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13	Feathered Serpents, also known as Plumed Serpents or Quetzalcoatls, are supernatural entities featured in many [[UsefulNotes/PreColumbianCivilizations Mesoamerican cultures]], starting from the Olmecs (this makes this trope OlderThanDirt). In mythology, "feathered serpents" were not a type of creature per se; rather, there was ''the'' feathered serpent, a god found in the art and stories of numerous cultures under a variety of name, such as Kukulkan and Q'uq'umatz, among the Mayans, and Quetzalcoatl, among the Aztecs. Its name at the time was likely meant to represent [[LiminalBeing the dual nature of the entity]]: its feathers were meant to show its divine nature for showing the ability to fly, while the fact that it's a serpent represents its human nature with its ability to creep on the ground among other animals of the Earth. This was very common among Mesoamerican deities.
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15	In modern fiction, feathered serpents are most commonly treated as [[AKindOfOne a type of creatures rather than as a singular deity]]. Due to having originated as a deity "downscaled" to a species of beings, these serpents are often treated as very magical, holy, or celestial entities. They are also commonly associated with tropical and jungle biomes, and with societies based off the Aztecs, Mayans, or [[{{Mayincatec}} generic mashups of precolombian civilizations]].
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17	Note that a character or creature being called a Feathered Serpent or Plumed Serpent or being named after the Mesoamerican god does not automatically make them a case of this trope. It's the image that's important, not the name. Thus Quetzalcoatl from ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' (who is more or less a {{Kaiju}} ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx Archaeopteryx]]''), and another Quetzalcoatl from ''Literature/TheSecretsOfTheImmortalNicholasFlamel'' (who is pretty much human in appearance aside from having a feathered tail and forked tongue) are ''not'' examples of this trope.
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19	Such beings will sometimes be referred to as simply Coatls or Couatls, especially if present as a non-divine or physically unimposing species. Although often a truncation of the name "Quetzalcoatl", the word "coatl" is also the Nahuatl[[note]]the Aztec language[[/note]] word for "serpent".
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21	Related to BasiliskAndCockatrice, which could be considered an Old World equivalent appearance-wise, and the more recent phenomenon of FeatheredDragons. Feathered Serpents are sometimes linked to or treated as a type of dragon, but it is generally much more common for them to be treated as distinct types of entities even in settings where they coexist.
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23	A SubTrope of MixAndMatchCritters, OurDragonsAreDifferent and OurGodsAreDifferent depending on how it's used. Depending on whether the serpent is benevolent/Good or malevolent/Evil in nature, it can overlap with either DragonsAreDivine or DragonsAreDemonic. Can overlap with SnakesAreSinister if the serpent is malevolent.
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25	!!Examples:
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29	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
30	* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'': [[spoiler: Miata]] is a massive winged serpentine monster in her Awakened form.
31	* Lucoa's dragon form in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' fits the description, being a large, snake-like body with feathered wings (and horns). She is a genderflipped Quetzalcoatl after all.
32	* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': The ''Crimson Dragon'' may be this since it was revealed to be Quetzalcoatl in one episode. The juries out on whether or not it's actually feathered though, definitely serpentine though.
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36	* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': Coatls are snakes that often appear with feathered wings. [[https://scryfall.com/card/cma/197/winged-coatl Winged coatls]] were among the creatures born when the shards of Alara fused with one another again. [[https://scryfall.com/card/mh1/203/ice-fang-coatl Ice-fang coatls]] are also present as snow creatures.
37	** They are are also present in the {{Mayincatec}} plane of Ixalan (albeit only in the lore, not the cards), where they live high among the clouds and are sought out by the River Heralds as sources of wisdom and fortune. A later set revealed [[https://scryfall.com/card/lci/67/ojer-pakpatiq-deepest-epoch-temple-of-cyclical-time?utm_source=FuckOff Ojer Pakpatiq]], a Deep God in the form of a serpent with feathered wings and possible progenitor of the Coatls on the surface.
38	* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': The Ultimate Crystal series of monsters have this design, and Rainbow Dragon's role in the anime evokes the divine nature of this trope.
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42	* ''Franchise/TheDCU'': Quetzalcoatl and his son Quetzlotl are snake like gods with feathers.
43	* ''Comicbook/DragonResurrection'': Though true dragons are extinct one of the blue dragons in a {{Flashback}} to [[UsefulNotes/{{China}} ancient China]] seems to have feathers in its wings (or possibly feather-like scales) and as for being serpentine, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent they are Chinese after all]].
