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Kraken in popular culture

References to the fictional kraken are found in film, literature, television, and other popular culture forms.[1]

Digitally enhanced version of an illustration from the original 1870 edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by author Jules Verne

Comics edit

In various comics, particularly DC and Marvel Comics, multiple creatures have been named Kraken.

The Kraken from The Umbrella Academy was named so after the kraken (sea monster) as he has the ability to breathe under water.

In the Disney comic series "Tamers of Nonhuman Threats", the Kraken appears in the fifth story, "Let's Get Kraken". In this story, the Kraken has a natural enemy, the sperm whale.

The kraken is an aquatic monster that has appeared in many comics publications.[2]

A Kraken was featured in the story "The Kraken" in issue #49 of Adventures into the Unknown by ACG in 1953.[3]

Champion Comics #5 (March 1940, Harvey Comics), Monster Hunters #10 (Oct. 1977, Charlton Comics), Indiana Jones and the Sargasso Pirates #2 (Jan. 1996, Dark Horse Comics), and the Japanese comic, One Piece (ワンピース Wan Pīsu) #62 (November 15, 2010, Shueisha) all featured versions of the Kraken.

Two one-shot publications featured characters bearing the name: a villain called "Dr. Kraken" in Web-Man #1 (1993, Argosy Communications Inc.) and a hero called Diego Hargreeves with the alias "Kraken" in Umbrella Academy #1 (2007, Dark Horse Comics). 2000 AD #583, (July 1988, Fleetway Publications) also featured the debut of a character called Judge Kraken. In Japanese comics, a servant of Poseidon and one of the main antagonists of the second saga of the Saint Seiya manga series. He was called Kraken Isaac (クラーケンのアイザック, Kurāken no Aizakku) - a former childhood friend and fellow saint trainee of main character Cygnus Hyoga -, and debuted in volume 16, published in 1989 by Shueisha.

The web comic "Angry Faerie" (from July 13, 2012), featured a bodybuilder type character called the Kraken.[4]

A Kraken (dispatched by the God Poseidon) appears in the Avatar Press comic God is Dead #48.

A Kraken (depicted as a huge tentacled reptilian monstrosity) is sent to attack the heroes in Grimm Fairy Tales #123 and #124.

A Kraken appears in Broken Moon: Legends of the Deep #1 by American Gothic Press.[5]

A character called "Kid Kraken" appeared in the Dynamite Comics series The Green Hornet 66' meets The Spirit.[6]

DC Comics edit

Three versions appeared during the Golden Age of Comic Books: the first in Adventure Comics #56 (Nov. 1940), a second, land-based version existing on the planet Venus in Flash Comics #81 (March 1947) and a third variation capable of speech that claimed to be the actual Kraken from ancient folklore who battled the hero Captain Marvel in Whiz Comics #155 (June 1953).

Two versions appeared during the Silver Age of Comic Books: a giant octopus encountered by the Challengers of the Unknown in Showcase #12 (Jan.-Feb 1958), and the second being a giant squid summoned by the hero Aquaman in Aquaman #34 (July-Aug. 1967). Wonder Woman #247 (Sept. 1978) and #289 (March 1982) featured additional versions, and in Wonder Woman vol. 2 #75 (June 1993) the character encountered a version complete with tiara in a dream dimension. In Aquaman #1,000,000 (Nov. 1998), the eponymous hero of the title encounters one of the "Krakens of Vexjor", a race of huge tentacled reptilian sea monsters that inhabit Earth's oceans in the 853rd Century. Wonder Woman and Aquaman also encounter a young Kraken in Issue #1 (Aug. 2011, DC Comics) of the limited series Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies.

