| “ | This hellhole is too small for me, Brent. I wanna be big. I want people to look at me and say, "That is one big mayor." And that's why it has to work. IT HAS TO WORK! Otherwise, I'm just a tiny mayor of a tiny town full of sardine-sucking knuckle-scrapers. | „ |
| ~ Mayor Shelbourne plotting to seize power over Swallow Falls. |
| “ | So here's the cheese; You can keep it going... get everything you've ever wanted... and be the great man I know you can be. Or you can turn it off... ruin everything... and no one will ever like you. It's your choice. Choice... choice... choice... choice... choice. | „ |
| ~ Mayor Shelbourne manipulating Flint to keep making the FLDSMDFR produce food. |
| “ | Hey, Flint. It's been nice to "beet" you! | „ |
| ~ Mayor Shelbourne while attacking Flint with a radish. |
Mayor Susan Shelbourne is the main antagonist of Sony Pictures Animation's 4th feature film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and a supporting character in its prequel series of the same name.
He is the selfish and greedy Mayor of Swallow Falls: a depressing and forgettable island in the Atlantic Ocean. Desperate to become famous, Shelbourne tries to do whatever he can to attract tourists to Swallow Falls, and when Flint Lockwood's FLDSMDFR becomes the town's main attraction, he sees it as a certain opportunity to get what he wants from the prospect.
In the film, he was voiced by Bruce Campbell, who also played Evil Ash in the Evil Dead franchise, Carl Greig in Icebreaker, Himcules in My Life as a Teenage Robot, Rod “Torque” Redline in Cars 2 and King Edmund in Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure. In the video game, he was voiced by James M. Connor. In the series, he was voiced by Seán Cullen.
Personality[]
Mayor Shelbourne at first appears to be a kind, healthy and salubrious mayor. Later on in the film, he shows his (much less appealing) true colors. Shelbourne is revealed to be a greedy, voracious, acquisitive, materialistic, and gluttonous mayor who ends up weighing the size of a hot air balloon.
He is also shown to be cunning, charismatic, and manipulative. This is demonstrated by how he manipulates not only the public, but specifically Flint. Shelbourne cruelly goads Flint's insecurities as leverage to have him continue the FLDSMDFR rain down food, despite the potential threat of bigger food. Eventually, when the raining food becomes too big, Shelbourne is quick to blame Flint for it despite the fact that it was mostly the former's fault, turning the townspeople against Flint until Earl stands up for him.
When the people are forced to flee out to sea to avoid the giant food threat, he holds the people back with an "important announcement" so that he can steal a food boat to evacuate the island, much to the citizens' anger, showing a callous and cowardly side to him. In the end, his gluttony would be his undoing, as when Shelbourne got on his food boat, he started eating it and when he was seen in the final scene, he had eaten it to the point that he was stranded at sea, only having a nearly-eaten mast to keep him afloat, and even then, he continued to consume what little part of the flotation device he still had left.
Biography[]
Mayor Shelbourne was originally very healthy and salubrious, weighing probably not much over one-hundred pounds. He eventually plots with his minion Brent McHale that he would be big enough to conquer Swallow Falls. After the "food weather" began (thanks to a certain machine created by Flint Lockwood, called Flint Lockwood's Diatomic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator, or FLDSMDFR for short), he became extremely acquisitive and gluttonous; eating three cheeseburgers in one bite, stuffing his mouth with bacon, and shoving an over-mutated hot dog (with scoops of ice cream) down his throat are just a few examples of his ravenous and acquisitive behavior.
Later in the film, Shelbourne gained hundreds of pounds in less than a month and became a very obese mayor after greedily consuming large helpings of food, and he had to move about on a scooter. He comes to Flint's laboratory unexpectedly and orders Flint to order pasta and some light appetizers. But as Flint tries to explain the dangers of the food becoming larger, the Mayor dismisses this, and explains that everyone will love the big portions of food. He then manipulated Flint into keeping the machine going, or by turning it off, he will ruin everything and no one will like him at all. Without any other choice, Flint starts the big food supply, much to the Mayor's delight. Unbeknownst to them, the machine starts going into overdrive.
