King Shark
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Real Identity: Nanaue
Affiliations: DC Villains Billiards League
Appearances: New Chum, Them Jaws, Pool Shark, Shark Tank, Lakeside Story, and Megalodon Jackson
Powers/Skills: Enhanced Strength, Survival Underwater, and Theft
Voiced By: Eric Edelstein
King Shark gained a reputation as a criminal. While a narwhal named Nar-Nar slept, King stole the tooth off of him and it became a prized lucky pool cue. He dominated the DC Villains Billiards League with it and won hundreds of games. King stole an Atlantean treasure horde and hid it well. Robin infiltrated a pool hall hosting the DC Villains Billiards League as "The Hands," in an attempt to learn the location of the Atlantean treasure. King was so cocky that in the championship round, he wagered his prized narwhal pool cue. He lost to The Hands because his creepy baby hands threw him off his game. The other villains cheered on The Hands and left the pool hall with him. King stopped playing billiards after the loss but he found his life improved as a result.
Back when he was a little scrawny kid, Bane approached King Shark and begged him to teach him the Tank Life, living life without the constraints of sleeves. King couldn't say no and tossed him a weight. Bane was pinned to the ground. Bane learned to rock the Tank Life faster than anyone before him but it was too fast. Bane never learned self-control and developed a violent hatred toward arm-length garments so deep, he was lost forever. King ordered him to stop. Bane was angered he chose sleeves over his own tankprentice and decked King into a weight rack. Bane left in a blue convertible. They never saw each other again since.
While in Codsville, he and the three suckerfish he hung out with, Roy, Richard, and Robert, sought thrills including conducting robberies. Wearing masks of superheroes Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and Batman, they got away from local police. They robbed a taffy store with an electric eel. The Doom Patrol happened to visit the store after their bag was ruined by Robotman. They followed a trail of the candy to Pier 25. They didn't see any suspicious individuals but encountered King Shark and his gang after they did some kite surfing than ended with them surfing into a whale's mouth and being blown to shore out of its blowhole. Robotman thought they were cool but got distracted. He swerved around the pier, launched off a hot dog stand, bounced off some coin operated binoculars, bounced off the roller coaster, and made a hard landing head first into the beach. King complimented his excellent driving skills. Robotman wished he could be as extreme as they were. King invited him to hang out with them so they could teach him how to be extreme.
Robotman accepted the offer even though the others warned him King was the baddest of the bad. While Robotman argued sharks were just misunderstood creatures, King plucked a seabird out of mid-air and swallowed it. The Patrol was shocked when Robotman told them they could find the taffy thieves on their own. King powerlifted 1000 pounds upside down pushing himself up and down with one finger while his homies sat on the weights. Robotman tried to do a standard power lift but his arms broke off. They tried kite surfing but Robotman took off with the kite. King skateboarded down a hill, though a flaming hula hoop, over a Extreme Baking Soda billboard, and dunked a basketball. Robotman fell down the hill, through the lighthouse, through the billboard, and hit the pole holding up the hoop. They kite surfed again but this time half of Robotman's body went with the kite. King was shot of a cannon, swung around a flag pole, and launched from swings to land on a mail bin in a hand stand to mail a letter to his grandma.
Robotman tried it but cut his lip licking the envelope and was blown up in the cannon then it lowered and shattered him to pieces. Robotman finally got the hang of extreme kite surfing, powerlifting , and dunking. Robotman thanked him for teaching the extreme lifestyle. King admitted it was all he knew and revealed his tattoos were for extreme things in his life like his puka shell necklace, longboard, himself, and his guacamole recipe. Robotman noticed an empty space. King was saving it for something totally extreme and special. Robotman thought he was special. They hugged but King's stomach grumbled. Robotman agreed to get him ice cream. Robotman confided in King the Patrol was trying to break them up. That evening, Robotman was shocked to discover they were the thieves when they stopped and robbed The Cheesy Cantina of its fish tacos and he was their getaway driver. He was forced to shake two police officers on segways by parking in an alley. Robotman pretended to be cool with it under the implication King would turn him into a chum bucket if he wasn't. King told him to rest up because they were robbing the arcade the next day.
During the theft, Richard noticed Robotman was in the arcade instead of waiting at the golf cart. King thought something smelled fishy. Beast Boy posed as a bear plushie, Elasti-Girl as the claw machine, Negative Girl on an arcade screen, and Chief as the fortune teller machine. King was shocked Robotman ratted them out and they fled the arcade in a stretch golf cart. Chief turned his wheelchair into one and they pursued. The suckerfish threw starfish, an electric eel, and a gasy pufferfish at them. King used an octopus to grab a stop sign and make a hard left on The Pizza Place. Elasti-Girl used her powers to do the same. King tried bumping their cart but Robotman bumped them back and King drove into a fireworks stand. They split up and ran in different directions. Beast Boy and the others went after the suckerfish while Robotman chased King to the pier. Robotman grabbed a long board off a boy and kite surfed off a wave to the pier. King was knocked off his feet by the wave.
