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* [[Magic: The Gathering]] has tons of Sea Monsters. Leviathans, Krakens, Sea Serpents etc... Notably enough, they're often both blue and absurdly huge, despite blue colour being anything but based on brute force.

* ''[[Rifts]]'' has boatloads of sea, lake, and even river monsters.

* ''[[Dungeons ~~and~~ Dragons]]''

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''

** Sea Monsters by the truckload: scyllans, krakens, leviathans, ramfish, dragon turtles, sea drakes.

** And then there's Dagon, a lesser-known demon prince who is an eel with the head of a freaky fish, six tentacles ending in clawed hands, and more eyes than I really want to count. Other demon princes are afraid of him.

** The ocean-oriented ''Stormwrack'' book includes many Sea Monsters.

** Older editions had the Behemoth (giant hippo), aquatic "dinosaurs" (Elasmosaurus, Mosasaurus, Nothosaurus, Plesiosaur), dragons (Lung Wang and Yu Lung), Froghemoth, Giant (Crayfish, Crocodile, Eel, Octopus, Sea Snake, Squid, Turtle), giant fish (Afanc, Gar, Pike, Verme), Merrow (aquatic ogre), Mottled Worm (aquatic [[Sand Worm|Purple Worm]]), Sea Serpent, Seawolf (lycanthrope), and Vodyanoi (aquatic Umber Hulk).

* ''[[Warhammer ~~40000~~]]'' has a few, though they're rather obscure. 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, and 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.

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' has a few, though they're rather obscure. 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, and 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 "Iron Snakes" chapter has a mostly ocean-bound home world (their fortress-monastery is on one of the moons), and one of the challenges which aspirants wishing to join the chapter have to face is single combat with a sea serpent using only a harpoon and a canoe.

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== Video Games ==

* The Water Dragon from ''[[Okami]]'', {{spoiler|which turns out to be the king of the Dragonians}}.

* The Sapphire Drake [[Bonus Boss]] of ''[[Wild ~~Arms~~ 4]]'', which the player first sees preying on ''another'' sea monster.

* The Sapphire Drake [[Bonus Boss]] of ''[[Wild ARMs 4]]'', which the player first sees preying on ''another'' sea monster.

* ''[[Pokémon]]''

** Kyogre fills the 'primal sea monster' niche, while lesser creatures such as Gyarados are based on sea serpents.

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** Gold/Silver/Crystal features a Red Gyarados (most are blue) rampaging in a lake. In the game a Red Gyarardos evolves from a Golden Magikarp

* The Sega arcade shooter ''The Ocean Hunter'' has its share of giant sea creatures, the biggest of which serve as boss and mini-boss fights.

* ''[[La-Mulana]]'' is maybe the only video game to use the Babylonian interpretation of Tiamat (fierce ocean goddess) rather than the [[Dungeons ~~and~~ Dragons]] interpretation (five-headed dragon queen).

* ''[[La-Mulana]]'' is maybe the only video game to use the Babylonian interpretation of Tiamat (fierce ocean goddess) rather than the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] interpretation (five-headed dragon queen).

* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' - The Demoman considers the Loch Ness Monster to be his mortal enemy, and he accidentally [[Self-Made Orphan|killed his adoptive parents]] in an attempt to [[Mad Bomber|blow it up]].

* Del Lago from ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' resembles some kinda giant newt.

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