History Main / KrakenAndLeviathan

** [[spoiler:[[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean The actual Kraken]]]] makes a surprise guest appearance in the climax of [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/12nFPwjpdFbfdkMyBi42BZW72uUii3wUbnRNGkIeeMak/edit "In Other News, Water Is Wet."]]

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has several examples:

* ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'' features a creature bearing some resemblance to the kraken. It is ancient and large enough to [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/little-too-long/ drop a U-boat on a beach.]] At one point in the past, Bud made a [[CoolPet pet]] out of it and named it Stinky.

Interestingly, a common theme in sea monster stories is of two contrasting sea beasts that are each other's mortal enemy, and sperm whales, the largest predatory whale and deepest diver, are believed to hunt giant squid.

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* In ''Fanfic/LeviathanMyHeroAcademia'', [[Anime/MyHeroAcademia Izuku Midoriya's]] quirk is the ability to transform into the [[TheDreaded terrifying]] title creature should he ever lose control of his emotions.

** Flavour text for Leviamon explains that it's one of the 7 Great Demon Lords and represents the sin of Sloth. It's described as being so gigantic that if it actually woke up and started moving, it could [[EarthShatteringKaboom tear the Digital World wide open]], allowing the evil Digimon trapped in the Dark Zone to escape. Notably, the other Demon Lords would prefer this not happen, since [[PragmaticVillainy while they're fairly confident they'd survive such an apocalypse, they aren't ''entirely'' sure and would rather not risk it.]]

* The Whale Shark is also one of the largest animals in the sea. It is the largest shark species (apart from the extinct {{Megalodon}}). Most specimens grow to 10 meters (33 feet) in length, with larger individuals reaching 12 meters (40 feet).

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': The aptly-named ''Leviathan'' DownloadableContent introduces a race of enormous, tentacled aliens that live in the galaxy's deepest oceans. Their species is billions of years old, and was formerly the apex race in the galaxy. Their true name is never given, but they are called "Leviathans" by other races. [[spoiler:They were the race that created the Catalyst, and their faulty parameters were the reason the Catalyst started the ViciousCycle. The first Reaper Harbinger was created from the Leviathans. The few remaining survivors blame themselves for this programming oversight.]]

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': The Leviathan monster classification is not itself this trope -- it holds all flightless reptiles found in water, {{lava|IsBoilingKoolAid}} or {{sand|IsWater}}. What ''is'' this trope is Ceadeus, a massive whale-like Elder Dragon that's large enough to cause earthquakes when it rams its head into the sea floor.

*** The mosasaurs probably come in at a close second; the largest species, ''Mosasaurus hoffmani'', reached a length of 18 meters (59 feet) -- roughly the size of the mosasaur in ''Film/JurassicWorld''. It was one of the ancient seas' superpredators.
*** ''Pliosaurus funkei'', nicknamed [[BadassNickname Predator X]], was the largest discovered pliosaur, another group of large predatory marine reptiles, and may have reached 15 meters (50 feet) in length.
*** The ''Elasmosaurus'' is pretty much a sea-dwelling sauropod in appearance. [[TruthInTelevision It looks exactly like a]] [[StockNessMonster Loch Ness monster]] (though it could not stick its head out of the water's surface and was a saltwater, rather than freshwater, creature). It was the largest of the plesiosaurs, the animal group where the Loch Ness monster is said to belong to. It could grow up to 14 meters (46 feet) in length.
*** The ''Liopleurodon'', of ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' fame, was once thought to be larger all the above reptiles with a size of up to 25 metres. [[ScienceMarchesOn Later findings have downsized it to a length of around 6 meters, however]].

* In Myth/EgyptianMythology, Apep was a colossal serpent that stalked the ancient Egyptian underworld, hoping to devour the sun god. According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki one of his nicknames was "World Encircler", making him similar to Jormungandr of Myth/NorseMythology.

** Both Leviathan and Kraken appear as bosses in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' -- the latter, ''twice.'' Bismarck from ''Final Fantasy VI'' also appears, but as a ''flying'' whale terrorizing the Sea of Clouds.
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'': A Kraken appears as a boss in the Palace of Fates. Kratos, having recently lost his will to fight before encountering the monster, almost allows himself to be eaten before Gaia rallies him. It's not probably not a coincidence that Perseus also appears as a boss in the game (and is voiced by Harry Hamlin himself, no less).

* The Kraken is [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome defeated off-screen]] by Cable during the Megalodon Quest mode in ''Pinball/{{Deadpool}}''.

* One of the [[LimitBreak special weapons]] in the original ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' is called the Kraken, which turns the user into a giant, invincible squid that trails ink behind them.

** However, it is possible that fossils of these creatures could also have provided inspiration for the legend, as well as fossils of archaeoceti (ancestral whales such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilosaurus Basilosaurus]].

* ''Film/Aquaman2018'': Before engaging in combat with his half-brother Arthur, King Orm tells him the legend of the Karathen, a gigantic sea-monster from the ancient days said to have been feared by Atlan, Atlantis' first king. Later on, we get to meet the Karathen in person, and it is every bit as formidable as Orm made it sound. In terms of appearance, it has a crustacean body with jointed legs and pincers, massive squid tentacles that can whip out and cut through entire Atlantean warships, and a head like that of a prehistoric fish/reptile. Her name's even a mixture of the words "Kraken" and "Leviathan". Additionally, [[spoiler: we learn that the Karathen's female, and far from fearing her, King Atlan befriended her because he could communicate with her, and when Arthur reveals he can do it too, she lets him collect Atlan's armour and trident and carries him into battle against Orm's Atlantean legions.]]

* ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesForThreeHundredYearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'': Leviathans are actually demonic {{Giant Flyer}}s who look like winged baleen whales and are large enough to build palatial structures on their backs. They're also benign and intelligent and can {{Humanshift|ing}}. Beelzebub explains that they like to swim in the ocean to relax, causing the confusion.

* ''Film/{{Solo}}'' features a monster known ([[AllThereInTheManual in the supplementary materials]]) as a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/1/11/Summa-Verminoth.jpg Summa-Verminoth,]] a gargantuan tentacled monstrosity with dozens of eyes that attacks the ''Millenium Falcon'' during its historic Kessel Run. Several kilometers long, this abomination is easily one of the biggest creatures in the franchise to date and it's clear that "space Kraken" was likely the main idea behind it.
* In ''Film/StarWarsThePhantomMenace'', the Naboo ocean seems to be filled with monsters each getting bigger and bigger as you go deeper and considering the fact that the planet is meant to be hollow and full of ocean that gets you some pretty big fish. The biggest -- the Sando Aqua Monsters -- are in a class of their own: their official description puts them at between 160 and 200 meters long, meaning their maximum size is over ''six times'' a blue whale's thirty meters. Also the oceans of Kamino. Ah hell, any planet with an ocean in the Galaxy Far Far Away is bound to have sea monsters in it.