Loch Ness Monster

:For the cryptography research project, see NESSIE.

The Loch Ness Monster and popular culture

The Loch Ness Monster is well known throughout the United Kingdom and the United States.

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United Kingdom - United States

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Literature

A Saint story titled "The Convenient Monster" written by Leslie Charteris featured the Loch Ness Monster. The story appeared in the 1962 collection Trust the Saint and was included in The Fantastic Saint (1982). The story was also made into an episode that first aired November 4, 1966, in the fifth season of the BBC television series starring Roger Moore as the Saint.

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Saint - Leslie Charteris - Series - Roger Moore

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In the comic Sherman's Lagoon the Loch Ness Monster comes to the lagoon occasionally, usually to play golf. This depiction of the monster is as a plesiosaur wearing a Tam o'shanter.

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Sherman's Lagoon - Golf - Tam o'shanter

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In the book Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, written by JK Rowling for Comic Relief about creatures from her fictional Harry Potter universe, it is suggested that the Loch Ness Monster is the world's largest kelpie, a shape changing water creature. It takes the form of a sea serpent most of the time, but takes the form of an otter when Muggles are looking for it.

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Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them - JK Rowling - Comic Relief - Harry Potter - Kelpie - Sea serpent - Otter - Muggles

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Steve Alten wrote a book in 2005 called The Loch.

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Movies and television

In the 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes an explanation for a similar Loch dwelling monster is revealed as one clue of the story's mystery.

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1970 - The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

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In the 1975 Doctor Who serial Terror of the Zygons, the Loch Ness Monster is revealed to be an alien cyborg controlled by the extraterrestrial race known as the Zygons and is used in a bid for world conquest. When that scheme is foiled by the Doctor and its masters killed, the creature returns to its watery home. In the 1985 story "Timelash", the Loch Ness monster was revealed to be Borad, a tyrant whose DNA got mixed with a dinosaur type monster.

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1975 - Doctor Who - Terror of the Zygons - Cyborg - Zygon - Doctor - Timelash - DNA - Dinosaur

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The BBC television series Family Ness showed the adventures of a family of "Loch Ness Monsters" and their human friends, Elspeth and Angus McToot.

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BBC - Family Ness

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The television series The Simpsons included an episode (#224, 'Monty Can't Buy Me Love') on the Loch Ness Monster. Mr. Burns takes Homer, Groundskeeper Willie, and Professor Frink to Scotland to capture the creature. After failing to find the monster by manually searching the loch, Burns orders the loch drained. Sure enough, they find the monster and bring it back to Springfield. After a disastrous unveiling reminiscent of Kong's rampage in King Kong, Burns gives Nessie a job at a casino.

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Television series - The Simpsons - Monty Can't Buy Me Love - Mr. Burns - Homer - Groundskeeper Willie - Professor Frink - King Kong - Casino

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In the 1992 animated movie Freddie as FRO7 Nessie befriends an enchanted frog prince called Frederick who uses powers of telekenesis to free her tail trapped under a fallen boulder. She later helps him defeat an enemy invasion of Britain.

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1992 - Freddie as FRO7 - Frog prince - Telekenesis - Britain

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In John Landis' film Amazon Women on the Moon it was revealed that the Loch Ness Monster was actually none other than Jack the Ripper himself.

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John Landis - Amazon Women on the Moon - Jack the Ripper

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The television series Scooby Doo inspired a movie Scooby Doo and the Loch Ness Monster. The gang went to Scotland to solve the mystery of the Loch Ness Monster. It turned out that the monster was just a machine, though the existence of an actual one is hinted at in the ending. At bonus feature, National Geographic Inside Scoop, Scooby and Shaggy are hiding in the Mystery Machine, because they are afraid to go out, because there's the Loch Ness Monster. Shaggy and Scooby called Kid Y for the inside scoop of the Loch Ness Monster. In the end, Shaggy and Scooby asks the question to Kid Y that the Loch Ness Monster is real or not, and the answer is: maybe or maybe not, and Shaggy and Scooby decides that they will run away from the Loch Ness Monster or not.

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Of course, the Goodies also went to Scotland and captured the Loch Ness Monster. "A bid to trap the Loch Ness Monster to pacify a suicidal zoo keeper sees the Goodies travel to Scotland, where they have a close brush with the deadly Bagpipes spider among other trials." SEASON 2 1971-72 "LOCH NESS MONSTER"

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Dojo the dragon from Xiaolin Showdown is related to Nessie, and hid the Shen-Gon-Wu called the Tangled Web Comb in the loch during one of his visits.

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The cult-favourite film Napoleon Dynamite features a current events presentation given by Napoleon in which he tells the story of "Japanese scientists placing explosive detonators at the bottom of Lake Loch Ness to blow Nessie out of the water."

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In an episode of South Park, Chef's father constantly complains that he is being harrassed by the Loch Ness Monster trying to borrow money from him.

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Ted Danson starred in the 1996 film Loch Ness in which he plays an American scientist trying to prove the existence of the Loch Ness monster.

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An episode in the second series of the classic Japanese anime Lupin III titled "I Can Hear Nessie's Song" features the Loch Ness Monster, who comes out of the water when Fujiko sings. An evil doctor tries to use her singing to his advantage so he can capture the monster.

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Anime - Lupin III

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On the Shelley Duvall series "Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories" (1992), an animated series for kids, there was an episode titled "Little Toot and the Loch Ness Monster", which featured the character Little Toot, a steamboat who is circulating around the Loch Ness lake where he befriends the creature himself. The monster appears to be friendly and needs Little Toot's help to avoid capture from poachers. Comic actor Rick Moranis narrated the episode.

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Media

The tabloid Weekly World News often reports on the creature, claiming that it's been captured, sold, and even dead.

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Games

In the SNES game Earthbound a long-necked, purple Loch Ness inspired character named "Tessie" is used to cross a lake ("Lake Tess") by one of the main characters. There is also a group of local people who have dedicated their lives to studying Tessie.

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SNES - Earthbound

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In the first Pokémon series of games on Gameboy, Lapras itself is inspired by Loch Ness.

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Pokémon - Lapras

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Nessie also appears in Super Mario 64 in an underground lake. Mario can ride it as well.

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The "Issue 5" expansion to the game City of Heroes has a Nessie tribute in form of a plesiosaur named "Sally" in the "Croatoa" area of the game.

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City of Heroes - Plesiosaur

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In Katamari Damacy, Nessie circles the lake in the town level after growing to a certain size.

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In the World of Warcraft game by Blizzard, a Lock Ness Monster type creature named Nessie swims around in the Deeprun Tram zone between the cities of Ironforge and Stormwind.

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