Mix-and-Match Critters: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"I made this half-pony half-monkey monster to please you,''

* [[Our Gryphons Are Different]] - Lion-bird mix

* [[Our Mermaids Are Different]] - Human-fish mix

 

{{examples}}

== Advertising ==

* Big Mixx, the mascot for the now-discontinued cereal of the same name, combined the features of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7mIp4dd89w a wolf, bear, pig, and chicken.]

 

== Anime and Manga ==

 

== Comic Books ==

* [[The DCU]] character B'wana Beast's power is to ''make'' these from two animals.

* [[Marsupilami]], from ''[[Spirou and Fantasio]]'' and the eponymous title, are vaguely monkey-like creatures, oviparous but with a belly button, with a leopard coat and the occasional melanistic individual.

* ''[[Star Wars]]'' has a few. Most notably Hutts, who are slugs with small arms. Also Toydarians, who look like giant mosquitos...sort of. And Jar Jar is a frog with eyestalks.

 

 

== Literature ==

** And in ''The New Discworld Companion'', it's mentioned that many of the animals kept at the College of Heralds are descended from previous generations of heraldic models, who'd gotten rather friendly with one another. And it shows.

* In Mary Stanton's novels, Anor, a demon in horse mythology, is a red horse with feline eyes, claws, and fangs, and an appetite for red meat.

** The cavalcade of "Half-Something" templates combined with the weird sense of humor gamers tend to have ensures that whatever can be spawned with D&D 3+ tools ''will'' be spawned. Whatever ''cannot'' be spawned, thanks to the stated rules, will be spawned anyway—but put in separate cage with the disclaimer "[http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/eo/20060407a it cannot be made because of rules, but if it could, it would be like that]". The clear implication being that nothing but limitations in rules prevents things like the Half-Dragon Werewolf, the Ooze Vampire, or the Angel/Demon.

** A [[Prestige Class]], the Master Transmogrifier in 3.5 can do this, combining the traits of at least two creatures when using a polymorph or shapechange spell, such as combining a squid's tentacles with a dragon.

** The Phelddagrif, mind, is a ''deliberate'' in-joke. Its name is an anagram of {{spoiler|'Garfield, Ph. D.' after the creator of Magic}}. That said, Magic has played with the 'build your own creature from individual parts' concept from time to time—the chimeras from ''Visions'' come to mind, for one.

*** This is actually the point of auras and equipment, but auras have the unfortunate card disadvantage, in that, yes, putting Holy Strength on your Benalish Hero takes its toughness up to three, but a Lightning Bolt (which does three damage) will kill it and your Holy Strength, whereas if you'd played (say) another creature, you'd still have a creature.

* [[Rather Good]] Flash animation [http://www.rathergood.com/zoology "Zoology Dragon"] that is about a Dragon that combines animals... Into cubes.

* A few more gems from [[Deviant ART]]:

** [http://fav.me/d11vggc Humming-Gryphon]

** [http://youkaiyume.deviantart.com/art/Kanga-Lion-48360022 Kanga-lion]

** [http://fav.me/dz9wsr The mighty Llamalion!]

** [http://dragoness77.deviantart.com/art/Abomination-100826184 And the Abomination]{{Dead link}} (Horse, elephant, tiger, rhinoceros, deer, crocodile, parrot, babboon, rabbit and buffalo)

** [http://fav.me/d1wbqqb The Dogbunnyfroglemur]

** [http://fav.me/d23ogv9 Dolphidile (dolphin/crocodile), cockager (tiger/cockatoo) and ralk (rabbit/elk)]{{Dead link}}

** [http://fav.me/d2zzfy1 Crocoraffe (crocodile/giraffe)]

** Hellraptor has made a lot of these, including [http://fav.me/d2kfbtd the Spinosaur-Alien]{{Dead link}} and a [http://fav.me/d34vr8s Tyrannosaurus/spider/scariest parts of everything ever hybrid]{{Dead link}}

** [http://fav.me/dh7sp9 The ever-popular Butterfrog]

** [http://fav.me/d1jbsw7 Macadillo]

** And the glorious [http://fav.me/d2vw0wi Pavotaur]!

** And the magnificent [http://fav.me/d3e3hro Sheenicorn]!

* Some [[UniCreatures]] are hybrids, including Capricious (goat/dragon,) Felic ("cowbunnyhorse") and Diani (deer/wolf.)

* The [[SCP Foundation]] has carefully secured [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-889 this former barn]. It can even create mix-and-match ''plant life''.

* According to a theory by one philosopher of ancient Greece, all animal parts appeared independently and were combined in different possible ways to form whole creatures, but natural selection pruned out all the silly combinations.

** Well, ''most'' of the silly combinations.

* The Okapi; one of the few remaining giraffes that doesn't look like the tall blondes one thinksof when one hears the word. It has the body of a horse, the legs of a zebra, and the horns of a giraffe...

** Speaking of Zebras, lets talk about Equines. Most people are familiar with what you get when a donkey and horse mate, [[wikipedia:Mule|a mule]]. But what happens when you cross-breed a Zebra with a horse or a donkey? You get a [[wikipedia:Zebroid|Zorse]] or [[wikipedia:Zebroid|Zedonk]] respectively.

* The Blind Men and Elephant story from India, where a group of blind men mistook each part of an elephant they touched as belonging to separate things (body is a wall, tusks are a spear, trunk is a snake, ear is a fan, tail is a rope).

* One well-known optical illusion depicts a creature that alternately resembles a duck or a rabbit, depending on whether you think of the long, paired structures on its head as a bill or as ears.

* [[wikipedia:Chalicothere|Chalicotheres]] looked like a pumped up-cross between a horse and a gorilla. Strangely, its closest relatives are the tapir and rhino.

* The extinct glyptodont species, [http://iririv.deviantart.com/art/Doedicurus-clavicaudatus-133480077 Doedicurus clavicaudatus] look like if someone took an ankylosaurus and an armadillo (already two awesome animals by themselves) and combined them into an even more awesome one.

 

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[[Category:Older Than Dirt]]

[[Category:Animal Tropes]]

[[Category:Index of Fictional Creatures]]