Pardon me... what does "kraken" mean?

[mysteryowl]

"Release the Kraken" ?
What is this????

It must be Qanon thing, I have no idea.
I heard it in a clip with Thomas' wife.


Thanks

Update: So, it is a metaphoric monster, therefore the Q nuts use the term/phrase for various metaphoric monsters they dream up.
It could be lawsuits, it could be.... Is this how they use it?

[FarPoint]

1. For me....

It is from Clash of the Titans movie....When Zues orders Poseidon to release the sea creature, Kracken onto the Greeks Island/ go get the sacrifice, Andromeda.

[TheBlackAdder]

50. Yep. In GOP terms a crazed lawyer who is commanded by God Trump to run SLAPP Suit interference.

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[MineralMan]

2. Here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken

[mysteryowl]

3. Okay, but what do these people mean by using

"release the kraken"?
If you know.

[MineralMan]

8. Simple. It just means "release the fearsome beast" on your enemies.

There were references to that by some of Trump's bogus attorneys after the election. They were going to "release the Kraken" in court, indicating that they had some sort of bombshell information that would change everything. They never managed to do that, of course. The Kraken doesn't exist in any situation. It is a mythical beast.

[mysteryowl]

14. Yep, I get that now from this thread. thanks

So, they are using it to mean various "monsters"...
law suits, information mania, etc.

[canuckledragger]

39. Here's an example from Pirates of the Carribean

[Wounded Bear]

4. It's actually a movie quote from "Clash of the Titans"...

which was a bit of a mishmash of Greek and Norse mythology. The original kraken was a Norse (Viking, if you will) sea monster.

It is supposed to refer to the releasing of an uncontrollable monster on others for their "sins."

IIRC it was a trump lawyer who threatened to "releast the kraken" as in a flurry of lawsuits about the 2020 election, which turned out to be toothless.

[mysteryowl]

7. So, these Q nuts could use the term/phrase

for many situations and various metaphoric monsters?

[lagomorph777]

9. The "Kraken" eventually came to refer to the lawyer herself,

as a term of extreme snarkasm.

[mysteryowl]

15. I appreciate the visual

[Hugin]

28. AKA...

Some people may have used the term "Crack Hen".

[lagomorph777]

30. Aaaaaahh!

[ShazamIam]

32. That is so very good.

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Although I Found The Movie Entertaining...

...the mixing of myths bugged me! In the original Greek myth, it was called the ceti. Hence the term, cetacean.
That it became the Norse kraken was annoying. It had a name!

[haele]

5. The Kraken is a dangerous Norse sea monster.

However, in the cheesey remake of "Clash of the Titans", an angry Liam Neeson as Zeus shouts "Release the Kraken!" to cause another boss fight for the hero of the movie to contend with before making it to the climax of the movie.
Disclosure - while I never saw the remake, it was in all the trailers, and has become a meme.

Haele

[Ron Obvious]

36. There was a remake?! Get Out!

I had no idea. I looked it up on imdb, and it doesn't sound sufficiently enticing to break my "no remakes" rule.

[haele]

37. The first one was fun - Harryhousen claymation monsters.

Colorful sword and sandals romp, with pretty people overacting all over the place.
The remake didn't look as fun or as colorful, so I gave it a pass.

Haele

[Earth-shine]

6. Apparently, the right wingers have one of these in captivity ready to be released.

[mysteryowl]

10. I am laughing

[Emile]

11. I remember when I was the Navy we crossed over into the Arctic Ocean we had a Bluenose

Ceremony to celebrate the event. My division officer gave a little ceremony speech and this was the first time I heard the word. It's a fabled sea creature is what he told me.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. The Kraken, by Tennyson

Below the thunders of the upper deep,
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge sea worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

https://poets.org/poem/kraken

Used in the introduction to "The Kraken Wakes", a sci-fi novel by John Wyndham.

[milestogo]

51. Thank you.

[Disaffected]

13. Sometimes referred to as:

Krakenpot

i.e. Sidney Powel, Rudy Giuliani, Lynn Woods etc.

[lagomorph777]

16. See also: Krakenhead

[Disaffected]

19. Yes, also appropriate terminology.

And, we should add the pillow guy to the list.

[Dial H For Hero]

17. From "Clash of the Titans":

1981:

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2010:

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[a kennedy]

18. Oh my gosh......I know it from an advertisement for some spiced rum....😂

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/dSRH/the-kraken-black-spiced-rum-whats-your-story

[mysteryowl]

25. That is some commercial!

[nolabear]

20. It's the new Seattle Hockey team. Fabulous logo. Unfortunate timing.

I’m not even a hockey fan and I love that logo.

[Wounded Bear]

31. Not a hockey fan, but as a Seattleite, they nailed that one...

[FreeState]

45. Love the logo n/t

[ShazamIam]

21. Their fearsom beast Kracken was made up of that imaginary evidence of the election being controlled

in a foreign country, Chinese fake ballots,thousands of personal depositions of remembered voter fraud, etc.

[mysteryowl]

24. Shazam! I think you got it

That must be how the Q nuts and RWers are using it.
Thanks

[Edim]

22. "to pwn or to kick the ass of whomever you're releasing the kraken on."

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/release-the-kraken

[taxi]

43. Exactly

My brother knew I had released the Kraken on him when I told his girlfriend that he never said what I had just told her that he never said what I just said he never did say. Then I left.

[Sneederbunk]

23. Jimmy Kraken Corn.

[Hekate]

47. And I don't care

[Angleae]

26. It's also a hockey team in Seattle.

https://www.nhl.com/kraken

[DFW]

27. It is a German word

It means "Octopus."

Yes, really!

You're welcome!

[Hortensis]

34. How about that?! Years of explanations now, and

I never heard that. Thank you.

[DFW]

38. One thousand years' worth of Germanic-speaking people can't be wrong!

I don't know what it is supposed to mean in current slang in other countries, but it's the German word for octopus.

[Hortensis]

40. Kraken's such a good word for sea monster, which giant octopuses

were legendarily. No surprise it caught on so well. And by the transitive property of "unleashing" of monsters became identified with Sidney Powell and her ilk.

[Hortensis]

42. Kraken's such a good word for sea monster, and legendarily

giant octopuses. No surprise it caught on so well. And by the transitive property of "unleashing" of monstrous creatures became identified with Sidney Powell and her ilk.

[AntivaxHunters]

29. There's an NHL named....

and it has absolutely nothing to do with Qanon.
"Release the Kraken" is a figure of speech like "release the hounds!"

[struggle4progress]

35. It's a reference to Sidney Powell's drug of choice: kraken cocaine

[Raine]

41. I'm glad you asked because I didn't know either and

I kept seeing references to it ... Thanks!

[mysteryowl]

44. Awesome

[Takket]

46. It's how an omelet starts

[mysteryowl]

48. Nice, good response

[Nac Mac Feegle]

49. I've been kicking around a theory about this....

It has to do with there being two pronunciations of the word "kraken":

The one I heard originally, while quite young, was 'cray-ken' while recently in the above mentioned movies was 'crack-en'.

My hypothesis is that someone in The Former Guys' maladministration referred to a particular notorious lawyer as a 'crack-head', and someone else misunderstood the statement as 'kraken' (with the second pronunciation). Things went downhill from there. A misunderstood statement was conflated with a mythical Sea Monster and a meme was born.

It makes about as much sense as anything else to do with TFG's reign of error, possibly more. Although that is a pretty low bar, admittedly.