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This Trope was Rogue Launched. Please add all edits to the TLP draft instead. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })You take the front half of a horse and the back half of a fish and that's a hippocamp(us); a merhorse, so to say. It is also known as a hydrippus, a sea horse, and a water horse, but those last two terms have other meanings too. Although not as popular as pegasi, unicorns, and centaurs, hippocamps have been around for just as long. What makes the difference is that for most of history, hippocamps had a presence in art only and never got any legends attached to them. The oldest known depictions of hippocamps are from 4th Century BC Phoenicia and had a presence around the Mediterranean, but the creature is mostly known today through Classical Mythology. Horses were imagined as the creation of the sea god Poseidon, who'd either ride on them or have them pull his shell chariot over the waves. Several sources describe four-legged horses, but more often they're depicted as hippocamps. Hippocamps are a favored mount among the rest of the sea deity crowd too. Classical art regularly gives the creature wings. These may be taken literal, but also symbolical because wings may signify speed instead of actual flight. Most modern-day depictions omit the wings or turn them into fins. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The aforementioned term "water horse" is a catch-all for water spirits of equine form, whether permanent or part of the time. Most are part of North-West European folklore and none are hippocamps as defined by Classical Mythology, but they may be depicted in the form of a hippocamp. A special case are the white seahorses of Nautical Folklore. There is a minor tradition that Poseidon created the first horses from the waves and this developed separately from but interchangeably with the hippocamp. White seahorses are the waves and foam personified as a stampeding herd of horses. They're traditionally depicted as four-legged, but generally have webbed hooves. Very roughly, from a modern point of view, hippocamps and white seahorses can be seen as creatures of the sea, while the other water horses are more at home in rivers and lakes. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })"Seahorse", of course, is the name of a real-life fish, and to keep things confusing its genus name is Hippocampus. If seahorses and hippocamps show up in the same story, they're either equal or the seahorse will be on the person end of things and the hippocamp on the animal end of things. For the record, "hippocamp" is shortened from "hippocampus", which is a Latinified combination of "hippos" and "kampos". The former means "horse" and the latter "sea monster (in the sense of something with a long, flexible tail)". "Hydrippus" is a Latinified combination of "hydros" and "hippos". The former means "water" and the latter, as said before, "horse". A Sub-Trope of Cool Horse and Our Mermaids Are Different. A Sister Trope to Seahorse Steed, Seahorses Are Dragons, and Dolphins, Dolphins Everywhere. Combine it with centaurs and you get ichthyocentaurs, which go on Our Centaurs Are Different. The hippocamp has no connection to any Brain Monster whatsoever. Examples: |
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The Last Unicorn takes the white seahorse concept and applies it to unicorns. The sea is their prison, however, and not their home. | |
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My Little Pony has hippocamps among the Little Ponies in the first, third, and fourth generations. The second year of Generation 1 introduced three new types of ponies to diversify the all-Earth Pony cast of the first year, those being Unicorn Ponies, Pegasus Ponies, and Sea Ponies. Sea Ponies are seahorse-based Little Ponies and for years were the mermaid equivalent of Little Ponies. Then came the eleventh year, which coincided with the release of the Spin-Off My Pretty Mermaids, and the Fancy Mermaid Ponies hit the market. These are literally mermaid versions of Little Ponies. This leaves the Sea Ponies in a nice middle position between hippocamp and seahorse, because there's also one comic page that shows an actual, Pony Friends-style seahorse. Her design is distinct from that of the Sea Ponies. Mermaid Ponies and mermaid versions of existing ponies were released at the end of Generation 3.5. Generation 4, or My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, long was denied aquatic ponies despite fan demand. Then in 2013, Under the Sparkling Sea was released, which introduced sea ponies and mermares. Both species were depicted as seahorses and any difference between them went unaddressed other than that mermares are shy. When the mermares later returned in the comics, they were redesigned to be on par with the G1 Sea Ponies. G4's sea ponies returned in My Little Pony: The Movie as hippocamps. It was revealed that the sea ponies were originally hippogriffs, but their queen turned them into their current form with the Pearl of Transformation so they could escape the Storm King's siege. Once he's defeated, some sea ponies choose to become hippogriffs once more while others remain in the water. And then there's also the sirens, a trio of creatures that debuted in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks and may or may not be Little Ponies. Their true form in fiction is that of a hippocamp, but their merchandise artwork depicts them as land-based ponies. |
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The film adaptation of The Last Unicorn too takes the white seahorse concept and applies it to unicorns. The visuals created for the moment the unicorns escape as waves takes a cue or two from Walter Crane's iconic painting. | |
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In Final Fantasy III, tangies and noggles are hostile NPCs depicted in hippocamp form. | |
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Both hippocamps and seahorses are aquatic mounts in World of Warcraft. They're similar models, the most notable difference being that the hippocamps have front legs and seahorses do not. The hippocamps aren't called "hippocamps", but are known as tidestallions and deepseekers. | |
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Mystical Hippocamps are animals in FarmVille. As sea creatures, they can be housed inside the Marine Observatory. As horses, the can also be housed inside the Horse Paddock and the Horse Stable. | |
