Great White Sharks

"You know the thing about sharks, his got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces. Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged 6 an hour."

- Quint about Jaws

Jaws is the titular antagonist of the Jaws franchise.

Depiction
Jaws is a giant Great White shark (scientifically called "Carcharodon carcharias") that appears in Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 3-D and Jaws: the Revenge. The series in fact features a different shark in every film although the race is the same, and all have a size of 25 feet in length. Jaws first appeared in the novel by Peter Benchley before Steven Spielberg adapted it into a motion picture. In the movies the sharks are much larger than the real animal and during the course of the series they show to have a certain amount of intellect. The shark is the playable character in the video games Jaws Unleashed and Jaws: Ultimate Predator.

In relation Jaws is the titular main antagonist in the Jaws Franchise.

Kill Count

 * Chrissie Watkins
 * Pippin
 * Alex Kitner
 * Estuary Victim
 * Ben Gardner
 * Quint
 * Eddie Marchand
 * Terry
 * Diane (Indirectly)
 * Marge
 * Orca
 * Shelby Overman
 * Philip FitzRoyce
 * Ed
 * Randy
 * Fred
 * Martin Brody (Indirectly)
 * Sean Brody
 * Mrs. Ferguson
 * Martin Hooper (in the novel)
 * An an elderly bather (in the novel)

Deaths

 * Jaws: Placed a gas tank in his mouth and then it was shot, blowing the shark up.
 * Jaws 2: Electrocuted to death.
 * Jaws 3-D: Blew up.
 * Jaws The Revenge: Impaled with the ship and then exploded.

Appearances in other media

 * The Shark appeared in Family Guy.
 * In the episode, The Father, the Son and the Holy Fonz, he stars in Jaws V: Fire Island.
 * In a DVD exclusive scene in Play It Again, Brian, he eyes Lois and Brian Griffin after they tell Peter there are no sharks in Martha's Vineyard.
 * In Brian Griffin's House of Payne, Jaws appears in Peter's television series Big Jaws, where he and the other humans team up to fight the antagonist Big Jaws.
 * He is voiced by Mike Henry (who played one of Peter's best friends Cleveland Brown) in all appearances. He is one of the many anthropomorphic creatures that uses the voice of Bruce, the very flamboyant Southern gay man who was also voiced by Mike Henry. Interestingly, "Bruce" was the name given to the mechanical shark prop used in the making of the film.
 * In the novel It, Jaws is one of the disguises of Pennywise.
 * The Shark appeared in the computer game called Fisher Price Pirate Ship.
 * Jaw from Amagi Brilliant Park is based off of Jaws being virtue of similar name and appearance and even has a Jaws like head when he is on water.

Trivia

 * Jaws is the only animal character (in fact, the only villain not portrayed by a human) to occupy any slot in the Villains' half of "AFI's 100 Years... Heroes and Villains".
 * It is unknown why Jaws only attacks humans, especially in the second to fourth films.
 * In the novelization of Jaws 2 and Jaws 4: The Revenge - which, belonging to minor differences, are in continuity with the book of Benchley, ignoring the events of Jaws 3 - explains that sharks are all related to each other: the shark's first book would have impregnated one of the second book, and that of the third book would be their son. This particular is not mentioned in the film. It then suggests that the reason why attack the family of Martin Brody would be tied to a voodoo curse hurled by a shaman enemy Brody. This detail does not appear in the film, however, in the film version of the story is a phrase uttered by Michael Brody that references this subplot of the book: "Come on, sharks do not commit murder. Tell me you do not believe in what voodoo. "