Unsolved:List of reptilian humanoids

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The Dinosauroid, a hypothetical anthropomorphic sapient dinosaur.

Reptilian humanoids are fictional organisms of varied species in folklore, science fiction, fantasy, and conspiracy theories.

Mythology

  • Boreas (Aquilon to the Romans): the Greek god of the cold north wind, described by Pausanias as a winged man, sometimes with serpents instead of feet.[1]
  • Cecrops I: the mythical first King of Athens was half man, half snake
  • Dragon Kings: creatures from Chinese mythology sometimes depicted as reptilian humanoids
  • Some djinn in Islamic mythology are described as alternating between human and serpentine forms.
  • Echidna, the wife of Typhon in Greek mythology, was half woman, half snake.
  • Fu Xi: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology
  • Glycon: a snake god who had the head of a man.
  • The Gorgons: Sisters in Greek mythology who had serpents for hair.
  • The Lamia: a child-devouring female demon from Greek mythology depicted as half woman, half serpent.
  • Nāga (Devanagari: नाग): reptilian beings (king cobras) from Hindu mythology[2] said to live underground and interact with human beings on the surface.
  • Nüwa: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology
  • Shenlong: a Chinese dragon thunder god, depicted with a human head and a dragon's body
  • Serpent: an entity from the Genesis creation narrative occasionally depicted with legs, and sometimes identified with Satan, though its representations have been both male and female.[3]
  • Sobek: Ancient Egyptian crocodile-headed god
  • Suppon No Yurei: A turtle-headed human ghost from Japanese mythology and folklore
  • Tlaloc: Aztec god depicted as a man with snake fangs
  • Typhon, the "father of all monsters" in Greek mythology, had a hundred snake-heads in Hesiod,[4] or else was a man from the waist up, and a mass of seething vipers from the waist down.
  • Wadjet pre-dynastic snake goddess of Lower Egypt - sometimes depicted as half snake, half woman
  • Zahhak, a figure from Zoroastrian mythology who, in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh, grows a serpent on either shoulder

Folklore

  • Enchanted Moura from Portuguese and Galician folklore appears as a snake with long blonde hair.
  • Kappa: Turtle-like humanoids from Japanese mythology and folklore.
  • The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp in South Carolina, United States
  • The Loveland Frog (or Loveland Lizard), in Loveland, Ohio, United States
  • The Thetis Lake monster in Canada
  • The White Snake: a figure from Chinese folklore[5]
  • Cuca, an alligator humanoid witch from Brazilian folklore.

Fringe theories

Scientific speculation

  • The dinosauroid, a hypothetical reptilian humanoid conjectured by palaeontologist Dale Russell.[8]
  • Other speculated sapient dinosaurs

Modern fiction

A wide range of fictional works depict reptilian humanoids.

Literature

  • Dracs from the Enemy Mine series by Barry B. Longyear.
  • Evra Von from Darren Shan's "Saga of Darren Shan"
  • The Horibs from the Pellucidar books
  • The Barabels from Star Wars
  • Hork-Bajir from K. A. Applegate's Animorphs
  • The Lady of the Green Kirtle from CS Lewis's The Silver Chair
  • An unnamed race from H.P. Lovecraft's The Nameless City - later Cthulhu Mythos tales have named these the Valusians or simply "serpent people".
  • The Race from Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series
  • Serpent Men from the works of Robert E. Howard (also in the Marvel universe)
  • Yig, the serpent god from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
  • Yilané from the novel West of Eden by Harry Harrison
  • The Creeps and the Snake Lady from the Goosebumps franchise.
  • The Troglodytes from The Trials of Apollo

Television

A Draconian mask, on display at the National Space Centre

Doctor Who

  • Draconians
  • Foamasi
  • Homo reptilia
    • Silurians
    • Sea Devils
  • Ice Warriors