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Hippocampus is a card in Culdcept Revolt. It looks like a seahorse with horse legs and its flavor text states that once it's fully grown, it'll climb onto shore and become a kelpie. | |
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Hippocampi are also available pets in Valley of Unicorns. There's seven types of which four have two variants. Those four are based on the water-themed components of the Western Zodiac: Aquarius (Blue & Pink), Cancer (Red & Blue), Capricorn (Earth & Sea), and Pisces (Dawn & Dusk). There's also the Neptune Hippocampus, the Fire Forged Hippocampus (part of a Fire Forged quartet of mythical horses), and I Am Shark Hippocampus, which looks like a hippocampus dressed up as a shark. | |
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Hippocampi are the mounts and beasts of burden of the aquatic races of Pathfinder. They're also in use by the people of Absalom, which, being a harbor city, has a special sea cavalry: the Wave Riders. | |
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The hippocampus's Dungeons & Dragons debut was in the Monster Manual, and they've been around on and off since. They're the mount of choice of tritons. | |
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Starting with Scribblenauts Unlimited, hippocamps are among the tools found in Scribblenauts. | |
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Chapter 22 of the Physiologus is where the term "hydrippus" comes from. The religious nature of the book casts the hydrippus as a prophet, specifically Moses, whom the other fish have to follow in order to reach God. | |
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As early as The Sea of Monsters, hippocamps play a role in Percy Jackson and the Olympians. They can emerge from waves like white seahorses do, but otherwise are fairly traditional. The hippocamp Rainbow is a major recurring ally and the associated mount of Tyson. | |
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Hippocampi are among the beasts described in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. They're native to the Mediterranean Sea, but a specimen was discovered by merpeople off the shores of Scotland in 1949 and subsequently domesticated. Hippocampi lay semi-transparent eggs, from which so-called tadfoals emerge. | |
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A good example of the overlap between the seahorse and the hippocamp occurs in A Song of Ice and Fire. The coat of arms of the House Velaryon of Driftmark is a "silver seahorse on sea green" and official art switches between using a seahorse and a hippocamp. Taking symbolism into account, Daenerys Targaryen's horse "the silver", has aspects of the white seahorse. | |
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In La-Mulana, hippocamps are an aquatic enemy that can attack on the surface and under water. Rather than two legs and a tail, they have four fins. | |
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The first hippocamp of Magic: The Gathering was the Vodalian Knights card in 1994. The second and third are the Breaching Hippocamp card released in 2013 and the Surge Mare card in 2018. Both are categorized as "horse fish". | |
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The Tatsunootoshigo card of Yu-Gi-Oh!, which depicts a hippocamp, is a fine example of the Western view of a seahorse as a horse and the Eastern view of a seahorse as a dragon. In Japan, the card is known as "Shiihoosu", which is the transliteration of the English word "seahorse". In all Western languages, the card is Tatsunootoshigo. "Tatsu no otoshigo" means "bastard child of a dragon" and is the Japanese word for seahorses. It's unclear if this is a "Blind Idiot" Translation or a cross-cultural mutual homage. | |
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The true form of Hippo from Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch is a hippocamp with a near-perfect classic design. He's got wings, he's got a very long tail, and his hooves are bronze. However, his tail is serpentine and lacks the fins at the end. His mane alse reaches all the way to his tail. Hippo rarely makes use of his hippocamp form, however, favoring his human and penguin forms. | |
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Hippocamps are heavily reimagined in God of War III. They're composed in part of water and have crustacean stingers protruding from their bodies. As Poseidon's Right-Hand Attack Dogs, they make for several boss fights. To an extent, the hippocamps' unusual design is as it is because the original idea was that Poseidon would have leviathans as his trusted servants. These were turned into hippocamps to stay in-line with Classical Mythology, but some of the leviathan traits remained. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has both sirens and seaponies. The former are a hostile trio of hippocamps who fly through the air spreading a Hate Plague and feeding off of the negativity, and are inevitably banished to the human world to be trapped in human form and render them powerless (unsurprisingly it doesn't last). The latter are actually hippogriffs that transformed into seaponies to escape from the Storm King, but after his defeat some decided to continue embracing their life under the sea. | |
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Cuco from Elena of Avalor is a hippocamp. He's a member of the Kingdom of the Sirenas and a bit of a puffed-up jerk. | |
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Sea Horse Baian of Poseidon's Mariners in Saint Seiya has hippocamp armor. Contrary to the usual half-horse & half-fish look of the hippocamp, this one is a regular horse with only the tail replaced by a fish's. Additional fins are added here and there. | |
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In Flight Rising, there's the hippocampus, a green and blue creature, and the clown hippocampus, an orange creature designed after the clownfish. They're familiars. The flavor text of the hippocampus - that it never forgets - is a refernce to the hippocampus portion of the brain, which is important to the formation of memories. | |
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In the Weebl's Stuff video "Unicorn", the narrator wonders if unicorns are the result of a narwhal breeding with a horse, and depicts the resulting new-born unicorn as having a fish-shaped body and a mane resembling the fins of a goldfish. | |
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