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If you want to make an army look exotic and threatening, give them War Elephants. These towering, huge beasts with armor and spikes will strike fear in the enemy's hearts. Trained war elephants have been used by some historical nations, but fairly sporadically, and usually by ones fighting against the Roman, European or Chinese cultures that most modern writers are descended from (although these cultures eventually used war elephants too, it's just not so often). Thus, war elephants' presence in an army easily establishes it as foreign and unusual. Elephants also have a domineering presence on the battlefield, smashing apart shieldwalls and light fortifications and trampling over regular troops, and their sheer fearsome bulk presents them as an obvious threat that will be very difficult to deal with. These creatures are typically be used by the Evil Army or The Horde, but if they're on the heroes' side then they might be used by foreign allies to indicate the army's exoticness. In battle, elephants are mostly used for their fear factor, intimidating enemy troops while rallying yours, and as breakthrough troops with which to smash through enemy lines. They're typically provided with heavy armor to improve their staying power, and spikes or blades attached to their tusks are also a fairly common touch. It's also common for howdahs to be mounted on their backs, typically carrying additional soldiers, ranged troops to take advantage of the raised vantage point, or even whole cannons. More pragmatically, the beasts can also be used to haul around siege weaponry, supplies or mobile fortifications. The main downside to these creatures is the possibility of them stampeding if something scares them, at which point they'll usually trample their way through friend and foe alike; indeed, a common strategy employed by armies facing war elephants is to try to get them to stampede before battle is joined, ideally in the enemy's own camp. War Mammoths work too, especially when used by armies coming from the endless cold of the northlands or in the distant past. Fantasy elephant equivalents can also serve this purpose, in order to further emphasize the exoticness of the army or world in question. In these cases, the elephants' size tends to be super-sized to the point where they almost qualify as war-barges with tusks. They may also be accompanied by other large animals like rhinos or, if the writer is more fantastically inclined, even dinosaurs. This trope was Truth in Television, as kingdoms in North Africa, the Middle East, and southeastern Asia have weaponized pachyderms at various points in history, and their enemies sometimes adopted them too. Elephants are huge, strong, tough, terrifying, and highly trainable animals capable of carrying multiple riders on their backs, whether they be officers wanting a better view of the battlefield, archers, or even artillerymen firing a ballista or cannon from a howdah. Horses were also generally terrified of them and wouldn't go near them, so a few elephants in front of your army could make enemy cavalry charges useless. However, they could easily panic in battle, trampling friend or foe, and their sensitive hearing made them even more prone to panic when loud firearms became widespread. They were also highly costly to maintain, due to the near-impossibility of breeding them and their large appetites—though for some rulers, this might actually be seen as a bonus, as any ruler with wealth and logistics enough to maintain an elephant corps must be a great one indeed. Subtrope of Beast of Battle. Compare Horse of a Different Color. See Cruel Elephant for violent and dangerous elephants in general. |
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Adventure Time has an Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant. | |
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Alexander: Alexander's army faces "elephant monsters" at the Battle of Hydaspes, including an East vs. West shot of Alexander's horse rearing as it faces a war elephant, which also rears in response. | |
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Early Man: The Bronze Age civilization uses armored mammoths to bulldoze over the Stone Age tribe, ignore the anachronism. | |
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Digimon: In the various iterations of the franchise, Mammothmon are usually used in this fashion. The final battle of Digimon Fusion, which featured hundreds of the things serving under DarknessBagramon, stands out in this regard. | |
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Horrible Histories did its own take on Hannibal, of course, with a fake trailer for Elephants on a Plain, starring Hannibal as a 'maverick Carthaginian general' (complete with a Southern accent). | |
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Kamen Rider Zero-One: One of Aruto's Progrise Keys includes Breaking Mammoth, which was converted from the broken Mammoth Zetsumerise Key by Yua. Unlike his other forms, Breaking Mammoth is essentially a Transforming Mecha that includes a part of satellite Zea detached from it to its jet form and then Zero-One enters it to complete the transformation. ZAIA Enterprise also has their knockoffs with A.I.M.S.' Gigers that got at least one hacked by MetsubouJinrai.net then destroyed by Zero-One Breaking Mammoth. | |
