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Yeti in popular culture

The Yeti is an ape-like creature purported to inhabit the Himalayan mountain range in Asia. In Western popular culture, the creature is commonly referred to as the Abominable Snowman. It has regularly been depicted in popular culture of the region as well as in films, literature, music, video games pertaining to the region.

The Himalayan nation Nepal selected Yeti as the mascot for the Visit Nepal 2020.

Films and television

Literature

  • Alternate history author Harry Turtledove has written stories as part of the "State of Jefferson Stories" titled "Visitor from the East" (May 2016), "Peace Is Better" (May 2016), "Typecasting" (June 2016), and "Three Men and a Sasquatch" (2019) where Yetis, Sasquatches, and other related cryptids are real. However, unlike common popular depictions of such creatures as less evolved primates, they are essentially another race of human beings, and have been integrated into society.
  • "Wild Man", a song by Kate Bush from her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow.
  • A Yeti serves as a pivotal character in Hergé's 1958-1959 comic book Tintin in Tibet, where it is depicted as an enormous, intelligent and sensitive ape-like creature who saves and protects the young Chinese who is the only survivor of a plane crash.
  • Goosebumps has a story called "The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena" where this Abominable Snowman was found in Alaska in a block of ice and can deal with the unmelting snow and ice as seen later in the story. While the Abominable Snowman was a neutral character who has brown fur, a half-human, half-gorilla face, and is around the size of an 11-year-old, the version seen in the films Goosebumps and ' was shown to be 8 ft. with white fur and an ape-like face and is loyal to Slappy the Dummy. Both versions are shown to like trail mix.
  • The Yeti are prominently featured in King of the Cloud Forests, a 1987 children's fantasy and adventure novel written by Michael Morpurgo.
  • The Abominable is a book by Dan Simmons published in 2013. The Abominable Snowman is a key plot point in the book while also not the main focus of this survival horror fiction.

Radio

  • Yehti, a 1955 episode of The Goon Show written by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes, in which protagonist Neddie Seagoon goes Yeti hunting in Yorkshire.
  • "Abominable Snowman", a 1953 episode of the radio thriller series Escape, in which a group of explorers hunt for the creature.

Video games

  • In the video game Mr. Nutz, the title character goes through a series of levels before meeting his nemesis Mr. Blizzard who is a yeti.
  • The character Bentley and his younger brother Bartholomew in the Spyro video game series are yetis. Both characters were introduced in 2000's '. Additionally, a yeti appears as a level antagonist in both 1999's ' and Spyro: Year of the Dragon.
  • The Spyro spinoff series Skylanders also features Slam Bam (voiced by Fred Tatasciore), a four-armed yeti with ice powers, as one of many playable characters, debuting in the first game, '.
  • In the 2006 video game Titan Quest, Yetis appear as beast enemies in Act III (Orient).
  • There is an expansion to the video game Far Cry 4, named "Valley of the Yetis", dedicated to finding a relic in the Himalayas that turns people into Yetis.
  • SkiFree by Chris Pirih features a yeti who can eat the player if the player reaches more than 2000m down the slope.
  • The 2006 video game ' features a yeti couple who live in an abandoned mansion atop a snowy mountain.
  • Mega Man Star Force 2 features a boss by the name of Yeti Blizzard.
  • Plants vs. Zombies and most of its sequels and spinoffs have a Yeti Zombie and variants of it.
  • Clash of Clans added the Yeti as a troop in 2019

Others

  • Yeti folklore is the theme of Walt Disney World Resort's attraction, Expedition Everest - Legend of the Forbidden Mountain was located in Asia at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Bay Lake, Florida just outside of Orlando, Florida. The Yeti is first depicted in statues, and art in the ride's queue as the guardian of the Forbidden Mountain. Near the ride's station, riders pass through a "Yeti Museum" featuring real Yeti footprint casts, and photos from a "Lost Expedition". The Yeti is then depicted as a destructive creature as seen on the ride sabotaging the railroad. It features a audio-animatronic Yeti which appears near the end of the ride attacking the guests. The creature is depicted more accurately to Tibetan descriptions of the Yeti as a brown coated Ape like creature. Imagineers designed the Yeti based on Gigantopithecus, and the Snub-nosed monkey.
  • Disneyland's Matterhorn Bobsleds features a Yeti dubbed Harold by the imaginers that was added to the ride in 1978 after the ride opened. Around the mountain, footprint casts depicting an unknown animal are shown along with a warning sign of the Yeti being spotted. The Yeti is shown 3 times during the ride first on the lift hill, and twice as an animatronic. The creature's original design was depicted as an ape like creature with bright red eyes, a cat like face, dark blue skin, and white fur. In 2015, the design was updated into a more gorilla like animal.
  • Yetis is the mascot of Cleveland Community College in Shelby, North Carolina.
  • Yeti Airlines is a prominent domestic airline in Nepal.
  • In Monster High, the Yeti has a daughter named Abbey Bominable.
  • Utah Yeti is one of the names finalised for the Utah NHL Team in an online voting.

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