The Pathetic Sharks is a long-running but sporadic feature of Viz.
Perhaps the feature's true title is "Oh, No! It's the Pathetic
Sharks" since this text typically appears in the opening panel of
each installment.
There are five Pathetic Sharks: Rupert, Justin, Adrian, Timothy,
Henry, although only four usually appear in the magazines. The
group has no official leader, since each Shark is completely
self-centred and considers himself more important, smarter, more
talented, more interesting (and just better in general) than the
other three. All the Sharks are drawn as black silhouettes with
white highlights. Adrian, Timothy & Henry tend to flop about
and complain while Rupert and Justin conduct petty arguments. The
phrase "drama queen" would be a fair description of the two upright
Sharks, and probably the others as well.
Each of the Pathetic Sharks is extremely vain and childish, each
one jockeying for superiority over the others based on some trivial
ability or petty accomplishment which the other three denigrate,
while challenging each other's political correctness and other
credentials. They all speak in childish euphemisms, such as
"peepies" for "sleep".