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| 10 | [[caption-width-right:349:Nope, not safe to go back in the water.[[note]]The story presented in the image above is of based on an actual shark attack that happened and was one of the inspirations for the book and film ''Film/{{Jaws}}''. [[/note]]]] |
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| 12 | ->''"Everyone's always in favour of saving Hitler's brain. But when you put it in the body of a Great White shark, ooh, suddenly you've gone too far!"'' |
| 13 | -->-- '''Professor Farnsworth''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' |
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| 15 | Want to make a (usually) aquatic situation a dangerous nightmare? One way is ''sharks''. |
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| 17 | Trapped in the middle of the ocean with no realistic way of making it to civilization, likely go crazy and dehydrate in a couple of days? That takes too long? No worries, the ocean is infested with sharks just waiting to devour you. Has the BigBad got you? [[ComplexityAddiction He won't shoot, that'd be too fast]], he'll instead lower you into a SharkPool. |
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| 19 | If you're swimming or anywhere near water, the last thing you want to hear is "shark". In fictionland, or rather fiction-ocean, many sharks are unstoppable sea-monster killing machines which [[ExtremeOmnivore devour everything in sight]]: fish, seals, people... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_shark license plates, car tires, suits of armour, car parts, severed human limbs]]. Sometimes they'll even attack ships: that's how badass they are. Most animals eat to live, but sharks live to eat. Sharks are the ultimate RuleOfCool. Perhaps it's because it's how their mouths are [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily lined with literally hundreds of teeth]], or because they can smell your blood from miles away like a hungry vampire, or [[BizarreAlienSenses because they can sense your bioelectricity]] meaning you can never hide from them. Perhaps it's because they have changed very little in the millions of years they existed. It doesn't matter, they're the most badass animal that isn't extinct or [[OurDragonsAreDifferent made up.]] If they ever find a way to take to the land or [[http://xkcd.com/585/ air,]] it would surely be the end of us all. Really, if SandIsWater, expect Land Sharks. |
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| 21 | In some cases, prehistoric sharks such as megalodons are used instead of modern ones, sometimes with them being portrayed as {{Sea Monster}}s. |
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| 23 | (Cool as they are, there are still ways to [[WeaponizedAnimal enhance]] [[Film/DeepBlueSea them]].) |
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| 25 | SubTrope of FiendishFish. A SuperTrope to SharkMan. Often first seen as a tell-tale SharkFinOfDoom. |
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| 27 | Compare SeaMonster (for other scary things in the ocean), NeverSmileAtACrocodile and PikePeril (for the rivers-and-lakes counterpart), MonstrousSeal, and BearsAreBadNews. You can relax if there are DeviousDolphins though, since they make [[TheRival perfect rivals]] to these sharks. |
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| 29 | Contrast ShamuFu, the one situation where things may legitimately get ''better'' when you add a shark. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Do not confuse with]] tropes with other meanings of "shark", such as LoanShark, VoodooShark, or media references like JumpTheShark. |
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| 31 | Ironically, sharks are nowhere near as dangerous as the stereotype makes them out to be. [[TruthInTelevision Hundreds of people have been attacked and killed over the last few centuries]]. That sounds like a lot, but compare it to the tens of thousands of fatalities to large felines, bears, crocodiles, and plenty of domestic animals and it becomes positively puny. Out of the over 400 known species of sharks, only 35 have been documented to attack humans, and of those none do so remotely often. Even the infamous Great White, a shark specially evolved to feed off mammals, generally ignores humans in all but freak incidents (as humans lack the nutrient rich blubber this shark seeks, bitten people are usually ignored after the first strike). The rate of shark attacks and deaths average out to about a few deaths a year globally, making them less dangerous than elephants, jellyfish, domestic animals like horses and dogs, and [[StaircaseTumble the common staircase]], especially when one considers the millions of humans who enter shark habitats every year without incident. In fact, many sharks are surprisingly intelligent and social animals, rather than the mindless carnivores they're portrayed as, and they've taken on a diversity of habitats and body designs beyond the usual torpedo shape. And despite their reputation as the terror of the seas, [[AlwaysABiggerFish sharks aren't even the top predator]]. That distinction goes to orcas a.k.a. killer whales, who regularly hunt sharks to dine on their livers. However, because orcas, for the most part, are curious creatures that not only do not prey on humans but are actually intelligent enough to [[EnemyMine team up with them to take down whales]], they do not have the fearsome reputation of, say, the Great White. |
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| 34 | !!Examples: |
| 35 | [[index]] |
| 36 | * ThreateningShark/VideoGames |
| 37 | [[/index]] |
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| 39 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 40 | |
| 41 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 42 | * Effectively subverted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ2DyVqZYi4 this ad]] called "Rethink the Shark", from a campaign aimed to put deadly shark attacks into perspective. |
| 43 | * Creator/DiscoveryChannel Shark Week 2013 ramps up its coverage with BloodyHilarious [[http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/shark-week/videos/its-a-bad-week-to-be-a-seal.htm fake news coverage of a beloved rescued seal getting chomped by a shark in front of hundreds of its adoring fans]]. In a 2014 follow-up, the shark is finally caught, only to have the seal escape intact from its maw, followed by some hapless swimmer, who announces Shark Week in a casual tone. |
| 44 | * Inverted by Advertising/TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld. [[Creator/DiscoveryChannel Sharks have a week dedicated]] to '''him'''. |
| 45 | * Sharks go from even worse to hilarious in an ad for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLoT9IDeAyc Nicorette lozenges.]] |
| 46 | * There's also this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVLVzItt58U Snickers Peanut Butter Squared]] commercial. |
| 47 | [[/folder]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 50 | * Agito from ''Manga/AirGear'' has sharks as his animal motifs. He's brutal in battle. |
| 51 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' has Tier Harribel, whose visual theme is that of a shark. Like Kisame above, she is also a contrast to the usual shark tropes -- Harribel is a MamaBear MartialPacifist who is willing to die for her [[AmazonBrigade Fracción]]. |
| 52 | * In ''Anime/BlueSubmarineNo6'', not only is there an antagonist who is a [[HalfHumanHybrid shark-person]] but it seems as though his main mode of transportation is built on a WHALE SHARK. |
| 53 | * The main plot point of a ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' FishingEpisode, "The Jaws of the Parking Lot". Nobita wants to go fishing but doesn't feel like traveling too far, so Doraemon uses a gadget to turn the Open Lot into an impromptu pool where fishes from the Atlantic can ''swim through soil'' and fished out. Then a Great White somehow made it into the lot and crosses the boundary, requiring Nobita and Doraemon to track it down before it can attack anyone. Said Great White nearly chomps on Nobita, but Doraemon arrives right on time with a portal hoop, where the Great White jumps through and back into the ocean (This short was partially used as a sub-plot of ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasGreatBattleOfTheMermaidKing'' via AdaptationAmalgamation). |
| 54 | * The first half of the first episode of ''Anime/FutureBoyConan'' has Conan doing battle with a huge shark with a scarred snout that has been eating his and his grandfather’s fish supply, so he decides to put a stop to it once and for all. |
| 55 | * [=BrokenGao=] in ''Anime/GaoGaiGar FINAL'' forms the right shoulder of Genesic [=GaoGaiGar=] and represents destruction in all its glory. |
| 56 | * ''Anime/GodzillaSingularPoint'' redesigns the sea serpent kaiju Manda to feature a goblin shark-like face instead of the traditional Asian dragon look. |
| 57 | * In ''Animation/GuardianFairyMichel'', since nature is out of balance, sharks attack Donna and her son Will in episode 3. |
| 58 | * The manga ''Manga/{{Gyo}}'' is about fishes with mechanical legs that crawl out of the ocean and invade the city, infecting the people with poisonous gases. Needless to say, there is a shark involved, and that's when things get really bad. There is a scene where a shark kicks down a door, with a big GASHUNK sound in the English version. According to Junji Ito, his entire motivation for creating the series can be summed up as "sharks are scary, but they can't go out of the water--therefore, a shark that can go out of the water would be incredibly scary." |
| 59 | * ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': While Sakuya's ''[[TemptingFate Titanic]]'' was sinking, an already-wounded Hayate swam in the frigid water to push a raft holding Isumi to safety. Then the sharks attacked him.... But all bets were off when he saw one of them attack ''Nagi''. |
| 60 | * In ''Literature/HeavyObject'', the Capitalist Enterprise is ostensibly restoring the shark population around Hawaii as part of a business venture. The truth is this is being done to increase the number of shark attacks and damage the tourism industry, which is being used by spies from the other nations. The Enterprise also uses the situation to engineer "shark attacks" on inconvenient people. |
| 61 | * ''Manga/IronWokJan'': The semifinal [[CookingDuel battle]] of the second TournamentArc has shark as the theme ingredient. The pre-prepared shark meat is unusable. What do you do? ''Jump'' into the tank of live sharks also prepared, ''kick'' a shark out, and butcher it in front of the audience. Of course after Jan and the rival from China jump into the shark tank to secure their ingredient, one of the other contestants realizes that it would be easier to just smash the glass walls of the shark tank to drain all the water out of it. |
| 62 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': |
| 63 | ** In Part 3, Jotaro Kujo saves the little girl Anne from a shark, using his [[FightingSpirit Stand]], Star Platinum, to sock it out of the water in a single punch. |
| 64 | ** Part 5, the situation is played straight with Squalo's Stand, Clash, which that takes the form of a metallic shark with three eyes. Its power is teleport from one body of water (or other mostly-water liquid [[ParanoiaFuel like a bowl of soup or glass of wine]]), capture its targets, ''and drag them along on the teleporting trips'' (where, if Squalo isn't stopped quickly enough, ''they'll drown''). What's more, Clash is supplemented by Talking Head, the Stand of his partner, Tiziano, [[TongueTied which can force a person to only tell lies]], so even if you see Clash, ''you can't tell anyone''. |
| 65 | * Unabara Bancho from ''Manga/KongohBancho'' is a giant Megalodon wearing a Bancho uniform who at one point tries to devour the protagonists but is fished by Gouriki Bancho and beached. He's a gluttonous, sentient beast who has an army of swordfish obeying his orders. |
| 66 | * Played with in ''Literature/KyoKaraMaoh''. Yuuri is transported into the middle of an ocean and appears to be under attack by a shark. It turns out that sharks in the other world are friendly vegetarians. |
| 67 | * Shark Fujishiro from ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'' is a literal shark with a human guise from a group of mermaid {{Yakuza}}. His motto being that all problems can be solved by eating the cause of the chaos. He's constantly trying to eat the main character of the series, Nagasumi. The fact he can turn into a shark on land doesn't help matters much either. |
| 68 | * ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'': It wasn't enough that Esteban, Zia, Mendoza, Sancho and Pedro were stranded on a flimsy raft in the middle of the ocean. They had to be attacked by sharks as well. |
| 69 | * Hoshigaki Kisame from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' is a [[BeastMan human with shark-like traits]] and has an affinity for [[MakingASplash attacks that use water]] including several that blasts the opponent with water shaped like at least one shark. He also has a shark-like sword, [[spoiler:which he can merge with to become a full blown half-man half-shark creature]].\ |
| 70 | Unlike the animal stereotype, though, Kisame seems rather [[ShownTheirWork played straight]]. He seems to have a good sense of humor, is definitely [[OnlySaneMan the most mentally sound of the Akatsuki]], and has a certain joie-de-vivre that his partner needed to pick up on (and on the note of his partner... Kisame seems to have been more of a father toward Itachi than Fugaku). In general, he is a [[AffablyEvil polite, intelligent, and a very social man]]... however, his mere presence seems to announce "You lose," with natural chakra reserves rivaling the Jinchuriki, who host 100-meter-tall chakra demons. Until [[ShownTheirWork even more fittingly]] [[spoiler:he meets Killer Bee... who has ''octopus'' traits.]]\ |
| 71 | Kisame's shark appearance takes on even greater meaning when you consider his backstory. [[spoiler:He kills all his comrades so that they won't get captured and interrogated by Ibiki, then kills his superior, the previous wielder of Samehada, for selling him out. After being paired with Akatsuki, he notes that they were put together because both had killed their comrades, noting how sharks' offspring kill and eat each other.]] |
| 72 | * The [[BeachEpisode Beach Chapter]] in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' involves TheHero being attacked by a shark... [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot that knows kung fu]]. [[spoiler:It turns out to be his martial arts teacher Kuu Fei in a stuffed shark that she borrowed from the hotel lobby, along with Natsumi in a shark costume in a [[ZanyScheme ploy to get Negi and Asuna back together by placing him in a perceived danger to be rescued]]]]. |
| 73 | * Inverted in ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}''. Ask the Professor, and she'll tell you Everything's Better with Sharks. |
| 74 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 75 | ** Of all the Fish-men, the shark ones are definitely the worst to run into. Arlong, the main antagonist of the East Blue arc, is a sawshark. And a LoanShark [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance to boot.]] |
| 76 | ** Jimbei [[spoiler:who is definitely making everything worse for the World Government by teaming up with Luffy and Crocodile]] is a whale shark. He soon inverts this trope, summoning a whole school of friendly, grinning whale sharks to carry the escaped prisoners to safety. Not much of a surprise, since whale sharks can't eat mammals -- they feed on krill and tiny fish, instead. |
| 77 | ** Now things are even worse with [[spoiler:Hody Jones' crew, which has ''four'' different shark Fishmen, Jones himself being a great white shark.]] |
| 78 | ** Add on [[spoiler:Captain of the Flying Dutchman, Van Der Decken IX, who is a bullhead shark. Not as fearsome as a great white, but he seems to be the main villain of this arc.]] |
| 79 | ** The trope is also inverted by [[spoiler:Prince Fukaboshi, a shark merman (unspecified, which is odd considering Oda's penchant for [[ShownTheirWork classifying his mer/fishpeople]]) who the Strawhats assume is there to give them trouble [[FaceOfAThug and run away]]... when he intended to personally invite them to the royal palace and give Luffy a message from Jimbei.]] |
| 80 | ** Also averted with Madame Sharley, who is very polite and calm. As long as you're not rude around her. This is even more notorious because [[spoiler:she is the younger sister of '''Arlong''', of all merpeople]]. |
| 81 | ** Also inverted again by Megalo, a friendly pet shark of the Neptune royal family. |
| 82 | * ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': |
| 83 | ** In the early manga, Ranma and Cologne fight at the beach and in the ocean. When Cologne touches down lightly on the surface of the water, everyone is astonished at how an OldMaster can find footing even on a floating twig. Turns out she landed on top of a ''great white shark'', which she somehow commandeers to do her bidding. It doesn't end well for the shark when Ranma goes into the [[UnstoppableRage Cat-Fist]], though. The anime, for some reason, traded the beach fight (the final part of the Phoenix Pill storyline) for a fight in the mountains; apparently, they figured Cologne using telekinesis to fling showers of ice boulders would be more dramatic. |
| 84 | ** Both the manga and an anime episode have Akane accepting Principal "Nutjob" Kunô's offer to teach her how to swim. Plan 1: strap a big boulder to her back and toss her into the pool... which is currently home to a four-meter-long shark. |
