List of piscine and amphibian humanoids

List of humunoids
The bishop-fish, a piscine humanoid reported in Poland in the 16th century

Piscine and amphibian humanoids (people with the characteristics of fish or amphibians) appear in folklore and fiction.[1]

Folklore

Myth

Legend

Hoaxes

Fiction

Literature

Comics

Films

Games

Television

  • The characters of Amphibia, a world of anthropomorphic frogs and other amphibians.
  • The Aquaphibians from the Stingray TV series
  • The race of Cabira (one of Chilled's henchmen) is a race of fish-like humanoids from Dragon Ball
  • Crazy Frog
  • The Fish People from the radio broadcast Alexei Sayle and the Fish People
  • The Fishmen are a race of fish-like humans from the anime One Piece. They are modeled after different aquatic lifeforms. The Fishmen can breed with Giants to create Wotans.
  • Gill (aka Gil Moss) from "Kim Possible"
  • Goo from Gumby
  • Hippocampus from Krapopolis is a piscine humanoid. The episode "Prince Hippo" revealed that he is part of a race of Atlantean fish-men with his mother being the unnamed Queen of Atlantis.
  • The Hynerians from Farscape
  • Kermit the Frog and Robin the Frog from The Muppets
  • Some characters in Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea are humans having the ability to breathe underwater (called Ena)
  • The Kanassans are a race of fish-like humanoids from the planet Manassas. They are said to possess psychic abilities, including being able to read minds and see into the future. They featured in the special Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku
  • Mer-Man from the Masters of the Universe franchise
  • Molly, Gil, Goby, Deema, Oona and Nonny from Bubble Guppies
  • Michigan J. Frog, star of the Looney Tunes short One Froggy Evening and onetime mascot of The WB
  • Rayza from A.T.O.M.
  • Queen Oona from Disenchantment belongs to a race of amphibious humanoids called Salamanders.
  • Sil and the Sea Devils from Doctor Who
  • In the Dragon Ball Z series, the alien race of Sūi' (one of Frieza's foot soldiers) is a race of humanoid fish-like aliens who worked in the Galactic Frieza Army
  • The TigerSharks from The Comic Strip segment of the same name

See also

Citations

  1. ^ Bane, Theresa. (2016-05-04). Encyclopedia of giants and humanoids in myth, legend and folklore. McFarland. ISBN 9781476663517. OCLC 918874339.
  2. ^ Singer, Itamar (1992). "Towards the Image of Dagon the God of the Philistines". Syria. 69 (3/4): 431–450. doi:10.3406/syria.1992.7297. ISSN 0039-7946. JSTOR 4198967.
  3. ^ Debus 2016, p. 231-232.
  4. ^ a b c Joshi 1999, p. 163.
  5. ^ Bleiler 1990, pp. 46–47.
  6. ^ Debus 2016, p. 235.
  7. ^ Debus 2016, p. 230.
  8. ^ Debus 2016, pp. 230–231.
  9. ^ a b Debus 2016, p. 237.
  10. ^ Mitchell, Charles P. (2001). The complete H.P. Lovecraft filmography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. p. 19. ISBN 9780313316418.
  11. ^ Bainbridge, William Sims (2012). The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World. MIT Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-262-28837-8.

General references

  • Bleiler, E. F. (1990). Science-fiction, the early years : a full description of more than 3,000 science-fiction stories from earliest times to the appearance of the genre magazines in 1930 : with author, title, and motif indexes. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. ISBN 9780873384162.
  • Bleiler, E. F. (1998). Science-fiction : the Gernsback years : a complete coverage of the genre magazines ... from 1926 through 1936. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. ISBN 9780873386043.
  • Debus, Allen A. (2016). Dinosaurs ever evolving : the changing face of prehistoric animals in popular culture. Jefferson, North Carolina. ISBN 978-0786499519.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Joshi, S. T. (1999). A subtler magick : the writings and philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Wildside Press. ISBN 9781880448618.
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