Contact Admin. Sykes , also known as Mr. Sykes or Puffdaddy , is a major character in Shark Tale. He is Don Lino 's former henchmen, Ernie and Bernie 's leader and boss, and Oscar 's former boss and current co-manager. Sykes is the manager of the Whale Wash where Oscar is employed. He and Oscar have a history before the movie is introduced; due to Oscar's constant get-rich-quick schemes, he owes Sykes over five thousand clams in debt and Oscar doesn't appear to be bothered by this.
We learn that Sykes is also employed as a henchman for Don Lino, the head of a mafia group of sharks. It is revealed here that, much like he and Oscar, Sykes and Don have a history together, as the latter is quoted by saying, "Now, you and me, we worked together a long, long, long time.
Sykes' constant interruptions and neurotic wincing did not make for such a smooth meeting, and this did not improve when Don Lino mentioned that his two sons, Frankie and Lenny, will someday run the reef. While comfortable with being under Frankie's command, Sykes was skeptical in working for Lenny.
Under pressure from his recent termination, Sykes orders Oscar to take the five thousand clams to the racetrack the next day in order to pay for Don Lino's protection and also so that he would not order an attack on the Whale Wash.
The situation gets rocky when Oscar blows the five thousand clams on a seahorse instead of paying it directly to Sykes. After blowing up, literally and figuratively, he commands Ernie and Bernie his own henchmen to, "put him in the deepest hole in the ocean. Later on, after Oscar's bogus story about murdering Frankie, Sykes without the knowledge of the truth behind the lie becomes his manager and spends his time partying with Oscar.
