Popular Culture
- Hydra (film), a 2009 monster movie featuring the original legendary beast
- HYDRA, a secret criminal organization in the Marvel Universe
- Viper (Madame Hydra), a Marvel supervillain, and enemy of the Avengers
- Hydra (Transformers), one of several Transformers characters
- Hydra (Dungeons & Dragons), a reptilian magical beast that has anywhere from five to twelve heads
- The Hydra, a Cthulhu Mythos deity created by Henry Kuttner
- Mother Hydra, co-ruler of the Deep One race and consort of Father Dagon in the fictional Cthulhu mythos
- The Hydra flak tank in the Warhammer 40,000 universe
- Hydra, a Dharma Initiative station on the TV series Lost
- Hydra (Chuck), a database on the TV series Chuck
- Hydra, a character in the anime/manga UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie
- Hydra Trophy, awarded to the winner of the roller derby WFTDA Championships
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“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“If they have a popular thought they have to go into a darkened room and lie down until it passes.”
—Kelvin MacKenzie (b. 1946)
“With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan,—mere Jonathans. We are provincial, because we do not find at home our standards; because we do not worship truth, but the reflection of truth; because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufacturers and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)