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The Meg

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The Meg	comment	The Meg is a 2018 Science Fiction Action Kaiju film directed by Jon Turteltaub and written by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, James Vanderbilt, and Erich Hoeber. It is based on the killer shark genre novel Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten, and stars Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao, and Cliff Curtis.The story follows a group of scientists who accidentally help a 75-foot Megalodon shark to ascend from the Mariana Trench to more shallow waters and then must stop it before it does colossal damage in the oceans or beaches.It was released on August 10, 2018. A sequel titled Meg 2: The Trench, which is based on the second book in the series, was released on August 4, 2023.
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The Meg / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
The Meg / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Jonas spends his days getting hammered in various Thai bars after leaving the rescue business. It takes Mac and Zhang informing him his ex-wife Lori is possibly in danger from the same thing he encountered to convince him to go back.
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The Meg / int_118bba4	type	NonindicativeTitle
The Meg / int_118bba4	comment	Non-Indicative Title: The title's use of "The" suggests that the protagonists confront a single Megalodon; in fact, they kill one of them halfway through the film, which is then eaten by a second, bigger shark.
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The Meg / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
The Meg / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: How the megalodon bites it at the end — first it's eviscerated by a submarine ramming into it, then it has an harpoon plunged into one of its eyes. Then, as it bleeds to death, it's eaten alive by hundreds of smaller sharks.
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The Meg / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Meg / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: After Jonas gets into the mini-sub to rescue the trapped crew in the depths again, he stops dead in the water and stare at the darkness beneath him, clearly terrified by the thought of what happened the last time he did this. Thankfully, it only lasts for a while, and he doesn't let it trouble him during the mission. DJ freaks out after the second meg sinks their ship and kills the Wall. A particularly sad example, as he points out all the people the shark has killed were his friends. Not only that, but it was his prank that caused the Wall to fall into the water in the first place.
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The Meg / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The Meg / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The final frames of the teaser shows a small canoe about to be Swallowed Whole by an absolutely gigantic meg coming up from below. The megs themselves are nowhere as large in the film proper, and at no point are any of the motorboats driven by the crew at immediate risk of being chomped. Hell, the megasharks don't even breach surface like the trailer implies.
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The Meg / int_1b2b1d2c	type	Violation of Common Sense
The Meg / int_1b2b1d2c	comment	Violation of Common Sense: In order to put a tracker on the Meg, Jonas has to swim straight toward it to get close enough, armed with nothing but the tracker harpoon gun and no protection gear at all. Even Jonas himself thinks the idea is insane, but someone has to do it because the ship can't get close enough without scaring the Meg away or worse, aggravating it into attacking.
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The Meg / int_1b4ead2d	type	Soft Glass
The Meg / int_1b4ead2d	comment	Soft Glass: Averted. The Mana One's underwater glass is so thick that not even the megalodon's bite can penetrate it (although it leaves a pretty nasty bite mark). The same applies to Jaxx's special glass shark cage, which is durable enough to withstand several of the megalodon's bites. The meg tries to get around this by swallowing the cage whole.
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The Meg / int_1c9537cd	type	The Main Characters Do Everything
The Meg / int_1c9537cd	comment	The Main Characters Do Everything: Justified: Morris' failure to inform the authorities means that by the time the shark reaches the beaches of China the crew are the only ones in a position to do anything about it. Further, Mac mentions that even though he did try to warn people nobody believed talk of a giant prehistoric shark, meaning that even if Morris had informed the authorities it likely would have made no difference.
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The Meg / int_1ce428b5	type	Cold Equation
The Meg / int_1ce428b5	comment	Cold Equation: Jonas' career as a deep sea rescue specialist was spoiled by one when he was forced to decide between going back into a sunken nuclear submarine to save his best friends (which would've risked the lives of everyone down there), or return to the surface with the eleven people they had already rescued by then. He chose the latter, something he has never forgiven himself for even years later.
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The Meg / int_1e5df5	type	Heh Heh, You Said "X"
The Meg / int_1e5df5	comment	Heh Heh, You Said "X": When the first submarine with Lori at the helm reaches the thermocline, Toshi and the Wall laugh their asses off about the prospect of "penetrating" the icy layer below them. Lori calls them out on their immature behavior, but is clearly amused herself and proceeds to run with it in her next radio call to Mana One.
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The Meg / int_20e6a6e7	type	It Only Works Once
The Meg / int_20e6a6e7	comment	It Only Works Once: The plan to kill the first megalodon with poison works, but isn't repeated with the second one since the research boat is capsized and all its supplies go down with it. Justified, as it is far larger and stronger than the first, so even if they had the means to repeat their plan, there's no guarantee it would have worked when the far smaller one damn near ate the shark cage that allowed them to pull it off.
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The Meg / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
The Meg / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Suyin is caught off-guard several times by gigantic creatures despite being surrounded by transparent material. The dark depths of the ocean explain some of this, but the point remains. None of the crew seem to realise the tracker on the larger meg has been dislodged despite the sheer unlikeliness of a shark that size staying still for any length of time, allowing it to ambush Jonas and Suyin after it's attracted to the faked whalesong. It takes several minutes for a beach filled with hundreds of swimmers and boaters to notice a seventy-foot shark swimming only a few metres below them in the clear water.
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The Meg / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Meg / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In the scene where Morris is given a tour of the underwater observatory by Minway and Suyin, he sees a group of humpback whales swimming just outside the windows and comments that it's as if they're there on cue. Suyin then admits that she uses a whale signal to lure them here in order to impress Morris. Later in the film, Suyin uses the same whale signal to lure the second Megalodon away from the crowded beach, as Megalodons eat humpback whales, so that they can take it down without worrying about casualties. Several times in the film, it's shown that sharks, the meg included, opportunistically go for easy meals, such as buckets of chum or a wounded whale. Jonas uses his glider to gut the meg's belly, making it look like a very big, wounded meal to a lot of smaller, hungry sharks.
