History Main / SharkMan

** Grace Balin, also known as Orca, is a foe of Franchise/{{Batman}} and later ComicBook/{{Nightwing. She was once a marine biologist who spliced her own DNA with that of a killer whale to repair spinal cord injuries and was transformed into a human-killer whale hybrid.

* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Torafuzar "The Dark" of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Tartaros]] is a member of the guild's Nine Demon Gates who is essentially a shark demon, with his head and arm blades resembling fins and being an OlympicSwimmer. His specific Curse, [[GrimyWater Tenchi Kaimei]], creates a wave of black water that submerges his enemies and will poison them to death if they don't drown first. Unlike most shark stereotypes, however, he's a NoNonsenseNemesis who takes no real pleasure in killing humans and [[PunchClockVillain just sees it as a job]]. For a final bit of fun, ''Torafuzame'' is [[BilingualBonus Japanese]] for "Zebra Shark".

** ''ComicBook/SubMariner'': Tiger Shark is a former Olympic swimmer mutated into a human-shark hybrid by MadScientis Dr. Dorcas.

* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTirtles'':

* Rippersnapper, a member of the Terrorcons in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' turned into a humanoid shark robot with arms and legs as his alt-mode.
* Although unintentional, the ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' version of [[BigBad Megatron]] actually looks like one of these (especially him having fangs and gill-like vents all over his body and alien jet altmode).
%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "AAAAAAH! Shark boy!"
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' had the babies imagining used car salespeople as these.
* The Rulons in ''WesternAnimation/DinoRiders'' has many [=Sharkmen=] in their army. To be precise, they all look like Hammerhead Sharkmen.
* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': Emperor Awesome is a flamboyant shark-man thing who enjoys tanning and wearing lipstick; he also rides a fire-breathing dinosaur that can also shoot lasers from its eyes in combat and controls a entire legion of "Fist Fighters". [[MeaningfulName He's earned his title, all right.]]
* The Carcarons from the Season 7 ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Zapp Dingbat" (the one where Zapp Branningan dates Leela's mom). They speak in serials of guttural growls, but are fairly decent (if easily offended) people.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'' offers a variation as a quick gag right before an episode ends. After realizing the prosthetic bodysuit he's been given is ruining his marriage and turning him into a jerk, he sets the thing to automatic and lets it walk into the ocean. After he and his family leave a shark bursts out of the water wearing it, attacks a beachgoer, and then rushes the camera as it fades to black.

* FRanchise/MarvelUniverse:

* In an issue of ''[[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage Tales of the TMNT]]'', it was eventually revealed that the slain worm-animated clone of the Shredder had been brought back to life as one of these.
* In a story unrelated to the one above, ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures'' featured time-travelling Shark Man Armaggon as a nemesis for the future version of the turtles. Armaggon would go on to have several more appearances in various Turtles media including other comics, video games, and the 2012 Nickelodeon series.
* One of the many minor stories in the event comic ''ComicBook/FearItself'' featured [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Amadeus Cho]], the second [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Power]] [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Man]], [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thunderstrike]], ComicBook/{{X 23}} and ComicBook/AnyaCorazon teaming up (at Amadeus' request) to save Honolulu from an army of shark men in a vril-powered Nazi flying battleship.
* There's a minor ''ComicBook/XMen'' member, Shark Girl. She can turn into a humanoid shark form at will, but even in human form has sharp teeth and a raw fish-intensive diet.
* Enormo Overdrive, a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corporate villain]] from ''ComicBook/LowLife'', was once a normal man, but spliced his own DNA with that of a great white shark to be even more lethal.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' comic ''Fire and Ice'' had the STARS team encounter a quartet of humanoid mutants in Antarctica, one of which was a shark.
* Atomika Press hero [[http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/s/sharkman.htm Sharkman.]]
* A one-shot alien character from ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' is an Ergonian, a race coming from the same solar system as the recurring villains, the Evronians. While the latter are, essentially, a tailless duck version of a Xenomorph, the former look identical, only with green skins, arm fins and a large dorsal fin on their hunched bodies, [[ToothyBird sharp teeth in their bills]] and gills on the side of their neck. However, Evronians are ruthless invaders who drain emotions from their victims to make them into mindless slaves, Ergonians, despite their appearence, aren't an aggressive folk.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': During "The Witch and the Warrior" Circe turned Tempest into a shark human mashup with a shark upper body and humanoid legs.

* Tony Trihull from ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'' is a shark ''boat''.

