Talk:Kraken in popular culture

Water Babies
The undersea God was called Kraken, was he not?
 * In most stories it's a creature of the gods that is used to punish or reward humans. Pkeets (talk) 12:50, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Spoiler?
The first paragraph of "Cinema and Tv", which discusses Pirates of The Carribean, might be seen as a spoiler, despite being only speculation. That level of detail isnt neccessary for an article on Kraken, and should have spolier tags if it is to say in. I say remove the plot-specific bits (notably, "It is also rumored that the kraken will kill Barbossa by crushing his body"), seen as this isnt an article about the film.

List vs. history
This article really should be split into a disambiguation and a history. The disambiguation should get its own page, with the standard For other uses intro at the top of this page. The problem with this page as it stands is that users looking for a particular kraken topic have to wade through tons of prose, and those looking for a history get sentence fragments and lists. -Harmil 15:55, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Effects
While watching Pirates 2, I was struck by the fact that although this is a very old mythos, I think that was the first time the Kraken has ever been portrayed with any degree of realistic graphics. That seems worth mentioning, though I thought I'd confirm it first. --Masamage 04:41, 9 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Does anyone else think this is interesting enough to bring up? --Masamage 05:22, 16 July 2006 (UTC)


 * No. "Realistic graphics" depends on the eye of the beholder. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.98.82 (talk) 15:26, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Pronunciation
How do you pronounce Kraken?

Kray-ken or Crack-en?

In Pirates of the Caribbean, it was generally pronounced as Crackin', but there was a conversation between two pirates basically indicating that it depended on the language. --71.118.168.253 05:19, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Pirates of the Caribbean
"The best direct look anyone can get is when Will Turner, who has fallen into the water, briefly spies it from behind, where it appears to be a large squid-like creature with a crustacean body."

It looked more like a tentacled Starfish to me, which I, personally found as a dissappointment.

"Another rumor is that the Kraken might possibly die when Davy Jones dies, however that speculation lies in direct conflict with Jack Sparrow's words near the end of Dead Man's Chest."

Which words, exactly? We need an exact quote.

--71.118.168.253 05:17, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I belive Jack's exact words were "Can't let you do that William. 'Cause if Jones is dead, whose to call his terrible beastie off the hunt, aye?"

--Jokerfan August 10, 2006

Added as a section of the main Kraken article?
Should this be added to the main Kraken article maybe? Tagging that suggestion on.

DookieCantRead 19:15, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

I think that would make the main Kraken article way too long.--Onceonthisisland 20:28, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Trivia removed
The article appears too have much loosely-associated, unsourced trivia. I'll remove some of it and post it here for reconsideration.Canuckle 20:29, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

These don't appear to be major or very notable depictions, influences or references. No reliable sources and even Kraken (band)'s article doesn't explain the importance of the name.

Music

 * Kraken is one of the many aliases of drum & bass recording duo Stakka & Skynet.
 * A Colombian heavy metal band is named Kraken.
 * The nouveau swing band Squirrel Nut Zippers wrote an eerie song called The Kraken for their Perennial Favorites album. The song is mostly instrumental, but at the end includes the words, "Tonight I will dream far below the fading light/My dream is for you; my arms were made to hold you tight/Now the time has come, the time has come," ostensibly in reference to the tentacles of the Kraken.
 * Punk/ska group The Aquabats reference the Kraken in the lyrics of their song "Why Rock?"
 * Current Hip Hop emcee and lyricist Aesop Rock refers to a Kraken in his popular song Daylight.
 * The rock band Clutch has a song entitled "Release the Kraken" on their 1999 album Jam Room.
 * Manchester band The Fall mention "the Kraken" in their song "Iceland" on the LP Hex Enduction Hour. The line goes "a Memorex for the Krakens"
 * MC Frontalot references the Kraken in his song "Floating Bridge" from his 2005 album Nerdcore Rising. The line goes "if I'm lacking in boats, it's 'cause I'm fearful of the Kraken".
 * Release the Kraken is the opening song of the 2008 album Drowned in a Sea of sound from the shoegaze band The Daysleepers.

