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Scary Squid

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Octopoids and other tentacled creatures are often depicted as terrifying monsters.
Squids and octopi dwell in the deep ocean where they can sometimes reach immense sizes, they move strangely with their incredibly non-human anatomy, and they are remarkably intelligent. Something about these animals is just so plain alien that they easily make for scary creatures in fiction.
See also Giant Squid, Kraken and Leviathan, Cthulhumanoid, and Octopoid Aliens. Contrast (or sometimes overlaps with) Funny Octopus.
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Kirby's Epic Yarn has Capamari, the boss of Water World. During the first phase of his battle, he appears to be a squid until you unravel the knitted cap he's wearing, revealing him to be an octopus and triggering the second phase.
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Spider-Man's foe Doctor Octopus. Not really squishy, though.
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The Ogdru Jahad from Hellboy, being a mix of Lovecraft and Babylonian myths, are often portrayed as enormous tentacled masses beyond our universes borders. They're also the Big Bad of the entire setting, are responsible for the creation of Hellboy and have intended for him to bring them into our reality to usher in the End of Days.
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A giant, red octopus awaits the player at the bottom of the ocean in Wii Play: Motion's minigame Treasure Twirl. It seems harmless at first, but when you start reeling up with the treasure chests, it suddenly appears at the bottom of the screen and comes after you, trying to impede you way up to the surface. The scary jingle, as well as the suddenness of the agression makes the whole thing very frightening.
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The Old World of Darkness had a cephalopod race called the Chulorviah, who could parasitize humans and had plans for world domination.
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In the pilot episode of Justice League, something called "Imperium" appeared, a big, night-loving blob with tentacles.
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Squiddicus from Donkey Kong Country Returns is a gigantic octopus that spends most of his time attacking ships in the background, but in a few levels he'll attack Donkey and Diddy, smashing platforms and swiping with his tentacles. And he's covered with small spikes, making him invulnerable.
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Cthulhu Mythos: The octopus-headed star spawn, and their leader, the Dread Lord C'thulhu, Master of R'lyeh. H.P. Lovecraft had a strange thing about tentacles and invertebrates in general. There's always, always tentacles, to the extent that anything with tentacles will for better or worse be compared to a Lovecraftian horror. It might be because he was both violently allergic to pretty much all seafood and had something of a phobia about them. The reason there's such a strong "slimy creature from the sea" motif in his monsters is because, to Lovecraft, marine creatures were among the most vile and disgustingly ugly animals in the world. Of course, the Old Gods aren't actually cephalopods or anything else that resembles terrestrial life, its just the closest approximation of their true appearance that our brains can understand.
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Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The famously scary giant squid that attacks the Nautilus underwater and fights its crew on the surface.
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Gohma Lashers from Asura's Wrath, designed to look like a combination of Octopuses and Shelled Cephalopods. They take this to an extreme, being an entire mile or more in length from the top of the head to the end of it's tentacle.
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World of Warcraft. Ozumat, the fiend from below, a massive spawn of the Old Gods who seeks to aid the naga and faceless with their campaign in Vashj'ir. He's also the bastard who sinks your ship at the start of the zone. Suffice to say, killing him feels good.
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In The Little Mermaid, Ursula the wicked sea witch is part cephalopod.
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The Psychosquid is one of the aliens that try to invade your fish tank in Insaniquarium. This red and evil octopus is one of the most dreaded aliens in the game, being blazing fast and being able to enter a mode in which the laser beams you shoot at it heal him instead of causing it harm. It carries around a flyswatter, a meat cleaver and a pitchfork.
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As well as the Watcher from the book, The Lord of the Rings Online has a giant tentacled terror in the sewers of Carn Dum.
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The Kraken of Evolve invokes this. Its mouth is a series of fangs set in the midst of some tentacles, it had tentacles growing out of its back and head, and its 'wings' are essentially tentacles on the ends on normal limbs.
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Deep Rising: The monster is a mutated Giant Squid which drinks its prey alive.
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Dungeons & Dragons loves this trope.
The most popular example are the Illithids, also known as Mind Flayers. They are mostly similar to skinny grey humans but with heads that look like an octopus with four tentacles, which they use to get hold of their victims' heads and eat their brains. They are also parasitic creatures that reproduce by implanting their tadpoles into the brains of humanoids, where they slowly feed on the victim's flesh and grow around its skeleton, eventually completely absorbing and replacing the host. Any humanoids that don't get their brains eaten or have embryos implanted in their heads are used as slave labor.
And a more straight example would be the Krakens, a race of massive intelligent giant squids. That are also often wizards. They too like to enslave humanoids when they have the opportunity.
D&D also has the Aboleths, sort of giant half-fish/half-cephalopod things, with three eyes and psychic powers. Like Illithids and Kraken, they too enjoy enslaving humanoids.
