Colossus, Colossos, or the plural Colossi or Colossuses, may refer to:

Statues

* Any exceptionally large statue;

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Apennine Colossus The Apennine Colossus () is a stone statue, approximately 11 meters high, in the estate of the Villa Demidoff in Vaglia, Tuscany, Italy. Giambologna (Flemish sculptor Jean de Boulogne) created the colossal figure, a personification of the Apen ...

'', a stone statue created as a personification of the Apennine mountains * ''

Colossus of Barletta The Colossus of Barletta is a large bronze statue of a Roman emperor, nearly three times life size (5.11 meters, or about 16 feet 7 inches), in Historic center of Barletta, Italy. It is a Late Antique statue, but the date, identity of the emper ...

'', a bronze statue of an unidentified Roman emperor * ''

Colossus of Constantine The ''Colossus of Constantine'' () was a many times life-size acrolithic early-4th-century statue depicting the Roman emperor Constantine the Great (''c.'' 280–337), commissioned by himself, which originally occupied the west apse of the Bas ...

'', a bronze and marble statue of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great * ''

Colossi of Memnon The Colossi of Memnon ( or ''es-Salamat'') are two massive stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, which stand at the front of the ruined Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III, the largest temple in the Theban Necropolis. They have stood since 1 ...

'', two stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III * ''

Colossus of Nero The Colossus of Nero (''Colossus Neronis'') was a bronze statue that the Emperor Nero (37–68 AD) created in the vestibule of his Domus Aurea, the imperial villa complex which spanned a large area from the north side of the Palatine Hill, acros ...

'', a bronze statue of the Roman emperor Nero * '' Colossus of Ramesses II'' * ''

Colossus of Rhodes The Colossus of Rhodes (; ) was a statue of the Greek sun god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it was constructed to ...

'', a bronze statue of the Greek god Helios

Amusement rides

* Colossus (Ferris wheel), Ferris wheel at Six Flags St. Louis, Missouri, US * ''Colossus'', a pirate ship at Robin Hill theme park, Isle of Wight, UK

Roller coasters

* Colossos (Heide Park), in Lower Saxony, Germany * Colossus (Six Flags Magic Mountain), in California, US * Colossus (Thorpe Park), in Surrey, UK *

Colossus the Fire Dragon Colossus the Fire Dragon, also known as Colossus, or simply Fire Dragon, is a Anton Schwarzkopf, Schwarzkopf double-looping roller coaster that opened at Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, Utah, Farmington, Utah in 1983. Description The coa ...

, at Lagoon amusement park, Utah, US

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Colossus (character) Colossus (Piotr "Peter" Nikolayevich Rasputin; ) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum, he first appeared in ''Giant-Size X-Men'' #1 (May 1975). A Russian m ...

, a character in the ''X-Men'' series * Colossi, the eponymous enemies in ''

Shadow of the Colossus ''Shadow of the Colossus'' is a 2005 action-adventure game developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It takes place in a fantasy setting and follows Wander, a young man who enters an isolated and abandoned r ...

'' * GTVA ''Colossus'', a spacefaring warship in '' FreeSpace 2''

Film

* '' Colossus: The Forbin Project'' (1970), a film based on the D. F. Jones novel

Games

* '' Colossus Chess'', a series of chess-playing programs

Literature

* ''Colossus'' (collection), short stories by Donald Wandrei * ''Colossus'' (novel), 1966 science fiction novel by D. F. Jones

Music

* Colossus Records, an American label * Colossus (band), an American Christian metal band from Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Albums

* ''Colossus'' (Scorn album), 1993 * ''Colossus'' (Walt Mink album), 1997 * ''Colossus'', by Triggerfinger, 2017 * ''Colossus'' (EP), by Caligula's Horse, 2011

Songs

* "Colossus", by Afro Celt Sound System from '' Volume 3: Further in Time'' * "Colossus", by Borknagar from '' Quintessence'' * "Colossus", by Caligula's Horse from ''

Colossus Colossus, Colossos, or the plural Colossi or Colossuses, may refer to: Statues * Any exceptionally large statue; colossal statues, are generally taken to mean a statue at least twice life-size ** List of tallest statues ** :Colossal statues * ...

'' * "Colossus", by Idles from ''

Joy as an Act of Resistance ''Joy as an Act of Resistance'' is the second studio album by British rock band Idles, released on 31 August 2018 by Partisan Records. Following the success of their debut album '' Brutalism'', the band started recording new material. Taking in ...

'' * "Colossus", by In Mourning from '' The Weight of Oceans'' * "Colossus", by Jinjer from '' Wallflowers'' * "Colossus", by Lightning Bolt from '' Earthly Delights'' * "Colossus", by Omega Lithium from '' Kinetik'' * "Colossus", by Thomas Bangalter from '' Trax On Da Rocks Vol.2'' * "Colossus", by Tyler, the Creator from ''

Wolf The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the grey wolf or gray wolf, is a Canis, canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus, subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, includin ...

Computing

Colossus computer Colossus was a set of computers developed by British cryptanalysis, codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Colossus used vacuum tube, thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) to perform Boolean algebra ...

, the first programmable electronic digital computer, used for code breaking in World War II * Colossus, the codename for a new version of the

Google File System Google File System (GFS or GoogleFS, not to be confused with the GFS Linux file system) is a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google to provide efficient, reliable access to data using large clusters of commodity hardware. Go ...

* COLOSSUS, the software program controlling the

Apollo Guidance Computer The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Apollo command module (CM) and Apollo Lunar Module (LM). The AGC provided computation and electronic interfaces for guidanc ...

in the command module of the Apollo missions *

Colossus (supercomputer) Colossus is a supercomputer developed by xAI (company), xAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) company founded by Elon Musk. Construction on Colossus began in 2024 in Memphis, Tennessee, and is continuing to expand today. It is currently believed ...

, the world's largest AI supercomputer

Warships

* ''Colossus'' class (disambiguation) (UK) * French ship ''Colosse'' * HMS ''Colossus'' (UK) * USS ''Colossus'' (US)

Other uses

* Colossus Cinemas, a Canadian movie theater brand * Colossus, a

reticulated python The reticulated python (''Malayopython reticulatus'') is a Pythonidae, python species native to South Asia, South and Southeast Asia. It is the world's List of largest snakes, longest snake, and the list of largest snakes, third heaviest snake. I ...

once considered the largest snake in captivity