In the 2016 series DC Bombshells, King Nereus took the form of a Kraken to battle the heroines of the story. He's eventually dispatched by Aqua-Woman.[7][8]

Marvel Comics edit

Two types of "Krakens" appear in the world of Marvel Comics, one based on the sea monster and the second as a costumed identity used by several individuals. The former first appeared The Avengers #27 (April 1966, Marvel Comics),[9] and several variations of it have appeared in Marvel continuity since. The latter is used as the codename for a high-ranking member of HYDRA, with Daniel Whitehall and Jake Fury having assumed the identity throughout Marvel Comics' run.[10][11]

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Literature edit

  • Alfred Tennyson 1830 irregular sonnet The Kraken,[17] which described a massive creature that dwelled at the bottom of the sea.
  • In Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby Dick (chapter 59)[18] the crew of the Pequod encounter a "vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length". Starbuck calls it 'The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and returned to their ports to tell of it.' Narrator Ishmael attributes this to Bishop Pontopiddan's "the great Kraken," and concludes: "By some naturalists who have vaguely heard rumors of the mysterious creature, here spoken of, it is included among the class of cuttle-fish, to which, indeed, in certain external respects it would seem to belong, but only as the Anak of the tribe."
  • In Victor Hugo's 1866 novel Toilers of the Sea, Gilliatt kills a giant octopus with a knife. "This monster is the creature that seamen call the octopus, scientists call a cephalopod, and which in legend is known as a kraken."[19]
  • Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea mentions the kraken and features a group of giant squids that attack the submarine Nautilus.[20]
  • In Anatole France's 1908 novel L'île des Pingouins (chapter V),[21] Kraken is the name of a character that plays a monster, depicted as, among others, a dragon.
  • H. P. Lovecraft's novel The Call of Cthulhu, written in 1926, according to Cthulhu Mythos scholar Robert M. Price, has been inspired by Alfred Tennyson's sonnet. Both reference a huge aquatic creature sleeping for an eternity at the bottom of the ocean and destined to emerge from his slumber in an apocalyptic age.[22]
  • John Wyndham's 1953 novel The Kraken Wakes features the sonnet written by Alfred Tennyson called The Kraken (1830), which described a massive creature that dwelled at the bottom of the sea; the story itself refers to an invasion by sea-dwelling aliens. The title is a play on Tennyson's line "The Kraken sleepeth".[23]
  • Jack Vance's 1966 science fiction adventure novel The Blue World, based on an earlier 1964 novella The Kragen, depicts a world where natives must beware the kragen, giant, semi-intelligent squid-like predators which roam the ocean.[24]
  • In Richard Adams' 1980 novel The Girl in a Swing, the main female character is stalked by the Kraken to punish her for the crime of murder by drowning.[25]
  • Terry Brooks' 1985 novel The Wishsong of Shannara features a Kraken as a giant sea creature summoned by "dark magic" to join an assault on a Dwarf fortress.[26]
  • In the children's book Monster Mission (also known as Island of the Aunts) by Eva Ibbotson, the Kraken is a force for good who has the ability to clean and heal the oceans.[27]
  • The Kraken's appearance at the end of times is implied in the 1990s novel Good Omens by the demon Crowley “Great big bugger […] sleepeth beneath the thunders of the upper deep. Under loads of huge and unnumbered polypol — polipo — bloody great seaweeds, you know. Supposed to rise right at the end, when the sea boils”.
  • Kraken appear in Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox as enormous, peaceful creatures that stay in the same spot for centuries feeding on algae, doubling as islands. They are described as being conical in shape, although there is a tubular shaped one on the coast of Ireland. In this book, Kraken shed their shells explosively, igniting a layer of methane under the old one and sending it flying. A comparison is made between the Kraken, and a barnacle (albeit one big enough to be mistaken for an island).[28]
  • In Ken MacLeod's trilogy Engines of Lights (Cosmonaut Keep, Dark Light, Engine City), the giant squids or kraken are one of the five intelligent species from Earth that colonized the Galaxy, the others being one species of saurs and three species of hominidae, including the Homo sapiens. The krakens are the most intelligent of the space colonizers, and the ones who created the technology which made interstellar travels possible,
  • In Michael Crichton's posthumous 2009 novel Pirate Latitudes the sailors call the large sea creature that terrorizes the protagonist's ship "the kraken".[29]
  • China Miéville's 2010 novel Kraken features a cult devoted to the worship of the creature.[30]
  • In the A Song of Ice and Fire saga, by George R. R. Martin, the sigil of House Greyjoy of Pyke is a golden kraken. Krakens are also said to be stirring in the wake of the War of Five Kings, drawn by blood in the waters.
  • In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Watcher in the Water which guards the west gate of the abandoned dwarf kingdom of Moria is a Kraken-like creature.

