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    The Bolton Family/Street Sharks 
The Street Sharks are the four Bolton brothers, who were mutated against their will by Dr. Luther Paradigm. Together, they fight against Paradigm/Piranoid and his Seaviate monsters to prevent them from “gene slamming” the people of Fission City into mutants like themselves.

Tropes the brothers have in common

  • Berserk Button: Do not speak ill of their father.
  • Big Brother Instinct: If one of their own gets hurt, they'll drop everything to help them.
  • Big Eater: They can put away whole piles of burgers in a sitting.
  • Catchphrase: "Jawsome!"; "Shark Dive!"; "Shark Attack!"
  • Cephalothorax: Their heads are fused to their torsos, with no necks.
  • Creepy Good: Well, they are giant shark-men, so this is to be expected.
  • Does Not Like Spam: When Lena offered to order pizza, the sharks reacted with disgust.
  • Extreme Omnivore: They can and will eat pretty much everything, even stuff that isn’t edible such as concrete and metal.
  • Forced Transformation: They became human-shark hybrids after being forcibly gene-slammed by Doctor Paradigm.
  • Hero with Bad Publicity: Thanks to the citizens of Fission City believing everything Paradigm says. It's taken to such extremes that one of their friends has to explicitly tell the police that, if they really were guilty of one of the crimes they were accused of, they'd have to be in two places at once. They do ultimately manage to clear their names, however.
  • Horrifying Hero: They're actually pretty nice, but they still look like oversized, very threatening sharks on legs who can eat steel and concrete, are superhumanly strong, and have some anger issues, so they tend to scare everyone in sight. Really, it's not that surprising Paradigm has so little trouble convincing people they're a threat.
  • Hurricane of Puns: The Sharks tend to come up with unusual euphemisms and bad puns, all of them oceanic in nature.
  • Missing Mom: Outside of a brief mention of her, it's implied their mother may be dead.
  • More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Post-gene slamming, they gain enormous mouths full of fangs.
  • Oh, Crap!: They typically react to bad things (such as unexpectedly being attacked) with a simultaneous "Oh no!"
  • Shark Man: They're anthropomorphic sharks.
  • Threatening Shark: Not so threatening, unless you're Dr. Paradigm, though this trope probably is part of the reason why most of Fission City finds it easy to believe the Sharks to be the villains.
  • Trademark Favourite Food: Really big hamburgers for all four.
  • Tunnel King: They "swim" through concrete and dirt by eating it.

John/Ripster

Voiced by: Lee Tockar
Let's kick some fin!

John is the oldest and the smartest of the Bolton brothers. He enjoys creating inventions, taking up most of his knowledge from his father. When John transforms, he becomes Ripster, a great white shark with teeth that can chew through steel.


  • Badass Biker: Bends gives him a shark-themed motorcycle, though even as a human he was a biker.
  • Brainy Brunette: A rare male example. John, Ripster's human form, has dark brown hair and he's highly intelligent. Even after his transformation, he's still the smartest of the Street Sharks. Biologically accurate, by great white sharks being among the smartest shark species.
  • Genius Bruiser: Is the smartest of the brothers, but is just as handy in a fight.
  • The Hero: Ripster is the team's leader and calls the shots when they're on-mission.
  • I Am a Humanitarian: He isn't really, but when trying to get his father's whereabouts out of Paradigm, Ripster isn't above dropping implicit threats.
    Ripster: (to Paradigm) Lesson one on sharks: great whites are always hungry...
  • Spider-Sense: Ripster’s unique “Shark Alert” allows him to sense when danger is coming. This might be based on a shark’s ampullae of lorenzini, which allows them to detect electrical fields.
  • Visual Pun: Ripster’s favourite pastime is pool, which he was an ace at even before he was mutated into a shark-human hybrid. He is, quite literally, a pool shark.

Bobby/Streex

Voiced by: Andrew Rannells
Fin check!

