Rox plays a set.
Melvin Kresnik before being gene-slammed
Melvin "Rox" Kresnik is a secondary protagonist in Street Sharks.
Design[]
Melvin appears as a frail and rugged guy who has a ragged shoulder-length brown hair, black eyes and a long goatee. His main outfit has him wearing a black vest with a white T-shirt underneath, dark blue jeans and brown shoes.
As Rox after transforming into an anthropomorphic bull shark, he lost his long goatee and his shoulder-length brown hair has grown longer and more ragged and the color of his hair is black and his frail and rugged body became muscular and toned like the Bolton Brothers who had curently became anthropomorphic sharks. Following his transformation, his outfit also changes, he was shirtless and wears only yellow shorts with dark blue linings in each sides and brown short boots. He also wears a pair of black wristbands with spikes and carries his shark-designed electric guitar.
When he became a celebrity, he is the only shark that wears an outfit that can never rip apart. He wears a red bomber jacket with pale yellow folded sleeves a pale yellow undershirt, black leather jeans and shades of brown cowboy boots. He now wears purple squared-lens sunglasses which are transparent dark blue.
Appearance[]
Rox's different to most of Paradigm's other "victims" (i.e. Moby Lick) as his change was brought about by the consumption of the mutagenic popcorn as it was also laced with a mind control serum - this was only counteracted by something added to the salt by Dr. Bolton. What really set him apart though was the way that his hair remained after the transformation giving him a truly unique look in the world. The only other character to look as though they have any hair would be Slash, whose fin gives him the look of possessing a mohawk.
Rox resembles either a bull shark or a mako shark. Though no reference or image has ever been made to this.
In the show[]
He was an ordinary human until Melvin ate some popcorn made by Paradigm as a testing run of a food based mutagen. It turned him into the newest Street Shark.
An extrovert, rather than hide away like the Boltons, Rox was able to pass of his body as a costume and he used it as a gimmick to attain fame and fortune as a rock star. Even becoming Streex's best friend.
Powers & Abilities[]
- Strength: Like the other Sharks, Rox possesses superhuman strength.
- Jaw Strength: Like the other Sharks, Rox possesses immense jaw strength.
- Teeth: Like the other Sharks, Rox possesses razor-sharp teeth which allow him to bite through steel.
- Shark Dive: Like the other Sharks, Rox can dig through rocks and concrete like he was swimming through water.
- Guitar Skills: Rox is skilled in playing the guitar.
Arsenal[]
- Guitar: Rox always carries around a guitar, at first he carried a regular wooden guitar before trading in for a shark-shaped one made by Streex and Benz.
Toys[]
Rox was only released once in the toyline, complete with 'Head Banging Action' where the figure would headbang and whip it's long faux hair back and forth. It came packaged with Rox's guitar and a microphone. Unlike the cartoon however, Rox did not sport a dorsal fin.
Trivia[]
- Rox might be considered the Street Sharks version of Mondo Gecko from the TMNT series as both were rock stars before their mutations and still contained their human hair in their mutated state.