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The Meg / int_23568a2a	type	Adaptational Job Change
The Meg / int_23568a2a	comment	Adaptational Job Change: Jonas was a DSV pilot for the navy in the original book whereas in this one he was a rescue diver (though the film's Jonas retains the original's status as an Ace Pilot of submersibles). This is used to concisely explain why he in particular is chosen for the rescue mission despite being considered insane: he's the only man to ever perform a rescue that deep and survive. This also applies to Jonas' occupation following his initial encounter with a megalodon. In the book, Jonas became a palaeontologist and marine biologist after his first contact, whereas in the film, he spends his time until the modern-day portions of the story running a boat-hire business and getting drunk in Thailand. This is partly due to the fact that, unlike the book, Jonas never actually sees a megalodon in his final diving mission in the prologue, due to being in the interior of a nuclear sub rather than a smaller submersible. He knows something from the outside attacked the sub, but unlike his book counterpart, doesn't have any idea what until he enters the thermocline later and thus doesn't obsess over trying to study and understand the creatures.
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The Meg / int_23f80ecd	type	Devoured by the Horde
The Meg / int_23f80ecd	comment	Devoured by the Horde: The second meg meets its end when Jonas makes it bleed heavily and it's swarmed upon by other, lesser sharks lured by its blood.
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The Meg / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Meg / int_259d5879	comment	The film follows a few basic plot elements of the novel, mostly in the opening setup, but largely diverges greatly from it afterwards (the second half in particular has almost nothing in common with the novel outside of a basic "megalodon hunting" story-line). Of specific note, the infamous Tyrannosaurus vs megalodon scenario, attempts to capture the Meg alive, and the novel's Sequel Hook are completely absent, and how it's finally killed is also completely different.
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The Meg / int_25efd080	type	Artistic License â€“ Marine Biology
The Meg / int_25efd080	comment	Artistic License â€“ Marine Biology: In general, depressurization is not kind to deep sea animals that reach the surface. Compare it to the Blobfish, which lives at depths between 600 and 1,200m, while the Meg dwells at 11,000m deep. The megashark should have turned into mush the second it breached the surface. In relation to the above, the vast majority of sharks and their relatives don't live in the deepest part of the ocean, with the exception of certain species such as chimaeras (a closely related family of fish to the sharks, one that diverged almost 400 million years ago) and sleeper sharks such as the Greenland shark, whose extremely long lives (Greenland sharks are believed to be among the most long-lived of all vertebrates, with some having lived to at least 400 years old!) and slow metabolism allow them to thrive by scavenging in the depths. Scientists are not entirely sure why (it may have something to do with their physiology), but sharks and their relatives appear to have a depth limit compared to bony fish and invertebrates. Which means it'd be impossible for not just a Megalodon but ANY shark to live in the depths portrayed in the film. Again in relation to the above, given what we know about the Megalodon, it's thought that the species lived primarily in the pelagic zone of the oceans (the uppermost layer, also known as the photic zone for the fact that sunlight can fully illuminate it), hunting other large pelagic oceangoing organisms (namely sea mammals and larger fish) like many other predatory sharks today. Not only would it not survive travelling to such great depths, but even if it could, it most likely wouldn't travel to or live in an area devoid of its usual prey. Owing to the general lack of sunlight at deeper sea levels, the Meg should realistically not be able to see at all as it surfaces, since the greater volume of light up there is much more overwhelming than what it's been accustomed to for millions of years. This is unusual because the book gets this right and has the important reoccurring plot-point that the Megalodon only surfaces at night because the sunlight hurts its eyes. The very idea that an apex predator like the Megalodon could thrive in the cold and nutrient-poor deep sea is questionable at best. Prehistoric Megalodon lived along warmer coastal areas, where they preyed upon whales and other high-fat, nutrient-rich mammals, which are conspicuously absent in the lower layers of the ocean for good reasons. A big deal is made of the hidden depths beneath the thermocline, but when the human subs breach the hydrogen sulfide layer, the actual ocean floor seems to be barely 100 meters below it. While there could be deeper reaches elsewhere, nothing of the sort is ever mentioned and the characters treat the area they visit as exemplary for the biome as a whole. If this really were the case, it's highly unlikely that oversized creatures like the Meg, the giant squid and gods-know-what-else-lives-there could've survived in such a comparatively tiny space for millions of years. Hell, an adult Meg would have trouble swimming up and down to any extent worth mentioning without hitting the (supposedly) lethal thermocline or the ocean floor in the process, and seeing how sharks usually charge their prey from below, well... Giant squids are deep sea squid but not nearly as deep as depicted in the movie. Their habits are admittedly little known, but what is known suggests that at least normally they do not live at depths much greater than 1,000 meters. Once attacked by the meg, the giant squid bleeds copious amounts of purple blood into the water. Although one group of marine worms does have blood that color, mollusk blood is blue.
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The Meg / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Meg / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Kronosaurus gets a quick cameo while our heroes are looking up details on the megalodon. Kronosaurs would first appear in the second book (the revised edition of the first novel also includes one in the prologue). When Meiying encounters a megalodon for the first time, she's wearing an angel outfit. In the books the main megalodon featured in most of the sequels is named Angel. Despite being promoted to Disc-One Final Boss, the first megalodon still dies caught in cables and is then eaten by the second, much larger female, as in the novel. The opening of the film features Jonas attempting to rescue the crew of a sunken nuclear submarine, assumedly sunk by the megalodon itself, which Heller served on. Presumably, this is a nod to the first novel, where the Navy attempted to kill the megalodon by hunting it via submarine. Didn't work out so great there either. For bonus points, Heller's brother was a crew member of the sub in the novel.
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The Meg / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Meg / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: DJ asks what's wrong with Jaxx's usually spiky and blue anime-style hair. Meiying says that DJ's inability to swim is rather stereotypical.
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The Meg / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
The Meg / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Mac is pretty encouraging towards Taylor and Suyin getting together. By the end, Meiying and even Lori approve too, which is surprising considering the latter's relationship with Jonas.
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The Meg / int_354f7d1c	type	TheresNoKillLikeOverkill
The Meg / int_354f7d1c	comment	There's No Kill like Overkill: Jonas slices open the meg's body with his sub, then stabs it through the eye, presumably destroying its brain in the process, before leaving the doomed giant to be devoured in a feeding frenzy of large sharks.
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The Meg / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
The Meg / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Ruby Rose's American accent is, uh, not flawless.
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The Meg / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
The Meg / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: As they're trapped in the submersible at the bottom of the trench, Toshi writes a letter to his wife "just in case". Guess who's the first one to get killed?
