Dr. Luther Paradigm

Dr. Luther Paradigm is the primary antagonist from Street Sharks. He is the archnemesis of the Bolton Brothers (who are now called the Street Sharks). He has been arrested and put in jail for good by the president of the United States with the help of the Street Sharks in the very last episode of the show.

Design[]

Paradigm is a middle-aged naturally bald man with a gray metal eye patch on his right eye and the color of his eyes are black.

In both Sharkbait and Sharkbite, he was initially seen wearing a black trenchcoat with a red turtleneck, black pants with a brown belt around his waist and brown loafers.

In the climax of Sharkbite until Sand Sharks, he was wearing a powerful yellow and black armor suit. When he was gene slammed into a pirahna, his nose disappears when he changes into a pirahna if he was extremely stressed and his sharp teeth is more sharp and straight. He also gains a large yellow and black piranha helmet to cover his face during his confrontation with the mutated Dr. Robert Bolton since his powerful suit was upgraded in Shark Fight. When he was not fighting or observing the entire events in every episodes, he wears a long purple robe with baggy sleeves to cover his armor.

In Shark Source when a mutated Dr. Bolton removes all of Paradigm's powerful yellow and black armor to rescue the young mutated crocodile, he was shirtless and appears as a humanoid piranha with large fins on each elbow and has a webby feet. He was equipped with a red electrical wires, resembling an armored holster which was connected to his red and black piranha insignia at the center and has a light blue electrical wires to connect with the other red wire and has small yellow steel pauldrons to keep the wires attached. He also has light blue band on his left arm and his trousers appearing gray adorned with a dark blue belt and a matching dark blue holster on the right thigh, and yellow pads in each knee. In Sand Sharks, Paradigm retains his human appearance except for his piranha humanoid body became green. The linings of his trousers including his belt and holster appearing light blue.

When being injected with an iguana DNA instead of the raptor DNA known as Dr. Iguanazoid, Paradigm appears as a anthropomorphic iguana instead of the raptor. He retains his electrical wire holster with a center insignia as well as his trousers which was shortened into pants-like remains.

History[]

A brilliant genetic engineer, Dr. Luther Paradigm (pronounced pair-a-dime) plots to turn the whole world into loyal mutants. He was the one that created Slash and Slobster, transformed the Bolton boys into Shark mutants, and their father into something else. During one such experiment where he was attempting to mutate Bends with Piranha DNA, he accidentally crossed himself with it where he was named Dr. Piranoid

Dr. Paradigm when he became "Dr. Piranoid" temporary after going through intense stress or anger.

as a result. While his mutation did not cause such a dramatic increase in mass he now has webbed hands and feet as well as a more piranha-like face. Also his mutation is unstable, he appears human while calm and collected but will change when under extreme duress (Similar to that of The Hulk.)

During the episodes that had the Dino Vengers in them, he once gene-slammed himself with Iguana DNA (which he mistook for Velociraptor DNA) and was renamed Dr. Iguanazoid as a result.

Dr. Paradigm when he became known as "Dr. Iguanazoid".

Powers and Abilities[]

Intelligence: Dr. Paradigm is extremely intelligent.
- Genetic Engineering: Dr. Paradigm is skilled in genetic sciences which he uses in his Gene-Slamming experiments.
- Mechanical Engineering: Dr. Paradigm is shown to have skills in mechanical engineering such as his creation in the Shark-Bot and the Time Slammer.
Transformation: Dr. Paradigm could transform from his normal form into his Dr. Piranoid persona any time he is under duress

Arsenal[]

Power Suit: In Sharkbite, Dr. Paradigm donned a yellow and black armored suit to help him fight the sharks, he even upgraded it in Shark Fight with a collapsable piranha head-like helmet, Paradigm ditched his suit in Season 3 after Gene-Slamming himself with alien DNA becoming Dr. Iguanazoid.
- Hook Glove: Dr. Paradigm's power suit possessed a glove with a launchable hook on his left arm.
- Blaster Arm: Dr. Paradigm's power suit possessed a blaster with a harpoon spear and clamp hand on his right arm.

Toys[]

Dr. Paradigm was released in wave one of the Street Shark toys, featuring a head spinning gimmick to recreate his mood swings. The figure also featured a launchable missile. A second Paradigm was created as 'Power Bite Paradigm', recreating his new power suit. As of 2021, a prototype of Paradigm, called Karkass was produced, originally set to be the villain of the Street Shark series.