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[[Centaurs]] are a specific kind of [[Half-Human Hybrid]] originating in mythology, possessing the upper body (head, torso and arms) of a man and the lower body of a horse (though other animals are common). In the original myths they tend to be a [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil|savage and brutal species]]: most Greek depictions show them living only to drink and... kidnap<ref>read "rape"</ref> [[Mars Needs Women|women]], or to attack travelers with their arrows. One possible [[Doing inIn the Wizard|explanation]] for the original myth is of a non-horse-using culture seeing [[Born in the Saddle|horse riders]] for the first time and misinterpreting what they saw (See [[Real Life]] below).
 
Some modern depictions will have centaurs as [[Proud Scholar Race|wise scholars]]; this version is inspired by the mythological centaur Chiron, who mentored several of the Greek heroes. He was [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|very much atypical, though]]. The other common modern depiction is to make them into a [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Proud Warrior Race]], which at least agrees with the myths that centaurs are violent, even if the whole 'code of honour' thing seems to clash with the Classical centaurs frequent depiction as drunken, dimwitted thugs Since Chiron was one of the few named centaurs, the whole concept of them was eventually [[Flanderized]] into the "wise scholar" and "forest protector" type.
 
Traditional centaurs [[Exposed Extraterrestrials|do not bother with clothing.]]
 
Centaurs are often depicted as a [[One-Gender Race]] composed entirely of males (often [[Mars Needs Women|used as an explanation for all the... kidnap]]) but in fact female centaurs (''Kentaurides'') are also mentioned in some ancient Greek and Roman myths. AccordingLikely the first writer to mention such was Ovid, who in one work, included a scene with a female centaur named Hylonome, who kills herself out of grief when hearing that her mate was killed in the infamous battle with the Lapiths. Ovid claims they were also [[Cute Monster Girl|quite comely]]., but many myths also say they were [[Hard-Drinking Party Girl| just as rowdy and lecherous as the males.]]
 
A few works of fiction include winged centaurs, sometimes as the result of a cross between a centaur and a [[Pegasus]] or a [[Our Gryphons Are Different|Hippogriff]].
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== Advertising ==
* [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like|Old Spice]] advertised their new moisturizing bodywash with commercials and print ads featuring a centaur, to go with the theme of "It's two things."
* Progressive Insurance also used a centaur to emphasize the two-in-one aspect of their bundled insurance in "The Bundler" commercial.
* The 2011 Preakness horse race ran the "Kegasus" ad campaign, featuring what the Baltimore Sun described as "a centaur with a nipple ring, body hair and ample beer gut," "half-man, half-horse and altogether drunk" and "a 'party manimal'" clearly going more for the frat-boy version of the myth.
 
 
== Anime and Manga ==
* Locus in ''[[Berserk]]'' in his [[One-Winged Angel|Apostle form]] is a [https://web.archive.org/web/20090512111421/http://manga.animea.net/berserk-chapter-27-page-142.html faceless metallic centaur]. All the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120123034928/http://manga.animea.net/berserk-chapter-32-page-79.html demon cavalry's] transformations are like this, except [https://web.archive.org/web/20100717210810/http://manga.animea.net/berserk-chapter-27-page-144.html a giant mutated version of their mount's head appears at the waist].
* The forest Spirit in ''[[Princess Mononoke|Mononoke Hime]]'' is at first a normal stag with a creepy human face, but it later turns into a [[Humanoid Abomination]] at the climax of the movie.
* The ''My Life[[Living Withwith Monster Girl]]'' comics had the centaur as a [[Tsundere]].
** In the ''[[Daily Life with Monster Girl]]'' manga, Centorea, or "Cerea" is quite noble and has a [[Knight in Shining Armor]] motif, not to mention is very devoted to the human hero Kimihito. She's also reasonably intelligent, but a lot of her knowledge seems to be [[Occidental Otaku|derived from anime and video games]].
* In the beginning of the Thriller Bark arc of ''[[One Piece]]'', three of the characters are escorted to a mansion in a carriage. One of the horses drawing the carriage is a [[Everything's Deader with Zombies|zombie centaur]].
** Not to mention {{spoiler|the ''actual centaurs'' from Punk Hazard. There's giraffe centaurs, leopard centaurs, alligator centaurs... However, not all of them might be natural centaurs, as one of them was originally introduced as a human}}.
* Centaurmon from ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' and ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'', and Slepimon from ''Digimon Savers''.
* A few Centaurs in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', all of them Monster Cards:
 
