Shark Man

King Shark is a shark.

Out of all the sea creatures, perhaps none sets in man a Primal Fear quite like a shark does. But what if you want something scarier than a shark? How could we possibly make so fearsome a beast even scarier? Why, by giving him legs, arms, and a human brain! Thus we have the Shark Man. It may be a Half-Human Hybrid. It may be a natural mutation of a shark, a human Super-Soldier with shark-like enhancements, or even a wereshark. All that matters is it packs the bestial parts of a shark with the form of a human. Could probably apply with any large sea predator.

A Sub-Trope of Threatening Shark and Fish People.

Compare Unscaled Merfolk.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• From Bleach, we have Harribel in a more subtle version of this trope.
  • In a less-subtle way there's a Anime-only Arrancar of great power resembling a Hammerhead shark-man who was shown attacking Harribel and her Fracción.
• Verg from Blue Submarine No. 6 is one.
• In Fairy Tail, Torafuzar "The Dark" of Tartaros is a member of the guild's Nine Demon Gates who is essentially a shark demon, with his head and arm blades resembling fins and being an Olympic swimmer. His specific Curse, Tenchi Kaimei, creates a wave of black water that submerges his enemies and will poison them to death if they don't drown first. Unlike most shark stereotypes, however, he's a No-Nonsense Nemesis who takes no real pleasure in killing humans and just sees it as a job. For a final bit of fun, Torafuzame is Japanese for "Zebra Shark".
• Shark Fujishiro from My Bride is a Mermaid has a human form, a shark form, and a form where he's a human with a shark's head.
• Naruto:
  • Kisame Hoshigaki from the original manga, a member of the terrorist/mercenary group Akatsuki and one of the most badass ninjas around, very strongly resembles a shark. He has pale blue skin, small and round white eyes, gill-like facial markings under his eyes, gills on his shoulders, and sharp triangular teeth. His sword is even named Samehada, meaning "shark-skin". He even becomes a shark-ray-man hybrid when he merges with Samehada.
  • The previous wielder of Samehada, Fuguki Suikazan, had a similarly shark-like appearance.
  • In Boruto, Shizuma Hoshigaki (from the same clan as Kisame) also has shark-like teeth and gill-like facial markings, plus pale gray skin, though he's not quite as inhuman-looking as his predecessor. Not surprisingly, he also goes on to acquire Samehada.
• One Piece: Fishmen and merfolk are some of the most plot-relevant non-human races, and many of them have the characteristics of sharks. These include:
  • Arlong, who leads the first crew of fishman pirates we see in the story. His name and appearance seems to be a Visual Pun that works in multiple languages — the character is a literal Loan Shark, and "Ah-long" is a word for Loan Shark in some Chinese languages. He's based off of a sawshark.
  • Then there's Jimbei, a whale-shark man who was one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. His name comes from the word jinbeizame, or whale shark. Interestingly, he was first mentioned very early on in the series as the Straw Hats were coming to Arlong, and was even on the same crew as him. Later on in their histories Jimbei was also the one who secured Arlong's release from prison (as part of the deal of becoming a Warlord), unintentionally unleashing him upon East Blue.
  • In the Fishman Island arc the main antagonists were mostly shark-based fishmen. There's the Big Bad Hody Jones (great white shark), whose motivations were heavily inspired by Arlong. His crew includes Zeo (Japanese wobbegong), Dosun (hammerhead shark), and Daruma (cookiecutter shark). Captain Vander Decken IX, the arc's secondary Big Bad, is a four-legged Japanese bullhead shark or nekozame (catshark). On the mermen side we have Prince Fukaboshi (fuka is another word for shark) and Madame Shyarly (a shortfin mako, and half-sister to Arlong).
  • There are other, unrelated shark-based fishmen and merfolk around the world, and they are related to Emperors. There's Namur, a shark fishman and commander of the 8th Division of the Whitebeard Pirates. Then there's Charlotte Praline, a half hammerhead-shark mermaid and 21st daughter (and overall 47th child) of Big Mom.
• In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Viral combines this with Cat Boy. He's second only to Simon in sheer, unadulterated GAR.
• Skybite from Transformers: Robots in Disguise takes this form on for his robot mode.
• In Ulysses 31, the minions of the gods of Olympus are shark men. They only appears in the flesh in two episodes (with different design each time), although it is implied that the Trident Mook Mobiles seen in several other episodes are also manned by them.
• One Duel Monster from Yu-Gi-Oh! is a shark with arms.