Robotman vowed to bring him in. King pointed out he couldn't go to jail because he was a shark and had to keep moving or he'd die. King admitted to using him but revealed he realized how special Robotman was and called him the most extreme dude he met. Robotman didn't believe him. King revealed his new tattoo was Robotman's face. Robotman let him escape and he dived into the ocean.
During one summer vacation, Robin was sure a shark was stalking Jump City's beach. Cyborg thought he was just being paranoid. The Batboat then Black Manta's submarine came ashore with giant shark bites then Aquaman washed up all beaten up. Robin closed the beach. Raven was against it. The Teen Titans opted to head out into open water to fight the shark rather than close down Jump City's beach like Robin wanted to do. They were all knocked off their feet by something circling the boat. Beast Boy volunteered to go talk to it fish-to-fish and shapeshifted into one. Cyborg wasn't so sure about the plan. Beast Boy thought whoever it was, would be cool. He was immediately swallowed whole by an unusually irate King Shark. Cyborg started to contemplate going back to shore but Robin insisted on fighting King Shark. Robin opened the floor to any ideas. Raven suggested they sing a classic sea shanty to calm King Shark. It worked briefly then he chomped Cyborg's right hand off.
Cyborg screamed, regenerated his hand, then came up with a new plan: Robin would tranquilize King with a dart. Robin didn't like the part where he had to do it. Cyborg believed his fish breath would lure King in close enough to get darted. Starfire agreed and Raven barfed at the thought of it. Cyborg promised to protect him and transformed into a shark cage. Raven shoved Robin inside with a hand construct then Cyborg jumped overboard. King charged the cage. Robin threw the dart but missed and it sank to the ocean floor. They were tossed back aboard in a mangled state. Robin had an idea to tie a keg to King to slow him down. Robin successfully fired his grapnel line around King's fin but Starfire misheard and tied the line to Robin's leg instead of the keg. Raven shouted to Robin to tie himself to King and that should stop him from diving. King crashed into a boulder above the surface then a buoy.
Robin realized King was angry because there was a huge shark tooth lodged in his back. He managed to removed it just in time before King charged into the ship at full speed. King was elated and thanked the Titans but Raven pointed out it ruined their beach day. King felt bad and asked what he could do to make it up. Starfire asked him to regurgitate Beast Boy but King noted he was down pretty deep. Beast Boy assured them he was okay and found a futon. King promised to hang with them until Beast Boy came out. The Titans agreed to it. King suggested Marco Polo. Robin gave him his tooth back but King revealed it wasn't his. King Shark cleaned up the Titans' pool of used coconut drinks with his old billiards skills. He told them about his past. Beast Boy thought playing pool was way cooler than improving yourself and suggested he get back into pool. Raven noticed an advertisement in the sky. The Titans encouraged King to compete in the DC Billiards Invitational and win back his pool cue from The Hands. King wasn't so sure but Beast Boy told him to trust his gut.
At the pool hall, King had second thoughts but Beast Boy, who was stuck in his stomach, told him to trust his "gut" and play. In the first round, he played Two-Face. King got to break but he sunk the 8-ball first without calling the pocket, as well as knocking out 50% Chad and breaking a ceiling light, and lost. The other villains laughed at him. King ran out crying. King sulked in the wilderness and realized he needed to take Beast Boy to "gut school" so he could trust his calls. At a literal crossroads, he asked Beast Boy which direction to go. He chose right. King was attacked by a vulture, tiger, and bear. Back in the city, he ordered a whole pizza but it was burning hot. Beast Boy suggesting eating it instead of waiting for it to cool. It was a bad call. King stopped and asked Beast Boy which building to go into. He chose the blue door. After King went inside, the whole building collapsed into rubble. King realized all he had to do was do the opposite of what Beast Boy suggested.
Instead of walking down an alley for "free ice crem," they walked on and stumbled onto the grand opening of a Mr. Freeze's Frozen Freeze and got a free chocolate ice cream cone. He played a shell game with an octopus and picked the shell on the right, winning a bunch of silver dollars. He went to a taxi cab instead of waiting for the bus and narrowly avoided a bus crash. He blew on his pizza and cooled it down then ate it. He declared Beast Boy a graduate of his gut school. Outside the pool hall, King left it to Beast Boy. He wanted to go home and watch TV so they should head inside and kick butt. They went in, only to find it empty except for Robin and a tumbleweed. Robin informed him The Hands won again then revealed he was The Hands. Robin told him about his case but admitted he fell in love with the game instead of closing the case. Beast Boy got an idea and told King to challenge him to a rematch to get the narwhal pool cue back.
