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▲[[File:rsz_stf29_esperzoa_8823.jpg|link=Magic the Gathering|right|[[Beyond Good and Evil (Video Game)|Sweet Jesus! Jellies!]]]]
You don't want to mess with jellyfish. Not that they're easy to
That's true in media too, but with one little difference. When a fictional character has a run-in with a jelly it often sets their hair standing on end, with sparks flying or some other electric effect surrounding the
In many cases, that's just a visual effect, perhaps [[Rule of Perception|done only to show the viewer]] that the stinging is actually occurring and that said stinging feels the same as getting shocked. Other times the jellyfish is actually shown to have a literal electric discharge, as if it were an electric
Complicating matters are the jellyfish relatives known as [
Compare to the [[Coconut Effect]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (
* In one episode of ''[[Di Gi Charat|Di Gi Charat Nyo]]'', Gema falls in love with a jellyfish, and when he grabs one of her tentacles, it's clear that he's being shocked.
* In ''[[Kaiketsu Zorori]]'', Zorori tries to trap a cat prince by passing some jellyfishes as ''ramen noodle bowls''. The jellyfishes hold him in place and shock him continuously, as Zorori wants him to sign some paper. Later, the cat prince uses the jellyfishes as a power source for a hair dryer so he can defeat a giant kappa.
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* The [[The Movie|film adaptation]] of ''[[Alex Rider
** The Man-O'War is also in the book, but it is portrayed realistically.
== Live-Action TV ==
* A later episode of ''[[The X
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Star Frontiers]]'' got "Strangler Chutes". These things are not completely mindless (they are pack animals communicating with each other), but are peaceful herbivores drifting on the wind, and aren't even capable of actively attacking other creatures. Of course, they don't survive next to [[Everything Trying to Kill You|the rest of wildlife on Volturnus]] by being ''harmless''. Anything that touches one's body or tentacle is electrocuted, and anything that happens to stay under tentacles is slowly digested.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Pokémon]]''
** Averted: the jellyfish Pokémon, Tentacool and Tentacruel, are Water/Poison-type and cannot learn any Electric moves besides possibly Hidden Power (which all TM-learning Pokémon get anyway, and whose type can be ANY type besides Normal.)
** Averted again in ''[[
* Two of the mooks you can turn in to in ''[[Graffiti Kingdom]]'' are electric jellyfish, though one of them comes from a set of themed elemental jellyfish.
* ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''
** ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' had Jelectros.
** The Preying Mantas in ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''.
** ''[[
** [[
* ''[[
** The games have the Biri and Bari enemies (and the massive boss Barinade, an electric ''anemone''), who are indeed electric jellyfish. Direct contact with them will result in poor Link getting the bejeezus shocked out of him. Also, using your sword, which conducts the juice. And this is ''child Link'' at the time, [[Tear Jerker|screaming in agony whenever one touches him]]. [[The Woobie|Poor thing.]]
** Those jellyfish things in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
** Two-D ''Zelda'' games actually show the screen vibrating, with inverted colors and all.
* Just about anytime you see a jellyfish in ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', it will have an electric attack.
* The Jellies from ''[[Beyond Good
* ''[[Subculture]]'' had electric jellyfish, too, justified as mutations resulting from pollution.
* One of the Mythological Units in ''[[
* Several kinds of [[The Heartless|Noise]] in ''[[
* Electric jellyfish inhabit the [[Water Level|water levels]] in ''[[Ristar]]''. But were you really expecting scientific accuracy from a video game with an anthropomorphic ''star'' as the main character?
* ''[[Aquaria (
* In ''[[
** ''X2'' has the Jelly Seekers in Bubble Crab's stage.
* ''[[Metal Slug]] 3'' features a lot of nasty, mutant jellyfishes during the third Mission.
* The jellyfish boss in ''[[EVO Search for Eden]]'' attacks this way, complete with an electric crack sound effect. Regular jellies just whip you with their tentacles.
* Metroids from the ''[[Metroid]]'' series subvert, invert, and play this trope straight. They're basically space jellyfish with claws instead of tentacles, and seem to drain life force, [[Pure Energy|energy]], or electricity from their prey. When they grow into Gamma Metroids, which look more like bugs than jellyfish, they gain the ability to electrocute enemies.
* Prevalent enemies in the underwater levels of ''[[Alundra 2:
* The ''[[Kirby]]'' series gives us Master Green, a jellyfish miniboss that when swallowed gives the [[Shock and Awe|Spark ability]].
* The [[Slippy
* One of the monsters (Crown Lance or something) in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' is a jellyfish that uses electric spells and absorbs electricity. The more dangerous aspect, however, is its ability to [[Taken for Granite|petrify]] your characters.
* The [[Freddi Fish]] series has some in ''Freddi Fish and Luther's Water Worries'' and in ''Freddi Fish 4''.
* ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' has Jellybobs in the Beach Levels. Not only do they deliver electric shocks, but [[Flying Seafood Special|they float in the air as well.]]
* [[The Simpsons Game]] plays with this trope when encountering King Snorky (a dolphin) at the Springfield aquarium. You have to drop jellyfish into his tank to electrocute him, however, the jellyfish themselves aren't electrified and must be dropped in the electric eel tank first.
* The seventh boss of [[
* ''[[
* ''[[Something|Something Else]]'': Electric Jellyfish appear as the main obstacle in Electricave. They cluster at the top of the ceiling and try to attack Luigi in great numbers.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* One of the newest aliens in ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'', called AmpFibian, seems to be this.
* The alien that [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong|impregnates Carl]] in ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]''.
* The Hidroidmedusas from the first episode of Season4 ''[[Star Wars:
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