While they were fleeing from Attuma's patrol ships, Hawkeye and Quicksilver came across a giant squid; they managed to evade its tentacles, so the monster caught their pursuers instead. A giant squid, attracted by a whirlpool, attacked the space capsule Castor-and-Pollux I during the splashdown, but it was forced to flee by the Sub-Mariner. Many years later, a giant squid attacked the Hulk as he was approaching Monster Island.