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As You Know, mermaids, like all legendary/mythological creatures, can vary in their portrayal from work to work. However, despite all the differences in mermaid portrayals, they seem to have one thing in common. For some reason, mermaids tend to be called sirens, and are given the ability to sing phenomenally well, to the point of leading unsuspecting people to their doom. In traditional definitions of mythology, the Siren is not depicted as a mermaid-like fish-woman, but as a winged bird-woman hybrid — in fact, the original Greek Sirens were portrayed as a cross between women and songbirds, and could die by drowning. This trope is an old one; the siren as mermaid was well-established in the medieval bestiary. In Thomas Hoccleve's early fifteenth century text, La Male Regle, line 233, speaks of mermaids singing men to their deaths, "as old books tell us." The issue is not helped by the fact that, in many Romance languages, sirens and mermaids are referred to by the same word, typically a derivative of the Latin sirena. In another part of the world, the Filipino sirena were described in what we now envision as the mermaid siren. It could be an example of Lost in Translation that these two words became used interchangeably, displacing parts of both. Subtrope of Our Mermaids Are Different and Our Sirens Are Different. See also Siren Song. |
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In Hark! A Vagrant, by Kate Beaton, a mermaid aims to drown a sailor with her frilly singin'. Mermaids matching this trope make a few other appearances, including one longer story arc (where no mermaid singing is heard, but is referred to, along with their tendency to drown people). | |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The witch Oktavia von Seckendorff is an Eldritch Abomination resembling a weird cross between a mermaid and an orchestra conductor. Possibly an accidental example, however, because there are symbolic reasons for this form. Her backstory resembles The Little Mermaid, but with a musician friend in place of the prince. | |
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The Little Mermaid (2023): While Ariel in the original film had siren-like qualities, this version of her is explicitly called a siren with a highly alluring "Siren Song" that is shown through Prince Eric as highly ensnaring to those who hear it. | |
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Castlevania: Averted; the Siren is a Palette Swap of the Harpy enemy, making them birdlike. | |
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In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Oberon's story of the magic flower for the love potion includes a mermaid's beautiful singing, though she calms the sea rather than allures anyone to death. | |
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Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld: Doraemon and friends infiltrate the Demon World, where they encounter mermaids which entices their victims with songs, drawing them from the skies into the ocean where they'll be devoured by giant monster whales. | |
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RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: The (chronologically) first story features some sirens who get quite stroppy when one of the alternate Mane Six mistakes them for seaponies, and insists that they are something quite different. They're right; see Western Animation for details. | |
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In Mermaid Moon, mermaids use their magical voices to force sailors to jump into the sea and drown. Sanna thinks this is a horrible practice, even though her Aunt Shusha has told her that sailors rape and murder mermaids. | |
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Legend of Mana: Averted but acknowledged. Mermaids and Sirens are different species, mermaids being fish-tailed humanoids who can teleport via bubbles and sirens being beautiful harpy-like creatures that look like a cross between birds of paradise and women. The two species are friendly with each other, however, and are implied to be distantly related in some way. Both also seem to share a passion for singing around the ocean. | |
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The Simpsons: In Tales from the Public Domain when Homer retells the story of The Odyssey, Homer (as Odysseus) and his army are led to the Island of Sirens who sing a parody of "Copacabana". However, they are turned away when Sirens turn out to be Patty and Selma. | |
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Rosario + Vampire: Averted, as Mermaids and Sirens are completely different monsters. The mermaids also never sing (they instead suck the life energy of people), while the Sirens do and from what we see can see from their true form, they are birdlike, resembling angels. | |
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In Coraline, the Other Spink sings the line "I'm known as the siren of all seven seas" while dressed as a mermaid. | |
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Cardfight!! Vanguard has the clan Bermuda Triangle — a clan of Mermaid Idol Singers. Their similar counterpart are the Battle Sirens from the Aqua Force clan, which are mermaids and uses their voices for various effects, from attacking to boosting their soldiers. | |
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Into the Drowning Deep: Mermaids are capable of perfectly mimicking any sound they hear, such as whale song and human speech, in order to lure prey in. Eventually, they are designated as sirens because mermaid implies they are all female. The study of mermaids is also known as sirenology. | |
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Mabinogi: The Sirens fit this to a tee. If you need an image, you don't need to look for one, they're almost the same as the above picture from Luminous Arc (however, they are NOT a rip-off). And they're bad guys. | |
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In Soda Dungeon, the Water Temple mermaids are surrounded by hearts. Sirens appear as undead mermaids. In the Lair of Despair, the Harp mermaid sits on a rock and plays the harp like a Siren. | |
