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They can't tell me what I've seen 'cause only I know what I've seen!
~ Shaw after Elliot escaped his grasp.
Alright, Lorraine. Let's kiss this bear good night.
~ Shaw preparing to kill Boog - his most famous quote.
If I don't stop them...it'll be a total reversal of the natural order. They laugh at Old Shaw, but you'll see. The truth...will be revealed.
~ Shaw informing Bobbie, Bob and Mr. Weenie about a supposed conspiracy of animals taking over human civilization.

Shaw is the main antagonist of Sony Pictures Animation's 1st feature film Open Season, and its direct-to-video sequel Open Season: Scared Silly.

He is a sadistic and barbaric hunter who enjoys hunting animals at the forested area where he lives even when the hunting season has not yet started. He is Boog and Elliot's arch-nemesis, as well as Beth's arch-rival.

In the first film, he was voiced by Gary Sinise as his fourth villainous role, who also played Kevin Dunne in Snake Eyes, Gabriel Mercer in Reindeer Games, and James Shaker in the 1996 film Ransom. In Open Season: Scared Silly, he was voiced by Trevor Devall. In the video game, he was voiced by Darryl Kurylo.

Personality[]

Throughout the first film, Shaw is revealed to be a destructive, barbarous, paranoid, and violent psychopath. He shows no regard for any life other than his own and is thus a miscreant, traitorous, argumentative, conceited, selfish, arrogant, pompous, cruel, vile, odious, and greedy man. This has been proven by the sadistic, heartless, and insensitive way in which he mounted many animals in the forest on his cabin wall and how he drove his truck recklessly to try and kill Elliot, nearly hitting several people along the way.

He is also very opprobrious and manipulative and shows no regard for the law, hunting in a national park (before hunting season actually begins) and attempting to fire his gun into a crowd, despite being told by Gordy not to. This resulted in him almost getting arrested by Gordy, though he managed to make a clean escape.

Shaw is also shown to have a bizarre love for his hunting gun called "Lorraine", talking to it and even offering it a blanket, so it would not be cold. This proves that Shaw is mentally ill or at least a bit unhinged as he believes his own rifle to be a living thing.

After a series of incidents, Shaw also seems to develop the suspicious belief that animals are becoming as smart as humans and are plotting a revolutionary rebellion to overthrow mankind and take over the world. This theory results in him becoming even more paranoid than he was already.

Appearance[]

Shaw is a tall, slender, muscular man with black hair and brown eyes. He has a large hooked nose, a hunter-type mustache, and a developing beard. He wears an orange vest, a pink shirt, a red flannel with rolled-up sleeves, olive camouflage pants, and dark brown hunter boots.

Biography[]

Open Season[]

Shaw is first seen arriving into town with his truck, with a seemingly dead Elliot tied to the hood, whom he ran over the previous night off an interstate. Shaw then walks into the nearby city hall building of Timberline and has a brief argument with Beth. He looks through the window and spots Boog freeing Elliot, who promptly flees and shatters the left headlight on Shaw's truck, leading to him getting a ticket from Sheriff Gordy and making him grow very angry and resentful of the duo.

While driving through town, he spots Elliot walking across the street and a chase is ensued to the nature show, where Elliot tries to hide with Boog. Shaw arrives and tries to break down the door to the back stage upon spotting Boog and Elliot until he leaves. After Elliot inadvertently ruins Boog's show, Boog threatens to kill Elliot and attacks him, causing the whole audience to flee in panic. Shaw tries to assassinate Boog and Elliot, but Beth sedates them with a tranquilizer gun before he could, thanks to Gordy. Shaw flees the scene before Gordy can arrest him for shooting in town.

As Boog struggles to adapt to life in the wilderness with Elliot whilst trying to find his way back to Timberline after being released, Shaw grows increasingly paranoid as time passes on, planning his revenge and believing that animals are planning a rebellion to overthrow the human race and dominate them.

Shaw encounters Boog and Elliot again near the beaver dam and takes a shot at them, causing the duo to flee and accidentally damage the dam, which floods the valley and drags everyone to the hunting grounds. In the ensuing chaos, Shaw repeatedly shoots at Boog and Elliot, who just narrowly dodge the bullets. As Shaw takes aim at Boog and Elliot again, they suddenly plummet downward. Confused, Shaw lowers his gun, only to spot a huge waterfall as he and his truck go over it and gets lost in the flood.

