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* AllPartOfTheShow: Some of the beachgoers, including a pair of women and a father and son, wonder aloud if one of the titular character's attacks is all part of a show.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: A surprising amount for a movie about a mix-and-match critter made up of two totally unrelated creatures.
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** Heck, how does it even ''swim''? It doesn't have a shark's tail ''or'' a cephalopod's siphon for propulsion; it just waggles its tentacles around slightly and at random.
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** [[http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/07/sharktopus_is_coming.php This post]] by biologist P.Z. Myers mentions that [[AHeadAtEachEnd a creature with two mouths and no method of waste disposal disposal]] will eventually explode.
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** [[http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/07/sharktopus_is_coming.php This post]] by biologist P.Z. Myers mentions that a creature with two mouths and no method of waste disposal will eventually explode. If he'd actually seen the film after it came out he'd notice that the Sharktopus has only ''one'' mouth (the shark one); its anus is presumably on the other side.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: An old man and a woman are on a beach with a metal detector. The woman finds an old coin, and is then grasped by the Sharktopus's tentacles, dragged into the water, and slain (all rather slowly). The man just stands there in DullSurprise mode, waits until she is dead... and then goes to get the coin. Not out of place at all in a movie like this, though.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: An old man and a woman are on a beach with a metal detector. The woman finds an old coin, and is then grasped by the Sharktopus's tentacles, dragged into the water, and slain (all rather slowly). The man just stands there in DullSurprise mode, waits until she is dead... and then [[{{Jerkass}} goes to get the coin.coin]]. Not out of place at all in a movie like this, though.
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* IntrepidReporter: Stacy actively seeks out the Sharktopus so she can cover the story. Her insistence to get up close and personal with the monster [[spoiler:eventually gets both her and her cameraman killed.]]
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* IntrepidReporter: Stacy actively seeks out the Sharktopus so she can cover the story. Her [[spoiler:Her insistence to get up close and personal with the monster [[spoiler:eventually eventually gets both her and her cameraman killed.]]
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**beach. It also makes for a CrowningMomentOfFunny funny moment when he [[TastyGold bites the coin to see if it's real]]. Given Corman's legendary...erm, frugality, you can just see him calculating just how many cheap b-movies he can fund with it.
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** It also makes for a CrowningMomentOfFunny when he bites the coin to see if it's real. Given Corman's legendary...erm, frugality, you can just see him calculating just how many cheap b-movies he can fund with it.
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** It also makes for a CrowningMomentOfFunny when he [[TastyGold bites the coin to see if it's real.real]]. Given Corman's legendary...erm, frugality, you can just see him calculating just how many cheap b-movies he can fund with it.
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** How did the Sharktopus breathe on land?land? Is it part [[SaturdayNightLive landshark]]?
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** Also, a more minor point - an octopus doesn't have the tentacular clubs at the end of its arms. A squid does, but...
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** Also, a more minor point - an octopus doesn't have the tentacular clubs at the end of its arms. A squid does, but...but "Sharkquid" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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A [[SciFiChannel Sci-Fi Channel]] Original Movie released September 25, 2010, this film centers on the rampage of a half-shark half-octopus whose handlers have lost control of it. The film would later go on to inspire Piranhaconda, a sort of SpiritualSuccessor.
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A [[SciFiChannel Sci-Fi Channel]] Original Movie released September 25, 2010, this film centers on the rampage of a half-shark half-octopus whose handlers have lost control of it.
The film would later go on to inspire Piranhaconda, a sort ofSpiritualSuccessor.
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* TooDumbToLive:
** Just about all the innocent bystanders who get eaten. When you see a shark/octopus coming towards you, do not just stand/sit there and scream. TURN THE FUCK AROUND AND RUN.
** Special mention goes to [[spoiler:Stacy, who's been pursuing the Sharktopus throughout the entire film just to get a scoop, has repeatedly witnessed just how dangerous it is, has already been rescued once before from being eaten alive by a timely intervention of the heroes, and yet ''still'' tries to document it when it already killed her cameraman and is approaching her at the end.]]
** Just about all the innocent bystanders who get eaten. When you see a shark/octopus coming towards you, do not just stand/sit there and scream. TURN THE FUCK AROUND AND RUN.
** Special mention goes to [[spoiler:Stacy, who's been pursuing the Sharktopus throughout the entire film just to get a scoop, has repeatedly witnessed just how dangerous it is, has already been rescued once before from being eaten alive by a timely intervention of the heroes, and yet ''still'' tries to document it when it already killed her cameraman and is approaching her at the end.]]
