History Main / LandShark

* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'': Season 1's episode "Raiders of the Lost Shark" has the protagonists meet Captain Merc, a captain of a flying ship who has been hunting a shark that lives in the sands of the desert. They decide to help him hunt down the animal as it is threatening Agrabah. They eventually succeed, but Captain Merc releases the creature again so [[MobySchtick he can can continue hunting it]]. The shark is later KilledOffForReal by a tribe of RatPeople in Season 2's "Beast or Famine".

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/StarWarsAttackOfTheClones I don't like sand. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating,]] and it has sharks in it.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'': Gaantu is frequently mistaken by locals as a Land Shark.

* ''Animation/BoBoiBoyTheMovie'': J-Rex appears as a {{mechanical|Animals}} hybrid of a T. rex and a shark [[note]](its name is a {{portmanteau}} of "jerung" (the Malay word for shark) and "T. rex")[[/note]], with a shark's body and a T. rex's limbs. The Tengkotak gang dispatch it from their spaceship to dispose of the heroes who followed them to the [[FloatingContinent floating island]].

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': While a bit more salamander-like than most depictions, the Moldugas take hints of the archetype as well, being found swimming through areas of the Gerudo Desert. ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'' reveals that the ancient Gerudo once used them in warfare as well, with Ganondorf using several of them in the hopes of decimating Hyrule through a stampede.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': Multiple monsters in the series provide shark-like beasts for the player to hunt, all of which are dependent on the area they are found in. While the Cephalos/Cephadrome operates in a similar manner to standard depictions of land sharks, the Zamites (alongside their adult form, the Zamtrios) and the Beotodus mix things up by living in cold areas instead, swimming through ice and deep snow banks respectively in search of their next meal.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': The campers, especially Scott, are often menaced by a mutated air-breathing shark named Fang.

* WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'': Gaantu is frequently mistaken by locals as a Land Shark.

* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The titular threat]] of [[Film/LandShark2017 two]] [[Film/LandShark2020 different]] films of the same name, with both being bio-engineered beings who were unleashed onto the public to become typical shark movie threats. Notably, neither of the films has the shark sprout limbs, instead having them swim through the air.
* ''Film/SandSharks'': A group of sand sharks appear as the main antagonists.

* ''Film/SnowSharks'' takes the finned terrors and instead has them swim through the snow to attack unsuspecting humans.

* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': "Backfire - Part 1" reveals that undead sharks can go on land. Although, their effectiveness is unstated and likely low.

* ''Literature/AfterManAZoologyOfTheFuture'': One of the animals depicted is a tunnelling sand predator known as a desert shark, although it's actually a mammal descended from something like a shrew. In appearance it resembles a naked mole-rat, but with a shark's head shape and teeth.

* Creator/JohnBrosnan's novel ''Literature/{{Slimer}}'' centers around "Charlie", a mutated shapeshifting great white shark. By the time the main characters encounter him, he's a SharkMan who can change into a fully human form, but early on, he was a more conventional shark who could climb out of the water to attack his victims.

* These turn up twice on ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'':
** In the episode "War Wounds", King Iphicles imprisons some angry war veterans in an "escape-proof" prison that was built on a desert island, and the desert is infested with sand sharks.
** In the episode "Mercenary", Hercules is stranded on a desert island with a criminal named Derk. While traveling across the island, they are attacked repeatedly by voracious predators called "sand rays".

* ''Series/UltramanTiga'': [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Geozark. While it at first seems to be a {{Kaiju}}-sized land shark with a drill-like snout, [[spoiler:it is later revealed that the monster is a robot, having been built to excavate the tomb of Evil Tiga and Gardi]].

* ''VideoGame/TinyTinasWonderlands'': A common enemy in the beach sections of the game are land sharks called seawargs, which come in different sizes, shapes, and even elements (fire, lightning, poison, etc.)

* ''Snow Monster vs. Ice Shark'' is a BehemothBattle movie where a snow-based gargantuan shark fights a {{yeti}}.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/StarWarsAttackOfTheClones I don't like sand. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating,]] [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and it has sharks in it.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/StarWarsAttackOfTheClones I don't like sand. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating,]] and it has sharks in it.]]

* ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'': There's a Changing Breed called the Rokea, or [[OurWerecreaturesAreDifferent weresharks]]. As is typical of Fera, they have five different forms, with their warform fitting this trope exactly. Culturally speaking, it's rare to find a Rokea on land, as they'll hunt down and kill any who decide to wander into man's world.

* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'': Season 1's episode "Raiders of the Lost Shark" has the protagonists meet Captain Merc, a captain of a flying ship who has been hunting a shark that lives in the sands of the desert. They decide to help him hunt down the animal as it is threatening Agrabah. They eventually succeed, but Captain Merc releases the creature again so [[MobySchtick he can can continue hunting it]]. The shark is later KilledOffForReal by a tribe of RatPeople in season 2's "Beast or Famine".

* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'': Season 1's episode "Raiders of the Lost Shark" has the protagonists meet Captain Merc, a captain of a flying ship who has been hunting a shark that lives in the sands of the desert. They decide to help him hunt down the animal as it is threatening Agrabah.

While land sharks often have animalistic body plans, some depictions have them go the extra mile [[SharkMan by becoming humanoid]]. In this state, depictions of land sharks sometimes forego swimming through the ground thanks to their newfound limbs giving them bipedal movement. As such, SharkMan exists as a {{Subtrope}}, with their design sometimes being used for land sharks when fully out of the ground.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/StarWarsAttackOfTheClones I don't like sand. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating,]] and it has sharks in it.]]]]