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The Meg / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Meg / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: This isn't the first time Jason Statham rescued an Asian woman.
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The Meg / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
The Meg / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: The crew's initial solution to kill the Megalodon is... to shoot poison darts at it. The tricky part is to get close enough and shoot it in the place where the poison would be most effective. After several close calls, the poison that Suyin shoots into the Meg's mouth works wonderfully, killing the shark just before it can eat Suyin and Jonas. Too bad there's another Meg, and unforeseen circumstances force the crew to kill it the old-fashioned way...
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The Meg / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
The Meg / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: When Morris and his mercenaries attempt to kill the second Meg on their own, Morris wisely stops his boat no less than a mile away from the Meg's location and orders the helicopter to drop what's essentially a depth charge on it, again and again, to make sure it's really dead. The bombing only stops after the helicopter pilot — splashed with the creature's blood — tells him there's no way that it's still alive after all that. Only then does Morris move the boat in. When it turns out that the body isn't the Meg, but a whale, Morris immediately orders his crew to get the hell out of Dodge now. If he hadn't fallen off the boat by accident, he might've made it out alive. Of course, the fact that he tries to kill the Meg on his own, at night, and personally stays on a small boat instead of the helicopter he's on beforehand is just asking to be eaten anyway.
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The Meg / int_3d5547b0	type	Perfect Poison
The Meg / int_3d5547b0	comment	Perfect Poison: Subverted: despite intentionally overshooting the amount necessary to kill it just to be sure, it takes several minutes for the poison harpoon to kill the first megalodon, during which it's still extremely dangerous and would've killed both Jonas and Suyin if the rest of the crew hadn't tied it up in cables to restrain it.
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The Meg / int_3d63f495	type	No Mere Windmill
The Meg / int_3d63f495	comment	Heller gives Jonas no end of accusations of killing the men on his sub he couldn't save and repeatedly calls him crazy despite the fact that he saved his life and those of several friends and colleagues. Jonas remains fairly bitter about it and gladly rubs the fact that the sea monster he attributed to cracking under pressure was real after all in his face. He does admit he was wrong and apologizes for it, but Jonas is still slow to forgive him, telling him they'll call it even if he can save Lori.
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The Meg / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Meg / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Heller's dislike of Jonas in the earlier part of the film parallels the novel — unsurprisingly given he thinks Jonas caused the deaths of his friends and the outlandishness of his story. Unlike the book's Heller however, who remains hostile to Jonas throughout, the film's version apologises outright to Jonas once the truth of the matter becomes apparent, becomes a vital member of the team hunting the Meg and performs a Heroic Sacrifice to save Jaxx, attracting the Meg to eat him so she has time to reach safety. As in the original novel, one of the characters is Jonas' ex-wife — but unlike the book's publicity-hungry Jerkass Maggie, Lori is both friendly towards Jonas and immediately volunteers to help take out the Meg when it becomes apparent the crew are going to have to do it themselves.
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The Meg / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
The Meg / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: Heller gives Jonas no end of accusations of killing the men on his sub he couldn't save and repeatedly calls him crazy despite the fact that he saved his life and those of several friends and colleagues. Jonas remains fairly bitter about it and gladly rubs the fact that the sea monster he attributed to cracking under pressure was real after all in his face. He does admit he was wrong and apologizes for it, but Jonas is still slow to forgive him, telling him they'll call it even if he can save Lori. Jaxx bitterly suggests throwing Morris out of the boat just a scene after he saves her life. Moments later, when a helicopter with a machine gunner Morris has contacted to drive away the chasing Meg shows up, she complains about what use that would be against such a big shark. Morris quite reasonably points out it was the best he could do on such short notice and that it actually does drive the Meg away. That said, she does thank him for it in the moment.
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The Meg / int_41d5f145	type	Fluffy the Terrible
The Meg / int_41d5f145	comment	Fluffy the Terrible: "Megalodon" sure sounds a hell of a lot more menacing and impressive than just "meg".
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The Meg / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
The Meg / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: After Jonas wounds the Meg, every large shark in the vicinity comes running, attracted by the blood, all eager to make a meal out of their much larger prehistoric cousin.
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The Meg / int_43c77dd9	type	Hellish Copter
The Meg / int_43c77dd9	comment	Hellish Copter: Surprisingly averted with the Coast Guard helicopter and Morris' meg hunting team, but played straight at the end when several Chinese news copters smash into each other by accident and then crash and explode on the deck of the evacuation ship thus forcing most of the cast into the water.
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The Meg / int_446c5792	type	Villainous Rescue
The Meg / int_446c5792	comment	Villainous Rescue: A megalodon eats the giant squid that was about to destroy Suyin's submersible, although it later comes back and tries to kill them.
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The Meg / int_4782e60f	type	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
The Meg / int_4782e60f	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Morris starts off as greedy and conceited (and sees the discovery of a living megalodon as something to be exploited) but seems to soften throughout the movie, saving Jaxx' life during the first surface encounter with the Meg and calling in a Gunship Rescue to drive off the meg pursuing them. Upon returning to the Mana One, he calls in an evac ship and tells everyone that he informed the Chinese military. Then it turns out he hadn't informed the authorities of the shark's existence as he'd claimed to, and is concerned with killing it solely to cover up its existence to ward off potential lawsuits.
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The Meg / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
The Meg / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: The Meg lived confined to the deep trench with other creatures, but, unfortunately, Taylor's rescue mission created a path to the surface it promptly followed.
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The Meg / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Meg / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Dr. Minway Zhang roughly plays the role of Tanaka from the book (Mac sharing the role), but dies while his daughter lives. In the novel the film is based on Tanaka was also badly injured by a Meg attack but survived the events of the first book, living until another encounter with the sharks in the third novel.
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The Meg / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Meg / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The lost world below the thermocline is gorgeous, full of fields of marine life and the spires of black smokers. It's probably not too far removed from what the deepest depths of the ocean can really look like, but it's much brighter lit and therefore much easier to behold in all its alien splendor. Not even the Meg wreaking havoc on the humans down there changes much about that.
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The Meg / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Meg / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: A few moments here and there, most notably the scene where Heller dies. It cuts away right as the meg is about to chomp.