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Harry Potter A tie-in book describes three subspecies of merpeople, one of which is the sirens. They live in the warmer waters of Greece and are the more beautiful kind that human art tends to depict; the other kinds are, from a human perspective, ugly. All merpeople apparently have a love of music, though. There's also a quirk to their music: outside of water, merpeople's voices are loud, unpleasant screeching that humans can only understand if they've learned it as a separate language (Mermish). Underwater, it becomes the hauntingly beautiful music that humans can understand just by hearing it. There's also a variant: the Scottish merfolk in Goblet of Fire are called "selkies," which are likewise a different creature in actual mythology. The third type, Irish merrows, actually are mermaids in folkloric tradition. |
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Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race: In addition to a plasma staff, Splash Woman can attract robots to her. | |
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In Watersong, by Amanda Hocking, sirens (descendants of the Muses who were cursed by Demeter) are a combination of the classical versions of mermaids and sirens. They have three different forms: On land, they're human. In seawater, they're half-human, half-fish. When they need to fly or (more importantly) feed on the mortal men they lure with their songs, they're bird-women. They have beautiful voices and appearances only in their first two forms; the third form is a case of One-Winged Angel. | |
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ThunderCats: Played very straight when the mermaid appears; her song entrances Tigra, and the obvious purpose of this is to lure him to her and get him to hold still so she can feed on him; the shot of her vampiric fangs right before the break to a commercial is one of the most chilling in the series. | |
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World of Warcraft: Naga sirens are a caster class of naga that specialize in hypnotism, specifically through their alluring voices. They play with this, since they have the general body shape of a mermaid and are clearly trying to evoke that image, but are actually aquatic Snake People. The fins on their head do make them more fishlike however, unlike the more powerful Naga Sea Witches that are Gorgeous Gorgons with a head of snake hair. Battle for Azeroth somewhat confusingly introduced actual sirens as a separate creature, which lure men to their death with their singing. Here they have birdlike wings for arms but a fish tail, combining the two popular depictions into one Composite Character. |
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The Odyssey: One French adaptation has a bird-woman siren dive underwater.... at which point her feathers seamlessly turn into fins. Another adaptation, in this case one issue of the Belgian comic Les Centaures, features mermaid-like sirens even if the setting is (fairly) loyal to classical Greece. |
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Siren: A subset of the mermaids have a captivating song, which can have extreme or even deadly effects on humans. | |
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Mako Mermaids: An H₂O Adventure: Sirena once heard a North Atlantic mermaid's siren song on an online video and became a siren herself. In this case, she becomes violent and possessive of David, attempting to lure him to the ocean so they can be together forever (which will erase his memories and eventually kill him), took exception to her friends trying to stop her, and gained poofy hair. Mimmi and Ondina have to drown out her siren song with their own magic singing voices, and it's mentioned that siren songs are (rightfully) forbidden for South Australian mermaids. | |
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DuckTales (1987): Averted in "Home Sweet Homer". The Sirens turn out to be disembodied heads mounted on tentacles, which are atop the head of a much larger, uglier monster. | |
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Xanth: In The Source of Magic, the Siren is a mermaid with a voice that lures all men who hear it to her. | |
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Luminous Arc 3: Elulu's job class is Siren, but also bears a lot of traits similar to mermaids. | |
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Arawn: As part of his trial of water, Arawn is captured by a monstrous mermaid who petrifies and devours men. He manages to turn her power against herself before smashing her face into a thousand fragments. | |
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In MYth, Amphitrite is a subvertion. Amphitrite is pretty much a mermaid (and in side art, she's drawed with a fish tail, to boot) but she's actually deaf tone and a horrible singer. Even the Muses' instructor, Apollo, couldn't help her and he had to made up the whole "you sing better underwater" to avoid her singing disturb land and Olympus. But now, the underwater realm have to suffer her. | |
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The Last Jedi has a really weird variant in the form of creatures called thala-sirens that live near the Jedi Temple on Ahch-To and provide Luke with green milk. Unlike mermaids or classical sirens, these critters aren't humanoid at all — but they do resemble manatees, which are often considered a major inspiration for mermaid stories. | |
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In Henry VI Part 3, Gloucester claims that "I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall." | |
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Pathfinder, on the other hand, goes back to mythology and makes its sirens woman-headed birds and well-distinct from the setting's mermaids. | |
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In Dungeons & Dragons, sirens are aquatic creatures with an enchanting song, a humanoid torso and the tail of a shark or serpentine fish. 1e and 2e averted this trope, depicting "sirines" as completely human-looking and distinct from merfolk, which had no special song-related powers. 3e split the difference, offering merfolk that still lacked innate song-based powers, but had Bard as their favored class. |
