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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]]''}}
[[As You Know]], [[Everything's Worse
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.]]
If you're swimming or anywhere near water, the last thing you want to hear is "shark". In fictionland, or rather fiction-ocean, Sharks are unstoppable sea-monsters which devour everything in sight: fish, seals, people...[
(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
Their remarkably aquatic forms and resistance to disease are of great interest to science. [[Rule of Cool|Don't expect to see this come up in fiction, though.]] Also, like every other fish in the world, they are completely helpless and practically immobile on land, which for all that sharks are misunderstood and fascinating creatures is probably a mercy...
[[Megalodon]] is a recently popular prehistoric variant. [[Shark Man]] is a subtrope, caused by crossing them with humans into bipedal land monsters. See [[Sea Monster]] for other scary things in the ocean. You can relax if there are [[Heroic Dolphin|Heroic Dolphins]], though. See [[Never Smile At a Crocodile]] for the rivers-and-lakes variant. Contrast [[Shamu Fu]], the one situation where things may legitimately get ''better'' when you add a shark. See also [[Jump the Shark]], in which this trope proved very true for the trope namer, and not in a fictional context. ▼
▲[[Megalodon]] is a recently popular prehistoric variant. [[Shark Man]] is a subtrope, caused by crossing them with humans into bipedal land monsters. See [[Sea Monster]] for other scary things in the ocean. You can relax if there are [[Heroic Dolphin
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== Advertising ==
* Sharks go from even worse to hilarious in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOgJnFQFeFE this ad] for Nicorette lozenges.
* There's also a Snickers Peanut Butter Squared [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpyyXTywNek commercial].
* Also hilariously done in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpol6LDuJbU this famous commercial] where the shark mistakes an unfortunate tuber for a big Hostess Cupcake.
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'': Viral. He is a Beastman that Gainax has explicitly stated is a shark with [[Cats Are Mean|feline]] genetics. Besides his claws and cat eyes, he's got a [[Slasher Smile|mouth full of shark teeth]]. They grow back if they're pulled out. His smiles tend to make viewers rather [[Nightmare Fuel|uneasy]].
* Shark Fujishiro from ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' is a literal shark with a human guise from a group of mermaid [[Yakuza]]. His motto being that all problems can be solved by eating the cause of the chaos. He's constantly trying to eat the main character of the series, Nagasumi. The fact he can turn into a shark on land doesn't help matters much either.
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** There is a scene where a shark kicks down a door, with a big GASHUNK sound in the English version. This has become a Motivator meme: "GASHUNK: Clearly the sound a shark makes when it kicks down a door."
* ''[[Iron Wok Jan]]'': The semifinal [[Cooking Duel|battle]] of the second [[Tournament Arc]] has shark as the theme ingredient. The pre-prepared shark meat is unusable. What do you do? ''Jump'' into the tank of live sharks also prepared, ''kick'' a shark out, and butcher it in front of the audience. Of course after Jan and the rival from China jump into the shark tank to secure their ingredient, one of the other contestants realizes that it would be easier to just smash the glass walls of the shark tank to drain all the water out of it.
* ''[[Ranma
** In the early manga, Ranma and Cologne fight at the beach and in the ocean. When Cologne touches down lightly on the surface of the water, everyone is astonished at how an [[Old Master]] can find footing even on a floating twig. Turns out she landed on top of a ''great white shark'', which she somehow commandeers to do her bidding. It doesn't end well for the shark when Ranma goes into the [[Unstoppable Rage|Cat-Fist]], though. The anime, for some reason, traded the beach fight (the final part of the Phoenix Pill storyline) for a fight in the mountains; apparently, they figured Cologne using telekinesis to fling showers of ice boulders would be more dramatic.
** Both the manga and an anime episode have Akane accepting Principal "Nutjob" Kunô's offer to teach her how to swim. Plan 1: strap a big boulder to her back and toss her into the pool... which is currently home to a four-meter-long shark.
* The [[Beach Episode|Beach Chapter]] in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' involves [[The Hero]] being attacked by a shark... [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|that knows kung fu]]. {{spoiler|It turns out to be his martial arts teacher Kuu Fei in a stuffed shark that she borrowed from the hotel lobby, along with Natsumi in a shark costume in a [[Zany Scheme|ploy to get Negi and Asuna back together by placing him in a perceived danger to be rescued]]}}.
* 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]] ''[
* ''[[Bleach]]'' has {{spoiler|Halibel's release, "Tiburon". Which she uses to ''cut Hitsugaya('s duplicates) clean in two''.}}
* ''[[One Piece]]''
** 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
** Now things are [[It Got Worse|even worse]] with
** Add on
** The trope is also inverted by
* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'': Apparently inspired by the pirates of ''[[How to Kill
* BrokenGao in ''[[
* Averted in ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' with Sky-Byte. While one of the Predacons, Sky-Byte is an aspiring poet and quite fond of
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Blue Submarine No. 6]]'', not only is there an antagonist who is a [[Half-Human Hybrid|shark-person]] but it seems as though his main mode of transportation is built on a WHALE SHARK.
* Agito from ''[[
* Inverted in ''[[Nichijou]]''. Ask the Professor, and she'll tell you Everything's Better with Sharks.
