History Main / ThreateningShark

* ''Literature/SharkWars'', a book series by E. J. Altbacker, is about a shark named Gray and his fellow shark friends as they defend their home waters from their enemies. While plenty of the sharks are friendly and decent folk, almost all of them are formidable fighters. Gray himself is a [[spoiler: Megalodon]], making him uniquely threatening. There are various AnimalStereotypes about specific species of sharks; great whites are considered to be cruel and brutal, bull and tiger sharks are considered DumbMuscle, and makos are considered to be scheming and untrustworthy. The series also includes some characters from species who don't have the typcial shark body plan, like dogfish, saw sharks, and nurse sharks. Frilled sharks are straight up AlwaysChaoticEvil, but although they are in fact sharks, their body plan makes their role [[SlipperyAsAnEel more associated with another trope.]]

* ''Literature/SharkWars'', a book series by E. J. Altbacker is about a shark named Gray and his fellow shark friends as they defend their home waters from their enemies.

** In a 1976 episode, Scooby's skis get chewed up by a shark while he and Shaggy are water
skiing.

* WesternAnimation/BozoTheWorldsMostFamousClown relays a rather tall tale to Butchy Boy of how he and the circus boss landed the sgark mounted on the wall in "Hark, Hark, the Shark."

Ironically, sharks are nowhere near as dangerous as the stereotype makes them out to be. [[TruthInTelevision Hundreds of people have been attacked and killed over the last few centuries]]. That sounds like a lot, but compare it to the tens of thousands of fatalities to large felines, bears, crocodiles, and plenty of domestic animals and it becomes positively puny. Out of the over 400 known species of sharks, only 35 have been documented to attack humans, and even then only two (bull sharks and oceanic whitetip sharks) are consistently dangerous. Even the infamous Great White, a shark specially evolved to feed off mammals, generally ignores humans in all but freak incidents. The rate of shark attacks and deaths average out to about a couple of deaths a year globally, making them less dangerous than elephants, jellyfish, domestic animals like horses and dogs, and [[StaircaseTumble the common staircase]]. In fact, some sharks are surprisingly intelligent and social animals, rather than the mindless carnivores they're portrayed as, and they've taken on a diversity of habitats and body designs beyond the usual torpedo shape. And despite their reputation as the terror of the seas, [[AlwaysABiggerFish sharks aren't even the top predator]]. That distinction goes to orcas a.k.a. killer whales, who regularly hunt sharks to dine on their livers. However, because orcas, for the most part, are curious creatures that not only do not prey on humans but are actually intelligent enough to [[EnemyMine team up with them to take down whales]], they do not have the fearsome reputation of, say, the Great White.

Ironically, sharks are nowhere near as dangerous as the stereotype makes them out to be. [[TruthInTelevision Hundreds of people have been attacked and killed over the last few centuries]]. That sounds like a lot, but put it compared to the tens of thousands of fatalities to large felines, bears, crocodiles, and plenty of domestic animals and it becomes positively puny. Out of the over 400 known species of sharks, only 35 have been documented to attack humans, and even then only two (bull sharks and oceanic whitetip sharks) are consistently dangerous. Even the infamous Great White, a shark specially evolved to feed off mammals, generally ignores humans in all but freak incidents. The rate of shark attacks and deaths average out to about a couple of deaths a year globally, making them less dangerous than elephants, jellyfish, domestic animals like horses and dogs, and [[StaircaseTumble the common staircase]]. In fact, some sharks are surprisingly intelligent and social animals, rather than the mindless carnivores they're portrayed as, and they've taken on a diversity of habitats and body designs beyond the usual torpedo shape. And despite their reputation as the terror of the seas, [[AlwaysABiggerFish sharks aren't even the top predator]]. That distinction goes to orcas a.k.a. killer whales, who regularly hunt sharks to dine on their livers. However, because orcas, for the most part, are curious creatures that not only do not prey on humans but are actually intelligent enough to [[EnemyMine team up with them to take down whales]], they do not have the fearsome reputation of, say, the Great White.

* In ''Series/BluePeter'', Caron Keating dives with blue sharks off the coast of California. She is in a cage with an open front, and an experienced diver Terry bats the sharks away by punching them on the nose. She then finds that she has to swim out of the cage to return to the boat.
--> '''Caron:''' You'll tell me when I'm about to be eaten?
--> '''Terry:''' I'll give you a clue.