Describe Miami Shark here.
(Threatening Shark + Stuff Blowing Up) × Serial Escalation = Miami Shark. Easy!
Oh... you want a real explanation? Well, we can try...
Miami Shark
is a Flash game series hosted on Newgrounds, chronicling the exploits of a shark in Miami as it goes about its daily routine of eating dolphins, scuba divers, surfers, and pulling unsuspecting aircraft down several hundred feet to a watery doom, from small one-man helicopters all the way up to a B-52 Stratofortress. It came out in 2009.
The sequel, Sydney Shark, was released in 2010. It takes place (obviously) in the waters near Sydney, as your shark aims to drag down even more absurd categories of self-propelled objects, such as crocodile-shaped passenger jets, a UFO, culminating with a nuclear missile.
The third game, New York Shark, showed up in 2012 and allows you to eat the Statue of Liberty among other things in New York City. In early 2013, the fourth game, Medieval Shark, takes place in a Fantasy Kitchen Sink, where your shark has an axe. In October 2013, Mausland released the fifth game: Prehistoric Shark. The sixth and final game, 2015's Los Angeles Shark, features the shark rampaging in Los Angeles, and the final boss is strangely a rubber duck. It's a bizarre game, but that's what Wiesi and Mausland are known for.
The Miami Shark series provides example of:
- Anachronism Stew: An airship in medieval times? Doesn't matter; the shark will take it down all the same!
- Apocalypse How:
- In Sydney Shark, the Shark ends up bringing down a missile that causes a huge nuclear explosion seen from space.*
- Taken to its most extreme when the Shark brings down a meteor and ends up destroying the goddamn planet.
- Big Applesauce: New York Shark is set in New York City.
- Bloody Hilarious: If it doesn't explode, it bleeds.
- The Cameo: Three cases in New York Shark:
- You get to fight King Kong by biting off his head.
- One repeating landmark in the scrolling background above water is the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
- You can also catch and kill Spider-Man.
- Colony Drop: The ending to New York Shark if you manage it.
- Cool Shades: The shark gets a pair in New York Shark.
- Cool Mask: The shark gets its very own executioner's mask in Medieval Shark.
- Death from Above: That leap? You can crush boats with it, not to mention people. Also, the shark can bring down anything it gets its jaws on, from a Cessna, to a Chinese missile, to a goddamn meteor!
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: The result of pulling down a meteor.
- Extreme Omnivore: You also eat surfers and windsurfers pretty much in one bite, too.
- Made of Explodium: Anything you pull underwater.
- Made of Indestructium: The titular shark. Getting caught in dozens of explosions doesn't slow it down in the slightest, and getting nuked doesn't leave so much as a scratch. Not even Earth getting blown to smithereens and thus floating around in space can stop it.
- Mayan Doomsday: New York Shark was released in 2012, and fittingly features a meteor that you can pull down to cause an Earth-Shattering Kaboom.
- Nuke 'em: Take a guess what happens when the shark pulls down the nuclear missile.
- Omnicidal Maniac: The shark.
- Refuge in Audacity
- Rule of Cool
- Rule of Funny:
- Go ahead, laugh as the stealth bomber goes invisible. We understand.
- And how does an astronaut respond from space when he sees a nuke blast Sydney? "Shark!"
- What happens to the Shark after it destroys the earth via meteor? It's still alive. And slowly spinning towards Mars, to boot.
- Sequel Hook: After destroying the Earth at the end of "New York Shark", the Shark is seen drifting towards Mars.
- Serial Escalation: You are a shark, who leaps several hundred feet into the air to catch its prey. And what are you hunting? Helicopters, airlines, attack jets, stealth bombers, space shuttles, UFOs, a goddamn nuclear missile, and a fucking meteor...
- Share Phrase: "Shark!" and "OMG!"
- Shout-Out:
- A couple in Sydney Shark; the hat the shark picks up is similar to the one worn by "Crocodile" Dundee, and when you take down a living, breathing crocodile plane, Steve Irwin pops up. You can't eat him, but then again
you probably wouldn't be able to even if you had the chance.* - The bonuses are also calculated using a Wheel of Fortune reference. In Los Angeles Shark, this style is used interchangeably with the jackpot system first introduced in New York Shark.
- A couple in Sydney Shark; the hat the shark picks up is similar to the one worn by "Crocodile" Dundee, and when you take down a living, breathing crocodile plane, Steve Irwin pops up. You can't eat him, but then again
- Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness: In Medieval Shark, you can find bigger and better weapons in treasure chests at the bottom of the river, culminating in the appropriately titled Demon Sword.
- Stuff Blowing Up: If it doesn't bleed, it explodes.
- Threatening Shark: Did you really expect anything else? It's taken up to eleven, too, since the Shark will destroy anything and everything in its path.
- Villain Protagonist: The shark, wanton property damage and mass murder isn't exactly heroic...
