Quotes / Sea Monster

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Fan Works

...an almost globular torso, with six long sinuous limbs terminating in crab-like claws. From the upper end a subsidiary globe bulged forward bubble-like; its triangle of three staring, fishy eyes, its foot-long and evidently flexible proboscis, and a distended lateral system analogous to gills, suggested that it was a head.

—Description of sea-dwelling monster Amaliel, Children of an Elder God, chapter 4

Literature

SEA MONSTERS are always vast, of whatever kind. You will see the odd Kraken, a Leviathan or so, and a sea serpent in huge loops, each one capable of wrapping itself around a SHIP. Most of them do no permanent harm: you will only be shipwrecked, and after clinging to a spar for a few days you will come to land.

—The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

Tabletop Games

Something huge and sentient beneath the seas built a mighty black reef to wreck passing ships, so it could drag the crews down and feel their lives ebbing away beneath the world. It did this because it wanted the world to suffer.

—Daemonworld, Warhammer 40,000

It's easy to believe the monster is a myth—until you feel three hundred thousand pounds of myth crashing down on your ship.

—"Sea Monster" Flavor Text, Magic: The Gathering

Western Animation

"A SEA MONSTER ATE MY ICE CREEEEEEAM!!!"

—Scrooge McDuck, DuckTales (1987)

Up from the depths
30 stories high!
Breathing fire, his head in the sky!
Godzilla!
Godzilla!
Godzilla!
And Godzooky!
Godzilla!

—Opening Theme, The Godzilla Power Hour

Real Life

"What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams."

—Werner Herzog

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