Karnak - in Popular Culture

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  • In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen the final battle between Optimus Prime versus Megatron, The Fallen, and Starscream takes place in the hypostyle hall at Karnak.
  • The Egyptian-themed superhero Ozymandias from the graphic novel Watchmen has a fortress in Antarctica called Karnak.
  • Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile takes place mainly on the steamship S.S. Karnak as well as using the temple itself in one of its scenes.
  • Final Fantasy V features a kingdom called Karnak, where the Fire Crystal is housed.
  • Lara Croft visited Karnak for three levels in Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (Temple of Karnak, The Great Hypostyle Hall and Sacred Lake) and it was featured in the level editor package.
  • In the movie The Mummy Returns, Karnak is one of the places Rick O'Connell and the others must go to, in order to ultimately reach the Scorpion King.
  • The British symphonic metal band Bal-Sagoth have a song called 'Unfettering the Hoary Sentinels of Karnak'.
  • The first person shooter PowerSlave is set in and around Karnak.
  • Karnak is the name of the spaceship in which Beelzebub travels the universe in G.I. Gurdjieff's Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson.
  • The first part of the modernist long poem, Trilogy, by H.D. is dedicated, "For Karnak 1923".
  • Karnak is featured as a location for exploration in the PC game The Sims 3: World Adventures.
  • Karnak is featured as a location in the PC game Serious Sam.
  • Karnak is featured in the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me.

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