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47	* ''VideoGame/IceAndFireMinecraft'': Amphitheres are winged, feathered serpents found in jungles. They normally flee from players but will attack if struck, which is necessary to keep them in one place long enough to tame them. Tamed amphithers can be used as flying mounts and will attack mobs that attack players or villagers. They fight using a combination of wing buffers, tail slaps and bites. Their feathers can be used to craft arrows that deal a lot of knockback.
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51	* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheMonsterOfMexico'': An animatronic robot of Quetzalcoatl is a minor monster in the movie.
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55	* ''Film/TheFlyingSerpent'': Quetzalcoatl appears to be some sort of dragon having both arms and legs, though it still manages to resemble a snake with feathered wings. ''Film/QTheWingedSerpent'' is a light remake.
56	* ''Film/QTheWingedSerpent'': Quetzalcoatl, or simply Q, appears and though [[GenderBender she]] has some traits of snakes and birds she mostly [[AvertedTrope averts this trope]] and looks more like a generic dragon. Various references and allusions to this trope are used though.
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60	* ''Literature/{{Dracopedia}}'': Feathered serpents are a species of dragon known as coatyls. They're subjected to DoingInTheWizard, as they weren't gods, but rather relatively normal animals that had a symbiotic relationship with the Aztec people -- the coatyls took up residence in Aztec temples, wherein they ate vermin such as rats and bugs. The Aztecs, in turn, protected, housed and fed the serpents, holding them sacred and worshiping them, similar to cats in Ancient Egypt. Two other feathered serpent species are mentioned, namely a four-winged Egyptian variant (based on heiroglyphics that depicted winged serpents) and, unusually, ThePhoenix. Unfortunately, the Aztec and Egyptian coatyls are [[EndangeredSpecies critically endangered]] due to the destruction of their habitats, while the phoenix is so rare that it's thought to be extinct. The book mentions the "International Coatyl Fund" as an organization fighting to bring them back from the brink of extinction.
61	* ''Literature/{{Eric}}'': Quezovercoatl is depicted as a [[{{Pun}} feathered boa]] by his worshippers, [[spoiler:but he actually looks nothing like that]].
62	* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' provides us with two examples:
63	** Male basilisks, which in the books are gigantic snakes, are stated to have scarlet plumes on their heads.
64	** The Occamy is a large serpentine creature with a plume of feathers on its head, feathered wings and a birdlike beak.
65	* ''Literature/InCryptid'' has [[http://seananmcguire.com/fgcoatl.php coatls]]. Alex had a pet one when he was younger.
66	* ''Literature/TheKaneChronicles'': The uraei are cobras with eagle wings. Thankfully, they are creatures of [[BigGood Ra]].
67	%% * ''Literature/TheMagisterium'': One appears on the cover of [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/themagisterium/images/0/0d/The_Bronze_Key_cover.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160511013826 "The Bronze Key"]].
68	* In the world of ''Literature/AMemoirByLadyTrent'', coatls are a species of dragon that look like feathered and winged serpents. They live in the alt-Yucatan region of Coyahuac.
69	* ''Literature/OlogySeries'': ''Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons'', a fictional field scientific guide for dragons, puts forth that the Feathered Serpent deities like Quetzalcoatl were inspired by a type of legless [[FeatheredDragons feathered dragon]] called Mexican amphitheres, feathered dragons with birdlike wings and no legs.
70	* ''ComicBook/PrimalWarriorDracoAzul'': Angered by Eric's blasé attitude towards collateral damage in a simulated battle, in the short story "Reminiscence" Ekchuah puts him in a simulated match against the plumed serpent wind-god worshipped by many Mesoamerican civilizations--though Eric mainly refers to it as its Aztec name Quetzalcoatl despite its destructive behaviour being more in line with the Mayan interpretation K'uk'ulkan.
71	* ''Literature/SkinjackerTrilogy'': In the third book, one of the characters (who is a shapeshifter) temporarily turns into this trope in order to impersonate the Mesoamerican deity.
72	* Referenced in ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'': whereas most dragons have scales, the dragons of the Inca Empire have elaborate plumage.
