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]
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 (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
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 seriesFlashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies.
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
In 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 Méliès' 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 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.
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
Vídeo 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)".
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]
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.
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
novellaThe 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]
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
Michael Crichton's posthumous 2009 novel Pirate Latitudes the sailors call the large sea creature that terrorizes the protagonist's ship "the kraken".[29]
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.
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 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 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".
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Death In The Water 2 (2023): A Giant Mind-Controlling Kraken called Death is the main antagonist of the game.[52]
A set of four
postage stamps displaying legendary
Canadian animals was released in 1990. One stamp in the set featured the kraken.[53][54]
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.
^Melville, Herman (1922). "59 - The Squid".
Moby-Dick; or, The whale. Robarts - University of Toronto. London Constable. There seems some ground to imagine that the great Kraken of Bishop Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve itself into Squid.
^Hugo, Victor (2002). The Toilers of the Sea. Modern Library.
ISBN0375761322.
^Robert M. Price, "The Other Name of Azathoth", introduction to The Cthulhu Cycle. Price credits Philip A. Shreffler with connecting the poem and the story.
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]
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 (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
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 seriesFlashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies.
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
In 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 Méliès' 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 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.
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
Vídeo 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)".
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]
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.
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
novellaThe 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]
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
Michael Crichton's posthumous 2009 novel Pirate Latitudes the sailors call the large sea creature that terrorizes the protagonist's ship "the kraken".[29]
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.
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 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 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".
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Death In The Water 2 (2023): A Giant Mind-Controlling Kraken called Death is the main antagonist of the game.[52]
A set of four
postage stamps displaying legendary
Canadian animals was released in 1990. One stamp in the set featured the kraken.[53][54]
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.
^Melville, Herman (1922). "59 - The Squid".
Moby-Dick; or, The whale. Robarts - University of Toronto. London Constable. There seems some ground to imagine that the great Kraken of Bishop Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve itself into Squid.
^Hugo, Victor (2002). The Toilers of the Sea. Modern Library.
ISBN0375761322.
^Robert M. Price, "The Other Name of Azathoth", introduction to The Cthulhu Cycle. Price credits Philip A. Shreffler with connecting the poem and the story.