This is a list of fictional humanoid characters or races who have squid-like faces. Unless stated otherwise, their common feature is the appearance of tentacles on the face or head.
One of the earliest such characters is "Cthulhu", created by H. P. Lovecraft in 1926.
Later beings with similar characteristics are sometimes described by the neologisms "cthulhoid" or "cthulhumanoid", [1] based on that name.
- Alien Intelligences in the role-playing games by Palladium Books, including the Old Ones, were powerful beings who might not take any recognizable shape, but in many cases have tentacles protruding from the body.
- Bane from Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is a playable character who is a pirate with an octopus face.
- Captain Squid is a playable character who is a pirate with octopus face from the video game Roblox .
- Cthulhu is a cosmic entity who was created by writer H. P. Lovecraft. He first appeared in "The Call of Cthulhu", which was written in 1926. In it, Cthulhu is described as resembling "...an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature.... A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque scaly body with rudimentary wings". [2]
- Cultists in the webcomic 8-bit Theater induce new members by beheading them and implanting the larva of an "Old One" in the body, where it matures, giving the Cultists the appearance of a humanoid with long tentacles in the lower half of their faces.
- The Cuylers from the animated series Squidbillies are an impoverished family of anthropomorphic hillbilly squids living in the Appalachian Mountains.
- The Dweller-in-Darkness in the Marvel Comics universe is a demon, one of the Fear Lords. He has a living head mounted on a robotic body, but if detached from the body can move by means of the tentacles near his mouth.
- Emma, the main character of Four Eyes! , is an 11-year-old alien girl from the planet Albacore 7, who attends a school on Earth. Usually squid-like in appearance, Emma uses a device shaped like a pair of glasses to alter her appearance into a human form.
- Bill Farrell in the 1958 film I Married a Monster from Outer Space is revealed to be a squid-faced alien disguised as a human. [1]
- Illithids in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game (also known as "mind flayers") are monstrous humanoid aberrations with psionic powers. The band Mindflayer used images of them on the cover of their album Take Your Skin Off .
- The Daleks, a species in Doctor Who , have an octopus-like shape and structure within their mechanical shell.
- Davy Jones is the captain of the Flying Dutchman in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. He is a computer-generated character, with a thick set of tentacles in place of a beard.
- Captain Madison from Final Fantasy XIV is a pirate captain at Sastasha Seagrot and thrall to the primal Leviathan who is transformed into a squid-faced humanoid after his failure in an earlier mission.
- Glorft, a hostile alien species from the Cartoon Network animated series Megas XLR . The best-known character is the leader of the Glorft army, Gorrath.
- The Millennian was a squid-like creature that mutated into Orga in the film Godzilla 2000 .
- Nautolans are amphibious humanoids with a range of skin colours from greens to blues and greys, a cartilage-reinforced skeleton, and shark-like eyes from Star Wars universe.
- The Ood are a humanoid alien species in the British television series Doctor Who , with tentacles on the lower part of the face.
- The Pak'ma'ra, a recurring species in Babylon 5 , are intelligent, spiritual carrion-eaters.
- Protheans in the Mass Effect games were an extinct humanoid race with squid-like heads, tentacles hanging from the face like a beard.
- Quarrens, nicknamed "squid heads" in the Star Wars Universe, are aquatic humanoids from the planet Mon Calamari.
- Quintessons, tentacled alien beings with five faces, created the Transformers in the Transformers universe.
- Squid Girl, in the manga series of the same name, is a girl from the sea who has blue squid-like tentacles in place of hair.
- Squidface Brutes, the villains with squid-like faces and crab-like claws from Skylanders .
- Squids in Men in Black movie are a greenish-brown alien species that is similar to cephalopods in its natural form.
- Vilgax in Ben 10 is a Chimera Sui Generis, a humanoid alien with a tentacled face. When exposed to water, he transforms into a giant squid-like creature, which he refers to as his true form.
- Topo is the name of several characters in the DC Comics universe who are supporting characters of Aquaman. The second version of Topo, introduced in 2007, is an anthropomorphic cuttlefish with a tentacled face.
- Wash Buckler, a pirate Skylander with an octopus-like face from the toyline video game Skylanders .
- The Water Elemental in the video game Wrath Unleashed is a squid-like being of pure water.
- Xeexi from the American animated series Sym-Bionic Titan is a squid-like assassin. He was described in Wired magazine as "one of the scariest villains ever to grace television". [3]
- Zoidberg in the animated series Futurama is a Decapodian, a lobster-like alien from the planet Decapod 10 who has several tentacles over his mouth.