History Film / Amphibious

* CoversAlwaysLie: One of the covers says "you are what it eats", implying that the titular creature is supposed to munch on people, despite the fact that Ankaramurka explicitly never actually eats a human in the entire movie, killing them for other reasons. In fact, it's unknown, just what he eats, though Jimmy finds a bunch of dead, torn up fish under the Jermal at night once, suggesting it may be the remains of his snack. Also, the title itself can fool one into thinking that the movie is really about an amphibian, when, in reality, it's about a scorpion, which is arthropod. The title clearly refers to Ankaramurka being literally amphibious, that is, able to function both, in water and on land, and not him belonging to the amphibian family, being giant sea scorpion and all.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Tamal goes on it after Aris is killed.

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'''''Amphibious: Creature of the Deep''''' is a 2010 Indonesian/Dutch horror thriller creature movie from director Brian Yuzna. Mainly set on a fishing platform called Jermal in the middle of the sea offshore of Sumatra, it follows the exploits of a young Indonesian orphan Tamal, sold to slavery there by grandfather. Tamal is the youngest of the children living and working on Jermal where they are routinely abused and beaten. However, nobody knows what lurks in the waters around Jermal and that there's much more to Tamal than meets the eye. Notable for mixing elements of your usual creature feature with Asian horror. [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mv5bmta0ody3zdqtyzeyni00njrmltk5owqtyjdjntblodkyy2yzl2ltywdll2ltywdlxkeyxkfqcgdeqxvymjywnda2mde_v1_2.jpg]]

'''''Amphibious: Creature of the Deep''''' is a 2010 Indonesian/Dutch horror thriller creature movie from director Brian Yuzna. Mainly set on a fishing platform called Jermal in the middle of the sea offshore of Sumatra, it follows the exploits of a young Indonesian orphan Tamal, sold to slavery there by grandfather. Tamal is the youngest of the children living and working on Jermal where they are routinely abused and beaten. However, nobody knows what lurks in the waters around Jermal and that there's much more to Tamal than meets the eye. Notable for mixing elements of your usual creature feature with Asian horror.

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* VillainProtagonist: Tamal is the main character and center of the movie, with movie closely following her from beginning to the end, despite being a killer-witch and [[CreepyChild creepy child]], intentionally setting off her sea scorpion on people to kill them and apparently conducting dark rituals with human sacrifice. Granted, most of her victims are jerkasses who had it coming, but there are some of relatively innocent people among them, like [[InnocentBystander Julie and Logan]], and [[TokenGoodTeammate Jack and Bimo]], with the implication that there maybe more, showing that she really does not discriminate. [[FinalGirl Skylar]] and Jack are more like the usual protagonist type, but are ultimately side characters to Tamal's story.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Ducun, who was the one to send Tamal and Ankaramurka to Jermal and, hence, cause all of the events in the first place.

* Greater-ScopeVillain: Ducun, who was the one to send Tamal and Ankaramurka to Jermal and, hence, cause all of the events in the first place.

* MisanthropeSupreme: Seems to be Tamal's case. She clearly despises the people around her, takes the side of magical, otherworldly, supernatural forces and can calmly kill anyone if they're of no use to her. Though she did spare Skylar and allowed her to care for her, in the end, there was really no positive sentiment on Tamal's part. The only human she had a positive relationship with is Aris. She clearly cared for him, heavily mourned him when he died and his death is one of the main things that fueled her revenge. She's also likely to have, at least, a neutral kind of relationship with Dukun, though it's not really demonstrated.

* FinalGirl: Skylar. Apart from Tamal herself, she is the only one to survive the events on Jermal.

* TheManBehindTheMan: While it seems that the giant sea monster, Ankaramurka, is the main threat, it's actually Tamal herself that summons and controls him, being behind his rampage. Then Tamal herself is guided and sent by Ducun to Jermal specifically to sacrifice its inhabitants in a ritual to gain power in the first place.

* NeverFoundTheBody: Bekka, Skylar's daughter. Skylar mentions she disappeared when she took her on a trip to Tahiti, specifically saying that "they never discovered the body". Her apparition/hallucination haunts Skylar on a few occasions, but it's unknown what happened to her, whether she became one of Aknaramurka's victims or it's something else.

* TheDragon: Ankaramurka is clearly one for Tamal and Ducun. Tamal herself might be one to Ducun.

* TheManBehindtheMan: While it seems that the giant sea monster, Ankaramurka, is the main threat, it's actually Tamal herself that summons and controls him, being behind his rampage. Then Tamal herself is guided and sent by Ducun to Jermal specifically to sacrifice its inhabitants in a ritual to gain power in the first place.

* TheDragon: Ankaramurka is clearly the one for Tamal and Ducun. Tamal herself might be to Ducun.

* NeverFoundTheBody: Bekka, Skylar's daughter. Skylar mentions she disappeared when she took her on a trip to Tahiti, specifically saying that "they never discovered the body". Her apparition/hallucination haunts Skylar on a few occasions, but it's unknown what happened to her, whether she became one of Aknaramurka's victims or something else.

* PsychicLink: Tamal and Ankaramurka clearly have one, as evidenced by when he gets axed in the head, she screams in pain too.

* MisanthropeSupreme: Seems to be Tamal's case. She clearly despises the people around her, takes the side of magical, otherworldly, supernatural forces and can calmly kill anyone if they're of no use to her. Though she did spare Skylar and allowed her to care for her, in the end, there was really no positive sentiment on Tamal's part. The only human she had a positive relationship with is Aris. She clearly cared for him, heavily mourned him when he died and his death is one of the main things to fuel her revenge. She's also likely to have, at least, a neutral kind of relationship with Dukun, though it's not really demonstrated.

* RoaringRampageofRevenge: Tamal goes on it after Aris is killed.

* MisanthropeSupreme: Seems to be Tamal's case. She clearly despises the people around her and can calmly kill anyone if they're of no use to her. Though she did spare Skylar and allowed her to care for her, in the end, there was really no positive sentiment on Tamal's part. The only human she had a positive relationship with is Aris. She clearly cared for him, heavily mourned him when he died and his death is one of the main things to fuel her revenge. She's also likely to have, at least, a neutral kind of relationship with Dukun, though it's not really demonstrated.

* MisanthropeSupreme: Seems to be Tamal's case. She clearly despises the people around her and can calmly kill anyone if they're of no use to her. Though she did spare Skylar and allowed her to care for her, in the end, there was really no positive sentiment on Tamal's part. The only human she had a positive relationship with is Aris. She clearly cared for him, heavily mourned him when he died and his death is one of the main things to fuel her revenge. She also likely to have, at least, a neutral kind of relationship with Dukun, though it's not really shown.