Comic Books

• The DCU:
  • The Batman villain named "The Great White Shark" (introduced in Arkham Asylum: Living Hell) resembles a shark man, but has no inherit powers, shark-like or otherwise; his name comes mainly from the fact he stole millions from his company's clients (thus being a "shark"), and that as a newcomer to Arkham, the other inmates call him a "new fish". His shark-like appearance came from a combination of frostbite and mutilation while incarcerated in Arkham.
  • The Shark from Green Lantern. A man-eating tiger shark who prowled off the shore of Coast City, the Shark was mutated into a humanoid form and granted psychic powers after being exposed to alien radiation. The Shark originally ate fear, not flesh, though he was changed to an actual maneater later during The Dark Age of Comic Books.
  • From Infinity, Inc., Carcharo is a mutant, a human born with shark-like characteristics after his mother was experimented on during pregnancy by the insane Dr. Love. Carcharo's mother tried to drown both herself and her baby when she first saw what she had given birth to, but he survived thanks to his gills and grew up in the ocean. As an adult, Carcharo, driven by hatred and power lust, causes chaos on the coast of California.
  • King Shark (originally) from Superboy (1994). Born in Hawaii, Nanaue is a humanoid shark. His father is "The King of All Sharks" — also known as the Shark God.
  • Wonder Woman (1942): Sharkeeta is a mermaid created out of a shark by Gerta von Gunther who becomes an enemy of Wonder Woman.
  • Wonder Woman (1987): During "The Witch and the Warrior", Circe turns Tempest into a shark-human mashup with a shark's upper body and humanoid legs.
• Enormo Overdrive, a corporate villain from Low-Life, was once a normal man, but spliced his own DNA with that of a great white shark to be even more lethal.
• Marvel Universe:
  • One of the many minor stories in the event comic Fear Itself featured Amadeus Cho, the second Power Man, Thunderstrike, X-23 and Anya Corazón teaming up (at Amadeus' request) to save Honolulu from an army of shark men in a vril-powered Nazi flying battleship.
  • Sub-Mariner: Tiger Shark is a former Olympic swimmer mutated into a human-shark hybrid by the Mad Scientist Dr. Dorcas.
  • X-Men:
    • There's a minor X-Men member named Shark Girl. She can turn into a humanoid shark form at will, but even in human form she has sharp teeth and a raw fish-intensive diet.
    • The Arc Villain of the 1985 Nightcrawler mini-series is Shagreen the Sorcerer, a humanoid shark Evil Sorcerer from another dimension.
• A one-shot alien character from Paperinik New Adventures is an Ergonian, a race coming from the same solar system as the recurring villains, the Evronians. While the latter are, essentially, a tailless duck version of a Xenomorph, the former look identical, only with green skins, arm fins and a large dorsal fin on their hunched bodies, sharp teeth in their bills and gills on the side of their neck. However, Evronians are ruthless invaders who drain emotions from their victims to make them into mindless slaves, Ergonians, despite their appearence, aren't an aggressive folk.
• Resident Evil comic Fire and Ice had the STARS team encounter a quartet of humanoid mutants in Antarctica, one of which was a shark.
• Atomika Press hero Sharkman.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
  • In an issue of Tales of the TMNT, it was eventually revealed that the slain worm-animated clone of the Shredder had been brought back to life as one of these.
  • In a story unrelated to the one above, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures featured time-travelling Shark Man Armaggon as a nemesis for the future version of the turtles. Armaggon would go on to have several more appearances in various Turtles media including other comics, video games, and the 2012 Nickelodeon series.
• Larry "Frenzy" Fischmann, a shark man attorney, from Top 10. Evil Lawyer Jokes abound.

