History Main / AlwaysaBiggerFish

->'''Jar Jar:''' Big Gubber fish!!!! HUGE TEETH!!!!

*** But then there'd need to be an [[BeyondTheImpossible even bigger fish]] to eat that one.
*** And ''[[OverlyLongGag another]]'', even ''bigger'' fish to eat ''that'' one, too.
*** [[RecursiveReality It's bigger fish all the way down.]]
*** Or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles_paradox#The_dichotomy_paradox dichotomy paradox]] [[CompletelyMissingThePoint could come into play...]]

[[caption-width-right:330: Oh crap!.]]

[[caption-width-right:330: Oh shi-.]]

[[caption-width-right:330:A giant bone monster is fine too.]]

* In ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'' when you do the "Big Trouble in Little Granemor" quest you're attacked by a Giant Hungry Zombie after fighting off some vampires. The zombie makes about one attack before a Ribber randomly comes up and drags it away (with its mouth).

Compare to {{Save the Villain}}, DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu, ExitPursuedByABear, {{Self-Disposing Villain}}, and EvilerThanThou. 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.

SummonBiggerFish is a SubTrope. May result when the hero asking "[[{{ptitle6kzs9a5e}} Why Isn't It Attacking?]]" has the bigger fish behind him.

* Proponents of globalization and similar trends point to this as a way to ensure world peace. The bigger fish in this case is economics. If two or more countries are intimately tied together economically, then they can't attack each other because even the victor would be greatly damaged by the economic repercussions. This was one of the driving forces behind the founding of the European Union and is cited as a major (if not predominant) reason why war between China and the United States is almost impossible in the current economic climate -- which is one reason China is working hard to find other markets for its products so it has more options in its foreign policy, especially when to comes to such hot topics as Taiwan.
** War between Canada, the United States, and Mexico was once a likely scenario and even became reality in the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War of 1848. Nowadays, war between the three countries is almost unthinkable, mainly because large percentages of their imports and exports circulate among each other-in Canada and Mexico's cases, the overwhelming majority of exports go to the US. Only 21% of the US's exports go Canada and Mexico, but that's still five times more than goes to China.

* In ''{{God of War}}: Chains of Olympus", Kratos fights a Cyclops, which is then eaten by a basilisk.

* In Book Three of ''{{Percy Jackson and the Olympians}}'', a quad of undead warriors who had been attacking the heroes was chased off by the Erymanthian Boar.

* One of the animation segues in an episode of ''[[MontyPython Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' has a section involving people being squashed on the streets by "killer cars", which were destroyed by [[MegaNeko a gigantic building-swallowing Siamese Cat]], which was then killed by a several-hundred-foot-tall disembodied hand... and then it transitions into something [[strike: else]] completely different.

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* Orbital beam weaponry in ''{{Adventurers}}!''. [[http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/20050709.html Oh, yes.]]

* 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

* A(n even more) sinister variant in ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': The only way to defeat The Walpurgis Night is [[spoiler:by making Madoka fight her. Doing this promptly turns her into [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the even more devastating]] Kriemhild Gretchen]].

->'''Qui-Gon Jin:''' There's [[TropeNamer always a bigger fish]].

* In ''AdventureQuest'' when you do the "Big Trouble in Little Granemor" quest you're attacked by a Giant Hungry Zombie after fighting off some vampires. The zombie makes about one attack before a Ribber randomly comes up and drags it away (with its mouth).

* A heroic variant in the ''RuroniKenshin'' episode, "Birth of a Child Swordsman": Yahiko is being chased by the gang of thugs he's been dealing with the entire episode. He leads them into an narrow alleyway where he can fight them one-on-one, but the thugs wise up and approach en masse, knives drawn. Then the thugs look up and notice Kenshin and Sanosuke on the wall behind Yahiko (either of whom would've been enough to give the thugs pause). Most of the thugs flee, but the leader [[RevengeBeforeReason wants to settle the score with Yahiko.]] He ends up giving Yahiko [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome his first victory in a real fight.]]

* The [[Film/StarTrek 2009]] ''StarTrek'' reboot features an ice-wolf... thing, as well as a larger ''{{Cloverfield}}''-type creature.

* The rebooted ''StarTrek'' movie has this happen when Kirk is abandoned on an ice planet. He gets chased by some sort of space-polar-bear. After a while another massive creature smashes through the ice and eats it. Then promptly throws the large slab of meat it just caught to chase down Kirk.

The more primal equivalent of BigDamnVillains.

Generally the "savior" [[BigDamnVillains is not actively trying to save the protagonists.]] He's just there. And hungry.