History Characters / ClassicalMythologyMonsters

* BrownNote[=/=]{{Humanoid Abomination}}: The TakenForGranite thing? The initial idea for that wasn't as a superpower, but by merely ''looking'' at them you turn to stone. I.e, they're just THAT hideous!

* HappilyMarried: Wierdly yes. She and Typhon have a very productive marriage by Greek standards--he never cheats on her, all her children are his, and they support one another in their respective endeavours.

* GypsyCurse: Aphrodite's used it as part of one.

* IAmAHumanitarian

* IAmAHumanitarian

* HybridMonster:

* ScyllaAndCharybdis: [[TropeNamer Trope Namers]].

* [[MonsterProgenitor Monster Progenitors]]: Starts with three, the rest of the race came latter.

** LightIsNotGood: Though some esoteric traditions saw him as a type of [[ThePowerOfTheSun solar]] deity (since there are at least three other gods that are solar as well, this doesn't sound very strange).

* [[MotherOfAThousandYoung Father Of A Thousand Young]]

* NauseaFuel: {{invoked}} Literally. They were starving the man by vomiting on his food.

* SnakePeople

* MultipleChoicePast

* IncestIsRelative: Depending on the version she is either Typhon's neice, or his full sister.

* AvengingTheVillain: Birthed by Gaia to take revenge for Kronos.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Makes [[DungeonsAndDragons Tiamat]] look like a gecko.

'''Medusa and the Gorgons'''

One of the daughters of Typhon and Echidna, the Sphinx had the head of a woman and the body of a winged lioness. She was born in Ethiopia, and tasked by Hera to block the path to Thebes, where she asked travellers a [[RiddleOfTheSphinx tricky riddle]], and when they failed to answer she strangled and ate them. [[Theatre/OedipusRex Oedipus]] managed to figure out the answer, and she was so enraged she threw herself off a cliff.

'''Cetus''' (Kētos)

Perseus found a princess being sacrificed to this beast to appease Poseidon. So he turned it to stone with the severed head of Medusa and married the princess. Hercules is also credited with killing a creature called cetus. The word has a very loose meaning and includes whales and big fish as well as more traditional sea monsters.

* AKindOfOne: Some myths pluralize him into a race of sea monsters called Cetea.

They had four mortal sons named Euryales, Elatreus, Trakhios, and Halimedes, and there was also a mortal tribe of them that lived near the island of Sicily, the most famous of them being Poseidon's son [[Literature/TheOdyssey Polyphemos]]. The original three can be seen to have been the MonsterProgenitors of the larger cyclops population.

*** [[WildMassGuessing He was the father of the harpies]].

This monster had the body of a winged lion, with a scorpion's tail and the head of a man, though this didn't mean it lacked the sharp teeth of any other man-eating predator. It could also shoot poisonous spines from its tail.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Very diffent, and different in different ways. He could have as many as one hundred heads, or just the one.

Medusa's grandson Geryon was a giant who lived on the island Erytheia. He had either three heads on one body or three bodies, either way he also had six hands, six feet and wings. Orthus was the two headed herd dog of Geryon and the brother of Cerberus. They guarded red cattle which Hercules was instructed to steal as his tenth labour.

One of the oldest monsters in ClassicalMythology, Ladon was an offsping of Typhon and Echidna or of some of the Titans or Protogenoi depending on which version you listen to. His form was that of a dragon, but one unlike either traditional European or Asian dragons, and indeed his own form is not even consistant in the different versions of the story. His job was to guard the golden apples of the Garden of Hesperides. Though tasked with retreiving them in his eleventh labour, Ladon was so fearsome an opponent that Hercules had to enlist the help of Atlas who was a relative of the Hesperide Nymphs to complete the task. Ladon was later seen by the passing Argonauts as well.

One of Typhon and Echidna's children, the chimera was part lion, part goat and part snake, or dragon. Its body was that of a lioness, the snake or dragon head was its tail, and a goat head just popped out of its spine in the middle of its back. It breathed fire too. It lived in Lycia in Asia minor.

