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Sharknado
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Disasters come in many forms — but none quite like this.A series of freak tornadoes hits the California coast, causing widespread destruction around Los Angeles.Nothing new, right?But when said tornadoes start throwing hundreds of sharks around the city, that's where things get interesting.Sharknado, directed by Anthony C. Ferrante, was a viral hit upon release on Syfy on July 11, 2013, with the film receiving over five million views spread over its first three showings on TV as well as attention from celebrities such as Wil Wheaton and Cory Monteith (it was the subject of the latter's final two tweets before his death◊).Syfy immediately contracted The Asylum to make a sequel, the title of which was chosen with a Twitter contest. (The winner? Sharknado 2: The Second One.) The sequel was released around a year after the original film, and further installments then became an annual event — each one being co-produced by The Asylum and Syfy Films, premiering on the Syfy channel, and roughly corresponding with the Discovery Channel's Shark Week — until the series concluded with its sixth installment in 2018. Though the original film was not explicitly a comedy, keeping at least a façade of seriousness despite its ridiculous plot, the sequels were more openly comedic in nature.Five sequels to Sharknado were ultimately produced: Sharknado 2: The Second One (July 30, 2014) Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (July 22, 2015) Sharknado: The 4th Awakens (July 31, 2016) Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (August 6, 2017) The Last Sharknado: It's About Time (August 19, 2018)Three Spin-Off films were also produced: Lavalantula (July 25, 2015) Sharknado: Heart of Sharkness (October 6, 2015) 2 Lava 2 Lantula! (August 6, 2016)On July 10, 2014, the original film received a much-needed skewering performed and simulcast live in theaters by the Rifftrax team. An Endless Running Game for iOS called Sharknado: The Video Game was released the same year.The film crossed over into Riverdale with the 2015 comic Archie vs. Sharknado, which takes place at the same time as Sharknado 3. | |
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Noisy Nature | |
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Noisy Nature: Some of the sharks make a strange, scratchy grunting sound. Only two of the more than 400 species of shark make any sort of vocalization, and the two that do make an audible "bark" (by burping!) are much too small to play the Threatening Shark in these films. | |
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More Predators Than Prey | |
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More Predators Than Prey: Thousands of sharks swept up by waterspouts, and not one harmless species in the lot. Even the plankton-eating whale shark from the second film kills somebody by landing on them. The high proportion of great whites is particularly egregious, considering there's really only a few thousand on the entire planet. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: George. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: A few sharks land in a swimming pool. The chlorine can't exactly be good for them. | |
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Villain Ball | |
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Villain Ball: The shark-fin fisherman and his client can think of nothing better to do, when their boat is being battered by flying sharks and storm debris and its crew is getting eaten alive, than shoot at each other. | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: Fin goes to rescue his (teenage/adult) children and is admonished by his ex-wife and her boyfriend for turning up when it's not his day. Of course, April forgives him for this when her boyfriend becomes shark food. | |
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MST3K Mantra | |
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MST3K Mantra: Invoked by the cast and crew in interviews. | |
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Two Shots from Behind the Bar | |
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Two Shots from Behind the Bar: Fin keeps a pistol and a shotgun behind his bar just in case. | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: The first half of the film builds up UST between Fin and Nova. This goes out the window when Matt and April are introduced with Nova's attention turned to Matt and Fin reconciles with April. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: The movie ends with the word "Fin" which is Spanish and French for "End", forming a pun. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: Baz remarks about how, of all the possible ways Los Angeles could've been devastated - earthquakes, riots, plagues, aliens - sharks were such a ridiculous option that they'd never crossed his mind. | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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Rule of Cool: Pretty much everything about these movies happens for this reason, especially when it comes to explosions, catastrophes, and sharks killing celebrities or being chainsawed spectacularly. | |
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Weird Weather | |