Fan Works

• A meme has it that the new Magneto from X-Men Film Series is a handsome shark,◊ due to being played by Michael Fassbender.
• Two tiger-shark featured Fishmen appear in the course of Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse; a famous surfer named Kahuna Mack shows up during the Grand Octopree, a surfing competition, whilst a female wotan named Miriam later joins the crew. Both are noted as having a very unusual feature for Fishmen, in that both have tails as well as legs. This is one of the pieces of evidence that implies the two may actually be father and daughter.

Films — Animation

• Tony Trihull from Cars 2 is a shark boat.
• Gantu from Lilo & Stitch looks very sharklike (or whalelike) in appearance.
• Played with in Moana, where Maui accidentally gives himself either the front or back halves of a shark with his fishhook.

Films — Live-Action

• The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl: Sharkboy has many shark-like adaptations to his body, including gills, fins, sharpened teeth, claws, high strength, exceptional hearing and sense of smell, agility, reflexes and swimming ability. He is not affected by deep sea pressure or the bends.
• "Deepest Bluest", the ending credits theme song of Deep Blue Sea by LL Cool J, is written from either the perspective of the sharks or of LL himself as a man-shark hybrid.
• The villainous aliens from the film adaptation of I Am Number Four seemed to have been designed with this in mind, being bald, having pure black eyes, gills, fangs and a super powerful sense of smell.
• In Immortal, one of the scientists who capture Jill is a red-skinned man/hammerhead hybrid.
• The main monster from the 1998 TV-movie version of Peter Benchley's Creature is such a... well, creature. The novel version also possesses some very shark-like qualities but is really just a scientifically modified human with steel claws and teeth, while the movie version is a genetically engineered shark with human DNA.
• Maccus from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is half hammerhead shark.
• SharkMan, a.k.a. Hammerhead, is a Syfy Channel Original Movie where the monster is a man who became part hammerhead shark after being injected with shark DNA.
• We don't get a good look at Sweetheart's monster until quite a ways into the movie, but when we do, it turns out to be humanoid but with some distinctly shark-like features.
• Nanaue, a.k.a. "King Shark", finally makes his live-action film debut in The Suicide Squad. Rather than use his hammerhead shark appearance from the New 52 comics onward, however, he resembles a humanoid great white shark like in the prior post-Crisis comics. He is also hilariously simple-minded.

Literature

• In the Doctor Who PROSE novel series, the Selachians are a somewhat prominent original creation. They've appeared in the audio story "Architects of History". They're shark-like beings converted into power armor by a race of aquatic aliens, until they rose up against their masters. They're considered to be warmongers that try to conquer everything they can, and have no genuine arms and legs.
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Victor Krum handles the second challenge, which requires the tournament competitors to reach the bottom of a large lake, by partly transforming himself into a shark.
• InCryptid: The Ukupani are aquatic therianthropes whose males can turn into a fully human or a half-human/half-shark form. The females can't transform, and appear as gigantic sharks. Their name is based on the Hawaiian shark god Ukupanipo.
• In the Tempest (2011) trilogy, Tiamat's goons include a group of mermen with shark tails, human torsos, and facial features somewhere between human and shark.
• Xanadu (Storyverse): Downplayed with a cook who had worn a shark mask to get into the spirit of things while catering at the convention. Post-Change, she still looks mostly human, but has three rows of serrated teeth and doesn't need to sleep anymore.

Live-Action TV

• Spike's literal loan shark "Teeth" from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Tabula Rasa".
• King Shark's appearance in The Flash (2014), though a change from the comics is he Was Once a Man but got mutated into a shark-human hybrid.
• Saturday Night Live's Jaws II sketch from back in 1975. How do you make Jaws even scarier? Why, make him a land-shark, who can even imitate human voices in order to enter people's homes.
• Super Sentai/Power Rangers
  • Monster of the Week Slippery Shark from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
  • Treacherous general Vexacus, a samurai-esque shark-like bounty hunter, from Power Rangers Ninja Storm.
  • Sharkie Chan from Juken Sentai Gekiranger, who incidentally is a master of shark-style martial arts.
  • Sela from Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger is a shark Zyuman. However, she is able to disguise herself to appear human, though she still has a fin. We also see her father, mother and little brother.