** The first Fusion Monster seen in the anime was Kaiba's [https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Rabid_Horseman Rabid Horseman], a fusion of Battle Ox and Mystic Horseman.
** [https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Chiron_the_Mage Chiron the Mage], used by [[Filler Villain|Noah.]]
** [https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Centaur_Mina Centaur Mina], used by Sherri in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]''. (Not a real card.)
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* There's a Belgian [http://www.bedetheque.com/serie-2447-BD-Centaures.html series of comics] by Pierre Seron named appropiately ''Les Centaures'' (''The Centaurs''). It's about a pair of young blue-skinned centaurs that have to wander across the Earth after being expelled from Olympus.
 
== [[Film]] ==
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Fantasia]]'''s Pastorale symphony segment features centaurs and centaurettes, one famous for the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of a black girl centaur polishing the hooves of a white one. The sequence has been cut from every release of ''Fantasia'' since 1960, but stills and occasionally the clip itself can be found online.
* ''[[The Golden Voyage of Sinbad]]'' - near the end Sinbad fights a one-eyed centaur (cyclops plus centaur?).
* ''[[The Fearless Four]]'' has a mechanical cyborg centaur that sings a [[Villain Song]]. In what appears to be a setting that is anything but fantasy or futuristic.
 
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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** Though they are polygamous, so one can, if one squints, perhaps see where a reputation for kidnapping women might have came from. They're also an endangered species because they tend to be paranoid, even of each other. Foaly muses at one point that he should start dating because there are only about fourty left.
* Centaurs in Piers Anthony's ''[[Xanth]]'' series are a race of scholars and researchers who consider magic (which is pervasive in Xanth) to be obscenity. They tend to have a superiority complex like - although not as severe as -[[Our Elves Are Better|elves]], and are excellent archers.
** They are also said to have originated when a couple [[Interspecies Romance|human men and their female horses]] unwittingly drank from a [[Love Potion|love spring]].
** Winged centaurs develop as an additional subspecies of centaurs. Regular centaurs tend to consider them to be dirty half breeds, which is ironic give the [[You Screw One Goat|origin of centaurs.]]
* Centaurs are found in Dante's ''[[The Divine Comedy|Inferno]]''. They are armed with bows and arrows and ensure that the sinners stay in Phlegethon, a river filled with boiling blood.
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* The centaurs in the ''[[Fighting Fantasy]]'' gamebooks are (mostly) intelligent and honorable, if unfriendly and avoiding contact with humans. They believe themselves to be horses who were cursed with a human appearance for angering Hunnynhan the Stallion God.
* In ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]'' by Madeline L'Engle, winged centaur-like creatures lived on the planet Uriel. Mrs. Whatsit transformed into one in order to help show Charles Wallace, Meg, and Calvin the nature of what they were fighting against.
* [[John Varley]]'s [[Gaea Trilogy|Titanides]] are different on several levels. For one thing their colors vary wildly, from normal horsey hues to patterns like checkers or plaid. For another, each one is a multiple [[Hermaphrodite]], with both types of equipment on the horse half plus a third set on the human half. The third set determines the individual's pronoun gender (while all Titanides can give birth, those who can do so [[Truly Single Parent|by parthenogenesis]] are considered female), but even the [[Bishonen|males]] have [[Most Common Superpower|prominent breasts]], causing most humans to [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|mistake them]] for [[One-Gender Race|an all-female race]].
* [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''[[The Obsidian Trilogy]]'' portrays centaurs as somewhat rustic but very intelligent farming people who are creatures of the Light along with unicorns, brownies, elves and others.
* Centaurs in the [[Tortall Universe]] look standard enough, but they are Immortals - creatures that live forever unless they're killed. "Killer centaurs" are just clawed monsters, but the standard variety is variable, with individual alignments. They refuse to be shod, hate crossbows, and like using Immortal feathers in their fletching. It's also shown, in ''Squire'', that they keep horses, call them "slaves", and mount them. Female centaurs attack males if not given gifts, they call killing their own people "culling", and one attempts to purchase Keladry of Mindelan, believing she's stocky enough to "breed well, maybe even bear sons of my kind". Kel doesn't like them.
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* Centaurs from the world of ''[[Garrett P.I.]]'' are somewhat smaller than usual (donkey-sized), and are natives of the war-torn Cantard region. Their tribes served as mercenary scouts for both sides of the war until they deserted to support Glory Mooncalled's renegade republic, which makes them even less popular with TunFaire's human majority than most non-humans in the war's aftermath.