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Weird Weather: The films center around perhaps one of the most ridiculous examples of this trope, multiple tornadoes full of nothing but sharks, which are still alive and lethal even after many hours of being aloft. Notably, nothing else gets picked up by the tornadoes, including other sea life or other objects along their paths. Unless, of course, it's a piece of debris fated to squish a bit character or take a celebrity cameo's head off. The tie-in book How To Survive A Sharknado goes even farther, rating sharknadoes as merely one of dozens of kinds of monster-related weather phenomena or other natural catastrophes ... most of them from The Asylum's other B-movies. | |
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Every Car Is a Pinto | |
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Every Car Is a Pinto: Fin's car spontaneously explodes after developing a fuel leak. Partly helped by the ammunition he kept in there. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: The cast and crew outright admit that the premise is silly and impossible to take seriously...so they don't, intentionally making these flicks So Bad, It's Good. | |
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Worst News Judgment Ever | |
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Worst News Judgment Ever: Only three items are on the ticker under the incessant (well, almost) newscasts, one of them Fin's rescue of the school bus, another is four reported missing from a Santa Monica bar (presumably because Fin, Nova, Baz and George left Fin's bar without a word of explanation), and a third is the landslide in Beverly Hills that wrecked Colin's house. | |
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Give Me a Sword | |
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Give Me a Sword: April passes Fin his chainsaw by kicking a cart the chainsaw is on toward him, just in time for him to fend off a shark. | |
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Screaming Woman | |
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Screaming Woman: April started out as mostly this, but evolved into more of a Screaming Warrior as of the second film. Either way, Tara Reid's yelling is very distinctive. And distinctively grating. Which is the point, probably. | |
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Stock Footage | |
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Stock Footage: There are several shots where the sharks are brought to life from footage ripped right from a shark documentary. Including some shots that are hilariously inappropriate to what's actually going on on-screen, like the one where a shark that's supposed to have been flung into a swimming pool by the waterspout still has a couple of remora tagging along, not even adhering to it but just swimming alongside. Not to mention some where the angle of the shot suggests that the camera was underneath the street itself. It's also obvious by the cars, lettering on signs, etc that the montage of the gang driving through a "flooding LA" is cut with stock footage of monsoon-devastated Asian countries. Possibly justified in that there would be no stock footage of LA flooding available anyway. Many stock beach and city skyline shots are used, even though many of them lack storm clouds or surfable waves. | |
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The Ex's New Jerkass | |
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The Ex's New Jerkass: Fin Shepard's ex April has a new boyfriend named Collin whose first line of dialogue establishes him as a complete Jerkass with nothing but contempt for Ian. | |
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Credits Gag | |
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Credits Gag: Rather than stating "The End" the credits start with "Fin", which is French and Spanish for (The) End. This is both for the obvious association of fin and sharks. But "Fin" is also an old cliche for ending art films and other high culture fare. Most would probably agree that this film does not fall under that category. The pronunciation of fin in French is closer to "fan"; in Spanish the letter "i" always sounds like "ee" in "free", so it sounds like "feen". So they don't sound like the English word "fin", but that's hardly the biggest error the movie commits. | |
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Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud | |
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Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud: Apparently, it's perfectly safe even to enter the funnel cloud, provided you happen to be a Threatening Shark. | |
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Improvised Weapon | |
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Improvised Weapon: The heroes use quite a few, including a bar stool and an oxygen tank. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: After you have seen the next few movies, you'll note this one is much shorter on the celebrity cameos and deaths, and seems to take itself at least half-seriously. That's because this was expected to be a one-off concept, and ended up being a surprise hit. It's also the only one where the storm does significantly more damage than the sharks for most of the movie. | |
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Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help | |