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Hamster's Paradise: The Bruteriders gain the upper hand in the Second Great Harmster World War with the use of rakatusks: twenty-ton, four-tusked mammoth-like herbivores that, like every other vertebrate on the planet, are actually hamsters. They put them to excellent use a living siege weapons due to them being damn near unstoppable until the Bruteriders encounter the more technologically advanced Rockcookers, who use long-ranged artillery weapons to blow the rakatusk's heads off before they can even get close. This completely pulls the rug out from under the Bruteriders as they aren't able to replace them due to only having a limited number of them and the process of catching and training rakatusks being a long and difficult one. | |
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Engine Sentai Go-onger / Power Rangers RPM: Engine Kishamoth / Paleozord. The main portion of the final mecha combination introduced, armed with freezing mist like ZyuMammoth. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-3813 is the wreckage of a Humongous Mecha (375 meters tall) in the shape of a war elephant, built by Carthage to assault Rome in the Second Punic War. | |
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An Empire of Ice and Fire: The Golden Company makes use of them, as per canon. During the Battle of Winterfell, they supplement their regular elephants with mammoths from North of the Wall. | |
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Alan Ford: Parodied when "His Excellency" the Number One tells the story of Pyrrhus and his war against the Romans. The infamous victory is attributed to the fact that while the elephants proved decisive to win the battle, they still trampled 3000 roman soldiers and 18000 of Pyrrhus' own forces. | |
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Kamen Rider Blade: A non-mecha example comes from Leangle's Fusion Elephant card that he uses to transform into his Jack form, although with the lack of a Rouze Absorber, he doesn't use it at all in the TV series and at best used it once to unseal Daichi/Elephant Undead for help in battle. | |
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Mazinger Z: Mechanical Beast Elephant γ3 is a bipedal elephant with long, curvy tusks, Arm Cannons, and big ears that shot heat rays. | |
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The Order of the Stick: During the goblin's siege of Azure City, the goblin cleric Redcloak summons a fiendish mammoth and uses it as a steed to lead a charge against a breach in the city walls. | |
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Iron Kingdoms: Titans (which can be described as small, trunkless, bipedal, four-armed elephants) and their larger cousins, the mammoths, are widely used as warbeasts by skorne warlocks. | |
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The Heroic Legend of Arslan: A feature of Shindra's army, they can also be drugged into an even more dangerous berserker state (predictably, they up being just as dangerous to Shindran troops). | |
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300: Xerxes' army uses elephants against the Spartans, but they can't break the Spartans' phalanx and fall to their deaths off a cliff. Keeping in line with the "exotic nature" of this trope, the Persians also have a war rhinoceros. | |
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Pathfinder: The Realm of the Mammoth Lords is an inhospitable tundra inhabited by mighty-thewed Barbarian Heroes who ride mammoths and other enormous mammals into battle. There are many ways for a player to get an elephant or mammoth friend, but the one that most specifically invokes this tropes — and is clearly intended for the above Mammoth Lords — is the prestige class Mammoth Rider. Behemoth golems are shaped like pachyderms or other giant quadrupeds with a castle attached to their backs, which can be manned like a howdah. |
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Ghost Rider: The prehistoric Ghost Rider is a caveman who rides a woolly mammoth on fire. The Indian Ghost Rider Shoba Mirza rides a flaming skeletal Asian elephant. Coupled with her four arms in Rider form, she ends up resembling a raging Hindu god. |
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Shuriken Sentai Ninninger / Power Rangers Ninja Steel: Paonmaru / Rumble Tusk Zord, yet another Mecha Expansion Pack that can assume its own humanoid mode and arms Shurikenjin with twin axes. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Frost giants are known to train mammoths for use as mounts and ride them into battle. | |
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Berserk: The Kushan Empire uses large numbers of war elephants in their invasion of Midland, equipped with armor and carrying platforms for warriors and archers. The exotic animals seem like unstoppable monsters to their enemies, and we are treated to graphic depictions of hapless infantry being trampled beneath their feet, though Rakshas also demonstrates that they can be easily terrified and made to stampede over their own forces. As if the regular elephants weren't enough, Daiba and his sorcerers have also provided the Empire with bipedal elephant-headed monsters armed with equally enormous weapons. Emperor Ganishka certainly prizes elephants as a sign of royal power, since we see him riding to and from Charlotte's prison on an elephant, and he commands the siege of Vritannis from a palace on wheels drawn by no fewer than sixteen elephants and surrounded by an escort of elephant cavalry. | |
