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9	As we all know, SwampsAreEvil, and filled to the brim with dangerous animals, plants, and tribes. But sometimes, they are also home to something a little more nasty.
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11	The Swamp Monster is a horrific creature found almost exclusively in the swamp. The foul water is where they have made their home and they will not or perhaps cannot ever leave. On the rare instances they do, they will likely return to their home eventually.
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13	Expect them to be hostile towards any visitors unfortunate enough to stumble upon their territory, though on occasion benevolent swamp monsters do exist. They usually have the ability to stay submerged in the water, if the water isn't where they usually reside.
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15	The exact nature of a Swamp Monster varies between different works, but common forms it takes include:
16	* A MuckMonster that is either [[PlantPerson composed of vegetation]] or FesteringFungus or even covered by it, giving them a distinctly green coloration. These guys tend to be made of the swamp itself and it's very likely they have [[GreenThumb nature based]] powers. For extra horror, many of them [[WasOnceAMan were once human beings]] who were transformed into this creature by the swamp itself.
17	* Some kind of [[LizardFolk reptilian]], [[FrogMen amphibian]] or [[FishPeople icthyoid]] humanoid creature, [[TropeMakers mostly inspired]] by the [[Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon Gill Man]]. If there are multiple members of their species, they may even form colonies or settlements in the swamp.
18	* A [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti hairy humanoid creature that resembles Bigfoot]], but often covered in mud and plants. This version is often inspired by real accounts of [[OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious cryptids]] and other alleged creatures, but their existence remains unconfirmed.
19	* A FiendishFish, enormous [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile crocodilian]], or similar water-dwelling creature who primarily stays submerged, but may go to the surface to hunt or prey on unsuspecting humans. This version may overlap with [[StockNessMonster Lake Monsters]] if they inhabit a body of water that is sufficiently big and open. Even an [[PrehistoricMonster especially violent]] [[AquaticSauropods sauropod dinosaur]] could qualify.
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21	See also: SeaMonster, StockNessMonster for similar creatures with a different choice of habitat. See WillOTheWisp for a phenomena that may or may not be a creature that often occurs in swamps.
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29	* Parodied in ''Manga/RaveMaster'': the heroes are sent into a swamp to fight the monstrous plant beast dwelling there and recover the MacGuffin... but said plant monster is actually the size of a normal flower and gives in upon being stepped up by accident.
30	* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'': While exploring the First Biotope, Sunny and Komatsu run into an ancient giant swamp which is the hunting ground of several massive creatures: just upon arriving, they see a giant fresh-water moray eel, a massive multiple-headed snail and finally a crocodile-mouthed shark who [[AlwaysABiggerFish devour both creatures in one gulp]].
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34	* ''ComicBook/BigBangComics'': Bog is a demon who EscapedFromHell, and nearly killed the Devil in the process. He now dwells in a swamp on Earth and fights any attempt by the forces of Hell to drag him back.
35	* ''Franchise/DCUniverse'':
36	** [[Characters/GreenLantern1941 Solomon Grundy]] is a supervillain whose origins are of a deceased criminal, Cyrus Gold, whose body was dumped into Slaughter Swamp, where the mutagenic chemicals and mystical energy revived him as a gigantic zombie at least partly composed of plant matter. He was introduced as an enemy of the Golden Age Green Lantern, who had difficulty fighting him due to his ring's weakness to wood, which was what Grundy's swampy body was largely made from. Grundy has gone on to menace many other heroes from throughout the DC universe.
37	** ''ComicBook/SwampThing'' is one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s for the MuckMonster variety and appears to have eclipsed Man-Thing in fame due to his appearances in numerous adaptations. Swamp Thing is an entity whose body is composed of vegetation and plant matter, and has been granted very powerful GreenThumb powers that actually make him an elemental avatar of nature. Unlike many other examples of this trope, Swamp Thing [[DarkIsNotEvil is a full-fledged, if unusual, superhero]]. There have been many different holders of the Swamp Thing name over the years, with perhaps the most famous version being Alec Holland.
