History Main / FishPeople

* The ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' novels feature this too (obviously, since the anime was based of them). There are apparently several varieties of fish people of varying degrees of icthyism, but Nunsa, the one who appears in the first novel, takes the cake; talking and walking around on land are his only concessions to the "people" part of the trope. When Zolf tells him to kiss Lina to gross her out, he comments that he's considered the most desirable mate in his school (the [[{{Pun}} best catch]], you might say), then sits down and waits patiently. When quizzed, he claims he's waiting for the eggs, since he's not sure what kissing is, but is vaguely aware it's related to mating.

* The ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}'' novels feature this too (obviously, since the anime was based of them). There are apparently several varieties of fish people of varying degrees of icthyism, but Nunsa, the one who appears in the first novel, takes the cake; talking and walking around on land are his only concessions to the "people" part of the trope. When Zolf tells him to kiss Lina to gross her out, he comments that he's considered the most desirable mate in his school (the [[{{Pun}} best catch]], you might say), then sits down and waits patiently. When quizzed, he claims he's waiting for the eggs, since he's not sure what kissing is, but is vaguely aware it's related to mating.

* The Fishmen from ''Manga/OnePiece''. Their sister species are the Merfolk, traditional mermaids. The two species get along pretty well and can even interbreed, but the Fishmen tend to be more aggressive and angry towards humans while the Merfolk are light-hearted and naive. Also Fishmen are [[SuperStrength 10x stronger than humans from birth]] and both types can [[MakingASplash use water as a weapon]].

[[folder:Video Games]]* In ''VideoGame/{{Amea}}'', Mish is implied to be one of these. He has blue skin, Valde calls him "fish-lips", [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking his name rhymes with "fish"]] and [[spoiler:a fish tank can be found in a room in the house right above the Infested Dungeon]].

* Creator/RogerCorman gave us ''Monster'', aka ''Humanoids from The Deep'', about a bunch of fish people who want to come ashore and, well, [[MarsNeedsWomen knock up the local gals]]. Oddly enough, this is something of a running theme in fish people-related horror stories, though this is a more explicitly rapey example than usual.

Merfolk can have a similar style, but they usually fail the critical "has legs" check — although the key word here is ''usually'', since OurMermaidsAreDifferent. Since many Fish People appear somewhat reptilian, LizardFolk and ReptilesAreAbhorrent are also related tropes. Expect them to create breathtaking [[UnderwaterCity Underwater Cities]]. The more civilized variants may have {{Clothing Appendage}}s formed from fins if they don't have actual clothes.

* Undyne from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''.

* The ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' story "The Case of the French Spy" revolves around a seaside town with a local legend about a strange gilled man who came ashore during the Napoleonic Wars and was taken prisoner on the assumption that he was a French spy. It's never established where the fish man came from, although there are a couple of hints that he might be related to Lovecraft's Deep Ones (who are known to exist in the ''Diogenes'' series, as several stories feature Janice Marsh "of the Innsmouth Marshes").

* The ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' story "The Case of the French Spy" revolves around a seaside town with a local legend about a strange gilled man who came ashore during the Napoleonic Wars and was taken prisoner on the assumption that he was a French spy. It's never established where the fish man came from, although there are a couple of hints that he might be related to Lovecraft's Deep Ones.

* One of the many denizens found in the Magic World of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is a dolphin man. A trucker dolphin man. With flippers for hands. How he is able to hold things like the postcard from [[spoiler:Makie and Yuuna]] without fingers, we may never know.

* People with fish for heads (yes, that's right, ''fish for heads'') from another planet are shown in act 47, in the fifth ''Manga/SailorMoon'' arc. They can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixdkIOhwVE here at about 3:36.]]

* The ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' (a.k.a. the Gill-Man), pictured above, is probably the most famous ([[FountainOfExpies and imitated]]) Fish Person, and certainly the TropeCodifier for movies. He starred in three films -- the self-titled first movie and its sequels ''Film/RevengeOfTheCreature'' and ''Film/TheCreatureWalksAmongUs''. He's become one of the Franchise/UniversalHorror monsters, allowing him to co-star in [[SpinOff Spin-Offs]] and [[TheMerch merchandise]] with {{Dracula}}, FrankensteinsMonster and [[Film/TheMummy1932 The Mummy]], among others.