Star Trek

  • Cardassians
  • Gorn
  • Jem'Hadar
  • Voth
  • Tosk
  • Xindi-Reptilians

Ninjago

  • Serpentine
  • Vermillion

Other

  • Cobra-La, and Cobra Commander from the G.I. Joe series
  • Chase Young from Xiaolin Showdown
  • The Culebra from From Dusk till Dawn: The Series
  • Drakh and Narn from Babylon 5
  • Lizard Man from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
  • Lizardman Phantom from Kamen Rider Wizard
  • The Lizardmen from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
  • Scarrans from Farscape
  • Sleestaks from Land of the Lost
  • Slithe and his fellow Lizards from ThunderCats
  • The Snake Men from Masters of the Universe
  • Snake People from the TV-movie The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
  • Spinner from My Hero Academia
  • Unas from Stargate
  • Visitors from V
  • Zafiro from Disney's Gargoyles has a red-skinned snake-bodied gargate, with two humanoid arms and feathered wings, reminiscent of Kukulcan in Mayan myth and leader of his gargoyle clan

Comics

Marvel

  • Badoon, another hostile alien race
  • Chitauri, alien shapeshifters from the Ultimate Marvel universe.
  • Lizard, an enemy of Spider-Man
  • The Lizard Men of Subterranea
  • The Lizard Men of the Savage Land
  • The Lizard Men of Tok from the Microverse
  • Sauron, a Pteranodon-like enemy of the X-Men
  • Skrulls, an alien race of reptilian shapeshifters
  • Slither, a snake-like mutant and ally of Magneto who has been a member of the Resistants and the Serpent Society
  • Stegron, a Stegosaurus-like enemy of Spider-Man
  • Zn'rx (Snarks), reptilian aliens bipeds encountered by the Power Pack

DC

  • Copperhead, some versions
  • Gordanians, a species of alien reptilian slavers
  • Killer Croc, an enemy of Batman
  • Lizardmen from the Warlord series.
  • Llarans
  • Psions

Other

  • Dinosaurs for Hire, dinosaur-like alien mercenaries
  • Henry Phage from the Mr. Hero comics from Tekno Comix
  • Kleggs, alien mercenaries in the Judge Dredd universe.
  • The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Slash, and Leatherhead
  • Treens from Dan Dare
  • Tyranny Rex, reptilian artist in stories published in 2000AD.
  • Zarbon from anime and manga Dragon Ball Z.

Film

  • Dracs from Enemy Mine
  • Thulsa Doom from Conan the Barbarian
  • Trandoshans from Star Wars
  • Lectroids from Buckaroo Banzai
  • Draco from Above Majestic

Games

Roleplaying and strategy games

Dungeons & Dragons
  • Kobolds
  • Lizardfolk
  • Saurial
  • Troglodytes
  • Yuan-ti

Platform and fighting games

  • Bowser and the Koopas from Super Mario Bros.
  • Espio the Chameleon and Vector the Crocodile from Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Lizardman, a character from the Soul series of fighting games
  • Locust Horde, the primary antagonists in the game franchise Gears of War
  • King K. Rool and most Kremlings from Donkey Kong
  • Reptile, Chameleon, and Khameleon from the game Mortal Kombat
  • Riptor, a character from the fighting game Killer Instinct

See also

References

  1. ↑ Pausanias (2012). Pausanias's Description of Greece. Cambridge University Press. pp. 616–. ISBN 978-1-108-04725-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=CetszVxoxAoC&pg=PA616. 
  2. ↑ Elgood, Heather (2000). Hinduism and the Religious Arts. London: Cassell. p. 234. ISBN 0-304-70739-2. 
  3. ↑ Olson, Dennis T. (1996). Numbers. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press. pp. 135–8. ISBN 978-0-8042-3104-6. 
  4. ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 823–835.
  5. ↑ Idema, Wilt L. (2009). The White Snake and Her Son: A Translation of the Precious Scroll of Thunder Peak with Related Texts. Hackett Publishing. ISBN 9781603843751. https://books.google.com/books?id=ok8qyivasGcC. 
  6. ↑ Lewis, Tyson; Richard Kahn (Winter 2005). "The Reptoid Hypothesis: Utopian and Dystopian Representational Motifs in David Icke's Alien Conspiracy Theory". Utopian Studies 16 (1): 45–75. 
  7. ↑ Frel, Jan (1 September 2010). "Inside the Great Reptilian Conspiracy: From Queen Elizabeth to Barack Obama – They Live!". Alternet. http://www.alternet.org/story/147967/. 
  8. ↑ Russell, D. A.; Séguin, R. (1982). "Reconstruction of the small Cretaceous theropod Stenonychosaurus inequalis and a hypothetical dinosauroid". Syllogeus 37: 1–43. https://archive.org/details/syllogeus37nati. 




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