History Main / AlwaysaBiggerFish

Compare to {{Save the Villain}}, DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu, ExitPursuedByABear, and {{Self-Disposing Villain}}. If it's a videogame, and you have to also fight the bigger fish, it's a {{Bait and Switch Boss}}. For actual bigger fish (and other things) see GiantSwimmer.

* In ''HarryPotter and the Order of the Phoenix'', Harry and Hermione are surrounded by an angry mob of centaurs. Just as the situation is looking rather grim, a giant shows up, scattering the herd and chasing them into the forest. Hermione, characteristically, is worried about the centaurs....

-->-- ''StarWars Episode I: ThePhantomMenace''

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->'''[[TheScrappy Jar jar]]:''' Big Gubber fish!!!! HUGE TEETH!!!!

-->'''[[ThePhantomMenace Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace]]'''.

->''(The heroes submarine is grabbed by a huge Opee Sea Killer)''

*** not to mention the U.S. and Canada are about as freindly as possible. mexico not as much, but if any one invaded mexico itd be a free for all between invader, mexican gov. drug lords and rebels. mexico alone realy is an example of this.

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** What makes this better is that they were using her as bait to lure Johan in to convince him to lead their group and make "the master race" dominant once again, seeing him as the next Hitler. Anna tried to warn them that Johan didn't care about their cause or any cause. They discover too late that she's correct.

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*** [[spoiler:To all tropers: [[DidNotDoTheResearch Spinosaurs ate fish]], and lived near rivers, of course. ''And'' their jaws were SMALLER than T-Rex's, despite their bodies being larger, so...]]
**** [[spoiler: More of a Cretaceous grizzly bear, as ''Iguanadon'' bones have been found in the body cavities of related species, and a ''Spinosaur'' tooth was found in a pterosaur wing bone. Killing a ''Tyrannosaurus'' is a bit over the top, though.]]

* AlanDeanFoster loves this trope, especially as an excuse to show off his weird alien ecologies. In ''Drowning World'', for example, characters menaced by a branch-clambering maccaluca are saved when it's snapped up by a vuniwai leaping up from the water. ''Mid-Flinx'' is essentially one long string of Bigger Fish: Flinx's initial human pursuers are killed and supplanted by [=AAnn=] pursuers, and both groups of enemies are gradually picked off by one bizarre jungle predator after another. And it's played with in ''For Love Of Mother-Not'' when the penestral (roughly speaking, a 15-''meter'' pike) that attacks the bad guys doesn't save the heroes from them (it eats their boat, but the real villains has just escaped onto a flyer). The fisherwoman escorting Flinx scoffs at its size, pointing out that it wasn't that big for a penestral, and that the penestral is only a mid-range predator anyway. She offers to take Flinx fishing for oboweir sometime, and when he asks the inevitable "what's an oboweir?", her reply is "A fish that eats penestral."

Compare to {{Save the Villain}}, DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu, ExitPursuedByABear, and {{Self-Disposing Villain}}. If it's a videogame, and you have to also fight the bigger fish, it's a {{Bait and Switch Boss}}.

* the whole stage of cell in spore is full of there´s always a bigger fish, part of the creature stage is too, a funny thing is that if you go swiming too far away in the creature stage you will be eaten by a giant sea monster

* Kong himself is a near constant example of this trope in the first half of the movie, as he repeatedly kills a number of animals that are trying to eat Anne Darrow.