List of reptilian humanoids

The Dinosauroid, a hypothetical anthropomorphic sapient dinosaur.

Reptilian humanoids appear in folklore, science fiction, fantasy, and conspiracy theories.

Mythology

• Adi Shesha  : lit, The first of all the snakes, mount of Hindu God Vishnu; descended to Earth in human form as Lakshmana and Balarama.
• 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.
• Chaac: the Maya civilization rain god, depicted in iconography with a human body showing reptilian or amphibian scales, and with a non-human head evincing fangs and a long, pendulous nose.
• 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 Roman snake god who had the head of a man.
• The Gorgons: Sisters in Greek mythology who had serpents for hair.
• The Lamiai: female phantoms from Greek mythology depicted as half woman, half-serpent.
• Nāga (Devanagari: नाग): half-human half-snake beings 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.
• Xian: immortal beings in Taoism who were sometimes depicted as humanoids with reptile and human features in the Han Dynasty ^[5]
• 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

• Cuca, an humanoid alligator witch from Brazilian folklore.
• Enchanted Moura, from Portuguese and Galician folklore appears as a snake with long blonde hair.
• El Hombre Caimán, a peeping-tom of Colombia using a potion turned caiman-man due to bungle.
• Kappa, sometimes turtle-shelled humanoid 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 ^[6]

Fringe theories

• Reptilians appear in some claims of alien encounters and in the conspiracy theories of David Icke ^{[7] [8]}

Scientific speculation

• The dinosauroid, a hypothetical reptilian humanoid conjectured by palaeontologist Dale Russell. ^[9]
• Other speculated sapient dinosaurs ^{[ according to whom? ]}

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 who can turn into a giant snake
• 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
• The Serpent Men from Robert E. Howard's "The Shadow Kingdom" (also in the Marvel universe)
• Yig, the serpent god from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
• Yilané from the Harry Harrison's novel West of Eden
• The Creeps and the Snake Lady from the Goosebumps franchise.
• The Troglodytes from The Trials of Apollo
• The Green Fangs from The Wingfeather Saga

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

• Bunbo and Iguara from Sailor Moon
• 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, Saurod, the Snake Men, and Whiplash from the Masters of the Universe franchise
• Lizardman Phantom from Kamen Rider Wizard
• The Lizardmen from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
• Lizardo from The Ambiguously Gay Duo segment of TV Funhouse
• Scarrans from Farscape
• The Sleestaks from Land of the Lost
• Slithe and his fellow Lizards from ThunderCats
• The Snake People from the TV-movie The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
• Spinner from My Hero Academia
• Tilian from A.T.O.M.
• Unas from Stargate
• Visitors from V
• Zafiro from Disney's Gargoyles is a Gargoyle who 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
• The Zilards from Mighty Max

Comics

Marvel

• Badoon, another hostile alien race
• Chitauri, alien shapeshifters from the Ultimate Marvel universe.
• Iguana, an enemy of Spider-Man
• 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), a race of reptilian aliens bipeds encountered by the Power Pack

DC

• Copperhead, some versions are part snake
• Gordanians, a species of alien reptilian slavers
• Killer Croc, an enemy of Batman
• The Lizardmen from the Warlord series.
• The Llarans
• The 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, Leatherhead, and even the Triceratons.
• Treens from Dan Dare
• Tyranny Rex, a reptilian artist in stories published in 2000AD.
• Zarbon from anime and manga Dragon Ball Z .
• Calliope, a reptilian figure of prophecies, from Homestuck

Film

• Draco from Above Majestic
• Dracs from Enemy Mine
• Lectroids from Buckaroo Banzai
• Snake Men from Masters of the Universe
• Snake People from the TV movie The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
• Thulsa Doom from Conan the Barbarian
• Trandoshans from Star Wars

Games

Roleplaying and strategy games

• Argonians, a race in The Elder Scrolls series ^{[10] [11]}
• 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: Champions
• 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
• Susie from Deltarune

An illustration of kobolds

Dungeons & Dragons

• Kobolds
• Lizardfolk
• Saurial
• Troglodytes
• Yuan-ti

Platform and fighting games

• Bowser and the Koopas from Mario
• 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 video game series 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
• Insectoids in science fiction and fantasy

References

1. Pausanias (2012). Pausanias's Description of Greece. Cambridge University Press. pp. 616–. ISBN   978-1-108-04725-8.
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. Wallace, Leslie V. (2001). "BETWIXT AND BETWEEN: Depictions of Immortals (Xian) in Eastern Han Tomb Reliefs". Ars Orientalis . 41: 73, 79.
6. 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.
7. 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. doi: 10.5325/utopianstudies.16.1.0045 . S2CID   143047194.
8. Frel, Jan (1 September 2010). "Inside the Great Reptilian Conspiracy: From Queen Elizabeth to Barack Obama – They Live!". Alternet . Retrieved 2010-09-01.
9. Russell, D. A.; Séguin, R. (1982). "Reconstruction of the small Cretaceous theropod Stenonychosaurus inequalis and a hypothetical dinosauroid". Syllogeus. 37: 1–43.
10. Petty, Gabriella (2018-10-22). "The Elder Scrolls Online: Murkmire gives the Argonians the homeland they deserve". PCGamesN . Retrieved 2025-02-04. Ah, the Argonians of Elder Scrolls. Tamriel's friendly neighbourhood swamp lizards have been an essential part of Elder Scrolls [...]. Surely there's more value in the reptilians than immunity to disease and the ability to breathe underwater?
11. Lee, Stephanie; Madrigal, Hector; Graeber, Brendan (2016-10-11). "Argonian". IGN . Retrieved 2025-02-04. Argonians are a reptilian race from Black Marsh.