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The daughter trope of Our Monsters Are Different and Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp". So your characters are on an adventure in a Magical Land, and they naturally run into a mythical creature. Said creature is then identified in the text or dialogue by the name of a different mythical being or fantasy creature. Cue a moment of confusion for the viewer. This could be employed just to underline in red crayon that Our Monsters Are Different. Alternatively, of course, the writer did no research — or did a little too much research, finding an extremely obscure name or form of a familiar creature. This is a common cheat when fishing for names for Palette Swap Underground Monkeys. This isn't quite Sadly Mythtaken as the very fact that the writer knows that mythical creatures have specific names implies doing some research. (Sadly Mythtaken is more for The Theme Park Version / Disneyfication of classic myths.) In case you're wondering, the most commonly accepted generic term for winged horses is "pterippi", a modern construction of the Ancient Greek words "pteron" ("wing") and "hippos" ("horse"). However they're often simply called "pegasi/pegasus" after the most famous example — see A Kind of One. Compare Istanbul (Not Constantinople), which is similar but for place names, and Not Using the "Z" Word. |
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The witches from Puella Magi Madoka Magica aren't humanoid magic users, but Eldritch Abominations that feed on human emotion and live in Labrynths. This name makes a bit more sense when you learn that they're corrupted Magical Girls. Their familiars also aren't animals, but rather similar monsters that are subservient to them. This is partly a translation issue. The original Japanese term here is "Majo". The first syllable uses the character for demon, but is also the first character of "mahou", which means magic (literally "demon arts"). So "Majo" in Japanese can mean either Witch (from "magic woman") or Demoness (from "demon woman") and both are accepted meanings. The [[Stinger]] of episode 8 hinges on the double meaning, so translations have to pick Witch for that to work in the translation. |
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The titular sea monster The Giant Behemoth is a case of this. It's called the Behemoth, but the biblical Behemoth was a land-dwelling creature generally implied to be some sort of big mammal. The so-called Behemoth from the movie has more in common with the Leviathan. | |
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Amusingly, the hippogriffs that do appear are actually hippogriffs - that is, half eagle, half horse. However, they are not Ludovico Ariosto's griffin/horse hybrids but rather their own species. | |
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Monster Hunter: In a inversion of Dinosaurs Are Dragons, the series refers to its dinosaur-like monsters as Wyverns just like the actual ones. The sub-type "Bird Wyvern" is basically a pulp movie raptor ranging in size from a leopard to a cargo container, while "Brute Wyverns" are small (for a given value of "small") armor-plated tyrannosaurs. True Bird Wyverns are actual birds with some reptilian traits. The third generation mixed it up even further with the addition of the Fanged Wyvern (basically a wolf with dragon scales) Zinogre and a type of Brute Wyvern that actually has usable forelimbs. | |
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RuneQuest: In a literal version of this, hippogriffs — and their mythical progenitor, Hippogriff — resemble pegasi with bird claws instead of front hooves more than anything else. | |
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The undead from the original Night Of The Living Dead were called ghouls rather than zombies. Though at this stage, the idea of zombies converting people by biting them was an Unbuilt Trope and most later zombie movies were influenced by this one. | |
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Shin Megami Tensei: Monsters are pretty much supposed to be exactly as humans know them. This is because they are mythological archetypes born out of humanity's collective consciousness, and as such the descriptions of their nature are more or less accurate, although the context in which you fight or recruit them is often not, because of the different mythologies forced to coexist. Also, the visual style of the series results in some monsters being noticeably different from the original mold. Most egregious are most versions of Cerberus, which looks like a snake-tailed albino lion rather than a three-headed canine (although the three-headed Cerberus was used in Persona 3 as Team Pet Koromaru's persona). This stems from the novels the series was based on, which portrayed Cerberos as having only one head. | |
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Fire Emblem has the problem with giving Wyverns four legs, though it often switches between the two. One time, even in the same game, as in Sacred Stones, promoting a Wyvern Rider into a Wyvern Knight seems to result in the Wyvern losing its front limbs and thus resembling a true Wyvern. The remakes of the first and third games changes it so domesticated Wyverns have four legs and wild wyverns have two. Part of this is because the Japanese version refers to them as "hiryu", which basically means "wind dragon"—"wyvern" is an attempt at a less clunky-sounding Cultural Translation. The Sacred Stones Wyvern Knight is one of the few times that the term "wyvern" actually does show up in the Japanese version. | |
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SWAT Kats: The titular Sorcerous Overlord in SWAT Kats S1E6: "Bride of the Pastmaster" utilizes flying dragon like creatures with no forelegs, yet their model sheet labels them as Harpies despite a lack of bird or humanoid features. |
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Napoleon Dynamite: The liger is a real animal, but the creature that Napoleon draws (and claims has magical powers) looks more like a manticore.note He may not have known that ligers are real, in which case it's this trope rather than Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit". | |
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Although she never appears in the stories in person, it's made pretty clear that the Cthulhu Mythos' Mother Hydra (a Mythos addition by August Derleth) has nothing to do with the Hydra of the Greek myth. | |
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In MirrorMask there are a lot of catlike creatures with human heads. In Classical Mythology, such creatures are known as sphinxes, but the one of them that asks a riddle is identified in the script as a Gryphon, which should be a hybrid of a lion and eagle. | |
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Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow: The Basilisk and Cockatrice are essentially palette swaps of each other, although they are completely separate critters. Most of the time. The gorgon/catoblepas issue is also present in Aria. Likewise, one of the most iconic Goddamn Bats of the entire series is the Medusa Head, which is very different from the other gorgons in the game. Tentacled face, clawed hands/feet, reptile like body, narrow wings from the back? Yup, sounds like Cthulh- oh wait it's Malachi. Then what's Cthulhu? Oh, it's a devil. Lilith? The ancient female demon, first wife of Adam? Nope, it's just a lesser succubus. |
