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Whales are the largest animals to have ever existed. Mysterious giants of the open ocean, they've spent millions of years swimming the seas, often as apex predators. In modern times, sperm whales plunge the depths of the ocean to hunt giant squids, and even baleen whales will devour enormous amounts of prey.
So it's no surprise that, for centuries, it was very common for whales to be portrayed as Sea Monsters. Creepily enigmatic at best and outright malevolent at worst, whales were frequently cast in a negative light. For centuries (even millennia in some places), the most common image of a whale in many cultures was a violent, ravenous beast that devoured everything it could and destroyed whatever it couldn't. Tales abounded of unlucky people being Swallowed Whole by whales, to the point that "belly of the whale" became a common metaphor to describe a dangerous and difficult to escape situation. Sperm whales in particular were hit with this image, due to how dangerous they were to hunt.
However, the general public's perception of whales has changed over the last few decades as a result of new scientific discoveries being made about them. In the 1960s, it was discovered that whales — previously thought to be mute — made vocalizations underwater. The 1970 release of the album Songs of the Humpback Whale helped re-characterize whales as intelligent, peaceful creatures that deserved protection, kickstarting the "Save the Whales" movement. As a result, whales are nowadays far more likely to be depicted as gentle giants, and even antagonistic whales tend to be portrayed with at least some sympathy. Unsurprisingly, portrayals of whales as brutal monsters have largely fallen by the wayside. While seemingly monstrous whales do still appear from time to time, they're now far more likely to be portrayed as benevolent or at least neutral (if sapient) or as acting like normal animals rather than ravenous beasts (if nonsapient). Even if a whale is portrayed as genuinely threatening, chances are it'll be the exception rather than the rule.
Given how old this trope is, it goes without saying that many of the examples are not particularly accurate to real whales. They may combine features of various species together — it's not uncommon to see a sperm whale depicted with the massive teeth of an orca and the grooved throat of a baleen whale, for example. It's also very common for these creatures, especially in cases where an individual whale or a specific breed is noted to be much more aggressive than normal, to be white. Other times, especially in older works from the Middle Ages and earlier, they might not look like whales at all, instead being an example of Informed Species. Check a medieval map, and you'll often find strange creatures with boarlike tusks and fish scales, only discernible as a whale by the waterspouts from their head. As a general rule, historic depictions of water monsters didn't always sharply distinguish between types of aquatic creatures, meaning that concepts such as "dragon", "sea serpent", "monstrous fish" and "monstrous whale" tended to be much more porous and flexible than a modern audience might expect.
Sub-Trope of Sea Monster. If the whale is large enough, this may overlap with Kraken and Leviathan. For other marine mammals portrayed in a similar light, see Monstrous Seal, Wily Walrus and especially Devious Dolphins (which negative portrayals of orcas fall under, despite them being popularly known as "killer whales"). Compare and contrast Space Whale, which takes the "big, mysterious swimmer" aspects of whales and puts them in space instead. Also compare Killer Gorilla and Cruel Elephant for other cases of a large, intelligent mammal being portrayed as scary.
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Finding Nemo: Subverted. While a whale does end up very nearly consuming Marlin and Dory, it does so unintentionally, and it turns out to be friendly, giving them some advice that helps them escape its mouth before it can accidentally swallow them.
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Bojack Horseman: Jeremiah Whitewhale is a human-sized anthropomorphic whale who is a monster in the metaphorical sense: a Corrupt Corporate Executive who mistreats and even outright murders his own employees. He is still a "giant" in the business sense and "swallows" smaller companies by buying them out similarly to how a real whale swallows its small prey.
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A Thousand and One... Americas: Subverted (and thus actually done realistically) in the seventeenth episode. Chris and Lon are giving company to a group of Haida fishermen who are aiming to capture some fish for food in the waters of the Queen Charlotte Islands. But then an enormous humpback whale approaches them to run over them, eating Lon in the process. To their surprise (and relief), Lon gets Blown Upward by a Blowhole afterwards, and the whale goes away without aiming to attack the characters again. It turns out this species of whale doesn't act aggressive unless provoked in Real Life (and the fishermen in the series were only looking for small fish, so they likely just approached its territory by accident).
