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{{trope}}
[[File:lizardmenskinks-1.jpg|link=Warhammer Fantasy Battle|frame| Apparently, lizards are [[Mayincatec]].]]
Almost every [[Standard Fantasy Setting]] with [[Loads and Loads of Races]] is bound to to have one group of these guys. A civilized or semi-civilized race of humanoid lizards, they vary from being [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|scaly humans]] to [[Humanoid Animals|large bipedal lizards]] to [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|small dinosaurs]] and everything in-between. Sadly, they are [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|almost always one of the bad guys]], and even when not [[Exclusively Evil]], they usually end up as antagonists.
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Most Reptilian Humanoids fall somewhere into this category, with the notable exception of lamias, nagas, and extraterrestrial reptiles, which generally fall under [[Snake People|their own]] [[The Reptilians|tropes]].
Lizard folk are generally divided into two types, the large muscled and brutish type, often crocodilian in appearance, and the smaller thieving gecko-like type, usually the more sympathetic of the two. Whenever Snake People are given hind legs, they are usually just '''Lizard Folk''' with fangs. If given a culture or civilization expect them to live in either a swamp or desert, be fairly primitive and tribal, and use various larger reptiles as [[Horse of a Different Color|beasts of burden]].
Lizard folk are often depicted as a very ancient race, far older than humanity. In this case they might be considerably more civilized, or rather they were in the past but are now a dying, degenerate fragment of a once mighty civilization.
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Along with [[Catfolk]], Lizard Folk are one of the most common types of [[Petting Zoo People|anthropomophic beast-men]]. Also common in both [[Science Fiction|sci-fi]] [[Space Opera]] and [[Oral Tradition|mythology]]. Their [[Sci Fi Counterpart]] are [[The Reptilians]].
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* ''[[Tower of God]]'': There are three kinds of
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Lizardmen from ''[[The Slayers]]'' setting are well-loved by many of the show's villains as [[Mooks]].▼
▲* [[Tower of God]]: There are three kinds of [[Lizard Folk]] in the Tower so far: Anak's species, green humans with stout tails as long as their legs, Rak's species, giant, bipedal alligators with clawed hands, scales and a humanoid torso so that they look similar to Godzilla and Lebin's kind, basically humans with deep-slitted cheeks and reptilian fangs.
▲* Lizardmen from [[The Slayers]] setting are well-loved by many of the show's villains as [[Mooks]].
* The progagonist from ''[[Dorohedoro]]'' Kaiman was once a normal guy that was turned into a lizard man through a spell, and spends a good part of the series chasing the person that transformed him into this.
* ''[[Digimon]]'' has more than a few of these, usually falling under the "Dragon Man" classification. Notable examples include WarGreymon from ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', and OmegaShoutmon from ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]].'' This being digimon, they tend to overlap with [[Our Dragons Are Different]], and... well, a whole lot of other themes, frankly.
== Comic Books ==▼
* The Grith, from ''[[Xenozoic Tales]]''.
* [[Spider-Man]] villain the Lizard, [[Involuntary Shapeshifting|sometimes]].
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* [[Cross Gen]] gives us the Saurians, notable among other things for being able to acquire traits and knowledge from the creatures they eat, and for having ridiculously hot women.
== [[Fan
* The Family from the ''[[Worm]]/[[Luna Varga]]'' crossover fic ''[[Taylor Varga]]'' are an extraterrestrial race of lizard people who have been living deep under the Atlantic Ocean for eons (and who had at least one run-in with [[H.P. Lovecraft]] a century ago), but of late have started appearing in Brockton Bay. (At least that's what they want people to believe. The truth is somewhat more complicated and probably ''less'' believable.)
* ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros]].'' presents [[Another Dimension]] where [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]] have survived and evolved into a species that outwardly resemble humans. There are still a handful on dinosaurs that haven't fully evolved, namely Yoshi.▼
'''[[Big Bad|Koopa]]:''' [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] -- the lizard king, thank you very much. }}▼
== [[Literature]] ==
* The Grik in [[Taylor Anderson]]'s [[Alternate History]] ''Destroyermen'' series, descended from raptors according to the [[Word of God]].
