Popular Culture
- Hydra (film), a 2009 low-budget monster movie
- Hercules, a Walt Disney Animation Studios film, features a battle between Hercules and a hydra sent by Hades to eat him.
- Jason and the Argonauts (film), a 1963 film featuring a battle between Jason and a Hydra.
- " Dragon's Dogma" (video game), In the beginning of the game the player encounters a hydra conjured by a sorcerer. Later after the player has beaten the game they can take an optional quest to battle a four-headed black hydra.
- Pokemon Black and White Versions: One of the Pokemon is called Hydreigon, having 2 heads for hands.
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“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
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