Scylla was drakaina with six heads on long necks, attatched to a body with 4-6 more dogs heads around its waist, twelve tenacle like legs, and a cats tail. It lives on one side of a narrow straight with Charybdis on the other. Charybdis was a whirlpool, or in the earlier myths a whirlpool caused by a Nymph transformed into a sea monster that was essentially a giant bladder covered in mouths and flipper that sucked a great deal of water into its many mouths three times a day, and belching it forth the rest of the time. One or both of them may have been offspring of Typhon and Echidna.

A winged horse, and one of the most famous mythic creatures. Said to be borned from blood issuing from Medusa's neck as Perseus was beheading her, along with his human brother Chrysaor. Technically, they're children of Medusa and Poseidon (either the result of raped, or her blood mixed with sea foam). Later become hero Bellerophon's steed and help him slayed Chimera, as well as in battle against the Amazons. After Bellerophon's fall (literally and [[FallenHero figurative]]), Zeus keep him.

* NighInvulnerability

* AndIMustScream: Ultimately hydra never died, Heracles just burned its body to ashes and them in a manner that ensured it would not grow back anymore

'''Pagasus'''

They had four mortal sons named Euryales, Elatreus, Trakhios, and Halimedes, and there was also a mortal tribe of them that lived near the island of Sicily, the most famous of them being Poseidon's son [[Literature/TheOdyssey Polyphemos]]. The original three can be seen to have been the MonsterProgenitors of the larger cyclops population.

* NauseaFuel: {{invoke}} Literally. They were starving the man by vomiting on his food.

A winged horse, and one of the most famous mythic creatures. Said to be borned from blood issuing from Medusa's neck as Perseus was beheading her, along with his human brother Chrysaor. Technically, they're children of Medusa and Poseidon (either the result of raped, or her blood mixed with sea foam). Later become hero Bellerophon's steed and help him slayed Chimera, as well as in battle against the Amazons.

* NauseaFuel: Literally. They were starving the man by vomiting on his food.

Another child of Typhon and Echidna: A many headed serpent of the swamps of Lerna. For every head you cut off, two more grow in it's place. Oh, and one head is immortal. Killing it was the challenge set forth in Hercules' second labour.

* HealingFactor

* OurDragonsAreDifferent

Lived in Nemea. Its fur was impervious to attack by all mortal weapons and its claws could cut through any armour without difficulty. Sometimes counted amoung the children of Typhon and Echidna Killing it was Hercules' first labour.

The Crommyonian Sow was a wild pig named Phaea or Phaia, daughter of Echidna and Typhon and mother of the Calydonian Boar. It was killed by Theseus. The Calydonian Boar was hunted by a great gathering of heroes, which hurt alot of their pride when the woman Atalanta was the one to kill it.

Another of Typhon and Echidna's offspring, this one is one of the less famous. A gigantic eagle, it roamed the Earth until Zeus found use for it and made it the tormenter of Prometheus, flying every day to eat his liver and killing whoever tried to free him, until Hercules/Heracles killed it. Occasionally refered to as '''Ethon''', '''''Aethonem Aquilam''''' or the ''Griffin-Vulture'' (also the name of a real life bird of prey). Is the basis for the constellation Aquila.

Medusa's grandson Geryon was a giant who lived on the island Erytheia. He had either three heads on one body or three bodies, either way he also had six hands, six feet and wings. Orthus was the two headed herd dog of Geryon and the brother of Cerberus. The guarded red cattle which Hercules was instructed to steal as his tenth labour.

Scylla was drakaina with six heads on long necks, attatched to a body with 4-6 more dogs heads around its waist, twelve tenacle like legs, and a cats tail. It lives on one side of a narrow straight with Charybdis on the other. Charybdis was a whirlpool, or in the earlier myths a whirlpool caused by a Nymph transformed into a sea monster that was essentially a giant bladder covered in mouths and flipper that sucked a great deal of water into its many mouths three times a day, and belching it forth the rest of the time. One or both of them may have been offspring of Typhon and Echidna

* BalefulPolymorph: Charybdis

* GodCouple: With Echidna

* UnholyMatrimony: With Echidna

* GodCouple: With Typhon

* UnholyMatrimony: With Typhon