| 85 | * ''Manga/Reborn2004'': Apparently inspired by the pirates of ''WebAnimation/HowToKillAMockingbird'', Squalo rides a flying burning shark as his box weapon. Seriously. |
| 86 | * Viral from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' is a Beastman that Gainax has explicitly stated is a shark with [[CatsAreMean feline]] genetics. Besides his claws and cat eyes, he's got a [[SlasherSmile mouth full of shark teeth]]. They grow back if they're pulled out. His smiles tend to make viewers rather [[NightmareFuel uneasy]]. |
| 87 | * ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' has a plethora of unusual and powerful shark animals in the world, including the Gator Shark (a fresh-water giant shark with a crocodile-like mouth), Great Leg (amphibious shark with four legs), Warner Shark (a shark with teeth so strong they can bite through a submarine), Sand Shark ([[SandIsWater sand-swimming shark]]), Fly Shark (giant sharks able to fly with their fin-like wings), Big Bang Shark (a flying, pitch black AnimalisticAbomination), the Denshark ([[ItMakesSenseInContext a shark/train hybrid]]) and the Raizame ([[ShockAndAwe an uber-powerful giant shark with electrical fangs]]). |
| 88 | * Averted in ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'' with Sky-Byte. While one of the Predacons, Sky-Byte is an aspiring poet and quite fond of humans -- between these and various comedic appearances, he's something of an EnsembleDarkHorse. [[spoiler:He's also the only one of the Predacons or Decepticons to escape at the end of the series, so everything works out for him.]] |
| 89 | * Ryoga "Shark" Kamishiro of ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'', introduced as the school bully and a major {{Jerkass}}. He also uses a Shark deck. Later inverted after he joins Yuma's group. |
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| 92 | [[folder:Arts]] |
| 93 | * John Singleton Copley’s [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_and_the_Shark ''Watson and the Shark'']] depicts a real shark attack in which a cabin boy lost his leg. Copley, however, had never seen a live shark, leading to [[SpecialEffectFailure some slightly wonky anatomy]] in the eyes of a modern viewer. |
| 94 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_Death_in_the_Mind_of_Someone_Living The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living]] by Damien Hirst is a piece of art (for a given definition of art, anyway) consisting of a dead shark preserved in blue-colored formaldehyde, made in 1991. |
| 95 | * Winslow Homer’s [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulf_Stream_(painting) ''The Gulf Stream'']] shows a man adrift in a small boat with a broken mast surrounded by sharks, with possible blood in the water. [[FromBadToWorse And an ominous waterspout on the horizon.]] |
| 96 | [[/folder]] |
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| 98 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 99 | * In ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', one of the many recurring [[MonsterOfTheWeek monsters of the week]], introduced in Season 2 episode 50, is a [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial flying]] shark. In his first appearance, he manages to eat quite a few of the city folk, including Smart S. and Careful S. (and by extension the latter's [[SelfDuplication duplicates]]) before he spits them all out after Happy S. hits him in a weak point. |
| 100 | * ''Animation/Momo2022'': Subverted in "All About Shark". Momo visits the new shark exhibit and comes across a den. A shark chases Momo out of the dark until he corners her and reveals he is happy to have a guest at the party he had been celebrating alone. |
| 101 | [[/folder]] |
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| 103 | [[folder:Card Games]] |
| 104 | * ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': The Shark creature type originally debuted with [[https://scryfall.com/card/drk/29/giant-shark Giant Shark]], which remained the only such card for a long while; the Grand Creature Type Update of '07 later changed its type to Fish, which is what [[https://scryfall.com/card/tpr/52/hammerhead-shark Hammerhead Shark]] was released as. Unfortunately, since they're sharks, they can only attack if the opposing planeswalker is near a body of water (i.e. they have islands). Since your character is a plane-shifting physical god, you can turn your opponents' lands into islands with certain spells. The ''Ikoria'' set would later properly reintroduce the Shark type, retconning a few older cards to be typed as such. Notable specimens introduced after this change include the huge [[https://scryfall.com/card/iko/70/voracious-greatshark Voracious Greatshark]], shown maw-first as it pursues a hapless rowboat, and [[https://scryfall.com/card/m21/72/spined-megalodon Spiked Megalodon]], a beast big enough to shatter a galleon with one bite. |
| 105 | * ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': |
| 106 | ** Prior the ''ZEXAL'' era: [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Corroding_Shark Corroding Shark]] and [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Cyber_Shark Cyber Shark]], a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot zombie/robot shark respectively,]] [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Metabo-Shark Metabo Shark,]] [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Deepsea_Shark Deepsea Shark,]] [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Shark_Cruiser Shark Cruiser,]] a shark ship, [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Man-Eating_Black_Shark Man-Eating Black Shark,]] [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Great_White_Terror Great White Terror,]] [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Misairuzame Misairuzame,]] a ''missile shark'', [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Abyssal_Kingshark Abyssal Kingshark,]] and [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Great_White the Great White,]] a giant shark with hands. |
| 107 | ** Thanks to Shark's Shark deck, Shark cards have become an actual archetype. Shark decks are pretty offensive and they are capable of Xyz Summoning Xyz Shark monsters: [[DeathOfAThousandCuts Submersible Carrier Aero Shark]], [[StatusBuff Shark Caesar]], [[SpamAttack Shark Fortress]], [[EnemySummoner Bahamut Shark]], [[CruelMercy Number 32: Shark Drake]], [[NextTierPowerUp Number C32: Shark Drake Veiss]], [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Number 37: Hope Woven Dragon Spider Shark]], and [[FragileSpeedster Number 47: Nightmare Shark]]. |
| 108 | [[/folder]] |
| 109 | |
| 110 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 111 | * The old British comic ''ComicBook/{{Action}}'' had a serial called ''Hook Jaw''. The title character was a great white shark. None of the other characters lasted more than one story... Well, except for the token good human in the first story, though even he got eaten alive about two-thirds of the way through the second story. |
| 112 | * The first album in the French comic ''The Adventures of Jérôme Moucherot'' revolves around a giant shark who lives in a [[EldritchLocation bizarro dimension]] in between the walls of apartment buildings. Yes, he can "swim" on the surface of walls or ceilings with [[SharkFinOfDoom his fin being the only sign]] that there's a huge friggin' shark stalking you in your living room. He gets in the protagonist's crosshairs when he eats his son and he has to follow the shark into its own dimension to get him back. |
| 113 | * In ''ComicBook/AlanFord'', recurring popular villain Superciuk seemingly meets his doom when he's swallowed whole by a shark... but he manages to survive, leading to several sightings of a "talking dogfish" begging for Barbera. The shark is eventually captured and confined in a pool, which allows Superciuk to get out. |
| 114 | * Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} can command anything in the ocean. If he's feeling generous, he'll just send dolphins, whales, and giant squid to beat you up and ensnare you. If he's ''not'', he breaks out the sharks. Get him in a bad mood, and you can have sharks ''and'' {{Eldritch Abomination}}s up your ass. |
| 115 | ** ''ComicBook/Aquaman1991'' had sharks swarm Poseidonis on instinct after smelling the blood, and Aquaman does his best to stop them without killing them. Also subverted when he finds Atlanteans attacking a nurse shark, one of the friendliest of the species, and berates them for it. |
| 116 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': |
| 117 | ** Batman even keeps Shark-Repellent Bat-Spray in his utility belt! |
| 118 | ** There's also the Batman villain Great White, a former "white collar criminal". It started as a nickname due to his shady financial practices. However he gets sent to Arkham and, well... let's just say he ends up with an AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance. |
| 119 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Cavewoman}}: Deep Water'', Meriem is attacked (while naked) by a megalodon. She kills it by swimming inside its gills and destroying them. |
| 120 | * A story arc of ''ComicBook/{{Fallen Angel|2003}}'' has a shark goring Jude's leg... in the middle. |
| 121 | * In ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'' #20, the villain attempts to escape from Indy by jumping overboard and swimming away. However, he inadvertently swims into chummed water (created when he threw a bucket of chum at Indy at missed) and his devoured by sharks attracted by the chum. |
| 122 | * ''ComicBook/TheGuardianProject'': Averted with the Shark, who was one of the good guys and can summon sharks. |
| 123 | * One of the "possible" stories included in ''ComicBook/HackSlash: Trailers'' feature [[RaisingTheSteaks a slasher shark]] named Blackfin, who was big enough to devour the great white mistaken for him in one bite. |
| 124 | * German comic ''ComicBook/{{Haiopeis}}''. |
| 125 | * ''Franchise/IndianaJones and the Tomb of the Gods'': Oh, so the BigBad [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] has Indy at gunpoint in a seized ship miles away from the nearest coast. If he kills him there nobody will know. But does he shoot him? [[ComplexityAddiction Naaah, that would be too easy]]. Better drop him in a lifeboat with no oars to starve or die of dehydration. But wait, that would be too slow. Shoot the boat with a machine gun so it'll sink sooner or later. Enough? Nope, make a cut on the GirlOfTheWeek's arm and kick her into the water so sharks will smell her blood and do a ZergRush to the area. And if loads and loads of sharks aren't scary enough, don't worry, a massive Great White will show up to teach them the job. |
| 126 | * ComicBook/IronMan, or rather Tony Stark seeing he was out of his armour, was dumped into shark-infested waters once. He proceeded to fight a great white, ''bite'' into it to get it to start bleeding, which drew the other sharks in order to attack '''it'''. |
| 127 | * ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' |
| 128 | ** [[ScaryBlackMan Barracuda]] from [[ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX MAX series]], a badass hitman, manages to win a brutal fight with the Punisher. Instead of just shooting him, Barracuda throws him into the ocean with a bleeding gangster and a Great White. |
| 129 | ** An earlier one-shot had a villain attempt to shoot Castle, who was standing in front of an Aquarium shark tank. Castle dived out of the way, and somehow, the handgun bullets managed to shatter the tank and send an angry shark right at the gangster. |
| 130 | * ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': |
| 131 | ** Razor the Shark is hot-headed and a little bloodthirsty, but he's one of the good guys; being a loyal bodyguard and friend to Meropis' priestess Coral the Betta and has an almost brotherly bond with her apprentice Pearly the Manta Ray. To cement this, his pet Chao, Crusher, takes after his personality, something Chao only do to those who show them love and care. |
| 132 | ** Razor's sister Blade. She's cold, blunt, and generally rude and unpleasant to be around (her brother, captain, and father figure being the exceptions), she has no regard for others' well-being and openly admits she enjoys stealing from and hurting people for the sense of triumph and glory. |
| 133 | * ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'' gives us the character King Shark, the son of the Hawaiian shark god (we're assuming Ka-moho-ali'i). He's capable of regeneration, which is good because Jeanette of ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' breaks his jaw and rips off his arm. |
| 134 | * In the final story of the Bronze Age reality from the ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'' story arc of 1998, ''ComicBook/TheDominusEffect'', Superman deals with the threat of a menacing shark in Metropolis' waters, only to find out that it was a mechanical shark and it was being controlled by the Prankster. |
| 135 | * ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': Subverted in ''[[Recap/TintinRedRackhamsTreasure Red Rackham's Treasure]]'', where Professor Calculus builds a small submarine in the shape of a shark. Haddock first sees it when trying to take a potshot at a bunch of circling sharks. |
| 136 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', the cast-away of the [[ShowWithinAShow comic within a comic]] ''Tales of the Black Freighter'' suffers from this. Not only does he have to escape from the island in a raft made of the bodies of his partners, but he also has to fight several sharks. |
| 137 | * ''ComicBook/WaterBaby'' revolves around this. Brody was a surfer, one day she was riding the waves and a shark confused her with something edible. It bit off her leg up to the knee and went his merry way... while Brody was left bleeding her life out, she got better but now she has nightmares of sharks, and now so do you. |
| 138 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': |
| 139 | ** ''[[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Volume 1]]'': In the ComicBook/WonderGirl Impossible Tale in #111 a massive shark tries to take a bite out of Diana while she's floating on her back near Paradise Island. Renno is able to warn her of its approach, and get knocked for a loop by the shark himself, in time for her to dodge it, grab it by the tail and toss it away. |
| 140 | ** In [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2006 Vol 3]], the island of Themiscyra is protected by Megalodons, who are good and even offer themselves up for a HeroicSacrifice to save the island on one occasion. |
| 141 | ** ''ComicBook/SensationalWonderWoman'': Giganta finds herself being attacked by the Megalodons that patrol Themyscira's waters during a battle with Diana in ''The Queen's Hive.'' |
| 142 | * In an issue of ''ComicBook/XForce'', an alternate universe version of Nightcrawler confronted the Blob from the same universe, during a battle in an underwater base. While at first, the Blob looked like winning, Nightcrawler got some outside help -- he teleported a passing shark ''into the Blob's stomach''. |
| 143 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'' |
| 144 | ** Cyclops has fought sharks on occasion. Great whites, naturally. |
| 145 | ** The short-lived X-Man Thunderbird III had very few badass moments, but one of those was when he fought and killed a great white shark all by himself. |
| 146 | [[/folder]] |
| 147 | |
| 148 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 149 | * Subverted in a ''ComicStrip/{{BC}}'' strip from November 18, 2023. A snake falls into the water and encounters a SharkFinOfDoom. The shark bumps the snake back on the dock, unharmed. |
| 150 | -->'''Snake:''' You didn't eat me!\ |
| 151 | '''Shark:''' Nah. They [[AnimalStereotypes hate me for no reason, too]]. |
| 152 | * ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' practically predicted this entry and its terrestrial counterpart, with a strip showing a shark attempting to scare humans into the water by yelling "{{Bear|sAreBadNews}}!" |
| 153 | * The newspaper comic ''ComicStrip/ShermansLagoon'' stars the eponymous shark. Who's actually a [[VillainsOutShopping very nice guy when he isn't eating other sentient life-forms]]. |
| 154 | [[/folder]] |
| 155 | |
| 156 | [[folder:Fairy Tales]] |
| 157 | * In the FairyTale ''[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/219.htm An Impossible Enchantment,]]'' the fairy queen summons two thousand sharks to guard the tower where Princess Graziella is imprisoned -- to prevent anyone from approaching. |
| 158 | [[/folder]] |
| 159 | |
| 160 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 161 | * ''Fanfic/AllMixedUp'': {{Inverted}} for Diesel, Mariana Mag's shark-dolphin hybrid that she cares for in her aquarium. Although he gets a little rough at times, he is very friendly and loves to play, and is also very fond of Mariana, who loves him back. |
| 162 | * Late in ''Fanfic/ChristianHumberReloaded'', the main character meets a shark/human hybrid named Chridion. Chridion manages the improbable feat of ''gaining the upper hand'' against the GodModeSue protagonist for most of the fight, largely due to his [[LightningBruiser superior speed]] and ShoulderCannon, only conceding defeat when Vash powers up enough to almost destroy the world. |
| 163 | * ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': In chapter 8 of the third story, ''Diplomacy Through Schooling'', it's mentioned that one mistook Luna for a seal when she and Pharynx were out for a midnight swim during their honeymoon. Luckily, it backed off when it got biffed on the nose. It's further noted that the seapony kingdoms have also had issues with them in the past. |
