Maelstrom may refer to:
*
Maelstrom (whirlpool), a powerful whirlpool
** originally the
Moskstraumen in English
Amusement rides
*
Maelstrom (ride)
Maelstrom was a reversing Shoot the Chute dark ride attraction located in the Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. Designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, the ride opened on July 5, 1988, in the Norway Pavilion of the park's W ...
, a former log flume dark ride attraction in the Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida
* Maelstrom, a spinning flat thrill ride at
Morey's Piers in Wildwood, New Jersey
* Maelstrom, a gyro swing ride at
Drayton Manor Theme Park, Staffordshire, UK
Characters
*
Maelstrom (comics), fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics
* Maelstrom, a character from ''
Ice Age''
* Mael Strom, aka Yuki Yoshida, from the anime/manga ''
Is This a Zombie?''
* Professor Maelstrom, a fictional villain in the 2019 Netflix series ''
Carmen Sandiego''
* Maelstrom, also known as ''Wazir Kale'', a character from ''
Hitman 2''
Film and television
*
''Maelström'' (film), a 2000 Canadian film
*
''Maelstrom'' (TV series), a 1985 BBC television drama serial
*
"Maelstrom" (''Battlestar Galactica'')
Games
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''Maelstrom'' (1992 video game), an Apple Macintosh game
*
''Maelstrom'' (role playing game), a role-playing game by Alexander Scott
*
''Maelstrom'' (video game), a 2007 PC game
* ''
VOR: The Maelstrom'', a miniature wargame
* ''Maelstrom'' (Live Action Roleplaying), a live action roleplaying game run 2004–2012 by
Profound Decisions
Profound Decisions is a company running live action role-playing games in the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 2004 to run ''Maelstrom'', a fantasy game
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typi ...
* Maelstrom, a lightning-based hammer item in the video game "
Dota 2
''Dota 2'' is a 2013 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game by Valve. The game is a sequel to ''Defense of the Ancients'' (''DotA''), a community-created mod for Blizzard Entertainment's '' Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.'' ''Dota 2' ...
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* Maelstorm, a huge whirlpool in the
Warcraft game franchise
Literature
*''
A Descent into the Maelström
"A Descent into the Maelström" is an 1841 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. In the tale, a man recounts how he survived a shipwreck and a whirlpool. It has been grouped with Poe's tales of ratiocination and also labeled an early f ...
'', an 1841 short story by Edgar Allan Poe
*
''Maelstrom'' (Timms novel), a novel by E.V. Timms
* ''Maelstrom'', a 2001 novel by
Peter Watts
* ''Maelstrom'', a 2006 novel in the Petaybee Series by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
*
''Maelstrom'' (Destroyermen novel), the third book of the Destroyermen series
Music
* ''Maelstrom'', an album by
JR Ewing
* ''Mælstrøm '', an album by the Belgian
crust punk band
Oathbreaker
* "Maelstrom," a song by The Steve Miller Band on the album ''
Living in the 20th Century
''Living in the 20th Century'' is the fourteenth studio album by American rock band Steve Miller Band. The album was released in November 1986, by Capitol Records. The song " I Want to Make the World Turn Around" spent six consecutive weeks a ...
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* "Maelstrom," a composition by
Julian Cochran
200px, Julian Cochran in 1998
Julian Cochran (born 1974) is an English-born Australian composer.
Cochran's earlier works show stylistic influences from Impressionist music and his later works are more noticeably influenced by Classical music an ...
* "The Maelstrom," a composition by
Robert W. Smith
* "Maelstrom 2010," a song by the Canadian melodic death metal band Kataklysm on the album ''
Temple of Knowledge
''Temple of Knowledge (Kataklysm Part III)'' is the second full-length by Kataklysm released in 1996 by Nuclear Blast. It was re-issued in 2003 as a digipak and included their demo ''The Vortex of Resurrection''.
Track listing
Personnel
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* Maelstrom, a Boston-based thrash metal band active from the late 1980s to the early 1990s that released an LP on
Taang! Records
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