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The Meg / int_4c4bebf4	type	Artistic License â€“ Paleontology
The Meg / int_4c4bebf4	comment	Artistic License â€“ Paleontology: The Megalodon in the movie is 75 feet (23 m) long, and the species as a whole is given a size range of 70-90 feet (21-27 m). Real Life Megalodons were about 50-60 feet (15-18 m) long, which looks to be about right for the smaller Megalodon. During an Info Dump, Suyin mentions that the Megalodon had no known predators. In fact, it's considered likely that they faced serious competition from the similarly-sized macroraptorial sperm whale Livyathan.
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The Meg / int_50ae8e55	type	Little Miss Snarker
The Meg / int_50ae8e55	comment	Little Miss Snarker: Suyin's daughter Meiying provides a few moments of levity with her constant wisecracks. For instance, when first meeting Taylor, she starts off by calling him "crazy guy", and when asked where her Disappeared Dad is, she replies that he's "in Taipei with a pilates instructor".
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The Meg / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
The Meg / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: His flashback introduction notwithstanding, the audience's first real encounter with Jonas is him getting hammered somewhere in Thailand to forget about the Sadistic Choice he had to make in said flashback scene. It seems he's been at it for years by the time he gets roped into the film's story proper, although it doesn't appear to have had any negative effects on him whatsoever.
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The Meg / int_527b0932	type	Annoyingly Repetitive Child
The Meg / int_527b0932	comment	Annoyingly Repetitive Child: A small child on the beach at Sanya Bay wants to go swimming, but his mother refuses. He asks if he can go over and over until his annoyed mom finally caves and lets him go in the water. Unfortunately, there's a giant shark lurking offshore. Fortunately, the kid is fine.
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The Meg / int_53aab01d	type	Prehistoric Monster
The Meg / int_53aab01d	comment	Prehistoric Monster: The whole premise of the film is that surviving specimens of megalodon — giant prehistoric sharks — are still around and ready to play merry hell with the world's oceans.
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The Meg / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
The Meg / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Suyin's daughter Meiying, a bratty fat kid at the Chinese beach, and Pippin the dog survive. Averted with the humpback whale calf who got torn apart onscreen by the Megalodon, who's implied to have eaten the calf's mother earlier.
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The Meg / int_55473bc9	type	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable
The Meg / int_55473bc9	comment	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Downplayed; Heller does chest compressions while Jonas gives her mouth-to-mouth; cut to her waking up later on, so we're not shown what else was done to revive her.
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The Meg / int_5c0902e7	type	Boyish Short Hair
The Meg / int_5c0902e7	comment	Boyish Short Hair: Jaxx's spiky hair is very short, indicating her tomboyish, rebellious nature.
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The Meg / int_5c47ec4	type	Eldritch Ocean Abyss
The Meg / int_5c47ec4	comment	Eldritch Ocean Abyss: Scientists accidentally release a megalodon shark from the Marianas Trench. According to the original novel, megalodons are explained to have evolved into an abyssal species, but are no less horrifying or threatening for it.
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The Meg / int_5d6f4033	type	Agonizing Stomach Wound
The Meg / int_5d6f4033	comment	Agonizing Stomach Wound: Lori gets stabbed with a screwdriver while in the sub. While she survives and it explicitly missed her vital organs, she's still hospitalized for much of the movie due to blood loss.
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The Meg / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
The Meg / int_5deb34da	comment	Jonas was a DSV pilot for the navy in the original book whereas in this one he was a rescue diver (though the film's Jonas retains the original's status as an Ace Pilot of submersibles). This is used to concisely explain why he in particular is chosen for the rescue mission despite being considered insane: he's the only man to ever perform a rescue that deep and survive.
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The Meg / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
The Meg / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The film follows a few basic plot elements of the novel, mostly in the opening setup, but largely diverges greatly from it afterwards (the second half in particular has almost nothing in common with the novel outside of a basic "megalodon hunting" story-line). Of specific note, the infamous Tyrannosaurus vs megalodon scenario, attempts to capture the Meg alive, and the novel's Sequel Hook are completely absent, and how it's finally killed is also completely different. Steve Alten himself explained this was the case with the Meg's color changing: an albino shark just didn't look that good or convincing in CGI so they changed it to brown.
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The Meg / int_61356a74	type	Almost Dead Guy
The Meg / int_61356a74	comment	Almost Dead Guy: Suyin runs out of air during the fight with the Megalodon and loses consciousness, then remains underwater for several moments until she can be given medical attention. She actually dies and has to be resuscitated as a result.
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The Meg / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Meg / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Watch closely when the nuclear sub explodes in the prologue and the megalodon that attacked it can be seen getting engulfed in the explosion long before the creatures are seen in full later on.
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The Meg / int_63cad64b	type	Threatening Shark
The Meg / int_63cad64b	comment	Threatening Shark: Take a wild guess. Subverted with the various "normal-sized" sharks that appear at the end to devour the dying megalodon.
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The Meg / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Meg / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Toshi, knowing that they don't have enough time to get away before the shark returns, closes the hatch and separates the rescue sub, before turning on the lights to draw the meg towards him. Heller later saves Jaxx by splashing his arms in the water and drawing the meg towards him, distracting it and giving her time to swim to the ship.
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The Meg / int_6790a1e1	type	Sphere Factor
The Meg / int_6790a1e1	comment	Sphere Factor: During the attack at the Sanya Bay beach one of the beachgoers is using a Zorb ball and tries fleeing in it, over the top of others trying to swim for safety. This only attracts the attention of the megalodon which is big enough to wrap its jaws around the ball and pop it to get at the human inside.
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The Meg / int_6820e212	type	Giant Squid
The Meg / int_6820e212	comment	Giant Squid: During the rescue dive into the trench, Suyin's sub is caught and almost destroyed by a squid much, much larger than any real-life specimen... which is promptly eaten by a passing megalodon.
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The Meg / int_68424916	type	Eating the Eye Candy
The Meg / int_68424916	comment	Eating the Eye Candy: Although she asks him to Please Put Some Clothes On, Suyin is clearly appreciative of Jonas' chiseled physique when she walks in on him just as he's leaving the shower. She even returns to take another awkward peek at him through the window right upon leaving his apartment.