Flint and the Mayor create a food park, and an all-around-the-world opening to people all across the world. Just as Flint is about to appear on stage, Sam Sparks tries to warn Flint of the upcoming food disaster, but he dismisses her and appears on stage. As Flint begins to open up the food park for everyone and a spaghetti tornado starts to form, Shelbourne instantly leaves and secretly sneaks into Flint's laboratory and starts making more orders to the machine, putting everyone in danger. Flint then realizes his mistake, and rushes to his laboratory to shut down the FLDSMDFR to stop the storm, only to find Shelbourne sabotaging his machine. Unfortunately, Shelbourne refuses to let him do so and attacks Flint with a giant radish, accidentally destroying the communication device to the FLDSMDFR after mindlessly ordering a "Vegas' style all-you-can-eat buffet", causing the machine to become self-aware and start up the major food storm.
When the town of Swallow Falls became showered by huge food, the Mayor (who was now responsible for causing the FLDSMDFR to become sentient and creating the major food storm) puts the blame on Flint, causing the townspeople to turn against Flint, but police officer Earl arrived to the rescue, stating that the events would not have happened if the whole town (mostly the Mayor) had not pushed Flint into making so many food orders in the first place. Shelbourne then escapes on a sandwich boat, leaving the townspeople and the town to their fate, though they ultimately managed to survive by staying ahead of the food. At the very end, as Flint finally managed to apparently destroy the FLDSMDFR and end the food storm for good, Shelbourne was seen clutching on the sinking remains of his boat in the middle of the ocean after eating it.
During the ending credits, it is revealed that Shelbourne was eventually found, floating in the air like a hot air balloon with Brent riding on him, eating clouds before being deflated of all of his extra pounds and returned to his original weight, and before being arrested by Earl for his greedy and materialistic actions. However, taking advantage that Earl and his son, Cal became distracted for a moment, he escaped by jumping into a hole.
Shelbourne was not seen or mentioned in Cloudy with the Chance of Meatballs 2, though it's possible that he was turned over to the higher authorities in San Franjose by Live Corp or that he was interrogated by Chester V to know about the FLDSMDFR's whereabouts.
Powers and Abilities[]
Mayor Shelbourne has no special powers, but when Flint' invention, the FLDSMDFR, began producing food from the sky, he developed an endless appetite, even when he gained several pounds and became morbidly obese (and had to ride a scooter to get around), and his constant appetite for food doesn't even make him burst.
Despite his obesity, he shows a little fighting style, as seen when he tried to pull Flint away from deactivating the FLDSMDFR around the neck with a shrimp, and attacking him with a radish.
he is voiced by a very talented actor
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| “ | Here’s what I heard: Blah, blah, blah, science, science, science, bigger! And bigger is better. Everyone’s gonna love these new portion sizes. I know I do. | „ |
| ~ Mayor Shelbourne to Flint. |
Trivia[]
- Shelbourne is not a villain in the series, because the film takes place after the series' events and he becomes less selfish and more cowardly than his movie counterpart.
- Shelbourne was originally going to be an elderly female voiced by Diane Keaton, but the producers made him into a male.
- Shelbourne is not a character from the original storybook, much like the rest of the cast.
- Shelbourne's ravenous appetite represents one of the Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony.
- It is unknown how Shelbourne was able to get into and out of Flint's lab, as there were no stairs in addition to the fact that, due to his obesity, he would not fit in the elevator, thus making it impossible for him to enter or exit through here.
- In the sequence when Flint activates the FLDSMDFR before Chewandswallow reopened as a tourist destination, if one were to pause at the right moment, anyone can see Shelbourne making an evil grin on his face at Flint, which further foreshadows his true colors.
- A deleted scene from the film involved an extension of Flint's battle with Shelbourne over shutting down the FLDSMDFR, but was cut, due to being too dark and intense for younger audiences, primarily because it featured the mayor literally backstabbing Flint with a hoard of nachos along with Earl and Cal being sucked into the spaghetti twister.
- When Flint tried to shut off the FLDSMDFR, he mentioned the spaghetti twister before his concerns were dismissed by the mayor. When Flint tried to reach for his computer, Shelbourne blocked his path and knocked him back with a loaf of bread, prompting Flint to engage in a food fight against the mayor via dueling each other with celery. Flint managed to knock Shelbourne back and managed to download the kill code, but found himself gagged by Shelbourne with a shrimp before he could press the communications button. Flint managed to stick a hot pepper in the mayor's eye, causing him to fall backwards. Shelbourne recovered and backstabbed Flint by throwing a hoard of nachos at him. As Shelbourne prepared to finish him off with a radish, Flint got back on his feet and managed to press the button until the radish destroyed the communications device. Unlike the final film, Flint doesn't respond to the mayor's beet pun and instead just shrieks as he dodges his attack.
External Links[]
- Mayor Shelbourne on the Sony Pictures Animation Wiki
- Mayor Shelbourne on the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Wiki
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