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Megalodon
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This trope is under discussion in the Trope Repair Shop. What happens when you combine Threatening Shark with Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever, and Prehistoric Monster? You get this monstrosity. Otodus megalodon ("big, ear-shaped tooth") lived from 15.9 to 2.6 million years ago, was at least 15m long at the very minimum and probably could grow up to 20 meters (Making it two-thirds the size of a large modern blue whale), weighed 50-70 tons, making it the largest shark that ever lived along with being one of the largest apex predators of all time. An apex predator that reigned for 13 million years, it specialized in killing marine mammals with a focus on medium sized baleen whales. It was like a Physical God of the animal kingdom, known by many as the Superboss of the entire Selachimorpha clade (which included every shark to ever evolved). It was an extremely fast swimmer (many paleontologists speculate anywhere between 5-7 meters a second at max speed), had an army of 276 serrated teeth, most the size of a human hand nested in its 10-foot-diameter mouth, had a bite force twice the strength of a Tyrannosaurus rex, and would likely split a school bus sized whale in half with one bite. The only rival it had as the top predator was a contemporary predatory whale Livyatan that was roughly the same size. The cause of this living war machine's extinction is hotly debated even to this day, but one of the leading theories is that it went extinct due to the closing of the Central American Seaway, the migratory, breeding, and hunting grounds of it and its prey. Another, more recent theory is that megalodon is just another casualty of radiation released by a supernova (or series of such) 2.6 million years ago, which was particularly deadly to the largest of animals and to animals which lived in shallow water. It might have also itself been subject to pressure by a Threatening Shark. No not something bigger, but a type of mako shark evolved into the modern great white shark around this same time. Preying on the same food sources, great whites were faster, grew up quicker, smarter, and could handle colder water better thanks to a more efficient heating system. The rise of prehistoric orca whales was even more pressure. Environmental factors in tandem with competition from newer, faster predators likely worked to drive the biggest predatory fish of all time extinct. However, in low grade schlock movies, it will be uncovered after being frozen in ice or lurking in deep-sea trenches and go on a superhunting rampage, tracking down our intrepid heroes all over the world before eating Boeing 747's in a single bite while flying. The appeal is simple. As a giant prehistoric shark, it combines the audience-pleasing qualities of dinosaurs, sharks, and giant monsters in general. Evidently, this generation is the one who became film directors because of Steven Spielberg. On that note, it'll almost always be depicted as looking like a giant great white, but its exact appearance in relation to other sharks is unknown, and most paleontologist suspect that this was unlikely.note Megalodon was originally thought to have been a close relative of the great white, but is now thought to have been from its own distinct lineage, which is now extinct. Sub-Trope of Threatening Shark, Prehistoric Monster and Sea Monster. Compare Kraken and Leviathan; Giant Squid. Note that "megalodon" is the animal's specific epithet, not the generic name, so it should not be capitalized. Basically a Dire Shark. Compare Tyrannosaurus rex. |
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In Peter Benchley’s Jaws, Hooper compares the shark's size as “Damn near megalodon” and says that there could even potentially exist sharks that dwarf even the one they are hunting, which Quint dismisses. | |
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In Kamen Rider Revice, the Megalodon is one of the several powers based on animals (both prehistoric and modern) available in the series. Using these powers gives Revi and Vice various blade- and teeth-based attacks. | |
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Guild Wars 2 has at least two timed group events with champion zombie megalodons | |
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Champions Online features a giant mutated shark named Megalodon. It was planned to be a boss, but has not been implemented as one so far. | |
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Battlefield 4 : In the Naval Strike DLC map, Nansha Strike, if you position at least ten players around the floating buoy in Conquest Large and wait a few second, a Megalodon will jump out of the water and return to the depths, killing everything in its way. | |
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Hollow Earth Expedition. One of the most dangerous predators in the seas of the Hollow Earth is the megalodon, a shark that's more than 100 feet long and weighs more than 50 tons. They feed on whales and plesiosaurs, but avoid attacking the kraken. | |
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In Killer Shark In Another World, the titular beast is effectively every movie monster shark combined. While it's default form when not killing people is a chibi shark that's roughly the size of a dog, it can also grow to become absolutely monstrous in size. | |
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Another "megalodon" that looks like a mosasaur appears in the first episode of Dino Squad. | |
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The Secret Saturdays: V.V. Argost, the Big Bad, wears a bulletproof cape made from megalodon skin. | |
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Maneater: The final growth stage of the titular shark is called "megalodon". Though as a bull shark, her relationship to the actual species Carcharocles megalodon is quite distant. | |
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The Ocean Hunter uses Megalodon as its version of Leviathan, the boss of the second stage. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV: You can catch one, but not as a trainable monster or anything — it's a fish and you catch one with a fishing rod. You can even turn it into a display piece for your house, and it's a great conversation starter for company-mates and visitors! | |
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ARK: Survival Evolved: Megalodon (or rather, Ultramegalodon) is a common threat to players exploring the game's oceans. However, if you have the time and resources on hand, you can actually domesticate it yourself. | |
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Infinity, Inc. villain Carcharo was a Shark Man who mentally commanded a school of 40 ft. Megaladons. | |
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Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus: The titular Mega Shark of this film and its three sequels is a megalodon, with one shark appearing in the first two films and two others of its kind each featuring in the third and fourth films. | |
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Atomic Puppet once fought a villain named Megalo-Don, though this one's a tiny shark-lobster hybrid who can consume lava to become bigger and stronger. | |
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Schlock Mercenary mentions out of hand that megalodons were genetically recreated sometime between the 21st and 31st centuries, then hunted back to extinction. Then, real-time years later some mad scientist on a resort planet clones a bunch of different species of sea predator, including a megalodon that eats two of the Toughs on vacation (fortunately the second one was wearing his armor). | |
