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* In ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', when Dorothy and her companions reach the Emerald City, they take a ride on a carriage pulled by a horse that changes hue every time it goes off-screen. It's the "Horse of a Different Color".
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* Used intermittently in "Literature/NoNeedForACore" for the naming of some of the dungeon creatures, whether as species names or individual names. "Rabbats" are part rabbit and part bat, while a pair of definitely not-owlbears are named Owlbert and Owliver.
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* ''Art/BeastFables'': Splendid bullfrogs are common bullfrogs who become chimeras, animals capable of limited shapeshifting, and develop the ability to grow actual bull horns.
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* ''Art/BeastFables'': Splendid bullfrogs are common bullfrogs who become Some chimeras, animals capable of limited shapeshifting, and are based to various degrees on wordplay on their names.
** Splendid bullfrogs are common bullfrogs who develop the ability to grow actual bullhorns.horns.
** Drakonflies are dragonflies who develop reptilian traits in the form of vertebrate-like feet and claws, flexible serpentine bodies, and teeth along their mandibles, resulting in something rather like an insectoid dragon. They also get big enough to hunt good-sized birds.
** Splendid bullfrogs are common bullfrogs who develop the ability to grow actual bull
** Drakonflies are dragonflies who develop reptilian traits in the form of vertebrate-like feet and claws, flexible serpentine bodies, and teeth along their mandibles, resulting in something rather like an insectoid dragon. They also get big enough to hunt good-sized birds.
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* Early in its career, ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' promoted itself on webcomic sites using mini-comics featuring [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/Incentives.html misspelled versions of various TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons magic items, spells, and creatures]], for example the Misplacer Beast[[note]]displacer beast[[/note]] and the Lumber Hulk[[note]]umber hulk[[/note]].
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* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'': The ladybugs seen in "Treetop Troubles" are rolling or bouncing down the ramps during the first area of the level. In other words, they're literal "tumble bugs". Later, the level's giant insect miniboss spits {{fireballs}} like a dragon. It's a dragon-fly.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'': ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'':
** The ladybugs seen in "Treetop Troubles" are rolling or bouncing down the ramps during the first area of the level. In other words, they're literal "tumble bugs". Later, the level's giant insect miniboss spits {{fireballs}} like a dragon. It's adragon-fly.dragon-fly.
** During Ribby & Croaks' boss fight, Croaks spits out glowing bugs on fire that fly at you. They're literal fireflies. Additionally, the flies watching the fight from the bar in the background are literal barflies.
** The ladybugs seen in "Treetop Troubles" are rolling or bouncing down the ramps during the first area of the level. In other words, they're literal "tumble bugs". Later, the level's giant insect miniboss spits {{fireballs}} like a dragon. It's a
** During Ribby & Croaks' boss fight, Croaks spits out glowing bugs on fire that fly at you. They're literal fireflies. Additionally, the flies watching the fight from the bar in the background are literal barflies.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BabesInToyland'': At one point, Jill and Jack encounter a monkey wrench that looks and acts like an actual monkey.
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* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': The ''Unglued'' joke set has the [[https://scryfall.com/card/ugl/73/clay-pigeon Clay Pigeon]] (a 1/1 flying bird that has an effect when thrown), the [[https://scryfall.com/card/und/82/rock-lobster Rock Lobster]] (it isn't a rock, but many take it for granite), the [[https://scryfall.com/card/und/80/paper-tiger Paper Tiger]] (who burns bright and folds easily), and the [[https://scryfall.com/card/und/83/scissors-lizard Scissors Lizard]] (who has a lot of shear power). The last three also form a literal rock-paper-scissors dynamic.
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* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
** The ''Unglued'' joke set has the [[https://scryfall.com/card/ugl/73/clay-pigeon Clay Pigeon]] (a 1/1 flying bird that has an effect when thrown), the [[https://scryfall.com/card/und/82/rock-lobster Rock Lobster]] (it isn't a rock, but many take it for granite), the [[https://scryfall.com/card/und/80/paper-tiger Paper Tiger]] (who burns bright and folds easily), and the [[https://scryfall.com/card/und/83/scissors-lizard Scissors Lizard]] (who has a lot of shear power). The last three also form a literal rock-paper-scissorsdynamic.dynamic.
** The ''Outlaws of Thunder Junction'' set includes the [[https://scryfall.com/card/otj/16/holy-cow Holy Cow]], an Ox Angel creature with wings and a halo.
** The ''Unglued'' joke set has the [[https://scryfall.com/card/ugl/73/clay-pigeon Clay Pigeon]] (a 1/1 flying bird that has an effect when thrown), the [[https://scryfall.com/card/und/82/rock-lobster Rock Lobster]] (it isn't a rock, but many take it for granite), the [[https://scryfall.com/card/und/80/paper-tiger Paper Tiger]] (who burns bright and folds easily), and the [[https://scryfall.com/card/und/83/scissors-lizard Scissors Lizard]] (who has a lot of shear power). The last three also form a literal rock-paper-scissors
** The ''Outlaws of Thunder Junction'' set includes the [[https://scryfall.com/card/otj/16/holy-cow Holy Cow]], an Ox Angel creature with wings and a halo.
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* In ''Film/BedknobsandBroomsticks'', [[KingofBeasts King Leonidas']] assistant is a literal secretary bird.
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** Elsewhales are indeed whales who can ''plane shift'' you elsewhere, if you're willing to ride in their mouth.
