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{{quote|''"My garden's full of pretty men, who couldn't stay away..."''|'''Heather Dale'''
Originally a character in [[Classical Mythology]], Medusa has taken a life of her own, and now exists in all kinds of fantasy — sometimes as a person, [[A Kind of One|sometimes as an entire species]]. Medusa's main characteristics are snakes for hair and that people [[Taken for Granite|turn to stone]] just by seeing her face. Oh, and [[Logic Bomb|don't look]] at the illustration!
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* [[The Laundry Series]], given its [[Post-Modern Magik]] approach, has "gorgons" who are actually people who suffer a very rare form of brain tumor that serves as a conduit for an extra-dimensional particle-wave function that transforms carbon into silicon—in other words, a petrifying gaze. It also exists in snakes (basilisks) and chickens (cockatrices), and its effects can be mapped to a CCTV camera.
* [[Thomas Ligotti]] has a short story called "The Medusa" about a [[Author Avatar]] who [[God Is Evil|worships the titular character.]] [[Tempting Fate|Guess what happens.]]
* A gorgon joins the City Watch of Ankh-Morpork in the [[Discworld]] book ''[[
* Medusa is the [[Alpha Bitch]] for Athena in the children book series,"Goddess Girls"
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* In ''[[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Land of the Lost]]'' episode "Meddie," a version of Medusa, appears as a beautiful young woman at first, before her hideous true form is revealed.
* ''[[Robot Wars (TV series)|Robot Wars]]'' once had a robot called Medusa 2000; the design spec called for a flail at the back, to look rather like snake hair. Unfortunately, the weapon idea fell through, so all that was left was the name and the picture on the top of the robot, which never was shown clearly on TV.
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