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TV edit

  • The Hakken-Kraks, sea monsters that live in a pond in the vicinity of Whoville, appear in the 1977 television special Halloween Is Grinch Night and draw their name from the kraken (their heads and long necks, the only parts of their bodies ever seen, more closely resemble sea dragons).
  • The Australian television series Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell has a kraken character (Michael Ward) who emerges from a closet on the set when the character Sir Bobo Gargle (Francis Greenslade) announces his intention to 'release the kraken!' The kraken's appearance is accompanied by Toni Basil's 1981 song "Mickey".
  • The Big Bang Theory character Sheldon Cooper mentions krakens in the episodes, "Release the Kraken" and "The Date Night Variable"; in "The Hofstadter Insufficiency", Sheldon dreams of Leonard being grabbed by a kraken and pulled off the research ship he was on.
  • The television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea featured an episode called "The Village of Guilt" (1964), in which a failed experiment creates a giant octopus that terrorizes the population of a Norwegian fjord.[34]
  • In a 2015 commercial for the U.S. insurer, GEICO, a "kraken" emerges from a golf course water hazard during a televised tournament, its tentacles writhing and grasping a golfer and his caddy, as the commentators intone with characteristic understatement that the sea monster looks like a kraken.[35]
  • The kraken appears in an episode of Lost Tapes called "Kraken".
  • A kraken was a reoccurring character on the show Catscratch.
  • The sixth-season episode "A Wondrous Place" of the ABC series Once Upon a Time features a kraken, which attacks Aladdin and Jasmine. It is during this episode that Captain Nemo explains that kraken blood can open portals to other realms, which Captain Hook requires to return to Storybrooke.
  • The Kraken is featured imprisoned by magic in the deep sea, guarded by magician whales, in The Magicians season 5 episode 6 ("Oops!...I Did It Again"). Its release triggers a time loop, similar to Groundhog Day (film).
  • The Kraken makes a brief appearance in an episode of Family Guy called "Fighting Irish" when Peter Griffin thanked him for previous aid.
  • The Kraken appears in New Looney Tunes
  • The Kraken is explicitly mentioned in the Mickey Mouse episode "Wonders of the Deep," a giant squid subsequently appears and attacks Mickey and Donald while they're looking for Ludwig Von Drake.
  • The Kraken appears as a false flashback in Our Flag Means Death as the monster which killed Blackbeard's father. It is later revealed that it was in fact Blackbeard killing his own father, saying "I am the Kraken".

