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Some mythological creatures are more famous than others, but a few are so famous that their entire species has been named after them in the popular consciousness, in a kind of mythological malapropism — or, alternatively, a singular creature proposed as a unique aberration is adopted by other stories as if it were a species. Related but distinct from Single Specimen Species, since the original creature may have less-famous forgotten relatives, or the original creature might have been solitary and then turned into a race by later authors. Either way, there's not just one anymore. However, A Kind Of One may be portrayed as a Single Specimen Species in each subsequent work, following the original; in which case it may be a case of Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit" since the characters have never seen it before, but the readers have. For instance, someone encountering a creature for the first time may Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff". Contrast the inversion, A Dog Named "Dog", where a character is named after their species instead of vice versa, and Last of His Kind, when there were more in the past. A number of cases of this trope have become widespread and ubiquitous enough to have their own pages: Classical Chimera — The classical Greek Chimera, originally a one-off freak of nature, is usually seen in fantasy as a whole species of many-headed monsters. Feathered Serpent — The original was a single god worshipped by a number of Mesoamerican peoples under a variety of names, like Quetzalcoatl and Kukulkan. Hellhound — Although many infernal and ghostly hounds of folklore were not thought to be individual beings, many fictional hellhounds are explicitly based on Cerberus, who was very much a singular entity. Medusa — Although there were always at least three gorgons, Medusa was the personal name of just one of them. Our Hydras Are Different — The Lernaean Hydra was a single monster in Greek myth, but often appears as a whole species in fantasy works. Our Minotaurs Are Different — In the original myth there was only one "Minotaur": Asterion, the Bull of Minos. In many works, it becomes the name for an entire species of bovine humanoids. Pegasus — Note that this is a borderline case. Only one Pegasus existed in Greek myth, but the term was used to refer to entire species of winged horses in Roman and Medieval bestiaries and natural histories. The Phoenix — European folklore popularly said that there was only one phoenix — in fact, the idea of a single creature sustaining itself in an eternal, closed and sterile circle was a central point of the myth — but in fiction, it's often an entire species of fiery, immortal birds. The trope name is a reversal of "one-of-a-kind". See also Trope Namers, Ur-Example, Public Domain Character. |
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The popularity of Pixar's Finding Nemo has led to common/orange clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris/percula) and regal tangs (Paracanthurus hepatus) being consistently referred to as "Nemo fish" and "Dory fish" respectively. This tends to drive aquarium-keepers up a wall. | |
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Heartland Pro Wrestling's Shark Boy, who became popular in various IWA promotions, OVW, WCW and more eventually found himself a Shark Girl. In TNA it was eventually revealed there was a whole family of Shark Boys and Shark Girls. More Shark Girls have shown up in SHINE and another Shark Boy popped up in IWRG and CMLL. | |
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Frankenstein: There are dozens of different kinds of Golems and reanimated humans, but Mary Shelley's Frankenstein's Monster has become a catch-all term for them all. | |
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NetHack also gets it right in that "Medusa" is a boss and there is only one of her. Better yet, her lair includes a statue of Perseus... | |
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A third of the ponies in all generations of My Little Pony are Pegasi, sometimes referred to as Pegasus ponies. | |
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Under the Northern Lights: Several of the monster species in the story are based on singular beings from Norse myth, which the author compares to how fiction usually handles Greek monsters. Hraesvalgs, flying, wind-shaping spirits resembling a cross between eagles and maggots that possess corpses, are based on Hræsvelgr, a giant eagle that creates the wind and whose name means "corpse-swallower". Mokkurkalfes, ice golems created by reindeer magicians using clay from a frozen river and an enemy's heart, are based on Mökkurkalfe, a man built by giants out of clay and the heart of a mare. Nidhoggs, ice-breathing, wood-eating serpents that try to devour Tarandroland's forests each winter, are based on the dragon that gnaws on the roots of Yggdrasil. Ratatosks, squirrel-like gossip spirits used as spies and informants, are based on Ratatosk, the squirrel who ran up and down the World Tree to ferry insults between Nidhogg and an unnamed eagle. Skolls, northern relatives of the diamond dogs that breathe ice, eat light and heat, and want to make winter last forever, are based on Sköll, a wolf that chases and tries to eat the sun. Tursos, in a break from the Nordic trend, are plague-spreading sea monsters based on Iku-Turso, a sea-dwelling horror said to be the father of disease from The Kalevala. |
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In the Rick and Morty episode "Childrick of Mort", Rick fights against a Zeus. Not against Zeus himself from Classical Mythology; a Zeus, named Reggie, who apparently comes from an entire species of god-like beings with dominion over lightning who are all "Zeuses". | |