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Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams: At one point Juni refers to the half gorilla, half tarantula creature that's been following him as a centaur. Its actual name seems to be a "spider monkey". | |
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Zoids doesn't even seem to care, considering robot triceratops with sharp pointy teeth are Rule of Cool, but to writ: the Liger series of Zoids are referred to as "lion type" and several four-legged-and-winged dragons are "wyvern type"note The idea of wyverns being distinctly two-legged beasts with wings for forelimbs is a relatively modern idea, as "dragon" and "wyvern" were used interchangeably until Dungeons & Dragons differentiated them.. For that matter, whether Godzilla-esque or more like a giant monitor lizard, any big reptile Zoid made before 2000 will be called "Tyrannosaurus type". | |
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Boggarts in Harry Potter, which are not shapeshifters in English lore, but rather malicious fey that spend their time by infuriating housewives and maids through mischief and vandalism. The creatures in "Harry Potter" are more likely boogeymen, which fit the idea of a closet-dwelling demon that takes on one's worst fear. Rowling tends to do this a lot. Her "selkies", for example, are apparently just the Scottish subspecies of merfolk, with no connection to seals. Amusingly, the hippogriffs that do appear are actually hippogriffs - that is, half eagle, half horse. However, they are not Ludovico Ariosto's griffin/horse hybrids but rather their own species. Dobby the elf gets his name from a type of hobgoblin in Lancaster folklore. |
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The White Court vampires from The Dresden Files are succubi/incubi and have nothing in common with vampires apart from feeding (sexual energy not blood) off humans. | |
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Power Rangers: In the second season of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, two Thunderzords were renamed from their Gosei Sentai Dairanger counterparts to other, similar creatures: The Yellow Ranger's Qilin/Kirin mecha became a Griffin; probably to downplay the Chinese-ness of the original and because the audience wasn't expected to know what a Qilin or Kirin was. The Blue Ranger's mecha was shifted from a Pegasus (by its Chinese name "Tenma" in Dairanger) to a Unicorn. This could have been done to smooth over the change from the prior season's blue mecha, a Triceratops, by making a 'horned beasts' connection. The fact that the mecha has no wings* The details painted on its sides appear to be meant as stylistic wings, but are abstract enough that they can potentially go unnoticed. but does have a small blaster "horn" extending from the front of its mane also makes changing the name make sense. In Seijuu Sentai Gingaman and Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, the Green Ranger's parter/mecha was dragonlike with some birdlike characteristics. Both shows referred to it as a kind of bird and denied it was a dragon at all ("Gingalcon" - that's "Galaxy Falcon" - in Gingaman and "Condor Galactabeast" in Lost Galaxy). Power Rangers: Dino Thunder took a pterosaur mecha and referred to it as the Drago Zord. Justified, as the character is a Suspiciously Similar Substitute for the original Green Ranger, who piloted the Dragon Zord. |
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One of the songs from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Sadko had a visitor from India describe the wonders of his land, including The Phoenix. Except the description he gives is that of a creature named Sirin; that is, the Siren. | |
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World of Warcraft: Large predatory cats with bat wings and scorpion stingers. They are called manti... no, they are called wyverns. Whether this is a mistake or an attempt to establish a distinct bestiary is unknown; however, they're also frequently called "wind riders", perhaps to prevent some confusion with the odd choice of name. Winged Dragons without forelegs are called Chimeras, even though they fit the Wyvern definition more so than the actual wyverns. World of Warcraft also has what most people would call "wyverns" — bipedal, non-intelligent dragons. They are called "proto-drakes", and as the "proto" implies, they are the precursor to regular dragons, which were bred from proto-drakes by the Titans via genetic engineering and magic. Hippogryphs in the Warcraft universe look like raven-stags instead of eagle-horses and are often green, making them more resemble the semi-mythological peryton (actually a fairly recent creation, by Jorge Luis Borges). The main reason for this is likely that hippogryphs are the official flying mounts of the night elves, while the rest of the Alliance already use regular gryphons as their flying mounts, so the hippogryph designs were meant to both strongly differentiate the two and to better fit the night elves that use them. Dryads are a centauroid hybrid of a night elf woman and a deer, not tree spirits (these are known as wisps). Dryads are also the primary name for the creature, with nymphs being an offshoot of them rather than the other way around. Kraken and Leviathan have entirely interchangeable names with each other, meaning that you can find giant octopi called Leviathans and huge fish-like sea monsters called Krakens, as well as vice-versa. The game has wendigos, but rather than cannibalistic men-turned-monsters, it seems to just be an interchangeable term for yeti. Mists of Pandaria introduced Quilen to the game, but they don't resemble their namesake at all. They are instead based on shishi, Chinese guardian lions. On top of that, they're described as dogs and use a souped-up wolf skillset when tamed as a pet. A proper qilin was also added, but as a mount with an unnamed species. It wouldn't be until Shadowlands that those would be christened cloudstriders. |
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In the second season of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, two Thunderzords were renamed from their Gosei Sentai Dairanger counterparts to other, similar creatures: The Yellow Ranger's Qilin/Kirin mecha became a Griffin; probably to downplay the Chinese-ness of the original and because the audience wasn't expected to know what a Qilin or Kirin was. The Blue Ranger's mecha was shifted from a Pegasus (by its Chinese name "Tenma" in Dairanger) to a Unicorn. This could have been done to smooth over the change from the prior season's blue mecha, a Triceratops, by making a 'horned beasts' connection. The fact that the mecha has no wings* The details painted on its sides appear to be meant as stylistic wings, but are abstract enough that they can potentially go unnoticed. but does have a small blaster "horn" extending from the front of its mane also makes changing the name make sense. |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_4be3aedd | featureApplicability |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_4be3aedd | featureConfidence |
