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1->''"It was big. Really, really, big. No, bigger than that. It was ''big''!"''
2-->-- '''Arna Kennerüd''', "[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=159241 Polar Kraken]]," ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''
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4->Millions of tons of deep ocean ooze cascade off its flanks as it rises.\
5"See," said the navigator. "Three thousand meters already."\
6The kraken doesn't have eyes. There has never been anything for it to look at. But as it billows up through the icy waters it picks up the microwave noise of the sea, the sorrowing beeps and whistles of the whalesong.\
7"Er," said the navigator, "one thousand meters?"\
8The kraken is not amused.\
9"Five hundred meters?"\
10The [whaling] ship rocks on the sudden swell.\
11"A hundred meters?"\
12There is a tiny metal thing above it. The kraken stirs.\
13And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.
14-->-- ''Literature/GoodOmens''
15
16->''Legend speaks of a beast\
17Three hundred miles from its tip to its tail!\
18None have seen it, yet all know its name,\
19Like the Ark of the Covenant or the Holy Grail!''
20-->-- "Leviathan", by '''Music/{{Alestorm}}'''
21
22->''"Well, if you believe such things, there's a beast does the bidding of Davy Jones. A fearsome creature, with giant tentacles that'll [[BodyHorror suction your face]] [[TheBlank clean off]], and drag an entire ship down to the crushing darkness. The ''Kraken''. They say the stench of its breath... [''shudders''] Imagine, the last thing you know on God's green earth is [[HellIsThatNoise the roar of the Kraken]], and the reeking odor of a thousand rotting corpses... If you believe such things."''
23-->-- '''Joshamee Gibbs,''' ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''
24
25->''"It was held under the sea, in a purse by Creator/OrsonWelles, for a million years!"''
26-->-- '''Creator/EddieIzzard''', ''Series/LiveAtTheApollo''
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28->''Great sad dead eyes like stagnant crater-lakes. Mouths which could drink rivers. Your entire ship would be a glint on a speck in a pockmark on the least limb of these things.''
29-->--''Videogame/SunlessSea''
30
31->''It makes the depths churn like a boiling cauldron''
32-> ''and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.''
33->''It leaves a glistening wake behind it;''
34-> ''one would think the deep had white hair.''
35->''Nothing on earth is its equal—''
36-> ''a creature without fear.''
37->''It looks down on all that are haughty;''
38-> ''it is king over all that are proud.''
39-->-- ''[[Literature/BookOfJob Job 41:31-34]]''
40
41->''Below the thunders of the upper deep,''\
42''Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,''\
43''His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep''\
44''The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee''\
45''About his shadowy sides; above him swell''\
46''Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;''\
47''And far away into the sickly light,''\
48''From many a wondrous grot and secret cell''\
49''Unnumbered and enormous polypi''\
50''Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.''\
51''There hath he lain for ages, and will lie''\
52''Battening upon huge sea worms in his sleep,''\
53''Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;''\
54''Then once by man and angels to be seen,''\
55''In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.''
56-->-- "The Kraken", Creator/AlfredLordTennyson
57
58->''The game has big monsters. But the ancient scrolls speak of a "titan".''
59-->-- ''Garbage Guide to ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'', ''Webvideo/KilianExperience''
60
61->''"RELEASE THE KRAKEN!"''
62-->--'''Zeus''', ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010''
63
64->'''Olympia:''' At least we know what the bad thing could possibly be so we can prepare. What's a kraken? Has anyone seen one?\
65'''Oprah:''' Ocean?\
66''[Ocean types on his keyboard and [[UnseenEvil shows a picture of a kraken]]]''\
67''[Oprah, Otis and Olympia all scream in terror]''
68-->-- ''Series/OddSquad'', "[[Recap/OddSquadS2E9HappyHalfiversaryGoodEggBadEgg Good Egg Bad Egg]]"

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