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The Discworld demonstrates them as a species that migrate together, causing auroras in the sky, and explaining that one of anything couldn't last long, especially in a Fantasy Kitchen Sink world where everything has predators. | |
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Stheno was a random encounter in (of all things) Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, the super-short kiddie-lite version of Final Fantasy. | |
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In one issue of Batgirl (2009), Steph and Supergirl team up to fight twenty-four Draculas! They came from a movie, so it's justified if we assume "Dracula" was the character's name. | |
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In the Marvel Universe, it's sometimes been claimed that there's not only just one Phoenix in the universe, but only one across all universes. Though given that such a concept makes it hard to do What If? stories about The Dark Phoenix Saga (one of the most iconic of all X-Men stories and thus fertile ground for alternate retellings), they seem to have quietly retconned that idea years ago. And even within the main Marvel Universe the "only one Phoenix" concept is kind of cheapened by the fact that fragments of the Phoenix can be split off and still have vast power, and the Phoenix can take on more than one human host simultaneously. | |
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As of Unseen Academicals there's "a Medusa" in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch (although previous references in Guards! Guards! and Feet of Clay talked about gorgons). | |
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Pathfinder: Creatures such as medusas (i.e., Greek gorgons), euryales (i.e., snake-bodied Greek gorgons), minotaurs, pegasi, phoenixes, hydras, chimeras, scyllas, cipactlis and so on all appear as full-fledged species, despite their mythical inspirations all being unique entities. Sthenos are an interesting example of this. At a first glance, they're very similar to medusas and euryales in being a species of snake-haired humanoids named after one of the three Gorgons. However, originally, there was only one Stheno, a specific euryale who was just named that — however, the original Stheno died while trying to escape her current deity for a less tyrannical one, after which her faith caused her hair-snakes to each turn into a new being, creating a new species who chose to name themselves sthenos in memory of their foremother. The vydrarch is an in-universe case of this. The one that attacked the city of Korvosa and was slain was originally thought to be a singular, one-off monster, but rumors later emerged that there might be more roaming the seas. |
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Dungeons & Dragons: In general, most mythological beings included in the game are treated as entire and sometimes fairly widespread species even when their inspiration was a singular being — chimeras, medusas, hydras, sphinxes and minotaurs are all examples of this. The jabberwock, which by what information the poem provides was also a singular monster, is likewise interpreted as an entire species of monsters. In a meta example, 1st Edition included six varieties of demons in its Monster Manual, each one designated as "Type 1", "Type 2", etc. These type designations were also accompanied by the parenthetical names of infamous members of their type, such as "Balor" or "Vrock". When later editions abandoned the "Type __" naming system, the game's writers simply re-named each of the six varieties after these examples, so the "Type 1 demon" became the "vrock", etc. The Tarrasque is a variant. Almost every setting has one at most (hence why it is the Tarrasque)... but since many of the settings are at least nominally connected, that means there are multiple Tarrasque, you just wouldn't see more than one at a timenote outside Spelljammer, which has a planet full of beings that look like Tarrasque but act as docile lithovores. Planescape's second Monstrous Compendium downplays this with monsters of legend, unique and legendary specimens of monster species such as chimeras, sphinxes or medusas. These are the living archetypal examples of their respective species, powerful and legendary and only found in isolated lairs in the Outer Planes, and only one exists of each kind. |
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Dragon Ball Online has some examples: One of the healer's sub-classes is literally called Dende, based on the original Dende. Many of the species that one comes across are named after the original character that was of that species, such as the Giran and the Buyon. |
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Occurs in-universe in Steven Universe: When Steven introduces himself by name to Peridot, she refers to him as "the" Steven— Peridot's society lacks individual names and thus she thinks that's a species that's replaced humans. Steven tries to explain he is a human, and he lists several others humans on Earth, including Lars, Sadie, Connie, the mail man, his father, and Onion "...I think". This just made Peridot think those were other types of humans. So when Topaz and Aquamarine come to Earth, ordered by Yellow Diamond to collect more humans for the Human Zoo, they look for "a 'My Dad', a 'Connie', a 'Lars', a 'Sadie', a 'Mailman', and an 'Onion I think'." | |
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Quite common throughout the Super Mario Bros. universe: Yoshi is a species of dinosaur most often referred to as "Yoshis" in all games with others of his kind. Toad(s), though they used to be called Mushroom Retainers Birdo(s). Kamek is an inversion: in the original Japanese, that is the generic name of the enemy type that is known in English as Magikoopa. In the West, it became the proper name of one particular Magikoopa, Bowser's right-hand man. Bowser's Japanese name, Koopa became the name for the species of turtle-people he belongs too, in Japan they're simply the Turtle Tribe. Bowser's Japanese and English name are eventually merged into "Bowser Koopa". |
