Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Difference between revisions

** Played straight with the ''males'' of the Brotherhood of the Badoon. Somehow, though, [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism|the females of the race are neither reptilian nor evil]].

* A lot of [[Jungle Princess]] comics have our heroines fighting savage snakes and carnivorous crocodiles.

* The Lizard League, ''[[Invincible]]'''s [[Alternate Company Equivalent]] to the Serpent Society.

* Teknophage from ''[[Mr. Hero the Newmatic Man]]'' is an obvious one. A [[Magnificent Bastard]], as well as [[Chessmaster]] as the ruler of many multiverses, including his home planet Kalighoul.

* They aren't reptiles, but while we're on the subject of horror movies that assume we think crawling, <s> scaly,</s> swamp-dwelling animals are inherently scary: ''[[Film/Frogs|Frogs]]''. Yes, ''Frogs''. (And the frogs in question aren't the poisonous or gigantic variety, either.) Funny thing is, the frogs themselves don't do anything. They just stand around being ominous. All of the mayhem and murder is done by alligators, moccasins, snapping turtles, and anoles (the last lock a guy in a greenhouse and cause a chemical reaction that asphyxiates the guy with vapors).

* In his original appearance, [[Godzilla]] was portrayed as a walking nuclear explosion, destroying everything in his path. In subsequent movies, however, he was depicted in a grayer light, and even became a hero at times.

* And in a case of Humans Are Stupid, ''[[Primeval]]'' stars SUV-sized "[[Never Trust a Trailer|Serial killer]]" Gustav, whose large kill record is largely due to idiot fishermen and similarly idiot photographers and big-game hunters. However, it's at least more factually accurate than ''Lake Placid''.

* ''[[Reptilicus]]'' is a giant, man-eating lizard-dragon-thing.

* ''[[Redwall]]''. While the mammals are split between being good or evil, pretty much every single reptile and amphibian is a bad guy. In the first book, a snake is given a demon's name (which it likes to chant for some reason) and likened to a giant, intelligent, evil dragon/monster. In one of the later books, a desert-dwelling character [[Furry Confusion|keeps a pet sand lizard]]; "Get 'em when they're young and they're good likkle critters." This was [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/bargain-book-bin-3.php lampshaded hilariously] by Something Awful, though it was in response more [[Carnivore Confusion|to the mustelids all being evil]].

* ''Ranger Rick'', of all places, used this trope off and on:

** ''Ranger Rick'' magazine also had a series of nonfiction books about animals and of those, one of the most beloved is ''The Unhuggables''. It did all it could to discredit this trope (though it's telling that snakes get their own chapter to themselves) as well as [[Carnivores Are Mean]] and (as you could probably guess from the so-close-to-being-the-[[Trope Namer]]-title) [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]].

* [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s stories invoke the trope only when applied to venomous snakes and crocodiles.

** The snake loa was never given the opportunity to do anything bad given what we see. The wind serpent loa is a rather nasty fellow, but not completely unjustified. He/she decides to spend his/her eternity as a now-incorporeal being torturing and murdering those who betrayed him over and over for shiggles. Then again, it does help you out, and they do sort of deserve it.

** Trolls of all subraces in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' are frequently shown to have deep connections to reptiles—subverting this trope, since trolls are no more inherently evil than other player-character races. Their racial mount is a small dinosaur, snakes are a common motif of troll architecture, and a troll vendor sells a variety of snake vanity pets. In ''[[Warcraft]] III'', the troll Shadow Hunter hero unit summoned Serpent Wards. Trolls and tauren hold snakes to be somewhat sacred. For example, Arikara, the tauren avatar of vengeance, probably would have gone on to kill [[Devil in Plain Sight|Magratha]] for being a complete backstabbing jerkass (the implication is she lies to you when she tells you who its target is).

** Komodo Joe was said to run an illegal Cubic Zirconia fraud business, and the concepts released by the ''Crash Twinsanity'' developers showed that he would cheat Crash and Cortex out of Power Crystals while they ended up driving around a course in a car with no brakes.

** In the same game, Dingodile ends up hearing about the alleged treasure of the Evil Twins from Crash and Cortex, secretly follows them, makes base in the boiler rooms of the Academy of Evil, and ends up blasting Cortex out of said rooms when Cortex won't reveal where the treasure is to him (which is more a case of Cortex not understanding what he's asking for, anyway). He does appear in the handheld versions as a lackey of Cortex in Crash of the Titans, but it does seem that Cortex trusts him a lot less.

*** In ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' Vaan's adoptive father figure Migelo is a Bangaa. But, then you have Ba'gam'nan's all-Bangaa hit-squad after you. Tellingly they are common enemies while the [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?|cuter tribes]] Viera, Moogle, and Nu mou are not.

*** Bangaas are the race best integrated within the humes, hence why they're so common in the game. Contrast with the [[Pig Man|Seeqs]] who also appear as enemies and are treated like second-rate citizens.

*** The Lamiae are snake-women hybrids that routinely slay people and then raise the corpses to make an undead army.

*** The Mamool Ja are lizardmen who had once paid tribute to [[The Empire]] of Aht Urhgan, but have since tried to destroy it.