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{{quote|''"Everyone's always in favour of saving [[Hitler]]'s brain. But when you put it in the body of a Great White shark, ooh, [[Mad Scientist|suddenly you've gone too far!]]"''|'''Professor Farnsworth''', ''[[Futurama]]''}}

Trapped in the middle of the ocean with no realistic way of making it to civilization, likely go crazy and dehydrate in a couple days? That takes too long? No worries, the ocean is infested with sharks just waiting to devour you. Has the [[Big Bad]] got you? [[Complexity Addiction|He won't shoot, that'd be too fast]], he'll instead lower you into a [[Shark Pool]]. Want to ruin your show? Do a [[Jumping the Shark|Shark Jump]], or just introduce a [[Voodoo Shark]]. Want to cheat? [[A Worldwide Punomenon|GameShark]]. Want to ruin someone else's finances? Call in the [[All Devouring Black Hole Loan Sharks]]. Want to do the same but ''legally''? Call in a [[Amoral Attorney|legal shark.]]

(Cool as they are, there are still ways to [[Frickin' Laser Beams|enhance]] [[Deep Blue Sea|them]].)

In [[Real Life]], it's a little different. Like most predators, [[Not Evil, Just Misunderstood|they're misunderstood]] and [[Animal Stereotypes|not mindless killing machines]]. There are only a few species who have a reputation for attacking humans unprovoked (in fact, basically four species, and three will leave you alone when they taste you and realize you're not their usual food -- stay out of [[wikipedia:Bull shark|bull shark]] territory, and ''especially'' open water with [[wikipedia:Oceanic whitetip shark|Whitetip Sharks]]), and recent studies of their behavior have shown many shark species to be very intelligent, social, curious, and even playful. Others are too small to be terribly frightening, avoid humans, or have teeth which are about as sharp as sandpaper and feed exclusively on things too small to see. Also, a shark will rarely be interested in a boat or raft provided nobody is throwing fish overboard. Ironically, the ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' depiction of a Great White sinking small boats has some grounding in truth: Great Whites tend to 'test bite' things to determine if they're food... kinda like how infants try and eat everything they find. They are attracted to the appearance of their prey (a surfer swimming out with arms and legs in the water around the board looks like a seal) or blood. TheirThe remarkablybad aquaticreputation formsof andsharks resistanceis not completely erroneous, but it's based mostly on most observed sharks being already attracted to diseasefood arethrown overboard and on a variety of greatstrange interestobjects to scienceoften found in a caught shark's stomach. Like many other large predators (such as [[RuleEverything's ofWorse Coolwith Bears|Don'tbears]]), expectsome sharks are prone to seefeeding thisfrenzy come- upshort periods of intense eating that ends in fiction,long thoughsated inactivity.]] AlsoThus, likea everyvery otherhungry fishshark may indeed indiscriminately bite and even swallow just about anything that fits in theits worldmouth, theyup areto completelyand helplessincluding an old tire, and practicallylater immobilethe on landsame shark may be so overfed it will completely ignore a bleeding helplessly splashing swimmer in plain sight, whichor formore allconveniently sized fish, for that sharksmatter. areThis misunderstoodgave andthem fascinatingreputation creaturesof isboth probablyall-devouring a''and'' mercy..acting incomprehensibly erratic.

