Turtle Island: Difference between revisions

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* El Doradimon from ''[[Digimon Savers]]'' is one of these.

** ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' has Ebonwumon (aka Xuanwumon). He's got two heads that speak independently. And is a god. And is freakin' awesome.

* Pictured above is the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh Card Game|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' card [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Island_Turtle Island Turtle].

* In ''[[Magi Nation]]'', the underwater civilization of Orothe builds some of their cities on the backs of giant sea turtles, as seen [http://bluefurok.com/BSImages/Giant_Parathin.jpg here]. They're mostly mermaids and the turtles themselves usually stay submerged.

 

 

 

== Film - Animated ==

 

 

== Films ==

* Happens in the first of the 1990s ''[[Gamera]]'' movies.

 

 

== Literature ==

* 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.

{{quote| Oh, I'm goin' to Hungry Kid Island,<br />

Way out in the shimmerin' sea.<br />

* Near the end of ''Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War'' Candy Quakenbush washes up on the shores of an island and happily dozes. The island is not actually a turtle, but another kind of creature entirely, with a tree and other foliage growing straight out of its back. Interestingly, Candy first realizes she must be on a creature instead of an island because real islands in the Abarat are frozen at a single hour of the day, and she notices that the light has changed since she washed ashore.

* The trope is referenced in [[Star Trek Titan]]: ''Over a Torrent Sea'', when the characters observe floating "islands" in the ocean of planet Droplet. Torvig asks a Chelon crewman (as the name suggests, Chelon are turtle-men) if they're relatives of his.

 

 

== Video Games ==

* At least one of the ''[[Golden Axe]]'' games has a village on the back of a giant turtle, and it actually swims across the sea as you make your way through the level.

* In ''[[Pokémon]]'', the "Turtwig" evolutionary family (Torterra especially) is based on the world-on-a-turtle mythology.

* There is one of these in [[Endless Ocean|Endless Ocean 2]].

* ''[[Secret of Mana]]'' features an island (which you never have to visit) that is allegedly a turtle's back. It certainly looks like it from an overhead view, but nothing ever comes of this fact. (Possibly related is the turtle that the heroes of the distant prequel, ''[[Seiken Densetsu 3]]'', use.)

* ''[[Rune Factory Frontier]]'' has the aptly-named Whale Island. It gets bonus points for being [[The Sky Is an Ocean|in the sky]].

* In ''[[Kings Bounty|King's Bounty: The Legend]]'', a scientist (the would-be king of the humans who gave up his throne [[For Science!]], no less) hypothesizes that the world rests on the back of a giant turtle. He also remarks on how ludicrous an opposing hypothesis that says [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|the world is a giant sphere orbiting a sun in a large void.]] {{spoiler|He's right.}}

{{quote| ''"That turtle is swimming with a block on its back!"''}}

* The fourth ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' expansion Mists of Pandaria introduces a massive Turtle Island named Shen-zin Su, the Wandering Isle, as the starting zone for the pandaren.

 

== Western Animation ==

* Episode "A Turtle Island" of the [[Alfred J Kwak|Alfred J. Kwak]] series.