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* Natsu 'Salamander' Dragneel of ''[[Fairy Tail]]''. Although he's the only example thus far.
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', the original transmutation array for Roy Mustang's Flame Alchemy, {{spoiler|which he later destroyed by scarring Riza Hawkeye's back, which it had been tattooed to}}, features a salamander, as do the simplified transmutation circles on his gloves.
* In ''[[Aria]]'', the main characters who row gondolas on the canals of Neo-Venezia are known as Undines. Some young men they meet are a Salamander, who helps operate the giant heating units for climate control, a Gnome, who lives deep underground and maintains gravity, and a Sylph, who pilots a small aircraft.
== Comic Books ==
* A group of superheroes known as "The Elementals" appear in ''[[Superfriends]]'', the members are four women named Gnome, Undine, Sylph, and Salamander, whose powers are controllong earth, water, wind, and fire respectively.
== Literature ==
* [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''Elemental Masters'' series has all four. They will serve those who have a talent for their respective elements, and cooperate with mages with a complementary element, but dislike and avoid those with opposing elemental affinity.
* [[Tanya Huff]]'s ''Quarters'' series has them all, as well, as a kind of [[Nature Spirit]]. They can be "sung" (controlled) by those with the proper elemental affinity. Most have only one or two affinities, but some rare individuals can control three or even all four kinds.
* [[Robert Heinlein]]'s short story "Magic, Incorporated" mentioned all of the standard 4 types (undine, salamander, gnome, and sylph).
* All four are mentioned as possible afterlives for women in [[The Rape of the Lock]], depending on personality.
* Books of [[E. T. A. Hoffmann|ETA Hoffmann]] present all types. Some of whom were [[Interspecies Romance|in very close relationships with humans and other creatures]]. Generally, upsetting even benign ones is a catastrophically bad idea.
== Myths and Folklore ==
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== Tabletop Games ==
* Several of Chaosium's games had them.
** ''Stormbringer/Elric'': The standard 4 types.
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* Various ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' card feature one of the alchemic elementals as monsters. The most notable one is Genex Undine, a [[Steampunk]] version of Undine.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Arc Rise Fantasia]]'' has the four elementals as enemies, but in this game all of them take the form of floating magic wands that casts spells of their respective elements.
* ''[[Lost Magic]]'' has each of the Alchemic Elementals as capturable/summonable monsters for their respective elements.
* ''[[Monster Rancher]]'': The Undine and Salamanders show up as villains.
* ''[[Sword of Mana]]'' features Undine, Gnome, Salamander, and Sylph as spirits that you can take along to help you by casting spells of their respective elements. There are also 4 other unrelated spirits, Shade (darkness), Dryad (wood), Wisp (light), and Luna (moon).
* In the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series, Salamander and Sylph appear as [[Summon Magic|summons]] periodically, especially in the Ivalice games. Undine and Gnome have never appeared in the series; the honor of water elemental summon almost always goes to Leviathon and earth to Golem.
** The exception being ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'', which features the Entite class of enemy, in which all four alchemic elementals are represented.
** In the [[PS 1]] version of ''[[Final Fantasy I]]'', the Earth Elemental was translated as "Gnoma".
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' and ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'' had summon spirits of certain elements and had Gnome, Undine, and The Sylphs, and Salamander was replaced with a Djinn-like creature called Efreet. Additionally there was Maxwell who had providence over the four nature spirits, Shadow the summon spirit of Darkness, Celsius of Ice, Luna and Aska of light (The Moon and the Light specifically in Phantasia), Volt of lightning, and Origin of ''everything''.
* [[Pokémon]]: Charmander and its line of evolution appears to be based on the salamander's association with fire. It's first form is obviously named after salamanders, and it's later forms eventually become a fire breathing dragon.
* Marin from [[Brave Soul]] can summon all four of them. Undine is spelled "Windy" due to a tranlation error.
* In ''[[Tactics Ogre]]'': The Knight of Lodis, the four elemental [[Summon Magic]] spells are named for them.
** In ''[[Ogre Battle 64]]'' Salamanders are summoned by the Elem Predra of Fire.
** In ''Videogame/((Ogre Battle}}'', Salamanders are the top tier fire dragons. Sylph, mispelt Syliphs, are the improved versions of Fairy.
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