* Hoshigaki Kisame from ''[[Naruto]]'' is a [[Petting Zoo People|human with shark-like traits]] and has an affinity for [[Making a Splash|attacks that use water]] including several that blasts the opponent with water shaped like at least one shark. Hence the [[Fan Nickname]] ''[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20130715194706/http://mauiandsons.com/company.php Sharkman]''. He also has a shark-like sword, {{spoiler|which he can merge with to become a full blown half-man half-shark creature}}.<br />Unlike the animal stereotype, though, Kisame seems rather [[Shown Their Work|played straight]]. He seems to have a good sense of humor, is definitely [[Only Sane Man|the most mentally sound of the Akatsuki]], and has a certain joie-de-vivre that his partner needed to pick up on (and on the note of his partner... Kisame seems to have been more of a father toward Itachi than Fugaku). In general, he is a [[Affably Evil|polite, intelligent, and a very social man]]... however, his mere presence seems to announce "You lose," with natural chakra reserves rivaling the Jinchuriki, who host 100-meter-tall chakra demons. Until [[Shown Their Work|even more fittingly]] {{spoiler|he meets Killer Bee... who has ''octopus'' traits.}}<br />Kisame's shark appearance takes on even greater meaning when you consider his backstory. {{spoiler|He kills all his comrades so that they won't get captured and interrogated by Ibiki, then kills his superior, the previous wielder of Samehada, for selling him out. After being paired with Akatsuki, he notes that they were put together because both had killed their comrades, noting how sharks' offspring kill and eat each other.}}

** Of all the Fishmen, the shark ones are definitely the worst to run into. Arlong, the [[Big Bad]] of the East Blue arc, is a sawshark, and JinbeiJinbe, {{spoiler|, who is definitely making everything worse for the World Government by teaming up with Luffy and Crocodile,}} is a whale shark. He soon inverts this trope, summoning a whole school of friendly, grinning whale sharks to carry the escaped prisoners to safety {{spoiler|and much later, joining Luffy's crew}}. Not much of a surprise, since whale sharks can't eat most mammals -- theymammals—they feed on krill, instead.

** Now things are [[It Got Worse|even worse]] with {{spoiler|HordyHody Jones' crew, which has ''four'' different shark Fishmen, Jones himself being a great white shark.}} While Arlong was a vile piece of work, he at least cared for his men and truly did fight for Fishman rights once. Jones is basically the Fishman equivalent to a neo-Nazi and is willing to destroy Fishman Island entirely out spite towards members of his species who want to reach out to the humans that oppressed them.

** Add on {{spoiler|Captainthe captain of the Flying Dutchman, Van DerVander Decken IX, who is a bullhead shark. Not as fearsome as a great white, but he's seemsHody's topartner bein thecrime mainand villainhas ofa this[[Yandere|''creepy'', arcmurderous obsession with Princess Shirahoshi.]] One that started when she was ''[[Squick|six.}}]]''

** The trope is also inverted by {{spoiler|Prince Fukaboshi, a shark merman (unspecified, which is odd considering Oda's penchant for [[Shown Their Work|classifying his mer/fishpeople]]) who the Strawhats assume is there to give them trouble and run away, when he intended to personally invite them to the royal palace and give Luffy a message from JinbeiJinbe.}}

* Averted in ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' with Sky-Byte. While one of the Predacons, Sky-Byte is an aspiring poet and quite fond of humans -- betweenhumans—between these and various comedic appearances, he's something of an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]. {{spoiler|He's also the only one of the Predacons or Decepticons to escape at the end of the series, so everything pretty much works out for him.}}

* In ''[[Jo JoJoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'' third part, an early Stand goes ''past'' this trope with its first act: ''cutting a shark in half.'' '''''LENGTHWISE'''''. In part 5, the situation is played more straight with Clash, a Stand that takes the form of a metallic shark with three eyes. Its power? Teleport from one body of water (or other mostly-water liquid...[[Paranoia Fuel|like a bowl of soup or glass of wine]]), capture its targets, ''and drag them along on the teleporting trips'' (where, if Squalo isn't stopped quickly enough, ''they'll drown'').

== Comics --Comic Books ==

* ''[[Water Baby]]'' revolves around this. Brody was a surfer, one day she was riding the waves and a shark confused her with something edible. Bit off her leg up the knee and went his merry way... while Brody was left bleeding her life out, she got better but now she has nightmares of sharks, [[Nightmare Fuel|and now [[So Do You]].

* AnA [[ItFrom GotBad to Worse]] story arc of ''[[Fallen Angel (comics)|Fallen Angel]]'' has a shark goring Jude's leg... in the middle.

