Editing Mokele-mbembe (section)

== In popular culture ==
* A rather disadvantageous line of the [[chess opening]] [[Alekhine's Defence]] is named after the creature: the "mokele'''-'''mbembe variation".<ref>John Watson and Eric Schiller, ''The Big Book of Busts'', Hypermodern Press, 1995, pp. 120–21. {{ISBN|1-886040-13-3}}.</ref>
* The mokele-mbembe was featured in ''[[The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs]]'' episode "Earnest." It is among the creatures that have been caught by Earnest Anyway.
* In the 1985 film ''[[Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend]]'', rumors of a sighting of mokele-mbembe lead the main characters to a family of live sauropods.
* In 1989 [[The Punisher]]/[[Wolverine (character)|Wolverine]] ''African Saga'' (''On the Track of Unknown Animals''/''Endangered Species'', ''[[The Punisher War Journal]]'' #6-#7) by [[Carl Potts]] and [[Jim Lee]], the two mentioned superheroes stop a band of poachers who tried to hunt mokele-mbembe.
* In the 1994 video game ''[[Uncharted Waters: New Horizons]]'', the mokele-mbembe can be discovered in the Congo River.
* In the 2010 video game ''[[Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker]]'', Mokele-mbembe is one of the cryptids said to be dinosaurs that the character Chico tells Big Boss about.
* In May 2013 the Norwegian experimental music outfit [[Sturle Dagsland]] released a song entitled "mokele-mbembe".
* The [[Roland Smith]] novel ''[[Cryptid Hunters]]'' revolves around a search for the mokele-mbembe and successful recovery of two of its eggs (the only known adult specimens having died beforehand) from the jungles of the Congo.
* Mokele-mbembe is one of six cryptids sought by comedian and journalist [[Dom Joly]] in his travel book ''Scary Monsters and Super Creeps''.
* Korean American artist [[David Choe]] claimed on an episode of ''[[The Joe Rogan Experience]]'' that as a young man he travelled to the Congo in search of Mokele-mbembe after reading about it in a magazine while he was living in Israel.
* In the ''[[World of Darkness#Classic World of Darkness (cWoD)|World of Darkness]]'' universe by [[White Wolf Publishing]], the Mokole are a breed of were-reptiles who serve as the "memory" of [[Gaia]].
* The 2019 film ''[[Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019 film)|Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'' mentions a Titan dubbed Mokele-mbembe, though it is not seen in the film. But the creature's figure was seen in its misty and foggy containment in Outpost 75 [[Jebel Barkal|Jebel Barkal, Sudan]] while it arises and escapes after being awoken by [[King Ghidorah]] alongside the other 17 titans. The creature is featured more prominently in the film's novelization. 
* In the [[SCP Foundation]], mokele-mbembe is what a village of Mbochi people call a specimen of SCP-1265, specifically a ''[[Camarasaurus]]''. They also mention [[Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu]] also being a part of SCP-1265, with it being a ''[[Kentrosaurus]]''.
* In the book ''[[Mortal Engines]]'', Captain Khora's airship is named Mokele Mbembe.
* In the second season of the ''[[Goblin Slayer]]'' anime, the adventurers encounter a large creature referred to as "Mokele Mubenbe", a huge sauropod-like creature with purple crystals protruding from its hide.