* In [[Diana Wynne Jones]]' novel ''[[The Magids|Deep Secret]]'', centaurs turn out to be very central to the plot, after they first appear roughly halfway through. They're standoffish and proud with a distinctive set of cultural norms, and they require a certain level of ambient magic to survive long, which is why none of them live on Earth anymore, due to universal drift.
** Includes lovely tidbits like the 'human' part's skin matching the horse part's, so that a bay looks fairly normal but a grey resembles a granite statue. (Which gets its head blown up.)
** Also, their culture has a clannish approach to reckoning lineage rather like certain First Peoples. Most notably, a centaur stallion's ''sister's'' child has more claim on him than his own. Since, y'know, it's a lot more indisputable that they're related. [[Serious Business|This fact is ''very'' important to the plot of a novel about an incredibly straight-laced computer programmer in a nice suit who also happens to be a dimension-defending wizard attending a perfectly normal fantasy convention for professional reasons and getting culture shock.]]
*** That fantasy convention was ''not normal''. Point one, it was super awesome beyond reason and I want to attend it. Point two, and largely unconnected, there were like three separate groups of magic-users, several fragments of a god, a heavily bleeding centaur, and an insane Croatian witch-hunter there, and it ended with extradimensional hovercraft troop carriers shooting somebody during the Guest of Honor's speech.
*** It was also being held on some kind of ley-line node that was being so regularly scrambled the convention hotel did not obey the conventional rules of geometry. Everyone knows that at a con it'll probably take seven turns to make a square trying to find your room, but literally?
* The ''[[Well World]]'' series has Dillians and Rhone {{spoiler|(which are basically the same race on two different planets; long story)}} as more-or-less the classic model (albeit with horse ears, and only about the size of big ponies) in the original series. Dillians also appear in the ''Watchers at the Well'' series; there, they're stated to have become a [[Little Bit Beastly|smoother synthesis of hominid and equine]] than the classic centaur. And then, there are the matriarchal Gekir felitaurs.
* Another [[Jack L Chalker|Chalker]] series, ''Changewinds'', has the ba'ahdon, who look more like a cross between a chalicothere and a pygmy elephant from the waist down.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' Justin briefly dated a female centaur.
* Centaurs often appeared in both ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' and ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' and were the most common non-human race. Episodes featuring them usually dealt with [[Fantastic Racism]].
** ''Hercules'' also had the Golden Hind, an all-female race in contrast to the all-male centaurs (but the two are not shown to be related). Golden Hinds have the lower body of deer, golden hooves, and golden horns on their heads. They have a healing ability and their blood can kill a god.
* An episode of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' had [[Chris Parnell]] as a centaur interviewing for a typical office job. He was quite polite and well-mannered, but the boss, played by [[Christopher Walken]], could not get past the fact that he was, indeed, a centaur; asking such questions like "Does centaur pornography exist?" and "If I watch centaur porn with the bottom half blocked out by a sheet of paper, would I be aroused?"
{{quote| '''Centaur:''' Are there going to be any questions regarding my aptitude or employment history?<br />
'''Walken:''' All the remaining questions ... will be centaur related. }}
 
 
== [[Mythology]] ==
* As noted, centaurs were something of a [[Barbarian Tribe]] in [[Greek Mythology]], with the only exception being Chiron, who raised the hero Achilles. A straighter example is Nessus, who before being killed by Heracles' poisoned arrows, told his (Heracles') wife to dip her philandering husband's tunic in the centaur's blood, as this would make him faithful. However, [[Thanatos Gambit|this ended up]] [[Taking You with Me|killing Heracles as the poison ate him alive]].
** The ''Centauromachy'' is another well-known story: having been invited to a wedding and getting drunk, proceed to kidnap the women at the wedding, including the bride. This does not go well [[Captain Obvious|with the groom]], and violence ensues.
** There're also the onocentaur, part man part donkey.
** Some early Greek vase paintings depict a bizarre variant of the centaur: a complete human body, with the rear end of a horse attached to the butt. There's no explanation for [[Fridge Logic|how these could walk, let alone run.]] One vase even depicts what's clearly supposed to be Medusa as a female one of these, with a [[Skull for a Head]], and somehow wearing a dress.
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* Some depictions of Cernunnos, the [[Celtic Mythology|Celtic]] god of fertility are like this; with a deer's body, a man's torso and arms, and a stag head and horns.
* Possibly the Nucklavee from Scottish Mythology, one of the fey folk who appeared as a skinless man fused onto a horse's back.. http://bogleech.com/nuckelavee.html
* Scorpion-people appear in some Akkadian myths, including ''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh]]''.
 