* ''Film/GodzillaVsHedorah'' has a very odd and out of place scene where a man drunkenly hallucinates humans with fish heads.
* In ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', Davy Jones and his damned crew steadily mutate into fishy (or at least, sea-based) creatures over the decades of service on the Flying Dutchman. E.g. Davy Jones' beard has turned into tentacles like those of an octopus.
* Although we never see the title monster in ''Film/{{Cthulhu}}'', the protagonist does encounter these creatures in a pitch-dark tunnel beneath [[TownWithADarkSecret Rivermouth]].
-->''"There were ''things'', and they were everywhere! They were on the ground, they were [[CeilingCling on the ceiling]], they were everywhere!"''
* ''Film/{{Dagon}}'' (2001) is a loose adaptation of Creator/HPLovecraft's ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth'', with its Deep One hybrids more [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} tentacley]] than the more icthyoid [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Human Hybrids]] of the book (surprisingly, not every Lovecraft monster had tentacles). The actual Deep Ones [[AdaptedOut never show up]] and are replaced with a [[TentacledTerror mass of tentacles]] and [[SpecialEffectFailure bad CGI]] that we're told is Dagon himself. Like quite a few BMovie instances of this trope (and unlike in the book), [[MarsNeedsWomen this version of Dagon likes to molest human women]].
* Abe Sapien from ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'' and its sequel, ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy''.
* ''Film/TheLastLovecraftRelicOfCthulhu'' has Starspawn and his pets as fish people; they're weakened from being away from the ocean. Also there was a curious "Half-Breed" show, probably offspring of one of the many rapings we hear about in the movie.
* Creator/RogerCorman gave us ''Monster'', aka ''Humanoids from The Deep'', about a bunch of fish people who want to come ashore and, well, [[MarsNeedsWomen knock up the local gals]]. Oddly enough, this is something of a running theme in fish people-related horror stories, though this is a more explicitly rapey example than usual.
* The MadScientist in ''Film/BloodWatersOfDrZ'' turn himself into this, then kills his enemies and tries to find a woman to reproduce with. He is convinced that he can start a new "master race" of weird catfish-looking people.
* The monsters from ''They Bite'' are also Fish People who interrupt the shooting of a feminist porno movie while raping the actresses.
* One of the demons in horror BMovie ''Demons At The Door'' looks an awful lot like this trope. He also tries to rape a girl in the shower.
* ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'' focuses on a creature, listed in the credits simply as "Amphibian Man", who is discovered in the Amazon. He can become [[BioluminescenceIsCool luminescent]] when touched and [[spoiler:can [[HealingHands heal himself and others]], up to and including changing the scars on a woman's neck into gills]]. In an aversion to the rapey trend in the last few examples, the Amphibian Man's sexual interest in the heroine is portrayed as romantic, and indeed, is one she fully reciprocates, and [[spoiler: there are hints that she herself might be [[ApparentlyHumanMerfolk something a bit like what he is]]]]. The film itself was adapted from a rejected pitch for a remake of ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' [[spoiler:in which the Creature and the girl lived happily ever after together in the end]].
* Sandy Collara's {{short film}} ''Shallow Water'' features a turtle-man called the tiburonera ("he who hunts sharks"). While the tiburonera combines humanoid with reptilian (rather than fishlike) properties, it clearly pays homage to the Creature from the Black Lagoon in his design. In a TwistEnding [[spoiler: they are revealed not to be AlwaysChaoticEvil; the one pursuing the protagonist was, but the rest of the tribe seem to be okay]].
* ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}'' features the denizens of the Fisherman Kingdom, who are close in appearance to mermaids, but their faces are still distinctly inhuman and their bodies are scaled. The same movie features the Kingdom of the Brine, composed of crustacean people, and the Trench, which contains swarms of monstrosities that vaguely resemble a fusion of a human with a deep-sea anglerfish, but whose demeanor is not even remotely human. Ultimately, Aquaman [[spoiler: is able to command the Trench monsters, who fight for him in the final battle.]]
* ''Film/IslandOfTheFishmen'', a 1979 Italian movie, is naturally full of these things. As in ''Aquaman'' above, they're supposed to be descendants of the Atlanteans who adapted to life in the water, although a MadScientist finds a way to turn other people into this as well, so they can help excavate some UnderwaterRuins for him. They have some kind of fascination for the movie's heroine, played by Creator/BarbaraBach, which could certainly be interpreted as sexual attraction, but they seem distinctly respectful of her, even saving her life at the movie's climax.
* The monsters in ''Film/TheHorrorOfPartyBeach'' resemble this trope (with a mouthful of what look like hot dogs), though we're told they're actually giant protozoa wrapped around the bones of drowned sailors. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but then, it's a bad movie.
* ''Film/ColdSkin'' is about a colony of these who get into a feud with a lighthouse keeper. In an inversion of the usual trend of fish men going after human women, this guy keeps a fish ''woman'' as basically a sex slave, so it's implied that the constant attacks on his lighthouse are, at least partly, attempts to rescue her.