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76	* ''Series/LostTapes'': Quetzalcoatl is featured in the 32nd episode where he's summoned by a human sacrifice by cultists before special agents intervene. While it looks SadlyMythtaken at first, given Quetzacoatl was one of the few deities who abhorred such practices, the episode has several surprising instances of [[ShownTheirWork factual research]]. Of all the humans the summoned deity killed, he only slew the evil cultists.
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80	* Myth/BrazilianFolklore: The legend of the church serpent of the city of Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia, tells about a feathered, winged giant snake stuck in the cave under the city's cathedral, constantly trying to escape so it would devour anyone on its way. In the end of the seventeenth century, the Friar Clemente heard the sounds and advised everyone who came to that church to pray to Our Lady Maria, as every time one prayer was made, one of the feathers of the serpent fell down. After thousands of prayings, the monster finally lost all of them and withered to death around 1936, when the cave was opened and no sign of the snake was found.
81	* Myth/EgyptianMythology: Wadjet (the serpentine protector goddess of Lower Egypt) is most commonly depicted as a straight-up rearing cobra (she's the goddess behind the uraeus, the cobra you see hanging off the front of Egyptian royal headgear), but is sometimes depicted as a having the body of a [[MixAndMatchCritters snake, wings of a bird and head of a woman]].
82	* Myth/IncaMythology: The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaru_(mythology) Amaru]] has many different depictions, but most still show it having a snake-like body with bird-like wings and legs.
83	* [[UsefulNotes/PreColumbianCivilizations Mesoamerican mythology]] naturally gives us the TropeNamers, or possibly just the trope namer since many of their feathered serpents may have actually have been the same god, much like how the Greeks and Romans worshipped [[Myth/ClassicalMythology the same gods]] but called them different names.
84	** The Olmec give us [[NoNameGiven God VII]], the original feathered serpent. [[LegendFadesToMyth Unfortunately, no written documents exist from the Olmec culture and none of the later civilizations kept any oral record of the Olmec language]], meaning we don't actually know the names they would have given to things and people in their language -- including even their deities.
85	** The Yucatec Mayans call the feathered serpent god Kukulkan; he is Q'uq'umatz to the K'iche' Mayans, and [[TropeCodifier Quetzalcoatl]] to the [[Myth/AztecMythology Aztecs]].
86	* [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} Mormon Religion]]: Mormons believe that Quetzalcoatl is [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Jesus Christ]].
87	* UsefulNotes/NativeAmericans: The Skysnake was the feared guardian of life and the forces of life. Much of it is believed to have come from the various [[UsefulNotes/PreColumbianCivilizations Mesoamerican cultures]] and the Mound Builders of the Mississippian culture of North America.
88	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphiptere Amphipteres]] are a type of legless, winged snakes or dragons from Medieval European heraldry. While they were usually depicted with batlike wings, they were sometimes shown with feathered wings -- either with feathers on the batlike wings or with bird wings entirely. Some depictions went as far as to give them beaks.
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92	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
93	** Couatls are an entire race of Quetzalcoatls and a consistent part of the Monster Manual since 1st edition. They are typically described as a LawfulGood race of resplendent winged serpents from the Upper Planes that often inhabit jungles of the mortal world, where they sometimes are worshiped as gods.
94	** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': Qotal is a Maztican god taking the shape of a feathered dragon, who according to Maztican tradition gave humans the gifts of speech and maize.
95	** Quetzalcoatl occasionally appears in different versions of the ''Deities and Demigods'' sourcebook as part of the Aztec pantheon.
96	** The Elder Tempest, the [[ElementalEmbodiment elder elemental]] of air and storms takes the form of a feathered serpent wreathed in [[ShockAndAwe storm clouds and lightning]].
97	* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': In their true forms, Seraphim resemble immense serpents with feathered wings -- officially three pairs, [[UnreliableIllustrator although artwork usually shows them with one]].
98	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
99	** Couatls are feathered serpents with birdlike wings that act as messengers of virtuous deities and shepherd and guide the development of fledgeling civilization.
100	** Uraei are two-headed cobras with birdlike wings that act as protectors to rivers and the communities found along their banks.
101	* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'':
102	** The Kulkucan is a type of dragon with a more serpentine body covered in feathers and a beaked head. Quetzalcoatl himself happens to have been a Kulkucan Dragon who ascended to godhood.
103	** The feathered serpents of Wormwood are serpentine monsters with hammerhead shark-like heads, prehensile tongues, four legs, flat and batlike wings covered in feathers and tails tipped with three-fingered claws. They're vicious predators, and used as riding mounts by the minions of the Unholy.
