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It is assumed that Zeus forced Hades to lock up the Kraken so he wouldn't harm anyone. The Kraken is seen in the beginning, when the narrator explains Hades created him to slay the Titans. The Kraken appears in the 2010 remake as an adversary of Perseus.

The Kraken in the 2010 film remake of ' Clash of the Titans' The creature is depicted as a massive, green-grey beast with the lower body of a sea serpent, four arms and a face surrounded by frills resembling that typically seen in 'mermen.' The creature effects were created with stop-motion photography, using a physical monster model. Perseus uses Medusa's severed head to turn the Kraken to stone. Andromeda was offered to be sacrificed on Thetis' decree as Poseidon releases the Kraken. The goddess of the sea, Thetis, then unleashes it on the city of Joppa as an excuse to punish Perseus. In this movie, it is the pet of Poseidon, and Zeus orders it to destroy Argos to punish Acrisius, the king of Argos, for casting his wife and Perseus into the sea. The Kraken has a major role in the 1981 film, far more than it does in its original mythology. In Norse Mythology, the Kraken is the largest of the sea monsters, resembling an octopus or a giant squid, the Kraken was known to sink ships and was the most dangerous creature of the sea. By raising and then plunging its body into the ocean, it can cause an enormous wave, flooding coastal cities. The last of the great Titans, the Kraken was the deadly monster from the sea, ordered to destroy cities in Ancient Greece upon the command of the Greek Gods.

The creature's many tentacles afforded it great speed in swimming.

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In addition to tentacles, he was armed with gaping maw full of many sharp teeth. The creature possessed endurance to match his strength. His tentacles are large enough to be able to pull entire ships under the water and destroy cities with relative ease. He was born from the titans named Oceanus and Ceto, both entities of the sea.