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Literature

  • The setting of Discworld takes place on the back of four elephants, who stand on the back of Great A'Tuin the giant space turtle.

Web original

  • SCP Foundation: SCP-3000 is a gigantic eel, it actively eats humans and turns them insane. It is theorized to be Anantashesha the serpentine demigod, by one of the researchers, but he changed his mind due to the monster's affects.

Western animation

  • Family Guy:
    • Screwed The Pooch: Peter Griffin prays and thanks Jesus for his good fortune. Jesus is about to explain it was not him, but Vishnu stops him and says he is used to not being credited.
    • Road To India: Ganesha briefly appears to perform a rimshot at Stewie Griffin's joke.
    • Switch The Flip: When Brian Griffin tries to insult God, Indra throws lighting bolts at him.
  • Samurai Jack: In Birth Of Evil part 1, Rama (one of Vishnu's avatars) is shown along with Odin and Ra to defeat the black mass that gave birth to Aku. Part 2 shows they were the ones who created the sword and gave it to the emperor to defeat Aku. They are implied to be Sufficiently Advanced Aliens.

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