Kraken and Leviathan: Difference between revisions

* Many blue creatures from ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'', which includes [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=121198 Leviathans], [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=2525 Krakens], [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=135250 and other deep sea monsters].

* In ''[[Rifts]]'', the biggest [[Sea Monster]] is the Lord of the Deep, also referred to as ''both'' Kraken and Leviathan, a massive [[Cosmic Horror]] resting at the bottom of the Marianas Trench with tentacles that can reach for thousands of miles.

** The splatbook ''Elder Evils'' has the Leviathan, an immense world-spanning sea monster made out of pure chaos which was a side-effect of the creation of the world. It sleeps at the bottom of the ocean and will eventually fade away into nothingness, provided nobody wakes it up. Unfortunately, since this is [[Apocalypse How|Elder Evils]] we're talking about...

** Kraken and another Leviathan also appear in the various ''Monster Manuals'', the former being a particularly [[Giant Squid]] with magical powers, the latter being a really, ''really'' big whale. Supposedly.

** While it never appeared in the original novels, the ''[[Dragonlance]]'' modules based on the Chronicles trilogy give us the King of the Deep. The King of the Deep is a nightmarish sea monster with the body of a huge fish covered in silver hairs, the head of a giant squid, and a pair of long, deadly lobster claws, created when ten (or twelve in the updated 3rd Edition version) of the corrupted priests of Istar offered themselves to the [[Big Bad|Queen of Darkness]], who turned them into this monster.

* In Chaosium's ''Stormbringer'' supplement ''Demon Magic'', the adventure "Sorcerer's Isle" had a [[Megalodon]] that could sink ships by biting through their hulls and a giant whale-like demon named Lvthn.

** The Space Wolf homeworld has a ''massive'' kraken (said to be a [[Horde of Alien Locusts|Tyranid]] offshoot) and sea serpents straight out of Norse myth, appropriate given the Space Wolves' Viking theme.

** A sea monster is said to live on the planet Armageddon, where it attacked Ork ships. Given the nature of the setting, it's a safe bet that most world with any oceans have at least one.

** The thing called Kraken is a giant alien from another dimension. During a mission in [[Ancient Rome|Cimerora]] you must fight off tentacles of the actual Kraken.

** Cap'n Krak'n Jumbo Seafood sign in Independence Port. Complete with octopus holding a spoon and fork and wearing a bib.

* ''[[Resistance]] 2'' features the Kraken. It's actually kind of puny compared to some of these, but it's enormous and tentacley. It also features a creature called a Leviathan, but that one's more [[Kaiju]] than [[Giant Swimmer]], despite living in the mostly-flooded Chicago.

* [[Final Fantasy X|Sin]] is an unusual example in that it shows it can fly toward the middle of the game, but otherwise fits this trope. It appears in [[Ansem Retort]] as "World-killing God-whale," and it's [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].

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