| “ | Mayor Shelbourne: Geniuses like us are never understood by their fathers, Flint. Flint Lockwood: But what if things go- Mayor Shelbourne: Who needs the approval of one family member when you can have it from millions of acquaintances? Not to mention that little cutlet Sam Sparks. And me. I've always felt you were like a son to me, Flint. And I'm going to be so proud of you tomorrow when you cut that ribbon, save the town, and prove to everybody what a great inventor you are. 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. |
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| ~ Mayor Shelbourne reavaling his true nature and manipulates Flint Lockwood to keep the FLDSMDFR going. |
Mayor 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 TV series of the same name.
He is the selfish and greedy Mayor of Swallow Falls. 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 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 initially appears to be a kind, healthy, and salubrious mayor. Later 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 grows to 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 raining down food despite the potential threat of larger food. Eventually, when the raining food becomes too big, Shelbourne quickly blames Flint for it even though 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. He does however admit that it wasn't a well thought out plan, and in the Italian dub even admits he should go on a diet.
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 obese 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 managed to end the food storm, Shelbourne was seen clutching on the sinking remains of his boat after eating it, It's currently unknown happened to Shelbourne after he was seen eating his boat, but probably ddrownedin the sea or he was rescued and arrested for his crimes.
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.
Quotes[]
| “ | As your mayor, I know it's time to put our sardine-canning past behind us... and look to the future: SARDINE TOURISM! That's why without consulting anyone, I've spent the entire town budget on the thing that is under this tarp, which I will be unveiling today... at noon! Featuring a live appearance by Baby Brent himself-! (Flint turns off the television.) |
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| ~ Shelbourne's first words in the movie as he's promoting Baby Brent Sardines. |
| “ | And now, here to cut the ceremonial ribbon... Swallow Falls' FAVORITE son: Baby Brent! | „ |
| ~ Shelbourne presenting Baby Brent ceremoniously in front of the Swallow Falls citizens. |
| “ | The attraction the whole world has been waiting for: SARDINE LAND! With rides, and exhibits, and featuring Shamo, the world's largest sardine, and his flaming hoop of glory! Those of you in the Splash Zone, look out! | „ |
| ~ Shelbourne officially opens the tourist attraction named Sardine Land with the help of Baby Brent. |
| “ | HUUUHHH... | „ |
| ~ Shelbourne gasping at the FLDSMDFR's presence in the atmosphere. |
| “ | This is going to be BIG. | „ |
| ~ Shelbourne as he eats a set of stacked cheeseburgers. |
| “ | Flint, my boy, can you do lunch? | „ |
| ~ Shelbourne meeting Flint from person-to-person. |
| “ | Alright, here’s the skinny. You keep making it rain the snackadoos, weathergirl provides free advertising, I have taken out a very high interest loan to convert this po-dunk town into a tourist foodtopia. All you have to do is make it rain food three meals a day, every day, for the forseeable future, and in thirty days, we hold a grand reopening of the island as a must-see cruise destination, and everyone everywhere is going to love your invention. | „ |
| ~ Shelbourne explaining how Flint's going to present himself for Swallow Falls. |
| “ | Tomorrow’s the big day, Flint. The entire town’s fate is resting on your food-weather! I’m thinking pasta. Some light apps. I know you won’t let us down. | „ |
| ~ Shelbourne to Flint about the latter's public presentation with the FLDSMDFR. |
| “ | Hey, Flint. It's been nice to "beet" you! | „ |
| ~ Mayor Shelbourne while attacking Flint with a radish. |
| “ | Wait, WAIT! I have an important announcement... SEE YA, SUCKERS! Woo-hoo! Bon voyage! And, bon appetit! (Eats the sandwich raft as he's about to escape.) |
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| ~ Shelbourne, cowardly taking the first try on using one of the sandwich rafts as a form of escape from the disaster he caused. |
| “ | This was not well-thought out... | „ |
| ~ Shelbourne's last spoken words in the movie, as he's floating on a heavily eaten sandwich raft. |
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Trivia[]
- Shelbourne is not a villain in the TV series because the films take place after the series' events, and that he was 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'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.
- 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 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.
- Shelbourne can be considered as a foil to Flint Lockwood's initially technophobic father Tim. Both have high expectations from Flint himself (Tim, for the Lockwood family's fishing business; Shelbourne, for the success of the FLDSMDFR), to which they even pressure him for such shared regard. However, even if Tim's parental wishes for his family's fishing business didn't live up to how it's meant to be at first, he still loves his son unconditionally, whereas Shelbourne, despite garnering greater success with the FLDSMDFR, doesn't really care about Flint at all. If Tim ever forcibly convinces his son to follow his own footsteps, he might've ended up being just as arrogant as Shelbourne was.
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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