Expect plenty of bite.
Films
The Sharknado series was self-aware and sliced enjoyable cheese.
Unfortunately, the following took their own bullshit too seriously.
Raiders of the Lost Shark
Shark Encounters of the Third Kind
Shark Side of the Moon
Avalanche Sharks
Sand Sharks
Super Shark
Toxic Shark
Sharkula
Sharkenstein
Etc etc etc etc.
Moving on.
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| Bruce - Finding Nemo |
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| Don Lino - Shark Tale |
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| Killer Shark - The Water Babies |
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| Charlie - Proteus¹ |
¹Adaptation of 1983 Harry Adam Knight novel Slimer.
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| Jabberjaw |
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| Love, Death + Robots Fish Night - S1 E12 |
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| Sharkticons - Transformers |
Comics
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| Armaggon - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures |
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| Hook Jaw - Action |
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| Deacon sharks - Prometheus: Fire and Stone - issue 2 |
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| The Pathetic Sharks - Viz |
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| King Shark - DC |
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| 'Sharkality' |
Video games
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| Tiny - Batman: Arkham City |
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| Brzak - Resident Evil 6 |
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| Captain Fishook - Luigi's Mansion 3 |
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| Ichiro - Ōkami |
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| Maneater |
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| Mother Neptune - Resident Evil (2002) |
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| Snacker - Banjo-Kazooie |
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| Thanatos - Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep |
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| Crikey - Ty the Tasmanian Tiger |
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| Gran Bruce - Viewtiful Joe |
Miscellany
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| Postal 2 features unplayable arcade Bastard Fish. |
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| Random graffiti in Detroit: Become Human. |
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| Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side Apart from other things, the primary difference between Mega-CD semi-sequel and Mega Drive original is that finishing moves are significantly gorier, as this Overkill example aptly demonstrates. |
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| Injustice: Gods Among Us Aquaman's super move. |
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| Mortal Kombat 3 Cyrax summons Animality. |
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| Scarface: The World Is Yours² Tony will die instantly if he goes swimming for too long. It earlier devoured Nacho Contreras when he attempted to flee via boat. |
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| Sea of Thieves The Hungering Deep allows us to hunt and find a Megalodon. |
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| Battlefield 4 On the Nansha Strike map in the Naval Strike DLC, a Meg can be triggered. |
Cover art, posters and more
Giving chase
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| Amityville Island |
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| Bull Shark |
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| From the Depths |
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| Nightmare Shark |
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| Shark Night |
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| Deep Blue Sea 3 |
Mixing it up.
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| The Savage Sword of Conan - issue 192 (December 1991) |
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| Hook Jaw - issue 55 (2 April 1977) |
From Below aka The Requin vs 47 Meters Down: Uncaged
Jurassic Shark 2: Aquapocalypse vs Ghost Shark
The Reef: Stalked vs Shark Bait
Deep Blue Sea 2 vs Red Water
Coincidence or not, could shit be any fucking similar?
Just to piss everybody off, Shark Swarm (2008) is also known as Great White.
And possibly the earliest example.
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| Jaws 2 - Marvel Super Special 6 |
Renny Harlin's vision of highly intelligent Mako sharks going on the rampage remains one of the best non-Jaws films.
Shark Attack 2 shamelessly cashed in and even had the cheek to include title as part of tagline.
However.
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| Lake Placid was released a few months before DBS in July. |
Shit gets weirder.
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| Old Yeller-Belly - The Simpsons (May 2003) |
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| Desert Assault aka Thunder Zone - 1991 |
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| Time Gal - 1985 |
And.
³Japanese title for Shark (2000).
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| Night of the Sharks (1988) was released as Jaws Attack in Japan. |
NOTS never got a sequel, but Shark Attack 2 was called Jaws Attack 2 in Japan.
Shits and giggles
Why not, right?
Jaws '98³ vs Jaws
³Japanese title for Shark (2000).
Jaws Returns⁴ vs Jaws 2
⁴The Last Shark in Japan.
The Meg - 2018
After spending years in development hell, Jon Turteltaub finally made Steve Alten's book a reality.
Poster 1
Megalodon Rising⁴ and Shark Attack 3: Megalodon⁵
⁴Sequel to Megalodon (2018).
⁵Thumbnail for Prime Video.
Poster 2
But.
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| Attack of the Jurassic Shark aka Jurassic Shark |
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| Jaws in Japan aka Psycho Shark |
Poster 3 partially became the basis for alternate DVD art.
Guess what?
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| Meg-A-Shark 8 Movie Collection |
HA HA HA!
To save you looking shit up, here's what you get.
Toxic Shark
Shark in Venice
Malibu Shark Attack
Sharkman
Shark Zone
Shark Attack trilogy
Poster 4
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| Final example hails from China. |
Megalodon (2018), Megalodon⁶ (2002) and Meg: Primal Waters
⁶For some reason, repackaged years later as Sharkzilla.
Considering film has more in common with my ass than Godzilla, what an inspired decision.
Bonus round
Meg - graphic novel (2019) vs Feed - 2017 novel
Prehistoric monsters pursue a submersible.
⁷Although title suggests so, story is entirely fictional. Brad Matthews is actually a pseudonym of author Nelson DeMille.
Come on.
Tintorera vs Killer Sharks: The Real Story⁷
⁷Although title suggests so, story is entirely fictional. Brad Matthews is actually a pseudonym of author Nelson DeMille.
Sharkasaurus - 2018
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| Obscure graphic novel kicks off with antagonist devouring a T. rex. |
This is IDENTICAL to the prologue of Meg, which is later revealed to be part of a slideshow prepared by Jonas Taylor for his presentation on Megalodon.
WTAF?
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| Erik Hollander's cover for 1 April 2008 re-issue represents opening. |
Next time, subject matter will change tact.
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