| 164 | * From ''Fanfic/DivineBlood'', Naiki Satomi, the daughter of [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma Saotome]] and Poseidon has an affinity for sharks right down to a mouth full of sharp teeth. She is the most obviously reckless of the three Satomi siblings and, especially in early chapters, sometimes has a tendency to make situations worse by sheer accident. However, she is described as having a cute smile despite having a carnivore's dental work. [[spoiler:In battle against her father, she summons a megalodon and a swarm of other sharks to fight him.]] |
| 165 | * The library in ''Fanfic/EggBelly'' has Book Sharks. They're kind of like bookworms, only they're sharks. |
| 166 | * In Book 4 of ''Fanfic/ForgedDestiny''. Wouldn't you know it, the one time Jaune takes a dip in the ocean, he is surrounded by a shiver of sharks with one quickly latching onto his leg. Justified as they were drawn to [[spoiler:the large number of bodies tied to the ocean floor and the one that grabbed him [[SubvertedTrope quickly pulled him to the surface]], as it was asked to by [[SpeaksFluentAnimal Qrow, a Druid.]]]] All of the sharks then work together and attack [[spoiler:the large Grimm that had knocked Jaune into the ocean to begin with.]] |
| 167 | * ''Fanfic/AGrowingAffection'' changes Kisame's back story to make him instead [[spoiler:Jinchuriki of the Seven-Fins Shark and Samehada is made from a strip of the demon's skin.]] |
| 168 | * ''Fanfic/LincolnsMemories'': |
| 169 | ** Discussed in "Bath Time" when [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Lynn Loud Jr.]] pretends her rubber shark is planning on eating Lincoln's rubber duck. |
| 170 | ** Discussed again in "The Ultimate Sand Castle" where Lucy wants to get bit by a shark so she can have a cool scar, and Lola and Lynn Sr. are afraid of being bit by a shark. |
| 171 | * ''Fanfic/PrehistoricEarth'': Squalicorax and megalodon are amongst the animals rescued for the titular zoo. And while not to the exaggerated degree featured in most examples, they both prove fairly dangerous animals for the rescue team and park staff to handle. |
| 172 | * ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReimagined'': Heavily zigzagged. The lonchidion, xenacanthus, stethacanthus, gogoselachus, and otodus auriculatus all prove aversions (with the lonchidion and xenacanthus being too small and seemingly docile to be much of a threat, the gogoselachus and stethacanthus being more curious than aggressive, and the otodus auriculatus being perfectly willing to nonviolently share an offering of meat that's already in the midst of getting eaten by a group of pterosphenus). The otodus angustidens, however, are portrayed as intimidating predators that menace a pod of zygorhiza in the midst of undergoing birthing of their young. |
| 173 | * ''Art/RealisticPokemon'': |
| 174 | ** Garchomp, a hammerhead shark mixed with a T. rex. |
| 175 | ** Sharpedo, a great white shark that traded in its tail for jet propulsion. |
| 176 | * From [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6095074/12/Takamachi_Nanoha_of_2814 Chapter 12]] of ''Fanfic/TakamachiNanohaOf2814'', there's Nanoha's "Bruce" construct, a giant hundred-meter long green shark with whirring chainsaw teeth and insides that look like a nightmare of spinning cutting rings. |
| 177 | * ''Fanfic/ByTheSea'': The plot of this ''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' fanfic is set off by Cody getting bitten by a shark while fighting in against vicious enemies who use them as mounts. The shark nearly kills Cody and his people and loved ones give him up for dead as the ocean carries his unconscious body away to wash up on Obi-Wan's beach. |
| 178 | [[/folder]] |
| 179 | |
| 180 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 181 | * Played with in ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheOutback''. While crossing the harbor to reach the city after escaping captivity, the group meets a great white shark named Jacinta, who is a NiceGirl that helps them by [[CovertGroup informing them of the Ugly Secret Society's existence]] and giving them a lift to the other side of the harbor. On the other hand, she doesn't deny Maddie's assumption of her having eaten more people than Maddie is capable of poisoning and accepts her self-given title of "the face of death". |
| 182 | * Vector, the villain in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'', has a guard-shark which appears to be a great white shark. It gives Gru a bad time the first time they meet, but during his RoaringRampageOfRescue he stops it cold with an OffhandBackhand. |
| 183 | * Another one for sharks that don't eat everything in sight, ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''. Not quite vegetarians, it's hinted that they eat dolphins, and they have a "slip" every now and then and eat a fish. The heroes run into three, including one named Bruce, a ShoutOut to the ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' prop. |
| 184 | ** ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'' averts this with Destiny, who is indeed a shark: a whale shark. She still has as big a mouth as, or maybe even bigger than, her fellow brethren, yet is still non-threatening because she has no teeth. TruthInTelevision: in RealLife, whale sharks are plankton-eaters, unable to eat anything bigger than a goldfish. |
| 185 | * In ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', there's a [[NinjaPirateRobotZombie robot shark]]. |
| 186 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeVTheMysteriousIsland'' has a prehistoric shark -- possibly a Ginsu shark -- as a "swimming sharp tooth". |
| 187 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', President Business' office is guarded by, amongst other things, sharks, [[SlowLaser lasers]], and [[ShoutOut laser]] [[Film/AustinPowers sharks]]. Also, one of the Master Builders throws a shark at Emmet when the latter's speech fails to rally the heroes. It chirps like a dolphin. |
| 188 | * ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'': Pleakley gets menaced by a shark at one point while swimming back to shore after he and Jumba tried (and failed) to catch Stitch as he was surfing with Nani and Lilo, but the animal is never actually shown onscreen. All we get are Pleakley's comments as he sees it and tries to get away: |
| 189 | -->"Oh, look, [[FriendlyPlayfulDolphin a friendly little dolphin]]. [[HeroicDolphin They helped sailors during the war]]... It's a shark! It's a shark and it ain't friendly! Looks like a dolphin... Tricky fish! Tricky fish!" |
| 190 | * Glut the Shark from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''. He chases Ariel and Flounder through the ship wreck, determined to eat them both. |
| 191 | * The sequel ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea'' has Morgana's minion, Undertow the giant tiger shark who spends most of the movie trapped in the body of a piranha thanks to King Triton's magic. |
| 192 | * In ''WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa'', Mort is [[KickTheDog chased by a shark.]] Through land. [[YankTheDogsChain All the way into a volcano.]] |
| 193 | * In the Creator/{{Pixar}} short ''WesternAnimation/PartlyCloudy'' (shown before ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}''), living clouds make human babies, puppies, kittens, etc., who are delivered by {{Delivery Stork}}s. There's also a [[DarkIsNotEvil rain cloud]] who specializes in... ''slightly'' less adorable critters, and his stork seriously begins to regret their partnership when the rain cloud presents him with a model shark (which is bigger than the stork). |
| 194 | * ''Animation/TheReef'' has Troy, who loves to abuse the habitats of the Reef and the main hero of the story. Though, he acts more like your stereotypical [[TheBully bully]] rather than a ferocious predator. |
| 195 | * Sharks are the main antagonists in ''Animation/SealTeam2021'', playing the standard CarnivoresAreMean schtick. Curiously, the movie plays with it by also introducing Dave the basking shark, which true to life is harmless but very much despised by everyone, and the credits semi-address the problems of shark depictions in media before devolving into a joke about Dave eating car tires. |
| 196 | * ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin obviously by its name]], features a gang of sharks who function as an analog to TheMafia. Subverted in the case of Lenny, a vegetarian shark who actually gets nauseated at the very taste of a fish. |
| 197 | * ''WesternAnimation/TintinAndTheLakeOfSharks'' has, wait for it, a lake... full of sharks. [[DiabolicalMastermind Metaphorical ones]], that is. It's actually a ''Balkan mountain lake''. The villains' UnderwaterBase may also have a SharkPool or two. |
| 198 | [[/folder]] |
| 199 | |
| 200 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 201 | * The TV Movie ''Film/TwelveDaysOfTerror'' is based on real events that happened in the summer of 1916 where seemingly the same shark attacked five swimmers in a series of shark attacks along the New Jersey coast and up a freshwater creek. |
| 202 | * ''Film/TwoHeadedSharkAttack'': Double trouble! |
| 203 | ** ''Film/FiveHeadedSharkAttack'': Because two wasn't bad enough! |
| 204 | * ''Film/FortySevenMetersDown:'' Two sisters are trapped in a shark cage at the bottom of the ocean. With great white sharks circling nearby, they must fight to survive. |
| 205 | * In ''Film/AceVentura: Pet Detective'', Ace goes to a tank expecting to find the stolen dolphin. He instead finds a great white shark. Hilarity ensues, especially when he returns to the main hall via the bathroom, his clothes all torn and wet. |
| 206 | -->'''Ace:''' Do ''not'' go in there! |
| 207 | * ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavagirl'': {{Averted|Trope}}. The sharks do briefly mention taking a bite out of Sharkboy when he becomes lost at sea but, once they realize that he's a friend, [[RaisedByWolves they raise him]] as [[SharkMan one of their own]]. |
| 208 | * ''Film/Aquaman2018'' inverts this trope, as sharks are shown as war mounts and allies to the characters. In particular, a large shark rescues a young Arthur from some bullies when he's harassed [[BullyingADragon at an aquarium]]. |
| 209 | * ''Film/AtomicShark'' gives us one that boils the water, sets things on fire, and/or blows things up by its mere proximity. |
| 210 | * ''Film/AustinPowers'': Dr. Evil ''wanted'' sharks, with [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] [[WeaponizedAnimal attached to their heads]] no less, but logistical problems meant he had to settle for ill-tempered, mutated sea bass. He gets his laser sharks by the third movie, though. |
| 211 | * ''Film/Bait3D'': A tsunami engulfs an Australian beach town, and a handful of survivors are trapped in an underground convenience store. Then they discover that a great white shark is there with them, which starts picking them off one by one. |
| 212 | * ''Film/BatmanTheMovie'': While investigating a yacht at sea, Batman is attacked by a shark. After he uses Bat Shark Repellent to make it let go of him, it falls into the water and explodes: one of the villains had planted a bomb in it. |
| 213 | * ''Film/TheBeach'': In this film, the seemingly idyllic youth community is revealed to be anything but when one of the members is gored by a shark. |
| 214 | * The titular creature of ''Film/TheBlackDemon'' is no ordinary great white or tiger shark. It is a megalodon AnimalisticAbomination set on attacking the stranded occupants of an offshore oil rig. |
| 215 | * ''Blue Water, White Death'': This 1971 documentary, for its name alone. |
| 216 | * ''Film/Cyclone1978'': Zigzagged. Sharks show up three times in the 118 minute movie. The first time, one of them kills a man with injured legs who is drifting in the water but leaves everyone else alone. The second time, the survivors fish for the shark for food and injure it with their hook. When one of them falls into the water, he's in a hurry to get back aboard before the shark goes after him, but it doesn't seem to go after him. In the final scene, though, a school of sharks attack the drifting characters who are awaiting rescue and kill several of them even though none of them are bleeding at first. |
| 217 | * ''Film/DamSharks'': A ferocious coastal storm sweeps several dozen bull sharks far upstream into a wildlife park, where for some reason they start emulating beavers by both hunting as a pack and building dams made up of equal parts floating logs and bodyparts from their kills as a combination of water trap and food locker. The fact that this kind of behavior has '''no''' precedent in reality is actually lampshaded, but the film never explains it. |
| 218 | * ''Film/DarkTide2012'': Features great white sharks |
| 219 | * ''Film/DeepBlueSea'': The only thing worse than sharks? ''Super-intelligent'' sharks. The scientists were extracting some kind of fluid from the sharks' brains for their research. They genetically modified them to grow larger brains so they could extract more fluid. Of course, larger brains also meant smarter sharks. Most notable is how the character played by none other than [[spoiler:''Creator/SamuelLJackson'' is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMwmqp3GLMc eaten by one of these sharks]] ''while indoors''.]] Notably, the sharks were explicitly mentioned to be mutated makos and not great whites. |
| 220 | * ''Film/DeepBlueSea2'': Seems to follow the trend set by its predecessor, featuring mutated bull sharks instead of makos. |
| 221 | * The second sequel, ''Film/DeepBlueSea3'', plays this straight with the genetically-engineered offspring of the previous film's shark. Interestingly, the film portrays this trio as unnaturally aggressive, while the ordinary sharks living in the area are accurately portrayed as animals with little interest in human divers. Then there is "Sally", a large female Great White the protagonist has spent years studying -- while she makes a threatening dominance display at the beginning of the film, Sally later ends up saving Emma from an attacker. |
| 222 | * ''Film/DevilFish'' is a bizarre aversion: The film seems to be aiming for this trope (it was originally titled ''Shark -- Rosso nell'oceano'' and elsewhere ''Monster Shark'') but fails seemingly due to the filmmakers' ignorance about what a shark ''is''. |
| 223 | * ''Series/{{Flipper}}'': The 1996 film features Scar, a ferocious Great Hammerhead (the largest variety of hammerhead shark) who lurks in the area, is rumored to have taken out a tourist boat, and shows up during the climax to threaten Sandy. Fortunately, Flipper (with help from his pod) is able to drive him away in time. |
| 224 | * ''Film/GhostShark'': The ghost of a great white shark. That can appear in any body of water, no matter the size. |
| 225 | * ''Film/GreatWhite'': After the seaplane is sunk, the five passengers are stranded in a life raft being circled by a giant great white shark. |
| 226 | * ''Film/HelloDownThere'': A group of sharks menace the underwater house at one point, although they aren’t portrayed as being deliberately predatory. They are attracted by the trash the family dumps (the film was made before most environmental regulations), and when Fred tries to divert them away by spraying a shark-attracting chemical nearby, the current carries it back to the house and the sharks follow. |
| 227 | * In ''Film/InventionForDestruction'', one of the SubmarinePirates is taken by a shark while looting the sunken merchantman in a diving suit. |
| 228 | * ''Film/JamesBond'' |
| 229 | ** Movies with a SharkPool: ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'', ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'', ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', ''Film/LicenceToKill''... |
| 230 | ** In ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', Bond and Melina are keelhauled by the BigBad as bait for prowling tiger sharks. One of his own mooks gets eaten instead [[BadBoss which doesn't bother him much]]. Fortunately he thinks the sharks have taken care of Bond and Melina as well, when they actually escaped. |
| 231 | ** And in ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'', SPECTRE villainess Fatima Blush plants a homing device on James Bond that will summon sharks to attack him. |
| 232 | * ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' is the TropeCodifier, to the point that it has inspired hundreds of attempts to capitalize off its critical acclaim and [[SummerBlockbuster blockbuster status]]. Impressionable audiences feared it enough to significantly lower beach attendance that summer. Unfortunately, the film is often incorrectly blamed for inducing ''a RealLife, war of extermination against all sharks'', but in truth, shark populations were [[https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/checkpoints/202005/examining-media-myths drastically declining]] for completely different reasons well before this movie was made. Though efforts have been done to reduce the stigma that is levied against sharks, the initial war upon a keystone species made the original writer, Peter Benchley, denounce the film as [[CreatorBacklash an old shame]]. He often stated in later years that he could never again write a book like ''Literature/{{Jaws}}'', and he devoted much of his post-Jaws career to ocean conservation. |
| 233 | ** Needless to say, the sequels to ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' all play this trope straight to ridiculous effect. |