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Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help: Fin takes the time to rescue a busload of schoolkids. Their teacher is the only one to die. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
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Crazy-Prepared: Fin keeps a pistol and a shotgun behind his bar as well as huge amounts of shotgun shells in his car. He also keeps rappelling gear in his vehicle, apparently just in case he needs to descend from an elevated highway onto a school bus stuck in shark-infested flood waters. | |
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Beta Couple | |
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Beta Couple: Nova and Matt, probably. | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
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Why Did It Have To Be Sharks?: Nova really hates sharks, due to a childhood incident. Being swallowed whole by one doesn't help. | |
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Chainsaw Good | |
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Chainsaw Good: Fin manages to use one to cut a shark in half as it falls on him. He also enters a shark's mouth chainsaw-first and cuts his way out not only being unharmed himself but with Nova as well, not even touched by said chainsaw. It's best not to think how this is possible. | |
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Bloody Hilarious | |
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Bloody Hilarious: Pretty much any time the sharks take out a human, and most times when it's the other way around. | |
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Portmantitle | |
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Threatening Shark | |
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Threatening Shark: And how. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Matt's friend Luellyn watches as a shark is flung by the tornado right towards their friend Bobby, and he shoves Bobby out of the way, getting fatally squashed himself. No one cares. His sacrifice didn't amount to much, though, as Bobby gets killed not long afterwards in a Jaws Shout-Out. And then a shark falls on his body. George dies saving a dog trapped in a car. And no one cares. | |
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Animals Lack Attributes | |
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Animals Lack Attributes: None of the sharks have claspers, even though half of them are presumably males. | |
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Made of Plasticine | |
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Made of Plasticine: The humans. Even the smaller sharks can easily take off limbs or heads with a single nip. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name: The hero of a film series about sharks is named Fin. And his father and young son are named Gil. | |
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Disney Death | |
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Disney Death: Nova is swallowed by a shark. She gets better. | |
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Excuse Plot | |
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Excuse Plot: What, exactly, was Fin's original intention when he found Matt and Claudia?note To take them further inland and to safety | |
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Flying Seafood Special | |
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Flying Seafood Special: The Movie | |
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Batter Up! | |
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Batter Up!: Baz carries a baseball bat around with him at all times. | |
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Gaia's Vengeance | |
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Gaia's Vengeance: Global warming is presented as the cause of the disaster. The fin fishermen's gratuitous slaughter of sharks might suggest this trope as well, except it's a dropped plot-thread that's never picked up again. | |
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Chairman of the Brawl | |
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Chairman of the Brawl: George grabs a bar stool when the characters venture out of Fin's bar. He soon uses it to club a shark. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Gee, I wonder what the movie is about? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Sharknado / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: None of the characters on the fishing boat appear again, or are referenced again, or are acknowledged in any way after the opening titles. Until the 6th movie. | |
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| Sharknado / int_8a07e085 | type |
Denser and Wackier | |
| Sharknado / int_8a07e085 | comment |
Denser and Wackier: The first film seemed to be set in a somewhat realistic world. The sequels establish that the franchise is not in a realistic world, as they get increasingly cartoonish and over the top. The plots of the sequels involve a shark god, a character being turned into a cyborg by her mad scientist father, sharks in space, and flaming, electrified, and nuclear sharknados. | |
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| Sharknado / int_8a295a46 | type |
Cool Car | |
| Sharknado / int_8a295a46 | comment |
