‘The Suicide Squad’ TV Spot Has Lots Of New Footage Of Our Favorite Boy King Shark
There’s a good chance a lot of the characters inThe Suicide Squadwill be dead by the time the end credits roll, but there are two specific characters I really hope make it. One is the miserablePolka-Dot Man, played byDavid Dastmalchian. The other is everyone’s favorite new chonky boy, King Shark (AKA Nanaue), voiced bySylvester Stallone. The recent kick-off of Shark Week has resulted in a new King Shark-centricThe Suicide SquadTV spot, and it continues to suggest that this human-eating shark monster is going to swim his way into all of our hearts.
The Suicide Squad TV Spot
When you’re King Shark, every week is#SharkWeek…#TheSuicideSquadin theaters and streaming exclusively on@HBOMaxAugust 6.pic.twitter.com/qDncs99JI0
— The Suicide Squad (@SuicideSquadWB)July 19, 2025
InThe Suicide Squad, “The government sends the most dangerous supervillains in the world — Bloodsport, Peacemaker, King Shark, Harley Quinn and others — to the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese. Armed with high-tech weapons, they trek through the dangerous jungle on a search-and-destroy mission, with only Col. Rick Flag on the ground to make them behave.” Look for the film in theaters and on HBO Max startingAugust 6, 2021.
King Shark and His Dad Bod
Steve Ageewas the character stand-in on set while Sylvester Stallone is providing King Shark’s monosyllabic voice. And anyone familiar with the character will notice he’s a bit different here than he is in the comics, or in the recentHarley Quinnanimated series. For one thing, King Shark is usually portrayed as a hammerhead-type creature, but directorJames Gunnchanged that and made him look more like a great white.
“I did tests with the hammerhead design, which I love & originally thought I’d use,” Gunn said onTwitter. “But having eyes on the sides far apart made it incredibly awkward shooting interactions with other people. You couldn’t really see him looking at the other person & the shots tended to be too wide.” Gunn added: “But I was insistent on the dad-bod from the beginning as I didn’t think King Shark would have such mammalian body structure.” While theHarley QuinnKing Shark is also modeled after a great white, Gunn said that was just a coincidence.
Gunn also said: “Yes, I realize he’s cute: strange since we actively avoided neotenic designs used on cute anthropomorphic beasts to elicit that evolutionary ‘awww.’ Think Baby Groot/Yoda. His eyes are small, not big. His mouth is big, not small. And his head is tiny.” It sure is, James Gunn. It sure is.
