History Main / WaistDeepOcean

* ''The Shore'': At the end of the game, [[spoiler:Cthulhu erupts from the depths of the ocean and stands waist deep even as he makes his way right up to the titular shore]].

* "Anime/OnePiece": Sanjuan Wolf treats the ocean like this, although it's justified as Wolf is a [[OurGiantsAreBigger Giant]] who ate a Devil Fruit that lets him [[MakeMyMonsterGrow grow even bigger]]. He's one of the biggest characters in the franchise, yet even he is dwarfed by the giant elephant Zunesha, a colossal elephant with extremely long legs.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

** In the ''Pokémon: Mega Evolution Special III'', Primal Groudon is shown wading through the open ocean, creating a sea of lava in its wake.

* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}: When Tarzan tries to grab a hair from the elephant herd, they're shown standing ankle-deep in a pool of water, with it coming up to the young Tantor's knees. However, the water is alternately shown being deep enough that they're swimming in it.

->''"Okay, so just seconds ago [Gipsy Danger] rose up out of the water completely submerged, but now [it is] standing and the water comes up to [its] knees. So what position must Gipsy Danger have been in underwater in order to pull off that rise-up-from-the-deep move? Like, lying flat on the floor of the ocean, right?"''
-->-- ''WebVideo/CinemaSins'', {{Discuss|edTrope}}ing this trope in ''Film/PacificRim'', and what it would take to pull off.

** ''WesternAnimation/SkullIsland2023'': In "[[Recap/SkullIsland2023S1E3WhatsUpCroc What's Up, Croc?]]", a mercenary is wading through water which reaches up to his ankles, when a Sirenjaw lunges out and eats him. Bear in mind, Sirenjaws are about the size of a hill.

* ''Franchise/MonsterVerse'':
** ''Film/Godzilla2014'': The 108-meter-tall Godzilla stands upright and towers over the Golden Gate Bridge -- despite the bridge having a clearance of 67 meters and the water beneath the bridge having a depth of 115 meters.
** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': Midway through the film, the now 119-meter-tall Godzilla rises straight out of the ocean next to the ''USS Scorpion'' -- an Ohio-class nuclear submarine -- and stands waist-deep in water he was previously fully submerged in, before diving back under and swimming away.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'': In the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version's side-campaign, ''VideoGame/BowsersFury'', the colossal Fury Bowser is shown emerging from and retreating into water that is only ankle-deep when he's rampaging.

* ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'': In the manga, the fire-dragon Rend is shown swimming in a sea of magma that only comes up to his knees when he fights the [[GiantSpider Queen Taratect]] and later Kumoko. The anime omits the fight between Rend and the Queen Taratect, instead showing him severely wounded and bursting from the magma to attack Kumoko.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'': In the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version's side-campaign, ''Bowser's Fury'', the colossal Fury Bowser is shown emerging from and retreating into water that is only ankle-deep when he's rampaging.

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': At the end of "[[Recap/DigimonAdventure02E13TheCallOfDagomon The Call Of Dagomon/His Master's Voice]]", Dagomon/[[DubNameChange Dragomon]] -- an {{expy}} of Franchise/{{Cthulhu|Mythos}} -- is shown in silhouette rising out of the [[EldritchLocation Dark Ocean]] and standing submerged up to its waist.