| “ | "Daddy hunted sharks. I hunt sharks. It's in the blood. If there was somebody better at this, you'd be followin' them, yah? | „ |
| ~ Scaly Pete's introduction |
Pierre LeBlanc, better known as Scaly Pete by his fellow anglers, is the main villain and antagonist of the 2020 action role-playing shark video game, Maneater. Captain of the Cajun Queen, he is a professional shark hunter of the city of Port Clovis, whose main goal is to hunt down a MEGA Shark for his father after the Battle Of Guadalcanal took his life.
Background[]
Physical Description[]
Scaly Pete is a buffed up Cajun Fisherman in his late 50s to early 60s with a white and brown beard and mustache. During his intro to the game, he wears a white Port Clovis t-shirt, green military cap, rubber orange overalls, and a necklace with shark teeth. After catching the Mother Bull Shark, cutting open her abdomen, and pulling the young Female Bull Shark out, he loses his right hand after the pup bites down and shakes it off. During episodes 1-6, he now has a prosthetic arm which is a hook, keeps the orange overalls and necklace but leaves the shirt off.
After the first fight with the Female Bull Shark, whose grown into the Adult Stage, he loses his left leg which was bitten off by the shark and suffers a massive burn scar on the left side of his body, while also damaging his left eye and ear. For the remainder of the game up to his death, he now wears blue overalls and a big black utility belt.
Personality[]
Scaly Pete's a very tough sailor when it comes to shark hunting. On his soft side, he's a very calm man when discussing his life as a shark hunter and his son, Kyle LeBlanc, who's working with him for the summer. On his shark hunter side, he's a serious man while catching sharks. He often doesn't like to be touched (such as when Kyle tries to check the damage after the Female Bull Shark tore his right hand off after birth) and doesn't like to be wrong about any real facts that come to him. After the loss of his son and the explosion of the Cajun Queen, he's become more obsessed to kill the Bull Shark, going so far to Poison Sapphire Bay and modify his father's PT 522 Boat to match against the shark's powers.
Appearance[]
Maneater[]
Scaly Pete first appears when the Port Clovis reality television show with the same name, documents Pete's life aboard his boat, the Cajun Queen. Along with his son, Kyle, the two had just pulled up a great white shark during the early morning in The Gulf of Port Clovis. He explains his family history when his father hunted sharks and he continued the tradition while also believing that it's impossible to coexist with sharks when all they want to do is kill people. Afterwards, the radio reports about a shark spotted in Fawtick Bayou with several deaths reported and its identity can be described by a rusty harpoon embedded in it's flank. That's when Pete tells the cameraman to stand aside as he takes control of the boat and heads to the shark's location. The shark in particular is the mother bull shark.
After the player learns the shark basics and the shark starts eating beachgoers, Scaly Pete appears on the horizon and orders his team of hunters to catch the shark. After failing to do so, Pete decides he'll get the shark himself which he spears it in the mouth, knocking her out cold. Pete then pulls the shark up on to his boat and look over the catch of the day. As he inspects the shark, he finds the harpoon in the flank and believes it to be his father's. But he claims it's not the shark he's looking for because it is not big enough to be a Mega. Then, Pete slices into the shark's abdomen where he discovers that she's pregnant with a little pup. The baby bull shakes from side to side as Pete holds her. Then, using his knife, he mutilates the pup by slicing her back to create a scar. The cameraman asks about why Pete would do that to a baby shark, but Pete explains that he did it so he can identify her the next time he sees her. In a moment of desperation, the pup bites down on Pete's right hand and violently thrashes it off, causing both her and the hand to fall in the Bayou. Pete is left in agony as his right arm bleeds, Kyle tries to help, but is shouldered away. Pete tells the cameraman to turn off the camera and help. The pup lands in the water with Pete's severed hand and eats it, as her journey from pup to Mega begins.
Like Father, Like Son[]
In this cutscene, the film crew goes back on board the Cajun Queen where Pete (now with a metal hook replacing his right hand) talks about his son, Kyle LeBlanc. Kyle is working with him for the summer while on break. Kyle studies Marine Biology in college and is looking to discover new species after graduating. Pete makes a joke when Kyle trips as he's carrying two coolers and believes he gets that clumsiness from his mother. Pete holds up a picture of himself with his father explaining how they spent a lot of time together bonding over shark hunting, even if they weren't that close. Pete's father was going to be the one to catch "The Megashark" but failed to do so during World War II, so it's now his goal to find and kill it. Pete and Kyle get back to work, as the cutscene ends.
Family Update[]
In this cutscene, our narrator Trip Westhaven (played by Chris Parnell) tells us that family tensions are at an all time high as Kyle tries to catch a shark using his fishing rod. Pete criticizes Kyle for not fishing properly and tells him that he'll come out and do it with one hand. Kyle replies back telling his dad that he shouldn't be mutilating baby sharks. When Pete asks what Kyle said, he says, "nothing." That telling him how to hunt a shark in a sarcastic way was ridiculous, because Pete is more experienced. Kyle talks the camera saying that he thought about having some father-son bonding while working on the Cajun Queen and is thinking about looking for another summer job after realizing shark hunting might not be for him. Pete says that not everyone is made to be a fisherman and hopes the whole university thing works out for his son as he looks out over Kyle standing on the bow, as the cutscene ends.
