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''Scales: Mermaids are real'' is a 2017 movie about a young girl, called Siren, who realizes that she's a mermaid.


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''Scales: Mermaids are real'' Real'' (or sometimes ''Scales: A Mermaid's Tale) is a 2017 movie about a young girl, called Siren, who realizes that she's a mermaid.




* WouldHurtAChild: A given, since they're hunting Siren. To take it farther, one of them drags an unturned mermaid away and gloats to her terrified mother about how he'll have to take "twice as much blood", and later tries to kill her simply because he can.

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* WouldHurtAChild: A given, since they're hunting Siren. To take it farther, one of them drags an unturned mermaid away and gloats to her terrified mother about how he'll have to take "twice as much blood", and later tries to kill her simply because he can.can.
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''Scales: Mermaids are real'' is a 2017 movie about a young girl, called Siren, who realizes that she's a mermaid.


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* BloodlessCarnage: [[spoiler:Adam]] gets impaled with a harpoon at one point.
* BodyHorror: The intermediate forms of Siren's tail growing are quite grotesque. There's also a shot of Adam's wrist shattering.
* DragonInChief: The leader of the hunters just wants to heal people. His second in command, on the other hand, seems to be in it primarily because he takes sadistic pleasure in tormenting and killing mermaids. [[spoiler:While the head hunter decides to change sides after his son is cured, he continues to threaten them and Siren kills them.]]
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The sadistic mermaid hunter [[spoiler:gets all the water pulled out of him by Siren until there's nothing left.]] He definitely [[AssholeVictim deserved it]], but the fact that it was the [[spoiler: kid protagonist]] who killed him makes it rather shocking.
* FreudianExcuse: The head hunter wants to harvest mermaid blood to heal his son's disease. [[spoiler:Once they realize this, the mermaids heal him willingly.]]
* MakingASplash: Siren has the ability to control water, as do the other mermaids in the movie.
* MissingMom: Siren's birth mother is said to be dead. However, she's actually a mermaid and has stayed in the water to protect her daughter.
* OneGenderRace: There aren't any male mermaids in the movie.
* ThePowerOfBlood: A select few mermaids are able to heal people and cure diseases with their blood.
* SirensAreMermaids: Literally, as [[MeaningfulName Siren]] is an actual mermaid. They also have magical songs, similar to sirens.
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: The hunters are seeking out mermaids to kill and harvest for their blood, despite knowing full well that mermaids are sapient beings no different from any other person.
* WouldHurtAChild: A given, since they're hunting Siren. To take it farther, one of them drags an unturned mermaid away and gloats to her terrified mother about how he'll have to take "twice as much blood", and later tries to kill her simply because he can.

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