Their residence, an old mansion, is guarded by a giant octopus of Dr. Vornoff's own creation which lives in the surrounding swamp.

During the playoffs, Joe Louis Arena is generally adorned with a giant octopus with red eyes, nicknamed " Al " after Joe Louis Arena head ice manager Al Sobotka.

On Faro Island, a giant octopus ( known as the Oodako ) attacks the native village.

The mysterious Faro monster is then revealed to be the giant gorilla, King Kong and he arrives and defeats the octopus.

For the attack of the giant octopus, four live octopuses were used.

Scenes of the giant octopus attack were reused in black and white for episode 23 ( Fury of the South Seas ) of the television show Ultra Q.

In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, the special effects crew was instructed to watch the giant octopus scene to get reference for the Kraken.

Wartime cartoonist Victor Weisz depicted Himmler as a giant octopus, wielding oppressed nations in each of his eight arms.

Similarities can be found in the battle between Thor and Jormungand from Norse myths, as well as ( perhaps ) an incident in the Irish Metrical Dindsenchas in which the Dagda fights a giant octopus.

* Octopus's Garden ( March 1, 1970 ) – An octopus ( performed by Frank Oz ) constantly interrupts the singing of " Octopus ' Garden " by a diver ( performed by Jim Henson ) by giving out a bunch of bad puns until he receives comeuppance from a giant clam ( performed by Jerry Nelson ).

:' The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation.

Their first tandem project was It Came from Beneath the Sea ( 1955 ) about a giant octopus attacking San Francisco.

Tina L. Jens, however, depicted Cthylla as a giant, winged octopus in her short story " In His Daughter's Darkling Womb " ( 1997 ).

* A giant octopus by Pliny.

Not the giant octopus of the Pacific.

Undersea aquatic park, containing seahorses, sharks, giant octopus, frogs, otters and many other creatures.

Only in Alaska has the shark ’ s diet been studied-most sharks ' stomachs contain remains of giant Pacific octopus.

Species on exhibit include mantella frogs, a giant octopus, Nile knifefish, Grand Cayman blue iguanas, sea stars, seahorses, Alligator snapping turtle, and River otter.

Other examples of this zone's inhabitants are giant squid, smaller squids and the dumbo octopus.

* Life of a Drifter includes a high glass " donut " where visitors can be surrounded by moon jellies, a multi-species display featuring the giant Pacific octopus, and a touch table where visitors can get a closer look at some of the area's drifters including juvenile rockfish, sea stars, and plankton.

The Chilean Blob made headlines around the world because biologists were unable to identify it, and were speculating that it was the remains of some species of giant octopus previously unknown to science.

Later that day, the giant octopus demolishes the net across the Bay and heads toward San Francisco.

Back at the base, as the creature turns toward open sea, the torpedo is detonated, destroying the giant octopus.

; Kraken: A sea monster that is often described to resemble a giant octopus or a giant squid.

To TV viewers, it appeared as if the end zone opened up and a giant TV came up out of the ground.

Many large animals, or megafauna, including horses, camels, mammoths, mastodonts, ground sloths, sabre-tooth cats ( Smilodon ), the giant short-faced bear ( Arctodus simus ), and the cheetah, became extinct in North America at the end of the Pleistocene epoch ( ice ages ), at the same time the first evidence of humans appeared, in what is called the Holocene extinction event.

The character appeared on television several weeks later, animated by Nelvana Studios for The Star Wars Holiday Special ( 1978 ) as a mysterious figure who betrays Luke Skywalker ( voiced by Mark Hamill ) after saving him, Chewbacca, C-3PO ( voiced by Anthony Daniels ), and R2-D2 from a giant monster, only to be revealed as a bounty hunter working for Darth Vader.

Much of the equipment used by the Workshop in the earlier years of its operation in the late 1950s was semi-professional and was passed down from other departments, though two giant professional tape-recorders ( which appeared to lose all sound above 10 kHz ) made an early centrepiece.