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* TooDumbToLive:
** Just about all the innocent bystanders who get eaten. When you see a shark/octopus coming towards you, do not just stand/sit there and scream. TURN THE FUCK AROUND AND RUN.
** Special mention goes toTooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Stacy, who's been pursuing the Sharktopus throughout the entire film just to get a scoop, has repeatedly witnessed just how dangerous it is, has already been rescued once before from being eaten alive by a timely intervention of the heroes, and yet ''still'' tries to document it when it already killed her cameraman and is approaching her at the end.]]
** Just about all the innocent bystanders who get eaten. When you see a shark/octopus coming towards you, do not just stand/sit there and scream. TURN THE FUCK AROUND AND RUN.
** Special mention goes to
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A [[SciFiChannel Sci-Fi Channel]] Original Movie released September 25, 2010, this film centers on the rampage of a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin half-shark half-octopus]] half-octopus whose handlers have lost control of it.
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** It also makes for a CrowningMomentOfFunny when he bites the coin to see if it's real. Given Corman's legendary...erm, frugality, you can just see him calculating just how many cheap b-movies he can fund with it.
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** It also makes for a CrowningMomentOfFunny when he bites the coin to see if it's real. Given Corman's legendary...erm, frugality, you can just see him calculating just how many cheap b-movies he can fund with it.
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** Similarly, Corman's daughter, Mary Corman, appears as the bungee-jumping girl.
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* TakeThat: In the opening, [[Film/{{Jaws}} a woman goes swimming in the ocean alone, is stalked by a huge bloodthirsty great white shark]]... and is "saved" when said shark is grabbed and killed by the title beast.
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* TakeThat: TemptingFate: In the opening, [[Film/{{Jaws}} a woman goes swimming in the ocean alone, is stalked by a huge bloodthirsty great white shark]]... shark]]...[[SubvertedTrope and is "saved" when said shark is grabbed and killed by the title beast.beast]].
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* ItsBeenDone: Take a look at an earlier film with a suspiciously similar plot (minus the military angle) and a suspiciously similar monster: ''DevilFish'', an Italian ''{{Jaws}}'' ripoff made in the 80's. You know these people are scraping the bottom of the barrel when they rip off a godawful Italian ripoff. Thankfully, this film doesn't take itself as seriously.
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* ItsBeenDone: Take a look at an earlier film with a suspiciously similar plot (minus the military angle) and a suspiciously similar monster: ''DevilFish'', an Italian ''{{Jaws}}'' ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' ripoff made in the 80's. You know these people are scraping the bottom of the barrel when they rip off a godawful Italian ripoff. Thankfully, this film doesn't take itself as seriously.
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* TakeThat: In the opening, [[{{Jaws}} a woman goes swimming in the ocean alone, is stalked by a huge bloodthirsty great white shark]]... and is "saved" when said shark is grabbed and killed by the titular beast.
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* TakeThat: In the opening, [[{{Jaws}} [[Film/{{Jaws}} a woman goes swimming in the ocean alone, is stalked by a huge bloodthirsty great white shark]]... and is "saved" when said shark is grabbed and killed by the titular title beast.
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* CombatTentacles:
** It's called a Sharktopus for a reason.
** With swords on the tips of its tentacles for [[RuleOfCool some weird reason]].
** It's called a Sharktopus for a reason.
** With swords on the tips of its tentacles for [[RuleOfCool some weird reason]].
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* CombatTentacles:
**CombatTentacles: It's called a Sharktopus for a reason.
**reason. With swords on the tips of its tentacles for [[RuleOfCool some weird reason]].
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: In the beginning of the film a beach girl is attacked by a shark, but the Sharktopus saves her by devouring it.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: In the beginning of the film a beach girl is attacked by a shark, shark while swimming off the shoreline, but the Sharktopus saves her by devouring it.
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* ItsBeenDone: Take a look at an earlier film with a suspiciously similar plot (minus the military angle) and a suspiciously similar monster: ''DevilFish'', an Italian ''{{Jaws}}'' ripoff made in the 80's. You know these people are scraping the bottom of the barrel when they rip off a godawful Italian ripoff.
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* ItsBeenDone: Take a look at an earlier film with a suspiciously similar plot (minus the military angle) and a suspiciously similar monster: ''DevilFish'', an Italian ''{{Jaws}}'' ripoff made in the 80's. You know these people are scraping the bottom of the barrel when they rip off a godawful Italian ripoff. Thankfully, this film doesn't take itself as seriously.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** [[http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/07/sharktopus_is_coming.php This post]] by biologist P.Z. Myers mentions that a creature with two mouths and no method of waste disposal will eventually explode. If he'd actually seen the film after it came out he'd notice that the Sharktopus has only ''one'' mouth (the shark one); its anus is presumably on the other side.