38	* ''ComicBook/EerieMagazine'''s fifth issue featured a cover story called "The Swamp God Strikes", about two explorers and their guide, tracking the titular monster, which turns out to be [[spoiler: a [[LivingDinosaurs surviving T. rex]]. And they are [[FedToTheBeast lunch]].]]
39	* ''ComicBook/TheHeap'' is the TropeMaker for comics swamp monsters, specifically the MuckMonster variant. There have been multiple versions of the character, but the most famous example is the Baron Eric von Emmelman version, a WWI pilot who crashed into a swamp, where his will to live caused his body to merge with the swamp itself.
40	* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse''
41	** ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': Joseph Timms was a petty criminal who escaped from prison to be with his dying wife. He ran into the Florida everglades, only to drown in the marshes. Decades later, after the Hulk accidentally spilled radioactive waste into the swamp, Joe Timms was resurrected as a swamp creature now called the Glob. The Glob's body is made out of muck and dirt, with the Hulk's punches simply sinking into it, making him a difficult opponent for Hulk to defeat.
42	** Manphibian is an {{Expy}} of the Gillman and part of the [[Characters/MarvelComicsMonsters Marvel's monsters]] lineup. Despite his resemblance to his inspiration, his origins are extraterrestrial in nature. He ends up becoming a member of the Legion of Monsters.
43	** ''ComicBook/ManThing'' is one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s, being among the most famous MuckMonster swamp monsters in all of fiction, rivaled only by [[AlternateCompanyEquivalent his DC counterpart]] ComicBook/SwampThing. Man-Thing was once a scientist named Dr. Theodore Sallis who attempted to recreate the Super Serum used on Captain America, before an accident led to the serum fusing him with the mystical energies of the swamp, transforming his body into a humanoid mass of swamp material. As Man-Thing, it has lost his human intelligence and is mostly a creature of instinct, though it is [[TheEmpath sensitive to emotions]], particularly fear, which will cause it to burn targets who exhibit said emotion. Despite its limited intelligence, Man-Thing often ends as an incidental hero. Later it's also revealed the mystical energies made Man-Thing the guardian of a Nexus of Realities present in the swamp.
44	* The pre-[[MediaNotes/TheComicsCode Code]] horror comic ''This Magazine is Haunted'' ran a story called "The Slithering Horror of Skontong Swamp", where a [[GreatEscape prison escapee]] runs afoul of some waterlogged undead creatures.
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48	* ''Fanfic/EquestriaDivided'': Ponies who die in the swamps of Froggy Bottom Bog sometimes return to life as swamp shamblers, lumbering masses of mud, moss and tree branches in vaguely quadrupedal shapes. They also emanate clouds of toxic gases, and House Everfree sometimes uses them in battle to sicken and poison enemy troops.
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52	* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'' features Missing Link, a {{parody}} {{expy}} of the Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon resembling an ape with green scales and EarFins.
53	* ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'': Shrek makes his home in a swamp. In the [[WesternAnimation/Shrek1 first movie]], he is shown [[MonsterFacade scaring villagers]] who enter his swamp with TorchesAndPitchforks, since it's the best way to get them to leave him alone; then, when fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters displaced by Lord Farquaad settle in his swamp, he sets out on a quest to get rid of them.
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57	* In ''Film/AttackOfTheGiantLeeches'', a swamp community in Florida is terrorized by... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin you can probably guess.]]
58	* ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'': Gill Man is the TropeCodifier and TropeMaker for the FishPerson variant, being a humanoid fish monster and the titular antagonist of the film.
59	* In ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', when Luke and R2-D2 land on the [[SingleBiomePlanet swampy planet]] of Dagobah, R2 falls into the mire and is swallowed by some unseen predator, [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth though it immediately spits him back out again]]. We catch a brief glimpse of a snakelike coil emerging from the mud. [[AllThereInTheManual According to supplementary material]], it's a creature called a dragonsnake.
