Sea Monsters in Fiction
- Creatures of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
- Creatures of The X-Files episodes Agua Mala.
- Creatures in such sci-fi/horror films as Deepstar Six, The Rift, Deep Rising and Deep Shock.
- Carcharodon Megalodon in Steve Alten's Meg series.
- Clover
- Fictional portrayals of the Giant Squid.
- Giant octopus in It Came from Beneath the Sea.
- Giganto
- Godzilla and related kaiju.
- Gorgo
- Kraken as depicted in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
- Leviathan in the Gears of War series.
- Moby-Dick
- Nabooian sea monsters in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
- Rhedosaurus
- Sin
- Ichthyosaur and plesiosaur in A Journey to the Center of the Earth.
- The Terrible Dogfish
- Title creature of Peter Benchley's White Shark.
- The War God Gora
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