* Ryoga "Shark" Kamishiro of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_Death_in_the_Mind_of_Someone_Living The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living] by Damien Hirst is a piece of art (in a wide sense) consisting of a dead shark preserved in blue-colored formaldehyde, made in 1991.▼
==
▲* ''[[
* The [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=1755 Giant Shark] and [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=5163 Hammerhead Shark] from ''[[Magic the Gathering (Tabletop Game)|Magic the Gathering]]''. Unfortunately, since they're sharks, they can only attack if the opposing planeswalker is near a body of water (i.e. they have islands). And since your character is a planeshifting physical god, you can turn your opponents' lands into islands with certain spells.▼
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' has a few: [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Corroding_Shark Corroding Shark] and [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Cyber_Shark Cyber Shark], a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|zombie/robot shark respectively]], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Metabo-Shark Metabo Shark], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Deepsea_Shark Deepsea Shark], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Shark_Cruiser Shark Cruiser], a shark ship, [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Man-Eating_Black_Shark Man-Eating Black Shark], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Great_White_Terror Great White Terror], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Misairuzame Misairuzame], a ''missile shark'', [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Abyssal_Kingshark Abyssal Kingshark], and [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Great_White the Great White], a giant shark with hands.▼
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* ''[[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
*
* The old British comic ''[[Action (
* ''[[X-Men]]'':
** Cyclops of has fought sharks on occasion. Great whites, naturally.
** The short-lived X-Men character Thunderbird III had very few badass moments, but one of those was when he fought and killed a great white shark all by himself.
* [[Batman]] even keeps Shark-Repellent Bat-Spray in his utility belt!
** There's also the Batman villain Great White, a former "white collar criminal". It started as a nickname due to his shady financial practices. However he gets sent to Arkham and, well... let's just say he ends up with an [[Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance]].
* In ''[[Watchmen (
* ''[[The Punisher]]''
** [[Scary Black Man|Barracuda]], a badass hitman, manages to win a brutal fight with the Punisher. Instead of just shooting him, Barracuda throws him into the ocean with a bleeding gangster and a Great White.
** An earlier
* [[Iron Man]], or rather Tony Stark seeing he was out of his armour, was dumped into shark-infested waters once. He proceeded to fight a great white, ''bite'' into it to get it to start bleeding, which drew the [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|other sharks in order to attack]] '''it'''.
* ''[[Indiana Jones]] and the Tomb of the Gods'': Oh, so the [[Big Bad]] [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazi]] has Indy at gunpoint in a seized ship miles away from the nearest coast. If he kills him there nobody will know. But does he shoot him? [[Complexity Addiction|Naaah, that would be too easy]]. Better drop him in a lifeboat with no oars to starve or die of dehydration. But wait, that would be too slow. Shoot the boat with a machine gun so it'll sink sooner or later. Enough? Nope, make a cut on the [[Girl of the Week]]'s arm and kick her into the water so sharks will smell her blood and do a [[Zerg Rush]] to the area. And if loads and loads of sharks aren't scary enough, don't worry, a massive Great White will show up to teach them the job.
* In ''[[Wonder Woman]]'', the island of Themiscyra is protected by Megalodons, who are good and even offer themselves up for a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save the island on one occasion.
* DC Comics also gives us the character King Shark, the son of the Hawaiian shark god (we're assuming Ka-moho-ali'i). He's capable of regeneration, which is good because Jeanette of ''[[Secret Six]]'' breaks his jaw and rips off his arm.
* One of the "possible" stories included in ''[[Hack
* [[
* German comic ''Haiopeis''.{{context}}
* Subverted in ''[[Tintin
* The newspaper comic ''Sherman'sLagoon'' stars the eponymous shark.▼
** Who's actually a [[Villains Out Shopping|very nice guy when he isn't eating other sentient life-forms]]. ▼
* ''[[The Far Side]]'' practically predicted this entry and its terrestrial counterpart, with a strip showing a shark attempting to scare humans into the water by yelling [[Everything Is Worse With Bears|"Bear!"]]▼
== Fan Works ==
* From [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6095074/12/Takamachi_Nanoha_of_2814 Chapter 12] of ''[
* From ''[[
* Late in ''[[
==
* ''[[Shark Tale]]'', obviously by its name. Features a subversion of this trope though, a vegetarian shark who actually gets nauseated at the very taste of a fish.
* Another one for sharks that don't eat everything in sight, ''[[Finding Nemo]]''. Not quite vegetarians, it's hinted that they eat dolphins, and they have a "slip" every now and then and eat a fish. The heroes run into three, including one named Bruce, a [[Shout
* In ''[[James and
* In ''[[Madagascar]]: Escape 2 Africa'', Mort is [[Kick the Dog|chased by a shark.]] [[It Got Worse|Through land.]] [[Yank the Dog's Chain|All the way into a volcano.]] That must be one hungry shark.
* In the [[Pixar]] short ''Partly Cloudy'' (shown before ''[[Up]]''), living clouds make human babies, puppies, kittens, etc., who are delivered by [[Delivery Stork
* ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'': "Oh, look, [[Friendly Playful Dolphin|a friendly little dolphin]]. [[Heroic Dolphin|They helped sailors during the war]]... It's a shark! It's a shark and it ain't friendly! Looks like a dolphin... Tricky fish! Tricky fish!"
