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* In the Dutch theme park the Ride/{{Efteling}}, the dark indoor rollercoaster "Vogel Rok" is themed after a mythical bird of prey, the Roc Birds. The entrance itself is a giant one.
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* ''Literature/TolkiensLegendarium'': The Giant Eagles are colossal, [[TheAgeless ageless]], [[NobleBirdOfPrey benevolent]] agents of the chief PhysicalGod on Middle-Earth. Their leader Thorondor is described as 180 feet tall and powerful enough to scar [[GodOfEvil Morgoth]] himself. Although their true nature was left ambiguous, Tolkien speculated that they could be [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angelic Maiar]] in animal form, or else animals that had been partly uplifted to sapience.

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* ''Literature/TolkiensLegendarium'': The Giant Eagles are colossal, [[TheAgeless ageless]], [[NobleBirdOfPrey benevolent]] agents of the chief PhysicalGod on Middle-Earth. Their leader Thorondor is described as having a 180 feet tall foot wingspan and powerful enough to scar [[GodOfEvil Morgoth]] himself. Although their true nature was left ambiguous, Tolkien speculated that they could be [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angelic Maiar]] in animal form, or else animals that had been partly uplifted to sapience.
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* ''Webcomic/LegendOfTheBlueDiamond'': Rocs live in Tahzinii.
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** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' has the Helmaroc King, a giant bird with a metal mask over its face that serves as Ganondorf's [[TheDragon Dragon]]. At the start of the game it kidnaps Link's sister Aryll, kicking off the main plot. There are also the Kargarocs, smaller (though still man-sized) {{mook}} variants of the same species.

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** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' has the Helmaroc King, a giant bird with a metal mask over its face that serves as Ganondorf's [[TheDragon Dragon]]. At the start of the game it kidnaps Link's sister Aryll, kicking off the main plot. There are also the Kargarocs, Kargarocs[[note]]Almost surely an English > Japanese > English mis-transliteration of "Cargo Roc(s)", a name fitting for what they do in-game[[/note]], smaller (though still man-sized) {{mook}} variants of the same species.
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* ''WebOriginal/CodexInversus'': Oceanic rocs are immense seagulls, with wingspans as wide as palaces. They nest on inland mountains, and fly out to sea to hunt leviathans, krakens, and the occasional ship.

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* ''WebOriginal/CodexInversus'': ''Blog/CodexInversus'': Oceanic rocs are immense seagulls, with wingspans as wide as palaces. They nest on inland mountains, and fly out to sea to hunt leviathans, krakens, and the occasional ship.
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* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'': The vindictive King of the Moon (who is a giant) attempts to kill and feed the Baron, Sally and Berthold to the three-headed monstrous bird he's riding named "[[FluffyTheTerrible Sybil]]", who reveals to be a ClockworkCreature when the heroes split up and each head attempts to follow them separately tearing up its own body.
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* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'': The vindictive King of the Moon (who is a giant) attempts to kill and feed the Baron, Sally and Berthold to the three-headed monstrous bird he's riding named "[[FluffyTheTerrible Sybil]]", who reveals to be a ClockworkCreature when the heroes split up and each head attempts to follow them separately ending up tearing up its own body.

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* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'': The vindictive King of the Moon (who is a giant) attempts to kill and feed the Baron, Sally and Berthold to the three-headed monstrous bird he's riding named "[[FluffyTheTerrible Sybil]]", who reveals to be a ClockworkCreature when the heroes split up and each head attempts to follow them separately ending up tearing up its own body.
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* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'': The vindictive King of the Moon (who is a giant) attempts to kill and feed the Baron, Sally and Berthold to the three-headed monstrous bird he's riding named "[[FluffyTheTerrible Sybil]]", who reveals to be a ClockworkCreature when the heroes split up and each head attempts to follow them separately ending up tearing up its own body.
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* TabletopGame/{{Chess}}: An indirect appearance: the name of the bird in Persian (''rukh'') is the same as an old word for chariot.[[note]]The word is related to the Ratha (a Hindi chariot), and the German Rad (a wheel). Had it survived into modern English it would've been "rath".[[/note]] This was applied to one of the pieces of chess in the Middle Ages, which became the rook in modern English.

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* TabletopGame/{{Chess}}: An indirect appearance: the name of the bird in Persian (''rukh'') is the same as an old word for chariot.[[note]]The word is related to the Ratha "Ratha" (a Hindi chariot), the Latinate "rotor" (and variants), and the German Rad "Rad" (a wheel). Had it survived into modern English it would've been "rath".[[/note]] This was applied to one of the pieces of chess in the Middle Ages, which became the rook in modern English.

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