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* Chimairamon of ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' is based on the mythical chimera, and it shows. Several other species fall under this on a less extreme scale, with other obvious ones generally the product of a [[Fusion Dance]].
* All the ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' series and spinoffs contain Ryo-Ohki, a cat-rabbit hybrid, often referred to as a "cabbit". ''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP]]'' also contains a second cabbit, named Fuku. ''[[Alternate Universe|Tenchi Universe]]'' has Ken-Ohki, a male cabbit who ends up as Ryo-Ohki's boyfriend.
* In ''[[Ranma One Half½]]'', Jusenkyo has a spring called "Niuhomanmaolenniichuan" ([[Spell My Name with an "S"|or variations thereof]]), which translates as "Spring of Drowned Yeti Riding Ox While Carrying Crane And Eel" and is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. Anyone who falls into this spring gains an [[One-Winged Angel|alternate form]] that is considered exceptionally formidable. In essence, it's a [[Attack of the 50 -Foot Whatever|giant]] minotaur (legs and head of an ox, body and arms of a yeti) with an eel growing from its spine to form a tail and a tiny set of crane wings sprouting from its shoulders. It's [[Super Strength|inhumanly strong]], [[Lightning Bruiser|surprisingly quick]], [[Made of Iron|massively tough]], and capable of flight. Needless to say, the one character who has this spring considers himself [[Cursed with Awesome]] and has no desire to remove it. In fact, possibly because this form was created by such a mixed up spring, he later manages to assimilate a Spring of Drowned Octopus curse, giving himself [[Combat Tentacles]] and the ability to spray ink from his fingers. ([[Fridge Logic|Though it still begs the question of how these springs can exist, considering the inherent difficulty in drowning an octopus and/or an eel]].)
** [[Fridge Brilliance|Freshwater spring, saltwater sealife]].
* Plenty of ''[[Berserk]]'''s Apostles and other monsters can be described as these, ranging from Zodd (Bull/tiger/ape) to the ogres (giant humanoids with sperm whale snouts and elephant tusks) to the trolls (Rat/monkey/pig). Then there's the Pisacha, they look like those sea monsters from old sea maps, with elephant trunks, made by mutating a whale.
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* ''[[Dungeon of Doom]]'' gives us Alligogs (alligator-frogs) and Lizzogs (lizard-frogs).
* The ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series features mole-bats, or ''moguri'', known in English as Moogles. The fact that they end up looking more like teddy bears than anything else can be chalked up to the [[Rule of Cute]].
* [[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance|In]] [[Final Fantasy XII|Ivalice]], [[Final Fantasy Tactics a 2A2|though]], moogles tend to look more like a [[Everythings Better With Bunnies|half-bunny]] half-bat.
* ''[[Warcraft]]'' games contain many mythological mix and match critters, such as gryphons, hippogryphs and chimaeras. Then there are wyverns, which are lions with batlike wings and scorpion tails, magnataurs (essentially a wooly mammoth centaur) and zhevras(zebras with a small horn on their forehead). There's also creatures that look mostly like real-world ones but with few parts added, like giraffes with gazelle-style horns and crocolisks (6-legged crocodiles).
** Always found it odd that the ''Warcraft'' games call those flying lion-scorpion beings wyverns when they are quite clearly ''manticores''.
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