', who specializes in telescopy, photography and botany. He is the protagonist who narrates the story, and his suffering is central to the plot.
* '''Captain Hawthorne''', the strong, brave leader of the mission, who keeps his shipmates working together and getting along.
* '''Mallory''', Hawthorne's very competent second-in-command. She's also the pilot.
* '''Carl''', the ship's taciturn engineer. He receives the least characterization of the main cast.
* '''Doctor Slawvitz''', the medic. Compassionate and supportive, she is a strong believer in the benefits of space exploration.
* '''Jenare''', the navigator and secondary pilot. A likable, wisecracking eccentric who hopes that the mission will make him famous.
* '''Tout''', an enthusiastic young journalist. She maintains communications with Earth.

'''Oscar''', a tomato plant, is considered the crew's mascot. During their odyssey, the astronauts get past their minor conflicts to bond together as friends.

===Radiation surge and crash landing===

All goes well during the voyage until tragedy strikes. While the Hildebrand One is passing Jupiter, it's hit by an unpredictable radiation surge that causes one of the fuel tanks to leak. Hawthorne and Carl suit up and do a space walk to repair the ruptured tank but it explodes, which severs Hawthorne's safety tether and causes him to fatally tumble into Jupiter's rings. The explosion also alters the ship's course so that it too goes through the rings, which overwhelms the shielding and causes the some of the rocks to break through the hull. Mallory becomes the second to die while she repairs a hull breach; one of the stones smashes into her head through the eye and enters her brain, killing her instantly.

These deaths force Thomas, Carl, Slawvitz, Jenare and Tout to figure out what to do next. They decide their best bet for survival is to land on another Jovian moon, [[W:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thebe_(moon)|Thebe]], even though it will be a crash landing because they've lost too much fuel to set down safely. They record a farewell message for their loved ones which they send to Earth, scatter to various parts of the Hildebrand One to increase the chances that at least one of them will live, and hope for the best. Thomas is knocked unconscious during the rough landing; when he wakes up and searches for his four crewmates, he is devastated when he sees that they were all killed when the ship crashed, leaving himself and Oscar as the only ones left alive.

===Trapped on Thebe===

Thomas tries to maintain a routine on the wrecked ship: he keeps the part where he lives clean, explores Thebe, and cares for Oscar as best he can. However, the terrible loneliness takes a toll on him, especially since he knows that no rescue is forthcoming. His sanity starts to slip as he imagines conversing with Oscar, and also that the [[W:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Red_Spot|eye of Jupiter]], which he calls "'''the Giant'''", is a malevolent being who is always watching him. He begins thinking more and more about his beloved wife '''Katie''', whom he believes he will never see again. He also has a vivid dream about the way the voyage should have ended, with him and his friends returning to Earth safely and receiving a heroes' welcome. However, just as he's about to embrace Katie, he wakes up.

Eventually, while "talking" with Oscar, Thomas realizes that he has three choices: keep up the useless routine until he finally expires; kill himself and Oscar; or as Oscar "says", "we live, for one last time". Tiring of his hopeless isolation, Thomas chooses option three. The next morning, he suits up, grabs Oscar, and jumps into the void between Thebe and Jupiter. If he has to die, he will die as an explorer.

===Encounter with the Giant===

Thomas is the first person to observe the wonders of the gas giant, although he loses Oscar along the way. Finally, he makes contact with the Giant --
which turns out to have a living being inside it! Its form is an impossibly huge black snake, which causes Thomas to describe it as "resembling one of [[W:H.P. Lovecraft|Lovecraft]]'s signature horrors", but it's actually friendly. Thomas communicates with the creature and says he doesn't hold it responsible for what happened to the ship and its crew; it seems that the snake alien created the radiation surge not as an attack, but as an attempt at first contact gone tragically wrong, which it regrets. The being comforts Thomas in his final moments by showing him the path the Hildebrand One took, the surface of Earth, and finally Katie, who's gardening at their home; she looks up and smiles at him as if she can somehow sense his presence. Thomas is glad to see that she's moved on from her loss.

One moment later, Thomas' suit finally fails and he dies. He notes that "It happens so quickly, that I don't feel a thing." The story ends.

==Notes==

===Furriness (or lack thereof)===
While the story features [[furry]] characters, it doesn't emphasize this aspect very much. Thomas makes occasional mentions of his whiskers, claws and tail. He is also the only character whose species has been verified, due to every illustration of him portraying him as a [[Felidae (mammal)|domestic housecat]]. The species of the other characters (except for the snakelike alien) are never mentioned.

===Character names===
Every character in the story is given only one name. Captain Hawthorne and Doctor Slawvitz are referred to by their ranks and surnames, while Thomas, Mallory and Carl have only first names. The names Jenare and Tout are unusual and ambiguous enough that they might be either first or last names.

===Human pop culture references===
The story takes place long after the end of humanity, but vestiges of human culture still remain. For example, Jenare plays video games with an [[W:Xbox|Xbox]] and alludes to ''[[W:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(What's_So_Funny_'Bout)_Peace%2C_Love%2C_and_Understanding| What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding]]'', a song written by [[W:Nick_Lowe|Nick Lowe]] and popularized by [[W:Elvis_Costello|Elvis Costello]]. We also see Thomas listening to ''[[W:The_Jack_Benny_Program|The Jack Benny Program]]'' (misidentified as ''The Jack Benny Show'') and ''[[W:The_Shadow|The Shadow]]'' (not mentioned by name), two programs from the [[W:Golden_Age_of_Radio|Golden Age of Radio]].

===Scientific inaccuracies===
Hopkins wrote [[https://www.furaffinity.net/view/16405724/| a Fur Affinity post]] acknowledging and addressing some of the story's scientific inaccuracies.

===Award nomination===
''Thebe and the Angry Red Eye'' was one of the stories nominated for Best Anthropomorphic Short Fiction at the [[2015 Ursa Major Awards]]. It lost to another story from ''The Furry Future'', ''[[The Analogue Cat]]'' by [[Huskyteer|Alice "Huskyteer" Dryden]].

[[Category:Short stories]]
[[Category:2014 births]]

==References==
<references/>

FreezeFrame Badger

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'''FreezeFrame Badger''', or just '''FreezeFrame''', formerly known as '''FreezeFrame Fox''', is a [[fursuiter]], [[photographer]], and [[W:Camera operator|cameraman]] who lives in [[W:Washington, D.C.|Washington, D.C.]], USA.<ref>[https://twitter.com/Freezebadger FreezeFrame Badger's profile] on [[Twitter]]. Retrieved June 20, 2015.</ref>

== Fursona ==

FreezeFrame's [[fursona]] is a [[Badger|European badger]].<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/user/freezeframe/ FreezeFrame Badger's profile] on Fur Affinity. Retrieved June 20, 2015.</ref>

=== Fursuit ===

FreezeFrame's [[fursuit]] was made by ''[[That's Furred Up!]]'' in early 2015.

==References==
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==External links==
{{Contributor|FreezeFrameFox}}
* [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/freezeframe/ FreezeFrame] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~freezeframe FreezeFrame] on [[Weasyl]]
* [https://twitter.com/freezebadger FreezeFrame Badger] on [[Twitter]]
* [https://twitter.com/freezeframefox FreezeFrame Fox] on Twitter (abandoned)
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/FreezeFrameFox FreezeFrame Badger] on [[YouTube]]

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