* Glut the Shark from ''[[
** The sequel has Undertow the tiger shark.
* The ''[[Tintin
* ''[[The Land Before Time]] V'' has a prehistoric shark-like swimming "sharp-tooth".
▲* The ''[[Jaws (Film)|Jaws]]'' series is built on this trope.
* As is ''[[Open Water]]'' (the first one, anyway). Slight subversion, since nothing bad happens the ''first'' time a shark appears. The problem is later when it, presumably, gets curious and comes back... with ''friends''. From then on, [[It Got Worse|it just gets worse]]. Also notable is the fact that not only are the sharks all real (even the ones interacting with the actors), but are all species one would have a reasonably good chance of encountering in [[Real Life]], compared to, say, the more-famous-but-rarer great white.
* ''[[Undercover Brother]]'': At the end, {{spoiler|Mr. Feather}} falls from a helicopter and chomped by a shark just before falling into the ocean.
* ''[[Batman:
* ''[[James Bond (
** Movies with a [[Shark Pool]]: ''[[
** And in ''[[
* ''[[
* The 1971 documentary ''Blue Water, White Death'', for its name alone.
* ''Mako, the Jaws of Death''
* ''[[
* ''[[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.
* ''[[Austin Powers]]'': Dr. Evil ''wanted'' sharks, with [[Frickin' Laser Beams]] [[Weaponized Animal|attached to their heads]] no less, but logistical problems meant he had to settle for ill-tempered, mutated sea bass. He gets his laser sharks by the third movie, though.
* ''[[My Super Ex
* In the film ''[[The Beach]]'', the seemingly idyllic youth community is revealed to be anything but when one of the members is gored by a shark.
* ''[[Shark Attack 3: Megalodon]]''.
* Subverted/parodied in the second ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' movie, where being surrounded by sharks, Lara Croft punches one in the nose and proceeds to ride it to the surface.
* The French movie ''Le Magnifique'', a parody of spy flicks, begins with a spy character "eaten by a shark while in a phone booth." Yes, that's how it is actually described in the movie. To be more specific, the phone booth was lifted up by a helicopter with the spy inside, dropped into the sea, and then a caged shark was freed to attack him while still in the phone booth. Hard to top as a needlessly complicated execution method...
* In ''[[Jumper (
* ''[[Ace Ventura]]'' goes to a tank expecting to find a stolen dolphin. He finds a shark. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. Specially when he returns to the main hall, his clothes all torn and wet: "[[Crowning Moment of Funny|Do NOT go in there!]]"
* There have been times when the Scifi channel has shown several movies of sharks attacking people back to back. Megaladons (giant prehistoric sharks) are quite often involved, e.g.. ''[[Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus]]''.
** Incidentally, if the title has ''Shark vs.'' anything, it's probably by
** Mega Shark has returned to face off against another giant prehistoric predator: Crocosaurus.
* Lucio Fulci's ''[[
* The Made-for-TV low-budget-gore-fest ''Spring Break Shark Attack''. [[Exactly What It Says
* The pirate comedy ''Yellowbeard'' plays with this when the title character's wife is taken captive by the Royal Navy and pumped for information offscreen; when she's ready to talk, she says, "I think it was that shark that jogged my memory." {{spoiler|"The Shark" is the handsome ensign (David Bowie in a cameo) who brings her into the office, who has a shark's fin strapped to his back; he "jogged her memory" via sex.}}
* In ''[[Lethal Weapon 4]]'', has caught a small shark (alive) while out fishing with the heroes. When their boat sinks, the shark escapes; rather than booking it for the horizon, as any sensible animal would do, its fin is shown lingering near the swimming characters to add menace to the scene.
* One word: [[The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl|Sharkboy.]]
* ''[[
* ''[[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.
== Literature ==
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[
** At the beginning of ''[[
* The brain sharks of ''[[More Information Than You Require]]''.
* The second ''[[Young Wizards]]'' novel has a ninety-foot long great white shark as a ''protagonist''. While he doesn't make things worse for the good guys, he definitely makes things worse for the bad guys.
** He's not a great white. He's older than that SPECIES of shark, considering that, you know, {{spoiler|he was the original shark to accept the first Silent One's sacrifice.}}
* In ''[[The Princess Bride (
* 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.}}
* The finale of ''[[Dan Brown|Deception Point]]'' takes place on a marine biologist's rig over a massive swarm of sharks. Some baddies do find their way in, naturally.
* Towards the end of ''[[Red Storm Rising]]'', a Soviet pilot and an American one, both of whose planes went down during the big [[Old School Dogfight|dogfight]] when NATO retook Iceland, bring their life rafts together to take advantage of the American's shark repellent. The Soviet pilot voices a distinct unease with being devoured by "a carnivorous fish".
* At one point in ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'', Captain Nemo invites Professor Arronax on an underwater stroll to visit a pearl fishery, and '''then''' mentions the prospect of sharks. This makes the professor quite nervous: "So there I was, daydreaming about sharks capable of cutting a man in two with their row upon row of teeth. I could already feel a pain in my side." Talking to his friends a few minutes later, he accidentally speaks of "a hundred and fifty sharks" instead of "a hundred and fifty pearls."
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* 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?
* In ''Pendragon'', Saint dne sends a shark to attack Bobby and press on land in another DIMENSION!!!
