Threatening Shark / Video Games

Threatening Sharks in video games.

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• 101 Shark Pets: A rare inversion, in which the sharks are playful like puppies.
• Action 52: A game called "Sharks" appears in the cartridge; both the NES original and the Genesis version have it. You play as a scuba diver with a Harpoon Gun trying to hunt sharks and not get killed. Sharks hit by a harpoon bleed out before disappearing, while the player is quickly and messily Stripped to the Bone if eaten by a shark.
• The Adventures of Lomax: In some of the levels with water present, sharks appear from time to time to either start swimming in one direction and chomp continuously, or outright jump out of the water to bite you.
• Alundra 2: One of boss-fights is a giant orange shark with vacuum powers.
• In Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis, Vulko uses sharks to get Black Manta's men to talk. Aquaman later uses a whole shiver of them to get Black Manta to talk.
• ARK: Survival Evolved: megalodon are common in the seas surrounding the Island and other maps, and of course will attack other creatures and the player that come anywhere near them.
• Armed and Dangerous: You would think that being in a firefight is bad enough. But what if your enemy has a gun that fires sharks which seeks out enemies at will? Yeap, you're screwed.
• Assassin's Creed:
  • Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag: Sharks, including hammerhead, bull, and great white sharks, are the main enemies in the underwater segments.
  • Sharks in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey prowl underwater sites around Ancient Greece. Unlike in Black Flag, though, the Eagle Bearer is able to kill the sharks while swimming instead of just driving them off, and some side-quests have killing them as an objective.
• Banjo-Kazooie has two.
  • The first, Clanker, is a subversion; he's an ally of the titular characters, and being "swallowed" by him (or entering his stomach via his gills, or dropping down his blowhole) doesn't harm you in any way, and indeed is required to get a Jiggy. He's a mechanical shark-like whale that floats in one place and eats garbage by grinding it up. No need to worry about any biology failings there.
  • The second example is played straight. Snacker lives in Treasure Trove Cove and will spawn anytime you fall into the water and will bite at you until you return to shore... or die. He also has a message every time he spawns about how much he'll love eating you. He can be killed with ordinary attacks, but that will only save you for that time in the ocean. Go in the ocean again, and he'll be back like nothing ever happened. Snacker also shows up in a small section of Rusty Bucket Bay. In oily water that makes Banjo suffocate on the surface.
• Batman: Arkham City: You must cross a half-frozen lake inside the Penguin's museum. This, of course, has a gigantic great white shark in it. Amusingly, you must slowly walk around on the ice, just as you needed to in Killer Croc's lair in Batman: Arkham Asylum. What's worse than a croc? Exactly.

• Bubble Trouble: Normal the Shark is a fast-moving enemy who can push bubbles to squish the player, or spit bubbles to ensnare him.
• Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time: Sharks appear as enemies in one of the pirate levels. While Bugs has Super Drowning Skills and cannot go into the water, they will swim by the floating barrels in the water he is standing on and jump out to bite at him, causing damage. You need to distract them by throwing bones into the water for them.
• California Games: During the surfing minigame, a shark will occasionally come up out of the water whenever you wipe out, implying an unfortunate fate for the poor surfer.
• Campfire Cat Cafe & Snack Bar: Subverted with Bad News Burk, one of the customers. He is a bipedal shark. His character description states that he originally came to the cafe to "collect 'fees'," implying that he's some sort of gangster. However, his description then states that he loved his food so much that he paid extra. Despite his menacing appearance, he acts just like any other customer, walking around and exploring the cafe. He doesn't do anything bad.
• City of Villains: One of the signature villains is Captain Mako, a mutated shark-like Pirate and Psycho for Hire known for tearing his enemies apart.
• Command & Conquer
  • The Red Alert series has the aptly-named Akula (Shark) subs. Some Game Mods add actual sharks into the games, like Mental Omega for Yuri's Revenge and Red Alert 3: Paradox has sharks with radiation guns.
  • The Kirov Airship, a flying shark that drops bombs.
• Crash Bandicoot:
  • Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped: Sharks serve as enemies in underwater levels. They also appear as obstacles in Coco's pirate-themed ones.
  • Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time: Large sharks appear as obstacles in several areas, where they periodically leap from the water beneath gaps between platforms and will devour characters that cross trajectories with them. Regular sharks are found in Salty Wharf and the icy waters of Stay Frosty; the Hazardous Wasteland is also home to a tan-skinned variety implanted with cybernetic implants (including a metallic lower jaw) that swims in the sand and otherwise acts the same.
• Crayola Treasure Adventure: The Big Bad is a shark pirate.
• In later DanceDanceRevolution games, the "DANGER!" alert animation depicts a shark lunging at the player.
• Dare to Dream: Inverted with Prince, a shark who's cordial to Tyler. And who gives him the magic key after being placated with a tasty fish.
• Depth is a First-Person Shooter with one side playing a quartet of treasure hunters, the other playing the sharks bent on eating them.
• Death in the Water, an underwater-set FPS, have sharks as the most common enemies, alongside sea snakes and octopus. They range from the stereotypically-ferocious Great White to lesser species like Mako and Tiger sharks.
• Desert Assault: Towards the end, you just destroyed the enemy's aerial base and crashed into the ocean, and as you radio for help, your superiors tell you help would take a while to arrive... just as a shark suddenly shows up behind you. Your character's reaction is somewhere between Oh, Crap! and This Is Gonna Suck... cue the ending where you swim like crazy while the shark chases you as the credits roll.
• Disgaea
  • Disgaea: Hour of Darkness also has a land shark dragon in the form of the Serpent monster class (Or shark dragon, as it was more appropriately called in Japanese), though it's considerably more shark-like in appearance (But still remarkably similar to the aforementioned Garchomp). It's also one of the stronger monster types, boasting a high attack stat and good values in everything else, and it flies for some of its special attacks. It later makes an appearance as an enemy in the second Prinny game (Where it's now properly called a shark dragon), and returns as a unit in Disgaea Dimension 2.
  • Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories has Sammy (he's called Same in Japanese, which literally means shark), the land shark/news reporter. He's one of Plenair's friends, and appears in her third attack in Dark Hero Days.
• Donkey Kong Country:
  • The original game has them as common aquatic enemies. There are two variations of them, a younger, smaller, but faster blue shark and an adult, bigger, but slow green one. The former are actually the more dangerous enemy, as they frequently swim in large packs.
  • Donkey Kong Country Returns and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze have shark-like Snaggles. In "Tropical Freeze", they will pursue Kongs if they are in the same body of water.
• Doom Eternal: In the DLC, The Ancient Gods: Part One, the Doom Slayer encounters a huge shark during an underwater segment. The shark will ignore him unless he approaches it, which will cause it to bite him repeatedly. You cannot attack underwater, so the shark cannot be harmed.
• Dubloon: You can meet sharks when sailing between islands. They attack by charging forward.

• Ecco the Dolphin
  • Sharks are, of course, some of Ecco's natural enemies, and tough ones, to boot. One of the crazier levels from the first game is Open Ocean: you, a lone little dolphin, vs. about a million sharks, with nowhere to hide. The Open Ocean is cold and dangerous.
  • The second game turns this on its head at points by transforming Ecco into a shark, mostly so you can rampage about the level eating everything.
  • The Playstation entry to the series, Defender of the Future, ups the ante to include a boss fight with a shark capable of devouring you whole. (Ramping up the insanity factor? In order to hurt him, first you have to swipe a power-up right from out of his mouth.)
• The Elder Scrolls series' lore tells of weresharks, a form of were-creature, found in the oceans around the continent. However, there have never been any reputable sightings and they are considered to be myths.
• Endless Ocean features many, many types of sharks. In the first game, they're all harmless, but Magu Tapah (a very large great white) is good old-fashioned Nightmare Fuel. In the sequel, Blue World, the carnivorous species will now attack you, and the new "special" shark — this one named Thanatos — cranks Magu Tapah's scariness up to eleven.
• EverQuest
  • The game has a few sharks of various power. In Erud's Crossing, the Killer Sharks are especially deadly, since not only are they in the mid-40s, but they also can see through invisibility and guard one of several underwater scepters that wizards need for the Staff of the Wheel quest.
  • Back during the Beta testing period, there used to exist the megalodon in Lake Rathetear. A shark who's jaw was larger than a hill giant (who themselves stand 20 feet tall). Unfortunately, its sheer size presented many pathing issues while swimming between the various islands scattered around the lake, and had to be removed before the game went live.