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In Chaotic, the M'arrillian Tribe is hostile sea food at the lower-rungs, but the higher rungs, like Chieftains and Aa'une himself, are mostly eyes and slimy tentacles that don't look like anything. Aa'une's One-Winged Angel form with multiple mouths and a dozen tentacles now makes him by far the ugliest creature in the entire series.
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Mass Effect brings us the Reapers. An entire race of horrifically powerful squid-shaped starships bent on perpetuating a cycle of extinction on the entire galaxy every 50,000 years, as they have for at least the past 37 million years. And that's 740 cycles! Some theories suggests that they might have been doing this for a billion years. And that's 20,000 cycles! They're shaped like cuttlefish because they were created by the Leviathans, who are giant aquatic beings, and they remade themselves in the image of their creators once they Turned Against Their Masters and started killing everything.
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The Lord of the Rings has the Watcher in the Water (a huge squid-thing that guards the gates of Moria).
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The sex education video in Hyperdrive shows (fortunately not to the audience) the dangers of Interspecies Romance with such creatures.
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Some of Ecco the Dolphin's more random enemies include giant octopodes called Eight-Arms. The Prehistoria levels have plenty of pointy ammonites, too.
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Sonic the Comic has Chaos' final form which is squid-like, unlike the draconic form Chaos went for in the games.
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Spider-Man:
Spider-Man's foe Doctor Octopus. Not really squishy, though.
Spidey has a lesser foe called the Squid who really is all squiddly diddly.
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The Grim in Septimus Heap, which lives in the sewer pipes below the Port and which feeds upon animals falling in them. It's the initiation job (the Task) of Keeper Apprentices to cut one tentacle of off them without being eaten.
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Sequel franchise Mega Man Zero brings us the cryokinetic Tech Kraken, who attempts to cause an earthquake by drilling a suicide submarine into the ocean floor.
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Some characters in The Secret World believe that the Dreamers are extra-dimensional cephalopods.
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Dave, an octopus, is the main villain of Penguins of Madagascar.
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The Bane from the Doctor Who spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures are really squiddy things.
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The Xarquids from X-COM: Terror from the Deep. Essentially, they're Nautiloids fed on a diet of alien steroids and have a sonic beam shoved up they're tentacles. And they swim backwards.
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King Kaliente from Super Mario Galaxy is also of the evil cephalopod bunch. Though like most Mario enemies he's also pretty comical.
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The single-player story mode of Splatoon features the octopus-based Octarians, who fought the Inklings in a previous war and have seemingly returned for revenge. It turns out their habitats were falling apart and running out of power, and they stole the Great Zapfish to try to fix it.
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Quest for Glory IV has cephalopod imagery all over to represent the Dark One, possibly a reference to Lovecraft or Czernobog of Russian mythology. There are also "hexapods", six-legged monsters that guard the monastery.
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Mega Man X
The series has Launch Octopus and Squid Adler/Bolt Kraken. Though they are anything but squishy- the former launches homing missiles and can drain X's life, while the latter makes liberal use of Shock and Awe.
Sequel franchise Mega Man Zero brings us the cryokinetic Tech Kraken, who attempts to cause an earthquake by drilling a suicide submarine into the ocean floor.
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The first boss of Ratchet & Clank 2 is a huge swamp-octopus thing. Its big brother also acts as a hidden boss.
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The evil Martians in The War of the Worlds are distinctly squid-like octopoids.
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Ozymandias destroys New York using a giant squid at the end of the Watchmen book. The movie, however, removes the squid in favor of an energy machine that sends highly destructive blasts of energy to not just New York, but cities around the world, and makes it look as if Dr. Manhattan was responsible.
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There's also Shuma-Gorath, a recurring enemy of Doctor Strange, who can best be described as a pile of green tentacles with a giant eye in the middle. As the name and appearance might suggest, he's a lovecraftian chaos entity residing outside our dimension, and is constantly trying to find a way in. He is very unpleasant to deal with to say the least.
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Diabolik had to fight octopi twice: the first time was when a millionaire, expecting Diabolik's visit, put his jewels in a chest and the chest in a pool containing seawater and a giant guard octopus (Diabolik planned to poison it, but found himself in a hurry and had to jump in and knife it to death), while the second time he was peacefully swimming when a wild octopus attacked him.
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The second The Dishwasher game has Squidface, a katana-wielding sword master with an octopus for a head.
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Not evil of themselves, but put to a nasty use: The murder weapons in The Night Season are blue-ringed octopuses, whose fatal poison has no antivenom.
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Malamar from Pokémon X and Y. Malicious-looking Dark/Psychic humanoid squids that are the Pokemon's equivalent of Mind Flayers. They can hypnotize others into doing their bidding, and it doesn't help that they are used by trainers for nefarious purposes. Its pre-evolved form Inkay is more timid and less overtly malicious, but it's still a Dark-type.
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