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A megalodon is one of the treasures that can be found in Salvage Hidden Treasures. It is very useful as it protects the player that owns it from any shark attack event. | |
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Stranded Deep: One of these serves as a boss battle. Since the game takes place in modern times and there is no real explanation, it can be excused by Rule of Cool. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: In First Edition, megalodons are up to 50 feet long and can swallow smaller creatures whole. As was often the case in D&D, swallowed creatures could cut their way out. Third edition megalodons are 100 feet long and are known to leap out of the water to snatch low-flying rocs or dragons. The patron deity of the sahuagin race, Sekolah, manifests as a megalodon. |
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Scribblenauts has a megalodon as one of its summonable creatures. | |
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In The Swarm of War, the new Overmind make a swimming Zerg unit which is one of these. It is even called the Carcharlisk. | |
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Sea of Thieves: The expansion "The Hungering Deep" introduces the megalodon as a boss, which can be summoned or (in a later update) come across as a random encounter. That said, it more resembles some mutant monster shark rather than a megalodon, complete with Extra Eyes and Spikes of Villainy. | |
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The Real Ghostbusters episode, Play Them Ragtime Boos, features a scene where the group are transported back in time to the Cenozoic Era in the middle of the ocean, where a hungry megalodon eyes them for lunch. Said megalodon actually looks more like a mosasaur. | |
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Shark Attack 3: Megalodon: While the first two films in the trilogy featured mutant Great White Sharks, the third in this series features a non-mutant Megalodon. | |
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The Meg centers on one actually two of these emerging from a hidden deep-sea refuge in the present day. Naturally, chaos ensues. | |
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Bedtime Stories You Tube Channel episode "There Is Something In The Water" mentions a Real Life incident where a Great White Shark that had been tagged by a tracker was killed and eaten by something much larger and fiercer than itself. Initially the marine biologists who were monitoring the tag thought the culprit was an orca, one of the few sea creatures that are known to willingly tangle with them, but some of the location data recovered from the rather battered locator indicated that the shark had been dragged to a depth far below the normal range for orcas or most other whales. The implication to all this being that it's possible that small numbers of megalodons are still down there somewhere.note Skeptics have suggested that the locator may have simply given an inaccurate reading due to the pressure of being bitten. | |
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In One Piece, the mermaid princess Shirahoshi has a pet megalodon named Megalo. He is actually very tame, so much so that Luffy later smuggles Shirahoshi out of the castle by hiding her in Megalo's mouth. | |
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EverQuest: Back during the beta period, the Megalodon was an absolutely gigantic shark found in Lake Rathe. It's jaw size was larger than a giant. Because the area itself is dotted with various islands, this made it extremely difficult for the monster to actually stay in the water, and it was eventually removed from the game right before the game went live. The Megalodon would later be put back into Lake Rathe as a special encounter boss battle during the 2nd Epic Quest for the Shaman class, but it wasn't nearly as large as the original was. | |
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In Shadowrun, a type of giant regenerating Awakened shark is commonly called "megalodon" for its resemblance to the extinct species, although its scientific name differs. | |
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In Doraemon: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King the royal merpeople keep a living megalodon which they feed criminals to. | |
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Aquaman summons an army of them in the New 52, to the the point of memetic levels. | |
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The titular shark was featured in Discovery Channel's 2013 Shark Week mockumentary Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives, a Spiritual Successor to Mermaids: The Body Found, which itself featured a Megalodon. The following year Shark Week aired another mockumentary titled Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine which is a fictionalised account of an attack on a group of people in South Africa by a nearly Megalodon-sized legendary great white nicknamed “Submarine” which is believed (but yet to be proven) to be real. In 2018, the network aired a second documentary about the Megalodon, titled Megalodon: Fact vs. Fiction. This one was a lot more down-to-earth and less sensational than the first one, and went out of its way to debunk a number of common misconceptions surrounding the shark. |
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Depth lets you play as a megalodon against a team of divers in a 5v1 game mode called Megalodon Hunt. | |
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A megalodon features in two episodes of Sea Monsters. | |
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Manly Guys Doing Manly Things: How does Commander Badass end the survival derby? By making a Dynamic Entry riding a megalodon wearing a sweater! The megalodon's later seen waving goodbye to the Commander after the derby ends. And yes, it got to keep the sweater. |
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Scion: Megalodons appear as part of the monstrous fauna that the Drowned Road, Titan of Water, controls. | |
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Steve Alten writes a lot of books with these; his novel Meg was about a megalodon that makes it to the surface after surviving down in the Mariana Trench. Hilarity Ensues. It was loosely adapted into the film The Meg. The novel and its sequels depict the megalodon doing such things as eating a Tyrannosaurus rex in one bite and fighting other (equally oversized) underwater predators. In many ways, Alten's books are the Trope Codifier for how the megalodon is perceived in pop-consciousness. | |
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The Deep: In one episode, two of the Nektons end up stuck in the gills of one of these after nearly being eaten by it. | |
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While not a megalodon per se, The Adventures of Pinocchio is worth a mention for containing possibly the first "giant shark" in fiction. It has Pinocchio get swallowed by a giant sea creature known as "The Terrible Dogfish." "Dogfish" is in fact the literal translation of the Italian word for "shark", though it's typically depicted as being even larger than a megalodon. The Disney animated movie changed it to a whale. | |
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