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== Live Action TV ==
* This trope is so pervasive that there's an urban legend that Eel-skin wallets erase credit cards. Busted by the ''[[
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' had the Delta Flyer, doubling as a submarine, in a brush with an ''alien'' giant electric eel.
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* ''[[The Punisher]]'' game on [[PlayStation 2]] and PC both averts and subverts this trope in quite a hilarious way. During one level you can 'interogate' an enemy mook by threatening to dunk him in an Electric Eel's tank. While the aquarium's (automated) PA system goes into scientific detail about the Eel - pointing out that it's actually a fish, for example - when you dunk the mook, he's electrified to death in a very dramatic manner.
* According to the game manual for ''[[Street Fighter]] 2'', Blanka learned how to electrify his skin by observing electric eels. Apparently it's a skill, like basket weaving or flower arranging.
* Electric eels show up in an (admittedly based on South America) area in ''[[
* In the first ''[[Freddi Fish]]'' adventure game, at one point the titular fish finds her way blocked by a hostile electric eel with a very sleazy voice who emanates cartoon lightning bolts. However, this being a kid's game, no actual violence ensues<ref>(well, except in a [[Dummied Out]] [[Indulgent Fantasy Segue]] that was most likely made for the developers' own amusement)</ref> and Freddi gets past him by giving him a sandwich.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' posesses a few eel-type monsters in Zangarmarsh that have (rather weak) electric powers.
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