* ''The Raw Shark Texts'' by Steven Hall features a "purely conceptual" shark that swims through memes, eating memories and identities.
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* Sharks often show up during the seafaring scenes in ''[[Redwall]]''. In ''The Bellmaker'', Finbarr Galedeep sings a silly song about sharks, and later that evening a very worried Rufe Brush comes and asks him what a shark looks like. He tells him that mostly all you'll see is a big pointy fin, to which Rufe responds "[[Oh Crap|Does it look like this one circling our ship, sir?]]"
** And in ''Triss'', Krrova, Scarum and Saxtus run across a shark at least ''twice''.
* 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''.
* In ''[[Nation]]'', sharks are practically the personification of [[It Got Worse]]:
** While rescuing a drowning
** {{spoiler|First Mate Cox}} would almost certainly have died from {{spoiler|that axe in his chest}}, but [[Rasputinian Death|just to be sure]] he gets eaten by sharks, too.
* The general idea behind Steve Alten's ''Meg'' series of novels.
* Subverted in Sergey Volnov's ''Army of the Sun'', where sharks and whales have been [[Uplifted Animal|artificially given intelligence]] and develop [[Psychic Powers]]. The sharks actually become deeply philosophical, benign creatures, able to open portals from one planet to another, as long as both feature large bodies of seawater.
* Charlie the intelligent, bipedal, amorphous mutated great white in ''[[
* The Terrible Dogfish from ''[[Pinocchio]]'' is supposed to be a gigantic shark given its name, but is often interpreted as a monstrous whale or a generally fish-like sea monster in various adaptations. Nonetheless, Pinocchio comes into conflict with it when he learns that it swallowed Geppetto, his father.
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[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]]'
* Chevy Chase's "Land Shark" sketches on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''.
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* The [[Discovery Channel
* On said network, the ''[[
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** Fun fact: Mythbuster team member Grant Imahara is absolutely terrified of sharks. Naturally, he gets to be the one who goes into the water for every myth involving sharks.
* Shawn Weatherly's character was killed off ''[[Baywatch]]'' in the first season by being attacked by a shark.
* That episode of ''[[Happy Days]]''. [[Jump the Shark|You know the one.]] Not dangerous for the characters, but the show got wounded pretty bad.
* ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'' has Kamen Rider Abyss, whose motif is a shark, is the antagonist of [[Kamen Rider Ryuki|Ryuki's World]].
** The ''Decade'' net movies claim that [[Kamen Rider Faiz]]'s suit is partly shark-inspired (hence the sawtooth pattern on the mouthpiece). However, in this case it's a subversion, as Faiz is the main character and is (typically) wielded by a good guy.
* 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>
** One of the toughest [[Monsters of the Week]] in ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' was called the "Slippery Shark".
** The shark-based monster in episode 36 of ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]'' may be a [[Monster of the Week]] like usual, but it delivers a very brutal beatdown within that brief time. One hero gets sent sliding across the floor ''after his weapon is smashed.''
* [[Subverted]] on ''[[Walking
** How much worse? Try
* ''[[Spin-Off|Sea Monsters]]'' has sharks as well. ''Stethacanthus'' in the Devonian barely even registers as a threat. There's also the obligatory ''Megalodon'' in the Pliocene. (For reference, the babies are the size of an adult Great White.) The Jurassic still has ''Hybodus'', and the Cretaceous has more sharks that barely register as a threat. There are also ''Xiphactinus'' (a.k.a. The Ugliest Fish in History) and giant mosasaurs, just to make the sharks look irrelevant.
* In ''[[The Future Is Wild]]'', a distant-future flooded Earth has as its top predator a charming critter called the Sharkopath, a highly intelligent aquatic pack hunter that communicates with its packmates using flashes of bioluminescence.
* In the ''[[
* ''[[CSI]]'' has an episode where a tiger shark was released into a swimming pool full of people and bit a woman's arm off, but it turned out she was already dead.
* Played straight in one episode of ''[[H₂O: Just Add Water]]'', subverted in another. This show's version of [[Driven to Suicide]] has Cleo swim into the middle of a known shark breeding ground (don't worry, she lives). Another episode has Rikki deciding to enter a short film competition about heroes and make the film about sharks. Because she is a mermaid she is able to get much closer to sharks in their natural habitat with a camera than professionals (she can't use the footage however for the same reasons). When Zane runs into sharks Rikki simply uses her powers to heat up the water and scare them off.
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* Averted in Polynesian mythology, in which the sea gods are usually portrayed as benevolent shark shaped guardians of the sea. Examples include Ukupanipo, Kamohoalii and Dakuwaqa.
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲** Who's actually a [[Villains Out Shopping|very nice guy when he isn't eating other sentient life-forms]].
** Sherman has described himself as "a roly-poly [[Medium Awareness|cartoon]] shark suitable for plush toys!"
▲* ''[[The Far Side]]'' practically predicted this entry and its terrestrial counterpart, with a strip showing a shark attempting to scare humans into the water by yelling [[Everything Is Worse With Bears|"Bear!"]]
== Tabletop Games ==
* The old ''[[Arduin Grimoire]]'' had a Air Shark monster.
