Talk:Kraken in popular culture

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

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

• The video games
  Kraken
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• 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
  Cervantes
  has an attack named Kraken Pressure.
• 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
  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
  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
  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 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.
  • 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
  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
  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
  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.