Miscellaneous

 * The Ionath Krakens is the name of the Tier II football team of the fictional Galactic Football League (Quyth Irradiated Conference) in Scott Sigler's podcast novel The Rookie . The name "Krakens" is taken from a powerful preditor native to the home world of Ionath.


 * Kraken is the name of a roller coaster at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida. [[Image:Kraken (SeaWorld Orlando) 01.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Kraken [[roller coaster]] at SeaWorld in Orlando]]


 * Kraken is Monster in My Pocket #11. He appears only briefly in the comic book, his arm around Triton.  In the video game, he is the stage 3 boss, living in a sewer.  In the game, he extends only two arms at a time, but is significantly larger, even in his reduced state, than the other monsters.


 * An experimental theater group, led by Herbert Blau at Oberlin College from 1970-1974 was known as KRAKEN.


 * An independent theater company called "The Thunderbird Theatre Company" produced an absurd comedy titled "Release the Kraken" at New Langton Arts in San Francisco, California in August 2006. The play was based loosely on the Myth of Perseus and fashioned in the manner of the American cinematic pop cultural phenomenon "The Clash of the Titans," with numerous references to various other American pop culture phenomenon.


 * The Kraken also appears in Russell Hoban's novel The Medusa Frequency (1987, The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York).


 * In LEGO's Bionicle, the arch-villain Makuta wears Kanohi Kraahkan, the Mask of Shadows. The name may be a reference to the Kraken.


 * In Weebl's Magical Trevor IV Trevor summons "Jim Kraken", whose face is a haddock. This Kraken reappears in Weebl and Bob cartoon Christmas IV, who is defeated by a small blob of snow and falls into the ships containing pies for Weebl and Bob. He appears at the end of the cartoon, with the caption "Have a Kraken Christmas!"


 * A Nike soccer goalkeeper glove, called the "Kraken," was popular in the 2002-2003 seasons all around the world.

'''In cinema, removed minor references, single-episode appearances. Left 20,000 Leagues, Clash and Pirates Caribbean movies as more notable movies. This was subjective but that's the problem with such a list.'''

Cinema and television
A SciFi Channel original movie premiered on September 23, 2006 called Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep
 * Benefit of doubt for now.

In the anime, Saint Seiya (Knights of the Zodiac) Poseidon - one of Poseidon's marine generals is Isaac of the Kraken, his scale (armor) however resembles a mantaray and not a real kraken. The scale was granted to Isaac for being as the kraken, fearless, aggressive and dangerous.
 * listed on disambiguation page

An alleged Kraken appeared in the episode titled "The Night of the Kraken" of the 1960's television series The Wild Wild West. Secret Service Agent James West eventually determined that what he (and the dwellers of a Portuguese-American fishing village) had taken for a Kraken tentacle was an artificial construct and a weapon of murder, which the renegade crew of an undersea laboratory used to keep people away from the waters above the lab.

Futurama: in the episode The Birdbot of Icecatraz, a space Kraken attacks the Planet Express Ship.

Futurama: in the episode Mother's Day, the battle of the network space Krakens was interrupted by the report of the rebelling robots on TV.

In the Nickelodeon cartoon Catscratch, Gordon battles the Kraken (Maurice LaMarche) in order to gain a full size tail. In another episode, after the Kraken is banished from his homeworld, Gordon restores his honor.

In The Fairly OddParents episode called "Something's Fishy", King Greg and the rest of the Atlanteans owned a lot of Kraken to use to eat Cosmo, the "accursed one", who sunk their city in an attempt to make it cleaner.

In Yu-Gi-Oh!, there are Duel Monsters that use the name Kraken in their title like Fiend Kraken and Fire Kraken.

The Kraken was a mighty sea monster encountered on the world of Tides in the cartoon Winx Club.

The Kraken was referenced in the Neptunati episode of Sealab 2021 on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.

The Krakken (here spelled with two Ks) in Ben 10 is a territorial creature that lives in a lake. It appears in the episode "The Krakken" which its eggs were being stolen by a poacher.

