![]() ![]() Then there's the Pisacha, they look like those sea monsters from old sea maps, with elephant trunks, made by mutating a whale. Plenty of Berserk's Apostles and other monsters can be described as these, ranging from Zodd (Bull/tiger/ape) to the ogres (giant humanoids with sperm whale snouts and elephant tusks) to the trolls (Rat/monkey/pig).Beast Wars, Beast Wars II, and Beast Wars Neo features several mix/hybrid critters as alt-modes.This also sets Melon up as an Evil Counterpart to the main character Legosi, who's more of an Uneven Hybrid as he's mostly a wolf with some inherited genes from his grandfather, a komodo dragon. Inheriting the instincts and characteristics of such drastically different animals has made his life extremely difficult he has no sense of taste and can't digest meat, and he has the innate urge to stay away from carnivores while also having the urge to kill any herbivore he sees. Beastars, which takes place in a World of Funny Animals, deconstructs this with Melon, who's a leopard/gazelle hybrid as the result of an Interspecies Romance.These things are fittingly called Chimeras. Animal Land has distorted mix and match animal abominations that contrast the normal animal characters.Agni's Philosophy features a hyena-porcupine cross with More Teeth than the Osmond Family.Avatar: The Last Airbender (includes The Legend of Korra).Winged Humanoid - when not an angel, often literally a bird/human mix.Winged Unicorn - unicorn/pegasus mix (or alternatively a unicorn with bird wings).Unicorn - a horse with the horn of a narwhal.Shedu and Lammasu - lion or bull body, human head with horns, bird wings.Our Sphinxes Are Different - lion/human and/or bird mix.Our Perytons Are Different - deer/bird mix.Our Mermaids Are Different - human/fish mix.Our Manticores Are Spinier - human/lion/scorpion and/or bat mix.Our Hippocamps Are Different - horse/fish mix.Our Gryphons Are Different - lion/eagle mix.Our Fairies Are Different - human with insects wings, and sometimes additional arthropod traits.Our Dragons Are Different - reptile with bat wings (western dragons) or generally a lion/snake mix (eastern dragons).Our Centaurs Are Different - human/horse mix.Our Angels Are Different - human with bird wings, or something stranger.Our Alebrijes Are Different - infinite random assortment of animals.Nuckelavee - human/horse mix without skin.The Mothman - human/moth, human/owl, or human/moth/owl mix.Minotaur - bull-headed human and/or cow/human mix.Makara - crocodile/elephant/lion/fish mix, sometimes with more creatures.Jackalope - hare or rabbit with the antlers of a deer.Hippogriff - horse with wings, talons, and avian head.Heinz Hybrid - when two different hybrids have a child together.Harping on About Harpies - human/bird mix.Cold-Blooded Whatever - amphibian/reptile/fish mix.Classical Chimera - lion/goat/snake mix.Cartoon Creature - parts so thoroughly mixed that it doesn't resemble anything in particular.Big Red Devil - generally has human, goat and bat features.Beast Man - human/animal mix (see that page for its own numerous subtropes).Basilisk and Cockatrice - chicken/snake mix.Asian Lion Dogs - obviously a lion/dog mix.Puzzling Platypus may count as a Real Life example of this trope. Mons often have aspects of different animals. Application of the principle to humans may count as Bio-Augmentation, see also Mix-and-Match Man. If both creatures are already mythological/magical/whatever and get mixed, they have a newborn Hybrid Monster and if mundane they can end up with a Patchwork Kid. Mix-and-Match Critters may be the result of Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action. Shapeshifter Mashup usually results in this. ![]() For those cases, see Pun-Based Creature.Ĭompare Fusion Dance and Two Beings, One Body, which is when two characters are combined. Also common is to simply take an existing animal and vary it a simple way - Pegasus is a horse but with wings, hippocampi have the heads and front bodies of horses but the tails of fish, etc.Īnother common variant is to make a Punny Name of a real life animal named after a different animal: for example, a "catfish" that is literally half cat, half fish. For instance, the Classical Chimera (lion head, goat body, snake tail) or the Minotaur ( bull head, human body). Jonathan Coulton, "Skullcrusher Mountain"Ī common way of making monsters or fantastic creatures is to simply take existing animals and combine their parts. ![]()
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