• E.V.O.: Search for Eden has the Kuraselache, King of the Sea, as the antagonists for the last part of the first epoch, the Age of Fish. The Mook Kuraselache are about your size and are annoying, but their leader is three times your size, attacks by biting, body-slamming and slapping you with his tail, and doesn't want the world above the water to become inhabitable. As the first major boss and, he's tough. Later on in the final epoch, you meet normal enemy versions of King Kuraselache in the Rogon section, who are still annoying but nowhere near as strong since you're far more evolved now.
• EXTRAPOWER: Giant Fist: One appears at the end of the harbour segment in Milles City, just in case you forgot about the bracelet making nearby animals rampage. After screen after screen of fighting The Men in Black across urban and industrial settings, sudden shark leaping from the water!
• Far Cry 3: Bull sharks make an appearance as wildlife. They make swimming in the ocean a hazardous venture, as you cannot attack in water except for a specific counter-kill when they bite you. They have even been known to swim inland via rivers, although if you're swimming in a river, you have another scary and dangerous animal to worry about...
• Fantasy Quest: A shark appears out of nowhere and attacks. It's particularly bizarre because every other threat in the game comes from mythological creatures.
• Feeding Frenzy: In both games, sharks are some of the biggest threats to the player. The final boss of the first game even is a giant great white shark. Goliath in the second game averts this, though, as it is a playable character (although the other sharks in the game still are out to kill you).
• Fighting Layer features a shark as one mid-level boss that you must defeat to move on. It's as hard as you might imagine, but the satisfaction of leaping into its tank and clobbering a shark on its own turf simply is too awesome for words. Oh sure, Ryu and Akuma might act grumpy, throw fireballs and yell a lot, but how many sharks have they kicked the crap out of? That's right, none.

• Game & Watch: In Parachute and Life Boat, people who fall in the water get eaten by a shark. In the former, grinning sharks represent your misses.
• Gene Troopers has an alien hammerhead shark in the water planet that can't be killed. You'll need to tranquilize it in order to search it's tank.
• Attempting to leave the map in Grand Theft Auto V will result in a shark emerging from the depths of the Pacific Ocean to bite you and kill you on the spot. What's worse, this shark's bite is unaffected by the invincible cheat.
• Hitman: Blood Money: 47 sets a lady on fire at a party. She then manages to fall into a shark pool and the crowd applauds 47. And the more corpses you throw in that tank, the bigger that shark gets.
• Hungry Shark Evolution and its sequel Hungry Shark World have you play as a shark and eat the fish and humans on your path. There are enemy sharks trying to eat you as well.
• Illusion of Gaia subverts this when Will and Kara's raft is circled by sharks, only to have them swim away without attacking, leading Kara to conclude they aren't hungry because (she believes) only humans hunt for sport.
• Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb: Sharks appear in some of the aquatic levels, such as the flooded Temple of Belisarius in Istanbul and the lagoons on Penglai Island. If you're not careful, Indy can be Swallowed Whole by them, but fortunately, they can be killed with a few shots from a speargun.
• Injustice: Gods Among Us: Aquaman's Supermove involves flooding the stage, leaving his opponent vulnerable to a massive, hungry shark.
• Insaniquarium: Gash, the shark pet, zig-zags this trope. On the one hand, he helps you defeating aliens, and quite effectively at that. On the other, he still has no qualms eating your guppies regardless of their size or status. Yes, he can devour your precious royal guppies, too.
• Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy: Lurker Sharks are Border Patrol enemies that eat you if you try to go out of bounds.
• Jaws Unleashed is an alright-to-downright-terrible sandbox adventure game, based on the movie Jaws. The upshot? You play as the Great White Shark. Controls are a mess and it is sometimes frustrating, but still you play as the great white shark. And you can kill/destroy everything from seals, to smaller sharks, to whales, to fishing boats, to a fricking oil platform! There were also less thrilling Jaws games for the NES and PC.
• King's Quest
  • King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella: You are a princess trapped on an island. You may swim to a few limited locations, but it takes a lot of trial and error, swim into the wrong screen and Jaws music starts and you get mowed over by a shark fin. Que the Have a Nice Death screen. This is especially unnerving when you're going at top speed. That fin comes out of nowhere!
  • King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human has a similar Jaws-inspired death.