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Pow from Bleach is a huge, towering Arrancar whose transformation let him become a colossal whale-man hybrid with a baleen-like throat, incredible physical power and weight.
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Hellboy: A sea witch captures Hellboy and says that to end the threat he poses to the world, she'll feed his hand to a certain whale, apparently the oldest living creature, and once it dies and falls into a pit there will be nothing left of the Antichrist and the world (more specifically, she) will finally be safe.
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Cthulhu Saves the World: One of the optional bosses is the Fire Whale, a land-dwelling whale with fire powers who is fought in the Swamps of Despair, guarding the Fire Tome in the treasure chest.
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Sub-Mariner: The Giganto are a race of Altantean beasts that resemble enormous whales with arms and legs. Their origins are unknown, but are said to have been genetically engineered by the Deviants. They sleep on the ocean floor until wakened/summoned by whoever blows the Horn of Proteus. When Prince Namor believed that the surface world was destroying Atlantis, he blew the Horn of Proteus to awaken a Giganto and unleashed it on the surface world. Since then, various Gigantos have been summoned either by Namor or others who have managed to get their hands on the Horn of Proteus and sent to unleash mass destruction.
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Prehistoric Park Reimagined: A downplayed example can be found in the basilosaurus cetoides pod that get rescued for the park when they're first encountered in the wild of their home time period. While they are no more dangerous or violent than any modern animal, they are nonetheless first introduced in a context where they get portrayed as intimidating predators in the midst of trying to hunt a pod of zygorhiza that are in the midst of undergoing birthing of their young at their local birthing grounds, and hunting alongside an equally hungry and intimidating shiver of otodus and float of newly discovered giant predatory choristoderes to boot.
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Pinocchio features Monstro, a huge, aggressive whale that swallows people whole and whose name causes panic among other sea creatures. This is a deviation from the original book, where the sea monster is a "terrible dogfish" (that is, a shark).
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RWBY: The Monstra is a Grimm whale of gigantic proportions, shaped like a sperm whale that has some baluga whale elements. It has huge teeth, gouges in the side of its body that act as landing platforms for airships, and enormous, multiple flippers that extend from its body like the fins of a lionfish. Its upper and lower body is covered in Gravity Dust. It functions as a Living Ship, using organic features to replace technological and architectural functions, controlled by Salem from a throne that is located in the region a real life sperm whale's junk would be found. Its name is a Shout-Out to Monstro, the whale that appears in Disney's version of Pinocchio.
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Moby Dick: Back From The Deep: Moby-Dick is made one in this comic. In the book, he's a white whale. In the webcomic, he's an ancient, undead, giant whale big enough to fit ships in his mouth.
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Dungeon Keeper Ami: At least one undead whale was part of the undead forces set against Ami.
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Whale King Moon from Toriko is the most powerful of the Eigth Kings who rule the Gourmet World. It belongs to a species aptly named "Black Hole Whale" and swallow pretty much anything it encounters. To further enhance the supernatural vibe, Moon's stomach leads directly to the equivalent of the Netherworld.
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Moby-Dick: The title character is undoubtedly one of the most iconic examples of this trope, possibly the Trope Codifier. He's an incredibly destructive and fearsome albino sperm whale who's so notorious for killing whalers and destroying their vessels that he's speculated in-universe to be some kind of malevolent supernatural entity.
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The Swarm (2023) offers excellent reminders of why people used to fear whales, as the normally amiable humpback whales suddenly turn hostile and start attacking ships. In the first episode, whales attack a whale-tour ship, sinking it and nearly killing everyone aboard.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Bismarck is the Primal worshiped by the Vanu Vanu as "the White". It's a massive, whale-shaped monster with no eyes, wing-like fins covered in feathers, and a massive gaping maw with More Teeth than the Osmond Family. Unusually for this trope, this whale flies, forcing the Warrior of Light to do battle with it atop an airship.
