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Shaw is the main antagonist of the 2006 film Open Season. He is a sociopathic hunter in the film and he is the gross, sadistic, barbaric hunter in town; he is also lazy and man who loves taking any underhanded plan to extend his love for poaching down animals. He wants to kill Boog and Elliot in the movie.
He later reappeared in Open Season: Scared Silly.
Biography
Open Season
Shaw is first seen arriving into town with his truck, which has a seemingly dead Elliot tied to the hood, who he ran over the previous night when he "crossed the road". Shaw then walks into the nearby city hall building of Timberline and has a brief argument with Beth. He looks through the window and discovers Boog freeing Elliot, who promptly flees and destroys one the lights in Shaw's truck, making him grow very angry and gets his revenge.
At the nature show, Elliot is being chased by Shaw and hides with Boog. After ruining his show and ignoring Boog's order to get out, Boog finally threatens to kill Elliot for disobeying his orders and attacks him, making the whole audience panic and run away. Shaw tries to assassinate Boog and Elliot, but Beth sedates them with a tranquilizer gun before he could, thanks to Sheriff Gordy. Shaw flees before Gordy can arrest him for shooting a gun in the town.
As Boog and Elliot try their hardest to adapt to life in the wilderness 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 become the dominating species on Earth.
Shaw encounters Boog and Elliot again in the river after they accidentally destroyed a beaver dam, making the river freely flow, flooding many thing and washing away the animals with it, taking them to the hunting grounds. In the ensuing chaos, Shaw repeatedly shoots at Boog and Elliot, who just narrowly dodged 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 flooding.
After discovering Elliot's lie, Boog feels heartbroken and betrayed and leaves him and unwittingly finds Shaw's cabin and screams in horror as he sees several animals mounted all over the walls. Then Shaw arrives home, forcing Boog to hide. Soon, Shaw discovers that his cabin was broken into. Boog hides under a table when he sees his stuffed teddy Dinkleman (which Shaw has salvaged from the flood). As Boog tries to reach for his teddy, Shaw suddenly throws a knife at him, only missing him and impaling the table. Shaw searches for Boog through a dark cellar. Boog quickly rushes out of the basement and places Shaw's gun over the hatchway to lock him up in the basement before making a hasty escape. After a few struggles, Shaw manages to force himself free and runs outside gun in hand, but Boog's already gone. Shaw yells in the distance that he can't hide from him forever and ever.
Boog happens upon the glowing lights of Timberline. Instead of abandoning his companions, Boog help the other animals defend themselves using supplies taken from Bob and Bobbie's RV while Mr Weenie joins the wilds.
The next day, Boog leads a rampage against hunters, he and other animals easily gained the upper hand, before sending them running away in defeat after McSquizzy blows up their trucks with a propane tank named "Mr Happy". Shaw returns for a final battle, he prepares to kill Boog but Elliot sacrifices himself to save Boog and Shaw shot him instead. Boog believes Shaw had killed Elliot and becomes enraged, he rears up on his hind legs and tackles Shaw to the ground and roaring angrily in his face and tie him up with his own gun. Boog rushes over to the Elliot's unconscious body but soon finds that Elliot survived the shot, only losing his second antler in the fight. The other animals thanked Boog for his help and attack Shaw in a vengeance while he's tied up in his own gun, quickly gaining the upper hand and easily overpowered him, until a helicopter flies in and lands, frightening Shaw and causing him to run away into the forest.
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 movie.
Trivia
- Shaw is memorable for being the first ever main antagonist in the Sony Pictures Animation films.