  • King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne has an underwater sequence. Sharks are seen, but they don't attack. In Fan Remake however, Sharkees will attack you.
• Kirby:
  • Kirby's Dream Land 3: One of the aquatic enemies is a propeller-tailed shark named Joe. However, Joe undergoes Adaptational Heroism in his appearances in Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, becoming an ally of Kirby and chasing off King Dedede and Escargoon.
  • Kirby & the Amazing Mirror has a similar, larger propeller-tailed shark wearing an inner tube named Gobbler as one of it's bosses.
• Knights of the Old Republic
  • Firaxan sharks, a.k.a. firaxa, on those underwater levels of Manaan. You can one-hit-kill them, but: you are in a pressure suit at the bottom of the ocean, which slows your movements to a torturous crawl. The suit and the water pressure mean that you can't use any of your usual weapons or Force abilities. The sonic emitter is your only weapon, and although you can fire it repeatedly in quick succession, it only works at close range. When the firaxa notice you, they immediately glide after you, mouths open, and that's the only time you can strike. Sometimes you don't get the chance to see them coming.
  • There's also the Progenitor, the giant firaxan whose cry drove the smaller firaxa into a frenzy and made the Selkath researchers on that underwater base homicidally insane. She's not actually evil, though, and if the machinery is destroyed she lets you pass. Poisoning her means dooming the entire biosphere.
• League of Legends:
  • Fizz the Tidal Trickster's Ultimate summons a giant shark out of freaking nowhere to take a huge bite out of the enemy. A secret aspect of the ability is that, if the target is killed by the shark and they're a small enough champion, no body will be left after they die, indicating that they've been eaten alive.
  • There's also a playable landshark in the form of champion Rek'Sai. She plays like Jaws if he lived in a desert and was the size of a house. Think a wall will save you from her? She'll just burrow under it and kill you. The lore states that travelers go out of their way to avoid Rek'Sai's territory. The real kicker? She's part of a species of landsharks called Xer'Sai. And she's the queen.
• The Legendary Starfy has Snarks, which are shark enemies that cannot be harmed at all. There is also humongous Mega Snark, who prowls around the S.S. Logwater and regularly rams onto the ship trying to devour Starfy. The latter will have to take cover behind the ship's masts to avoid being gobbled up.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker has the Gyorg, which is very shark-like and competes with the Seahat for the title of "most annoying enemy". Both have the distinction of being in a position to knock you into the water, where you cannot fight and must (find and) get back into the boat. Sometimes it's not a second later that they knock you right back in again.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: The Zora race are portrayed as having somewhat more shark-like traits than they were previously. However, while some are suspicious and hostile in attitude towards the main character, others are much more friendly, and none of them are considered enemies. In an outright inversion of this trope, one of the friendliest characters in the entire game is the Zora Prince Sidon◊, who is even more shark-like than the rest of his people (complete with hammerhead-like crest). At the same time, he is a Warrior Prince, so this trope is played straight for the monsters he fights to protect Zora's Domain, particularly that giant Octorok whose stomach he speared his way out of. We see first-hand Sidon's fighting prowess in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, where he attacks with two tridents and even summons watery shark apparitions to douse his enemies.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: The Mucktorok boss spends much of its fight encased in sludge in the shape of a grimy shark (albeit one that also makes whale noises of all things) that will charge at you and splash sludge all over the arena. Funnily enough, you fight it alongside the aforementioned Sidon.
• Luigi's Mansion 3: Captain Fishook is a ghost shark which is fought as the boss of the Spectral Catch. He wields a terrifyingly large hook on his right fin and can possess his own ship to fight the green plumber.
• Maneater: The protagonist is a bull shark with extraordinary genetic mutability and aggression, out to hunt everything in the polluted waters of Port Clovis... and a few things out of it, namely squishy humans and license plates.
• Mass Effect 2: You can find the online search history of Grunt, a tank bred super solider from a Proud Warrior Race who was born ready for battle, but is still learning about the culture and history of his own people and of the humans he is fighting alongside with.
  "honored humans"
  "hemingway"
  "the sun also rises"
  "for whom the bell tolls" (finished)
  "farewell to arms" (deleted)
  "the old man and the sea" (finished)
  "sharks"
• Mega Man

• Battle Network 6: Diveman's stage has some pesky sharks that must be avoided in order to progress.