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Resident Evil: Revelations: Malacoda are powerful worm-like B.O.W. encountered later in the game. After fighting them from a boat, they'll parasite a whale, turning it into a monstrous behemoth which attaches itself to the sinking ship with a mutated set of claws and must be fought as the penultimate boss of the game.
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Don't Starve: The Shipwrecked DLC introduces two types of whales, Blue Whales and White Whales. Blue Whales are neutral creatures that will flee from the player and avoid them unless attacked first, while White Whales — whose appearance includes solid red eyes and a harpoon sticking out of their back — are hostile, and will attack players on sight. When inspecting a White Whale, Wendy, WX-78 and Webber all remark on the beast outright hating all that it sees.
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Walking with Beasts depicts the prehistoric whale Basilosaurus as a fearsome predator, hunting smaller whales, sharks and elephant-ancestors that wander into the ocean. Appropriately, the episode featuring it is called "Whale Killer". Ironically, the Basilosaurus is also the protagonist of the episode, with the plot revolving around a pregnant female trying to get enough food to carry her infant to term.
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Digimon Adventure: Subverted with Whamon. He first appears as a creepy-looking Cyborg sperm whale who swallows the Digidestined whole, but he was Brainwashed and Crazy by a black gear. Once they free him he goes on to be one of their major allies, showing himself to be a Gentle Giant and serving as their Living Ship. Alas, he does a Heroic Sacrifice to defend our heroes from Metalseadramon and perishes, but is later resurrected in 02.
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Exalted: Kraken-whales are Wyld horrors resembling immense cetaceans with mouths full of jagged teeth and holding eight tentacles as long as their bodies. They have ravenous appetites, and can devour boats half their own body length.
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Pathfinder:
While most whales are portrayed, realistically, as peaceful filter-feeders, exceptions exist:
Great white whales are immense, highly aggressive beasts capable of going toe-to-toe with powerful sea monsters and entirely happy to attack passing ships.
Crimson whales are ferocious, red-skinned beasts adapted for preying upon large creatures, which in their minds of course includes ships.
Faceless whales, native to large bodies of water Beneath the Earth, are albino-white, eyeless creatures that live as solitary predators, using a form of echolocation powerful enough to serve as a sonic weapon to prey upon other subterranean horrors.
Bakekujiras are the undead husks of whales who died lingering, painful deaths after being attacked by whaling vessels. They're animated by nothing more than lingering hatred, their flesh animates anything that eats into an undead thrall and they will viciously attack any ship or coastal settlement they encounter.
Thalassic behemoths resemble absurdly large sperm whales with crablike claws; they are living embodiments of divine wrath sent to the material plane by gods wishing to make their displeasure with mortal behavior clear and unambiguous, and are more than capable of destroying entire coastal cities.
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Dungeons & Dragons:
Leviathans are sea monsters that resemble disproportionately large whales. They are inscrutable and intermittently aggressive; a leviathan will periodically attack anything crossing into its territory, smashing ships to flinders and swallowing sailors whole, and then vanishing off the face of the earth for decades at a time before resuming its attacks somewhere else entirely.
Behemoth Whales are a subversion. They're certainly gigantic (commonly reaching over 1,000 feet long and 400,000 tons) and have been known to swallow ships whole... but they're generally neutral in alignment, and rarely attack sapient creatures unless provoked.
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Fallout 4: While you never actually encounter any, throughout the game you'll occasionally hear people spreading rumors about massive "ghoul whales" that supposedly haunt the ocean.
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Berserk:
The Kushan Empire can mutate animals into shock troops, including a whale that takes on elephant characteristics like a long trunk, reverting to its original form once killed.
A trolual appears during the Elf Island arc to highlight the mythical world merging with the real one. Thankfully it doesn't attack or even come within sight of the ship, it just shows up to eat a sea serpent that was about to eat a seabird.