* King Shark's appearance in ''Series/TheFlash2014'', though a change from the comics is he WasOnceAMan but got mutated into a shark-human hybrid.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''[='=]s ''Film/{{Jaws}} II'' sketch from back in 1975. How do you make ''Jaws'' even scarier? Why, [[https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/landshark/2832305?snl=1 make him a land-shark, who can even imitate human voices in order to enter people's homes.]]
* The 1998 miniseries ''Creature'' (written by Creator/PeterBenchley of ''Literature/{{Jaws}}'' fame) was about such a creature.

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* Victor Krum from ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' became one temporarily in order to save Hermione.
* In the ''Doctor Who'' ''PROSE'' novel series, the Selachians are a somewhat prominent original creation. They've appeared in the audio story "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho132TheArchitectsOfHistory Architects of History]]". They're shark-like beings converted into power armor by a race of aquatic aliens, until they rose up against their masters. They're considered to be warmongers that try to conquer everything they can, and have no genuine arms and legs.
* ''Literature/InCryptid'': The Ukupani are aquatic therianthropes whose males can turn into a fully human or a half-human/half-shark form. The females can't transform, and appear as gigantic sharks. Their name is based on the Hawaiian shark god Ukupanipo.
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* Rokea (and their Asian offshoot, the Same-Bito) are [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent weresharks]] in the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' (specifically, the ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' game line) who can assume half-shark, half-man form when making a landfall. Their other forms are a human (ranging from average to hideous), a shark, a 30-foot giant doom shark, and a sort of ugly hump-backed hairless humanoid.

* ''TabletopGame/SmashUp'': The "Sharks" faction consists of muscular people with shark heads.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Adaros are a species of {{monstrous humanoid}}s resembling large, burly merfolk based on sharks, with a tall crest on their heads and backs and multiple rows of sharp teeth. They are intensely malevolent and very aggressive, generally seeing other sapients as just prey to be hunted. They can also communicate telepathically with regular sharks and give them simple commands to follow.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Banestorm}}'' has a whole race of aquatic shark men. They aren't explicitly evil, but they are described as "pragmatic" and "direct", and as worshiping ''worrying'' gods -- so humans find them scary.
* The OceanPunk setting of ''TabletopGame/SeasOfVodari'' for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has two playable races of this type. Tiburons were created by the same dark gods as created the sahuagin, but resisted succumbing to their baser impulses, although they still have a very bad reputation. They're a surprisingly noble race of nomadic hunters with very strong social bonds. Unlike sahuagin, tiburons have the classic "merfolk body", with a shark's tail instead of legs. Uniquely amongst Vodari's subaquatic peoples, they can't breathe air. Grindylows are a smaller, more [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent goblin-like]] version, who have eight octopus tentacles for legs. Both arguably count as UnscaledMerfolk as well.

%%* Terrafin from ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}''.

* The Shark-Girls and Tiger Shark-Girls in ''Corruption of Champions'' are the CuteMonsterGirl version of this trope (or "Cute Monster Boy" in the case of Jasun, at the Tel'Adre Gym). They were originally humans, but they turned into fish people due to the lake becoming polluted with demonic corruption. The PlayerCharacter can become one themselves by eating the "Shark Tooth" [[MutagenicFood item]].
* The NES version of ''Manga/{{Strider}}'' features a mechanical version of the trope aptly named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Shark Man]], who first sticks to looming within bodies of water with [[SharkFinOfDoom only its fin visible]] and later comes out to fight directly.
* ''VideoGame/CarriesOrderUp'', featuring a [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals various types of anthropomorphic marine life]], comes with both Great White and Hammerhead sharks as potential customers.
* Cauldron of ''VideoGame/PhantomBrave'', a muscular shark in a Hawaiian shirt who dotes on Marona and beats up anyone that badmouths her.
* The Zoras were designed in this manner in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', in contrast with previous versions that were based more on bony fish. It's most noticeable with their head protrusions, which resemble a whole shark (though Muzu's head more closely resembles a manta ray, another cartilaginous fish), but it also comes across with attributes such as more carnivorous-looking teeth and shark-like fins. Prince Sidon has the most sharklike features with his head protrusions being shaped after a hammerhead shark and his teeth sharper and more sharklike than any other Zora.
* In ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'', the official art for in-universe band Bottom Feeders shows that one of its members is a shark-man. Unusually, his eyes seem to be located where a real shark's ''nostrils'' would be, with what would normally be the tip of the nose instead being [[http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/316/142/ab2.png the top of his head (complete with hat)]].
* Downplayed by the Aumaua of ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity''; they have fish-like skin patterns (some of them are even blue) and a row of shark teeth, but otherwise look like towering humans. "Shark" is still a common in-universe slur for the aumaua.
* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' has Dirt Sharks, who "swim" through earth instead of water. One of them, Terrafin, is a playable character.
* The carchar from ''VideoGame/AHouseOfManyDoors'' are an entire species of shark people with distinctions between hammerhead and non-hammerhead. One of them is a recruitable officer.
* ''VideoGame/EiyudenChronicleHundredHeroes'': Yuferius [=VII=], the [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rabbitandbearstudios/eiyuden-chronicle-hundred-heroes Kickstarter campaign's]] second stretch goal hero, is a flail-wielding anthropomorphic shark and the guard captain of the desert nation Imperish'arc.