Personal Project[]
In this cutscene, Pete and Kyle are in the Fawtick Bayou as twilight falls, preparing to hunt again. Pete explains how it's dangerous being a shark hunter but it's not something unknown to him. He points out to a boat shed showing the cameraman a PT 522 boat which his father crewed on while in Guadalcanal as a Navy Gunner's Mate. A crew of 16 were on board until one day, the boat came back with only three and his father was one of the victims gone. Kyle asks what happened to him and Pete explains that his father/Kyle's grandfather was killed by a Mega Shark. Kyle tries to reassure the crew that Pete is obviously talking about the giant shark Megalodon which went extinct 2.6 million years ago but the shark hunter says that he's seen it even thought he was a kid. Pete talks back to Kyle again believing that marine biologists discover new animals all the time but Kyle replies back telling him that they're just corrections of species with different names along with misspelling. Pete sternly tells his son that maybe there's things in the water that are not in his text book and points his hook at Kyle believing he'll learn a thing or two in the summer. Kyle replies with, "Whatever." as Pete leaves to take control of the boat and set out to find the bull shark, as the cutscene ends.
Pete: The Revenge[]
The Bull Shark makes her way to the area where the Cajun Queen is. Pete and Kyle spot the shark and Pete claims it's the one who took his hand and tells Kyle to get ready. Soon, the fight between Scaly Pete and the Bull Shark begins. After taking damage, the cage protecting the Cajun Queen breaks away as Pete sends in reinforcements. Pete explains that the cage cost him three thousand dollars and the shark just wasted it. Once the boat's health is all the way down, A cutscene begins and shows Pete and Kyle scout for where the shark will appear, and in that instant, the Bull Shark emerges and lands on the stern of the Cajun Queen, biting down on Pete's left leg as she thrashes around. Pete reaches for the iron harpoon as Kyle goes to get a jerry can to douse the shark and light her on fire. While doing so, Pete stabs the shark with the harpoon, causing the bull to growl aggressively and tear off Pete's leg.
Pete cries out in pain as Kyle douses the shark with the can while Pete gets up and lights a match to ignite the flames. The shark desperately makes her exit to the water just as the boat's gas tank is exposed. Pete tells Kyle to get off since the ship is about to blow, but the young deckhand grabs a fire extinguisher and tries to put out the flames, but it was too late. The Cajun Queen explodes sending both the shark and the father-son duo into the water. Pete suffers a big burn scar on the left side of his head and upper chest as he grabs onto a piece of the hull while he calls out for Kyle. But Kyle is nowhere to be found revealing that he died in the explosion. Pete watches the Bull Shark's fin as she descends into the water and pounds on the wood in frustration, knowing that his son is killed, as the cutscene ends. The shark also didn't escape unscathed as the explosion left her with a blast wound on the left side of her head, leaving her half blind.
Fish Food[]
In this cutscene, in Dead Horse Lake, Pete is filling up barrels with poison to prepare for his next round with the shark. The cameraman is worried and grows concerned for Pete's plan telling him stop and that it's unnecessarily destructive but Pete retaliates that the one shark killed his son and vows to get revenge. He then pushes the cameraman away so he can be alone, as the cutscene ends. Off screen, Pete poisons the water of Sapphire Bay
Mega Shark vs PT 522[]
In this cutscene, Scaly Pete is making some final adjustments to his father's PT 522 boat, equipping it with a strong cage, electric shark shields, and torpedoes. The film crew records the preparation as the cameraman nervously asks Pete to not do it, claiming he and the TV crew are scared. Pete laughs it off and tells them that they don't have to be scared unless they're a shark. The cameraman insists on getting the police and the U.S Coast Guard involved because it's getting way out of hand. Pete angrily approaches the camera crew wielding his knife, accusing the boat crew of calling Pete crazy, telling them that he's the most sane man they've ever seen and he didn't get to his point of anger easily, he claims that our Bull Shark took everything he had, and that he's going to give her the same chance that she gave his son, none. He then orders the crew to get off his boat or he'll kill them. Pete hits the camera as he gets on the refurbished PT 522 and heads out to The Gulf, claiming he'll make Shark Etouffee out of the Mega Shark, as the cutscene ends.
Final Battle[]
Our Bull Shark (who is now level 30 and considered a Mega Shark) makes her way to the area where Pete and his new attack vessel are. Upon entering the area, Pete welcomes the shark, telling her that he came prepared for the last fight. Soon, the fight between Scaly Pete and the Mega Shark begins. Once the boat's health is around half, reinforcements arrive as they once again try to take out the shark. But the bounty hunters' efforts fail and the boats soon sink, leaving only the PT 522. The Mega Shark finishes off the attack vessel up until the boat's health bar reaches zero.
Final Cutscene of Main Story[]
After the PT 522 has taken full damage, Pete walks out to the bow looking for the shark until the massive Mega Shark lunges at him, landing on the bow, and bites him furiously. Then the shark throws him to the crates filled with explosives right as Pete grabs the remote and says his final words, "Laissez les bons temps rouler!" (Which translates into: "Let the good times roll), In slow motion, the MEGA shark goes in for the kill as Pete presses the button and the whole boat explodes, killing Pete. As the PT 522 sinks in a mass of flames, Trip Westhaven finishes off the documentary saying, "I suppose there's a lesson to be gleaned here. Something about the increasing population of the natural world has placed humans on a collision course with an environmental apocalypse. But this is a basic cable show where people tune in to watch sharks kill people and people kill sharks. So until next fishing season, this is Maneater." After the roll credits end, the game is complete and the Mega Shark has survived the explosion, returning to The Gulf grotto as she celebrates her victory for avenging her mother's death. The shark may continue side quests and collectibles if she has any left, but the main story line is done.
After the story line quest is finished, the Truth Quest story will start, which the shark has yet to explore.