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| Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_4be3aedd | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5000997 | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5000997 | comment |
The animated adaptation of Little Bear occasionally featured mischievous creatures called Goblins. But rather than being the traditional green skinned monsters, they were portrayed as little bearded men with pointed hats, essentially being Gnomes in all but name. This was possibly applied to make their appearance more family friendly. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5000997 | featureApplicability |
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| Little Bear | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5000997 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5022a2c4 | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5022a2c4 | comment |
Xena: Warrior Princess: This show did the same, except it used the name "Bacchae", which actually referred to Bacchus' human female followers (at least, the maenads were nymphs). They also had winged skeletons that were called "dryads" for some reason. |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5022a2c4 | featureApplicability |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5022a2c4 | featureConfidence |
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| Xena: Warrior Princess | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5022a2c4 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_507dfb6a | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_507dfb6a | comment |
EarthBound (1994): The Kraken, while being a giant sea creature that attacks ships, only resembles a kraken as far as that. It looks less like a giant multi-tentacled cephalopod and more like a giant green eel with a head that looks like a green Pacman with a bloody mouth and fangs and fire coming out of it, and a dimpled smile. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_507dfb6a | featureApplicability |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_507dfb6a | featureConfidence |
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| EarthBound (1994) (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_507dfb6a | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_50bcf7a6 | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_50bcf7a6 | comment |
Homestuck Liches are much more comparable to gargoyles (though the wings are not part of the monster design; they come from the prototyped crow). While we're at it, the trolls are are a race of Cute Monster People whose infant forms are reminiscent of insects and whose life cycle and physiology is just a tad strange. While not a full example — myths about trolls rarely agree on anything — the Homestuck depiction was intended to be rooted more in the idea of internet trolls (that's all the characters were before Andrew Hussie decided to make them relevant to the plot), and as such are certainly divorced from the traditional brutish, man-eating monsters that live under bridges. Then Cherubs show up, and needless to say, the don't resemble Classical Cherubs in anything but name. Somewhat averted with the leprechauns, which are in fact green in both skin tone and outfits and even have a self-parody of the troll romance system involving lucky charm shapes in sectors instead of quadrants with playing card suits in them. However, all of the leprechauns resemble fully shaven younger men and vary in both height and girth. |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_50bcf7a6 | featureApplicability |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_50bcf7a6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Homestuck (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_50bcf7a6 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_51a0ec9e | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_51a0ec9e | comment |
In The Carpet People, there's an enigmatic, prescient race which most people would call "elves" based on the description. Instead they're "wights", which more commonly refers to minions of The Undead. Wight originally just meant "being" in Old English, so this usage is a throwback to the traditional definition. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_51a0ec9e | featureApplicability |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_51a0ec9e | featureConfidence |
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| The Carpet People | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_51a0ec9e | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_57f80079 | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_57f80079 | comment |
In The Mortal Instruments, an ifrit (a powerful genie from Arabian legend) is instead the Warlocknote who, in this series, are the offspring of humans and demons equivalent to a Muggle Born of Mages. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_57f80079 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_57f80079 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mortal Instruments | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_57f80079 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5937b637 | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5937b637 | comment |
ULTRAKILL: A Cerberus in this game is not a three-headed dog, but a strange species of Living Statue with an orb of infernal energy it can (repeatedly) throw like a highly-explosive dodgeball, and indistinguishable from a simple decorative statue until it wakes up. The in-game lore entries state they were given this name because they're the guardians of Hell, complete with two of them at Hell's gates. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5937b637 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5937b637 | featureConfidence |
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| ULTRAKILL (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5937b637 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5e16d550 | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5e16d550 | comment |
In Black Clover, the fire spirit is described as a "salamander." While it starts off small, it has wings and pretty quickly grows into what would be better described as a "dragon." | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5e16d550 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5e16d550 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Black Clover (Manga) | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_5e16d550 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_65e59655 | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_65e59655 | comment |