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In Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the Pegasi are stated to be descendants of the original Pegasus (who is immortal). The original is mentioned several times, and his twin brother Chrysaor (who is not a winged horse, but humanoid, also immortal) appears as well. The original, unique winged horse shows up in the last book of The Heroes of Olympus. | |
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Yoshi is a species of dinosaur most often referred to as "Yoshis" in all games with others of his kind. | |
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Oedipus the King: Inverted. Sophocles, who was familiar with the many unique monsters in Greek mythology, treats "the Sphinx" as a unique monster. However, in Egyptian Mythology where he took inspiration for the creature, sphinxes are a species with many members. Incidentally, like the Minotaur mentioned above, the Theban Sphinx had a name as an individual: she was called Phix. | |
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Heroes of Might and Magic 3 also has both gorgons and medusas, in different alignments. | |
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A rather odd example in Futurama. Observing his behavior, Leela names a pet oh-so-cute creature "Nibbler". What does his species ultimately turn out to be called? "Nibblonians". Possible explanations include that they all do like eating things, thus making them a Descriptively-Named Species, and that the species name is only heard by psychic translation, so it may just have been their choice for her. Leela herself is an aversion as she initially believes herself to be the only alien of her species. It turns out she's a human mutant. |
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Numerous characters on The Venture Bros. refer to all vampires as "Draculas," with the exception of Jefferson Twilight, Blackula Hunter, who explains that he refers to black vampires as Blackulas because he can't think of a better name to distinguish them from other vampires. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: The Legendary Creature classification, which defines some cards as referring to specific individuals rather than generic examples of something, was only introduced after the game had been out for some time. As such, many early cards depicting individual people use their names as their creature types, and allow multiple instances to be in play at once. Examples include Ali Baba, Ali from Cairo and Aladdin from Arabian Nights and Uncle Istvan from The Dark. In the case of Arabian Nights, this was later explained by a sort of Retcon in the Magic novels stating that the plane of Rabiah was split into 1001 Alternate Universe versions of itself, so that there are actually supposed to be 1001 copies of each of these guys running around. However Uncle Istvan was introduced after legendary creatures already existed but was designed beforehand, and as he's from the original default setting of Dominaria he doesn't get the excuse 1000 extra copies. | |
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The God of War series alternately refers to the monsters as Medusas or Gorgons, but Euryale is fought in the second game. | |
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In T.U.F.F. Puppy, the Cartoon Creature species Keswick belongs to are also called "Keswicks". | |
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Puyo Puyo: Implied for Hohow Bird, whose dialogue indicates he's part of a species. Yet, no other Hohow Birds have appeared in the franchise. Donguri Gaeru the round frog is actually part of a species of identical-looking acorn frogs, which was hinted at in the games and eventually shown in the Light Novel Satan's Space Amusement Park. While never outright confirmed, the one who appears in the games seems to be the same one every time, as characters frequently express familiarity with him. |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: The Flickies are named after a bird named "Flicky" from a previous Sega game of the same name. | |
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Tigger from Winnie the Pooh is a good example of this trope. When Pooh asks what he is on meeting him, he says he is "The One and Only Tigger". However, The Tigger Movie is entirely about subverting this trope in the most heart-wrenching way possible. | |
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In The Dark Crystal, Kira has a pet, a furry Cephalothorax with More Teeth than the Osmond Family, named Fizzgig. In The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, fizzgigs are the name of the species. | |
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Age of Mythology allows players to raise armies of mythological creatures, that even have fairly correct Latin scientific names (all Half-Human Hybrid are Homo x — the Minotaur is Homo taurus — others take their known genus — the Nemean Lion is Leo biaxomus, the Pegasus is Equus pegasus, the Phoenix is Aquila inferna — and when no real life animal exists, a Latin word becomes the genus — the Chimera is Draco chimera, the Medusa is Gorgon chrysaorus). | |
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Warhammer has many, many examples. Besides the Gorgons and Medusae, there are examples of Hydras, Chimeras, Minotaurs, Phoenixes, Pegasi and pretty much all the standard fantasy versions of this trope. Of special note is the Kharybdiss, however — a species of sea monster in Warhammer derived from the whirlpool-causing individual monster Karybdis in Homer's Odyssey. Karybdis' traditional mythological partner Scylla does inspire a Warhammer monster, but it is a unique individual (the Chaos Spawn Scyla Anfingrimm), rather than a species (in fact the Kharybdiss bears some similarities with Homer's description of Scylla). | |
