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Shannon Hamilton
| “ | You see, Bruce, I like to pick up girls on the rebound from a disappointing relationship. They're much more in need of solace and they're fairly open to suggestion. And, I use that to f-ck them someplace very uncomfortable... Someplace girls dread. | „ |
| ~ Shannon gloating over his planned conquest of Renee |
Shannon Hamilton is the secondary antagonist of the 1995 Kevin Smith romantic comedy film Mallrats.
He was portrayed by Ben Affleck, who also portrayed Fred O'Bannion in Dazed and Confused, Bartleby in Smith's later film Dogma, Ivan Block in Runner Runner, Pierre d'Alençon in The Last Duel and Doug MacRay in The Town.
Biography[]
Shannon Hamilton is introduced when the movie's protagonists, TS Quint and Brodie Bruce, go to the mall after their respective breakups. They bump into Hamilton, and they have a short argument before moving on.
It turns out Hamilton has met them before and they have a bad history. Brodie later sees Hamilton with his ex-girlfriend Renee Mosier. Brodie and TS meet up with a 15-year-old acquaintance named Trish "The Dish" Jones, a young prodigy who is studying the male sex drive, and picks up men at a certain age to have sex with them and videotape it, all for her study so she can write a book. She reveals that Hamilton was one of her subjects and that, after sex, claimed that he wanted to beat Brodie up, but she turned the camera off before he made this remark.
Later on, Brodie has TS distract Hamilton while he pulls Renee into an elevator and the two have an argument, before having sex. After Renee is dropped off, Hamilton is about to beat him up before Renee tells him down. In spite of this, Hamilton corners and beats up Brodie and tells him that he hates him and other mallrats because they do nothing to help his business.
He also explains his fetish; he likes picking up girls on the rebound, especially emotionally troubled ones, and he likes to have sex with them in a "very uncomfortable place" (a running gag is that whenever this is mentioned, someone replies "What, the back of a Volkswagen?"). Brodie seemingly doesn't care, and even passes the blame for his beating on the mall's Easter Bunny.
Later on, Brodie and TS decide to sneak on a game show to help TS win his girlfriend Brandi Svenning back, and Renee and Hamilton are in the audience. Earlier, Brodie got Trish to get the tape of her sex with Hamilton so their friends Jay and Silent Bob can play it on air. After TS wins Brandi back and proposes to her, Brodie confesses that he still loves Renee, and when she smiles at this, Hamilton advances to the stage.
Because Brandi's father Jared, who was running the game show, had TS and Brodie thrown out of the mall earlier, the police are called. As the police arrive, Silent Bob plays the tape of Hamilton having sex with Trish, and Brodie points out that she is only fifteen years old. While being arrested for statutory rape, Hamilton is surprised and says he thought Trish was thirty-six years old. When the officers do not believe this blatant lie, he tries to gain favor with them by claiming they would have "popped" her just like he did if they were in his shoes. Brodie goes over to Shannon to gloat, and attempts to slug him in the gut. The police stop him, but after a little convincing, decide to let Brodie have one punch. Brodie and Renee then get back together. In the film's ending, it is revealed that, while in prison, Hamilton was said to have "made some friends" and was "screwed in an uncomfortable place".