Atlantis in popular culture

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Professor Aronnax and Captain Nemo visit the remains of Atlantis in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

The legendary island of

television shows, films and works of popular culture
.

Fiction

Start of genre fiction

Before 1900 there was an overlap between verse epics dealing with the fall of Atlantis and novels with a pretension to fine writing which are now regarded as pioneering genre fiction.

water pressure in the ocean deeps).[1] In Elizabeth Birkmaier's Poseidon's Paradise: the Romance of Atlantis (San Francisco 1892), the island sinks following an earthquake.[2] C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne also depicted the end of Atlantis in his fantasy The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis, first published in 1899. The main character there, the soldier-priest Deucalion, is unable to prevent the tragic decline of his continent under the rule of the evil queen Phorenice. And according to D. Bridgman-Metchim, the author of Atlantis, the Book of the Angels (London 1900), his account is an interpretation of the Book of Genesis which covers all the events which immediately preceded the Flood, as recorded by one of the fallen angels.[3]

After 1900

(Alphabetical by author, then by title)

Poul Anderson's novelette "Goodbye, Atlantis!" took the cover of the August 1961 issue of Fantastic
Atlantis depicted on the cover of Amazing Stories, 1941

Comics

Manga and anime

Motion pictures

Films

  • 1936: Undersea Kingdom, Unga Khan seeks to conquer Atlantis and the surface world.
  • 1959: Journey to the Center of the Earth features the explorers who are trying to reach the core of the earth coming upon the remains of Atlantis far below the earth's surface.
  • 1961: Atlantis, the Lost Continent, a science fiction film in which Atlantis is ruled by King Cronus (Kronos), who is manipulated by the wicked sorcerer. The storyline concerns the events leading up to the total destruction of the fictional continent of Atlantis during the time of Ancient Greece.
  • 1961: Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis, starring Reg Park and Fay Spain.
  • 1978: Warlords of Atlantis posits that there is not just one but seven cities of Atlantis.
  • 1979: Island of Mutations starring Barbara Bach featured the lost city of Atlantis hidden beneath the sea.
  • 1983:
    Mu
    Federation.
  • 1985: Cocoon, a small group of aliens returns to Earth to find 20 of their species who were left behind when Atlantis was abandoned 10,000 years before.
  • 1988: Alien from L.A., in which Wanda Saknussemm finds herself in an Underground World that was once Atlantis.
  • 1994: In MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis, MacGyver is searching for the lost continent.
  • 1995: Atlantis is responsible for the creation of both
    Irys
    , who is believed to be a mutated form of Gyaos.
  • 2001:
    Aztec
    city than a Greek polis.
  • 2003: Atlantis: Milo's Return is the sequel to the above.
  • 2004: The Legend of Atlantis is a Golden Films animated film. It features a brave princess named Elan who befriends Terra, an outsider, to help stop the evil adviser Beliel.
  • 2008: 10,000 BC, in which the ancient Egyptian-esque race that commands the construction of pyramids are believed by the slaves to have originated from a civilization that sank into the sea. Their king, called The Almighty, is believed to be a god. According to The Almighty's escaped servant, presumably an Atlantean himself[original research?], there are once three kings and his former master is the only one who remains. The other two are presumably deceased, thus explaining the pyramids construction. Another scene in the film briefly shows a map depicting a large island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and near the ending, the priests attempt to escape from the rebels by a large ship, presumably the one they once use to escape the sinking of Atlantis.[citation needed]
  • 2012: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island and Ice Age: Continental Drift (where Scrat arrives at Scratlantis, the scrat version of Atlantis)
  • 2018: Aquaman, based on the DC Comics superhero of same name, the story revolved around his quest to become the king in attempt to thwart his half-brother, King Orm's plan to unify the seven Atlantean nations against the surface world. In this film, Atlantis is featured as an ancient lost civilization with technologically advanced society that had existed for more than 50,000 years. In the film, the fall of the civilization is a consequence of Atlantean King Atlan's attempt at weaponizing the powerful Poseidon's Trident. As Atlantis sunk beneath the waves, the technology that caused the destruction eventually helps them adapt to their new underwater home, however the kingdom was later fragmented into seven underwater nations and its survivors have adapted to different environments which consists of the original Atlantis, Xebel, Fishermen Kingdom, The Brine, The Deserters, The Trench, and The Missing Kingdom.
  • 2018: Hotel Transylvania 3 depicts Atlantis as an ancient monster civilization that sunk but was rediscovered after monsters came out of hiding.