The how-to-draw book disguised as a field guide Dracopedia claims that some mythical creatures are actually dragons. Example include: The Kirin is a species of Arctic dragon. The salamander is a species of basilisk. The Phoenix is a species of Coatyl. The Jabberwocky is a species of Feydragon. The Indian Naga is a species of hydra. Also mentioned is the medusan hydra, cerebus hydra and the Japanese hydra, aka Yamata-no-orochi. The sea orc also goes by sea serpent or leviathan. The Lindwyrm is a type of wyrm that has vestigial legs. Wyrms also go by Ouroboros. The Elwah dragon is also called a Thunderbird. |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_65e59655 | featureApplicability |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_65e59655 | featureConfidence |
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| Dracopedia | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_65e59655 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_67cdde7d | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_67cdde7d | comment |
Dragon: One article suggests that game masters use this trope in-game to screw with their players' expectations, perhaps justifying it as disinformation spread by smart monsters. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_67cdde7d | featureApplicability |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_67cdde7d | featureConfidence |
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| Dragon (Magazine) | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_67cdde7d | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_6fe3e8a7 | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_6fe3e8a7 | comment |
Mermaids in Neopets are called Water Faeries. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_6fe3e8a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_6fe3e8a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Neopets (Website) | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_6fe3e8a7 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_74f7210c | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_74f7210c | comment |
The Legend of Zelda seems to do this in-universe, with several very disparate creatures sharing the same name (in the original Japanese, at least). Apparently any small masked critter is a 'hiploop' and any large masked one is a 'zeeclock' whether insectoid, reptilian, or avian. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild have Octoroks that more resemble Deku Scrubs. According to one interpretation (which happens to be shared by series creator Shigeru Miyamoto) each Zelda title is a differently corrupted version of the same core story rather than an entirely new chapter in Hyrule's history, a notion which the unusual in-universe use of this trope would appear to support. In Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, the Thunderbird has little resemblance to its namesake from Pacific Northwest Coast folklore. |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_74f7210c | featureApplicability |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_74f7210c | featureConfidence |
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| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_74f7210c | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_75841101 | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_75841101 | comment |
The creatures in Are We Monsters are called werewolves, but while they use the classic traits of Alternate Identity Amnesia, full-moon transformations, and the silver bullet weakness, the fact they lack any clearly lupine trait and look like long-necked humanoids bring more into mind the Rokurokubi. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_75841101 | featureApplicability |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_75841101 | featureConfidence |
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| Are We Monsters | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_75841101 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_788767ba | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_788767ba | comment |
The book in question is Bearing an Hourglass, the second book in the Incarnations of Immortality series. Anthony maintains that he saw "alicorn" in a fantasy magazine in reference to a figurine of a winged unicorn, and had never seen the word before. Bearing an Hourglass was translated into many other languages which simply kept "alicorn" as is, and it was brought back into English with this new definition sometime between then and Friendship is Magic, at which point probably no one still alive had ever heard of the word in its original definition either. That said, the fact that modern unicorns almost always have spiraled horns is most likely a cheeky reference to the fact that spiraled narwhal tusks were the most common item for swindlers to pass off as unicorn horns / alicorn. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_788767ba | featureApplicability |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_788767ba | featureConfidence |
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| Incarnations of Immortality | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_788767ba | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7b039953 | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7b039953 | comment |
In Avatar the giant, reptilian, mountain dwelling creatures are called "Banshees" by the humans. Granted, hearing the call of such a creature very well could signal the end of your life (the largest of which, called the Toruk, actually even means "the last shadow", as in the last one you'll ever see), but one would think that the first thing that came to mind when the humans saw them would be a dragon. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7b039953 | featureApplicability |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7b039953 | featureConfidence |
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| Avatar | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7b039953 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7e9d1a6c | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7e9d1a6c | comment |
In Frozen (2013) the Scandinavian-inspired magical kingdom has trolls who are depicted as tiny magical creatures that aid human beings. In actual Scandinavian folklore, trolls are an Always Chaotic Evil race that mostly lure away children and wanderers to eat them. The creatures in the film would fit better as dwarves/dark elves in Norse Mythology. They were, however, accurate in portraying trolls as magic users. Sweden still uses the word "troll" as a prefix to mean magic; for instance, a wizard or a stage magician is a Troll-Man (trollkarl) and the act of using magic is Troll-Art (Trollkonst). | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7e9d1a6c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7e9d1a6c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Frozen (2013) | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7e9d1a6c | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7f5bc680 | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7f5bc680 | comment |
Fallout has Centaurs, mutated creatures which look like... Well, see for yourself. Though, given the setting, the characters probably just named the new monsters after the mythological creature that shared their basic body shape. The dev team certainly did. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7f5bc680 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7f5bc680 | featureConfidence |
