Board Thread:General Discussions/@comment-31524712-20170319210335/@comment-31497512-20170415223554

Project Predacon wrote:

Thunderstudent Returns wrote: Bruce/Jaws is definitely some sort of mutant shark, he's larger, stronger, smarter, more durable, and more vicious than any of his peers and has a taste for human flesh and blood. Normal great whites are generally smaller, dumber, and aren't as blood thirsty. Yes they are aggressive but not like Jaws/Bruce, plus in general Great Whites dislike the taste of human flesh, generally going after animals with higher fat content such as seals, sea lions, fish and small whales. The likelihood of a Great White like Jaws/Bruce existing in the real world is highly unlikely. Also we have ACTUAL DINOSAURS from real life on the wiki as kaiju so by all accounts Jaws/Bruce IS a kaiju. Case closed! Yeah, we have those dinosaurs on the wiki mainly by matter of association. Meaning they're there because they were in the film/piece of media alongside the main kaiju and played some role. It's like having a character page. Not only that, but multiple incarnations of the Tyrannosaurus (for example) are presented in a way that's scientifically incorrect and biologically false. Such as the upright stance which drags their tail along the ground. Something we know as false given that tail's a balancing mechanism, hence length. Same for the erroneously carnivorous and water-stuck Brontosaurus of the 1933 King Kong film. It's not the fact that they're a dinosaur alone that puts them there.

Within the events of the film, it's actually shown that Bruce does hunt just to eat, having eaten a man then swimming right past a protagonist, before later falling into a state of enmity towards the main crew of the movie.

Great Whites may be smaller, but that's the reason the term "outlier" exists. Bruce's size is the exception, not the rule. And Great Whites are far from dumb. They don't display emotions of hostility towards their prey, sure, but that doesn't make them unintelligent. If anything, Bruce's repeated attempts at attacking the crew, despite being harmed imply a sense of mindlessness and a lack of regard for itself which did end up getting it killed because it somehow ingested a barrel, which it kept chewing on, mind you, despite the knowledge that sharks will generally only keep something in their mouth until it stops struggling before spitting it out to feed on it. Barrels don't struggle. There would be no realistic reason for this shark to put itself at risk of choking on something. Especially something that would damage its rows of teeth more noticeably. Yet this one did. Showing a clear lack of intelligence as it was aware of what it was doing but didn't do anything about it.

And a shark the size of (or at least, near the size of) Bruce was discovered near Australia. It's not impossible for something of its size to exist, whereas it is impossible for something of its mindset to exist, solely because its biologically disadvantageous. It's not like inefficiently hunting after prey items got it killed in a blind rush to eat, or anything. That isn't really intelligence. Yunno, dying to a daily activity and barely getting anything out of it in the first place because you go after the wrong prey item with some primal hostility. when he said that shark are dumb, he meant that they are not as smart as Bruce