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Berserk: The Merrow are an all-female race of mermaids who fight using their voices, which Isma's mother calls "singing". They once fought their Arch-Enemy, the Sea God, and managed to seal it away in an island, but the island's residents demonized them for their actions — even extending their Fantastic Racism to Isma, who is half-Merrow through her mother. When the Sea God is eventually freed, the Merrow emerge to fight it again, this time aided by Guts' group. Guts manages to kill the Sea God, and out of gratitude, the Merrow gives Guts and his group a new ship. | |
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Dragalia Lost: Averted; although Siren lives near the ocean and has an association with water, she has legs and is perfectly capable of living on land. | |
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Arthur: Averted in the episode where D.W. retells The Odyssey, with herself as Odysseus. The sirens are just random girls dancing to "Crazy Bus," a song that D.W. became obsessed with in an earlier episode. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: In a little bit of Fridge Brilliance, the Zora (read: merfolk-like fish people) evolve over time into the Rito (bird folk). Medli, one of the main Rito in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, even plays a harp, though luckily not to coerce anyone to their doom. | |
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H₂O: Just Add Water: Cleo had a reaction to the full moon's reflection and gained a singing voice that is able to hypnotize all the boys in town. Lewis explains that "she's a Siren, just like the mermaids in mythology whose singing lured sailors to their deaths". Funnily enough that's the only episode of the show that doesn't feature the girls transforming into their mermaid forms. Mako Mermaids: An H₂O Adventure: Sirena once heard a North Atlantic mermaid's siren song on an online video and became a siren herself. In this case, she becomes violent and possessive of David, attempting to lure him to the ocean so they can be together forever (which will erase his memories and eventually kill him), took exception to her friends trying to stop her, and gained poofy hair. Mimmi and Ondina have to drown out her siren song with their own magic singing voices, and it's mentioned that siren songs are (rightfully) forbidden for South Australian mermaids. |
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Island of the Aunts: Parodied: a mermaid tried to make money by causing a ship to sink, enchanting the captain with her hypnotizing singing voice. Sadly, the times had changed and, instead of gold and treasures, the ship she caused to sink had oil on board. | |
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The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016): Themyscira is home to all the monsters and creatures from Classical Mythology, save for sirens which are replaced by mermaids that try to lure, attack and drown Steve Trevor. | |
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In The Dragon Wars Saga, the chief songstress of the merfolk clan encountered early on is named Sirin and the mermaids have command of some kind of vocal music. | |
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Hell Teacher Nube: Hayame is yet another mermaid with the ability to create Magic Music. | |
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The Comedy of Errors alludes to this trope with the line "I'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song." | |
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Soul Sacrifice Delta: Downplayed with the Siren, an Archfiend with fish scales and musical attacks, but has a pair of legs instead of a tail. | |
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There's also a variant: the Scottish merfolk in Goblet of Fire are called "selkies," which are likewise a different creature in actual mythology. The third type, Irish merrows, actually are mermaids in folkloric tradition. | |
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | hasFeature |
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Popeye: One of the King Features cartoons has Popeye mesmerized by a siren who's basically a wily mermaid with a harp; it takes Olive to snap him out of it. | |
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American Dragon: Jake Long: Averted, as both mermaids and sirens are present and are quite different from one another. | |
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Ondine: Sirens Are Selkies, in this case. Ondine has a haunting singing voice that is said to hypnotize lobsters and fish into the nets. | |
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In Voyage of the Basset, the mermaids can sing with haunting beauty. In a variation on the usual presentation, they're actually friendly and sing to get their pet sea serpent to save boats from being dashed on the rocks. | |
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Dragon's Dogma: Averted: the Sirens of Bitterblack Isle harken back to the original portrayal of sirens, being a Palette Swap of harpies. | |
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Lone Siren: The titular Siren is actually a mermaid. | |
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The Noordegraaf Files: Inverted, as sirens are stated to be bird people, and the whole "why we refer to mermaids as sirens" thing explained above is then stated. The closest thing to mermaids are Nereids, which are half-squid, not half-fish. | |
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Septimus Heap: The Syren is described as a mermaid, and she uses her song for malicious purposes. | |
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In Ice Age: Continental Drift, sirens appear as amphibious lungfish, the prehistoric equivalent of mermaids. | |
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The Final Fantasy series averts this, with Siren being an uncommonly recurring character (often a summon) that usually just resembles a beautiful woman. Final Fantasy VIII actually has more of a bird-like appearance with feathery details including long hair styled like wings — though its summoning sequence does feature it appearing on a rock jutting out of the sea. | |
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Mermaid, a Russian animated short, is about a rusalka, a mythological Russian creature that is basically a cross between a mermaid and a siren. It lives in the water like a mermaid, but it sings and lures men to their deaths like a siren. It also has a fully human body, like a siren. | |
