Horse of a Different Color: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'', thanks to all the [[Mad Scientist]]s, has all sorts of this: wagons drawn by [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070316 horse-headed men]; the [[Dark Action Girl]] jaegermonster Jenka rides a [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070326 red grizzly bear construct named Füst]; cavalry troops on the beetlesque [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070105 Hoomhoffers] used by Baron Wulfenbach and [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141121 House Valois]; then there are [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110523 Drakken Horses], and other weird constructs, up to and including [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120813 flying apes].

** And the Geisterdamen have [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050321 giant riding spiders] (those things seem to be much smarter than the garden variety, and at least comparable to horse - they learn useful tricks and actively help the riders), good for the "Wastelands", [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]s, [[Roof Hopping|roofs]]... and [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060710 a whole menagerie of other creepy stuff].

* In ''[[Looking for Group]]'' (loosely based on ''[[World of Warcraft]]''), one of the characters, Richard, is turned into an infant temporally and uses a bunny as a mount.

* In ''[[Rice Boy]]'', the Frog-men use giant lizards. Maquìn has a horse-like creature that's able to contract its entire body into its cubical head.

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had Schlock [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-11-26 riding] "booceros", sort of quadrupedal grazers with short forehead horn. Sorlie eventually gets to [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-09-08 ride] a [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]], upon discovery that they were domesticated, preserved and have temperament of [[Big Friendly Dog]]s.

** The Esspererin ride Sosheki — talking, but not very smart serpents with hands, pauldrons, and small cabins in their heads. Since both the Esspee rider and Soshiko mount are [[Mechanical Lifeforms]], this can be classified as "heavy cavalry", "light combat vehicle", or "[[Powered Armor]]". One of the reasons is that an Esspererin won't use anything with annie plants, [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-07-27 unless happens to be a heretic (and probably pirate)]. And then Para [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-10-02 kept one as a pet] and adapted for (small) human pilot, of course.

 

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