Why Are Sharks Always The Bad Guys? – ‘The Why’

Welcome to the latest edition of The Why.  “Why are sharks always the bad guys?” you ask? Good question. Whether it’s in comic books, Disney cartoons, television, major motion pictures or even musical theatre sharks do  get a bad rap in popular culture.

The people at agree. They note: “Sharks have earned a reputation as one of the most well-known animal villains for their unpredictable nature and danger towards human beings. In real life, sharks are one of the world’s most important animals in nature’s ecology.”

Why are sharks always the bad guys?/Image: KidZone

If that’s true then why are sharks always the bad guys? The Villains Wikia people think that despite their importance to the eco system “they are still popularly portrayed as villainous figures, due to their aggressive behavior.” (That’s certainly something upon which pop culture focuses.)

Why are sharks always the bad guys? If you caught a recent episode of the TV program “TechKnow” you know that they too acknowledge that sharks “have been vilified as the world’s ultimate killing machine. “

They also believe that the shark’s “bad boy image is all wrong.”  One of their recent guests, Jim Abernethy is the owner of a scuba-diving business that specializes in “shark dives near West Palm Beach in Florida.” Abernathy (photographically) shoots sharks.

He told the “TechKnow” team: “I haven’t had a single aggressive shark in the 35 years I’ve been swimming with them on a daily basis. We have 400 billion years of sharks shaping our ocean’s health, and in the last 50 yearsâ€"in my watchâ€"we have literally destroyed it.”

Why are sharks always the bad guys?/Image: Wikipedia

Abernethy obviously loves sharks. He thinks everyone should love them. That is reportedly one of the reasons he is now known as “a pioneer in cage-free shark diving” and why he makes a living offering others the opportunity to encounter sharks “up close in the wild.”

Why are sharks always the bad guys? They are portrayed as bad guys because most of us don’t know enough about them. They’ve gotten a bad rap in the media according to experts such as Abernathy. “It’s up to those of us who really know what’s going on to protect them” and to change the misconception.

Why are sharks always the bad guys? Now you know.

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