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Medusa is [[Ray Harryhausen|occasionally]] depicted this way.

 

 

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.

* ''[[Inuyasha]]'' has the twins Kinka and Ginka, who have human-looking torsos and very long snake tails which end up [[Conjoined Twins|encircling each other's]]. They are from a species of [[Youkai]] always hatching with two heads, but usually with the stronger one devouring the other head early on.

** The early villainess Mistress Centipede was a [[Creepy Centipedes|centipede]] variation

* In ''[[Claymore]]'', Ophelia's Awakened form looks like one of these, only she has what are like gigantic blades coming out of her human-looking back.

* In ''[[Naruto]]'', Orochimaru, {{spoiler|and later Kabuto as well.}}

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''Hellboy'''s Hecate turns into one.

* There is an obscure [[Marvel Comics]] villain called Slither who is, as you might guess, a snake-man.

 

* ''[[Wonder Woman (animation)|Wonder Woman]]'' has some wyvern/dragon things with a serpents tail as background combatants. They were intelligent enough to do so without riders compared to the pegasi.

* Medusa in ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' (1981 and 2010).

* In ''[[The 7th Voyage of Sinbad]]'', an evil magician temporarily combines a woman and a snake to create a four-armed woman with a snake's tail.

== Literature ==

* A naga-like one of these (called "Man-Serpents", having human heads with snakes for hair on purely serpent bodies, to differentiate themselves from "Serpent-Men", who have scaly human bodies with the heads of snakes) appears in the ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' story "[[The God in the Bowl]]," sent in a large jar to a man who dabbled with secrets he shouldn't have touched.

* ''[[Xanth]]'', [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] that it is, is home to a race of Nagas, the princess of which ends up as a [[Love Interest]] to one of the characters.

* In the ''[[Star Trek Novel Verse]]'', there's a race known as Resaurians, who are essentially snakes with upper grasping limbs. They're usually quite friendly.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** Nagas (snake with a human head) and Marilith demons ([[Always Female]], human head and torso, snake tail, and six arms; pictured above).

** The yuan-ti mix human and snake features to a varying extent, ranging from almost entirely human with a few snakelike parts to being entirely snakelike.

** Then there are the Salamanders, who are a [[Wreathed in Flames|fire-version]] of this (they have arms, reptillian heads however).

** The Jarkung in [[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]] magazine #14 and #37. Snake-like body, 2 arms, long tail with a knob on the end.

* The Followers of Set in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' acquire the power to become this at advanced levels.

* ''[[Earthdawn]]''

* ''[[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]].

 

 

* The ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series occasionally includes Lamia as an enemy type.

** The [[Underground Monkey|upgraded]] version are often called Liliths.

* A great deal of these exist in ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' - naga (usually portrayed as male), lamia, gorgons... ''[[Shin Megami Tensei II]]'' even had [[Beetlejuice|Betelguise]] in snake-person form as a boss.

* The aptly named Snakemen from ''X-COM: Enemy Unknown''. They are infamous among X-Com veterens, mostly in part of their race's terror unit, the Chryssalid.

* ''[[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''.

 

 

== Web Comics ==

** 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]]''

* 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.

* 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]].

 

== Western Animation ==

* Nagas appear in ''[[The Secret Saturdays]]''.

* ''[[Conan the Adventurer (animation)|Conan the Adventurer]]'' had a naga that was less a human with the lower half of a snake, more like a large snake with small arms and a humanoid face. The Serpent-Men are examples of the rare "fully humanoid" version, having snake-like facial features (including fangs, tongue and breathing tube), scaly skin and legs, without any hint of a tail.

* ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' had an Aesop villian become some kind of naga with stuff added [[It Got Worse|before going]] [[Clipped-Wing Angel]].

* There was an episode of ''[[Tale Spin]]'' where the villain was a cobra fellow, which was interesting because he was this while clothed, but [[Mobile Suit Human|lost his outfit at the end, and was somehow just a big snake.]]

* In an early episode of ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'', [[Butt Monkey|Carl]] [[It Makes Sense in Context|picks a mummy's headdress out of the garbage]] and shows it off to the other characters, completely unaware to the fact his legs have turned into a snake's tail.

* Recently the skeleton mooks from ''[[Ninjago]]'' have been phased out in favor of Serpentine, [[Captain Obvious|which the name tells you everything you need to know.]]

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