* The old British comic ''[[Action (Comicscomics)|Action]]'' had a serial called ''Hook Jaw''. The title character was a great white shark. None of the other characters lasted more than one story... Well, except for the token good human in the first story, though even he got eaten alive about two thirds of the way through the second story.

* ''[[X-Men]]'':

** An earlier oneshotone-shot had a villain attempt to shoot Castle, who was standing in front of an Aquarium shark tank. Castle dived out of the way, and somehow, the handgun bullets managed to shatter the tank and send an angry shark right at the gangster.

* [[Aquaman]] can command anything in the ocean. If he's feeling generous, he'll just send dolphins, whales and giant squid to beat you up and ensnare you. If he's ''not'', he breaks out the sharks. Get him in a bad mood, and you can have sharks ''and'' [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]]s up your ass.

* German comic ''Haiopeis''.{{context}}

* From [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6095074/12/Takamachi_Nanoha_of_2814 Chapter 12] of ''[[Takamachi Nanoha of 2814|Takamichi Nanoha Of 2814,]]'', we have Nanoha's "Bruce" construct, a giant hundred meter long green shark with whirring chainsaw teeth and insides that look like a nightmare of spinning cutting rings. Hey, it's [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|Nanoha,]] would did you expect?

* From ''[[Divine Blood]]'', Naiki Satomi, the daughter of [[Ranma ½|Ranma]] [[Gender Bender|Saotome]] and Poseidon has an affinity for sharks right down to a mouth full of sharp teeth. She is the most obviously reckless of the three Satomi siblings and, especially in early chapters, sometimes has a tendency to make situations worse by sheer accident. However, she is described as having a cute smile despite having a carnivore's dental work. {{spoiler|In battle against her father, she summons a megalodon and a swarm of other sharks to fight him.}}

== Films -- AnimationFilm ==

* In the [[Pixar]] short ''Partly Cloudy'' (shown before ''[[Up]]''), living clouds make human babies, puppies, kittens, etc., who are delivered by [[Delivery Stork|Delivery Storks]]s. There's also a [[Dark Is Not Evil|rain cloud]] who specializes in... ''slightly'' less adorable critters, and his stork seriously begins to regret their partnership when the rain cloud presents him with a model shark (which is bigger than the stork).

* ''[[Undercover Brother]]'': At the end, {{spoiler|Mr. Feather}} falls from a helicopter and chomped by a shark just before falling into the ocean.

* ''[[Batman: The Movie|Batman the Movie]]'': While investigating a yacht at sea, Batman is attacked by a shark. After he uses Bat Shark Repellent to make it let go of him, it falls into the water and explodes: one of the villains had planted a bomb in it.

* ''[[Film/Voyage Toto Thethe Bottom Ofof Thethe Sea|Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea]]'' has a Shark Pool inside a submarine. Yes, really. A villainess meets her end in it.

* The 1971 documentary ''Blue Water, White Death'', for its name alone.

* ''[[Shark Night]] 3D'' obviously centers on this trope. A group of college students spend a weekend at a lake which has inexplicably become home to various man-eating species of sharks. The kicker? The sharks were supplied by a couple of rednecks who want to cash in on the Discovery Channel's Shark Week craze...by feeding college students to the sharks, and recording video footage of the attacks to post online, sell to various channels, etc.

** Incidentally, if the title has ''Shark vs.'' anything, it's probably by Asylum -- ifAsylum—if they make anything that isn't a [[Mockbuster]] or a bad Christian flick, it's a giant shark fighting something else equally nasty.

* The Made-for-TV low-budget-gore-fest ''Spring Break Shark Attack''. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: attractive coeds in bathing suits and sharks.

* ''[[2-Headed Shark Attack]]''. Double trouble!

