Maelstrom

Maelstrom may refer to:

• A powerful whirlpool
  • originally the Moskstraumen in English

Amusement rides

• Maelstrom (ride), 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

• 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
• Maelstrom, a lightning-based hammer item in the video game "Dota 2"
• Maelstrom, a gang in Cyberpunk 2077
• Maelstrom, a huge whirlpool in the Warcraft game franchise

Literature

• "A Descent into the Maelström", 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 universe by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• Maelstrom, a 2017 novel by Yael Inokai
• 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
• "Descent into the Maelstrom", a song by the Australian band Radio Birdman on the album Radios Appear
• "Maelstrom", a song by The Steve Miller Band on the album Living in the 20th Century
• "Maelstrom", a composition by Julian Cochran
• "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
• Maelstrom, a Boston-based thrash metal band active from the late 1980s to the early 1990s that released an LP on Taang! Records