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Juken Sentai Gekiranger / Power Rangers Jungle Fury: GekiElephant / Elephant Animal Spirit, another Mecha Expansion Pack for the series (it turns into an Epic Flail). | |
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A Scotsman in Egypt: The final major battle of the fic against the Timurids features their war elephants. Of course, the Timurid hordes didn't count on being: a) outnumbered and b) facing Scotsmen. Angus the Mauler gets a special mention for going batshit insane (moreso than usual) at the sight of them, not calming down until he's finally killed one. Singlehandedly. | |
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Pinky and the Brain: The song "A Meticulous Analysis of History" mentions Hannibal of Carthage's war elephants. | |
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Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger / Power Rangers Ninja Storm: Super Karakuri Beast Revolver Mammoth / Mammothzord. The resident Carrierzord, which is even more enormous. | |
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: The Grand Turk uses elephants to propel his war machines. The Baron gets them to back off with the strategic use of mice, which sends the whole herd into a panicked stampede through the Turkish camp. | |
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Kamen Rider: As with Sentai, multiple series use elephant or mammoth monsters as the Monster of the Week. Kamen Rider Blade: A non-mecha example comes from Leangle's Fusion Elephant card that he uses to transform into his Jack form, although with the lack of a Rouze Absorber, he doesn't use it at all in the TV series and at best used it once to unseal Daichi/Elephant Undead for help in battle. Kamen Rider Double: Movie War 2010 featured Super Shocker's Mammoth Mecha that attacked the Heisei Riders up until Decade decimated its beam cannon eyes, with Double taking control of it, thus turning it into HardMammother. It then got destroyed by Double as they crashed it into the Super Crisis Fortress to also destroy it. The title character of Kamen Rider OOO uses O Medals to transform. One of his gray medals is the Zou note Elephant Medal, which grants him Seismic stomps. Kamen Rider Zero-One: One of Aruto's Progrise Keys includes Breaking Mammoth, which was converted from the broken Mammoth Zetsumerise Key by Yua. Unlike his other forms, Breaking Mammoth is essentially a Transforming Mecha that includes a part of satellite Zea detached from it to its jet form and then Zero-One enters it to complete the transformation. ZAIA Enterprise also has their knockoffs with A.I.M.S.' Gigers that got at least one hacked by MetsubouJinrai.net then destroyed by Zero-One Breaking Mammoth. |
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Bugs Bunny: In "Prince Violent", Viking Yosemite Sam uses an elephant to assault Bugs' fortress. After the "stupid packy-derm" does Sam more harm than good, Sam chases him off... only for the elephant to wind up helping Bugs. | |
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Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger / Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Guardian Beast ZyuMammoth / Mastodon Dinozord. Huge, tough, and snorts a freezing mist. | |
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Rome. After their defeat at Thapsus in Africa, Cato and Scipio contemplate a dying war elephant. | |
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The title character of Kamen Rider OOO uses O Medals to transform. One of his gray medals is the Zou note Elephant Medal, which grants him Seismic stomps. | |
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The Jungle Book (1967): Referenced when the elephants act like heroic (if dimwitted) British army officers. | |
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Tensou Sentai Goseiger / Power Rangers Megaforce: The Elephant Headder / Elephant Zord, part of an auxiliary zord that made its Sentai debut in a movie and later one appearance in the series, with Megaforce adapting only the later appearance. | |
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7th Sea: The East: These are the preferred mounts of Nagaja's warriors. The commoners boast that the reason the Khazars never tried to invade their realm is the prowess of their war elephants in battle. They may find out if that's true very soon, when the Khans set sail. | |
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War of the Realms: The Dark Elf soldiers ride creatures resembling moss-covered woolly mammoths. | |
