"He" is a Science Fiction Adventure Thriller short story by Alan Dean Foster, first published in the 1977 anthology With Friends Like These…
The story tells of how oceanographer Dr. Woodruth Poplar ends up encountering in an atoll in American Samoa a creature thought to have been extinct for millions of years, a Megalodon.
Tropes
- The Ageless: The stories opening explains that He has survived for millions of years.
- An Arm and a Leg: Dr. Poplar ends up surviving his encounter with the Megalodon, at the cost of his right foot.
- God Guise: The Polynesian people fear and revere the Megalodon as something akin to a god.
- Last of His Kind: He (the Megalodon) is the last of his kind, having outlived the rest for millions of years.
- One-Word Title: Secondary Character Title referencing He, the name of the Megalodon that the protagonist finds.
- Sea Monster: He is a Megalodon, a gigantic prehistoric shark.
- Satellite Love Interest: Elaine, Poplar’s receptionist who accompanies him on his dives at the atoll.
- Secondary Character Title: He is the name of the Megalodon.
- Threatening Shark: He is feared by all other creatures and the sight of him installs a primal terror in humans.