Music

• Kool Keith: Doctor Octagon's uncle Mr. Gerbik is a half shark-alligator, half man.
• On a goofier level, we have "Left Shark," one of the backup dancers for Katy Perry's Super Bowl XLIX halftime show who became memetic for his awkward dance moves.

Manhua

• Old Master Q Fantasy Zone Battle has an episode which is a crossover with The Little Mermaid, where Master Q and friends discover the mermaid kingdom are being threatened by a race of shark men. They end up pulling a Gondor Calls for Aid by convincing the Dragon King of the Chinese seas to send reinforcements, which comes in the form of a Giant Crab army.

Myths & Religion

• From Greek Mythology there was Akheilos, once a handsome demigod (a son of Zeus, by the way!) who was transformed into a shark man for boasting that he was more attractive than Aphrodite. In fact, the name of his mother Lamia could even be translated to 'large lone shark', which would make some sense as her father was none other than the sea god Poseidon himself.
• From Japanese Mythology there's the Samebito (lit. Shark Man), servants of the Sea Dragon God Ryuujin. They're usually described as large ogre-like beings with ink-black skin, a fin and a red beard. Also their tears turn into pearls.
• Pacific Mythology:
  • Fijian mythology has the shark god Dakuwaqa, who can change his form into anything but whose true form was that of a man with a shark for a torso. He is considered to be a protector of fishermen and sailors, as well as of the people of Kadavu Island (because he lost a battle against a goddess transformed as an octopus).
  • One Hawai'ian legend had a shark who repeatedly attacked women off a specific coast, but eluded capture. The hero of the story ran into a man who always hung out there. After he managed to fatally wound the shark, it turned out to have been that man, who died and turned into a shark-like stone.
  • The fire goddess Pele also has a brother, Kāmohoaliʻi, who takes the form of a shark.
  • Polynesian legends believed in sharks that could take human form and even have shapeshifting kids with human wives.

Pro Wrestling

• El Piranha of the Heartland Wrestling Association was upgraded to Shark Boy in WCW. He was so unexpectedly popular we got a Shark Girl on the independent circuit (Chikara, SHIMMER, etc) with the two being part of a whole shark person family in TNA, then a Shark Solo, then another Shark Boy in CMLL.

Tabletop Games

• Banestorm has a whole race of aquatic shark men. They aren't explicitly evil, but they are described as "pragmatic" and "direct", and as worshiping worrying gods — so humans find them scary.
• Dungeons & Dragons:
  • Shark men are among the varieties of were-creatures. One of them is the darklord of Saragossa, a domain in Ravenloft consisting of a Derelict Graveyard of wrecked ships tangled in kelp and sargassum.
  • The Sahuagin are sometimes treated as such due to being scaly aquatic humanoids with sharp teeth who like eating other sentients, their affinity for sharks, and having the typical "blood-in-water = frenzy" trait.
• Exalted: Several are present; run-of-the-mill shark-based Beastmen known for their predatory savagery, the Deep People of the Underwater City Luthe (beastmen descended from the resident Shark-totem Lunar Exalt), Shark Warriors (the most common of the Western Fair Folk), children of Siaka (local war gods who take the form of shark people), and Siaka herself, the Western Goddess of War, Sharks and Slaughter.
• Rokea (and their Asian offshoot, the Same-Bito) are weresharks in the Old World of Darkness (specifically, the Werewolf: The Apocalypse game line) who can assume half-shark, half-man form when making a landfall. Their other forms are a human (ranging from average to hideous), a shark, a 30-foot giant doom shark, and a sort of ugly hump-backed hairless humanoid.
• Pathfinder: Adaros are a species of monstrous humanoids resembling large, burly merfolk based on sharks, with a tall crest on their heads and backs and multiple rows of sharp teeth. They are intensely malevolent and very aggressive, generally seeing other sapients as just prey to be hunted. They can also communicate telepathically with regular sharks and give them simple commands to follow.
• The Ocean Punk setting of Seas Of Vodari for Dungeons & Dragons has two playable races of this type. Tiburons were created by the same dark gods as created the sahuagin, but resisted succumbing to their baser impulses, although they still have a very bad reputation. They're a surprisingly noble race of nomadic hunters with very strong social bonds. Unlike sahuagin, tiburons have the classic "merfolk body", with a shark's tail instead of legs. Uniquely amongst Vodari's subaquatic peoples, they can't breathe air. Grindylows are a smaller, more goblin-like version, who have eight octopus tentacles for legs. Both arguably count as Unscaled Merfolk as well.
• Smash Up: The "Sharks" faction consists of muscular people with shark heads.
• Warhammer 40,000:
  • A race of aliens known as the Sarharduin who resembled anthropomorphic Great Whites. They're not a playable faction, but they do get a few models as they often hire themselves out as mercenaries to Imperial factions who don't take the Absolute Xenophobe bit of the Imperial Cult too seriously.
  • The Carcharodons chapter of the Adeptus Astartes are named and themed after a genus of sharks. Their gene seed is prone to mutations that give their marines dark, glossy eyes, pale flesh, sharp teeth and at least one example of rough flesh around the joints comparable to shark skin.

