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After noticing patterns over the years, I created this list with 13 points to score the level of stereotypes about sharks present in a work. I believe that most of these stereotypes have their main origin in the film Jaws (1975).

With the scarcity of works that explore other creative approaches to sharks, beyond the “man-eating ” narrative, Jaws ended up consolidating itself as the greatest source of inspiration and creative reference for many productions to this day. This was called “The Jaws Effect”. 🩸🦈

I've noticed that certain patterns in the creative world repeat themselves to the point of being tedious, which bothers me. Not because they're bad, but because in many cases they're harmful. With these points, I hope to show sharks in a new light.

🩸1 - Great White Shark Popularized by the Jaws movie, the Great white shark has become the dominant archetype in the representation of sharks in fiction. Often, works choose to use this shark or a generic gray version of imprecise anatomy, with no defined species. However, there are over 400 species of shark, and very few are explored creatively.

🩸2 - Man-eater The persistent idea that sharks have humans as a natural part of their diet is one of the most widespread stereotypes. Although there are reports of incidents, most attacks are isolated and often by mistake. Any animal, including humans, could turn to unexpected sources of food in a situation of desperation or starvation.

🩸3 - Forced Behavior It's common to see sharks portrayed with distorted or exaggerated behaviors that don't match their nature just to cause tension, such as:

Hunting small fish, ignoring the fact that sharks avoid expending energy on low-energy prey.

Abandoning easy prey just to arbitrarily chase the protagonist.

Going crazy at the smell of blood.

Showing a wild and constant hunger.

Obsessively pursuing a single prey.

Making aggressive shark species known for being peaceful or timid.

Attacking and destroying objects, structures or vessels with disproportionate fury just to reach someone.

🩸4 - Monstrous appearance It's common to see sharks' appearance exaggerated to intensify visual fear, making them look like monsters rather than real animals:

A gaping mouth, with huge, crooked teeth that are constantly stained with blood.

Menacing, demonic red, black empty and soulless eyes.

Body covered in grotesque scars, exposed wounds and even weapons embedded in the skin.

A disproportionate figure, with pointed shapes, a swollen or deformed body.

Bizarre mutations that completely alter their anatomy.

Technological modifications to make them more weapon-like, emphasizing the idea of the "Killing Machine".

🩸5 - Shark de-characterization Especially in children's works, in order to be accepted by the public or the other characters in the plot, the shark is often forced to change its identity. It is transformed into a “domesticated” version, such as:

Becoming a vegetarian or a toothless shark, losing its ecological role as a predator.

Taking on exaggeratedly “funny” behavior, becoming a caricature.

Having its behavior and appearance altered to look more like a dolphin or other friendly shape, excluding striking features such as prominent fins, visible gills or a fusiform snout.

Choose to portray a specific species of shark because it seems more “friendly” to the public, such as the whale shark.

🩸6 - Limited Nature The representation of sharks in fiction is usually limited to sensationalist aspects, such as the power of their bite, the old phrase that they "smell a drop of blood in 2 million liters of water", or things like "killers from the womb".

However, sharks have some very interesting characteristics that are little explored creatively:

Acute hearing, capable of picking up sounds more than a kilometer away in the ocean.

Their electroreception, which allows them to perceive tiny electrical impulses emitted by living prey and even sense the electromagnetic field around them.

Possible link between their migrations and the lunar phases.

Incredible healing capacity and immune resistance.

Skin made up of denticles made of the same material as our teeth.

They constantly change their teeth.

Longevity and they never stop growing.

Many fish such as rémoras and pilot fish depend on and live alongside sharks.

Sensitive to pressure changes and can even predict hurricanes and tropical storms.

🩸7 - Red Presence Striking presence of red, either with the presence of blood or the color present in the design. This emphasis on red reinforces the shark's direct association with violence, danger and death, contributing to the construction of the “bloodthirsty monster” stereotype.

🩸8 - Dark Music It is common for sharks to be associated with tense, dark and threatening soundtracks whenever they appear on the scene. More often than not, I notice that when sharks are mentioned in song lyrics, it is to express some sort of comparison to some negative stereotype.

🩸9 - Threatening setting Scenarios with sharks are almost always represented in a gloomy, dark, desaturated way, empty of marine life. The environment is treated as a dangerous place by nature, shipwrecks, dark caves, areas full of garbage, explosive mines or the inhospitable depths of the sea

🩸10 - Masculinization The theme involving sharks has always been very masculine. Shark characters are rarely female, while the human characters who interact with these animals, scientists, hunters, divers or specialists, are almost always white men. Women and minorities almost never occupy central or specialized roles in these narratives.

