"It was big. Really, really, big. No, bigger than that. It was big!"
— Arna Kennerüd, "Polar Kraken
," Magic: The Gathering
," Magic: The GatheringMillions of tons of deep ocean ooze cascade off its flanks as it rises.
"See," said the navigator. "Three thousand meters already."
The 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.
"Er," said the navigator, "one thousand meters?"
The kraken is not amused.
"Five hundred meters?"
The [whaling] ship rocks on the sudden swell.
"A hundred meters?"
There is a tiny metal thing above it. The kraken stirs.
And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.
"See," said the navigator. "Three thousand meters already."
The 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.
"Er," said the navigator, "one thousand meters?"
The kraken is not amused.
"Five hundred meters?"
The [whaling] ship rocks on the sudden swell.
"A hundred meters?"
There is a tiny metal thing above it. The kraken stirs.
And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.
Legend speaks of a beast
Three hundred miles from its tip to its tail!
None have seen it, yet all know its name,
Like the Ark of the Covenant or the Holy Grail!
Three hundred miles from its tip to its tail!
None have seen it, yet all know its name,
Like the Ark of the Covenant or the Holy Grail!
— "Leviathan", by Alestorm
"Well, if you believe such things, there's a beast does the bidding of Davy Jones. A fearsome creature, with giant tentacles that'll suction your face 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 the roar of the Kraken, and the reeking odor of a thousand rotting corpses... If you believe such things."
— Joshamee Gibbs, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
"It was held under the sea, in a purse by Orson Welles, for a million years!"
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.
It makes the depths churn like a boiling cauldron
and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
It leaves a glistening wake behind it;
one would think the deep had white hair.
Nothing on earth is its equal—
a creature without fear.
It looks down on all that are haughty;
it is king over all that are proud.
Below the thunders of the upper deep,
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge sea worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge sea worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
— "The Kraken", Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The game has big monsters. But the ancient scrolls speak of a "titan".
— Garbage Guide to Subnautica, Kilian Experience''
"RELEASE THE KRAKEN!"
—Zeus, Clash of the Titans (2010)
Olympia: At least we know what the bad thing could possibly be so we can prepare. What's a kraken? Has anyone seen one?
Oprah: Ocean?
[Ocean types on his keyboard and shows a picture of a kraken]
[Oprah, Otis and Olympia all scream in terror]
Oprah: Ocean?
[Ocean types on his keyboard and shows a picture of a kraken]
[Oprah, Otis and Olympia all scream in terror]