** Also, a more minor point - an octopus doesn't have the tentacular clubs at the end of its arms. A squid does, but...
** How did the Sharktopus breathe on land?
** [[http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/07/sharktopus_is_coming.php This post]] by biologist P.Z. Myers mentions that a creature with two mouths and no method of waste disposal will eventually explode. If he'd actually seen the film after it came out he'd notice that the Sharktopus has only ''one'' mouth (the shark one); its anus is presumably on the other side.
** Also, a more minor point - an octopus doesn't have the tentacular clubs at the end of its arms. A squid does, but...
** How did the Sharktopus breathe on land?
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* BigNo: Screamed by Andy after [[spoiler:Santos' death]].
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** Screamed by Andy after [[spoiler:Santos' death]].
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** It's called a Sharktopus for a reason.
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** [[FridgeLogic Because it was a warning about a giant half-shark half-octopus, of course.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: Nicole created a hunter, but her dad wanted a killer. He changes her programming and everyone ends up paying for it.
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* GoneHorriblyRight:
**[[FridgeLogic Because it was a warning about a giant half-shark half-octopus, of course.]]
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** Oddly enough, this isn't the only form of entertainment that featured a sharktopus.
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**MixAndMatchCritters: Oddly enough, this isn't the only form of entertainment that featured a sharktopus.
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* TooDumbToLive: Just about all the innocent bystanders who get eaten. When you see a shark/octopus coming towards you, do not just stand/sit there and scream. TURN THE FUCK AROUND AND RUN.
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** Just about all the innocent bystanders who get eaten. When you see a shark/octopus coming towards you, do not just stand/sit there and scream. TURN THE FUCK AROUND AND RUN.
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** [[http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/07/sharktopus_is_coming.php This post]] by biologist P.Z. Myers mentions that a creature with two mouths and no method of waste disposal will eventually explode. If he'd actually seen the film after it came out he'd notice that the Sharktopus has only ''one'' mouth (the shark one); its anus is presumably on the other side.
** Also, a more minor point - an octopus doesn't have the tentacular clubs at the end of its arms. A squid does, but...
** How did the Sharktopus breathe on land?
** [[http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/07/sharktopus_is_coming.php This post]] by biologist P.Z. Myers mentions that a creature with two mouths and no method of waste disposal will eventually explode. If he'd actually seen the film after it came out he'd notice that the Sharktopus has only ''one'' mouth (the shark one); its anus is presumably on the other side.
** Also, a more minor point - an octopus doesn't have the tentacular clubs at the end of its arms. A squid does, but...
** How did the Sharktopus breathe on land?
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** [[http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/07/sharktopus_is_coming.php This post]] by biologist P.Z. Myers mentions that a creature with two mouths and no method of waste disposal will eventually explode. If he'd actually seen the film after it came out he'd notice that the Sharktopus has only ''one'' mouth (the shark one); its anus is presumably on the other side.
** Also, a more minor point - an octopus doesn't have the tentacular clubs at the end of its arms. A squid does, but...
** How did the Sharktopus breathe on land?
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* AssholeVictim: Quite a few.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: In the beginning of the film a beach girl is attacked by a shark, but the Sharktopus saves her by devouring it.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Andy and Nicole are less than cordial towards one another when they first meet, and for a while after that, but you can tell they're going to end up together by the end of the movie.
* BigNo: Screamed by Andy after [[spoiler:Santos' death]].
** The second victim to die directly from the Sharktopus gives a [[DullSurprise pretty nice one]] as he contemplates how he's about to die.
* CombatTentacles: It's called a Sharktopus for a reason.
** With swords on the tips of its tentacles for [[RuleOfCool some weird reason]].
* CreatorCameo: Roger Corman as the guy taking the old coin found on a beach.
** It also makes for a CrowningMomentOfFunny when he bites the coin to see if it's real. Given Corman's legendary...erm, frugality, you can just see him calculating just how many cheap b-movies he can fund with it.
* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks: Yes.
* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: And yes, although the Sharktopus quickly proves that the combo of the two beats out the former.
* FiringInTheAirALot: When tourists disregard warnings of a giant half-shark half-octopus approaching, this is what gets them to leave.