* The Hork-Bajir in ''[[Animorphs]]'' were large, bladed, dinosaur like herbivores.
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* [[Andre Norton]] examples:
** The stand-alone short story "The Gifts of Asti" featured [[Non-Human Sidekick]] Lur, a good guy example; he doesn't walk upright, and speaks only through [[Psychic Powers|telepathy]].
** ''[[Quag Keep]]'', which is set in the ''[[Dungeons
** Norton's Zacathans turn this trope upside down and inside out. Yes, they're reptiles. They're also highly intelligent, ''extremely'' civilized, and tend to be top-level Intelligentsia (having very long lifespans gives them '''lots''' of time to learn a lot of stuff). And they're still outstanding fighters if they have to be, due to reptile hide and Very. Long. Teeth. (Oh yes, and the highest known psi rating in the galaxy, which they keep a Deep Dark Secret.)
* Tamora Pierce's ''[[Tortall]]'' series has basilisks, which are bipedal, 7-foot tall, slender, lizard-like immortals that use [[Sssssnaketalk]], speak most mortal languages, and can turn enemies to stone with a spell. Interestingly, the only basilisk seen in the series, Tkaa, is a good guy.
* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' has (in ''[[
** Given that other races considered absent from the Disc, namely orcs and goblins, have made a recent return, it may turn out those were just the last two stupid ones.
* Richard K. Morgan's ''[[The Steel Remains]]'' frequently refers to a great war that happened before the book itself is set, between the forces of humanity and their allies against the aquatic, lizard-like "Scaled Folk".
* The Race of [[Harry Turtledove]]'s ''[[Worldwar]]'' series are a species of imperialistic lizards who rule over an interstellar, multi-species empire. Their attempt at conquering and colonizing the Earth gives them quite the culture shock.
** We give them even more of a culture shock in 'Homeward Bound' when we first send a slower-than-light ship to their world, and then a faster-than-light one.
* The waterkin in ''[[Brave Story]],'' as well as its attendant manga, anime, and video game.
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* ''[[Anonymous Rex]]'' had some dinosaurs surviving their mass extinction. They adapted to human society by disguising themselves as people.
* The Reptile Forces in ''[[The Ancestral Trail]]'' includes both crocodilian lizardmen and actual crocodiles; unusually, they're the good guys (OK, so they start off under [[Big Bad|The Evil One's]] control, but so does everybody else). The Cyber Dimension has a group of peaceful, highly cultured lizardfolk who are oppressed by Goffal and Pixar.
* In the ''[[RCN Series]]'' novel ''Some Golden Harbor'', occasionally [[Sssssnaketalk|sssssnake talking]] reptilian alien Fallert is on Daniel and Adele's
* The ''[[Dragonlance]]'' universe has Draconians. They start off [[Exclusively Evil]], and usually appear as some variety of [[Mooks]] (either regular or [[Elite Mook|improved]], depending on the story), but the depictions have become more nuanced over time. The most notable subversion is Kang and his band of engineers, who while starting out as evil (in the alignment sense) are nonetheless sympathetic, likable, and relatively honorable characters (they eventually ensure their race's future, found a city, and if a scene at the end of the War of Souls trilogy is anything to go by, pull a [[Heel Face Turn]] on {{spoiler|Takhisis}}).
* A minor character in ''[[Duel of Sorcery Trilogy|Moonscatter]]'' is "scaled like a viper and green as the new leaves of spring," and has a voice that's described as "[[Sssssnaketalk|harsh and inhuman]]." The implication, however, is that he ''looks'' very human otherwise. ([[Petting Zoo People|Petting Zoo Lizardman]]?)