Willie the Giant is a giant that appeared in the Disney cartoons Mickey and the Beanstalk ( from the film Fun and Fancy Free, voiced by Billy Gilbert ) and Mickey's Christmas Carol ( voiced by Will Ryan ).

Finally, a hideous, giant churl, carrying a huge axe, appeared at Emain Macha.

Later, when Thor and his company are safely out of Útgarða-Loki's hall the giant explains that Thor's opponent was much more formidable than she appeared to be and that Thor's prowess was, in fact, astonishing.

Their space ship also appeared on their late 80's and early 90's tours in the form of a giant lighting rig and accompanied on stage by their giant pipe organ set piece which is known to Boston insiders as Bertha, because of its sheer size.

* The Aspidochelone, a giant turtle or whale that appeared to be an island, and lured sailors to their doom

The Big Chicken has also appeared in the comic strip " Zippy the Pinhead " as a part of artist Bill Griffith's fascination with roadside icons, such as West Hollywood's " Tail of the Pup ", and the ubiquitous " Muffler Man " who was used to hold full-sized car mufflers, giant hot dogs, tires, or other items promoting various roadside businesses.

Harley Quinn first appeared in the Batman: The Animated Series episode " Joker's Favor ", Harley Quinn in Lego Batman is a playable character and can be unlocked through the villain levels, and carries a pistol and her giant mallet.

* Barker appeared in a commercial for State Farm Insurance's " Magic Jingle " campaign, where he made " a new car " appear for a woman whose previous car was totaled by a giant concrete cylinder.

Michael McDonald provided backup vocals on the song " I'll Be Over You ", while Eagles founder and songwriting giant Don Henley appeared on the Steve Porcaro penned track " Lea ".

Once there, they find out that Doctor Robotnik has kidnapped the President and his daughter in order to get Sonic to take care of a problem: a giant mecha appeared in Doctor Robotnik's utopian city of Eggmanland ( called Robotropolis in English dub as a tie-in with the Sonic cartoon ) and banishes the doctor and sabotages the Robot Generator, which will explode in less than a day.

Various Funk Brothers also appeared on such non-Motown hits as " Cool Jerk " ( The Capitols ), " Agent Double-O Soul " ( Edwin Starr, before that singer joined Motown itself ), "( I Just Wanna ) Testify " by The Parliaments, and blues giant John Lee Hooker's " Boom Boom.

In 1984, in a world first, reformed Aussie rock legends Skyhooks appeared on the same night live from their concert at Olympic Park in front of 26, 000 people with Daryl and Ossie appearing with them on a giant screen above the stage.

Kylie Minogue appeared onstage with giant foam letters that spelled out " Kylie " and she began performing " The Locomotion ", kicking down the foam letters and driving the crowd wild.

Initially, it looked more like a type II supernova ( a supernovae formed by the explosion of a giant star ) with strong hydrogen spectral line emission, but later the hydrogen lines faded and strong helium spectral lines appeared, making the supernova look more like a type Ib.

The wood giant first appeared in Dragon # 119 ( March 1987 ).

The voadkyn appeared in the second edition in the Monstrous Compendium Greyhawk Appendix ( 1990 ) under the " giant-kin " heading, and reprinted in the Monstrous Manual ( 1993 ) under the " giant " heading.

* White Fang, " The Biggest and Meanest Dog in the USA ," who appeared only as a giant white shaggy paw with black triangular felt " claws " jutting out from the corner of the screen.

The gray fox appeared during the mid Pliocene epoch ago ( AEO ) with the first fossil evidence found at the lower 111 Ranch site, Graham County, Arizona with contemporary mammals giant sloth, the elephant-like Cuvieronius, Large-headed llama, and the early small horses of Nannippus and Equus.

The verbeeg first appeared in first edition AD & D in the original Monster Manual II ( 1983 ) under the " giant " heading.