Cephalopods in popular culture

Cephalopods, usually specifically octopuses, squids, nautiluses and cuttlefishes, are most commonly represented in popular culture in the Western world as creatures that spray ink and use their tentacles to persistently grasp at and hold onto objects or living creatures. The octopus (or kraken, a legendary sea creature sometimes depicted as a giant octopus) has been used as a negative metaphor for an entity which is perceived as sending out many "tentacles" from one "head" in order to exert power and control.

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