* ''Webcomic/{{Nedroid}}'' has Harrison, who is [[SubvertedTrope the polar opposite of fearsome]].
* Dr. Shark from ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella''
* The land sharks of ''Webcomic/GuildedAge''.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Fin of the Felt appears to be this. He can even track people by their time trails much like a shark can follow the scent of blood in the water.
* Vesser from ''Webcomic/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.

* During a stream of terrible UsefulNotes/Xbox360 indie games, [[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Joel]] thinks ''Dead Sea 2'' will have a shark on two legs. [[https://youtu.be/Uw7FaBM2ayo?t=7m45s Ask, and you shall receive.]]

* ''WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}}'' has a [[SeldomSeenSpecies hammerhead]] variant in [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/makkoron.htm Makkoron]], and also a [[DeviousDolphins dolphin]] variant in [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/dolfury.htm Dolfury]].
* ''Blog/HowToHero'' mentions landsharks as a threat superheroes may have to deal with.

* During Creator/AchievementHunter's Let's Play of ''VideoGame/{{Raft}}'', Matt Bragg goes a bit [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} crazy]] and uses a bunch of shark heads to perform a "ritual" and become the team's "shark mage." (Which is to say, he puts a shark head on as a hood/mask.)
* [[WebOriginal/{{Vilous}} Sergals]], an original species PopularWithFurries, are often described as furry shark people because of their unusual wedge-shaped heads. The head design was actually inspired by ''aircraft''.
* Another strange shark species in the furry fandom are manokits, who are basically shark fox hybrids that walk on two legs and are also blind and ironically can't swim.

* ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'' is about teenage boys who got mutated into Shark Men.

* Sharkey the sharkdog from ''WesternAnimation/EekTheCat'' is a variation on this, being a shark-dog hybrid.
* Sever from ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsBattleForce5''.
* Shark people played a large role in one episode of the second series of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' where a bubbly shark woman asked Jake for help protecting her and Neptune's trident (which she kept in her stomach both to keep the weapon from falling into the wrong flippers and because of her nature as an all-consuming predator). The episode's one-time villains 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 shark woman's compulsive eating was the show's RunningGag.
* Partially counts in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'', which had an evil mermaid put a magic spell on Aladdin that caused him to slowly transform into a shark, with his mid-way 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 ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' they were ordinary rich masked men who committed crimes for fun, while in the ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' they were a group of university students who mutated themselves into therianthropic [[HalfHumanHybrid humanoid animals]] (including a hammer-headed shark man). The same formula was used in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' where the eponymous superhero and his friend and 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.

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* Skybite from ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'' takes this form on for his robot mode.

* Shark Fujishiro from ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'' has a human form, a shark form, and a form where he's a human with a shark's head.
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Torafuzar "The Dark" of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Tartaros]] is a member of the guild's Nine Demon Gates who is essentially a shark demon, with his head and arm blades resembling fins and being an OlympicSwimmer. His specific Curse, [[GrimyWater Tenchi Kaimei]], creates a wave of black water that submerges his enemies and will poison them to death if they don't drown first. Unlike most shark stereotypes, however, he's a NoNonsenseNemesis who takes no real pleasure in killing humans and [[PunchClockVillain just sees it as a job]]. For a final bit of fun, ''Torafuzame'' is [[BilingualBonus Japanese]] for "Zebra Shark".
* Verg from ''Anime/BlueSubmarineNo6'' is one.
* In ''Anime/Ulysses31'', the minions of the gods of Olympus are shark men. They only appears in the flesh in two episodes (with different design each time), although it is implied that the Trident {{Mook Mobile}}s seen in several other episodes are also maned by them.

* Franchise/TheDCU villains The Shark, King Shark, Sharkeeta and Carcharo. Note that of these only The Shark & Sharkeeta were actual sharks (the first [[EvolutionaryLevels evolved into human form]] by nuclear radiation, the second was transformed by a well meaning young MadScientist on [[Franchise/WonderWoman Paradise Island]]) while King Shark is supernatural and Carcharo is a mutant. King Shark specifically is the demigod son of a shark god. Also ironically, the Shark originally [[EmotionEater ate fear, not flesh]], though he was changed to an actual maneater later during UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks.
* The Franchise/{{Batman}} villain Great White Shark ''resembles'' a shark man, but has no inherit powers shark-like or otherwise; his name comes mainly from the fact he stole millions from his company's clients (thus being a "shark"), and that as a newcomer to Arkham, the other inmates call him a "new fish". His shark-like appearance came from a combination of frostbite and mutilation while incarcerated in Arkham.
* Creator/MarvelComics doesn't fall behind with the likes of Tiger Shark (a mutated human).

