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Like most countries in the world, Australia has a number of cryptids and mythical beasties allegedly lurking out in the forests and outback (because actual Australian Wildlife just isn't interesting or dangerous enough). This page covers the most common creatures found in Australian folklore. |
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In one of the books in The Tomorrow Series, an Australian prisoner of war in a work party tells the supervising soldier to watch out for the drop bears and hoop snakes. |
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| | The Tomorrow Series |
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Digimon: Phascomon are demonic drop bears, who hang around in the forests of the Digital World's hell and attack anyone who passes by with their paralyzing claws. |
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| | Digimon (Franchise) |
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The Twilight Child: Toward the end of the story, a just-released Discord decides to make it rain drop bears over Canterlot. A Canterlot under siege from an army of suddenly very confused Changelings. He has them rain by creating giant hovering salt-and-pepper shakers filled with the little things, which shake them out onto the city. The writer confirmed in the notes that this was a deliberate Shout-Out to Nextwave. |
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| | The Twilight Child / Fan Fic |
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In Spacetrawler the unclamped Eebs create drop bears to tear apart the Dustin (an Australian) clones for their own amusement. |
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| | Spacetrawler (Webcomic) |
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In The Last Continent, the protagonist (a visiting foreigner) has a run-in with a flock of drop bears, surviving because he's wearing a pointy hat. But when he tells people about it nobody believes him because they all know for a fact drop bears are a myth invented to mess with visiting foreigners. |
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| | The Last Continent |
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Bunyips were featured on The Secret Saturdays, in the episode "Into the Mouth of Darkness". Here, the bunyips were depicted as small, furry, mischievous cryptids that resemble the Tasmanian Devil of Looney Tunes with small antlers. |
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| | The Secret Saturdays |
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Nextwave fought against drop bears, which were deployed against them by H.A.T.E. dropping the little guys out of an airplane. The Drop Bears survive the several hundred-foot plummet. They don't survive Nextwave. |
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| | Nextwave (Comic Book) |
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A bunyip was featured in an episode of Mona the Vampire, having been accidentally transported to the main character's town in a large amount of special Australian mud meant for a spa. |
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| | Mona the Vampire |
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Schlock Mercenary: "Clever Drop-bear" was used in reference to Petey. |
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| | Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic) |
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Exalted: Bunyips appear as hulking, herbivorous marsupials native to grasslands in the East and in the Western islands. They depart from their mythological origins rather starkly, with the mythical aquatic predator becoming a terrestrial grazer. |
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| | Exalted (Tabletop Game) |
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The game Path of Exile, from New Zealand developer Grinding Gears Games feature an enemy in the forest zone called Plummeting Ursa. You guess what they resemble. |
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| | Path of Exile (Video Game) |
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Pathfinder: Bunyips are described in Bestiary 2 and given further detail in Mystery Monsters Revisited, a book featuring cryptids and "hidden" animals. They're large, aggressive seal-like creatures and voracious ambush predators; they prefer to inhabit swamps, murky lakes and rivers, and sea caves, and are skilled enough at avoiding their prey's notice to remain elusive and mysterious creatures even in a High Fantasy world. |
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| | Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) |
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The Discworld Roleplaying Game, acknowledging the appearance of drop bears in The Last Continent (see above), includes game details for the species and their attack. |
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| | Discworld Role-Playing Game (Tabletop Game) |
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When Ross and Dan played Battleblock Theater on Steam Train, Ross made up a story about koalas dropping out of trees and killing loggers. Dan totally fell for it. He then admits that telling foreigners about dropbears is a common prank in Australia. |
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| | BattleBlock Theater (Video Game) |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The original 1st Edition Fiend Folio had statistics for a bunyip, with the art presenting a seal-like monster with thick black fur and large teeth. The accompanying text describes it as a freshwater predator that, despite its playful demeanor, is powerful enough to tip over small boats and can severe limbs with its powerful bite. Additionally, it can unleash a Mighty Roar that causes lower-level players to panic. |
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| | Dungeons & Dragons (Tabletop Game) |
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In Escape Velocity: Nova, the player will sometimes fall victim to "Drop Bear" attacks on Auroran worlds, but they stop happening once far enough into the plot to set an Event Flag. Drop Bear Repellent, however, is Schmuck Bait. |
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| | Escape Velocity (Video Game) |
