History Main / TurtleIsland

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** 1E Oriental Adventures setting adventure ''Mad Monkey Vs. Dragon Claw''. An uninhabited island is actually a huge dragon turtle (100 yards across) sleeping on the ocean's surface.

* In ''{{Naruto}}'', Naruto [[spoiler: and Killer Bee hide and train on an island turtle, which is a very good place to hide because they can get it to move if they need to.]] Even Guy sensei's own turtle summon doesn't recognize it, because it's so ancient.

* There's a TurtleIsland in the first book of DavidDrake's TheLordOfTheIsles series.

* ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'' examples:

** 1E Oriental Adventures setting adventure ''Mad Monkey Vs. Dragon Claw''. An uninhabited island is actually a huge dragon turtle (100 yards across) sleeping on the ocean's surface.

* In ''"{{Popeye}} Meets SinbadTheSailor,"'' this island is alluded to as being the island where the egotistical, bullying Sinbad lives.

* AztecMythology told that the land was created from the corpse of Cipactli, a gigantic crocodile. The gods Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, [[ArchEnemy who normally hate each others' guts]], [[EnemyMine teamed up to kill the monster]]. Cipactli stayed at the bottom of the sea, so Tezcatlipoca lowered his foot to lure it to the surface. [[IHaveTwoKidneys After getting it bit clean off]], the two gods turned into snakes and strangled Cipactli, thus forming the North American continent.

* "Hungry Kid Island" by ShelSilverstein, about an island that's actually the scalp of a giant child.

* ''SonicHeroes'' has a stage of this.

* Played for laughs in [[http://70-seas.com/?p=1271 this]] chapter of ''70-Seas''.

* Played for laughs in [[http://70-seas.com/?p=1271 this]] chapter of {{70-Seas}}.

* Played for laughs in [[http://70-seas.com/?p=1271 this]] chapter of {{70 Seas}}.

* In ''{{Naruto}}'', Naruto and Killer Bee hide and train on an island turtle, which is a very good place to hide because they can get it to move if they need to.

-->'''Man #1:''' If Earth is the back of a giant turtle, then [[GravityIsAHarshMistress what's holding up]] the ''turtle?''
-->'''Man #2:''' Don't be a fool. It's TurtlesAllTheWayDown!
** Not according to DrSeuss it isn't. ''Yertle The Turtle'' is [[AnAesop the last one]]. And he's [[LoadBearingHero holding us all up]] so that [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer all the other turtles]] can build a [[TowerOfBabel tower unto heaven]]. WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic?

** See also ''"{{Popeye}} Meets Sinbad The Sailor"'', below.

* In ''"{{Popeye}} Meets SinbadTheSailor,"'' this island is alluded to as being the island where the [[AdaptationDecay egotistical, bullying Sinbad]] lives.
* ''SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas'', the Dreamworks animated film, which utilizes the LoveableRogue [[CharacterDerailment semi-benevolent adventurer Sinbad]] of the 60's HarryhausenMovie, except, in this case, it's a giant fish.
* The Lion Turtle of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''.

* In ''Avatar: The Last Air Bender'', Aang receives critical advice from an ancient island turtle.
* In ''Naruto'', Naruto and Killer Bee are hidden on an island turtle.

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** Not according to DrSeuss it isn't. ''Yertle The Turtle'' is [[AnAesop the last one]]. And he's [[LoadBearingHero holding us all up]]. WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic?

* A humongous ''sea snail'' in one of the later ''Doctor Dolittle'' books.
Larry Niven made a reference to this in ''The Ringworld Engineers'', where Louis Wu discounted tales of such creatures, knowing the same stories had been told speciously by Earth sailors. Of course, the Great Ocean on Ringworld is ''many thousands of times bigger'' than the puny little puddles on Earth, so it's not wholly unexpected when it's confirmed such "islandfish" really ''do'' exist there.
* TheNeverendingStory: the wise Morla who lives in the Swamps of Sadness

* One of the most famous early examples would be the island in the tales of ''Sinbad The Sailor'', which he discovered was on the back of a whale. Before they realize what it is, the crew find many rare fruits and plants on the surface. Due to the fact that he's possibly [[DoomMagnet the]] [[TheEveryman unluckiest]] [[ArthurDent man]] of his time, his entire crew manages to escape ([[DoomMagnet the only time they ever]], however), and he gets left behind when the whale submerges and is lost at sea for years.
** In ''"{{Popeye}} Meets Sinbad The Sailor,"'' this island is alluded to as being the island where the [[AdaptationDecay egotistical, bullying Sindbad]] lives.
*** The recent animated movie, which utilizes the LoveableRogue [[CharacterDerailment semi-benevolent adventurer Sindbad]] of the 60's (I think), except, in this case, it's a giant fish.

** Not according to DrSeuss it isn't. ''Yertle The Turtle'' is [[AnAesop the last one]]. And he's [[LoadBearingHero holding us all up]].

* The Turtle Island cosmology mentioned above in Mythology has become the basis for a famous StrawMan "argument" in cosmology and metaphysics known as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down "Turtles All The Way Down"]]:
-->'''Man #1:''' If Earth is the back of a giant turtle, then what's holding up the turtle?

* One of the most famous early examples would be the island in the tales of SindbadTheSailor, which he discovered was on the back of a whale. Before they realize what it is, the crew find many rare fruits and plants on the surface. Due to the fact that he's possibly [[DoomMagnet the]] [[TheEveryman unluckiest]] [[ArthurDent man]] of his time, his entire crew manages to escape ([[DoomMagnet the only time they ever]], however), and he gets left behind when the whale submerges and is lost at sea for years.
** In ''"{{Popeye}} Meets Sindbad The Sailor,"'' this island is alluded to as being the island where the [[AdaptationDecay egotistical, bullying Sindbad]] lives.

**''DigimonXrosWars'' gives us KingWhamon, who carries the Island Zone on his head.