* ''Literature/InCryptid: The Ukupani are aquatic therianthropes whose males can turn into a fully human or a half-human/half-shark form. The females can't transform, and appear as gigantic sharks. Their name is based on the Hawaiian shark god Ukupanipo.

** One Hawai'ian legend had a shark who repeatedly attacked women off a specific coast, but eluded capture. The hero of the story ran into a man who always hung out there. After he managed to fatally wound the shark, it turned out to have been that man, who died and turned into a shark-like stone.

* Pridak from ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' is a biomechanical version. Fitting, he's also the most bloodthirsty and ruthless of the [[AGodAmI Barraki]], and leads [[TheBeastmaster an army of sharks]] almost as vicious as him.

* The Sangheili/Elites of ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' are generally more [[TheReptilians reptile-like]], but the fin-like helmets most of them wore in the original trilogy were definitely meant to invoke this trope too.

Out of all the sea creatures, perhaps none set 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 of a shark, a human SuperSoldier with shark-like enhancements, or even a [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent wereshark]]. 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.

Out of all the sea creatures, none set 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 of a shark, a human SuperSoldier with shark-like enhancements, or even a [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent wereshark]]. 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.

* Rokea (and their Asian offshoot, the Same-Bito) are [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse weresharks]] in the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' who can assume half-shark, half-man form when making a landfall. Their other forms are a human (ranging from average to hideous), a shark, a 30-foot giant doom shark, and a sort of ugly hump-backed hairless humanoid.

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* Sergals, a species PopularWithFurries, are often described as furry shark people because of their unusual wedge-shaped heads. The head design was actually inspired by ''aircraft''.
* Another strange shark species in the furry fandom are manokits, who are basically shark fox hybrids that walk on two legs and are also blind and ironically can't swim.
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* MonsterOfTheWeek Slippery Shark from ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''.
* [[TheStarscream Treacherous]] [[TheDragon general]] Vexacus, a samurai-esque shark-like bounty hunter, from ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm''.
* Sharkie Chan from ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'', who incidentally is a master of shark-style martial arts.
* Sela from ''Series/DoubutsuSentaiZyuohger'' is a shark Zyuman. However, she is able to disguise herself to appear human, though she still has a fin.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}}'' has a [[SeldomSeenSpecies hammerhead]] variant in [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/makkoron.htm Makkoron]], and also a DeviousDolphin variant in [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/dolfury.htm Dolfury]].

* From Myth/GreekMythology there was Akheilos, who was once a handsome demigod who was transformed into a sharkman for bosting that he was more attractive than Aphrodite.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''[='=]s ''Film/{{Jaws}} II'' sketch from back in 1975. How do you make ''Jaws'' even scarier? Why, [[https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/landshark/2832305?snl=1 make him a land-shark!]]

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': During "The Witch and the Warrior" Circe turned Tempest into a shark human mashup with a shark upper body and humanoid legs.

* 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 ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' they were ordinary rich masked men who committed crimes for fun, while in the ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' they were a group of university students who mutated themselves into therianthropic [[HalfHumanHybrid humanoid animals]] (including a hammer-headed shark man). The same formula was used in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' where the eponymous superhero and his friend and rival BronzeTiger 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.

** The fire goddess Pele also has a brother who takes the form of a shark.

* Myth/OceanianMythology: Polynesian legends believed in sharks that could take human form and even have shapeshifting kids with human wives.

* Several are present in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}''; run-of-the-mill Sharkmen mutants, the Deep People of the UnderwaterCity Luthe (beastmen descended from the resident Shark-totem Lunar Exalt), Shark Warriors (the most common of the Western [[TheFairFolk Fair Folk]]), children of Siaka (local war gods who take the form of shark people), and Siaka herself, the [[WarGod Western Goddess of War, Sharks and Slaughter]].

* The "Sharks" faction in ''TabletopGame/SmashUp'' consists of muscular people with shark heads.

* [[TheDragon Gantu]] from ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' looks very sharklike (or whalelike) in appearance.

* Played with in ''Disney/{{Moana}}'', where Maui accidentally gives himself [[PartialTransformation either the front or back halves]] of a shark [[TransformationTrinket with his fishhook.]]

* ''WebOriginal/HowToHero'' mentions landsharks as a threat superheroes may have to deal with.