History Main / FishPeople

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' has a rather odd book (#35, ''The Mutation'') where the protagonists discover an underwater race of these called the Nartec. They're not aliens, but humans who have been severely mutated over generations. They're amphibians, but they've degenerated so much that few can actually live on land for long. [[spoiler:And they kill normal humans to get new DNA and keep their species going]].

** ''The Doom That Came to Sarnath'' features the city of Ib, whose inhabitants straddle the line between this trope and FrogMen. Their human neighbours conquer their city and bring the idol of the Ib god, Bokrug, the [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent detestable Water Lizard]], into their own city, Sarnath, as a trophy. This proves to be a [[BullyingADragon terrible mistake]], as the title suggests.

* The Fishmen from ''Manga/OnePiece''. Their sister species are the Merfolk, traditional mermaids. The two species get along pretty well and can even interbreed. Due to the mixing of both species, it's common for Fishmen children to be born from Merfolk parents and vice versa. Both races [[FantasticRacism have a long history of being oppressed by humans]] and generally don't get along too well with them. The Fishmen tend to be more aggressive and angry towards humans while the Merfolk are light-hearted and naive. Also Fishmen are [[SuperStrength 10x stronger than humans from birth]] and both types can [[MakingASplash use water as a weapon]], which is actually used by both races as a martial art.

* ''Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities'' puts a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent twist on vampires]] by having them change into these. The Loch Ness Monster is actually an alternate form of the most powerful vampire, Franchise/{{Dracula}}.

* Uncle Gillman in ''Series/TheMunsters'' is a Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon {{Expy}} up to even having a chest as luggage.

* The ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' (a.k.a. the Gill-Man), pictured above, is probably the most famous ([[FountainOfExpies and imitated]]) Fish Person, and certainly the TropeCodifier for movies. He starred in three films -- the self-titled first movie and its sequels ''Film/RevengeOfTheCreature'' and ''Film/TheCreatureWalksAmongUs''. He's become one of the Franchise/UniversalHorror monsters, allowing him to co-star in [[SpinOff Spin-Offs]] and [[TheMerch merchandise]] with {{Dracula}}, FrankensteinsMonster and [[Film/TheMummy1932 The Mummy]], among others.

** Gill Girl, a guest star from the 2003 ''ComicBook/TeenTitansGo'' comic, is something of a DistaffCounterpart to Triton. She's basically the Creature reimagined as a cute teenager; she grew up with Aqualad and had a crush on him, but is now dating a turtle named Nero.
** Then there's Triton from the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' animated series, and Aqualad's little Mechanic friend Tramm.

* Most humanoid water-breathing heroes and villains in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' don't really look like fish, but Kaldur'ahm has prominent gills as well as webbed hands and feet.

%%* The Ralaloons in ''Literature/{{Spaceforce}}''.

* Miranda from the 'VideoGame/MonsterProm'' series is a princess of the Merkingdom. Her and her sisters are all fish people, as are most of their subjects. Adrian in the third game, who is a knight of the Merkingdom, serves as an example as well.

* The ''Series/OneStepBeyond'' episode "Ordeal on Locust Street" is about Jason Parish, a young man in turn of the 20th century UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} whose family hides him from the world because he has a deformity that gives him the appearance of a fish person. Or so we're told, because all we see of Jason is one scaly hand before [[spoiler:a hypnotist somehow psychically heals him, giving him a normal appearance]].

* UrExample: The titular character/monster in Robert W. Chambers' 1899 story "The Harbor-Master" is one of these, and also a good example of such creatures developing an unusual interest in human women. His fascination with the heroine comes across more as curiosity than attempted rape, and he is a classic NonMaliciousMonster. This story is thought to have been a big part of the basis the basis for...

