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{{trope}}
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Tonight on your veranada!''|'''[[Ogden Nash]]'''}}
[[Spell My Name
Great source of [[Nightmare Fuel]]. Not to be confused with the [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti|Bigfoot/Sasquatch]], though some writers connect the two anyway. Also not to be confused with the [[The Slender Man Mythos|Slenderman]] [[Windigo
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** In ''[[Earth X]]'', Multiple Man is transformed into one when he eats one of his own doubles to survive. He doesn't lose his self-duplication powers.
** ToddMcFarlane infamously used the Wendigo as a poor, misunderstood victim during his Spider-Man run.
* A run of ''[[
** This one is a particular [[Tear Jerker]], since the Wendigo retains his memories as a family man, though he had been unaware that his family thought him dead and had moved on. He is told that he will eventually lose his humanity, and when he asks Abe and Hellboy to kill him, is told that it won't work, since the only way to break the curse and let him die peacefully is to kill someone else and pass the curse on. HB and Abe regretfully inform the Wendigo that they have no choice but to lock him up. The last shot of him curled up in his cell with nothing but a photo of him with his family for comfort makes this example something of a [[The Woobie|Woobdigo]].
* In [[Don Rosa]]'s "War of the Wendigo", Scrooge McDuck investigates reports of wendigo attacks at a lumber mill of his in Canada. Said wendigo turn out to be the Peeweegah Indians from "Land of the Pygmy Indians" by [[Carl Barks]], who once again [[Magical Native American|have to teach]] Scrooge a [[Green Aesop]].
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* The Wendigo Myth features prominently in the 1999 film ''[[Ravenous]]'', although an actual wendigo did not show up.
* The same author/director of ''Wendigo'' used the wendigo in his 2006 film, ''[[The Last Winter]]''
* The film ''[[
* ''Ghostkeeper'', where an insane woman keeps the Wendigo that was once her son locked in the basement.
* ''[[
* The werewolves are assumed to be these in the ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Showed up in an early episode of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''.
* One of these possesses a man in the ''[[Fear Itself (TV series)|Fear Itself]]'' episode "Skin & Bones".
* One of these appeared in an episode of ''[[
* Done on ''[[
* A Wendigo is the titular [[Monster of the Week]] on an episode ''[[Lost Tapes]]'' in the form of {{spoiler|a lost hiker who kills and eats a severely injured friend, before killing and eating the other friends on the trip}}.
* A Wendigo is often referred to and hinted at in ''[[Twin Peaks]]'', but we never see it clearly.
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== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* In ''[[Shadowrun]]'', a wendigo is an [[Our Orcs Are Different|Ork]] (human variant) infected with the HMHVV (Human Meta Human [[Our Vampires Are Different|Vampiric]] Virus). They were around 2.5 meters high, weighed 130 kilograms, and looked like a sasquatch (Bigfoot) with white fur. They had magical powers, and mentally influenced their victims into becoming cannibals.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Werewolf: The Forsaken]]'', the [[Spiritual Successor]] of ''Werewolf: The Apocalypse'', has the [[Prestige Class|Lodge]] of Wendigo, where most of the members have a somewhat lax attitude towards the whole "don't eat the flesh of men, wolves, or werewolves" taboo. Especially since they have rituals that grant them access to special knowledge if they sample a bit of another's flesh.
* As noted above, ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]'' includes Ithaqua as a possible menace for player-characters to <s> face</s> run away from really really fast.
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*** There's also a boss monster called Wendigo in ''[[Legend of Dragoon]]''
* Wendigo is the official name of the line of monsters that starts with Gargantuan Beast and ends with Yeti in ''[[Diablo]] II''.
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' there is a rather common type of enemy sporting the name "Wendigo", [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti|although they more resemble yetis than actual wendigos]].
** Wendigos in the Warcraft series date from earlier than that - there were already some in Warcraft III.
* Wendigo appear as demons in several [[Shin Megami Tensei]] games, most recently ''[[
* Although not encountered in the game, one of the codex entries in ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' mentions that people possessed by [[Our Demons Are Different|hunger demons]] become cannibals.
* In ''Brave: The Search For Spirit Dancer'', the Wendigo is the main villain, although it's generally described as a "great evil", and appears as the upper half of a giant, flaming, horned, skeleton.
* ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* The Wendigo character appeared in an episode of [[Wolverine and
== [[Real Life]] ==
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