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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]]''}}
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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
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* ''[[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 Jinbei {{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. Not much of a surprise, since whale sharks can't eat most
** Now things are [[It Got Worse|even worse]] with {{spoiler|Hordy Jones' crew, which has ''four'' different shark Fishmen, Jones himself being a great white shark.}}
** Add on {{spoiler|Captain of the Flying Dutchman, Van Der Decken IX, who is a bullhead shark. Not as fearsome as a great white, but he seems to be the main villain of this arc.}}
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* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'': Apparently inspired by the pirates of ''[[How to Kill a Mockingbird]]'', Squalo rides a flying burning shark as his box weapon. Seriously.
* BrokenGao in ''[[GaoGaiGar]] FINAL'' forms the right shoulder of Genesic GaoGaiGar and represents destruction in all its glory.
* Averted in ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' with Sky-Byte. While one of the Predacons, Sky-Byte is an aspiring poet and quite fond of
* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'': While Sakuya's ''[[Tempting Fate|Titanic]]'' was sinking, an already-wounded Hayate swam in the frigid water to push a raft holding Isumi to safety. Then the sharks attacked him.... But [[Berserk Button|all bets]] [[Grievous Harm with a Body|were off]] when he saw one of them attack ''Nagi''.
* In ''[[JoJo's 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'').
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* 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 Slash]]: Trailers'' feature [[Raising the Steaks|a slasher shark]] named Blackfin, who was big enough to devour the great white mistaken for him in one bite.
* [[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
* German comic ''Haiopeis''.
* Subverted in ''[[Tintin|Red Rackham's Treasure]]'', where Professor Calculus builds a small submarine in the shape of a shark. Haddock first sees it when trying to take a potshot at a bunch of circling sharks.
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* In ''[[James and the Giant Peach]]'', there's a [[Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie|robot shark]].
* 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 Little Mermaid]]''.
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* ''[[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 ''[[Zombi 2]]'' has a shark fighting a [[Zombie Apocalypse|zombie]].
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* 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
** {{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.
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* ''[[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 with Dinosaurs]]''. During "Cruel Sea", there are plenty of sharks ([[All There in the Manual|called Hybodus]]) about, but they aren't the top predator. That would be ''[[Giant Swimmer|Liopleurodon]]'', one of the few creatures that is proven to ''always'' make things even worse than they are with sharks.
** How much worse? Try 21
* ''[[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.
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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.
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** 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 (WotLK expansion) have many non-elite sharks. Their level and variety differs depending on the level of the zone where you are.
** 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.
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* 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: A New Legend Begins|Alundra 2]]'' is [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife|a giant orange shark]] [[Tractor Beam|with vacuum powers]].
* 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 Bastards|only humans hunt for sport]]
* ''[[Monster Hunter]] Tri'' gives us the Sharq, which inhabits the waters on the northern end of the Deserted Island area. A subversion in that they don't make things worse, and only attack when you invade their territory. Then again, they're among the ''least'' dangerous things you can find in the water...
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** 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.
* [[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]]
** 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.
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{{quote|''Oh, right, also there are sharks. We should've opened with that before we told you to go stand on the garbage island.''}}
* [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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