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The Meg / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
The Meg / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: After they succeed in killing the megalodon, Jonas takes a photo of the Wall posing next to its mouth, where he immediately notices something off about it. He then shows the photo to Suyin and they both realise that — in comparison to the bite marks left on the Mana One's underwater tunnel when a megalodon made an attempted attack on Meiying — the megalodon they just killed is too small to be the same shark... mere moments before the even bigger megalodon leaps out of the water, killing the Wall, eating the smaller megalodon and capsizing their boat.
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The Meg / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Meg / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Morris is a self-serving, glory-seeking jackass, but he's also the one who comes up with the idea to just tag the shark with a tracking device so they can keep tabs on it while preparing the cage.
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The Meg / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
The Meg / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Poisoning the first meg doesn't instantly kill it; rather, it takes several minutes during which it's still incredibly dangerous and now enraged. It's in fact noticeably more aggressive and erratic during the following final confrontation than it has been for the rest of the movie, but that may be because it finally starts suffering some serious wounds and impediments by that point.
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The Meg / int_6c62b1a8	type	Covered in Gunge
The Meg / int_6c62b1a8	comment	Covered in Gunge: Played for Laughs when Morris has a helicopter depth-charge what he thinks is the Meg even after the shredded carcass has been blown to the ocean surface. The pilot reluctantly drops another bomb on it, which throws up a huge column of water, and when the camera cuts to him again, he's covered head to toe in liquified whale blubber.
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The Meg / int_6d01755e	type	Monstrous Cannibalism
The Meg / int_6d01755e	comment	Monstrous Cannibalism: The first appearance by the larger megalodon is when it lunges out of the water to seize the carcass of the first one to chow down on. The concluding battle's ending, in which the second meg is devoured by hundreds of ordinary sharks, hints at this as well, although technically it's a subversion because they're not the same species of shark.
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The Meg / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
The Meg / int_6de71c57	comment	Despite being promoted to Disc-One Final Boss, the first megalodon still dies caught in cables and is then eaten by the second, much larger female, as in the novel.
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The Meg / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Meg / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The poster exaggerates the size of the Megalodon quite a bit, making it appear to be the size of a blue whale when it's actually the equivalent size of a modern whale shark.
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The Meg / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
The Meg / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Suyin and Jonas argue and tease each other constantly, but throughout the movie it is pretty clear to everyone that there is a mutual attraction. Meiying even teases her mother about it.
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The Meg / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
The Meg / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: In the novel, Jonas became a paleo-biologist after his final diving venture (where he allegedly saw a giant white shark's head), which is how he's able to immediately identify the giant shark as a megalodon. In the film, he never actually sees the megalodon in the beginning, and became an alcoholic afterwards, but is able to immediately identify the megalodon on first sight nonetheless. Granted megalodon isn't exactly an obscure fossil species. How and why there are megalodons (believed to have been a shallow-water predator) in a deep sea trench is never explained in the film, while the novels go in-depth with their evolution into an abyssal species (they migrated to the heated hydrothermal vents to escape the ice ages, over millennia gaining a slower metabolism and losing skin pigmentation in the process).
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The Meg / int_7c48b272	type	Summon Bigger Fish
The Meg / int_7c48b272	comment	Summon Bigger Fish: Or in this case a horde of smaller ones — by cutting open the meg and making it bleed with his sub's fin (then stabbing it in the eye) Jonas is able to attract a swarm of smaller sharks to the meg, which then eat it alive.
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The Meg / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Meg / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The megalodon is released from the ocean depths because it followed the path to the surface created by the rescue mission. It gets even more pronounced later in the film when it turns out an even bigger meg had escaped, too. DJ's prank, scaring the Wall into the water by making him think the displayed meg corpse was showing signs of life, gets his friend killed when the second, larger megalodon arrives.
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The Meg / int_83445b04	type	Pun
The Meg / int_83445b04	comment	How and why there are megalodons (believed to have been a shallow-water predator) in a deep sea trench is never explained in the film, while the novels go in-depth with their evolution into an abyssal species (they migrated to the heated hydrothermal vents to escape the ice ages, over millennia gaining a slower metabolism and losing skin pigmentation in the process).
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The Meg / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
The Meg / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: Heller was assigned as the man leading the inquiry regarding Jonas' actions following the prologue rescue. Heller was one of those rescued from the submarine in question, so he should have been one of those questioned, instead. A marine biologist viewed the scene and said that Heller was also emotional and based against Jonas from the start of the inquiry, when the questionnaires are to be as stoic and factual as possible, meaning the findings of the inquiry should be declared a sham and Jonas should have the right to clear his name.
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The Meg / int_874c712f	type	Dug Too Deep
The Meg / int_874c712f	comment	Dug Too Deep: Dove Too Deep in this case, but the concept is still the same. Taylor comments that maybe the cloud of hydrogen sulfide that separates the above ocean and the hidden world beneath it might be there for a reason: there are monsters living down there, specifically the megalodons. The cloud is there to contain them within the deepest depths where no human is meant to go.
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The Meg / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Meg / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: The first time one of the characters gets a look at the creature attacking their ship... it turns out to be a giant squid. Which then gets eaten by the actual Megalodon. As the Meg swims towards the beach, a swimmer climbs onto a raft and sees something that makes him say, "Oh my god!" Turns out he's Distracted by the Sexy sight of some bikini girls on another raft.
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The Meg / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
The Meg / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: The giant squid that's destroying Suyin's sub is on the receiving end of this when the meg swims out of the darkness and devours it. Later on, when Suyin descends to the water with the intent of shooting the meg with a special poison, several smaller sharks are attracted by pieces of chum thrown by the crew, including great whites and giant hammerheads. They all promptly flee in terror when the meg shows up. It happens again when Morris and his crew start hunting the meg by themselves with depth charges but kill a whale by mistake. A group of smaller sharks start eating it, but instantly retreat when the meg approaches. A second, considerably larger meg shows up and eats the one the characters previously killed at the halfway mark of the film. Inverted in the finale where the wounded meg is devoured by numerous smaller sharks, essentially the bigger fish being reminded that being at the top of the food chain doesn't guarantee that it'll always be there.