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User Friendly: The team gets a contract job in Australia. When they arrive, they're warned by a local to be careful of the gum trees out the back of the office building — "With gum trees come drop bears, mate. The most foul, cruel marsupial you've ever set eyes on." Meanwhile, Stef is walking up to the building past a gum tree with a drop bear in it, and it drops on him. Apparently, the local bears have a thing about eating brains, so this one is very disappointed. |
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| | User Friendly (Webcomic) |
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The Call of Cthulhu supplement Terror Australis has statistics for quite a few mythological Australian monsters, including the yowie and bunyip (but alas, no mention of drop bears). |
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| | Call of Cthulhu (Tabletop Game) |
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Star Wars Downunder. On the planet Oradongia (which seems entirely populated by Australians) the evil Darth Drongo uses "unyips" (genetically engineered bunyips) to track down supplies of beer. |
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| | Star Wars Downunder (Web Video) |
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Aces Abroad, the fourth Wild Cards book, features something identified as a bunyip. |
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| | Aces Abroad |
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The Bunyip is among the Titans monitored by Monarch in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, located around a containment outpost in the middle of the Outback. We never actually see it though, and even its name appearing is a bit of an Easter egg. |
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| | Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) |
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Runescape has a familiar called the bunyip. Its special ability allows you to eat raw fish (when the scroll is used, you see the bunyip eating some fish). It's actually a pretty vital summon for people doing slayer or bossing if their summon level isn't high enough since it also heals you 2 HP (20 LP) every 15 seconds, which adds up. |
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| | RuneScape (Video Game) |
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One Girl Genius strip mentions drop bears as being a documented threat, but none have appeared in person. |
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| | Girl Genius (Webcomic) |
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Bunyip is alluded to in mythology as a tidal wave monster in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck where it floods the black bird in order for the platypus to find his sacred egg. |
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| | The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck (Comic Book) |
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In Werewolf: The Apocalypse, a werewolf tribe that managed to make it to Australia and mated with the local thylacine called itself the Bunyip. They went extinct in the 1920s along with the thylacine. The other werewolves helped things along as well, which remains a sore point. |
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| | Werewolf: The Apocalypse (Tabletop Game) |
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The bunyip was referenced in an episode of The Wild Thornberrys. |
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| | The Wild Thornberrys |
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Ology Series: Bunyips feature in Monsterology, in the chapter on aquatic creatures, and are described as amphibious, mammalian ambush predators native to Australia. |
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| | Ology Series |
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Chrono Cross featured a boss fight with a Bunyip. It started the fight as a fire-elemental, vaguely salamander-like thing. Then it opened its mouth... and kept opening its mouth... and a giant cyclopean shadow monster grew out of its body. |
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| | Chrono Cross (Video Game) |
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Scooby-Doo has the Yowie Yahoo prominently featured in Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire, though the creature using that name in the movie much more resembles a classic gothic vampire than the bigfoot-like creature of Australian myth. |
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| | Scooby-Doo (Franchise) |
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| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_b0d48fd6 |
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Ty the Tasmanian Tiger features bunyips. There's also drop bears in the third game. |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_b0d48fd6 |
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1.0 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_b0d48fd6 |
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1.0 |
| | Ty the Tasmanian Tiger (Video Game) |
hasFeature |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_b0d48fd6 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_b1058237 |
type |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_b1058237 |
comment |
The Temeraire series features bunyips as large, disturbingly intelligent burrowing reptilians (strongly implied to have evolved from dragons) that lurk near bodies of water and pick off unwary travelers. Think trapdoor spiders the size of wolves. Nearby Aborigines try to convince the protagonists not to camp near a billabong, but this gets lost in translation, with predictably terrible results. For extra horror, they are shown to be lightning-fast, and if you're by the water and your friends take their eyes off you for just a second... |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_b1058237 |
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1.0 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_b1058237 |
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1.0 |
| | Temeraire |
hasFeature |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_b1058237 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_bcb32dc6 |
type |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_bcb32dc6 |
comment |
Shadowrun:
Bunyips are immense marsupials with large noses and a keen sense of smell. They're bearlike omnivores, chiefly feeding on plants and small creatures but quite capable of tackling large prey should they feel like doing so. They also have envenomed claws that make their targets hypersensitive to sunlight.
