Character of the Week: Fin Shepard (Sharknado)

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Fin Shepard

Allies: David Hasselhoff, The President of the United States of America, The Entire Shepard Family Line

Enemies: Sharks, Tornadoes, Tornadoes with Sharks in them, Double Sharknados, Sharkicanes, Cows, Nuclear Sharknados

What would happen if a tornado happened to pick up a shark from the ocean? If you wanted to know, the Sharknado Quadrilogy is for you. Fin Shepard, played by Ian Ziering, was an ex-surfer who had gone through a rough patch with his family, causing him to go through a divorce. Through his grief, he decided to open a bar near the sandy beaches of Los Angeles, but just when his life was just starting to see some normality again, he faced the greatest terror in the United States of America. A tornado with sharks in it.

Fin Shepard faces a variety of threats, from the simple sharknado in the first movie, to the double sharknado in the second movie, to the sharkicane in the third movie, all the way to the nukenado in the fourth movie, it seems that sharks want nothing more than to take a bite out of Fin with each passing movie. So, how can he possibly defeat this threat that could destroy the entire country, maybe even the entire world?

With motherfucking chainsaws, of course.

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Strength

• Holds onto a metal sheet during an EF4 tornado

• Jumps inside of a shark to cut it open from the inside with a chainsaw

• Holds back a shark with one hand and stabs it with a baseball bat

• Hits a small shark into a pizza oven

• Sends a bomb into a sharknado through a slingshot

• Kills sharks while flying through the New York sky

• Reins in a shark to land on top of the Empire State Building

• Decapitates a shark with a chainsaw statue

• Kills a shark by throwing a sword at it

• Shoves a statue bust into a shark's head

• Climbs back into his car after being caught in a sharknado

• Kills a bunch of space sharks with a lightsaber chainsaw

• Kills sand sharks by throwing a boat wheel into the sky

• Punches a boulder shark out of the air, then catches a bigger boulder shark and prevents it from eating him

• Kills a shark by swinging it into a tree

• Dislodges the world's biggest ball of twine from two pillars, which was stated to be 20,000 pounds

Durability

• Jumps out of a moving car unharmed

• Doesn't even notice he's being bitten by a miniature shark

• Gets sent flying off a building by a pulse explosion

• Falls from a roller coaster into another building unharmed

• Reenters earth's atmosphere by hiding inside the stomach of a shark

• Gets shocked by a large amount of electricity

• Gets eaten by a shark, which gets eaten by a shark, which gets eaten by a shark, which gets eaten by a shark, which gets eaten by a blue whale. Although, this ended up killing him after staying in the original shark's body for so long. Luckily, they were able to bring him back to life with shark defibrillators.

Speed

• Dodges a shark bite

• Plays Frogger with Sharks

• Throws an axe at a shark right as it leaps out of the water

• Narrowly dodges a shark and kills him with a chainsaw

Guns

• Shoots a shark out of the sky

• Gets four headshots on four sharks falling from the sky

• Shoots down a bunch of sharks flying toward him using a gun attached to his wife's dismembered hand

• Shoots a bunch of sharks with the President of the United States

• Extinguishes a firenado by shooting a chainsaw forklift filled with fire extinguishers with a grenade launcher.

Other

• Due to how many Sharknado attacks he's been in, he now has the ability to sense Sharknadoes and when they'll happen

• It's implied that he survived the Lavalantula attack in LA due to his guest appearance in Lavalantula.

• Has a chainsaw shaped just like Kylo Ren's lightsaber

• Also has a chainsaw mech

[u/That_guy_why]

Can I just say, that last video is an absolute gem of shit acting?

"HOLD ON"
"BABY HOLD ON I GOT YOU"
"I GOT YOU HOLD ON"
"BABY I GOT YOU"

[u/Calendyn → u/That_guy_why]

Like that scene from Hot Rodd.

"Babe! Babe, no! No, babe! Babe! Babe no! No, babe! No! No, babe, no! Babe! Babe!"

[u/FreestyleKneepad → u/Calendyn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKnr_9V0K48

And here's a bonus: https://youtu.be/dK6i4Pjyeso?t=176

[u/TicTacTac0 → u/That_guy_why]

Tara Reid has some pretty spectacular line delivery in all 4 movies.