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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Aside from being edible, oysters are most well-known for the fact that they produce beautiful, valuable pearls. In fiction, however, their ability to do this is often exaggerated — for example, it usually takes much less time for a fictional oyster to create a pearl than it does in real life. And it's not just oysters that can do it — any bivalve can create pearls, though clams are most commonly used. Although most fictional pearls are round and perfect naturally, the process of making them look like that in real life is far more complex. It's a delicate procedure that takes place at special "pearl farms". Also, fiction tends to gloss over why bivalves have pearls. In real life, it happens when an irritant, like a small stone, gets into the oyster's body. The oyster covers the irritant with a special substance called nacre (a.k.a. "mother of pearl") to protect the oyster's body. The nacre eventually forms and hardens into a pearl. In pearl farms, workers perform surgery to plant particles in the oysters' bodies to get them to make pearls. But in fiction, bivalves just suddenly make pearls, often for seemingly no other reason than to display them, or for a character to take them. Fictional bivalves even seem to value such pearls, while a real oyster would likely prefer them removed as the irritants they began as. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Sub-Trope of Artistic License – Marine Biology. Tends to overlap with Clam Trap, if a bivalve chomps down on people who try to take its pearl, and Clamshells as Mouths if the bivalve's inside for storing its pearl is depicted as a mouth with a tongue. Expect bivalves in fiction to shoot their pearls as some sort of Abnormal Ammo. See also Constantly Lactating Cow and Super Wool Growth for other animal products in fiction portrayed inaccurately. |
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Squid Ink: The oyster (which looks like a clam) produces pearls (used as the Idle Game's persistent currency) every hour, in amounts that quickly require scientific notation to quantify. | |
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Finding Dory: Marlin and Nemo meet a loudmouthed clam who speaks by moving his shell like a mouth. He has a fairly big pearl, seen rolling around in his shell whenever he opens his mouth. | |
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The PAW Patrol episode "Sea Patrol: Pups Save Puplantis": gives the Magic Shell of Puplantis, which creates pearls rapidly. This case is justified, as those pearls are Puplantis's life source, and without the pearls or the shell, Puplantis will fall apart. | |
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The first Freddi Fish has a trio of oysters that challenge you to a shuffling game, in which you must pick one holding a pearl that is earned as a prize. Said pearl is used to give to King Crab in exchange for a Message in a Bottle. | |
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The Clambo enemy in Donkey Kong Country and Donkey Kong Land attacks by spitting out pearls, often more than one at a time. In the latter game, there is a King Mook called Colossal Clambo, whom the player defeats by getting its pearls to bounce back at it. | |
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In Stardew Valley, catching oysters or other shellfish, or keeping them in a fish pond will not produce pearls... keeping blobfish has a ~2% chance to do so. There's also a 0.5% chance to catch one while deep sea fishing at the Winter Market, where blobfish can be obtained but not shellfish, which also supports the idea that blobfish make pearls in this universe. | |
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Opening a clam in World of Warcraft will sometimes yield a pearl. | |
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The episode of Ulysses 31 "Temple of the Lestrigones" has the Odysseus shrunk by the baddie du jour. Ulysses sets out in a small spherical scout ship, which is caught in a clam and covered in nacre within hours. | |
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Niko the oyster from Insaniquarium creates a pearl every few minutes. Each one yields a lot of money. | |
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Escape Lala 2: A weird example. There is a giant clam with a cube-shaped pearl. With a face. As it turns out, the pearl lives with a small colony of others of its kind, so it's implied that the clam actually captured the pearl rather than creating it. | |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Jimmy makes pearl necklaces from actual pearls on oysters in order to impress his mom to allow him to go to Retroland. He actually put sand on each oysters and microwave them that somehow accelerate their growth by heating them to 4 years. | |
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Discussed in Colossal Cave. You find a "giant clam" in one room. Once you pry it open: | |
