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It's generally agreed upon that
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Piranhas provide an alternative to sharks for the [[Shark Pool]], where the villain will always walk in with a bloody dripping leg of lamb or goat, dip it in the tank for two seconds, and then remove it to show a bare bone.
In [[Real Life]], the piranha's viciousness is exaggerated. When they're not hungry or are asleep, they flee from anything that disturbs them. Of course, when they do become hungry they actually can leave nothing but bones when they are inclined to attack and eat. While President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] did once observe Amazon piranhas reduce a cow to a skeleton in a few minutes, this occurred under artificial conditions. The locals had blocked off this portion of the tributary with nets, dumped hordes of extra piranhas in there, and starved them for days before throwing the cow in, all in the name of making a spectacle for the visiting president. Dropping the cow into a pit full of starving humans would have had a similar result, as anybody who's seen a zombie movie could tell you.
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* ''[[Excel Saga (Manga)|Excel Saga]]'': The title character was dropped at least once into a pit full of piranhas, among other things.
* Rando hangs Yusuke over a pond of piranha-like fishes in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''.
* In ''[[Dragonball]]'', Ninja Murasaki [[Walk On Water|ran across a pond]] to get away from Goku. Goku was about to swim across when Murasaki [[What an Idiot!|warned him there were piranha]]. Goku didn't know what piranha were, so Murasaki threw a large fish in the water to demonstrate. Understanding, Goku simply [[In a Single Bound|jumped over the water]].
* In ''[[Gon]]'', a swarm of piranha try to get an easy snack out of the titular baby t-rex. Too bad he's [[Made of Iron]] and an [[Implacable Man]](dinosaur). Gon decides to make a meal out of them instead.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Merely entering piranha-infested water in ''[[Tomb Raider]] 3'' triggers a swarm that eats up your health bar in seconds.
* Carvanha from ''[[Pokémon]]'' notably [[Shown Their Work|the Pokedex does say that Carvanha are timid as individuals.]] Unsurprisingly, it evolves into [[
** ''Black and White'' has Basculin.
* In ''[[Rayman]] 2'', [[Grimy Water|about half of all the water in the game is infested with these]].
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* Naturally for a [[Trope Overdosed]] show, Dr. Drakken once threatened ''[[Kim Possible]]'s'' [[Sidekick]] with a pool of piranhas.
* One episode of ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' had the gang in the Amazon, and at one point Scoob and Shaggy had to build a canoe made of wood to cross the river. Piranhas start to eat through the canoe, causing Shaggy and Scooby to literally run on water to get away from them.
* ''[[Street Sharks]]'' gave us Dr. Piranoid, but it subverted [[
* ''[[Generator Rex]]'' encountered piranha in episode 9, mutated into an [[Extreme Omnivore]] [[Flying Seafood Special]] variety by the series' [[Phlebotinum]].
* [[Tarzan (Disney)|"Aargh! A piranha!" "Those only live in South America!"]]
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