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

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

Comics

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

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]

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

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

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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

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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

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Model from Clash of the Titans

Literature

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Music

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Sports

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TV

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  • 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]

Video games

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  • Age of Mythology (2002)[36]
  • Archon II: Adept (1984) : Features a Kraken as one of the elementals.[37]
  • 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]
  • Heroes of Newerth (2010)[41]
  • 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]
  • One Piece: Grand Cruise (2018) features the crew taking on a kraken.[45]
  • 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 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]
  • Wonder Boy in Monster Land (1987): Kraken is a boss monster: a blue giant squid that floats.[50][51]
  • Death In The Water 2 (2023): A Giant Mind-Controlling Kraken called Death is the main antagonist of the game.[52]

Miscellaneous

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See also

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References

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