History Main / GiantSquid

* One of the optional ship battles in ''{{Skies of Arcadia}}'' is against a giant flying squid.

Authors, designers and illustrators not always being sticklers for accuracy, the trope GiantSquid includes giant octopuses, as well

* A [[BeyondTheImpossible really, really]] Giant Squid is worshipped as a god on a planet where [[DoctorWho the Doctor]] amd Romana seek the Key to Time in "The Power of Kroll".

* Reap the Wild Wind feature John Wayne fighting and being killed by a rather silly looking giant octopus
* "{{Octopussy}}" features a blu ringed octopus (actually genus) of sizes ridiculous to science given the three species it could represent. It kills a baddie though.
* Roger Corman's first film was Monster from the Ocean Floor, and featured a female marine biologist vindictivly hunting a giant squid.
* Beneath the 12 Mile Reef has a giant human attacking octopus
* Mysterious Island and It Came From Beneath the Sea were both Haaryhausen animated movies with giant killer cephalopods in them.
* Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea has a gigantic octopus in it.

Authors, designers and illustrators not always being sticklers for accuracy, the trope GiantSquid includes giant octopuses, as well.

* One of the recurring enemies in ''SuperMarioSunshine'' is a giant squid with a cork in its mouth that sprays polluting ink everywhere.

* MichaelCrichton's posthumously published ''Pirate Latitudes'' features two encounters with what is presumably a giant squid, which the characters call a "Kraken". The first one doesn't do much and is quickly forgotten. The second one is strangely aggressive, grabbing crew members and flinging them overboard. It also, for some reason, has bioluminescence.

* Peter Benchley's ''Beast'', later adapted into a film starring [[strike:[[{{CSI}} Gill]] [[RoleAssociation Grissom]]]] William Peterson called ''The Beast'', could roughly be described as ''{{Jaws}}'' with a Giant Squid (especially since Benchley wrote ''{{Jaws}}'') with the giant squid attacking boats after foolish mankind overfished its normal prey and accidentally killed its young. Mankind's hubris concerning nature leads to him getting attacked by a wild creature? Naaaawh!

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** Another Chricton novel,''{{Sphere}}'' also featured a giant squid as a manifestation of a character's mind.

* The EndlessOcean games both feature giant squids in their respective abyssal zones. The second game also has the giant squid's baby, Kraken Jr., who's only a couple of feet long and [[UglyCute amazingly adorable]] for a squid.

** There is actually a fair amount of AdaptationDecay between the film and the book. While similar, the book contains a much different narrative from Jaws, while the film pretty much copied Jaws down to the point of blowing up the [[strike: shark]] squid (in the book it gets gobbled up at the last minute by an angry sperm whale). A good side by side comparison can be found here: http://www.tonmo.com/reviews/beast.php

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Squid Giant Squid]]... and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Squid Colossal Squid]]. Yes, they do exist, though the Colossal is actually smaller lengthwise, but it is bulkier and usually heavier than the giant squid.

* The EndlessOcean games both feature giant squids in their respective abyssal zones. The second game also features the giant squid's baby, Kraken Jr., who's only a couple of feet long and [[UglyCute amazingly adorable]] for a squid.

* What are initially believed to be numerous worm-like creatures in ''{{Deep Rising}}'' that infested the ship and consumed the entire crew and its passengers
actually turn out to be the tentacles of an extremely large squid-like monster at the end.