60	* ''Film/KingKong1933'': When the crew of the ''Venture'' cross a Skull Island swamp on a makeshift raft, they run afoul of a bad-tempered (and apparently [[ArtisticLicensePalaeontology carnivorous!]]) [[AquaticSauropods sauropod dinosaur]], who rises from the murk to terrorize them.
61	** ''Film/KingKong2005'': A deleted scene (restored in the film's extended cut) has a very similiar setup, but swaps the dinosaur for a ''Piranhadon'', a gigantic 50-foot predator that is basically [[FiendishFish a giant lungfish with the teeth (and appetite) of a piranha]].
62	* ''Film/TheLegendOfBoggyCreek'' was a 1972 horror {{docudrama}} featuring a Bigfoot-like creature called the Fouke Monster that roamed around a swampy area of Arkansas. Supposedly inspired by real-life sightings of this cryptid, the film had him terrorizing rural residents.
63	** It was successful enough to beget two sequels, ''Film/ReturnToBoggyCreek'' by another director and later, the first film's creator returned for ''Film/BoggyCreek2AndTheLegendContinues''.
64	* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', the Fire Swamp - in addition to the [[QuicksandSucks lightning sand]] and its namesake habit of producing unexpected blasts of flame from marsh gas - is also swarming with RodentsOfUnusualSize.
65	* ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'''s Amphibian Man is a clear expy for the above ''Creature from the Black Lagoon'', and is said to have been captured in the Amazon, where the native people worshiped him as a god. When Elisa rescues him from the research facility and [[BathtubMermaid installs him in her bathtub]], she has to add some specific chemicals to the bathwater to give it that brackish swampy quality he needs. Unlike most examples on this list, the Amphibian Man is not only [[BenevolentMonsters benevolent]], he's [[ParanormalRomance the romantic hero]].
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69	* ''Literature/{{Deathmoor}}'' is filled with monsters, from a [[PrehistoricMonster prehistoric dinosaur-like fleasheater]] to [[TheCatfish giant fishes]], [[BigCreepyCrawlies oversized millipedes and spiders]], a massive [[TentacledTerror tentacled behemoth]] whose lair is filled with the skeletons of its victims, [[BlobMonster creatures animated]] by the muck and water-dwelling reptiles.
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73	* In Edmond Hamilton's novella "The Abysmal Invaders" (first published in ''Magazine/WeirdTales'' in 1929), an army of LivingDinosaurs and their LizardFolk [[DomesticatedDinosaurs riders]] march out of an Illinois swamp and destroy a small city. However, it turns out that they don't actually come from the swamp at all, but from deep BeneathTheEarth, and the elevator up from their realm simply opens in the swamp.
74	* ''Literature/FengshenYanyi'': at one point, Yang Jian takes a rest from his journey in a marsh and is suddenly attacked by a gigantic, non-descript monster (the text merely states that it has a huge mouth with sharp tusks and wields dual tridents) who tries to devour him. Yang Jian routes the beast by summoning lightning and chase it in a dark cavern, where he finds his trademark edged trident and his yellow gown.
75	* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'':
76	** Played for BlackComedy in ''Literature/HowToKillAMonster''. A brother and sister are left alone in their odd grandparents' house... and discover a green-furred swamp creature has roosted in the attic. When the monster attacks them, [[spoiler: it suddenly reveals that it's allergic to humans and dies of an asthmatic attack. The kids triumphantly leave the house and travel through the swamp to find help. Too bad it turns out the monster has LOTS of siblings of its own out there]].
77	** A similar creature appears in "Here Comes The Shaggedy". This one is unusual, in that it's able to [[spoiler: disguise itself as two preteen boys, who fuse themselves together and form the monster]].
