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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Ranma ½]]'' had one that shared a personality almost identical to its mythological counterpart; when it stirred itself, it did little more than just wanting to eat women and drink booze. However, it appeared to have only seven heads. {{spoiler|Turns out the eighth is in back - it's ''the size of a small mountain,'' with the seven smaller (though still huge) dragon heads and necks sprouting from the back of the main head's skull. Kind of like a dragon version of a [[Dungeons and& Dragons|Beholder]].}} This Orochi had magical moss growing on its main head that was a powerful curative- even drinking water that had flowed past the moss could sustain a person's life, as well as making animals grow to [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|unnatural sizes]]. Notably, the male characters also had to dress in drag in order to lure it out (while Akane disguised herself as a boy to avoid it.) Unfortunately, they all looked so hideous the Orochi wasn't fooled.
** Another spiritual example/reference is Happosai, a [[The Alcoholic|sake-swilling]] [[Dirty Old Man]] who ''goes into withdrawal'' if he is unable to sate his perversion and perhaps ''the'' most powerful martial artist in the series. In his [[Backstory]], he was only beaten when his students left out enough sake for him to drink himself into a stupor, after which they sealed him in a cave with a bundle of dynamite by means of a [[Shimenawa]]-adorned boulder. He of course returns to bug Ranma, and finds himself thwarted time and time again by his intended victim - a [[Hot-Blooded]] "[[Testosterone Poisoning|Manly Man]]" acting as a perfect Susanoo figure, complete with an [[Attractive Bent Gender]] curse that Happosai always falls for.
* ''[[Blue Seed]]''. Unless you read the subtitles, which tend to mistranslate it as [[Department of Redundancy Department|"Orochi no Orochi"]].
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* In the manga ''[[Tenjho Tenge]]'', the story of Susanoo and Orochi is presented as a symbolic allegory for the story of the founding of the Gaoshiki clan, to which most of the characters in the series belong. {{spoiler|the story goes that a shogun who was referred to as "Susa" discovered that the rivers of his domain were being polluted by the runoff from iron mines run by eight clans (portrayed as the eight heads of Orochi). Susa invites the eight clan heads to a party, tricks them into lowering their guard and then decapitating them. Going a bit further, Susa then rapes the clan heads' daughters, who commit suicide, all except one, whose attempts fail, thus putting her in the role of Kushinada, albeit considerably less willing than the traditional version.}}
* [[Akazukin Chacha]] and friends defeated a nine-headed snake who ate virgin girls by getting him drunk on sake.
* One of the Childs of the HiME in ''[[MaiMy-HiME]]'' has "only" six heads but is otherwise modeled after the orochi ( {{spoiler|Kiyohime, Child of [[Ojou|Shizuru]] [[Psycho Lesbian|Fujino]], to be precise}}).
* The Yamata no Orochi dragon appears in the penultimate story arc in ''[[Yaiba]]''. Is revealed that {{spoiler|his body actually IS Japan, and when revived he turns into a country-sized, planet-wrecking abomination.}}
 
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* In ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'''s Kamigawa setting, the term 'orochi' refers to a race of forest-dwelling four-armed bipedal snake-people. O-Kagachi, the biggest and baddest of all spirits, is a take on Orochi proper.
* In ''[[Legend of the Five Rings]]'', Orochi are simple (one-headed) sea serpents.
* The first appearance of the Yuan-Ti Anathema in [[Dungeons and& Dragons]] 3rd Edition resembled a giant, multi-headed, vaguely humanoid snake.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* The first ''[[Mega Man Zero]]'' game has the Guard Orotic, a Boss occupying a factory that [[La Résistance]] must take over. Two heads represent each of the three elements (fire, ice, lighting), while the last pair is non-elemental.
* In ''[[Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom]]'', the Orochi is actually a monster made of... bananas.
* The Black Beast of ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'' bears a heavy resemblance to Orochi in its appearance. It was created from The Murakumo Unit (ν-13), and defeated by the wielder of The Susanoo Unit (Hakumen). {{spoiler|It was a failed attempt to create The Kusanagi Unit, and destroy The Master Unit Amaterasu.}}
** ''Phase 0'' reveals that {{spoiler|Caelica A. Mercury}} was engineered to be a sacrifice to the Black Beast to temporarily halt its rampage, making her a Kushinada figure. Oddly enough the one who rescued her from this fate is ''not'' the Susanoo figure. The original Bloodedge fought against the Black Beast to ensure that her sacrifice would not be necessary.
** Hazama {{spoiler|who helped make the Black Beast}} also invokes Orochi imagery; one of his attacks involve creating a swarm of snake heads behind him. To make things even odder {{spoiler|he used to be in the Susanoo Unit.}}
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