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The giant squid's elusive nature and fearsome appearance have long made it a popular subject of legends and folk tales. Its popularity as an image continues today with references and depictions in literature, film, television, and video games. Often, the giant squid is represented as being in dramatic, evenly matched combat with a sperm whale. This powerful image is no longer considered accurate given the evidence that exists for a simpler predator-prey relationship between whale and squid, with the whale being the predator and the squid the prey. ==Books and comics== (Alphabetical by author) *In Book 27 (''The Exposed'') of K. A. Applegate's ''Animorphs'' book series, Rachel and Tobias morph sperm whales to find a giant squid, and then the rest of the group morphs the one squid to find the Pemalite ship. *''Jaws author Peter Benchley's novel ''Beast'' features a giant squid terrorizing Bermuda. A TV movie ((''IMDB entry'' )) was also made. However Benchley's description of the Beast (with clawlike teeth in the center of its suckers) more accurately describes the Colossal Squid. *Arthur C. Clarke used giant squid in many of his works. In ''The Deep Range'', a squid of exaggerated size is captured and exhibited. In the short story "Big Game Hunt", a device capable of controlling the behavior of invertebrates is used in an attempt to capture and film a giant squid. In ''Childhood's End'', one of the characters stows away on an alien spacecraft by hiding inside a model of a giant squid battling a whale. *A giant squid is a key player in Michael Crichton's novel ''Sphere'', as well as in the film version. *James Bond fights a giant squid in Ian Fleming's book, ''Dr. No''. The scene is absent from the film adaption. * A giant squid is mentioned in the book ''Andrew Lost in the Deep'' by J. C. Greenburg. *H. P. Lovecraft frequently used tentacled, squid-like monsters in his Cthulhu mythos. *The giant squid specimen currently housed in the Darwin Centre at London's Natural History Museum forms a key role in the plot of fantasy author China Miéville's 2010 novel ''Kraken''. *Chapter 59 ("Squid") of Herman Melville's ''Moby-Dick'' details the ''Pequods encounter with a giant squid. *The creature used by Ozymandias in Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and Jim Higgins' comic book series ''Watchmen'' resembles the likeness of a squid. * James Rollins' SIGMA Force Book 4: ''The Judas Strain'' (2007) provides detailed descriptions of sightings of schools of giant predatory attacks by ''Taningia danae'' squid in the waters off the island of Pusat and graphic descriptions of collaboratortive squid attacks of several characters. *A giant squid also dwells in the lake at Hogwarts in J.K. Rowling's ''Harry Potter'' series of books. It seems to be quite friendly towards the students, and sometimes even acts as a lifeguard when they swim or fall in the lake. *A giant squid acts as a minor character in Charles Sheffield's novel ''The Web Between the Worlds''. * Many giant squids are mentioned in ''Tentacles'', the sequel to Cryptid Hunters, by Roland Smith. The character of E-Wolf is hired to capture a giant squid for the Northwest Zoo and Aquarium. Smith portrays the squids as pack hunters. *In J.R.R. Tolkien's ''Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'', the Fellowship come up against the Watcher in the Water, a monster that lurks in the waters of the Sirannon, beneath the western walls of Moria. Although Tolkien's description is vague, the creature is frequently depicted as a giant squid or kraken with varying (often exaggerated) numbers of tentacles, and appeared as such in the 2001 film. *The River Moth, which flows through author Jeff VanderMeer's fictional city of Ambergris, is inhabited by giant squid. The city is named after ambergris, a substance secreted by sperm whales. *Captain Nemo's submarine, the ''Nautilus,'' fights a band of seven giant squid in Jules Verne's ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.'' In the 1954 film adaptation, there was only one giant squid, which was played by a large prop and served as the film's antagonist. *In H. G. Wells' ''The Sea Raiders'', a voracious swarm of giant squids (fictitiously referred to as ''Haploteuthis ferox'') slay a total of eleven people in boats and even attack a man on shore. *John Wyndham's book ''The Kraken Wakes'' depicts an invasion of squid-like aliens. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Giant squid in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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