104	* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': One type of dragon is the Feathered Serpent, found in Central and South America. Adults are about twenty meters long with a fifteen meter wingspan. Their wings and head are covered with feathers, and they have extensive magical powers.
105	* ''TabletopGame/TailsOfEquestria'': Sky serpents are relatives of SeaSerpents with a pair of feathered wings.
106	* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': Coatls, giant snakes with feathered wings, are one of the more obscure creatures associated with the heavily {{Mayincatec}} {{Lizard\|Folk}}men. They're highly intelligent and adept spellcasters in their own right and are associated with the Old One Tepok, himself depicted as one of these creatures.
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110	* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': Quetzalmon and its subspecies [=BioQuetzalmon=] are heavily based off of Quetzalcoatl, and resemble winged snakes plated in white armor.
111	* ''VideoGame/DragonCity'':
112	** The Ozone Dragon is a serpentine, legless creature with a bird's head and four feathered wings.
113	** The Quetzal Dragon is based on modern depictions of Quetzalcoatl as a winged creature, and hails from the Mesoamerican jungle.
114	* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'':
115	** Quetzalcoatl appears in one of [[GenderBender her female human hosts]], but her origins as a feathered serpent are referenced in her profile. Her original form is referenced in her feathered garb, [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily her rows and rows of sharp teeth]] when she flashes a SlasherSmile, and her Santa version's feathered wings.
116	** Gorgon, the monstrous form of Medusa, leans into the SnakePeople more than her normal self and eventually gaining large pair of feathered wings, which matches the original description of Medusa.
117	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': Quezacotl/Quetzalcoatl is a recurring summon in the games, how much he follows this trope varies in each game though.
118	* ''VideoGame/FlightRising'': The Coatls are one of the two rare dragon breeds, and resemble snakes with short legs, prehensile tails, and feathered wings and crests.
119	* ''VideoGame/FreeRealms'': Quetzalcoatl is a boss and he's a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Feathered Drake]], he's still very serpentine though.
120	* ''VideoGame/HungryDragon'': Sparx's Quetzalcoatl skin turns her into the Plumed Serpent of Aztec mythology.
121	* ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheInfernalMachine'': A monster called Quetzalcoatl attacks Indiana, it is a giant snake with feathers around its neck.
122	* ''VideoGame/LEGOHarryPotter'': The basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets has a scarlet plume on its head, despite not having one in the book or movie.
123	* ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic'': In ''Might and Magic VIII: Day of The Destroyer'', the Young Couatl, Couatl and presumably the Winged Serpent (they share the same sprite) are this, having serpentine bodies and avian wings. And beaks.
124	* ''VideoGame/{{Nexomon}}'': Fethra, one of the game's {{Starter Mon}}s, is a [[BlowYouAway Wind-type]] snake with two feather-shaped crests above its eyes and subtler plumage running down its back. Its evolved forms, Tempestra and Draclone, are bigger, more impressive-looking versions of the same.
125	* ''VideoGame/PokemonUranium'':
126	** The Chicoalt line is based on the Mesoamerican feathered serpent, and Coatlith in particular resembles a green serpent adorned with red feathers and a birdlike beak.
127	** The Legendary Pokémon Aotius is a white serpent with multiple orange feathered wings.
128	* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': The Cockatrice and its [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Trices variants]] all have serpentine bodies along with the legs and wings of a bird.
129	* ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'': Kukulkan one of the TropeNamers is a playable character and one of his skins turn him into Quetzalcoatl, and for some reason inexplicably speaks 99% in Brazilian Portuguese.
130	* ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'': The Morrigi are an alien race with long serpentine bodies covered in feathers, along with eight limbs, two of which are wings (vestigial in the heavier females, functional in low gravity for males). Their AncientAstronauts are implied to have inspired several mythical beings among humans and other species.
131	* ''VideoGame/{{Temtem}}'': Shuine has a serpentine body with two feather-like streamers on its tail end. It's only found in Tucma, [[FantasyCounterpartCulture an island inspired by Central America.]]
132	* ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII'': Coatls are giant serpents with forked tails, birdlike wings and avian heads. They're available to the Lizardmen through ''The Silence and the Fury'' DLC, and act as flying monsters with a number of bound spells, mostly lightning-themed, at their disposal.
