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Kraken in comics was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 19 January 2018 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Kraken in popular culture. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here. |
The undersea God was called Kraken, was he not?
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.
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)
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)
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)
"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
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)
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.
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.
A SciFi Channel original movie premiered on September 23, 2006 called Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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)
Please do not remove these as they go to notability. PurpleHeartEditor (talk) 04:43, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
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)
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)
Haha. I love that one. Pkeets (talk) 04:32, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
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