* The ''[[Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'' series feature the K'Chain Che'Malle. They destroyed themselves warring with the Short-tails, the K'Chain Nah'ruk, which [[Hoist by His Own Petard|they themselves created]]. Mostly a fallen and forgotten civilization, they mostly appear as [[Our Zombies Are Different|powerful zombies]] and [[Landmark of Lore|large ruins]]. A few living individuals are encountered, one having been imprisoned in an [[Ancient Tomb]] and now quite mad, two others [[Elite Mook|aiding]] a human who encountered them "in another land". The K'Chain Che'Malle seems to have organized themselves around [[Hive Queen|Matrons]] in a manner similar to ants, the Nah'ruk were independent.
* The Mwellrets of [[Terry Brooks]]' ''[[Shannara]]'' series. They're actually a subspecies of [[All Trolls Are Different|Troll]], that survived in the swamps instead of the northern mountains. They have hypnotic eyes, limited control of magic, and a penchant for [[Fantastic Racism]]. One of the few species that has so far been [[Exclusively Evil]].
* The Chingers of ''[[Bill the Galactic Hero]]'' are a peaceful race of four-armed space lizards. Not that this stops the galactic empire from making [[Humans Are
* The rakoshi from F. Paul Wilson's ''[[Repairman Jack|The Tomb]]'' hatch out of eggs and are described in highly reptilian terms, although they don't have scales.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* The [[:File:StarTrek-Gorn.jpg|Gorns]] and Reptilian Xindi of ''[[Star Trek]]'' must qualify, as do Cardassians to a lesser extent.▼
▲* Lissard, Lord Fears henchman in later seasons of ''[[Knightmare]]''.
▲* The Gorns and Reptilian Xindi of ''[[Star Trek]]'' must qualify, as do Cardassians to a lesser extent.
▲* And the Silurians from ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
* The Sleestak of ''[[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Land of the Lost]]''.
* The Lizardmen, led by Tribune, from ''[[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World|Sir Arthur Conan Doyles the Lost World]]''.
* The Saurians in ''[[Buck Rogers in
* The Visitors from ''[[V (TV series)|V]]'' are reptiles who disguise themselves as humans. They’re not universally evil, though. For example, Willie is definitely a good guy.
* In the earliest scripts for [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|the original ''Battlestar Galactica'']] (and the [[Tie-in Novel]] adapted from them) the Cylons were a race of Lizard Folk who made extensive use of robotic troops. ([[Executive Meddling]] forced the change to all-robots so [[Never Say "Die"|the good guys would never actually ''kill'' a living being]].)
▲== Film ==
▲* ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros]].'' presents [[Another Dimension]] where [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]] have survived and evolved into a species that outwardly resemble humans. There are still a handful on dinosaurs that haven't fully evolved, namely Yoshi.
▲{{quote|'''[[The Hero|Mario]]:''' What single-cell organism did ''you'' evolve from?<br />
▲'''[[Big Bad|Koopa]]:''' [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] -- the lizard king, thank you very much. }}
== Tabletop Games ==▼
* Gagagigo and his subsequent forms in
* The
** In the same series are the smaller draconic (in more recent editions) Kobolds, and the similar-in-appearance but more hostile Troglodytes.
** There's also the Yuan-ti, snake people. Pureblood versions look like people with scales and reptile like eyes. And ophidians, who often serve them or nagas.▼
** ''[[Mystara]]''
** The ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has the asabis (desert dwelling sort who eat humans) and pterafolk (humanoid pterodactyls) and firenewts. Also, there are saurials (four different species in a social symbiosis), but they were explicitly said to arrive from another world via gates - some were enslaved by a local rotten god, others as emigrants (in Malatra).
▲** There's also the Yuan-ti, snake people. Pureblood versions look like people with scales and reptile like eyes.