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Harmful Park has a tropical island stage ending with a boss fight against a giant whale who tries chomping you down.
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: The main characters get swallowed by a gigantic sea monster they mistook for a volcanic island, which resembles a huge stonefish, but possesses a blowhole like a whale.
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Final Fantasy IX has whale zombies, undead floating whales with most of their skeleton exposed.
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The Great Ceteceans in Girl Genius, are unfathomably huge and intelligent, but mostly benevolent. The Song Keeper, driven mad by "cursed waters", is not, with a darkened hide instead of bioluminescence, and a mouth filled with fangs that spawns horrific monsters, presumably created from the ecosystem the Great Ceteceans are supposed to maintain within themselves.
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Middle-Earth Role Playing: Demon whales are immense, predatory cetaceans native to the Ice Bay of Forochel. They're distinguished by their white or pale grey hides, five-inch teeth capable of shearing through steel, and penchant for swallowing people whole.
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The Mermaid Princess's Guilty Meal: The Leviathan is a monstrous sperm whale with a ravenous appetite, prophesied to bring about the end of underwater civilization.
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Mr. Big from Meet the Feebles is supposedly a whale (and a very menacing one to boot, with sharp teeth), and he's the leader of a drug-smuggling gang. He gets defeated rather embarrassingly, though, when Bletch and Trevor drive their car into his mouth and out his anus.
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Dragon Quest IX has several whale enemies, notably Lleviathan (a story boss that's actually a transformed human, the real one is fought after the game is beaten) and the high-end undead Flying Seafood Special pale whale and stale whale.
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Dishonored: Whales are hunted by humans (as they are in Real Life), but are monstrous borderline Eldritch Abomination versions of the creatures we'd recognise. They have giant razor teeth, tentacle-like protrusions around their mouths, and some connection to The Void. Pandyssia, the native land of the plaguebearing rats, is also said to be home to land dwelling variants.
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: In the Wonder Girl Impossible Tale in issue #111, a giant whale that looks like a combination sperm and pilot whale attacks Renno the merboy and a sea-centaur. Diana saves them by tricking the massive whale into attacking its own reflection until it knocks itself out.
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In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, cachalots (an old word for sperm whales) are described as hulking monstrosities who are mostly teeth and jaws. Anyone not familiar with archaic species names might be forgiven for thinking that Jules Verne was describing mythical beasts rather than sperm whales. That being said, this is a bit of a deconstruction, as Nemo's wanton slaughter of them to protect a pod of baleen whales (which sperm whales don't even prey on) is not portrayed in a positive light: professional harpooner Ned Land doesn't bother hiding his contempt, and the massacre serves as an early indicator of Nemo's less savory side. The message is clear: even if they are monstrous, that doesn't give humans the right to massacre them wholesale.
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Good Omens: While not explicitly described as a whale, the kraken awakes to destroy Japanese whaling ships.
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Futurama: In "Möbius Dick", the Planet Express crew is attacked by a massive white Space Whale lurking in the Bermuda Tetrahedron. Leela becomes obsessed with hunting it down a la Captain Ahab, which is apparently what the whale is counting on, as it hunts by swallowing particularly obsessive captains to feed on their obsession.
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Skies of Arcadia: Played with. The Gigas are ancient destroyers of which one specimen was made by each civilization to be their weapon during the wars. The Purple Civilization went at it uniquely by converting an arcwhale into their Gigas, Plergoth. Once the Purple Civilization collapse, Plergoth went its own way, becoming the only Gigas to roam freely and gaining the name "Rhaknam" ("Mobys" in Japanese). It and the party member Drachma become expies of Moby Dick and Ahab after Rhaknam causes the death of Drachma's son. Rhaknam eventually dies when his body is at its limit and Drachma, taking pity, forgives it. For all the danger Rhaknam was presented as posing, it is the only Gigas that is not fought for its crystal.
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The Bible:
In the Book of Jonah, the dag gadol (literally "great fish," but could refer to any kind of gigantic sea creature) that swallowed the title character after he was thrown overboard has long been imagined to be a whale.