Video games edit

  • Age of Mythology (2002)[36]
  • Archon II: Adept (1984) : Features a Kraken as one of the elementals.[37]
  • Battlefield 1 (2016): In the Turning Tides DLC, the Royal Marines assault trooper has a tattoo of a Kraken on his left arm.
  • EarthBound (1994): Does not resemble a giant squid but is instead a large, green snake with red hair that breathes fire.
  • Evolve (2015): One of the monster classes is named Kraken.
  • Final Fantasy (1987)[38]
  • Forge of Empires added Kraken to the Oceanic Future age in 2017[39]
  • God of War II (2007) Set in the world Greek mythology, the Kraken is the final barrier between the player character Kratos and the temple of the Fates[40]
  • Gods Of Olympus- It is associated with the God Poseidon
  • Heroes of Newerth (2010)[41]
  • Hitman (2016): the second episode (Sapienza) contains a redacted challenge called Unleash the Kraken in which a sailing boat is consumed by a sea monster.
  • Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb (2003): the 7th and last level in Istanbul "The Kraken´s Lair". This level is a boss-fight level.
  • Kerbal Space Program (2015): A floating-point bug in this space flight simulator which caused vessels at high speed and/or far away places to be disassembled and destroyed was named "Space Kraken" by the community. This name was adopted by the developers, who named the fix for this bug "Krakensbane".[42] Various other game-breaking or ship-destroying glitches have since been found, which are also referred to as the Kraken.
  • Kid Icarus: Uprising (2012) features a space kraken.[43]
  • Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (2006)[44]
  • Old School RuneScape (2013): the Kraken is featured as a boss
  • One Piece: Grand Cruise (2018) features the crew taking on a kraken.[45]
  • Sea of Thieves features the Kraken as an enemy which attacks player ships. (2018)
  • Secrets of the Deep for Pinball FX 2 (2011)
  • Smite (2013): Kraken is the name of Poseidon's ultimate ability (despite Poseidon being a Greek god and the Kraken being associated with the Norse). A game achievement involving this ability was called "Release the Kraken"[46][47][48]
  • Splatoon (2015): the Kraken is a special weapon obtainable in a match that allows the player to temporarily become a giant squid and move with reduced speed and impunity across the map. This special was not present in Splatoon 2 (2017), but a reworked version called the Kraken Royale was added to the 3.0 update of Splatoon 3 (2022).
  • Splatoon Series (2015-2022): Throughout all three games in the Splatoon series, the English translation has featured a brand named Krak-On, a variant on the word kraken. In the original Japanese, this connection is not present.[49]
  • Return of the Obra Dinn (2018): A Kraken is seen in the 7th chapter of the story, the Doom, summoned by mermaids to return a sacred shell that was stolen by the Obra Dinn's crew, killing many of them in the process.
  • Wonder Boy in Monster Land (1987): Kraken is a boss monster: a blue giant squid that floats.[50][51]
  • World of Warships (2015): One of the in-game achievements is named Kraken Unleashed, and is awarded to players who destroy 5 or more ships in a single battle.
  • Zeus: Master of Olympus (2000): The Kraken appears as both an enemy, and a friendly, monster in some campaign missions. It can be unleashed by Poseidon for those missions where Poseidon is an opponent god (it will appear in water ways, essentially blocking trade), but where the player can build a Sanctuary to Poseidon, it will defend the player's city from attack.
  • Wizard101 (2008-): The Kraken is a boss as well as a spell and pet in the game.
  • Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (2012): Introduced in the 0.G (Gaiman) update, the Kraken is a gigantic octopus mutated by the Blob, and can be found in rivers and lakes.