The ladies' man of the Bolton brothers. He was transformed into Streex, a tiger shark equipped with rollerblades.


  • All Drummers Are Animals: Streex dabbles in rock music as a drummer, teaming up with Rox to stage a concert while the other Street Sharks stop one of Dr. Paradigm's plots.
  • Badass Biker: Bends gives him a shark-themed motorcycle.
  • Boisterous Bruiser: Is generally the most cheerful and happy-go-lucky of the brothers, even when in the middle of a fight.
  • Casanova Wannabe: Even as a giant shark-man, Streex enjoys getting attention from the ladies.
  • Catchphrase: "Fin Check!" Used whenever he admires himself in a mirror.
  • Conspicuous Gloves: Aside from his pants and roller-skates, his gloves are the only clothes that survived his transformation.
  • Rollerblade Good: Never takes off his roller-skates.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: Is arrogant and something of The Casanova.
  • Ugly Cute: In universe: despite being an anthropomorphic tiger shark, women swoon over him.
  • Wolverine Claws: Has seldom-used retractile talons, presumably as a pun on him being a tiger shark.

Clint/Jab

Voiced by: Matt Hill
Feeding frenzy!

The inventor of the group, Clint was transformed into a hammerhead shark. He’s also a keen boxer.


  • Cool Car: Shares a shark-themed monster truck with Slammu.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: Is the most temperamental of the brothers, leading to him sometimes going berserk in combat.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Jab may be rude and cranky, but he really cares about his brothers and friends.
  • Use Your Head: As a hammerhead shark, he prominently uses headbutts.

Coop/Slammu

Voiced by: D. Kevin Williams

Coop Bolton is the youngest brother and also the most athletic, being a football player in high school. After transforming, he became Slammu the whale shark. Slammu's most commonly used attack is the 'Seismic Slam', where he sets off an earthquake by hitting the ground with his huge fists.


  • The All-American Boy: Shows shades of this in later seasons, where he shows great admiration for President Horne.
  • The Big Guy: Slammu was the biggest and strongest of the Sharks.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: In one episode, Paradigm manages to install a mind-control device on Slammu. He eventually overcomes it through sheer willpower.
  • Calling Your Attacks: His signature move is a Ground Punch called "Seismic Slam!"
  • Cool Car: Shares a shark-themed monster truck with Jab.
  • Gentle Giant: Slammu is the biggest and strongest of the Sharks — and also the gentlest. It makes sense, given he's a whale shark.
  • Hidden Depths: "First Shark" shows him dreaming about being President of the United States.
  • Kid-Appeal Character: He's the youngest of the sharks.
  • Super-Strength: While all the Sharks are inhumanly strong, Slammu is the strongest of them.
  • Supreme Chef: Is a dab hand at barbecuing burgers, with the other brothers calling him “king of the coals”.
  • Top-Heavy Guy: His arms and cephalothorax are enormous in comparison to his legs.

Dr. Robert Bolton

Voiced by: David Kaye

Father of the Street Sharks, and the first victim of Dr. Paradigm's gene-slamming technology.


  • The Ace: Aside from being a genius geneticist, Robert was also apparently an expert in snooker, video games, weight lifting and barbecuing. These were skills he passed onto his sons Ripster, Streex, Jab and Big Slammu respectively,
  • Body Horror: Whatever happened to him, it wasn't pretty.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He completely disappears after season 2's "Shark Wars".
  • Disappeared Dad: For the majority of the series post-transformation, he was only seen briefly in silhouette.
  • The Ghost: Is only seen as a grotesque silhouette.
  • Idiot Ball: Dr Bolton was certainly very intelligent, but it wasn't a very good idea to meet the Big Bad alone at night.
  • Mission Control: Sends the Sharks data on Paradigm's schemes from his various hiding places.
  • Spanner in the Works: To Dr. Paradigm, acting as mission control for the Sharks.