78	** In ''Literature/YouCantScareMe'', the protagonist and his best friend attempt to pretend to be the MuckMonster of a local swamp legend to try to scare the protagonist's [[TheAce annoyingly-superior-at-everything]] sister. Not only does the swamp monster [[RealAfterAll turn out to be real]], but the protagonist's sister proves to be superior yet again by literally TalkingTheMonsterToDeath.
79	* ''Literature/InCryptid'':
80	** {{Yowie}}s are the Australian equivalent of BigfootSasquatchAndYeti, and tend to live in swamps. They're generally BenevolentMonsters, though.
81	** Other, less friendly swamp-dwelling cryptids include [[FrogMen swamp hags]], swamp fairies, and [[ManEatingPlant swamp bromeliads]].
82	* ''Literature/TheMonsterOfPartridgeCreek'' is a CanadianWestern / WeirdWest short story set in the Yukon Territory, where a natural sulfur spring has created a marshy environment, called a "moose lick", that does not freeze over in the winter. This attracts larger animals, such as the moose themselves, which, in turn, attracts the attention of the monster - a shaggy-coated ''Ceratosaurus''.
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86	%%* ''Series/DoctorWho'': While Swamp Monsters have never been featured in the main series, several Doctors have encountered them in expanded universe material.%%ZCE. Describe them.
87	* ''Series/Goosebumps1995'': One of the episodes is based on "[[Recap/Goosebumps1995S2E18HowToKillAMonster How to Kill a Monster]]", but changes the monster itself. Instead of a green, swamp-dwelling bigfoot, it's a nasty, yellow-colored reptile with a head like a vulture.
88	* ''Series/TheLegendOfDickAndDom'': "Swampy's Girlfriend" has the gang requiring "a Swamp Monster's song" as an ingredient for their potion, so they visit a settlement built on the edge of the swamp called "Bog Off". The residents are actually well-acquainted with their local Swamp Monster, "Swampy" (who is the covered in green plant matter variety) and try to get him to sing, but Swampy is very depressed; as such, they try to give him a girlfriend to make him sing. Eventually, Lutin finds another female Swamp Monster called "Ruby" and the episode ends with the two swamp monsters falling in love with one another.
89	* ''Series/RiverMonsters'': The real life series revolves around Jeremy Wade travelling the world hunting for monstrous fish that are reported in various rivers, often in swamp-like locations.
90	* ''Franchise/UltraSeries'':
91	** ''Series/{{Ultraseven}}'': One episode has the TDF getting stranded on an alien swamp, called the 9th Dimension, which is filled with giant insects, bloodsucking ticks and a GiantSpider called Gumonga. The swamp turns out to be created by a powerful RealityWarper alien called Bell, who ends up fighting Ultraseven at the end of the episode culminating with Ultraseven drowning Bell in the swamp's waters, destroying it and causing the entire swamp to dissapear.
92	** ''Series/UltramanTaro'' has a swamp constantly covered in MysteriousMist, which turns out to be inhabited by a toad-like monster called Tondaile who uses its OverlyLongTongue to ensnare and capture humans for food.
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96	* The Czech song "Jozin from the Marshes" ("Jožin z bažin") by Ivan Mládek and his Banjo Band is an AffectionateParody of heroic ballads about a horrible swamp monster who eats passers-by and can only be defeated with the help of... a cropduster plane. And this being 1978 UsefulNotes/{{Czech\|Republic}}oslovakia, a Škoda car replaces the hero's horse.
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100	* The Honey Island Swamp Monster is an alleged [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Bigfoot]]-like creature that has been purported to inhabit the Honey Island Swamp in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.
101	* The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp is a purported [[LizardMen reptilian humanoid]] creature sighted in Bishopville, South Carolina during the 1980s. The initial report was that it was responsible for attacking a man's car while he was driving.
102	* The {{Kappa}} is a [[{{Youkai}} Japanese cryptid]] that lives in swamps and frequently shows up in Japanese media. It is described as looking like a biped turtle is known for sinister behavior such as kidnapping children or sucking the soul out of victims.
