List of fictional elephants
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[edit] Elephants in mythology, legends and folklore
- Airavata, an elephant ridden by the Hindu god Indra
- Blackmound, an elephant whose ends up unable to bathe, from a well known Indian Fable, entitled "The Elephant, the Frogs, and the Toad"
- Erawan, the Thai version of Airavata
- "Seeing the Elephant" was an expression used by 19th Century Americans to describe new and exciting adventures. Also sometimes used to qualify a bad ending to an exciting new adventure.
[edit] Elephants in literature
- Unnamed elephant transported from India to Greece by order of Alexander the Great, in "An Elephant for Aristotle" by L. Sprague de Camp.
- The version of Atom in Just'a Lotta Animals
- Aurunculeia in the novel The House of the Four Winds by John Buchan
- Babar, an elephant prince from the books by Jean de Brunhoff
- Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon, and Jerakeen, the four elephants who stand on the back of Great A'Tuin the star turtle, carrying Terry Pratchett's Discworld
- Chimera Elephant in Tokyo Mew Mew
- Cuatrocientos elefantes, "four hundred elephants": an enormous herd under the orders of the mighty king, Margarita's father, in the poem Margarita by Rubén Darío
- Eddie the Elephant in the Maisy book series
- Edward Trunk, a friend of Rupert Bear in the comic strip created by Mary Tourtel
- Ella, a common name for female elephants
- Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, character of children's story books written by David McKee
- Enormous Elephant in the Sweet Pickles book series by Ruth Lerner Perle, Jacquelyn Reinach, and Richard Hefter
- Eugene from Animal Crackers
- Hathi and his three sons in The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (renamed Colonel Hathi in the Disney cartoons)
- Horton the Elephant, the hero of Horton Hears a Who! and Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss
- Ironhide of the Beast Wars comics.
- Kabumpo, the Elegant Elephant of Oz
- Kala Nag, the working elephant in the short stories Moti Guj, Mutineer and Toomai of the Elephants by Rudyard Kipling
- Lumpy the Elephant by Diana M. Hawkins
- Matthew Woo, a quirky, careless, and idiosyncratic elephant searching for the meaning of self, from a short story by Lin Shu
- Modoc, by Ralph Helfer
- Mr. Tusks from Dinosaur Comics
- Rosie, the circus elephant from the novel Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Solomom in José Saramago's 2008 book The Elephant's Journey, a fictionalised version of the story of Suleiman.
- Venusian elephants in the Carson of Venus series by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Yag-Kosha, the pacifist alien exile from the distant constellation of Yag,in The Tower of the Elephant.
[edit] Elephants in film or television
- Elephants in Champions of the wild
- Elephants in the 2009 Disney film Earth
- Four gigantic "Hindu" elephants with Indian archers on them in 300
- Anala from The Elephant Princess
- Bo Tat from Disney's Operation Dumbo Drop
- Boba the elephant from Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
- Chimera Elephant, a humanoid elephant very large elephant in Tokyo Mew Mew
- Denali in Gumby
- Edison in The Great Space Coaster
- Elephant Master a heroine elephant Power Rangers: Jungle Fury
- The Elephantitan Power Rangers in Space
- Elestomp Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue
- Gazpacho on Chowder
- Horton, the hero of Horton Hears a Who voiced by Jim Carrey
- Horatio the Elephant on Sesame Street
- Mumfie, a puppet from a children's programme called Here Comes Mumfie (1975–78) which was based on the books by Katherine Tozer published in the 1930s
- Nelson from 64 Zoo Lane
- Oliphaunt, sung about by Sam Gamgee in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (in Peter Jackson's movies The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King the oliphaunts (or Mûmakil) are depicted as huge pachyderms with multiple mammoth-like tusks, whose size makes them ideal for military use)
- Santon from Beast Wars II
- Shep in the George of the Jungle cartoons and movie
- Snorky in the Banana Splits
- Tough Tusks Power Rangers Zeo
- Tusky the Elephant from the children's movie The Wee Sing Train
- Uncle in J. P. Martin's Uncle series
- Vera in the movie Larger than Life
- White Elephant in The King and I
- Tutu and Zef in the 2008 film Elephant Tales
- Whispers, a baby African bush elephant in the Disney film Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
[edit] Elephants in animation
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- Colonel Hathi and his three sons in Disney's film The Jungle Book
- Winifred, wife of Colonel Hathi in The Jungle Book
- Dumbo, a circus elephant who learned to fly from the Disney film of the same title
- Elephanchine the Elephant and other dancing, bubble blowing, elephants from the "Dance of the Hours" segment of Disney's film Fantasia
- The titular hero of the Silly Symphony "Elmer Elephant"
- Jumbo, the mother of Dumbo
- Tantor, the elephant sidekick of Tarzan
- Elephant, a character who represents one of the goalkeepers in the Football match in Walt Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- Heffalumps (honey-eating elephants) in Winnie the Pooh
- Lumpy the Heffalump, first seen in Disney's Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
- Goliath II, a tiny but brave elephant in a Disney cartoon, also called "Slonic Ciro" or "Slonic Cira" in Serbo-Croatian.
