White Shark

The White Shark (or Der Weisse Hai by its Nazi creators) is the main antagonist of the 1994 novel of the same name by the late Peter Benchley and its 1998 television miniseries adaptation Creature. Created as a biological super weapon, this man-shark hybrid escapes refinement and causes havoc to the citizens of the Atlantic coastline.

In the miniseries, it was portrayed by Brian Steele, who also played the Berserker Predator in Predators, Kothoga in The Relic, and Sammael in Hellboy.

Novel
The White Shark was created by mad scientist Ernst Kruger as the ultimate soldier to assist the Nazis in wining World War II. All of Kruger's test subjects were killed by his experimentation except for one, an unnamed psychotic SS officer and ex-Olympic triathlete. He was altered and manipulated into becoming a shark-like monster, including an implantation of steel teeth and claws. Kruger sealed the monster in a container, putting it into a hibernation and shipped it on a submarine out of Germany. However, the submarine was sunk by the Allies, killing Kruger and his men, and losing the box containing the White Shark.

Decades later, divers find the wreckage of the submarine and the box containing the White Shark. Upon opening the box, they unintentionally awaken the creature from its slumber. After killing the divers, the White Shark moves to the waters off Long Island, where it slaughters everything in its path, including fish, mammals, and random people. Despite the worrying citizens, none of the officials, including biologist Dr. Simon Chase, can identify the suspect as a sea creature as its teeth and claw marks leave metallic traces. Meanwhile, the natives believe the culprit to be a great white shark in the area, only for it to become a victim to the White Shark.

Chase later meets Jacob Franks, a Holocaust survivor who was forced to assist Kruger's experiments on the White Shark, revealing the intentions of the monster. He also tells Chase that the White Shark was taught how to drain air from its lungs but not vise versa, meaning that once the creature comes ashore, it can never return to the water. Chase and his assistant Tall Man use this fact as an advantage in trapping the White Shark into a decompression chamber, where the intense pressure causes it to explode.

Miniseries
In Creature, loosely based on the novel, the White Shark (credited as The Creature) is not a Nazi experiment but a regular hybrid of a shark infused with human DNA. It was created by Dr. Ernest Bishop, with the ability to adapt in both water and land. While showing his creation to a Navy base on a Caribbean island, the hybrid breaks free of its tank and eats Bishop. Adm. Richland orders Lt. Peniston, Dr. Bishop's assistant, to kill the monster, but Peniston instead imprisons it in a containment unit and dumps it in the sea.

25 years later, Adam Puckett, a local fisherman on the island, discovers the container with the creature and accidentally releases it. Another fisherman named Benjamin Mediera is eaten by the creature, which the police believe is the work of a pregnant great white shark that was trapped in his net that was freed by Dr. Chase and Tall Man. Peniston, driven mad from the regret of letting the creature live and thought of it returning, reveals that it was not the shark that killed Mediera when he spots the empty container, but nobody believes him. As Chase, Dr. Macy, Tall Man, and his girlfriend Tauna find more clues on the culprit, the creature mauls Kimo when he and Chase's son Max were playing, causing Chief Gibson to order all fisherman to hunt the great white, accusing Chase and Macy on performing witchcraft with the shark.

Chase and his group try to search for the creature against the chief's orders. They find the beast, and manage to escape when it attacks their boat. By this time, Puckett killed the great white and the islanders celebrate. Chase tries to tell the chief that the shark was not the suspect, but is ignored. Peniston uses a sound device to attract the creature to prove that it is still out there; it comes but Chase and the others stop him and take him to their base.

The next day Chase discovers claw marks on his boat, enhancing his theory on the shark's innocence. When Peniston shows Chase and Macy the submerged tunnel leading to the actual research facility where the creature was born, they discover that the creature disarmed Puckett's traps and moved them in the tunnel. It attacks them, though they are able to get away due to the creatures short limbs being too weak to move it out of water, only for it to evolve and rapidly extend its limbs allowing it to give chase. The group seal the tunnel and leave the research facility by boat. At the docks, the creature shows up, but ignores Max when it had the chance to kill him.

Richland arrives on the island by helicopter, and sends some of his cronies into the tunnel. Meanwhile, Puckett goes diving only to be killed by the creature, who Max and Elizabeth find the decapitated head of in a trap at a swamp. The creature attacks them through the trees, though they barricade themselves in an old rum factory. The beast smashes through and chases them to Tauna's house, which it promptly destroys, finally making the chief accept the creature's existence from his daughter. The chief and Richland lead their squad to the swamp, where Chase reveals that Richland was present at the original event, covering up the incident that caused people to be at risk. During Richland's threats to kill Chase, the creature ambushes the group and kills Richland's men. The Chief falls into water, but Richland refuses to help him and waits for the creature to attack him as live bait. Chase rescues Gibson and runs off from Richland and the creature back to town, the latter of which knocks over a bridge, sending Richland into the water where he is eaten.

Chase returns to headquarters where Peniston reveals that he spared the creature's life in the first place because his blood was donated to create it, making him feel it is a part of him. They make Macy's pet sea lion Robin use a camera attached to her head to locate the creature. She locates its lair at the ruins of the research faculty, only for the creature to attack her and the camera goes blank. Tall Man and Peniston enter the tunnel, finding the creature eating Robin. Tall Man shoots the creature, but due to Peniston's interference, he is injured. Chase arrives and helps Tall Man escape, but is pursued by the creature. It attacks Chase and almost kills him, but Max uses Peniston's sound device to distract the creature before escaping on a zipline. Peniston takes the sound device and uses it to make the creature chase him into a pressure chamber, refusing to let the creature die alone. As the creature attacks Peniston, Chase locks them in, creating an explosive decompression that kills the creature.

Personality
In both the novel and the miniseries, the White Shark is unlike any mindless predator using natural instincts. Instead, it is a pure savage and sadistic monster that kills people and animals left and right for no reason other than its own pleasure. This can be justified in both versions: the novel has the White Shark being an altered Nazi soldier who enjoyed the thrill of killing others, and the miniseries where it was bred specifically for combat purposes.

Trivia

 * The White Shark causing havoc to the citizens to Long Island is similar to the Great White Sharks causing havoc to the citizens of Amity Island. Peter Benchley is the author of both Jaws and White Shark.