List of fictional elephants
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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.
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.
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
Elephants in animation
- 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
- 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.
- Elmer Elephant, the titular character of a Silly Symphonies short
- 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
Elephants in advertising
Elephants have been used to advertise Coca Cola, Mastercard, Rolo, GE, and many others.
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
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
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.
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.
See also
- Elephant
- List of elephants in mythology and religion
- List of fictional animals
- List of historical elephants
- Woolley Mammoth