    Allies 

Bends

Voiced by: Jim Hogget

The team's friend from before being mutated, he continues to help them afterward.


  • Badass Bookworm: He's smart and good with machines, and can handle himself in a fight.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: Built the Sharks' lair and their vehicles... within hours of having met them.

Lena Mack

Voiced by: Pam Carter

A grad student studying under Paradigm, she helps the Sharks escape from Paradigm and remains allied to them.


  • Demoted to Extra: She only appears in two episodes ("A Shark Among Us" and "Turbo Sharks") of season 2, after which she vanishes entirely.
  • The Mole: Serves as the Sharks' woman on the inside and feeds them Paradigm's plans behind his back.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: If she hadn't suggested that Paradigm meet with Bolton's kids then the Street Sharks would've never existed.
  • Team Mom: Plays this role to the Sharks throughout the first thirteen episodes, and two episodes of season 2.
  • Token Minority: Is the only reoccurring black character.

Melvin Kresnik/Rox

Voiced by:

A wannabe rock artist who was transformed into a mako shark after stumbling across one of Dr. Bolton's hideouts. He became an overnight success and, despite Paradigm's efforts to manipulate him, a friendly rival of Streex.


  • Catchphrase: "Fin Check!", which he developed independently from Streex.
  • Guest-Star Party Member: He appears in two episodes of the first season ("Shark 'n Roll" and "Sky Sharks"), and then gets mentioned all of once in season 2 ("Cave Sharks").
  • Friendly Rivalry: He and Streex initially disliked each other, but came to be friends.
  • The Rock Star: He was fairly unpopular as a human, being incapable of playing or singing on-key, but after his mutation developed a proclivity for both.
  • More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Like the Street Sharks, he has a gaping mouth full of pointy teeth.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: He's extremely arrogant despite his initial lack of talent.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Of Paradigm's, initially. He quickly realizes he's been tricked and nothing comes of it.

Jets Taylor/Moby Lick

Voiced by:

A friend of the Boltons, he was transformed into an orca by Dr. Paradigm and was mind-controlled into working for him, but broke free and became an ally of the Street Sharks.


  • Brainwashed and Crazy: In his debut appearance, he's put under Paradigm's control, until he sweats out the serum responsible.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: Orcas are mostly black in color with some white and are known as predators to sharks, but Moby Lick is more heroic and is an ally to the Street Sharks.
  • Guest-Star Party Member: He appears in two episodes each of seasons 1 ("Shark Treatment" and "Road Sharks") and 2 ("Eco Shark" and "Shark Hunt") to lend a hand, but is otherwise absent from the rest of the series.
  • Heroic Dolphin: Orcas are a type of dolphin, and he's an ally of the Sharks.
  • Making a Splash: He's able to suck up water and spray a powerful blast from his blowhole.
  • Overly-Long Tongue: Moby is able to use his prehensile tongue as a weapon.
  • Super-Strength: He's one of the strongest characters on Street Sharks.

Dr. Terrance "Terry" Morton/Mantaman

A scientist for NASA who brought an alien DNA sample aboard a space station that hatches into a live alien, forcing him to gene-slam himself using DNA from the alien and a manta ray (which had been brought aboard by Dr. Paradigm) into Mantaman in order to help the Street Sharks.


  • Batman Can Breathe in Space: Due to his alien DNA, he's able to survive in space without an oxygen supply.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Temporarily in the season 3 opener "Ancient Sharkonauts", due to his alien DNA having come from a creature sent out by Bad Rap and described as the equivalent of an Earth monkey that was sent into space as an experiment. He breaks free from it as a result.
  • Flight: Due to his alien DNA, he's able to fly just like the alien.
  • Guest-Star Party Member: He appears in four episodes of season 2 ("Space Sharks", "Close Encounters of the Shark Kind", "Shark Wars" and "Shark Jacked") and the first episode of season 3 ("Ancient Sharkonauts").
  • I Have Your Wife: On the receiving end in "Shark Jacked", when his younger brother is abducted by Dr. Paradigm and held hostage until Mantaman does what Paradigm wants (namely, hijacking the planes holding the leaders of two rival countries who are fighting over a uranium mine that Paradigm wants to raid).

