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* The first ''JakAndDaxter'' has the Flut Flut, a tropical bird that Jak rides on in certain levels. However, its flightlessness is due to the fact that it's a baby, so it's fair to assume that a full grown Flut Flut would be more of a GiantFlyer. ''Jak 3'', meanwhile, has the Leaper Lizard, which despite being a dinosaur/dragon-like creature is, well... [[HorseOfADifferentColor A Flut Flut of a different colour]] in essence.

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* Being based on ''DungeonsAndDragons'', ''OrderOfTheStick'' likes this trope quite a bit. Belkar's wiener dog, Hinjo's dire wolf Argent, Xykon's zombie silver dragon, Lien's shark Razor, and Redcloak's summoned fiendish elephant all get play during the Battle of Azure City alone. The demon roaches even [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0451.html lampshade it]] when riding a raccoon.

* In Creator/JRRTolkien's Middle-earth stories (''TheLordOfTheRings'', etc.), Sauron's Ringwraiths ride the wyvern-like flying 'fell beasts'. There are also the giant eagles have been known to give people rides. Notable example, Gandalf's escape from the tower of Orthanc.

* In the world of ''{{Drowtales}}'' it's actually pretty rare to see a regular horse, and the 9 Great Clans seem to prefer using their clan's symbol as a mount. To count it off:
** Sarghress: BigBadassWolf
** Sullisinrune: PantheraAwesome
** Sharen: Dragon

* In WanderOverYonder, the eponymous character's mount, Sylvia, had a vaguely horse-shaped head without the ears, yet her body and tail more so resemble those of a kangaroo. She's blue with a pink mane and tail tuft. [[SapientSteed Oh, and she's sapient too.]]

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* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', the ''protagonist'' serves as a mount to his NinjaButterfly while he is transformed into a BigBadassWolf.
* ''BattleForWesnoth'''s goblins use wolves as mounts.
* [[TheEmpire Empire]] factions in ''ElementalWarOfMagic'' may use wargs (giant wolves, unsurprisingly) as mounts for their soldiers, assuming they can find any. Heroes of ''either'' faction may purchase and ride warg mounts. If you want your {{Badass}} leader to ride into battle on top of a white wolf, then why the hell not?
* Warg Knight not horses and oxen as we know them, but they are instead descendants of each respective species.

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* One episode of ThePowerpuffGirls had the girls invaded by giant broccoli aliens after they spiked the town's broccoli supply with MindControl broccoli that left all the adults incapacitated, leaving the girls and the kids to confront the green threat. As part of their vegetable motif, the broccoli king rides a carrot-shaped mount.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': Both ordinary horses and horses of a different color can be found in the land of Ooo, among them a a yellow lemon camel ridden by the manic and over-reacting lemon person, Lemongrab.
** The topper is an ordinary horse being ridden by a creature that is a cross between a rainbow and a unicorn. (Who is usually herself ridden.)
* HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse: He-man's typical transportation is Battlecat, a giant tiger.

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* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': There are a number of different breeds of winged horses (based in part on the legend of Pegasus and Bellerophon), according to ''[[WordOfGod Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them]]''. Hogwarts employs thestrals, probably the ''least'' horse-li7WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' world, before being hunted to near extinction. The Sky Bison of the air-nomads are in a similar state; giant, intelligent six legged oxen with beaver tails that could fly, now with only one member of their species - Appa - believed left alive. As of the SequelSeries ''TheLegendOfKorra'', however, a new colony of Sky Bison have been found, which gives hope that the species can be repopulated.

* Camels, for both one-humped dromedaries and two-humped Bactrian camels. Subverted with their llama cousins, who aren't strong enough to carry a grown human and seldom tolerate much close contact with people.

* Camels. Subverted with their llama cousins, who aren't strong enough to carry a grown human and seldom tolerate much close contact with people.

* Yaks.
* And donkeys of course.

** [[http://www.player-two.com/?p=80 Mystery solved]].

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** It's often ignored that horses were in fact not known in the Fertile Crescent at the time the first civilizations arised there, and donkeys were the only equivalent found for a long time in their native Egypt. Some also believe that the ancient Sumerians experimented with onager-led chariots before horses became available.

* Aahz of the ''MythAdventures'' series is too squat-bodied to comfortably ride a horse, so when he participates in a ritual hunt as security, he's given a hiphippohippus (similar to a skinny rhino) as a mount.
** The rider for one of the opposing teams in Jahk's Big Game was mounted on an armored hump-shaped creature with thousands of very tiny legs underneath, and no evident head or sense organs.
* In ''[[GarrettPI Petty Pewter Gods]]'', the Shayir pantheon's original believers were the Ox-Riders of Gritn. As their culture is long extinct, it's unclear if anyone in Garrett's world still rides oxen.

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* ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' allows the use of Pokémon such as Gogoat and Rhyhorn as steeds.
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** As usual it's overshadowed in the [[RuleofCool sheer awesome]] department by its sci-fi brother, but TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Fantasy also has a variety of fantasy mounts, including wolves, boars, giant spiders (pony-size), gigantic spiders %os]] from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''

** Sharen: Dragon (who are in fact really tgalo' (giant ladybugs) in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' are the equivalent of cows.

* HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse: He-man's typical transportation is Battleide them before, but it is more impractical than horses because of their temperament and because zebras have less speed and endurance than horses. Zorses (zebra-horse hybrids) are somewhat more practical as mounts.