“ | Oh, wait, I'm a shark. I'm totally fine! | „ |
~ Grimes' last words before his death. |
“ | "You're food. You're food!" | „ |
~ Grimes after Quinn punches him. |
“ | Hello there… | „ |
~ Grimes's famous phrase. |
Grimes is the main antagonist of the 2021 South African animated film Seal Team. He is a great white shark that terrorizes the waters of Cape Town coast and is responsible for the death of Benji, the best friend of the film's protagonist and his arch-nemesis, Quinn.
He was voiced by Matthew Rhys, who also voiced Emperor Belos from The Owl House.
Appearance[]
Grimes appears to be an overweight great white shark with greyish blue skin, he has a flat snout, small fin, and brown eyes, he is always being accompanied by a group of small remoras.
Personality[]
Grimes is a ruthless and sadistic shark who shows no remorse nor regard for others, since he only cares for eating seals as upon his introduction, he stated he didn't feel motivated like his Team members to fail. While he has one comedic scene when one of the seals pokes his eye, he is still treated as a truly menacing threat who has to be stopped at all costs.
Biography[]
When the two teenager Cape fur seals Quinn and Benji are out seeking food, they find a lair in which all the great white sharks live. Soon, they are chased by Grimes who introduces himself and his army of hypnotized remora fish as both Quinn and Benji distracts him with his collars' reflection and escapes, but Benji is eaten by Grimes and gets his collar stuck in one of his teeth, as Quinn who hid inside of a sunken oil tanker cries in fear and punches Grimes's snout for what he did to his best friend and Claggart an elderly skillful seal appears and saves Quinn.
Later, Quinn with the other Seal Team members invades the Grimes lair with the help of Dave the basking shark. They then defeat some of the other great white sharks but Grimes discovers the plan and finds them inside of a container, Beth pokes her left eye, he later leaves and the sharks begin to attack before all the seal island Cape fur seals are finally rescued by the H.M.M.F. ship piloted by Dolph the Dolphin who hit all the sharks in the head with a combo of sardine cans, Grimes later arrives, tries to eat Quinn but ends up tying his collar.
Grimes later said that sharks are always at the top and seals will be food, but Quinn ignores and bites the hope leading Grimes to fall back to the ocean after that, the remoras stopped being hypnotized and Grimes later noticed himself that feels like a normal shark again without eating seals. Believing to be alright, Grimes failed to notices his group swimming away because of the ship's propellers getting close behind, shredding him to pieces. With Grimes' death, Benji is avenged.
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Trivia[]
- The reason why Matthew Rhys wanted to voice Grimes is that he has a 4-years old son that likes sharks.
- Despise being the main antagonist, Grimes only appears for 10 minutes.
- Grimes is the third villain by Triggerfish Animation Studios, the first is Budzo and the second is Phango.
- Great white sharks are usually noninvasive in South Africa since there's a law in which various species of sharks are being provided of having much of their diet are not. Which explains the reasons why the majority of the sharks in the film no longer attack seal island.
- Great white sharks also are not accompanied by much by remora fishes, since they are only mostly used on cleaning alongside pilot fishes and cleaner wrasses.