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[[File:river-monsters-photo01_1310.jpg|frame|...and you thought sharks were scary.]]

 

 

It is an extremely potent dose of [[Nightmare Fuel]] due to that last part.

 

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* [[Badass]]: [[Captain Obvious|Duh]].

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Jeremy Wade is somewhere in his fifties, and he ''hunts out'' fish that can reach twice his weight.

** In [[Death World|dangerous conditions]] like; at the base of a waterfall, during lulls in border conflicts, surrounded by bears, crocodiles and hippopotamuses, whatever else is hiding in the tropical rainforests near both the Amazon and Congo Rivers, or on the icy waters of an Alaskan lake. He's also suffered numerous injuries and even survived a ''plane crash'' and is [[The Determinator|still going]]!

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Jeremy lets loose with one of these when trying native fishing techniques in one episode, actually having been encouraged to cuss out and insult the fish while trying to catch it by one of the locals teaching him. The result borders on [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].

* [[Death From Above]]: In one episode, Jeremy and his film crew were nearly hit by lightning when caught out during a massive thunderstorm. One of the crew actually had a headache and was nearly knocked unconscious, suggesting he might have taken a peripheral hit from the strike.

** Also the candiru; a parasitic catfish that normally targets the gills of other fish, but has been known to embed itself in the genitals of luckless humans relieving themselves in South American waterways.

* [[Implacable Man]]: The Giant Snakehead. No loving god would create a creature capable of surviving ''getting shot with a harpoon to the mouth from point blank range, then driving the back end through the attacker's head, killing him''.

* [[Perma-Stubble]]: Jeremy can often be seen with varying degrees of this, particularly when he's spent days out in remote places where personal grooming isn't exactly practical.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: The episode about the Goliath Tigerfish. After failing to catch a tigerfish ''three times'', he requested a good-luck fetish (not [[Fetish Fuel|that kind]]), slept with it under his pillow, and caught a tigerfish the next day. Jeremy planned to let it go, but was told by his native companion that the fish was a gift from God, and the neighboring village was going through hard times to boot. After several minutes of wrestling with different facets of his morality, he decided to let the tigerfish go only if it was well enough to recover. It wasn't, which disappointed him, but the ecstatic reception he got when he hauled it back to the village probably more than made up for it.

 

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