Robin agreed to the wager when King revealed he would reveal the treasure's location if he lost. King, however, wanted to select the pool table. Robin didn't see any harm in it and they left the pool hall for the Titans Tower. King chose their pool as the pool table. Robin objected but King taunted him and his baby hands. King won the game. Robin was disgusted all the years of investigating went down the drain. King decided to tell Robin the location of the treasure anyway. They headed down to the pier of the island. King instructed him to recite an incantation on the tooth in order to gain access to the Atlantean treasure. It read, "Narny narn, wharny narn, nee, nar-nar." Instead, Nar-Nar surfaced. King shouted to him that Robin was the thief. Nar-Nar took back his tooth, reattached it, then proceeded to beat up Robin. King admitted to Beast Boy it was more fun to watch Robin get pummeled than to have the pool cue back.
King Shark entered the Titans Tower kitchen wearing a tank top. The Titans were astonished. He ate their spaghetti and meatballs despite their warnings it would be messy. To their surprise, King ate it all without getting a stain. King called it the Tank Life, living life without the constraints of sleeves. The Titans pleaded to be taught it but King was hesitant. He warned it could tear them apart if they weren't careful. The Titans didn't understand so he told them about how Bane was lost to the Tank Life. The Titans didn't believe that would happen to them since they were good guys and the Tank Life would make them better heroes. King decided to teach them and started with "ABC" or "Always Be Curling." He gave them one pound weights then upgraded them to 250 pounds. They went to a screening of "The Bloody Curling" at Jump City Cinemas 12 on July 2 but kept curling. On July 5, they ate pizza while curling. On July 28, they curled while delivering for Curly's Brand Cheese Curls in big rig trucks.
On August 1, King wanted to check their progress. The Titans all had huge muscular arms. For the final test, they had to eat spaghetti and meatballs without getting a stain. King thought he saw one on Cyborg but it was just the Atom and flicked him off. He awarded the Titans their tank tops. They loved the Tank Life; ignoring a robbery at Jump City Bank, posing in a traffic jam, and driving a wave onto a child's sandcastle at the beach. They responded to a crime alert at the Garment District. King saw a box of long sleeve shirts and realized it was a trap but it was too late. Bane made his presence known and attacked with an energy blast emitted from his tank top. King returned fire. Their power was about equal but Bane powered up further and knocked King into some crates. The Titans were surprised tanks could produce that kind of power. Bane offered them to chance to join him and they would learn there was a lot King Shark didn't tell them about the Tank Life. They ignored King's pleas and bent a knee to Bane.
Bane declared the world of sleeves would burn. He powered up and blew up the building. While Bane and the Titans destroyed sleeves at a theater, at Sleeves 4 Less, and Jump City Sleeve Con, King Shark worked on making something. Bane brought the Teen Titans to Fort Sleeves. It was the world's last remaining repository of sleeves. He declared when it was gone, the tank tops alone would rule the world. King Shark arrived in a cloak. The Titans blasted him but he was unharmed and surrounded in a golden aura. He revealed his crop top. Bane was shocked and thought Crop Top Power was just a myth. King ate a bowl of spaghetti then grabbed a meatball with his sixpack and fired it at super speed into Bane's tank top. Bane remembered a spaghetti stain was the only weakness of the tank top and it detonated. The Titans realized they were fools and apologized to King. A scrawny Bane climbed out of the blast crater, apologized, and also begged to be taken back and taught the Crop Top Life. King agreed to but warned them there was a price to pay for living it, funky tan lines. They were horrified.
The Teen Titans and King Shark went to a lake to chill and relax but they almost immediately got bored. Beast Boy proposed a game of Marco Polo. Robin loved it and tagged King it. King got creepy and talked about how he loved being it because he could hunt down his prey one by one and devour them all. Cyborg nervously suggested someone else be it. King claimed he was just joking around. Robin offered a blindfold but King pointed out he had nicitating membranes on his eyes. The game commenced. Robin was shocked his ninja training failed him and King tagged him. King revealed he just followed the smell of his fish breath. Robin was in denial he had fish breath despite what the others said. He demonstrated by breathing on them. They all hurled. King told Robin he loved his fish breath even if everyone else thought he was a disgusting monster.
Around dusk, King Shark swam past the pier singing. Robin and a gang of carps happened to be on the pier. Berny recognized he was a salt-breather and needed to be taught a lesson. He confronted King and told him salt-breathers weren't welcome at their lake and warned him to go home, pronto. King stood up and asked Robin what was wrong with his fish friends. Berny suspected Robin was in a rival gang but Robin lied and said he never seen King or the other Titans before in his life. King tried to be diplomatic and suggest a way to settle their differences. Berny gave him an ultimatum: leave now or they rumble. King pointed out they could not leave since they paid for parking already. Berny told them to meet at the pier in one hour for a rumble. To King and the Titans' confusion, Robin took Sofia's hand the left with the carps. The two groups met at the pier and blamed each other. Cyborg pointed out they were at a publicly owned space.