The following night, Boog unwittingly finds Shaw's log cabin after parting ways with Elliot upon discovering the latter's deception. Upon seeing the several animals mounted all over the walls, Boog screams in horror until he is forced to hide when Shaw arrives home. Soon, Shaw discovers that his cabin has been infiltrated. Boog hides under a table when he sees his stuffed teddy Dinkleman (which Shaw had salvaged from the flood). As Boog tries to discretely reach for his teddy, Shaw suddenly tosses a knife at him, impaling the table. Shaw searches for Boog through the dark cellar until Boog rushes out of the basement and places Shaw’s gun over the hatchway to lock him in the basement before making a hasty escape. After a few struggles, Shaw manages to force himself free and runs outside gun in hand, only to find that Boog has already escaped, prompting Shaw to yell to Boog in the distance that he cannot hide from him forever.

Boog finally manages to come across the glowing lights of Timberline and spots the hunters heading into the forest when hunting season is finally open. Boog ultimately decides to help his companions fend off the hunters and they raid Bob and Bobbie's RV to prepare for battle, while Mr. Weenie joins them.

The next day, Boog leads a rampage against the hunters, sending them running after McSquizzy blows up their trucks with a propane tank named "Mr. Happy". Shaw returns for a final battle against Boog and shoots Elliot in the process, which enrages Boog and prompts him to tie up Shaw with his own gun. Boog rushes over to Elliot's unconscious body but soon finds that Elliot survived the shot, only losing his second antler in the fight. The animals then begin beating up Shaw until a helicopter flies in and lands, frightening a tarred and feathered Shaw and causing him to run away into the forest. Beth is revealed to be the one in the helicopter and has returned to take Boog back home where he will be safe, but he instead stays with his friends. They both realize that the bear is at home in the forest and they part ways.

During the credits, Shaw gets hit by Bob and Bobbie's RV while trying to cross the road and tied on the top of it. Bob and Bobbie laugh about this, believing Shaw to be Bigfoot. Scared out of his wits, Shaw screams out in defeat. It's unknown what happened to Shaw afterwards, but it's presumed that once Bob and Bobbie reached their destination, they realized that Shaw wasn't Bigfoot and released him.

Open Season: Scared Silly[]

Shaw is back and this time, he cannot hunt anymore since Open Season is now illegal. Instead, he is a tour guide and wants to go back hunting again for revenge after what happened to him in the first film.

While touring, Shaw saw the Wailing Wampus Werewolf (Ian in disguise) and took a picture as evidence. Then he heads back to town and tells Gordy that he should bring Open Season back to kill the Werewolf, but secretly he also took this as an opportunity to kill Boog and Elliot including their friends.

Later, he hires his old friends, Ed and Edna to help him kill all the animals, including the werewolf.

Later at the end, he, Ed and Edna disguise themselves as werewolves to kill Elliot until Boog saves him and fights Shaw one last time. Then, Boog beat Shaw with a hive of wasps and got some quills on his face by Buddy. Afterwards, Shaw was tranquilized by Gordy, arrested alongside Ed and Edna, and taken to jail, and Open Season is back to being illegal for good.

It's unknown if he, Ed, and Edna will be able to escape from jail or not, in order to get revenge on Boog for getting Open Season permanently banned.

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Trivia[]

  • Shaw is memorable for being the first ever main antagonist in the Sony Pictures Animation films.
  • Shaw is the Greater-Scope Villain of the Open Season franchise, as he was the one who was indirectly responsible for getting Boog sent to the wilderness and breaking off one of Elliot's antlers in the first place.
  • Shaw is the only main villain in the film series to not have redeemed. He is also the only one to be the main antagonist in more than one movie.
  • Shaw likes to personify objects and give them names, such as his hunting gun “Lorraine” and his sea plane “Jolene”.
  • Given that he lives in a cabin in a deep part of the woods, it can be assumed that a lot of Shaw’s anti-social personality stems from living in isolation.
  • Shaw is similar in voice and appearance to Trevor Philips from Grand Theft Auto V. Both have an affinity for dark humor and making others uncomfortable, and are redneck “hillbillies” who live in isolation (although in Trevor’s case, he lives near others but is not known interact or socialize with them). Trevor can purchase a hairstyle similar to that of Shaw’s in one of the in-game barber shops, and he can go hunting in Paleto as a side hobby after completing Cletus’ Strangers and Freaks mission.

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