* '60s BMovie ''Film/DestinationInnerSpace'' is about one of these terrorizing the UnderwaterBase of some deep sea researchers and their cook, Creator/JamesHong. The monster turns out to actually be an alien, but he looks like this trope and seems a lot more comfortable in the water than on land.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTHn2tHhcI "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Fishmen"]], a musical abridgement of Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth

* Creator/GamesWorkshop games:
** ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'' has multiple references to Fishmen in its background material, even during the periods when its parent game considered them a running gag. The 5th Edition {{Sourcebook}} ''Death Zone: Season Two!'', for instance, mentions the Southstorm Squids, a former Sea Elf team who suffered a hostile takeover at the fins of a group of Fishmen.
** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Pelagers are [[HumanSubspecies abhumans]] adapted for live in water-covered worlds. They possess fins and scaly skins, and are often large and heavily muscled in order to withstand the crushing pressures of the deep ocean.
** ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyBattle'': The very first edition has a race actually called the Fishmen. The 8th Edition book reintroduced some references to them, causing no small amount of EpilepticTrees.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Amea}}'', Mish is implied to be one of these. He has blue skin, Valde calls him "fish-lips", [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking his name rhymes with "fish"]] and [[spoiler:a fish tank can be found in a room in the house right above the Infested Dungeon]].

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': Cave fish men, small, amphibious tribal humanoids with the heads of blind cave fish found in watery areas BeneathTheEarth. They’re not very dangerous by themselves, but the poisons they smear on their blow darts and spearheads can be quite nasty, and their ability to swim up your water reservoirs gives them an edge the other underground animal races lack.
* The Cove area in ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' is littered with various eldritch sea beasts and {{Giant Enemy Crab}}s. The "Pelagic" class of enemies in particular seem to be inspired by Lovecraft's Deep Ones and [[spoiler: are implied to be [[WasOnceAMan transformed from humans]]]].

* The [[VideoGame/{{X}} X-Universe's]] Boron are squid people.

* ''Webcomic/TheNoordegraafFiles'' has [[http://kumacomics.com/case-file-database/chars/case-file-akila/ Akila]], who looks like an attractive teenage girl crossed with [[Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon The Creature From The Black Lagoon]]. [[CuteMonsterGirl She's actually rather cute.]]
* Des from ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound''.

* The titular character from ''Webcomic/{{Selkie}}''. She's a little sensitive about it.
* Rachel from ''Webcomic/TheErrantApprentice'' is a Lovecraftian Deep One, and adorable to boot.
* [[JerkAss Eridan]], [[GenkiGirl Feferi]], Cronus and Meenah from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' are fish[[AllTrollsAreDifferent trolls]]. Eridan even lampshades it at one point to get Feferi to [[PungeonMaster quit using fish puns]].
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Trogulus, an exchange student studying in England, is a scalled green fellow with webbed fingers, fins and a large mouth full of sharp teeth.