103	* The [[YowiesAndBunyipsAndDropBearsOhMy Bunyip]] is an alleged creature in [[Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths Indigenous Australian folklore]] that is said to reside in billabongs (seasonal waterholes). Descriptions of the creature vary greatly, with it ranging from a giant starfish to being a seal-like creature with a dog-like head. All sources agree, however, that it primarily resides in water and will prey on people who venture too close to the shore.
104	* The MokeleMbembe is a cryptid supposedly found in the swamps of the Congo River Basin. The name comes from the Lingala word for "he who stops the flow of rivers", and it is usually considered to be a very dangerous and ferocious animal. The first recorded descriptions of the things had them with enormous horns, which led some cryptozoologists to speculate that it was a [[LivingDinosaurs surviving Triceratops population]], but their pop-cultural image quickly became codified as AquaticSauropods after a much better-circulated alleged sighting described them in these terms.
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108	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
109	** Bog hounds are canine monsters that arise from a cursed moor - the majority look like wolves comprised of the mud and straw of their home marsh, while the moor hound that leads them is formed from the vapors of the bog, and thus can only be hurt with magic weapons. They [[WeakenedByTheLight don't fare well in sunlight]], which causes bog hounds to instantly freeze into easily-broken statues of hardened mud and plant matter, and makes the moor hound vulnerable to even ordinary weapons. But until that moor hound is slain in the daylight, it and its pack will continue regenerating each night to haunt their moor.
110	** A swamp that's tainted by magical pollution can create mudmen, humanoids made out of swamp mud. Not very intelligent, they instinctively try to drown anything that enters their territory, often destroying themselves in kamikaze attacks as they try to smother their foes.
111	** Swamps and bogs are also the domain of choice for black dragons, who are [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience generally the nastiest and cruelest kind of dragon]].
112	** Shambling Mounds are vaguely humanoid piles of animated swampy vegetable-matter.
113	** Some editions of ''D & D'', as well as ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', offer variant rules on the {{mummy}} to create swamp-dwelling undead more along the lines of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_body bog bodies]] of European peat bogs, for dungeonmasters who find the usual AncientEgypt FantasyCounterpartCulture setting a bit too predictable and played-out.
114	** Swamps are the favored home of catoblepases, which are monstrous, omnivorous, and deadly quadrupeds. They're armed with a [[BewareMyStingerTail tail club]] with a long reach heavy enough to rattle and daze anything struck by it, but their most feared weapon is a DeadlyGaze which can [[MakeThemRot rot the flesh off of bone]], if not [[OneHitKill outright kill the victim]]. Catoblepases not only give off utterly repulsive stench, which smells of dead flesh, skunk odor and swamp gas, but they also infuse the stench into swamp gases around its habitat. They also putrify their swampy habitats by other means, choking out beneficial or medicinal herbs and plants, making the water unclean and filthy, and making the animal population prone to aggression and disease. Catoblepases are generally feared in settings' folklore, and rumors about the creature are often considered bad omens.
115	* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': The Kruleboyz are a subspecies of Orruks that make their home in dank, misty swamps where no one else goes (and their shamans can bring the swamp ''[[HostileTerraforming with them]]'' if they need to leave. In addition to being generally unpleasant folks themselves (they aren't called ''Krule''boyz for nothing) they also are known to tame and ride various swamp-dwelling beasts, including troggoths, giant vultures, and huge amphibious lizards called sludgerakers.
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119	* ''Creator/ArtixEntertainment'':
120	** ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'': In "Mudluk Village" there are numerous swamp monsters including frog-like dragons, gigantic fish called Swamp Lurkers, and even giant leech like monsters with legs.
121	** ''VideoGame/DragonFable'': The ironically named "Crystal Clear Lake" is a murky swamp with mobs there including a Man-Thing-esque monster called the Swamp Shambler, as well as a Gill Man-type creature called the Lagoon Goon. The latter is also capable of summoning a monstrous fish to attack the player.