* Islam has one of these too: Buraq, a white horse or mule with wings on its sides, and in some interpretations human head, who transported the Prophet Muḥammad to "farthest mosque" and after a prayer there, to heaven.
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' has quite a few.
** Human/Horse: Centaur
** Human/Lion: Wemic, Lamia (in older editions)
** Drow/Spider: Drider
** Basic D&D had the winged pegataur (pegasus plus+ centaurelf), the chevall (could shapechange between horse and centaur forms), nuckalavee (transparent skin) and the [http://arcona.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/manscorpion.png?w=273&h=300, manscorpion]aka Tlinkallis (Human top half, scorpion lower body).
** The interplanar Zelekhut, a (winged) clockwork centaur, "charged with hunting down those who would deny justice".
*** And humans aren't the only ones combined with scorpions. Since ''[[Eberron]]'''s [[Our Elves Are Better|Drow are different]] in ''[[Eberron]]'', they have the Scorrow.
** Basic D&D had the winged pegataur (pegasus plus centaur), the chevall (could shapechange between horse and centaur forms), nuckalavee (transparent skin) and the [http://arcona.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/manscorpion.png?w=273&h=300 manscorpion] (Human top half, scorpion lower body).
** 1E had the hybsil3' (halftall Hybsil (pixie/brownie/sprite, half+ small antelope).
*** Manscorpions were brought back as "stingers" or "tlincalli" in 3e for the ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' setting.
*** And humans aren't the only ones combined with scorpions. Since ''[[Eberron]]'''s [[Our Elves Are Better|Drow are different]], they have the Scorrow.
** 1E had the hybsil (half pixie/brownie/sprite, half antelope).
** 2E had centaur-kin: dorvesh (dwarf plus donkey), gnoat (gnome plus goat), ha'pony (halfling plus pony) and zebranaur (human plus zebra). And I swear I'm not making this up.
** 2E also had the armanite (demon tanar'ri centaur), manotaur (human plus bull) and [http://tinyurl.com/y98f8lt bariaur] (human/mountain sheep) from the plane of Gladsheim.
** The3E got interplanar Zelekhut, a (winged) clockwork centaur, "charged with hunting down those who would deny justice".
** The [[Spelljammer]] setting had the Monitors, winged centaurs <small>IN SPACE</small>.
** From ''3.5E Monster Manual 3''; the Dracotaur (doesn't have the upper body of a human, but a humanoid torso coming up from the lower body of a wingless dragon) and the Quaraphon (a squat, muscular centaur with lumpy blue skin, elephant's feet, and two mouths and four eyes randomly placed on its face... Don't look up the picture, you don't wanna know.)
** 4E has the Drakkoths, which a weird mixture of crested lizardman upper torso (with [[Non Mammalian Mammaries]] for the females) on the body of some sort of spiny-tailed drake.
** And just in case that's not enough, there's a "tauric" template for 3.5 that can be applied to combine still more critters with humanoids, centaur-style.
** 3rd Edition ''Creature Collection'': The Proud (lion bottom, human trunk, lion head), Marrow Knight (skeletal undead), Sandmasker (scorpion/human).
** ''[[WarhammerForgotten Realms]]'' has Dragon-Ogres andHybsil centigorsin (goat-headedsome centaur)forests.
*** Manscorpions are known as "tlincalli" on ''Maztica'' (continent with its own sub-setting) and are commonly called "stingers" by Faerûnians. In 3e they appear on Faerûn, because Amnians' "discovery" of the continent gave them ideas, so they invaded back via Underdark in 1374 DR.
** ''[[Planescape]]''
*** Bariaur (human torso + mountain sheep body, males got ram's horns) - tend toward [[Chaotic Good]] (males to [[Boisterous Bruiser]] sort), so most live on the plane of Ysgard, but due to wanderlust and toughness they are rather widespread as planewalkers. A PC race.
*** Armanite (demonic pale centaur with horns) - lesser tanar'ri.
*** Buraq (horse with human faces and peacock tails) - [[Neutral Good]] creatures of upper planes who can walk on air and occasionally serve to holy warriors as steeds and advisors.
** ''[[Spelljammer]]''
*** Neogi (spider body + snake neck and head).
*** Dracon (cow-sized brontosaur body + humanoid torso with dragon-like head) - goofy and very social beings who tend to venerate dragons and be absurdly bad at identifying non-scaled races. An optional PC race.
*** Monitors are pegataur (or winged centaur) paladins <small>IN SPACE</small>.
* ''[[Pathfinder]]'' has classic centaurs, several variations of lamia, and girtablillu (scorpion-centaurs inspired by Mesopotamian myth). The ''Legacy of Fire'' adventure path has buraq (winged mules with human faces).
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' has Dragon-Ogres and centigors (goat-headed centaur).
** The [[Screwed by the Network|Chaos Dwarfs]] had Bull Centaurs.
** Both ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' had [http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Zoat Zoats], centaur-shaped lizard creatures.
* ''[[Traveller]]'' had the K'kree (alien centaurs).
* ''[[Shadowrun]]''. The ''Paranormal Animals of Europe'' supplement had centaurs with horse-like faces.
* The [[Rune QuestRuneQuest|Glorantha]] campaign setting had scorpionmen, a human-scorpion hybrid.
* ''The Lexicon (Atlas of the Lost World of Atlantis)''. The Dreaming Wood had the arcitenus (two headed centaurs) and malataurs (half human, half ram).
* ''[[GURPS]]''
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* Zombie centaurs are nothing new when necromancy is involved. For Swords and Sorcery in-universe, magic users specializing in the dead can sew the bodies of different creatures to create one composite one, such as a skeletal undead with the upper torso of a human attached bone to bone to the body of a horse.
* Generic RPG supplement ''Booty and the Beasts''. The Masjenada is a 12 foot long lobster with the torso of a human female sticking out of it. They are powerful magicians and are fairly civilized, not normally attacking strangers.
* ''[[Pathfinder]]'' has classic centaurs, several variations of lamia, and girtablillu (scorpion-centaurs inspired by Mesopotamian myth). The ''Legacy of Fire'' adventure path has buraq (winged mules with human faces).
 
