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* The Wendigo Myth features prominently in the 1999 film ''[[Ravenous]]'', although an actual wendigo did not show up.
* The same author/director of ''Wendigo'' used the wendigo in his 2006 film, ''[[The Last Winter]]''
* The film ''[[The 13th Warrior|13th Warrior]]'' features the ''Wendol'', a fictional Norse legend posited by Michael Crichton in ''[[The 13th Warrior]]'' as a source for [[Beowulf|Grendel]]. The locals believe it to be a single monster with all the characteristics of the Wendigo.
* ''Ghostkeeper'', where an insane woman keeps the Wendigo that was once her son locked in the basement.
* ''[[Maneater]]''
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== [[Literature]] ==
* "The Wendigo" by Algernon Blackwood, which introduced the legend and influence the modern version of this trope.
* In the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], [[wikipedia:Ithaqua|Ithaqua]] is a Great Old One who lives in the North and was inspired by the legend of the Wendigo. Blackwood's short story was the inspiration for ''The Wind-walker''.
* The second book in the gory [[Monstrumologist]] series is called ''Curse of The Wendigo''. It has been confirmed that a super creepy version that is "neither living or dead version of the Wendigo" will be the main antagonist....
* One of Alvin Schwartz's ''Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark''. In that story, the Wendigo is more of a spirit of wind and frostbite, although there are still cannibalistic overtones (the two men are starving). The Wendigo calls you out of the tent with its eerie, windblown song, and makes you run until your feet burn away, and makes you keep running after that.
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Diego lifted up the hat, and screamed. There was nothing beneath the hat but a pile of ashes. }}
** Which is an adaptation of the Blackwood's story, currently out-of-copyright , [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10897 available online at the Gutenberg Project].
* The Wendigo is discussed, and it is ambiguous as to whether it's actually encountered, in the novel ''[[Bonechiller]]''. The dad of the protaganist's love interest describes to them a legend about one.
* The Indian burial ground, and the path leading to it, from [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Pet Sematary]]'' were frequented by the Wendigo. (Whether this was the cause or the result of the curse on that area isn't made clear.) At one point, the protagonist nearly meets the Wendigo, but it's a foggy night so he's spared from seeing it.
** The burial ground having "gone sour" is connected to cannibalism. Later, it's <s> heavily implied</s> creatively euphemized that {{spoiler|the resurrected Gage}} [[Incredibly Lame Pun|engaged]] in this.
* Two well known poems address the wendigo. [[Ogden Nash]]'s "Wendigo" uses the legends as a source of humor but Louise Erdrich's "Windigo" is more serious, claiming the only way to kill a windigo is to melt its frozen heart.
* Such a creature is mentioned in Michael D. O'Brien's novel ''Eclipse of the Sun'' by a young boy called Arrow.
* In ''[[The General]]'' by [[David Drake]] and [[S.M. Stirling]], the Skinners, descended from French Canadians, refer to Raj Whitehall as the "Gran' wheetigo," translated in-story as the "Big Devil."
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Showed up in an early episode of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''.
* One of these possesses a man in the ''[[Fear Itself (TV series)|Fear Itself]]'' episode "Skin & Bones".
* One of these appeared in an episode of ''[[Charmed]]'', entitled "The Wendigo", in which it bit Piper and she proceeded to turn into a Wendigo herself.
* Done on ''[[Blood Ties]]''.
* A Wendigo is the titular [[Monster of the Week]] on an episode ''[[Lost Tapes]]'' in the form of {{spoiler|a lost hiker who kills and eats a severely injured friend, before killing and eating the other friends on the trip}}.
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* In ''[[Shadowrun]]'', a wendigo is an [[Our Orcs Are Different|Ork]] (human variant) infected with the HMHVV (Human Meta Human [[Our Vampires Are Different|Vampiric]] Virus). They were around 2.5 meters high, weighed 130 kilograms, and looked like a sasquatch (Bigfoot) with white fur. They had magical powers, and mentally influenced their victims into becoming cannibals.
* In ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'', there is a werewolf tribe named after the Wendigo who worship the cannibal spirit as their tribal patron. Powerful members of the tribe can summon an avatar of the Wendigo to track down and devour their enemies.
* ''[[Werewolf: The Forsaken]]'', the [[Spiritual Successor]] of ''Werewolf: The Apocalypse'', has the [[Prestige Class|Lodge]] of Wendigo, where most of the members have a somewhat lax attitude towards the whole "don't eat the flesh of men, wolves, or werewolves" taboo. Especially since they have rituals that grant them access to special knowledge if they sample a bit of another's flesh.
* As noted above, ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' includes Ithaqua as a possible menace for player-characters to <s> face</s> run away from really really fast.
* [[Magical Native American|Native American legends?]] Check. [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|Superstition and folklore?]] Check. ''[[Deadlands]]'' example? Check! Wendigoes are something of a [[Stock Monsters|Stock Monster]] in the Weird and Wasted Wests. And no surprise, given that {{spoiler|cannibalism falls under the direct purview of one of the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]].}} ''Deadlands'' wendigoes are created when a {{spoiler|human eats the flesh of another human in the appropriate parts of the country; it can happen to [[Player Character]] types, and according to [[Word of God]], it can even happen if the character doesn't know what they're eating.}} Not that a sadistic [[Game Master|Marshal]] would [[Sarcasm Mode|ever]] trick a [[Player Character]] like that...
** There's also a variant wendigo that is created not by cannibalism, but by food hoarding. If a hoarder causes others to starve to death because of his greed and selfishness, he runs the risk of being wendigofied.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
* The Wendigo character appeared in an episode of [[Wolverine and the X-Men]] where [[Nick Fury]] sent Wolverine to hunt down the [[The Incredible Hulk|Hulk]] in Canada after a team of his goes missing, only for Logan and Bruce Banner to find the Wendigo behind the disappearance and ''transformation'' of the SHIELD agents into Wendigo themselves. {{spoiler|They eventually discover that the WENDIGO project was an attempt by shield to create super-soldiers that went wrong and cure the victims. Logan figures out that Fury knew all along and shows his displeasure by punching Banner in the face to trigger his transformation for Fury to deal with. Even being knocked into the next county by the Hulk doesn't spoil his glee at one-upping Fury}}.
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