List of reptilian humanoids

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The Dinosauroid, a hypothetical anthropomorphic sapient dinosaur.

Reptilian humanoids are fictional organisms of varied species in folklore, science fiction, fantasy, and conspiracy theories.

## Contents

* 1 Mythology
* 2 Folklore
* 3 Fringe theories
* 4 Scientific speculation
* 5 Modern fiction
* 5.1 Literature
* 5.2 Television
* 5.2.1 Doctor Who
* 5.2.2 Star Trek
* 5.2.3 Ninjago
* 5.2.4 Other
* 5.3 Comics
* 5.3.1 Marvel
* 5.3.2 DC
* 5.3.3 Other
* 5.4 Film
* 5.5 Games
* 5.5.1 Roleplaying and strategy games
* 5.5.1.1 Dungeons & Dragons
* 5.5.2 Platform and fighting games
* 6 See also
* 7 References

## Mythology

* Boreas (Aquilon to the Romans): the Greek god of the cold north wind, described by Pausanias as a winged man, sometimes with serpents instead of feet.[1]
* Cecrops I: the mythical first King of Athens was half man, half snake
* Dragon Kings: creatures from Chinese mythology sometimes depicted as reptilian humanoids
* Some djinn in Islamic mythology are described as alternating between human and serpentine forms.
* Echidna, the wife of Typhon in Greek mythology, was half woman, half snake.
* Fu Xi: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology
* Glycon: a snake god who had the head of a man.
* The Gorgons: Sisters in Greek mythology who had serpents for hair.
* The Lamia: a child-devouring female demon from Greek mythology depicted as half woman, half serpent.
* Nāga (Devanagari: नाग): reptilian beings (king cobras) from Hindu mythology[2] said to live underground and interact with human beings on the surface.
* Nüwa: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology
* Shenlong: a Chinese dragon thunder god, depicted with a human head and a dragon's body
* Serpent: an entity from the Genesis creation narrative occasionally depicted with legs, and sometimes identified with Satan, though its representations have been both male and female.[3]
* Sobek: Ancient Egyptian crocodile-headed god
* Suppon No Yurei: A turtle-headed human ghost from Japanese mythology and folklore
* Tlaloc: Aztec god depicted as a man with snake fangs
* Typhon, the "father of all monsters" in Greek mythology, had a hundred snake-heads in Hesiod,[4] or else was a man from the waist up, and a mass of seething vipers from the waist down.
* Wadjet pre-dynastic snake goddess of Lower Egypt - sometimes depicted as half snake, half woman
* Zahhak, a figure from Zoroastrian mythology who, in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh, grows a serpent on either shoulder

## Folklore

* Enchanted Moura from Portuguese and Galician folklore appears as a snake with long blonde hair.
* Kappa: Turtle-like humanoids from Japanese mythology and folklore.
* The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp in South Carolina, United States
* The Loveland Frog (or Loveland Lizard), in Loveland, Ohio, United States
* The Thetis Lake monster in Canada
* The White Snake: a figure from Chinese folklore[5]
* Cuca, an alligator humanoid witch from Brazilian folklore.

## Fringe theories

* Reptilians appear in some claims of alien encounters and in the conspiracy theories of David Icke[6][7]

## Scientific speculation

* The dinosauroid, a hypothetical reptilian humanoid conjectured by palaeontologist Dale Russell.[8]
* Other speculated sapient dinosaurs

## Modern fiction

A wide range of fictional works depict reptilian humanoids.

### Literature

* Dracs from the Enemy Mine series by Barry B. Longyear.
* Evra Von from Darren Shan's "Saga of Darren Shan"
* The Horibs from the Pellucidar books
* The Barabels from Star Wars
* Hork-Bajir from K. A. Applegate's Animorphs
* The Lady of the Green Kirtle from CS Lewis's The Silver Chair
* An unnamed race from H.P. Lovecraft's The Nameless City \- later Cthulhu Mythos tales have named these the Valusians or simply "serpent people".
* The Race from Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series
* Serpent Men from the works of Robert E. Howard (also in the Marvel universe)
* Yig, the serpent god from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
* Yilané from the novel West of Eden by Harry Harrison
* The Creeps and the Snake Lady from the Goosebumps franchise.
* The Troglodytes from The Trials of Apollo

