History Main / SirensAreMermaids

* The Merrow from ''Berserk''. It is their best weapon.

* Sailor Aluminum Seiren is named for a Siren but is clearly filled with mermaid influences, and comes from Planet Mermaid. An Overall blue color scheme, a seashell charm on her choker, her attack, Galactia Tsunami, is water based. In the amine it is just her throwing juice boxes and water bottles. Her anime civilian name, Reiko Aya, even contains a pun on Mermaid.

* In PiratesOfTheCaribbean 4, mermaids also have beautiful singing voice and lure men to death. And one of the mermaids is named Syrena. Justified because it's a mostly-ignorant human who names her that; her actual name is impronouncable.

* In the animated film ''Film/{{Coraline}}'', The Other Spink sings the line "I'm known as the siren of all seven seas," while dressed as a mermaid.

-->--'''TSEliot''', "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

* ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'', being loosely based on ''TheLittleMermaid'', revolves around the idea of mermaids being good singers.

* In {{Disney}}'s ''TheLittleMermaid'', Ariel has a beautiful singing voice. Most Disney heroines do, but here it's actually a plot point, since the [[BigBad Big Bad's]] price for changing her into a human is her beautiful voice. However, this is taken from the original story.

* In TSEliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".

* In the ''HarryPotter'' series, sirens are a Greek race of merpeople (noted as being the inspiration for their common artistic depiction, as compared to the "less beautiful [struck out by Harry and replaced with 'ugly']" Irish and Scottish merpeople seen in the series), and all merpeople are noted to share a common love of music. In ''GobletOfFire'', the second task of the Triwizard Tournament requires deciphering a clue given in Mermish song.

* In [[{{Shakespeare}} Shakespeare's]] ''AMidsummerNightsDream'', Oberon's story of the magic flower for the love potion includes a mermaid's beautiful singing, though she calms the sea rather than allures anyone to death.
** ''TheComedyOfErrors'' alludes to this trope with the line "I'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song."

* A little bit of FridgeBrilliance: The Zora (read: merfolk-like fish people) from ''TheLegendOfZelda'' evolve over time into the Rito (mythological siren-like bird folk). Medli, one of the main Rito in ''TheWindWaker'' even plays a harp, though not to coerce anyone to their doom, luckily.

* In ''H2OJustAddWater'' Cleo has a reaction to the full moon's reflection and gains a singing voice that is able to hypnotise all the boys in town. Lewis explains that "she's a Siren, just like the mermaids in mythology whose singing lured sailors to their deaths".

* Averted in GodOfWar, where sirens are land-dwelling (levitating) demons.

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* ''{{Charmed}}'' has a notable subversion. The fifth season featured two episodes pretty close together, one dealing with a mermaid and the other dealing with a Siren. Though in this case the Siren is a demon and unconnected to the water at all.

* The pilot for the {{Aquaman}} TV show introduced what probably would have been recurring enemies - Sirens that were basically really ugly mermaids.

* This trope is so widespread that in in Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Portuguese the word for mermaid is respectively Sirena, Sirène, Sirena, Syrena, Sirenă, and Sereia.

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* Pictured above is Elulu from ''LuminousArc3'' whose job class is Siren but also bears a lot of traits similar to mermaids.

* The ''FinalFantasy'' series averts this, with Siren being an uncommonly recurring character (often a [[SummonMagic summon]]) that usually just resembles a beautiful woman. ''FinalFantasyVIII'' actually has more of a bird-like appearance with huge wing-like hair and other feathery details -- however, its summoning sequence does feature it appearing on a rock jutting out of the sea.

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* In PiratesOfTheCaribbean 4, mermaids also have beautiful singing voice and lure men to death. And one of the mermaids is named Syrena.