Toys

• Pridak from BIONICLE is a biomechanical version. Fittingly, he's also the most bloodthirsty and ruthless of the Barraki, and leads an army of sharks almost as vicious as him.

Video Games

• Beyond Good & Evil has the Carcharodon Sapiens (Shark Humanoid), the most notable of them being Francis the air-hockey player.
• Carrie's Order Up!, featuring a various types of anthropomorphic marine life, comes with both Great White and Hammerhead sharks as potential customers.
• The Shark-Girls and Tiger Shark-Girls in Corruption Of Champions are the Cute Monster Girl version of this trope (or "Cute Monster Boy" in the case of Jasun, at the Tel'Adre Gym). They were originally humans, but they turned into fish people due to the lake becoming polluted with demonic corruption. The Player Character can become one themselves by eating the "Shark Tooth" item.
• One of Velo's champions in Crash Nitro Kart is Nash, a genetically-engineered alien sharkman from the ice planet Barin who was designed to always keep moving, never even stopping to sleep. Unlike other examples of this trope, he's actually a fairly Harmless Villain.
• One of the archvillains in City of Heroes and player character contacts in City of Villains is Captain Mako, a human mutant who has shark-like anatomy.
• Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes: Yuferius VII, the Kickstarter campaign's second stretch goal hero, is a flail-wielding anthropomorphic shark and the guard captain of the desert nation Imperish'arc.
• If the lore of The Elder Scrolls is to be believed, Weresharks roam the seas surrounding Tamriel. However, they have yet to actually appear in-game.
• Several enemies in Final Fantasy XIV take this form, including a boss duo in Akademia Anyder and a recurring menace in the summer events. Justified in that the Ancients created the ancestors of most life, and for a time sharks with unusual capabilities were a popular fad with them.
• The Sangheili/Elites of Halo are generally more reptile-like, but the fin-like helmets most of them wore in the original trilogy were definitely meant to invoke this trope too.
• The Wanizame in Might and Magic: Heroes VI are a race of shark/human hybrids created by the experiments of a wizard. They fight with bladed clubs that are specifically designed to make their opponents bleed, for the sight and smell of blood drives them into a killing frenzy.
• The carchar from A House of Many Doors are an entire species of shark people with distinctions between hammerhead and non-hammerhead. One of them is a recruitable officer.
• Hungry Shark Evolution has a subversion of this trope. Shark people do exist, but they turn out to be a very valuable prey of the playable shark, and will run like a bat out of hell ashore whenever they spot you. However, when they get finally chomped (which isn't that easy, considering they are extremely fast), they yell the Wilhelm Scream.
• The Zoras were designed in this manner in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, in contrast with previous versions that were based more on bony fish. It's most noticeable with their head protrusions, which resemble a whole shark (though Muzu's head more closely resembles a manta ray, another cartilaginous fish), but it also comes across with attributes such as more carnivorous-looking teeth and shark-like fins. Prince Sidon has the most sharklike features with his head protrusions being shaped after a hammerhead shark and his teeth sharper and more sharklike than any other Zora.
• Greta from Library of Ruina is a Distortion in the form of a pale, bulky, 6'3' shark woman with Too Many Mouths all over her body, all seemingly flashing their own Slasher Smiles. A member of the infamous Eight Chefs before leaving them for the Reverb Ensemble, she's a boisterous and very proud cannibalistic chef who delights in inflicting as much suffering onto her ingredients under the belief it enhances the flavor of her dishes. Most of Greta's dialogue either involves cooking or murder and her first on-screen appearance is her musing on how to prepare the impaled bodies of the Thumb before being reminded by Argalia to run it back with Jae-heon first.
• The Krogan◊ race in Mass Effect can be interpreted as this. Others have said they are more similar to horned toads or snapping turtles. Either way, they are huge and love to charge at you.