Cool Car: The gang steal a heavily modified four wheel drive vehicle from a movie prop company when Fin's own car breaks down. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Sharknado / int_8f10ec79 | type |
Weather-Control Machine | |
| Sharknado / int_8f10ec79 | comment |
Weather-Control Machine: Less of a machine and more like using propane bombs to destroy a tornado. In-universe, the clerk in the convenience store believes that the whole thing is happening because the government has one of these. | |
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Sharknado / int_8f10ec79 | |
| Sharknado / int_95864e13 | type |
B-Movie | |
| Sharknado / int_95864e13 | comment |
B-Movie: Unashamedly so. | |
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| Sharknado / int_96ecc67e | type |
Shotguns Are Just Better | |
| Sharknado / int_96ecc67e | comment |
Shotguns Are Just Better: Nova's weapon for the duration of the film. It's probably the most effective thing against the sharks. | |
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| Sharknado / int_9b6e33f3 | type |
Death by Cameo | |
| Sharknado / int_9b6e33f3 | comment |
Death by Cameo: A lot of celebrities have jumped on the franchise bandwagon by lining up to become shark chow. | |
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Kill It with Fire | |
| Sharknado / int_9c1f758a | comment |
Kill It with Fire: Fin's solution to the sharks landing in the pool of the retirement home is to douse it in kerosene and light it up. | |
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| Sharknado / int_9d17b859 | type |
Made of Iron | |
| Sharknado / int_9d17b859 | comment |
Made of Iron: The sharks. For example: one is thrown onto the sidewalk in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater. It bounces hard enough to break a large divot out of the pavement, then goes on its way, gnashing and wriggling, apparently unharmed. | |
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| Sharknado / int_a5e0c01 | type |
As Himself | |
| Sharknado / int_a5e0c01 | comment |
As Himself: Al Roker of the Today show appears in this capacity in every film except the first. | |
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Scars are Forever | |
| Sharknado / int_ad94c7a0 | comment |
Scars are Forever: Nova has scarring from a prior shark attack of which she was the Sole Survivor. | |
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| Sharknado / int_ad982e04 | type |
Super-Persistent Predator | |
| Sharknado / int_ad982e04 | comment |
Super-Persistent Predator: Even self-preservation doesn't seem to be enough to stop these killing machines from trying to devour every human in sight. Even when thrown from the ocean, dropped from hundreds of feet, set on fire or in space, they can think of nothing but attacking humans. | |
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| Sharknado / int_af2547c9 | type |
Informed Flaw | |
| Sharknado / int_af2547c9 | comment |
Informed Flaw: Everyone talks about how Fin was a bad father who didn't care about his family, but his clear Papa Wolf and Chronic Hero Syndrome tendencies combined with April and Claudia's constant It's All About Me attitude causes this to ring hollow. | |
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| Sharknado / int_b032e4ed | type |
Ms. Fanservice | |
| Sharknado / int_b032e4ed | comment |
Ms. Fanservice: Nova. She's introduced wearing a bikini and is only slightly more modestly dressed throughout the rest of the film. Later films have her clad in tight leather. | |
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| Sharknado / int_b901ef97 | type |
Forgotten Fallen Friend | |
| Sharknado / int_b901ef97 | comment |
George dies saving a dog trapped in a car. And no one cares. | |
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| Sharknado / int_bcd27e37 | type |
Improbable Aiming Skills | |
| Sharknado / int_bcd27e37 | comment |
Improbable Aiming Skills: Fin takes out several falling sharks that are falling from several hundred feet with a pistol. | |
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| Sharknado / int_c1b2c63f | type |
Dull Surprise | |
| Sharknado / int_c1b2c63f | comment |
Dull Surprise: April. | |
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| Sharknado / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Sharknado / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Nova states that "We're gonna need a bigger chopper," Fin and Baz take out a shark by tossing a propane cylinder in its mouth and shooting it early in the shark attack on the pier, and Bobby dies the same way as Quint does minus a machete to stab the shark with. Her recounting of her childhood shark encounter ends just like Quint's account of the Indianapolis's sinking, too. That scene also resembles the "how I learned there's no Santa" scene from Gremlins. | |
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| Sharknado / int_c7b319ff | type |
Rain of Something Unusual | |
| Sharknado / int_c7b319ff | comment |
Rain of Something Unusual: This is the main subject of the films. A freak storm causes it to rain live sharks (and, oddly enough, no other kind of fish). The second movie sets some of its flying sharks on fire to ramp up the weirdness, and the fourth adds variants with other things (oil, hail, radiation, boulders, cows). | |
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| Sharknado / int_ce104b8e | type |