In American Dragon: Jake Long, Kraken are depicted as giant fishmen when Jake and Spud (disguised as Huntsclan Academy students) ended up having to fight one as punishment for demolishing the potions class.

Reap The Wild Winds, 1941, Cecil B. DeMille - Captain Jack Stuart (John Wayne) struggles to clear his name but gets drowned by a giant squid instead while exploring a sunken merchant ship in the 1840s.

Wake of The Red Witch, 1948, Republic Pictures - Captain Ralls (John Wayne) deals with a giant squid as well as smugglers and pirates during his adventures piloting a merchant vessel in the 1860s.

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, 1954, Walt Disney - The kraken attacks and sinks Captain Nemo's 1866 submarine The Nautilus.

Bride of The Monster, 1959, Ed Wood - Dr. Eric Vornoff (Bela Lugosi) struggles with world domination via atomic energy and a mechanical octopus.

Clash of the Titans, 1981 - The Kraken is the name of the creature that is sent to kill Andromeda. In fact this monster, slain by Perseus, was typically referred to as a "ketos" by the ancient Greeks, a word that is best translated by the English phrase "sea monster", and in fact gave its name to 'cetacean'. The ketos has no historic connection with Kraken.

Atlantis: Milo's Return 2003, Walt Disney - The Kraken appears as one of the mystical creatures mistaken to be from Kida's home, Atlantis. As they search for the Leviathans, drones of war created by her father to protect Atlantis, they stumble into a little (probably) Norwegian village under the hypnotic powers of the Kraken, a demon-octopus that gave the town life in exchange for the soul of one man, making him immortal, and took over the town. The monster attempts to lure Milo and Co. over the edge of a cliff, and is destroyed by the submersibles.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006, Walt Disney - The Kraken is an enormous sea monster that does the bidding of Davy Jones by pursuing the souls of men who bear the black spot, a mark that appears on men who owe Jones a debt. Captain Jack Sparrow spends most of the movie trying to avoid the creature but is eventually forced to face off with it. For more information on this version of the creature, see Kraken (Pirates of the Caribbean).

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007, Walt Disney - The kraken appears dead and washed up on the shore, having been unwillingly killed by its master Davy Jones by order of Lord Cutler Beckett. For more information on this version of the creature, see Kraken (Pirates of the Caribbean).

In the Robot Chicken episode "The Munnery", a Kraken is released; the story of the newly freed Kraken is similar to The Shawshank Redemption.

In the episode "Daydream Believer" of My Life as a Teenage Robot, Jenny is stuck in dream mode and believes a magles telephone pole is the Kraken.

In the Turkish cult movie Tarkan Viking Kani (Tarkan vs. The Bloody Vikings); the bloody Vikings sacrifice naked maiden to a giant octopus, yet because of the low budget and the cinema technology present at that time in Turkey, The Kraken was made by laying a brown sheet of cloth on a big balloon, so that it can float over the water. The fearless hero Tarkan and his loyal dog Kurt jump into the water and inflate the Kraken head, and they take the maiden away, too.

In the 1978 half-animated film The Waterbabies, an adaption of Charles Kingsley's classic children's novel, the Kraken is depicted not as a monster, but as the Roman god Neptune, the ruler of a mysterious animated underwater realm, full of imprisoned 'waterbabies' and strange talking and singing sea creatures. Tom, a young chimney sweep in Victorian England, finds himself thrust into this bizarre animated world (he also takes cartoon form underwater) and must make a deal with the Kraken to gain his freedom and unaminated form, and to liberate the waterbabies.

In the TV Series "He-Man and The Masters Of The Universe" episode "Search For The VHO" the Kraken is a gigantic four armed sea serpent controlled by Skeletor's henchman Mer-Man, who uses it to sink a ship transporting Prince Adam and Teela, who are on a rescue mission to save a historian and his young son trapped on an island by the island's wild animals.