• SharkMan.EXE from Mega Man Battle Network.
• Palworld has the Water-elemental Pal Gobfin, a miniature version of this. According to their Paldeck entry, Gobfin used to be large and powerful aquatic Pals, but due to food scarcity they evolved to live on land into a small and weak Pal. There's also a Fire-elemental variant called Gobfin Ignis, which are Gobfin that somehow managed to unlock Fire powers by simply walking a lot to literally burn off their calories.
• Cauldron of Phantom Brave, a muscular shark in a Hawaiian shirt who dotes on Marona and beats up anyone that badmouths her.
• Downplayed by the Aumaua of Pillars of Eternity; they have fish-like skin patterns (some of them are even blue) and a row of shark teeth, but otherwise look like towering humans. "Shark" is still a common in-universe slur for the aumaua.
• Pirate Hunter has sea-creature-human hybrids appearing in the later levels, including shark-men as an Elite Mook variety of enemy with their bites dealing massive damage on the player.
• Garchomp from Pokémon isn't exactly a man, but it is bipedal and lives on the land. It's essentially the Shark Man concept as applied to a dragon/wyvern rather than a human.
• Gleeman Vox, the Big Bad of Ratchet: Deadlocked, resembles a humanoid shark. One of the skins in the same game is "Land Shark".
• Scarmigliones, one of the mutated fish-enemies in Resident Evil: Revelations. They were created with shark DNA, and they have a knightly appearance due to having growths on their arms that resemble swords and shields.
• The Granshee of Rogue Galaxy, such as your eventual ally Jupis, are somewhat shark-like but more towards reptiles. There are however full-blown shark anthros in the game.
• RuneScape has the well-muscled Shark Outfit, which improves a player's fishing abilities.
• Drunken shark man Shaz Aliart from fighting game Schwarzerblitz is a blatant example of this, together with most of the Fishface Crime Syndicate.
• The Bullet Hell game Shark Attack features shark women as its protagonists.
• Stanley, an NPC in the background of the "Anti-Skullgirl Labs" stage in the fighting game Skullgirls, is one of these. Rather than bestial-looking, however, this fellow is dressed in a lab coat and spectacles and appears to be debating with another scientist. It's not terribly surprising, as there is a well-known race in the story which he appears to belong to, the Dagonians.
• Skylanders has Dirt Sharks, who "swim" through earth instead of water. One of them, Terrafin, is a playable character.
• In Splatoon 2, the official art for in-universe band Bottom Feeders shows that one of its members is a shark-man. Unusually, his eyes seem to be located where a real shark's nostrils would be, with what would normally be the tip of the nose instead being the top of his head (complete with hat)◊.
• The NES version of Strider features a mechanical version of the trope aptly named Shark Man, who first sticks to looming within bodies of water with only its fin visible and later comes out to fight directly.
• The pirate shark Jonathan "Johnny" Jones and his crew, which consists entirely of much smaller shark men called Bandana Blues and Bandana Reds, from Super Mario RPG. Subverted if one looks closely, as there is an eye inside Johnny's mouth, indicating that the shark is actually a costume. The Switch remake also suggests that the costume is actually the hide of a shark he fought in his youth.
• Armaggon in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants In Manhattan is a mutant shark the turtles fight in the sewers. Very little is revealed about his background in the game, save for the fact that he is a mutant, and that he is on unfriendly terms with the Turtles. He is revealed to apart of an alliance with Krang and the Shredder as he travels through sewers and delivers an important part for Krang's terraforming device for the promise of being the ruler of all Earth's oceans.
• Temtem has Magmis and Mastione, which resemble bipedal hammerhead sharks and swim through lava.
• You fight a Rokea (wereshark) in a sidequest of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.
• Gran Bruce from Viewtiful Joe, the third boss of the game, is an odd example. His body looks humanoid, but his head looks like an entire miniature blue shark.