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Nonhuman Threats the Kraken appears in the fifth story Let s Get Kraken In this story the Kraken has a natural enemy the sperm whale The kraken is an aquatic monster that has appeared in many comics publications 2 A Kraken was featured in the story The Kraken in issue 49 of Adventures into the Unknown by ACG in 1953 3 Champion Comics 5 March 1940 Harvey Comics Monster Hunters 10 Oct 1977 Charlton Comics Indiana Jones and the Sargasso Pirates 2 Jan 1996 Dark Horse Comics and the Japanese comic One Piece ワンピース Wan Pisu 62 November 15 2010 Shueisha all featured versions of the Kraken Two one shot publications featured characters bearing the name a villain called Dr Kraken in Web Man 1 1993 Argosy Communications Inc and a hero called Diego Hargreeves with the alias Kraken in Umbrella Academy 1 2007 Dark Horse Comics 2000 AD 583 July 1988 Fleetway Publications also featured the debut of a character called Judge Kraken In Japanese comics a servant of Poseidon and one of the main antagonists of the second saga of the Saint Seiya manga series He was called Kraken Isaac クラーケンのアイザック Kuraken no Aizakku a former childhood friend and fellow saint trainee of main character Cygnus Hyoga and debuted in volume 16 published in 1989 by Shueisha The web comic Angry Faerie from July 13 2012 featured a bodybuilder type character called the Kraken 4 A Kraken dispatched by the God Poseidon appears in the Avatar Press comic God is Dead 48 A Kraken depicted as a huge tentacled reptilian monstrosity is sent to attack the heroes in Grimm Fairy Tales 123 and 124 A Kraken appears in Broken Moon Legends of the Deep 1 by American Gothic Press 5 A character called Kid Kraken appeared in the Dynamite Comics series The Green Hornet 66 meets The Spirit 6 DC Comics edit Three versions appeared during the Golden Age of Comic Books the first in Adventure Comics 56 Nov 1940 a second land based version existing on the planet Venus in Flash Comics 81 March 1947 and a third variation capable of speech that claimed to be the actual Kraken from ancient folklore who battled the hero Captain Marvel in Whiz Comics 155 June 1953 Two versions appeared during the Silver Age of Comic Books a giant octopus encountered by the Challengers of the Unknown in Showcase 12 Jan Feb 1958 and the second being a giant squid summoned by the hero Aquaman in Aquaman 34 July Aug 1967 Wonder Woman 247 Sept 1978 and 289 March 1982 featured additional versions and in Wonder Woman vol 2 75 June 1993 the character encountered a version complete with tiara in a dream dimension In Aquaman 1 000 000 Nov 1998 the eponymous hero of the title encounters one of the Krakens of Vexjor a race of huge tentacled reptilian sea monsters that inhabit Earth s oceans in the 853rd Century Wonder Woman and Aquaman also encounter a young Kraken in Issue 1 Aug 2011 DC Comics of the limited series Flashpoint Wonder Woman and the Furies In the 2016 series DC Bombshells King Nereus took the form of a Kraken to battle the heroines of the story He s eventually dispatched by Aqua Woman 7 8 Marvel Comics edit Two types of Krakens appear in the world of Marvel Comics one based on the sea monster and the second as a costumed identity used by several individuals The former first appeared The Avengers 27 April 1966 Marvel Comics 9 and several variations of it have appeared in Marvel continuity since The latter is used as the codename for a high ranking member of HYDRA with Daniel Whitehall and Jake Fury having assumed the identity throughout Marvel Comics run 10 11 Film editIn silent films of the 1910s and 1920s the Kraken was often portrayed using stock footage of an octopus in a bathtub attacking a toy ship This footage first appeared in Georges Melies 1906 film Under the Seas and was recycled in many other films 12 The Kraken appears in the film Clash of the Titans 1981 as a giant four armed humanoid with scales and a fishtail it is said to be the last of the Titans In the 2010 version of Clash of the Titans 2010 the Kraken is again featured as a weapon of the Olympian gods This version of the creature has a humanoid head torso and arms but also boasts a number of tentacles Instead of a tail he is depicted with crab like legs He is given a new backstory as the creation of Hades that was used to overthrow the Titans and was later used by Hades to get revenge on Zeus for tricking him into the underworld Release the kraken as said by Liam Neeson s Zeus has become an Internet meme 13 The Kraken from Clash of the Titans makes an appearance in The Lego Batman Movie Even though it is not the kraken a giant octopus menaces ships and eventually the city of San Francisco in the Ray Harryhausen film It Came from Beneath the Sea The Kraken appears in Jack the Giant Killer 1962 The Kraken appears in Atlantis Milo s Return 2003 where it is shown to be telepathic A telemovie called Kraken Tentacles of the Deep 2006 14 features the Kraken as its main antagonist In the film Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man s