122	* ''VideoGame/BounceOn'': At one point, Bounce runs into a swamp monster that resembles a [[WhenTreesAttack living tree]]. As such, he has to battle him by smashing the [[ManEatingPlant venus flytraps on his head]] and then [[NasalTrauma bumping into his nose]].
123	* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroANewBeginning'': Growths, foes found in the Swamp area early in the game, are hulking humanoids made out of knotted vines and branches and with a coating of green plants over their torsos. They attack with physical blows and by throwing clumps of slime at Spyro.
124	* ''VideoGame/MemoriaFreese'': One story event features a creature known as the Swamp King, who is a giant slimy MuckMonster mass of eyeballs and tentacles. It's stated to be the swamp itself, and fighting it is a near impossible task, unless one happens to be able to target its AchillesHeel with potent magic designed specifically to vanquish it.
125	* ''VideoGame/LiesOfP'': One boss of the game is the "Green Monster of the Swamp", alternatively called the "Puppet-Devouring Swamp Monster" is a strange monster that resides in the Barren Swamp and as its name suggests likes feasting on Puppets. No one is quite sure ''what'' it is, although Geppetto theorizes that it is a MuckMonster that was granted life due to the excess ergo in the area from discarded puppets dumped there, and by extension it seeks puppets out due to craving their ergo.
126	* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
127	** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'': The FinalBoss is a MuckMonster called Swamp Man, who seems inspired by both Man-Thing and Swamp-Thing. Is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:Jack Baker, undergoing mutation due to the Mold.]]
128	** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'': Amongst the GothicHorror game bosses, Moreau is a monstrous, mutated, emotionally-stunted [[FishPeople Fish Person]] who, unlike the other three Lords, lives in squalor in a marshy reservoir. He attempts to kill Ethan when the latter trespasses on his premises, eventually mutating from his vaguely humanoid and land-swelling form into a gigantic, monstrous fish-like form which spends time lurking in the water in a MonsterDelay.
129	* ''VideoGame/SeaSalt'': The Creature is an {{expy}} of ComicBook/SwampThing that is unlocked in the swampy region of Rotwood, attacking with long-reaching vines.
130	* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'': The [[BubblegloopSwamp Mud Bog]] areas are filled with Mud Bog creatures made out of the stinky, sludgy mess that the area is filled with. They either jump around in a blobby mass or pop out of the swampy floors and ceilings.
131	* ''VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus'': A recurring enemy in "[[Recap/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonusMission03ViciousVoodoo Vicious Voodoo]]" is the Swamp monsters (also known as Marcel Woodfist), sentient plant monsters brought to life by Mz. Ruby with HollywoodVoodoo. Sly also encounters a giant snake monster in "The Lair of the Beast" mission, with said beast [[BeastInTheMaze being kept in an enclosure with voodoo magic]]. The mission involves Sly breaking in, escaping being eaten by it and freeing it, the snake breaking through the barricade so that Sly can get into the heart of Mz. Ruby's operation.
132	* ''VideoGame/{{Valheim}}'': As if the draugr, blob monsters, fire elementals and giant leeches weren't enough, the Swamp biome also contains the aptly-named Abominations, enormous twisted combinations of UndeadAbomination and BotanicalAbomination with a nasty habit of disguising themselves as yet another sunken log before attacking. These things are tough enough to take on and defeat ''trolls''.
133	* ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' has enough of these to have a [[https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Swamp_Monsters whole book]] about them, which include: Drowners and Drowned Dead, which are essentially dead men revived by the swamp as zombie/ghoul like creatures. There's also the Bloedzuiger, a gigantic monster with a leech-like head.
134	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has a few such as the Bog Beasts and Fungal Monsters. The ExpansionPack ''Mists of Pandaria'' added the {{cyclop\|s}}ean Mistlurkers, who hide in swamp mists.