* The monsters from ''They Bite'' are also Fish People who interrupt the shooting of a feminist porno movie while raping the actresses.
* One of the demons in horror BMovie ''Demons At The Door'' looks an awful lot like this trope. He also tries to rape a girl in the shower.
* Sandy Collara's {{short film}} ''Shallow Water'' features a turtle-man called the tiburonera ("he who hunts sharks"). While the tiburonera combines humanoid with reptilian (rather than fishlike) properties, it clearly pays homage to the Creature from the Black Lagoon in his design. In a TwistEnding [[spoiler: they are revealed not to be AlwaysChaoticEvil; the one pursuing the protagonist was, but the rest of the tribe seem to be okay]].

* ''VideoGame/EVOSearchForEden'' has the Rogons, a tool-wielding, fish-riding aquatic species that evolved from fish and are at war with the whales.

* ''VideoGame/EVOSearchForEden'' has the Rogons, a tool-wielding, fish-riding aquatic species that evolved from fish.

* The Waterlogged Warlock, one of the Elders of ''ComicBook/{{Abadazad}}''.

* Franchise/TheDCU examples:
** Since his introduction in 1998, Lagoon Boy has appeared in various Creator/DCComics titles. He's a friendly {{Expy}} of the Creature from the Black Lagoon with a MysteriousPast, and his abilities include molding water into various shapes and turning into a giant puffer fish, complete with quills.

** King Shark, former ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'' and then ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'' villain, one-time member of the ComicBook/SecretSix, and in the ComicBook/{{New 52}}, a member of the ComicBook/SuicideSquad. But don't call him a fish person! He is a shark! [[InsistentTerminology A SHARK!]]

* Franchise/MarvelUniverse examples:

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* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'': [[spoiler:Ritsuko]] gradually transforms into [[http://lovecraft.wikia.com/wiki/Deep_One a Deep One]] from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, resembling a humanoid fish with lanky, scrawny, human-like limbs, gills, fins and tail, and she loses the capability to breathe air.

* The Gill Beasts from ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'', bipedal pisceoid creatures with a resemblance to the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Deep Ones]].

* In ''WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}}'' there are several of these, created as servants for the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent mostly aquatic vampires]]. You've got your requisite [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/gilldevil.htm Creature From The Black Lagoon homage]] and [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/makkoron.htm man-shark]], but the others are [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/siluro.htm somewhat]] [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/tetroxic.htm stranger]]

* In ''Literature/MermaidsSong'', there are two main races of merfolk, Merras and Ghrismogs. Merras look like [[UnscaledMerfolk traditional merfolk with dolphin tails]], while Ghrismogs have more fish-like upper halves.
* ''Literature/TheMermaidVariations'': Merfolk live in the lunar seas, but because those seas are dry, lunar merfolk are the reverse of earth merfolk - they have the legs of a human and the upper body of a fish.

* ''Literature/ManAfterManAnAnthropologyOfTheFuture'' features the PostHuman Aquamorphs, who are humans who have been genetically altered to survive in aquatic environments. Over time, the Aquamorphs are replaced by the Aquatics, who appear closer to seals or small whales than true fish and who have the ability to reproduce more Aquatics, unlike the [[ArtificialHuman artificially produced]] Aquamorphs. By the end of the book, the Aquatics who settled the ocean floor are the only humanoids remaining on Earth, and it is implied that they will ultimately recolonize the surface (they can do this because they have, over time, developed a membranous bubble which can be attached to the wearer and hold water in a tight seal, allowing them to visit dry land for an unspecified period of time).

* The Seafolk from ''Anime/OnePunchMan'', which are generally giant in stature and often look more like sea creatures with a few humanoid features like faces, arms, and legs, rather than many of the more humanlike examples here.

* ''Film/{{Underwater}}'': The survivors of the underwater drilling rig station attempting to escape from the devastated facility have their efforts hampered by the fact they're also being stalked and hunted by abyssal humanoid creatures. [[spoiler:It turns out these are actually the minions of a gargantuan, tentacled EldritchAbomination [[WordOfGod identified by the director]] as [[Literature/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]] himself, meaning the fish people are actually Deep Ones.]]

* In ''Roleplay/FreedomCityPlayByPost'', Aquaria Innsmouth is a Lovecraftian Deep One straight out of the ''Literature/CthulhuMythos'', albeit a considerably more cheerful one than the usual