The Leviathan is frequently depicted as a whale, or at least as having whale-like qualities. Consequently, "leviathan" has sometimes been used as a synonym for or poetic way of referring to whales.
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Codex Inversus: Armor whales are ferocious beasts covered in lobster-like armor. They are aggressive predators that mainly hunt krakens, but will readily attack ships due to mistaking them for prey.
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Mortasheen has a huge variety of vampiric sea animals, but the largest of them is the Vampiathan — a vampire whale that feeds by engulfing prey in its cavernous mouth and draining it of its blood.
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Final Fantasy:
Final Fantasy IX has whale zombies, undead floating whales with most of their skeleton exposed.
Final Fantasy X: Sin is the resident monster whale of Spira, and has been terrorizing it for around a millennium by the time the story begins.
Final Fantasy XIV: Bismarck is the Primal worshiped by the Vanu Vanu as "the White". It's a massive, whale-shaped monster with no eyes, wing-like fins covered in feathers, and a massive gaping maw with More Teeth than the Osmond Family. Unusually for this trope, this whale flies, forcing the Warrior of Light to do battle with it atop an airship.
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Magic: The Gathering: While they're not the most commonly-featured type of sea monster in the game, immense whales have appeared on a number of cards.
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Courage the Cowardly Dog: One Monster of the Week was a giant sand whale that had a grudge against Eustace's father Ickett Bagge for stealing an accordion that belonged to him years ago. The whale himself is fully sapient and capable of speech. He ultimately regains his accordion and goes to perform at a concert made of other whales like him.
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Endless Ocean: Sperm whales are normally peaceful creatures, but one in particular, an albino specimen named Leviathan, has a reputation for being very dangerous and aggressive, attacking and capsizing ships, fighting off orcas — which normally prey on sperm whales — and earning the title of the White Terror from the locals, who despise it. In a case of Gameplay and Story Segregation, however, the actual Leviathan spawn is peaceful and will not attack the player.
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Alundra 2 features an entire level inside the belly of a gigantic whale, once very gentle, but now a rampaging cyborg demon whale. The player had to escape the enormous cetacean's body (now a mishmash of a Womb Level and Eternal Engine) by returning it to normal.
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Shadowrun: Leviathans are Awakened orcas grown larger than sperm whales. They're aggressive predators, and in addition to hunting other marine mammals they're know to eat divers and overturn boats.
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Unsounded: Typhoon Whales are vast, primordial entities from The Time of Myths, flying over the oceans and bringing hurricanes in their wake.
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Warhammer: Behemoth, a creature that occasionally turns up in side games and background lore, is a giant white sperm whale with a narwhal's horn that it uses to sink ships and a maw filled with six-foot-long and razor-sharp teeth.
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Final Fantasy X: Sin is the resident monster whale of Spira, and has been terrorizing it for around a millennium by the time the story begins.
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Doctor Who: Subverted in "The Beast Below", where a Star Whale is attached to Starship UK, a space-faring colony built upon its back. At first, the Star Whale seems like a Monster of the Week who eats victims given to it (which nearly includes the Doctor and Amy). However, it's later revealed that the Star Whale was the real victim, as the government of the colony had been torturing it in order to control its movements. The twist is that the Star Whale had actually come to help the colony on its own free will. Thus, once released from its pain, it's able to move faster and without suffering.
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In Re:Zero, the White Whale is a demonic land whale that has been The Dreaded for 400 years. If a giant flying whale that hunts people isn't terrifying enough, it also possesses a mystical fog that's capable of Ret Goneing anyone it touches and erasing all trace of them from history.
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The Pagemaster: The albino whale from Moby-Dick puts in an appearance, first appearing on the mural of the library ceiling. When Richard and his friends are traveling over sea, he sees Captain Ahab, whose entire crew is quickly wiped out by the whale, which then circles back to attack Richard's boat as well.