Games
Kraken, either alone or as a collective of "krakens" (the Norwegian plural, which is never used, would be kraker), has appeared in many games, particularly computer and video games. In the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, the kraken is a colossal, intelligent, evil creature that dwells deep underwater. In the Eberron campaign setting for D&D, the kraken is the heraldic beast of the dragonmarked House Lyrandar. :*potentially notable use due to first popular role-playing game. The collectible card game Magic: The Gathering associates Kraken with blue magic, which is associated with water, and they have appeared on many such cards. Most of them are cephalopods, though the artwork of the card "Tidal Kraken" depicts a bipedal sea beast with four arms that resembles the one from Clash of the Titans. The blue life-generating artifact is the Kraken's Eye. Up until the Ice Age expansion set, the largest creature was the Leviathan; it was then superseded by the Polar Kraken, which with the release of the lost 3rd set of the Ice Age block Coldsnap, has been superseded by the Jokulmorder (a name meaning "glacier-killer"), a creature resembling a cross between an Orca whale and a large worm.

In the collectable toy game Monster in My Pocket, the Kraken was one of the most powerful and rarest monsters in the original series.

In the Warhammer 40,000 universe, Kraken is the name of the second Tyranid hive fleet that invaded the Milky Way and the Imperium of Man.

The Pokémon Gyarados's English name was originally Skullkraken, a combination of "skull" and "Kraken", however, this was changed to Gyarados at some stage prior to the release of the games Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue.

Computer and video games

 * On Nick.com, there is a Catscratch game featured called "This Means War!" In it, the Kraken can be used as a weapon of last resort.


