Great White Sharks

Jaws is the large killer great white shark featured in the Jaws novel and movie series that consists of four films as well as the videogames Jaws Unleashed and Jaws: Ultimate Predator. He is the only animal character (in fact, the only non-human character) to occupy any slot in the Villains' half of "AFI's 100 Years... Heroes and Villains".

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.

Appearances in other media

 * The Shark appeared in the Family Guy cartoon series.
 * 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, by Stephen King, Jaws is one of the disguises of Pennywise.