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The Meg / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
The Meg / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License â€“ Medicine: When Jonas is making the dive to rescue the team trapped in the submersible, Heller starts talking about his vital signs. (Blood gases dropping, heart rate, etc.) The problem is that Jonas isn't hooked up to instruments that would allow Heller to monitor any of that.
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The Meg / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Meg / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Early on, our heroes encounter the remains of a ship destroyed by the meg. When they see several shark corpses with their fins chopped off floating around, they realize the ship belonged to fishermen who harvest shark fins for soup and dump the bodies back into the sea, reacting with disgust at their wasteful actions. Heller even states the meg pretty much avenged the deaths of all those sharks. Jack Morris dies trying to cover up the meg's existence at the hands of the shark itself.
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The Meg / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Meg / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: At one point the Meg massacres a flotilla of boats whose sailors were killing sharks to harvest their fins. After lying to everyone on Mana One about calling the authorities about the Meg, Morris ends up becoming shark chow during his unsuccessful attempt at killing it.
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The Meg / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
The Meg / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: Not "man", exactly, but the megalodon bites a young whale clean in half.
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The Meg / int_952f8f26	type	Deadly Prank
The Meg / int_952f8f26	comment	Deadly Prank: JD's prank with the dead first Megalodon drops the Wall in the water, where he becomes instant Megalodon chow when the bigger second Meg comes to eat its sibling.
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The Meg / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Meg / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The megalodon. Specifically, the larger of the two.
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The Meg / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
The Meg / int_97fa0a10	comment	As usual for shark movies. Megalodon's especially large fin provides the main characters an easy way to track the gigantic shark from the surface, as well as a Mass "Oh, Crap!" moment when it goes below the water...
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The Meg / int_9a5ae2a2	type	More Teeth than the Osmond Family
The Meg / int_9a5ae2a2	comment	More Teeth than the Osmond Family: The megalodon shows its pearly whites to Suyin's daughter.
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The Meg / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
The Meg / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: The gigantic prehistoric shark is devoured by a horde of smaller, modern-day shark species — including the great white, wrongly but regularly assumed in media and pop culture to be the megalodon's closest living relative.
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The Meg / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Meg / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In a blink-and-you-miss-it moment, Jaxx mentions that a shark could break through the temperature barrier in the warm corridor that was briefly formed by the hydrothermal vent—"or 20, for that matter". As it turns out, at least two sharks followed the path to the surface.
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The Meg / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Meg / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Jonas wounds the biggest Megalodon with an Eye Scream, possibly referencing a similar scene in Deep Blue Sea.
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The Meg / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
The Meg / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: In the novel, the megalodons are ghostly white as a result of pigment loss from living in the oceanic abyss for so long. Here, they're a more standard brownish-grey, the result of pragmatic artistic license, as Word of God stated that an entirely white shark didn't look good on film.
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The Meg / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Meg / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: As regards her role, Suyin is roughly comparable to Tanaka's son DJ in the novel; she doesn't believe Jonas about the truth of the Meg and proves in over her head on the ocean floor. Here she survives and lives all the way to the end. The first megalodon, who in the novel was swiftly eaten by the much larger one and whose blood allows the second to escape from the trench, is the Disc-One Final Boss of the movie.
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The Meg / int_a681bfc6	type	Amicable Exes
The Meg / int_a681bfc6	comment	Amicable Exes: Jonas and Lori, who get along surprisingly well despite being divorced. Lori herself even gets in on the whole Shipper on Deck business once she notices Suyin's less-than-subtle interest in her ex-husband.
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The Meg / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Meg / int_a8559a9f	comment	The Megalodon in the movie is 75 feet (23 m) long, and the species as a whole is given a size range of 70-90 feet (21-27 m). Real Life Megalodons were about 50-60 feet (15-18 m) long, which looks to be about right for the smaller Megalodon.
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The Meg / int_aa2cd0c9	type	Motifs
The Meg / int_aa2cd0c9	comment	Motifs: Before the surface-action with the megalodon starts proper, there are several appearances of objects that resemble a shark fin, culminating with a roomba sporting one.
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The Meg / int_aa8d0ef0	type	Spell My Name with a "The"
The Meg / int_aa8d0ef0	comment	Spell My Name with a "The": Presumably done in this adaptation so that audiences would know that "Meg" is a monster. Also, lovable sidekick scientist the Wall. It might just be his nickname, but it's all he's ever called by the other characters.
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The Meg / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
The Meg / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: The trailer has the cheery "Beyond the Sea" playing over intense action sequences and scenes of the Megalodon eating people.
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The Meg / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
The Meg / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Dr. Zhang is saddened after they kill the megalodon, feeling that doing so continues the trend of mankind harming new environments they come across.
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The Meg / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Meg / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Many, many examples — most notably when Jonas' torpedo malfunctions just as he's angered the meg enough to start charging at him.
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The Meg / int_ad982e04	type	Super-Persistent Predator
The Meg / int_ad982e04	comment	Super-Persistent Predator: After sinking a boat, the second Meg pursues the survivors fleeing in motorized dinghies for ten miles before a couple of attack choppers drive it off. Lampshaded when DJ compares the shark to the Devil. Averted later on. The megalodon consistently ignores smaller prey if larger prey is readily available and primarily attacks what is making the most noise or emitting the most light at any given time. This includes completely ignoring the small dog in the water in favor of the large, noisy, splashing crowd of people nearby, as would be expected of a real-life predator. The exception to this is when it's enraged or driven into a feeding frenzy.
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The Meg / int_ae3a3b36	type	Take a Moment to Catch Your Death
The Meg / int_ae3a3b36	comment	Take a Moment to Catch Your Death: After Morris falls off the boat in his attempt to kill the Meg, he attempts to climb up the whale carcass to get to safety as the Meg charges in to attack. It misses. Morris laughs in relief after successfully climbing up the carcass, thinking that he's safe for the moment, only for the Meg to launch itself up and eat him.
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The Meg / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Meg / int_ae3d6438	comment	Mac has traits of both his book counterpart (Jonas' Deadpan Snarker best friend) and Tanaka from the same book (the old friend that comes calling to get Jonas back in the game) with Tanaka's other attributes as Reasonable Authority Figure and nature conservationist being given to Dr. Minway Zhang.