 
== [[Toys]] ==
* ''[[Bionicle]]'''s Artakha Bulls are, for all intents and purposes, biomechanical centaurs with bull heads.
 
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** There are also Magnataurs, a much larger polar creature that are a mix of human and mammoth.
** Dragonspawn are draconian versions, following the same body layout as a centaur.
** Nerubians are sometimes presented as spider versions, although there's some inconsistency about whether they're a humanoid torso stuck on top of a spider-like creature or a more coherent and not particularly centaur-like form. Artwork has shown them as clearly resembling [[Dungeons and& Dragons|driders]] and holding weapons, something no Nerubian in the actual games does.
** And then there's the Pit Lords, humongous demonic mixes of god-knows-what, with thick reptilian hides and tails, bat wings, and spider eyes.
** The male counterparts of the dryads are the Sons of Cenarius, also night elf/stag (with an inexplicable wooden claw replacing one hand).
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* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' series sometimes has annoyingly tough Lionels, lion-human hybrids (or even lion-human-horse, judging by the artwork).
* The ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]]'' series has centaurs in various forms. Centaurs in II are Warlock (evil) aligned archers. Centaurs in III are Rampart (good) aligned wood dwelling spear wielders. Centaurs in IV and V are Might (neutral) aligned spear ''throwers'' who hate magic a la Xanth's centaurs.
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]: [[Fire Emblem: theThe Sacred Stones|The Sacred Stones]]'': the Tarvos and Maeldiun monsters who wield giant axes and bows.
* ''[[Dragaera]]'' has cat-centaurs, who live near the Paths of the Dead. Vlad and Morollan share a [[Not So Different]] moment with them in Taltos.
* The classic ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' series has the robot master Centaur Man.
* The [http://www.imperial-library.info/bestiaries/oblivion_large_dreughland-1.jpg Land Dreugh]{{Dead link}} in ''[[Elder Scrolls]] 4''.
** ''[[The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall|Daggerfall]]'' has vanilla centaurs.
* The Centaurians from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', of which Motaro is a member, have whiplike scorpionish tails and a set of nasty-looking horns. They are the natural enemies of the [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous]] Shokan race.
* ''[[Quest for Glory]]'' has centaurs which are perfectly civilized, but it also features cheetaurs, an all black feline with a humanoid torso topped with feline head. They later added liontaur, which were much like the cheetaur but with lions, though they were actually civilized, ruling a very Egypt-inspired city.
* In ''[[Fallout]]'', centaurs are freakish mutant creatures with whiplike tongues.
** To elaborate, they are what you get when you dip multiple people and animals in a vat of FEV for awhile. As one can imagine, they are also epitomes of [[Body Horror]].
* The first ''[[God of War]]'', as well as the third, has you kill a number of these. They match the Greek tradition, and are [[Giant Mook|about a rung below miniboss]].
* ''[[Monster Rancher]]''. They do not look human at all.
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* The ''[[Shining Force]]'' series featured Centaurs as a major player race. They act as the Knights standard to most Strategy RPGs, being fast and heavy-hitting troops. Most party members are friendly, and the personalities are varied, though they have a reputation for arrogance among the common folk. The enemy armies use ''Pegasus'' Centaurs, as well as demonic ones with no heads.
* ''[[Shadow Bane]]'' featured them as a civilized playable race.
* In keeping with the "savage monsters" interpretation of the creature type, various ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games have centaurs and centaur-like creatures as [[Mook|Mooks]]s. If it has armor, it has a roughly 90% chance of being given a name like "[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Centaurion]]."
* Dora, the centaur girl from [[Golden Axe]]: Revenge of Death Adder. When mounting other creatures, she turns her lower body into that of a human woman.
* The final boss of [[Sin and Punishment 2]] turns into a huge robot centaur with a lance for the final battle.
 