| 234 | * ''Film/JerseyShoreSharkAttack'': a parody of the TV series ''Series/JerseyShore''... with sharks added. It has nothing to do with the actual Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 that inspired ''Jaws''. |
| 235 | * ''Film/JuanOfTheDead'': Inverted; a shark ''saves'' Juan and Lázaro from a zombie threatening them. While they are on a raft, a zombie tries to reach them but a shark snatches the zombie and swims off. |
| 236 | * ''Film/{{Jumper}}'': One of the Jumpers, a.k.a {{Flashy Teleport|ation}}ers, assassinates the Paladins by dumping them at sea surrounded by sharks. |
| 237 | * In ''Film/LadyInCement'', sharks start circling the scuba diving Tony just as he finds Sandra Lomax's corpse in her CementShoes. |
| 238 | * ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'': Subverted/parodied in the second movie, where being surrounded by sharks, Lara Croft punches one in the nose and proceeds to ride it to the surface. |
| 239 | * ''Film/LethalWeapon4'': Leo catches a small shark (alive) while out fishing with the heroes. When their boat sinks, the shark escapes; rather than booking it for the horizon, as any sensible animal would do, its fin is shown lingering near the swimming characters to add menace to the scene. |
| 240 | * ''Film/LeMagnifique'': This French movie, a parody of spy flicks, begins with a spy character "eaten by a shark while in a phone booth." Yes, that's how it is actually described in the movie. To be more specific, the phone booth was lifted up by a helicopter with the spy inside, dropped into the sea, and then a caged shark was freed to attack him while still in the phone booth. Hard to top as a needlessly complicated execution method... |
| 241 | * ''Film/Mako2021'': The main obstacle that the film crew faces in the movie is the Mako shark that's swimming in the vicinity of the Salem Express shipwreck. By the end of the movie, it's [[spoiler:taken the lives of five of them]]. |
| 242 | * ''Film/MakoTheJawsOfDeath'': A telepath uses sharks to kill anyone who threatens the sharks themselves. |
| 243 | * ''Film/MalibuSharkAttack'': Combined DisasterMovie (tsunami) with shark film. Also a case of Somewhere An Ichthyologist Is Crying, as real goblin sharks are sluggish, flabby-muscled wimps by shark standards. |
| 244 | * ''Film/TheMeg'': How do you top a Great White? With an even bigger prehistoric shark awakened from the bottom of the ocean! [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81erRS108iL._AC_SY679_.jpg One poster]] homaging ''Jaws'' had the shark coming up under the swimmer getting chased by an even ''bigger'' shark behind it. |
| 245 | * ''Film/MySuperExGirlfriend'': The title ex-girlfriend throws a shark at the protagonist. The protagonist is ''in his new girlfriend's bedroom'' at the time. Several stories up in an apartment building. |
| 246 | * ''Film/OpenWater'': The first film, anyway. Double subversion, since nothing bad happens the ''first'' time a shark appears. The problem is later when it, presumably, gets curious and comes back... with ''friends''. From then on, it just gets worse. Also notable is the fact that not only are the sharks all real (even the ones interacting with the actors) but are all species one would have a reasonably good chance of encountering in RealLife, compared to, say, the more-famous-but-rarer great white. |
| 247 | ** [[Film/OpenWater3 The third film]] has the imperiled protagonists on a shark-watching trip. Their boat capsizes, and thanks to all the chum that their tour guides threw in the water to attract the sharks, they now have to contend with a myriad of them hovering around. |
| 248 | * The TV-movie adaptation of ''Literature/PeterBenchleysCreature'' changed the title creature from a man-turned-Nazi weapon with metal teeth and claws into an American military-made bipedal great white shark. |
| 249 | * ''Film/ThePhantom1996'': The Sengh Brotherhood's secret base is in shark-infested water. |
| 250 | * ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' has a few sharks swimming around some shipwrecks in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl first movie]]; Maccus, Davy Jones' first mate from the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest second]] and [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third]] movie, is a SharkMan; and in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales fifth]] movie, the antagonists keep a brace of ''undead'' sharks on their ship and sic them on their enemies. |
| 251 | * ''Planet of the Sharks'' and its continuation ''Empire of the Sharks'' are [[Creator/TheAsylum Asylum]]-made copycats of ''Film/{{Waterworld}}''. So how to make them legally distinct from the original (aside from [[BMovie the lower budget]])? Have sharks proliferate up the wazoo after the planet floods and give the WastelandWarlord and the MysteriousWaif [[CompositeCharacter who composites]] the Mariner and Enola the power to control them. |
| 252 | * The ''Film/PoliceStory'' spinoff, ''First Strike'', has Jackie Chan fighting enemy mooks which inevitably leads to the interior of an aquarium's shark tank. Chan and the mook he's fighting spends most of the underwater battle trying to cut each other to lure the shark into eating one another, but luckily neither men ends up being devoured as they both got out and continues fighting on land. |
| 253 | * ''Film/TheReef'': This Aussie film features four tourists forced to swim to an island ten miles away when their boat capsizes. Through a known shark zone. And yes, they do encounter great white sharks. |
| 254 | * ''Film/{{Revolution 2012}}'': Averted Trope. Rob Stewart and an assistant are in the water with sharks at the start of the {{Documentary}} and nothing bad happens to them. |
| 255 | * ''Film/SandSharks''. A bunch of armored demonic-looking sharks that breathe air and swim through sand terrorizes a cliffside beach. |
| 256 | * Creator/{{Syfy}}, née the Sci-Fi Channel (you could almost say that this is a regular monster in films made by Creator/TheAsylum): |
| 257 | ** There have been times when this network has shown several movies of sharks attacking people back to back. Megalodons (giant prehistoric sharks) are quite often involved, e.g.. ''Film/MegaSharkVsGiantOctopus''. |
| 258 | ** Incidentally, if the title has ''Shark vs.'' anything, it's probably by Asylum -- if they make anything that isn't a {{Mockbuster}} or a bad Christian flick, it's a giant shark fighting something else equally nasty. |
| 259 | ** Mega Shark has returned to face off against another giant prehistoric predator: [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile Crocosaurus]]. |
| 260 | * Creator/BlakeLively finds herself menaced by a shark in ''Film/TheShallows''. It's later indicated that the aggressive great white in question has a bad history with humans, given the spear fragment lodged in its mouth. |
| 261 | * ''Film/SharkAttack'': A freak record of shark attacks are plaguing a South African fishing town. It does vary it a bit, showing other species such as Tiger Sharks and Makos besides the familiar Great White. |
| 262 | * ''Film/SharkAttack3Megalodon'': Which, of course, features a megalodon. |
| 263 | * ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'': It's a tornado... carrying tons of sharks. |
| 264 | * ''Film/Sharknado2TheSecondOne'': It's a ''blizzard'' tornado... carrying tons of sharks. |
| 265 | * ''Film/SharkNight 3D'': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Obviously centers on this trope.]] A group of college students spends a weekend at a lake which has inexplicably become home to various man-eating species of sharks. The kicker? The sharks were supplied by a couple of rednecks who want to cash in on the Discovery Channel's Shark Week craze...by feeding college students to the sharks, and recording video footage of the attacks to post online, sell to various channels, etc. |
| 266 | * ''Film/{{Sharktopus}}'': Combines this with TentacledTerror. |
| 267 | * ''Film/SharkWeek'': This Asylum-produced film combines ''Jaws'' with ''Saw''. |
| 268 | * ''Film/SoulSurfer'': BasedOnATrueStory. Young surfer Bethany Hamilton almost bleeds to death when a tiger shark bites off her left arm, but she survives and [[HandicappedBadass learns to surf extremely well with only one arm.]] |
| 269 | * ''Film/SpringBreakSharkAttack'': This Made-for-TV low-budget-gore-fest. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: attractive coeds in bathing suits and sharks. |
| 270 | * ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' has Nanaue, aka King Shark, a [[DumbMuscle simple-minded but extremely lethal]] man/shark hybrid descended from an ancient shark god who likes to kill his enemies by eating them. Physically, he is easily the toughest member of the Suicide Squad in the film, able to withstand a ton of gunfire and get back up, and also the most dangerous in hand-to-hand combat. |
| 271 | * ''Film/SuperShark'' features a giant walking, flying shark. And a WalkingTank. |
| 272 | * ''Film/SwampShark'': A mutant shark with the ability to breathe fresh water and covered in crocodile-like scales terrorizes a swamp. |
| 273 | * ''Film/ToxicShark'': A tropical island resort set up as a singles retreat is attacked by a mutated shark that has become a PoisonousPerson after coming into contact with some toxic waste (well, it's ''presumed'', no explanation for its mutations are ever given in the movie). The titular Toxic Shark is covered in a poisonous slime, supposedly arsenic based, which will eventually drive anyone grazed by its skin or bitten by it and surviving into a murderous lunatic whose bites spread the same madness, so you get a Threatening Shark ''and'' a TechnicallyLivingZombie outbreak at the same time. It's also grown a "horn" from which it can spray the slime, causing it to burn like acid. |
| 274 | * In ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'', Kim Jong Il has a SharkPool full of man-eating sharks, played by live dogfish that are bigger than the human marionettes. |
| 275 | * ''Film/UndercoverBrother'': At the end, [[spoiler:Mr. Feather]] falls from a helicopter and chomped by a shark just before falling into the ocean. |
| 276 | * ''Film/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea'' |
| 277 | ** A frogman kills a shark just for swimming near them, on the presumption that it's going to attack. [[ArtisticLicenseMarineBiology It's a carpenter shark]], which tend not to harm humans unless threatened. |
| 278 | ** Zigzagged when a scientist on board the ''Seaview'', which is large enough to have its own SharkPool for marine research, is shown in the pool with the shark 'walking' it around the pool so it won't drown after being drugged for a medical examination. Later the trope is played straight when someone falls into the pool and is eaten by the now fully conscious shark. |
| 279 | * ''Film/{{Yellowbeard}}'': This pirate comedy plays with this when the title character's wife is taken captive by the Royal Navy and pumped for information offscreen; when she's ready to talk, she says, "I think it was that shark that jogged my memory." [[spoiler:"The Shark" is the handsome sailor (David Bowie in a cameo) who brings her into the office, who has a shark's fin strapped to his back; he "jogged her memory" via sex.]] |
| 280 | * ''Film/{{Zombi 2}}'': This Lucio Fulci film has a shark fighting a [[ZombieApocalypse zombie]]. [[SubvertedTrope It's a draw]]. |
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| 283 | [[folder:Gamebooks]] |
| 284 | * The ''FightingFantasy'' series of books seems to contain hostile sharks in any maritime-inspired adventure. |
| 285 | ** ''Literature/DemonsOfTheDeep'' is an adventure where you get to explore Atlantis after landing in an underwater Magic Circle allowing you to breathe. Naturally, you DO get attacked by sharks, and at one point save a FriendlyPlayfulDolphin from a shark attack, where the dolphin will aid you in return. |
| 286 | ** The multiplayer adventure, ''Literature/TheRiddlingReaver'', has the player's party being caught in a sinking ship near the second act, at which point they get attacked by three sharks, which they'll need to work together to defeat. |
| 287 | ** ''Literature/{{Bloodbones}}'', an adventure involving pirates, have you WalkThePlank, escape, and battle a shark while seeking dry land. |
| 288 | ** ''Literature/{{Stormslayer}}'' have you travelling through different lands of varying environments, including an underwater world, and once again you're assailed by shark enemies. Although in this book the sharks that attack you are hammerheads. |
| 289 | * ''Literature/AppointmentWithFEAR'', which have you playing the role of a superhero, contains a scenario where you stop a shark attack on a crowded beach, in a blatant ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' ShoutOut. Think of it as, "What if a superhero is present in ''Jaws'' during one of those shark attacks?" |
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| 292 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 293 | * At one point in ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'', Captain Nemo invites Professor Arronax on an underwater stroll to visit a pearl fishery, and '''then''' mentions the prospect of sharks. This makes the professor quite nervous: "So there I was, daydreaming about sharks capable of cutting a man in two with their row upon row of teeth. I could already feel a pain in my side." Talking to his friends a few minutes later, he accidentally speaks of "a hundred and fifty sharks" instead of "a hundred and fifty pearls." |
| 294 | -->''I slept rather badly. Sharks played an important role in my dreams.'' |
| 295 | * In the original novel ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'', the giant sea creature that swallows Pinocchio and Geppetto is not a whale but a "Terrible Dogfish". "Dogfish" is a literal translation of "pescecane", the Italian term for sharks. |
| 296 | * ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' |
| 297 | ** This trope is invoked as early as the fourth book. That's when the kids morph dolphin and end up on the wrong end of a battle with sharks, leaving Marco almost bitten in half. Dealing with the intrinsic fear of sharks the experience left him with is a major plot point in ''The Escape''. |
| 298 | ** In ''The Escape'', the fifteenth book in the series, it is revealed that Yeerks have established an underwater base where they capture hammerhead sharks and implant brain-controlling chips in their heads to turn them into shock troopers for an invasion of an alien aquatic world inhabited by psychic man-frogs... The brain-controlling chips are mostly intended to make them smarter... smart enough to hunt in packs like wolves do. Also to enlarge their earholes for even more convenient brain control. The Animorphs later go to said alien world morphed into hammerheads themselves. It proves to be an [[CurbstompBattle inspired choice]]. |
| 299 | * Subverted in Sergey Volnov's ''Literature/ArmyOfTheSun'', where sharks and whales have been [[UpliftedAnimal artificially given intelligence]] and develop PsychicPowers. The sharks actually become deeply philosophical, benign creatures, able to open portals from one planet to another, as long as both feature large bodies of seawater. |
| 300 | * Mr. Shark in ''Literature/TheBadGuys'' book series is considered a dangerous villain, known for eating anyone and anything in sight. He's considered such a threat that his case file hardly even has any info on it, and has the biggest warning out of the others. Despite this, he's still hired on by Mr. Wolf to pull a [[HeelFaceTurn change to good]], much to his confusion and irritation. Despite this, he goes through with the change in earnest, possibly one of the more earnest ones in the group, and ends up as one of the most sensitive members of the group. |
| 301 | * In ''Literature/{{Balefire}}'' by Ken Goddard, a terrorist is planning to infiltrate the United States by swimming from a cargo ship, which is being followed by a shark feeding off the garbage thrown from the vessel. At first, the terrorist is amused by the shark and even feeds it to stave off the boredom of the voyage, but as the time for his infiltration grows near he realises that the shark is being conditioned to regard anything thrown overboard as food. He becomes increasingly paranoid as the shark keeps following them even after he orders the crew to stop disposing of their garbage, and eventually has to resort to shooting it. |
| 302 | * ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Ghosts II'': A ''ghost'' shark is featured in ''Shark!''. |
| 303 | * ''Literature/CodexAlera'' |
| 304 | ** Subverted when Captain Demos mentions that sharks are likely to be more of a problem to a group of swimmers than [[KrakenAndLeviathan leviathans]]... But when a shark messes with [[MakingASplash Isana]], she ''throws it bodily out of the water and up twenty feet onto the deck of a pirate ship''. |
| 305 | ** Played straight before that when Tavi had his army dump the blood and guts from butchered animals in the river when he was defending a bridge, attracting sharks from miles downstream and ensuring that any Canim attempting to swim around the bridge wouldn't make it very far. |
| 306 | * In ''Literature/TheCoralIsland'', the castaways paddle out into the lagoon on a log to fish, only to find themselves pursued by a shark. They briefly distract it by throwing the fish they've caught at it. Then Jack beats it off with a paddle, upsetting the log and dumping the three of them into the water. By that point they're close enough to swim to shore before the shark gets close to them again, but they never venture into the lagoon again until they've built a proper boat. |