### Television

A Draconian mask, on display at the National Space Centre

#### Doctor Who

* Draconians
* Foamasi
* Homo reptilia
* Silurians
* Sea Devils
* Ice Warriors

#### Star Trek

* Cardassians
* Gorn
* Jem'Hadar
* Voth
* Tosk
* Xindi-Reptilians

#### Ninjago

* Serpentine
* Vermillion

#### Other

* Cobra-La, and Cobra Commander from the G.I. Joe series
* Chase Young from Xiaolin Showdown
* The Culebra from From Dusk till Dawn: The Series
* Drakh and Narn from Babylon 5
* Lizard Man from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
* Lizardman Phantom from Kamen Rider Wizard
* The Lizardmen from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
* Scarrans from Farscape
* Sleestaks from Land of the Lost
* Slithe and his fellow Lizards from ThunderCats
* The Snake Men from Masters of the Universe
* Snake People from the TV-movie The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
* Spinner from My Hero Academia
* Unas from Stargate
* Visitors from V
* Zafiro from Disney's Gargoyles has a red-skinned snake-bodied gargate, with two humanoid arms and feathered wings, reminiscent of Kukulcan in Mayan myth and leader of his gargoyle clan

### Comics

#### Marvel

* Badoon, another hostile alien race
* Chitauri, alien shapeshifters from the Ultimate Marvel universe.
* Lizard, an enemy of Spider-Man
* The Lizard Men of Subterranea
* The Lizard Men of the Savage Land
* The Lizard Men of Tok from the Microverse
* Sauron, a Pteranodon-like enemy of the X-Men
* Skrulls, an alien race of reptilian shapeshifters
* Slither, a snake-like mutant and ally of Magneto who has been a member of the Resistants and the Serpent Society
* Stegron, a Stegosaurus-like enemy of Spider-Man
* Zn'rx (Snarks), reptilian aliens bipeds encountered by the Power Pack

#### DC

* Copperhead, some versions
* Gordanians, a species of alien reptilian slavers
* Killer Croc, an enemy of Batman
* Lizardmen from the Warlord series.
* Llarans
* Psions

#### Other

* Dinosaurs for Hire, dinosaur-like alien mercenaries
* Henry Phage from the Mr. Hero comics from Tekno Comix
* Kleggs, alien mercenaries in the Judge Dredd universe.
* The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Slash, and Leatherhead
* Treens from Dan Dare
* Tyranny Rex, reptilian artist in stories published in 2000AD.
* Zarbon from anime and manga Dragon Ball Z.

### Film

* Dracs from Enemy Mine
* Thulsa Doom from Conan the Barbarian
* Trandoshans from Star Wars
* Lectroids from Buckaroo Banzai
* Draco from Above Majestic

### Games

#### Roleplaying and strategy games

* Argonians, a race in The Elder Scrolls series
* Bangaa, a race in the game series of Final Fantasy
* Drell, a race in the Mass Effect series
* Dinaurians from Fossil Fighters and Fossil Fighters
* Iksar, a race from the EverQuest franchise.
* Lizalfos from the Legend of Zelda series.
* Lizardmen from the Warhammer fantasy tabletop games.
* Naga from the Warcraft series.
* Reptites from Chrono Trigger
* Saurians from  Risen

##### Dungeons & Dragons

* Kobolds
* Lizardfolk
* Saurial
* Troglodytes
* Yuan-ti

#### Platform and fighting games

* Bowser and the Koopas from Super Mario Bros.
* Espio the Chameleon and Vector the Crocodile from Sonic the Hedgehog
* Lizardman, a character from the Soul series of fighting games
* Locust Horde, the primary antagonists in the game franchise Gears of War
* King K. Rool and most Kremlings from Donkey Kong
* Reptile, Chameleon, and Khameleon from the game Mortal Kombat
* Riptor, a character from the fighting game Killer Instinct

## See also

* List of avian humanoids
* List of piscine and amphibian humanoids
* List of dragons in literature

## References

1. ↑ Pausanias (2012). Pausanias's Description of Greece. Cambridge University Press. pp. 616–. ISBN 978-1-108-04725-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=CetszVxoxAoC&pg=PA616.
2. ↑ Elgood, Heather (2000). Hinduism and the Religious Arts. London: Cassell. p. 234. ISBN 0-304-70739-2.
3. ↑ Olson, Dennis T. (1996). Numbers. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press. pp. 135–8. ISBN 978-0-8042-3104-6.
4. ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 823–835.
5. ↑ Idema, Wilt L. (2009). The White Snake and Her Son: A Translation of the Precious Scroll of Thunder Peak with Related Texts. Hackett Publishing. ISBN 9781603843751. https://books.google.com/books?id=ok8qyivasGcC.
6. ↑ Lewis, Tyson; Richard Kahn (Winter 2005). "The Reptoid Hypothesis: Utopian and Dystopian Representational Motifs in David Icke's Alien Conspiracy Theory". Utopian Studies 16 (1): 45–75.
7. ↑ Frel, Jan (1 September 2010). "Inside the Great Reptilian Conspiracy: From Queen Elizabeth to Barack Obama – They Live!". Alternet. http://www.alternet.org/story/147967/.
8. ↑ Russell, D. A.; Séguin, R. (1982). "Reconstruction of the small Cretaceous theropod Stenonychosaurus inequalis and a hypothetical dinosauroid". Syllogeus 37: 1–43. https://archive.org/details/syllogeus37nati.

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