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Fengshen Yanyi: after being dismounted of his horse, Shang general Hong Jin reaches the Northern Sea, where he obtains the service of the "Whale Dragon" (represented as a massive fish-like being with a Chinese Dragon's head, scales and legs) who acts as his steed from there onward.
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OMORI: Humphrey is this underneath his jovial personality. When the Slime Girls neglect to feed him clams, he devours them and Sweetheart with zero remorse, and then battles the party intending on making them his next meal.
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Super Monkey Ball: One world takes place inside a whale that has swallowed entire cities (and is even called Inside a Whale). In Super Monkey Ball 2's Story Mode, the whale swallows AiAi and his friends along with Dr. Bad-Boon, and the player must complete ten stages to access the next cutscene, where the monkeys try to escape. The world also hosts ten various stages in Challenge Mode that differ between different games in the franchise.
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Stargate Atlantis: In "Doppelganger", a malevolent alien parasite sets up shop inside people's minds to induce their worst nightmares. Rodney's worst nightmare is being alone at sea, stalked by a monstrous whale that wants to swallow him. Apparently, his father had read Moby-Dick to him as a child.
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Subverted in Gyo. A whale is one of the rotting sea creatures on metal legs whose decaying bodies spread the Death Stench gas. However, it barely makes it out of the ocean before its mechanical legs snap, so it doesn't get much of a chance to be a threat.
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The Adventures of Pinocchio: Lorenzini's Karmic Transformation, in reflection of his greedy and mean spirited nature, is being turned into a gigantic Monstro-like sea monster with human teeth and four flippers.
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In Keys to the Kingdom, Drowned Wednesday's fate is getting cursed into a Leviathan-sized whale. In this form she's so big she can get mistaken for islands and her Horror Hunger makes her eat people whole.
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: While all whale-like monsters technically qualify, there are some that are especially good fits. Fortress Whale and Citadel Whale are some very scary-looking monsters that resemble a cross between a sperm whale (though they appear to have baleen) and a fortification with turrets.
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Kingdom Hearts: Monstro, from Pinocchio, serves as an entire Womb Level in the original game (where he swallows the Gummi Ship when the cast is heading from Agrabah to Atlantica), Chain of Memories and Dream Drop Distance (as a sub-level within the "Prankster's Paradise" world), and a boss fight in the Final Mix version of Birth By Sleep.
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Pokémon Uranium: Leviathao, one of the Sea Monster Trio of Legendary Pokémon that roam the seas of Tandor, is a gigantic whale with a narwhal-like ice horn. Its horn can penetrate solid steel, earning it its nickname of "the Unstoppable Spear", and it constantly battles the serpent-like Baitatao and octopus-like Krakanao for dominance over the seas.
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Spongebob Squarepants: Mr. Krabs' daughter Pearl is normally an aversion of this trope, but there are a handful of occasions where she does qualify, or at least appear to.
"One Coarse Meal": Plankton is revealed to be afraid of whales since they eat his kind, which means he's terrified whenever he encounters Pearl. One sequence reveals that she looks downright malevolent from his perspective, with huge fangs and eyes set in a permanent Death Glare. Mr. Krabs exploits this fear by dressing up as his daughter and tormenting Plankton to the point where he tries to get run over.
"Feral Friends": After she gets turned into a "less evolved" non-anthropomorphic sperm whale by Neptune's Moon, this is downplayed. She's still friendly enough to give Sandy a lift, but she's also more predatory and aggressive than normal, eating multiple similarly de-evolved fish and getting into a brutal fight with a de-evolved Squidward.
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Just So Stories: In "How the Whale Got His Throat", it's explained that the whale was once a great predator known for devouring just about anything... until he wound up biting off more than he could chew when he tried to eat a castaway sailor, with the end result being that he could only eat tiny things from then on.
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In the Book of Jonah, the dag gadol (literally "great fish," but could refer to any kind of gigantic sea creature) that swallowed the title character after he was thrown overboard has long been imagined to be a whale.
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