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Magic: The Gathering goes back and forth with this trope. On the one hand, there's the merfolk card Seasinger, which is modeled after a mermaid and allows its player to take control of another player's card, representing the siren's enthralling song. On the other, they have a separate "siren" creature type, which is represented by winged humanoids instead. The Sirens of Theros Avert this trope entirely, as they are a hybrid of Greek Sirens and Harpies, having vulture-like wings and talons, and such beautiful singing voices that shipwreck victims don't care. Even further averted on Ixalan. Like on Theros, Ixalan sirens are winged, and there is a card showing a siren seducing a merfolk with song, as if to defy this trope outright. |
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God of War: Averted, as sirens are land-dwelling (levitating) demons. | |
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The Faerie Tale Theatre adaptation of "The Little Mermaid" has a scene where the mermaids discuss how humans can't seem to tell mermaids from sirens, though they are completely separate species. | |
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In Siren's Lament, they prefer "siren" over "mermaid". Seemingly as a more politically correct term. | |
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In The Mermaid Summer, the mermaid's main use for her voice is forcing people who get on her bad side to crash their boats. | |
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In one of the Puyo Puyo anime shorts, Serilly the mermaid mimics a siren to bring her some friends. Her singing proves beautiful enough to start attracting people to her... then Harpy comes to Serilly and thinks her singing voice needs work. That wouldn't be a problem, but Harpy herself is notorious for being a terrible singer. | |
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In Siren Novels, by Tricia Rayburn, the sirens don't have fins, but they need salt water to survive and can stay under water for long periods of time. | |
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In the book series And Then I Turned Into a Mermaid, sirens are depicted as being a combination of their songbird and mermaid depictions, being described as mermaids with wings. However, most of them had to cut them off in order to blend in among the humans. | |
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Jason and the Heroes of Mount Olympus: The sirens are not only depicted as mermaids, but also live on land and move around via Ghostly Glide. | |
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Jason And The Heroes Of Mount Olympus | hasFeature |
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My Little Pony 'n Friends: "Rescue At Midnight Castle" features the Seaponies, the first characters to get a song. It's very reminiscent of a Busby Berkeley Number, and they would always appear singing a chord of "shoo be doo" in the remainder of the episodes. | |
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Panel de Pon: Referenced by Neris, a mermaid-like water fairy whose name means "siren" backwards and who is said to like singing. | |
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Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch, being loosely based on "The Little Mermaid", revolves around the idea of mermaids being good singers. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: The sirens from “The Bikini Bottom Triangle� look exactly like mermaids, but for some reason, they are about the same size as any typical Bikini Bottom resident. | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, mermaids also have beautiful singing voice and lure men to death. And one of the mermaids is named Syrena. Justified because it's a human who names her that on the fly so she's viewed as less of a creature. | |
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In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks, the Dazzlings' original Siren forms resemble hippocampi or merhorses. When they appear in the parent cartoon, however, they're flying rather than water-based. | |
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Bakugan: Sirenoid is quite clearly based off of a mermaid. | |
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Aquaman: The pilot for the otherwise unaired TV show introduces what probably would have been recurring enemies — Sirens that were basically really ugly mermaids. | |
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Delicious in Dungeon: mermaids can sing songs that hypnotize those who hear it to drag them into water. Apparently they dislike others joining on their song, as Laios finds out when he tries singing along. | |
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Elena of Avalor: The Sirenas, a race of mermaids who charm sailors and sink ships with their song. | |
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The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack: Coincidence or not, the mermaid queen reincarnates into a flying version called a "skymaid", becoming more like a siren. This could also have been a reference to the original ending of "The Little Mermaid". | |
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Shantae and the Seven Sirens: They're called "sirens" in the story, and almost all of them are mermaid-like creatures, with the majority of them having the upper body of a cute girl or beautiful woman attached to a lower body based on some form of aquatic life. The seeming exception to this is the Angler Fish Siren, who just looks like an anthropomorphicized anglerfish. | |
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Disenchantment: Played With — the mermaids aren't called sirens, but play the siren legend totally straight, to the point where The Odyssey's "wax or tied up" strategy is used to combat them. Later subverted when it turns out that they're actually the walruses from a neighbouring island that are the sirens. | |
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Fantasy Island (2021): Here, mermaids also draw mortals to them like sirens, which Isla does with Ruby. It's also noted (by Elena, a Latina) that in Spanish the word for mermaid is "sirena", thus the whole language does this. | |