Television

Aerial view of Atlantis as depicted in Stargate Atlantis.
  • In the
    Pegasus Galaxy, only to be submerged under a great ocean to protect it from the Ancients' enemies in Pegasus. Eventually the inhabitants were evacuated back to Earth through Atlantis' Stargate, and their stories gave rise to the legends of Atlantis, the great city, said to slumber under the ocean. Ten thousand years later a team of human explorers led by the civilian, Dr. Elizabeth Weir, travel to Atlantis via Earth's Stargate with a team of scientists and military personnel from all over the world to discover the secrets of the Ancients. (See Stargate
    )
  • The
    1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon deals with the topic twice. In "The Lost Queen of Atlantis", the island temporarily arises from the sea outside the coast of Greece.[11] In "Atlantis Awakes", the turtles
    help a merman Aleem coelacanth AKA Merdude find his way back to a very different version of Atlantis than the version previously featured on the show.
  • In the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series the turtles stumble upon an ancient underground city which is later revealed to be a colony of the long-lost Atlantis (Y'Lyntia, in the series).[12] The city is revisited in various episodes throughout the series and the history of the rise and fall of the civilisation is slowly revealed. The Y'lyntians are also responsible for various races such as the Avians, Mermen and Beasts of Burden which appear sporadically throughout the series.
  • In a second season episode of
    Megatron and attempt to conquer Washington, DC
    .
  • In an episode of Transformers: Armada titled "Ruin", the Transformers follow a hologram left by an ancient girl to her underwater city, which is depicted with vast modern technologies. It is stated that the misuse of the mini-cons led to the fall of many Greek colonies, and this one is most likely connected to Atlantis.
  • In The Fairly OddParents episode "Something's Fishy!", Cosmo has been known to sink the Lost City of Atlantis nine times and was known as "The Accursed One". When Timmy Turner, as a merboy with the powers of Wet Willie (an Aquaman parody superhero), Cosmo, and Wanda explore underwater, they come upon Atlantis where its people are now merpeople and when Cosmo is spotted, their leader King Greg plans to sentence Cosmo to be eaten by one of the Kraken that Atlantis owns. After showing King Greg the reasons they should be happy underwater (the Wet Willie movie film persuaded him), Cosmo is no longer "The Accursed One". Unfortunately, a giant squid that Timmy tried to call to prove to the Atlanteans it existed had appeared and demolished Atlantis causing the Atlanteans to target Timmy ("The New Accursed One") now and the group escapes with some fish to "Clevelandlantis".
  • In an animated
    The Godzilla Power Hour
    episode, it was featured as a giant UFO that blasted off of Earth after Godzilla defeated the security droid guarding Atlantis. Episode is The Colossus Of Atlantis.
  • In "The Monkey Suit" episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson has a To Do-list upon which the item "Find, destroy Atlantis" is already checked.
  • According to an episode of the TV show Time Cracks, Atlantis was originally a town in the middle of the desert.
  • In an episode of Transformers: Cybertron titled "Deep", the Autobots are led to an underwater city in hopes of finding the mythical Omega Lock. As it turns out, Atlantis is a colonial Autobot ship that predates human evolution and which crashed on Earth, creating the legend of Atlantis as we know it. The starship Atlantis was surfaced and used many times in the series.
  • In an episode of
    Dojo
    has been the cause of the Atlantis sinking the last time he has been released from his cage.
  • The Japanese giant monsters
    Gyaos
    are the result of Atlantean engineering in films of the 1990s. It was hinted that Gamera was from Atlantis in his debut film, although never elaborated.
  • Atlantis, 2011 BBC One production starring Stephanie Leonidas as Pinaruti, Reece Ritchie as Yishharu, Langley Kirkwood as Rusa, and Tom Conti as the Narrator.
  • Atlantis is the setting of the 2013 BBC One fantasy series of the same name.
Earth-2
with the Atlantis.
  • Throughout Season 2 and Season 3 of
    Hunter Zolomon described it as a place no one wants to leave. Located in the north of the Atlantic Ocean, west of Europe and east of the United States, Atlantis is known to produce poor-quality plastic used in ‘break-up cubes’. After rescuing Jesse Quick, local doppelgängers