* ''[[Dark Tide]]'' features great white sharks

* The Aussie film ''[[The Reef]]'' features four tourists forced to swim to an island ten miles away when their boat capsizes. Through a known shark zone. And yes they do encounter great white sharks.

** In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'', the wizards, out at sea, see one. One wizard starts to burble about how they are maligned, and list all their wonderful attributes. Unfortunately, it's the list about wolves, not sharks.

** At the beginning of ''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'', a shark tries to attack Rincewind, but is [[Always a Bigger Fish|eaten by the Luggage.]]

* The brain sharks of ''[[More Information Than You Require]]''.

* Sharks turn up repeatedly in ''[[Gentleman Bastard Sequence|The Lies of Locke Lamora]]'': the [[City of Canals|city of Camorr]] features [[Gladiator Games]] where [[Rule of Cool|female gladiators fight them]], and Camorr's top crime boss employs a [[Shark Pool]] when the need arises. {{spoiler|The [[Big Bad]] begins a final overthrow of said crime boss by having a shark (being controlled by magic) jump out of the pool and bite his arm off.}}

{{quote| "I slept rather badly. Sharks played an important role in my dreams."}}

* In ''Animorphs'' #15 it is revealed that Yeerks have established an underwater base where they capture hammerhead sharks and implant brain controlling chips in their heads to turn them into shock troopers for an invasion of an alien aquatic world inhabited by psychic man-frogs... *sniff* Can it possibly get anymore awesome than that?<br />More awesomer: the brain controlling chips are mostly intended to make them smarter... smart enough to hunt in packs, like wolves do. Also to enlarge their earholes for even more convenient brain control. But... the Yeerks aren't 100% exactly the type of awesome you described. The Animorphs later go to said alien world morphed into hammerheads themselves. It proves to be an [[Curb Stomp Battle|inspired choice]].

* Subverted in the ''[[Codex Alera]]''. At one point, Captain Demos mentions that sharks are likely to be more of a problem to a group of swimmers than [[Kraken and Leviathan|leviathans]]... But when a shark messes with [[Making a Splash|Isana]], she ''throws it bodily out of the water and up twenty feet onto the deck of a pirate ship''.<br />Played straight in the book before that, when Tavi had his army dump the blood and guts from butchered animals in the river when he was defending a bridge, attracting sharks from miles downstream and ensuring that any Canim attempting to swim around the bridge wouldn't make it very far.

* In ''[[Nation]]'', sharks are practically the personification of [[It Got Worse]]:

** While rescuing a drowning man -- inman—in the middle of a [[Alternate History|very]] [[Atlantis|surprising]] discovery -- Maudiscovery—Mau is forced to confront a hungry shark. {{spoiler|He wins, too.}}

* ''[[The Bionic Woman]]'' episode "Deadly Music". A villain plants a homing device on Jaime Sommers that will summon sharks to attack her. Hey, wait a minute!

* ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]'' episode "Sharks". A villain group has learned how to train and control sharks.

* "Adrift", the second episode of ''[[Lost]]'s'{{'}}s second season, featured Michael and Sawyer stuck on tiny remnants of their exploded raft. Sawyer's gunshot wound eventually attracted a shark, because of course floating in the middle of the ocean on scraps of bamboo isn't jeopardy enough! At one point, Sawyer tried to get from one raft to another, with the shark nearby, which may have been a play on the phrase [[Jump the Shark]].

* Chevy Chase's "Land Shark" sketches on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''.

{{quote| "Candygram!"}}

* The [[Discovery Channel|]]'s "Shark Week]]" deserves a mention, since that wouldn't exist if sharks weren't so badass and awesome.

* On said network, the ''[[Myth BustersMythBusters]]'' have done multiple shark myths rooted both in real life anecdotes and popular fiction.

{{quote| '''[[30 Rock|Tracy Jordan]]:''' Live every week like it's Shark Week.}}

* Shawn Weatherly's character was killed off ''[[Baywatch]]'' in the first season by being attacked by a shark.

* ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'' has Kamen Rider Abyss, whose motif is a shark, is the antagonist of [[Kamen Rider Ryuki|Ryuki's World]].

* Shows up in the occasional [[Monster of the Week]] in ''[[Super Sentai]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers]]'', but subverted as often as not when there's a shark among the heroes: ''[[Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger]]''/''[[Power Rangers Wild Force]]'' has a shark-themed Blue Ranger and a hammerhead in the [[Sixth Ranger]]'s [[Dark Is Not Evil]] group of zords; ''[[Juken Sentai Gekiranger]]''/''[[Power Rangers Jungle Fury]]'' gives the Red Ranger some shark gear; and ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'' has a shark-themed upgrade.<ref>It was originally a dinosaur in ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]'', but the US production did some tweaking.</ref>.

** How much worse? Try 21a ft21-foot aquatic reptilian killing machine with a combined jaw size of just under 9.5 ftfeet. Run.

== MythsMyth &and Religion ==

* The ''[[Hero Clix]]'' miniatures game set of Arkham Asylum had a figure of Black Manta, who while being a decent playing piece, was pushed into the category of awesome by having his sculpt feature him surfing on the head of a shark with frikkin' laser beam on it's head.

* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]''

** The monster called the Bulette... better known as the [[Saturday Night Live|"land shark"]]. (Complete with [[Worm Sign|fin cutting through the surface]] of the ''ground'' as it burrows toward you...)

* ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' has the Rokea, the weresharks. The Garou serve as Gaia's warriors on land, and the Rokea serve as her warriors at sea. Only since most of them spend all their time away from humanity, they seem a little... off.

** "Evil" doesn't [[Complete Monster|even begin to cut it.]] This is the guy who [[Disproportionate Retribution|destroyed a platoon of his own men for a minor infraction,]] gave the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]]s reason to fear him, {{spoiler|got Teridax thinking about taking over the universe}}, [[Eye Scream|ripped out Kalmah's eye,]] tore off [[Good Thing You Can Heal|Nocturn's]] arm, [[Bad Boss|beat the crap]] out of his fellow Barraki (and everybody else), and OH YEAH, HE THREW {{spoiler|Sarda}} TO HIS ARMY OF SHARKS FOR MOUTHING OFF. {{spoiler|He lived.}} And though he's arguably the worst of the Barraki, [[Psycho Electro|the]] [[Loners Are Freaks|others]] [[The Brute|aren't]] [[Evil Genius|much]] [[Diabolical Mastermind|better.]]

* [[LEGO]]'sThe much earlier ''[[LEGO Aquazone]]'' set-line had the classis Aquasharks as the villains for a time.

** There's also the hammerhead land shark/dragonish Garchomp, which has [[Lightning Bruiser|phenomenal attacking power, blinding speed, and decent defenses as well]]. It also has a respectable movepool. It's sufficiently powerful that some parts of the competitive battling community have now moved it from standard play to the [[Game Breaker|"Uber"]] [[Character Tiers|tier]].<br />Even the 4x ice weakness it gets from being Dragon/Ground-type (its self a good combo, evening out ground's other 2 weaknesses while completely nulling electric attacks, including the crippling thunder wave, while ground is one of the best types on offense as well) doesn't slow it down because it already gets paired with something (Sand Stream to use its ability) that kills the accuracy (and its ability hurts it further) of the only ice move strong enough to OHKO it with the right item.<br />Bizarrely, the anime shows ([[Gameplay and Story Segregation|and the 'Dex suggests]]) that Garchomp can fly at sonic speeds. That's right. It's a [[Lightning Bruiser|fast, powerful, and bulky]] [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Hammerhead Landshark-Dragon]] [[I Believe I Can Fly|that can fly]] ''[[Super Speed|at the speed of sound]]!'' May Arceus have mercy on us all.

