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  • Best Known for the Fanservice: The eponymous shark monster is probably less notable than how the film has over twenty (mostly young and fit) characters who spend all of their considerable screen time in swimsuits or shorts and tank tops in addition to a gratuitous topless scene.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Kirsten, Ethan, Liza, and Kristen are all at least six places from the top of the closing credits but get almost as much love as Final Girl Kate from some fans due to Kirsten being a Brainy Brunette and The Reliable One when it comes to thinking about how to survive the shark, Ethan having a good Hold the Line moment, Liza having some good Deadpan Snarker moments, and Kristen showing some Ambiguously Gay protectiveness of her friend Dana. All four of them being among the more photogenic cast members also helps.
    • Rosemarie from Three Headed Shark Attack is more popular than several more prominent characters for being Spoiled Sweet, having one of the more revealing swimsuits in the film, and for having an actress who made me a few funny jokes in YouTube videos discussing the film.
  • Fanon Discontinuity: Each film has characters who make it to the last fifteen minutes or so only to be gratuitously killed (in films which already have unusually high bodycounts) in ways some viewers would rather ignore.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
    • Lyndsey is an Academic Alpha Bitch with an Odd Friendship with a Brainless Beauty and when she finds a gun lying around, she secretly takes it for some unknown reason, but her life outside of the film's plot is never mentioned and she suffers a rather anticlimactic death.
    • Kirsten shows some brief Macgyvering skills and is one of the nicest of the students, but she does little more than act as a Satellite Character to Kate throughout the film.

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