Quotes / Fish People

The Doctor: Fish people.
Clara: What are they like?
The Doctor: Fish. And people. Come and see.

— Doctor Who, "The Caretaker"

"It's beginning to look a lot like Fishmen
Everywhere I go.
From the minute I got to town
And started to look around
I thought these ill-bred people's gill-slits showed."

— Dagon Tabernacle Choir, "Fishmen"

"He looked like Peter Lorre, but then everyone in Innsmouth looks like Peter Lorre, even my landlady."

— "Only the End of the World Again" by Neil Gaiman

An entire economic powerhouse existed beneath the oceans of the world. Seaweed harvesting, undersea hotels, pearl gleaning, treasure hunts, the mining of manganese nodules, fish farms that spanned entire continental shelves. Salt water was ruinous to robots; nor did cybernetic humans work in the depths of Inner Space. Only these gillmen—superbly adapted by genetic engineering to their fluid environment, ready to come to the aid of their cousins above the waves.

— Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space

"Their skin is greyish, hairless and cold, like that of a dead porpoise. Their faces are noseless and flattened; their mouths are lipless and wide, with several rows of sharklike teeth. The Sharks have webbed fingers and feet that are more flipper than anything else, and also boast sharklike fins at their calves and forearms. Out of water, their voices are hoarse whispers, and they are accompanied by an acrid scent. Their eyes are a dead, nonreflective black."

— Blood-Dimmed Tides

Webbed claws drag you from your bed, pull you out the window. You try to scream, but a suction-cupped palm smothers your mouth. They pull you into icy waters. They pull you beyond light. They pull you down to the crushing depths where titanic pressure pulps you into something more edible.

Normally, the sea keeps its carnivorous secrets, but even the ocean mouth can't hold back the vicious punchline all of the time. And so, the Deep Ones emerge. They are native to the cold depths of every ocean. They rarely see the sun, build their cities among the thermal vents, in those alien environments that do not require solar energy. And now they rise, the infernal fish-frogs.

—The Buzzing, The Secret World

"He was a Patrolian. That's a fish guy."

—Jedi Master Tera Sinube, Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Mullroy: No question, there has been a breakdown in military discipline aboard this vessel.
Murtogg: I blame the fish-people.
Mullroy: (sarcastically) Ohh, so fish-people, by dint of being fish-people, automatically aren't as disciplined as non-fish-people?
Murtogg: It seems contributory, is all I'm suggesting.

— Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

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