• Mega Man X6 Has Metal Shark Player, a shark-based Reploid capable of performing the mechanical equivalent of Necromancy.
• Mega Man Star Force: The third game of the series has the Sharky viruses, which are more or less colorful sharks wearing shades. Their battle chip lets you sic a trio of them on your foes.

• Miami Shark, a Flash game on Newgrounds where you play as a shark who eats people and animals, makes boats explode and pulls down things from helicopters to a stealth bomber. It has a sequel set in Sydney. And somehow, the Shark manages to get at Koalas, Kangaroos, and a nuke.
• Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor has the late-game Shoals area, which is infested with sharks. The sharks wouldn't be too bad — by the standards of monsters by the time you get there, their stats are actually pretty weak — but the Shoals, being an underwater environment, imposes a lot of restrictions (for example, you are limited to one type of weapon, and you can't wear any armour or use any type of magic), and attacks can come from any direction...
• Monster Hunter
  • Monster Hunter 3 (Tri) has the Sharq, which inhabits the waters on the northern end of the Deserted Island area. A subversion in that they don't make things worse, and only attack when you invade their territory.
  • Monster Hunter 4: The Zamites and their adult form, Zamtrios, are amphibious monsters that resemble sharks with the legs of a frog. The smallest of the former like to latch onto prey and drain their body fluids, while the latter is big enough to simply swallow hunters whole if they're not careful and also possesses the bizarre ability to inflate its body to truly ridiculous proportions for the purpose of utilizing bouncing and rolling attacks.
• Moshi Monsters: In the mission "Missing on a Star", you have to defeat some mutant Glump sharks by turning them into Moshlings.
• Muppet Monster Adventure: Averted with a friendly shark you can have an underwater race with to try and earn a Muppet token.
• The Ocean Hunter is full of these. A Megalodon even appears as the second boss.
• Octogeddon has mean-looking ROBOT-sharks that continuously circle around Octogeddon, constantly getting closer to it. Since the player has to rotate Octogeddon around to aim, their moving pattern makes them quite bothersome to hit. Winged variants also appear during the land levels.
• Octopath Traveler II has the Battle-Worn Shark, a boss that can be found in the Sundering Sea. It initially appears as a boss at a fixed place on the map but can be ecountered randomly as a Degraded Boss and captured to be used to the team's advantage later.
• Phantom Brave: Subverted. Cauldron, the shark man, gives Marona way more money than he promised, forms a fan club for her, beats up anyone that badmouths her, and generally dotes on her as if she were his granddaughter.
• Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time: Zomboss' machine in Big Wave Beach is a mechanical shark that can use a vacuum to suck in your plants.
• Pokémon: Two examples.
  • From Generation III, Sharpedo. It doesn't help that its pre-evolved form is a piranha. A Glass Cannon with the speed of a torpedo (and can learn Destiny Bond to take advantage of its poor defenses). And in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, it gets a Mega Evolution, which besides making it bigger, faster, stronger, and scarier, also changes its ability to Strong Jaw, making any biting attacks 50% stronger. In its debut, it's the signature Pokémon of the villainous Team Aqua, and the one used by their boss, Archie, is able to Mega Evolve in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. And the first member of the Elite Four, Sydney, has one as part of his Dark-type team. Another notable mention of Sharpedo in Pokémon Sword and Shield. It doesn't have any Super Mode in this game, but in the seas around the Isle of Armor, whenever you're using the Rotom Bike to ride on the waves, you'll most likely see a Sharpedo tearing through water towards you as fast as a torpedo. One or two at a time and they never stop reappearing.
  • From Generation IV, the Gible family, consisting of Gible, Gabite, and Garchomp. This family is a hybrid of land sharks and dragons and is the Generation's Pseudo-legendary Pokémon, which in short means that it's the strongest Mon short of the Legendaries.^{And in long...} The criteria are a three-stage evolution line, a requirement of 1,250,000 experience points to reach Level 100, and a base stat total of exactly 600. There's only one candidate in every Generation, except Gen III where they introduced two, and it's always a part of the Champion's team, with the exception of Hydreigon in Gen V that instead leads the Big Bad's team. Garchomp is a Lightning Bruiser with a respectable move pool, stated in the anime and implied in the games to be able to move at supersonic speed, and Champion Cynthia has one as the ace of her team. It was also given a Mega Evolution, which is only potentially more dangerous instead of more dangerous outright because it loses speed in that form, gaining power everywhere else. Heck, some parts of the competitive battling community have moved it from standard play to the "Uber" tier. For this trope, though, the threatening part mostly comes from its battle prowess, as unlike Sharpedo it's often shown to be capable of being a friendly Pokemon.
