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The kraken is a legendary sea creature of gargantuan size, said to have been seen off the coasts of Norway and Iceland.

Contents

• Literature
• Sports
• Film
• Comics
• Video and role playing games
• Other uses
• See also

Kraken may also refer to:

Literature

• Kraken (novel), a 2010 novel by China Miéville
• "The Kraken", an 1830 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Kraken, a hypothetical modern dinosaur in Dougal Dixon's 1988 book The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution
• Kraken, a book by Mary Turzillo
• The Kraken Wakes , a 1953 novel by John Wyndham
• The symbol of the Ironmen in the Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire fictional scenario

Sports

• Seattle Kraken, a National Hockey League team based in Seattle, Washington
• June Mar Fajardo (born 1989), Filipino basketball player nicknamed "Kraken" for his size
• Gary Sánchez (born 1992), Dominican baseball player nicknamed "the Kraken"

Film

• Kraken (Pirates of the Caribbean), sea monster in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie series
• Kraken, a character in the movie The Water Babies
• Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep , 2006 TV movie that premiered on the Syfy Channel
• The Kraken, sea monster in Clash of the Titans (1981 film)
• The Kraken, sea monster in Clash of the Titans (2010 film)
• The Kraken, a character in the film Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
• Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Comics

• Kraken (comics), a Spanish comics series by Antonio Segura and Jordi Bernet
• Kraken (character), various Krakens that have appeared throughout the decades in comic book publications
• Kraken (Marvel Comics), various characters have appeared in Marvel Comics using the name
• Commander Kraken, a fictional character in the Marvel Universe
• Judge Kraken, character in the Judge Dredd comic strip in 2000 AD
• Kraken Isaac, character from Saint Seiya

Video and role playing games

• Kraken (Dungeons & Dragons), a creature in the role playing game
• The Kraken (Forgotten Realms), a secret society in the Forgotten Realms of Dungeons & Dragons
• Kraken, a giant red octopus in Sega's popular video game, The Ocean Hunter
• Kraken, one of the Four Fiends in the Final Fantasy series of video games
• The Kraken, a character in the PC game Crush, Crumble and Chomp!
• Kraken, an end level boss in the video game Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures
• Kraken, captain of the Skull Haven, a character in Capcom's Power Stone
• The Kraken, a sea-serpent boss in the SNES RPG, EarthBound
• The Kraken, a villain in the video game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
• The Kraken, a playable character in the PC game Archon II: Adept
• The Kraken, a boss in Tomb Raider: Underworld
• Kraken, an enemy in the Clash of the Titans
• Kraken, an enemy in Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb
• Kraken, a boss in the game God of War II
• Kraken, a boss in Lionhead Studios' Fable
• Kraken, a boss in the game Pac-Man Party
• Kraken, a monster in the game Evolve
• The Kraken, a boss in the game Fall Guys

Other uses

• Kraken (virus), XBB.1.5 Covid virus subvariant
• Kraken Regiment, a Ukrainian military volunteer unit
• Kraken Technologies, a customer management system developed by Octopus Energy
• Giant squid, commonly known as kraken, or inspiring the legendary sea monster
• Kraken (genus), a genus of filose amoebae
• Kraken, a computing environment at the National Institute for Computational Sciences
• Kraken (band), a progressive metal band from Colombia
• Kraken (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Seaworld in Orlando, Florida
• Kraken (software test), a JavaScript test suite from Mozilla used in benchmarking web browser performance
• USS Kraken (SS-370), a United States submarine
• Kraken botnet, a botnet spyware program that attacks systems through email and social media sites
• Kraken Mare, the largest known body of liquid on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan
• Kraken Catena, a pit chain on Neptune's moon Triton
• Kraken (galaxy), a proposed galaxy that collided with the Milky Way around 11 billion years ago
• Kraken Rum, a Caribbean 94 proof black rum
• Kraken (cryptocurrency exchange), a cryptocurrency exchange and bank
• The Kraken (climb), a bouldering route in Devon, England
• 'Kraken', nickname for the Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy (CRCN)
• Kraken and "release the Kraken", neologisms used by Sidney Powell that refer to post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election
• GitKraken, a software company named after one of their products

See also

• Kraken in popular culture

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