** ''[[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness]]'' also has a land shark dragon in the form of the Serpent monster class (Or shark dragon, as it was more appropriately called in Japanese), though it's considerably more shark-like in appearance (But still remarkably similar). Like, it's one of the stronger monster types, boasting a high attack stat and good values in everything else, and it flies for some of its special attacks.<br />It later makes an appearance as an enemy in the second ''[[Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?|Prinny]]'' game (Where it's now properly called a shark dragon), and has a couple of cameo appearances in ''[[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten]]'', though it's possible that [[Downloadable Content|it might become more then that in the future]].

** ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' has Sammy (he's called Same in Japanese, which literally means shark), the land shark/''news reporter''. He's one of Plenair's friends, and appears in her third attack in ''Dark Hero Days''.

** The first, Clanker, is a subversion; he's an ally of the titular characters, and being "swallowed" by him (or entering his stomach via his gills, or dropping down his blowhole) don't harm you in any way, and indeed are required to get [[Hundred-Percent100% Completion]]. He's a mechanical shark that floats in one place and eats garbage by grinding it up. No need to worry about any biology failings there.

** Kingfin in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''. Pretty much [[Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie|a skeletal shark, with the typical]] [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]] that summons robotic piranhas and attempts to kill Mario.

* The shark noise in ''[[The World Ends With You]]''. Furthermore {{spoiler|the Swing Shark of Week 1 Day 4 provides the first [[Player Punch]] of the game by killing off Rhyme, Beat's partner, during a sneak attack at Towa Records.}}

* Some of the aquatic levels of ''[[Indiana Jones and The EmperorsEmperor's Tomb]]''.

* The sharks in ''[[Super Mario Land 2 Six Golden Coins|Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins]]'' are nearly invincible. But [[Homestar Runner|how do they swim with boxing gloves on?]]

** There's a a few sharks, generally patrolling the border between shallow sea (where players can swim) and deep ocean (where they can drown of fatigue). In classic Azeroth, most sharks are elite (and thus very strong, but killable), but the coasts of Northrend ([[Wot LK]]WotLK expansion) have many non-elite sharks. Their level and variety differs depending on the level of the zone where you are.

** Unfortunately they have failed biology forever in Cataclysm by having the patrolling gigantic shark that keeps you from swimming into certain areas be a whale shark -- longshark—long noted as one of the gentlest things in the ocean, which eats krill. This is a shark known for not only letting divers swim around it, but specifically folding its fins back (even when it inconveniences the whale shark) to avoid running into them. Why they didn't create a fictional shark type for this (Dragon Shark anyone? Or maybe Wyrm Shark?) we may never know.

** In "[[PunA Worldwide Punomenon|Shark Tank]]" one of the Tol Barad Peninsula daily quests, players are sent to fight a shark named Tank. Tank has over 450,000 HP and as possibly the strongest quest boss in Tol Barad, generally requires a group of two or three people to kill. If players have the "Captain P. Harris" or "Boosting Morale" quests, they will also have to avoid him while going after the captain or the rum, and the questgiver admits to being scared of the shark in the latter.

* ''[[Miami Shark]]'', a Flash game on [[Newgrounds]] where you play as a shark who eats people and animals, makes boats explodes and pulls down things from helicopters to a stealth bomber.<br />It has a sequel [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/533302 set in Sydney]. And somehow, the Shark manages to get at Koalas, Kangaroos and a '''nuke'''.

* In ''[[Hitman]]|Hitman: Blood Money]]'', 47 sets a lady on fire at a party. She then manages to fall into a shark pool and the crowd applauds 47. And the more corpses you throw in that tank, the bigger that shark gets.

* You would think that being in a fire fight is bad enough. But what if your enemy has a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHPvT8zVXT0 gun that fires sharks] which seeks out enemies at will? Yeap, you're screwed.