 * The video games Final Fantasy I,Wild Arms 3, Fable, Golden Sun, Dynamite Cop, Blaze and Blade, Beyond the Beyond, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Shining Force II, Sly Cooper, Ocean Hunter, Guild Wars, Ultima Online and EarthBound all contain boss enemies called Kraken.
 * In the PlayStation 2 game, Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, in the episode Dead Men Tell No Tales, the player must fight, then later control a Kraken named Crusher
 * In the Nintendo Entertainment System game Final Fantasy, there were four elemental "fiends". The octopus-like fiend of water was named Kraken. This monster appears again in Final Fantasy IX as a boss monster near the end of the game.
 * Final Fantasy Tactics features humanoid squid creatures called Kraken.
 * In another Nintendo Entertainment System title called Monster in My Pocket, Kraken is the third boss.
 * In EarthBound, a Super Nintendo Entertainment System game, Kraken is a mini boss that appears during a boat ride. There is also an item Referring to the Kraken called "Kraken soup", which is rare and heals one person a lot of HP.
 * The sea-faring pirate in Capcom's Power Stone is called Kraken.
 * Nethack contains a non-unique water monster called "kraken", lower-cased.
 * The pirate character from Namco's Soul Edge/Soul Calibur series, Cervantes has an attack named Kraken Pressure.
 * Nightmare a character from Soul Edge/Soul Caliburseries uses a giant squid as a joke weapon in Soul Calibur 3.
 * In the MMORPG Final Fantasy XI, there is an octopus-like enemy found in Qufim Island known as the Kraken. Another kraken-type monster, the Lord of Onzozo, formerly dropped a coveted weapon, the "Kraken Club", which attacks up to eight times in quick succession, recalling an octopus attacking multiple times with its arms. Now, defeating Fe'e, another kraken-type monster, can yield a Kraken Club.
 * The Kraken is a naval myth unit for the Norse in the 2002 PC game Age of Mythology. It also makes an appearance at the beginning of the campaign. It also appears in Total Annihilation: Kingdoms.
 * The Sega game Wonder Boy in Monster Land has the Kraken as one of the boss monsters. While the level its in takes place by the sea, it is not underwater, however, it hovers as though it were swimming, and in some versions, releases a small spread of fireballs as its primary attack.
 * The PlayStation/Game Boy video game Azure Dreams features an enemy and caputurable monster (known as a familiar) as a Kraken, however the Kraken floats, is not in water, and can electrocute the player and surrounding monsters on your team.
 * One of the bosses in Mega Man X5 is named Volt Kraken. He appears as a bipedal humanoid robot about the same height as X and Zero with human arms, but his head is triangular with fins like the mantle of a squid, and he also has four tentacles ending in spikes on his back similar to Doctor Octopus. He is the electricity-based Maverick of MMX5. In keeping with the theme of X5's Mavericks being named after musicians, his alternate English name is Squid Adler.
 * A squid Reploid boss in Mega Man Zero 4 is named Tech Kraken. He was formerly in the Zan'ei army of Phantom, one of the 4 Guardians of X, and in the game had joined the 7 other Einherjar Warriors serving Dr. Weil.
 * One of the first monsters encountered in the early PlayStation game King's Field is a Kraken. A larger form appears as a boss later on in the level.
 * A sea monster called the Big Octo in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker has a similar appearance to a Kraken. It may be based more off the early Norse myths than the modern conception, as its only threat is a massive whirlpool.
 * In Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb, Kraken is one of the bosses.
 * In Warcraft III's custom map Battleships "Kraken Shell" is an obtainable item.
 * In DOTA, another custom map for Warcraft III, the hero named "Leviathan" has a passive ability named "Kraken Shell."
 * The game R-Type had a boss called Kraken at the end of the fifth level (undersea), which, it should be noted, looks nothing like a Kraken. It depended on its numerous "bodyguard" creatures for both defense, and attacking
 * The PlayStation game Strider 2 has Kraken appearing as one of the bosses.
 * The PlayStation game Legend of Dragoon, a creature called Last Kraken is created to guard the Signet Sphere in the city of Agelis, but is manipulated by Zieg to destroy the Signet Sphere.
 * In Master of Olympus: Zeus, Kraken is a monster with more of a humanoid construct. A player who worships Poseidon is protected from sea attacks by the Kraken. Alternatively, if the players city is attacked by the Kraken, sea trade, as well as many water-reliant industries are frequently destroyed until the player calls upon a heroes help.
 * In the Game Boy Advance version of Donkey Kong Country 3, one of the bosses is a Kraken named Kroctopus.
 * In the Game Boy Advance game Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand the Kraken is a frequent mini-boss.
 * In the MMORPG City of Heroes, Kraken is the name of a Giant Monster in the Hydra enemy group. This Kraken does not resemble a cephalopod in anyway, as the Hydra are amorphous blobs of animated matter from an alternate dimension. However, the Giant Monster "Lusca" is a giant octopus that bears more of a resemblance to the Kraken of legend.
 * In the computer game Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, there is an elite-class armour called Kraken Shell, the unique variant of which is known as The Leviathan, which references the Biblical sea monster of the same name.
 * In the computer games Gateway to the Savage Frontier and Treasures of the Savage Frontier, one of the factions the player's party confronts is the Kraken Society, that seem to revere giant squid.
 * In the Xbox Game Fable, the player is forced to fight a giant Kraken in the underground chamber just before he gets his mother to safety.
 * In the game Worms Blast, there is a weapon that makes a sea monster resembling a kraken to come up from the bottom of the screen and grab an opponents boat.
 * In the Super Nintendo game, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, a giant squid named King Calamari resembles a kraken sunk Johnathan 'Johnny' Jones' ship. Calamari is also a boss in the game.
 * Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door later sequel of the game for the Nintendo GameCube has a giant Blooper as the first boss, which somewhat resembles a giant squid.
 * In the Game Boy Advance game Golden Sun, while crossing a small section of the ocean, you are attacked by a variety of different sea monsters. The final of these monsters is the Kraken appearing as a giant squid. The Kraken is one of the strongest enemies in the game.


 * In the recent PlayStation 2 game, Guitar Hero, there is a Kraken-esque creature in the background on the main menu of career mode.


 * In Konami's Suikoden IV there is a huge sea creature that attacks your boat. It will attack your boat and it looks painfully obvious like the common Kraken that is used in numerous of videogames. You have to beat the tentacles, as well as the monster itself. It is known for one of the tougher bosses in the game.


 * In Phantasy Star Online, a Kraken-esque boss appears in an underground tunnel.


 * In Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria, sequel to Valkyrie Profile, Kraken is one of the first bosses of the game, found in Audoula Temple On The Lake.


 * In the PlayStation game Persona 2: Eternal Punishment there is a demon ( enemy) named Kraken.


