Sydney "Syd" White is the main antagonist of the 2023 horror-comedy movie Cocaine Bear. He is a drug kingpin based in St. Louis who was responsible for a lost shipment of cocaine which was air-dropped over the Chattahoochee–Oconee National Forest. Fearing that his Colombian cartel partners might seek retribution, Syd sends his son Eddie and fixer Daveed to Georgia to find the missing drugs.
History[]
In 1985, Syd White was a drug lord in St. Louis who sent drug smuggler Andrew C. Thornton II on a smuggling run carrying a large shipment of cocaine. However, Thornton died after attempting to parachute out of his plane while attempting to evade authorities. After his body was recovered in Knoxville and some of the cocaine was lost, Syd sent his son Eddie and his fixer Daveed to recover the lost drugs, worth over a million dollars. Unbeknownst to all of them, a black bear had ingested some of the lost cocaine thrown from the plane, and went on a drug-fueled rampage across the forest, killing several hikers.
Soon, Syd's clients mounted heavier pressure to recover the drugs. As the bear continued her killing streak, Syd arrived with a police officer on his payroll, Reba, and killed Bob, the detective investigating Syd's involvement and tracking down the cocaine. Syd later discovered the bear's cave, wherein large duffel bags of cocaine were stashed, as well as the bear's two cubs. Arriving with his posse at the cave, Syd finds another group of survivors: Sari, her daughter Dee Dee, and Henry. Syd wants to kill them all to eliminate any witnesses but finds himself betrayed by his henchmen, who escape with the other survivors.
Death[]
Syd greedily tries to grab one of the bags of cocaine stuck on a tree branch above a small ledge behind the falls when the bear returned to protect her cubs. Syd shoots the bear, causing her to fall onto a small ledge below, but she is revived after unwittingly inhaling more cocaine. The bumped-up bear climbs back up and slashes Syd in the belly with her claw, causing his guts to spill out. Syd writhes in agony as the cubs begin to tug at his intestines, pulling them out and devouring them. Syd's fate is hastened when the bear nudges him off the ledge, sending his disemboweled body crashing onto the rocks below, killing him.