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| Fallout | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7f5bc680 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7ffb6d7b | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7ffb6d7b | comment |
The English translation of Faxanadu generically calls the enemies "Dwarves", despite none of them really looking like the typical dwarves, for example the first boss that looks like the classic bat-winged demon. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7ffb6d7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7ffb6d7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Faxanadu (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_7ffb6d7b | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_83f8495b | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_83f8495b | comment |
In Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, the Thunderbird has little resemblance to its namesake from Pacific Northwest Coast folklore. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_83f8495b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_83f8495b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_83f8495b | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_84b60840 | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_84b60840 | comment |
Ogres in The Secret of Platform 13 are one-eyed giants that tend sheep. A description more fitting a Cyclops. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_84b60840 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_84b60840 | featureConfidence |
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| The Secret of Platform 13 | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_84b60840 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_8c87469c | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_8c87469c | comment |
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild have Octoroks that more resemble Deku Scrubs. According to one interpretation (which happens to be shared by series creator Shigeru Miyamoto) each Zelda title is a differently corrupted version of the same core story rather than an entirely new chapter in Hyrule's history, a notion which the unusual in-universe use of this trope would appear to support. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_8c87469c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_8c87469c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_8c87469c | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9036f2e | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9036f2e | comment |
In Seijuu Sentai Gingaman and Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, the Green Ranger's parter/mecha was dragonlike with some birdlike characteristics. Both shows referred to it as a kind of bird and denied it was a dragon at all ("Gingalcon" - that's "Galaxy Falcon" - in Gingaman and "Condor Galactabeast" in Lost Galaxy). | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9036f2e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9036f2e | featureConfidence |
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| Seijuu Sentai Gingaman | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9036f2e | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_924c74a | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_924c74a | comment |
In Richard Ellis Preston Jr.'s Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin, the aliens are called Martians. They're not from Mars. Whatever they are, it's much farther away. Nevertheless the name stuck even though characters are well aware that it's this trope. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_924c74a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_924c74a | featureConfidence |
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| ChroniclesOfThePneumaticZeppelin | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_924c74a | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_94de2754 | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_94de2754 | comment |
Arcana has "Unicorns," which resemble the usual image of unicorns only in that they have a single horn and are roughly horse-sized and shaped. They are black, with disproportionately long legs, powerful hindquarters, and ears like a bobcat — and possess a mouthful of long tusks and sharp, carnivorous teeth. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_94de2754 | featureApplicability |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_94de2754 | featureConfidence |
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| Hell's Gate | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_94de2754 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_999855bb | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_999855bb | comment |
Heroes of Might and Magic III: The game is generally a straightforward Fantasy Kitchen Sink, but for some reason the tree people are called "dendroids" (Dendroid being a rarely-used word that means "tree-shaped"). Later installments switched to calling them the more common "treants". Like Dungeons & Dragons, medusa and gorgon are split into two creatures, with gorgons being scaly bulls modelled after catoblepas. This was also dropped after III. The Horn of the Abyss Game Mod introduces Nix as one of the Cove faction's units. Nix in folklore are an aquatic form of The Fair Folk, while in this game they're hulking Lizard Folk that resemble crocodiles. |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_999855bb | featureApplicability |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_999855bb | featureConfidence |
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| Heroes of Might and Magic (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_999855bb | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9b412c87 | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9b412c87 | comment |
H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy shows humans taking a third option when naming an alien animal. It's big and has a horn on its nose. Rhino? No, it has three horns. Triceratops? No. They call it a "damnthing". | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9b412c87 | featureApplicability |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9b412c87 | featureConfidence |
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| Little Fuzzy | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9b412c87 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9d34190a | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9d34190a | comment |
The Elder Scrolls: In Cornish folklore, a Spriggan is a kind of goblin with Sizeshifter powers. In the series, they are a hostile tree-like Plant People race with a Gaia's Vengeance tilt, more akin to violent dryads. | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9d34190a | featureApplicability |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9d34190a | featureConfidence |
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| The Elder Scrolls (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9d34190a | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9f89a5f0 | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9f89a5f0 | comment |
