History Film / TheMeg

** Owing to the general lack of sunlight at deeper sea levels, the Meg should realistically not be able to see at all as it surfaces, since the greater volume of light up there is much greater than what it's been accustomed to for millions of years.

* MouthyKid: Meiying; she has quite an attitude, and also delivers some [[MrExposition backstory]].
-->'''Meiying''': Eight-year-olds hear ''everything''.

** [[spoiler:The newly discovered hidden underwater environment below the cloud of hydrogen sulfide still remain unexplored. A GiantSquid and a Megalodon make their home down there. What's to say that there isn't something else, something ''bigger'', down there as well?]]

* SequelHook: At the end of the film, [[spoiler: when the normal-sized sharks engage in a feeding frenzy, what appears to be an infant Megalodon swims out its mothers corpse via the mouth.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Toshi closes the hatch and separates the rescue sub knowing they don't have enough time, before turning on the lights to draw the Meg towards him. Heller later saves Jaxx by splashing his arms in the water and draw the Meg towards him.]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Morris]].

* ShipperOnDeck: Mac is pretty encouraging towards Mac and Suyin getting together. By the end, Meiying approves too.

* ZergRush: After Jonas [[spoiler: wounds the Meg, every large shark in the vicinity comes running, attracted by the blood.]].

** Likewise, the scene where Jonas realises from the Meg's bite pattern is too small to be the one that left the teethmarks on the station is a nod to Hooper's similar realisation about the Tiger shark in ''Jaws''.

* UngratefulBitch: Jaxx [[spoiler: bitterly suggests throwing Morris out of the boat just a scene after he saves her life. Moments later when a helicopter with a machine gunner Morris has contacted to drive away the chasing Meg shows up she whines about what use that would do against such a big shark. Morris quite reasonably points out it was the best he could do on such short notice and that it acually ''does'' drive the Meg away.]]

* MouthyKid: Meiying; she has quite an attitude, and also delivers some [[CaptainExposition backstory]].

* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Justified: [[spoiler:Morris' failure to inform the authorities means that by the time the shark reaches the beaches of China the crew are the only ones in a position to do anything about it. Further, Mac mentions that even though he did try to warn people nobody believed talk of a giant prehistoric shark.]]

* FeedingFrenzy: The Mana crew's chumming the water to attract the Meg nearly results in this but the smaller sharks [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere disperse]] when the Meg ''does'' arrive. [[spoiler: It's later carried out to completion when the Meg itself is mortally wounded by Jonas.]]

* ZergRush: After Jonas [[spoiler: wounds the Meg, every large shark in the vicinity comes running, attracted by the blood. FeedingFrenzy ensues]].

* ZergRush: After Jonas [[spoiler: wounds the Meg, every large shark in the vicinity comes running, attracted by the blood; FeedingFrenzy ensues]].

* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: Jonas [[spoiler: stabs the Meg through the eye, presumably destroying its brain in the process. It's then devoured in a feeding frenzy of large sharks.]]

* HeroicBSOD: DJ freaks out totally after [[spoiler:the second Meg sinks their ship and kills The Wall. A particularly sad example, as he points out all the people the shark has killed were his friends.]]

** DJ's prank, scaring The Wall into the water by [[spoiler:making him think the displayed Meg corpse was showing signs of life, gets his friend killed when the seconf, larger Megalodon arrives.]]

** Likewise, the scene where Jona's realises from the Meg's bite pattern is too small to be the one that left the teethmarks on the station is a nod to Hooper's similar realisation about the Tiger shark in Jaws.

** DJ's prank, scaring The Wall into the water by [[spoiler:making him think the displayed Meg corpse was showing signs of life, gets his friend killed when the seconf, larger Megaodon arrives.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Morris is a double subverson: he starts off as greedy and conceited (and sees the discovery of a living Megalodon as something to be exploited) but seesm to soften throughout the movie, saving Jaxx' life during the first surface encounter with the Meg and calling in a GunshipRescue to drive off the Meg pursuing them. [[spoiler:Then it turns out he hadn't informed the authorities of the shark's existence as he'd claimed to, and is concerned with killing it solely to cover up its existence to ward off potential lawsuits.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Megalodon is released from the ocean depths because it followed the path to the surface created by the rescue mission. [[spoiler:Gets even more pronounced later in the film when it turns out an even bigger Meg had escaped too.]]