• Portal 2: Subverted in one of GLaDOS's lines of dialogue, which makes sense considering just how important scientific accuracy is for her:
  GLaDOS: Excellent! You're a predator, and these tests are your prey. Speaking of which, I was researching sharks for an upcoming test. Do you know who else murders people who are only trying to help them? Did you guess "sharks?" Because that's wrong. The correct answer is "nobody". Nobody but you is that pointlessly cruel.
• Prayer of the Faithless: The Northern Woodland Hills have aquatic-themed enemies, like fish, Unscaled Merfolk, and Hammerhead (Sharks).
• Raft: The shark stalks you and takes periodic bites out of your raft if you don't drive it away fast enough. It will also attack you if you linger in the water for too long, though you can make "Shark Bait" to distract it briefly, giving you time to swim to a nearby island or scrounge up some ore, scrap, and other materials from the sea-bed. And even if you manage to kill the shark, another one will take its place before too long.
• Ratchet & Clank: Sewer Sharks, also known as Pool Sharks or Sharkigators, are enemies that serve as Border Patrol and will eat you in one bite if you swim out too far.
• Resident Evil has a species of shark called a "Neptune", an experimental shark that looks like an infamous Great White. In the original PlayStation game? A minor annoyance, but drain the water and it, along with two smaller sharks, flop around helplessly. This is taken further in the Gamecube remake, where upon entering the Aqua Ring, it has a more pronounced role where the player must get to door before the sharks take too much damage (and if they stand still for too long, the shark jumps out of the water and eats 'em!!). The goal is still to drain the water, but hopefully no more problems, right...?.
• Scarface: The World Is Yours has sharks in the ocean, which appear if you swim for too long. You get treated to a scene of Tony floating, looking about, then getting mauled by a shark that literally comes out of nowhere. You've Fucked Up. Tony gets the chance to do this to a crime boss in a later mission. Given a sniper rifle, you aim at the boss swimming in the water. Just perforate his gut a few times to make him bleed and let the sharks finish the job.
• Scribblenauts: You can summon sharks. A single Scribblenauts shark is enough to defeat Cthulhu. You can also summon megalodon.
• Shark! Shark!: Occasionally, a big black shark will appear on the screen that will kill the yellow fish on contact. Its weak point is its tail, which the fish can attack repeatedly until the shark goes belly up.
• Sheep has, as a possible sheep-killing device, shark-infested ice-cream.
• Skylanders: Appears twice. On the evil side, the boss fight for the Eternal Water Source features Kaos, in full Large Ham mode, summoning "MY DEADLY SHARK BATH OF DOOMSHARKS!" (and later in said boss fight, the "EVEN DEADLIER" version of same). On the good side, one of the Earth-element Skylanders is the landshark Terrafin, who can swim through the ground and summon mini-sharks to attack foes.
• Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves: Dimitri's first mission forces him to swim amongst schools of sharks. He must also kill five Hammerhead sharks to harvest their bones. Averted with a school of sharks The Guru befriends in the final level.
• Smashmuck Champions: Dr. Jennifer is intelligent, sentient, and has access to high-tech weaponry, the most iconic of which is a robot shark body. Her PhD is in Murder, by the way.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has Jawz, a shark-like robot that inhabits Hydrocity Zone. They appear flying or swimming in straight lines without turning around. They can easily be destroyed with the spin jump, but can still be dangerous if the player fails to notice them. This badnik returns in Sonic Colors and Sonic Mania.
  • Sonic Adventure: Chaos 4 takes on the form of a shark. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles fight him in the lake near where Dr. Eggman swiped their Chaos Emeralds from them, standing atop giant lily pads that Chaos 4 tries to sink in an attempt to drown them. When Chaos 4 pokes his head out of the water, that's their chance to attack him.
• Splatoon 3: Shiver fights you atop Master Mega, a megalodon shark who attacks by firing ink and trying to devour you whole. Stunning him by throwing Smallfry into his mouth will allow you to knock Shiver off her perch and attack her directly.
• Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!: The robot sharks in Aquaria Towers are a particularly nasty variant. They can devour Spyro in one bite for an instant kill even if Sparx is present, and because they are both large and made of metal, neither the standard charge or standard flame attacks work on them. They are also hard coded to chase you down if they see you, being capable of following you even if you jump back onto dry land, and are faster than you. In essence, they are nearly invincible, inescapable enemies that always kill you in one fell swoop. You have to pay Moneybags 100 gems to use his submarine just to get past them. The only way to destroy them is with the superflame powerup.
• Stranded Deep: The main enemies in the game (aside from marlins) are sharks. There are three variants of shark; the harmless Black Tip Reef shark which only serves as a meal for you if you catch one, the Tiger shark, and the Great White shark. Along with the marlins, the Tiger sharks and Great Whites will attack you in the ocean and try to tip your boat or raft over. Fortunately, all three main enemies are depicted more realistically and won't attack you constantly for no reason, usually only becoming hostile if you get to close or attack them, making it easier to traverse the ocean on your boat or raft. A Megalodon shark also serves as one of the three bosses of the game (the other two being a Giant Squid and Sea Monster-sized Moray eel).
• Sunless Sea: Amongst the hostile fauna haunting the Zee are the Bound Sharks, enormous sharks ensnared in iron bands and strange mechanisms that try to ram the player's ship and sometimes eats a member of the ship's crew.
• Subnautica has three species of hostile shark, the Bone Sharks, Sand Sharks, and Stalkers. The Bone Sharks are, as the name implies, sharks who come equipped with glowing eyes and bone carapaces, who will slam themselves into your vehicles whenever they can. Sand sharks are burrowers who will pop out of the sand at you with their four eyes. Finally, Stalkers are more crocodilian in shape, with long snouts. They will follow you over sizable distances, snarling the whole way.
• Super Mario Bros.
  • Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins: The sharks are nearly invincible. But how do they swim with boxing gloves on?
  • Super Mario 64 has only two of them hanging around in Dire Dire Docks, and they're only a danger if Mario gets in the way of their programmed path. They're called Sushi.
  • Super Mario Galaxy: Kingfin is a skeletal shark, with the typical Glowing Eyes of Doom that summons skeletal piranhas and attempts to kill Mario.
  • Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars: Played with. Jonathan Jones and his minions are sharks and you have to fight them for a Star Piece. However, once you win, they cool off and become nice guys, even helping you when another baddie tries to take the Star Piece you just won.
  • Mario Party 9: The Sushi enemy appears on the Blooper Beach board. They appear behind the players, and move four spaces every turn. If they catch up with the vehicle, the current Captain will lose Mini-Stars.
  • Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle: The DLC "DK Adventure" introduces Side Eye, a Hammerhead shark slash Rabbid wielding a Sea Mine. He can dive into the sand as if it was water to move around, with only his fin poking out menacingly.
• Tales Series
  • The Sahagin monsters and their kin in the 3D games are anchor or harpoon-wielding shark men.
  • There's also the Baitojoh from Tales of Vesperia, which is basically a winged, flying shark.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters features a shark named Armaggon as a playable character, whose fighting style resembled an odd mix of Guile and Dhalsim.
• Terraria: Zig zagged. While sharks do exist as enemies, and they're not easy to take down pre-Hardmode, their likeness is more widely associated with two of the game's automatic firearms, the Minishark and the Megashark.
• Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure: Sharks appear in some of the swimming stages, they swim back and forth horizontally and make a fast beeline after Buster should they spot him.
• Tomb Raider:
  • Tomb Raider II has sharks show up in the Maria Doria wreck levels. They also make an appearance in The Golden Mask expansion pack. Lara can use a harpoon gun to take them on underwater, but it's usually easier to try and escape from them or shoot them from land.
  • Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation has Hammerhead sharks. As Lara has no harpoon gun in this game, she can only avoid them or shoot them from land.
  • Tomb Raider: Underworld has sharks in numerous areas, and can be shot at underwater using the spear gun or even the pistols. Surprisingly, however, these sharks generally tend to leave Lara alone unless she swims too close, too fast, or attacks them first, although the sharks encountered in the Arctic Sea section of the game are much more aggressive.