| 307 | * The finale of ''Literature/DeceptionPoint'' takes place on a marine biologist's rig over a massive swarm of sharks. Some baddies do find their way in, naturally. |
| 308 | * Cretaceous-era sharks in ''{{Literature/Dinoverse}}'' cause some apprehension -- Janine notices an Ischyrhizz and thinks "Oh, good. A killing machine with a Ginsu knife attachment. MotherNature must have been in a funny mood when she came up with that one" -- but the real danger is from the [[StockNessMonster Elasmosaurus]] and Mososaurus lurking in that same ocean, picking off said sharks when the whim takes them. |
| 309 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' |
| 310 | ** In Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', the wizards, out at sea, see one. One wizard starts to burble about how they are maligned and list all their wonderful attributes. Unfortunately, it's the list about wolves, not sharks. |
| 311 | ** At the beginning of ''Literature/InterestingTimes'', a shark tries to attack Rincewind, but [[AlwaysABiggerFish is eaten by the Luggage.]] |
| 312 | ** ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'': "Vimes's grin was as funny as the one that moves very fast towards drowning men. And has a fin on top." |
| 313 | * ''Literature/Dive2003'': Zigzagged. When Kaz sees a shark on his first dive, he panics, stabs it, and is promptly rebuked for doing so, with Captain Vanover lambasting ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' for creating a negative stereotype of animals who will swim past divers without a moment of aggression unless there's already blood in the water. However, whenever there ''is'' blood in the water, an eighteen-foot tiger shark nicknamed Clarence is willing to hungrily lunge at the heroes while displaying a wide maw of teeth. |
| 314 | * ''Literature/GentlemanBastard''. Sharks turn up repeatedly in ''The Lies of Locke Lamora'': the [[CityOfCanals city of Camorr]] features GladiatorGames where [[RuleOfCool female gladiators fight them]], and Camorr's top crime boss employs a SharkPool when the need arises. [[spoiler:The BigBad begins a final overthrow of said crime boss by having a shark (being controlled by magic) jump out of the pool and bite his arm off.]] |
| 315 | * "Literature/{{He}}" is a short story by Creator/AlanDeanFoster about an oceanographer who ends up encountering a megalodon that has survived for millions of years living in an atoll in American Samoa. |
| 316 | * {{Invoked|Trope}} with Scarface the SharkMan in ''Literature/HeartOfSteel'', whose job it is to patrol the waters around [[IslandBase Shark Reef Isle]] for potential intruders. Of course, his creator, [[MadScientist Alistair Mechanus]], thinks that he's an absolute sweetheart. |
| 317 | * ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'': The peach is attacked by sharks when floating on the sea, causing the frightened crew to escape by lifting the peach into the air with hundreds of seagulls. Later, they are surprised to discover that the sharks have hardly damaged the peach at all, which is explained in the narrative about sharks having a mouth awkwardly set back under their long nose. |
| 318 | * ''Literature/JamesBond'': |
| 319 | ** Felix Leiter in ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie'' is captured by the bad guys, who proceed to lower him into the pool with a hungry shark, which bites off a hand and a leg from him. Later Bond must swim to the BigBad's IslandBase which is surrounded by sharks, but he's more concerned about barracudas because he knows sharks typically don't attack people of their own accord. [[spoiler:Turns out the villains throw blood and offal into the water every night to send them into a feeding frenzy.]] |
| 320 | ** As Bond swims his way to the secret island base of the NebulousEvilOrganization SPECTRE in ''Literature/NobodyLivesForEver'', he is chased to the ground by a bull shark which he happens to come by. |
| 321 | * ''Literature/{{Jaws}}'', the [[AdaptationDisplacement original book]] by Creator/PeterBenchley. Benchley also wrote ''White Shark'' (later re-titled ''Literature/PeterBenchleysCreature''), about a genetically engineered HalfHumanHybrid [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi shark]]. A keen environmentalist, he [[CreatorBacklash later regretted his contribution to the Threatening Shark trope]] and wrote several non-fiction books about sharks and their important place in the ecosystem. |
| 322 | * ''Literature/KillerSharksTheRealStory'' is a 1977 book by 'Captain' Brad Matthews with an unforgettable cover of a screaming bathing beauty being swept into the bloody toothed maw of a shark. Supposedly written by a survivor of the USS Indianapolis whose experience caused him to dedicate his life to the study of sharks, it's actually BasedOnAGreatBigLie by novelist Nelson [=DeMille=] to cash in on ''Jaws''. |
| 323 | %%* The general idea behind Steve Alten's ''Literature/{{Meg}}'' series of novels. |
| 324 | * ''Literature/TheMermaidChronicles'': When Cordelia was thirteen, she lost her mother and brother to a shark attack. Now the news reports an unusually high number of shark attacks, much to the confusion of her father, who studies sharks and knows they shouldn't be that aggressive. [[spoiler:They're not regular sharks -- they're shapeshifters called selachii. Zale and his gang have been killing humans to turn them into selachii in order to wage war against the High Council.]] |
| 325 | * ''Literature/Mermaids2001'': In ''Rani's Sea Spell'', Rani and her family, along with Octavius, are traveling through the open ocean when they're attacked by a shark. Rani tells Octavius to throw away the bags of stew he's carrying. The shark dives after the stew while the group swims to safety. |
| 326 | %%* The brain sharks of ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire''. |
| 327 | * Leviathan in ''Literature/MyVampireOlderSisterAndZombieLittleSister'' is a demon lord in the form of a 30 metre[[note]]about 100 feet, for those who use imperial[[/note]] long shark. It is even stronger than expected from its size, capable of casually destroying buildings by ramming them and jumping several stories into the air. On top of that, it has telepathic powers that it can use to paralyze people or to forcibly draw them into an alternate dimension with a five storey-deep flood, giving itself the home field advantage. |
| 328 | * In ''Literature/{{Nation}}'', sharks are practically the personification of FromBadToWorse: |
| 329 | ** While rescuing a drowning man -- in the middle of a [[AlternateHistory very]] [[{{Atlantis}} surprising]] discovery -- Mau is forced to confront a hungry shark. [[spoiler:He wins, too.]] |
| 330 | ** [[spoiler:First Mate Cox]] would almost certainly have died from [[spoiler:that axe in his chest]], but [[RasputinianDeath just to be sure]] he gets eaten by sharks, too. |
| 331 | * In the ''Literature/NotQuiteAMermaid'' series, these are a common threat. The coral reef around Mermaid Island protects the mermaids who live in the lagoon, but venturing into the open ocean is dangerous, and at one point some sharks get into the lagoon through a hole in the reef. Splash the dolphin is orphaned by sharks, and as he tries to escape, he beaches himself on Craggy Island. He only survives because Electra finds him, helps him back into the ocean, and takes him to Mermaid Island with her. |
| 332 | * ''Literature/TheOctoberChild'': One day when Carl is a baby, Kenneth and Douglas go swimming together. Then Kenneth feels a shark brush against him. The brothers swim to shore as quickly as possible. |
| 333 | * In ''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure'', Saint Dane sends a quig shark to attack Bobby and Loor on land in another DIMENSION! |
| 334 | * In ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'', when Buttercup tries to swim away from the ship, Vizzini warns her that, unless she comes back immediately, he will cut his arms and legs and draw blood into a cup and throw it into the water "and sharks can smell blood in the water for miles and you won't be beautiful for long." She doesn't, he does, the sharks go mad, and the narrator interrupts to say that, of course, Buttercup doesn't get eaten at that time. (The movie replaced the sharks with shrieking eels.) |
| 335 | * ''Literature/TheRawSharkTexts'' by Steven Hall features a "purely conceptual" shark that swims through memes, eating memories and identities. |
| 336 | * ''Literature/RealMermaids'': When the protagonists visit the Bahamas in ''Real Mermaids Don't Sell Seashells'', Jade spends most of the trip afraid that a shark will attack her. Her worries come true late in the book, when she's swimming along the seafloor with a heavy backpack and a tiger shark grabs the backpack and starts shaking her. Luckily for her, a pod of {{heroic dolphin}}s comes to her rescue by ramming into the shark and chasing it off. |
| 337 | * ''Literature/{{Redshirts}}'' has ice sharks, though the characters can't figure out whether they're sharks made of ice or sharks living in ice; all they know is that some hapless crewmember got eaten by one. |
| 338 | * Towards the end of ''Literature/RedStormRising'', a Soviet pilot and an American one, both of their planes went down during the big [[OldSchoolDogfight dogfight]] when NATO retook Iceland, bring their life rafts together to take advantage of the American's shark repellent. The Soviet pilot voices a distinct unease with being devoured by "a carnivorous fish". |
| 339 | * ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' |
| 340 | ** Sharks often show up during the seafaring scenes. In ''The Bellmaker'', Finbarr Galedeep sings a silly song about sharks, and later that evening a very worried Rufe Brush comes and asks him what a shark looks like. He tells him that mostly all you'll see is a big pointy fin, to which Rufe responds "[[OhCrap Does it look like this one circling our ship, sir?]]" |
| 341 | ** And in ''Triss'', Krrova, Scarum, and Saxtus run across a shark at least ''twice''. |
| 342 | * ''Literature/RipTide1984'', a novel by Donald Cheatham, involves a 26-foot tiger shark stalking Florida shores. Halfway through the focus of the novel switches to an incoming hurricane which dramatically increases the death quotient, with the shark only a bit player. |
| 343 | * In ''Literature/SharkIsland'' by Chris Jameson, a team of scientists mucks about with acoustic signals to control seal patterns, which also happens to make the great white sharks in the area become highly aggressive killing machines. |
| 344 | * ''Literature/SharkWars'', a book series by E. J. Altbacker is about a shark named Gray and his fellow shark friends as they defend their home waters from their enemies. |
| 345 | * Charlie the intelligent, bipedal, amorphous mutated great white in ''Literature/{{Slimer}}''. |
| 346 | * ''Literature/SnowShark'' is about a seemingly ravenous man-made shark designed by the military to attack its victims in snowy terrains. It ends up accidentally being released into public territory that just so happens to be only a few miles away from a heavily populated snow lodge. |
| 347 | * In ''Literature/StarIsland'', Bang Abbott lured a pack of hungry lemon sharks to a crowded beach so he could take a lucrative photograph of the ensuing mayhem. The discovery of his unethical scheme forced him out of newspapers and into tabloid photography, where he shows similar poor judgment. |
| 348 | * In his essay "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" (collected in an anthology of the same name and about a luxury Caribbean cruise he had taken to report on for ''[[UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers Harper's]]''), Creator/DavidFosterWallace goes on an extended tangent about his horror of and fascination with sharks, detailing his boyhood obsession with shark attacks (including an extensive knowledge of the attacks on the survivors of the sinking of USS ''Indianapolis'') and how crazy it was to see ''Jaws'' when he was 13. He also tries to lure sharks to swim by the ship, to no avail. |
| 349 | * ''Literature/TheSyrenaLegacy'': Early in ''Of Poseidon'', Emma's best friend Chloe is attacked by a shark, which tries to drag her away. Emma fights the shark for several minutes, to no avail. Eventually Emma, not knowing about [[TheBeastmaster her abilities]], yells "Stop!" and the shark swims away, but by that point Chloe is dead. |
| 350 | * In the ''Literature/Tempest2011'' trilogy, sharks usually leave merpeople alone, but while Tempest is swimming with a wounded tail in ''Tempest Unleashed'', a shark smells her blood and starts circling her. Tempest doesn't have the strength for another fight. Fortunately for her, when the shark brushes against her it gets frightened by her magic power and swims away. |
| 351 | * In ''Literature/TheVazulaChronicles'', the magical boundary of the [[UnderwaterCity triple kingdoms]] keeps predators out, but merpeople who venture into the open ocean often have to dodge or fight off sharks. Merletta always carries a stone weapon, and later a spear, whenever she leaves the triple kingdoms. |
| 352 | * In ''Literature/VenusAmongTheFishes'', the dolphins Coral, Snapper, and Sea Fan are chased by six sharks. They narrowly escape into a kelp forest. |
| 353 | * The second ''Literature/YoungWizards'' novel has a ninety-foot long shark as a ''major character''. While he doesn't make things worse for the good guys, he definitely makes things worse for the bad guys. However, he still scares the crap out of his allies, because he will eat anything that's [[MercyKill in distress]], including his friends. Note that he's not a great white: he's older than that SPECIES of shark, considering that, you know, [[spoiler:he was the original shark to accept the first Silent One's sacrifice.]] |
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| 356 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 357 | * Subverted in ''Australian Wilderness with Ray Mears'' when Ray goes scuba diving and spends some time swimming alongside a young whale shark. As noted under Real Life, whale sharks are harmless to humans and all they eat is plankton. Ray describes the experience as "amazing." In the same episode, he examines an ancient fossilized megalodon tooth that ''still has sharp edges.'' |
| 358 | * Shawn Weatherly's character was killed off ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' in the first season by being attacked by a shark. |
| 359 | * ''Series/TheBionicWoman'' episode "Deadly Music". A villain plants a homing device on Jaime Sommers that will summon sharks to attack her. Hey, wait a minute! |
| 360 | * In ''Series/BluePeter'', Caron Keating dives with blue sharks off the coast of California. She is in a cage with an open front, and an experienced diver Terry bats the sharks away by punching them on the nose. She then finds that she has to swim out of the cage to return to the boat. |
| 361 | --> '''Caron:''' You'll tell me when I'm about to be eaten? |
| 362 | --> '''Terry:''' I'll give you a clue. |
| 363 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'' has an episode where a tiger shark was released into a swimming pool full of people and bit a woman's arm off, but it turned out she was already dead. |
| 364 | * ''Series/CSIMiami'' has several episodes investigating victims of sharks. |
| 365 | * Creator/DiscoveryChannel's ''Shark Week'' deserves a mention, since that wouldn't exist if sharks weren't so badass and awesome. |
| 366 | * In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]", the Doctor and young Kazran nearly get eaten by a shark (that [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial swims in the fog]]). Subverted in that the shark apparently isn't as vicious as it seems: the Doctor, in true {{Cloudcuckoolander}} fashion, harnesses it to a flying sleigh and goes for a joyride. |
| 367 | * In the second season of ''Series/TheFlash2014'', King Shark appears at the end of Episode 4, and later returns as the MonsterOfTheWeek for Episode 15. |
| 368 | * In ''Series/TheFutureIsWild'', a distant-future flooded Earth has as its top predator a charming critter called the Sharkopath, a highly intelligent aquatic pack hunter that communicates with its packmates using flashes of bioluminescence. |
| 369 | * Played straight in one episode of ''Series/H2OJustAddWater'', subverted in another. This show's version of DrivenToSuicide has Cleo swim into the middle of a known shark breeding ground (don't worry, she lives). Another episode has Rikki deciding to enter a short film competition about heroes and make the film about sharks. Because she is a mermaid she is able to get much closer to sharks in their natural habitat with a camera than professionals (she can't use the footage however for the same reasons). When Zane runs into sharks Rikki simply uses her powers to heat up the water and scare them off. |
| 370 | * That episode of ''Series/HappyDays''. [[JumpTheShark You know the one.]] Not dangerous for the characters, but the show got wounded pretty bad. |
| 371 | * ''Series/TheHardyBoysNancyDrewMysteries'': the third season episode ''Last Kiss of Summer'' has one of the bad guys trying to kill off Frank Hardy by taking him surfing at a university breeding area for great whites. |
| 372 | * In the ''Series/{{Haven}}'' episode "Over My Head", a woman named Daphne is trapped in a crashed car at low tide, while a shark circles and waits for the tide to rise so it can reach her. Her Trouble causes her to manifest these dangers to people she believes might rescue her. As such, an imaginary shark gobbles a woman in a pool, among other, less immediately fatal occurrences. |
| 373 | * ''Series/TheILand'': The waters around the island are populated with sharks, which almost kill some of the stranded people when they go out for a swim. |