Webcomics

• Archipelago, being a world of werebeasts and Beast Men, has an entire species of these, with a violent, bloody culture and a tendency for Hulking Out, though there are exceptions. The main cast contains two half-weresharks, Tuff and Riley, who are really nice guys.
• Thanks to a curse placed on The First, the bloodline of Lord Tiberius Skärva the Fourth has shark-like appearance in The Fourth.
• In El Goonish Shive, Elliot is seen as a shark variety merman.
• The land sharks of Guilded Age.
• Vesser from Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name looks pretty shark-like, with sharp teeth and a fin on his jacket. His mother is a selkie, so he's at least part sea creature.
• In Homestuck, Fin of the Felt appears to be this. He can even track people by their time trails much like a shark can follow the scent of blood in the water.
• Nedroid has Harrison, who is the polar opposite of fearsome.
• Dr. Shark from The Non-Adventures of Wonderella
• Rusty and Co.: In Level 10, "Speakeasies & Sea Monsters", Deep Seattle is populated by various fish-men, including Hortzak, the shark-man bartender of the Lone Shark tavern, and dynamite guy.^note Anti-Madeline buys her dynamite from him.
• The Wide Ocean has a lot of shark people, but most of them appear to be women and not men.

Web Original

• Codex Inversus: The Sharkmen are a tribe of Beast Folk that lives beneath the southern seas. They don't consider other species to be people; to them, anything that isn't a sharkman is just a smart animal, and can therefore be food.
• 5 Second Films: In "Keeping You Safe", a group of friends are attacked by a pack of hyperintelligent shark people. They are saved by Tom Watson, MP for West Bromwich East.
• During Achievement Hunter's Let's Play of Raft, Matt Bragg goes a bit crazy and uses a bunch of shark heads to perform a "ritual" and become the team's "shark mage." (Which is to say, he puts a shark head on as a hood/mask.)
• Chaz from Helluva Boss is a shark demon. In particular, he appears to be a thresher shark based on his long tail fin which is distinct to this species.
• How to Hero mentions landsharks as a threat superheroes may have to deal with.
• Mortasheen has a hammerhead variant in Makkoron, and also a dolphin variant in Dolfury.
• Douglas Kevro from Tails of Fame is a large anthropomorphic shark, complete with gills on the side of his neck and a dorsal fin on his nape.
• In the Two More Eggs short "Best Movie", Cheerful Child Hector tries bravely to describe the plot of a movie he can't really remember and might be making up. The bad guys, he tells us, are a gang of "shark mans..." with Wolverine Claws coming out of their leather gloves.
  • In the later cartoon "QblePon", Hector describes a round of the titular Collectible Card Game interrupted when the other kid accidentally played a "base'm'ball card" for a player on a team called the Sharkmans.
• Vilous: Sergals, an original species Popular with Furries, are often described as furry shark people because of their unusual wedge-shaped heads. The head design was actually inspired by aircraft.
  • Another strange shark species in the furry fandom are manokits, who are basically shark fox hybrids that walk on two legs and are also blind and ironically can't swim.
• Vinesauce: During a stream of terrible Xbox 360 indie games, Joel thinks Dead Sea 2 will have a shark on two legs. Ask, and you shall receive.
• Gawr Gura of hololive is a 9000 year old shark girl with sharp teeth and a tail. Though she sometimes says she's "half-human", she calls her parents "mama shark and papa shark".