El Swordo

A swordsman who was a performer at a circus, he's gene-slammed and fused with his pet marlin Spike by Dr. Paradigm. He appears in three episodes of the series.


  • Dual Wielding: He wields a pair of rapiers, and has a third on his face, representing Spike's sword.
  • Fusion Dance: He was fused with his pet marlin Spike, and it's indicated in his first episode that Spike's mind is present within him still.
  • Guest-Star Party Member: He only appears in three episodes of season 2 ("Satellite Sharks", "Shark Wars" and "20,000 Sharks Under the Sea").


    Villains 

Dr. Luther Paradigm

Voiced by: J. Michael Lee

Lead villain of the series. A geneticist who became fascinated with Dr. Bolton's revolutionary new gene-fusion techniques and who saw in them the way to "improve" humanity by transforming it into a race of half-man half-beasts under his control.


  • Abomination Accusation Attack: Milks this to no end.
  • Bald of Evil: Is notably lacking hair, and is a mad scientist obsessed with mutating the inhabitants of Fission City into his slaves.
  • Big Bad: Is the main villain of the show.
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: CEO and founder of Paradigm Enterprises.
  • Demoted to Extra: After serving as the Big Bad for the first 32 episodes (minus five from season 2 where he was absent), he appears in season 3 for exactly three out of eight episodes.
  • Ecocidal Antagonist: "Cave Sharks" has him secretly and illegally dumping toxic waste in the city dump, causing harm to the Lizard Folk living in the caves below.
  • Eye Patch Of Power: Wears an eyepatch that looks like a metal plate over his right eye.
  • Evil Genius: The guy plays with DNA like Lego, and is practically an Omnidisciplinary Scientist‎.
  • Evilutionary Biologist: His goal is to gene-slam all of Fission City into being his minions, and he frequently mutates sea creatures into monsters.
  • Fangs Are Evil: As Dr. Piranoid, he has a wide mouth lined with needle-sharp fangs.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: To his detriment, as after he accidentally injects himself with unstable piranha DNA he transforms into a monster when upset.
  • Jekyll & Hyde: Transforms into Dr. Piranoid, a piranha-monster, when he gets angry.
  • Just Think of the Potential!: Whilst he definitely desires power, he also seems genuinely convinced that gene-slamming is a legitimate way to upgrade humanity. Considering he was able to transform the near-centenarian gangster Maximillion Greko into a super-strong powerhouse with the vitality of a young man thanks to just a minor infusion of desert tortoise and rhinoceros DNA, he has a point, but that comes with the caveat of wanting all those he transforms to be totally loyal to him.
  • Large Ham: As Piranoid he's prone to shouting and theatrics..
  • Lizard Folk: Injects himself with iguana genes in Season 3, thinking it was Raptor DNA, and becomes Dr. Iguanoid.
  • Mad Scientist: While his Take Over the World plan only started after becoming Piranoid, his For Science! attitude is highlighted right from the start.
  • Malicious Slander: His efforts to discredit the Street Sharks overlap with Abomination Accusation Attack and Villain with Good Publicity.
  • Obviously Evil: True, giant shark-men aren't exactly going to inspire confidence, but does that really mean that you should trust a man who has an eyepatch and an indeterminately European accent who goes around town in a giant, heavily armed diving suit? Of course he'd still set off villain alarms in civilian garb. Paradigm tries to subvert it by claiming that the suit's main purpose is a life-support system, after a run-in with the Street Sharks.
  • Powered Armor: Equips himself with one so he can fight the sharks on his own, but tells the public it's a respirator suit.
  • Psycho Serum: Injecting himself with unstable piranha DNA screwed up his head and body.
  • Punny Name: Paranoid + Piranha = Piranoid, courtesy of Slammu. It sticks so well, the Seaviates refer to him as it even in his human form.
  • Villains Want Mercy: In "Shark Source", he goes from raging at the mutated Dr. Bolton to pleading for his life when the latter shrugs off his lasers and throws him around the lab like a rag doll.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: To the point that he blames the sharks for everything, thus ruining their reputation. Until his attempt to mutate everyone in the city fails, the Sharks expose him, and he loses control of his anger on the news revealing his mutation to everyone.
  • Vocal Dissonance: His voice becomes shrill as Piranoid.

