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Ah, Nessie, ''Nessiteras rhombopteryx'', the Loch Ness Monster. Her mysterious allure and continuous camera shyness has led the Loch Ness Monster to inspire many other myths and urban legends of lake
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There is also often a plot that goes along with these beasts that decks the halls of [[Syfy]] Originals. Some idiot starts the plot by becoming kelpie chow, some low paid fringe scientist, with fewer peer-reviewed papers and far better looks than any normal scientist, will go or be forced out there to investigate alongside a gruff, no-nonsense local and a wacky comedy sidekick, daring to find the truth while being threatened by the locals with group buggery.
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A number of myths also have their creatures as helpful or at least sufficiently beautiful to not want to kill, so there's also a softer side to the trope where the creature will be friendly. The myths of Nessie being a Plesiosaur helps play into that being a slightly more friendly looking form that a giant eel or floating turd.
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* The Loch Trevor Monster in ''[[Superman]]'s Pal, [[Jimmy Olsen]]'' (and later Project Cadmus-related comics).▼
▲== Comic Books ==
▲* The Loch Trevor Monster in ''[[Superman]]'s Pal, Jimmy Olsen'' (and later Project Cadmus-related comics).
* One of those elements used again and again and again in [[Disney Mouse and Duck Comics]], whether in the form of an [[Expy]] or the original. [[Carl Barks]] already did it, but that didn't keep everyone else from doing it, too.
▲== Film ==
* ''Lake Placid'' had a giant crocodile, which was raised by a surprisingly foul-mouthed [[Betty White]], and was running amok eating people. {{spoiler|As it turns out, there's actually ''two'' of them. And they had babies. At least 10.}}
* ''The Water Horse'' posits that the titular creature is a dinosaur-like beast which reproduces by laying a single egg and dying, so only one is in existence at a time.
* The 1971 Irish short film ''[[The Johnstown Monster (Film)|The Johnstown Monster]]'' (broadcast in the US as part of the ''[[CBS Children's Film Festival]]'') tells the story of a boy visiting the Irish village of Johnstown, who hears the local legends of a lake monster from the children he meets there. Together they build a fake monster to attract more tourists to the economically-strapped village. The film ends on a classic [[Or Is It]]? note, with what might be a genuine monster making an appearance.
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* [[Danny Dunn]] and his friends once went searching for a lake monster in central Africa, thinking it might be a dinosaur. It turned out to be (no, really!) a giant electric walking catfish.
* Steve Alten writes a lot of books with [[Sea Monster
* Claire encounters one in ''[[Outlander (novel)|Outlander]]''.
* ''[[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]'' explains that the Loch Ness monster is actually a shapeshifting lake monster that turns into an otter when Muggle tourists are around.
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* The ''[[Redwall]]'' novel ''High Rhulain'' features the Slothunog. It's only on one page, but it makes up for it by [[Moment of Awesome|being the most awesome page in the book.]]
* ''Anthill: A Novel'' by E. O. Wilson mentions one. It's probably just a myth.
* The members of ''[[The Mad Scientists' Club]]'', in their first published story (1960's "The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake") build a surprisingly sophisticated remote-controlled lake monster, complete with ballast tanks that allow it to sink and rise in the water.
* Wardon Allan Curtis' 1899 short story "The Monster of Lake LaMetrie" features a long-necked dinosaur that gets trapped in a lake in Wyoming. The two researchers staying by the lake become unusually familiar with it: {{Spoiler|One of them removes its brain and replaces it with the other's brain after the latter attempts suicide.}}
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The Skarasen (a.k.a. the Loch Ness Monster) from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "Terror of the Zygons".
** Sarah Jane was able to [[Name Drop]] the Loch Ness Monster during an argument with Rose as to which Companion endured the most incredible "space stuff". Rose couldn't trump it. ("School Reunion")
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* In the ''[[Andy Griffith Show]]'' [[Reunion Movie]] ''Return to Mayberry'' some locals - including Earnest T. Bass - try to convince people there's a lake monster.
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], [[Myth and Legend]] ==
* The Loch Ness Monster, which is only the most well-known of a number of mythical or semi-mythical lake monsters, including the Canadian Ogopogo (which is actually protected under provincial legislation, just in case) and its cousin Manipogo (who lives in Manitoba). Nessie herself has spawned numerous latter-day imitators in lakes around the world, all even more dubious from a factual point of view.