Chest 2006 15 the Kraken is an enormous cephalopod with rows of sharp teeth It does the bidding of Davy Jones by pursuing the souls of men who bear the black spot a mark that appears on men who are overdue on their debt to Jones It appears in Pirates of the Caribbean At World s End where it has been beached and killed The Kraken makes an appearance in the 2018 animated film Hotel Transylvania 3 Summer Vacation voiced by Joe Jonas He sings to the other monsters on the vacation to Atlantis and he later gets brainwashed by Van Helsing in the climax to attack the monsters Jonathan eventually breaks the Kraken out of his brainwashed state by playing Macarena 16 In Return to Neverland the octopus which replaced the crocodile in the first movie is most likely based on the kraken In the Legendary Pictures MonsterVerse series The Kraken is one on the 17 Titans awoken by King Ghidorah in the 2019 film Godzilla King of the Monsters it is also known as Na Kika It also makes an appearance in the 2021 graphic novel Godzilla Dominion where it is captured by poachers until Godzilla frees it The lead protagonist in the 2023 animated film Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken is Ruby Gillman who is a shy fifteen year old teenage kraken In the film krakens are a race of benevolent majestic creatures in conflict with malicious mermaids The three part Christian cartoon series Kingdom Under The Sea produced by Spot Films later on Video Brinquedo the main villain is a giant octopus covered in shadows named Kraken In the Brazilian dub he is only referred to as O Monstro The Monster Literature editAlfred Tennyson 1830 irregular sonnet The Kraken 17 which described a massive creature that dwelled at the bottom of the sea In Herman Melville s 1851 novel Moby Dick chapter 59 18 the crew of the Pequod encounter a vast pulpy mass furlongs in length Starbuck calls it The great live squid which they say few whale ships ever beheld and returned to their ports to tell of it Narrator Ishmael attributes this to Bishop Pontopiddan s the great Kraken and concludes By some naturalists who have vaguely heard rumors of the mysterious creature here spoken of it is included among the class of cuttle fish to which indeed in certain external respects it would seem to belong but only as the Anak of the tribe In Victor Hugo s 1866 novel Toilers of the Sea Gilliatt kills a giant octopus with a knife This monster is the creature that seamen call the octopus scientists call a cephalopod and which in legend is known as a kraken 19 Jules Verne s 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea mentions the kraken and features a group of giant squids that attack the submarine Nautilus 20 In Anatole France s 1908 novel L ile des Pingouins chapter V 21 Kraken is the name of a character that plays a monster depicted as among others a dragon H P Lovecraft s novel The Call of Cthulhu written in 1926 according to Cthulhu Mythos scholar Robert M Price has been inspired by Alfred Tennyson s sonnet Both reference a huge aquatic creature sleeping for an eternity at the bottom of the ocean and destined to emerge from his slumber in an apocalyptic age 22 John Wyndham s 1953 novel The Kraken Wakes features the sonnet written by Alfred Tennyson called The Kraken 1830 which described a massive creature that dwelled at the bottom of the sea the story itself refers to an invasion by sea dwelling aliens The title is a play on Tennyson s line The Kraken sleepeth 23 Jack Vance s 1966 science fiction adventure novel The Blue World based on an earlier 1964 novella The Kragen depicts a world where natives must beware the kragen giant semi intelligent squid like predators which roam the ocean 24 In Richard Adams 1980 novel The Girl in a Swing the main female character is stalked by the Kraken to punish her for the crime of murder by drowning 25 Terry Brooks 1985 novel The Wishsong of Shannara features a Kraken as a giant sea creature summoned by dark magic to join an assault on a Dwarf fortress 26 In the children s book Monster Mission also known as Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson the Kraken is a force for good who has the ability to clean and heal the oceans 27 The Kraken s appearance at the end of times is implied in the 1990s novel Good Omens by the demon Crowley Great big bugger sleepeth beneath the thunders of the upper deep Under loads of huge and unnumbered polypol polipo bloody great seaweeds you know Supposed to rise right at the end when the sea boils Kraken appear in Artemis Fowl The Time Paradox as enormous peaceful creatures that stay in the same spot for centuries feeding on algae doubling as islands They are described as being conical in shape although there is a tubular shaped one on the coast of Ireland In this book Kraken shed their shells explosively igniting a layer of methane under the old one and sending it flying A comparison is made between the Kraken and a barnacle albeit one big enough to be mistaken for an island 28 In Ken MacLeod s trilogy Engines of Lights Cosmonaut