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6 unusual facts about cyclops


Amphryssos

In Callimachus' "Hymn to Apollo" (48) Apollo tends Admetus' herds by the Amphryssos during his punishment for killing the Cyclopes.

Battle Monsters

Drethdok, a cyclopean monster that's able to breathe fire and heal himself.

Black Shuck

You may know him at once, should you see him, by his fiery eye; he has but one, and that, like the Cyclops', is in the middle of his head.

GWR Premier Class

: Brontes is one of the Greek mythical monsters known as the Cyclops.

Little Samson

Here, the player fights one of the four wizards that serve as the dark prince's right-hand men, each of which becomes a larger boss when defeated (green becomes a Cyclops, blue becomes a magic-wielding knight, red becomes a giant dragon, and the yellow becomes what appears to be the Grim Reaper).

Maciste nella terra dei ciclopi

Queen Capys is doomed to a life of slavery by the Powers of Darkness until the last descendant of Ulysses is put to death to please the Cyclops.


Adam Deibert

Deibert currently works as a composer for the Nick Jr. children's series Yo Gabba Gabba!, as well as providing the voice for the character of Muno the Cyclops.

BlackSite: Area 51

An X-Men reference is in the name of Echo Squad member Lieutenant Logan Somers: Logan is Wolverine's name, while Somers is a play on Cyclops' last name (i.e. Scott Summers).

Cisero Murphy

In the Flatbush neighborhood of New York City, there is a mural painted of Cisero Murphy shooting pool, along with fellow New Yorkers and baseball players Joe DiMaggio and Mike Piazza and Joseph "Cyclops" Bouie III.

Craig Kyle

Chris Yost and Kyle co-wrote the revamped X-Force with Clayton Crain on pencils; the cast featured Wolverine, Warpath, Wolfsbane, and X-23 as black ops agents on assassination missions per the orders of Cyclops.

Cromemco CYCLOPS

The Cyclops Camera was developed by Terry Walker, Harry Garland, and Roger Melen, and introduced as a hobbyist construction project in the February 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine.

Joanna Cargill

Following the end of Age of X, in which she was married to Cyclops, Joanna has trouble adjusting back to the normal timeline, as her experiences as a more heroic figure have had a profound effect on her.

L'Odissea

An Italian, Yugoslavian, German and French (Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française) coproduction, it was directed by Franco Rossi, Piero Schivazappa and Mario Bava; the cast included Bekim Fehmiu as Ulysses and Irene Papas as Penelope, Samson Burke as the Cyclops, as well as Barbara Bach and Gerard Herter (of Caltiki fame).

Lamar Lundy

All four also did some acting; Lundy portrayed the boulder-hurling cyclops in the unaired pilot of Lost in Space (this pilot was later made into episode 4 of the series, entitled "There Were Giants in the Earth").

Lauma

Later on, they had an anthropomorphic appearance: they usually had birds’ claws for feet, appear like women with a heads or lower body of she-goats, half-human / half bitch or half mare (like Centaurs), had only one eye (like Cyclops), had large breasts with stone nipples (pieces of Belemnitida found on ground were called Laumės nipples).

Marvel Girl

Rachel Summers, a.k.a. Phoenix, member of the X-Men, Excalibur, and Starjammers; alternate timeline daughter of Cyclops (Scott Summers) and Jean Grey

Michael Papas

Little Odysseus and the Cyclops is a modern day retelling of a story from Homer’s The Odyssey.

Pissed Happy Children

They would later go on to form other bands in the powerviolence and noise genres including: Cyclops, Neanderthal, Charred Remains, Man Is the Bastard and Bastard Noise.

Slices of Life

"Sexual parasites, disembowelment, zombies, serial killers, demon children, violent vixens, rabid office workers, aliens, mummies, skeleton warriors, vampires, werewolves, dragons, medusa, beasts, giants, robots, cyclops' and angry mmbryos all spring to life from the flesh covered sketch books featured in Anthony G. Sumner’s (Gallery of Fear) Slices of Life.

Telchines

The Telchines were associated and sometimes confused with the Cyclopes, Dactyls and Curetes.

The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix

The Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix sees the two once again misplaced in time, this time back to the turn of the century, to be witness to the origin of Mister Sinister.

The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix was a four-issue comic book mini-series written by Scott Lobdell, drawn by Gene Ha, and published by Marvel Comics in 1994.

William Arrowsmith

Arrowsmith is remembered for his translations of Petronius’s Satyricon (1959) and Aristophanes’ plays The Birds (1961) and The Clouds (1962), as well as Euripides’ Alcestis, Cyclops, Heracles, Orestes, Hecuba, and The Bacchae, as well as other classical and contemporary works.

X-Men: The End

Jean Grey (Phoenix), Marvel Girl, Gambit and Rogue, Havok and Lorna, Alpha Flight, Professor X and Cassandra, Storm, Archangel with Husk, Cyclops, Madelyne, Dust, Cable, Lilandra, Sage, Colossus, Hub, and a few others are shown above the crowd looking down from the other side, as it were.

Xothic legend cycle

Ythogtha is the second son of Cthulhu and resembles a gigantic, humanoid frog, or Deep One, with only a single, huge eye in the center of his forehead like a cyclops.


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