| 374 | * ''Series/TheJeffCorwinExperience'': As Jeff Corwin oh so eloquently explained about any sane animal's reaction to this trope: "If you wanna get them all out of the water and onto the beach all you gotta do is go like this...SHARK! SHARK!" |
| 375 | * "Adrift", the second episode of ''Series/{{Lost}}'''s second season, features Michael and Sawyer stuck on tiny remnants of their exploded raft. Sawyer's gunshot wound eventually attracts a shark, because of course floating in the middle of the ocean on scraps of bamboo isn't jeopardy enough! At one point, Sawyer tries to get from one raft to another, with the shark nearby, which may have been a play on the phrase JumpTheShark. |
| 376 | * The 2013 Shark Week {{Mockumentary}} special ''Film/MegalodonTheMonsterSharkLives'' is about a group of scientists in South Africa trying to uncover evidence that a megalodon, a giant prehistoric shark, was responsible for sinking a ship. |
| 377 | * The ''Series/MythBusters'' have done multiple shark myths rooted both in RealLife anecdotes and popular fiction. Fun fact: [=MythBuster=] team member Grant Imahara is absolutely terrified of sharks. Naturally, he gets to be the one who goes into the water for every myth involving sharks. |
| 378 | -->'''[[Series/ThirtyRock Tracy Jordan]]:''' Live every week like it's Shark Week. |
| 379 | * Subverted in the Netflix series ''Our Great National Parks.'' A young female Great White shark is shown approaching a crowded California beach and getting close to a stand-up paddle boarder as the music becomes increasingly suspenseful... then the [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama narrator]] explains that a shark this age is only six feet long and only preys on fish. |
| 380 | * In an episode of ''Series/{{Psych}}'', the VictimOfTheWeek appears to have been killed by a shark. As it turned out, [[ThisBearWasFramed this shark was framed.]] |
| 381 | * Chevy Chase's "Land Shark" sketches on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. |
| 382 | -->"Candygram!" |
| 383 | * ''Shark Tank'' (known in other countries as ''Series/DragonsDen'') uses shark imagery to represent how ruthless the investors are. |
| 384 | * ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' episode "Sharks". A villain group has learned how to train and control sharks. |
| 385 | * Shows up in the occasional MonsterOfTheWeek in ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', but subverted as often as not when there's a shark among the heroes: |
| 386 | ** ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger''/''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' and ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger''/''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'' each have a shark-themed Blue Ranger and an additional hammerhead mecha. |
| 387 | ** ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger''/''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' gives the Red Ranger some shark gear. ''Gekiranger'' also has Sharkie Chan, a SharkMan who knows martial arts, although he's one of the good guys and actually really friendly all around. In ''Jungle Fury'', we are introduced to the American exclusive Spirit Rangers, one of which is a Shark Ranger. |
| 388 | ** The shark-like Sandaaru of ''Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'' is the most powerful of the Seven Dark Spears who serve [[BigBad Tau Zant]] and the most ruthless of them, destroying an entire planet to gain a single artifact and [[spoiler:backstabbing Tau Zant in the finale.]] His counterpart in ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' Vexacus was no less menacing. |
| 389 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' has a shark-themed upgrade. (It was originally a dinosaur in ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'', but the US production did some tweaking.) |
| 390 | ** One of the toughest MonstersOfTheWeek in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' was called the "Slippery Shark". |
| 391 | ** The shark-based monster Sogizarai from episode 36 of ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' may be a MonsterOfTheWeek like usual, but his SpinAttack delivers a very brutal beatdown within that brief time. One hero gets sent sliding across the floor ''after his weapon is smashed.'' |
| 392 | ** ''Series/DoubutsuSentaiZyuohger'' has a female shark-themed blue ranger named Sela (derived from "selachos", or "shark" in ancient Greek), whose title is "Monarch of the rough seas". And due to being a [[BeastMan Zyuman]], her true form is even a [[SharkMan Shark Woman]]. |
| 393 | ** ''Series/AvataroSentaiDonbrothers'' has Don Murasame, a sentient sword that follows the commands of "Mother", who is themed on a shark. He starts off as an antagonist before [[spoiler:the final episode, where he joins the Donbrothers.]] |
| 394 | * The ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' has its share of shark-based water kaiju: |
| 395 | ** Samekujira is the last monster from ''Series/UltramanTaro'' and a kaiju-sized alien shark-whale brought to earth by an alien invader named Valky. It can travel on land, however, as well as having traits borrowed from sawfish in it's beak. |
| 396 | ** ''Series/UltramanTiga'' has a LandShark monster called a Geozark, who spends most of the episode drilling throughout the city with it's fin being the only part of the monster that's visible. Subverted when [[spoiler:it turns out to be a tunnelling robot created by Keigo Masaki]]. |
| 397 | ** [[Franchise/UltramanZero Ultraman Belial]] is meant to resemble a shark, with his sharp head crest and dorsal fin, mouth full of sharp teeth and black, muscular body. |
| 398 | ** Genegarg from ''Series/UltramanZ'' is based on a tiger shark (even bearing the BossSubtitles "Ferocious Space Shark"!) and like real-life tiger sharks, would gladly chomp on and swallow literally ''everything'' in its way, including another monster called Bullton. [[spoiler:It's especially threatening since it's heavily implied to be a bioweapon [[BigBad Celebro]] obtained from a previous Civilization Self-Destruction Game.]] |
| 399 | * The ''Walking With...'' series frequently subvert this by placing sharks alongside even scarier predators: |
| 400 | ** ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs''. During "Cruel Sea", there are plenty of sharks ([[AllThereInTheManual called Hybodus]]) about, but they aren't the top predator. That would be ''[[SeaMonster Liopleurodon]]'', one of the few creatures that is proven to ''always'' make things even worse than they are with sharks. How much worse? Try 21 ft aquatic reptilian killing machine with a combined jaw size of just under 9.5 ft. Run. |
| 401 | ** ''Series/WalkingWithBeasts'' depicts sharks as being outclassed by larger marine predators as well. A group of sharks hunting in the shallows at the northern edge of the Tethys Ocean [[AlwaysABiggerFish flee in terror]] from a hungry ''[[MonsterWhale Basilosaurus]]'', a prehistoric 50 ft killer whale. |
| 402 | ** ''Series/WalkingWithMonsters'': In the first time period that sharks show up, they are playing second fiddle to the much larger [[FiendishFish carnivorous fish]] ''Hyneria''. One of them is SwallowedWhole by the larger predator. |
| 403 | ** ''Series/SeaMonsters'' has sharks as well. ''Stethacanthus'' in the Devonian barely even registers as a threat. There's also the obligatory ''Megalodon'' in the Pliocene. (For reference, the babies are the size of an adult Great White.) The Jurassic still has ''Hybodus'', and the Cretaceous has more sharks that barely register as a threat. There are also ''Xiphactinus'' (a.k.a. The Ugliest Fish in History) and giant mosasaurs, just to make the sharks look irrelevant. |
| 404 | [[/folder]] |
| 405 | |
| 406 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 407 | * "Shark Fighter!" by Music/TheAquabats is about a man who goes on a shark-fighting rampage after a shark eats his girlfriend. |
| 408 | * "The Water Was Red", recorded in 1959 by Johnny Cymbal, is a [[TeenageDeathSongs teenage tragedy song]] about a man whose girlfriend is killed by a shark. At the end of the song, the man kills the shark with a knife as revenge. |
| 409 | * The famous Cumbia song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpeSlKI0mj8 "Tiburón a la vista"]] ("Shark on sight") is very much about this trope. |
| 410 | * [[https://youtu.be/PUaWBjxlc5Q "Sharks"]] by {{Music/Morphine}}. |
| 411 | * Downplayed in Creator/{{Pinkfong}}'s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w Baby Shark]]'' for toddlers. It begins by enumerating a cute shark family -- and then they go hunting. |
| 412 | * "Surfin' Shark" by Darryl Rhoades and the Hahavishnu Orchestra. |
| 413 | * Music/TheTragicallyHip have a song called "Sharks", that opens like this: |
| 414 | -->Sharks don't attack the Irish\ |
| 415 | It's mostly Australians\ |
| 416 | There's nothing accomplished\ |
| 417 | By these splashing citizens. |
| 418 | [[/folder]] |
| 419 | |
| 420 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 421 | * Averted in Myth/PacificMythology, in which the sea gods are usually portrayed as benevolent shark-shaped guardians of the sea. Examples include Ukupanipo, Kamohoalii, and Dakuwaqa. Hawaiian mythology goes one step further and refers to tiger sharks as "na 'aumakua", benevolent ancestor spirits. |
| 422 | * Stories of "weresharks" appear in a number of South Pacific cultures. A good example is [[https://www.to-hawaii.com/legends/nanaue.php Nanaue in Hawaiian legend,]] the son of the aforementioned Kamohoalii and a woman named Kalei. He was born with a shark's mouth on his back and the ability to become a shark upon entering water, so his father warned Kalei that not to feed him any red meat. The taboo was unwittingly broken by his uncle, giving Nanaue an appetite for human flesh as a result. King Shark of DC Comics is directly based on him. |
| 423 | * By contrast, sharks in Japanese mythology are more malicious. The description of a shark monster in the ''Ehon Hyaku Monogatari'' is probably the oldest description of a shark ambushing people like in modern media. |
| 424 | ** A {{Youkai}} known as the Isonade is described as a colossal shark covered in hooked spikes that it uses to shred ships open and impale unlucky sailors. Despite their size, they're very hard to notice, and you'll probably only get a glimpse of its tail before it vanishes beneath the waves. |
| 425 | * Myth/InuitMythology records attacks of Greenland sharks on kayaks, which would be exceptional considering this species is not known to attack humans. However, they are also part of Sedna's entourage of creatures, and thus properly honored as vital for the people's survival. |
| 426 | [[/folder]] |
| 427 | |
| 428 | [[folder:Pinball]] |
| 429 | * In the "WalkThePlank" VideoMode in ''Pinball/BlackRose'', the player must use {{Button Mash|ing}} to outswim a shark. |
| 430 | * ''Pinball/{{Fathom}}'' features a great white shark accompanying the game's killer mermaids. |
| 431 | * ''Pinball/FishTales'' has a cartoony-looking shark on the side of the cabinet, about to hit an unsuspecting fisher with a {{bat|ter Up}}. |
| 432 | [[/folder]] |
| 433 | |
| 434 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 435 | * GarbageWrestler Shark Tsuchiya from Wrestling/{{FMW}}. |
| 436 | * Wrestling/JohnTenta was billed as the Shark as a member of the Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom in Wrestling/{{WCW}} from June 1995 until [[Wrestling/BigBossman Big Bubba]] shaved off half of Tenta's hair to kick him out of the group in June 1996. His ring gear had a shark design and he had shark "teeth" painted onto his beard. His FinishingMove was a running clothesline called the Shark Attack, and he would sometimes [[ManBitesMan "bite"]] his opponents. |
| 437 | * Heartland Wrestling Association's El Piranha became Wrestling/SharkBoy when he was called up by WCW. He had a toothed mask and would get stuck to those he bit. |
| 438 | * Wrestling/{{Jawsolyn}} was an AffectionateParody of the TropeCodifier and the trope in general. |
| 439 | [[/folder]] |
| 440 | |
| 441 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 442 | * ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder'': A large swarm of flying sharks was summoned to take down a rogue team member hiding beneath a giant pile of fish in the tvtropes session. Needless to say, it did not go as planned. |
| 443 | [[/folder]] |
| 444 | |
| 445 | [[folder:Sports]] |
| 446 | * There are a number of teams that [[https://www.totalprosports.com/2014/08/12/13-sports-teams-named-after-sharks/ have sharks in their name]] or use sharks as their mascot, including the NHL's San Jose Sharks, arena football's Jacksonville Sharks, and the Chinese Basketball Association's Shanghai Sharks. How 'threatening' they are depends on how their season is going. |
| 447 | [[/folder]] |
| 448 | |
| 449 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 450 | %%* ''TabletopGame/{{Arduin}}'' has an Air Shark monster. |
| 451 | * ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'': |
| 452 | ** Minor historical tidbit: The totemic animal of Clan Sea Fox got all but wiped out by a new predator introduced into its native oceans by a rival Clan. The Sea Foxes turned insult into opportunity and simply adopted said predator as their ''new'' totem instead; today, they're known as Clan Diamond Shark. The Diamond Sharks somewhat subvert this, however; they generally would [[ArmsDealer rather do business with you than fight you]] and treat their civilians well by Clan standards. |
| 453 | ** The Rim Worlds Republic played it straight; their government was often brutal and they eventually gave rise to an EvilChancellor who would destroy the Star League and plunge human space into 300 years of war. The symbol of the RWR? A shark. |
| 454 | * ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' has the Father of All Sharks, a rarely-seen avatar of Cthulhu that takes the form of an absolutely enormous (dwarfing even a megalodon) and extraordinarily aggressive shark. |
| 455 | * ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'' has megalodons, big enough to be a threat to aquatic HumongousMecha. |
| 456 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' |
| 457 | ** The monster called the bulette, better known as the "land shark", is an aggressive predator that burrows through the soil, complete with fin cutting through the surface of the ''ground'' as it burrows toward you. |
| 458 | ** ''D&D'' also has sharks that live in acid and lava. Because even when you're drowning in acid or lava, sometimes it's just too easy. The monster entry for the acid-breathing shark sums it up pretty well: "What's worse than a pit full of acid? A pit full of acid with a shark in it." |
| 459 | ** It also has regular sharks, the megalodon (giant prehistoric shark), and [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent weresharks]]. |
| 460 | ** The sahuagin are sometimes depicted as [[SharkMan humanoid sharks]], and their patron deity Sekolat takes the form of a giant shark. |
| 461 | ** The terlen is a shark-like creature found across [[{{Hell}} the Lower Planes]], with elongated fins that [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial allow it to fly]], or even wriggle across dry land in pursuit of prey. Their ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' entry notes that terlens' shark ancestors were hardy and dangerous enough to thrive in the worst waters of the multiverse ''before'' they were mutated into amphibious predators. |
| 462 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': Benthic knifeooths are sharks up to twenty feet long and with slender, serpentine bodies. They get their name from their wickedly serrated teeth, which snag in the flesh of their prey -- which translates to almost anything smaller than themselves -- to prevent it from escaping. Luckily, they live in the very deep ocean and far from human settlement. Less luckily, there are plenty of things in Creation, ranging from idle curiosity on the shark's part to a sea god in a bad mood, that can drive one towards the shallows and into contact with humans. |
| 463 | * ''TabletopGame/FabulaUltima'': One of the core rulebook's sample bosses is the Thornshark, an enormous man-eating shark which [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial can fly]] and spray damaging jets of water at its foes. |
| 464 | * ''TabletopGame/HeroClix'': The miniatures game set of Arkham Asylum has a figure of Black Manta, who while being a decent playing piece, is pushed into the category of awesome by having his sculpt feature him surfing on the head of a shark with a frikkin' laser beam on its head. Later on, we get a [[ComicBook/{{BlackestNight}} Black Lantern]] [[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} Aquaman]], who can summon zombie sharks. |
| 465 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Infernum}}'' has Obsidian Sharks, Spawn (a sort of proto-lifeform) that look like sharks made from living volcanic rock which swims through the seas and rivers of flame, magma and molten metal that flow just about everywhere in Hell. And, as Spawn, kill one, and more will promptly tear their way out of its carcass and attack you. |
| 466 | * ''TabletopGame/MiddleEarthRolePlaying'': NÃmaeargyrth, or White Seadeaths (by their description, they're essentially great white sharks), are deadly predators that will hunt anything with meat on it, even taking wounded whales. |