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138	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://scp-wiki.net/scp-811 SCP-811]] ("Swamp Woman") is a woman mutated into a grotesque form who is implied to have [[WildChild lived alone in a swamp from a very young age]]. Most notably, she has an [[BizarreHumanBiology extremely strange physiology]] that has turned her into a PoisonousPerson -- she has an incomplete digestive tract, secretes digestive mucus from the palms of her hands and soles of her feet that [[MakeThemRot rapidly reduces organic tissue into black liquid]] (which she then absorbs into her skin for nourishment), voids waste by vomiting a black tar containing various infectious bacteria that she can [[SuperSpit spit at a target while hunting]], and has liquid rot for blood. However, despite her predatory nature, she is rather docile and child-like.
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142	* ''WebVideo/BedtimeStoriesYoutubeChannel'': The titular "Secret of Scape Ore Swamp" is a reptilian bipedal beast said to inhabit the swamp located in South Carolina. It ended up becoming infamous when several sightings reported that it liked to attack and chase after cars passing through highways located near the swamp at night. Some accounts even allege that it [[PrimateVersusReptile even fights against Sasquatches residing in the nearby forests]].
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146	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSwamp The Swamp]]" features a monster made from vines. This monster turns out to have one of the Foggy Swamp's resident waterbenders inside controlling the vines.
147	* ''Franchise/Ben10'': Swampfire, one of the Omnitrix aliens, seems to invoke this. He is a PlantPerson with his body composed of vegetation and has GreenThumb powers. His species is stated to have evolved from carnivorous plants.
148	* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': In the amply titled episode "Bride of the Swamp Monster", a swamp monster mistook Muriel for his love love, Swamp Woman, and took her away. So it was up to Courage to locate Swamp Woman so he can reunite the the swamp monsters and save Muriel.
149	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Spoofed in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E9BusinessGuy Business Guy]]" when Lois suggests her dad dress up as a Swamp Monster to scare Peter away, before a real Swamp Monster shows up. A ScoobyDoobyDoors chase scene ensues before the Swamp Monster is actually revealed to be Creator/HughLaurie.
150	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangface}}''
151	** "The Shocking Creature Feature!" has a swamp haunted by {{Energy Being}}s created by a MadScientist, who is trying to find a more powerful energy source to make them even stronger so he can TakeOverTheWorld.
152	** "The Creepy Goon From the Spooky Lagoon" has the gang encountering a [[FishPeople fish man]] pretty clearly modeled on the one ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon.'' Another MadScientist puts the Goon and Fangface himself into a [[FreakyFridayFlip brain-swapping machine]] to try to create the perfect henchman.
153	* ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'': The Swamp Beast is a [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane possibly supernatural]] creature made of [[{{Planimal}} plant and animal matter]].
154	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': "[[Recap/HildaS2E4 Chapter 4: The Eternal Warriors]]" features a swamp creature called Sigurd; a tall, green, humanoid being whose body is mostly covered in the mud from the swamp. The tie-in book "Hilda's book of Beasts and Spirits" [[AllThereInTheManual mentions that Sigurd's race]] is actually made from mud and vegetation.
155	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]" features a hydra that eats ponies and lives in a swamp called Froggy Bottom Bog.
156	* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndGuessWho'': "Revenge of the Swamp Monster!" features one as the Villain of the Week, but like many monsters turns out to be a civilian in a disguise.
157	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': The Creep is a strange mashup of this concept and [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], essentially being Jason made of plant matter. He was created when a batch of mutagen ended up in a bog, bringing the vegetation there to life.
158	* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985'': "The Totem of Dera" has Mumm-Ra use the titular magic item on the Baleful Swamp to create the [[https://thundercats-ho.fandom.com/wiki/Baleful_Swamp_Monster Baleful Swamp Monster]], a creature made of mud and sludge, to attack the Thundercats.
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