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| β | This comic is a joke about the use of sharks in action movies. In these movies, | + | This comic is a joke about the use of sharks in action movies. In these movies, sharks are often used to guard locations and dispense capital punishment.[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SharkPool] Since the idea of a guard shark is not practical, this comic suggests that villains raise sharks to help with declining shark populations in the oceans. |
In this comic [[Cueball]] is an alleged evil villain who rules over a "Doom Island." In addition to commanding minions and detaining prisoners, he keeps sharks to threaten prisoners. When a prisoner escapes the island, he orders his minions to "release the sharks." However, the sharks do not hunt the prisoner, but merely swim away. The comic jokes that Cueball is using fugitives as a pretense to help with declining shark populations, and that Doom Island is just a front for a marine biology center. Cueball maintains the whole "guard sharks" idea as a cover-up, so that his minions do not catch on to the real mission. | In this comic [[Cueball]] is an alleged evil villain who rules over a "Doom Island." In addition to commanding minions and detaining prisoners, he keeps sharks to threaten prisoners. When a prisoner escapes the island, he orders his minions to "release the sharks." However, the sharks do not hunt the prisoner, but merely swim away. The comic jokes that Cueball is using fugitives as a pretense to help with declining shark populations, and that Doom Island is just a front for a marine biology center. Cueball maintains the whole "guard sharks" idea as a cover-up, so that his minions do not catch on to the real mission. | ||
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In action movie trope from the '70s and '80s, evil villains use sharks to kill off enemies. Some examples are: | In action movie trope from the '70s and '80s, evil villains use sharks to kill off enemies. Some examples are: | ||
*{{w|Le Magnifique}}, with the opening scene of the French movie a spy is trapped in a phone booth, which is then lifted by an helicopter and lowered into the sea, where a squad of frogmen attach it to a shark's cage before opening the door. | *{{w|Le Magnifique}}, with the opening scene of the French movie a spy is trapped in a phone booth, which is then lifted by an helicopter and lowered into the sea, where a squad of frogmen attach it to a shark's cage before opening the door. | ||
| β | *{{w|The Phantom (1996 film)|The Phantom}}, the Sengh Brotherhood has a | + | *{{w|The Phantom (1996 film)|The Phantom}}, the Sengh Brotherhood has a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SharkPool Shark Pool] in their [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ElaborateUndergroundBase Elaborate Underground Base]. This is one of the parts of the film lifted directly from the very first Phantom story, published in 1936, so the trope is at least that old. |
*{{w|Despicable Me}}, where the comical villain has a shark in his lair that unrealistically acts as a guard dog. | *{{w|Despicable Me}}, where the comical villain has a shark in his lair that unrealistically acts as a guard dog. | ||
*{{w|Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery}}, Dr. Evil wanted a pool full of sharks (with laser beams attached to their heads), but had to settle for ill-tempered mutated seabass. | *{{w|Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery}}, Dr. Evil wanted a pool full of sharks (with laser beams attached to their heads), but had to settle for ill-tempered mutated seabass. | ||