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The Meg / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Meg / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Morris goes after the Megalodon by himself with a small crew without informing any of the other characters. While he takes sufficient firepower with him in the form of depth charges, his choice to hunt it down in a small boat instead of the helicopter he was previously in gets him killed.
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The Meg / int_b5b4c0cf	type	The End
The Meg / int_b5b4c0cf	comment	The End: Or Fin.
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The Meg / int_b7bc7d28	type	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
The Meg / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Literally in the Meg's case. Being an apex predator evolved to hunt in darkness, the Meg is attracted to bright light to the point that it goes nuts in the face of it. Unfortunately for the humans, they need a lot of light to be able to see anything deep under water, so their subs tend to put out one hell of a light show...
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The Meg / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
The Meg / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: Minway gets this after the second Megalodon sinks the group's ship. Justified as he actually did suffer a severe internal injury that ultimately kills him.
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The Meg / int_b901ef97	type	Forgotten Fallen Friend
The Meg / int_b901ef97	comment	Forgotten Fallen Friend: Averted and then played straight. For the averted Toshi's death is not forgotten by the characters and they repeatedly bring it up throughout the film, with it being motivation for several characters. For played straight Jaxx is shaken by Heller's death... for ten minutes, and then she makes a joke about feeding Morris to the very shark that killed the man that sacrificed himself for her. Morris goes unmourned, the Wall dies and only gets the briefest of mentions, and after Suyin's father dies she goes back to being all smiles and jokes within five minutes.
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The Meg / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Meg / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Taylor to the Meg, Jaws-style. In the trailer, it's a Curse Cut Short.
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The Meg / int_bd1faab9	type	Accidental Hero
The Meg / int_bd1faab9	comment	Accidental Hero: One of the megs saves Suyin by eating the Giant Squid that was attacking her sub. The large group of sharks that show up near the end to attack and eat the bleeding and weakened megalodon; by simply following their instincts, they remove a major threat to humanity at sea, the oceanâ€™s ecosystem and save Jonas from a watery grave.
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The Meg / int_c34a1799	type	Kaiju
The Meg / int_c34a1799	comment	Kaiju: The titular megs have their sizes exaggerated to around 27 meters (88 feet) from modern scientific estimates which place the real creature around 20 meters (65 feet). Placing them firmly in this category.
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The Meg / int_c558da6a	type	Gunship Rescue
The Meg / int_c558da6a	comment	Gunship Rescue: Morris manages to call in a helicopter that drives off the Meg with machine gun fire. Slightly subverted in that Jaxx accurately points out a machine gun will do very little to hurt a Meg, to which Morris notes that this was all that he had available, and it at least works to scare off the shark.
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The Meg / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Meg / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When Heller introduces himself to Morris as the chief medical officer, Morris replies, "You're like Bones, huh?" The scene with the giant squid could be referencing The Beast, a novel written by Peter Benchley, who also happens to have written Jaws. Pippin the dog could be a reference to the devoured Pippet in Jaws, as that canine's name is often thought to be Pippin. In the same way, the bratty child that begs his mother to go into the water until she reluctantly accepts could be a reference to Alex Kintner, the boy with the yellow air-bed in Jaws. Fortunately, it ends MUCH better for him and Pippin. Likewise, the scene where Jonas realises from the Meg's bite pattern that it's too small to be the one that left the teethmarks on the station is a nod to Hooper's similar realisation about the tiger shark in Jaws. Taylor quotes Finding Nemo at one point; at another point in the movie, Jonas sings "just keep swimming" to himself while swimming off to shoot the meg with a tracking beacon. Jonas wounds the biggest Megalodon with an Eye Scream, possibly referencing a similar scene in Deep Blue Sea. During the final shot of The Meg sinking to its watery grave, it makes almost the same exact roaring-like sound as the shark from Jaws made as it sunk to its own grave.
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The Meg / int_c9cde4cb	type	Shark Fin of Doom
The Meg / int_c9cde4cb	comment	Shark Fin of Doom: As usual for shark movies. Megalodon's especially large fin provides the main characters an easy way to track the gigantic shark from the surface, as well as a Mass "Oh, Crap!" moment when it goes below the water... More humorously, when Meiying is playing by herself, she walks past a roomba floor cleaner that someone on the research station seems to have provided with a mini shark fin as a joke.
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The Meg / int_cc373fb1	type	Innocent Prodigy
The Meg / int_cc373fb1	comment	Innocent Prodigy: Meiying; Incredibly cute and smart, she also delivers some backstory.
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The Meg / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
The Meg / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Considerably more so than the novels the movie's based on — far fewer people are shown dying, and while many people are killed by the Megalodon, this mostly happens offscreen. Part of this is likely due to being downgraded from an R to a PG-13 rating, as according to Word of God there are a sizable number R-rated scenes that were cut to achieve that.
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The Meg / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Meg / int_ce9f550c	comment	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Morris' only attempt at speaking Chinese turns into Word Salad; fortunately for him, everyone switches to English afterwards.
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The Meg / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Meg / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Mac mentions that he tried to warn the authorities about the Meg's approach. Predictably, no one believes him that a 75-foot prehistoric shark is closing in on their coastline.
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The Meg / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
The Meg / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: The group only finds a severed arm when examining the wreckage of the fin hunting boats. All that's left of Morris is his arm hanging onto the side of a whale carcass.
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The Meg / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
The Meg / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: Jonas specifically makes the megalodon bleed to attract a horde of hammerhead, great white, tiger, and bull sharks to gang up on it and kill it.
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The Meg / int_dbd2c15e	type	Everyone Can See It
The Meg / int_dbd2c15e	comment	Everyone Can See It: Almost every other character comments on the Unresolved Sexual Tension between Taylor and Suyin, while they try to keep things professional in between sharing awkward moments.
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The Meg / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
The Meg / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: While Jonas and Mac keep their book names, several other characters have their names changed in the movie despite having similar roles.
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The Meg / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Meg / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Dr Zhang. Morris shows signs of growing into this, but he remains a self-serving jackass to the end.
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The Meg / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
The Meg / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: There are hints of attraction between Jonas and Suyin (although no PDA is shown on-screen).
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The Meg / int_dd6f0fc4	type	Shonen Hair
The Meg / int_dd6f0fc4	comment	DJ asks what's wrong with Jaxx's usually spiky and blue anime-style hair.