* Minnow from ''Webcomic/ValAndIsaac'', although she's amphibious and was actually raised on land.
* In ''Steeple'' (part of the FantasyKitchenSink Webcomic/{{Bobbinsverse}}), the Cornish village of Tredregyn is periodically troubled by "mermen" emerging from the sea. They may not be quite as evil as he assumes, but there's a reason why town's vicar is a grumpy, muscled BadassPreacher HunterOfMonsters.
* ''Webcomic/TheStrangeTalesOfOscarZahn'': Fishmen are revealed to be dwelling inside the [[MegaMaelstrom Charybdis]]. One makes its introduction by [[spoiler:decapitating Abraham]] before the rest of its kind begin swarming the Cassiopeia.

* ''WebVideo/TalesFromMyDDCampaign'' features the Kua-Toa, who thanks some major divine blessings have conquered the entire ocean and a good part of the land.
* In ''Roleplay/FreedomCityPlayByPost'', Aquaria Innsmouth is a Lovecraftian Deep One straight out of the ''Literature/CthulhuMythos'', albeit a considerably more cheerful one than the usual

* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Tide. Although his face looks more human than fish.
* ''LetsPlay/{{Mahu}}'': In "Frozen Flame", prince Arius battles bands of merfolk while exploring half-submerged temples and cities. Known as "Kappa", they have humanoid bodies and the heads of fish. Though they know how to wield weapons and fight together, they stand no chance against the disciplined veterans of the colonial army.
* ''Podcast/PretendingToBePeople'' has a race of fish men, who come in three forms.

* The sea monster from the ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' episode "The Sea Haunt". It is humanoid in shape and walks like a man, makes noises like a mammal (not a fish), and is clearly at least somewhat intelligent.
* Mer-Man and his fellow Aquaticans from the various ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' series.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'':
** Mona Lisa from the episode "[[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987S04E21RaphaelMeetsHisMatch Raphael Meets His Match]]" was originally a human -- specifically, a physics major in college. In short order, she was kidnapped by modern day {{pirate}}-cum-[[LegoGenetics genetic engineer]] Captain Filch, forced to help with his evil experiments, and mutated while escaping from his ship. The result was a fish/reptile [[MixAndMatchCritters Mix-and-Match Critter]] who was smart and strong enough to help the Turtles stop Filch -- and cute enough to become Raphael's GirlOfTheWeek. Her [[ShowAccuracyToyAccuracy action figure]] adds to the fishiness by giving her gills.
** Ray from the episode "Rebel Without a Fin" is a male example that is more fish-like, being a mutant manta ray, with abilities from other marine animals; in the same episode, April O'Neil is also turned into a mutant fish.
* Neptunia from ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' is another mutant fish person. She starts out as a WellIntentionedExtremist who wants {{revenge}} against the surface world for polluting her ocean home (yes, just like one of the ''[=DuckTales=]'' examples above), which caused her to mutate from an ordinary fish. However, she does a HeelFaceTurn and eventually joins Darkwing's SuperHero team the Justice Ducks -- even though, as she protests any time anybody mentions the name, she's ''not'' a duck.
* The ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS1E13TheAmbergrisElement The Ambergris Element]]" has Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock transformed into water breathers by the planet Argo's undersea inhabitants, the Aquans.
* The cast of ''WesternAnimation/MonsterForce'' included animated versions of several old school Franchise/UniversalHorror monsters, including the Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon. This is common in other MonsterMash cases including Gill in ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'', who is also presented as the stereotypical SurferDude, and Gill (yes, the same name) in the ''Mini-Monsters'' segment of ''WesternAnimation/TheComicStrip''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'', one of Ben Tennyson's [[VoluntaryShapeshifting alien forms]], Ripjaws, is a combination of this trope and [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Our Mermen Are Different]].