* 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
** 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...)
** ''D&D'' also has sharks that live in acid and lava. Because even when you're drowning in acid or lava, sometimes it's just too easy. The monster entry for the Acid Shark sums it up pretty well: "What's worse than a pit full of acid? A pit full of acid with a shark in it."
** It also has regular sharks, the megalodon (giant prehistoric shark) and weresharks as well as Sekolah, the sahuagin deity in the form of a giant shark.
*** The Sahuagin themselves are sometimes depicted as basically resembling humanoid sharks.
* In Chaosium's ''Stormbringer'' supplement ''Demon Magic'', the adventure "Sorcerer's Isle" had a megalodon that could sink ships by biting through their hulls.
* ''[[World Of Synnibarr]]'', well-known for its [[Everything's Worse
* ''[[
* ''[[Swashbucklers Of The Seven Skies]]'' has skysharks: "Horse-sized, arrow-shaped carnivores (little more than fanged mouths with wings)".
* ''[[Infernum]]'' has Obsidian Sharks, Spawn (a sort of proto-lifeform) that look like sharks made from living volcanic rock which swim through the seas and rivers of flame, magma and molten metal that flow just about everywhere in Hell. And, as Spawn, kill one, and more will promptly tear their way out of its carcass and attack you.
* ''[[Cthulhu Tech]]'' has megalodons, big enough to be a threat to aquatic [[Humongous Mecha]].
* Minor tidbit from the history of ''[[
** The Diamond Sharks somewhat subvert this however; they generally would [[Arms Dealer|rather do business with you than fight you]] and treat their civilians well by Clan standards. The Rim Worlds Republic played it straight; their government was often brutal and they eventually gave rise to an [[Evil Chancellor]] who would destroy the Star League and plunge human space into 300 years of war. The symbol of the RWR? A shark.
▲* The [
▲* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' has a few: [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Corroding_Shark Corroding Shark] and [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Cyber_Shark Cyber Shark], a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|zombie/robot shark respectively]], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Metabo-Shark Metabo Shark], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Deepsea_Shark Deepsea Shark], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Shark_Cruiser Shark Cruiser], a shark ship, [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Man-Eating_Black_Shark Man-Eating Black Shark], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Great_White_Terror Great White Terror], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Misairuzame Misairuzame], a ''missile shark'', [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Abyssal_Kingshark Abyssal Kingshark], and [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Great_White the Great White], a giant shark with hands.
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* ''[[Bionicle]]''
** Pridak, an evil Shark-man with [[A Bloody Mess|suspicious red makings around his mouth...]]
** "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
** Takea sharks have been there since the line's beginnings.
** [[Complete Monster|Pridak]] has an army of said Takea... Mutant Takea.
*
* Meta example: The ''[[
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* ''[[Pokémon]]''
** Sharpedo. (It doesn't help that its pre-evolved form is a ''[[Piranha Problem|piranha]]''.) Huge attack power and nice speed, [[Glass Cannon|but in return it dies from the weakest Electric attack.]]
** 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]].
** Don't forget about Axew, Fraxure and Haxorus and Garchomp's relatives Gible and Gabite, all of which are actually a cross between [[Our Dragons Are Different|Dragons]] and [[Land Shark]](s).
* ''[[
** ''[[Disgaea
** ''[[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''.
* ''[[Banjo
** 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 [[
** The second example is played straight. Snacker lives in Treasure Trove Cove, and will spawn anytime you fall into the water and will bite at you until you return to shore...or die. He also has a message every time he spawns about how much he'll love eating you. He can be killed with ordinary attacks, but that will only save you for that time in the ocean. Go in the ocean again, and he'll be back like nothing ever happened. Snacker also shows up in Rusty Bucket Bay. In oily water that makes Banjo suffocate on the surface.
* In the ''[[Tales
** There's also the Baitojoh from ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'', which is basically a winged, flying shark.
* In ''[[Tsukihime]]'', Shiki can get killed at one point by opening a door, while on land, to find a shark behind it (it's one of Nero Chaos's [[Number of the Beast|666 familiars]]). The doorshark has become something of a meme among the fans.
* ''[[Super Mario]]''
** Kingfin in ''[[
** Played with in ''[[
* The shark noise in ''[[
* ''[[Ecco the Dolphin]]''
** Sharks are, of course, some of Ecco's natural enemies, and tough ones, to boot. One of the crazier levels from the first game is Open Ocean: you, a lone little dolphin, vs. about a million sharks, with nowhere to hide. The Open Ocean is cold and dangerous.
** The second game turns this on its head at points by transforming Ecco ''into'' a shark, mostly so you can rampage about the level eating everything.
** The Playstation entry to the series, ''Defender of the Future'', ups the ante to including a boss fight with a shark capable of ''devouring you whole.'' (Ramping up the insanity factor? In order to hurt him, first you have to swipe a power-up right from out of his '''''mouth.''''')
* The Japan-exclusive game ''[[Fighting Layer]]'' a.k.a. ''Where [[Street Fighter|Blair Dame's]] [[Put
* SharkMan.EXE from ''[[
** Diveman's stage from ''Battle Network 6'' has some pesky sharks that must be avoided in order to progress.
** ''[[
* Gran Bruce from ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]''. His entrance is even done with a [[Jaws First Person Perspective]].
