History Main / SharkMan

It's common knowledge that EveryThingsEvenWorseWithSharks. Out of all the sea creatures, none sets in man a PrimalFear quite like a shark does. But what if you want something scarier than a shark? How could we possibly make so fearsome a beast even scarier? Why, by giving him legs, arms, and a human brain! Thus we have the Shark Man. It may be a HalfHumanHybrid. It may be a natural mutation on a shark, or a human SuperSoldier with shark like enhancements. All that matters is it packs the bestial parts of a shark with the form of a human. Could probably apply with any large sea predator.

* One recurring group of villains that Batman faced were the Terrible Trio, three thieves who wore head-covering masks representing three different animals, including a vulture, a fox, and a shark. Their backstories differed in each Batman series. In ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' they were ordinary rich masked men who comitted crimes for fun, while in the ''TheBatman' they were a group of university students who mutated themselves into therianthropic PettingZooPeople (including a hammer-headed shark man). The same formula was used in ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' where the eponymous superhero and his friend/rival Bronze Tiger battled a group of animal-masked martial artists, who not only were billionaires but tried to use a magical artifact to turn themselves into monstrous versions of the animals they represent, one of them transforming into a muscular but more generic shark man.

* [[TheSimpsons "AAAAAAH! Shark boy!"]]

* Partially counts in an episode of ''{{Aladdin}} {{The Animated Series}}'', which had an evil mermaid put a magic spell on Aladdin that caused him to slowly transform into a shark, with his mid-transformations fitting this trope.

* Shark men are among the list of were-creatures in {{Dungeons and Dragons}}.

* MassEffect: Wrex, and [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy all krogan]]. They are [[LightningBruiser huge and love to charge at you]].
* The Granshee of RogueGalaxy, such as your eventual ally Jupis, are somewhat shark-like but more towards reptiles. There are however full-blown shark anthros in the game.
* VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil has the Carcharodon Sapiens (Shark Humanoid), the most noteable of them being Francis the air-hockey player.

* An NPC in the background of the "Anti-Skullgirl Labs" stage in the fighting game {{Skullgirls}} is one of these. Rather than bestial-looking, however, this fellow (dubbed [[FanNickname Science Shark]] by the fandom for lack of a real name as of yet) is dressed in a lab coat and spectacles and appears to be debating with another scientist. It's not terribly surprising, as there is a well-known race in the story which he appears to belong to, the [[FishPeople Dagonians]].

* A whole species in {{Archipelago}} with a focus on violence and blood, [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch but there exceptions]].

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** Another shark was the spokesman for "Anchor Arms" (rubber gloves with inflatable muscles)...which Spongebob gets suckered into buying.

* ''StarWarsTheCloneWars'': Tansom, from the season 4 episodes "Water War" and "Gungan Attack". He fights by slacking his jaw, then ramming and biting people. They even have a segment where some people are trapped in a glass structure while he tries break into it!

* In the animated adaptation of {{Disney}}'s ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' the titular character goes through this.

* Shark people played a large role in one episode of the second series {{American Dragon: Jake Long}} where a bubbly female sharkwoman asked Jake for help protecting her and Neptune's trident (which she kept in her stomach both to keep the weapon from falling in the wrong flippers and because of her nature as an all-consuming predator). The episode's one-time antagonist were a group of delinquent shark men and their leader, Tiburon, (all consisting of different shark species) who desired the trident so they could flood the world. The Sharkwoman's compulsive eating was the show's {{Running Gag}}
* Partially counts in an episode of {{Aladdin}} {{The Animated Series}} had an evil mermaid put a magic spell on Aladdin that caused him to slowly transform into a shark, with his mid-transformations fitting this trope.
* One recurring group of villains that Batman faced were the Terrible Trio, three thieves who wore head-covering masks representing three different animals, including a vulture, a fox, and a shark. Their backstories differed in each Batman series. In {{Batman: The Animated Series}} they were ordinary rich masked men who comitted crimes for fun, while in the {{The Batman}} they were a group of University students who mutated themselves into therianthropic {{Petting Zoo People}} (including a hammer-headed shark man). The same formula was used in {{Western Animation: Batman: The Brave and the Bold}} where the eponymous superhero and his friend/rival Bronze Tiger battled a group of animal-masked martial artists, who not only were billionaires but tried to use a magical artifact to turn themselves into monstrous versions of the animals they represent, one of then transforming into a muscular but more generic shark man.

* Tony Trihill from [[{{Cars}} ''Cars 2'']] is a shark ''boat''.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheRugrats'' had the babies imagining used car salespeople as these.

* The BulletHell game ''SharkAttack'' features shark women as its protagonists.

* One ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' story had Shredder being brought back to life as a shark thing.

* BeyondGoodAndEvil has the Carcharodon Sapiens (Shark Humanoid), the most noteable of them being Francis the air-hockey player.

* Thanks to a curse, the bloodline of Lord Tiberius Skärva the Fourth is cursed to shark-like appearance in ''TheFourth''.

* Thanks to a curse, the bloodline of Lord Tiberius Skärva the Fourth is cursed to shark-like appearance in {{TheFourth}}.

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* From ''{{Bleach}}'', we have Hallibel in a more subtle version of this trope.

* Kisame from ''{{Naruto}}'', a member of the Antagonist group Akatsuki and one of the most badass ninjas around, very strongly resembles a shark. He has pale blue skin, small, round white eyes, gill-like facial markings under his eyes, gills on his shoulders and sharp triangular teeth. His sword is even named Samehada, meaning Shark-skin. [[spoiler: He even becomes a shark-ray-man hybrid when he merges with Samehada.]]

* Arlong of ''OnePiece''. The name and appearance seems to be a VisualPun that works in multiple languages- the character is a literal LoanShark, and "Ah-long" is a word for LoanShark in some Chinese dialect.
** Also from ''OnePiece'', we have Jinbei (A huge whale-shark man), [[BadBoss Hody Jones]] (Great White Shark), Zeo (Japanese Wobblegong), Dosun (Hammerhead) and Daruma (Cookiecutter shark). On the mermen side we have prince Fukaboshi (fuka means Dogfish) and [[MsFanservice Madame Shirley]] (Shortfin Mako). [[spoiler: Captain Vander Decken is a four-legged Japanese Bullhead-shark or "Nekozame" (catshark).]]
* [[TengenToppaGurrenlagann Viral]] combines this with [[CatGirl Cat Boy]].

* One ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' story had Shredder being brought back to life as a shark thing.

* Victor Krum from ''HarryPotter'' became one temporarily in order to save Hermione in the second task.

* Vesser from HannaIsNotABoysName looks pretty shark-like, with sharp teeth and a fin on his jacket. His mother is a selkie, so he's at least part sea creature.

* Spongebob's driving instructor from ''SpongebobSquarepants''. He is notable as one of the few sharks to be seen on the show.
* StarWarsTheCloneWars: Tansom, from the season 4 episodes "Water War" and "Gungan Attack". He fights by slacking his jaw, then ramming and biting people. They even have a segment where some people are trapped in a glass structure while he tries break into it!
* An episode of ''What's New, {{Scooby-Doo}}?'' had the gang travel to Antarctica, where they encountered a monstrous fish-shark monster that was terrorizing the Antarctic base.
* In the animated adaptation of {{Disney}}'s ''{{Aladdin}}'' the titular character goes through this.