* The Plutarkians in ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' are a race of fish-like aliens.
* The absolutely pathetic Fish Guy from ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'', who is an {{Expy}} of Garth from ''Film/WaynesWorld''.
* Creator/{{Rankin Bass|Productions}}' ''[=TigerSharks=]'' (another segment of ''WesternAnimation/TheComicStrip'' are human heroes who can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transform]] into fish-like [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Human Hybrids]] to fight underwater criminals.
* ''WesternAnimation/Sealab2021'' gives us half-shark, half-Eric Estrada Sharko. Then there's Dolphin Boy, who looks perfectly human but speaks dolphin.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' episode "The Ugly Mermaid" features a race of water-breathing fish people who live in a domed city under the water.
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' we have the lobster-esque Decapodians (Zoidberg's race), as well as the residents of a submerged 31st Century UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, who evolved into Mermaids as a result of the Coca-Cola factory causing massive amounts of caffeine to end up in the water.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfAtlantis'' we have the Atlanteans.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS2E18SusanStrong Susan Strong]]", [[spoiler:after finding what he believed to be the last tribe of true human beings in the Land of Ooo, Finn discovered that they were merely fish people with hats, save for Susan herself]].
* Darwin, Gumball's brother from ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', is a fish that grew arms and legs [[{{Cephalothorax}} but still has a head connected to his body.]] At one point he was cursed to turn into a "reverse mermaid", but nothing happens because that's basically what he already was.

* Episode "The Satanic Saturnians" of ''The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure'' have the eponymous Saturnians as fish people.
* The eponymous creature from the ISART Digital short cartoon ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=invkDBAWCSg Creature from the Lake]]'' turns out to be a humanoid, spindly-limbed fish/frog monster. Fortunately, he turns out to be oddly vulnerable to {{Groin Attack}}s and whatever's in Shelby the camera-woman's inhaler.
* ''WesternAnimation/CleopatraInSpace'': Akila Theoris is a pink-haired, [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe blue-skinned]] alien fish girl with fairly large lips and fin- or gill-like structures on the sides of her face; her [[HasTwoMommies mothers]] have a similar appearance. Interestingly, neither Akila nor her moms seem to need water.
* Sammy Fishboy from ''WesternAnimation/WhatItsLikeBeingAlone'' is a mutant orphan who resembles the ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon''.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTHn2tHhcI He looks just like me!]]''

** In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' the mirelurks are crabs that have become huge and bipedal [[NuclearNasty due to radiation]], but the mirelurk kings are former snapping turtles that look exactly like the Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon. In ''Fallout 4'', their model is tweaked to be more reminiscent of mutated fish, including fins along their backs and arms and gills on their necks.

* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'': The ''Aquatics'' expansion lets you create these for your spacefaring alien race, with species that resemble anthropomorphized fish, {{shark|Man}}s, jellyfish, crabs, dolphins, and even coral available among the aquatic selections. The expansion also comes with a unique aquatic spaceship set, and lets you start your species on an [[AwesomeUnderwaterWorld ocean paradise world]] with bonuses to living on ocean worlds but stiff penalties for settling drier ones, along with the ability to {{terraform}} other planets by [[TheGreatFlood inundating them with water mined from ice asteroids]] (an ability that can, of course, be [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential weaponized]]). In the base game, some of the arthropoid species options also resemble squids and octopi.

* ''VideoGame/OceanhornMonsterOfUnchartedSeas'': This game has the Gillfolk, a race of humanoid fish people who live in the waters if the world. They have the Water Emblem, which the PlayerCharacter needs to collect on his quest.

* ''VideoGame/OceanhornMonsterOfUncharedSeas'': This game has the Gillfolk, a race of humanoid fish people who live in the waters if the world. They have the Water Emblem, which the PlayerCharacter needs to collect on his quest.

%%* Blue Minions in the ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'' series get very close to this at least.

* One legend pertaining to the legendary Merovingian Dynasty claims that they were descendants of Fish People. The writers of the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Blood_and_the_Holy_Grail The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail]]'', and ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'' decided to interpret this as that they were in fact the descendants of Jesus Christ, since early Christians used a stylized fish as their symbol, not to mention that the Greek word for fish, ''icthys'', formed a nice acronym of Jesus's name and titles. There isn't an ounce more evidence to prove this theory than there is to prove actual Fish People's involvement, though. It is based on a rather desperate interpretation. "Merovingian" means people of the sea, and so originally most likely referred to a people who lived on the coast, or settlers who came from overseas. The Merovingians were perfectly historical, and they're called that after an ancestor named Merovech. If Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} may be believed, his name has, despite the similarity to "mere", German ''Meer'', etc, nothing to do with the sea, but means "famed fight".