• Ty the Tasmanian Tiger has sharks show up whenever you step off the beach into deep enough water; you can encounter entire schools of them this way. They'd be far, far more intimidating if they weren't each a One-Hit-Point Wonder... The first game also has a cyborg shark named Crikey as the second boss, though once you defeat it, it turns out to have been a Tragic Monster forced to fight Ty by the cyborg implants contoling it.
• Vacation Story: As soon as they end up in the ocean, the players must deal with a shark following them to the island.
• Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodhunt has a shark jump out of large bodies of water to devour a player should they fall into one, serving as the game's Border Patrol. The kill-feed will credit the death to Sharkmob, the developer team.
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines has a sidequest in which you fight one of the Rokea (see above under tabletop games), and sure enough, he's a tough customer, not least because of his tendency to throw frozen fish at you from the warehouse in which you fight him.

• Wacky Wheels has Razer the shark. Just like everybody else, he runs over hedgehogs and throws them at other racers.
• The Wacky World of Miniature Golf has a hole where the goal is to putt your ball past hungry sharks that repeatedly jump from a pool of water and try to eat it.
• Wadanohara: Played with. There's a mixture of good sharks to evil sharks. In particular, the misunderstood Samekichi becomes an ally and the main character's love interest, while Sal, who is not actually a dolphin, plays this trope straight to its fullest extent.
• Wii Play: Motion: The minigame Treasure Twirl features sharks among the enemies the diving Miis will have to dodge.
• The World Ends with You: The shark noise. Furthermore the Swing Shark of Week 1 Day 4 provides the first Player Punch of the game by killing off Rhyme, Beat's partner, during a sneak attack at Towa Records.
• World of Warcraft
  • There's a few sharks, generally patrolling the border between shallow sea (where players can swim) and deep ocean (where they can drown of fatigue). In classic Azeroth, most sharks are elite (and thus very strong, but killable), but the coasts of Northrend (WotLK expansion) have many non-elite sharks. Their level and variety differ depending on the level of the zone where you are.
  • Also the immense raid boss shark named Maws. He's gained a Cataclysm cousin in Gnaws, who has a model more closely resembling a real-life great white shark.
  • Unfortunately they have failed biology forever in Cataclysm by having the patrolling gigantic shark that keeps you from swimming into certain areas be a whale shark — long noted as one of the gentlest things in the ocean, which eats krill. This is a shark known for not only letting divers swim around it but specifically folding its fins back (even when it inconveniences the whale shark) to avoid running into them. Why they didn't create a fictional shark type for this (Dragon Shark anyone? Or maybe Wyrm Shark?) we may never know.
  • The Whale Shark actually is quite docile: it doesn't aggro unless you attack it; now Mobus <The Crushing Tide>, which shares a model and animations with the Whale Shark, is incredibly hostile: If you enter its waters and it's there (it's a rare mob), be prepared for a boss fight or be prepared to die.
  • Considering that Azeroth's oceans contain many huge and frightening beasts, monsters, humanoids, and abominations, carnivorous whale sharks are the most mundane seagoing terror. Hell, in Vashj'ir the whale sharks share the waters (and "giant OHKO-ing beasts" title) with a titanic eel and a monstrous leviathan.
  • Then there is Epicus Maximus which is almost certainly an inversion of this trope.
  • In "Shark Tank" one of the Tol Barad Peninsula daily quests, players are sent to fight a shark named Tank. Tank has over 450,000 HP and as possibly the strongest quest boss in Tol Barad, generally requires a group of two or three people to kill. If players have the "Captain P. Harris" or "Boosting Morale" quests, they will also have to avoid him while going after the captain or the rum, and the questgiver admits to being scared of the shark in the latter.
  • Subverted by the Shark Loa, Gral, who despite seemingly being cranky is a benevolent loa that watches over ships and loves telling and listening to stories.
• Yakuza 6: Kiryu can go spear fishing in Onomichi, and sharks are a hostile fish that will attack him on his hunts. The final boss of the minigame is the Bloody Shark, a massive Great White that has attacked a number of fishers in the area. Kiryu opens their confrontation by punching it hard enough to send it reeling.
• zOMG!: The strongest monster is the Landshark, affectionately referred to as Landy by many players. And Bruce by the devs. The April Fool's 2009 event also resulted in the "Airshark" meme.

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