** One is "Champ," who lives in Lake Champlain in Vermont.
** The [[wikipedia:
** See also the Bear Lake Monster of Bear Lake, Idaho.
** [[The Other Wiki]], as a matter of fact, has a rather impressive [[wikipedia:List of reported lake monsters|list]] of reported lake monsters from all over the world.
* ''[[Ravenloft]]'' had an ''undead'' lake monster. One assumes it was a ''living'' lake monster at some previous point.▼
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▲* [[Ravenloft]] had an ''undead'' lake monster. One assumes it was a ''living'' lake monster at some previous point.
▲== Video Games ==
* The Lok Pik Monster in ''[[The Spellcasting Series]]''. It basically serves as the [[You Shall Not Pass]] guardian of the first game's final chapter.
* While not quite a sea serpent or pleisiosaur, ''[[Psychonauts]]'' nonetheless has its own lake
* 'Gourdy' is a monster of unknown attributes that supposedly lives in Gourd Lake in''[[Ace Attorney]]''. Lotta Hart's attempts to get a picture of him become a key plot element in case 1-4. While there's no canon evidence of Gourdy's existence, a piece of official fanart shows the cast enjoying a picnic by the lake while a dark Nessie-like shape is seen poking out of the lake in the far background.
* In [[Pokémon]] Lapras is a plesiosaur, the sort of creature Nessie is often explained as being and its production name was Ness. Draw your own conclusions.
** Gyarados is based on legends about magic carp jumping over the Dragon gate and becoming dragons but its abode being in lakes in its appearances in Red and Blue seem to be inspired by lake monster myths.
* ''[[
** ''[[Mother 3]]'' follows up both of these with the Oh-So-Snake, in the well beneath Osohe Castle. {{spoiler|Tessie also makes a reappearance, though she's stuffed and mounted in Porky's tower.}}
* ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'' features the wading lake monster, which is rather more [[AI Roulette|frustrating]].
* There's also Sally, the Lake Salamanca monster in [[City of Heroes]]. Sally is peaceful, though, and dives below the water if you attack her.
* ''[[Mega Man Star Force]] 2'' involves the legend of Messie, a sea monster supposedly found in (say it with me) Loch Mess. People have been seeing it recently, but it turns out to be a fake. There ''is'' a real Messie,
** Incidentally, something funny went on in translation here. The character's English name refers to the longstanding theory that the "real" Loch Ness Monster is a plesiosaur. But the original Japanese name is Brachio
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', there's an underground tram running from Ironforge to Stormwind. In the middle, the tram runs between two humongous aquaria. One aquarium contains a plesiosaur named "Nessy".
* In ''[[Nancy Drew (video game)|Danger On Deception Island]]'', Nancy has to assemble a model of the local legendary sea monster as one of her [[Solve the Soup Cans]] tasks. It naturally resembles a plesiosaur, although the actual creature never appears in the game.
* There's an easter egg in the original ''[[Zoo Tycoon]]'' that will let you keep these in your zoo.
* In ''[[Professor Layton and the Last Specter]]'', {{spoiler|the titular specter is both Loosha, a
* One level of ''[[Lemmings]]'' is titled "Hunt the Nessie", and takes place on the back of a serpentine lake monster.
* While not the plesiosaur type, ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' has the Del Lago, a mutant salamander.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[George the Dragon]]'' features a trope namer in his comic. And apparently her name is Gladys Vanessa of the Loch. She eventually ({{spoiler|marries the main character and moves out of the Loch}}) which is why no one can find Nessie.
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' Generictown recently acquired a lake monster.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* ''Disney's [[Doug]]'' had Doug and Skeeter investigate the existance of the Lucky Duck Lake Monster on occasion. Said monster is a featured character in [[The Movie]].
* An episode of ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' centers around this, in the end it turns out to be a [[Mechanical Monster]] created by MAD.
* ''[[Dinosaucers]]'' used the "surviving Plesiosaur" version, and much like the eponymous characters, she can talk.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [http://www.lakecreature.com/ Minne the Lake Creature], a (statue, sadly) monster who "lives" in the lakes around Minneapolis.
* Hippo, seal, otter and manatee sightings have all been misreported as
* Brickly, the Lego Ness Monster who inhabits the lake at Downtown Disney outside the Lego store. While Legoland already has a pair of dragon mascots (Ollie and Allie), when they began building a Legoland in Florida, enough people asked if Brickly was going to be the mascot for Legoland Florida that they decided to make it canon
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