Keep Dark Light Engine City the giant squids or kraken are one of the five intelligent species from Earth that colonized the Galaxy the others being one species of saurs and three species of hominidae including the Homo sapiens The krakens are the most intelligent of the space colonizers and the ones who created the technology which made interstellar travels possible In Michael Crichton s posthumous 2009 novel Pirate Latitudes the sailors call the large sea creature that terrorizes the protagonist s ship the kraken 29 China Mieville s 2010 novel Kraken features a cult devoted to the worship of the creature 30 In the A Song of Ice and Fire saga by George R R Martin the sigil of House Greyjoy of Pyke is a golden kraken Krakens are also said to be stirring in the wake of the War of Five Kings drawn by blood in the waters In J R R Tolkien s The Lord of the Rings trilogy the Watcher in the Water which guards the west gate of the abandoned dwarf kingdom of Moria is a Kraken like creature Music edit Kraken is a song by filk songwriter Leslie Fish based partly on the Tennyson sonnet citation needed Kraken Is a song by Knife Party featured on their 2015 EP Trigger Warning Release the Kraken is a song by Ninja Sex Party about a comedically harmless Kraken 31 featured on their 2018 album Cool Patrol Sports editGreg Hardy defensive end for the Carolina Panthers is called The Kraken by himself and his fans 32 Filipino basketball player June Mar Fajardo of the San Miguel Beermen is often called the Kraken during broadcasts of Philippine Basketball Association games and the Philippines men s national basketball team The term was first used in 2010 by members at the forum Interbasket net New York Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez has been referred to as the Kraken often stylized as kRAKEn since joining the team in 2016 The Mazatlan F C football stadium in Mexico is nicknamed El Kraken The Seattle Kraken are a National Hockey League NHL team based in Seattle Washington that have played since 2021 33 TV editThe Hakken Kraks sea monsters that live in a pond in the vicinity of Whoville appear in the 1977 television special Halloween Is Grinch Night and draw their name from the kraken their heads and long necks the only parts of their bodies ever seen more closely resemble sea dragons The Australian television series Shaun Micallef s Mad as Hell has a kraken character Michael Ward who emerges from a closet on the set when the character Sir Bobo Gargle Francis Greenslade announces his intention to release the kraken The kraken s appearance is accompanied by Toni Basil s 1981 song Mickey The Big Bang Theory character Sheldon Cooper mentions krakens in the episodes Release the Kraken and The Date Night Variable in The Hofstadter Insufficiency Sheldon dreams of Leonard being grabbed by a kraken and pulled off the research ship he was on The television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea featured an episode called The Village of Guilt 1964 in which a failed experiment creates a giant octopus that terrorizes the population of a Norwegian fjord 34 In a 2015 commercial for the U S insurer GEICO a kraken emerges from a golf course water hazard during a televised tournament its tentacles writhing and grasping a golfer and his caddy as the commentators intone with characteristic understatement that the sea monster looks like a kraken 35 The kraken appears in an episode of Lost Tapes called Kraken A kraken was a reoccurring character on the show Catscratch The sixth season episode A Wondrous Place of the ABC series Once Upon a Time features a kraken which attacks Aladdin and Jasmine It is during this episode that Captain Nemo explains that kraken blood can open portals to other realms which Captain Hook requires to return to Storybrooke The Kraken is featured imprisoned by magic in the deep sea guarded by magician whales in The Magicians season 5 episode 6 Oops I Did It Again Its release triggers a time loop similar to Groundhog Day film The Kraken makes a brief appearance in an episode of Family Guy called Fighting Irish when Peter Griffin thanked him for previous aid The Kraken appears in New Looney Tunes The Kraken is explicitly mentioned in the Mickey Mouse episode Wonders of the Deep a giant squid subsequently appears and attacks Mickey and Donald while they re looking for Ludwig Von Drake The Kraken appears as a false flashback in Our Flag Means Death as the monster which killed Blackbeard s father It is later revealed that it was in fact Blackbeard killing his own father saying I am the Kraken Video games editAge of Mythology 2002 36 Archon II Adept 1984 Features a Kraken as one of the elementals 37 Battlefield 1 2016 In the Turning Tides DLC the Royal Marines assault trooper has a tattoo of a Kraken on his left arm EarthBound 1994 Does not resemble a giant squid but is instead a large green snake with red hair that breathes fire Evolve 2015 One of the monster classes is named Kraken Final Fantasy 1987 38 Forge of Empires added Kraken to the Oceanic Future