| 467 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Numenera}}'': Jybrils are sea monsters resembling titanic, monstrous sharks with three eyes in a row on each side of their heads. They will attack and eat anything they come across -- humanoids, fish, other sea monsters, machines... -- with the nanites living symbiotically in their tissues allowing them to digest all of it. |
| 468 | * ''TabletopGame/PiratesConstructibleStrategyGame'' introduced giant, boat-sized sharks as a new SeaMonster unit in the ninth set, "Ocean's Edge". They were the smallest of the sea monsters with only two segments, compared to the Sea Serpents with four and KrakenAndLeviathan with five, and like most sea monsters were considered AwesomeButImpractical due to their fragility and inability to carry crew or cargo like normal ships. |
| 469 | * In ''TabletopGame/SalvageHiddenTreasures'', the "Shark Attack!" event has sharks attacking the player and damaging their scuba gears, costing them either 500£ or one of their treasures if they can't afford it. |
| 470 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Stormbringer}}'': In ''Demon Magic'', the adventure "Sorcerer's Isle" had a megalodon that could sink ships by biting through their hulls. |
| 471 | * ''TabletopGame/SwashbucklersOfTheSevenSkies'' has skysharks: "Horse-sized, arrow-shaped carnivores (little more than fanged mouths with wings)". |
| 472 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' has the Carcharodons (or "Space Sharks") Space Marine Chapter, a Chapter of brutal and feared warriors that are rarely seen. And when they ''are'', nothing is left living in their wake. |
| 473 | * ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar''; The Idoneth Deepkin use sharks called Allopexes as beasts of battle for their more elite warriors, who attack with various ranged weapons while the Allopex tears at opponents with its teeth and fins. |
| 474 | * ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' has the Rokea, the weresharks. The Garou serve as Gaia's warriors on land, and the Rokea serve as her warriors at sea. Only since most of them spend all their time away from humanity, they seem a little... off. |
| 475 | * ''TabletopGame/WorldOfSynnibarr'', well-known for its [[BearsAreBadNews flying bears with laser-beam eyes]], also has sharks. Sharks with armor-penetrating teeth, and shapechanging abilities so they can climb aboard your ship. |
| 476 | [[/folder]] |
| 477 | |
| 478 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 479 | * ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': Pridak is the leader of a group of Barraki warlords and an evil shark-man with an army of mutant Takea sharks and [[ABloodyMess suspicious red markings around his mouth.]] This is the guy who [[DisproportionateRetribution destroyed a platoon of his own men for a minor infraction,]] gave the {{Big Bad}}s reason to fear him, [[spoiler:got Makuta thinking about taking over the universe]], [[BadBoss beat the crap]] out of his fellow Barraki (and everybody else) including [[EyeScream ripping out Kalmah's eye]] and tearing off [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Nocturn's]] arm, and he threw [[spoiler:Sarda]] to his army of sharks for mouthing off. [[spoiler:He lived.]] |
| 480 | * Car-eating sharks are often included in some Toys/HotWheels playsets. |
| 481 | * Franchise/{{LEGO}}'s much earlier ''Toys/{{Aquazone}}'' set-line had the classis Aquasharks as the villains for a time. The ''CITY'' line also comes with sharks. |
| 482 | * The ''Tomy Ania Animal'' line has the [[http://image.rakuten.co.jp/yousay-do/cabinet/20151106y/4904810819950_2.jpg "Great White Shark,"]] being an educational toy, it is photorealistic, highly articulated, and its jaw can open and chomp your action figures! The toy line also comes with the Whale Shark, except it's a GentleGiant, and it's [[UnitsNotToScale smaller than the Great White]]. |
| 483 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' has several examples: |
| 484 | ** ''Generation One'' had the Sharkticons, animalistic slaves/goons of the Quintessons, who kept a shark pit in their courtroom. Anyone who got put on trial ended up in the shark pit. |
| 485 | ** Later on, there was Overbite of the Seacons, who turned into a shark with arms and legs. |
| 486 | ** The ''Universe'' toyline established a piece of Cybertronian wildlife known as the Oxide Sharks. ''ComicBook/BeastWarsUprising'' expanded on them a little further -- they can transform as well, in this case into torpedoes, aimed at anyone foolish enough to come near them. |
| 487 | [[/folder]] |
| 488 | |
| 489 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 490 | * ''VisualNovel/SouthScrimshaw'': The Penumbra Shark is described as the fastest predator in the oceans of Aria. It notably has a foldable dorsal fin like certain real-life sailfish that it can retract when it needs to swim faster. One Penumbra Shark ambushes the Calf's Brillo Whale pod as they are journeying across the open ocean at night. Another calf is gruesomely killed by the shark, while the protagonist Calf's mother dies from the exertion of defending him from the shark due to a preexisting parasitic infection. When, years later, the Calf sees a male Brillo Whale that has formed a symbiotic relationship with a group of Chowper sharks that are described as "stupid but friendly" and are visibly much smaller and less dangerous than the Penumbra Shark, the Calf is still too traumatized to go anywhere near them. |
| 491 | * In ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', Shiki can get killed at one point by opening a door, while on land, to find a shark behind it (it's one of Nero Chaos's [[NumberOfTheBeast 666 familiars]]). The doorshark has become something of a meme among the fans. |
| 492 | [[/folder]] |
| 493 | |
| 494 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 495 | * ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Sushi is one of the most recurring threats in the series. He is a metal shark with large teeth and an incredible appetite. |
| 496 | * Gawr Gura of ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'' subverts this. Despite being a CuteMonsterGirl based on a shark, complete with ScaryTeeth, she's a chipper and sweet-tempered GenkiGirl whose ill will towards others is largely limited towards messing with them in cooperative gaming. Played straighter with her EvilCounterpart, Gawr, who was first mentioned in her ImageSong and later manifested in an unarchived concert, though even this is a DownplayedTrope in that the worst she did was insulting the chat members watching her stream and finding the original Gura's "cheerful idol persona" to be grating. |
| 497 | * ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' |
| 498 | ** This is combined this with its land-bound cousin in the form of the {{Bear|sAreBadNews}} Holding A Shark. Really just a cardboard standee that pops out from behind Strong Bad's fence, but a valid meta-character all the same. |
| 499 | ** And there is, of course, our resident parenting expert, Hungry Shark. [[spoiler:He's gonna eat your kids.]] |
| 500 | * ''WebAnimation/HowToKillAMockingbird'': The pirates use flying, [[IncendiaryExponent burning]] sharks as personal transports. |
| 501 | [[/folder]] |
| 502 | |
| 503 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 504 | * ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' has [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p13 sharks with wings.]] |
| 505 | * ''Webcomic/HarkAVagrant'': Sharks don't love you back. You are [[http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=113 food.]] |
| 506 | * In ''Webcomic/MiscellaneousError'', Jack fills his backyard pool with sharks so he can [[CatapultToGlory catapult the shark]]. |
| 507 | * [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zagged]] with Dr. Shark from ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella''. He debuts attempting to turn the entire population of New York into sharks, but then quickly becomes an ally of the "[[ChaoticNeutral heroine]]". However, Wonderella also sometimes forgets [[http://nonadventures.com/2008/08/02/shark-the-herald-angels-sing/ that he is occasionally a supervillain.]] |
| 508 | * ''Webcomic/{{Nedroid}}'' [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] this. There is a shark-like guy with a name that starts with H-something who wears a futuristic space suit. |
| 509 | * ''Webcomic/TheNoobComic'' [[http://www.clichequest.com/index.php?pos=111 "You haven't really played an online game until you get chased by fish."]] |
| 510 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' |
| 511 | ** Xykon entertains himself by feeding [[spoiler:O-Chul]] to an ''acidborn shark''. [[spoiler:He survives.]] |
| 512 | ** In a heroic subversion of this, Paladin [[ActionGirl Lien's]] Celestial Mount is a shark. It certainly makes it worse for the giant demon-octopus she's fighting, though. |
| 513 | * ''Webcomic/ThePerpetualAquarium'' [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] this. Ari, the main character, is a Jetsam, the Neopets equivalent of a shark, who not only refuses to eat fish but rescues and cares for them. |
| 514 | * ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' |
| 515 | ** [[http://xkcd.com/349/ "If we're lucky, the sharks will stay away until we reach shallow water."]] |
| 516 | ** [[http://www.xkcd.com/585/ AAAAAAAA!]] |
| 517 | ** [[http://xkcd.com/1326/ RELEASE THE SHARKS.]] |
| 518 | [[/folder]] |
| 519 | |
| 520 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 521 | * ''WebVideo/AfterlifeSMP'': The "Better Animals Plus" Minecraft mod used in the series adds Sharks as hostile mobs, which has resulted in incidences where various players were attacked by Sharks while out in the wild. [[spoiler:Joey and Katherine even lose their respective fifth and seventh lives as Atlings to Sharks.]] |
| 522 | * ''VideoGame/CyberNations'': Opethian and his Prism Protection Front. No questions asked. |
| 523 | * ''WebVideo/EconomyWatch'': David fights threatening sharks that happen to be {{Loan Shark}}s in a Season 3 episode. |
| 524 | * ''WebVideo/LifeAroundARedDwarf'': The Loricatorumstomads are the [[FantasticFaunaCounterpart Nuskun equivalent]], being apex aquatic predators with sleek bodies and sharp teeth. They're still StarfishAliens, though, so they differ by having, among other things, vertically-oriented jaws, ExtraEyes located near the ends of said jaws, and a chitinous exoskeleton. |
| 525 | * ''Website/{{Neopets}}:'' |
| 526 | ** The shark-like Jetsam neopet species was introduced as the EvilCounterpart to the innocent narwhal-like Flotsams, described as mostly unfriendly and vicious. The first major Jetsam character on the site, [[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/characters/105/ Spectre]], first appeared as a minor plot antagonist before becoming the FinalBoss of "Cheat!", [[StealthPun a card game]]. Though the species's villainous depiction has [[VillainDecay considerably mellowed out]] after the site's early days, they still look always ready to start a fight. True to their predatory nature, they're the only species that can be fed petpets along with food[[note]]not counting Skeiths and Grarrls, which can be fed [[ExtremeOmnivore ANYTHING]][[/note]]. |
| 527 | ** {{Subverted|Trope}} with the Sharky petpet; the item description says that, though they look fierce, they don't have any teeth. |
| 528 | %%* Featured extensively in an episode of the TV Tropes podcast ''Podcast/{{On the Tropes}}''. |
| 529 | %%** Included a debate on who would win, Film/{{Jaws}} or Literature/MobyDick |
| 530 | %%** Included Top 5 Water Scenes |
| 531 | |
| 532 | |
| 533 | %%* WebVideo/RemiGaillard [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRXJf-ANy2A parodied this.]] |
| 534 | * The Website/SCPFoundation's alternate universe counterpart, the Shark Punching Center,[[note]]A RunningGag on "SPC", a common typo of "SCP"[[/note]] takes the threat of sharks ''very'' seriously. There's two joke articles, [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/spc-3284-j SCP-3284-J]] and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-7475-j SCP-7475-J,]] an [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/10-30-a-m orientation transcript,]] and even [[http://spc-wiki.wikidot.com/ a tiny wiki of its own.]] |
| 535 | ** A more serious example is [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1057 SCP-1057,]] which is literally a living blank space with the shape and behavior of a tiger shark. |
| 536 | %%* [[http://cakewrecks.squarespace.com/2008/10/daa-dum.html Beware! It's the Shark Attack Cupcake ... Mountain?]] |
| 537 | %%* [[http://pinochan.net/flash/games/shark-with-wheels.swf Sharks clearly possess the ability to give you seizures.]] |
| 538 | * [[http://youtu.be/6CY_HGl6W2U Shark Pool]] naturally, with the shark... in a swimming pool. |
| 539 | * ''WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld'': In the minigame "Water Rush", the player operating the obstacle panel in the sushi restaurant usually dresses as a shark, and sets off the obstacles which the 'dolphins' have to dodge or risk falling into the water below. |
| 540 | * During the 2015-2016 flight around the world of the solar-powered [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse ''Solar Impulse 2'' airplane]], there was a parody Website/{{Twitter}} account documenting a [[https://twitter.com/joe_the_shark?lang=en shark named Joe]] who was chasing the plane in the hopes that it would crash in the ocean and he could eat the pilots. As the account was run by the plane's PR team, Joe was more of an IneffectualSympatheticVillain than anything else, and the account's last tweets had him make a HeelFaceTurn and decide to help the pilots promote renewable energy instead. |
| 541 | * The poster image for this page is a photo UrbanLegend that's been floating around the Internet for a long time. It shows a diver climbing up a helicopter's rope ladder and a shark is jumping out of the water to eat him whole. [[http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/shark.asp It's fake.]] |
| 542 | * Inverted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdznov-urkU this]] video, in which a CGI baby shark is tickled. And acts entirely like an adorable puppy or kitten. It's so cute! |
| 543 | * ''WebVideo/WonderQuest'': Charly Tan is a recurring character who takes the form of a shark and always tries to scam his customers. |
| 544 | [[/folder]] |
| 545 | |
| 546 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 547 | * ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' |
| 548 | ** Two episodes deal with a gigantic, shark-like beast that swims through [[SandIsWater sand like water]] and has a fortune of treasures pressed into its underside. In the first episode, it attacks Agrabah and Aladdin and friends join with a hunter who had been after the shark for years, and they succeeded in driving it off. In the second episode, the shark is slain by a race of Ewok-like desert hunters working for an evil wizard, but Aladdin and the hunter use its skeleton to repair the hunter's ship and fight the wizard. |
| 549 | ** In another episode, Aladdin actually ''becomes'' a shark via a ForcedTransformation spell from a ClingyJealousGirl mermaid and is forced to attack Genie, Iago, and Abu. |
| 550 | * Subverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' where Jake is tasked with guarding a shark-woman who holds in possession (in her stomach) Poseidon's trident. Despite her compulsive eating, the shark-woman means well and claims that all shark-people are misunderstood and friendly. The only evil shark-men Jake fights are a group of escaped delinquents who want to flood the world with Poseidon's trident. |
| 551 | * Louie the Loan Shark from the ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil'' episode "Beany Meets the [[ShapedLikeItself Monstrous Monster]]" has info about the monster's whereabouts...if the price is right. |
| 552 | * ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "The Deepening", Mr. Fishchoder buys a mechanical shark used in a movie filmed in the town to attract tourists. The Belcher kids accidentally tip it over, causing it to crawl down the street and break everything in its path. |
| 553 | * WesternAnimation/BozoTheWorldsMostFamousClown relays a rather tall tale to Butchy Boy of how he and the circus boss landed the shark mounted on the wall in "Hark, Hark, the Shark." |
| 554 | * ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS2E5ThePredator The Predator]]" lampshades and plays with the trope. The episode begins with [[FriendToAllLivingThings Ma-Ti]] freaking out when he sees a huge shark (which Gi later identifies as a basking shark) following him while he swims. The townspeople hear the discussion and panic as well, which leads them to bring in Bleak. When Gaia gives them the standard pre-mission breakdown, [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong Wheeler]] comments that he feels pretty weird trying to save sharks, and Gaia explains that only some sharks are potential man-eaters and all of them are important to the ecosystem. |
| 555 | * 11 years before the first ''Film/AustinPowers'' movie, ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}'' actually had sharks with [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]]. In the episode "Man or Machine", Max Ray is menaced by a [[http://dukenostalgia.com/Centurions/Cent_CVS.html "Cybervore,"]] a shark that {{Cyborg}} MadScientist Doc Terror has outfitted with high tech weaponry. |
| 556 | * WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts |
| 557 | ** A few shorts have a real threatening shark that goes after mainly WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, as in cartoons like ''WesternAnimation/SeaScouts'', ''No Sail'' and ''Bee at the Beach''. |
