Yeti in popular culture

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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.

2016 Kyrgyz envelope and stamps dedicated to yeti[1]

The Himalayan nation Nepal selected Yeti as the mascot for the Visit Nepal 2020.[2]

Films and television[edit]

Literature[edit]

  • 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.[12]
  • "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.[13]
  • 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 that has brown fur, a half-human, half-gorilla face, and has the height of a hulking 11 year old, the version seen in the films Goosebumps and Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween was shown to be 8 ft. with white fur and an ape-like face and is loyal to Slappy the Dummy. Both adaptions are shown to like trail mix.

Radio[edit]

Video games[edit]

  • 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.[14]
  • The character Bentley and his younger brother Bartholomew in the Spyro video game series are yetis. Both characters were introduced in 2000's Spyro: Year of the Dragon. Additionally, a yeti appears as a level antagonist in both 1999's Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! and Spyro: Year of the Dragon. The Spyro spinoff series Skylanders also features Slam Bam, a four-armed yeti with ice powers, as one of many playable characters, debuting in the first game, Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure.
  • In the 2006 video game Titan Quest, Yetis appear as beast enemies in Act III (Orient).[15]
  • 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.[16][17]
  • SkiFree by Chris Pirih features a yeti who can eat the player if the player reaches more than 2000m down the slope.[18]
  • The 2006 GameCube game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess features a yeti couple who live in an abandoned manor atop a snow-covered 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.

Others[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Legends of Kyrgyzstan. Yeti". Kyrgyz Express Post.
  2. ^ "'Visit Nepal Year 2020' tourism campaign kicks off". ANI News. 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  3. ^ Scott Brown (9 November 2001). "The moments you missed in 'Monsters, Inc.'". Entertainment.
  4. ^ Writer Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln, Director Gerald Blake, Producer Innes Lloyd (30 September 1967). "The Abominable Snowmen". Doctor Who. London. BBC.
  5. ^ Writer Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln, Director Douglas Camfield, Producer Peter Bryant (3 February 1968). "The Web of Fear". Doctor Who. London. BBC.
  6. ^ Writer Terrance Dicks, Director Peter Moffatt, Producer John Nathan-Turner (23 November 1983). "The Five Doctors". Doctor Who. London. BBC.
  7. ^ venoms5. "Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century (1977) review". Retrieved 7 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "Expedition Unknown: Hunt for the Yeti | TV Guide". TV Guide. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Expedition Unknown: Hunt for the Yeti, Season 1 | Amazon.com". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  10. ^ Ians (10 September 2017). "Yeti Obhijaan to release in Nepal, India on same day". Entertainment.
  11. ^ a b Martinelli, Marissa (2 October 2019). "How to Tell Abominable From Other Recent "Human Befriends a Yeti and/or Sasquatch" Movies". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  12. ^ Turtledove, Harry (15 June 2016). "Typecasting". Tor.com. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  13. ^ Ghosh, Devarsi (1 May 2019). "A short history of Yeti mania, from the Ramsay Brothers to Tintin". Scroll.in. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  14. ^ "Mr. Nutz for Game Boy (1994)". MobyGames. 19 November 2006. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  15. ^ "Seite 2: Titan Quest - Patch 1.20 (von 1.15)". GameStar. 25 September 2006. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  16. ^ "Far Cry 4: Valley of the Yetis review". pcgamer. 18 March 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  17. ^ Ryan, Jon (10 March 2015). "Far Cry 4: Valley of the Yetis DLC Review". IGN India. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  18. ^ Vincent, Brittany (7 April 2018). "Remembering SkiFree, and the Yeti that still haunts our dreams". PC Gamer. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  19. ^ "Engineering Expedition Everest, complete with a yeti". Machine Design. 3 May 2009. Archived from the original on 20 September 2008. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
  20. ^ Sitzes, Rebecca (17 August 2019). "Cleveland Community College unveils new Yeti mascot logo". Shelby Star. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
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