Pokémon has several Dragon-type Pokémon that look absolutely un-dragonlike, as well as Pokemon that look like dragons but aren't Dragon types. Altaria resembles a giant bird. It's meant to be a Peng (huge dragon-like bird) from Chinese Mythology. Flygon looks very insectlike despite being part Ground-type, being that it's an adult antlion, which look like dragonflies and have the nickname "sand dragon", so Flygon's Dragon typing is a pun. Vibrava, which evolves into Flygon and shares its Dragon typing, is even more insectoid. Charizard, despite its draconic appearance, isn't a Dragon-type at all, but a Fire/Flying-type, though it is in the Dragon egg group. This is only made weirder in some languages where its name is based on the word "Dragon", such as "Dracofeu" in French. In Generation VI, Charizard finally gets its Dragon-type...with one of its Mega Evolutions. Gyarados, despite being the poster boy for Dragon Rage, isn't a Dragon-type either. This one has a bit of Fridge Brilliance to it, as the legend that Gyarados is based on has a carp climb a waterfall and be rewarded by the gods for its hard work be by being transformed into a dragon, but then later having the title of dragon stripped from it after it let its accomplishment go to its head and lead it on a destructive rampage. Also, it was called Skullkraken in the English version, before its name was changed to match the Japanese version. It doesn't look remotely like a cephalopod. Kingdra is based on a creature called a weedy sea dragon. Goomy is a dragon-type slug, probably based on the Blue Dragon sea slugs. Dialga isn't much like a dragon, though Palkia has more similarity to the European dragon, and Giratina's Origin Forme bears its resemblance to the Chinese dragon. Really, considering that most of the types don't refer to specific lifeforms (dragon being joined by bug and ghost in doing so), it's not surprising. |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9f89a5f0 | featureApplicability |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9f89a5f0 | featureConfidence |
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| Pokémon (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_9f89a5f0 | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_a1f7393b | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_a1f7393b | comment |
In The Firebringer Trilogy, the enemies of the unicorn protagonists are referred to as wyverns - but from their description, they're more like hydra. | |
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Final Fantasy: Quite common throughout the series. The general need of the series to name all of its palette swapped monsters has often led to creatures of one sort getting the name of something altogether different. Many gods and creatures have been portrayed as European-style dragons at some point. Bahamut, a gigantic fish that carries the world in Arabian myth, is almost always a winged dragon in the games, most likely influenced by Dungeons & Dragons, where the name Bahamut is used for one of the two major dragon deities. Catoblepas has varied game to game from a Basilisk recolor to a Behemoth recolor, and Cockatrices have been represented as birds, lizards, and serpents. Treants, creatures resembling walking trees, have a recurring recolor called the Triffid. In The Day of the Triffids, the titular creatures are fairly clearly mobile pitcher plants. Final Fantasy: The "sphinxes" are very clearly recolored manticores. Final Fantasy X: The French version calls Aeons Chimeras, which presents a problem when a bull, eagle and wolf-headed monster shows up... or not, since they call it a chimaira. |
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Magic: The Gathering: The Innistrad blocks feature "Griffins" that look an awful lot like hippogriffs... which is particularly confusing since "Hippogriff" is a separate creature type in the preceding Scars of Mirrodin block. On Innistrad, the Hippogriff creature type is still used... but for the gryffs, creatures resembling pegasi with the heads and tails of herons more than anything else. Mercadian Masques also features some decidedly odd trollsnote Although see the justification in the flavor text and satyrs. And then there're the Ravnican Nephilim which... don't resemble anything, much less Biblical giants. It's possible that they're a reference the "Angels" of Evangelion, which in turn is also an example. The French edition of the game has something of an ambiguous example born of a translation mixup: the Wurm creature type, which encompasses enormous serpentine or wormlike monsters, is called "guivre" in the French translation. The ambiguity comes from the fact that "guivre" can refer to two things in French: on the one hand, it can refer to the original interpretation in Western tradition of dragons as limbless, serpentine monsters not far off from the game’s version (this was the type found in Greco-Roman myth, and also what the English term "wyrm" — pronounced "worm" — originally referred to). On the other hand, it can also mean wyvern — that is, a birdlike, bipedal bat-winged dragon more like M:tG's drake creature type than anything else. The Hyalopterous Lemure borrows the name of the lemure, a shade of the dead in Roman myth, and attaches it to a lemur, a small, fuzzy animal that climbs trees. This is generally believed to be an artistic miscommunication that the game didn't have time to fix that far back; Time Spiral block even made a joke at its expense. While most of Magic's Krakens are at least sea creatures, some of them stray away from the "giant squid" aesthetic that most Krakens have. Shipbreaker Kraken and Hullbreaker Horror have more of a crustachean aesthetic than a cephalopodal one (with Charix, the Raging Isle bringing the same Giant Enemy Crab aesthetic to the Leviathan subtype), Krothuss, Lord of the Deep and Wrexial, the Risen Deep look less like traditional cephalopods and more like Cthulhu,Scourge of Fleets looks like a monstrous whale, and Tidal Kraken has no tentacles and is really buff for some reason. |
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God of War: Liberties are taken in the depiction of Greek myth's monsters mainly for the sake of Rule of Cool. Scylla looks fairly little like the six-headed, dog-waisted cursed nymph from Homer's Odyssey and the Ovid, whereas Poseidon's Hippocampi half horse/half fish (or in this case, crustacean) mounts are often confused with leviathans. The kraken looks suspiciously like the Kraken from the Clash of the Titans remake. Notably, the kraken - along with several other monsters, including the Irish Banshee and the Arabic Roc) — isn't even from Greek mythology, so its presence in the game is clearly entirely in homage to Clash of the Titans. |
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Many gods and creatures have been portrayed as European-style dragons at some point. Bahamut, a gigantic fish that carries the world in Arabian myth, is almost always a winged dragon in the games, most likely influenced by Dungeons & Dragons, where the name Bahamut is used for one of the two major dragon deities. | |
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In Drag Me to Hell, the classic "man-goat" demon that is after the (female) protagonist is oddly called a lamia, a creature with vastly different representations in the folklore of different European countries but that is always said to be female and most often a beautiful seductress. This is acknowledged in one scene where the demon's shadow briefly resembles that of a young woman before morphing into its usual figure. | |
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Shadow Star has this on multiple levels. All of the monsters in the story are collectively referred to as "dragons", even though most of them are closer to Starfish Aliens than anything else. There's only one that does look like a dragon, at least in the sense of being a giant reptilian creature with wings. . . but it's called "Tarasque", after a monster from French folklore that it looks nothing like. | |
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The giant that The Queen Of Fables sends after the gang in the Harley Quinn (2019) episode, Devil's Snare has one eye but is only ever called a giant rather than a cyclops. | |
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The Leviathans in Ninjago are large, octopus-like creatures that more closely resemble the Kraken, rather than the biblical Leviathan's typical depiction as a sea serpent. | |
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The Jabberwocky is a species of Feydragon. | |
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Age of Mythology: The tabletop version depicts The Phoenix as a fire-breathing legless dragon-like creature with membraneous wings, scaly skin and no discernable avian features aside from it's beak. This is an especially odd case, considering the original video game had a much more traditional (albeit somewhat pterosaur-like) phoenix. | |
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| Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" / int_bddc4ebe | comment |
Power Rangers: Dino Thunder took a pterosaur mecha and referred to it as the Drago Zord. Justified, as the character is a Suspiciously Similar Substitute for the original Green Ranger, who piloted the Dragon Zord. | |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks: The Dazzlings' original Equestrian forms resemble hippocampi, but are called "sirens" due to their Mind-Control Music powers similar to sirens of Greek mythology. Seeing as ponies are the dominant life form of Equestria, this could also be considered a take on Sirens Are Mermaids. | |
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Gryphon from Bakugan is actually portrayed as a winged, three-headed monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail instead of a monster with a bird's head and wings and a lion's body. This more closely resembled a chimera. | |
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Final Fantasy: The "sphinxes" are very clearly recolored manticores. | |
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Final Fantasy X: The French version calls Aeons Chimeras, which presents a problem when a bull, eagle and wolf-headed monster shows up... or not, since they call it a chimaira. | |
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Half the things in Eastern European folklore called werewolves (some variation on "vilkodlak") are actually vampires, with little or no wolfish identity remaining. The distinctions in the lore are often fairly minor; notably, in the book, Dracula turns into a wolf (or possibly a very large dog) on several occasions. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The term "alicorn" to describe the Winged Unicorn, which later became Ascended Fanon. The term Alicorn usually refers to the theoretical substance of a Unicorn's horn, barring the fact there were already fan terms in play from previous generations such a "unipeg" and "pegicorn". The Other Wiki traces the usage of "alicorn" to mean "winged unicorn" back to a book by Piers Anthony, originally written in 1984. The book in question is Bearing an Hourglass, the second book in the Incarnations of Immortality series. Anthony maintains that he saw "alicorn" in a fantasy magazine in reference to a figurine of a winged unicorn, and had never seen the word before. Bearing an Hourglass was translated into many other languages which simply kept "alicorn" as is, and it was brought back into English with this new definition sometime between then and Friendship is Magic, at which point probably no one still alive had ever heard of the word in its original definition either. That said, the fact that modern unicorns almost always have spiraled horns is most likely a cheeky reference to the fact that spiraled narwhal tusks were the most common item for swindlers to pass off as unicorn horns / alicorn. The Windigos are named after the cannibal monsters in Algonquin religion, but are actually equine frost spirits that feed on hatred and bring Endless Winter. Wendigos are, however, associated with wintertime starvation, so there is at least a tenuous connection to the original. The Tatzlwurm from "Three's a Crowd" is most reminiscent of the Graboids from Tremors. It looks nothing like the creature from Swiss Alpine mythology, which has the head or front half of a cat and the hind half of a snake, and is usually described as ranging in size from a foot long to somewhat longer than a man is tall, in contrast with episode's enormous monster. The second half of "School Daze" sees the students being attacked by a group of pukwudgies, creatures from the folklore of the Delaware and Wampanoag people of the American East Coast. They're generally described as humanoid little people of the woods, not unlike European myths of kobolds and wood-fairies, intelligent and fond of playing cruel pranks on humans and shooting them with poisoned arrows. The episode's pukwudgies are essentially long-tailed, pastel-colored hedgehogs that stand on their hind legs in a manner like a kangaroo's and behave more like territorial, rabid animals than anything else. They are also Spike Shooters who attack by launching volleys of their own quills, which might be intended as a link to the the mythological pukwudgies' archery. This may have been done because there are no humans in the world of Friendship is Magic, and this extends to semi-human mythical creatures (for example, the show's manticores and sphinxes have the faces of lions and ponies, respectively, rather than those of humans) It's possible the G4 Pukwudgies may have been modeled after G1's Bushwoolies but redesigned or renamed due to the trademarks expiring. |
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The Horn of the Abyss Game Mod introduces Nix as one of the Cove faction's units. Nix in folklore are an aquatic form of The Fair Folk, while in this game they're hulking Lizard Folk that resemble crocodiles. | |
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In David Weber's Safehold books, the humans who have settled on the planet Safehold have named many local animals after mythical beasts. Examples include the kraken (described as a cross between a squid and a shark, fitting the latter's place in Safeholdian ecology), the dragon (a massive, six-legged animal that comes in both carnivorous and herbivorous varieties), and the wyvern (four-winged flyers that are the Safeholdian analogue of birds). | |