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The Meg / int_e07d3d72	type	Uncle Tomfoolery
The Meg / int_e07d3d72	comment	Uncle Tomfoolery: DJ, the black member of the team, is a comic relief character who is constantly bemoaning the other characters for their near-suicidal plans to stop the Megalodon while being largely incompetent himself. Even Meiying tells him to shut up at one point.
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The Meg / int_e2d7b14c	type	Made of Explodium
The Meg / int_e2d7b14c	comment	Made of Explodium: Somehow, the nuclear sub in the prologue goes up in a huge fireball virtually the same second it implodes from the water pressure. Might've been acceptable if only the torpedo compartment in the bow exploded, but the entire sub lighting up like a Michael Bay money shot 10,000 meters below the ocean surface doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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The Meg / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Meg / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Suyin is a combination of Tanaka's children from the book: she's the one that joins Jonas on the rescue mission to the Trench like DJ Tanaka, and like him proves in way over her head with the appearance of the meg (though unlike the book's DJ, she survives). Like Terry Tanaka, she's initially frosty towards Jonas for his perceived mental instability thanks to Heller, before warming to him and becoming his love interest towards the end. Mac has traits of both his book counterpart (Jonas' Deadpan Snarker best friend) and Tanaka from the same book (the old friend that comes calling to get Jonas back in the game) with Tanaka's other attributes as Reasonable Authority Figure and nature conservationist being given to Dr. Minway Zhang.
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The Meg / int_e63228a7	type	InfoDump
The Meg / int_e63228a7	comment	During an Info Dump, Suyin mentions that the Megalodon had no known predators. In fact, it's considered likely that they faced serious competition from the similarly-sized macroraptorial sperm whale Livyathan.
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The Meg / int_ea337348	type	Stealthy Colossus
The Meg / int_ea337348	comment	Stealthy Colossus: As befits an aquatic ambush predator, the Megalodon is quite capable of sneaking up on people despite being the size of a large whale.
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The Meg / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Meg / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Suyin saves Jonas from the Meg's death throes just as a hammerhead shark takes an interest in eating him.
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The Meg / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Meg / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	As in the original novel, one of the characters is Jonas' ex-wife — but unlike the book's publicity-hungry Jerkass Maggie, Lori is both friendly towards Jonas and immediately volunteers to help take out the Meg when it becomes apparent the crew are going to have to do it themselves.
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The Meg / int_eea96e78	type	Swallowed Whole
The Meg / int_eea96e78	comment	Swallowed Whole: Given the sheer size of the megalodon, a few characters end up experiencing this. Notably, when the meg isn't able to breach the shark cage, it simply resorts to inhaling the thing whole, and comes pretty close to succeeding before being forced to let go.
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The Meg / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
The Meg / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: The character of Tanaka in the book is divided into two separate characters in the movie: Mac, who's Jonas' old friend who seeks him out, and Dr. Minway Zhang, who runs the research operation that lost a sub in the trench. Suyin takes most of DJ Tanaka's attributes, with only the character's name surviving to be given to the film's version of DJ. Toshi also has a few of DJ's traits, being the first character killed by a megalodon, which causes Jonas' eventual love interest (Terry in the novel, Suyin in the film) to be angry at him initially for his inability to prevent his death.
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The Meg / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
The Meg / int_f10d3363	comment	As the Meg swims towards the beach, a swimmer climbs onto a raft and sees something that makes him say, "Oh my god!" Turns out he's Distracted by the Sexy sight of some bikini girls on another raft.
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The Meg / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
The Meg / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Heller apologizes to Taylor for declaring him a coward after he made a Cold Equation during a previous deep sea rescue mission after he discovers that Taylor didn't make the Megalodon up, but Heller eventually sacrifices his own life by attracting the Megalodon to keep it away from Jaxx.
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The Meg / int_f51f4509	type	Tagline
The Meg / int_f51f4509	comment	Tagline: The marketing campaign for the film produced several; "chomp on this", "pleased to eat you", "opening wide", and so on.
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The Meg / int_f9bc2937	type	Laser Sight
The Meg / int_f9bc2937	comment	Laser Sight: Suyin uses one mounted on a harpoon gun during her attempt to kill the Meg. She ends up swiping the beam over the shark's eye, which scares the light-sensitive predator off... and enrages it, resulting in a devastating attack from an angle she can't cover — from below.
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The Meg / int_fc5dd45e	type	Lodged Blade Removal
The Meg / int_fc5dd45e	comment	Lodged Blade Removal: Averted when Lori accidentally gets a screwdriver driven into her stomach; it's bandaged in place until Dr. Heller can remove it surgically.
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The Meg / int_fd1b902c	type	Non-Malicious Monster
The Meg / int_fd1b902c	comment	Non-Malicious Monster: Surprisingly, the megalodon counts as one since it doesn't specifically target humans over other prey, being shown to devour giant squids and whales at other points in the film; they just happen to be available once it reaches the surface and a few times it only kills people seemingly by accident. It actually only attacks the beach-goers when they panic and begin causing a lot of movement and activity, which causes it to go berserk. Near the end, a recording of whalesong is enough to get it to leave a crowded beach alone, although it had already killed several people by then.
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The Meg / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
The Meg / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Taylor had to sacrifice two men to save others in a prior confrontation with a megalodon, leading to his being disgraced as a professional rescue diver and retreating to a Thai village to drown himself in drink.
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The Meg / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Meg / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Something minor that most Shark movies tend to overlook; look at the sharks body during the movie, you will notice little tiny fish attached to the shark, this is something certain fish actually do, called Remora or suckerfish, who eat sharks leftovers or sometimes the parasites on sharks essentially being a shark cleaner. The megalodon is relatively docile while swimming near the beach full of people, seeming more curious than anything. Then everyone sees it and panics. That many creatures making movements like prey in distress promptly causes it to go completely berserk and enter a feeding frenzy, as a real shark would. Even then, it mostly targets larger "prey", like the rafts, rather than piddly little individual swimmers. In real life, sharks have poor eyesight and the megalodon most likely mistook the raft full of screaming people as one big animal, while individual swimmers were merely collateral damage during the hunt.
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