History DarthWiki / SalmonGun

* AlienBlood: The icefish enemies bleed a faint white color when shot, compared to the red or blue of other enemies. This is TruthInTelevision as icefish do have white-to-colorless blood in real life.

* BaitAndSwitchBoss: Near the end of through the third-to-last stage, you encounter the cyborgified version of the Great White Shark you met in the third stage. He then gets harpooned by a fisherman on a fishing trawler, the real boss. [[spoiler:If you're on a NewGamePlus and let the fishermen survive the trawler's destruction, it turns out the shark's NotQuiteDead and fights you as a BonusBoss.]]

* BonusBoss: On a NewGamePlus, [[spoiler:not killing any of the fishermen that the trawler drops will draw the attention of the NotQuiteDead ''cyborgified'' Great White Shark, who's a much tougher fight than the first time]].

** The BonusBoss appears if you [[spoiler:beat the fishing trawler with certain requirements. It's the shark, rebuilt as a cyborg and with far more dangerous weaponry]].

* FreezeRay: The [[spoiler:cyborg Great White Shark BonusBoss]] has these. Not only does it pretty much make you into fishfood for it if it hits you, but it will also [[spoiler:freeze the fish mooks, making them harder to bleed out since you now need to break the ice before you can hurt them]].

* ThreateningShark: The great white shark boss. It's faster than you, can turn on a dime, has a good bit of health and it will OneHitKill you if it bites you, but thankfully, it's distracted by blood in the water -- which appears when you shoot the fish mooks that enter the area. Partway through the third-to-last level, you'll encounter a cyborgified version of him [[spoiler:who's [[BaitAndSwitchBoss taken out by the real boss]] but is revealed to be NotQuiteDead and a BonusBoss if you let the fishermen survive the trawler's destruction. As a BonusBoss, it's ''far'' tougher and now comes with {{Freeze Ray}}s to make it harder for you to bleed the fishes -- and easier for you to get eaten]].

* AirborneMook: Several fish eating birds appear in the game, such as eagles and seagulls.
* AnimalJingoism: All the bosses you face are predators of salmon, such as a bear, eagle, great white shark, orcas, and humans (in a trawler). Several of your enemies are also predators of salmon, like seals, tuna and dolphins.

* AnimalJingoism: All the bosses you face are predators of salmon, such as a bear, eagle, great white shark, orcas, and humans (in a trawler).

Salmon GUN is a hypothetical Flash game by Ironcommando. It's about Salmon migrating from their spawn point to the ocean before returning back to where it began, while encountering dangerous predators and hazards.

** The TrueFinalBoss is [[spoiler:previous run's salmon]], with similar weaponry to you except jacked up to eleven.

* BossBattle: Seven of them.

* MirrorBoss: The TrueFinalBoss [[spoiler:is your previous game's salmon with all the weapon upgrades taken to ridiculous levels, is massively buff and can take several hits compared to your current player.]]

* TheHeroDies: Just like many real salmon, your salmon dies at the end of the game after mating [[spoiler:or not, if you manage certain requirements]]. Of course, [[NewGamePlus your next generation starts the cycle again]].

* WeCanRebuildHim: The shark, eagle and bear come back as tougher cyborgs with more weaponry in later levels following their defeat. [[MST3KMantra Don't ask how they managed to get this done]].

* WeCanRebuildHim: The shark, eagle and bear come back as tougher cyborgs with more weaponry in later levels following their defeat. [[MS3KMantra Don't ask how they managed to get this done]].

* WeCanRebuildHim: The shark, eagle and bear come back as tougher cyborgs with more weaponry in later levels following their defeat.

* KidnappingBirdOfPrey: The Eagle. It's able to grab your salmon, and if you don't [[SmashingSurvival mash the buttons enough in time]], it eats you for a OneHitKill.

* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: When the cyborg eagle is defeated, it falls into the water below -- that it covered in napalm not long ago. It promptly cooks itself to death.

* RuleOfCool: A lot of ArtisticLicenseBiology animal behaviour is done on purpose to enforce this. The eagle is ''far'' bigger than a real life one, the polar bear's ice-breaking is normally used for seals and not salmon, and there's of course the sheer awesomeness of ''animals holding weaponry''.

** There's also the ''[[WeCanRebuildHim cyborg]]'' Great White Shark, who fights like his earlier battle except with far more dangerous stuff thrown in -- like FreezeRays to make you stop moving and to freeze the fish mooks. He's quickly offed by a fishing trawler, however [[spoiler:or not, if you're on a NewGamePlus and let the fishermen survive]].

* ThreateningShark: The great white shark boss. It's faster than you, can turn on a dime, has a good bit of health and it will OneHitKill you if it bites you, but thankfully, it's distracted by blood in the water -- which appears when you shoot the fish mooks that enter the area. Partway through the third-to-last level, you'll encounter a cyborgified version of him [[spoiler:who's [[BaitAndSwitchBoss taken out by the real boss]] but is revealed to be NotQuiteDead and a BonusBoss if you let the fishermen survive the trawler's destruction. As a BonusBoss, it's ''far'' tougher and now comes with FreezeRays to make it harder for you to bleed the fishes -- and easier for you to get eaten]].