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Gradius IV's first boss is ostensibly a Hydra, but is called Yorogaton Chimera in the manual. | |
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The Black Cauldron: Creeper is universally reckoned to be some sort of goblin or imp (small, misshapen, pointy ears, green skin). However, production material identifies him as a "dwarf"◊. | |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire: The Leviathan is actually still referred to in-film as "a mythical sea serpent", but it is actually a giant mechanical lobster; it does not look remotely serpent-like. | |
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Dream of The Sandman (1989) has three guardian beasts, one of which is a winged horse. This character is also identified as a hippogriff. Given that this is Neil Gaiman writing, it's likely an E. Nesbit tribute (see Literature below). Also, the dragon (four legs) is called a wyvern (two legs) - possibly Neil knew what he was talking about but none of the artists did. | |
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba refers to the titular monsters as "oni" in Japanese, and the English versions uses "demons", but they typically have more in common with vampires: insatiable bloodlust, Healing Factor, fangs, reproduce by infecting humans with their blood, and can only be killed by decapitation or exposure to sunlight. | |
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The monster from Clash of the Titans is referred to as a Kraken. The Kraken originates from Scandinavian mythology, not Greek, and the monster in the myth on which Clash of the Titans was based was actually named Cetus (Which, incidentally, is where we get the scientific term cetaceans, meaning whales.) | |
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An early draft of the first American Godzilla featured a rival kaiju called the Gryphon; however, it is described as an amalgam of mountain lion and bat rather than the traditional lion and eagle. | |
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken zigzags this. While the Giant Krakens are very much reminiscent to krakens of folklore with multiple tentacles and whatnot, regular krakens are human-sized and only have two legs, which make them more in-line with gill-men, pun not intended on Ruby's surname. | |
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Modest Medusa's species is referred to as "the hydra" by the Prince of Yeld. Modest's mother's name is Gorgon, and her daughters all call themselves Medusa until they decide that's too confusing. They're mostly just the author's own invention. | |
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In the original localizations of the first three Dragon Quest games, "Wyverns" have a serpentine body, a vulture's head, and feathered wings, while in the fourth game they look like a cross between a T-Rex and a pterosaur. To twist the knife further, the Japanese series has called the vulture-serpent hybrids "Chimaeras" since the beginning, which carried over to later localizations. | |
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Rather than wild, intoxicated and lustful female followers of the Greek god Dionysus, maenads in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Expanded Universe are depicted as equally mad followers of an ancient vampire named Kakistos (whom Faith slew later) who were prime cases of Being Tortured Makes You Evil (or just plain crazy) and passed their tortures onto other unfortunate girls until their minds broke and served Kakistos as well. | |
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In Harvest Town, Ello the fairy and Barl the kappa are referred to "elves" in-game. | |
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In most folklore and mythology, imps are described as small and mischievous creatures that look like classical devils. In Doom, the Imp is a creature the size and shape of a muscular man, with brown spiky skin and a penchant for charging in and tossing fireballs—the only thing they have in common with most people's idea of an imp is that they are very weak by demonic standards. Even the manual jokingly points this out. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi: There's an in-story example when the group encounters a monstrous dog creature with multiple heads. Nodoka, being the high-fantasy book fan, identifies it as Orthrus by its snake-head tails. But at the same time, it has three heads total like Cerberus (whereas Orthrus had two), so she can't really identify it as anything. This probably serves as a Chekhov's Gun because the person who conjured it (it was actually an illusion) was just a child with likely not much knowledge on mystical consistency. Note that in some myths, Cerberus is depicted with a snake tail or with snakes on his back, despite this trait being more typically associated with Orthrus. They later encounter a dragon. Nodoka and Yue briefly get caught up in a discussion of whether it's technically a wyrm before realizing that a gigantic fire-breathing lizard is charging them and decide it doesn't really matter that much. Later on, Yue and her classmates fight against a creature called a "Griffin Dragon". The only thing about it that was Dragon-like was a scaly tail and a pair of horns. Oh, and the Breath Weapon. |
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The Charmed (1998) episode "Little Monsters", features a species of demon called Manticores. They're more like orcs than anything, while mythical manticores are scorpion-tailed lions with human heads. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: Might be the case with the The Winged Dragon of Ra card. It looks more like a toothed griffin than a dragon. | |
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Somewhat related: The creatures that attack Arthur and Merlin in the Merlin (1998) miniseries are Raptors with squirrel-like patagia no matter how much Merlin insists on calling them griffons. | |
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Charizard, despite its draconic appearance, isn't a Dragon-type at all, but a Fire/Flying-type, though it is in the Dragon egg group. This is only made weirder in some languages where its name is based on the word "Dragon", such as "Dracofeu" in French. In Generation VI, Charizard finally gets its Dragon-type...with one of its Mega Evolutions. | |
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Terraria: Despite having a distinctly Western name, the Wyvern is an Eastern-style dragon. | |
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City of Heroes: The Kraken is a giant blob monster that walks on two legs and is a member of the villain group, the Hydra, which are all human-sized blobs. Except the Hydra, which is another humongous blob with tentacles that stretch all over the city. None of which ought to be confused with Lusca, the giant octopus which terrorizes Independence Port. | |
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