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One Piece: Jack from the Beast Pirates and one of Kaido's Co-Dragons ate the Zou Zou no Mi, Model: Mammoth, giving him the ability to turn him into a massive mammoth (and he is already huge from the start). He tramples through the battlefield like a calamity and he's also extremely endurable coupled with very high stamina, making him The Juggernaut. Untypical for this trope, Jack is actually in charge of many of Kaido's troops, thanks to his status as one of Kaido's right-hand men. Zunisha, the colossal elephant that carries the island of Zu on its back, is not one of these normally, though it mentions that it committed some sin in the past for which it carries the island on its back. But if you try attacking it- as the afore-mentioned Jack does- then it will defend itself and its island- and it straight-up knocks Jack into the sea! Spandam tries to invoke this through Funkfreed, his Devil Fruit-powered sword, which can turn into an elephant with a huge blade for a trunk. Unfortunately, while it's strong enough to damage Franky while he is blocking, it's not really combat-trained, nor is its master, and was easily intimidated just by Franky pointing a gun in its face; most of the time it serves as more of a Right-Hand Cat for Spandam, giving him someone to monologue to. |
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Futurama: In "Fun on a Bun", Neanderthals riding woolly mammoths attack Oktoberfest. | |
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The Bible: The Seleucid general Antiochus Epiphanes fields war elephants against the Maccabees. | |
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The Qur'an: One verse mentions the story of Abrahah, a general marching with his army of war elephants to destroy Kaaba, the Islamic holy site. They were thwarted when God sent a flock of birds carrying brimstone from Hell, pelting Abrahah and his men to death. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: Elephants — a creature type that also includes mastodons, mammoths and fictional proboscideans — feature as a recurring creature type. In addition to the assumed implication that cards represent creatures the player has summoned to fight for them, some are explicitly trained for this role in-universe — Trained Armodon is one such examples, while the Abzan Houses of Tarkir include elephants and mastodons among the giant creatures they use as beasts of battle and to pull their moving fortresses. | |
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Danger Mouse: Hannibal Hogarty, the villain of the episode "One of Our Stately Homes is Missing," has an army of elephants who guard the Duke of Bedbug mansion which he's stolen and will attack incursions at Hogarty's command. DM, of course, outwits them. | |
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Game of Thrones: The Wildling army led by Mance Rayder use the mammoth variant in the Season 4 episode "The Watchers on the Wall". The sellsword army the Golden Company, first mentioned in Season 7, is stated to have elephants in their army. However, when they arrive in Westeros in Season 8, Surprisingly Realistic Outcome as they found it too difficult to ship them across the Narrow Sea and had to leave them in Essos. |
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Jason And The Heroes Of Mount Olympus: In an apparent nod to this, Mars, the Roman God of War, was reimagined as an anthropomorphic elephant. | |
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Super Sentai and its U.S. counterpart Power Rangers: Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger / Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Guardian Beast ZyuMammoth / Mastodon Dinozord. Huge, tough, and snorts a freezing mist. Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger / Power Rangers Wild Force: Gao Elephant / Elephant Wild Zord, the first Mecha Expansion Pack for the series (it turns into a sword and shield). Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger / Power Rangers Ninja Storm: Super Karakuri Beast Revolver Mammoth / Mammothzord. The resident Carrierzord, which is even more enormous. Juken Sentai Gekiranger / Power Rangers Jungle Fury: GekiElephant / Elephant Animal Spirit, another Mecha Expansion Pack for the series (it turns into an Epic Flail). Engine Sentai Go-onger / Power Rangers RPM: Engine Kishamoth / Paleozord. The main portion of the final mecha combination introduced, armed with freezing mist like ZyuMammoth. Tensou Sentai Goseiger / Power Rangers Megaforce: The Elephant Headder / Elephant Zord, part of an auxiliary zord that made its Sentai debut in a movie and later one appearance in the series, with Megaforce adapting only the later appearance. Shuriken Sentai Ninninger / Power Rangers Ninja Steel: Paonmaru / Rumble Tusk Zord, yet another Mecha Expansion Pack that can assume its own humanoid mode and arms Shurikenjin with twin axes. Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger: Cube Elephant, the personal mecha of Zyuoh Elephant and the first modern elephant mecha to be a core one rather than a Mecha Expansion Pack. It can fire energy beams or a cooling mist to put out fires. In addition, multiple series use elephant or mammoth monsters as the Monster of the Week. |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Orks come closest to this trope with their Squiggoths; tusked, dinosaur-like beasts fitted with howdahs filled with guns, artillery or howling Orks, and driven into battle to rampage their way through the enemy army. Squiggoths native to icy worlds, which develop mammoth-like fur and tusks, come particularly close. | |