** ''[[Dragonlance]]'' has draconians, as mentioned above.
** ''[[Planescape]]'' has salamanders, firenewts again, and slaad, though the latter are more of frog-people.
** Think we're done with lizardmen/folk, kobolds, trogloydytes, saurials, cay-men, gator men, chameleon men, yuan-ti and draconians? We're just getting started! There's about '''TEN''' more types of lizard men described in various other sourcebooks. ''Monster Manual II's'' got "braxats", ''Monsters of Faerun's'' got the "asheratis", "dragonkin" (''another'' humanoid dragon race), "firenewts" and the "pterafolk" (humanoid pterodactyls); the ''Fiend Folio's'' got the "khaastas", "ophidians" and "sarkrith"; the ''Miniatures Handbook'' has got "khumats" (humanoid crocodiles) and "scaled stalkers", ''Races of the Dragon'' and 4th Edition have got the "dragonborn" (yet ''another'' humanoid dragon race)... I mean... holy shit, what's wrong with just lizardfolk?!▼
** ''[[Spelljammer]]'' has the common variety plus Hurwaeti and Dracons (dragon-worshipping reptilian centaurs) as PC races, plus syllix (aggressive [[Explosive Breeder]]s with some impressive gadgetry and little to no magic) and several sentient "monsters".
** And then, of course, someone had to submit a ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' article with seven more species (''Dragon's Bestiary: The Lizard Folk'' in #268).
▲** Think we're done with lizardmen/folk, kobolds, trogloydytes, saurials, cay-men, gator men, chameleon men, yuan-ti and draconians? We're just getting started! There's about '''TEN''' more types of lizard men described in various other sourcebooks. ''Monster Manual II's'' got "braxats", ''Monsters of Faerun's'' got the "asheratis", "dragonkin" (''another'' humanoid dragon race)
*** Ah, but normal lizardfolk can't drool acid into a vial to make an acid grenade. Think of the possibilities! (this is the ''canon'' explanation in the Forgotten Realms, where almost all the above races where created by the Sarrukh, the Reptilian [[Precursor|Creator Race]], for one purpose or the other)
*** On the subject of dragonborn, Lizardfolk don't breath devastating bursts of energy. And besides, [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons|Dragons are cool]].
* Lizardmen of ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' fantasy give this race a complete army and civilization (The [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] of [[Mayincatec|various Mesoamerican civilizations]], at that). Their leaders are a priestly [[Fantastic Caste System|caste]] of magic using Frog Folk - the Slann, who are the most ancient surviving civilization in the Warhammer setting. Earlier editions of the game had it that the Slann are a degenerate remnant of a race of [[Ancient Astronauts]], though this is no longer canon. This setting is the [[Trope Maker]] for [[Mayincatec]]
** Current cannon is that the Slann were engineered as the favoured servents to the [[Ancient Astronauts]] ... and that their culture is slowly degenerating and being lost.
** Note also that they are sided with order rather than destruction and therefore one of few examples of lizardmen on the good side.
** Loxatl fit the bill in ''[[Warhammer
** The [[Precursors|Old Ones]], ubiquitous in the backstories of both games, are described as being reptilian and/or amphibian.
** Technically the Lizardmen are four races: The aforementioned Slanns; the Skinks, small and skittish skirmishers and wizards; the [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|Saurus]], [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|strong, ruthless and single-minded warriors]]; and the Kroxigor, [[Smash Mook|huge, strong]], [[Dumb Muscle|not overly bright]] saurians who work both as heavy support fighters and manual labour.
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*** Interestingly they are described as having a very different psychology to the 'mammal' races, being cold bloodedly slow to emotion but implacable once roused. This combined with their continual obedience to the plans of the old ones moves them into [[Blue and Orange Morality|blue and orange morality territory.]]
* ''[[Rifts]]'' has a number of lizard-like races, mainly the plain old Lizardmen, Tautons (Crocodile-men with scorpion tails that worship Egyptian Gods), Gromek, and others. In South America, a peaceful collection of Lizardman tribes was taken over by an organization of evil Dragons who have set up their own religion with Dragons as gods, and have built their own city for the various reptilian races. The Lizardmen, who would rather return to their simple lives along the (greatly-expanded) Amazon are growing increasingly dissatisfied with this arrangement.
