The name Colosseum has long been believed to be derived from a colossal statue of Nero nearby ( the statue of Nero was named after the Colossus of Rhodes ).

The name Maciste was not in the title of the English versions of most of these films: when these films were imported into the USA and dubbed in English, the hero's name was often changed to Hercules, Samson, Goliath, Atlas, or Colossus, because the name Maciste was not widely recognised in the USA.

In Colossus and the Head Hunters, the pronunciation of Maciste's name was frequently mocked as " my cheesesteak.

He is most notably known for his role as the German Hauptmann ( Captain ) Hans Dietrich on the TV series The Rat Patrol ( 1966 – 1968 ), as well as a starring role in the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project ( 1970 ), in which he first took the stage name of Eric Braeden.

In Costa Rica it is known by the name of " El Coloso " ( The Colossus ) due to the catastrophes that it has provoked in the past.

During the flashbacks in the Transformers Animated episode " Autoboot Camp ", Ironhide earned his name from his ability to transmutate his body into a nearly-impenetrable metal ( similar to the Marvel Comics character Colossus ), and was good friends with Wasp.

The Colossus of the North is a name for the United States typically used by those who view the country as oppressive to its southern neighbors.

They are real-life structures ranging from the Colossus and the Pyramids to the Supercollider and Space Program.

* Colossus ( Robin Hill ), a pirate ship with a Roman theme

Between 1946 and 2006 the Royal Dutch Navy named three vessels after Karel Doorman, including a former British Colossus class aircraft carrier, the largest ship the Navy ever commissioned.

* HMS Colossus was a 74-gun Courageux class third rate ship of the line launched in 1787 and wrecked in 1798.

* HMS Colossus was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1803.

* HMS Colossus was an 80-gun second rate ship of the line launched in 1848.

At 08: 15 however Bridport signaled Colossus under Captain John Monkton, the leading British ship more than ahead of the flagship, to return to the fleet, repeating the order to Seymour in Sans Pareil who was almost as far advanced in combat with the retreating Peuple, on which Villaret's flag captain Jacques Angot had been killed in action.

After one last attempt to escape aboard a spaceship was thwarted by Colossus and Wolverine's use of the fastball special-Wolverine being thrown up to Ord's ship and subsequently sticking his hand in Ord's mouth, pointing out to Ord that he'd regrow the hand if Ord bit down but Ord wouldn't re-grow his head if Wolverine had to extend his claws -, Ord was delivered into the custody of S. W. O. R. D.

BBS which had early roots from the Colossus BBS started by the author of the popular shareware communications program Qmodem.

Even though the goal has been the same, the methods and techniques of cryptanalysis have changed drastically through the history of cryptography, adapting to increasing cryptographic complexity, ranging from the pen-and-paper methods of the past, through machines like Bombes and Colossus computers at Bletchley Park in World War II, to the mathematically advanced computerized schemes of the present.

Iceman rescues Colossus from Venom and is later made a part of a team to battle Emma Frost's Dark X-Men.

He joined HMS Colossus in April 1886 and was then in charge of the HMS Excellent experimental department from 6 December 1886 to 10 May 1888.

As she was going to the Lateran Church between the Colossean Theatre ( so called from Nero's Colossus ) and St. Clement's her travail came upon her, and she died upon the place, having sat two years, one month, and four days, and was buried there without any pomp.

* the 13th Colossus from the video game Shadow of the Colossus

The " all-new, all-different X-Men " were led by Cyclops from the original team and consisted of the newly created Colossus ( from the Soviet Union ), Nightcrawler ( from West Germany ), Storm ( from Kenya ), and Thunderbird ( a Native American from the Apache nation ), along with three previously introduced characters, Banshee ( from Ireland ), Sunfire ( from Japan ), and Wolverine ( from Canada ), who eventually became the breakout character on the team and, in terms of comic sales and appearances, the most popular X-Men character.

Different nationalities included Wolverine, Aurora, Northstar and Transonic as Canadians ; Colossus and Magik from Russia ; Banshee and Siryn from Ireland ; Gambit who is a Cajun, the original Thunderbird who was an Apache Native American ; Psylocke, Wolfsbane and Chamber from the U. K .; Armor, Surge and Zero from Japan ; Nightcrawler from Germany ; Legion from Israel ; Omega Sentinel, Neal Shaara, Kavita Rao and Indra from India ; Velocidad from Mexico ; Oya from Nigeria ; Primal from Ukraine ; etc.

* The Bronze Colossus, an animate bronze statue from the simulation game Dwarf Fortress

* The eponymous enemies in the Shadow of the Colossus video game

* Colossus Chess, A game from the 1980s on the Commodore 64 / Amiga

* In the PlayStation 2 game God of War II, both Rhodes and the Colossus of Rhodes are featured at the start of the game, offering an interactive theory as to how the Colossus was destroyed.

* In the video game Talismania, one of the levels consists of building the Colossus to scare away the Kraken.

* Mono, an important character in the video game Shadow of the Colossus

The game was reprinted in Europe in 2006, in conjunction with the release of Shadow of the Colossus, the spiritual successor to Ico.

On reflection, Ueda noted that the subtracting design may have taken too much out of the game, and did not go to as great an extreme with Shadow of the Colossus.

The game was re-released as a standard edition in 2006 across all PAL regions except France after the 2005 release of Shadow of the Colossus, Icos spiritual sequel, to allow players to " fill the gap in their collection ".

Costumes ( including Ico and Yorda ), stickers, and sound effects from Ico are part of an add-on pack for the game LittleBigPlanet, alongside similar materials from Shadow of the Colossus, after being teased by the game's developers Media Molecule about two weeks prior.

Fumito Ueda's critically acclaimed PlayStation 2 game Ico ( and also its sequel, Shadow of the Colossus, in a less direct way ) was strongly influenced by De Chirico.

The President of the United States turns to Forbin, the man who invented Colossus, and gives him a petulant look that seems to say: ' There goes the stock market ... the urban vote ... my golf game ... my image.

With such game series as Sly Cooper, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Ico & Shadow of the Colossus, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Metal Gear Solid, Tekken, Oddworld, Jak & Daxter, The House of the Dead, Silent Hill, Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, and Zone of the Enders.

* Wanda, the main character in the video game Shadow Of The Colossus

* Surge appears in the video game X-Men: Destiny she is imprisoned in a U-Man base, but, the character breaks her out alongside Colossus and Quicksilver.

* Argus, the 15th colossus from the video game Shadow of the Colossus

Colossus is considered to be the hardest boss in the game.

* Colossus board game authors website

* The fifteenth colossus from the video game Shadow of the Colossus is called Argus and nicknamed " The Sentinel " and " Vigilant Guard ".