| 558 | ** There is also a shark depicted in this way in the WesternAnimation/{{Silly Symphon|ies}}y cartoon, ''Peculiar Penguins''. |
| 559 | * In ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' Season 4, XANA controls shark-like monsters called "Rekins" in the Digital Sea. They fire torpedoes. |
| 560 | * ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'': In "Heavy Duty", Dr. Crumhorn creates a food substance for sharks that enables them to traverse solid land. His own finned Fido has been trained to seek out and destroy Danger Mouse and Penfold. |
| 561 | * Subverted in the ''WesternAnimation/DinosaurTrain'' episode "Carla Cretoxyrhina"; the kids are afraid of the titular character and her father (who are prehistoric sharks that look very similar to great whites) at first, but they quickly become friends. |
| 562 | * ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': |
| 563 | ** A shark can be seen chasing Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s submarine in the opening theme. |
| 564 | ** "[[Recap/DuckTalesADuckTalesValentine A DuckTales Valentine]]": Launchpad is worried, having heard that the area where the treasure is supposed to be is shark-infested, and sure enough, a shark turns up to attack the group while they're underwater. |
| 565 | * ''WesternAnimation/EekTheCat'' |
| 566 | ** The show has that gag about a shark that can chase you on land on its "The Thunder Lizards" segment. |
| 567 | --->"Darn this evolution thing!" |
| 568 | ** Cross the shark with the AngryGuardDog and you get Sharky the sharkdog. |
| 569 | * Timmy on ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' has to dive into shark-infested waters. Good thing [[StrawVulcan he is missing his emotions at the time]]. |
| 570 | -->'''Shark 1:''' He's not scared!\ |
| 571 | '''Shark 2:''' He's weird, he's weird! (''sharks run off'') |
| 572 | * In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' Joe gets a past life reading and finds out he was once an octopus. He thinks this is great until a shark swims past and bites off all his tentacles. |
| 573 | * The ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangface}}'' episode "A Toothy Shark Is No Lark" has a cruise ship threatened by a gigantic shark, under the command of an evil [[FishPeople fish man]]. There's a lot of shenanigans with Fangface trying to [[PalatePropping hold the shark's mouth open with a car-jack]] so it won't bite him. Eventually the fish man is arrested and the shark, thoroughly confused by the experience, returns to the sea. |
| 574 | ** Also invoked in the earlier episode "A Creep From The Deep", when Fangface attempts to eat [[TheChewToy Puggsy]] while scuba diving, prompting Puggsy to cry "Help! ''Jaws'' has caught me in his jaws!" |
| 575 | * Aside from the page quote given above, ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has a couple other examples. |
| 576 | ** The Carcarons of "Zapp Dingbat" are a race of shark-like aliens that Zapp Brannigan is working on negotiations with. Given that this is [[GeneralFailure Zapp we are talking about]] talking to a race of [[SharkMan Shark Men]] with little tolerance for any slights towards them, things go about as well as you'd expect. |
| 577 | ** In the episode "A Taste of Freedom", one display at the Museum of Ancient Weapons is of a "Sharkapult", which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. |
| 578 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' episode "Cabana Fever", this is [[PlayedForLaughs played for sadistic laughs]] when a shark is ''really'' [[{{Determinator}} determined]] to eat [[TheChewToy Pete]]. Specifically. Enough to burrow underground into an active volcano to chase after him. |
| 579 | * The ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' short [[WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} "Goofy's Extreme Sports:]] Shark Feeding." |
| 580 | * Who could forget the marvelous subversion in ''WesternAnimation/{{Jabberjaw}}!!'' |
| 581 | * ''WesternAnimation/KennyTheShark'', where the eponymous shark is a household pet, subverts this trope and somewhat plays it straight. While Kenny does cause a bit of trouble, he usually has good intentions when causing it. |
| 582 | * ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'': The Biskit twins' mansion has a fountain with a tiny shark in it. In "What's In The Batter", their security guard gets knocked in, and the shark clamps on his head, making him run around screaming. |
| 583 | * A few ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons: |
| 584 | ** The WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbitson_Crusoe Rabbitson Crusoe,]]'' which features Yosemite Sam, a pair of [[DesertedIsland desert islands]] (1 Castaway, 1 Palm Tree), and the shark Dopey Dick, all in addition to Bugs. |
| 585 | ** The latter-day [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester and Tweety]] cartoon ''Hawaiian Aye Aye'', which features a shark as a [[AngryGuardDog dog]][[AllAnimalsAreDogs -type pet]] of Granny's, who does everything he can to protect Tweety from Sylvester. Even at the end, as Granny and Tweety leave on a cruise ship, that bad ol' putty tat still tries to go after the little yellow bird, while the shark still goes after Sylvester. |
| 586 | -->'''Tweety:''' That bad ol' putty tat sure don't give up easy.\ |
| 587 | '''Shark:''' Yes, and I don't give up easy either. |
| 588 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'', when ineffectual villain Fish Guy (who is half-fish, half-[[TheDitz really dumb]] adolescent) puts on the Mask, he becomes "Shark Dude". |
| 589 | * And back in 1976, [=DePatie=]-Freleng has ''WesternAnimation/MisterJaw'', a top-hatted, German-accented Great White, no less. |
| 590 | * Bull Sharkowski from ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'' is the school bully at Charles Darwin Middle School, though he lives in fear of [[TheDreaded his older sister]] [[GenderBlenderName Euripides]], who is actually smaller than him but has museum-worthy baby teeth. |
| 591 | * Turns up as NightmareFuel in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales'' of all places. Schoolgirls Patch and Bon-Bon, through a major lapse in judgment by the former, find themselves floating over the ocean in a hot-air balloon, which is then [[BalloonBurstingBird damaged by birds]]. Just when they think they've hit their bleakest moment (and this isn't even the first time Bon-Bon's been in a life-threatening situation), they look down and see [[OhCrap shark fins in the water]]. |
| 592 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheOctonauts'' averts this besides being a kids' show with [[SurferDude Lemmy the Lemon Shark,]] who after being [[AndroclesLion helped]] by [[TheMedic Peso]] ''twice,'' [[BigDamnHeroes rescues the cute little penguin (and the cuter littler starfish said penguin came to rescue) from a volcanic sea vent.)]] After it's over and Lemmy is finally reunited with his fellow lemon shark "dudes," he's given a sticker on his nose by Peso. |
| 593 | * Chomper the shark from ''WesternAnimation/RainbowFish'' is a local bully along with his buddy Stingo the stingray. |
| 594 | * On ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'', the Ghostbusters encounter a Megalodon while time-skipping and landing in a prehistoric ocean. Though, whilst citing the time period as being the Cenozoic Era is accurate enough, and the creature being introduced with a giant fin cutting through the water, when the Megalodon is actually seen under the water, it looks less like a giant shark, and is closer to looking like [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology a Mosasaur, a group of sea-lizards that went extinct about the same time as the dinosaurs]]. |
| 595 | -->'''Peter:''' What does a Megalodon ''eat''?\ |
| 596 | '''Egon:''' Anything smaller than itself.\ |
| 597 | (''cue frantic swimming away'') |
| 598 | * ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' |
| 599 | ** A season 2 episode features a game set underwater. The User's submarine is very shark-like. Not to mention a scene where mer-Bob and mer-Dot are surrounded by a school of sharks until Bob cuts one in half and scares the rest off. |
| 600 | ** One of those sharks reappears in "System Crash", [[SubvertedTrope only it's completely helpless]] with no water to swim in. |
| 601 | * The Witch Hedwig the BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/SabansAdventuresOfTheLittleMermaid'' has an army of sharks as her henchmen. |
| 602 | * ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' once got involved with a prehistoric shark (or so it seemed). |
| 603 | ** In a 1976 episode, Scooby's skis get chewed up by a shark while he and Shaggy are water skiing. |
| 604 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Sealab 2021}}'' |
| 605 | ** In the episode "Tinfins", Dr. Quinn placed a shark's brain into a robot shark's body. |
| 606 | -->'''Quinn:''' What I did was I took nature's most perfect killing machine, and needlessly turned it into a robot. |
| 607 | ** And then there's the episode where they are trapped in an underwater cave with their oxygen supply running out, with a [[SuperPersistentPredator very persistent Great White]] waiting for them at the only way out. They end up dying at the end of the episode when they run out of air. |
| 608 | ** Subverted with the shark that (allegedly) killed Marco: Marco ''was'' sleeping with his wife, so it's hard to blame him. The half-human, half-shark Sharko that resulted however, is the ButtMonkey and CousinOliver of Sealab. |
| 609 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' episode "Revenge of the Spider Woman''. One of the title villain's monsters is a three-headed Hydro Shark that tries to eat Space Ghost. Unfortunately, Space Ghost's Hammer Ray fails to stop it. |
| 610 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 611 | ** Played with in one episode where [=SpongeBob=] accidentally becomes the new lifeguard. |
| 612 | -->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' ''Emergency! Everybody out of the water!''\ |
| 613 | '''Bather:''' What's the problem?\ |
| 614 | '''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Um... ''there are sharks in there!''\ |
| 615 | (''cut to a nerdy-looking shark and his family'')\ |
| 616 | '''Shark:''' Hey, that's my family you're talking about. |
| 617 | ** Another episode has [=SpongeBob=] joining a gang of sharks and worrying they could be thugs. [[spoiler:Subverted in that the sharks turned out be decent guys, and their gang is actually a dancing troop.]] |
| 618 | ** Played straight when Mrs. Puff gets fired and replaced with a DrillSergeantNasty shark instead. However, even ''he'' is unable to teach Spongebob how to successfully drive, so Mrs. Puff is hired again. |
| 619 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': Riff Tamson is an anthropomorphic shark man and a sadistic, ferocious Separatist commander who actually bites his enemies to death on top of that. |
| 620 | * ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'' was essentially the unholy bastard child of this trope and the Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqGQyMF5a_0 No, really.]] |
| 621 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' has Armaggon, who was also in some of the comics and the SNES ''Tournament Fighters'', in the fourth season. This version of the character is an alien SharkMan who is a bounty hunter and wears bulky power armor that also doubles as his spaceship. It features twin laser Gatling guns, missile launchers, and a very powerful mouth hatch with metal-shredding teeth, in addition to his own razor-lined mouth inside. He's hired to hunt down the Turtles and bring them to Dregg, the main villain of season 4, and the Turtles later succeed in making the hunt personal for Armaggon, creating a secondary recurring villain. |
| 622 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'' features freshwater sharks. ''Revenge of the Island'' has them return. One shark in particular, due to exposure of toxic waste, was mutated so that it can breathe air as well as water, and can walk on land. |
| 623 | ** In ''All-Stars'', Scott reveals that sharks are his greatest fear due to [[spoiler:said land-shark brutally attacking him last season, forcing him into a trauma chair after his elimination]]. [[OnlyMostlyDead Don't worry]], [[UnexplainedRecovery he got better]]. |
| 624 | -->"Okay, maybe I have a phobia of sh-sh-sharks... [[JerkassHasAPoint Can you blame me]]?" |
| 625 | * Much like ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'', ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' provides an aversion with Cybershark. A Maximal, his bio describes him as a swashbuckling hero who chases after space pirates. He never appeared in the series, however, and only appears in the IDW comics. Played straight elsewhere, however, particularly with the Seacon Overbite. He did appear, in a fashion, as the Predacon Sky-byte in ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise''. |
| 626 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'': |
| 627 | ** In the episode "The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (Part 1)", the maritime-themed villain Go-Fish tries to kill Brock Samson by chumming the water to attract sharks. |
| 628 | ** The Monarch teaches a lesson to a treacherous minion by putting him into a shark tank. However, since he'd previously replaced the guy's blood with acid, the sharks won't touch him. So... "Lower the giant HAIR DRYER!!!" |
| 629 | * ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': Emperor Awesome, who is a SharkMan and one of the most recurring villains. He destroys planets by ''partying''! |
| 630 | * ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoonShow'' has subversion. Pfish is a shark who is partnered with Chip, a dyspeptic bobcat. Together they are officers in the bomb squad of a police precinct. |
| 631 | * Averted with Shark from ''WesternAnimation/WordWorld''. |
| 632 | * Averted with [[TheHero Sharko]] from ''WesternAnimation/ZigAndSharko'', who protects [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Marina]] from [[VillainProtagonist Zig]] who always tries to eat her. |
| 633 | [[/folder]] |
| 634 | |
| 635 | [[folder:Other]] |
| 636 | * If you thought the Tu-95 "[[ReportingNames Bear]]" nuclear bomber was [[BearsAreBadNews bad news]], there's the Project 941 "Akula"(shark) ballistic missile submarine (known in the west as the "Typhoon" class), the largest in the world. Threatening? ''You bet''. |
| 637 | ** The most modern Russian attack submarine, the Project 671B Schuka-B goes by the NATO reporting name "Akula". Although it is not as terrifying as the Russian Akula(the Typhoon), it is a definite threat for Western submarines. |
| 638 | ** Also, the Russians have the Kamov Ka-50 attack helicopter, known as the "Chornaya Akula" (Black Shark). |
| 639 | [[/folder]] |
| 640 | |
| 641 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 642 | * When the USS ''Indianapolis'' sank, an unknown number of crewmembers were killed and eaten by Oceanic whitetip sharks, who are notorious for being unstoppable (people tried explosives, they failed to do anything) when it comes to hunting, as their open-sea habitat is basically a watery desert in terms of resources, so large predators like them have to be willing to take advantage of any food source they can. They're possibly responsible for the most human deaths of ''any'' species of shark (in fact, they possibly have a higher death toll than all other sharks ''combined''), namely because they would be the only ones to swarm shipwreck survivors, and they get away with it as the carnage happens out of sight, to people that don't care what shark it is. It was even they that mariners nicknamed "Sea dogs" because of their slow and cautious but curious pace when investigating something new. It is admittedly impossible to truly say how willing they are to kill humans though as outside of shipwreck situations (where the chaos of the many bodies and blood in the water may change their behavior) they are often not aggressive, merely curious, and even with shipwrecks it is impossible to say how many people they actually killed as opposed to simply disposed of after the person died from injuries or exposure. |
| 643 | * Because [[DeathWorld Australia]] wasn't dangerous enough yet, the 2010-2011 Queensland flooding disaster has allowed aggressive bull sharks to [[http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/odd/news/a297525/bull-shark-spotted-in-brisbane-streets.html/ roam the streets of Brisbane.]] They also have the only known [[http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/10/11/shark-infested-australian-golf-course-believed-to-be-worlds-first.html golf course water hazard]] that includes sharks. |
| 644 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook_Watson Brook Watson,]] the British merchant and trader from the 17th century, and later Lord Mayor of London, was attacked by an unidentified shark at the harbor in Havana at age 14. It ate his right leg before he was saved by his fellow crewmen. He lived on to his remarkable career despite his handicap, although his political enemies poked fun at his predicament. Eventually, he was immortalized in the painting [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_and_the_Shark Watson and the Shark]] by John Copley (who had clearly never seen a shark), meant to encourage other orphans to seek out a long a good life no matter their situation. |
| 645 | [[/folder]] |
| 646 | |
| 647 | ---- |
| 648 | ->''[[Film/{{Jaws}} Da-dum. Da-dum. Da-dum da-dum da-dum da-dum daaaaaaaa...]]'' |
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