History Film / Sharknado

The film crossed over into [[ComicBook/ArchieComics Riverdale]] 2015 comic, ''Archie vs. Sharknado'' that takes place at the same time as the ''Sharknado 3: Oh, Hell No!''.

The 2013 movie was a viral hit, with over five million views spread over the first three showings of the movie on TV and attention from celebrities such as Creator/WilWheaton and Creator/CoryMonteith (it was the subject of the latter's final two tweets before his death). Syfy immediately contracted Creator/TheAsylum to make a sequel, the title of which was chosen with a Twitter contest. (The winner? ''[[ShapedLikeItself Sharknado 2: The Second One.]]'') Such follow-ups have become an annual event, roughly corresponding with the Creator/DiscoveryChannel's Shark Week, ever since.

* ChainsawGood: [[CrazyAwesome Fin manages to use one to cut a shark in half as it falls on him]]. He also enters a shark's mouth chainsaw-first and cuts his way out not only being unharmed himself [[spoiler: but with Nova as well, not even touched by said chainsaw]]. [[MST3KMantra It's best not to think how this is possible]].

->''"Sharks. Tornado. Sharknado. Enough Said!"''

* ChainsawGood: [[CrazyAwesome Fin manages to use one to cut a shark in half as it falls on him]]. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome He also enters a shark's mouth chainsaw-first and cuts his way out not only being unharmed himself]] [[spoiler: but with Nova as well, not even touched by said chainsaw]]. [[MST3KMantra It's best not to think how this is possible]].

* MsFanservice: Nova.

''Film/Sharknado2TheSecondOne'' premiered on Creator/{{Syfy}} on July 30, 2014, with ''Film/Sharknado3OhHellNo'' following on July 22, 2015, ''Film/SharknadoThe4thAwakens'' on July 31, 2016, and ''Film/Sharknado5GlobalSwarming'' on August 6, 2017. The series is set to wrap up on August 19, 2018, with ''Film/TheLastSharknadoItsAboutTime''.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: None of the characters on the fishing boat appear again, or are referenced again, or are acknowledged in any way after the opening titles.

''Film/Sharknado2TheSecondOne'' premiered on Creator/{{Syfy}} on July 30, 2014, with ''Film/Sharknado3OhHellNo'' following on July 22, 2015, ''Film/SharknadoThe4thAwakens'' on July 31, 2016, and ''Film/Sharknado5GlobalSwarming'' on August 6, 2017. The series is set to wrap up on August 19, 2018, with ''The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time''.

** The tie-in book ''How To Survive A Sharknado'' goes even farther, rating sharknadoes as merely one of ''dozens'' of kinds of monster-related weather phenomena or other natural catastrophes ... most of them from TheAsylum's other B-movies.

''Film/Sharknado2TheSecondOne'' premiered on Creator/{{Syfy}} on July 30, 2014, with ''Film/Sharknado3OhHellNo'' following on July 22, 2015, ''Film/SharknadoThe4thAwakens'' on July 31, 2016, and ''Film/Sharknado5GlobalSwarming'' on August 6, 2017. The series is set to wrap up on July 28, 2018, with ''The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time''.

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''Film/Sharknado2TheSecondOne'' premiered on Creator/{{Syfy}} on July 30, 2014, with ''Film/Sharknado3OhHellNo'' following on July 22, 2015, ''Film/SharknadoThe4thAwakens'' on July 31, 2016, and ''Film/Sharknado5GlobalSwarming'' on August 6, 2017. The series is set to wrap up on July 28, 2018, with as-yet-unsubtitled ''Sharknado 6''.

''Film/Sharknado2TheSecondOne'' premiered on Creator/{{Syfy}} on July 30, 2014, with ''Film/Sharknado3OhHellNo'' following on July 22, 2015, ''Film/SharknadoThe4thAwakens'' on July 31, 2016, and ''Film/Sharknado5GlobalSwarming'' on August 6, 2017. The series is set to wrap up on July 28, 2018, with as-yet-unsibtitled ''Sharknado 6''.

''Film/Sharknado2TheSecondOne'' premiered on Creator/{{Syfy}} on July 30, 2014, with ''Film/Sharknado3OhHellNo'' following on July 22, 2015, ''Film/SharknadoThe4thAwakens'' on July 31, 2016, and ''Film/Sharknado5GlobalSwarming'' on August 6, 2017.

** The main threat a person would face from a shark in a hurricane would be the possibility of getting hit by half a ton of fish traveling at over a hundred miles an hour - which is no more or less dangerous than any other half-ton piece of debris flying around in the hurricane.

* AmusingInjuries / BloodyHilarious: Pretty much any time the sharks take out a human, and ''most'' times when it's the other way around.

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Nova.]]

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: After you have seen the next few movies, you'll note this one is much shorter on the celebrity cameos and deaths. Some parts are even half-serious. That's because this was expected to be a one-off concept, and ended up being a surprise hit. It's also the only one where the ''storm'' does significantly more damage than the sharks for most of the movie.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Fin's car spontaneously explodes after developing a fuel leak.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Matt's friend, Luellyn, watches as a shark is flung by the tornado right towards their friend, Bobby, and he shoves Bobby out of the way, getting fatally squashed himself. His sacrifice didn't amount to much, though, as Bobby is killed not long afterwards.]]

* TheLoad: Even Matt's background friends who get killed off during the climax are more useful than Claudia ever is during the whole movie.

* ShoutOut: Nova states that [[Film/{{Jaws}} "We're gonna need a bigger chopper."]]

** Early in the shark attack on the pier, Fin and Baz take out a shark by tossing a propane cylinder in its mouth and shooting it.

** It's also obvious by the cars, lettering on signs, etc that the montage of the gang driving through a flooding LA is cut with stock footage of monsoon-devastated Asian countries. Possibly justified in that there would be no stock footage of LA flooding available anyway.

* BilingualBonus: The movie ends with the word "Fin" which is Spanish and French for "End".

* RunningGag: ''Something'' big and round can be counted on to get torn loose by the storms and sent rolling through the streets, smashing stuff. As of film #5, it's been done with [[spoiler: two ferris wheels, the [[Film/{[Cloverfield}} Statue of Liberty's head]], the World's Biggest Ball of Twine, and Universal Studios' signature metal globe]].