What's The Work?
Jaws is a 1974 novel by Peter Benchley, famous for inspiring the 1975 film of the same name directed by Stephen Spielberg. After the success of the first novel and the resulting film saga, it was decided to produce two canonical paper sequels of the novel: Jaws 2 (1978) and Jaws: The Revenge (1987), based on the second and fourth films of the saga (ignoring then the third film). The sequels were written by Hank Searls, and are presented as a mixture of elements taken from the first book (such as the extramarital affair that Ellen Brody had with Matt Hooper) and the film saga (such as renaming "Mike" Billy, the eldest son of Martin Brody and omit his second son Martin Jr., in a curious case of literary “Chuck Cunningham Syndrome”).
Who is he? What did he do?
Papa Jacques is the main human antagonist of Jaws: The Revenge, the third installment of the Jaws novel series, written by Hank Searls.
He is an evil Haitian sorcerer who, before the events of the novel, starts a feud with Mike Brody, guilty of insulting him. It is in fact thanks to his magic that the killer shark haunts the policeman's family and the people of Amity. This is a character cut from the film because the idea of a sorcerer who commands a shark through voodoo magic was deemed unrealistic and out of context for the genre of film to which he belonged. However, a clue to her presence still lingers in the film as when Ellen Brody, after the death of her youngest son Sean, claims that the shark killed her son and her husband, Mike responds to his mother by saying that sharks do not commit murders. and that he shouldn't believe in voodoo curses.
Papa Jacques lives in Amity, where he is appreciated and appreciated by members of the community, who turn to him for advice and support. However, he meets the distrust of Mike Brody, who calls him a dishonest person and a charlatan, threatening to arrest him. Blinded by hatred, Pope Jacques then swears revenge on Brody and his entire family by launching a voodoo curse that will manifest itself in the appearance of a huge white shark - son of the antagonistic sharks of the first two novels - which will attack the people of Amity, killing Sean. during a night reconnaissance in the canal. Later in the novel, Papa Jacques also comes to steal little Thea's (Mike Brody's daughter) beach bucket, cursing it so that the little girl falls into a trance and heads to the sea, where the shark, in turn, is controlled. from the wizard and unconsciously perplexed that he cannot behave as animals of his kind usually do, he waits for her to tear her to pieces.
When, at the end of the novel, the shark dies impaled from the prow of Mike's boat ruled by Ellen, Papa Jacques will instantly collapse dead, victim of the same curse he had launched and of his own hatred towards him.
Mitigating factors
Probably having been a point of reference for the Amity community and helping them. Although Mike Brody's insult does not justify his disproportionate revenge.
Atrocious standard
Having had Sean, the woman on the dinghy that Thea was also on, a criminal with a sentimental interest in Ellen Brody and Jake - who in fact does not survive the shark attack in the novel - they are killed (that in fact had nothing to do with his feud with Mike Brody), having exploited a creature whose actions were dictated exclusively by instinct, having caused its death and having mentally controlled Thea to make it go into the sea to die between the jaws of the shark.
Final verdict
Of the human antagonists featured in the Jaws series of novels - Larry Vaughan, who colludes with the mafia, Quint, who doesn't have the film's tragic past and hunts sharks just for fun and money but that nevertheless has never attempted to harm human beings and Shuffles Moscotti, who is a mobster but he loves his family and worries about the presence of sharks - Papa Jacques seems to be the worst, so in my opinion he can qualify.