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* ‘Taurs in ''[[At Arm's Length (webcomic)|At Arms Length]]'' are not a natural species, but rather beings that have been transformed. Most are mortals used for slave labor or victims of magical curses.
* ''[[Erfworld]]'' ups the ante with Unipegataurs; [[Unicorn|horned]], [[Pegasus|winged]] centaurs.
* Equius' [[Raised by Wolves|lusus]] in [[Homestuck]] is a male centaur-shaped creature... [[Squick|With cow udders.]]
 
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Forest Tales]]'' has several centauroid races.
* ''[[A Very Potter Musical|A Very Potter Sequel]]'' features Firenze as a parody of the "wise and noble" type of centaur. (The costume is half of a horse plushie sewn to the back of the actor's pants.)
* The [http://valley-of-siyyon.deviantart.com/ Valley of Siyyon] is a [[Deviant ART]]-based shared world populated entirely by centaurs. The twist is that the nonhuman half can be "any species of your choosing" and everyone must choose a unique species. This results in the population of Siyyon including [http://pokemaniette013.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2t7s21 a Kangaroo-taur], [http://wingsgirl.deviantart.com/#/d2urmr2 an Armadillo-taur], [http://gwennafran.deviantart.com/art/Oko-Character-Sheet-175470436 Poison Dart Frog-taur], [http://konjiki-kitsune.deviantart.com/art/Valley-of-Siyyon-Kilah-170464474 Cassowary-taur]{{Dead link}}, ''[http://readytoloseitall.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2upgyf Sea Slug-taur]'' Ah, Deviant Art...
* The Mantidae http://iririv.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2i129c, drawn by IRIRIV on deviant art have only a superficial resemblance to mythical centaurs. In his description, they are actually a type of sentient bug that evolved from an era where birds didn't exist and insects became bigger and stronger until they changed into the first neovertebrates .
* The Nuckelavee from volume 4 of ''[[RWBY]]''. Based on a monster from Scottish folklore, it was immense an Grimm shaped like a giant horse plus rider, except it was all one creature.
 
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* One "Treehouse of Horror" episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' involved Ned Flanders turning into a cow-centaur.
** Another "Treehouse" episode involved Lisa first becoming a [[Fauns and Satyrs|satyr]], and later on a centaur.
* In Disney's [[Hercules (Disney1997 film)||Hercules]], the title character battles one when first meeting Meg. Centaurs also appear in certain episodes of the animated series.
* The very first villain from ''[[My Little Pony]]'' was a demonic centaur named Tirac, who sought to bring about [[The Night That Never Ends]] (in fact, he's the [[Trope Namer]]). The Little Ponies' human ally Megan killed him with the Rainbow of Light.
 
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
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