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Medusa is [[Ray Harryhausen|occasionally]] depicted this way.
Snake People may have some aquatic ability as well, either being superior swimmers or actually able to breathe underwater, in which case they would be a subtrope of [[Unscaled Merfolk]], with the best of both worlds. They may or may not talk in [[Sssssnaketalk]]. Similarly, They are often evil because [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]], but like many other [[Cute Monster Girl]]s, [[Dark Is Not Evil]] may come into play. Or they were already villains who just [[Scaled Up|turned into snakes]]. Common features include [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]] (for females) and [[Non-Mammalian Hair]].
Traditionally, Lamia was a Lybian queen who ate children, but [[John Keats]] might have turned her into a snake woman even though she wasn't [[Sadly Mythtaken|originally]], possibly combining her with Lilith, who was associated with the serpent in the Garden of Eden.
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== Comic Books ==
* Minor ''[[Spider-Man]]'' villain Yith - truth be told, [[Hitman With a Heart| she's not as bad as most of his foes]].
* ''Hellboy'''s Hecate turns into one.
* There is an obscure [[Marvel Comics]] villain called Slither who is, as you might guess, a snake-man.
* The [[Big Bad]] of the ''[[Atlantis Attacks]]'' [[Marvel Comics]] crossover in 1989 was Set (yes, [[Conan| that Set]]) a giant, six-headed snake god, and many mooks the heroes had to fight were [[Snake People]].
== Films -- Animation ==
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* ''[[Feng Shui]]'' has the Snake Men, just one of the many demons the [[Evil Sorcerer|Lotus]] like to summon, which are not to be confused with Ascended-style transformed snakes, which are descended from snakes which transformed themselves into humans.
* The Lemurians in the Freedom City setting for ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]''. Evil snake-men who worship an [[Eldritch Abomination]].
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131202230235/http://galileogames.com/bulldogs-fate/ Bulldogs!]'' features the naga-like Saldrallans, who are not only one of the core player races, but make up one of the setting's two rival empires.
* A number of Reptile monsters from [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game]] are this. Examples include [
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* ''[[Age of Mythology]]'' depicts Medusae this way, and gives them a bow as well. [[Clash of the Titans|That sounds familliar...]]
* Casey Lynch in her Warrior Form in ''[[Guitar Hero]]: Warriors of Rock''.
* Lamias are a race of monsters in ''[[Monster Girl Quest]]''. They're vulnerable to cold, being ectotherms. The main heroine Alice appears to be one of these, though she's actually all monster races at once.
* Every game in the ''[[Violated Hero]]'' series has at least one lamia.
== Web Comics ==
* Several ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''-inspired webcomics features the races of Snake People mentionned above.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20140201003007/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=767 Kwaii] from ''[[Drowtales]]''.
** Kia's sister Guinness in the original ''[[Krakow]]'' (she's based on the ''D&D'' marilith).
** In ''[[Goblins]]'', Kin the yuan-ti is a [[Cute Monster Girl]] and a rare case of snake person as a main character.
** A red-headed yuan-ti with a Texan accent appears in ''[[Rusty and Co.|Rusty and Co]]''
* In ''[[The Wotch]]'', both the [
* Nagas (both armed and armless) are just one of the local species of [[Petting Zoo People]] in ''[[Crossworlds]]''. Apparently both male and females have [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]]. [[All There in the Manual]], or at least in the background information on the site: the naga have a caste system, and a naga's status is based on the number of arms, with the eight-armed being the leaders down to the two-armed being the peasants, and armless being an "untouchable" caste. Armless Naga gain telekinesis to allow them to manipulate objects and are commonly gifted with sorcery.
* Brooke from ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'', of the shapeshifting kind. She's a Melusine.
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* Snakes in the ''[[Darwin's Soldiers]]'' universe take this form. They have no hair, no breasts and only two arms. Just try not to break your brain figuring [[Fridge Logic|out how they can wear clothes]].
* Diamondback, one of the mutant students (and secondary viewpoint characters) at [[Whateley Universe|Whateley Academy]].
* The ''[[Monster Girl Encyclopedia]]'' has several types of lamias. In addition to the standard lamias, there's the Japanese-themed Shirohebi (the name literally means "white snake", and their entire bodies are white), the Medusas (lamias with the traits of gorgons), the Echidnas (able to give birth to every race of monster, similar to their mythological inspiration), the Egyptian-themed Apophis (who use their corrupting venom to take over kingdoms) and the Basilisks (who have a paralyzing gaze).
== Western Animation ==
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