133	* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'':
134	** The Couatl is a winged serpent complete with feathers. They are obviously named after Quetzalcoatl.
135	** Although Dragonhawks in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' were giant birds, they were redesigned when they debuted in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' as creatures with serpentine bodies and wings that look like a cross between a bat and a butterfly, with feather-like appendages all over their bodies.
136	** Wind Serpents in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' have long, serpentine bodies, feathered plumes on their head, and birdlike, feathered wings.
137	** Then there's Hakkar the Soulflayer, one of the troll gods and [[GodIsEvil not a very nice one]] at that. He's basically a giant wind serpent with arms that end in scythes.
138	* ''VideoGame/WerewolfTheApocalypseEarthblood'': Pachu'a, the guardian spirit of the Red Talons camp, resembles an immense skeletal rattlesnake with the wings and skull of a hawk.
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142	* ''Webcomic/{{Huckleberry}}'' has at least one "serpixie" slithering in the background. It's a normal-sized snake with feathered wings, described as a "nature-aligned amphiptere".
143	* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': Wyverns resemble snakes or legless lizards with downy manes and feathered wings, they [[http://www.sdamned.com/comic/528 come in variety of colors and subspecies]] and are naturally skilled in [[BlowYouAway wind magic]] which gives them control over wind and [[ShockAndAwe lighting]]. The now extinct wind dragons they're related to were even more powerful and possessed two pairs of wings and hawk-like legs.
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147	* ''Website/TheOnion'': Kukulkan makes an appearance in this [[http://www.theonion.com/article/pope-francis-hosts-feathered-serpent-god-part-deit-53917 article]], participating in a [[CrossoverCosmology Deity Exchange Program]] in the UsefulNotes/VaticanCity.
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151	* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'': Malcho is a nature spirit in the form of a serpent with wings and feathers on his back. Iago is able to recognize one of his feathers because it has ''scales''.
152	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': Aztec Guardian Serpent probably applies due to being inspired from Myth/AztecMythology, though it's hard to tell thanks to the animation style.
153	* ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Several spirits qualify.
154	** When angered, [[TheOwlKnowingOne Wan Shi Tong]] stretches his body out like a snake. This makes sense, since both snakes and owls are used as symbols for knowledge.
155	** The Dragon Bird Spirits, which have serpentine bodies and bird-like feathers.
156	** The Dragon Eel Spirit may also [[ImpliedTrope possibly qualify]]. He has a serpentine body; which is clearly where the "eel" part of his name comes from, but he also possesses a beak and what may be feathers.
157	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bunnicula}}'' had a quetzalcoatl enslaved by a pair of criminals who used it as a living airplane. They used hypnosis to keep the quetzalcoatl under control and also to make people perceive it as an ordinary plane.
158	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': Zafiro of the Mayan Clan has the lower body of a serpent, he also has feathery wings instead of the normally bat like ones. He's based off of Kukulkan.
159	* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': A interesting example, Quetzalcoatl; yes that [[Myth/AztecMythology Quetzalcoatl]], is not a plumed serpent himself, instead he's only [[MixAndMatchCritters half- plumed serpent and half-human]].
160	* ''WesternAnimation/LegendQuest'': Quetzalcoatl is the main villain. [[spoiler:However, the New Quetzalcoatl eventually replaces him and becomes the [[BigGood Big Good]].]]
161	* ''WesternAnimation/OnyxEquinox'': We see Quetzalcoatl's true form at the very last second of Episode 12, though it is difficult to make out the feathers and he resembles a more scaly dragon.
162	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': Quetzalcoatl himself appears in one episode, the Quoatle that appear in the same episode also count.
163	* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'': In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS2E5HowSharperThanASerpentsTooth How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth]]", the highly advanced space alien Kukulkan is one of the AncientAstronauts in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' universe. He is a giant snake-like being with wings and feathers who was the inspiration for the Mesoamerican legends of Kukulkan and Quetzalcoatl.
164	* ''WesternAnimation/AThousandAndOneAmericas'': During the backstory of the Toltecs narrated in the twenty-fifth episode, it is shown that a giant feathered serpent began ravaging their homeland, but then a grown-up Ce Acatl (the son of Mixcoatl and Chimalma) fought against it and ultimately won. He was then christened ''Quetzalcoatl'' ([[TakeAwayTheirName which means Feathered Serpent]]), and upon founding the city of Tula he governed it while dressing akin to the serpentine monster he defeated.
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