Slash

Voiced by: Terry Berner

A swordfish injected with genetic material from Captain Blood and Genghis Khan. Slash, along with Slobster, was the first of Paradigm's Seaviates.


Slobster

Voiced by: D. Kevin Williams

A lobster injected with genetic material from Captain Blood and Genghis Khan. Slobster, along with Slash, was the first of Paradigm's Seaviates.


Killamari

Voiced by: D. Kevin Williams

A squid captured off the coast of the Great Barrier Reef, Killamari is the most aggressive of the Seaviates and has a rivalry with Slash.


  • Ax-Crazy: Is the most aggressive of the Seaviates.
  • Become a Real Boy: The episode "To Shark or Not To Shark" has him express the desire to become fully human. Paradigm shoots this down when he reminds him that he was always a squid, so reversing the gene-slamming wouldn't do anything.
  • The Berserker: Occasionally lapses into rages where not even Paradigm can control him.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He and Repteel vanish from the series after "Turbo Sharks".
  • Deadpan Snarker: Towards Slash, his rival.
  • Monster Modesty: Most of the time he wears purple underpants.
  • More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Has a mouth full of fangs.
  • Mighty Roar: When first mutated all he could do was roar and snarl, and whenever he lapsed into his berserk state he would rampage around while roaring.
  • Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Has four arms, all of which can fire venomous arrows.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Better not to trust someone whose name has 'kill' in it.
  • Spike Shooter: Can fire venomous arrows from his suckers. Very venomous — they almost killed Jab in Killamari's first episode (and would have had Lena and Bends not managed to create an antidote).
  • Tentacled Terror: He's an evil mutant squid from the Great Barrier Reef.

Repteel

Voiced by: Tony Wike

Formally Mr. Cunneyworth, a middle-aged man who was the owner of a hotel which was destroyed by the Street Sharks during a battle with Dr. Paradigm's minions. This caused to harbor a grudge towards them, and he later willingly joins up with Dr. Paradigm, who turns him into an electric eel mutant known as Repteel, who has the ability to shoot electricity from his hands and create mini electric eels to attack his enemies.


SharkBot:

Voiced by: Steve Gibbs

A robotic doppelgänger of the Street Sharks that Paradigm used to free Repteel from prison and frame the sharks in episode 12 of the series. It was reprogrammed by the Sharks to destroy Paradigm's lab, but was salvaged and rebuilt for the events of episode 13, after which it ceased to appear.


  • Arm Cannon: Is equipped with an arm-mounted ray gun.
  • Chainsaw Good: One of its armaments is a saw blade.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He, along with Slash and Slobster, vanishes from the series after "Shark Source".
  • Evil Twin: Was poorly disguised as Ripster to bust Repteel out of prison.
  • Robot Me: It's a robotic counterpart to the Street Sharks.
  • Robotic Psychopath: It was programmed to kill the Street Sharks.
  • Third-Person Person: At least once in "Shark Source".
    Sharkbot: "Sharkbot. Bad headache. Sharkbot. Go home."
  • This Is a Drill: Is armed with a drill positioned between two clamps.

Shrimp Louie

Voiced by: Andrew Rannells

A cowardly mutated shrimp who more-or-less took Slash's and Slobster's place in the Seaviates, debuting in "Jurassic Shark".