- Aloysius, Mrs. Tusk, N'Dugu from My Gym Partner's a Monkey
- Arnold the elephant from Charlie Chalk
- Babar, Celeste, Arthur, Pom, Flora, Alexander, Isabelle, Cornelius, Pompadour, Troubadour and Truffles are elephants from the animated series by Babar
- Benjamin Blümchen in his animate series
- Bump, an elephant featured in the children's television program of the same name
- Cindy in the I Love Bubu Chacha
- Eddie the Elephant in the Maisy animated series
- Edward Elephant in the Rupert comic strip, TV cartoons, etc.
- Elephant in the German TV show Die Sendung mit der Maus (1971)
- Elephant in South Park that was cross-bred with a pig
- Elephantmon from Digimon
- Elehung Kimpo is Anthropomorphic elephant female is Transform robot weapon hammer in Juuken Sentai Gekiranger
- Elly is a pink elephant who always wears a blue back-pack. From Pocoyo, a Spanish pre-school animated television series.
- Fred Fredburger from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
- Johnson, A character in the children's television show Johnson and Friends
- Little Blue - a cartoon elephant that broke a fountain pen in two whilst in the bath and stained himself blue (1976)
- Lots-A-Heart in the Care Bears
- Nellie in the children's cartoon and latterly its theme song of the same name
- Raj from Camp Lazlo
- Stampy, Bart's pet elephant in The Simpsons
- Several Unnamed Elephants attend the presentation of Simba and the cub of Simba and Nala (The Lion King) in the 1994 film The Lion King
[edit] Elephants in advertising
Elephants have been used to advertise Coca Cola, Mastercard, Rolo, GE, and many others.
[edit] Elephants in music
- Effervescent Elephant in the song of the same name by Syd Barrett
- Nellie in the children's cartoon and latterly its theme song of the same name
[edit] Elephants in computer and video games
- Androthon is a fictional beast from the computer role-playing game Xyphus
- Elephants from Zoo Tycoon
- Elifan from Bomberman Tournament
- Pac E. Derm in Yoshi Story
- Phan Phan, from Nintendo's Kirby series
- Phanpy and Donphan in Pokémon
- Shellephant in Crash of the Titans
- Taj from Diddy Kong Racing
- African savannah elephants, African forest elephants, Indian elephants, and Sumatran elephants of elephant park in World of Zoo
- African elephants in Cabela's Dangerous Hunts, Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2, Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2009, and Cabela's African Safari.
- Elephants in the Life Simulation Computer game Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa
- Elephants in the 2009 Wii game Wild Earth: African Safari
- An unnamed African elephant in Safari Adventures in Africa
- Rolo in Rolo to the Rescue
- Indian elephants in Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2009.
- Otto, the Elephant shaman and other elephants on the online game, Animal Jam
[edit] Elephants as mascots, toys and other
- Stumpy, the mascot of 2011 Cricket World Cup
- Big Al, the mascot of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- Lucy, an architectural folly in Margate, New Jersey
- Pellie the Elephant, a mascot for the Dumbarton Football Club based in Scotland
- Welephant, the mascot of the Fire Brigade in the United Kingdom to teach young children about the dangers of playing with fire
- Shauman, Shauman the elephant, also known as Shaumau5.
- Stomper, the mascot of the Oakland Athletics Major League Baseball team.
[edit] Woolly mammoths in advertising, TV, film, animation, games and other
- Aloysius Snuffleupagus and his younger sister Alice in Sesame Street
- Elephander, Elephantus, Twinhorn and Mammoth are mecha from the Zoids franchise which are based on elephants or other elephant-like creatures
- Flame Mammoth, a Maverick in Mega Man X
- Manfred aka Manny, the Mammoth in the movie Ice Age
- Mammoth in Zoo Tycoon
- Mammoth Mogul from the Sonic the Hedgehog comic books
- Mammoths in Carnivores:Ice Age.
[edit] See also
- Elephant
- List of elephants in mythology and religion
- List of fictional animals
- List of historical elephants
- Woolley Mammoth