** [[FridgeLogic Because it was a warning about a giant half-shark half-octopus, of course.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: Nicole created a hunter, but her dad wanted a killer. He changes her programming and everyone ends up paying for it.
** TooDumbToLive: They had a remote control anyway, so there was no reason to make the shark psychotic too.
* HeyItsThatGuy: I guess [[NachoLibre Esqueleto]] got tired of wrestling.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Or rather, by his own Sharktopus.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: For a guy with a submachine gun, shooting at a 20-some foot tall Shartopus (which tends to remain fairly still while he shoots,) Andy sure manages to miss a LOT of his shots.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Andy seems at first nothing more than a mercenary who loves cheap booze and cheap women, but he later refuses an offer of $1 million to not kill the titular monster. Mind you, [[spoiler:this is just after his best buddy, Santos, is pulled overboard and chewed up]], so Andy has a good excuse.
* ImmuneToBullets: The Sharktopus can withstand machine gun fire.
* ItsBeenDone: Take a look at an earlier film with a suspiciously similar plot (minus the military angle) and a suspiciously similar monster: ''DevilFish'', an Italian ''{{Jaws}}'' ripoff made in the 80's. You know these people are scraping the bottom of the barrel when they rip off a godawful Italian ripoff.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: The military sort.
* LampshadeHanging: And how, this movie gets close to a parody of Syfy Channel Original Movies at times.
* MixAndMatchCritters
** Oddly enough, this isn't the only form of entertainment that featured a sharktopus.
* MyEyesAreUpHere: Said by Stacy to Pez.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: The kill switch password to destroy the Sharktopus is "Pumpkin", the term of affection that Nicole's father used to call her.
* PlotArmor: The only sensible explanation as to why the Sharktopus is so hesitant to eat Andy at the end, [[spoiler:and the explosion doesn't hurt him when it kills the creature]].
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After [[spoiler: Santos, his best friend, gets killed]], Andy spends the rest of the movie trying as hard as he can to kill the Sharktopus in a fury.
* [[spoiler:StuffBlowingUp]]: Apparently, the best way to kill a Sharktopus.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Guess who. Justified because the Sharktopus was specifically designed to hunt humans.
* TakeThat: In the opening, [[{{Jaws}} a woman goes swimming in the ocean alone, is stalked by a huge bloodthirsty great white shark]]... and is "saved" when said shark is grabbed and killed by the titular beast.
* TooDumbToLive: Just about all the innocent bystanders who get eaten. When you see a shark/octopus coming towards you, do not just stand/sit there and scream. TURN THE FUCK AROUND AND RUN.
** Special mention goes to [[spoiler:Stacy, who's been pursuing the Sharktopus throughout the entire film just to get a scoop, has repeatedly witnessed just how dangerous it is, has already been rescued once before from being eaten alive by a timely intervention of the heroes, and yet ''still'' tries to document it when it already killed her cameraman and is approaching her at the end.]]
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: After the device that enabled the scientists to control their project gets smashed, this happens—although it's not so much against its masters as it is against humanity in general.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: An old man and a woman are on a beach with a metal detector. The woman finds an old coin, and is then grasped by the Sharktopus's tentacles, dragged into the water, and slain (all rather slowly). The man just stands there in DullSurprise mode, waits until she is dead... and then goes to get the coin. Not out of place at all in a movie like this, though.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Andy does actually own a shirt, he just never bothers to do it up.
* TheWorfEffect: See AlwaysABiggerFish above.
* YouFailBiologyForever:
** [[http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/07/sharktopus_is_coming.php This post]] by biologist P.Z. Myers mentions that a creature with two mouths and no method of waste disposal will eventually explode. If he'd actually seen the film after it came out he'd notice that the Sharktopus has only ''one'' mouth (the shark one); its anus is presumably on the other side.
** Also, a more minor point - an octopus doesn't have the tentacular clubs at the end of its arms. A squid does, but...
** How did the Sharktopus breathe on land?
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AssholeVictim: Quite a few.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: In the beginning of the film a beach girl is attacked by a shark, but the Sharktopus saves her by devouring it.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Andy and Nicole are less than cordial towards one another when they first meet, and for a while after that, but you can tell they're going to end up together by the end of the movie.
* BigNo: Screamed by Andy after [[spoiler:Santos' death]].
** The second victim to die directly from the Sharktopus gives a [[DullSurprise pretty nice one]] as he contemplates how he's about to die.
* CombatTentacles: It's called a Sharktopus for a reason.
