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[[Here There Be Dragons|Here there be monsters.]]

Since [[Older Than Feudalism|ancient times]], some cultures have had a superstitious fear of the ocean. It was vast and almost completely unknown. It could smash any ship man dared float on it, or sweep it away, never to be heard of again. Oh, and there may have been [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|gigantic monsters in it]]. Until recent centuries many sea charts were illustrated with mythical and fearsome sea-creatures in unexplored regions, and even today the weirdest creatures on Earth are to be found beneath the waves, and we're still finding more. [[Truth in Television|Some of them]] ''~~[[Truth in Television|~~are]]'' ~~[[Truth in Television|~~pretty enormous, too]] (though they're [[Everything Trying to Kill You|not the most dangerous things down there]]).

Since [[Older Than Feudalism|ancient times]], some cultures have had a superstitious fear of the ocean. It was vast and almost completely unknown. It could smash any ship man dared float on it, or sweep it away, never to be heard of again. Oh, and there may have been [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|gigantic monsters in it]]. Until recent centuries many sea charts were illustrated with mythical and fearsome sea-creatures in unexplored regions, and even today the weirdest creatures on Earth are to be found beneath the waves, and we're still finding more. [[Truth in Television|Some of them ''are'' pretty enormous, too]] (though they're [[Everything Trying to Kill You|not the most dangerous things down there]]).

There are many flavours of [[Sea Monster]] (well, yes, [[A Worldwide Punomenon|most taste a lot like squid]], unsurprisingly). These subtropes include: