Shawn Hunter
| Shawn Patrick Hunter | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | "Pilot" (Boy Meets World) "Girl Meets Home for the Holidays" (Girl Meets World) |
| Last appearance | "Brave New World" (Boy Meets World) "Girl Meets Goodbye" (Girl Meets World) |
| Created by |
Michael Jacobs April Kelly |
| Portrayed by | Rider Strong |
| Number of episodes | 165 |
| Information | |
| Aliases | Grandpa Shawn ("Breaking Up is Really, Really, Really Hard to Do") Shawnzie Hunterelli ("I Was a Teenage Spy") Veronica Wasboiski ("Chick Like Me") Young Shawn ("It's Not You... It's Me") Killer Shawn ("And Then There Was Shawn") Schneider ("Eric Hollywood") Future Shawn ("Seven the Hard Way") Isaac "Goodshot" Kelly ("As Time Goes By") Frog Shawn ("The Witches of Pennbrook") |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Student (formerly) (Jefferson Elementary, John Adams High School, Pennbrook University of Philadelphia) Union dock worker (formerly) Gopher for the Italian mob (briefly) Assistant Photographer (formerly) Travel photographer and writer for Hit the Road (currently) |
| Family | Chet Hunter (father; deceased) Virna Cordini Hunter (stepmother) Unnamed mother Stacy (older stepsister) Eddie (older stepbrother) Jack Hunter (older paternal half-brother) |
| Spouse(s) | Katy Hunter (formerly Hart, née Clutterbucket) |
| Significant other(s) | Hillary (dated) Stacy (ex-girlfriend) Veronica Watson (dated) Jennifer Bassett Minkus (ex-girlfriend) Dana Pruitt (ex-girlfriend) Libby Harper (ex-girlfriend) Angela Moore (ex-girlfriend) Katy Hunter (wife) |
| Children | Maya Hart (stepdaughter) |
| Relatives | Gertie Hunter (paternal grandmother) Lewis Hunter (paternal grandfather) Mike Hunter (paternal uncle) Frank "Frankie Two-Toes" Hunter (paternal uncle) Lorena Hunter (paternal aunt) Tedd Huter (paternal uncle) Sal Hunter (paternal uncle) Ralph Hunter (paternal uncle) Nicky Hunter (paternal uncle) Mary Hunter (paternal uncle/aunt) László Hunter (paternal uncle) Louis Hunter (paternal uncle) Leo Hunter (paternal uncle) Chuck Hunter (paternal uncle) Gloria Hunter (paternal aunt) Debbie Hunter (paternal aunt) Jonathan Turner (foster father figure) |
| Hometown |
Ohio (birthplace) Oklahoma (as a child) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (hometown) |
| Residence |
New York, New York (briefly) Upstate New York (Girl Meets World) |
Shawn Patrick Hunter (Rider Strong) is a fictional character from the television series, Boy Meets World and from the spin-off series, Girl Meets World. He is the only character other than Cory Matthews to appear in all 158 episodes of Boy Meets World.
Shawn was born in Ohio and lived in Oklahoma for a while as a child. He had been in five different schools before he was 12. Shawn has always been the best friend of Cory Matthews. The two met when Cory fell into an animal pen at a zoo and Shawn came to his rescue. Shawn has a personality almost opposite of Cory's. Shawn takes more risks and has more of a bad boy image. Their personality differences do cause problems between the two a few times, but these problems can never destroy their friendship.
In the first season of Boy Meets World, not much is known about Shawn Hunter except that he is Cory's best friend. He seems to be a typical boy who is beginning to become interested in girls. He does not do well in school, mostly due to a lack of effort and a great deal of apathy, much the same as Cory.
In season two and thereafter, the show began to focus on Shawn's life as well. In the beginning, Shawn lives with both his parents, Chet and Virna Hunter. One day, Virna runs off with the trailer and Shawn is left under the care of the Matthews family while Chet chases after his wife. When the Matthews find that Chet will not be returning for a while, Jonathan Turner, a teacher at John Adams High School, offers to be Shawn's legal guardian. Shawn becomes extremely close with Jonathan and it is revealed in Girl Meets World that Jonathan still considers Shawn a son.
About a year later, Chet comes back and eventually Virna rejoins her family temporarily before taking off again. Shawn goes through many issues, including briefly joining a cult, and for a time runs the risk of succumbing to alcoholism as his father did. Although he comes across as lazy when it comes to his schoolwork, he proves on many occasions that he is actually a very deep thinker. He even dresses up as a girl for an episode as a social experiment in order to determine what it is like to be a girl in high school, done in the same vein as the autobiographical book, Black Like Me.
In a later season, Shawn's half-brother Jack arrives in town for college. Shawn moves in with him and Eric Matthews, Cory's older brother, which leaves Chet free to take off again. However, on a trip back to town, Chet dies of a heart attack. Towards the final episodes of the series, Shawn discovers that Virna was not his biological mother when she sends him a letter after Chet's death. Apparently, Chet was left to take care of Shawn after his biological mother, who was actually a stripper, left shortly after his birth. Despite the Matthews declare that they would take Shawn in as a part of their family after Chet's death, Shawn declines and declares that he still has Jack as a blood kin.
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