* Some of the aquatic levels of ''[[Indiana Jones and The
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* The sharks in ''[[
* ''[[Ty the Tasmanian Tiger]]'' has sharks show up whenever you step off the beach into deep enough water; you can encounter entire schools of them this way. They'd be far, far more intimidating if they weren't each a [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]...
* The strongest monster in ''zOMG!'' is the [[Bonus Boss|Landshark]], affectionately referred to as Landy by many players. And [[Shout
* One of the signature villains in ''[[City of Villains]]'' is Captain Mako, a [[Mutants|mutated]] [[Petting Zoo People|shark-like]] [[Pirate]] and [[Psycho for Hire]] known for tearing his enemies apart.
* The sheep-herding game ''Sheep'' has, as a possible sheep-killing device, ''shark-infested ice-cream''.
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** [[Demonic Spiders|Firaxen sharks]], a.k.a. [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Firaxan_shark firaxa], on those underwater levels of Manaan. You can one-hit-kill them, ''but'': you are in a pressure suit at the bottom of the ocean, which slows your movements to a torturous crawl. The suit and the water pressure mean that you can't use any of your usual weapons or Force abilities. The sonic emitter is your only weapon, and although you can fire it repeatedly in quick succession, it only works at close range. When the firaxa notice you, they immediately glide after you, mouths open, and that's the only time you can strike. Sometimes you don't get the chance to see them coming.
** There's also the Progenitor, the giant firaxan whose cry drove the smaller firaxa into a frenzy and made the Selkath researchers on that underwater base homicidally insane. She's not actually evil, though, and if the machinery is destroyed she lets you pass. Poisoning her means dooming pretty much the entire biosphere.
* ''[[Jaws Unleashed]]'' is a alright-to-downright-terrible sandbox adventure game, based on the movie ''Jaws''. The upshot? ''You play as the Great White Shark''. Controls are a mess and it is sometimes frustrating, but still ''you play as the great white shark''. And you can kill/destroy everything from seals, to smaller sharks, to whales, to fishing boats, to a ''fricking oil platform!'' There were also less thrilling ''Jaws'' games [[Jaws (
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]''
** 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 (
** Also the immense raid boss shark named [[Punny Name|Maws]]. He's gained a ''Cataclysm'' cousin in [http://www.wowpedia.org/Gnaws Gnaws], who has a model more closely resembling a real-life great white shark.
** 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
*** The Whale Shark actually is quite docile: it doesn't aggro unless you attack it, now [[Boss Fight|Mobus <The Crushing Tide>]], which shares a model and animations with the Whale Shark, is incredibly hostile: If you enter its waters and it's there (it's a rare mob), be prepared for a boss fight or be prepared to die.
** Considering that Azeroth's oceans contain many huge and frightening beasts, monsters, humanoids, and abominations, carnivorous whale sharks are the most mundane seagoing terror. Hell, in Vashj'ir the whale sharks share the waters (and "giant OHKO-ing beasts" title) with a titanic eel and a monstrous leviathan.
** Then there is [http://www.wowpedia.org/Epicus_Maximus Epicus Maximus] which is almost certainly an inversion of this trope.
** In "[[
* The [[Big Bad]] in ''Crayola Treasure Adventure'' is a ''shark pirate.''
* ''[[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.
* Naturally, you can summon sharks in ''[[Scribblenauts]]''. A single Scribblenauts shark is enough to defeat ''Cthulhu''. You can also summon [[Megalodon]].
* In ''[[Hitman
* ''[[Wacky Wheels]]'' has Razer the shark. Just like everybody else, he runs over hedgehogs and throws them at other racers.
* 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.
* One of boss-fights of ''[[Alundra 2:
* 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"
* ''[[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
* ''[[
* ''[[Scarface:
* ''[[King's Quest]]''
** In ''[[King's Quest IV|King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella]]'' you are a princess trapped on an island. You may swim to a few limited locations, but it takes a lot of trial and error, swim into the wrong screen and ''[[Jaws (
** ''[[King's Quest III]]'' has a similar ''[[Jaws (
* In ''[[Dubloon]]'', you can meet sharks when sailing between islands. They attack by charging forward.
* Of ''[[Command
** Of course you can't forget the Kirov Airship, a flying shark that drops bombs.
* ''[[EVO Search for Eden]]'' has the Kuraselache, King of the Sea, as the antagonists for the last part of the first epoch, the Age of Fish. The [[Mook]] Kuraselache are about your size and are annoying, but their leader is three times your size, attacks by biting, body-slamming and slapping you with his tail, and doesn't want the world above the water to become inhabitable. As the first major boss and, he's tough. Later on in the final epoch, you meet normal enemy versions of King Kuraselache in the Rogon section, who are still annoying but nowhere near as strong since you're far more evolved now.
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters]]'' features a shark named Armaggon as a playable character, whose fighting style resembled an odd mix of Guile and Dhalsim.
* ''[[
* A rare inversion is [[
* In ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]'', you must cross a half-frozen lake inside the Penguin's museum. This, of course, has a gigantic shark in it. Amusingly, you must quietly walk around on the ice, just as you needed to in Killer Croc's lair in ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]].'' What's worse than a croc? Exactly.
