Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Wild Rock]]'', a giant prehistoric alligator nearly eats Yuuen.

* The infamous snake scene from the anime adaptation of Takashi Yanase's ''[[Chirin no Suzu]]'', which has a green snake breaking every bone in a bluebird's body rather than eating as it would in real life before going on to her eggs. Chirin manages to put an end to this, though.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* ''Zathura A Space Adventure'' (which is basically ''[[Jumanji]]'' <small>[[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE!]]</small>) gives us the villainous Zorgons, reptilian aliens who are attracted to heat sources.

* The original ''[[Star Wars]]'' films have very few reptilian sentients. Most of them are in the Cantina on Mos Eisley. The only exception is Bossk, a rather vicious Trandoshan bounty hunter. General Grievous was a Kaleesh, a reptilian species that are in war with the Huk, a mantid-like species. The Huk were the Invaders, and Grievous was very noble back then. The prequels have some other reptilian species, but none in a prominent role.

{{quote|"I'm addressing, of course, the vicious, bigoted pattern of lizard-hate in the culture, and in the media.

''[[Star Wars|The Phantom Menace]]'' doesn't just contain one species-ist character, it slurs the entire reptilian phylum." }}

* [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s stories invoke the trope only when applied to venomous snakes and crocodiles.

** In "[[The Jungle Book (novel)|Rikki-Tikki-Tavi]]", a pet mongoose defends his masters' home against the deadly snakes that are ''[[Everything Trying to Kill You|everywhere]]''.

** Likewise, in "The Undertakers", the chief villain is a vain old crocodile called the Mugger,<ref>although mugger/magar/makara is an actual word for a crocodile species in South Asia</ref> who ''boasts'' of having attacked human women and children (but is less than thrilled to be reminded that a woman once drove him away by shooting at him).

* [[Raymond E. Feist]]'s novel ''[[The Riftwar Cycle|A Darkness at Sethanon]]'' introduces the Panthathians, a race of snake-men who worship a race of evil [[Precursors]] that will [[Sealed Evil in a Can|destroy the world if ever freed]]. Naturally they are attempting to do exactly that.

* There's a [[Playground Song]] based upon a [[Shel Silverstein]] poem called "I'm Being Swallowed by a Boa Constrictor", which exploits the fear of a snake being able to eat a person.

{{quote|''Oh, heck! He's up to my neck!''

* "Ah don't like spiduhs an' snakes..."

* The Church's unfair but rocking "Reptile" makes use of explicit [[The Bible|Biblical]] symbolism.

* ''Many'' heavy metal bands ranging from Alice Cooper to Soundgarden to Symphony X use snakes as symbols of fear, and this translates to heavier music.

* [[Paula Abdul]]: HE'S A COLD HEARTED SNAKE! Look into his eyes, he's been tellin' lies.

 

 

* In the Ani-Earth [[Animal Superheroes]] setting for ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'', it is specifically stated that reptiles tend to be villains, with snakes as evil masterminds, lizards as mid-level bad guys and crocodilians as dumb mooks. Freedom City's [[Big Bad]], Overshadow, becomes Cobrashadow.

* In the ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'' sourcebook "Mythologies", one of the possibilities for the first vampire? The son (or daughter) of Eve, the First Woman... and The Serpent of Eden. The book includes several snake-based powers to apply to vampires to further imply that this might be true, including making snakes into default forms for the Protean discipline, it being easier to Ghoul snakes, and making vampires immune to snake venom (ordinarily, snake venoms—like most haemotoxins—work just fine on vampires).