🩸11 - Villainization Sharks are often portrayed as villains by default, carrying negative and caricatured stereotypes, for example:

Gangster or mobster

Aggressor or school bully

Criminal or loan shark

Brutish idiot or dumb henchman

Corrupt politician or authoritarian fascist figure

Indomitable monster or irrational beast

Recurring enemy, obstacle or final boss in video games

🩸12 - Objectification Sharks are often treated as mere resources or utilitarian objects in fiction. They are represented as trophies, rewards, collectibles or consumables, as if they existed only to be hunted, exhibited or eaten.

This objectification also appears in the constant presence of jaws decorating environments, teeth used as accessories, fins amputated as an ingredient, and in the display of the animal's body in a morbid way: corpses exposed, parts dissected or being devoured by other creatures.

🩸13 - Death As if it weren't enough to have become a symbol of death incarnate, even in animations aimed at children, sharks almost always have the same fate: death. What's worse, their death is usually celebrated as a relief or a victory.

Impaled, butchered, set on fire, crushed, blown up, fished out or killed by another "heroic" creature, tossed about by hurricanes… In many cases, these scenes are treated with humor or graphic exaggeration, turning the destruction of the shark into a spectacle.

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I was unsure about publishing this list as it is just personal observations from someone who loves sharks. A few people asked me for this list and said it would be worth posting, don't take it too seriously.

These stereotypes are not necessarily bad or invalid, after all, we are talking about works of fantasy and fiction. However, they could be resignified through new creative ideas that arouse feelings other than fear and terror.

Although many people's passion for sharks arose precisely from movies like Jaws and the stereotypes it popularized, it's important to remember that these same elements have been repeated almost unchanged for decades. This exhaustive repetition was largely because it was profitable, turning sharks into yet another victim of entertainment capitalism. Over time, this type of representation ended up distancing ordinary people from the reality of these animals, reinforcing fear rather than curiosity. Nowadays things are a little better, but not better enough.

The reality of sharks goes far beyond that. They are mysterious and fascinating animals, older than the first trees or dinosaurs. They have survived five mass extinctions, incredibly adapted from the abyssal depths to mangroves and freshwater rivers. They have unique senses and behaviors that are still shrouded in mystery, as well as a biology so singular that it inspires advances in science and technology. For many ancient cultures, sharks are revered as true gods of ocean balance.

I dare say that by looking after the health of the seas for millions of years, sharks made it possible for our own species to emerge from the depths of the primordial ocean. They are, in a way, guardians of our cradle of origin. And so we owe them a great deal of respect and preserve them at all costs.

To date, no creative work has managed to surpass “Jaws”. Who will be creative enough to create a new work and transform the collective imaginary of sharks from fear to fascination? 🦈✨

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Prolly the only edit ill ever post here

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Doodles from my tiktok live....😭

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Hope it's noticeable who they're even without the hair part

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Our glorious king in white 😌✊

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ʚ buff fluttershy ɞ because i'm here to deliver what you didn't thought you needed before 🐇💌

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So happy❤️ KILL HIM KILL HIM NOW

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Rise n Shine Sailers, another Monday be upon us!

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collab with @maggotmargarita up on both our tiktoks

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Cool tiger next gen!

So im gonna be starting this thing where I like just make next gen. So thats cool ig.

She doesnt have a name yet so gives some ideas!

Also!

ROAR!

(You can tell i was having to much fun doing this)

Next ship ideas?

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MY OCS!! - Landon, Vasin, Hailey, and Rockjaw

would you believe me if these are my OCs for Supa Strikas and Eltingville Club-- they coexist

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"GAME OVER" BUT I WROTE THE PLOT INSTEAD

note ;; the series finale was heavily dissapointing, so i decided to rewrite the whole plot of the episode. hope yawl will like it,, 🤞

So the whole episode would focus on shakes trying to tell coach and the rest that he wants to quit football and try doing something else with his life, but hes scared to tell them cuz he thought they would judge him, especially that he was kind of the face of the team after he got popular. Somehow, the rumor about shakes quitting football went extremely popular on social media and shakes got extremely stressed about it to the point where he wanted to run away from everyone.

When he was looking on sun, he visualized a bright future with a child and his wife, but it was stopped by coach sitting next to him. They then discuss the rumor, shakes saying that it was true and just couldnt have balls to say it to coach or anyone from the team. Coach then tells him that this decision should make HIM happy, not them and then proceeds to hug shakes and shakes lowk tears up.

Coach asks shakes if he will play in the finals and obviously he agreed, but only had a week to prepare, so he locks tf in and trains his ass off.