    Barry Allen and Iris West-Allen temporarily relocated there to stay with some family members.
  • In the TV series
    Aqualad (Kaldur'ahm)
    .
  • In the
    Leela, Bender and the others discover the lost city of Atlanta
    , a parody of Atlantis. It also includes Donovan singing a parody of his song "Atlantis".
  • Atlantis is mentioned in
    quantum computer, resulting in the creation of both a time loop and a pocket dimension based on a video game
    the computer copied.
  • In the first episode of the 2017 reboot of DuckTales, "Woo-oo!", Huey, Dewey, Louie, Webby, Scrooge, and Launchpad venture to find Atlantis, which to their surprise is upside down. However, Flintheart Glomgold was following them, with Scrooge's nephew, Donald Duck. He ends up blowing up the city with his goonies and the others inside.
  • The second half of the
    Olympic-like events located in Atlantis: the Seahorse Race where three players can ride on their oversized seahorses to race on, and the Mermaid Rescue where one of the three players can swim the farthest to rescue one mermaid portrayed by Cindy Bear
    .
  • In episode 6 of Good Morning Today, Krish Goldstein visited the Atlantis in the alternate universe where the TV series takes place. While Atlantis still sank into the ocean, it mysteriously emerged from the ocean in August 1974 (the same day when Richard Nixon resigned from office) following an underwater volcanic eruption. It is now a vacation wonderland upon being auctioned off to some Florida real-estate developers.
  • In the Good Omens episode "Saturday Morning Funtime," Adam Young reads about things in a conspiracy magazine that Anathema also talks about that start to become true. One of them involves the reappearance of Atlantis which caused a cruise ship to run aground on it. The people on the cruise ship met some Atlanteans with the internet pictures of Atlantis making the news. Crowley's globe places Atlantis in between Africa and South America.
  • In the animated sci-fi comedy series Rick and Morty episode "The Ricklantis Mixup," the episode opens with Rick and Morty making plans to visit Atlantis, although the rest of the episode takes place at the Citadel of Ricks. The episode title is a reference to the fact that the stories were "mixed up."
  • In the Krapopolis episode "Prince Hippo", Atlantis is shown to be beneath the ocean somewhere off the coast of the titular city, has advanced technology, and is inhabited by fish people. If an offspring is the result of a union between an Atlantean and a surface dweller, the birth must occur outside of Atlantis. Though the recently-born offspring will be targeted by other sea creatures. The character Hippocampus was revealed to be an Atlantean who was the result of a union between the unnamed Queen of Atlantis and the Mantitaur Shlub (who the Queen claims to not remember). Even though Hippocampus reunites with his mother, he soon finds out that the Atlanteans needed the knowledge of the special water-filled helmet that Hippocampus uses on land so that they can invade the surface world. Their plan was thwarted when Tyrannis uses the same anti-bird whistle that breaks the Atlanteans' water helmet the same way it previously broke Hippocampus' water-filled helmet in an earlier incident.


Music

Artists

Albums

(Alphabetical by album title)

Songs

(Alphabetical by song title, then by artist)

Opera

The

Auschwitz
, but the manuscript survived and was performed for the first time in 1975 at Amsterdam.

References

  1. ^ Ch.33, "A Lost Continent"
  2. ^ Available online
  3. ^ Available online
  4. ^ Published in the August 1961 issue of Fantastic
  5. ^ Hathi Trust copy online
  6. ^ Taves 2006, pp. 185–186.
  7. ^ Ellis 1984, p. 194; Taves 2006, pp. 185–186.
  8. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (2015-04-02). "Fox Lands A.G. Riddle Novel 'Departure' Just As Book Sells To HarperCollins". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  9. ^ "Superscience and Evil Space Pirates: Triplanetary by e. E. "Doc" Smith". 24 October 2019.
  10. ^ "Uchronia: Atlantis".
  11. ^ Episode Guide
  12. ^ Episode Guide

Bibliography

  • Taves, Brian, ed. (2006). Talbot Mundy, Winds From the East. Ariel Press.
  • Berresford Ellis, Peter (1984). The Last Adventurer: The Life of Talbot Mundy. Donald M Grant.

External links

  • Atlantis in John Clute and John Grant, eds., Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)