Serial Escalation | |
| Sharknado / int_ce104b8e | comment |
Serial Escalation: The more movies get made, the more over-the-top and nonsensical they get. | |
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Action Girl | |
| Sharknado / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Nova is not afraid to use a shotgun when needed. | |
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| Sharknado / int_dbb414ed | type |
Hand Wave | |
| Sharknado / int_dbb414ed | comment |
Hurricanes just plain cannot hit Los Angeles, unless they're assuming the planet decided to try rotating the other way for a change. This one is Hand Waved down to global warming. Well, Film Theory says otherwise, and one did hit…in 1858, but all the circumstances required for a "sharknado" to happen all at once is admittedly infinitesimally low. | |
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| Sharknado / int_dddbdc26 | type |
Monumental Damage | |
| Sharknado / int_dddbdc26 | comment |
Monumental Damage: The Santa Monica Pier is, of course, the first thing destroyed. Later, the bus driver is smashed by the HOLLYWOOD sign. A falling shark cracks the pavement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater. | |
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| Sharknado / int_e652089c | type |
Artistic License – Ships | |
| Sharknado / int_e652089c | comment |
Artistic License – Ships: The trawler in the opening scene changes between a trawler and a yacht constantly. | |
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| Sharknado / int_e68b72 | type |
The Load | |
| Sharknado / int_e68b72 | comment |
The Load: Even Matt's background friends who get killed off during the climax were more useful than Claudia ever was during the whole movie. April, too, had virtually nothing to contribute to the group, apart from whining, for the entire film. | |
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| Sharknado / int_e906fcc0 | type |
1-Dimensional Thinking | |
| Sharknado / int_e906fcc0 | comment |
1-Dimensional Thinking: No one being chased by the rolling dismounted Ferris wheel thinks to run sideways. | |
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| Sharknado / int_e9f517e1 | type |
Artistic License – Geography | |
| Sharknado / int_e9f517e1 | comment |
Artistic License – Geography: The German dub of a radio transmission early in the movie mentions that the Sharknado will desert "the entire state of Los Angeles". | |
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| Sharknado / int_eb8ec7c8 | type |
Jerkass | |
| Sharknado / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: April's new boyfriend. He doesn't last long. | |
| Sharknado / int_eb8ec7c8 | featureApplicability |
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| Sharknado / int_eea96e78 | type |
Swallowed Whole | |
| Sharknado / int_eea96e78 | comment |
A human Swallowed Whole by a shark has no business not suffocating within two or three minutes, yet characters who are cut out of shark carcasses invariably bounce back after much longer delays. | |
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| Sharknado / int_f1029720 | type |
Rising Water, Rising Tension | |
| Sharknado / int_f1029720 | comment |
Rising Water, Rising Tension: The first two films and the fourth all feature streets flooded by the sharknado disasters, making it all too easy for sharks to attack people even after they land. Also, making it all too easy for Stock Footage of actual floods to be passed off as part of the story. | |
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| Sharknado / int_f9f2c33 | type |
Running Gag | |
| Sharknado / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: Something big and round can be counted on to get torn loose by the storms and sent rolling through the streets, smashing stuff. As of film #5, it's been done with two ferris wheels, the Statue of Liberty's head, a gigantic ball of twine, and a giant metal globe with most of the Shepherds inside it. | |
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| Sharknado / int_faa71569 | type |
Romantic False Lead | |
| Sharknado / int_faa71569 | comment |
Romantic False Lead: Nova. The movie focuses more on her than April, making one wonder why he would get back with his ex-wife. | |
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| Sharknado / int_fc225bec | type |
Artistic License – Physics | |
| Sharknado / int_fc225bec | comment |
Artistic License – Physics: Apparently, throwing home made bombs is sufficient to destroy a tornado by "neutralizing the air temperatures." It is totally possible to fly a helicopter to within throwing distance of a funnel cloud, without experiencing turbulence or even a particularly strong breeze. This one is especially noticeable because they had explicitly stated earlier in the movie that they wouldn't be able to fly away in such weather. Hurricanes just plain cannot hit Los Angeles, unless they're assuming the planet decided to try rotating the other way for a change. This one is Hand Waved down to global warming. Well, Film Theory says otherwise, and one did hit…in 1858, but all the circumstances required for a "sharknado" to happen all at once is admittedly infinitesimally low. When your boat gets sucked into a tornado with you still standing on it, you won't fall down or even have trouble standing. | |
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