Western Animation

• Partially counts in an episode of Aladdin: The Series, which had an evil mermaid put a magic spell on Aladdin that caused him to slowly transform into a shark, with his mid-way transformations fitting this trope.
• Shark people played a large role in one episode of the second series of American Dragon: Jake Long where a bubbly shark woman asked Jake for help protecting her and Neptune's trident (which she kept in her stomach both to keep the weapon from falling into the wrong flippers and because of her nature as an all-consuming predator). The episode's one-time villains were a group of delinquent shark men and their leader, Tiburon (all consisting of different shark species), who desired the trident so they could flood the world. The shark woman's compulsive eating was the show's Running Gag.
• One group of villains that appears in three different Batman animated series is the Terrible Trio, three thieves who wear head-covering masks representing three different animals, including a vulture, a fox, and a shark. Their backstories differ in each series. In Batman: The Animated Series, they're ordinary rich masked men who commit crimes for fun, while in the The Batman, they're a group of university students who mutate themselves into therianthropic humanoid animals (including a hammer-headed shark man). The same formula is used in Batman: The Brave and the Bold when Batman and his friend/rival Bronze Tiger battle a group of animal-masked martial artists, who not only are billionaires but try to use a magical artifact to turn themselves into monstrous versions of the animals they represent, one of them transforming into a muscular but more generic shark man.
• The Rulons in Dino-Riders have many Shark Men in their army. To be precise, they all look like Hammerhead Shark Men.
• Sharkey the sharkdog from Eek! The Cat is a variation on this, being a shark-dog hybrid.
• Queen Kayla and her subjects the Shark Troopers from Flash Gordon were allied with Ming the Merciless, and tended to pop up whenever Flash and the rebellion had to go Under the Sea.
• The Carcarons from the Season 7 Futurama episode "Zapp Dingbat" (the one where Zapp Branningan dates Leela's mom). They speak in serials of guttural growls, but are fairly decent (if easily offended) people.
• Harley Quinn (2019): King Shark shows up as a main character. Unlike his other incarnations (and most depictions of shark men in general), he's very intelligent, social, and friendly. Before signing on with Harley, he worked as a web design expert and is also shown to have extremely good engineering skills. And sometimes he eats people.
• Sever from Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5.
• The Oblongs offers a variation as a quick gag right before an episode ends. After realizing the prosthetic bodysuit he's been given is ruining his marriage and turning him into a jerk, he sets the thing to automatic and lets it walk into the ocean. After he and his family leave a shark bursts out of the water wearing it, attacks a beachgoer, and then rushes the camera as it fades to black.
• An episode of Rugrats had the babies imagining used car salespeople as these.
• SpongeBob SquarePants doesn't really have shark-man hybrids, just very anthropomorphized sharks with limbs and clothes.
  • In "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired", SpongeBob's replacement driving instructor is a Drill Sergeant Nasty Australian shark.
  • The spokesman for "Anchor Arms" (rubber gloves with inflatable muscles)... which SpongeBob gets suckered into buying.
  • A recurring character is a rather nerdy shark.
    "Hey, that's my family you're talking about!"
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars introduces the Karkarodon race in the form of Riff Tamson in Season 4.
• Street Sharks is about teenage boys who got mutated into Shark Men.
• Rippersnapper, a member of the Terrorcons in The Transformers turned into a humanoid shark robot with arms and legs as his alt-mode.
• Although unintentional, the Transformers: Prime version of Megatron actually looks like one of these (especially him having fangs and gill-like vents all over his body and alien jet altmode).
• Wander over Yonder: Emperor Awesome is a flamboyant shark-man thing who enjoys tanning and wearing lipstick; he also rides a fire-breathing dinosaur that can also shoot lasers from its eyes in combat and controls a entire legion of "Fist Fighters". He's earned his title, all right.
• An episode of What's New, Scooby-Doo? had the gang travel to Antarctica, where they encountered a fish-shark monster that was terrorizing the Antarctic base.
  • Before that, The Scooby-Doo Show had one as the villain in "There's a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark".

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