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** Fraggles themselves, as well as Doozers and Gorgs. And all the other weird stuff that lives down there.
 
== [[Mythology AndNewspaper ReligionComics]] ==
* The god Set in ancient Egyptian religion has the head of a unknown and mysterious creature that resembles a composite of an aardvark, a donkey, and a jackal. Modern Egyptologists usually refer to it as the "Set animal", "Typhonic beast", or "sha".
** A few theorize that the head isn't an aardvark, but rather some species of gar or other pointy-faced carnivorous fish; whatever they are, they were the ones that ate Osiris' willie when Set cut him up and threw him in the Nile. It can't just be a fish, though, since statues show it as some sort of emaciated hyena-looking thing.
 
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[Krazy Kat]]''. (S)he even fits the [[Ambiguous Gender]] Trope. (S)he may be the inspiration for Yakko, Wakko, and Dot from ''[[Animaniacs]]'', and Mooch from [[Mutts]].
* Mooch from ''[[Mutts]]'' [[media:mooch.gif|looks rather like]] [[media:untitled 1.png|Yakko Warner]] from ''[[Animaniacs]]'', except with smaller, more pointed ears, a bigger nose, and without the cheek tufts and tan colored pants. The resemblance would be even more noticeable if Mooch were drawn in the same style Yakko is drawn, or if Yakko were drawn in the same style Mooch is drawn.
* [[wikipedia:Eugene the Jeep|Eugene the Jeep]] from ''[[Popeye]]'' comics looks like a dog sized, yellow, spotted, ambiguous looking cat-thing with a big, lightbulb-looking nose. Meanwhile, the animated cartoons define him as some sort of dog.
 
== Oral Tradition, [[Mythology And Religion]] ==
* The god Set in ancient Egyptian religion has the head of a unknown and mysterious creature that resembles a composite of an aardvark, a donkey, and a jackal. Modern Egyptologists usually refer to it as the "Set animal", "Typhonic beast", or "sha".
** A few theorize that the head isn't an aardvark, but rather some species of gar or other pointy-faced carnivorous fish; whatever they are, they were the ones that ate Osiris' willie when Set cut him up and threw him in the Nile. It can't just be a fish, though, since statues show it as some sort of emaciated hyena-looking thing.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==