* In ''[[League of Legends]]'', Fizz the Tidal Trickster's Ultimate summons a ''giant'' shark. Out of freaking nowhere.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half-Life]]'' has "Ichthyosaur", which is an aquatic alien creature - shark-like, except with big head and claws, moves in circles and sometimes slightly breaks the surface. They mostly ignore you until provoked, but not enough that you could ignore them, and they are quite tough. That's where you get crossbow in the first game, too:
{{quote|Did you see it? They said it was hauled from the Challenger Deep, but I'm positive that beast never swam in terrestrial waters until a week ago. There's a tranquilizer gun in the shark cage, but I'm not sure it would work on this species. You're welcome to try.}}
* Murderous [[Fat Bastard]] Roadhog from ''[[Overwatch]]'' has two skins where his pig motif is replaced with a shark-focused one, complete with a nasty-looking shark mask in place of his usual gas mask.
== Web Animation ==
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]''
** This is combined this with its land-bound cousin in the form of the [[Everything's Worse
** And there is, of course, our resident parenting expert, Hungry Shark. {{spoiler|He's gonna eat your kids.}}
* ''[[How to Kill
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[
** [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
* ''[[
** Xykon entertains himself by feeding {{spoiler|O-Chul}} to an ''acidborn shark''. {{spoiler|He survives.}}
** 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!
* ''[[
* ''[[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
* ''[[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.
* In ''[[Miscellaneous Error]]'', Jack fills his backyard pool with sharks so he can [[Catapult to Glory|catapult the shark]].
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had a [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-10-09 shark attack arc].
== Web Original ==
* 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.]
* ''[[Cyber Nations]]'': Opethian and his Prism Protection Front. [[Crazy Awesome|No questions asked]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131127055030/http://pinochan.net/flash/games/shark-with-wheels.swf Sharks clearly possess the ability to give you seizures.]
* [[Nimportequi|Remi Gaillard]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRXJf-ANy2A parodied this].
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
** In episode "The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together (Part 1)", the maritime-themed villain Go-Fish tries to kill Brock Samson by chumming the water to attract sharks.
** The Monarch teaches a lesson to a treacherous minion by putting him into a shark tank. However, since he'd previously replaced the guy's blood with acid, the sharks won't touch him. So... "Lower the giant HAIR DRYER!!!"
* The [[Bugs Bunny]] cartoon ''[
* [[Scooby-Doo]] once got involved with a prehistoric shark (or so it seemed).
* In ''[[The Mask (
* In ''[[
* ''[[Street Sharks]]'' was essentially the unholy bastard child of this trope and the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqGQyMF5a_0 No, really.]
* And back in 1976, DePatie-Freleng gave us ''[
* Who could forget the marvelous subversion in ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLEIDTUcYRs Jabberjaw!!]''
* 11 years before the first ''[[Austin Powers]]'' movie, ''[[
* ''[[Eek!
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** Cross the shark with the [[Angry Guard Dog]] and you get Sharky the sharkdog.
* Much like ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'', ''[[
* ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' TV series
** Two episodes deal with a gigantic, shark-like beast that swims through [[Sand Is Water|sand like water]] and has a fortune of treasures pressed into its underside. In the first episode it attacks Agrabah and Aladdin and friends joins with a hunter who had been after the shark for years, and they succeeded in driving it off. In the second episode the shark is slain by a race of Ewok-like desert hunters working for an evil wizard, but Aladdin and the hunter uses its skeleton to repair the hunter's ship and fight the wizard.
** In another episode, Aladdin actually ''becomes'' a shark via a transformation spell from a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] mermaid and is forced to attack Genie, Iago, and Abu.
* In ''[[
* Timmy on ''[[The Fairly
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'''Shark 2:''' He's weird, he's weird! ''(sharks run off)'' }}
* ''[[Sealab 2021]]''
** In the episode "Tinfins", Dr. Quinn placed a shark's brain into a robot shark's body.
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** And then there's the episode where they are trapped in an underwater cave with their oxygen supply running out, with a [[Super
* ''[[Kenny the Shark]]'', where the titler shark is a household pet, subverts this trope and somewhat plays it straight. While Kenny does cause a bit of trouble, he usually has good intentions when causing it.
* ''[[
** A season 2 episode features a game set underwater. The User's submarine is very shark-like. Not to mention a scene where mer-Bob and mer-Dot are surrounded by a school of sharks until Bob cuts one in half and scares the rest off.
** One of those sharks reappears in "System Crash", [[Subverted Trope|only it's completely helpless
* Played with in an episode of ''[[
{{quote|
'''Bather:''' What's the problem?
'''SpongeBob:''' Um... ''there are sharks in there!''
''(cut to a nerdy-looking shark and his family)''
'''Shark:''' Hey, that's my family you're talking about. }}
* ''[[
* Turns up as [[Nightmare Fuel]] in ''[[My Little Pony]] Tales'' of all places. Schoolgirls Patch and Bon-Bon, through a major lapse in judgement by the former, find themselves floating over the ocean in a hot-air balloon, which is then damaged by birds. Just when they think they've hit their bleakest moment (and this isn't even the first time Bon-Bon's been in a life threatening situation), they look down and see [[Oh Crap|shark fins in the water]].
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[American Dragon
* A shark can be seen chasing Scrooge McDuck's submarine in the ''[[
* Averted with Shark from ''[[
* Averted with [[The Hero|Sharko]] from ''[[
* On [[The Real Ghostbusters]], the Ghostbusters encounter a Megalodon while time-skipping and landing in a prehistoric ocean.