* The Viashino creature types in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'', which can come in either the [https://web.archive.org/web/20090403023740/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=175064 large and brutish] or [
* ''[[Earthdawn]]'' has the T'skrang, a river-dwelling race of water-loving [[swashbuckler]]s - flamboyant pirates and story-spinners.
* The Dragon Kings from ''[[Exalted]]'' are highly-advanced immortal, perfectly reincarnating humanoid reptiles who evolved from bestial savagery, make use of plant and mineral technology, use disciplined elemental powers, and ruled the world long ago. Who occasionally breath fire.
* From fan-made ''[[Genius: The Transgression]]'', the original Lemurians.
* Saurans and sauruds from ''[[Talislanta]]'' follow the trope almost perfectly, right down to having a faster (saurans) and a heftier (sauruds) variety. They do live in volcanic hill country rather than swamps or deserts, though, and are skilled metalworkers.
* The ''[[GURPS]]'' fantasy setting of ''Banestorm'' includes the Reptile Men, a race of reptile people originally from the Desert World of Gabrook.
** ''[[GURPS]]'' Infinite Worlds includes Lizardia, a parallel universe in which humans don't exist and "neo-troodons" (the descendants of a small theropod dinosaur similar to a velociraptor) take their place. (Neo-troodons, by the way, avert the usual stereotype by being no more [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|abhorrent]] than humans.) What makes Lizardia ''really'' weird is that they have the same history as most human-occupied Earths.
== Video Games ==▼
* ''MARDEK RPG: Chapter 3'' features the Reptoids. They are actually [[Lawful Neutral]], calm and meditative. They have a city (Xantusia) in the Sandflow Caves, and their chief Sslen'ck actually joins your party and becomes playable. Unfortunately, he leaves the city in the hands of his "trusted adviser", [[Obviously Evil|Blatantly]] [[Evil Chancellor]].
* The Argonians of
** Not just from the Dunmer. The Argonians suffered considerable amounts of prejudice and demonization from other races and Tamriel's older empires in the past. Of course, racial relationships towards them have improved since the rise of the Septim empire.
*** In fact it was so bad that they had to make [[Tyke Bomb|tyke bombs]] called Shadow Scales who are some of the deadliest assassins in the Empire
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* Bangaa in (most of) the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games set in Ivalice.
** Don't ''ever'' call a Bangaa a lizard though. They take this very seriously.
* Only in ''[[Tactics Ogre]]'' can Lizardmen be found in the ''[[Ogre Battle]]'' series. While they can be enemies, they can just as easily be members of your army, too. They aren't too bad of soldiers, either.
* The Slithzerikai in the ''[[Avernum]]'' series are the bipedal crocodile type. However, there are both savage slith tribes and "civilized" sliths who have integrated into Avernite society. They're also a PC race from game 2 onwards.
* Lizardmen are a playable race in the later ''[[Wizardry]]'' games. They're strong, tough, fast, resistant to acid, resistant to psionics... and comparing their intelligence to a sack of potatoes would be a grave [[Insult to Rocks|insult to the spuds]].
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*** Going against the popular [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]] trope, Reptile's probobly the closest thing Mortal Kombat has to a sympathetic villain, and Khameleon's good.
* The ''[[Dungeon Siege]]'' expansion pack Legends of Aranna featured the Zaurask which fit the tribal muscled variety.
* ''[[EverQuest]]'' brings us the Iksar. As worshipers of a god of fear, they are pretty much [[Exclusively Evil]] personified. And you get to play as them.
** Although EQ2 describes them as the orderly, structured evil to the dark elves' chaotic type. Considering the societies of Cabilis and Neriak respectively, this is not an unfair comparison.
