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* [[Bloodier and Gorier]]: The [[Gekiga]] [http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/er/2009/11/gekiga-jaws-herald-comic-1975-part-one.html tie-in] was much more graphic than the film it was based on.
* [[Brief Accent Imitation]]: Brody's first scene has his wife encourage him to talk more like the locals. He busts out "They're out in the yahd, not too fah from the cah," and she replies that he sounds like a New Yorker.
* [[Call Back]]: Thea
** A much more subtle one - the barrels that Brody and Hooper swam back into shore on in the first movie? One of them is a planter outside of the Brody home in the second one.
* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: ''Revenge'' does this to the third movie.
* [[Chekhov's Classroom]]: Dr. Elkins' info dump on sharks'
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:
** In the original:
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** ''Jaws 2'' has one as well with the police boat's dredging hooks snagging the power cable.
** ''Jaws 3'' with the grenade that the British scientists intend to use to blow up the shark. They don't get to use it, {{spoiler|what with the Brit being ''eaten'' by the shark and all, but Mike and Kay do.}}
* [[The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much]]: The local
* [[Creator Cameo]]: Peter Benchley playing a reporter.
{{quote| "In recent days, a cloud has appeared on the horizon of this beautiful resort community - a cloud in the shape of a killer shark."}}
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* [[Did I Mention It's Christmas?]]: In ''The Revenge''.
* [[Dolled-Up Installment]]: Bruno Mattei's ''Cruel Jaws'' has also gone by the name ''Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws''.
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: Sean Brody in the fourth film. Though it could have been worse, as the original script had ''Martin'' dying to serve as a launchpad for his wife's sunny
** Though they still did it anyway--Ellen claims that "the fear of it killed him!", implying that Martin spent the last years of his life terrified that all the sharks of the world were coming for him.
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: In-universe example is Mrs. Taft's reaction during the first film's town meeting when Denherder jokes if the reward money for shark's capture comes in cash or check.
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* [[Nightmare Sequence]]: Ellen in ''Revenge'' has a nightmare where she is attacked by a shark while swimming.
* [[Night Swim Equals Death]]: The opening scene in the first movie may be the [[Trope Codifier]].
* [[Fleeting Demographic Rule|No One Has a Memory Over Two Years Old]]: In-universe example. In the first sequel, Chief Brody is convinced a series of mysterious deaths and disappearances at sea are the work of another shark. Despite the events of four years before, and Brody presenting the selectmen with ''photographic evidence'' of the shark, they and the mayor fire him for his "paranoia" (and for panicking
** Well, to be fair, all Brody showed them was a really bad close-up photo of the shark, to where you could BARELY see anything. Brody doesn't help his case by acting like a crazily obsessed man during the whole scene, showing absolutely ''no'' remorse for his actions on the beach, which could have resulted in someone being injured or even ''killed''--[[Straw Man Has a Point|the committee was well within its right to fire him over that.]]
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Dolphin Sandy in the third film's ending.
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