Line #10 Film/Sharknado5GlobalSwarming


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3	The fifth entry in the ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'' franchise, following ''Film/SharknadoThe4thAwakens''. It aired on August 6, 2017.
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5	The shark-filled storms become stronger and stronger until the sharknadoes become global. Fin Shepard and his wife April must take up the fight once again, and it becomes personal when their son Little Gil gets sucked into a sharknado.
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7	Followed by ''Film/TheLastSharknadoItsAboutTime''.
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9	!Tropes
10	* AmazonBrigade: Led by Music/OliviaNewtonJohn, no less!
11	* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The sharks smash right through stone structures like Art/TheSphinx and Big Ben. In real life, they would have turned into paste on impact.
12	* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:Pretty much the messing with the artifact and going to Egypt lead to '''the entire world being wiped out'''.]]
13	* BeamSpam: The upgraded chainsaw provided by [[spoiler:the Pope]] has this mode. A useful feature should the wielder ever find himself aloft and surrounded mid-Sharknado.
14	* BodyOfBodies: Tokyo is attacked by an immense, swirling mass of sharks and toxic waste, which takes on the form of a giant shark.
15	* BritishRoyalGuards: The guards in London remain stoic and don't move during a Sharknado. Fin yells at them that protecting the Queen is their job, which finally gets them to move, then they gun down several sharks.
16	* TheCameo: Like in the previous ones, there are a ton.
17	** Creator/NichelleNichols as the Secretary-General of NATO.
18	** Jedward appear yet again, this time in the brief scene in the Netherlands towards the end of the movie.
19	** Fabio as [[spoiler: the Pope!]]
20	** Bret Michaels appears as himself.
21	** Creator/TonyHawk as special agent The Hawk.
22	** Wrestling/JohnMorrison as a taxi driver who gives Fin and April a lift, then fights several sharks.
23	** Music/OliviaNewtonJohn as a cybernetics expert who repairs April's damaged components.
24	** Creator/GeraldoRivera as an eccentric engineer with a "sharknado-proof" blimp.
25	** A lot of athletes have cameo appearances, including Olympic diver Tom Daley, Olympic skater Sasha Cohen, snowboarder Gus Kenworthy.
26	** Almost two dozen Germans, for example Oliver Kalkofe and Peter Rütten (their second cameo in a Sharknado-film. They can be seen in ''Film/Sharknado3OhHellNo'', too) or Sarah Knappik (who previously had a cameo in ''Film/SharknadoThe4thAwakens'')
27	** [[spoiler: Creator/{{Charo}}]] as the Queen of England.
28	* DarkerAndEdgier: '''Holy crap'''. This film goes from a simple Indiana Jones parody to full blown ''chaos'' with [[spoiler: characters getting killed off left and right and the SuddenDownerEnding where Fin loses both his sons (Gil's death is later subverted, however), his daughter, his cousin, April, and Nova]].
29	* EverybodysDeadDave: Fin receives a call from [[spoiler: his son, Matt, who informs him that the rest of the family are dead. Then Matt is killed a few seconds later.]]
30	* FreezeFrameBonus: Al Roker's weather map. A close look reveals that the labeled cities are all places with "shark" in their names.
31	* FutureBadass: [[spoiler:Little Gil travels through time to assist Fin, now played by Creator/DolphLundgren.]]
32	* GreaterScopeVillain: This film finally reveals that all Sharknados throughout history have been the work of nothing less than [[spoiler: a ''shark god!'']]
33	* HopeSpot:
34	** Fin and April activate an artifact in Egypt that automatically disperses the Sharknados all around the world, but a few seconds later, it loses power and the Sharknados start up again.
35	** [[spoiler:After April is blown up, Fin in anguish cradles her head. Her eyes open and it seems her cyborg nature allows her to live on, but she shuts down.]]
36	* ItsPersonal: Fin and April really have a reason to fight when they lose their son.
37	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Nova and Fin discover that ancient Druids installed five magic stones around the globe in order to stop Sharknados from destroying the world. Removing one causes Sharknados to immediately destroy the world.
38	* RunningGag: The London Eye breaks loose and goes rolling through the streets this time, and Fin Lampshades how it's just like the rolling-ferris-wheel incident from the original ''Sharknado''.
39	* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:Nova leaps into the Sharkzilla in an attempt to save Gil, only for him to vanish and her to get mortally injured.]]
40	* SequelHook: [[spoiler:After the world is devastated, Fin wretchedly wanders the streets looking for survivors. Then his now adult son appears and says they have a chance to prevent it from happening and bring everyone back. They hop into his truck, which has been converted into a flying car and a time machine, and disappear.]]
41	* ShoutOut:
42	** In the intro, there's a section where two sharks are eating Italian - a chef, not the cuisine - in the manner of ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp''.
43	** There's a pub sign in London that reads "[[Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon The Slaughtered Lamb]]".
44	** Nova [[Film/TheMummyReturns commendeers a double-decker bus]] to [[Film/CockneysVsZombies drive Fin and his family to safety]]. Then [[Music/{{Poison}} Brett Michaels]] winds up riding on the front of said bus while [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad laying down heavy metal guitar riffs.]]
45	** In a [[FreezeFrameBonus freeze frame bonus]] at the beginning, there is a corpse trapped underneath Stonehenge that is wearing a [[Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch Silver Shamrock trademark badge.]]
46	** The final scene is one to the ending of ''Film/BackToTheFuture1''.
47	** Really, there's [[ReferenceOverdosed at least a hundred of them]], counting "celebrity" cameos. '''Good luck finding them all.'''
48	* {{Steampunk}}: Dr. Angel's "sharknado-proof" armored blimp.
49	* SwirlyEnergyThingy: The artifact-spawned sharknadoes have a purple strand of energy at the center of the vortex, which acts as a CoolGate that sends people and the shark-storm itself through space [[spoiler: and time]].
50	* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Tom Daley]] jumps into the water to avoid the sharks. [[spoiler: Needless to say, it goes as well as you thought it was going to be.]]
51	* TrustPassword: [[spoiler:The adult Little Gil convinces Fin he is his son by saying, "Semper Paratus. A Shepard is always prepared."]]
52	* UseYourHead: Little Gil head-butts a shark to death defending Nova. Made more effective because he's wearing a helmet with a shark-fin ridge on it.
53	* WeaponizedLandmark: The London Eye fires one of its capsules into the sharknado like a rocket. The Sydney Opera House changes into a battle-mode and fires off lasers and some of its shell sections at the oncoming shark-storm. In the animated credits sequence, an Egyptian pyramid takes off with rockets and zaps some spear-wielding sharks with [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]].

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