During the match, shakes got heavily lightheaded and fell on to the ground (which was caused by overworking) and then the female doctor from the episode appears in front of him, he gets a little flustered but then comes back to playing.

Shake wins his last match and a photographer takes a photo of the team and suddenly theres like a collage of photos with shakes and the rest, cuz even though shakes didnt play football anymore, him and the whole SS were friends either way.

The last photo of the collage is shakes, the fine girl he bagged and his kid sitting and smiling (like on every family photo) and then the photo zooms out and shows older shakes looking at all of those photos but his main squeeze appears and shes like "ur not eating?" but his fatass is like "duh! of course im eating!" and then we have a shot of the whole SS and shakes family sittinv on table talking and some of them fucking around (as always)

When shakes comes in and sits, he makes a monologue about thanking everyone for being there for him, he tears up because of it, they cheer him up, they laugh at el matadors dumbass for the last time, and then decide to take a memorial photo together that they decide to hang in the middle of the wall.

THE END

last side note ;; im not rlly the best at writing srry for that :pp

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HOW I THINK EACH SUPA STRIKA SMELLS LIKE

001 ;; Bojack "Big Bo" Anderson

- sweat and male deodorant, period i cant see this man smelling good on daily basis

- OBVIOUSLY for more fancier meetings other than football pitch, i feel like he would wear Tom Ford Oud Wood

002 ;; Klaus Von Klinkerhoffen

- Klaus would... literally smell like nothing, like pure air

- For fancier meetings, i dont see klaus wearing any fancy frangrance, infact i dont think klaus would wear fragrance AT ALL

003 ;; Rizo

- I feel like he would fw more icy scents ygwim? like adidas ice dive deodorant

- For fancier meetings, he MOST DEFINITELY wears Jimmy Choo Man's "Ice"

004 ;; Eagle Eye

- I feel like he would kind of smell like lavender or something more floral? yk u just pass him and ur like "did this bitch went straight out of a meadow or smthing" ??

- For fancier meetings, he would rock the fuck out of Reflection Man Amouage, talk w a wall

006 ;; Griz

- cheese. thats it.

007 ;; Cool Joe

- I dont think he would really care about fragrance, but he would probably spray some cheap body spray on himself from time to time

- For his performances or obviously fancier meetings, Captain Fawcett's "Booze and Baccy".

008 ;; Nathan "North" Shaw

- Even tho he said that El Matador takes more showers than him in a whole month, it doesnt mean that he smells like a homeless man! I feel like he would wear some sea salt cologne on himself

- For more fancier meetings, Jo Malone London's "Wood Sage & Sea Salt"

009 ;; Fabian "Dancing Rasta" Skhosana

- This man SMELLLS good.. I mean he wouldnt apply fragrances daily (especially for practices or matches), but he still has a really strong smell, something rose-y maybe?

- For fancier meetings, Montale's "Red Aoud". Hes a definition of classy when it comes to fragrances (not counting el matador,,)

010 ;; Shakes Mokena

- As much as i dont rlly like shakes, i dont think he would smell bad!

- For fancier meetings, The Merchant of Venice's "Zafferano Iran". Seeing him in a suit just GIVES OFF these warm spicy vibes idk,,

011 ;; Noah Murdoch

- Strong, STRONG fragrances. Just looking at him from a mile away would fuck ur nostrils (in positive way cuz he would smell good)

- For fancier meetings, Viktor&Rolf's "Spicebomb"

016 ;; Twisting Tiger

- I feel like tiger would kind of smell floral but also kind of earthy? SEE MY VISION GANG,,

- For fancier meetings, .Oddity's "Naked Dance" would suit him the most

020 ;; Carlos "El Matador"

- boy oh BOY where do i even begin.

- This man rocks the FUCK out of any expensive fragrance, even on football pitch and practices. U wanna take that ball from him and all u smell is Jean Paul Gaultier mixed with sweat

- For fancy meetings, i feel like he would wear either Versace's "Eros Flame" or Gucci's "Intense Oud"

055 ;; Jozef "Blok" Rybar

- On daily basis, i dont think he would wear any fragrance or smell like anything, blok is jst blok

- Same w Klaus, i dont think he would wear any fragrance. Maybe ON SOME occasions, Valentino's "Born in Roma"

(+ bonus)

011 ;; David Liedge, aka "Coach"

- I dont feel like he would be fancy w his scent, he just sprays deodorant on himself and leaves the house happily

- On special occassions and fancier meetings, Louis Vuitton's "Pur Oud"

THATS ALL BAII 🤞,,,,

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No man's Island really could've been solved if Invincible United said "first come first serve"

Or

Dooma and Rasta made out. Either way there was a simple solution