 * In the PC game Guild Wars Factions, you have to drive the Kraken away to prove yourself to the Luxon armada


 * In the LucasArt's PC game The Curse of Monkey Island one of the passages of a song sung by Guybrush's crew is: "If you disrespect our singing, we'll feed you to a Kraken"


 * In the LucasArt's PC game Grim Fandango there's a giant squid-like creature that captures people from aboard the ships, but it's actually a well-trained pet of one of the game's main villains


 * In Disciples: Sacred Lands and Disciples II, the kraken is a powerful neutral creature.


 * Once you get large enough in the video game Katamari Damacy, you can roll up a Kraken-like creature.


 * In the Pokémon video game series, the Pokemon Gyarados was originally going to be called Skulkraken, however it bears no resemblance to the sea monster and instead resembles a Chinese dragon.


 * In the videogame Tales of Symphonia, the "Kraaken" is an octopus monster that can be found on beaches.


 * In the videogame God of War II, one of the bosses is a Kraken. The monster has a more human-like head and monstrous appearance that bears less resemblance to the traditional depictions of Kraken in popular culture.  The boss is fought on land as seen in the GameTrailers review of the game.  During the fight, the game's protagonist Kratos must sever its tentacles before killing the beast.


 * In the PC game, Magic Carpet, a creature which is called a Kraken lives in bodies of water and is able to cast the 'Duel' spell, which keeps the player from retreating, and hurl lightning bolts. It doesn't appear as a traditional Kraken, instead appearing more like that of a green Merman, with a serpent-like tail.


 * In the 1987 RPG Final Fantasy I, released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), the Kraken is the fiend of the sea. He resides on the bottom floor of the Sea Shrine, and The Nintendo Power Strategy Guide Vol 17, Lists his HP as 800.


 * The Kraken, appearing as a giant octopus, is the first boss in the 1998 SEGA arcade game The Ocean Hunter. Each level of the game featured a boss based on a different giant beast of the sea.


 * The Kraken is a mandatory boss in the Xbox and PC game Fable. Once the game's protagonist saves his mother he is forced to duel a kraken (it is implied that there are many kraken; however, only one is seen in the game). The Kraken's head and tentacles are the only body parts shown and because there is no descriptive record of the Kraken in the game, the rest of the creature is left to the players imagination. While its tentacles do follow the original design of the Kraken, its head is furry and almost wolf like, with large insect like eyes.


 * In the PC MMORPG game, Puzzle Pirates, one does not encounter a Kraken itself, but Kraken's Blood is one of the items featured in the game, used as a dye.


 * In Lost Kingdoms and its sequel, Kraken is one of the more powerful cards that players can use.


 * In the game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, the Kraken is the major boss in Atlantis. This Kraken has four arms instead of tentacles. It is invincible. It is surrounded by four towers, if all normal enemies have been defeated (there's none to begin with), swim in front of one of those towers and the Kraken should break it open and enemies will come out of it, swim inside and an interactive cinematic will start. Press the buttons that appear on the screen and you should dodge every attack, and the Kraken will knock down the tower which falls on him and takes out 25% of his health.


 * In the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game EarthBound, the Kraken is a recurring enemy during the Magicant portion of the game.


 * In the game Wing Commander: Prophecy the Nephilim ship-killer is called the Kraken class, probably due to its ability to destroy ships (and entire fleets, for that matter) with one shot.


 * In the game Super Paper Mario, one of mini bosses is a massive, ten tentacle squid that shares many similarities to the Kraken just by the sheer size of it.


 * In the game Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End, you encounter the kraken, which is commanded by Davy Jones.


 * In Age of Mythology, the Kraken serves as a sea myth unit if you worship Njord, Odin, or Loki.


 * PC Game Heroes of Newerth has a hero named Kraken, based on the kraken. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.93.18.55 (talk) 06:34, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Literature
The book The Kraken (book) by Don C. Reed features a young boy named Tom Piccot who fends off a giant squid attacking his boat and severs a tentacle and arm. He later sells the pieces to Moses Harvey.

In the fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, the kraken is part of House Greyjoy's coat of arms, and the Greyjoys are themselves sometimes referred to as "krakens" by association.