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'''Egon:''' Anything smaller than itself.
(cue frantic swimming away) }}
* ''Octonauts'' averts this besides being a kids' show with [[Surfer Dude|Lemmy the Lemon Shark,]] who after being [[Androcles' Lion|helped]] by [[The Medic|Peso]] ''twice,'' [[Big Damn Heroes|rescues the cute little penguin (and the cuter littler starfish said penguin came to rescue) from a volcanic sea vent.)]] After its over [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|and Lemmy is finally reunited with his fellow lemon shark "dudes," he's given a sticker on his nose by Peso.]]
* The ''[[House of Mouse]]'' short [[Goofy|"Goofy's Extreme Sports:]] Shark Feeding."
* ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)|Harley Quinn]]''; Killer Shark is actually an [[Affably Evil]] type of villain, although when he is rendered [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] by Dr. Psycho in one episode, he is a ''terror''. As a [[Mythology Gag]], Batman tries to use his Shark Repellant against him; this time, it doesn't work as well, as the villain knocks the canister away before he can do so.
* Karkarodons are a rare alien Sharkman species in ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'', and the few times they show up they're trouble-making thugs at best and murderous psychopaths at worst. Riff Tamson, [[Arc Villain]] of the Mon Cala Civil War arc is easily the best example of this trope, since he's a Separatist leader and the one responsible for orchestrating the civil war to begin with. He's foul-tempered, sadistic, and seems to get a kick out of being as horrible as (in)humanly possible. He also kills a ton of people by biting them to death.
== Real Life ==
* The sinking of the ''U.S.S. Indianapolis'' and the fate of many of its crew. This was carried out primarily by Whitetip Sharks, who are notorious for launching feeding frenzies as soon as food is available. They're responsible for the most human deaths of ''any'' species of shark, namely because they would be the ones to swarm shipwreck survivors. It was even they that mariners nicknamed "Sea dogs" because of their slow and cautious but curious pace when investigating something new. Here's some horror: you know that "If a shark bites you, it will leave you alone because it won't like your taste" thing? Yeah, Bull Sharks will attack out of sheer aggression, but Whitetips apparently missed the memo on this one. They'll devour you if they even think that you're food and someone else might eat you before they can.
** Many people only know about this from hearing it recounted in ''[[Jaws (
** There were a number of shark attacks after the Samar Island battle. In both cases it was a matter of a large number of desperate people in the water many of them dead or injured rather then a few confidant swimmers or surfers.
* The Megalodon, a ''fifty foot'' long prehistoric super shark. As well as a number of other large (and often freakish-looking) prehistoric sharks. Megalodon in particular is believed to still exist in remote parts of the ocean by hardcore cryptozoologists, but the lack of evidence for even a small population's effect on potential prey animals means that their continued survival is highly unlikely at best.
* The most modern Russian attack submarine, the Project 671B Schuka-B has the NATO name "Akula" (Russian for shark).
** The "Typhoon" class ballistic missile submarine is designated Akula in Russia.
** Also, the Russians have the Kamov KA 50 helicopter, known as the "Chornaya Akula" (Black Shark).
* The [http://animals.howstuffworks.com/fish/tiger-shark3.htm Tiger shark]. It's not all stereotyping.
* [
** It should be noted that they did catch a Great White Shark that had human remains in its stomach. Which means that there ''was'' more than one shark involved, since great whites can't tolerate fresh water (two attacks occurred several miles upriver).
** What's really scary? Bull sharks are among the most dangerous sharks despite being generally in the six-to-eight-foot range. A ''thirteen-footer'' was caught, three full feet longer than the biggest anyone had seen before that.
**
*** That's primarily because Oceanic Whitetip sharks are the species that are typically involved in attacking victims of shipwrecks or airplane crashes. They rarely come close to shore, much less far into river systems the way bull sharks do.
* Ragged tooth sharks bear live young... which eat each other while still in their mother's womb. Out of the original 15 fetuses, only two generally survive until birth, and even that is only because the womb is split in two sections.
* There is a certain South African tourist spot where you can ''feed great whites by hand'' from a boat. [[Nightmare Fetishist|They act like big, aquatic, tooth-filled puppies!]]
** A tourism ad for '''another''' place that'll let you feed sharks by hand included a quote from one of the locals: "Even the sharks are friendly here."
* 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
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* [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
** You can also hitch a ride on a Whale Shark by holding its fin.
** Basking sharks are harmless to humans, too. Though they look damned weird when their mouths are fully open.
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* The San Jose Sharks hockey team.
* [http://cakewrecks.squarespace.com/2008/10/daa-dum.html Beware! It's the Shark Attack Cupcake ... Mountain?]
* During the [[World War II|Battle of Midway]], three U.S. pilots who had to ditch their fighters were floating around in a couple of inflatable life rafts. When a shark came swimming by, the fliers discovered the scary way that the shark's dorsal fin was '''sharp''' -- it sliced through the bottom of one of the rafts, dumping the two guys inside into the water ... and slashed one's hand open at the same time. Then, for some reason, despite the blood in the water, the shark just swam away.
* Sharks eat humans once in awhile? Yeah. Guess what eats sharks? [[Humans Are Warriors|Humans!]]
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