* The ''[[Endless Ocean]]'' franchise features many, ''many'' types of sharks. In the first game, they're all harmless, but Magu Tapah (a very large great white) is good old-fashioned [[Nightmare Fuel]]. In the sequel, ''Blue World'', the carnivorous species will now ''attack'' you, and the new "special" shark -- thisshark—this one named Thanatos -- cranksThanatos—cranks Magu Tapah's scariness [[Up to Eleven]].

* ''[[Illusion of Gaia]]'' subverts this when Will and Kara's raft is circled by sharks, only to have them swim away without attacking, leading Kara to conclude they aren't hungry because (she believes) [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters|only humans hunt for sport]]

* ''[[Scarface: theThe World Is Yours]]'' has sharks in the ocean, which appear if you swim for too long. You get treated to a scene of Tony floating, looking about, then getting mauled by a shark that literally comes out of nowhere. [[Have a Nice Death|You've Fucked Up]].

* Of ''[[Command and& Conquer]]'' fame, the ''Red Alert'' series gives us the aptly named Akula (Shark) subs. Some [[Game Mod|GameMods]] add actual sharks into the games, like Mental Omega for Yuri's Revenge and [[Red Alert 3 Paradox]] gives us sharks with radiation guns.

* ''[[Ever QuestEverQuest]]'' has a few sharks of various power. In Erud's Crossing, the Killer Sharks are especially deadly, since not only are they in the mid-40s, but they also can see through invisibility and guard one of several underwater scepters that wizards need for the Staff of the Wheel quest.

* A rare inversion is [[One Hundred and One101 Shark Pets]], in which the sharks are playfull like [[All Animals Are Dogs|puppies.]]

* In ''[[League of Legends]]'', Fizz the Tidal Trickster's Ultimate summons a ''giant'' shark. Out of freaking nowhere.

** [http://xkcd.com/349/ "If we're lucky, the sharks will stay away until we reach shallow water."]

** [http://www.xkcd.com/585/ AAAAAAAA!]

* ''[[The Noob Comic]]'' has river sharks in ClicheQuest™. Who [[Super-Persistent Predator|will follow you for miles]]. [http://www.clichequestthenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=comic/111/ "You haven't really played an online game until you get chased by fish."]

* ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]''

** In a heroic subversion of this, Paladin [[Action Girl|Lien's]] Celestial Mount is a shark. It certainly makes it worse for the giant demon-octopus she's fighting, though.

* ''[[Hark! A Vagrant]]'': [[Beaton (Creator)|Sharks don't love you back]]. You are [http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=113 food].

* ''[[Nedroid]]'' [[Subverted Trope|subverts]] this. There is a shark-like guy with a name that starts with H-something who wears a futuristic space suit. [[Out of Focus|Or was it a 19th century style tweed suit?]] [[In -Joke|I can't quite remember, but I believe I've seen a shark-ish guy in that comic.]] [[Running Gag|Or a guy with slightly shark-like characteristics. Maybe I'm just imagining things.]]

* ''[[The Perpetual Aquarium]]'' [[Subverted Trope|subverts]] this. Ari, the main character, is a Jetsam, the Neopets equivalent of a shark, who not only refuses to eat fish, but rescues and cares for them.

* The poster image for this page is a photo [[Urban Legend]] that's been floating around the Internet for a long time. It shows a diver climbing up a helicopter's rope ladder and a shark is jumping out of the water to eat him whole. [http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/shark.asp It's fake.]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131127055030/http://pinochan.net/flash/games/shark-with-wheels.swf Sharks clearly possess the ability to give you seizures.]

* 11 years before the first ''[[Austin Powers]]'' movie, ''[[Centurions]]'' actually had sharks with [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]. In the episode "Man or Machine", Max Ray is menaced by a [https://web.archive.org/web/20101220210146/http://dukenostalgia.com/Centurions/Cent_CVS.html "Cybervore"], a shark that [[Cyborg]] [[Mad Scientist]] Doc Terror has outfitted with high tech weaponry.

* ''[[Eek! theThe Cat]]'' had that gag about a shark that can chase you on land on it's "The Thunder Lizards" segment.