Drop bears are Awakened koalas that have gained sharp claws and a taste for meat, although they still need some eucalyptus in their diets, and hunt by dropping on prey from high in the trees. They're also carriers of HMHVV-II, the virus that causes lycanthropy in humans; they're not infected themselves, but survivors of drop bear attacks often contract the condition. |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_bcb32dc6 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_bcb32dc6 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | Shadowrun (Tabletop Game) |
hasFeature |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_bcb32dc6 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_bd310eaa |
type |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_bd310eaa |
comment |
El Goonish Shive has a koala-like aberration who likes to attack by dropping on people. The character in question is a bit of an Australia fanboy, so it's likely a deliberate nod to the drop bear legend on the character's part. |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_bd310eaa |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_bd310eaa |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | El Goonish Shive (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_bd310eaa |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_bdfd01de |
type |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_bdfd01de |
comment |
In Boldores And Boomsticks, conversation turns to the legendary Grimm of various regions, and Blake reveals that Menagerie supposedly has Bunyips and Drop Ursas. |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_bdfd01de |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_bdfd01de |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | Boldores and Boomsticks (Fanfic) |
hasFeature |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_bdfd01de |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_c2463c55 |
type |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_c2463c55 |
comment |
Two enemies in Final Fantasy X are named Yowie and Bunyip, though they bear little resemblance to their inspiration. |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_c2463c55 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_c2463c55 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | Final Fantasy X (Video Game) |
hasFeature |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_c2463c55 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_c4282b71 |
type |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_c4282b71 |
comment |
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "PPOV (Pony Point of View)", the ponies accidentally summon a "three-horned bunyip" by dropping cucumber sandwiches in the water. It, in turn, accidentally capsizes their boat. |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_c4282b71 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_c4282b71 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic |
hasFeature |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_c4282b71 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_dbd793bc |
type |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_dbd793bc |
comment |
d20 Modern features drop bears in its Menace Manual. |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_dbd793bc |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_dbd793bc |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | d20 Modern (Tabletop Game) |
hasFeature |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_dbd793bc |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_de90693a |
type |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_de90693a |
comment |
In an untold tale of Spider-Gwen, she takes on Koala Kommander and his trained killer koalas. The Kommander acquires them through an old Australian saying that anyone who catches a falling koala is responsible for raising it, so basically he's using dropped bears. |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_de90693a |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_de90693a |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | Spider-Gwen (Comic Book) |
hasFeature |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_de90693a |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_df7e11cd |
type |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_df7e11cd |
comment |
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things: On a visit to Australia, it's revealed that drop bears are real and that the Australians spread the rumour that they were a myth to scare tourists so the tourists would keep coming. One attacks Jared. |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_df7e11cd |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_df7e11cd |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | Manly Guys Doing Manly Things (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_df7e11cd |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_e8946aae |
type |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_e8946aae |
comment |
While it's not set in Australia, in Winnie the Pooh Pooh and Piglet believe in the existence of a creature called the "jagular", remarkably similar to the Drop Bear. Jagulars, according to Pooh, sit in trees and shout, "Hallo!" — "and then when you look up, they drop on you." |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_e8946aae |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_e8946aae |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | Winnie the Pooh |
hasFeature |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_e8946aae |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_ea4f62db |
type |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_ea4f62db |
comment |
Family Guy: There is a gag where Peter visits Australia and starts poking a sleeping crocodile with a stick. The crocodile opens its eyes and glares at him, then after a Beat... a koala bear suddenly falls onto Peter's face from offscreen. |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_ea4f62db |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_ea4f62db |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | Family Guy |
hasFeature |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_ea4f62db |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_f2041376 |
type |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_f2041376 |
comment |
The bunyip was featured repeatedly on Charmed, most notably the episode "Nymphs Just Wanna Have Fun". |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_f2041376 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_f2041376 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | Charmed (1998) |
hasFeature |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_f2041376 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_fa914bee |
type |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_fa914bee |
comment |
The Peace Not Promised: Xenophilius Lovegood brings tales of Australia when he's present at James and Marlene's wedding; he initially assumes that Severus' silver prosthetic hand is infested with "Fluorescent Bushwongles", which he's seen in a mossy Australian cave (probably glow-worms), and later goes on about the Drop Bears that several Australian wizards swore they had seen. Note that the author is Australian. |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_fa914bee |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_fa914bee |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | The Peace Not Promised (Fanfic) |
hasFeature |
Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My / int_fa914bee |