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Warhammer: The Norscans use giant Warp-mutated mammoths. The Arabyans also use war elephants, but theirs are normal beasts trained for combat instead of monsters like the ones used by the Norscans. The Ogre Kingdoms also have the vaguely mammoth-like Thundertusks, so enormous that they can carry two ogres at a time, and true mammoths that can carry four. |
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Red Sonja: In Marvel's 1970s run, Sonja allied herself with the young ruler of a kingdom whose major military strength was its war mammoths. | |
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword: Mordred summons gigantic war elephants with his Black Magic and tears through the kingdom of Camelot with them. They are very much a Keystone Army, as one single strike of Excalibur by King Uther Pendragon on their summoners is enough to cause them to collapse into dust. | |
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The Avengers: In Kurt Busiek's and George Perez' run, Red Sonja's nemesis Kulan Gath transmutes a couple of tanks into war elephants that nearly trample Iron Man before he is saved by teammate Triathlon. She-Hulk tells them "Back off, Jumbo" and flattens one with a punch while swinging the other one through the air by its trunk. Even war elephants don't stand a chance against the Emerald Amazon. | |
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Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger / Power Rangers Wild Force: Gao Elephant / Elephant Wild Zord, the first Mecha Expansion Pack for the series (it turns into a sword and shield). | |
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The Price of Flight: After coming to an Arrangement with the God of Evolution, Olga orders six Osibisi, super-heavy flying elephants that are borne aloft on scaled-up Pegasus wings. Hanna von Strafenburg remarks that with the standard fighting castle strapped to their backs and lots of repeating crossbows, the Air Watch now has flying fortresses. The Osibisi become the nucleus of the spectacular Heavy Squadron. | |
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Equestria Divided: House Everfree can field both elephants and gigantic oliphaunts, mounting howdahs on their backs to carry warriors into battle. Boars, rhinos and hippos are also used as less powerful but cheaper alternatives for the same purpose. | |
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Primal (2019): The Babylonian army has several massive war elephants — enormously oversized ones, notably, larger even that the extinct Palaeoxodon namadicus — who can carry several archers on their backs. | |
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Chess: The Bishop used to be called the Elephant, and could only move exactly two diagonal squares. In some languages, they are still called Elephants. Other games of the same family, like Xiangqi, and Makruk, still use the old Elephant piece, though, at least in Xiangqi, their offensive use is limited by their not being able to cross the river in the middle of the board. Some editions of chess also design the Rook (castle) unit to be an elephant with a howdah on its back. | |
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Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger: Cube Elephant, the personal mecha of Zyuoh Elephant and the first modern elephant mecha to be a core one rather than a Mecha Expansion Pack. It can fire energy beams or a cooling mist to put out fires. | |
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Gods of the Fall: A group of mushroom growers ride elderly war elephants, patrolling the main road through the Dead Wood and bordering fungi fields. Many once served as mounts of Corso's cavalry before the Fall. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Oliphants, as in the books, are used by the Haradrim forces allied with Sauron. They're portrayed as fantastical dire elephants with eight tusks (four large and four small), and are even bigger than in the books, being roughly fifty to sixty feet at the shoulder. There are also some unnamed rhino-like creatures pulling the siege engines that the orcs bring to the Battle of Minas Tirith. | |
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The Strange: The scarbacks of Mesozoica sometimes ride mammoths when they hunt. | |
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I Am Skantarios: The Byzantines fights these in their wars, and eventually gets a herd of their own. | |
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The King and I: The King planned to send war elephants to help Abraham Lincoln. See the Real Life section below. | |
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Kamen Rider Double: Movie War 2010 featured Super Shocker's Mammoth Mecha that attacked the Heisei Riders up until Decade decimated its beam cannon eyes, with Double taking control of it, thus turning it into HardMammother. It then got destroyed by Double as they crashed it into the Super Crisis Fortress to also destroy it. | |
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