* The main adversaries of the original ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' campaign turn out to be a bunch of these coming out of hibernation they used to survive an ice age.
** Also in several other D&D-Verse games, such as ''Temple of Elemental Evil'', and ''Icewind Dale'' (I and II).
* The MMO Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted features the Sslik as a playable race. Apart from their hermaphrodite natures they tick all the tribal, muscled trope boxes.
* [[Meido|Fiona's]] ending in ''[[Arcana Heart]]'' shows a Lizard folk swordsman helping her in her quest to return to the human world.
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* ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' had the caveman of [[One Million BC|65 million BC]] battling Reptites, humanoid, sapient dinosaurs. For the most part, the humans were losing the evolutionary war, but the [[Colony Drop|arrival]] of a starfaring planetary parasite named Lavos doomed the Reptites to extinction and ensured humanity's dominance. ''[[Chrono Cross]]'' offers us a glimpse of what the Reptites would have become - an advanced species called Dragonians who would master both technology and magic, while living in harmony with nature. Unfortunately for the Reptites, the future changed.
* Being a series with a cast composed almost entirely of [[Petting Zoo People]], ''[[Star Fox]]'' naturally has some anthropomorphic reptiles, the most notable of them being Leon of team Star Wolf.
* ''[[Battle for Wesnoth]]'' has the Saurians and the Drakes (both members of the same faction). The former are your average scaled semi-humanoids, the latter mini-dragons.
* The ''Zelda'' series has a race of humanoid lizard monsters called Lizalfos, presumably a mistranslation or corruption of "lizard folk".
** Also the related variants Dinolfos (''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* ''Bloodstone'', a somewhat obscure CRPG which used the Magic Candle III engine, had the Tlengle. Big, scaly, strong, usually red. But they were also known for being skilled tailors, and the playable Tlengle would often crack terrible jokes. Bloodstone also had the Tlatol, primitive and violent evolutionary cousins to the Tlengle.
* A minor enemy in some of the
* The Chamachies from ''[[Ascendancy]]'' are Lizardfolk Centaurs. Very smart Lizardfolk Centaurs.
* The Kremlings in the ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' series.
* ''[[Scaler]]'' has the main character Bobby/Scaler {{spoiler|and his dad, Leon}} turned into this. Although Scaler and [[Older Sidekick|Leon]] are generally heroic, there are several other
* The genetically engineered chameleon-based Deathclaws in the ''[[Fallout]]'' series. Although the typical Deathclaw is more like a vicious animal that
* The Bedokaan of ''[[Arcanum]]'' are large, primitive and live in a swamp. They're not really evil, but have a very different psychology than "warmbloods". The conflict with them can be resolved peacefully, and one of them may join the party.
* The Lizardmen of ''[[Armies of Exigo]]'' are an intelligent race who supply the Beast hordes with Striders (fast-moving, dinosaur-mounted, axe-throwing cavalry) and Warlocks (astrologer-type spellcasters). They're far more cultured than their [[Beast Man]] allies, and seem to have a society built on slavery and reading the stars.
* Shra from ''[[The Reconstruction]]'' are humanoid lizards with a [[Healing Factor]], in some cases anatomy-induced [[Snake Talk]] and tendencies of following whoever they consider the strongest. The ones living in human civilization are mostly enslaved, while most free Shra live anachronistically in jungle tribes. The major exceptions are the violent, fanatic Si'Shra and the pacifistic Sikohlon order.
* ''[[X-Com]]: Terror From the Deep'' has two examples: the Gillmen and the Tasoths. The Gillmen are an evolutionary offshoot of the human race that had, presumably, went extinct at the time mammals became dominant, but were somehow preserved and enslaved by the aliens. The Tasoths are creatures that look like lizardmen, but are in fact organic androids manufactured by the aliens.
* [[Mooks|Frill Lizards]] in ''[[Ty the Tasmanian Tiger]]'', along with their beefed-up counterparts, [[Elite Mooks|Über Frills]].