Berny had enough and they charged each other. Robin got between them and admitted the Titans were his family, too. He gave a moving speech about how he found true love when Sofia accepted him and his breath. He asked why they couldn't all accept one another for who they were. He emphasized love was the answer, not fighting. The carps were moved to tears. Koi thought his speech was beautiful. Berny told Robin he had a lotta heart and declared he could love, too, then declared the Titans were his family, too. King Shark suddenly are the carps in one bite. Robin was distraught. King apologized and made an excuse he got loopy when his blood sugar got too low. Robin wished he could see Sofia one more time. King realized she was stuck in his uvula. Robin and Sofia sang to each other one last time then King swallowed her. Robin told her goodbye then King belched in his face. He was grossed out. King and the other Titans laughed at his expense.
The Titans and King Shark watched a Don Jackson movie in the Titans Tower. Something ate Storm, the seahorse living on the rock near Titans Island, and triggered the Teen Titans' crime alert. They came out in the T-Boat with King Shark to investigate. Raven speculated a submarine rocked their boat but King knew it had to be a megalodon and realized it bit him earlier in the summer. He turned around and made a beeline straight for the T-Boat. The Titans made a break for the island but the megalodon caught up and knocked them to the beach. He was elated to see the Titans and declared they were just who he needed. The Titans were surprised and asked how they could help. He introduced himself as Megalodon Jackson. Cyborg pointed out he was named after the legendary action superstar. He clarified he was Don Jackson until he was mutated into a shark. Cyborg skeptical until he did some of his signature poses and "cuff 'em and stuff'em" line. Cyborg and Robin were the most delighted to be in his presence. Robin boasted he was often told he looked like him. King didn't believe that to be true for a second.
Jackson suddenly grabbed a seagull out of mid-flight and swallowed it whole. The Titans hid behind King. Jackson explained his new body came with an insatiable appetite. Robin inquired how he got transformed in the first place. Jackson told them what he remembered. Starfire pledged the aid of the Titans. Jackson thanked her then ate her whole. He apologized and brought up the constant hunger. King told him he ate a Titan, too. They shouted "Shark Life!" and did a double high five. Robin revealed they were going to use a little Don Jackson detective work to solve the case. They left to retrace Jackson's footsteps and headed to the beach house. They walked into a wrecked house and clothes that looked like they burst from the inside out. Jackson ate Raven. Robin was not pleased. Jackson and King invoked shark life. They followed a slime trail to an island then they headed into the creepy jungle but they were knocked out and tied up. A mollusk named Carmen Conchenelo revealed he was the one who attacked them and who mutated Jackson into a shark as part of a plan to get revenge on Hollywood. They couldn't tell if he was really angry or not.
Conchenelo explained he went to Hollywood with dreams of being a movie actor but he never booked a role because he kept getting told he lacked emotion. After years of rejection, he decided to bring the industry to its knees by taking away its top talent and mutating them into sea animals. He revealed he had Halibut Berry, Issa Manta Rae, and Sealina Gomez in cages. They guessed Eelizabeth Olsen and Eelizabeth Banks as the fourth captor, but it was Eel Patrick Harris. All but Robin broke free of their restraints. King plucked the pole Robin was tied to out of the ground. Conchenelo revealed he had a battle suit made from the local flora. Conchenelo defeated them and declared Jackson was going to be destroyed from making him angry. Jackson started interrupting him mid-sentence and mocking his tone until Conchenelo snapped and went into a tirade about being underestimated and vowed to make the world know his pain and joy and hear his voice. Jackson applauded his fire and instructed him to hold onto it and use it when he was acting.
Conchenelo thought he was messing with him but Jackson was sincere and believed he had star quality but just had to come out of his shell. He had an idea for a movie he would be perfect for. Conchenelo accepted his offer. Jackson ate Robin and Cyborg. He thought it might be a good idea to get changed back into a human. Conchenelo obliged him. Jackson was turned back into a human and the Titans, Storm, and seagull were unscathed. In "Shell Game," Conchenelo portrayed Don Jackson's hotshot sidekick who's not afraid to feel their feelings. It was an instant classic. Outside Jump City Cinemas 12, Conchenelo thanked the Titans for their praise. Jackson was also grateful for getting out of that shark body. He slapped King in the back and told him no offense but King choked on popcorn. Jackson tried hitting his back some more and he barfed. Beast Boy was chucked out at long last.