age in 2017 39 God of War II 2007 Set in the world Greek mythology the Kraken is the final barrier between the player character Kratos and the temple of the Fates 40 Gods Of Olympus It is associated with the God Poseidon Heroes of Newerth 2010 41 Hitman 2016 the second episode Sapienza contains a redacted challenge called Unleash the Kraken in which a sailing boat is consumed by a sea monster Indiana Jones and the Emperor s Tomb 2003 the 7th and last level in Istanbul The Kraken s Lair This level is a boss fight level Kerbal Space Program 2015 A floating point bug in this space flight simulator which caused vessels at high speed and or far away places to be disassembled and destroyed was named Space Kraken by the community This name was adopted by the developers who named the fix for this bug Krakensbane 42 Various other game breaking or ship destroying glitches have since been found which are also referred to as the Kraken Kid Icarus Uprising 2012 features a space kraken 43 Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2006 44 Old School RuneScape 2013 the Kraken is featured as a boss One Piece Grand Cruise 2018 features the crew taking on a kraken 45 Sea of Thieves features the Kraken as an enemy which attacks player ships 2018 Secrets of the Deep for Pinball FX 2 2011 Smite 2013 Kraken is the name of Poseidon s ultimate ability despite Poseidon being a Greek god and the Kraken being associated with the Norse A game achievement involving this ability was called Release the Kraken 46 47 48 Splatoon 2015 the Kraken is a special weapon obtainable in a match that allows the player to temporarily become a giant squid and move with reduced speed and impunity across the map This special was not present in Splatoon 2 2017 but a reworked version called the Kraken Royale was added to the 3 0 update of Splatoon 3 2022 Splatoon Series 2015 2022 Throughout all three games in the Splatoon series the English translation has featured a brand named Krak On a variant on the word kraken In the original Japanese this connection is not present 49 Return of the Obra Dinn 2018 A Kraken is seen in the 7th chapter of the story the Doom summoned by mermaids to return a sacred shell that was stolen by the Obra Dinn s crew killing many of them in the process Wonder Boy in Monster Land 1987 Kraken is a boss monster a blue giant squid that floats 50 51 World of Warships 2015 One of the in game achievements is named Kraken Unleashed and is awarded to players who destroy 5 or more ships in a single battle Zeus Master of Olympus 2000 The Kraken appears as both an enemy and a friendly monster in some campaign missions It can be unleashed by Poseidon for those missions where Poseidon is an opponent god it will appear in water ways essentially blocking trade but where the player can build a Sanctuary to Poseidon it will defend the player s city from attack Wizard101 2008 The Kraken is a boss as well as a spell and pet in the game Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead 2012 Introduced in the 0 G Gaiman update the Kraken is a gigantic octopus mutated by the Blob and can be found in rivers and lakes Miscellaneous editIn Greek mythology Perseus defeats a monster called Ceto represented by the constellation of Cetus usually depicted as a whale whose systematic name is Cetacean also deriving from Ceto A set of four postage stamps displaying legendary Canadian animals was released in 1990 One stamp in the set featured the kraken 52 53 Magic The Gathering features the kraken as a creature type Alongside their aquatic brethren leviathans krakens are typically among the largest creatures available to summon with blue mana Dungeons amp Dragons features the kraken as an end game challenge boss Kraken was the name of a marine biological supply house in the United Kingdom from 1968 to 1978 A historical website exists 54 The Kraken is a steel floorless roller coaster manufactured by Bolliger amp Mabillard It opened in 2000 and is located at SeaWorld Orlando in the United States 55 dead link The Kraken Rum is a 94 proof rum manufactured in Trinidad and Tobago it was released in the United States in 2009 56 Kraken Mare is a major body of liquid ethane and methane on Saturn s moon Titan 57 Kraken Catena is a pit chain and possible tectonic fault on Neptune s moon Triton 58 The Razer Kraken is a gaming music headphone range created by Razer Inc 59 Kraken is a modern make of twin hose regulator for scuba diving 60 Attorney Sidney Powell referred to releasing supposed evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 U S Presidential Election as releasing the Kraken inspiring a wave of memes and criticism 61 In Monster High Kala Mer ri is the daughter of the Kraken although she keeps her heritage a secret See also editCetus mythology Colossal squid Giant squid Giant squid in popular culture Lusca colossal octopus Sea monster Seattle KrakenReferences edit Under the Sea The Kraken in Culture Cgdclass com Retrieved on 2011 11 21 cgdclass com 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