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The Great White Shark, formally Warren White, is a fictional comic book character owned by DC Comics who exists in that company's DC Universe. He first appeared in Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #1, and was created by Dan Slott and Ryan Sook.

First appearing in Arkham Asylum: Living Hell, crooked financier Warren White, known as the "Great White Shark" for his ruthlessness, stole millions from his company's pension fund and avoided prison time by transferring his case to Gotham City and successfully pleading insanity.

White was sentenced to Arkham Asylum indefinitely instead of prison. There, he suffered great indignities as the new inmate, or "fish." His first cellmate was Death Rattle, a cult leader and mass murderer who planned to turn him into a human sacrifice. Early in his stay, Killer Croc sliced a set of "gills" into White's neck with his claws, claiming the "fish" needed a set. Realizing his mistake in pleading insanity, he bribed his psychiatrist, Dr. Anne Carver, into having him transferred to a minimum security prison in exchange for $20 million. However, Dr. Carver was revealed to have been killed and replaced some months before by the mad villainess Jane Doe. Her boss, Dr. Jeremiah Arkham, ordered all of Dr. Carver's papers filed by Jane Doe be destroyed, including the paperwork that would lead to White's transfer. Dr. Arkham's decision was heavily motivated by the loss of his own pension due to White's corrupt business practices.

To survive the harassment and violence in Arkham, White allied himself with Two-Face, becoming his "coin boy," but the relationship quickly ended when Death Rattle threatened him and Two-Face did nothing to help. White then befriended Humphty Dumpty, a child-like murderer and genius, who arranged for White to become his cellmate just in time to head off Death Rattle's murder attempt.

During a prison riot caused by the escape of a cadre of demons trapped underneath Arkham, White was assaulted and locked in Mr. Freeze's subzero cell by Jane Doe, who was attempting to claim his identity and stolen money and leave him for dead as she had done with Dr. Carver. His injuries, the result of horrific frostbite, left White deformed: his skin turned a pale white and his nose, lips, hair, and several of his fingers fell off, which, along with his set of "gills," left him very much resembling a real great white shark.

Ironically, White, who had entered the asylum normal-looking and sane, was transformed into one of the "freaks" of Batman's rogues gallery. Driven partially mad, he now uses his business connections to serve as a liaison and fence for many of his fellow inmates.

White next appeared in the storyline "Face the Face," which ran through Detective Comics #817-820 and Batman #651-654, as part of the larger One Year Later storyline. In the storyline, the Great White Shark had, in the year since Batman and Robin disappeared, established himself as Gotham's reigning crime boss.

As part of a revenge plot against Two-Face for his earlier betrayal, he ordered his chief enforcer, the Tally Man, to kill several criminals associated with the Penguin and to frame the newly rehabilitated Harvey Dent for the murders. Batman eventually uncovered the Great White Shark's involvement in these crimes, but not in time to prevent Dent, driven mad once again by the paranoia of wondering if he really was the killer, from disfiguring his own face once more and returning to a life of crime.

Despite his status as one of the city's most powerful criminals, the Great White Shark remains in Arkham, directing his empire from within his cell and using his imprisoned condition as a perfect alibi. He most recently appeared in Detective Comics #832, when Batman apprehended another villain who called himself the Shark, a former member of the "Terrible Trio." When the Shark was sent to Arkham, the Great White Shark apparently planned to punish him for using the name White had claimed for himself.