In "The Shape of Water," the 2018 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, an amphibian-man with demigod-like powers gets rescued from a government laboratory by a mute custodian named Elisa. During the rescue, one of Elisa's companions murders an innocent security guard. The amphibian-man then proceeds to unflinchingly devour the pet cat of Elisa's neighbor and later violently slashes the throat of his (by that point eminently deserving) human captor.