** Since his introduction in 1998, Lagoon Boy has appeared in various Creator/DCComics titles. He's a friendy {{Expy}} of the Creature from the Black Lagoon with a MysteriousPast, and his abilities include molding water into various shapes and turning into a giant puffer fish, complete with quills.

** ''VideoGame/SuikodenTactics'' uses a far more disturbing take, with fish people being practically mindless, feral monsters created by {{Baleful Polymorph}}ing.

* Kiro, from Marvel's ''Franchise/StarWars'' comics.

* Franchise/MarvelUniverse examples:
** Some of [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]]'s enemies are Fish People, like Tiger Shark (or whale people in Orca's case) and most of the people from {{Atlantis}} ''almost'' count as Fish People. However, Namor is a mutant, and his appearance is too human to qualify for this trope.
** His second wife Marrina was even closer.
** Triton WasOnceAMan, but during his infancy the Terrigen Mist transformed him into a green-skinned humanoid who can only survive underwater, requiring him to wear an artificial life support system on land. By the time he was introduced in ''ComicBook/FantasticFour1961'', he had become a member of ComicBook/TheInhumans' Royal Family.
* Atlanteans in ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' are a parody of this. Marvel and DC both have ApparentlyHumanMerfolk, or very close to it. ''Invincible's'' Atlanteans live like the Atlanteans of Namor and Aquaman - the ThemeParkVersion of a feudal society, SchizoTech, frequent problems with {{Kaiju}}, and a king who unaccountably spends a lot of time on land as a superhero - but they are ''definitely'' Fish People, not apparently human.

* The Waterlogged Warlock, one of the Elders of ''ComicBook/{{Abadazad}}''.
* Nessie from ''ComicBook/{{Boneyard}}''.
* Man Ray, a.k.a. Ray Fillet in the Creator/ArchieComics ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures''.
** [[http://turtlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Armaggon_%28Archie%29 Armaggon]] as well, a mutant humanoid shark.
** The Merpeople from the [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage Mirage comics]]. They also appear in the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 cartoon]].

* A more literal example is ''ComicBook/FishPolice''. The characters have fish-like faces, and mermaid-like bodies (humanlike upper half, fish tail for lower half) despite being fish through-and-through.
* Kiro, from Marvel's ''Franchise/StarWars'' comics.

* A Deep One appears in Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/{{Neonomicon}}'' mini-series, based on Lovecraft's lore (and, as is common with this trope, a woman is raped by it).
* ''Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities'' puts a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent twist on vampires]] by having them change into these. The Loch Ness Monster is actually an alternate form of the most powerful vampire, Dracula.
* One of ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'s best friends is Abraham Sapien, a heroic fish man of mysterious origin. Ultimately, it's revealed that he [[spoiler: WasOnceAMan]]. Abe eventually got his own SpinOff comic.

** Gill Girl, a RecurringCharacter from the 2003 ''ComicBook/TeenTitansGo'' comic, is something of a DistaffCounterpart to Triton. She's basically the Creature reimagined as a cute teenager ([[NotMakingUpThisDisclaimer yes, really]]); she grew up with Aqualad and had a crush on him, but is now dating a turtle named Nero.

* Triton from the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.

*** His second wife Marrina was even closer.
*** Atlanteans in ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' are a parody of this. Marvel and DC both have ApparentlyHumanMerfolk, or very close to it. ''Invincible's'' Atlanteans live like the Atlanteans of Namor and Aquaman - the ThemeParkVersion of a feudal society, SchizoTech, frequent problems with {{Kaiju}}, and a king who unaccountably spends a lot of time on land as a superhero - but they are ''definitely'' Fish People, not apparently human.
* Lagoon Boy from Franchise/TheDCU...
** ...and his probable DistaffCounterpart, Gill Girl from ''ComicBook/TeenTitansGo''

* Franchise/GreenLantern [=NautKeLoi=] is from an aquatic extraterrestrial species that breaths through gills and have fins on their heads.
* In ''ComicBook/SwampThing'', a new generation of vampires are hatched in a town submerged in stagnant water that have the form of fish people (though closer to fish). Charmingly, they eat each other until only one huge newborn remains.
* ''ComicBook/SuperboyAndTheRavers'': Hero's extraterrestrial aquatic boyfriend Leander is green with gills and webbed fingers.
* The Waterlogged Warlock from ''ComicBook/{{Abadazad}}''.