** Dandylions, OfficialFanSubmittedContent from the 5th Edition ''Misplaced Monsters'' supplement, are fey lions with plant traits, a GreenThumb, and sport a puffy dandelion seedhead instead of a tuft of hair at the end of their tail. They're also somewhat dandy lions, boastful of their sunny manes, and they often weave petal necklaces from their gardens' flowers.
** Dandylions, OfficialFanSubmittedContent from the 5th Edition ''Misplaced Monsters'' supplement, are fey lions with plant traits, a GreenThumb, and sport a puffy dandelion seedhead instead of a tuft of hair at the end of their tail. They're also somewhat dandy lions, boastful of their sunny manes, and they often weave petal necklaces from their gardens' flowers.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicKey'': In “The Sound Monster”, Woofer unleashes “sound bites”, which take the form of semitransparent floating orbs with giant mouths that seemingly move forward by chomping the air, to chase after the children.
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* Canberra, Australia is occasionally [[NationalAnimalStereotypes represented by]] a burly griffin, since the city's main water feature is Lake Berley-Griffin.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Luz uses a jar of literal lightning bugs to charge her phone. It's also mentioned that in the Demon Realm fireflies actually catch fire.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'': The Neitherworld is full of these, including timberwolves (wolves with logs for torsos) and horseradishes (horses with radish-like rumps). In one episode, Beetlejuice got a pair of pants (faces on legs that pant).
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'': The Neitherworld is full of these, including timberwolves (wolves with logs for torsos) and horseradishes (horses with radish-like rumps).
** In one episode, Beetlejuice got a pair of pants (faces on legs thatpant).pant).
** Another episode has Beetlejuice posing as a HandyMan for... [[ItMakesSenseInContext reasons]], with the assistance of a few [[AnimateInanimateObject living tools]] he picked up from the Neitherworld Hardware Store. Said tools include a Creator/JackNicholson jackhammer, a DrillSergeantNasty power drill, and a [[MischiefMakingMonkey Mischief-Making Monkey Wrench]].
** In one episode, Beetlejuice got a pair of pants (faces on legs that
** Another episode has Beetlejuice posing as a HandyMan for... [[ItMakesSenseInContext reasons]], with the assistance of a few [[AnimateInanimateObject living tools]] he picked up from the Neitherworld Hardware Store. Said tools include a Creator/JackNicholson jackhammer, a DrillSergeantNasty power drill, and a [[MischiefMakingMonkey Mischief-Making Monkey Wrench]].
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Pappag is [[TalkingAnimal a sea star that can talk]], not for any supernatural reason like Chopper does, but because in Japanese "hitode (starfish)" sounds like "hito desu (is/be human)". To clarify, [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum the pun itself is literally why he exists]], as it caused Pappag [[AchievementsInIgnorance to mistake himself for a human and learn how to talk]].
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Pappag is [[TalkingAnimal a sea star that can talk]], not for any supernatural reason like Chopper does, but because in Japanese "hitode (starfish)" sounds like "hito desu (is/be human)". To clarify, [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum the pun itself is literally why he exists]], as it caused Pappag [[AchievementsInIgnorance to mistake himself for a human and learn how to talk]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' had fireflies that literally burn everything they touch.
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See also PunnyName. Subtrope of OurMonstersAreWeird and VisualPun. Supertrope to SeahorseSteed, SwordfishSabre and LiteralBookworm. Can overlap with MixAndMatchCritters if the pun happens to combine names from two or more creatures.
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See also PunnyName. Subtrope of OurMonstersAreWeird and VisualPun. Supertrope to SeahorseSteed, SwordfishSabre and SwordfishSabre, LiteralBookworm. Can overlap with MixAndMatchCritters if the pun happens to combine names from two or more creatures.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': "Children of a Lesser Bog" features giant tardigrades that behave like bears, since tardigrades are also known as "water bears".
* In ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'', sea god Poseidon is shown creating a Catfish and a Dogfish: fish that literally meow or bark.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': "Children "[[Recap/FuturamaS8E2ChildrenOfALesserBog Children of a Lesser Bog" Bog]]" features giant tardigrades that behave like bears, since tardigrades are also known as "water bears".
* In''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'', ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'': The sea god Poseidon is shown creating a Catfish and a Dogfish: fish that literally meow or bark.
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* The [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Boston Red Sox]]'s home field, Fenway Park, has a large green wall in left field that has been nicknamed "the Green Monster". In 1997, the Red Sox introduced their first {{Mascot}}: a ''literal'' green monster named Wally.
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* The [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Boston Red Sox]]'s home field, Fenway Park, has a large green wall in left field that has been nicknamed "the Green Monster". In 1997, the Red Sox introduced their first {{Mascot}}: a ''literal'' green monster named Wally.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Oswald}}'': Oswald's dog Weenie is a Dachshund whose shape and coloration resemble a hot dog in a bun--in other words, a wiener dog.
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** Exeggcute is a Grass-type Pokémon made up of six large seeds that resemble eggs -- in other words, an eggplant.
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* ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'' has overworld enemies that look like shrubs until they attack. They're called Ambushes.
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** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue85 No Fear!... Except One]]": The wolf flyder is a further iteration of the flyders, fly-winged spiders from the cartoon, that plays off of the real life wolf spider by being a fly-winged spider with a wolf's head.
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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'': ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'' feature a type of enemy resembling a hopping flower with reptilian jaws and legs, which is referred to as a Snap Dragon.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'': Wendall T. Wolf is a thylacine or Tasmanian wolf. He is drawn as resembling a gray wolf, rather than the yellow and black-striped dog-like animal the real thylacine was.
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