Kraken also appeared in the Erevis Cale trilogy in the Forgotten Realms setting. The third book, Midnight's Mask, depicts it as an octopus several times the size of a full sized dragon and an intelligent life form.

In the Harry Potter parody, Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody, a Kraken was mentioned. It was apparently placed in a lake to clear out an infestation of "merdemaids" (Mermaids) to avoid non magical people "muddle" suspicion.

In Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley are discussing the coming apocalypse while very drunk. Aziraphale mentions Kraken in this scene, paraphrasing Tennyson, stating that it will rise at the end when the seas boil. Later, Kraken does in fact rise underneath a whaling research ship.

In Tamora Pierce's Wild Magic, there is a Kraken that lives in the Copper Isles.

In Eva Ibbotson's "Island of the Aunts" the Kraken is pictured as a sort of friendly squid who can speak several languages.

Jerry Oltion's Star Trek novel The Captain's Table: Where Sea Meets Sky features large "space-whale" type creatures called Krakens.

In some of the Xanth books by Piers Anthony, the Kraken is portrayed as a mammoth marine plant with extremely long, tentacle-like leaves. And, rather than being unique, it is a fairly common species.

Kraken also appears in popular Svarog series fiction books by Russian author A.A.Bushkov.

The Kraken also appears in a Fighting Fantasy book, Demons of the Deep.

Arthur C. Clarke's 1986 novel Songs of Distant Earth is set on an ocean bound planet Thalassa, which features a Volcano named Kraken. The volcano eruption being such an important event in the planet's history, the inhabitants also use the name as when swearing.

The Kraken appears in the book "A Triumph of Souls" by Alan Dean Foster. In return for receiving a pot of coffee from the crew of the ship Gromsketter, it helps the ship cut several days off of its trip across the ocean by dragging it behind it on its own crossing.

In Tuf Voyaging by George R. R. Martin, blue and gray kraken are two of the creatures Haviland Tuf delivers to the world of Namor from his ecologically-equipped seedship.

"The Krakens" is the name of a galactic football team in "The Rookie" by Scott Sigler.

In the Dragonlance novel, the Dargonesti, by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya Cook, a kraken is used by the queen of the sea elves to wreck ships.

Mentioned in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, part of The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis.

The humor magazine of McGill University's Faculty of Law is called The Kraken.

The Blue World,a book written by Jack Vance was published at April 5, 1983. In the book Kraken made appearance named as Kragen.


 * Further to this, the famous sonnet by Alfred Tennyson is at the "Legacy" section of Kraken, where it belongs. A link has been provided to avoid undue repetition. PurpleHeartEditor   (talk)  04:43, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Kraken video game
I can find no references to a video game named Kraken and have therefore removed it from the video games section. My best guess is that the original editor or a friend created the game. Your garage game is probably really awesome, but it doesn't belong on Wikipedia. --Arperry 16:32, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Release the Kraken
I'm pretty sure I've heard the phrase "Release the Kraken" said numerous times before the 2010 version of "Clash of the Titans." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.98.82 (talk) 19:41, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

So, I just re-watched the original "Clash of the Titans" and Zeus does indeed say "Release the Kraken" before 2010. I believe an edit is in order. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.98.82 (talk) 03:56, 17 July 2011 (UTC)


 * At issue is when the phrase entered the popular culture in a notable way. If that didn't happen before the 2010 movie then in an article about "The Kraken in Popular Culture" it should be mentioned (albeit briefly and if possible just incidentally) together with with 2010 film.--Brian Dell (talk) 21:29, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Cthulhu
The reference to Cthulhu has been removed, I just restored it. The sentence inserted is a copy/paste of a sentence found on the article The Call of Cthulhu. Vincent Lextrait (talk) 19:14, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Duplication with Kraken (disambiguation)
There's duplication of some of the material. Seem to me that the disambig page should have only things actually named Kraken, and this page shd refer to that page for more info. Thoughts? Elf | Talk 21:20, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Sidney Powell
Haha. I love that one. Pkeets (talk) 04:32, 18 November 2020 (UTC)