** With swords on the tips of its tentacles for [[RuleOfCool some weird reason]].
* CreatorCameo: Roger Corman as the guy taking the old coin found on a beach.
** It also makes for a CrowningMomentOfFunny when he bites the coin to see if it's real. Given Corman's legendary...erm, frugality, you can just see him calculating just how many cheap b-movies he can fund with it.
* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks: Yes.
* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: And yes, although the Sharktopus quickly proves that the combo of the two beats out the former.
* FiringInTheAirALot: When tourists disregard warnings of a giant half-shark half-octopus approaching, this is what gets them to leave.
** [[FridgeLogic Because it was a warning about a giant half-shark half-octopus, of course.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: Nicole created a hunter, but her dad wanted a killer. He changes her programming and everyone ends up paying for it.
** TooDumbToLive: They had a remote control anyway, so there was no reason to make the shark psychotic too.
* HeyItsThatGuy: I guess [[NachoLibre Esqueleto]] got tired of wrestling.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Or rather, by his own Sharktopus.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: For a guy with a submachine gun, shooting at a 20-some foot tall Shartopus (which tends to remain fairly still while he shoots,) Andy sure manages to miss a LOT of his shots.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Andy seems at first nothing more than a mercenary who loves cheap booze and cheap women, but he later refuses an offer of $1 million to not kill the titular monster. Mind you, [[spoiler:this is just after his best buddy, Santos, is pulled overboard and chewed up]], so Andy has a good excuse.
* ImmuneToBullets: The Sharktopus can withstand machine gun fire.
* ItsBeenDone: Take a look at an earlier film with a suspiciously similar plot (minus the military angle) and a suspiciously similar monster: ''DevilFish'', an Italian ''{{Jaws}}'' ripoff made in the 80's. You know these people are scraping the bottom of the barrel when they rip off a godawful Italian ripoff.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: The military sort.
* LampshadeHanging: And how, this movie gets close to a parody of Syfy Channel Original Movies at times.
* MixAndMatchCritters
** Oddly enough, this isn't the only form of entertainment that featured a sharktopus.
* MyEyesAreUpHere: Said by Stacy to Pez.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: The kill switch password to destroy the Sharktopus is "Pumpkin", the term of affection that Nicole's father used to call her.
* PlotArmor: The only sensible explanation as to why the Sharktopus is so hesitant to eat Andy at the end, [[spoiler:and the explosion doesn't hurt him when it kills the creature]].
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After [[spoiler: Santos, his best friend, gets killed]], Andy spends the rest of the movie trying as hard as he can to kill the Sharktopus in a fury.
* [[spoiler:StuffBlowingUp]]: Apparently, the best way to kill a Sharktopus.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Guess who. Justified because the Sharktopus was specifically designed to hunt humans.
* TakeThat: In the opening, [[{{Jaws}} a woman goes swimming in the ocean alone, is stalked by a huge bloodthirsty great white shark]]... and is "saved" when said shark is grabbed and killed by the titular beast.
* TooDumbToLive: Just about all the innocent bystanders who get eaten. When you see a shark/octopus coming towards you, do not just stand/sit there and scream. TURN THE FUCK AROUND AND RUN.
** Special mention goes to [[spoiler:Stacy, who's been pursuing the Sharktopus throughout the entire film just to get a scoop, has repeatedly witnessed just how dangerous it is, has already been rescued once before from being eaten alive by a timely intervention of the heroes, and yet ''still'' tries to document it when it already killed her cameraman and is approaching her at the end.]]
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: After the device that enabled the scientists to control their project gets smashed, this happens—although it's not so much against its masters as it is against humanity in general.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: An old man and a woman are on a beach with a metal detector. The woman finds an old coin, and is then grasped by the Sharktopus's tentacles, dragged into the water, and slain (all rather slowly). The man just stands there in DullSurprise mode, waits until she is dead... and then goes to get the coin. Not out of place at all in a movie like this, though.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Andy does actually own a shirt, he just never bothers to do it up.
* TheWorfEffect: See AlwaysABiggerFish above.
* YouFailBiologyForever:
** [[http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/07/sharktopus_is_coming.php This post]] by biologist P.Z. Myers mentions that a creature with two mouths and no method of waste disposal will eventually explode. If he'd actually seen the film after it came out he'd notice that the Sharktopus has only ''one'' mouth (the shark one); its anus is presumably on the other side.
** Also, a more minor point - an octopus doesn't have the tentacular clubs at the end of its arms. A squid does, but...
** How did the Sharktopus breathe on land?
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