The Suicide Squad's James Gunn Explains Why King Shark Isn't a Hammerhead The DC Comics villain King Shark has always been your very normal, rudimentary, giant anthropomorphic pants-wearing shark-man. But when DC rebooted its universe with The New 52, King Shark became a giant anthropomorphic pants-wearing hammerhead shark man.This is the question a Twitter user asked director James Gunn this weekend, and he had a very reasonable, non-snarky response: https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-suicide-squads-james-gunn-explains-why-king-shark-i-1846573103