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* ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'': One of the antagonists, [http://dma.wtw-x.net/dexrana.shtml Ranamon], is a Human Hybrid Fairy Digimon with [[Making a Splash|control over water]]. Despite not displaying the typical mermaid traits (human torso and fish tail), she definitely constitutes being a mermaid. She has a large fanbase among Digimon due to her attractive appearance, but this changes when she [[Evolution Power-Up|digivolves]] into her hideous, tentacled beast form, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-3oc1mNUnc Calmaramon]. Her benevolent Mega form, Ancientmermaimon, is [http://dma.wtw-x.net/dexancientmermai.shtml more typical of a mermaid].
* ''[[Level E]]'' has mermaids with the rather unusual power to [[Living Lie Detector|detect any attempt to lie to them]]... by their tongue involuntarily shooting out and stabbing the liar to death. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, it doesn't stop them from being sold into sex slavery and pretty much wiped out, because a loophole is found to evade the ability, but the mermaids don't realize it.}}
* Isma from ''[[Berserk]]'' is introduced as a lonely, [[Genki Girl|genki]] fisher-girl whose lack of nudity taboo borders on [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]] category. Unlike the typical mermaid, Isma appears unaware of the fact that she isn't human and claims that she isn't even sure that mermaids exist, though readers catch on fairly quickly to the ''subtle'' hint that [http://manga.animea.net/berserk-chapter-312-page21.html something else is going on in the ominous style true to this series]{{Dead link}}. {{spoiler|Later, it turns out that she didn't lie about being unaware of what she is. What's more, her cheerful and kind self really was her true personality, which is quite a surprise [[From Bad to Worse|considering]] [[Crapsack World|the]] [[Dark Fantasy|setting]].}}
* ''[[Hekikai no AiON]]'': The mermaids need to sate themselves with psique, which is only obtained by killing people with tsunamis or earthquakes. [[In-Universe]], they're responsible for the sinking of Atlantis, Mu and the destruction of Pompeii, and they are the primal prey of the protagonist. Also, apparently, one of the mermaids can use "The Splash Method" to walk on land, having a fish tail in the water.
* The titular 'mermaids' of ''[[Kaizoku to Ningyou]]'', which are actually a race of [[Human Subspecies|demi-humans]] whose hair appears white on land and only reverts to its true color when doused with seawater. They are extraordinarily rare [[In-Universe]] and are frequently targetted for human trafficking on the black market. However, aside from their hair, there is very little separating them from humanity. Not to mention, the only member of this rare subspecies we've met so far is ''male''.
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* Mermaids are the 'townsfolk' near the Kraken and water crystal in [[Final Fantasy I]]. Apparently, they ran out of [[People of Hair Color]].
* ''[[SaGa Frontier]]'' has Mesarathim, a grey-skinned mermaid who, like Irenes in [[Chrono Cross]], spends more time out of water than in, although she'd like to change this.
* There are merpersons in ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]''. Their bones [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=25967.0 used to be]{{Dead link}} worth as much as ''dragon bone'', though now mermaids (as sentients) are no longer butcherable and don't have valuable bones.
* Although Aquell from [[A Witch's Tale]] is supposedly based off of [[The Little Mermaid]], she seems to behave similarly to the mermaids in [[Peter Pan]].
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' uses typical girls-with-fishy-bottoms mermaids as NPCs in [[Final Fantasy I|the first game]], but somewhere along the way someone decided that they may have been a bit too much of a cliche fantasy element and they haven't appeared in a game since (unless you count the totally-not-[[Star Wars|Gungans]] Hypello in ''[[Final Fantasy X]].'')
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** There's a wonderful bit in one of Christopher Columbus's logs abotu seeing "mermaids" in the Caribbean - he says they're less beautiful than they are painted, because their face resembles that of a man. A seriously ugly man, one assumes.
** Referenced on ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''. Barney theorizes that sailors saw manatees as beautiful women because [[Meat-O-Vision|they have not seen real women for so long]]. He adds that this is why men and women can't just be friends: eventually the "manatee" turns into a mermaid.
* [http://www.stuff.co.nz/4858855a11.html Nadya] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130613230209/http://www.itexaminer.com/weta-turns-woman-into-mermaid.aspx Vessey], an amputee, has been given a really neat [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9jCsbii5rs mermaid's] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YMUWe9V-94 tail] '''prosthesis''' by [[Peter Jackson]]'s WETA workshop. That's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]] in more [[Awesome Yet Practical|ways]] [[Rule of Cool|than]] [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|one]].
** ''Popular Science's Future Of'' showed the [http://www.lunocet.com/ Lunocet mermaid-style swim fin], designed to increase swimming speed.
* In West African mythology, mermaids (aka Maame Water) are beautiful but evil demonic spirits tasked by Satan to steal people's souls in exchange for riches. However foreign depictions of mermaids such as in Disney's Little Mermaid are still popular because, after all, Their Mermaids Are Different.
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