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On the topic of Dabi's 1st Ranked Adviser, Sharkie as I'll dub him, apparently some think that the 2nd mercenary that Deku beat after Nagant was Sharkie, given how similar they look (sharp teeth, both seem to be wearing the same mask, similar face). However, Sharkie and...IDK I guess I call the other Sharpie, do have difference in their facial features and different piercings, not to mention Sharpie is wearing a different outfit altogether. What are your thoughts?

@shockersalvage, have I ever told you how much I appreciate your willingness to continually send me questions about the advisors? Because I really do appreciate your willingness to continually send me questions about the advisors. I love these guys. As to Sharkie--or, as I call him, Spiky Cabbie--and Sharpie? Let's compare!

(Flipped him upside-down for easier viewing.)

The Similarities:

Pointy Teeth. This is a jump-out obvious one. I would point out that Sharpie's teeth are more pin-like, narrower and with much more space between them, than Sharkie's, which are broader at the base, more triangular in shape, compared to Sharpie's more conical ones. However, that's easy to handwave as being just a difference in levels of detail because of the close-up, and also because all known pictures of Sharkie have him with a close-mouthed grin, while Sharpie's mouth is hanging open--it makes sense that the teeth would look a bit different! Inconclusive.

The Mask. This is another clear similarity, particularly in the presence of that thin double line at the bottom of the mask, which is present on both.

The Eyes. The men seem to have similar screentones applied to the irises of their eyes, a gray about the same shade as their masks. They both also have visible irises on normal, white sclera, which is definitely not a given in this series, see e.g. Re-Destro or Toshinori Yagi.

The Toss-Ups:

The Build. Well, they're both pretty muscular, compared to the more lean types. But, I dunno--it's hard to say with the perspective on Sharpie and Deku being what it is, but I feel like Sharkie is bigger? Like, considerably bigger. Sharkie towers over everyone else he's ever pictured next to; further, he's really barrelchested. The man has a chest cavity like a wine keg, and Sharpie just doesn't look that broad to me.

The Tattoos. Impossible to say! While I would guess that Sharkie is wearing a vest over his striped shirt, not a jacket, his arms aren't clearly visible in any or our pictures, nor is his unclad chest, so we can't say one way or the other if he's got ink.

The Face. Again hard to say, this time because of the angle, but they do both look like they have relatively sharp features, particularly in the cheekbones and around the jawline. On the other hand, if you look closely, there's something very weird going on with Sharkie's chin:

This is not facial hair shaved into fashionable lines; he actually has a notched chin, consistently across every picture. Sharpie, on the other hand, as you can see above, has an entirely normal chin.

The Differences:

The Jewelry. As you noted, they do both have piercings, significant amounts of them, but the location and number are different. Sharpie has four loops, four studs, and one center spike, all in his ears; Sharkie, meanwhile, has only three spikes in his ears but also two lip rings.

Furthermore, Sharpie wears two blingy neck chains, while Sharkie doesn't seem to be wearing any jewelry save the piercings.

The Hair. You've gotta squint for this one, but as you can see in the earring picture above and the picture at the top of the post, Sharkie is consistently shown to have thin but visible sideburns. In two of the pictures, he's also drawn with a visible hairline around the nape of his neck. It's short short short, but it's there. Sharpie, by contrast, seems to be entirely bald/shaved. This is also a small thing that sets their masks apart; Sharpie's extends back behind his ears, clearly wrapping all the way around his head, while Sharkie's cuts off at his sideburns. (Leaving me wondering if he glues it on or maybe secures it with the brim of his cabbie hat somehow. Heck, maybe it's actually just face paint, or an extremely low-key heteromorphic feature.)

The Clothes. This is maybe the one that stands out most to me. The hat, you could just assume got knocked off in the fight/when Sharpie got hung upside-down by Black Whip, but their tops are completely different. Sharkie has a striped shirt and a plain vest with dark buttons. Sharpie has that scale-pattern....there's probably a word for the kind of garment he's wearing; I feel like I've seen it around before on, like, ikemen samurai and the like. I don't know it off the top of my head, but anyway, it's almost all sleeves, with just enough going on across the back and shoulders and the chain fastened around his neck to keep it all in place. Whatever it's called, it's absolutely nothing like Sharkie's outfit. There's also the matter of their pants. They look superficially similar, but to my eye, Sharpie's are cut to a tighter fit, with a seam down the side, while Sharkie's look baggier and lack the side seam. Now, in real life, I'd accept a handwave on people having, you know, more than one outfit in their wardrobe, but a) this is a manga where the villains in particular have a very limited array of duds, and b) thanks to Chapter 335, we're now up to six returned advisors (Hooray!), and every single one of them is wearing exactly the same thing they are in every other picture of them we've ever seen. So, no, I don't see any particular reason for Sharpie to be the only one to have changed clothes, especially so radically.

The Intangibles: Sharpie is described by Hawks as "a hired gun"--one of All For One's people, the same sorts later summed up by All Might as "escaped convicts who serve All For One" and mentioned by Lady Nagant as others AFO "reached out to." That's all well and good, but Sharkie isn't a hired gun, and he certainly isn't one of the escaped convicts: he's MLA. All throughout the aftermath of the war, whenever anyone is going over the scope of the threat, the escaped convicts associated with AFO and the remnants of the PLF are always mentioned separately. The PLF people have outstanding loyalties, and they sure as shit aren't to All For One. That's not to say none of them might ever do his work, of course; with Shigaraki out of service and Re-Destro in prison, AFO has definitively taken the reins of the villain movements. Still, we never see him giving orders to ex-MLA types directly; their orders are all coming to them from Skeptic. Why would this one dude be the exception?

Conclusion: I think your instincts are right on the money: Sharkie and Sharpie are two different people with superficial similarities but considerably more significant, glaring differences if you look closely at their respective designs. At most, I'd say they look similar for the same reason there are so many mob villains with reptilian features in the series: pointy bits are an easy visual shorthand for Person With Villainous Intent.

Thanks, again and as always, for the ask!

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