{{quote| "Darn this evolution thing!"}}

* Much like ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'', ''[[Beast Wars]]'' provides an aversion with Cybershark. A Maximal, his bio describes him as a swashbuckling hero who chases after space pirates. He never appeared in the series however, and only appears in the IDW comics. Played straight elsewhere, however, particularly with the Seacon Overbite. He did appear, in a fashion, as the Predacon Sky-byte in ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]''.

* Timmy on ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'' has to dive into shark-infested waters. Good thing [[Straw Vulcan|he is missing his emotions at the time]].

{{quote| '''Shark 1:''' He's not scared!<br />

{{quote| '''Quinn:''' What I did was I took nature's most perfect killing machine, and needlessly turned it into a robot.}}

* ''[[Re BootReBoot]]''

** One of those sharks reappears in "System Crash", [[Subverted Trope|only it's completely helpless]] with no water to swim in.]]

{{quote| '''SpongeBob:''' ''Emergency! Everybody out of the water!''<br />

'''Bather:''' What's the problem?<br />

'''SpongeBob:''' Um... ''there are sharks in there!''<br />

''(cut to a nerdy-looking shark and his family)''<br />

* Subverted in an episode of ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' where Jake is tasked with guarding a shark-woman who holds in possession (in her stomach) Posedion's trident. Despite her compulsive eating, the shark-woman means well and claims that all shark-people are misunderstood and friendly. The only evil shark-men Jake fights are a group of escaped delinquents who want to flood the world with Poseidon's trident.

* A shark can be seen chasing Scrooge McDuck's submarine in the ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' opening theme.

{{quote| '''Peter:''' What does a Megalodon ''eat''?<br />

'''Egon:''' Anything smaller than itself.<br />

* The most modern Russian attack submarine, the Project 671B Schuka-B has the NATO name "Akula" (Russian for shark).

* [[wikipedia:Bull shark|Bull sharks]] are known for their unpredictable and aggressive behavior, and have been known to attack people without provocation. Oh, and [[It Gets Worse]] -- they—they have a certain level of tolerance for fresh water. Just when you thought it was safe to go in the rivers... Just read about the [[wikipedia:Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916|Jersey Shore Attacks of 1916.]] Pure terror; it was so scary, it was the main inspiration for ''[[Jaws]]''!

** I'mWhitetip moresharks scaredare ofprobably Whitetipeven sharksscarier. At least bull sharks will leave you alone if you keep your distance. Whitetips will follow you (hence the nickname "Sea dogs"), and if they even ''think'' that you're edible, they will eat you. And not stop. That "sharks don't like human taste" thing doesn't apply. Hence why Whitetips have ''a higher human body count than all other species combined.''

* The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, as Cracked.com tells us in its "[http://www.cracked.com/article_17379_6-real-islands-way-more-terrifying-than-one-on-lost.html Top 6 Real Islands Way More Terrifying than the One on] ''[[Lost]]''" article, is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a great big patch of garbage floating in the Pacific]], formed from garbage that gets into the ocean and pushed by currents to this one spot. The writer starts with how this means that fish from there are probably eating more plastic than plankton. Which means that if you eat fish from there, you're probably eating plastic, too. He then goes on to describe what would probably happen if you stepped on the island, involving falling through and either being buried by garbage that fills in the hole, or being left to tread water as the sharks circle. (Still not sure why that places it above the Ilha de Queimada Grande, Ranree Island, or even the Izu Islands, which sounds like something out of the old ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' series. But hey, subjectivity.)

{{quote| ''Oh, right, also there are sharks. We should've opened with that before we told you to go stand on the garbage island.''}}

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130723214407/http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=45960 Shark Knife]. That is all.

* Subverted by the Whale Shark. It's even more like a whale than the name implies -- itimplies—it's the largest existing shark on earth, and feeds entirely on plankton. It's a [[Gentle Giant]] of the seas that lets divers pat it.