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Tursos, in a break from the Nordic trend, are plague-spreading sea monsters based on Iku-Turso, a sea-dwelling horror said to be the father of disease from The Kalevala. | |
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"Dracula" has been occasionally used as a synonym for "vampire" since Bram Stoker's work was published, usually in a playful context. For example, in Desmond Dekker's 1964 humorous song "Dracula", he warns the listener "Do not fall in love for that girl, she is a Dracula." | |
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High School D×D: There are four Satans, mostly because that's actually just a job title. Specific subtitles include Leviathan of Foreign Affairs. (The original ruler of hell you're looking for is Lucifer; his bloodline's still around.) Otherwise it's averted, almost every aspect of the Crossover Cosmology is properly researched with their appearance and abilities clear based on their myth. Even the Heaven faction, a slurry of everything Abrahamic, uses individuals and hierarchy based in scripture. There's also a Welsh dragon named Ddraig. Given how rare and powerful dragons are, it's entirely possible that he's not named after generic the generic Welsh word for "dragon", but that the Welsh language got its word for "dragon" from his name. |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has several straight examples from Classical Mythology. Pegasi are the most prevalent example being one-third of the pony population. Cockatrices, minotaurs, phoenixes, chimeras and orthros as a species are also either seen or implied. There also a few inversions: in Aztec Mythology, the ahuizotl was an entire species, but in the show, Ahuizotl is the name of one individual villain. Similarly, The Arimaspi were a tribe of one-eyed people from Greek legend, whereas in the show, Arimaspi is the name of a single cyclops-like creature. |
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Same as Age of Mythology above, Titan Quest turns several unique mythological monsters (mostly from Greek Mythology) into veritable races, such as the Gorgons, Minotaurs and others. Oddly enough, a few creatures are unique, such as the Chimera, the Manticore and Talos. | |
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Averted in The Kindly Ones arc of The Sandman (1989), where Lyta meets the two remaining sisters who are still in mourning for Medusa. | |
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In a meta example, 1st Edition included six varieties of demons in its Monster Manual, each one designated as "Type 1", "Type 2", etc. These type designations were also accompanied by the parenthetical names of infamous members of their type, such as "Balor" or "Vrock". When later editions abandoned the "Type __" naming system, the game's writers simply re-named each of the six varieties after these examples, so the "Type 1 demon" became the "vrock", etc. The Tarrasque is a variant. Almost every setting has one at most (hence why it is the Tarrasque)... but since many of the settings are at least nominally connected, that means there are multiple Tarrasque, you just wouldn't see more than one at a timenote outside Spelljammer, which has a planet full of beings that look like Tarrasque but act as docile lithovores. | |
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Pardus has a jellyfish-like species named Medusanote Incidentally, also the name for the "jellyfish stage" of actual cnidarian life cycles, as opposed to the "anemone stage" called the Polyp for its petrifying abilities... and its stronger relatives, Stheno and Euryale. | |
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The Cheat from Homestar Runner looks vaguely like a short, fat miniature cheetah; he's been referred to as "a The Cheat" (always with the article) and no other creature resembling him has ever been seen (except in Cheat Commandos, which is purely metafictional, note exceptionally so for a setting where everything else tends to become real, so all the Cheat Commandos characters may be depictions of him). One cartoon shows him hatching out of an enormous egg along with "a lifetime supply of fishsticks" and one of the video games has Strong Bad referring to his "hot mom", though, so possibly there are others. | |
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Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!: Potentially, supposedly the name of the Riptocs comes from their leader Ripto. | |
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Dragon Ball Z: Frieza, his relatives King Cold, Cooler, Chilled and Kuriza, and presumably his Alternate Universe counterpart Frost are mutants of an unnamed race. In Dragon Ball Xenoverse and its sequel, players can create custom characters of Frieza's race... which is just called Frieza Race. | |
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Sometimes in The Moomins stories, one isn't sure if the word used to refer to a particular creature is its personal name or the name of its species. This is often academic if that is the only example we meet. The most obvious example is the Hemulen — later stories establish there are definitely other Hemulens, such as the Park Keeper, and it's not even clear if "the" Hemulen is even always the same one. (There are almost certainly at least two Fillyjonks referred to as "the" Fillyjonk in different books.) | |
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They also show up (or at least images of them do) in Fate/hollow ataraxia, though like Medusa before they assumed their monstrous forms. | |
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Stheno is also a boss encounter (a leader of naga-like snake people) in City of Villains. | |
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