* Lizardmen were introduced to the ''[[Might and Magic]]'' verse with [[Heroes of Might and Magic]] III's Fortress town. They were a minor antagonist (annexing some border-regions of Erathia), but not evil (not doing anything more evil than, well, taking advantage of the chaos to annex some border-regions). Two lizardmen cultures were shown before the world blew up: Tatalia (represented by Heroes' Fortress town), a gnoll-lizardman-human swamp state currently ruled by a lizardman king, and the slightly less important Dagger Wound Islands lizardmen, who live on a set of islands that also houses a mysterious and ancient temple infested with various snake-critters...
* Lizardmen show up one of the enemy types in ''[[Tales of Legendia]]''. There are some rather silly variants, like one donning a baker costume that tries to give you a [[Baguette Beatdown]], and [[Smashing Watermelons|a blindfolded, stick wielding one in a swimsuit who's accompanied by a killer watermelon]].
▲== Web Comics ==
* Being a [[Standard Fantasy Setting]], there are Lizardfolk in the Fantasy subset of ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]''. We don't see much of the civilization though, the most we know is that Draak is serving as a mercenary to support his home. He's also [[Eloquent in My Native Tongue|pretty smart and articulate]], [[Hulk Speak|just not in common]].
* The Tsung Dao from ''[[Harkovast]]'' are a peaceful race of lizard-folk, making them a subversion of this trope, but there is one [https://web.archive.org/web/20100822095329/http://www.drunkduck.com/Harkovast/index.php?p=506966 exception...]
* The Urrt of ''[[The Challenges of Zona]]''
* The Galapados from ''[[Terinu]]'', justified in that they were genetically engineered from Galapagos Lava Lizards to serve as cannon fodder for the [[Big Bad]].
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' is a ''[[Dungeons
** The prequel book Start of Darkness also featured a tribe of swamp-dwelling lizardfolk.
* ''[[The Mansion of E]]'' has (cave-dwelling) Troglodytes and (forest-dwelling) Saurs.
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* ''[[Tales of MU]]'' has a few Lizardfolk students, most prominently "[[The Unpronounceable|Hissy]]". They aren't evil, though they are in the wrong clique for the [[Unreliable Narrator]] to think much of them.
==
* The
▲* The Mipedian's in ''[[Chaotic]]'' are actually fairly decent and honorable Lizard Folk, compared to the other tribes in the setting. They're desert dwelling, have wise members, and generally aren't a given episode's aggressor's, having even been the subject of at least one episode proving false [[Beauty Equals Goodness]] and [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]. Peyton is actually on very good terms with the entire tribe (and possibly some of the insectoid Danian's as well), more so than Tom Kaz and Sara with the Overworlders, Underworlders, and Danians respectively.
* The ''[[Justice League]]'' episode "Eclipsed" has the Ophidians, who fought humanity "before cities, before writing", and whose spirits now form [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]. They're clearly meant as an [[Alternate Company Equivalent]] of [[Conan the Barbarian|Conan]]'s Serpent Men.
* The original 1980s ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'' cartoon occasionally featured Lizard Man, a friendly and helpful character, though not much of a fighter. Good for getting into a second-story window, though.
* ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' series has the ''Lizards'', led by Slithe.
* Chase Young from ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'', who actually can turn into a lizard man.
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* The field of cryptozoology has its share of reptilian humanoids, including the [[wikipedia:Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp|Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp]] and the [[wikipedia:Loveland Frog|Loveland Frog]]. The [[wikipedia:Thetis lake monster|Thetis Lake Monster]] was described as such, however, one of the witnesses has come forward and said that the encounter was a hoax.
* In the 2008 Minnesota Senate recount, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130604003055/http://blog.rifftrax.com/2008/11/21/dont-blame-me-i-voted-for-lizard-people/ one of the ballots reviewed contained a write-in vote for "Lizard People" in every race.]
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[[Category:Not Quite Human]]
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