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Sirena: The heroine is one of the actual Greek sirens... and a mermaid. Of course, even the humans of her time have gotten a lot of the facts wrong about her and her fellow myths. | |
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The Lighthouse features a mermaid who, depending on who you ask, may or may not be a siren to the younger character. | |
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Xanadu (Storyverse): All of the transformed sirens who retain the ability to speak become exceptional singers and gain the ability to create magic through their song. | |
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Fable: Played with. A Siren appears underwater, but with legs instead of a mermaid's tail. | |
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Pokémon Sun and Moon: Primarina, Popplio's final evolution, is referred to as a sea lion and a mermaid, but also has the distinctive singing feature of sirens. It is also part Fairy-type. | |
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In the original story of The Little Mermaid, the mermaid's older sisters like to go to the surface during dangerous storms and sing to ships that are likely to go under. The songs are supposed to comfort the sailors and assure them that the undersea world isn't so bad, but the men can't understand them. | |
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Defense of the Ancients includes a Siren hero whose ultimate spell is to sing the opposition to sleep and whose character model is a mermaid. | |
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Mega Man 9: Referenced with Splash Woman, who's basically a robot mermaid and has an attack involving singing to summon fish to attack Mega Man. | |
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Once Upon a Time: Averted. The mermaids are separate creatures from sirens. A siren shows up in the episode What Happened to Frederick, appearing as a beautiful shapeshifting lady in a lake. Mermaids (including Ariel) show up in Neverland. However, mermaids do have alluring singing voices, and at least one is encouraged by her father to lure ships onto rocks. | |
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In the Anita Blake series, sirens are described as super-powerful mermaids, able to control even their own kind with the power of their voices. | |
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The comedy Miranda (1948) has the titular mermaid also getting a beautiful singing voice that she uses to wow everyone when she's taken on a trip to the London opera. | |
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In Rifts, the Psiren is a creation of the Lord of the Deep, and can have the lower half or either a fish or a sea lion. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Akira Okouchi's pactio name is Siren Valida, while her outfit is more clearly mermaid-themed than harpie. | |
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Family Guy: In one episode, Peter remembers how he lured sailors to their death with his siren song... dressed as a mermaid. | |
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: Sirens (and their stronger kin, the Lamias and Ekhidnas) appear this way... at least at a distance. In fact, their beautiful female upper bodies are a means of luring prey (read, unwary sailors) along with their voices. The deception drops when they attack, revealing the true, monstrous form beneath. They can both swim and fly but are rendered practically defenseless if knocked onto solid ground. | |
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In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, mermen and mermaids sing at the Pevensies coronation and the singing is described as haunting and enchanting. | |
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In Lost Voices by Sarah Porter, the main characters are basically humans turned into mermaids, but are given magical voices like the sirens, which they use to lure humans to their deaths. These mermaids/sirens are all formerly human girls who were abused or neglected, and take vengeance on humanity for the mistreatment in their previous lives by sinking ships and drowning people. | |
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Charmed (1998) has a notable subversion. The fifth season featured two episodes pretty close together, one dealing with a mermaid and the other dealing with a Siren. Though in this case the Siren doesn't really match mythology, either — she still has hypnotic singing, but looks fully human and is actually a vengeful dead woman who comes back as a demon. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! has Deep Sea Diva, a mermaid with a heavy musical motif that can summon other monsters to it from the deck like a siren. | |
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My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) inverts this, where the seaponies have to be taught how to sing and dance by the land based ponies. | |
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The Little Mermaid (1989): Ariel has a beautiful singing voice. Most Disney heroines do, but here it's actually a plot point, since the Big Bad's price for changing her into a human is her beautiful voice. However, this is taken from the original storynote In the book her voice was just a fee and there was no mention of any singing.. Used in a more direct fashion when Ursula transforms herself into a human woman and uses Ariel's voice to cast a spell on Eric, hypnotizing him. | |
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Sailor Moon: Sailor Aluminum Seiren is named for a Siren but is clearly filled with mermaid influences, and comes from Planet Mermaid. An overall blue color scheme, a seashell charm on her choker, her attack, Galactia Tsunami, is water based. In the anime it is just her throwing juice boxes and water bottles. Her anime civilian name, Reiko Aya, even contains a pun on Mermaid. | |
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Happy Heroes: The mermaid in Season 4 episode 10 has a beautiful singing voice that can manipulate water. Big M. attempts to use this to his advantage, having the mermaid conjure up a giant wave to flood a ship and hurt its passengers. | |
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