* The Creator/TangentComics version of the Sea Devils. There's at least six or seven different species, from shark people to shrimp people, and some racial strife between them.

* King Shark, former ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}} and then ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} villain, one-time member of the ComicBook/SecretSix, and in the ComicBook/{{New 52}}, a member of the ComicBook/SuicideSquad. But don't call him a fish person! He is a shark! [[InsistentTerminology A SHARK!]]

* In Creator/DCComics' ''ComicBook/LooneyTunes'' title, WesternAnimation/LolaBunny has a BurgerFool job with Machu Pizza, where she specializes in delivering food to aliens and monsters. One story has her delivering pizza to an UnderwaterCity populated by Fish People.

* ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'': [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] uses his godlike RealityWarper powers to turn Aquaman into an actual fish man supervillain who ironically enough hates the ocean and tries to keep everyone out of it.

* The Fishmen from ''Manga/OnePiece''. Their sister species are the Merfolk, traditional mermaids. The two species get along pretty well and can even interbreed, but the Fishmen tend to be more aggressive and angry towards humans while the Merfolk are light-hearted and naive. Also Fishmen are [[SuperStrength 10x stronger than humans from birth]] and both types can [[MakingASplash use water as a weapon]].

* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': The Chip Kamoy ("divine fishes" in Ainu idiom). They showed up in the Gosaku Ota manga, and they were a race of gigantic, bipedal, humanoid maneating fishes from another dimension who raised herds of humans as if they were cattle. Their bodies were scaly and covered with fins. However, they had depleted their homeworld's natural resources and were running out of food, so they crossed over to our dimension to find more prey.
* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' pokes fun at this trope -- the standard fishman in Lina's world is basically a giant fish with stick-thin limbs.

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' has a few of these. The most notable one is Hangyomon/Divermon, who despite being one of these, [[FridgeLogic needs a diving mask and scuba tank while underwater.]] Other examples include the amphibion-like Ranamon from ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', the squid-esque [=MarineDevimon=], the aptly named Orcamon and Coelamon, and whatever the hell [[http://dma.wtw-x.net/dexsurfi.shtml Surfimon]] is.

* The BigBad of ''Anime/BlueSubmarineNo6'', Dr. Zorndyke, floods the earth in an attempt to wipe out humanity and replace it with his own races of genetically engineered animals, the most numerous of which are the aquatic varieties. Not surprisingly, all of the females are {{Cute Monster Girl}}s, ''especially'' the mermaids.
* People with fish for heads (yes, that's right, ''fish for heads'') from another planet are shown in act 47, in the fifth ''Manga/SailorMoon'' arc. They can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixdkIOhwVE here at about 3:36.]]
* Zed O'Brien of ''Manga/BloodBlockadeBattlefront'' is a fishman very much in the Abe Sapien mold, with legs and human limbs but a fishlike face. Having gills, he breathes through the use of a water-containing apparatus that he wears around his neck.
* ''Anime/{{Pecola}}'': Golagola is one of these, appearing in two episodes. Being a children's anime, he is a kid-friendly version of this trope.

* The Merian race from ''VideoGame/{{Lusternia}}''. They are decidedly non-human in appearance, being scaled, hairless, blue and finned, but are a highly [[BlueSkinnedSpaceBabe attractive]], intelligent and noble race with a proud history of scientific accomplishment. Interbreeding with humans has resulted in a few crossbreeds, some even having hair - but however diluted the Merian genealogy, all "real" Merians can breathe underwater.

* The Inklings from ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' are anthropomorphic squids who can switch between human and squid forms at will. Various other aquatic species are represented by [=NPCs=], such as Spyke the sea urchin and Sheldon the horseshoe crab. ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' adds Octolings, octopus versions of Inklings, alongside literal fish people (at least outside of in-universe bands) in the form of the Salmonids, aggressive mutant salmon who are the main antagonists of [[MultiMookMelee Salmon Run]].