Cephalopods in popular culture

is a third-person shooter video game franchise created by Hisashi Nogami and Shintaro Sato and developed, published and owned by Nintendo. It is set in the far future on a post-apocalyptic Earth that has been repopulated with evolved marine life and centers around a pair of humanoid races derived from cephalopods known as Inklings and Octolings—squids and octopuses respectively—which can morph between humanoid and cephalopodic forms at will. They frequently engage in "Turf War" battles with each other and use a variety of weapons that produce and shoot ink while in their humanoid forms or swim