  • BFG: His weapon is a massive gun.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He and Tentakill vanish from the series after "Sand Sharks".
  • Dirty Coward: Louie would rather run away than fight when the going gets too rough. Heck, in "Sir Shark-A-Lot", he runs away from Bends (who's fully human) saying "Boo".
  • Giant Enemy Crab: Well, crustacean: as his name indicates, he's a mutated shrimp.
  • Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Less dangerous, but is has four arms, and he is still a Seaviate.
  • Remember the New Guy?: Unlike the other Seaviates, he appears with no prior explanation.

Tentakill

Debuting in "Sir Shark-a-Lot", it's a squid-like creature which Dr. Paradigm mentions as being a genetic experiment he put on hold a while back, and which he improves with special body armor before sending it against the Sharks.


  • Chainsaw Good: Its armor is equipped with buzzsaw-like weapons.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He and Shrimp Louie vanish from the series after "Sand Sharks".
  • Combat Tentacles: It all comes with being part squid.
  • Energy Weapon: Its armor includes laser cannons.
  • It Can Think: Tentakill is usually depicted as a savage beast, but in "First Shark", it pushed a button that activated a Death Trap, showing it possesses some level of intelligence.
  • Powered Armor: In its debut appearance, it starts out as completely organic, but then Paradigm grants it special body armor and mechanical weapons.
  • The Voiceless: It never speaks.


    Other characters 

Guy In The Sky

Fission City's main source of information on everything from the weather to pollution levels to the latest anti-Street Shark propaganda, Guy in the Sky pilots a bright yellow helicopter and is no end of annoyance to the Street Sharks... and everyone else.


  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: After season 1's finale "Shark Source", he vanishes from the series with no explanation.
  • Drives Like Crazy: He is not very good at flying his helicopter, often crashing into or nearly missing obstacles.
  • The Faceless: Aside from one moment in "Shark of Steel", where his silhouette appears in his helicopter, he's a voice-only character who's represented entirely by said helicopter.
  • Going for the Big Scoop: Once pestered the Sharks over why their father would mutate them.
  • Intrepid Reporter: Always chasing the story in his helicopter.
  • Helicopter Blender: A running gag is him flying into billboards.
  • Jerkass: "Sharkstorm" has him directly blame Doctor Bolton for transforming the Street Sharks... to their face. Needless to say, they don't take it well.
  • Malicious Slander: He largely serves as Paradigm's mouthpiece for anti-Shark propaganda.
  • Only in It for the Money: Guy-In-The-Sky was obsessed with improving his show's ratings, namely through anti-Street Shark propaganda.
    "Ah smell ratings..."
  • Propaganda Machine: Whenever he's not talking about the traffic, he's Fission City's chief source of anti-Street Shark propaganda.
  • Skewed Priorities: In "Shark Source", he'd rather try to get an interview with two kids about to fall to their pending doom than actually try to save them.
  • Strawman News Media: He's an annoying news reporter and radio show host who recklessly flies around the city, spouting false information.

Detective Michael Brock

A police detective assigned to investigate the disappearance of Dr. Bolton and his sons, and subsequently to investigate the Street Sharks. He acknowledges the Sharks are not the villains the media portrays them to be, and is suspicious of Paradigm, but continues to hunt them nevertheless.


  • By-the-Book Cop: He follows the rules, even if it means having to chase the Sharks after he no longer believes them to actually be criminals.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: After season 1's finale, he vanishes from the series.
  • Inspector Javert: Averted. He only pursues the Sharks out of duty, and is suspicious of Paradigm.
  • Lemming Cops: He and the rest of the police force are the victims of frequent traffic accidents while chasing the Sharks.
  • Let Off by the Detective: Frequently lets the Sharks escape.
  • Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: He comes to sympathize with the Street Sharks and becomes suspicious of Dr. Paradigm, but is obligated to arrest them.

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