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An episode of The Annoying Orange has the gang meet an oyster who swallows a pebble and near instantly spits out a pearl. He then swallows a fruit fly and spits out a butterfly, a penny and spits out a tiny, copper Abe Lincoln, and Little Apple, who suddenly grows. | |
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Ultimate Crab Battle: One of the crab's attacks is splitting his body in half lengthwise and opening up like a clamshell to reveal a pearl inside of him. It shoots reflected light beams at you. | |
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On the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Ali Baba Bunny", Bugs finds a pearl in one of the steam clams he's been eating. It's immediately taken by Daffy Duck, who has been shrunken down by a genie. The clam closes in on him for the Iris Out. | |
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The 1960s Popeye cartoon "Wimpy the Moocher" plays with this. Wimpy shows up at Rough House's diner and orders an oyster with his only dime. Wimpy discovers a pearl in his oyster, and Rough House gives him 30 hamburgers for the pearl. When Rough House goes to sell the pearl, he learns that it's just one of many imitation pearls Wimpy had bought earlier — for 10 cents each. | |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: One of the undersea sights Nemo gives Arronax is an astoundingly huge pearl in a giant oyster. Arronax suspects the pearl was caused by Nemo putting a grain of sand inside the oyster. | |
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The Pokémon Clamperl resembles a giant clam with a pink pearl for its head, resting in the shell. Cloyster, which resembles an oyster, also has what appears to be a black or purple pearl for a head. Clamperl is a possible subversion, as it is implied that the "pearl" is in fact a fish egg that lives inside a clamshell, seeing as how it evolves into Huntail or Gorebyss (which are similar to eels). Both Clamperl and Cloyster, as well as Cloyster's pre-evolution Shellder, can be found holding ordinary Pearls or Big Pearls which can be sold for decent money. |
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Jean-Dodd van Clamme in Enter the Chowder: Manhattan Style from Episode 205 of Muppets Tonight can spit out a string of pearls (with string!) as a gift to Spamela Hamderson. | |
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Futurama has rare non-bivalvian example: In Bendin in the Wind, Dr. Zoidberg ends up broke along with the others on a road trip and has taken to eating dirt, which causes him to hack up psychedelic colored pearls that he treats like loogies. Zoidberg can do this because his Bizarre Alien Biology blends a lot of traits found in terrestrial sea creatures. | |
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Club Penguin: In "Aqua Grabber", there is a giant clam with a pearl. The player can steal the pearl by performing a Weight and Switch with a rock. | |
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In Feeding Frenzy, the clam at the bottom of the screen occasionally opens to reveal a pearl that can be stolen for bonus points. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Subverted in the episode "The Smoking Peanut". Clamu the giant oyster is fond of her pearl, which she can shoot into the air as part of her performance, and it turns out that the reason she went on a rampage was that Mr. Krabs stole her pearl, which is actually an egg. The episode "Clam Whisperer" has SpongeBob befriending a school of clams who follow him everywhere. At one point the clams keep shooting pearls at Mr. Krabs, to his delight (and pain). |
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In The Simpsons Game, the fight against Matt Groening has him summoning an army of Bender and Zoidbergs with all the Zoidbergs attacking long range by spitting out pearls. | |
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Pikmin (2001): The Pearly Clamclamp, unlike many enemies in the series, highly resembles a real clam (though it lives on land), and each one contains a pearl... except for the one which has instead eaten one of the pieces of Olimar's spaceship, which rests plainly visible inside the shell and is not turned into a pearl as would have happened with a real oyster. The pearls can be brought back to the Onions as food and produce a shocking fifty Pikmin each, the second highest in the game behind the one-time drop of the Optional Boss, the Smoky Progg. | |
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Shark Tale: Subverted in one scene near the beginning, where an oyster tries to sell a pearl at a pawn shop and is outraged when the proprietor says it's fake, yelling, "I worked eight years on that!" | |
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Wii Party's minigame Pearl Plunder has the Miis trying to collect pearls produced by some scallops when the latter open their shells. | |
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